Jacy Reads Tarot

Hello! Call me Jacy or Jae. I'm a 22, soon to be 23, year old and I'm a BEGINNER tarot reader. I offer free and paid tarot readings. Free are public, paid are done through tumblr DMs. Free Readings are currently CLOSED. Read my FAQ before asking your question.

[ladyiristheenchantress]

Birthday Magic!!

Hello friends!! June is my birthday month (today being my birthday), so I thought I would take us through all the magical significance of a birthday, and include some exclusive spells, divination, and more than I like to do as my birthday approaches!! Your birthday is special, take some time to celebrate yourself!!! Whether you are with family or friends, or celebrating on your own, you have a lot to be excited for! Lets get started

What is the cultural significance of a birthday?

Before calendars were invented it was really hard to remember when someone may have been born, but it is said to have started in ancient Egypt where birthday parties were held to celebrate the commemoration of the new pharaoh! In the pagan world it was said that someone had a spirit present with them on the day of their birth and was said to help guide them through life, which is how the spirit guide was born!

Birthdays first started a form of protection, in ancient Greece they were the first to celebrate with birthday candles as a way to ward off evil spirits who would come during major events! The candles, friends, and good vibes were a way to protect the birthday person!

In ancient china, the first birthday was considered the most special, and was celebrated with a special ritual called 'Zhuazhou' where a cloth was placed in front of the baby with different objects and from there the baby and its family would see the future ahead!

The modern birthday, as we know it, is actually partially German who began adding cakes, candles, and eventually in the united states a pair of Kentucky school teachers came up with the birthday song after remixing it from a song called 'Good morning to all' and now we have the modern birthday!

How can I honor my own birthday?

Understand your birthday superstitions! Do you find yourself feeling more spiritual on your birthday? How about fending off bad luck if you were born on friday the 13th? Understanding your birthday traditions can help you connect more to new magical traditions that work for you

Understand what your birthday represents to you. When we get older, for some people birthdays can fill us with all sorts of emotions. Some people get excited and throw big parties, for some birthdays are really tender and sources of anxiety so its important to seek out friends and family. Understanding what your birthday corresponds too can be really important for how you choose to celebrate

Understand that you are human. Above all else, honor the fact that you are still standing, that you are here on this earth, and that you did it. It is a big achievement to be still here, and I am so proud of you. Take some time to be proud of yourself my love

Lets talk practices!

Lets go into common rituals, correspondences, tarot spreads, and more!

Practices:

When you blow out candles on a cake reflect on your wish and the history of that tradition

When singing the birthday song, add fun in-between's like "Cha cha cha" to welcome spirits of prosperity

Begin a journal, consecrate an altar or book of shadows, or deep clean your spiritual space for a total energetic refresh

Practice self care and open all those fancy soaps. Practice glamour magic with saved items for an energetic boost

Create a potion using mint, chamomile, and lemongrass for career and academic successes. This potion refreshes your mind and uses birthday energy for renewal

Create spells with renewal, celebration, and reflection in mind

design a spell using your birthdays moon phase and moon sign

Create a blessings spell for the year

Create a crystal grid that represents you and things that make you feel good like colors, energies, and shapes

Practice birthday rituals your ancestors would have practiced

Look up the moon phase and sign and design a birthday ritual with that in mind

Wear favorite colors to represent your sense of self and stability into the next year

Iris's Birthday Seed Spell:

Ingredients:

A pot

a seed of your choice (preferably ones in season on your birthday)

soil

The Steps:

On the bottom of the pot draw a sigil of prosperity and fortune

around the pot, write down goals you have for yourself

as you plant the seeds focus on your intentions for the year ahead and cover them with soil

OPTIONALLY add crystals like moss agate, tree agate, or pyrite on top of the soil for an energetic boost

As you tend to the plant, remember to tend to your dreams

Divination:

Compare and contrast todays astrological chart with the one from your day of birth

Find out what your birth card is and what it means for you

Use a pendulum around your house to find lost objects you may have forgotten about this year

Get yourself a new divination tool

Practice divination your ancestors would have used

Create a shufflemancy playlist by taking the top song on the charts every year on your birthday, then setting it to shuffle.

Calculate your life path number

Symbols:

Cake

candles

Favorite foods, items, and colors

Birth stones, cards, flowers, numbers, and signs

Flowers in general

Large gatherings

Birthchart sigils

Personal Symbols

Mundane:

Remember, Birthdays are filled with a lot of emotions for people. Some people are very excited to celebrate, and others may be stressed, experience feelings of depression, and regret. It is valid to feel any type of way, make sure you are feeling it! On your birthday seek out your support system, whether its friends, family, or teams. They want to celebrate you with you!

Another thing is actually take this time to celebrate you! This is a time to honor another rotation around the sun, it is valid to reflect on anything that comes up for you. Remember that you are not alone, and you are loved very much. Birthdays are special, even if we try to deny it sometimes. Birthdays are special, because you make them special!

If its not your birthday, and you have a friend or family members coming up, it costs nothing to make someones day with a simple text, happy birthday gif, or some time to just sit down and chat. Take care of your friends, as they take care of you. That friend may be excited to host a party, or that friend may want to be left alone, However they choose to celebrate is unique and valid. Make sure that they feel appreciated just like you would want to feel appreciated.

With that said, Here are a few ideas for how to celebrate your birthday in a mundane way, and some tips for birthday wellness

Ideas:

Host a small get together for your friends and family

Reflect on your past in the morning, Honor your present in the afternoon, and dream about your future in the evening

Enjoy your favorite meal

Try your hand at something new like painting, ceramics, or glass blowing

Get yourself a present

Rest!!! Catch up on your favorite show

Take an 'everything' shower

Relax with your favorite beverage

Enjoy a trail with your pets or just get active

Enjoy time out of the house people watching

Put the phone, work, and academia down, be present with yourself

Well with that said, i hope you all have enjoyed! Happy birthday to you, and I hope you have a prosperous journey around the sun once more!

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[selestiaaal]

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[witches-ofcolor]

I see the anti-makeup movement the same way the movement to reject femininity was in like in one of the early waves of feminism. Or the same way that white people removed “hot girl summer” from its original context. The social movement to embrace things considered  masculine (short hair, no make up, hairy legs) and the rejection of typical femininity, imo, is a movement that excludes the nuance that women of color deserve. 

I saw a post that said something along the lines of, “women deserve to talk about how they don’t like makeup without having to cater to the feelings of women who do like it…” 

And I just thought about how overwhelmingly white that was. White women are the epitome of femininity, they can evade it and still be considered professional and feminine in any spaces. A white woman who doesn’t conform to traditional femininity will still be viewed as a woman and will still be taken seriously in women’s spaces. 

This isn’t the case for black women. We are constantly, constantly judged and perceived as masculine if we don’t preform femininity in certain spaces. We have to be tip-top for to be seen as women. This rejection of preforming femininity and this tendency to be bitchy to women who try to add nuance to this situation is another layer of white feminism. 

You created gender roles and stereotypes that you have the luxury and privledge of leaving and still being able to keep your identity as a woman, whereas black women constantly have to be 100% preppy and pretty to be considered feminine. 

And in a way that’s become a comfort for some of us, even an art. Black women drive the industry when it comes to make up, hair, nails, etc., because you as white women forced us into that role in order to be taken seriously. Acting bitchy to women who want to and embrace makeup and ask for understanding  of their preference for makeup is very white of you. 

I also want to mention that black women have always been gaudy and big about our make up. We set trends. From trans women in ballroom culture, to church ladies dressing their best for Sunday services, to girls in the 90′s with hoop earrings and on point eyeliner, to black women being the center of attention when we walk into a room. 

Black women are reclaiming femininity. If you’re white, and you don’t like femininity, that’s fine. But be aware of the women who are overly feminine and love makeup. And you have no right to silence us or even throw shade at us! Be aware that your Hollier than thou attitude is racist, and what started this bs in the first place. 

And of course this doesn’t apply to GNC black women or black women that don’t like make up.

[witches-ofcolor]

Additionally, our culture existed previously with makeup. Embracing makeup and jewelry is apart of our culture–like before Europeans stole us people in our culture wore makeup. 

And not just women, all of us. 

[witches-ofcolor]

How do I begin practicing hoodoo? I've been scared to try any of the practices I've seen online cause I know so much shit is heavily white-washed and commercialized and it's hard to know what's real

I know the feel. Even in books written by black authors. i've noticed a tendency to cater to a white audience. Therefore I've learned hoodoo all over the place, primarily straight from the mouth of black sources.

While they're not fully active anymore, I always recommend @spiritroots for their information. Their blog is informative and a great way to help people wanting to delve in. @oshuns-ambience is another great blog.

@r-ootwork is another blog that's really helpful, and I enjoy their takes on ancestral practice.

Lastly @lavenderlundi has some really good info too!

I honestly think tumblr is one of the best sources for hoodoo because you're actually getting to learn hoodoo straight from black people's mouths.

And if you don't see your name on the list please know it's not intentional, there are lots of great people i'm leaving out but my brain is going in circles now! Please feel free to add on and advertise yourselves!

Additionally here is a list of resources for black folk work, as well as books here.

Some of these books aren't ebooks which makes it very difficult for me to read due to my disability, but that's why the tumblr users are really good resources.

but i've utilized youtube and other sources to help me. And since i've done some academic essays on it, i've used scholarly articles. I

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[firewithinthewitch]

Yes or No Tarot Spread

I created a spread!!! I’m absolutely in love with it even though it’s a tad bit confusing.

The answer to your question (yes/no/maybe). I used a “will this happen?” type question.

If yes/maybe, when? (Specific timing) you only come to this step if the answer was yes or maybe to your original question.

Is there anything I can do to make this happen/speed this up? (Yes/no/maybe)

If yes/maybe, how? If no, why not?

So to begin, you will need to have a question in mind as you shuffle. It needs to be a yes or a no question! Then, you can proceed with the rest of the cards IF the answer to your questions are positive/undecided. If the answer is no, the reading is over!

For reference to which cards are yes/no/maybe cards, go here. I find this an extremely useful post to refer back to!

For timing with minor arcana cards:

Wands- days

Swords- weeks

Cups- months

Pentacles- a season to a year

For timing with major arcana cards: there are so many different ways to read time with these cards, but I use this method...

I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do! 💕

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Edit: you can also make it to where the spread could read as such:

1- does _____ have feelings for me?

2- if yes, skip to card 3. If no, card 2 will be will they ever? Or worded to fit the question at hand. If no, the reading ends here. If yes, proceed.

3- is there anything I can do to make this happen/help the situation? If no, end here.

4- if so, how?

[sh-kira]

Black Folklore Resource.

I’ve been thinking and researching a lot about the (Black) Southern Gothic style/aesthetic and African American folklore, so I put together a list of books for myself and thought it might be helpful to someone else. 

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FOLKTALE COLLECTIONS

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton | Thrift Books Amazon

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton | Amazon

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston | Amazon Thrift Books

Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston | Thrift Books Amazon

Go Gator and Muddy the Water : Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers Project by Zora Neale Hurston | Thrift Books Amazon

Lies and Other Tall Tales by Zora Neale Hurston and Joyce Carol Thomas | Thrift Books Amazon

FOLKLORE AND STORYTELLING

Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine | Thrift Books

Shuckin’ and Jivin’: Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans | Thrift Books Amazon

A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Peoples of African American Descent in the Americas by Harold Courlander | Amazon

The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young | Amazon

Talk That Talk: An Anthology on African-American Storytelling by Linda Goss | Amazon

African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World by Roger Abrahams | Amazon

Deep Down in the Jungle: Black American Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia by Roger Abrahams | Amazon

Singing the Master : The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South by Roger D. Abrahams | Thrift Books Amazon

From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom by John W. Roberts | Amazon

Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner | Amazon

Black Folktales by Julius Lester | Amazon

Folk beliefs of the southern Negro (1926) by Newbell Niles Pucket | Amazon

Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner | Amazon

HUMOR

African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (The Library of Black America series) by Mel Watkins, Dick Gregory | Amazon

Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor by Daryl Cumber Dance, Nikki Giovanni | Amazon

STYLE

The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora by Carol Tulloch | Amazon

 Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker, Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Amazon

MAGIC/MYSTICISM

African American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism by Joy R. Bostic | Amazon

Working Conjure: A Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic by Hoodoo Sen Moise | Amazon

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Ifalaye Books | Amazon

FOLK HEALING

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee | Amazon

African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and nonHerbal Treatments by Herbert C. Cove | Amazon

African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem | Amazon

ADDITIONS: 7/27/2019 (NOTE: As I continue to add books, some of these may deviate from folklore and focus on Black history and/or Black experiences)

Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison by Trudier Harris | Thriftbooks Amazon

The Skull Talks Back: And Other Haunting Tales by Joyce Carol Thomas & Zora Neale Hurston | Thriftbooks Amazon

Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories by Karla FC Holloway | Thriftbooks Amazon

Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant by Kelly Brown Douglas | Amazon

This is absolutely not a definitive list and if you have more information or recommendations please feel free to add it! 

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A Simple “Fuck You” Curse

This simple curse will bad luck and mayhem into one’s life.

What You’ll Need

The target’s name on a piece of paper

A black or gray candle (can be a scented candle)

A small bowl

A small plate or tea saucer

A paint brush or stick

Cayenne pepper

Chili powder

Lime juice

Onion juice

What To Do

Place your candle behind the bowl and light it.

Take your ingredients and put two tablespoons of each in the bowl.

Mix them together until you get a gross, mushy paste.

Take your stick or paint brush and dip it into the paste.

Take your brush/stick and write “Fuck You” over the target’s name, while doing so say/think every injustice they’ve done you.

Once you’ve finished writing “Fuck You” on their name place the paper on the dish/saucer and drip the wax over it to seal their fate.

End the ritual by blowing out the candle and disposing of everything properly.

Keep that piece of paper in a dark area of your home where it won’t see sunlight.

***To break the curse cleanse the paper in full moon water, try to keep it from tearing, and burn it after it dries.***

[northcitywitch]

Reblog if you could use some cash ASAP - this spell is for all of you!

This is a quick money drawing spell. A black candle to ward off unexpected or harmful expenses, and green candle for drawing new money - both annointed with cedar oil for the fortitude to get through life until the money finally kicks in. We have an emerald and a bay leaf with the intention written on it, cinnamon potpourri sticks, and of course a few coins!

The bay leaf was burned at the end of the spell to release the intention into the world 🔥🌿🔮

[sea-lestial-dream-witch]

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Emoji Spell to help increase your chances of earning money & bring money earning opportunities your way.

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[crystalherbalist]

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“I will have good luck both in finding suitable work and in obtaining stable income.”

[thebellaicon]

Don't mind me. I'm manifesting. Shit is real here and I'm just opening my hands to receive it.

Oh, you go ahead and claim it too. We can get money together, boo.

[blancabitchcraft]

Reblog and be blessed. Practice for what you know is on the way. This is your time.

[strangesigils]

“Your Façade Fails”

Draw this on the back of a picture of your target and leave that picture out in direct sunlight picture-side up