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How to Dehydrate Herbs

This is my first post on my newly-minted digital grimoire, so I thought I'd start out with info I already know. Here's a short little guide on how to dehydrate herbs and other materials at home in your oven (if you have one). I usually dehydrate fresh materials instead of hanging them as firstly: I have a cat who will find a way to reach anything I hang up to dry, and secondly: there are some materials I don't feel comfortable leaving out in open air as they will likely rot. Also, it just saves on drying time.

Steps:

1. Grab whatever you want to dehydrate whether it be fruits, peels, herbs, veg, or (my favourite) eggshells.

Important Note: DO NOT EVER put plants which are known to be toxic or whose origins are unclear in your oven. It's never worth it.

2. Place your items on a sheet pan with parchment paper underneath (there may be lingering oils on the pan, but if you are okay with that feel free to skip the parchment).

3. If your oven is fancy and you have a dehydration setting, great! Use the recommended temperature. If not, set your oven between 160-190*. I usually set it lower, but if you're short on time it will work higher.

4. This is the most crucial step: keep your oven door slightly ajar in order to let moisture escape. However, very importantly DO NOT EVER LEAVE YOUR OPEN OVEN UNATTENDED (or your closed one, for that matter), especially if you have an older oven. Basic fire safety applies here.

5. The process usually takes around 2 hours if you are dehydrating thinner plants, but may take up to 3-4 if you are dehydrating something thicker like citrus peels or fruit slices. Either way, be prepared to wait a bit. You will know they are done when you can easily crush them if plants or they are breakably-solid if peels. With eggshells they will be brittle anyways, but it's nice to dehydrate them to more easily grind into a powder and also to kill any lingering bacteria.

6. Store herbs as you usually would in a container away from sunlight. Enjoy!

Sources:

Printer's Ornament (Chiswick Press, 192)

that-cunning-witch

"Aphrodite loves terfs" do you really think a goddess of love formed from a literal penis and the mother of Hermaphroditus, an intersex god who was associated with androgyny and feminine men, fucks around with transphobia?

she is a literal trans icon and to deny that will get you smited by all the gods

anti-terf-posts

official anti terf post

#goddess #aphrodite

the-evil-clergyman

Triomphe d'Amphitrite ou La Pêche by Gabriel-François Doyen (1768)

#aphrodite #deities #goddess

will-o-the-witch

A devotee is a small piece of a deity’s influence on earth. You are their agent, their image, their model and their example to the world. Doesn’t it make sense that they’d want their followers to be the happiest and healthiest people they can be? Elevating yourself through self care and self love is one of the purest acts of devotion that exists.

#aphrodite

filthyprotozoan

what if everything is intentional. what if dancing with your friends matters as much as picking up groceries. what if you put color in your hair and a stranger feels seen. what if someone makes soup for you. what if tears are sacred. what if it’s all love.

#aphrodite

thoodleoo

very important question for all of my greek myth buffs out there: who has fatter tits, aphrodite or dionysus? asking for a friend

thoodleoo

#aphrodite #i #does this belong on this blog #idk #HAHA

resimlerdekaldik-deactivated202

#aphrodite

thewitchystuff

Witchy Calendar 2022 ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

It has a little bit more info than last year, I hope it can help you navigating this year.

☿ Mercury Retrogrades show the Mercury Direct (date of ending).

♒ Zodiac Signs are color coded according to its element.

☆ Solar events (Solstice & Equinox) are filled sparkle ★ and the other fetivities (midpoints) are a simple sparkle ✧︎

**Be sure to double check the dates for your region, since specific dates may vary due to TimeZones (specially for zodiac entries, full moons, etc.)

Let me know if you see any mistakes or have any questions about it!

People kept sending messages about the 2022 witchy calendar even now in April so I wanted to upload it anyway ☆

Thanks to our patreons and the people who sent messages who impulse us to search for this info and combining it here for all of you!

Go to our Patreon for the complete HD image.

#calendar

piristephes

I'm never touching witchtok again, just saw someone saying that Nyx, Helios and Selene weren't real gods because they're just "allegories of nature". And I was like ???? our religion is animistic, bro.

#yall this community is full of the dumbest people

osa-aikanoita

Tips To Get Back in Touch With Your Craft:

I’ve fallen really out of touch with my craft as of late, and this is a small tip of lists for me to start reconnecting with it again. I hope this list can be of use to someone else too!

Meditate

Starting from the basics. Try to keep a daily meditation routine. Don’t make timed goals for yourself when you meditate. Meditate just as long as it feels good and right for you. What phase is the moon on today? You can meditate on the meaning of the moon phase to help you focus if that works for you!

Ground and Center yourself (at least) weekly

It helps, it really does. Balance yourself and re-center your energies and you’ll feel more stable.

Daily Tarot

Draw one tarot card from your deck daily and interpret it. This will help you to reconnect with your decks.

Sigils for Everything

Sigils are fast and easy to use for pretty much everything. Need some protection? Draw a protection sigil on your body when you start your day! Put a beauty sigil in your make up bag! A sigil for good dreams under your pillow! A sigil for keeping hydrated on the bottom of your water bottle! Sigils can be used for so many things.

Tea? Those are Potions

Drink a lot of tea? Those are potions! Stir your tea anti-clockwise to get rid of something. Stir it clockwise to attract things. What ingredients does your tea use? Use the meanings of the herbs and fruits to charge and bring a little magic to your tea! Put honey in your tea to sweeten your mood or your day. Is your tea black, green, herbal, something else? This post has great resources for what different teas mean! Use those meanings and make tea your magical potion!

Got old spell jars lying around?

Charge those spell jars to get more out of them!

Work with any deities?

Thank your deities after eating a meal. Thank them for things big and small in your life.

Keep a dream journal! Or…

If that’s too much for you, think about the dreams you’ve seen after waking up and wonder what it might mean for you.

Pick up a new thing

Never got a hang of astrology? Start looking into it! Interested in different methods of divination? Do some research and find interesting ways for it! Start following new witches with crafts different from yours!

You don’t need to do all of these or do them the way I do them. Just pick up something and bring back magic into your life.

Psst, remember! This post is not encouraging cultural appropriation. Be mindful!

traegorn

Funny how you don't like the word worlock because of it's origins but think the word witch is gender neutral. It's literally the feminine form of the word. You're just cosplay as a personality trait.

Oh sweety, you fucked up.

I repost this from time to time, so I'll do it again.

A practitioner of Witchcraft is a Witch regardless of gender.

Witch is a gender neutral term. Has been more most of the English language’s history too.

The Modern English “Witch” comes from the Middle English “Wicche.” The Middle English “Wicche” was, of course, a gender neutral version of the Old Englsh “Wicce” and “Wicca” – which were gendered. “Wicce” being the feminine form, and “Wicca” being the masculine.

You may recognize the masculine Old English word as it lends itself (albeit with a different pronunciation) to the most common form of modern day Witchcraft – the religion Wicca.

Outside of the Modern Witchcraft Movement, if we poke into history you’ll find that during the European Witch Trials men were tried as – you guessed it – Witches. While those trials did disproportionately affect women, that was mostly because of, well, western culture just hating women in general. Many men were also accused though, and when they were, they were called Witches.

(And let's be clear -- I'm not trying to conflate the Witch trials with the modern Witchcraft movement -- but when we're talking about the meaning of a word, we need to consider its full context.)

Warlock is a word meaning “oath breaker” (specifically breaking an oath to Jesus Christ) and didn’t start getting widespread use for “Male Witches” until 19th century fiction. That fiction eventually entered the pop cultural consciousness – but those practicing Witchcraft have almost never actually used that word (save for a few who have decided to “reclaim” what they consider a slur).

Witch is gender neutral. You're an idiot.

mythreeminds

I read somewhere (and i'm saying it as something interested and not claiming it's something true) that a warlock was a witch (no specification on gender) that was kicked out of the coven or exiled in some way. A solitary practitioner but not out of their own will. Used as to point out a traitor in those terms.

traegorn

That's a thing that started getting tossed into Witchcraft sources at some point, and I haven't been able to pin down who said it first... but it has absolutely no historical evidence. Honestly I think it comes from the period where everyone was still pretending Murray was right, and tried to justify it. I'm sure some modern witches have adopted the term that way, but if so -- it's a 20th (or 21st) century thing.

Warlock is a term that came from scots, and meant someone who betrayed God and made a pact with the devil. It was used in some Scottish witch trials, but didn't get any widespread use until, as I said before, 19th century fiction. 👍

traegorn

Predators. They're predators.

traegorn

@thecoloredcanvas wrote

So a couple of things

1. Witch is a gender neutral term

2. Not really sure how anyone practicing witchcraft at home is suddenly a "predator"

3. Not a man.

All that aside, you respond to a video criticizing someone literally targeting vulnerable people to take advantage of them, and your reaction is "the person doing the criticizing is just as bad because of the gender identity I assume they are?"

Like seriously, what the fuck.

libraford

Trae: hey, there's a pervasive problem in my community of people conflating neurodivergent coping mechanisms as magical powers and using that conflation as a means to create an insular community which if gone unchecked can turn into an abusive situation where people can get hurt.

This rando: Ah, but I can see by your video that you are not what I consider female and therefore YOU are the abuser! Checkermate!

Seriously. Even setting aside the fact that Trae is not a man (the big genderqueer flag is visible in every frame, but I guess not everyone is familiar with that flag). There is so much wrong with the mindset that witches have to be female (and implied here as gender-conforming cis female) but also... just to touch...

Women can be predators. Women can be abusers. Women are fully capable of manipulating people for personal gain, whether that be for money or for something even worse. Women are not exempt from criticism of their actions.

I swear to every god. If you think women can't be predatory then you have never had a friend from high school guilt you into a mlm scheme.