Little Witchy Trans Boy

32 year old trans man from England. I still consider myself a baby witch and this blog is part of my way of documenting my resources and learning (alongside my Galdrabok/Book of Shadows).

[littlewitchytransboy]

Day four, not going to ink it quite yet as I can’t find the pen I want to use.

[sacredfemininegypsyheart-deacti]

Please be kind to yourself. Love yourself, even with your imperfections and your humanness. Let your guilt go, and you will see yourself in a completely new light. You will see others anew as well. And you will find love, and forgiveness, and compassion.

~ Adyashanti, from Fierce Love

[littlewitchytransboy]

Day three, started a self care page for my book, I haven’t inked the words yet because I might change the wording, but that’s all I’m doing for today, still not feeling good which is actually why I chose to do this page today.

[mercury-minded]

I love when the moon reflects off of large bodies of water like textured glass

[norse-witch]

Winter Finding/Haustbløt - September 22nd-27th

Starting on the autumn equinox (northern hemisphere for me), it is a celebration of the start of preparing for winter and represents the second harvest of the autumn. 

Modern Day Winter Finding

- weather and fire laws permitting, celebrate with a bonfire - Go to a local farmer’s  market and find fresh fruits and vegetables to prepare a feast with.  - spend time (safely) gathering wild edibles - preserve food for the winter (canning, freezing, dehydrating) - make sure your animals are prepared for the winter (warm bedding, vaccinations, etc)  - make sure YOU’RE prepared for the winter (warm bedding, blankets, hot drinks, etc) - offer bløts to the Gods (Odin, Freyr, Freyja, Thor, Sif, others) - start making mead for Yule - Get your house clean for winter

sources The Rational Heathen

[tombstonetourism]

A tree trunk throne in Kendall, England.

[ocean-watcher]

Doesn’t look safe for a mortal.

[joe-bee-richter-deactivated2020]

if you sit there you belong to the fae

[jewishdragon]

That’s the Fae’s problem

[koracs]

That is such a strong, bold, confident statement and I respect you for it.

[heatherwitch]

Bedridden witch: Kitchen edition

Kitchen witchin’ without the kitchen!

With help from: @magical-girl-ilex and @spooniewitches!

Set up:

A tray of some sort - something to create a solid surface over your bed.

Cookbooks and herb books tucked somewhere nearby. 

A crate of spices and herbs.

Shelves that can store ingredients that are within reach of the bed/above the bed.

Get a mini crock pot and set it up near your bed.

Hang bundles of herbs to dry from the walls and ceiling. 

Keep simple, easy to open snacks nearby - saltines have salt, right? Cleansing!

A pitcher/container of water.

Herbs planted along the bedroom windowsill.

A portable kettle that is safe to use within reaching distance of the bed.

Rags or towels for spills.

Room decorations that make you feel extra cozy!

Things to do:

Make infused honey.

Draw sigils on the bottom of your plate/tray/mug before consuming things.

Create tea blends and keep them in jars for the next time you want tea.

When you eat or drink, feel it’s energy working to heal you. 

Make a spell bottle - include your favorite spices!

Make a pinterest board of all the foods/recipes you want to try/make.

Make tinctures!

Plan menus for hypothetical meals - sabbats anyone?

Burn candles that remind you of cozy smells coming from the kitchen.

Create correspondences for the BRAT/Y diet.

Look up recipes!

Make cold infusions (basically tea, but with cold water and a longer waiting period).

Process herbs; grind them, separate the leaves from the stems, get them ready to dry. 

Infuse water with things like: Lemon for energy, strawberries for love, cucumber for patience, etc.

Connect with deities of home/hearth/baking/food/etc.

Etch sigils into food before you eat it.

Make herb packets and mixtures, that way you can just pop it in when you have enough energy to cook!

Two words: Tea Magic. 

Utilize color correspondences of candy if that’s all you can get down. (Yellow = energy, red = self love, green = vitality).

Place herbs in different places depending on their correspondences, so they can work a little magic. 

Other bedridden witchcraft posts:

Nature edition

Worship edition

Divination edition

Stale Energy edition

Elements edition

Pastel edition

[ivi-maud]

Book of Shadows Ideas that Aren’t Basic

A local specific myth, cryptid, or legend

An obscure historical witch or an old historical spell

A map of your neighborhood with locations that appear ghostly or have interesting energy

Your personal associations to colors, plants to supplement traditional correspondence charts

A chart detailing information of spirits you have communed with

A guide to sailor knots for knot magick

Sustainable and eco friendly lifestyle tips

Magickal practices around the world

Obscure magickal tools or tools you invented

Varying viewpoints in magickal philosophy and technique

[themanicnami]

Crystals for Artsy Witches

Here is a list of crystals that could be useful to artistic witches.

Agate: inspiration, awaken talents and improve them

Alexandrite: creativity, imagination

Amazonite: creativity, intuition

Amethyst: creativity, intuition, perception, insight

Apatite: insight, creativity

Aqua Aura Quartz: motivation, making progress in goals

Aventurine: creativity, imagination, motivation

Beryl: creativity, helps relieves the feeling of tiredness (always good for artists)

Bixbite: creativity

Carnelian: creativity, precision

Cavansite: inspiration

Charoite: inspiration

Chlorite: inspiration

Chrysoberyl: creativity

Citrine: intuition, creativity, clarity

Coral: creativity, visualization

Dolomite: concentration, focus

Emerald: focus

Fire Agate: creativity, expression

Fire Opal: creativity

Garnet: mental rejuvenation, motivation

Girasol: visualization, imagination, creativity

Goshenite: creativity, originality

Hematite: focus

Howlite: expression, creativity

Kyanite: visualization

Magnesite: visualization, unconscious thoughts realized

Mookaite Jasper: expression, versatility

Mother of Pearl: imagination, intuition, mental clarity, adaptability

Opal: creativity, inspiration, spontaneity

Pearl: focus

Rainforest Jasper: variety, progress, creativity

Sapphire: creativity, expression, mental clarity, intuition

Sardonyx: creativity, mental clarity

Siberian Gold Quartz: inspiration, motivation

Tangerine (dyed) Quartz: motivation

Tanzan Aura: intuition, inner vision

Tiger’s Eye: motivation, focus, concentration, mental clarity

Tiger Iron: artistic skills, creativity, motivation

Topaz: creativity, individuality, expression

Ulexite: creativity, inspiration, imagination

[mystimily]

Magic artsy witch

[littlewitchytransboy]

@coyotesteeth it us

[sonnenishere-deactivated2023101]

Dreams, stars, and moon phases ⭐️

[lovenotereminders]

You aren’t a bad friend for being unwell. You aren’t a bad friend for needing to cancel on plans because you don’t feel up for it. You aren’t a bad friend for not messaging back right away. You aren’t a bad friend for needing to prioritise your well-being. You aren’t a bad friend for not having the energy to hang out. You aren’t a bad friend for needing support or asking for it, or for showing symptoms. 

Whether your illness is mental, physical, or both, it doesn’t make you a bad friend. Good friends will understand your predicament and forgive you. 

[fjorn-wanders]

My favorite thing about Norse paganism is that wisdom comes from wandering the world, learning from cultures and beliefs beyond your own, and even incorporating them into your life and practice. The “unwise man” is thus he who does not recognize the value in other people and places. Considering that, it’s sad that many contemporary pagans believe Norse paganism should be closed off and isolated from the potential wisdom and value that can be obtained from “foreign” experiences and backgrounds.

[garettphotography]

The Druid’s Temple | GarettPhotography

[2-face]

officially, i recommend looking at a bird

i can’t help but notice that a lot of my peers and younger people don’t get a lot of enjoyment out of nature. and i don’t mean that as a “blurrhh the millennials don’t know what’s good for them, blrurrh log off and go outside” way either

what i mean is: have you ever actually taken the time to look at an animal in the yard and notice all the things that are great about it? like, there’s a difference between reblogging photos of fat birds on tumblr and doing that. you can actually get sustained joy out of staring at a pigeon or even a particularly cool tree, and it’s not taught in schools but it’s still something you can practice!!

why would you want to practice that, tumblr user 2-face? some thoughts:

the multiple studies showing the benefits to mood and stress-related health you can experience by looking at nature: not just the recently shared ‘stare at an aquarium for 10 minutes’ study but older known stuff like ‘stick your head out the window and look at a tree for 10 minutes and your blood pressure will go down and some of the symptoms of your depression and anxiety will be alleviated’

got adhd, like me? feel like you’re boiling your brain alive in a simmering pot of bad thoughts when you walk from point A to point B without having your dopamine rectangle firmly in front of your face? no problem, check this out *looks at a bush on the way* wow whoa woo-hoo

increase your empathy for other living things with this 1 easy trick (thinking about them a lot and noticing their inherent value)

if you plan to have kids you can pass this onto your children and they will likely have a better time and be less dependent on predatory technologies for their fun (read the book The Last Child In The Woods for more about that)

if you do art, your ability to draw nature could benefit from looking at nature more and understanding its nuances and then you can get commissioned to draw fursonas and make the big bucks ;)

ok so how do you practice looking at a bird, tumblr user 2-face? well stop calling me that, and:

step 1: find a bird. if you live in an urban area, this will probably be a pigeon, sparrow, or seagull. now step 2: look at that little bastard. 

examine these qualities: the shape and silhouette of the bird. how does its body shape indicate the type of flying it has to do and the places it inhabits? how does its beak indicate the type of thing it’s meant to eat? what does it actually eat now? does its beak work against it in the modern world or aid it? if you had to design a human version of the bird, what shape might the human have? 

look at its locomotion. does it fly in short bursts or long swoops? can it turn easily in midair? when it has to travel on the ground, does it walk or hop? check out the way a pigeon’s head bobs as it wanders. check out the interesting steps a starling takes. look at the little dashing run of a blackbird and how its body stays at the same level throughout. 

look at how alert it is. what is a bird looking at? what is a bird thinking? watch the blackbird delicately flip leaves to hunt for bugs. watch the pigeons congregate in little flocks and peck at the grass like hens. watch the seagulls bully each other and descend ravenously on a dropped chip. watch the sparrow fly with a tiny stick in its beak!

look how it interacts with other things. these pigeons are friends and groom each other. this blackbird is a mother, and if she thinks you are going near her children, she fakes a broken wing and hobbles away, enticing you to follow her. these sparrows all go up to the highest and wobbliest branch and turn to balance in the wind. that seagull is young and has not lost its baby feathers, and it shelters uncomfortably from the rain and begs for scraps. look at that bird pulling on a leaf, cracking a snail on a rock, playing with its neighbor. how smart they are! what can we learn from them?

repeat as often as possible.

if you feel like you’ve mastered that, here’s your advanced level looking-at-nature quest: how can you apply the above steps to less relatable things, like a tree, a rose, or a spider? what do you like about those things? what do you notice? what can we learn from them? what are their daily lives like? how can we improve our relations with them?

[hope-for-the-planet]

In addition to building empathy with nature, this kind of thing is really excellent for mindfulness and mental health.

10/10 highly recommend

[littlewitchytransboy]

Day two, I decided to make a start on the rune pages today, this is all I’m probably going to get done today as I’m really not feeling too great mentally. I have to remember that the goal isn’t to finish a page a day, but just to get the info down even if it’s just in pencil.

[smoke-weed-and-hail-thor]

witchy self-care

it’s almost winter, days are grey and depression is in season. whether you don’t feel right due to mental illnesses or just feeling the blues for no reason, witchcraft is not always about doing huge rituals in honor of the gods but also sometimes just about taking care of yourself

here are some of my best witchy tips & tricks !

👁‍🗨 take a bath. ritual baths are great for boosting your energy, and it’s easy to adapt it to fit your needs with herbs & crystals of your choosing. there are some great recipes here on tumblr, but if you want something basic my go-to is just salt, rain water and a few clear quartz

👁‍🗨 write down your feelings on a piece of paper. journaling is very therapeutic and i feel as writing things down is a very good way to center yourself and see more clearly what you are going through. after that, i’d just (safely) burn the paper to get rid of all those bad vibes

👁‍🗨 drink loads of tea. especially now that it’s so cold, this will help warm you up but also, it’s a great way of putting magic into your physical body. different herbs and teas will have different effects on you, so i would strongly advise making your own tea blends ; it’s a calm and grounding activity, and will help you get in contact with nature

👁‍🗨 astral projection. we can all agree that it’s a bit cold for going on a walk, so why don’t you explore the astral plane instead ? be very careful, of course as it is a realm of all kind of beings, and not all spirits are gonna be nice and caring. but it is a nice time to explore new places in your astral body while your physical body is safely resting at home

👁‍🗨 read about your craft. in lots of self-care tips, you’ll see aesthetic pictures of people snuggled up in blankets with hot chocolate and a book. not gonna pass on that one. winter i feel, is a great time for learning and discovering new things about your craft, so why don’t you pick up a book and get cosy while watching the snowfall ?

👁‍🗨 do yoga, or stretching. it’s important not to neglect your physical body to maintain balance within yourself. taking the time to listen to your body and move your muscles around can be extremely therapeutic, as sport is known for increasing overall well-being. if you can’t go to the gym, a few minutes of exercise at home will do, and will put you in a good mood for whatever your plans are for the day