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@magick-and-such
1. What can I do right now to stop my cycle of negative thinking?
2. What excuses am I rationalizing that are keeping me from living my ideal life?
3. What expectations do I hold for my self that aren’t rooted in reality?
4. How are my thoughts and actions misaligned?
5. What can I do right now to start living my ideal life?
Methods for Spells
TO BIND- wrap in black thread, drip wax over, or seal in a jar and hide it in the dark.
TO BANISH- burn an effect to ash and sweep off the back door step, cast it out a window, or bury in the ground and spit on it
TO ENCOURAGE- plant it by the front door/steps, bury by a window, or place it on a windowsill
TO HIDE- place in a jar painted black, cover with cloth and bury, or wrap with a ribbon
TO CLEANSE- bury it in a bowl of salt, burn herbs and pass through the smoke, or lay it in a moonwater bath
TO GLAMOUR- leave under the full moon, hold its reflection over a mirror with herbs, or
TO WISH- place before a candle and blow it out, drown a coin in water, or let seeds blow into the wind
TO COMMUNICATE- (with a spirit or deity) - anoint a candle, leave out offerings, or open the front doors and windows
TO WARD- leave part of the spell in four corners, draw lines around the protected area, or plant an object of projection in the north, east, south, and west edges
TO CURSE- spit on it, drag your nails down it, or stick sharp things in it
TO DISCOURAGE - plant or bury by the back door, or burn to ash
TO JINX- say it three times out loud, or say a word the same time as someone else
TO MANIPULATE - use wax, use poppets, or tie several strings to pieces of an effect
TO BENEFIT - light a candle, charge a crystal, or create a talisman
Compilation of the two card spreads I have posted so far!
core / context
do / don’t
worst case scenario / best case scenario
short term / long term
want / need
change / remain
Clicking the links will take you to the individual posts for more details about each spread 💙
Lapiscat stole my fucking list.
Link to my 2016 stolen version
Also:
Which can ALL still be found on my blog with time stamps and comments. There are also messages from witches and collaborative efforts all still up from years ago.
I’ve been working on the list since 2015 with the collaboration of fellow witches and followers.
Lapiscat stole my fucking list and multiple years of work.
Update: I did receive a message from Lapiscat, however the post is still up despite me asking for it to be taken down multiple times. Yes my last name remained in the title, but it’s a clear stolen repost with no credit to my blog or me.
I’ve reported it a few times now, so hopefully it will be taken down soon.
Things I’ve Learned
- don’t drink water in the dark
- don’t look out windows at night
- if you feel it watching don’t look for it just hurry on your way, but to be safe if you feel running for some reason would insult This One then don’t
- take only dead wood from forests, fallen berries and flowers are safe too, the living things are Not For You
- NEVER stomp on the mushrooms
- stay on the animal paths
- leave an offering in the woods to be left in peace during your walks
- the hills and fields may seem open and empty but They Never Are
- listening to the wind is fine but you should never reply to it, if you feel it shift it’s time to go
- if your dog won’t go near it neither should you
- if It’s in your room then shut your eyes or otherwise don’t acknowledge It, It will eventually lose interest
- ghosts can and will lie to you
- don’t give anything your full name
- if you feel weak, don’t rest - leave
- your shadow doesn’t always belong to you
- check your seats before entering your vehicle, do not look back for ANYTHING after
- better yet keep things in your seats
- generally if you suddenly feel you shouldn’t look in a certain direction, be in a certain place, or do a certain thing then please trust your gut
Good list for anyone getting in touch with spirits and the land.
Some stuff I’ve learned/picked up over the years:
• Ask before entering a graveyard
• If you feel like something attached to you, it did
• The trees know what’s in the woods. Learn to listen to them
• Don’t follow lights or singing in the woods
• Try to know what you’re talking to so you respond correctly. Apologizing to the spirit of someone deceased might be recommended, but doing so to the Fair Folk isn’t
• If you’re able to see it (either literally, since some people have the Sight, or in your mind) check for things that look odd (backward feet, hollow backs, etc)
• If you have any doubt that something you heard or saw might not have been an animal, assume it wasn’t and assume it’s dangerous
I hope you are ready to read me raving for a while. I’m very excited about writing this post, because I am in love. So I’ll go straight to today’s topic: the absolutely beautiful and magical Aurora Tarot created by June Shibusawa. While this isn’t exactly a tarot deck as it doesn’t have 78 cards, and it is more an oracle deck, this breathtaking 42 card deck could honestly be called whatever and I would still love it. And don’t worry about the Japanese-only site, I will get to that later!
It is inspired by the beauty of the Arctic, its cultures and its nature. June wants this deck to transport people to a different world, so that hopefully that gives them a new perspective about the issues they are dealing with. The 90+ page booklet helps this come to life. It includes an introduction, how to shuffle, layouts (the most important one being the hexagram) and card information. The latter includes the name of the card, a general meaning, and several meanings by position for the hexagram layout (so at least seven). The booklet is in Japanese though, but the website features beautifully written card meanings too, which are easy to translate online. Actually I love these, as I find they are more free to interpretation. They are also lengthier and contain cultural or scientific information of the main element of the card when needed.
It has been illustrated by Eri Yoneda. The awe-inspiring mix of brights and pastels, lights and darks, and the art style in general feel magical and otherworldly, and simply looking at them is a delight. There is not a single card I don’t like. After meditating with the first one, both the illustrations and what June has written spark a feeling of wanting to know the deck immediately and entirely. Like falling in love! If you have already checked the meanings page out, you will have also seen the images, so I think you’ll get what I mean! The illustrations are framed by a very thin white border, and then by a wider black border. They have a number on top and their name on the bottom.
The deck comes in a sturdy, two part box with silver foiled letters. The design matches that of the booklet and the back of the cards. This deck shows just how much thorough work and attention to detail have gone into it, which is also reflected on the fact that June has taken the time to write the meanings online as I previously mentioned, as well as a how-to for the ordering process and details on the card size and thickness. The Aurora Tarot has become a favourite and it surprises me every time I use it. This is an amazing deck, so be sure to check all the links I included!
@cosmicrystalwitch !!!!
OH MY GOD!!!! 😭💜
Rose Petal PSA
I see a lot of witches drying rose petals for floral arrangements or even making rose water from them. Please keep in mind that roses grown for florists are over treated with pesticides and fertilizers. Anything made from these petals isn’t safe to ingest.
If you’re doing work that requires making a rose preparation for ingestion or topical application that will be absorbed into the skin, you’ll want to get rose petals from a shop that sells for these purposes.
Or grow your own organically. Old fashioned varieties rather than the hybrid teas you see in flower arrangements are usually grown for these purposes because they grown more easily without intense treatments.
THIS IS IMPORTANT Y’ALL. As a witch who worked at a florist, whenever I ‘cleaned’ the roses for sale (taking off excess leaves, slicing off thorns, etc), I would immediately wash my hands afterward. The chemicals were so bad I would feel immediate irritation and would have skin issues if I didn’t scrub clean every 30 minutes or so (I aimed for 1 wash after every 12). It’s especially worth noting that roses from florists are often (almost always) flown in from other countries where the laws about pesticides are a lot more lax. Originally we got ours from a grower in Colombia, which wasn’t too bad, but I believe we switched to Ecuador and holy moly I don’t know what the company we got it from used but it was strong. As in ‘The smell of the chemicals hit me like a wall as soon as I opened up the dozen, despite them having traveled all the way from Ecuador in a freezer’ strong. It was so bad I legitimately had worries about how handling the roses would effect my long term health, and gods above and below I felt for the workers over there that had to deal with these pesticides regularly and up close. Also, if you buy your own rose bush to use for ingestion purposes, DO NOT use the petals off of it for the first year UNLESS you got it from a organic nursery. Because most places do spray the roses with pesticides and fertilizers from seedling on up, and it will take a year for all that stuff to work it’s way out of the plant’s system. If you need rose petals to ingest ASAP, I would strongly suggest checking out tea shops. Many local or online sellers have rose teas that are lovely, and either have rose hips (which might not be as fancy as petals and have a more citrus-y flavor, but are the fruit borne from a rose and thus symbolic as all hell) or rose petals mixed in with their teas. This are absolutely edible, and are easily accessible to boot. Signed, a ex-florist and Rose Nerd.
I really hope people see this because it is very important. Roses from the floral section are not intended for consumption. I have found whole rose buds at herb stores, Asian grocery stores (in cooking sections), and tea stores. I would highly suggest going to those places for roses. They may also sell tea with a high quantity of rose petals which you can use in place of pure roses. Another note: jasmine tea is not tea with dried jasmine. Most jasmine varieties are not edible and you can’t use dried jasmine in tea unless it is a variety specifically marketed as being edible (jasmine sambac aka Pikake)
Reblogging this immediately because my most popular post is ‘How to dry rose petals the lazy way’ and I completely forgot to mention this.
I just buy a bottle of Botanics Rose Water skin refreshing spritzer for my needs (not to ingest of course) It’s Rose Water, Organic, and $9 at Walgreens. It’s amazing 💖
Not a witch, just a tea lover.
This is where I get rose petals to put in my black teas. https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Organic-Flower-Petals-caffeine/dp/B074P6BFHH/ The gentleman who runs the place is super sweet and his teas are so good. I had the good fortune to encounter his teas through an Amazon review group before that gravy train ended, and I still buy them. (His genmaicha. UMMM. So good. It has popcorn in it. Who thinks of that?)Purchase edible roses and stay safe, kinderlach.
And remember kiddos, there’s a difference between culinary, ornamental and cosmetic grade herbs and flowers.
Like this is good info and all but what rich ass witches are going to a florist and buying bouquets of roses for their witchy rose needs? Talk about the 1%.
Well, TBH, the post came about after I started seeing 17yo witches who were going to make rose water with roes they’d gathered after their school’s prom. Because witches will scavenge like hell.
I think it’s important also to mention that if you snag a little something out of a farmer’s field, let’s say wheat or barley, it will have been sprayed with fungicide and pesticide.
Wash your hands, and don’t put things in your mouth.
Super important! This applies to rose petals and rosebuds that you get at occult shops too. They may be all right for charms and such, but unless you know FOR SURE that the owner got them from a botanical supplier, don’t try to use them for tea or skin products.
If you want roses in bulk for this sort of thing, I can recommend Starwest Botanicals. They carry a great deal of organic products and they’re very good about labeling what is and is not food-grade.
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Hey, could you maybe tell us about Labradorite? I checked wiki but I don't understand half the words there. I'm not a giant rock fan, but I like cool rocks and Labradorite looks really cool. Sorry to bother you!
Okay, so, Labradorite. Labradorite is complicated and sciencey, as all good rocks are. I’ll see if I can explain it in a way that makes any sense! (Once again, I’m not a scientist! Correct me if I’m wrong!)
Most minerals, when they’re bright and pretty and colorful, look like that because while they were forming some impurities got mixed into them - usually metals like iron, copper, or titanium. Without any impurities, these rocks would naturally be colorless. We call these guys allochromatic (other-colored).
Other gemstones are certain colors because those elements are an important part of how they formed. They’re not impurities that got mixed in, they’re actually part of the gemstone. Their natural color IS the color you’re seeing. We call them idiochromatic (inherently colored).
But labradorite doesn’t get its color from either of those things. Labradorite is special. It’s part of a third group: psudochromatic (false colored). These rocks aren’t colorful at all, but they LOOK that way when light passes through them.
See, labradorite is actually just… grey. From most angles, it looks like this:
You have to look at labradorite from a pretty specific angle to get those flashy colors, so when we cut it into cabochons for jewelry, or just polish up big pieces of it, we’re careful to do so at the most flattering angle, the angle that shows the most schiller, or “those cool glowy colors.”
Why just the one angle? It’s all about labradorite’s crystal structure, and how it’s formed.
Labradorite is a rock that cooled down really slowly. Because of that, it’s made of lots of very very thin layers of crystal, stacked on top of each other and all pretty much aligned in the same direction. These are alternating layers of albite (mostly sodium), and orthoclase (mostly potassium), which solidify at very slightly different temperatures. Labradorite is a rock that cooled in just the right way for a thin layer of albite to form, then a thin layer of orthoclase, then another thin layer of albite, and so on.
When light hits labradorite at the perfect angle to pass through a bunch of these layers, you get the schiller effect. Basically, a little bit of the light gets bounced off the first layer and back to your eyes. The rest of the light passes through to the second layer, and a little bit gets bounced back to your eyes again, and so on. Every time more light gets sent back to you, it’s a little out of sync, and this makes it look like a different color.
(This is a very simplified way of explaining this.)
If these layers were all perfectly the same size, you’d get a uniform color, like the blue in moonstone. But in labradorite, these layers might be different widths in different places, so different parts of the stone will reflect back wildly different colors! We call this effect labradorescence to differentiate it from the uniform colored adularescence found in moonstone and some opals.
Depending on where it’s found in the world, labradorite can reflect all sorts of different colors!
But whatever color it is, Labradorite will always be the Best and Coolest Rock.
Shiny rock science!
I’ve actually started collecting labradorite specimens.
HEY WITCHBLR!!!
One of my top favorite blogs JUST GOT DELETED!!!
If you followed @thewitchofthenorse you will need to now follow her back up blog @thewitchofthenorseispissed
BUT I HAVE A HUGE FAVOR TO ASK;
I also don’t know if this is possible but I think so? If you could look back at anything and everything you’ve re blogged from her old account to send her a link or screen shot? Figured that’d be helpful for her right now in case there are some things she lost.
@staff please check this issue!
Hey if you followed @thewitchofthenorse I’ve been deleted… my entire blog, 30k followers, my life’s work… gone….
Please boost… to help get followers back.. @orriculum @whichwitchami
Hey all. I know I'm not super active or anything but honestly @witchofthenorse ( @thewitchofthenorseispissed ) is one of the best resources I've found for witchcraft and Heathenism in general. It sucks that her blog got deleted. Follow her:)
@staff please fix this.
In regards to research:
Don’t accept witchcraft books for history. Read history texts.
Don’t accept witchcraft books for mental processes. Read psychology and biological texts.
Don’t accept witchcraft books for mythology. Don’t accept witchcraft books for religion. Read original texts and papers written researchers credited in their fields.
Use witchcraft books for witchcraft, and witchcraft alone. That is what they specialize in and what they are published for. If it branches out into a different subject, be suspicious and research the topic later.
I finally found it, some of the best noob advice I ever got
Save The Date : 2019.
Full Moon Dates.
🌕 Full moon : Jan 21
🌕 Full moon : Feb 19
🌕 Full moon : Mar 20
🌕 Full moon : Apr 19
🌕 Full moon : May 18
🌕 Full moon : Jun 17
🌕 Full moon : Jul 16
🌕 Full moon : Aug 15
🌕 Full moon : Sep 14
🌕 Full moon : Oct 13
🌕 Full moon : Nov 12
🌕 Full moon : Dec 12
Sabbat Festivals.
🕯 Imbolc - Candlemas : Feb 1
🌸 Ostara - Vernal Equinox : Mar 20
🔥 Beltane - Mid Spring : May 1
☀️ Litha - Summer Solstice : Jun 24
🌾 Lammas - Harvest Festival : Aug 1
🍁 Mabon - Autumnal Equinox : Sep 21
🎃 Samhain - All Hallows’ Eve : Oct 31
❄️ Yule - Winter Solstice : Dec 21
Celestial Signs.
♑️ Capricorn : Dec 22 - Jan 19
♒️ Aquarius : Jan 20 - Feb 18
♓️ Pisces : Feb 19 - Mar 20
♈️ Aries : Mar 21 - Apr 19
♉️ Taurus : Apr 20 - May 20
♊️ Gemini : May 21 - Jun 20
♋️ Cancer : Jun 21 - Jul 22
♌️ Leo : Jul 23 - Aug 22
♍️ Virgo : Aug 23 - Sep 22
♎️ Libra : Sep 23 - Oct 22
♏️ Scorpio : Oct 23 - Nov 21
♐️ Sagittarius: Nov 22 - Dec 21
I don’t really know what people generally call this method of sigil making, so I’m just calling it “Letter Shaping” because you’re using the basic shapes from certain letters. This is the most common form of sigil making, and it allows the most creative influence. As you see above the sigils are for nearly the same thing, yet the sigils came out completely different. Not because the purpose was different, but because I approached them both a different creative way, and that’s what I like so much about this method. There’s a lot of freedom and personalization involved.
(UPDATE: Here’s a link to a guide on how to deconstruct letters down to basic shapes)
@egyptian-pearl-witch
I am going to break you into four pieces like a fucking kit kat
[ATTENTION ALL PEOPLE WHO WANT A MORE TANGIBLY INSPIRED, PROGRESSIVE, AND MAGICKAL WORLD]
You got 12 days to get your shit together and put it in a bag because Uranus enters Taurus on May 15th.
This hasn’t happened since the 1940’s and it completely revolutionized consensus.
Uranus=The lightning bolt of inspiration, the revolutionary, and anarchist
Enters and upturns
Taurus=Material reality and the physical plane.
We have a once in a life-time opportunity to strike at the separation between material and spiritual if we all do this synchronized together!
We gotta come up with a ritual that is simple to do. I propose using a knife like a lightning rod, calling upon that Uranus energy, and directing the strike to puncture whatever reality you wanna let into this world. Like using a needle and piercing fabric, pulling a thread through, and binding the second material to the first. Even more perfect that it’s happening on a new moon which is perfect for planting new seeds.
Get your Vorpalblades sharp.
Ocean Sculptures, by Elemental Urchin on Etsy
See our ‘sculpture’ tag
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@weldman94
Methods for Spells
TO BIND- wrap in black thread, drip wax over, or seal in a jar and hide it in the dark.
TO BANISH- burn an effect to ash and sweep off the back door step, cast it out a window, or bury in the ground and spit on it
TO ENCOURAGE- plant it by the front door/steps, bury by a window, or place it on a windowsill
TO HIDE- place in a jar painted black, cover with cloth and bury, or wrap with a ribbon
TO CLEANSE- bury it in a bowl of salt, burn herbs and pass through the smoke, or lay it in a moonwater bath
TO GLAMOUR- leave under the full moon, hold its reflection over a mirror with herbs, or
TO WISH- place before a candle and blow it out, drown a coin in water, or let seeds blow into the wind
TO COMMUNICATE- (with a spirit or deity) - anoint a candle, leave out offerings, or open the front doors and windows
TO WARD- leave part of the spell in four corners, draw lines around the protected area, or plant an object of projection in the north, east, south, and west edges
TO CURSE- spit on it, drag your nails down it, or stick sharp things in it
TO DISCOURAGE - plant or bury by the back door, or burn to ash
TO JINX- say it three times out loud, or say a word the same time as someone else
TO MANIPULATE - use wax, use poppets, or tie several strings to pieces of an effect
TO BENEFIT - light a candle, charge a crystal, or create a talisman
