Name: Caspian
Nickname(s): Lucky, Cas
Age: 23
Pronouns: He/They/Zae/Sprinkleself
Length of Practice: 10 years (on and off)
Practice Info:
Divination via tarot is a strong suit, though I am working on branching out into different topics
I am a pop culture practitioner, and I am currently working with Magnificus and Leshy from Inscryption. I'm working on developing a pantheon from the game as well.
I also work with a few entities from Resident Evil, though I will not reveal their identities at this time.
I am, essentially, restarting my practice due to my mental health and life stressors.
Please DNI If:
You're knowingly appropriative of other practices/cultures and don't care, or support others who do this type of behavior
You're ableist, racist, homophobic, etc etc (I don't even know why you'd be on here, but regardless)
You're wanting to pressure me into Christianity/going to say I'm going to hell for practicing witchcraft
You're a TERF, rad-fem, transmed, panphobic, ace/arophobe, or dislike/hate xenogenders
You're gonna be a bitch about/gonna be weird about my pop culture practice
You think that only cis women can practice witchcraft/be a witch
Content You'll Find / Tags
Book of Shadows excerpts
Inscryption Pop Culture Pantheon Information
Journal entries about working with entities and whatnot?
Reblogs from other practitioners
#Inscrypteon - Inscryption pantheon tag
#Ink and Quill - Journal tag
#From the Masterlogs - BoS tag
#Inquiries - Asks
#Disabled Witchcraft - Tag for tips and resources for disabled witches
For my fellow fibre arts witches, if you're starting to get the Annual Cold Weather Fidget, that driving urge to reach for hooks and needles and that big bin of spools and fabric lurking in your closet....
If you feel like Doing A Witchcraft, you can work some witchy into whatever you're making. Weaving, crocheting, knitting, nalbinding, stitching, embroidery, and knotwork can all carry magic and serve as a vehicle for creating spells, sigils, talismans, or enchanted wearables.
Am I saying you can put a spell into that pair of socks you're knitting? That scarf you've been working on? That pile of granny squares waiting to become a blanket? That cross-stitch piece you've been meaning to finish?
ABSOLUTELY.
There are even books on knot magic, witchy crochet and knitting patterns, and beautifully spooky cross-stitch and embroidery pieces. (And lots more downloadable patterns exist on etsy and fibre arts forums!) Perfect for chilling with your favorite hot beverage and current binge-watch while you keep your hands from getting bored.
There seemed to be enough interest in the DnD Dice Divination system that I decided to go ahead and write it up. I couldn’t fit it all on here though so I might be making more posts in the future about it. I’ve included the most important stuff here to get started.
I’ve included a zine to download and print off if you want to take it with you. I actually recommend the zine, it’s a better format than what tumblr would let me put together.
Please consider tipping me and definitely credit me where you can.
I know there are other systems out there and I don’t have a monopoly on dice divination but this guide did take a lot of time to put together and is built on my own collection of frameworks, meanings.
Dice sets can be picked up for cheaper than most basic tarot decks making the barrier to entry lower. My goal was to create a system that could get a similar level of complexity of information to tarot and oracle cards. I found in test readings, I could get roughly the same as I would get from a four card reading. So it’s a good start!
It’s my mission to make divination more accessible, tipping me helps me devote more time to this.
You can write down as many correspondences as you want, memorize entire lists from someone else's blog or book or whatever, but none of it will matter if you do not understand those correspondences. It's so critically important to ask "Why?"
Why is spirit purple? Why is love red? Why is chamomile calm? Why is quartz "all purpose"? Why does cinnamon speed up a spell?
Something I feel like people getting into folk magic need to understand, for many people of many backgrounds, is folk magic started as a means of survival. It was struggle magic, and it is still struggle magic.
Where I'm living now and where I'm from, people planted by the signs to ensure their crops wouldn't go bad before harvesting. People used ocean water to soothe joint and muscle pains when they got old. People studied the native plants for medicine and were mindful to only take what was needed. People did little rituals and minded their grannies' words to keep their good luck. If they didn't know how to do something (or couldn't), they went to people who did.
Learning folk magic to reconnect with ancestral traditions from before your time is valid. Learning folk magic to connect with and work with the land is valid. There are many valid reasons to take up folk magic. Still, understand that folk magic is survival, and folk magic is community.
The main difference between new age spirituality and just regular witchcraft is that new agers are gonna tell you to cleanse your space with white sage and read The Secret. Meanwhile witches are gonna give you 5 books from the 90s, 3 academic texts, 2 encyclopaedias and say “well I think that’s enough for a beginner witch”
I’ve seen way too many posts about how to make one, but never any about how to take one apart.
If you buried your spell jar (or otherwise placed it somewhere not in your general vicinity), retrieve it first.
There are a few ways to go about disassembling a spell jar.
Throwing Everything Away
Returning It to Nature
Burning It
Putting It Into Another Container for Safekeeping
Retrieving the Reusable Ingredients (crystals, shells, etc.) and Getting Rid of the Rest
Throwing Everything Away
As simple as it sounds. I would recommend breaking the seal (melting it or even just stabbing it) before getting rid of it, to break the spell itself. Keep the jar and wash it or throw it away with the rest of it. Throw the contents into the trash (or a dumpster, if you don’t want it near you).
Returning It to Nature
Also very simple. Can only be used with natural ingredients. Do not dump in rivers. Retrieve any non-organic materials (crystals, shells, poppets, etc.) to either reuse or get rid of separately. Be sure it doesn’t include things that can harm the local wildlife.
Burning It
Empty the contents of the jar into a different, fire-safe bowl or plate. Then, burn it. Simple as that. Lighters or matches, it doesn’t matter. Be sure that you and any pets or family can inhale the fumes from it. This is usually used with spells that have little amounts of ingredients. Be sure to research fire safety and safety when it comes to burning herbs and other ingredients.
Putting It Into Another Container for Safekeeping
Transferring the contents into a different container. Usually done when you want to reuse the jar or size down the original jar. Break the seal, pour it into your other container, seal that, and you’re done. Super easy. Can also be used when putting a spell into a ‘dormant’ state.
Retrieving the Reusable Ingredients and Getting Rid of the Rest
What I see the most in the witch community. Reusable ingredients include crystals, shells, rocks, bones, and anything else that can be used again. Doing this is a bit harder when the jar has liquid. Break the seal and place the contents of the jar into another container. Then, pick out all of the reusable items, the ones that you want to keep. Wash them and dispose of the contents of the jar through one of the methods above.
Notes
When disassembling a spell jar, it’s always good to declare the intentions of the jar done (or dormant). If the spell could have negative consequences on your or someone else’s life, be sure to neutralize the energy you have put into the spell. Cast a counter-spell or just neutralize the spell. Please tell me if I missed anything!
DO NOT RETURN IT TO NATURE IF THE SPELL CONTAINS SALT. SALT CANNOT BE BURIED OR PUT ON THE GROUND OUTSIDE IT WILL HARM THE ENVIRONMENT. But other than that amazing advice
so i’m a pretty quiet person irl, and i find a lot of spellbooks and posts on here include verbalization in the form of incantations, mantras, et cetera.
which is all well and good if that works for you, whatever floats your boat and casts your spell; but what if you’re like me and verbalizations make you uncomfortable?
or you’re practicing late at night while your housemates are asleep?
or you just. prefer to not speak?
well, here are some alternatives!
say your incantation internally
visualize your incantation
make your incantation physical (could you add movement/gestures to your spell?)
make it symbolic (breaking something, binding something, burying it?)
use a noisemaker! (eg. a bell, clap, a song, note, chord, etc)
simply do without! not every spell or ritual needs a verbal component, and maybe you’re just not that kind of practitioner. that’s okay!
i’m sure there are tons of things that i’ve left off or forgotten, and i definitely want to hear more ideas if you have them!
Grimora is the Scrybe of the Dead. She uses her quill to write down tombstone epitaphs to create cards of the dead. She is most likely based on goddesses associated with the dead, such as Hekate. For UPG purposes she'll be associated with American death customs/associations. Feel free to incorporate your culture's death customs/associations if you wish to practice with her.
Pop Culture Witchcraft and the Importance of Being Cringe
Cringe has become a bit a loaded word nowadays, being at first a word to describe feelings of second-hand embarrassment, arguably from failings to impress others or to raise one's social capital. Think for example failed motorsports stunts, falling into pools with a tray full of fruity drinks or even worse; someone trying to impress a crush by molding themselves into someone they only think the other party would like via baseless assumptions. Your body recoils, seeing a dirt biker tumble down the course. Your stomach sinks, watching someone plunge into the shallow end of the water. You squirm watching someone try to convince their crush to go out with the facade they made. That I would describe as "empathetic cringe"; a reaction based on witnessing something you do not wish upon yourself like physical harm or embarrassment.
The modern definition of cringe however, is a different beast entirely.
Using the Urban Dictionary meaning as defined by user Screech McGee, "Before the internet trolls changed the meaning of this word, "cringe" was a verb used to express embarrassment or disgust. Now, this word is mostly used to define something that you dislike or do not understand. Internet trolls use this word as an insult towards people in fandoms, with bad grammar, or both combined. Trolls also use this word to describe memes on some occasions."
Doing a quick search on YouTube or Tiktok for "cringe" gives you an array of oddities to the average eye; people dressed in rainbow-colored wolf fursuits, teens expressing their love and attachment for their favorite anime character, or perhaps someone outwardly displaying behaviors considered aneurotypical. They fall outside societal norms and standards of behavior. They aren't perceived as "normal or acceptable" to the standards set by white-cis-het-able bodied-neurotypical persons and communities.
But in it, the furries, the fandom-lovers, and even the "neurospicys" are harming none. They're doing what they want.
Sounds kinda familiar doesn't it?
Lets loop around to what you're probably reading this rant for; the witchy reasons.
Witchcraft as a practice, is already an outsider to most societies, especially to those predominated shaped by Protestant Christian beliefs. It's already something outside the norms. Even back during the hey-day of reality tv shows like Wife Swap, those who weren't considered Christian or followed more "earth-based" religions and lifestyles were presented as the butt of the joke. And while witchcraft and non-Christian beliefs as a whole have becoming more popular nowadays, it's still considered something outside the norm or in the minority of persons identifying themselves as witches and pagans voluntarily.
So we're already ticking one "cringe" box according to societal norms
Chaos Magic as a whole is based on using belief as a tool or as a fuel source to workings to enact change or bring it about to oneself or to the environment around them as a whole. Hence the whole "nothing is true, everything is permitted" thing in that there's no one strict set of rules to make something work.
Pop Culture Witchcraft and Pop Culture Paganism deriving from chaos magic, while with several theories as to how it works, the crux is in "belief", in energy fueled into something or even someone.
Going off the egregoric model, egregores are formed and fed by the energy (ie: belief) fueled into them. This is where fandom comes into play. Fandom is fueled by passion, by love, by admiration, by forming community around shared likes, interests, or even dislikes. Fandoms are funnels for that collective energy, passion, creativity, etc.
And to some, pouring in so much joy, passion, fervor, and creativity can be seen as something out of their grasp of understanding; something that they're the outsider to and not the main target audience of. It's "not made for them". Therefore it's deemed as "cringe" underneath that definition.
But why deprive oneself of joy just for the approval of others?
Why force oneself to conform to arbitrary rules and norms?
As long as your joys and passions affect only yourself and do not harm others directly, why shield it from view?
To get the most out of a pop culture practice, it's good to have it based on what you're passionate about; what you're well-versed in. What gives you that fuel or belief. What brings you joy and makes you want to pursue things even further.
So be cringe, be passionate, be able to go on a dang unprompted 20minute rant about the lore to your favorite failed RPG series. Be able to show a whole dang portfolio of your self-insert smooching your favorite character on the cheek. Be absolutely, unapologetically passionate about something and see what happens. See what happens when you drop the worries of how others perceive you.
So stay safe, have fun, be cringe, be free, stay spooky.
fun fact!! it turns out that now when u make a new blog, tumblr forces you to follow 3-4 people before you can change your icon or modify your blog in any way!! this, of course, means that, yes, some of the "potential bots" many of us have been automatically blocking could have possibly been genuine new users who were only just seconds in to having an account!!! tumblr is literally screwing new users over!!!!
Just to confirm for myself that this was true, I went and made a new account and took some screenshots.
After the usual inputting of email, username and birthday (which, I don't remember if tumblr used to require you to enter your birthday? I feel like it didn't??) it takes you to this page:
it requires you to follow five tags from a selection of categories (I didn't count the exact number of categories, but there's a lot. The right section of the screen scrolls down). I followed some very neutral tags:
The "Next" button doesn't become click-able until you pick all five.
After that, it took me to this page:
it suggests 10 different users for each tag that you selected in the previous page (the right side of the page scrolls down to all five tags). As far as I could tell, there wasn't a way to ask for more users in each tag.
Again, the "Next" button doesn't become clickable until you follow three people.
And finally after that it took me to the dashboard:
There wasn't any way to change my icon before this point. So long story short, seems like the og post is true y'all :/
That being said, this only applies to blogs that still have the standard tumblr-generated icons, which is pretty easy to distinguish from the pretty-lady-icon porn bots 🤷🏻
even if tumblr didn't have this requirement, actually seeing the posts suggesting that people change their icons would most likely require some time of following a number of people to see them share those posts in the first place
blocking blank blogs with default icons was always a horrid idea. no wonder tumblr is having a hard time retaining new users and panicking over trying to find a way to help them stick around
I've actually encountered plenty of default icon blogs that turned out to be bots, that's why, in light of all this bull crap Tumblr is pulling right now (damn shareholders...), I give a grace period of seven days to prove otherwise; all one has to do is reblog something. Seriously, anything will do! Reblog even one thing, and that's proof enough for me.
After that grace period, if your blog is still blank and still has that default Tumblr icon, it's off to Blockville with you.
Hey guys! Not sure if links are still not good for tumblr, but I finally finished the listing for the custom spell jars for deities/entities! Listing can be found here, or under the shop name WizardsApprenticeCo.
Could you please tag your incrypteon post as #pop culture paganism since you're working with the entities, thank you if you do
Hey anon! I can sure tag my posts as that, thanks for the suggestion. I was under the impression that paganism = worship, so if I'm wrong in that assumption please do let me know.
I also don't really label myself as a pagan since I don't worship the entities I work with; I merely work with them and their energies. I don't wish to focus on labels or semantics right now for myself.
Howdy! I'm Caspian, a 23 year old transman witch who's looking to see if anyone's interested in a potential product I'm thinking about doing!
These would be spell bottles curated to any deity or entity that you may work with (excluding those from closed practices due to being white myself, and including those from pop culture pantheons)!
Each bottle would be created while connecting with the deity's/entity's energies, and contain the following:
1-2 crystals
3-5 herbs
1-2 salts/bases (such as eggshell, black salt, sugar, etc)
Wax sealing (in 1-3 colors)
1 charm (optional)
1-3 essential oils (optional)
I'm going to do these at a base price of $10 and include free shipping to those in the united states.
Please like or interact with this post if you're interested!
Reblogging this for a small update! Thanks for showing immense support on this post. It means a lot to me that people would like this as a product :]!
I did want to add some more information and potential dates! I'm currently waiting on an order of crystal chips for the jars, so when those come in I can officially start making said jars.
I also want to wait until the weather gets better so the wax won't melt in post. I'd be sure to wrap it up well so should some wax get too hot the wax wouldn't melt everywhere.
Estimated posting date for this product should be around the end of September to early October!
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