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F30 • mom of 2 • bookworm • empath

[missbubblebee]

to the pretty girl at the Salem NH Barnes & Noble who approached me for recommendations, my husband gave me shit for not getting your contact. and i've given myself shit every day since 🙃

ISO- petite mom of 2 toddlers, with ash brown hair, excitable eyes, and a wicked desire for more than.. plot

[thethingsiveseen-photography]

How could I forget…

[sleepyskele]

Psst, hey, hey you, yes you

Everybody who reblogs this before may 25th 2019 will get a little cryptid design based on their blog, url, etc.

[otherwindow]

witches and cowboys are the same entity but just separated at night and day.

[coffeekeisha]

Could you kindly elaborate on that please

[otherwindow]

Big Silly Hats 

Dangerous aura

Wands | Guns

Midnight | High Noon

Robes | Ponchos 

Stockings with boots | Chaps with boots

Magic Incantations | Yeehaws and slang

Brews Potions | Brews Alcohol 

Rides brooms at night because horses are sleeping 

Rides horses at day because brooms are recharging

Can’t swim

[otherwindow]

Moonshine is an alcoholic potion brewed by witches and cowboys; “Moon” to represent the Witching Hour, and “Shine” for sunny High Noons.

[omnybus]

Rootin’, tootin’, toil n’ shootin’

Fire burn and cowboy bootin’

Eye of newt and spicy beans,

Toe of frog and denim jeans,

Whiskey, grits, n’ demon spittle

tossed into my iron griddle

With the tannin’ of our hides,

Somethin’ wicked this way rides

[nitewrighter]

“Obviously ‘bihet’ offends a lot of bisexuals, so we need to come up with a better term for bisexuals in m/f relationships.”

How about… and hear me out… this may sound crazy…. but you… continue to call us bisexual… because (and I realize this gets confusing for you people so read this next part slowly) it turns out we continue to be bisexual regardless of who we’re dating.

[visibilityofcolor]

wait do ppl use the term bihet???

[cunningcelt]

Some magical associations for the flowers of @eartheasy’s “Save the Bees by Planting These” post:

Lavender - love, attraction, healing, protection. Thyme - awareness, purification, cleansing. Cilantro - awareness, creativity, communication, success. Borage - luck, power, inspiration, increase psychic abilities. Sage - purification, exorcism, cleansing, healing. Fennel - communication, prosperity, fertility. Crocus - love, visions. Geranium - self confidence, soothes a broken heart. Aster - love. Poppy - glamours. Sunflower - happiness, healing, longevity, prosperity, love. Heliotrope - love (especially homosexual), invisibility, revelations.

Your garden will not only be a haven for bees but you’ll always have access to ingredients to power your magic.

[saint-of-the-pit]

Wearing a ring of Silver or Iron on one’s Saturn finger: being the middle, renders the wearer invulnerable to experiencing repercussions or accumulating spiritual debt for their actions, especially those performed with the hand the ring is worn on. This is because Silver, which is sacred to Luna, is purificatory; and Iron, sacred to Mars, is known to negate or combat most energetic forces.

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

[raginrayguns]

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

[manyblinkinglights]

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

[tell-the-stars-hello]

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

[emoracreations]

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

https://www.lifeprint.com/

[thecraftylittlewitch]

(I saw this post today on facebook, and it inspired me so much. I just had to share it with you all; I shall link the source. It has inspired me on my musical ventures, combining mythology, feminism, history and gore would make for an amazing doom metal band…watch this space.)

Reclaiming Our Wise Blood

The Sacred Power of Menstrual Blood

Menstrual Blood used to be the most Sacred substance on Earth, and now science is discovering its incredible healing powers… Gnostic Christians used to call their religion Synesaktism – another word for Agape – which means ‘The Way of Shaktism’, referring to Tantric Yoni-Worship. One of the most important rituals was preparing a ‘drink of immortality’ made from menstrual blood, which is full of healing stem cells, which can actually activate our cellular capacity to regenerate and transport us to endocrine states of rapture. Or in a spiritual sense open us to the Frequency of Love and Eternal Life, transporting us to another Dimension – called Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana etc. This ‘Love Feast’ or ‘Sacred Marriage’ – a core part of the Menstrual Mysteries – was eventually declared a heresy and women were barred from participating in Christian rites. However the ‘Power of Renewal, Rebirth, and Resurrection’ previously associated with the Holy Womb and Menstrual Blood of the Divine Mother was transferred to the story of Jesus and his ritual of Eucharist – ‘hic est sanguis meus – this is the Chalice of my Blood’ – where worshippers ‘drank his blood’ to gain the power of Rebirth through him. In most ancient myths and religions, throughout the world dating back hundreds of thousands of years, the power of rebirth had always been a blessing of the Feminine Womb – embodied and gifted by Sacred Womb Priestesses across many cultures. It had never been held by a man. Although there are many legends about the ‘menstrual powers of female shamans’ being stolen by male gods. The Holy Grail, in its true original essence, is the Womb. Women born many, many thousands of years ago in what we might called ‘Original Innocence’ – before many of our genetic capabilities went offline, held this power naturally, as a birthright, shared with their tribes in renewal rituals. Since those times, once the birthright was lost, women across many lineages and cultures – Womb Priestesses – have practiced many varied ways to heal, clear and open the Womb, so it can once again embody the frequency of Love, of Original Innocence, so that the energetic and physical stem cell capacity can activate purer states of consciousness and activate incredible regenerative healing. This knowledge has been almost lost over the last thousand years, as it has been fragmented, scattered and deliberately destroyed. Now it is desiring to return, to ‘renew our lands’ as the myths go. Earlier this year Fountain of Life met with a top international research scientist working with menstrual blood stem cells. His research indicated they had the capacity to work ‘miracles’. He described how the first time he used Menstrual Blood Stem Cells he felt like he had been ‘reborn’ – an unfit man in his late fifties, he’d had to run around the block because he had so much energy. Another research scientist in his sixties working with stem cells had experienced his hair change from grey to the black of his youth in a matter of months. Throughout the world, in secret, these experiments are happening – in China, Russia, India, and more. Whilst women are giving their power away to patriarchal ideologies, taking drugs to stop their menstrual cycle, using cancer-causing chemical bleached tampons to stem the flow, seeing their Menses as an inconvenient ‘curse’ they are ashamed of, male scientists around the world are using the power to experience states of physical and spiritual high. Isn’t it time we reclaimed our Feminine power? Honoring the sacred regenerative properties of the ‘Flowering’ of our Wombs. THE BLESSING OF MENSTRUATION IN MYTH Evidence of the Sacredness of Menstruation throughout all cultures before the rise of the male-dominated patriarchy is well documented…. * The Maoris stated explicitly that human souls are made of menstrual blood, which when retained in the womb ‘assumes human form and grows into a man * Africans said menstrual blood is ‘congealed to fashion a man’. * Aristotle said human life is made of ‘coagulum’ of menstrual blood. * In Hindu theory as the Great Mother creates, her substances become thickened and forms a curd or clot. This was the way she gave birth to the cosmos, and women employ the same method on a smaller scale. * Indians of South America said all mankind was made of ‘moon blood’ in the beginning. * In ancient Mesopotamia, they believed the Great Goddess Ninhursag made mankind out of clay and infused with her “blood of life.” * Adam, from the feminine adamah, means “bloody clay.” The Bible’s story of Adam was lifted from an older female-oriented creation myth recounting the creation of man from clay and moonblood. * In the Koran’s creation story, it says that Allah “made man out of flowing blood”; but in pre-Islamic Arabia, Allah was the Goddess of creation, Al-Lat. * Plutarch said man was made of earth, but the power that made a human body grow was the moon, source of menstrual blood. * The gods were dependent on the miraculous power of menstrual blood. In Greece it was euphemistically called the “supernatural red wine” given to the gods by Mother Hera in her virgin form, as Hebe. * The Great Mother manifested herself as the spirit of creation (Kali-Maya). She ‘invited the gods to bath in the bloody flow of her womb and to drink of it; and the gods, in holy communion, drank of the fountain of life and rose to Heaven * ‘hic est sanguis meus’ – ‘this is the Chalice of my Blood’ as spoken in the Christian Eucharist refers in origin to the menstrual blood of the Great Mother, not Christ. * To this day, clothes allegedly stained with the Goddess’s menstrual blood are greatly prized as healing charms. * For religious ceremonies, Australian aborigines painted their sacred stones, churingas, and themselves with red orche, declaring that it represented women’s menstrual blood. * The esoteric secret of the gods was that their mystical powers of longevity, authority, and creativity came from the female essence of menstrual blood. * The Norse god Thor reached the magic land of enlightenment and eternal life by bathing in a river filled with the menstrual blood of a ‘giantesses’ — that is of the Primal Matriarchs, the ‘Powerful Ones’. * Odin acquired supremacy by stealing and drinking the ‘wise blood’ from the triple cauldron in the womb of the Mother-Earth, the same Triple Goddess known as Kali-Maya in the southeast Asia. * Odin’s theft of menstrual magic paralleled that of Indra, who stole the ambrosia of immortality in the same way. * Soma was produced by the ‘churning of the primal sea’ – representing the menstrual blood of the Mother Goddess. It was drunk by priests at sacrificial ceremonies and mixed with milk as a healing charm. * In an ancient ceremony called Soma-vati, women of Maharastra circumambulated the sacred female-symbolic fig tree whenever the new moon fell on a Monday, the scared day of the Moon. * The Mother Goddess under her name of Lakshmi, gave Soma to Indra to make him king of the gods. His wisdom, power, and curiously feminine capacity for pregnancy, came from Lakshmi’s mystic drink. The Goddess’s blood became his wisdom. * Greeks believed the wisdom of men or god was centered in his blood, the soul-stuff given by his mother. * Egyptian pharaohs became divine by ingesting ‘the blood of Isis,’ a soma-like ambrosia called sa. Its hieroglyphic sign was the same as the sign of the vulva, a yonic loop like the one on the ankh or Cross of Life. Painted red, this loop signified the female genital and the Gate of Heaven * Amulets buried with the dead specifically prayed Isis to deify the deceased with her magic blood. A special amulet called the Tjet represented Isis’s vulva and was formed of red substance – jasper, carnelian, red porcelain, red glass, or red wood. This amulet was said to carry the redeeming power of the blood of Isis. * The same elixir of immortality received the name of amrita in Persia. Sometimes it was called the Milk of the Mother Goddess, sometimes a fermented drink, sometimes sacred blood. It was always associated with the moon. * Celtic kings became gods by drinking the ‘red mead’ dispensed by the Fairy Queen, Mab, whose name was formerly Medhbh or “mead.” Thus she gave a drink of herself. A Celtic name of this fluid was dergflaith, meaning either “red ale” or “red sovereignty.” In Celtic Britain, to be stained with red meant to be chosen by the Goddess as king. Celtic ruadh meant both “red” and “royal.” * The pagan paradise or Fairyland was at the uterine center of the earth, site of the magic Fountain of Life. An old manuscript in the British Museum said the dying -and -resurrected Phoenix lives there forever. The Fountain of Eternal Youth, obviously menstrual, is said to overflow once every lunar month. * The communion wine drunk by witches was menstrual blood. The famous wizard Thomas Rhymer joined a witch cult under the tutelage of the Fairy Queen, who told him she had “a bottle of claret wine here in her lap,” and invited him to lay his head in her lap. Claret was the traditional drink of the kings and also a synonym for blood; its name literally meant ‘enlightenment.’ * Medieval romance and the courtly-love movement, later related to the witch cults, were strongly influenced by the Tantric tradition, in which menstrual blood was indeed the wine of poets and sages. * It is still specified in the Left Hand Rite of Tantra that the priestess impersonating the goddess must be menstruating, and after contact with her a man may perform rites that will make him “a great poet, a Lord of the World” * When a girl first menstruates she is said to have ‘borne the flower’ in India. The English word flower has the significant literal meaning of ‘that which flows’. * The Bible also calls menstrual blood the flower (Leviticus 15:24), precursor of the fruit of the womb (a child). As any flower mysteriously contained its future fruit, so uterine blood was the moon-flower supposed to contain the soul of future generations. * The crucifixion of Jesus, where he was ‘lanced in the side’ and blood poured forth into a ‘Holy Chalice’ is an adaptation of early Menstrual Mysteries, where the Mother Goddess bleeds from her Womb, which is the ‘Holy Chalice’. * The Grail story where many people are bleeding inside the ‘Grail Castle’ is also a symbolic reference to earlier Goddess Menstrual Mysteries. * Taoists said a man could become immortal (or at least long-lived) by absorbing menstrual blood, called red yin juice, from a woman’s Mysterious Gateway, symbol of life-giving female energy. Chinese sages called this red juice the essence of Mother Earth, the yin principal that gives life to all things. They claimed the Yellow Emperor became a god by absorbing the yin juice of twelve hundred women. * A Chinese myth said the Moon-goddess Chang-O, who controlled menstruation, was offended by male jealousy of her powers. She left her husband, who quarreled with her because she had all the elixir of immortality, and he had none, and was resentful. She turned her back on him and went to live in the moon forever, in much the same way Lilith left Adam to live at the ‘Red Sea’ * The Hebrew word for blood, dam, means ‘mother’ or ‘woman’ in other Indo-European languages (e,g. dam, damsel, madam, la dama, dame) and also “the curse” (damn). Therefore the Biblical A-dam means ‘a woman or mother’. * Another common ancient symbol of the blood-river of life was the red carpet, traditionally trod by scared kings, heros, and brides. ‘The Royal Road’ – now favored by Hollywood celebrities, the royalty of our times. * Taoist China considered red a sacred color associated with women, blood, sexual potency, and creative power. White was the color of men, semen, passivity, and death. This was the Tantric Idea of male and female essences: the male principal is seen as ‘passive’ and as the female principal as ‘active’, the reverse of later patriarchal views. * The Maori rendered anything sacred by coloring it red, and calling the red color menstrual blood. Andaman Islanders thought blood-red paint a powerful medicine, and painted sick people red all over in an effort to cure them. * Easter eggs, classic womb-symbols of the Goddess Eostre, were traditionally colored red and laid on graves to strengthen the dead. This habit, common in Greece and southern Russia, might be traced all the way back to Paleolithic graves which were reddened with ochre, for a closer resemblance to the Earth Mother’s womb from which the dead could be “born again.” * Ancient tombs everywhere have shown the bones of the dead covered with red ochre. Sometimes everything in the tomb, including the walls, had the red color. J.D. Evans described a tomb on Malta filled reddened bones, which struck fear into the workmen who insisted the bones were covered with “fresh blood.” * A born-again ceremony from Australia showed that the Aborgines linked rebirth with the blood of the womb. The chant performed at Ankota, the “vulva of the earth,” emphasized the redness surrounding the worshipper: * Greek mystics were “born again” out of the river Styx, otherwise known as Alpha, “the Beginning.” This river wound seven times through the earth’s interior and emerged at a yonic shrine near the city of Clitor (Greek kleitoris) sacred to the Great Mother. Styx was the blood-stream from the earth’s vagina. * Symbolic death and rebirth were linked with baptism in the waters of Styx, as in many other sacred rivers the world over. Jesus himself was baptized in Palestine’s version of the Styx, the river Jordan. When a man bathed seven times in this river, “his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child” (2 Kings 5:14). * Gnostic Christian’s believed that the passage in Revelation, “I saw the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month” (Rev. 22:2), was an allusion to the monthly incidence of the female period. * The Sufis, who also practiced Yoni Worship, associated female embodiment with red, and the male counterpart of ‘consciousness’ with white. Red and white colors alternated in the Sufi halka or magic circle, called the very hear of Sufism. The Arab rosary of alternating red and white beads had the same meaning: men and women coupled around the circle. * In most European folk dances Red and white were the colors worn by alternating female-and-male dancers in the witches’ “fairy ring” of pagan Ireland, where the Goddess was worshipped under the same name as the Tantric earth mother, Tara. The dance moved counterclockwise or moonwise, and the Red and white colors represented the fairy world – or ‘enlightened’ consciousness. * The rites were often governed by old women, due to the ancient belief that post-menopausal women were the wisest people because the permanently retained their “wise blood.” * As a medium of reincarnation, menstrual blood was sometimes called a remedy for death itself. In the tale of Childe Roland, the elven-king roused men from the magic sleep of death with a “bright red liquor.” List adapted from ‘Women’s Encyclopaedia of Myths and Secret‘ by Barbara Walker

[thebasildruid-deactivated202005]

Women are fucking powerful

[theclutteredbroomcupboard]

Messy Witch App Recommendations

These are some apps I have that I think are witchy related, and I’ll explain each one below. I got all of these for free for Iphone, idk about any other smartphone. 

1. Labyrinthos Academy - 

This was my first tarot app by Tina Gong which uses the Golden Thread Tarot deck, which is very simple and easy to learn from. This app goes through the cards and their meanings through memorization games. It’s very useful for beginners to learn the basic meanings for each card. There is also a daily card feature where you can log your interpretation, but I never used it much because it’s isn’t the best feature of the app. This one is definately best for using the memorizing games to learn specific meanings. 

2. Golden Thread Tarot - 

Another tarot app by Tina Gong, obviously it uses the Golden Thread deck. This one’s main function is a daily card where you can log your interpretation. The log also allows you to record your emotional state and specific feelings you had when reading your card. Then you can look at how many times suits or numbers come up in readings, and your most frequent feelings based on week, month, and year. I think it’s a great logging feature so you can keep checking your emotional state day by day. It also has a tarot database where you can look up any card through a search. It also has a collection of spreads. I use these as guidelines for physical cards, but you could also use this app as a digital deck which is also really interesting. What I don’t like about these is that it asks you to write you question after, and honestly, sometimes I forget to ask it before and it messes up the reading. You can also click on the cards after you flip them to see definitions but you can’t do that once you’ve started to log it, so if you forget you can’t go back. Otherwise, pretty good recourse app, I use it to look up meanings from the database a lot. 

3. Luminous Spirit Tarot - 

Yet another tarot app by Tina Gong, this time using the Luminous Spirit deck by Labyrinthos Academy. This is most similar to the Golden Thread app in format and features and function, however, it used a different deck and focuses on teaching tarot through connection with the moon. So for anyone particularly devoted to the moon, I would recommend this one. Instead of daily cards, this app keeps track of the phases of the moon. You come up with a monthly goal or focus and as the phases change you do a full reading about that topic through the cycle. It also asks you to meditate on your question by “charging the moon” where you can really focus on what you need to be asking. It keeps track of your readings and you can use the digital deck, but unlike the Golden Thread, it allows you to look up the meanings of the cards as you write your interpretations and helps you relate them to their position in the spread. This one is best for learning how cards function in spreads and in relation to each other. It also has a database and if you’re not in love with the Golden Thread deck, this deck is more realistic pencil drawings in black and white which has a more soothing appearance. Very simple and useful!

4. Seventh Sphere - 

Yes, it’s by Tina Gong, however, instead of another tarot deck, this is a Lenormand card deck. It has some short lessons about what a Lenormand Deck is as well as a database like the last two. It has another logging system, more similar to the Golden Thread or Labyrinthos Academy apps than to the Luminous Spirit one. It doesn’t have you meditate on your question beforehand but it gives you a list of interpretations to think about. Because this is a different deck, I don’t mind this set up because it helps me learn each card’s meaning through practice and how to use this set of cards. Also, this deck is gorgeous! Like screw all the other decks I was dreaming about this is first on my list when I get spending money again and want another deck. 

5. Stone - 

So this is the most simple app on this list. It is literally just a list of pictures of gems and crystals and you can click on any and it will show you its properties and a well-written description of it. That’s it. I don’t have my own correspondences for crystals or anything so it’s easier for me to use this. 

6. Planets - 

Okay, this one is cool. This is basically a digital sky. You can hold it up to the sky and move it around and it will show you exactly where all the stars, planets, and constellations are in real time. You can also set it to 2D mode where it rotates like a compass. There is also a section that will tell you the visibility of each planet and the moon, and if you click on each it will give you more details. I think you can also zoom in on planets and stars but I don’t use that much. I recommend for witches who like to time their spells to celestial movements or have a hard time of visualizing or don’t have access to look at the night sky always. 

7. PlantNet - 

This is one of my most popular post on here and it was a goddamn typo. Yes, this is PlantNet, not plannet. I got it, thanks. But seriously this is a super great app for identifying plants on the go. You take a picture of a plant and it searches a database for a list of possibilities of what it could be then, links you to their Wikipedia page. It’s not 100% accurate but it’s cool and sometimes useful. 

8. Infinite Storm - 

This is an audio app that I use for meditation on the go. You can customize the noises, the types of rain, the intensity, if you want thunder or not, and add other sounds. It’s simply lovely. 

9. Yummly - 

I just downloaded this today but I already love it. It’s just a food app but I’m a kitchen witch so, yeah. I have a couple food apps (tasty, pintrest, etc.) but I’m excited about this one. It customizes your feed by your food preferences and you can list your allergies and food you just don’t like. You can add recipes to lists and make a grocery list. You can search by what you’re in the mood for and you can even find recipes based on what you already have so you don’t have to go shopping. I miss cooking and hoping that this will give me a few more good recipies to try that are different than the same 6 that keep appearing on my pintrest feed.

These are about all the ones I have so far that I like. I used to have others but clearly haven’t used them enough to keep them. If you have any witchy apps you love send them my way, I’d love to check them out!

[whendragons-fly-deactivated2019]

Could you please reblog this if you are a witch who isn’t Wiccan?

[carbonandstardust-blog]

I wasn’t able to have a huge yule ritual or anything but I made a yule candle to burn and a yule ball. So here are my processes/ingredients for those! (:

Yule candle

Ingredients:

1 candle (I chose white)

Yule corresponding herbs (I chose ground cinnamon & sage, frankincense oil, and lavender oil)

Yule corresponding symbols (I chose small pinecones, tiger’s eye, salt crystals, amethyst, and rose quartz - others could be ribbons, bells, evergreen sprigs, etc.)

Process:

Place herbs/spices/oils around the wick of the candle so they’ll burn (works best if the candle has been burned down a little)

Arrange the candle in the middle of your symbols/items (I made a circle with them)

Light your candle (be careful!)

Feel the energy, smell the herbs burning, visualize the coming year. Say your intentions aloud and what you chose each spice/herb/oil/symbol/item for

Blow out the candle, or let it burn out on its own (do not leave unattended please)

Yule ball

Ingredients:

Clear jar/christmas ornament/sachet

Salt

Yule corresponding herbs that fit your intent (cinnamon, sage, rosemary, orange peel, acorns, evergreen sprigs, holly, etc)

Sigil(s) drawn on bay leaves (paper is ok too)

Crystals (optional but powerful)

Ribbons - orange, red, green, etc.

Shiny things!! These attract evil spirits and negativity and trap them

Candle

Twine/string

Process:

Add salt, then herbs into your container

Add the other items (i like to do the ribbons and crystal last)

As you add your items, state your intent and the purpose of each one

Seal your container with either string or wax

Hang/set your yule ball near a window or in a corner

Done!! Enjoy! 🌿✨

[totravelistoliveco]

Video based on quantum physics. The colored balls are placed together alone by the resonance of the quartz crystals. Each color has a different resonance. In the same way we group the people that vibrate in the same frequency. This is how the universe works. Fact Check: A Galton board, also known as a bean machine, quincunx or Galton box, was developed by Sir Francis Galton in the 1800 to demonstrate the central limit theorem.

[pacificnorthwitch]

Hello folks! I’ve created an in depth New Year’s spread to both reflect on the previous year, as well as prepare for the new. The first row is reflective on your past year, and how to integrate that energy into the new year. The second row is a general overview, season by season, of how your year will go. The third row is changes, obstacles, and lessons the new year has to bring.

Top Row:

1) How the previous year changed you

2) What lessons or energy from the previous year should you carry into the next year?

3) What from the previous year do you need to let go of to move into the new year?

4) Where should you focus yourself in the new year

Middle row

5) Spring 6) Summer 7) Fall 8) Winter

Bottom row:

9) What you have to look forward to in the new year

10) Something to watch out for next year

11) What lesson will you learn this coming year?

12) an obstacle in learning this lesson

The optional card can be placed wherever feels best to you in relation to the rest of the spread.

(Optional) 13) a Wild Card, used as an overall energy tying the cards together

Enjoy this spread, and have a wonderful new year. 🍾🌕🎆

[wishfulwitchcraft]

Yule Log Alternatives

Like many modern witches, I lack the ability to burn an actual yule log. Not only do I lack a fireplace but also the ability to keep a log burning for 12 days so I’ve been thinking of alternative ideas! 

Mobile Yule Log

This is one I plan on doing and think it could make an easy adaptation. Simply change your phone’s background to that of a burning fireplace or yule log. To keep with the tradition of burning for 12 days, keep your phone on and charged for those 12 days. This can be similar to the tending of a traditional log and a reminder of the season everytime you look at your phone. I would let your phone die at least once before Yule to help conserve battery life and then let it die again once Yule is over, preffereably several times in a row. Great for closted witches and spoonie witches.

Paper Fireplace

I can also attest to doing this one but it is defintly more intensive. You can make a fake fireplace from construction paper including the logs and fire. After making it, hang it somewhere where you will see it often! Great for closeted witches as can easily be explained as decorating for Christmas. Not so spoonie frendily. I think it took me a couple hours to make/hang mine, granted I decided to go wild with it. It could probably be made a lot easier than I did it but still quiet time/engery consuming. 

Edible Yule Log

So pretty much everyone knows about this but figured I’d include it anyway. There are dozens of Yule log recipes online if you want to make your own. I’ve never made one myself but I’ve seen a number of cooking shows and rolls can be tricky to work. If you’re like me and don’t have the culinaray talents nor time to make one, many stores sell pre-made roll cakes in several flavors. 

Fireplace for Your Home

Netflix has a few versions of this that are simply a movie of a crackling fireplcae. One has Christmas carols overlayed if you like that, one is specifically birchwood, and one is in 4k. There are also 3 SlowTV fireplcaes that first show Norwegians demonstrating how to chop and stack firewood and then there are several hours of crackling goodness. (I haven’t watched the SlowTV ones but one is like 6 hours long.) Great for closted witches cause who doesn’t love the ambient sound of a crackling fireplace and great for spoonie witches. Simply turn it on and listen! 

That’s all I have for right now! If anyone has anymore ideas or suggestions on how to make these better let me know!

[theunmarkedjournal]

Start reblogging the money blessings post…

If you haven’t already done it…. Go hit that reblog button. Do what you have to, just do that too.

Like seriously. Just find one and reblog it real quick. I post a couple yesterday and put into the universe that I actually wanted it

Only been at work for a couple and I get this at as a tip! (tips ain’t normal at ALL in here)

Come on now!!

Let it work for y’all too

[theunmarkedjournal]

YALL!! THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE!! (I don’t know how your bank account is set up, but $55 dollars in tips counts as a blessing over here!)

*sending out money blessing vibes to y’all*

[theunmarkedjournal]

Counting my blessing and they total up to $60 today. (Got another $5 tip not too long ago)

Today was good. Im trying to maintain this same energy all this week to see what will come of it

[majaminxx22]

I don’t care, I ain’t playin. Imma need one of these damn thangs to work, now.

[glitterboywednesday]

I might as well not reblogging aint gone put money in my pocket

[theunmarkedjournal]

Let the universe know what you want

[poisonedblacklotus]

Cash app $drinabee if you tryna bless me

[theunmarkedjournal]

That works too I guess 😂😂 #BeTheBlessing

[liferuining-soulsnatcher]

I mean if someone would like to bless a struggling college student, mine $neshao and I have Venmo 👀

[partyandrepeat]

Same if somebody wanna help me out $camjam21 😌

[56blogsstillcrazy]

cash app me my birthday next year january $EzekielCrawford

gone be thirty and im scared help every dollar helps

[poisonedblacklotus]

Somebody sent $20 for my graduation 🎓 Saturday, cash app $drinabee if you want to donate too

[go-h0e-or-go-h0me-deactivated20]

Yo I reblogged that goat one and I ended up getting 27 dollars in my back account cause I got a refund on a sex toy that didnt work the day after i reblogged that shit

[theunmarkedjournal]

😂💀 blessings come in every shape and form

[go-h0e-or-go-h0me-deactivated20]

Exactly mine was just unconventional 😂

[thattinycookiemonster]

always taking donations $ChanteEunan

[theboudoirbunny2k7]

Tryna start burlesque dancing and i need cute shit $noeyyyy

[kashhippie]

$Katiana93 ❤️

[13ofstars]

$ashleykatina thanks in advance loves ❤️

[totheonedegree]

PayPal: https://paypal.me/luciag9. ❤️❤️

[alternativeblkgal]

why not lol 🙏🏾

[myakahla]

I am constantly attracting abundance and opportunity

[myakahla]

Hey, it worked! 😁 $56 tip on a $44 bill

[theunmarkedjournal]

Y’all seeing this and y’all still not believing yet. Maaaane just hit button and watch it work

[melaninprincess520-deactivated2]

$Tyciana Amen 🙏

[totheonedegree]

https://paypal.me/luciag9.

[linda-sosa-deactivated20180905]

$lindacouther

[trilligan-island-deactivated202]

need this like nobody business rn

[dequince]

ima keep rebooting until its my turn!!!!!! lol 🙏🏾

[justthraash]

Yessir *rubs hands like birdman*

[chubbymistrexxx]

Always taking help : $papisunni

[spiritroots]

Energy Work Terminology

Metawork Terminology Series: [ Astral Work ] [ Spirit Work ]

I frequently use a lot of energy work terms that have specific meanings to me based on my experiences and understanding of energy. I’ve seen these terms used by other energy workers too, but the way in which they are used seems to differ somewhat to each person’s background, experience, and beliefs.

For other energy workers curious to compare definitions and for clients of mine who want a better understanding of what I mean by these terms, I wanted to share my personal definitions! These definitions are not put forward as the only possible meanings, they are simply based on my own experiences.

Energy Basics, Types & Bodies

Energy - The underlying forces of the universe (different from physics energy) that can be sensed, manipulated, and used as the basis of magical workings. Every entity in the universe has energy residing in and around it.

Energy type - A distinct type of energy that has its own properties such as water energy, air energy, fae energy, nature energy, void energy, etc.

Energy alignment - When an entity (such as an object, spirit, or person) has a significant connection with or association with a specific energy type.

Energy body - The interior and exterior aspects of someone’s entire energy field running through and intertwined with their astral body. The energy body contains energy centers and channels that intake, process, and expel energy in addition to other specialized functions.

Energy signature - The “DNA” of an energy body that shows the specific composition of energy types and alignments that entity has. It can sometimes also reveal or hint at features of an entity’s energy and astral bodies.

Energy system - The specific way in which all the parts of your energy body operate both internally with each other and externally with energies and entities in the surrounding environment.

Energy centers - A nexus of energy where a significant amount of energy is present and being processed in some kind of way. Energy centers typically have specific functions within an energy system.

Energy channel - A stream where energy flows from one location to another. In an energy system, energy centers are connected by channels.

Energy modes - Classifications for entities who have certain types of energy systems. Some examples include energy vampires, energy suns, empaths, and dischargers. See more information here [x].

Energy Work & Reading

Metawork - The practice and discipline of the three highly interrelated fields of energy work, spirit work, and astral work. 

Energy work - The practice and discipline of reading, manipulating, channeling, or directing the flow of energy. A sub-field of metawork. This is not necessarily a type of witchcraft, but can be referred to as witchcraft when energy work is incorporated into someone’s witchcraft practice. Many other types of magical traditions that are not forms of witchcraft also include energy work.

Energy reading - The practice and discipline of sensing energy. A sub-field of energy work. Some examples include aura reading, energy system reading, astral body reading, or energy signature reading.

Energy programming - Using a specific method or technique to direct or manipulate energy in a certain set of ways. Energy programming is an integral aspect of energy work.

Intent - When I say “intent,” I’m referring to the overall purpose and design of the way in which I’ve programmed energy for a magical working.

Energy tether - A connection between two different spirits, objects, people, or other distinct entities. Energy tethers can be used as energy channels to move energy from one entity to another, but they could be used for other purposes.

Charging - Directing energy from any external source to another entity, usually an inanimate object. The object may retain the energy it was charged with for a certain period of time, possibly making it more effective for magical workings.

Energy battery - An object that has been highly charged and can retain this charge for later use. The purpose of a battery is typically only to store the energy it was charged with.

Grounding - Purposefully releasing energy from yourself to an external location. Energy suns must regularly ground to sustain a healthy energy system, but anyone is capable of grounding.

Energy feeding - The opposite of grounding, or purposefully intaking energy from any external source. Energy vampires must use energy feeding to sustain a healthy energy system, but anyone is capable of energy feeding.

Cleansing - The removal of unwanted energies, which usually resets an entity back to its original state. Sometimes also includes replacing the unwanted energies with desired energies.

Energy Shield - Energy shaped and programmed for protection then attached to an entity (such as an object, spirit, or person). Weaker than a ward and more temporary, shields are usually a quick and ephemeral form of defense.

Energy Ward - Like a shield, except generally much larger and attached to a location. This could be a physical or astral place. Personal wards are attached to an entity (such as an object, spirit, or person), but generally are much stronger and last much longer than a shield.

Ward System - A multilayer, complex set of wards. Typically each layer is programmed for a different type of function and when combined these layers synergetically work together for well-designed protection.

If any of these definitions resonate with you, feel free to use them but if quoting me or reposting somewhere, please attribute credit back to me. Thanks!