❦ OCCULT MECHANICS 101: Foundational Spell Theory for Feral Thinkers
✧ Welcome to Occult Mechanics 101✧
A crash course for magical girlies, theybies, and cryptid-coded grad students who accidentally developed a thesis-level obsession with ritual structure
and just want to know why their spell didn’t work
without getting gaslit by Mercury Retrograde.
This is spell theory for the spiritually overcaffeinated.
We're not blaming the vibes.
We're building the system.
What we’re covering (so far):
Core Lessons:
✥ What Is a Spell? — Function vs. Form
Types of Magic — Sympathetic, Contagious, Apotropaic, other sexy categories
🜋 Spell Anatomy — What are spells made of and why does it matter?
🜏 Magical Materials 101 — Your herbs, bones, metals, and metaphysics
🜲 Ritual Structure — Scripted vs. Improvised; how not to confuse enteties
❉ Energy Work — Without the fluff
⦗⦘Magic as Code — Syntax, runtime errors, and energetic execution
⚖︎ Magical Ethics — With zero Abrahamic guilt and no cosmic police
⋈ Magical Ecology — Offerings n’ shit
Extras & Add-Ons (aka DLC for your brain):
⚯ Build-A-Spell Flowchart — Like Build-A-Bear, but with more fire
⚙︎ Diagnostics Manual — “Why Did My Spell Flop: A Brutally Honest Guide”
⚭ Comparative Systems Table — A cross-cultural look at ritual forms
↮ Future expansions as the spiral deepens
This will be modular, expandable, and occasionally feral.
There will be diagrams. There may be memes.
There will definitely be opinions.
If you’ve ever gone from
“I found this spell on Pinterest”
to
“I accidentally wrote a dissertation at 2am while sobbing over a planetary hour calculator and now I’m in a codependent relationship with my citation manager”
❤ welcome home ❤
This is a safe zone for overthinkers, ritual theory goblins, spreadsheet sorcerers, and anyone who wants to cast spells and cite sources like their grimoires are peer-reviewed.
Information spirals are my love language.
Hopefully posted once or twice a week.
Light a candle. Scream into the æther.
And of course, bookmark the tag and stay tuned
The Wheel of the Year isn’t carved in stone, it’s scribbled in pencil and probably smudged by candle wax.
Sabbats aren't as ancient as you think. They're not universal. They are not some untouched Pagan download from the Akashic records.
But damn, they’re useful.
Sabbats are the unofficial witch calendar. Not because they’re historically accurate, but because they kinda work. They give us structure in a world where time is a capitalist hell loop. They make us notice. Mark. Ritualize. Actually show up.
They’re sacred repetition in seasonal drag. But if you want to use them (or make your own), you need to know where they actually came from and why they still matter.
𐃏 Where the Word Sabbat Comes From
The word Sabbat? Not originally pagan. Not even witchy. It comes from Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest) via Latin and French. Then the Church got weird with it.
During the Inquisition, “Witches’ Sabbaths” became the Christian fanfiction of choice: supposedly heretical, horny, devil-worshipping raves featuring midwives, women, Jews, and anyone else they wanted to burn.
Witches didn’t name these events. The Church did, so they could justify torture. Modern witches reclaimed the term, yes. But let’s not romanticize it into something it never was. We didn’t inherit a pristine ritual tradition. We inherited slurs and turned them into spells.
This isn’t about “getting back to our roots.” This is about planting new ones.
✵ Folk Festivals ≠ Wiccan Sabbats
Yes, Imbolc, Beltane, Samhain, etc. come from old festivals. But the ones we celebrate today? ⟣Heavily edited⟢.
Original folk festivals were local, tied to actual weather and farming cycles. They weren’t evenly spaced or universally practiced. Some celebrated lambs, others celebrated getting through winter without dying of sadness.
The eightfold “Wheel of the Year” was a modern invention. Built in the 1950s-ish by Wiccan founders like Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente. They mashed up Celtic quarter days and solstices/equinoxes, added a sprinkle of poetic revivalism, and voilà: Sabbat Soup.
Are they real? Nope. Are they fake? Also nope. They’re ritual tech. Calendar-based spell systems. Basically, magical Pinterest boards for time.
❈ The Wheel as a Magical Invention
The Wheel of the Year was built. Consciously. Intentionally. With myth, solar cycles, and seasonal energy in mind.
That’s not a flaw, it’s the point. Ritual doesn’t have to be old to be sacred. It just has to work.
☪︎ Cultural Limits and Liminal Edges
One wheel does not fit all witches, babe. adjust accordingly.
This sacred wheel? Built for Britain, with all the colonial baggage and sheep you can cram into a foggy island.
But not every practitioner lives somewhere with that climate, or cultural context.
Witches in the tropics don’t have “autumn.”
Desert witches mark time by sandstorms and bone dust, not harvests.
Witches in the global South have to flip the Wheel upside down like a seasonal Uno reverse.
Indigenous, diasporic, and colonized witches may find it erases their ancestral timekeeping entirely.
Disabled witches may track sacred time through flare-ups, med schedules, or pain cycles.
Queer witches might honor gender euphoria, body transitions, or the date they legally changed their name.
The Wheel isn’t trash. It’s just... a template. One you are allowed to ignore.
※ So Then… What Is a Sabbat?
Not a commandment. Not a homework assignment. Definitely not a capitalist holiday with candles.
A Sabbat isn’t a rule. It’s a moment you decide is sacred. A spell made of attention. A ritual built out of timing and guts.
It could be solar or lunar. It could honor your garden, your grief, your god, or your period. It might mark a threshold in your body. A storm. A migration. A memory.
Your Sabbat could be about:
The first night the air smells like frost
The day your meds started working (I wish)
A dream that shook your ribs loose
That night your grandma made soup during a full moon
It doesn’t have to be part of the Eight. It doesn’t have to be part of anything.
A Sabbat is when you slam your staff down and say: This matters. This is sacred. I’m making a moment out of it.
You don’t owe the Wheel anything. But you do get to build a relationship with time that actually feels holy to you.
☸︎ Part Ⅰ of The Witch's Year ∙ Follow for the full series!
#The Witch's Year
✍︎ Further Reading & Sources
✧ Historical, Folkloric, & Seasonal Rites
Ronald Hutton. The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Emma Wilby. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits
Carlo Ginzburg. Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath
Éva Pócs. Between the Living and the Dead
Mircea Eliade. The Sacred and the Profane
✧ Modern Witchcraft & the Ritual Year
Doreen Valiente. The Rebirth of Witchcraft
Gerald Gardner. Witchcraft Today
Aidan Wachter. Six Ways: Approaches and Entries for Practical Magic
Byron Ballard. Roots, Branches & Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia
Danica Boyce. Fair Folk Podcast (episodes on calendar rites & myth cycles)
Sarah Anne Lawless. Blog archives on folk rites & seasonal markers
✧ Cultural Critique & Reclaimed Time
Sylvia Federici. Caliban and the Witch
Jason Pitzl-Waters. The Wild Hunt (select essays)
Starhawk. The Earth Path (for reclaiming land-based seasonal awareness)
Personal accounts from queer, disabled, diasporic, and land-based witchcraft spaces
☸︎ The Witch’s Year: Sabbats, Chaos Rites & Calendars That Don't Suck
This is a living series about time, seasons, and why your soul keeps running laps like a hamster on espresso.
There is no One True Witch Calendar.
Never was.
We made it up. But like, on purpose.
The modern “Wheel of the Year” is basically a remix of Celtic fire festivals, Anglo-Saxon seasonal rites, and Wiccan fanfic from the last century, all mashed together like a ritual fruitcake. And honestly? That’s just culture doing its weird, composting thing. Let it rot. That’s how you get soil, so it’s not always bad.
Nobody’s grading you on how “authentic” your sabbats are.
What actually matters is that your rituals mean something to you. That’s it.
Witches don’t just vibe. We ritualize.
We make time weird on purpose.
☉ The sun returns? Light the damn candle.
☽ The moon wanes? Bury the spell jar.
⚶ Your spine starts vibrating on a Tuesday in August? That’s a holy day now, babe.
This series will not tell you which color candle to buy at Michael’s, or how many jars you need to hoard before you unlock level two witchcraft... well possibly the former
This is not “8 Holidays You Must Do or You’re Not a Real Witch.”
This is a deep dive into how witches have shaped time into meaning, and how you can do it too.
What is a Sabbat, Really?
Where we talk about etymology, folk vs Wiccan calendars, cultural approximations, and why Sabbats are not universal.
Upcoming Sabbat Guides
Each major sabbat gets its own post. Expect themes, spells, plants, rituals that make your neighbors nervous, and hacks for chaos witches, city witches, and the magically feral.
Making Your Own Sabbats
Because not everyone lives in a moody European forest, has access to actual woods, or wants to cosplay the summer solstice when it’s literally snowing outside.
Make your own:
Body-based rites (first blood, surgery, recovery)
Lunar chaos calendars
Feast days for your dead grandma or your inner monster
“It rained for the first time in months” festivals
The Witch’s Year in Practice
Altars that rot on purpose. Bones that track the seasons. Plant logs, ritual journaling, and throwing a sabbat feast for one. You’re still valid if your coven is three houseplants and a cat with strong opinions.
Special Topics
“The Witch’s Feast” — Kitchen magic by season
“Animal Festivals” — Honoring migration, hibernation, and horny moose season
“Astrological Sabbats” — When Leo season hits like your personal midsummer
“Sabbats of the City” — Because the subway is an underworld journey
“The Lost Wheel” — Ancient ritual calendars that didn’t survive colonization but still echo
This isn’t a closed circle. It’s a living spiral, smudged, scribbled, and always a little feral.
You can join in winter.
You can join after harvest.
You can miss five posts and show up for Mabon wearing a hat made of moss.
You're still on time.
You don’t have to follow the Wheel to be a witch.
But you do have to listen to time
the way a forest listens to rot,
the way a bruise listens to the coming storm.
☸︎ Follow the tag #The Witch’s Year to stay updated.
Bring snacks. Burn something on purpose. The calendar is already on fire. Let’s make it weird.
I have seen some people claim that magic or witchcraft did not exist in Ancient Greece. This is not the case. So, I thought I'd take the opportunity to introduce you all to the strange and wonderful world of Ancient Greek magic!
First, what do we mean by "magic"? Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the leading scholars on Ancient Greek magic, defines "magic" as "non-normative ritual behavior." In short, what makes something magic, and not just normal religion, is that people in a given culture think it's weird. The word "magic" itself refers to the magi, Zoroastrian priests — the Ancient Greeks thought they did magic because to them, Zoroastrianism was foreign and weird. They also thought that Ancient Egyptians could do magic for the same reason — what the Greeks thought was spooky magic was just normal religion in Egypt. Within their own culture, magic was basically heteropraxic religion. Magic was not considered hubristic, at least not inherently.
There are multiple Ancient Greek words that refer to magic. The word μάγος, magos, itself means "magician" or "charlatan." There's also γοητεία, goetia, usually translated as "sorcery." The word most often translated as "witchcraft" is φαρμακεία, pharmakeia, the use of drugs or herbs to transform or influence people. This is what Medea and Circe do.
One of our best sources on Ancient Greek magic is the Greek Magical Papyri, or PGM, a set of magical texts from Hellenistic Egypt. When I first learned about it, I thought it was too good to be true, but here it is: uncorrupted ancient pagan magic! Essentially, the PGM is one of the oldest known grimoires, and the ancestor of the entire Western magical tradition. The papyri contain spells and rituals for almost every purpose: curses, love spells, divination, dream oracles, summoning daimones, necromancy, even full mystical rites. Most of them include invocations to various gods, which are heavily syncretic. Helios/Apollo (treated interchangeably) is invoked the most often. Aphrodite appears pretty often, too. Hekate-Artemis-Selene-Persephone (conflated with a whole bunch of other chthonic goddesses, including Ereshkigal) has her own set of spells. You'll even find the names of Egyptian gods and Hebrew angels in there.
One of the most common features in PGM spells is voces magicae or barbarous names, nonsense words that are supposed to be the secret names of the gods, which give you the authority to call them up. They act almost like a written form of glossolalia. Most are supposed to be spoken or chanted aloud. Some sound like actual names, or are well-known magical epithets like ABRASAX. Some are just strings of Greek vowels. Some of them are palindromic; there's lots of spells that use the "abracadabra" disappearing-letter-triangle format. There's also charakteres, apparently-meaningless magical symbols, the distant ancestor of modern sigils.
Another major source for Ancient Greek magic are defixiones or katadesmoi, curse tablets. They're little lead leafs called lamellae, which are inscribed with curses and then deposited in wells, graves, and other chthonic places. Thousands of them have been found.
Here's the text of a curse tablet that invokes Hekate and Hermes Kthonios (copied from Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World by John G. Gager):
Hermes Khthonios and Hekate Khthonia
Let Pherenikos be bound before Hermes Khthonios and Hekate Khthonia. I bind Pherenikos’ [girl] Galene to Hermes Khthonios and to Hekate Khthonia I bind [her]. And just as this lead is worthless and cold, so let that man and his property be worthless and cold, and those who are with him who have spoken and counseled concerning me.
Let Thersilochos, Oinophilos, Philotios, and any other supporter of Pherenikos be bound before Hermes Khthonios and Hekate Khthonia. Also Pherenikos’ soul and mind and tongue and plans and the things that he is doing and the things that he is planning concerning me. May everything be contrary for him and for those counseling and acting with…
Another curse tablet, which invokes Hekate to punish thieves, includes a drawing of her and charakteres. This is how she's depicted:
From Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in the Ancient World by John G. Gager
It's supposed to be a woman with three heads and six raised arms, but to me it looks like Cthulhu, which is honestly appropriate.
There was a very fine line between love spells and curses in Ancient Greece. Some love spells in the PGM call upon the spirits of the dead and chthonic gods to torture a poor girl until she submits to the magician. Just as many defixiones attempt to forcefully bind a lover. But there's another, gentler kind of love spell described by Theocritus in Idylls, in which a witch named Simaetha invokes the Moon and Hekate and uses an iynx wheel to make a man love her.
If you want to know how to apply all of this in modern practice, I'm still working that one out. I've found the PGM very hard to adapt, because a lot of its requirements are dangerous or impractical. Many of its spells require gross ingredients worthy of the Scottish play, or plants that scholars can't identify, or procedures that I don't plan on attempting. And if you haven't noticed by now, most of them fly in the face of modern magical ethics. (Don't let anyone tell you that the gods will punish you for doing baneful magic, because that's clearly bullshit.) On the other hand, Crowley adapted his Bornless Ritual almost word-for-word from PGM V. 96—172. So far, the best resource I've found on modernizing Ancient Greek magic is The Hekataeon by Jack Grayle. Its material is clearly historically-inspired, but still doable, and spiritually relevant. I really recommend getting it if you have the means, especially if you have an interest in Hekate specifically. I'm happy to have it as a model for how to adapt ancient magic for myself in the future. To me, it strikes the perfect balance between historically-informed and witchy, which is right where I want to be.
If you can't access that one, here's some other books I recommend:
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III: An introduction to Ancient Greek magic, both scholarly and accessible. It covers the definitions and contexts of magic, curses, love spells, divination, theurgy, philosophy, basically everything you need to know.
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation by Hans Dieter Betz: The definitive English edition of the PGM. A must if you plan to study ancient magic in-depth, especially as a practitioner.
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in the Ancient World by John G. Gager: An English edition of the texts of many curse tablets.
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden: a sourcebook of ancient literature concerning magic.
The Golden Ass by Apuleius: A Roman novel about a man who is turned into a donkey by a witch. A very entertaining story, also our source for "Cupid and Psyche" and one of the best sources on the Mysteries of Isis that we have.
Ancient Magic: A Practitioners Guide to the Supernatural in Ancient Greece and Rome by Philip Matyszak: A simple and straightforward introduction to Ancient Greek magic, less scholarly but very easy to follow and directed at practitioners.
❦ OCCULT MECHANICS 101: Foundational Spell Theory for Feral Thinkers
✧ Welcome to Occult Mechanics 101✧
A crash course for magical girlies, theybies, and cryptid-coded grad students who accidentally developed a thesis-level obsession with ritual structure
and just want to know why their spell didn’t work
without getting gaslit by Mercury Retrograde.
This is spell theory for the spiritually overcaffeinated.
We're not blaming the vibes.
We're building the system.
What we’re covering (so far):
Core Lessons:
✥ What Is a Spell? — Function vs. Form
Types of Magic — Sympathetic, Contagious, Apotropaic, other sexy categories
🜋 Spell Anatomy — What are spells made of and why does it matter?
🜏 Magical Materials 101 — Your herbs, bones, metals, and metaphysics
🜲 Ritual Structure — Scripted vs. Improvised; how not to confuse enteties
❉ Energy Work — Without the fluff
⦗⦘Magic as Code — Syntax, runtime errors, and energetic execution
⚖︎ Magical Ethics — With zero Abrahamic guilt and no cosmic police
⋈ Magical Ecology — Offerings n’ shit
Extras & Add-Ons (aka DLC for your brain):
⚯ Build-A-Spell Flowchart — Like Build-A-Bear, but with more fire
⚙︎ Diagnostics Manual — “Why Did My Spell Flop: A Brutally Honest Guide”
⚭ Comparative Systems Table — A cross-cultural look at ritual forms
↮ Future expansions as the spiral deepens
This will be modular, expandable, and occasionally feral.
There will be diagrams. There may be memes.
There will definitely be opinions.
If you’ve ever gone from
“I found this spell on Pinterest”
to
“I accidentally wrote a dissertation at 2am while sobbing over a planetary hour calculator and now I’m in a codependent relationship with my citation manager”
❤ welcome home ❤
This is a safe zone for overthinkers, ritual theory goblins, spreadsheet sorcerers, and anyone who wants to cast spells and cite sources like their grimoires are peer-reviewed.
Information spirals are my love language.
Hopefully posted once or twice a week.
Light a candle. Scream into the æther.
And of course, bookmark the tag and stay tuned
Planetary Hours Are A Scam, Part III: A Reference for When You’re Tired But Still Want to Vibe
So you’ve read the essays in Part I and Part II. You’ve stared into the time spiral. You know Saturn is judging you and Mercury is screaming in memes. But now you want just the info. No metaphysics, just the magical HR schedule.
This is your quick-reference field guide.
Use it when your brain is soup, your candle is half-burned, and you want to do witchcraft but can’t math.
HOW PLANETARY HOURS WORK (without tears)
12 hours of day • From sunrise to sunset, divided into 12 weird, wiggly “hours”
12 hours of night • From sunset to sunrise — also 12, also cursed
Hour lengthsChange every day. Summer: long. Winter: short. Time is a vibe.
Planet order • Follows the Chaldean Order (Jupiter » Mars » Sun » Venus » Mercury » Moon, repeat)
First hour • The planet of the day. (Monday » Moon, Tuesday » Mars, etc.)
The cycle • Just keeps going, hour by hour, forever. No breaks. No mercy.
HOW TO FIND THE ACTUAL HOURS (without selling your soul to an app)
Step 1:
Look up sunrise + sunset for your location
Step 2:
Subtract sunrise from sunset = total daylight length
Now divide by 12 = the length of each day hour
Repeat for night hours (sunset → next sunrise)
Step 3:
Assign the first day hour to the planet of the day
Continue the cycle in Chaldean Order
(Jupiter » Mars » Sun » Venus » Mercury » Moon, repeat)
But also: yes, you can use an app. We are modern witches with smartphones and questionable sleep schedules. Go off babe.
PLANETARY HOUR ROTATION TABLE
Covers:
Hour-by-hour planetary rulership from dawn to dusk to dawn again
Works with any day, any time
You’re literally looking at Mesopotamian Time Sudoku
💡 Match this chart to your local sunrise, and you’ve basically time-traveled.
PLANETARY HOURS VIBE CHART
(aka “should I cast a spell or go cry in the bathtub”)
Covers:
Ruling day/planet
General energy
Use it for...
Maybe don’t use it for...
🔮 Pro tip: Mars hour is for rage spells and warding. Venus hour is for glam rituals and flirting with ghosts. Saturn hour is for folding laundry and communing with your ancestor debt collector.
DO YOU NEED TO BE THIS EXTRA?
No. But it’s more fun when you are.
Some witches like electional astrology. Some just want to burn cinnamon at the right vibe.
Use planetary hours when:
You want to sync a spell with planetary resonance
You want structure without pressure
You’re a chaos witch with a spreadsheet kink *that's me*
Ignore them when:
You’re tired
You’re late
You’re alive in late-stage capitalism
Planetary hours are not mandatory.
They’re romance.
You’re not obeying time, you’re flirting with it.
APPS TO TRACK PLANETARY HOURS (choose your fighter)
Planataro: Planetary Hours — (iOS/Android) includes moon phases + widget support, for the witch who likes their magic with clean UI (iOS link below)
ChronosXP (Windows) — nerdy desktop app that yells the hour at you like a well-meaning spirit guide with a degree in astronomy
Time Nomad (iOS) — for when you want electional astrology, planetary transits, and your soul gently judged by the stars
A spreadsheet — because that’s literally what the Heptameron was, just medieval Excel with more Latin
Draw it on your mirror in eyeliner — if you’re hot and unhinged
🔚 FINAL NOTE (for the Planetarily-Cursed)
✨ You don’t have to believe in planetary hours.
✨ You just have to notice what happens when you treat time like it’s watching.
✨ You’re not casting because Mars is awake. You’re casting because you are.
Time is weird.
The planets are haunted.
You are a little flame with Wi-Fi and a god complex. act accordingly.
Download Planetary Hours by Planetaro by S3soft OU on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Pl
i haven't posted in so so so so long but for the first time in a WHILE i just opened the app, scrolled through my surprising number of notes and you guys. you guys are still reblogging and using the things i wrote (devotionals and spells) such a long time ago. lowkey emotional about that. love u all hi if ur out there <3
January 13 ● Full Moon in Cancer (Wolf Moon)
January 29 ● New Moon in Aquarius
February 2 ● Imbolc
February 12 ● Full Moon in Leo (Snow Moon)
February 27 ● New Moon in Pisces
March 14 ● Full Moon in Virgo (Worm Moon)
March 15-April 7 ● Mercury Retrograde
March 20 ● Ostara
March 29 ● New Moon in Aries
April 12 ● Full Moon in Libra (Pink Moon)
April 27 ● New Moon in Taurus
May 1 ● Beltane
May 12 ● Full Moon in Scorpio (Flower Moon)
May 26 ● New Moon in Gemini
June 11 ● Full Moon in Sagittarius (Strawberry Moon)
June 20 ● Litha
June 25 ● New Moon in Cancer
July 10 ● Full Moon in Capricorn (Buck Moon)
July 18-August 11 ● Mercury Retrograde
July 24 ● New Moon in Leo
August 1 ● Lammas
August 9 ● Full Moon in Aquarius (Corn Moon)
August 23 ● New Moon in Leo
September 7 ● Full Moon in Pisces (Harvest Moon)
September 21 ● New Moon in Virgo
September 22 ● Mabon
October 6 ● Full Moon in Aries (Hunter's Moon)
October 21 ● New Moon in Libra
October 31 ● Samhain
November 5 ● Full Moon in Taurus (Beaver Moon)
November 9-November 29 ● Mercury in Retrograde
November 20 ● New Moon in Scorpio
December 4 ● Full Moon in Gemini (Cold Moon)
December 19 ● New Moon in Sagittarius
December 21 ● Yule
“of course this is the bare minimum amount of labor someone must perform to be a human being worthy of being alive! what do you think, rimon?” brother if i told you what i think about this your head would fucking explode.
Angrboða is a jötunn and the mate of Loki, mother to the wolf Fenrir, the World Serpent t Jörmungand, and the Queen of the Dead Hel. The name Angrboða has been translated as "the one who brings grief" or "she-who-offers-sorrow".
There's not much known about her otherwise so I'll share my impression of working with her but this isn't historically supported by any means. I often feel as though Angrboða is a mother-figure, not in a tender or nurturing way, but in terms of support, motivation, and advice. She is a strong, passionate figure, violent if needed to protect those she loves and cares for. She takes special care to those of us who are "different", who are left unsupported and alone for whatever reason it may be. She is a guide to us, reminds us to be strong inside and never give up. These are my personal associations and devotions with Angrboða, please keep any hateful comments to yourself.
Try to see things from a new perspective.
Donate or support local wildlife preservations, especially wolves!
Read the few works she's mentioned in, Hyndluljóð and Gylfaginning.
Use the colors dark green, black, brown, dark red, or russet in your altar, clothing, however you want to incorporate it!
Speak up for what you believe in.
Use crystals like bloodstone, tourmaline, rutile, scepter quartz, purpurite, flint, and goethite in your craft or altar.
On an altar you could leave items of iron or wood, thistles, oak branches, flint or fire tools, images or figures of wolves.
Challenge yourself, whether it's starting a new endeavor you've wanted to try, working on yourself, or working on an old craft.
Listen to music that inspires you and reminds you of her(Danheim - Ulfhednar is a personal favorite).
Dedicate time to your community, whether it's donating old clothes, helping the food drive, working with lgbt+ youth, anything to help.
Practice connecting with the Earth, go on hikes, enjoy time outside.
Try your hand at spirit work and if you're already a hedge worker then dedicate some of your time to her while practicing.
Light candles or incense of oak, oud, dragon's blood, yarrow, oat, or apple.
When you're feeling bleak or apathetic, dedicate the courage and time it takes to pull yourself out of it to her.
Use the runes Kaunaz, Hagalaz, and Isa in your craft or worship.
Learn about your strongest desires and then create the structure and self-discipline with Angrboða's guidance to attain them.
There is no veil between this world and another. It is, instead, a rich tapestry woven together with the finest of thread. You don't train yourself to see through a barrier, but instead you learn to feel the strings all around you.
Was about to go to bed angry but a heavy thunderstorm started and the sounds of the thunder and rain coated my anger like a weighted blanket. Maybe the world we live in is okay sometimes
Litha is a pagan meeting. It is the summer solstice, the feast of midsummer, opposite of Yule, it is also the most important day of the year for the ancient solar cults. Legend says that if you accidentally step on St. John’s Wort on Litha night, you can end up in fairyland.
David Faulkner
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