“On an empty stage, the chorus repeats the common Greek maxim that “no man should be considered fortunate until he is dead.””
— Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, c492 BC
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“On an empty stage, the chorus repeats the common Greek maxim that “no man should be considered fortunate until he is dead.””
— Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, c492 BC
the longer I live the more I realize how strong a connection exists between our thoughts and our lives.
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YOU’RE NOT DEAD YET YOU’RE NOT DEAD YET GET THE FUCK UP YOU’RE NOT DEAD YET IT ISN’T FUCKING OVER DRAG YOUR CORPSE KICKING AND SCREAMING INTO TOMORROW ONE DAY YOU WILL STOP SURVIVING AND START LIVING YOU ARE NOT FUCKING DEAD YET.
Babysitting a toddler is a lot like being the narration in a point-and-click adventure game. Watching him knock on the doors of empty rooms and saying "hmm. I don't think anyone's in there". Watching him attempt to use [spoon] on [cat] and saying "I don't think those things go together". Watching him throw a cup of water onto the floor and just commenting "the floor is wet now" when he looks up at me to see if I approve.
so i read this but the first time i read it, i missed a couple of key words, and i was just imagining the toddler walking around saying these things.
all the love you’ve given out in your life, i hope it all comes back around to you
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I'll draw sketches of your pet in the same style
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by Adam Bignell
All About the Evil Eye
Most speak of it in hushed tones. Fewer still understand its workings. But the Evil Eye — malocchio — is no superstition. It is a wound made of envy and directed by will. And yes, it is very real.
Fortuneteller, turning over the Death card: Don't worry. It isn't literal. It simply refers to some form of change. Me: Phew Fortuneteller; turning over the Gets Eaten by the Fortuneteller While Trying to Leave card: That can also mean many things
unironically when i’m sick i just chant this shit in my head until it’s over
You need to touch saltwater
Building walls as a part of protection
I truly believe that when most witches fall short of success, it's not necessarily a failure of power or spellcrafting but rather a failure of strategy.
Witches can raise power and cast spells just fine and still not be able to accomplish goals. So when it comes to protection here are things I've learned, take what you like and leave the rest behind:
Do you actually have a magical wall or boundary that stops unwanted things from reaching you?
For this post, ward = protective wall; a division that creates discrete, defensible spaces
Conjuring good energies is not a ward
Cleansing negative energy is not a ward
Binding behaviors is not a ward
Banishing unwanted beings is not a ward
Calling guardians is not a ward
Cursing your enemies is not a ward
Asking gods for blessings is not a ward
A good place to start any protection is to BUILD A WALL.
This should be understood as a literal magical wall that is built within the spirit worlds that overlay our physical worlds.
Physical boundaries make the best anchor points for magical walls: the boundaries of your property, your house, the walls of the room, fences, cairns or markers, or encapsulating objects (your whole bed, your whole body)
Wall building spellcrafting and correspondences post
You can build walls by:
Making container spells with correspondences like stones, nails, wood, shells (sea creatures, nuts, eggs).
Making sigils that define the existence of the barrier
Going around physical boundaries and raising and fixing energies
Placing magically potent amulets or symbols along the boundary line, including symbols drawn with energy
Enchanting a candle or incense and carrying it along the boundary line to establish the boundary
Asking spiritual helpers to assist you in any of the above
You can have multiple walls. If you are under serious spiritual attack, you should probably have multiple walls.
Suit of armor: personal protection
Inner chamber: ward on your bed/sleeping space to protect your sleep
Room: ward on you bedroom or private area where you work magic and divination; a place where you can get a break and rest
Home: ward on entire home; more rooms may be individually warded as desired
Homestead: ward on entire property; can still be done on your building/nearby property if you live in apartments
Avoid splitting focus when you build walls.
Focus on BUILDING A STRONG WALL.
You can place 'aggressive protections' down later, this is like waiting to add spikes and boiling oil until after you've built the wall.
Do not siphon off your wall's strength and power by also having the wall do cute tricksy things ('this wall cleanses what is within!' NO, why are you redirecting power to provide passive cleansing?! You need to prioritize your actions, stop trying to mop while there's a hole in the side of the ship.)
Plan a point of ingress/egress and retain complete control over it.
"This wall is an immovable object. This wall is a mountain that existed before the rings of Saturn. This wall has only one gate, and I hold the key."
A physical key works very well to control this magical gateway.
DO NOT BUILD IN LOOPHOLES TO PROVIDE GRACE TO HARMFUL SPIRITS.
"This wall protects me from all spirits, unless I misunderstood their intentions, unless they apologize to me, unless they agree to be nice to me, even if they really dislike me but they just agree to not actively harm me-" like why are you doing this to yourself. Do you not think you deserve a greater degree of protection? You are not the 'mom friend' to spirits who needs to give them chance after chance for their mental health. You are not the 'group glue' that is holding the spirit community together. It is not your job to sacrifice your sense of security and wellbeing so random spirits have a game night to attend. Please choose yourself and your own safety.
Once your wall is built, assign guardians to it.
Pray and petition that powerful protectors assign angels, elementals, or spirits to patrol the gate in your wall. Contract with spirits yourself (such as your familiars or helper spirits). Build watchful and protective energy constructs.
If you've wisely placed the gateway to your wall to align with a physical gateway (such as the front gate or front door), see if a nearby plant, tree, stone, &etc. can be contracted to watch the gate for you.
Energy construct vessels (an amulet where the construct lives) and spirit vessels can be placed near the physical gateway to greatly empower their work.
Assign guardians in this order: First the gateway, to oversee who approaches and tries to pass through - the guardians should reinforce your rules, and protect against anything that isn't allowed to pass. Secondly, other guardians may patrol around the wall.
Planets can assign elementals, making Mars an excellent planetary power to petition for protection
Ask your spirits to introduce you to guardians who can help you with this task
A second protection spell can function as a guardian by utilizing protective correspondences and assigning the second spell to guard the gateway of the first.
When searching for guardians or creating constructs, keep in mind that keen eyesight and discernment are of great use; therefore correspondences that also benefit Second Sight and clarity are well employed (give wormwood or star anise a spin).
Once guardians are assigned, build any fancy extras you want - these are your aggressive or illusory protections.
Work with your guardians and ask them what tools would best help them protect the wall. They may give answers that aren't exactly about fortifying the wall (like, 'the wall is fine but we could use a resting place nearby').
If you aren't working with guardians or otherwise ready to proceed, now at this point add the spikes, the boiling oil, the invisibility shields, and anything else you want to fortify your defenses.
Add these by creating additional protection spells that 'drape over' the wall. Once the boundary of the wall has been established you may find it to be much easier to lay down additional protections along the same line.
Finally, deal with conditions inside of the wall.
Once protection work is done, things like cleansing, adjusting the vibes, etc., are a separate and IMO unrelated process.
Six Directions Banishing for Removal of Malfeasance, and Protection Against Same
A version of a spell taught to me by the Beloved Goat, similar to other rituals that have been taught to me in the past. This spell requires no materials, but may take some playing around with it in order to get the feel of things.
The feel of things is the necessary component for this spell. We also need these definitions* to help feel out the right things:
Malfeasance: Wrongdoing against responsibilities and duties. Something should have happened according to honor and obligation, but instead something wrong was done.
Betrayal: Violation of trust.
Harm: Hurt, damage, unjust effects.
Identifying the problem
The first step is to conjure into your awareness the powers of malfeasance, betrayal, and harm that have been enacted against you.
OBFUK (observe, believe, feel, understand, or know) that within the universe are things harmful to you. Within the universe, malfeasance has been done against you.
Stay with this idea, considering that this is a force that exists in energetic form, and can therefore be manipulated and changed with energy. Play with the idea until you are able to OBFUK that malfeasance against you exists and can be dealt with.
Repeat this step with the concepts of betrayal and harm.
The more you understand and feel these ideas, the better. In this stage you are casting a net by defining what it is you want to deal with.
Contemplate what it really means to have your trust violated. Contemplate what it means for people to have responsibilities to you, and the debt that is created to your wellbeing when these responsibilities are ignored or neglected.
Dwell with these ideas until you have got a pretty good idea of what it is you want to banish and protect against. This stage may initially take several minutes, but with practice may be completed speedily.
Banishing
The second step is to banish malfeasance, betrayal, and harm in six directions. This step is the same for each direction, except you just turn in a circle and/or or re-envision the bisecting line.
Face north. Mentally bisect your body at the midpoint (solar plexus if lying down, middle of skull to top of feet if standing, etc).
OBFUK (observe, believe, feel, understand, or know) that this line of bisection extends infinitely across the universe. You will repeat this envisioning, so play around with it until you are comfortable with it.
Once you have gotten steady with the idea that a divide is going through your body that completely separates the universe into "the north," you are ready to banish.
Say, think, or sign, something quite like the following (note the four distinct sections; identifying problem, setting intent, commanding action, demanding results):
I see the malfeasance that is to the north of me. I see the betrayal that is to the north of me. I see the harm that is to the north of me. I revoke these things. I rebuke these things. I banish these things. They fade into the earth and into the blackness between stars. They turn to ash and dust and settle into the forest and into nebulae. They scatter to the winds and become the colors in the sunset. They sink into the waters and become algae the fish and frogs feed on. To the north of me, malfeasance, betrayal, and harm enacted against me are banished. They are no more.
It's best to stay with this portion until you are personally satisfied that you've said the right things. You may like to go on a diatribe about how the energies are burned by hellfire and consumed by demons, and so on.
The spell is all the better if you stay with each direction and gnash on the energies until you are satisfied that you have settled on the right words. Repeat sections as many times as you like, using any words that inspire you. Polish is less effective than conviction.
Protecting
After you have banished in one direction, re-focus on the bisecting line. In the middle of your body, on the axis of that line, is a core of power.**
OBFUK (observe, believe, feel, understand, or know) that this is your personal power.
That power is ready to flow around you in a spherical shield that protects you.
Say, think, or sign the following:
To the north, I am protected. I am protected from malfeasance. I am protected from betrayal. I am protected from harm.
As you intone this, OBFUK that an impermeable, impassable, perfect shell of protective power pours forth from you in a hemisphere, wrapping around you from east to west, entirely protecting you from what is in the north.
Repeat this portion as many times as necessary, or play around with it a bit, until you feel satisfied the protection has occurred.
Moving in 6 Directions
Repeat the Banishing and Protection step for each of the six directions (north, south, east, west, above, below).
You may go in any order you like. I move clockwise from north, hitting east, south, and west; then turning north again to finish above and below.
Each time you work in a new direction, adjust how you envision the bisecting line that goes through your body.
Your goal is to envision the line in such a way that all six lines intersect at the same point, if possible, marking a singular point. The banishing pushes everything outwards from this singular point.
In order to accomplish this, moving around or readjusting yourself may be necessary.
Remember that each time you conjure the Protection, it is a hemisphere. This means it necessarily overlaps the others. Half of the eastern hemisphere will overlap north, and the other half will overlap the south. The above and below hemispheres will encapsulate all for hemispheres before it.
You may find that banishment and protection are easier or harder in different directions, which is normal. Work in each direction until you are satisfied both with the banishment and the protection.
As you move through subsequent directions, you may find your hemispheres interlock or layer in ways you weren't expecting. Let the energy moves as it desires, as long as it conforms with your standards of protection.
When you have worked in 6 directions and laid down 6 hemispheres (to create 3 total overlapping spheres of protection), move to the finish.
Sealing
There are 3 complete spheres of protection around you; one created by the joining of north and south, one created by the joining of east and west, and one created by the joining of above and below.
Whether or not these spheres seemed to combine, or were combined, in earlier steps, seal everything now to properly finish the protection.
With your focus on yourself (not necessarily placed upon any direction), intone the following:
The protections to the north of me and to the south of me join together in perfect unison and perfect harmony. I am infinitely protected from all malfeasance, all betrayal, and all harm. The protections to the east of me and to the west of me join together in perfect unison and perfect harmony. I am infinitely protected from all malfeasance, all betrayal, and all harm. The protections above me and below me join together in perfect unison and perfect harmony. I am infinitely protected from all malfeasance, all betrayal, and all harm. I am infinitely protected from all malfeasance, all betrayal, and all harm.
The spell is complete.
[*The definitions are for the purpose of this spell, so we can sniff out what we are working on like a bloodhound sniffing out a rabbit. Dictionary definitions may differ.]
[**This is true for the purposes of the spell but not necessarily true in any other circumstance]