Jacky

Eclectic Witch from Germany

[rosecoloredtarot]

Sometimes your tarot deck is like “sit your ass down, it’s time to address this”

[witchquests]

daily quest: Vow to never leave any fire burning unattended, including candles and fire pits, even if they are in a fire-safe container or area.

rewards: Your House Doesn't Burn Down

[leahberman]

wandering dream

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[etherea1ity]

"September morning" by Andreas

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

Oscar Wilde, excerpt of “The Sphinx” (1894)

[expressions-of-nature]

by Vitaly Istomin

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[adiore]

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[thatsbelievable]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[orriculum]

Washing the dishes and thinking to myself, I finally have all that I wanted. A little place to live quietly, to put everything where I want it. Just enough to take care of, not so much and so many that won't cooperate.

I don't hate doing the dishes when it's just my few dishes, from a meal I enjoyed cooking and eating. I don't hate doing the laundry when it's my clothes, when it's something I can't wait to wear again, something I feel comfortable and easy in. I don't hate keeping a place clean when I've crafted a space to be easiest for me to clean, when the design appeals to me.

How very very long I've wanted this

[secondlina]

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[therestlesswitch]

✨🌱Stinging Nettle🌱✨

✨Botanical Latin: Urtica dioica

✨Habitat: Waste spaces, moist soil

✨Growth Habit: Perennial, 6’+ tall at maturity. Flowers in mid-late summer

✨Parts Used: Leaves and tops most often. Roots and seeds can be used as well.

✨Harvesting: Always wear thick gloves and cover your skin! Young leaves and tops - harvest before the plant flowers. See ‘cautions’ below. Roots - in the fall, after most of the energy has returned to the root from the plant. This plant is abundant, but as it’s a perennial, remember to leave at least 75% of the plants to repopulate the area.

✨Energetics and Taste: Cool, dry, salty

Physical and Medicinal

✨Biochemical Constituents: chlorophyll, insoles (histamine, serotonin,) acetylcholine, silicic acid, vitamins C, B and A, silicon, calcium, magnesium, potassium, protein, fiber, iron.

✨Actions:  

All parts -  Alterative, whole body and liver tonic, (fresh leaves) anti-histamine, slightly diuretic, astringent, hemostatic, galactogogue, expectorant, nutrative.

Root - Anti-lithic, diuretic  

✨Indications:

Leaves & Tops - arthritis, rheumatism, asthma, eczema, other skin eruptions, bleeding, low energy, stopped urine, urinary gravel, kidney and bladder infections, edema, enlarged prostate, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)

Freeze dried leaves: sinus infection. Proven effective, but must be freeze dried.

Seed: prostate and kidney disorders

Root: Prostate issues, urinary tract gravel/stones, stopped urination  

✨Contraindications: Use in more restricted amounts when pregnant or breastfeeding, but it doesn’t have to be avoided all together. Don’t use with children under 2 years old. Use caution with children and the elderly. *

✨Medicinal Uses:

- One of the most popular herbs for nourishing herbal infusions. Rotate between nettles, oat straw, and linden for a good variety of nutrients.  

- Good for the voice (folk-medicine, song of the sea)

- Relieve the sting by rubbing the juice of dock (rumex crispus) leaves on the sting. See folk traditions below.

- To aid in circulation and inflammation/joint issues like arthritis, sting the area (lightly) occasionally with nettles and let it sting, without using dock to relieve it.

- It’s popular in soups and as a potherb/cooked green. Once it’s cooked or dried, it loses its sting. I like to use it in any dish that I’d use spinach in.

- It has been used to slow postpartum bleeding.

✨Preparations and Dosage:

- Nourishing Herbal Infusion - One quart boiled water to one ounce of dried leaves/tops (or a little more by weight if using fresh leaves.) Steep in a mason jar with the lid on for at least 20 minutes, up to overnight. Strain and enjoy within 3-4 days of making it. Drink up to 1 quart/day but rotate between a few different herbs to get a variety of nutrients.

- Dry plant material by weight - 9-30g

- Capsules - 2 “00” size filled with powdered herb, 3 times a day

- Tincture - 10-60 drops, 1-4 times a day

✨Cautions:  Do not ingest the leaves or tops after the plant has flowered or else risk causing a UTI.

Magical and Traditional

✨Elements: Primary - 🔥Fire – Secondary - 🌱Earth

✨Planet: Mars, secondary Mercury

✨Other Correspondences:

-All Parts: protections, warding, voice, communication, bind a spell, bring courage, prevent being struck by lightning, notice the things that often go unseen, mindfulness.

-Roots: banishing, curse breaking, relieving pain

-The leaves and tops after the plant has flowered: causing pain, sending a curse back, banishing, make someone’s oversight/willful ignorance come back to bite them

✨Folk Traditions:

- To soothe the sting, find some dock which usually grows nearby (rumex crispus,) grab a handful and squeeze some juice out. As you rub the juice onto the nettle sting, recite:  

Nettle out, Dock in // Dock remove the nettle sting Nettle, nettle, come out // Dock, go in!

✨Specific Uses:

- The infusion is grounding and very earth centred. I feel like It may be connected to my Mother Goddess of the lake lands in Ontario.

- Use fresh tops (either before or after flowering depending on your need) to sprinkle cleansing or banishing or curse breaking (etc) water or to waft smoke. Make sure to wear gloves, of course.

- Use the dried or cooked leaves/tops to ’take the sting’ out of something or someone.

*This page is by no means exhaustive or conclusive in any information, and is intended for educational purposes only. Always consult and herbalist and/or your healthcare professional before trying /any/ herb that is new to you.

✨✨✨These herbal monographs take hours of research and quite a few dollars worth of books and resources. Please help support me by contributing to any of these avenues: 🌱Patreon 🌱Request a Tarot Reading 🌱Buy me a coffee 🌱Donate to my education

More Posts in this Herbal Study Series: Calendula Marshmallow Cannabis Yarrow

References:

Healing with the Herbs of Life - Lesley Tierra Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health -Rosemary Gladstar Peterson’s Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs, of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition - Steven Foster and James A. Duke Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, expanded and revised edition - Scott Cunningham The Witches’ Almanac 2018, Issue 37, The Magic of Plants - Article by Morven Westfield Planting for the Future - Rosemary Gladstar and Pamela Hirsch The Illustrated Herbiary - Maia Toll The Healing Herbs, The Ultimate Guide to the Curative Powers of Nature’s Medicines - Michael Castleman Alchemy of Herbs - Rosalee de la Forêt The Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook, A Home Manual - James Green

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[v-v-v-venus]

tbh? not everyone has house spirits. not every house is inhabited by spirits.

my house isn't, all the spirits inside are 'imported'.

you know, sometimes i think when you renovate a house with your own means, it really creates a clean cut, a new start. it acts as a cleansing of some sorts and only the energy you put into your work and ambitions, and desire to make a home, remain. it depends on the mindset you had when moving in, the work you did, the history of your house. for example, if it had just been built, chances are it's completely empty.

my parents bought a house to feel at home. they really put all their intentions into making it their home, they renovated it mostly themselves, so the house basically was deep washed of its history. the walls absorbed their energies as they pulled the old tapestry with the idea of making something new. it cleansed them from the echoes of the previous owners' quarrels.

so yeah, you might wonder why it's impossible for you to feel/see/find a spirit in your house: maybe there is none.

not all buildings are inhabited by us, so not all of them are inhabited by spirits/ghosts/entities. in reality, i think you're most likely to encounter a spirit in a forest than in a house...

[deactivated-blog]

This is true! Of course, some places (even whole cities) are going to be more spirit-heavy for a variety of reasons, some of which I’ve never quite worked out…

[aeromantie]

German Mosspeople 

The Mosspeople are little creatures similar to fairies, dwarfs and ghosts. They’re described to be close to the forests and trees in German folk tales, also called „Schrat“ or „Waldschrat“.

They’re similar looking to dwarfs, nearly as tall as children, their skin is grey, they’re old, hairy and overgrown with moss.

In Tales, they tell about how they would borrow objects from humans or ask for help, they would reward them generously with good advice or bread. It was fairly easy to anger these creatures though, either through declining their gifts and rewards, or to give them Caraway bread - which they hated to an extreme degree, and often chanting the „Doggerel- Reim“-„Kümmelbrot - unser Tod!“ what translates to „Caraway bread - our death“, it does rime in German, this is just the English word-for-word translation.

In some myths, they asked humans for breast milk, to feed their babies, or even go as far to steal small human children.

Moss people, especially the females of the species, can send plagues on the one hand, but on the other hand they can also heal the victims of such plagues. During the epidemics, the wood damsels emerged from the forest to show people which medicinal herbs could cure or ward off the plague.

They were often, but not always, the subject of the Wild Hunt. According to folklore, to escape the hunt, they enter the trees that forest workers have marked with a cross, which is cut down. Des Knaben Wunderhorn records "Volkslieder auf, die den Jäger im Wald dazu bringen, eine dunkelbraune Magd zu gründen und sie zu begrüßen: 'Wohin, wildes Tier ?', Aber seine Mutter nahm sie nicht zur Braut." - „folk songs which make the hunter in the forest set up a dark-brown maid and greet her: 'Where to, wild beast?' But his mother did not take her as a bride." (Translation)

The moss people resemble hamadryads. The moss people resemble hamadryads. Her life is "tied to the trees; if any one loosens the inner bark by friction, a wood-woman dies."

According to Jacob Grimm:

"Zwischen Leidhecken und Dauernheim in der Wetterau steht der hohe Berg und darauf ein Stein, der welle fra gestoil (die Stühle der wilden Frau); es gibt einen Eindruck auf dem Felsen, wie von den Gliedern menschlicher Sitter. Die Leute sagen das Dort lebten wilde Leute 'wei di schtan noch mell warn', während die Steine ​​noch weich waren; danach lief der Mann verfolgt, die Frau und das Kind blieben in Dauernheim in Gewahrsam, bis sie starben“

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"Between Leidhecken and Dauernheim in the Wetterau stands the high mountain and on it a stone, the welle fra gestoil (the chairs of the wild woman); there is an impression on the rock, as of the limbs of human sitters. People say that there lived wild people 'wei di schtan noch mell warn' while the stones were still soft; after that the man ran pursued, the woman and child remained in custody at Dauernheim until they died."

The female Moss people, the Moosfräulein ("Moss Ladies"), have a queen named Buschgroßmutter (Bushgrandmother; "shrub grandmother"). Ludwig Bechstein describes them in his fairy tale 551:

"According to certain tales of the peasants, a demonic creature lives near People's Mountain and on the left bank of the Saale, called Buschgroßmutter ("Shrub Grandmother"). She has many daughters, called Moosfräuleins ("Moss Ladies"), with whom she travels at certain times and across the country on certain holy nights. It is not good to meet her, for she has wild staring eyes, and crazy unkempt hair. Often she drives about in a little cart or wagon, and at such times it is advisable to her to get out of the way. Children, in particular, are afraid of this cleaning mommy (hooded, female bogey) and delight in whispering tales of her to scare one another. She is essentially the same spirit as Hulda or Bertha, the Savage Huntress - attributing to local tales a following of children under the guise of crickets (dwarves, elves, brownies, hobgoblins) who are her companions in the area the she visits.

I translated this from my original german resources and websites, please let me know if you have any german folk myths, lores and tales, german traditions and culture translated or explained.

:)

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[probablyafaggot]

me every day, beginning A Task: agony! despair! woe! every moment on this wretched earth is filled with suffering! death! death! death!

ten minutes later: man, i'm so glad i washed the dishes & i was so normal about it

[in-her-broomcloset]

Magical Uses for Matches

added resource

initiate a ritual with a match instead of a lighter

seal a spell with the extinguishing of the flame

light one and let it burn until you can’t hold it anymore for an energy cleansing (can hold with tweezers or prop in an incense holder)

develop a good rule of thumb for how long you should burn a match for when you’re holding it (how many seconds until to have to put it out)

create a key of omens for your burnt match sticks

create a key of correspondences for holding your match vertical or horizontal / in your left hand or right hand / north, south east, west / etc.

grind up the burnt match as a spell ingredient

save the wooden base separately for wood splinters as a spell ingredient

color-code your matches and strike them as a substitute for lighting a colored candle

charge your matchbox with crystals, plants, herbs, overnight, in sunlight, etc.

whisper your wish or intent into the flame then promptly blow it out

hold it over an object and circle it counterclockwise to cleanse it

hold it over an object and circle it clockwise to enchant it

light a match with a lighter with the intent to cancel a spell

throw the burnt match into a bowl of water and let it sit in the moonlight to give your moonwater added protective properties

draw a sigil with a used match tip

write someone’s name and cross it out with a used match tip to hex them

write someone’s name and circle it with a used match tip to protect them

pour your negative energy into your fingertips, and into the match as you strike it, then toss the stick out to forcibly remove negative energy

light a match to produce productive or powerful energy

hold a lit match up to a mirror to banish unwanted entities

light a match in the middle of your garden right at sunrise or after sunset and bury the used stick for a bountiful harvest season

rub your thumb slowly across the strike pad 3 times to dispel anxiety and encourage confidence