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25 Small Ways to Worship the Sun

Sunbathe

Wear yellow, orange or red clothing (bonus points if it’s all the colours at once)

Organise a bonfire

Eat a lot of citruses

Smile at the rays of sunshine

Light a yellow candle

Wear golden jewellery

Cinnamon in your coffee

Honey in your tea

Carry around a tiger’s eye, a sunstone or a heliotrope

Draw a sun sigil each time the Sun invites itself into your room

Laugh as often as you can

Cry as often as you have to (and loudly, too!)

Dance your ass off to your favourite music

Sun yoga

Wake up at dawn

Fall asleep watching the sunset

Drink a glass of sangria

Do something bold that you have been afraid to do

Go out during the night and trace sigils with sparklers

Meet new people, be spontaneous!

Create! (drawing, writing, sculpturing, anything)

Be kind to others, particularly those in need of warmth

Listen to songs related to the Sun (memorable example: “I’ll Follow the Sun” by the Beatles)

Vibrate with positivity and be ready to spread it everywhere!

lagoonhag

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lagoonhag

Home is where the altar is

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Bird Symbolism

So I was looking out my window and saw two birds and the idea of making a list of symbolism associated with types of birds came to mind. My mom always taught me if you see an animal -especially if they are doing something out of the ordinary- you should take it as an omen. So here’s a list of some basic birds, some of the associations are personal but I hope you like it!

Blue Jay-the truth will be revealed, high energy, playfulness, clarity and communication.

Cardinal-hope, joy, good health, some associate them with angels or deceased love ones, passion and warmth.

Crow-often associated with magic and witches, transformation, power, intelligence and mystery.

Duck-friendships, new friends, happiness, good fortune and protect against negative energies “water off a ducks back” :)

Eagle-power, leadership, freedom, adventure, breaking free.

Hawk- common as spirit guides, courage, protection, and awareness.

Hummingbird- I adore hummingbirds and often associate them with faeries. Creativity, joy, love and beauty. Can be a sign that you are moving too fast in life and need to take a break.

Owl- wisdom, associated with the goddess Athena, intuition, spiritual exploration, change, observation and intelligence.

Raven- associated with the nordic god Odin, mystery, magic, fae magic, knowledge, mischieve, and can be seen as a death omen (but can also mean change)

Robin- luck, prosperity, good things will happen, joy and your hard work will soon be rewarded.

Sparrow- associated with Aphrodite, new love and relationships, fertility, team work, time of productivity and stop procrastinating.

Stork-long life, prosperity, fertility, new life, wisdom, take time to relax, motherhood and luck.

Swan- also associated with Aphrodite and Apollo, gracefulness, beauty, music, poetry, creativity, loyalty, and long lasting relationships.

Vulture-death, cleaning up other people’s messes, renewal, patient, use your resources and be perceptive.

Woodpecker- hard work, take advantage of new oppurtunities, attention, progress and determination.

Tip! If you are repeatedly seeing a certain animal or have a strong liking to an animal it could be a way a spirit guide is trying to get your attention (or that animal is just really common in your area lol )

decklove

Nothing to see here spread

What to forget (past)

What to ignore (present)

What to stop worrying about (future)

A spread for overthinkers, for those who struggle with living the moment, for the ones that need to close their eyes sometimes 💙

#tarot

tarotprose

The new year can bring a lot of fear and anxiety for many of us. I wanted a Tarot spread that could help bring a little more comfort and confidence to us as this current year comes to a close and the new one takes its place. This is how the Fear Of The New Year Tarot spread came to be. If you use my spread, feel free to tag me. I’d love to see it.

Step One: Shuffle your deck or mix up your divination tool of choice. How many times and however long is completely up to you.

Step Two: Pull six cards from your deck however you see fit.

Step Three: Use each card to finish the statement provided below.

Example: In the new year, I will accomplish ____________ Let’s say I pulled The Ace of Pentacles card. I may finish the statement with “In the new year, I will accomplish a new money making opportunity.”

Position One: In the new year, I will accomplish ____________

Position Two: In the new year, I will take better care of my ____________

Position Three: In the new year, I will let go of ____________

Position Four: In the new year, I will learn to accept ____________

Position Five: In the new year, I will do my best to change ____________

Position Six: In the new year, I will welcome help and support from ____________

Post Notes: Please do not remove the captions. Spread: Fear Of The New Year by @tarotprose Copyright: © Ivan Ambrose 2017 Spread Disclaimer: This is my own personal spread. I am not a medical professional, nor claim to be, nor do I suggest this spread to be used in replace of medical treatment. This is just what helps me and I wanted to share it with others. Navigation: Table Of Contents | FAQ | Contact

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Reblogging one last time for those who need this. <3

#tarot

Witch tip: jasmine oil straight up makes people fall in love with you

#put it in your hair

wiccamanda

Hi MTV and welcome to my altar

Are you a terf?

terf is a bullshit silencing tacting but besides that I don’t strictly fit into any political category. If I had to make some shit up to describe where I fit politically I guess I’d say I’m an anti-transhumanism, anti-patriarchy, anti-capitalist which would make me a terf in the eyes of people who send messages like this

signorformica

Eve in Paradise tempted by Lilith, or by the devil in the form of Doppelgänger. Speculum peccatoris. Mons ~1461 Lyon BM. Thanx Tony Harrison on flickr. Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

#lilith

ayellowbirds

speaking as a Jew, i’m extra-super dubious of all that stuff that talks about cartoon witches being an antisemitic stereotype. I can get where the thing with the nose is coming from, but the claims about the hats are based on flimsy claims that require a lot of mental reaching. The hats that Jews were forced to wear were not a universal thing, and I’ve yet to see any evidence that they were part of the cultural consciousness by the time the image of the pointy-hatted witch became common.

ayellowbirds

The biggest points against the hat hypothesis:

Wrong time period: witch hats as we know them seem to have only started appearing in art around the 17th-18th century; in the period when the Judenhut was well-established, witches in art just wore whatever was common for women of the region.

Wrong region: the pointed witch hat originated in English art, as far as i’ve seen. Antisemitic laws in England mandated badges, not headwear.

Wrong gender: Jewish hats were mandated for men, not women—illustrations of witches with pointed hats very rarely included male witches, until fairly recently.

Wrong shape: there are many styles of mandated Jewish hat throughout history, but few of them are even a near match for the very specific look of the Witch hat.

You know what kind of hat does closely fit?

The hat in this painting (“Portrait of Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren Edward and Elizabeth Bagot” by J.M. Wright; circa 1675) was “a type worn by affluent women throughout Britain at this date”. Look at that hat. Any modern viewer looking at this painting might think it was supposed to be a character created by J.K. Rowling.

It’s a match in design, gender, region, and most importantly, time period: by the time that pointed witch hats started to appear in artwork in England and English colonies, this style of hat would have been associated in the cultural consciousness with elderly women, especially those who were clinging to decades-old fashions.

The easy, simple answer to where the witch hat came from: it’s exactly what a woman with all the stereotypical qualities of a witch would have worn in the first place, in the time and place the trope originated.

Old-fashioned but not by several centuries, severe and somber, and popular with a class of women that people would have spread nasty rumors about in the first place (so many accusations of witchcraft were directed specifically at women who were independently well-off, whether out of simple envy or else scheming).

ayellowbirds

Seemed like about time to bring this back up.

sinbadism

Another very obvious and often explicitly stated basis for the CLOTHING of the cartoon witch is Puritan costume from the 18th century… seeing as Puritans were famous for their witch trials. The green skin, curly hair, big nose, warts etc are all definitely at least racialized things. Though big nose and warts are associated with age the combined picture is pretty much just a racial caricature.

ayellowbirds

The green skin is a product of old makeup practices. To make something look extra-pale on black & white film, you didn’t use white, because the monochrome film was blue-sensitive:

This is why so many classic movie monsters were rendered as green—because public appearances and the rare color image of he actors in full makeup would be a blueish-green. Filming for black & white even affected the props and scenery. This is what the Addams Family’s house really looked like:

breelandwalker

Important input on the witchy costume debate, from a Jewish person who’s clearly done a bit of homework on the origins of pointy hats and green makeup. (And who also seems to be a pretty cool person into the bargain.)

@ayellowbirds - Thank you for this! :)

agwitow

I’ve reblogged this before, but it’s got new info, which is great

bai-xue

I’d also argue that, though certain aspects of the stereotypical witch align with antisemitic tropes, it’s far more likely that witches’ stereotypical looks actually emerged by being the polar opposite of what the beautiful, and therefore ideal, 17th century woman looked like. This was to emphasize that a witch was the OPPOSITE of an ideal woman, and she could thus be placed in opposition to the beautiful, ideal heroine.

Where beauty (according to 17th century standards) was young, witches were old. Where beauty had fine, delicate features, witches had exaggerated, rough features. Where beauty was relatively unmarred (a rarity in pre-vaccination days), witches had moles and other marks. Where beauty had silky blonde hair (a treasured prize in Renaissance times, to the point that women falsely lightened their hair or wore wigs), witches had rough black hair.

As I said, some of these line up with antisemitic tropes. However, I’d argue that associating Jews with these tropes was a result of already-established patriarchal beauty tropes that had been ingrained in northern Europe for centuries. The fact that the stereotypical Jewish woman happened to defy the beauty ideals of northern Europe was used as an excuse to further oppress Jewish people, not the other way around.

In other words, I’d guess that it went like this:

“Ugliness/evil looks like this” -> “Some Jewish women (who we hate) look like this” -> “here’s proof that Jewish women are ugly and evil”

Rather than:

“Jewish women look like this” -> “we hate Jewish people” -> “Ugliness and evil looks like this”

Of course, once both tropes (ugly witches, ugly Jews) were established, I imagine that they fed into one another, but I’m dubious of the claim that the source of the ugly witch was the Jewish woman, especially since northern European ideas of beauty and fears of malevolent witches seem to go back further than northern European stereotypes of the ugly Jewish woman.

bai-xue

Augh, and COMPLETELY forgot to talk about this, but the stereotypical witch outfit? It comes from traditional English brewsters/alewives, aka, female beer-brewers.

Who used brooms mounted above the door as a way to signal their trade to passerby:

And who made their trade making strange concoctions in cauldrons:

And who happened to wear hats just like this:

Brewsters/alewives used to have a monopoly on beer-making. They handed down brewing secrets from mother to daughter and basically controlled the alcohol market. And men weren’t terribly keen on that - they wanted in on this immensely lucrative, influential field. There were some male brewsters, but the trade was overwhelmingly female, to the point that even male brewsters were still called brewsters - a female noun.

So what do men do when they want to push women out of a trade? They demonise them.

Suddenly the broom isn’t just a business sign, it’s a tool for going to meet the devil. The cauldron isn’t just a tool, it’s a place to create evil. The hat isn’t just a trade uniform, it’s a mark of malevolent intent and arcane knowledge.

Coincidentally, many women who became brewsters/alewives became independently wealthy and quite powerful locally. They didn’t need to marry and could provide for their entire households with their trade. They could grow old without marrying, or they could stay unmarried after their first husband dies rather than remarrying. They could also pull strings and influence things in their favour, making local politics ‘mysteriously’ go their way.

And so the stereotype of the ugly spinster brewster-witch is born.

And, as I’ve said above, ugly women look a certain way: harsh, marred features, dark, tangled hair, and above all, old.

Note old Mother Louse up there. She was a well-respected brewster in her town, with plenty of influence, but here she is already being portrayed with stereotypical witch features: a big, hooked nose, and a pointy chin, hollow eyes, sharp cheekbones (not a good thing in premordern times - beauties had rounder faces, as sharp cheekbones were a sign of hunger or oldness). Mother Louse isn’t being portrayed as Jewish, but as an elderly, ugly spinster, who engages in the lucrative, powerful - but suspect - business of brewing.

Know who else this happened to? Midwives. Another female trade, passed down from woman to woman, dealing in business secrets from which men were barred - and this in regard to the most mysterious power of all: the power to bring life into the world. And midwives do pretty well for themselves, too: plenty of families are willing to pay a bundle to make sure their babies are delivered safe and sound in a world with high infant mortality. Just like male physicians, midwives knew how to create tinctures and mix herbs, but now, once again, rudimentary chemistry and herb-lore become demonised when women are the ones doing it. Now, if your baby is born sick, deformed, or dead, it’s clearly the spinster midwife’s doing, full of spite because she has no children of her own.

Anyway, there’s your witch history for the day. The hooked nose and black hair are already something of a stretch, but the claim that the typical witch hat is somehow linked to anti-semitism and not brewsters is totally ahistorical.

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Why Does That Candle Keep Moving?

1. Probably just the wind or spirits want your soul

2. Cat did it just to spite you because they remember that you gave them the dry food that one time and what were you thinking

3. Ghosts gotta ghost

novitiate-deactivated20181021

serpent imagery belongs to women

#music #goddess #lunar dunes #moon bathing

Good deal! Sorry if I put you on the spot, I just wanted to make sure

To be clear I don’t think they’re women, I just don’t care because as a solitary witch it doesn’t really effect me if they wanna call themselves dianic wiccans. I just think this kind of thought policing is juvenile, authoritarian and ridiculous and I feel bad for people who feel like they need to avoid anything that might challenge their worldview

How do you feel about trans women practicing Dianic Wicca?

I don’t care

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