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29 // New England, USA // they/them {{Eclectic Witch}} Practicing since July 2015. Secular. Solitary. NOTE: this is a sideblog

[samaels-gurl333]

Crystal DONTS

Crystals that are damaged/Dissolve/Chemical Reaction by Water

Angelite

Azurite

Boji Stones/Shaman Stones/Moqui Marbles

Calcite

Celestine

Halite

Hematite

Jet

Lapis

Malachite

Moonstone

Pyrite

Selenite

Unakite

Mica

Fluorite

Turquoise

Damaged/Fade/Cracked by Sun/UV

Amethyst

Aquamarine

Aventurine

Calcite

Celestine

Citrine

Fluorite

Jade

Jet

Kunzite

Lapis

Malachite

Rose Quartz

Sapphire

Sodalite

Topaz

Tourmaline

Amber

Beryl

Chrysoprase

Opal

Smokey Quartz

[thecupidwitch]

Simple Ways to Practice Magick Everyday

Say a small prayer or do a short meditation before you get out of bed in the morning.

Write down dreams or visions you had.

Stir your first cup of coffee or tea counterclockwise to banish negativity and bad luck or clockwise to bring positive energy.

Draw daily tarot or oracle cards (you can also use a pendulum) for guidance.

Cleansing yourself and home using sound or smoke.

Ancestor or spirit offerings

Pick out your clothes, shoes, jewelry... ect with intention.

Write a sigil or petition paper and burn it.

Take a ritual shower. You can spice it up with candles, herbs, and crystals, or you can simply step under the water and imagine all the negativity and bad energy washing off you. You can also recite a chant.

Every time you look into the mirror, say an affirmation

Take a walk outside and ground yourself to Mother Earth.

Dance!! Dancing is an excellent way to rise the energy, and it helps with opening the sacral and solar plexus chakra and getting in touch with the inner child.

tip jar

[thecupidwitch]

Different types of water and their magickal uses:

Sea water: good for curse/hex breaking, cleansing, healing, banishing and protection spells.

Dew water: beauty, love and fertility spells, as well as delicate magick. Also Good for Fae work.

Storm water: is great for spells and rituals that has to do with emotional strength, confidence, charge, motivation and force. It’s known for strengthening spells. Also good for curses.

Snow water: Spells and rituals that focus on purity, endings and change, as well as slow working spells.

River water: Good for creating changes, moving on and letting go of negativity, warding and focusing energy.

Rain water: Very multi-purpose, but specifically great for growth and rebirth spells. Great for spells that you want to keep gaining power over time.

Spring water: Growth, holy water, cleansing, protection, prosperity

Moon water: Depending on the moon phase it was created in, it can have different properties.

Sun Water: protection, healing, clairvoyance, courage, strength, prosperity, luck, self-love, cleansing and creativity.

Swamp Water: Used for banishing and binding.

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[ad-caelestia]

excuse my complaining but

i wish the witchcraft tags on here weren't clogged up with tarot asks and selfies and AI generated crap

bring back spells and rituals and masterposts and tarot deck reviews and people learning how to do magic for more than the aesthetic and views

please im begging at this point lmao

[thewitchofwonderlust]

Oh my god the good old master posts. Yes.

[witchboxco]

2025 Witches' Calendar

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

[witchboxco]

Litha Altar Ideas & Elements

Litha, also known as midsummer or the summer solstice, is a Pagan sabbat that honors the longest day of the year and the height of the sun's power. It's a time of light, abundance, and connection to nature. There are infinite ways to create a sacred space that captures the essence of the summer solstice, but here are just a few to get you started.

Choose a Sacred Space

Select a location for your Litha altar that feels harmonious and tranquil. It could be indoors or outdoors, depending on your preferences and available space. Consider placing it near a window to invite in the sun's rays or under a tree to connect with the earth's energy.

Colors of the Solstice

Embrace the vibrant hues of summer by incorporating colors that symbolize the sun and its energy reflected in nature. Opt for warm shades like gold, yellow, orange, and green. These colors evoke the energy of vitality, growth, and abundance.

Sun Symbols

Since Litha revolves around the power of the sun, incorporating sun symbols on your altar is a wonderful way to honor this celestial force. Decorate with solar discs, light catchers, sunflowers, prisms, Helios statuettes, ojos de dios, solar inspired artwork, or sun candles. These symbols remind us of the sun's life-giving energy and its powerful presence during the summer solstice.

Florals

Celebrate the beauty of nature's bounty during Litha by adorning your altar with a selection of fresh, seasonal flowers. Sunflowers, daisies, St John’s Wort, and marigolds are excellent choices. Arrange them in vases or make garlands and wreaths to hang around your sacred space. The vibrant colors and sweet scents will infuse your altar with a delightful atmosphere.

Elemental Representations

Litha is a time to honor the elements and their harmonious interplay. Consider incorporating representations of fire, water, earth, and air on your altar. Candles can represent fire, seashells or a small bowl of water for water, crystals or stones for earth, and feathers or incense for air. These elemental symbols help create balance and align your altar with the natural energies of the season.

Symbols of Abundance

As Litha celebrates the abundance of the Earth, include symbols of prosperity and growth on your altar. Wheat, corn, berries, honeycomb, and seasonal fruits like strawberries, peaches,or cherries can be placed in baskets or on decorative gold bowls. These symbols express gratitude for the bounty of the sun and the abundance it provides.

Ritual Tools and Divination

If you work with ritual tools or divination methods, consider placing them on your Litha altar. This might include a wand, a cauldron, a chalice, runes, or a tarot deck. These tools act as conduits for your intentions and can be charged with the heightened energy of the summer solstice.

Solstice blessings. 🌞

[faerph]

with spooky season approaching i would like to once again gently remind the rpc that

w*ndigo and sk*nwalkers are not generic cryptids and creatures and should not be treated as such! they are intrinsic to specific indigenous lore and should be treated with respect.

goblins and ghouls can quickly fall into antisemitic tropes so tread carefully and do your research!

a lot of stereotypical witch imagery can also fall into antisemetic tropes so once again tread carefully and do your research, ESPECIALLY if your witch character is meant to be jewish.

[lonely-kawaii]

día de los muertos/the day of the dead isn’t Mexican Halloween and shouldn’t be treated as such

[blackwoolncrown]

OKAY UPDATE ON THE FARMRAISER – PLEASE DONATE/BOOST!

Hey everyone, as it says in the video I’ve been meaning to make an update for about a couple of weeks but have been very very busy. I really wanted to be able to offer something more presentable but as it is it’s more realistic to make a quick and raw video in the time I have available.

We are continuing with the project, and are just about to upload that resources list for whollyhuman.garden, but this update is specifically about my efforts to find farmland in North FL so that we can steward it and title it over to the Seminole Nation.

View the Gofundme here and boost, donate, tell your friends, share within your networks- anything helps!

This will take a lot of community support but thankfully we already have basic structure and assistance from other communities and lots of learning resources from those who have done this work ahead of us. Please assist in this reparative effort, thank you!

[blackwoolncrown]

Listen when I initially posted about this and was on the verge of tears I got hundreds of notes, but now that I’m not crushed by despair no one’s paying attention.

You can do better. Being an ally to Black people means responding to us IN GENERAL because we are human not just when we are in crisis or distress. Pay attention to Black people even when it doesn’t make you feel like a savior. Stop dooming us to always having to exist in and perform suffering for your attention.

THANKS.

Boost this please! If you care about:

Black & Indigenous sovereignty

Climate Change

Deforestation

Anti-Colonialism

Than this is an ACTIONABLE EFFORT you can respond to and share! WE ARE RAISING MONEY TO ACQUIRE LAND AND RETURN IT TO NATIVE STEWARDSHIP, AMEND THE SOIL AND SAVE LAND FROM DEVELOPMENT.

Again. THANK YOU.

[blackwoolncrown]

This is SO CLOSE to 2K and with everything going on in my life right now it’d be really sweet and encouraging to make that benchmark. RBs appreciated, less than $40 left to 2,000 / 50k!

[blackwoolncrown]

Yes!! Thank you so much, we’re at over 2k with all of your help! <3 Please boost and keep us in mind if you have a few dollars to spare, and thanks to everyone helping with this rematriation/reparation/land back effort <3<3

I know it may seem huge but I’m very confident about it- as our efforts grow so does the work and so will the type of donors looking to assist us, for whom larger amounts are easier to afford.

It’s important to me that this happen organically, reparatively, without going into debt as given the history of this land that wouldn’t make any sense (and I don’t want to involve these horrid oil-extraction-funding banks any more than absolutely necessary; I myself use a credit union).

But getting there means your support is needed at this time.

So thanks, salamat, gracias, to everyone pitching in even a little bit of your finite time and resources to make this possible! <3

[shintowitch]

🔔 BELLS IN WITCHCRAFT 🔔

Bells might just be the earliest form of superstitious practise that I remember. My baba attached three sakura-patterned suzu bells on my schoolbag as a kid, purportedly for good luck and protection from evil spirits – and Japan is far from the only place to have associated bells and bellringing with mystic practise. They’ve been used worldwide to ward off evil and carry messages – and in a more metaphysical sense, sound is the movement of energy through substance. Sounds have the potential to work powerful magic.

Here are some of the ways I’ve found utilising bells to be helpful to my craft. While I’m more likely to use traditional suzu type bells, your own background, path and culture will likely have its own types of bells – and as ever, bells can be ornate antiques or they can be a bottle cap in a tin can, as long as they’re used with intent.

GETTING STARTED

🔔 As with so much of the craft, if you’re new to the witching bell, it’s a matter of exploration and experimentation. Get a “feel” for what works for you and the specific bell you’re using.

🔔 It’s good practise to ensure that the bell itself is cleansed, warded and protected – you don’t want anything nasty tapping into that power. All witching tools can do as much harm as good, intentional or accidental.

🔔 A good way to begin incorporating bells into your craft is infuse them into any typical ritual that you’re comfortable with, or even just a prayer or moment of contemplation at your altar if you have one.

🔔 Give the bell a soft ring while focusing on the energy it’ll ripple and move, try to track the movements it creates and what it touches. The tone it’s sending out.  The most primal and versatile use of the bell – and what many of the below come down to – is simply another manner of physically channelling energy, giving it shape and direction.

PROTECTION

🔔 “Passive” bells such as windchimes or small bells attached to belongings you don’t want disturbed are a starting point. They will scare off some forms of spirit all by themselves, especially if appropriately blessed, charmed or enchanted. Or cursed.

🔔 Gently tolling can draw energy into a ward or circle you are forming and enforce its protective properties, or for a simple cleanse, letting the sound travel to every corner of the area you are protecting. It’s a little more “cutting” than a smoke or incense cleansing, which I view as more “gentle” forms of cleansing. Both have their uses.

🔔 Harder tolling is, in my opinion, one of the most powerful ways in which to enforce a banishing – however, it’s best to you know what you’re doing with the bell before you go bashing it about.

DISCERNMENT

🔔 Bells can have quite the effect on your perception and awareness. Ringing and then stopping, listening to the silence left in its wake, can bring you new perceptions or make things you’d previously missed obvious. Let it attune your mind and senses to something new, whether that’s in your thoughts or something with a little more presence. Visualise travelling with the sound, taking heed of the energies it touches and disturbs. Take note of the echoes – you’ll learn what they mean with experience.

🔔 A set of windchimes can let you know if something is passing through or if there’s some unusual energy afoot – and, yes, it may also just be letting you know that it’s a particularly breezy day, but that’s witchcraft for you.

CONJURING

🔔 This can be as simple as calling good energies to witching tools, spell jars, tarot decks, crystals, altars and shrines, your favourite teddy bar, anything at all.

🔔 With spirit work, it can truly help to magnify your “calling”. This can range from gently bringing your latest offering to the attention of your friendly neighbourhood house spirit – all the way to trying to catch the attention of something more. Be mindful, however. As I said, I consider bells pretty powerful tools and a call that’s too loud is not good spirit work practise for the spirit worker’s own sake. It can really help coax something out of hiding if you’re gentle with it, though.

COMMUNING

🔔 Some use bells to mark the beginning and end of a ritual, and I’ve read that in Wiccan practise an altar bell can be used to invoke the Goddess, although as a non-Wiccan, I’ll welcome corrections on that if I’m wrong.

🔔 In my experience, very simple forms of communication via bell work a lot better than anything too complex – “come here” and “stay away” have already been covered, and other than that they can serve as greetings or signals of a start or end of some practise or ritual, the opening or closing of a door, etc.

🔔 They can also serve as a warning or a litmus test regarding spirits, a signalling of your presence and awareness, lack of fear, or willingness to defend – but be prepared to deal with whatever responses these garner.

BINDING

🔔 Bindings are where you most often see that famous (clockwise) circular motion of the bell, embodying the meaning of the spell. This can be a simple binding to seal a spell or charm or enchantment, or a spirit-binding.

🔔 Personally, spirit-binding is something I do as little as possible simply due to my beliefs holding the autonomy of spirits in very high regard. However, sometimes situations arise that call for it, and I’m aware that not all bindings are unwilling. Far from it – and some spirits are dangerous when unbound.

🔔 As an animist (believing that all things, including inanimate objects, contain a spirit of their own), I consider gently nudging a spirit back into its physical form a sort of semi-binding, and that can be useful.

I’ll leave you all with a note that I am an urban apartment-dwelling witch through and through, so I understand that we can’t all be jangling away at all hours. I myself have a glass windchime in my front window that makes a distinct but muted sound when disturbed by passers-through, and highly recommend wooden ones also. I also only use my small and relatively quiet suzu bell for my crafting – one given to me by my baba herself.

Feel free to add any of your own findings, and happy tolling.

[mysticism-n-magic]

some witches are really just dumb as all hell, huh

[hekateanwitchcraft]

Look at what I saw on Twitter!!!

[justa-basic-witch-deactivated20]

I feel like I’ve known of few of these 🤣🤣

Artist: Instagram: @joan_de_art

[tarotforintroverts-deactivated2]

I love all the details in this pic!

[theredwingbriar]

Why are ‘witch tips’ always like “use quartz as a substitute for any crystal!” and not the good stuff like “River spirits are almost always looking to fuck shit up, so if you rile em up and then feed them a name, they’ll lay someone tf out.”

[therainshallmakeadoor-deactivat]

Excellent ! My turn. I onced tricked a spirit into believing the red wine and dragon’s blood powder mixture I served it was the blood offering it was due. No idea how it bought that, no idea if it would work again, but when you have certain geasa, you make do. To whomever it may concern…

[quietjustice]

Witch Tip: Venusian plant spirits love flattery, love to have their praises sung. I also find they’re more active during midday in full sun. Saturnian herbs can be slow to open up, but are excellent teachers once they do.

[helheth]

Witch Tip: When visiting a graveyard, especially for magic purposes, leave a penny at the gate as offering to its guardians. I’ve seen them fight off spirits that would have hurt me otherwise.

[mahigxn-deactivated20200629]

Witch Tip: numerology is helpful but trust me, repeating that prayer or incarnation until you can barely speak and the words hang heavy from your tongue, rather than adhering to a set number of repetitions, will 1000% get you in an altered state of consciousness which will allow you to commune with the spirits at work much more easily. This is when you raise power and gain the ability to affect the weave.

[black-dog-bones]

Witch Tip: If you work in graveyards find an ‘active’ graveyard. Some graveyards are really sleepy and serene and those are great to hang out in but not to do magical workings in.

[3oclockoccultis]

I’m buying me some mugwort as soon as I get paid lol

[witches-ofcolor]

Also ensure that you use the appropriate amount as it can make you sick if you use too much! Lastly just make sure you have the Astral projection basics down before you travel to the Astral realm!

Signed,

A traumatized Astral traveler

[heavenly-curse]

Mugwort is also related ragweed and has been known to cause allergic reactions in some folk that are allergic to ragweed, apple, celery, and kiwi. So be careful if you have those allergens!

It can also induce miscarriages or cause uterine contractions, so while many may take it for their period, it's dangerous to ingest during pregnancy.

[therestlesswitch]

Yep, it can trigger and also cause disruptions in your period cycle, not just if you’re pregnant. Also can be dangerous for people who menstruate who’re either on blood thinners or who have hemophilia or other blood disorders.

So consult an herbalist and/or your healthcare professional first!

It’s seriously worrying that herbal products formulated to a potentially therapeutic dose are just being sold as ‘health products.’

[stormbornwitch]

Noisy Neighbour

To put a stop to loud and thoughtless neighbours who cannot be reasoned with. You've asked them to stop and they haven't. Now it's time for some witchcraft.

MATERIALS

Fabric Scraps - enough to make a poppet for each member of the family

Dirt from their property or trash they've thrown out

Small Cardboard Box

Permanent Marker

List of Grievances with a big STOP at the top of the list.

Make a poppet for each member of your neighboring household with a bit of dirt from their property (or trash they've thrown out) and their names inside. Sew the mouths shut on the poppets of the noisy neighbours and throw them in the little cardboard box.

Then, decorate the small cardboard box to look like their house and make sure to add their address. Read through your list of grievances:

STOP

1. shouting all the time

2. Playing loud music every day till 11pm. Etc.

Put the list of grievances in the box and tape it up. Give the box a good shake anytime your neighbours get annoying and if one in particular will not be quiet, feel free to pull out the pins and start poking their poppet in the head. A headache will follow and they won't feel like shouting or playing loud music anymore. Such a shame.

- Marci

[mysticism-n-magic]

obsessed with how white witches like to get all high and mighty with the "i dont cast curses, theyre bad and you should never use magic to hurt people" and then in the exact same breath theyll say shit like "i believe karma will come for them"

anyways yall keep on being ignorant dicks with your stolen and bastardized spiritual beliefs, im gonna go and get myself some retribution ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[sonnearchive-deactivated2022120]

If you’re celebrating Biden’s win, consider celebrating by donating to a bail fund, planned parenthood, or the Navajo Water project.

Your action to help the marginalized shouldnt end at presidential candidates and voting.

[populus-tremuloides]

To add some more:

Navajo/Hopi Covid Relief Fund

Critical Resistance, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and abolish the police

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, working to end violence against indigenous women and children and provide resources for the MMIW campaign

Sunrise Movement, a youth-led political campaign pushing the Green New Deal and climate legislation

Industrial Workers of the World. Unions.

And of course it’s always a good day to venmo, paypal, or cashapp black, indigenous and other POC in your community who are in need, or donate to your community mutual aid fund.

For clarification, paying people out of the blue isn’t the way to go here—oftentimes on social media you’ll see people requesting funds, identifying individuals to direct funds to, or requesting to be paid for the work they do running educational or activist social media accounts. Mutual aid groups are often the places doing this, so pay attention to ones that are active in your community and direct your funding that way.

*EDITED WITH MORE LINKS BECAUSE PEOPLE ASKED*

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