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Kaylee// Pisces· beginner witch·

[eireanndreams]

Moon Witch

[recreationalwitchcraft]

50 Magical Uses for Roses

Roses are one of the most common flowers around. They are widely adored, gifted often and grown in many places.  If you’re anything like us - you might even have too much of them laying around. What to do with all these roses?

Bathe in them to encourage beauty

Carry them to attract love

Add them to a sleep sachet to promote sweet dreams

Make a rose massage bar to encourage love through touch

Make magical rose water

Candy the rose petals to give to a lover

Use them to honor the Goddess Aphrodite

Use them to honor the Goddess Isis

Let them rot in spells to break up couples

Use them to represent the planet Venus

Use them to honor the Virgin Mary

Use them as offerings to spirits of the dead

Use them to represent The Goddess

Use in a spell jar for attracting romance

Use their thorns to curse an ex-lover

Make rose oil

Use them to represent the 5 Wounds of Christ

Use them in dream pillows to cause romantic dreams

Uses yellow roses for spells involving friendship

Substitute them for any flower in a spell

Use them in spells for healing

Use them in glamour spells

Make a glamour-charged rosewater spray

Make magical perfume with their sweet fragrance

Preserve them in candles for love spells

Make a romance-attracting bath melt

Make a Sabbat Rose Garland

Make a Rose Petal Salve

Dry the Petals and make Flameless Rose Lights

Make Rose Potpourri

Use them in a Goddess Glamour bath

Make a love attracting rose and baby oil sugar scrub

Make a rose oil infusion for future spells

Make a charged rose lip balm to bring on kisses

Make a magical tea to encourage sexy times

Preserve them for the altar using borax

Use them in romance divination

Use the petals as altar confetti

Use them to honor Sappho

Burn them and use the ashes to break off ties with ex-lovers

Freeze them in ice bowls for seasonal spells

Apply them to the skin to wear on Sabbats

Use the petals as confetti for celebrations & Sabbats

Make a rose glamour shower steamer

Use the petals to cast circles

Make rose tinctures

Use the stems to make a Brigid’s Cross

Make a sabbat flower crown

Make a rose wreath for your front door to bring on relationships

Propagate the stems for even more roses!

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[witchboxco]

@Childish-like

[high-on-stickbugs]

As much as witchcraft amazes me, it also doesn't come naturally. Anything that needs belief, to me, is incredibly hard, be it religion, energy in general or magic.

But it still amazes me, the way fire moves, and that some herbs help you heal, and that we connect to animals and plants, and that dreams sometimes give me little pieces of memories I have not yet made, and That Feeling you get in the middle of a forest, or in a field at night, or before a storm when the first lightning strikes.

Can I be a witch, even if I find believing in the power of magic is hard? Can my practice be held by the awe I feel, by The Feeling of magic under my skin, even if I don't trust it to change my life?

[teawitch]

Ah, but witchcraft is not a religion based on belief. It is a craft based on action and experience. To be a witch, you simply call yourself a witch and do witchy things. You may be surprised how often the witchy things work, even when you don't believe they should.

[witchyfashion]

Llewellyn’s 2022 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living

Explore new ways to deepen your magical practice with Llewellyn’s 2022 Magical Almanac. For more than thirty years, this almanac has provided useful spells, rituals, and ideas that inspire all levels of practitioners to improve their connection to magical energies and elements.

This year’s edition features dozens of compelling articles, grouped by element, on staff making, magical reversals, the history and use of the pentacle, how to create a magical threshold, third eye opening, spirit houses, healing waters, frog magic, and more. You’ll also be treated to a fantastic coloring section with coloring pages, color correspondences, and two spells to be used with the coloring pages.

https://amzn.to/3BwA4lQ

[astrolocherry]

Basis of astrology

[octoberwitch]

[lunasapphire]

earth power - scott cunningham

chapter 6 - air magic

[thesheepthewolf]

The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab

[bauliya]

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

[darkshrimpemotions]

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

[tzikeh]

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

[may-shepard]

This is why women in horror are so important. Good horror should always make someone uncomfortable, and here is a giant frontier of easy pickins that probably isn’t going to be written by men. 

[nemfrog]

[wvnderlst]

[cider-d0nuts]

For an autumn/Halloween blog all year - follow cider-d0nuts

[veganvenom]

This graffiti appeared overnight at 5 different job centres in Birmingham.

It’s referencing the increasingly harsh benefit sanctions in the UK which are punishing disabled people in particular.

Claimants who cannot work due to severe disabilities or chronic illnesses are being categorised as “fit for work” in order to meet targets and are not being given enough money to survive.

The majority of people who legally challenge their benefits sanctions or ‘fit for work’ decision have them overturned, but only after months without the money they need.

Estimates generally put the number of people who have died in the last few years directly due to benefit sanctions in the thousands. These include people who have died of starvation, exposure, because they couldn’t afford electricity to keep their insulin cold, or because they couldn’t afford treatment, among other things.

The DWP has even sent letters to people declaring them fit for work when in fact they have already died from their illness.

Fuck the DWP and job centres.

Good job, whoever painted these!

[ancom-cow-mommy-deactivated2024]

“The DWP has even sent letters to people declaring them fit for work when in fact they have already died from their illness.”

[fuckyeahdrugpolicy]

[justice4mikebrown]

Download and learn more about the app here.

[imoverallofit]

BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS

[lividlovers]

This is so fucking amazing!

Some solutions may seem so small but this is a greater impact.

[hate-police]

BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS GUYS

[2lf]

REBLOG AND DOWNLOAD APP

[dinah-myles]

@yenneferofvengerbergg Look, Darling, maybe this will help you understand the importance of the matter.

[enbundad]

IMPORTANT NOTE: the app link in the article is for the California one.

There’s one for every state.

(From the looks of it, I haven’t looked to see if there’s 50 apps.)

[Edit: nope. There’s not one for every state.]

States with apps: California, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, New Jersey, Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Mississippi, New Mexico, DC, Nebraska

[purplelittlemermaid]

Reblogging because it’s still a greaaaat idea.

[gothic-punk]

Here are some options for Canadians:

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stealthcapture.com.stealthcapture

iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/cop-watch-video-recorder/id757572626

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Saw this just now and thought I’d share here :)

[graycloak]

This comes from the book, The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance, edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff.

I cleaned up a scan of the sigil to use as [my Facebook] cover photo back in June. Glad to see others find my cleaned up version useful, but I also wanted to make sure credit to the origin doesn’t get lost 😄

[selenesdelarosa]

Our first altar @lunasdelarosa 💜 cleansing our Book of Shadows.