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Today I performed this spell, excepting multipled.
I asked forgiveness of Matt. I asked forgiveness of myself. I tapped into him energetically so I could have him ask my forgiveness and his own by proxy.
I burned one copy of each and buried the other. All four requests were granted on all parts.
For my fellow fibre arts witches, if you're starting to get the Annual Cold Weather Fidget, that driving urge to reach for hooks and needles and that big bin of spools and fabric lurking in your closet....
If you feel like Doing A Witchcraft, you can work some witchy into whatever you're making. Weaving, crocheting, knitting, nalbinding, stitching, embroidery, and knotwork can all carry magic and serve as a vehicle for creating spells, sigils, talismans, or enchanted wearables.
Am I saying you can put a spell into that pair of socks you're knitting? That scarf you've been working on? That pile of granny squares waiting to become a blanket? That cross-stitch piece you've been meaning to finish?
ABSOLUTELY.
There are even books on knot magic, witchy crochet and knitting patterns, and beautifully spooky cross-stitch and embroidery pieces. (And lots more downloadable patterns exist on etsy and fibre arts forums!) Perfect for chilling with your favorite hot beverage and current binge-watch while you keep your hands from getting bored.
Go forth and have fun with it!
Hail the Underworld Goddess—midwifing our immanent rebirth— the time has come— she has struck the call on the ancient drum— our descent has begun— we must account for what we have done— we are dragged to the funeral fires— for our own good— for if we are to survive— these harrowing times— we must reckon with & wrestle our dark shadows & complicities in— our going along with the herd, turning our backs on our true humanity & our holy legacy—
When we sit in the fire, & we burn & wail, in lament & grief, we transform & we rise into our divine humanity, the humanity which we are intended to be, our ancient legacy— to bring the light of divinity & immortality of Soul to this Earth— the body of the Mother Goddess
#rebirth #katabasis #underworld #divinehuman #goddess #carljung #marionwoodman #pheonix #inanna #persephone #hecate #magdalene #nyx #witch #priestess #midwife
Regularly just going "I DO NOT GET FUCKING CRYPTIC SHIT, JUST FUCKING TELL ME!" at angels, demons, old gods...
Chills said that. Art: Charlliee Dawnson 2020 (instagram)
Should have been a sign when I used to stop by the cemetery every day on my way home from school to check in about my day with a particular grave of a woman who had died more than a century earlier...
I like to think that the reason why witches often look dramatically old is because the magic itself affects them.
In order to become powerful in their own world, a witch has to sacrifice power in the social world.
Women are often told that they have to look young and beautiful, but the truly young and beautiful are often used.
Witches cannot be used. Thus, they become undesirable to the male eye.
The magic takes it from them.
Then the witch is doing shit wrong bc I look young as shit in no small part bc of witchcraft. Looking young and beautiful does not meaning BEING helpless.
I can both know all the best oils to tighten and condition my skin plus what demon will grant me increased beauty AND also how to manipulate energy to temporary paralyze you at the same time.
Women are multi dimensional like that.
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More and more people are coming around to the possibility of different realms and the beings who rule those. Such as Spirits, Pagan Gods/Goddesses, Witches/Witchcraft, Fae, Mermaids, Sirens, etc.
This is largely because we are moving out of the Christian Age. For centuries Christianity has ruled the world, but no more. Enough is enough, so in my Worldly Mysteries series I will be explaining different types of creatures and how to work with them. This post is about Siren's.
I am open to requests on what creatures I should make a post about :)
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Omg, I wear a shell with a siren conjure on a necklace all the time and it never even occurred to me to use it for baleful magic!
Republicans can't win without threatening and committing violence. January 6th-like insurrections and election tampering will happen in states all across the country this time. Don't let her down!
hi!! im Kuhli, you reblogged one of my posts and said if i had any questions i could ask you? so im here now! i was wondering if you know anything about energy work or maybe protection? im interested in souls as a concept as well but im not sure exactly what your specialty is so it's okay if you can't help me with this ^_^
thank you so much!!
-- @kuhli-mahou !!
Oh hey! I know a little bit about both things. I don't often do "energy work" in a traditional sense, only because my personal magic system is tailored to draw less energy from my "personal store" due to my chronic illness.
I think I can safely say that many witches use energy as a sort of "binder" to hold the magic together. Just like a car needs gas to run, magic needs energy to work. I like to work under the basic laws of physics: energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed or transformed. So, where does that energy come from?
Any number of sources! Some people light a candle and draw energy from that into their spells. Others manipulate the energy of the wind. Some use storms. As mentioned above, it can even come from your own personal store of energy, but that can be incredibly draining. It could even come from combined source. Any sort of "event" that would, in theory, be that transformation of energy, can be used. It doesn't always have to be kinetic energy, you can use potential energy as well. You can put energy into a spell to have it be used up at a different time. This would be an example of a delayed effect spell. When you pull back on a rubber band, you're giving it a whole bunch of potential energy, which remains as potential energy until you release the band and it goes flying across the room. That potential energy isn't getting destroyed, it can't be. So when you put that potential metaphysical energy into a spell, it stays there until it's needed.
Now, if the spell is actually doing something, then yeah, the energy is likely to get depleted, and you'll probably want to "recharge" the spell, so to speak. That's why many witches will remind you to "charge your protection spells", because the protection is an active process, it's burning energy, so every once in a while it's a good idea to refresh them.
Protection spells can come in many forms. One of my personal favorites is the witch bottle. You can use any number of correspondences, a mix of herbs and crystals that match your intention. I sealed it with black wax, because in my practice black is the "universal" color (a lot of witches say white can be used to substitute any color when using a color correspondence, which I can understand, seeing as when talking about light as a spectrum, white encompasses all other colors, but I prefer black, just for personal preference).
However, protection spells, as I said, come in innumerable forms. There's wards, which are often protection of a house or delineated space. There's spells of all kinds, whether it's a chant or prayer, a physical representation of the spell (like the witch bottle), a talisman or superstition (like a horseshoe hung over the doorframe). There's even something as simple as sprinkling eggshell powder across a doorway to prevent negativity from crossing the threshold.
There's no "right" or "wrong" way to go about a spell. Intention is the foundation of your spell, regardless of what you do. The first question you should ask when trying to create a spell is "what am I trying to achieve with this?" Essentially, what is the goal of your spell? Is it protection? Prosperity? Health? Whatever it is, that's your starting point. From there, you can decide what would be the best spell method for this specific instance.
I hope this answers some of your questions about energy and protection. You're of course welcome back in my inbox any time, however I will warn you there's a very good chance I'll be taking a nap soon so if I don't answer, it's cuz I'm a very sleepy witch lol.
~Wander
Want to chime in with a note on energy. It is possible to draw energy from the room. Keep a shit ton of plants and a couple table top fountains that were big like 20 years ago -- great you've got earth elements, running water, living things... all great energy sources. Like wind? Fans. Hey, get pretty ceiling fans if you can. Candles can always be lit.
You can make the indoors very energy accessible pretty easily and without people really thinking much of it if you want to keep your witchcraft under wraps. Literally everything contains energy, some more accessible than others.
15 More Enchantments for your Day-to-Day
Enchant your glasses to help you focus and "read between the lines” or see what wants to remain hidden
Enchant your charger so it doesn't break and so you don't lose it. Enchant your phone too while you're at it
Enchant your curtains or blinds to protect your home from prying eyes
Enchant a bell and hang it from your bedroom door so every time you walk in or out, it cleanses your space
Enchant your pet’s collars to keep them protected
Enchant your keys so you don’t misplace them
Enchant your guitar pick to stay where you put it
Enchant your air purifier to transmute negative energy to positive energy
Enchant your blankets to keep you calm and comforted
Enchant birthday cards with extra good fortune for your friends and family
Enchant your breakfast or morning coffee or tea to help you feel motivated throughout the day
Enchant your socks so they stay in pairs through the wash
Enchant a fidget toy to help you focus and receive fresh ideas
Enchant wrapping paper to release joy when ripped (I have a spell for this one coming soon!)
Enchant your bookmarks to help you remember what you’ve read so far
Hex someone's guitar strings to break during every solo
Hex "may their dice rolls forever be not in their favor"
Hex "pocket linings always rip without noticing"
Hex "mild lactose intolerance"
Hex "terrible wifi connection"
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I HIGHLY recommend plants and desktop fountains in every room you can. If you can put in ceiling fans, do so. (Light candles as often as possible, though while an element, not part of inviting in nature)
Moving air, moving water, living plants... these will let you connect to nature even if the outdoors is not your thing or if you live in an outdoor unfriendly place (Chicago has 3 weeks of good weather a year and they're not consecutive)
Being a witch trying to research with books is just like:
"no"
"that's blatant misinformation"
"this guy was exposed as a nazi"
"no"
"that's historically inaccurate"
"this person was exposed as a terf"
"no"
"oh something I can use-"
Where are you getting Celtic books? I'm a witch in the US with a large library and have not had that problem. In fact, I had to search like hell to find books on druidry and there's just not good stuff on the Celtic pantheon for study bc the Chirch are real good at burning stuff.
That's very true! There's a lack of accurate Celtic info. I meant focusing on vague Celtic mythology mixed with neo-pagan reconstruction and treating it as "the real witchy knowledge". Nowadays there's more than that, but a decade ago the entire internet and books had misinformation about it.
Oh fuck yes. And the Egyptians with no actual Ritual? Or the fucking Greeks are everywhere and its like 90% bullshit? The Norse where there's a million books but they only cover runes???
May I suggest Mantra magic from Asia? Very little bullshit, just straight up simple rituals.
She/her also personally fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery...
Here’s an article that gives more details on the story, and what Harris said about it. The key points:
It was the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation that refused the surgery to the inmates. When the inmates fought the policy in court, as Attorney General of California, it was Harris’s job to represent the Department. Yes, she did it, but it wasn’t something she decided on her own to do. (Also, not for nothing, the inmates won the case.)
Her characterization of the episode: “On that issue I will tell you I vehemently disagree and in fact worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved,” Harris said.
A policy now exists for inmates to receive transition-related care in California prisons (although apparently the DoC isn’t doing a great job of holding up its end of the bargain*--quelle surprise).
(*For the record, Harris finished her time as AG and became a Senator shortly after this agreement was reached, so it’s someone else’s job now to enforce it.)
The thing to keep in mind here is that, as Attorney General, Kamala Harris couldn’t wave her hand and have everything in the entire California Department of Justice go exactly as she wanted it--and she won’t be able to as Vice President, either. We currently have a president who thinks that’s how it works, and we’re damned lucky he’s wrong.
She had (and will have to) work with large number of people who hold different views. (Another article I read said that the California Department of Justice, which she ran as AG, employs about 4,800 people--that’s a lot of different views.) If she had refused to back the Department of Corrections in their case, she would have alienated people whose cooperation she needed to be able to rely on. (If she even had the option of not backing them and staying AG--I’m not sure how it works, exactly.) Even people who agreed with her about the specific matter might have disapproved of her hanging her subordinates out to dry. (Another thing our current president does constantly--notice how Harris isn’t saying that the person in her office who actually wrote these briefs is a bad guy that she barely knew.)
So here’s what actually happened when Kamala Harris “fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery”:
The Department of Corrections had a policy denying gender-affirmation surgery to inmates.
Two inmates fought that policy in court.
Harris defended that policy in court (or, more accurately, was the supervisor of the person who did so--but the legal documents went out under her signature, and she takes responsibility for their content).
Harris also worked to change the policy.
If you’ve had a job, you’ve probably been in the position of having to carry out a policy that you don’t agree with. Your choices are to quit your job in protest or stay and argue that the policy should change. If you pick option B, you still have to follow the policy while you’re working to change it--again, just about the only person in the world who doesn’t know this is Donald J. Trump, because he’s never had a real job where he answered to anybody.
What this incident shows is that Kamala Harris is accustomed to working in a system where she doesn’t always get her own way, and that she knows how to lose the battle to win the war. As VP, she’s going to need those skills--especially if the Republicans keep the Senate, but even if the Democrats sweep everything in November, we’re notoriously bad at all pulling in the same direction. We’ve had about enough of the “I’m taking my ball and going home” style of leadership.
Bringing back this from 2020, because I’ve been seeing the rhetoric machine spinning up again.
The law, especially in a democracy, is a slow and frustrating thing. Lawyers are sometimes put in positions where they are presenting arguments for something they may disagree with.
The reason why a lawyer would agree to do this often comes down to the political theory that we must rigorously and honestly test ideas, and that requires cogent emphatic arguments from both sides.
It’s easy to say in this case that the correct result should be obvious, But we can’t just design a system that says “oh but you can skip the full legal process for stuff that is clearly right/wrong”
BECAUSE THEN THE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU TAKE THAT IDEA AND USE IT TO PUT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS IN JAIL OR EXECUTE YOU.
So yes, we apply this really onerous process to things that seem really obvious because we must apply the same standard to everything.
When you don’t you get shit like the current Supreme Court.
And to everyone who says, "Well, she should have just ignored the law, followed our her morals, and done the Right Thing!"
Okay.
Remember Kim Davis, that (now former) county clerk in Kentucky who, in 2015, refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs?
You're basically saying that she was right and legally in the right to do so.
It's tempting, isn't it, to disregard laws and principles because you feel know that it's the right thing to do?
But ignoring the law, pretending you're not bound by it, yeah, that's what entitled, privileged people do. People who think the law doesn't apply to them.
The idea that there's an in-group whom the law protects, but doesn't bind, and an out-group whom the law binds but doesn't protect, is conservative, not progressive.
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Being a witch trying to research with books is just like:
"no"
"that's blatant misinformation"
"this guy was exposed as a nazi"
"no"
"that's historically inaccurate"
"this person was exposed as a terf"
"no"
"oh something I can use-"
Where are you getting Celtic books? I'm a witch in the US with a large library and have not had that problem. In fact, I had to search like hell to find books on druidry and there's just not good stuff on the Celtic pantheon for study bc the Chirch are real good at burning stuff.
Protection Practices: Visualization, Grounding, Spells, and Sigils
Hello, My name is Alva Tauri! I am an herbalist, spirit worker, tarot and oracle reader, and lunar and herbal witch dedicated to closing the education gap when it comes to herbalism and witch practices!
It's come to my attention that a lot of people believe that you have to do protection spells exclusively to be protected. The reality is, you can do many different things to be divinely protected. Let's talk about small and large protection practices you can do daily, weekly, or monthly to make certain that you are protected and safe!
"What small acts can I do everyday to be protected?"
Also, you can add hanging herbs and water safe crystals to your shower if it helps you connect.
Another is in the morning, extend your awareness out, feel the energy in the room, and pull it all toward you, in tight like a second skin. Imagine it sticking there, just floating slightly around you, a wall of energy protecting you.
The Herbal Burnings from the Guild Book of Old Tradition Crafte
Allspice - will cause discord for enemies Althea - to attract protective spirits Arrowroot - to make someone lusty towards you Balmony - to turn an enemy's spell against them Basil - to attract success Bay Leaves - protection from harm and slander Bayberry - for money and luck Betony - for proteciton from evvil Blackberry - to cause problems and turmoil for enemies Blood Root - for protection against evil forces Blueberry - to cause your enemies to become confused Burdock - to purify Catnip - for strength and ingenium Chestnut - for strength of mind and endurance Chickweed - to bring back a lover Chicory - to detect imposters or enemies Clover - protection from spirits Cloves - comfort and contentment Colic root - make enemies move away Coltsfoot - wealth Comfrey - for needed money Coriander - keeps lovers from straying Corn Flowers - for a new lover Aloes - to attract love Cowslip - protects privacy Culvers root - turn an enemy against themselves Daisy - to mae lovers faithful Dandelion - to bring peace and contentment into the home Deers Eye - makes one attractive for new mates and lovers Devil's Bit - turns away evil forces Dog Rose - for safety in travel Dogwood - for restful sleep and shielding of spells Fern - to be treated with regard Flaxseed - to settle arguments and strife between a couple Ginger root - for attracting adventure and excitement Golden Bough - to find love Golden Seal - to help a business grow and profit Gum Arabic - for good luck Hawthorn - to defeat an enemy Hellebore - to attain the sight Hemlock - to cause illness Horehoud - for a healing Huckleberry - to make depression cease Hyssop - to gain understanding of the mysteries, burn during readings Ivy - to defeat a craft worked against you Juniper - for lust, that is to attact or promote Lavender - to bring a lover to you Lobelia - for peace and contentment Maiden hair - to find love and understand the beauty therein Marshmallow - to protect children May Apple - to never be without money for the period of one month Mint - happiness Mistletoe - to attract love and keep evil away Mugwort - To increase magical strength Myrtle - to attract money for the family Nettle - to remove confusion Nutmeg - to have luck with a difficult situation Orris Root - to attract a lusty love Parsley - to cause discord for an enemy Peony - for good luck in an undertaking Peppermint - to make a home happy Pine - to convince others to agree with you Poppy - to overcome grief Primrose - to make a child truthful Pumpkin Seeds - to be free from an enemy's influence Pussy WIllow - to keep your mae faihful Red Clover - against Malocchio Rose buds - for a woman to attract a man Rosehips - to attract good and sincere people to you Rosemary - to make friends and keep them Sage - to put a spell on an enemy Skunk cabbage - to send a spell back onto an enemy Squaw root - to cure frigidity Sumac - to keep an enemy bound Thistle - to be aware of omens to decide one's path Thorns - to thwart an enemy Thyme - to cause depression in an enemy Verbena - to make a woman passionate towards you Witch Hazel - to dispel headaches Wood Rose - good fortune
The following herbs are added to make spells more powerful with burnings
Cinnamon - adds strength and power Gum mastic - to make your spells very strong and powerful Moss - for good fortune and success towards your success Mace - to make quicker results Seed of Celery - for power in spells and charms
however, this glorious book makes mention of the fact to not become dependent on these herbs but to build your own power. Like my ma said - It's not what you do, it's how you do it. So if you burn parsley and curse your enemy to the winds and it works, it works.
You can also write wishes on Bay leaves and burn them.
