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Islamicate Occultsim
As-salamu alaykum
Muslim magic isn’t exactly the right phrase to use here. While many practitioners would be definitely view these practices as modern magick, sihr is technically a no go. That is to say that these two paradigms are working under different definitions. In my definition, magick is the flow of energy around us to enact will. There is nothing about this definition that is inherently shirk. It’s all about how you practice and what you believe that separates you from the religion.
It would be easier to use the word occultism or esotericism when researching.
I will not be sharing my own practice today, as I am not religiously but culturally Muslim. I’m not a “Good Muslim” by any means, and it is my path to decide how I go about my beliefs. Instead, I’ll be sharing my research and key terms I’ve found so you can make your own judgements. As an American placed outside of the culture with maybe two muslim friends, it’s been incredibly hard finding research. Every google search will make you feel shame for your practice being a sin. Magick is all around you in your community, you just have to look with magickal eyes. Any protection you seek from Allah (swt) is magick, is esoteric, is occult.
In the medieval era, esotericism and science were tied together. It was simply understanding the world through Allah (swt). This is a great place to start your research!
If you want to get closer to the Source, look into Sufism. Hermeticism overlaps with Islam. Astrology is alive and well, and has a basis in historic practice. Alchemy is still of use to people as a spiritual practice. These practices are real, and you are not haram.
Need an overall deepdive? Read the works of Dr Liana Saif. Read the Ghayat Al Hakim (Picatrix). For hands on work, read the Shams Al Ma’arif (Sun of Gnosis), which was partially translated in English not too long ago. Every time you are told to read a surat for specific things, that's magick.
Every day, we get more information as to what the old practices look like. You are not alone.
witchblr: in light of the new year, do you have any goals for your practice? anything knew you want to learn in 2023?
Honestly I just want to progress. I know change is slow, and often unnoticed, but I can't help but want to get there as fast as possible. This is absolutely unrealistic.
I'm curious about Islamicate occultism, combining my Muslim upbringing with historical and modern practice. At the same time, I'm interested in approaching Traditional Witchcraft but with a Muslim foundation. It's a lot to handle, because I have such little information to go off of. I kinda have to do my own thing? This all goes hand in hand with generational trauma.
I also want to kick off a blog, like an actual blog. Not one where I just reblog everyone else's information. I want to do channeled writings and tarot readings and what I learn in a way that doesn't expose my whole practice. It's also Mercury in Gatorade so we'll see about all that.
I want to pursue professional tarot, not just in my town. But get actual longterm clients. Gosh that'd be the dream.
welcome new Witchblrites who aren't beginners: I hope this is helpful to you
Myself and friends have noticed a large influx of activity into witchblr, and since we've already had a king's ransom of how to witchblr posts for beginners, I'd like to present a how to witchblr post for practitioners who've already been at it a fair while.
So, if you're a practitioner who's already been at it for a fair while and this is your first time on the magically side of Tumblr, I gotta tell you:
There are a fuckton of belief systems coexisting here, and if you can't figure out how to be chill with that, you're going to have a bad time.
I remember my first culture shock coming onto Tumblr. I was a young witch of about 2 years experience or so, primarily raised up on a few books and one very insular witchcraft forum. "I know how magic works," I confidently told myself, because I was young.
And I got to Tumblr and basically immediately found out that no, I do not know how magic works. I know how magic works FOR ME. I know my own beliefs. But the second you step past your front porch and try to tell other people their ideas are wrong because they conflict with your personal beliefs, you're gunna have a bad time.
There are a lot of witches on Tumblr who flat out do not believe spirits or gods are real. And they're friends with theists and spirit-workers. There are a lot of witches on Tumblr who completely follow the psychological model, and they break bread with magic literalists. There are witches on Tumblr who aren't from the USA (****shocking!!) and will tear your "ackshually, here is what the colors REALLY mean" chart to shreds, because as it turns out, that's not what red symbolizes in the Philippines, nor do they give a flying fuck about the Golden Dawn has to say on the matter.
If you are uncomfortable existing in a space where people with different fundamental beliefs expect their ideas to be treated as equal to yours, Tumblr might not be the right site for you.
(and/or, this is a great opportunity to figure out how to not have an aneurysm when your entire personhood is based around [X MAGICAL THING] and someone dares comment "I don't believe in X, but [salient and helpful thought]" on a thread you're following)
To The Year 2023
To the Year 2023 I come into your presence with humility and honesty I entreat you to grace me with your kindness and compassion I confess my mistakes and transgression that I have made in the years prior to you I purify each and every single one of those errors, illusions, mistakes, and transgressions before you So that I may be pure, entering the new year For I am pure, when entering the new year This purity I carry with myself for the entirety of the year 2023 For 365 days will I be pure So that I am pure for 365 days To the Gurus, the Buddhas, the Bodhisattvas, To the Protectors, the Nagas, the Yakshas, the Dakinis To the Gods and Deities and Spirits and Landlords To the Netjeru, each and every one without exception To the Netjeru, each and every one without exception To the Akhu, Blessed and Restless, without exception To all the sentient beings I have ever helped in any way To all the sentient beings I have ever harmed in any way To each and every single one, without exception I seek your forgiveness and I pray for your mercy May your Wisdom and Compassion, which is without limit Wash me with your Grace and Clemency Bless me as you have blessed yourselves Bless me as you have blessed others Bless me as you have blessed all without exception These blessings I dedicate to all beings without exception Especially to the Year 2023 Especially to the Days, the Weeks, the Months, the Time, the Presence, the Vibes, the Energy, the Fate, and the Karma of the Year 2023 So that all sentient beings benefit, without end and without limit.
OM. AH. HUM. ANKH. UDJA. SENEB.
Be safe, be kind, be happy. I hope everyone will have a good, blessed and beneficial year in 2023.
The New Year is soon to be upon us, and I have been running nonstop all day trying to make something witchy of myself. I tried recording a video, tried drawing, did little grimoire bits and pieces. It’s all so blasé. I’ve always felt confident in reading for others, but recently I didn’t get a tarot job I was really looking forward to. It’s kinda knocked my confidence. And there are bits and pieces that make me feel a little better and then a little worse. I’ve been sitting at my tarot not knowing if I can trust myself to choose my readings. I finally found someone else in my community that does readings that resonates with me.
It all sucks because I want to pursue pro tarot. I want to be that blog person like Alice Sparkly Kat, but it all feels like I’m so spread out thin trying to make money from my craft from so many different websites and in person and I’m just like “Can’t I please just procure consistent clients?” I mean it makes sense why I can’t, I’m scattered. Everywhere. I spend hours doing something miscellaneous to then delete it all. I have an Instagram. That no one sees because Instagram is oversaturated.
Well if I want a blog, I ought to just start writing.
Sekhmet
I find myself in what I call emotional constipation. I am at the middle of a spectrum of emotions, and it’s all stuck in my esophagus. I have no ability to speak when it comes to my own pain. The weight of systems on my back crush me for I believe I’m in a good enough place that I never actually face my hubris nor my shadow. It all seems so distant. I cannot access even the simplest of things that hurt me. I don’t like voicing my feelings. It feels like black sludge tar I must push through, else I drown. It feels wrong. Why should I be the one to break free from the systems that I did not choose to live under? All this trauma, and for what? Harm was done to me and I cannot fathom how to deal with it on my own.
It enrages me so.
Aha! Finally, something makes me mad. I was sitting here thinking I was a lone planet in the icy cool void of emotion. I shove all these feelings inside me, take my deep breaths, quell the rumble in my stomach, and move on. Is that not what I’m supposed to do? Breathe and move on? I talk to my mother who uses that same methodology, and it fills me with rage. At least I recognize when I’m wrong. How is one supposed to create change if you just breathe and move on? How are you supposed to create inertia if you decide that all your feelings are worthless?
For so long, I’ve been scared to even act.
I am no longer my father’s daughter, clenching my jaw as I stare into holes in the drywall. I am no longer my mother’s son, told to stop crying because there is no use for tears. Yes, I can get angry. I am angry that empires will continue to conquer my people. It makes me furious that my kind continue to perish at the hands of the state. How many of my blood will be lost before I can do something about it?
I am small. I am weak. But I am no longer scared. My fury makes it so. I am frustrated that I am told I can’t do anything to help. And I am angry at myself for not being able to feel this heat I am so yearning for.
Today is last full moon of the year, the longest of the year. The full moon transforms people into monsters, lunatics if you will. At the same time, this moon is in the sign of Gemini, meaning power is brought to intuition and keenness. The longest full moon is surely a powerful one able to conjure the change inside all of us. What a perfect time to harness the pain of systems. What a perfect time to lie in suffering of what is needed to be felt.
No matter how many people I have supporting me now, I must support myself at my roots, otherwise I cannot create the community that deserves peace from all that imperialism and militarism and bigotry. I shall embody that rage, that wrath, that grief. I invoke Sekhmet, Kemetic goddess of tumult and anger and bloodshed. Only after feeling these emotions that some might view as negative, may I party and drink and engorge myself with laughter and joy like she.
I am Sekhmet, bringer of destruction. My words are silk and aim to topple empires, those who neglect personhood, those that destroy the very foundation of diverse culture. Though in a small body, the voice can do wonders. Charisma is only necessary to convince people who aren’t already on your side, and frankly so many people are suffering. All they need is a similar voice. A rallying cry. A roar.
Speak out, for many are listening. As. We. Speak.
As I write this statement, I know now what I make. It is the feeling of my ears burning and my hands typing. I become something more than how my pain manifests. I become whole.
-12/7/22
A writing and art ritual in which I summoned Sekhmet to release hidden rage within me.
Intermediate Witch here: How does everyone sense energy when trying to connect to it? Also how do other empaths and clairvoyants sense stuff and hear spirits/deities?
I'm struggling to figure out what is and is not me feeling "energy" and I also feel like the way I receive messages and read others isn't uh...typical. I tend to feel the hair and the slightest layer of air just above my skin tingle when feeling "energy", sometimes this is just at my fingertips and toes. When receiving messages from deities I often get emotional imprints and fleeting impressions of what's being said rather than flat out hearing it, images or tidbits of songs too. When reading other people I can usually read emotion like a book, it kind of just hits me if I'm not guarding. I also tend to see them as a color or several (not physically they've turned a color more like "oh today you seem rather purple").
I don't know how to describe any of this but if this makes sense lemme know or smth.
Me: oh yeah I was devoting knitting this cloak to Loki cuz of his reaction to the whole steeking thing
Loki: I can bless it for you
Me: ... What kind of blessing?
Loki: luck
Me: good luck or bad luck?
Loki: good question!
Someone messaged me this morning and asked me what my thoughts were about Narfi, Loki's son who was murdered by Odin. I told them I didn't know because Loki hates to talk about it. A split second after I sent the message it felt like Loki had touched my conscienceness and I got it: If Loki is the God of outcasts, then Narfi is the outcast. Not Loki.
Narfi represents vulnerability -- starving and impoverished families, minorities cast out of homeless shelters, gay and transgender folk dying of AIDS in the 80s and 90s, 6,000 people dying from Covid and hate crimes in 2020. He is grief, a life cut short, poor city kids sent to die in war.
There is an aspect of Loki that doesn't get acknowledged very much -- the Worldbreaker aspect. This is meant to represent the mindset Loki took on when he was pushed into Ragnarok.
Today, I realized Loki is the God of outcasts but he is also the God of stories, knotwork, playtime, and the hearthfire. Loki provides warmth and happiness for his children via wild tales and games and literal fire. He was never the outcast of the Norse pantheon -- his children and family were. Fenrir, Jormungandr, and Hel may have been strong enough to protect themselves to a certain degree.
Narfi was young and innocent with no known powers to defend himself with much less against a rabid wolf.
Loki becomes the Worldbreaker when the vulnerable are hurt.
Practice in Review: Bast
Hello everyone. It's been a very long time since I've posted. Recently interesting things have been happening in my practice and it's led me to actually think about how I've changed as a witch while working with my patron goddess Bast. My hope is that sharing my interactions might bring light to working with a goddess like Bast because when I first got started, I could barely find anything on active practices and impacts from Bast. Working with gods are personal experiences and my gnosis may not be yours. So let's get this started.
(Cw: sex magick)
Who is Bast?
Bast, like many Kemetic deities, have multiple names based on translation. She is also called Bas, Baset, and Bastet to name a few. Bast is a Kemetic goddess of cats, motherhood, fertility, sensuality, pleasure, fragrance, and more. She is an Eye of Ra, meaning she does Ra's bidding as a protectress and threatens the big chaos snake that Kemetics like to not name. Some mythology connect her to Sekhmet after her rage settles. The Greeks percieved her as a moon goddess synchronous with Artemis, but as an Eye of Ra she is represented by the sun.
Why did Bast and I connect?
Growing up I always had been infatuated with Ancient Egypt. It felt like my only connection to people who looked like me because I'm Arab, and I grew up muslim in the Bible Belt. At the same time, the symbolism of Kemetic cat statues had imprinted on me.
I wouldn't say I had a traumatic childhood, but I didn't feel content in my household either. The only people I could trust in my house were my cats. My family consistently were trying to get rid of these cats, but I couldn't let them go. They were all I had. I began acting like them and hissing at people and curving my tongue when I yawned.
Time passed and I grew into a shy and anxious teenager. By the time I was 17, I wanted to delve into witchcraft. I'd always admired it but my muslim guilt made me uncomfortable to try. Then there was a switch in my brain. I was thinking on theology one day and I realized that if every religion was accurate and worked for people on an individual level to create change in the world, then how is that any different from following old gods. But what about the good ole "there is only one god" thing? What if Abrahamic God is just the universe and energy that we embody. It is ever transient, n'est pas? Maybe it was me just rationalizing what I wanted to do already when I never felt comfortable with Allah(swt).
Bast was my breakthrough into a consistent craft, but her first active appearance was NSFW. After all, one of her epithets is "Pleasurer of Gods".
Interacting with Bast was synchronous with having my first wet dreams. The amount of times I asked if she was a succubus is actually funny.
What I will say is that if sex magick isnt more publicized, it could really hurt those new to the practice. I legitimately didnt realize I had to put up protections for sex magic. On online communities, the amount of people saying that you can't have sex with deity is insane when there are many gods known for those interactions. It's infuriating! Like there is real discussion of godspousing in Pagan communities, but the information on sex magic with entities is obscure.
I digress.
Bast not only led me to sex magic, but also to smaller but equally powerful pleasures.
Tasting chilled olives on my tongue, basking in the sun for a nap, putting cinnamon on literally everything.
All of these sensory inputs are part of living life, and at times I forget that. I have BPD, so my emotional state literally turns off my pleasure.
Dancing alone in a room is something I couldn't do before Bast. I truly became comfortable in existing in my own space.
This is my Bast playlist, full of music regarding love and lust and being a boss ass bitch, and they're all bops that you can dance to.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6fd4YFOkNOhT7p1C6gD0Mg?si=A_GmEuKFRdaiPgRLlrZKlA&utm_source=copy-link
Working with Bast also taught me about music divination. Shuffle your music and you'll find your answer. There were times when she would talk through music, and every time was a shock. Now whenever I have a miscellaneous song in my head, I try to find meaning within it.
In conclusion, Bast is my patron. The gifts she's given me transcends lifetimes.
I have grown a lot I recognize, but there are still aspects of myself that show my anxiety. Despite that, Bast and I have a very casual relationship now. At times, I think she wants me to move on, but I will always hold her opinion higher than any other that I work with.
Artsy Witch Ideas/Tips
For all of my witches out there that are artists or just love art of any kind, here are some things to consider adding to your craft.
Use vine or compressed charcoal dust to make black salt
Use sketchbooks as unique grimoires, book of shadows, book of cosmos, dream journals, etc that allow you to use markers, paints, etc to your heart’s desire
Red liquid ink can substitute for blood
Black liquid ink is good for curses especially for blinding, confusion and chaos
Blue liquid ink can represent water or the ocean
Yellow liquid ink for divination
Green liquid ink for protection and healing spells
Enchant your calligraphy pens for sigil work to strengthen the sigils you make or spells you write with them
Use doodles of people or how you see a person for taglocks in curses and bindings
Melt crayons for wax seals on jars or other spells by placing them in intense sun or heating them in a wax melter (use caution that you don’t heat them too high)
Melt crayons and mix with coconut oil and olive oil for anointing oil corresponding with the colors you use (also can be used as lipstick if desired)*
Use scrapbooking paper in your grimoire to give it unique and artsy pages
Use your paints to make painted spells. Make a sigil and paint it onto your page or canvas, and based on the sigil’s intent once dried paint over it an image that corresponds with that intent to activate. Hang up in your room or home. Cleanse and charge regularly
Glitter my witches, great for color magic and jar spells (note glitter is not good to be tossed into the environment so please don’t)
Write down a person or ‘force’ in your life you wish to remove and use erasers to erase it away as a simple severing spell
Use your dirty paint water for curses or inspiration spells
Use stickers to seal spell jars
Unable to burn something in your apartment? Drench it in black ink or paint instead
Use mechanical pencil lead in curses by break it up. very effective for writer’s block and creativity block curses
Bead enthusiasts or jewelry makers, use your beads to make spell/enchanted jewelry based on colors, shapes, and letters used in it for correspondences
Make your own ouija boards, crystal grids, pendulum charts, etc on some matte board or foam board using paints to make unique affordable tools
Use chalk dust for warding and protection spells
Buy chalkboard paint to turn a wall or other object into a chalkboard for sigil use, spell writing, organization, etc
Use those plastic reusable paint containers for small portable spell jars
Sharpies and black markers are good for curses in general
Use your color wheels for divination via colormancy
Use modeling clay or pottery clay to make your own offering bowls, statuettes and poppets for a variety of uses
For a quick and easy black mirror simply paint the back glass of a picture frame with black acrylic paint. It may take several layers
Reuse bottles and cans by painting them up to make them witchy containers for your tools, art supplies and other storage purposes
Make drawings, write poetry, write stories, make pottery, make a painting, etc to make as offerings to deities, fae, spirits, etc. Just be sure not to sign it if it is for fae (your name can give them power of you)
Use glue or tape to seal spells, for binding and for strengthening spells
Use whiteout for banishing and invisibility spells
Use henna, temporary tats or body safe paint for fun body sigils
Save pencil shavings for inspiration and creativity spells
Enchant your art supplies to bring you creativity, focus, motivation and inspiration when you use them
Use your paints to paint rocks colors for easy color magic
Turn your name into a sigil to sign your artwork so people will recognize it as yours (or other such desires)
Use used paint sponges to absorb negativity before throwing away
Mix paint or ink with water to make color potions or spell jars
Collect markers, crayons, colored pencils, pens, highlighters, etc to use for colorful written spells, amplify sigils, and to strengthen spells
Illustrate your grimoire, book of shadows, dream journal, etc with images that you feel are important or doodles to add your own extra touch to the spells and information inside. Make it your own
Paint, draw, or design your desires or wishes and charge the art in the moonlight to help welcome those things into your life. Keep the piece of art in your room or home
Use lines from your written poetry, stories, lyrics, etc as spell incantations or lines when writing spells to make them more personal
Use old sketchbooks, idea notebooks, free write journals, etc for bibliomancy
Try/Practice automatic writing or drawing for divination and spirit communication
Make collages out of posters, drawings, photos, writings, poems, etc on your wall to act as a low key altar
A beautiful way of incorporating art magic into your kitchen witchery. Carve, sculpt, woodburn, or customize spoons for your herbs, cooking, or gifts in the upcoming holiday season!
Artists: Giles Newman, ModernPottery.com, Julie O’Boyle
Combining the energies of shapes and colors is a powerful practice within art witchcraft. You can look for these combinations in your color castings, or other artistic forms of divination, or use them to boost your intent in spells.
Stay tuned for more free resources and information related to art magic and color craft. My inbox is always open!
-LUMI
A great quick reference for using color magic in your home!