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rashinimadhushani

Living in a fairytale 🌸💐🧚🏼🦄🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️

thecupidwitch

Magical Properties of Vegetables

Alfalfa sprouts: prosperity

Asparagus: lust, grounding

Artichoke: lust, protection, personal growth

Beans: grounding, love, lust, prosperity, protection

Beet: beauty, love, passion

Broccoli: strength, leadership, protection

Brussels Sprouts: protection, luck, rebirth, stability, courage

Cabbage: fertility, health, longevity, love, money, protection

Carrot: banish, clarity, fertility, illusions, health

Cauliflower: protection

Celery: grounding, lust, mental powers, peace, psychic powers

Corn: spirituality, protection, abundance

Cucumber: purity, fertility, healing

Eggplant: wealth, prosperity

Endive: love, lust, physical strength

Horseradish: Exorcism, purification, banishing, empowering, warding

Lettuce: stamina, sleep, rest

Leek: love, physical strength, protection

Mushroom: psychic awareness, physical strength, hidden truths, courage, healing, health

Onion: warding, protection, health, banishing, virility, fertility, energy, psychic power

Pea: love, prosperity

Pepper green: growth, prosperity

Pepper red: energy, strength, vitality

Pepper yellow: empowered creativity

Potatoes: Protection, compassion, potency, wishing

Pumpkin: healing, money, prosperity, abundance, divination

Radish: lust, protection

Rhubarb: fertility, love, protection

Spinach: fortitude, physical strength, general physical health, prosperity, money

Sweet Potato: love, lust

Squash: spirituality

Tomatoes: protection, warding, health, money, luck, love

Turnip: warding, banishing

Zucchini: spirituality, protection, prosperity, lust, abundance

*source: Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen*

*source2: Scott Cunningham Encyclopedia Of Magical Herbs*

fanggrimoire

Small Aphrodite altar / pocket shrine inspiration 🐚🤍🪞💒

herewegobebe

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bleshilegend

Odd eyed it’s you

daveykimy

Chinese folk religion: Festival of the Flowers

Today, March 27, 2021, is the traditional Chinese festival known as “Huachao’jie/花朝节”. This festival falls on the full moon of the Second Month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The festival used to be popular but has since fallen out of public knowledge in the last century, with only select rural communities and provinces still celebrating it. It has been experiencing a revival in recent years. Reason being the Goddess celebrated on this day is no longer seen as “significant” or “important” enough in people’s lives. This is the day that Huashen (花神) is celebrated and made offerings to. This is the time when the first spring flowers start to bloom in the wild and in orchards. She is also known by her name Huawang (花王), and Nu’yi (女夷).

She is belived to be the Goddess who reawakens the plants and trees every spring. It is said she is responsible for “making all trees, grass, plants, and flowers under the heavens sprout, bloom, and grow”. She is attested in Huainanzi (old Chinese text from 193 B.C.), said to reawaken the plant life on Earth every spring with her drumming, dancing, and singing. The interesting thing is that in old texts she is mentioned to not only oversee the growth of plants, but also “the growth of beasts”. Meaning she reawakens the animals and wildlife every spring and makes them grow and reproduce. For this reason it’s still common to this day in certain regions for women to ask her for fertility. Just as she makes orchards bloom and grow, so may their families bloom and grow.

As blooming and flowering of plants are crucial to crops, she is also an important deity for farmers and orchards. Young women would walk trough flower orchards in groups and tie red ribbons onto the branches, asking Huashen to bring them blessings.

Altars can be set up in orchards or in groves, usually with a painting or small votive image of Huashen and offerings of flower cakes, candles, incense, and sweet liquor would be made to here. Ritual protocol dictates that it is taboo for men to lead the ceremony or to make the offerings. This is an event lead by women or female heads of the household. Sweet liquor are then to left out for her in the groves along with a portion of the cakes.

As mentioned, the traditional offering is a pastry called flower cake, or huagao/xianhuabing (花糕 / 鲜花饼). Depending on region, this is either a baked flaky pastry made with a filling made out of crushed fresh flower petals (usually roses), sugar, and lard, or a steamed leavened rice cake with crushed flowers mixed into the rice flour. They’re actually available at major Asian supermarkets, imported from China. If you can get your hands on some, do it and (if weather permits where you’re at) enjoy it under the sunshine by the flowers.

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Some images from Pinterest that I hope can help those in the witch community.

30 Day Devotional For Your Deity.

Create a secret language with your deity and write a dedication as your introduction in your new language.

Use a song to connect and write down images, feelings, ect you saw/felt.

Write a poem about their correspondences.

Write a devotional hymn of praise.

Have a cup of tea (or tea party) and write down the conversation.

Create affirmations with your deity so that you know you're loved.

Shadow work: Focus on your shadow self and write down what your deity wants you to work on.

Write a hymn of gratitude.

Use a card spread to connect with your deity and write down the interpretation.

Bake with you deity and write down the recipe and why They chose it.

Write a chant or two that you can use to magically connect with said deity.

Write a haiku or a few of the simple mundane aspects of your relationship.

Create a dance or stretch with a deity and write down the steps as well as how you feel connected to your deity while performing.

Create a playlist then listen to it while writing about your favorite things about your deity.

Write about why your favorite myth about your deity is your favorite.

Are there any pop culture references to your deity? If so write about why you like/dislike their portrayal.

Are there historical characters that interacted with your deity? How do you feel about them?

Who is your deity to you? Matron? Patron? Grandfather like? Write about how you met your deity and your first impressions.

Middle ground. Write about the first time you felt comfortable with your deity.

How is your relationship now and what you hope for the future?

Write a poem about how They recently made you feel.

Give three examples of Them being benevolent.

Give three examples of when They had to give you a wake up call.

Write an informative paragraph about your deity as if you were writing to a completely unknowing novice.

Create a spell together that only works if both of you do it together.

Allow your deity to make a protection contract with you.

Special bonds. Write a bonding devotional where you dedicate yourself to Them (as a devotee, priestess, fan, ect ).

Create a picture that represents Them with devotional poetry.

Go on a walk and talk with your deity. Record the conversation.

Ask for wisdom and guidance and what They expect from you. Write down their answer.

Start this whenever with your deity and let me know how it's going! Hope you're having a blessed and serendipitous day. Happy witching!

#deity devotional #witchcraft #pagan #witch #gods and goddesses #witchblr #tarot spread #tarot

lovecorekiss

Masterpost of Shops for Hellenic polytheists

A collection of shops for hellenic polytheists: for worship materials, modern Greek culture, etc.

Etsy Shops

AcropolisGallery (Athens, Greece) - Wonderful Ancient Greek Handmade Ceramics🏺

Blagowood - Pagan wood carving

Ceramotechnica (Greece) - Hand made Greek ceramics for daily use and decoration

CretanFarm (Sitia, Greece) - Raw honey, olive oil, herbs …Greek homemade products

DivineDealings (Iowa, Louisiana) - Tarot readings, prayer beads, etc for the theoi.

EFIstore - (Edipsos, Greece)

eStatueShop (Greece) - The Greek Statue Shop

EstiaCreations (Greece)

FireFoxAlchemy - One Stop Shop for Magical Supplies & Devotional Jewelry

FoxGroveCreations (Edison, New Jersey) - Let life be magic

Greekartcom (Athens, Greece) - Handmade inspired Jewelry & collectible creations

Greek Artifact (Agios Nikolaos, Greece) - Ancient Greek Art

GreekMythos - Handmade Greek Museum Replicas Artifacts and Jewelry

Greekrootsshop (Athens, Greece) - Handmade Greek Jewelry

GreekRomanArt (Greece) - High Quality Art & Decoration

HearthfireHandworks - Pagan Prayer Beads and Devotional Jewellery

marblecreations82 (Athens, Greece) - Replicas of Ancient Greek marble statues

Luthieros - (Greece) Ancient lyres and other musical instruments

Lyre Academy - Learning and study of the lyre

Oinotropous (Heraklion, Greece) - Selected Cretan Products - Statues & Knives

SaffronSorcery - divination and personalised spells. Owned by @mago-zafferano

SilveradoJewellery (Greece) - Handmade Silver Greek Jewellery And Greek Art

SpikyLeaves (Thessaloniki, Greece) - Unique Detailed Animal and Mythology Greek Jewelry

Statuescrafts (Greece) - We provide for sale handmade and hand painted statues

TheGreekDesigners (Thessaloniki, Greece) - Timeless Greek Statues Jewelry & Culture Design Objects

TheHellenicHandmaid - Handmade spiritual supplies for Hellenic Polytheists

Thetis Treasures (Athens, Greece) - Jewellery inspired by Greek ancient history and mythology

Yliade - Art inspired by Ancient Gods

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Other

clarysageherbarium - witchy shop

mastic-mastiha-sales - Greek shop

@bluewingbeading - Navajo & Hopi Beading shop

This not an exhaustive list. Expect more shops to appear or feel free to recommend more to be added to the list.

twelfthremedy

Offerings Masterpost:

(Last updated: 9/7/2020)

Major Hellenic Deities:

Apollo

Ares

Artemis

Athena

Dionysus

Hades

Hephaestus

Hera

Hermes

Hestia

Persephone

Poseidon

Zeus

Minor Hellenic Deities:

Hecate

witchcastors

The Great Goddess Hecate (Hekate)

Who is Hecate? She is the Goddess of Witchcraft, Necromancy, Ghosts, Magic, and, in some instances, the Night, Darkness, The Mist, and Moon. For some She is also the goddess of motherhood, protection, and the sea. She is a Hellenic deity, born of the Titans Asteria and Perses. There’s a few beliefs circling around Her being a crone goddess or a Triple Goddess, but those are modern and neopagan beliefs—which She predates. I also consider Her to be a part of the Chthonic deities.

Symbology: Black dogs, Wolves, Keys, Torches, Flames, Torches, Crossroads, Serpents, Daggers, Birds of Prey (crows, ravens, owls), the Moon, witchcraft tools (such as cauldrons, tarot, athames)

Offerings & Devotional Acts for Her:

Figurines of any of Her symbols

keys, skeleton keys, lockets

fire witchcraft and candles, flames, matchsticks

dedicating any lunar or symbolic jewelry to Her

black/dark crystals such as obsidian and onyx

nocturnal animal imagery

black/cool colored glitter

baneful/poisonous herbs and plants

pomegranates/berries (She seems to really like blackberries)

dark blend wines

honey, cinnamon, poppy seeds, chocolates (dark)

mugwort, lavender, roses, jasmine, dragon’s blood

bones and feathers from birds of prey (please check your local laws about obtaining these)

pinpricks of blood (please DO NOT attempt this if you struggle with self harm/etc, blood magic is particularly strong and isn’t for everyone. She will understand if you cannot offer that to her).

Taking midnight walks, setting up altars and rituals at crossroads, paying respects to the dead and practicing your craft in a cemetery

Any playlists, poems, literature, whether it be your own or just a piece you associate with Her, also make wonderful offerings.

Lunar Influences & Connections: Reaching out to Hecate tends to work best at night, and really any time the moon is at it’s peak. The Witching Hours, midnight to 3A.M., during strong lunar influences (blue moons, blood moons, eclipses, new moons, etc) all hold strong bonds with Hecate. Also, any time it is particularly foggy or your surroundings are covered in a mist is a good time to try to connect with Her.

Disclaimer: These are correspondences that have been gathered through my personal experiences working through my craft with Her. If you find She responds better to different offerings/during different times, by all means, stick to it! Your bond with Her is your own and should be cultivated in whichever way works best for you and Her. Thank You!