I Got Beef With The Ghost Of A Puritan Minister

lesbian, eclectic witch I like the moon and the sea and sometimes I can hear ghosts and that’s all I know.

[darkearthsuggestions]

Lean into the wind, that snarling, snapping shout, and let it rip away your breath til all that’s left is the part of you that cannot bear words. The sound can burn, the promises stale– the wind knows what matters, and it will leave you all your core, shake you deep, strip it all away, and in the raw ferocity of it all, leave you bare in the eye of the storm. How you regrow is up to you. 

[violet-the-witch]

Via Pinterest

[creature-witch]

It’s cool that a post of mine got popular enough people are making their own artistic versions it would just be really nice people would @ me! 😭

https://creature-witch.tumblr.com/post/171802661753/a-spread-for-when-you-have-a-bad-feeling-about

Here’s my actual post if you guys would reblog that instead 

[lavendulamoon]

Ahhh totally forgot to post the suit of pentacles, wow I’ve had these pages done for a while and here I am, either way here it is. The pentacles represented by earth tend to show materialistic and physical change is coming

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[sand-witch-craft]

🌳Trees in Witchcraft🌳

Wood and leaves collected from trees can be used for wands, spells, and more. Make sure to thank the tree, and don't go around yoinking branches off.

Alder 

Healing

Balance

Courage

Ash

Healing

Divination

Creativity

Aspen

Purification

Rebirth

Healing 

Birch

Love

Healing

Protection

Cedar

Grounding

Protection

Longevity

Elm

Death

Love

Strength

Fir

Abundance

Rebirth

Energy

Hazel

Wisdom

Knowledge

Divination

Holly 

Luck

Strength

Protection

Maple

Love

Luck

Longevity

Oak

Divination

Strength

Protection

Pine

Healing

Protection 

Purification

Redwood

Protection

Creativity

Healing

Rowan

Protection

Divination

Creativity

Willow

Healing

Love

Creativity

Yew

Death

Change

Rebirth

[puritanbitch]

A sex magic meditation:

I am coming into my own and reaching my most authentic self. I am aligning myself with what the universe has planned for me. My conscious desires and unconscious needs are drawing nearer by the second. As my energy grows, I attract love into my life.

✨🍃🌹🥰🌓💗🌕💗🌗🥰🌹🍃✨

[puritanbitch]

I just paid $16 for a vintage nance O’Neil postcard I’m vibrating

[the-witches-glossary]

Witch Tips

Witch tips from a witch who has practiced for many years; here are some of my traditional beliefs as well as things I picked up along the way. 💫

🔮 When foraging, do not forget to thank for what you took. Thanks the gods, the fae, the earth, or whomever you worship, but do not just take.

🌙 Wear beautiful clothes when performing a ritual. Before I get into saying anything else I want to say - There is NO PRICE VALUE which makes the ritual clothes beautiful. They do not have to be expensive, or a certain brand, or from a certain place, or anything of the sort. Just make sure that they are well taken care of and that you think they are beautiful.

🔮 People will rarely understand you, and most do not actually even want to. But the trees. The plants. Animals of the earth. Rivers, still and moving water. The stars and the moon. They understand, they will listen, and if you listen, too, you will hear what you need to and be validated and understood. People alive thousands of years before you have been sharing the same heartbreak, pain, suffering, and struggle with the universe. It understands. It has heard before, and will listen again.

🌙 When trying to meditate, you are not actually doing anything wring by being unable to “clear your mind.” The goal is not actually to have a blank mind, but an open and receptive one. If a thought pops in suddenly, acknowledge it, dismiss it, and move on. It doesn’t mean you’re not focused or doing it wrong.

🔮 Another note about meditation; there is no shame in needing herbs to achieve meditation. There is nothing wrong with you. Some people just need the extra help, and that is okay! It is also a traditional part of many practices to smoke, ingest, or otherwise consume herbs before a ritual/meditation/journey/etc. This pertains to herbs such a kava, sage, wormwood, mugwort, and cannabis. (Do not use unless you ask a doctor, know it’s safe, and so on.)

🌙 Wisdom is the combination of emotion and logic. To make a wise decision, validate the emotion and why it is being felt, look at the logic and the facts, and combine the information for the answer.

🔮 Do not be discouraged that you cannot find witches (or Wiccans, Pagans, Druids, etc) where you live. We are here. We are all over the world. It is just unsafe in some places to practice openly. But if you look for us, you will find us.

🌙 Intent is the most powerful ingredient you have.

🔮 There are hundreds (if not thousands) or ways to create a sigil, and you can make a sigil hundreds on different ways. This also goes for charging and activating sigils.

🌙 You can practice both black and white magick at the same time.

🔮 Bullying other witches is never a good idea. Obviously, bullying anyone is never a good idea and you shouldn’t, but in my years I have seen over and over again it happen when one witch attacks another and then that witch comes down with horrible luck. That is not just because they were cursed by people who support the witch who was being bullied (which is also a huge risk, and causes a lot of issues and conflict) but the universe knows when a witch attacks another witch, and it doesn’t like that. (This does not include calling someone out in an appropriate way for unacceptable behavior and so on. But when you do it about differing opinions….)

🌙 Never stop researching. You will never know everything.

🔮 Deciding that you want to start to practicing witchcraft does NOT mean you have do denounce any previous beliefs. 

[stygiantarot]

👻 Communication with Ghosts 👻

A baseline experience in warding/protection and spirit communication is necessary first. Also have an energy source other than your own ready for boosting the communication (offerings, crystals, charged items or water, energy jars, etc.) is helpful and polite as well.

Find a place that works for you: cemeteries, old buildings, museums, crossroads, bodies of water, old growth forests, liminal spaces, personal ancestor shrines, old houses, etc.

Start with a communication method you’re familiar with: Tarot, pendulum, shufflemancy, trancing, channeling, automatic writing, empathy/clair senses

Let your mind unfocus- it doesn’t have to be true “clearing mind” that meditation methodology sometimes talks about. Letting your mind just wander is good too. Gently allow thoughts to appear but don’t dwell on them. Try identifying thoughts that wouldn’t be your own. Practice discernment.

Record the feelings and experience. If you’re comfortable with it, push for more specific interaction with your communication method: “who are you?”, “where are you from?” “what do you need me to know about?” “what do you enjoy talking about”. It’s okay to just keep things organic and loose for the first couple times and not ask specific questions, just allow impressions.

Be firm about safety and your boundaries. Don’t let the spirit take advantage of any discomfort you may experience. It’s always okay to disconnect the communication and come back later.

Keep a journal regarding these experiences. Refer back to it to build relationships with repeat spirits and learn methods that work the most successfully for you. Feel free to use it to research background on deceased spirits when you aren’t communicating directly.

Be respectful about privacy. It’s okay to share experiences in a general sense but you may include a question about whether you may share specifics about any spirits you interact with. However, be wary of any spirits that tell you not to talk about communing at all, that level of secrecy is suspect. Personal privacy (names, history, ages, personal stories, etc) are of course common courtesy to protect but your own success in methodology and emotions regarding the experiences should be your own choosing on whether to share, not theirs.

Don’t be afraid to reach out to more experienced workers and mediums with questions and concerns! Myself included 😊

[oldmotherredcap]

New home, new witch bottle. Surrounded by actual rose thorns, finger printed and sealed. It will sit to stew and be buried by the weekend.

[oldmotherredcap]

Guys… please stop replying with “please don’t bury it it’s bad for the environment” etc etc. NO. Don’t assume. Don’t assume that burying automatically means straight in the earth, or not on one’s property. It could mean buried in a flower pot, in a box in a garden bed, wrapped in protective material and buried under a rose bush etc.

Common sense goes a long way in witchcraft.

[fuckyeahpaganism]

Yes to everything but also this is absolutely beautiful! Definitely love the rose thorns on the side. Inspiration for sure. 

[puritanbitch]

That’s because her reincarnation is dissociating at the gym

[puritanbitch]

The “I’m gonna make it through my senior year without feeling like a broke failure” spell for creativity and abundance.

For a good start to a prosperous year and ESPECIALLY for finally earning your degree!

Like to charge, reblog to cast!

[moonlightacademy]

Ways to Cleanse

Smoke Cleanse: (Commonly using sage) Using smoke from a burning sage bundle, pass it over the item or being that you would like to cleanse. Focus on your intent while sending out the negative energy. Use incantations if you like. Make sure the plant you are burning is in no way poisonous and is safe! This cannot be stressed enough!

Incense smoke: Choose a specific scent corresponding to your goal. Pass it over an item or being like smoke cleansing. Focus on you intent and cast out negative energy. 

Holy water: You can purchase or create your own. Submerge or sprinkle over an item as needed. Focus on your intent to help cleanse it from negative energy. You can use an incantation, say a chant, or call on any entities you work with.

Running Water: Make sure the item is unable to be harmed by water! Submerge into a running creek or river. Let it wash away all the negative energies and become charged with positive one. Rainwater can be used as well.

Sea salt: Bury the item you want cleansed into sea salt, make sure it will not harm the item. Leave it for a few days in the salt. The salt will absorb any unwanted energies.

Sunlight: Make sure the item will not be harmed, certain crystals will fade in the sunlight! Leave the item in full sunlight and let it absorb the suns positive energies and remove the negative ones.

Moonlight: Place an item outside or on the window sill to soak up the moonlight and dispel negative energies.

High vibration sounds: Using a crystal bowl, a Tibetan Singing bowl, a gong, drumming, tuning fork or even your favorite music turned up loud will cleanse an item of unwanted energies.

Pyramid Energy: Placing an item under or inside a pyramid which has been charged for cleansing will take away any negative energy and return the item to neutral. 

Personal Energy: Using your own personal energy to drive the unwanted energy out of the item that needs cleansing. It is the safest way to cleanse because it wont harm any object. Though, it can be intensive depending upon the quantity and quality of the energies needing to be stripped away.

Charged Crystals: Some crystals have a natural ability to strip away energies of items and leave them neutral, amethyst or rock crystal excels at such work.

Sweeping: Sweeps out negative energies.

Sources: sacredhandscoven.wordpress.com. 

==Moonlight Mystics

[strangesigils]

“Stay Awake”

Schools coming around soon, and though generally all-nighters don’t become necessary till near the end of the semester, sigils like these are always good to have on hand just in case.

Keep this sigil on you or draw it on your cup of coffee (or get a custom coffee mug with this symbol on it) when you gotta stay awake.

Afterthought: Can also double as a curse. Draw this on a picture of your target to make them restless.

[pleiadic-magic-deactivated20220]

📖writing + witchcraft📖

writing has always been a passion of mine, and there’s nothing i love more than combining personal hobbies with witchcraft! there’s so many ways you can use writing to boost your craft, or use your craft to boost your writing; these are the ways i personally do!

honour what’s special in your craft. if you’re theistic, dedicate a piece of writing to them. if you’re not, but you want to honour something else, you could write about the earth, or the stars, or absolutely anything. this would make a great grimoire or b.o.s entry!

learn to use automatic writing. this is a cool kind of divination that allows your subconscious/higher self, or spirits around you to control what you write. i’ve tried this a few times and it’s quite fun, but i’ve always wanted to try using it as inspiration for creative writing! here is a much better post on it by @satinsouled.

start journaling. journaling is a great way to clear your mind and encourage creativity, but it can be really useful in witchcraft too! write about your witchy experiences however you want to, so you have reference points to come back to later

draw inspiration from your craft. similar to the previous point, if you’ve had an interesting experience that you’d like to write about, why not turn it into a poem or short story? if you worship deities, write a story about them. create your own world of witchiness that stems from your personal experiences - your writing will always be unique and interesting because no one else will have had your experiences!

use tarot cards and readings as inspiration. instead of reading tarot like you normally would, write prose or poetry inspired by it to note down your reading. i think the best example by far is @tarotprose, one of my favourite blogs on tumblr and actually my inspiration to start combining witchcraft and poetry.

souped-up spellwork. its easy to work spells you find online, word-for-word, because you think that’s how it’s ‘meant’ to be done. there are some people who say their way is the ‘only’ way, but that’s a toxic way of thinking. use poetry and creative writing to create your own, personalised chants, invocations and spells! your words will have more power for you than anyone else’s, and you’ll probably find your spells will work much better if you put your own personal touch into them.

i’m really trying to get back into writing, so if anyone has any poetry prompts please send them to my writeblr @aghostwrites! if you have any more suggestions please reblog with them, i always want to hear your opinions on what topics mean to you in your craft. happy witching!

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[satinsouled]

Psychic Powers: Automatic Writing

AUTOMATIC WRITING!

Also known as Psychography.

Automatic Writing allows a person to produce written words without consciously writing. These words are from a subconscious, spiritual, or supernatural source.

Basically, it’s a non-scary way to speak with your “Higher Self”, spirit guides, or spirits. It allows you to see their perspective subconsciously, while using claircognizance.

WHY DO AUTOMATIC WRITING?

Here are some examples of when you could do it…

When you have a fear of spirits and are too scared to contact your guides in any other way

When you are not yet very clairvoyant or clairaudient (you can’t hear or see your spirit guides), so you want to try another way.  Automatic writing is actually very easy if you manage to put your mind to one side, and I know lots of people who have trouble hearing their inner voice who have had success with automatic writing.

When you want to get your Higher Self’s perspective on something that is bothering you – (I used to do automatic writing when I was upset about something and needed to raise my vibration. I’d tune into my higher self and start writing.  She always had some very comforting and insightful things to say about any situation.)

Or just when you have some questions that you want a spiritual perspective on.

HOW TO BEGIN AUTOMATIC WRITING!

Sit down with a blank piece of white paper in front of them, while holding a pen.

I’ve also heard, before, that you can sit at a computer and type - but this is high unlikely to work. It would take a lot of energy for another being to move your hands across a keyboard. Pen/pencil and paper is very recommended.

Begin writing without conscious thought.

The conscious mind recedes into the background, so that wisdom from other realms of consciousness many be channeled through and handwritten, or typed. Often those who do automatic writing have no idea what they have written until they read over their notes.

TIPS FOR SUCCESS

Start each automatic writing session with ‘My Spirit Guides’ or ‘My Higher Self’ or ‘My Angels’ as the first line.

You can call on all of them if you want.  Be clear about whose input you want, as it sets an intention to hear from that being. If you want, you can also see your guides as parts or extensions of you that you can access whenever you want, like your subconscious.   (The more you see these entities as beings outside of you, the more channeling them may seem quite elusive.) If you want, you can also raise your vibration and connect with your guides/higher self before you begin typing.  For example, you can do some deep breathing, or visualize going up to a room to meet with your guides, so that you can get their input for the duration of the session.

Just start writing and don’t worry about what you’re writing at first.

For example, write your question and just see what comes out when you put your fingers on the keys. You don’t have to focus on the question, just start writing about anything that comes into your head. The trick with this is to get used to writing (if you are not already).  The more you’re used to writing, the easier it is to get into that ‘flow’ state when writing.

Setting a timer while you do it can be helpful

This is so that you don’t have time to think about what you’re writing. That works particularly well when you have a set of questions you want to ask your guides.

Create the right conditions so that you can lose your inhibitions about what you’re writing

I (personally) like to make sure I’m completely alone before automatic writing, and then insure that I’m writing in a journal or on a piece of paper that I can put somewhere safe, so that no one else reads it.

Don’t allow your mind to interpret the information while you’re getting it

You can interpret it afterwards.  But know that it is totally normal for the mind to butt in and judge information in the process.

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE DOING IT CORRECTLY?

Channeled information tends to be high vibrational in nature.   It will often comfort you, provide clarity or will raise your mood in some way. If it feels negative or feels heavy, you’re probably not channeling a source that you want to tap into - or you may just be channeling your own emotional body, if you are not feeling very good. What you channel via writing will usually not sound like your voice or the voice that you ‘think’ in. Another feature of intuitive guidance is that it tends to be very clear, usually feels light and is often simply expressed.   Having said that, I have read automatic writing that is poetic and metaphorical in nature.  But don’t be hung up on how yours should sound or be. If you do it often enough, you will soon get a sense for what your automatic writing ‘feels’ like.

[llleighsmith]

[moonrisemagick]

Akashic Records

So this new series is gonna be past life themed, if anyone has particular questions please feel free to submit them so I have ideas for what sorts of things to write about! 

NOTE: THIS STUFF ALL COMES FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE TRUE, BUT I DON’T WANT TO INVALIDATE THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS SO PLEASE TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT!

So the Akashic Records are a theosophical concept, derived from the work of Helena Blavatsky, an occult writer who operated as a member of the Theosophical Society in nineteenth century New York. The name comes from the Sanskrit word Akasha, meaning atmosphere or aether, but as far as I know the Akashic records to not belong to any one culture, closed or open (of course, please let me know if I’m wrong so I can amend this statement)! 

The Akashic records are generally thought to be the soul’s “working compendium” of knowledge. “Compendium,” because it contains all the knowledge from every single life the soul has lived, and “working” because it continually expands for as long as you are alive and incarnating. Generally this place isn’t really meant to be seen by conscious eyes, but it can be accessed for past life work, exploring past events in the current life, or perhaps to help access knowledge stored in long-term memory. 

What do the records look like? 

GENERALLY, people talk about the records as looking identical from person to person. They tell you to picture a long hallway with doors lining either side. They tell you each door represents a life, and in order to access that life you should open the door. This is NOT NECESSARILY TRUE in my experience. Akashic records can manifest in whatever way feels most comfortable to the person to whom they belong. For example, nature inclined witches may see a tree stump, the rings of which represent each of your lives, but it’s possible to see literally anything at all given that each person is so unique. Another thing that many people believe to be true is that everyone has a multitude of past lives. This is frankly not true. The Akashic records may be chock full of lives, or they may be generally empty, with only a few places where you can access those memories. It’s highly dependent on the person. 

Who can access the records?

Anyone can access their own records with no problem. Accessing another’s CAN be done just out of the blue, but it’s HIGHLY FROWNED UPON, and in fact extremely difficult to do so without permission (souls do not like to be poked at without knowing why and who by the poking is being done). If you wanna do a past life read for someone, you gotta ask them for permission. I like to get a written out consent, including any rules that the person wants me to follow while I’m in there for my readings. I’ll be bound by those rules for as long as I’m in there (and later if there’s a clause like “forget what you saw in there after you’re done writing it out”). So in short, anyone can access their own, but you gotta ask before popping into another person’s!

How do I access my records?

You can pay me to do it. OR, here’s a way:

BEFORE YOU GO: Make sure you’re centered, grounded, and shielded however you see fit. Make sure you have had enough food/water before, and make sure you have snacks on hand for afterwards. This stuff takes a lot of energy. 1. Close your eyes, get the room nice and quiet, light some incense, or do what you need to do to get yourself into a meditative state. 2. Once you’re ready, state either verbally or in your head “I would like to access my Akashic records.” Some sort of sensory information about the records should manifest for you pretty much immediately, be it sight, sound, or smell (it’s usually sight). 3. Figure out what the heck you’re looking at. What place are you in? What are the boundaries? How big/small is it? Is there anyone else here?         a. If you see anyone/thing in there that you don’t want in there, imagine a door opening in the corner into a big, black space, even if it makes zero sense for it to be there. Visualize the entity falling through that door and into that space. Close the door, imagine a key and lock, and lock that door. Put the key somewhere safe, and imagine the door vanishing. They’ve now been kicked the heck out. 4. Once you know what you’re looking at, figure out how your lives manifest. Are they lines in an old book? Tomes on a shelf? Flowers in a vase? (What? It could happen…).  5. Determine what you’re looking for. Is it a particular past life? If so, “ask” for that life to appear in the same way you asked for the records. The life you’d like to see will make itself known to you. Do you have no preference? If so, then just interact with one of the objects which represents a life as you feel is appropriate. That’s it! You’re in!

What do I do now?

You watch! Past lives aren’t malleable; they’ve already happened. You can’t change them in any way, only watch and learn. I’ve found that when I enter a past life, I view it from a first person perspective, as though I’m living it in real time. I know stuff that the person themselves would have known at the time, but that others might not necessarily have known. This may not be the case for everyone, of course.

And that’s that! Again this is all from my personal experience so make of that entirely what you will, and BE CAREFUL if you’re gonna go poking around in here. You will see stuff that you can’t unsee. You may see things that are potentially triggering. You may not like what you find at all. Ignorance can be bliss after all. But if you want to go and do it make sure you’re safe. Good luck everyone!