Just A Little Witchy

20-something who craves a little mystical in her life. https://ko-fi.com/rhymesxwithxwitch

[yourwitchmama]

Lughnasadh Ideas!

Aka Lúnasa or Lammas, the first of the 3 harvest festivals, celebrated on August 1st.

I know Lughnasadh is still a ways away, but I thought I’d jump the gun a bit anyway cuz I LIKE BREAD.

🌻Go pick apples or any other produce that’s in season! You can offer some to the Earth or whatever deities you worship. In ancient times, people would bury their offerings at the tops of hills during Lughnasadh.

🌻Bake bread! Make it magical by inscribing symbols or runes into it, using herbs and spices with special properties, and adding sun water. Bless it. Ask your deities to put their energy into it. As you knead and mix, imagine all your magick getting folded in right into the dough. Think of this loaf of bread as your own unique little bundle of magick. This bread can be for anything you want, but some common Lughnasadh themes would be abundance, prosperity, healing, family harmony, and good over evil.

🌻Bask in the color gold

🌻Perform spells for abundance and prosperity

🌻Organize a group sports event—paintball, laser tag, baseball, capture the flag, even something as small as a jump rope competition. The point is to honor Lugh through traditional athletic competitions! What kind of competition that is, is up to you.

🌻Visit a sacred well. No sacred wells around? Go visit a body of water that’s special to you and spend some time dipping your feet in, basking in the sun, and eating some seasonal fruits.

🌻Go to a local farmers market and buy some in-season produce, then cook it up however you want. Save some to offer to the deities of your choice, and eat the rest with friends!

🌻Do a tarot reading for yourself. What’s beginning to manifest in your life? What’s ripe, and what still needs time?

🌻This celebration traditionally included matchmaking and courting. Why not give this tradition a modern twist by going to a speed dating event, a blind date, or another dating-related event?

🌻Sit outside and paint with golds and yellows and oranges. Wear flowers in your hair. Drink some dandelion tea.

🌻Fill your altar with sheaves of wheat, decorative corn, sunstone and citrine and pyrite, gold colors, scoops of earth in decorative jars, fresh-picked herbs and weeds and wildflowers, and that cool thing you painted earlier.

🌻Thank the Earth for the first harvest, and keep reaping! Summer’s not over yet 🧡

[thestrawberrynight]

Today’s mood: live in a forest cottage, make magic potions and grow herbs in the garden

[melissajanart]

Mushrooms!! 

[sweatersscarvesandsweets]

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

I took the time to make a process doc for adding a live table of contents in Word, step by step with screen shots and a live example, for a system-wide weekly process improvement call with ongoing documentation that was a mess and had a shoddy attempt at a static table of contents. The call leader finally adds the live table of contents AND THANKS SOME MAN FOR THE HELP SETTING IT UP. We love that for me.

[starstonemagic]

✨My pages on casting runes in my book of shadows/grimoire✨

[nakedinasnowsuit]

You gotta just. Unfollow blogs that upset you. If you are so angry at a total stranger that you send them multiple anonymous messages, that is not normal. That is not healthy behavior.

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

Ive unfollowed for someone posting too much lego ninjago gifsets. Tumblr isnt like youtube or patreon, its not anyones job. You can unfollow and holy shit- you can RE follow later. its really not that deep.

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

You can unsub on YouTube and patreon too. It’s not your responsibility to support someone if you no longer feel their content, even if it’s their job.

[mshrooms]

instagram | _coppermoon_ 

[chaotic-heathen]

A Morning Boost Tea

I love this tea paired with motivation or energy spells, or just to set the tone for the day. I've often brewed it alongside a tarot or oracle card that embodies my day's focus.

For about 16 oz tea:

1 or 2 cinnamon sticks- for energy & amplification of good energy

Orange peel- for happiness, motivation, & energy

2 sprigs rosemary- for memory & mental fortitude

1 or 2 sage leaves- for protection & mental clarity

1 bag black tea- for strength & energy

The add ins:

Honey- for abundance & warmth

Sugar- for sweetening the day

Almond milk- for abundance & wisdom

Bring the water to near boiling (210°F/99°C) and add the herbs and tea. Steep the herbs for 4-6 minutes, and the tea for 2-3 minutes.

Add honey or sugar to taste, and it's done! I sometimes like it with a splash of almond milk.

[magicbonesjones]

Cottagecore aesthetic 🍄🌿

[chaotic-heathen]

A Morning Boost Tea

I love this tea paired with motivation or energy spells, or just to set the tone for the day. I've often brewed it alongside a tarot or oracle card that embodies my day's focus.

For about 16 oz tea:

1 or 2 cinnamon sticks- for energy & amplification of good energy

Orange peel- for happiness, motivation, & energy

2 sprigs rosemary- for memory & mental fortitude

1 or 2 sage leaves- for protection & mental clarity

1 bag black tea- for strength & energy

The add ins:

Honey- for abundance & warmth

Sugar- for sweetening the day

Almond milk- for abundance & wisdom

Bring the water to near boiling (210°F/99°C) and add the herbs and tea. Steep the herbs for 4-6 minutes, and the tea for 2-3 minutes.

Add honey or sugar to taste, and it's done! I sometimes like it with a splash of almond milk.

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

When we moved last we decided no matter what we would budget for movers (at least for the furniture) during our next move when we buy a house.

So fast forward to a month ago when my fiancé chooses a moving company and scheduled the movers for the day after we were scheduled to close. They told him it would probably be around 10 am and they would call him the night before to give a more exact time. So Friday night at 7 pm we still hadn’t received a call so he calls them and they say it would be between 8-11 am and that they would call with the exact time later that night. By 9 pm we still hadn’t received a call and calling the office revealed theyd closed for the night. So Saturday morning 10 am still no word so he calls and is told that the movers are in a town like 6 hours away so they won’t be here until like 4-5 pm.

So that sucks but whatever, we move somethings around and are able to make it work. Then at 1 he gets a call from the moving team themselves saying that they can pack up our apartment that night but that they won’t be able to deliver it until the next morning because they’ve been working since 3 am and by law they can only work 14 hour shifts. Unless, of course, we “take care” of them, if you know what I mean. So my fiancé awkwardly agrees because we can’t not have our furniture for a night because we’d have no where to sleep. So he hangs up the phone and tells me what happened and I’m like absolutely not. I’m not bribing them to break the law. Especially not laws that are in place for very good reason. And we wouldn’t even have been in this situation to begin with if they hadn’t messed up their scheduling.

So I call the company to cancel the appointment and request a full refund and the guy doesn’t wait to hear what I’m actually calling about, assumes I’m calling because the team isn’t there yet and interrupts me to try to tell me they aren’t supposed to get there until 4-5. So I’m like “no, listen, that’s not the problem. The problem is the team just called us to tell us they would have to pack our stuff today and not deliver it until tomorrow so we want to cancel because that’s not what we signed up for.” So the guy says he’ll cancel the order and we will have to do a “deposit request” to get the deposit back. So I go “full deposit right?” And he goes off, “yes full deposit. You want to cancel, then cancel. Do a ‘deposit request’ for your deposit, but I’m not here to get yelled at,” and hangs up on me.

I just sit there speechless for a second because I wasn’t yelling and I could hardly believe he went off on me like that and then hung up on me. Like an hour later the owner calls and apologizes and actually explains how to request the deposit back. The whole thing was just so crazy. And after the fact a friend told me stories she’d heard of companies holding the belongings overnight and then holding the stuff hostage in order to force people to pay huge costs to get their stuff back. She thinks that was the scam they were trying to pull so it’s a good thing we canceled.

But it meant that at 1:30 we were faced with the issue of having to rent a U-Haul and find some friends who’d be willing to drop everything and spend the next several hours moving furniture from a 2nd story apartment to a 2 story house. Luckily we had a friend couple who were free that day and agreed to. They really saved us. But it sucked to spend 6 hours moving stuff you’d planed on paying someone else to do. Especially after moving and unpacking the smaller stuff all day the day before.

[will-o-the-witch]

I’m surprised more people don’t talk about making herb bundles out of mint, honestly. It has so many modern cultural associations with cleanliness, plus it’s a powerful grower. You literally have to pot it separately from everything else so it doesn’t grow like a weed and overpower anything you plant it with. Doesn’t that sound like it would make a great bundle to cleanse your house with, get everything feeling clean and absolutely bust up competing energies?

[ribbonandthyme]

Witchcraft for the Home: New Home Edition

So I just moved into my apartment, and I thought I’d share some of the things I did when I moved in to cleanse and ready my house for my new life!

Before moving! Packing your witchy things carefully into a box with packing paper. Put sigils for protection and cleansing either on the outside of the box, or on the paper on the inside. I used This one for cleansing.

When moving in cleanse the house! I choose to use sage, but palo santo works really well too (I know sage does not smell so hot). You can either burn a bundle or use incense or Oil. I find that all three work when it comes to spreading the essence through the house. If burning a bundle I trace the doors and windows of the house. if using incense or oil I put the defuser in the center most room of the house.

protect the entrance of your new home by sprinkling a line of salt outside your front door.

Craft and hang a witches ladder in the living room.

Set up your altar/s. I have my Wiccan one and my shrine for Aphrodite in my bedroom and a small alter in my kitchen. Altar’s do not have to be big and showy if you want to put one in another room! My kitchen altar just consists of a candle and a small bundle of crystals and an incense burner. It helps bring energy into different parts of your home.

House plants! If you’ve never had any before get some house plants to create a vibrant and alive energy. Here are some Herb’s that will grow indoors and here are some easy to grow plants

Use crystals as decor. Place some or your crystals decoratively on shelves or tables to both give your home some pizazz and bring some witchiness everywhere.

If you worship gods/goddesses end by doing a small offering and welcome the god or goddess into your new home and to thank them for their help.

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

I’m buying a house and we close on Friday. It’s a new construction and is supposed to come with appliances. The contract we signed 45 days ago included the appliances. The appraisal they had done last week says the appraised value is contengient on there being the agreed upon appliances. But we don’t have appliances yet. Weeks ago we spoke to the superintendent for the construction and he said that they are on back order because of a national shortage but they will make sure we have them, if anything they’ll go with upgraded models that are in stock. But still no appliances at the first walkthrough today, 4 days before closing. And now his response was a basically a shrug and to say that it’s above his pay grade, that everyone is needing appliances and they have a contract with the manufacturer so they can’t just run to a store and buy retail ones for us. So I’m anxious. We have movers hired to move our furniture Saturday. We are having the internet switched over Friday night. We can’t not have a stove, microwave, fridge, washer and dryer for an undisclosed amount of time. Do we still close if they haven’t fixed it by Friday? IDK what to do here. And it looks like even if they try to go to like Home Depot today, they still wouldn’t have stock because it’s a national shortage.

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

Update: they just texted to say that the appliances should arrive and get installed Wednesday! So hopefully no more delays and we can get them inspected and approved in time for close on Friday! I’m so relieved!

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

*Screams internally* So, apparently they didn’t arrive yesterday and they waited until just now, 90 minutes before our final walkthrough, to call and tell us. And to push our final walkthrough to tomorrow morning. Even though we close at 10am tomorrow morning. And we need our inspector to inspect the installation and hook up and that they work properly still as part of the inspection.

They don’t physically have the appliances yet, they are supposed to be delivered tomorrow. I’ve worked in logistics for large appliances, I know that there’s a high chance that the delivery date will be delayed again. And that they cant be sure the delivery and hook up will happen before we close at 10am. Let alone early enough for us to have our inspector out and to do our final walkthrough before we close.

So it’s almost certain that we will have to make the decision to close on the house that is missing all the appliances that are in the contract as included with the house. And we planned to start moving tomorrow and we have movers scheduled for our furniture Saturday morning. But we can’t live in a house with literally no appliances. So we’ll probably have to reschedule the movers. And all our stuff is already packed, with just the stuff we need for the next ~36 hours out. And we already disassembled our bed frame for the movers so we are sleeping on the floor of the living room. I just feel so hopeless. This wasn’t in my 73-point moving plan.

Even my realtor is getting annoyed with the distinct lack of communication. It’s so frustrating. I know they can’t do anything about the unavailability of appliances. But I also know they should have been keeping us updated instead of making us constantly be the ones to check up, or waiting to tell us until 2 days after they were informed of a delayed delivery date and 90 minutes before we were supposed to have our final walkthrough.

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

Well, we’ve pushed our closing time back to 2:30 pm tomorrow and we’re still waiting for the sales person to receive confirmation from the company delivering the appliances that they have eyes on our order and that it’s physically there ready for delivery tomorrow. And we told them we won’t close without the appliances installed. And if they don’t arrive tomorrow and we have to reschedule our closing for another day, I’m half ready to say I don’t want to buy a house from them because how terribly they’ve handled this situation. Which means starting the house buying process from scratch.

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

I’m a homeowner!

And ALL our appliances are installed!

Timeline of events that lead up to now:

5 pm yesterday: told that microwave, range and fridge are on the truck for tomorrow (today), but the washer and dryer are on back order. Request more information on what the timeframe is for that, and if they are going to upgrade to models that aren’t on back order. Sales person ignores both questions and says that corporate is doing the best they can. I tell her that we understand that but there has been a lack of communication and we need to stay updated.

5:30 pm yesterday: Ask to add an addendum that says they still owe us the washer and dryer. Sales person continues to be very short and snippy.

9 am today: final walkthrough, still no appliances. Told to check back at 1.

1 pm today: realtor tells us he thinks the appliances just pulled up. False alarm, they were for a few houses down.

1:10 pm today: ask company to add an additional addendum that says they owe us all the appliances still, in case they aren’t in before closing.

1:15 pm today: sales person is very apologetic, says this has never happened before and she had no idea how bad the situation was. (I don’t know how she didn’t realize since we told her several times that we didn’t have any appliances in and that we were closing today. But that explains her attitude previously)

1:30 pm today: told that they are on the way with our range and microwave. They say they are upgrading our fridge but it’s at the warehouse a couple hours away so they have to go back for it and it should be here by 5. (I think they either forgot or damaged the fridge and that’s why it wasn’t on the truck and they ended up upgrading it)

2:15 pm today: appliances arrive! And they have a washer and dryer! No one was expecting it but appears that they upgraded them to something they had available today. Our realtor offers to stay at the house and make sure they all get installed ok and work and every while we go to our closing appointment.

2:30 pm today: we go to the closing with a huge weight lifted off our shoulders.

3:30 pm today: we are officially homeowners! And everything but the fridge is installed and working.

4 pm today: realtor leaves. Superintendent says he’s staying in the neighborhood until the fridge gets here.

7 pm today: still no update on the fridge. Superintendent has to go home. We agree to wait one more hour before heading back to our apartment. (Our furniture is getting moved tomorrow morning so tonight’s the last night sleeping in the apartment)

7:30 pm today: superintendent hears from the delivery people. They say that they will be here in 30 minutes.

8:30 pm today: fridge is finally here! If looks different than the model described to us as the upgraded one we’d be getting. But we don’t care and are just so glad it’s here

9 pm today: fridge is done getting installed! We planned on closing at 10 am so that we would have the whole day to move everything in order to make it easier on the movers moving the furniture on Saturday. But with the later signing and waiting around for the Friday all evening, we only managed to get roughly 1/3-1/2 of all the stuff moved. I at least managed to unpack and put away everything we did move.

9:30 pm today: spend the next hour loading up the cars for a trip in the morning and making sure all the furniture is completely clear and nothing around them.

10:30 pm today: take a much needed shower and crawl in bed exhausted.

[yuyuuyuyuu-deactivated20230726]

i pray you heal from things no one ever apologized for

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

I’m buying a house and we close on Friday. It’s a new construction and is supposed to come with appliances. The contract we signed 45 days ago included the appliances. The appraisal they had done last week says the appraised value is contengient on there being the agreed upon appliances. But we don’t have appliances yet. Weeks ago we spoke to the superintendent for the construction and he said that they are on back order because of a national shortage but they will make sure we have them, if anything they’ll go with upgraded models that are in stock. But still no appliances at the first walkthrough today, 4 days before closing. And now his response was a basically a shrug and to say that it’s above his pay grade, that everyone is needing appliances and they have a contract with the manufacturer so they can’t just run to a store and buy retail ones for us. So I’m anxious. We have movers hired to move our furniture Saturday. We are having the internet switched over Friday night. We can’t not have a stove, microwave, fridge, washer and dryer for an undisclosed amount of time. Do we still close if they haven’t fixed it by Friday? IDK what to do here. And it looks like even if they try to go to like Home Depot today, they still wouldn’t have stock because it’s a national shortage.

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

Update: they just texted to say that the appliances should arrive and get installed Wednesday! So hopefully no more delays and we can get them inspected and approved in time for close on Friday! I’m so relieved!

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

*Screams internally* So, apparently they didn’t arrive yesterday and they waited until just now, 90 minutes before our final walkthrough, to call and tell us. And to push our final walkthrough to tomorrow morning. Even though we close at 10am tomorrow morning. And we need our inspector to inspect the installation and hook up and that they work properly still as part of the inspection.

They don’t physically have the appliances yet, they are supposed to be delivered tomorrow. I’ve worked in logistics for large appliances, I know that there’s a high chance that the delivery date will be delayed again. And that they cant be sure the delivery and hook up will happen before we close at 10am. Let alone early enough for us to have our inspector out and to do our final walkthrough before we close.

So it’s almost certain that we will have to make the decision to close on the house that is missing all the appliances that are in the contract as included with the house. And we planned to start moving tomorrow and we have movers scheduled for our furniture Saturday morning. But we can’t live in a house with literally no appliances. So we’ll probably have to reschedule the movers. And all our stuff is already packed, with just the stuff we need for the next ~36 hours out. And we already disassembled our bed frame for the movers so we are sleeping on the floor of the living room. I just feel so hopeless. This wasn’t in my 73-point moving plan.

Even my realtor is getting annoyed with the distinct lack of communication. It’s so frustrating. I know they can’t do anything about the unavailability of appliances. But I also know they should have been keeping us updated instead of making us constantly be the ones to check up, or waiting to tell us until 2 days after they were informed of a delayed delivery date and 90 minutes before we were supposed to have our final walkthrough.

[rhymesxwithxbitch]

Well, we’ve pushed our closing time back to 2:30 pm tomorrow and we’re still waiting for the sales person to receive confirmation from the company delivering the appliances that they have eyes on our order and that it’s physically there ready for delivery tomorrow. And we told them we won’t close without the appliances installed. And if they don’t arrive tomorrow and we have to reschedule our closing for another day, I’m half ready to say I don’t want to buy a house from them because how terribly they’ve handled this situation. Which means starting the house buying process from scratch.