whirlwind of witchcraft

aspiring eclectic witch

[ritualgarden]

Motivation Spell

from my B.O.S

Materials:

jar/bottle/resealable baggie

mortar & pestle

1 orange/yellow candle (something that won’t take a millennia to completely burn out)

flame-proof bowl or container 

a regular bowl

pen & paper

something to carve the candle with

1 tsp mint, dried

1 tsp lavender, dried

1 tsp zest of a citrus fruit (orange, grapefruit, etc.)

1 cup used coffee grounds

a pinch of rose pollen, dried or 1 tsp rose petals

2-4 drops of oil- use one that you associate with activity and motivation (I used essential grapefruit oil)

Do the thing:

Cleanse all your materials first. Once everything is cleansed, combine the mint, lavender, citrus zest, and rose pollen/petals with your mortar and pestle. (If you like, grind the ingredients into a finer powder to make it easier to anoint the candle with.) Charge your candle with your intent and carve a word or symbol into it that you relate motivation to. (I carved the rune Dagaz in it) Anoint your candle with the herbal mixture and your chosen oil. Next, put the used coffee grounds into a bowl a stick the candle in the center of the grounds so that it sits upright.

Light the candle and as it burns down, make a list of the things you need some motivation to do or look after. Once the list is completed, carefully set it aflame with the candle and place the list in the flame-proof bowl. When the list is done burning completely, put the ashes in your selected jar/bottle/bag. When the candle is done burning down, let it cool before adding its remnants and the coffee grounds to the ashes in your jar (or whatever you’ve chosen to store the spell in). Keep it in a space where you have trouble focusing and finding motivation.

[in-her-broomcloset]

Witch Tip: making your sigil look better

Construct your sigils inside a shape. Make this outer shape a different color or thickness to differentiate the sigil from the outline. Develop a Key for deciding which shape to use. For example: a circle = neutral/all-purpose, triangle = protection or ward, square = enhance ability (for motivation or creativity), rectangle = spell-work (for sealing a bottle or charging a spell), star = curse, heart = love, clover = luck Adapt your sigil shapes to whatever you want!

[diaryofadaringwitch]

Law of Inertia- Motivation Spell

Y’all know I am am a huge science nerd- this is the product of that. 

This spell is designed for those days when you have a lot to do- and cannot bring yourself to do any of it. This has been happening to me a lot recently (hello depression) and I absolutely hate feeling lethargic- especially when it has an impact on my practice and my school work. 

So this is my solution. Super simple and effective-pure intent. 

(Reminder that I am not a doctor or a mental health professional and that witchcraft is never a substitute for professional medical care.)

You will need: 

A detailed list of things to do. A great tip for spoonie witches: break things down into the smallest tasks if you need to.  Seems silly-really helps. 

One caffeinated beverage of your choice. If it’s late at night, try something with natural sugars (like fruit). 

Things to make sigils (optional)

One charged crystal of choice (optional) 

Step 1:

Have you: eaten, drank water, slept, taken all of your medication, and showered in the last 24-36 hours? If the answer is no, do that first, unless you are using this spell to motivate yourself for self-care. In either case, spells are much more effective when your body and mind are well-maintained. 

Step 2: 

Make/acquire caffeinated beverage of choice. 

Step 3: 

Plant your feet firmly beneath you, hip-width apart. Roll your shoulders down and back. Take a deep breath and exhale, focusing on how the air moves through you. The air is always in motion, never completely still. Even once it’s inside our lungs, it continues to flow in and out of our cells as it travels through our system. (trust the anatomy nerd)

Step 4: 

Take a long drink of your beverage. As you swallow, focus on the energy inside the cup and how it is becoming a part of you. Think of Newton’s First Law of Motion: An object in motion will stay in motion. The energy in your drink will stay in motion inside your cells. 

Step 5: 

Finish your drink, and get moving. Repeat if necessary. 

You also have the option of keeping a charged crystal in your pocket or wearing it as pendant. (Clear quartz works great for general energy). You can also draw energy producing sigils on your list of things to do, your mug, or your skin. The main goal is to get moving, because it’s easier to continue than it is to start. 

And that’s it! I hope this helps anyone who needs it. If you’ve got any ideas for additions or substitutions, feel free to submit them. My inbox is always open for questions/concerns/proclamations of love. 

Many blessings! - Kate

[moonspookies]

lil tarot tip 🔮

contrary to most beliefs, you can pull for yes or no questions! here’s a short cheat sheet for when you have a question on whether you should do something ✨

wands

yes, but you’ll have to work for it!

cups

yes, it’ll come to you naturally!

pentacles

this one means it will come with a price...

swords

absolutely not!

major arcana

“good luck” and be careful

side note

get the details on your answer! pull more cards to see where you could go wrong or how you can improve the situation :) follow your intuition! remember, not everything is set in stone ✨

[softspellcaster]

Tagged by @frecklyfreak love you and miss you 😘

@paladinmoony you’re next 😉

Post your lock/ home screens and last song you listened to!

Lock screen: the Parthenon in Athens cause I’m a huge nerd

Home screen: lyrics to everythingoes by Kim Namjoon that I found written on a bathroom stall in college

Last song I listened to: Spring Day by BTS because it’s such a hopeful song and I’ve basically had it on repeat since lockdown started

[despazito]

vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs….why

[despazito]

people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens

[feminist-james]

This is not true.

1) honeybees do not produce “extra honey.” And beekeepers don’t take some of the honey, they take all of it.

2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens.

[spoonfulofwhoopass]

Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading misinformation? Are you a beekeeper?

Because I am!

Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don’t take all of it.

But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies. If there’s a spike in the weather and the hive hasn’t prepared new queen brood, that’s it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn’t enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.

Beekeepers take excess honey. We are constantly monitoring the state of the hive, checking for parasites, analyzing the eggs for diseases, and making sure they are fed and healthy (usually with sugar water and pollen substitutes until they have made enough honey to sustain themselves in the early spring months). If a queen dies prematurely, we make every attempt to replace her to save the colony.

I know there’s an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation.

If you’re this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way).

But yeah! Stop spreading misinformation! Please 🐝

[fslut]

Also if I can harp on the chicken part?

Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and I’ll be the first to admit it’s criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this.

Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling.

THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS

Many people take to raising their own hens because of America’s immoral treatment of hens in factory farms like you’re not helping the poor chicks by starving these farmers financially you’re just hurting the one people trying to change things and making the OPTION of cage free organic cruelty free eggs even harder to find

[harvestspriteirl]

Yeah, as someone who like… lives on a chicken and duck farm… Coops help keep wild animals out but birds are kinda dumb. And chickens literally do not need to keep the unfertilized eggs! 

Most chickens will sit on unfertilized eggs until they can tell if they are or not… By the smell of rotting egg. Yeah, ew. Farmers can hold that bitch to the flashlight and tell if there’s a baby in there! They know! The eggs are not being abused!

[kuzuryuu-course]

Also, if you separate your cocks and your hens, there wont even be that issue in the first place. Egg-laying is basically chicken menstruation, but unlike mammalian menstruation which is full of blood and dead tissue, chicken menstruation is full of tasty tasty nutrients

[cluckbuck7]

Support local farms! Most grocery stores carry eggs from small, local farms that give hens acres of open pasture and healthier housing.

[jheselbraum]

Also, that “selectively bred to lay eggs more often” thing? Literally just comes from feeding the chickens every day. The chicken’s ancestors would only lay an egg when there was abundant food, so people started feeding them every day to get more eggs. That’s it.

[softspellcaster]

Also to add an extra perspective: these animals are now domesticated (and that goes for other farm animals). Domesticed means that we have genetically changed these animals and they would NOT survive without human intervention.

Realistically there is no way to return to how things were without killing millions of animals, which would kind of go against the ethics of veganism/ vegetarianism. But do you know what does help???

Supporting local farmers

[songsparrowwitch]

👁️Realize Your Wrongdoings Curse👁️

This spell is to make someone realize and feel guilty about their wrongdoings.

👁️ Ingredients: 👁️ Poppet, taglock, or other representation of the target 👁️ Paper and pen 👁️ Container 👁️ Lemon juice 👁️ Onion powder 👁️ Optional: googly eyes

👁️ First, take your poppet or other representation of the target. If you have googly eyes, put those on it if possible. Have the surface entirely covered except for the representation’s eyes if it has them. 👁️ Then take your container and line the bottom of it with googly eyes if you have them. Take the pen and paper and list their wrongdoings and then put it into the container along with the representation of the target. Say, “Look at what you’ve done wrong, [target’s name]. [Their wrongdoing(s)] shall always be on your mind. You can never look away from what you’ve done!” 👁️ Then add the lemon juice and onion powder to the container and say, “You shall feel incredible remorse and guilt for [their wrongdoing(s)]. You shall never forgive yourself for [wrongdoing(s)]!” 👁️ If you want this to be a hex, add on, “Until you have done right by me, you shall be forever cursed to feel the utmost guilt for your actions henceforth.” 👁️ Close the container and keep it in a dark place. Cleanse your space.

[obsidianservant]

To Get The Job You Want

Oregano

Basil

Button (green would be best)

Something to attach the button to that’s related to the job (optional)

Sprinkle the oregano and basil on the table. Set the button on top of it and let it sit for a little bit. Remove the button and gather up the herbs. Place the herbs in a fire safe container and burn them until they are smoking. Pass the button through the smoke while saying:

With the aide of this button, I do find, A job that I Am proud to call mine.

At night, place the button on a charging board. (credit to seraphickalmagick for the idea of a charging board) Something kinda like the picture below. Make sure it includes all the things that you want in a job, the more specific the better.

Keep the button on you during the day, especially as you’re job hunting. You can attach the button to something that is related to the job you are wanting to make the spell more powerful.

My Personal Experience: An hour after I wrote this spell, I got a call from the place I was wanting to work at. 

I crocheted a bracelet to keep the button with me throughout the day to ensure that the interview went well. Originally I was interviewing for a position in the framing department, but that ended up fizzling out. Instead I was offered a job as a…crochet instructor ;)

Hopefully this will work as well for you as it did for me!

[hearts-hunger]

i’ve been saying this to myself this morning and i’m going to say it to you in case you need to hear it: you are not here to be physically attractive. that is not your purpose. you are here to learn new things and be kind to people and listen to your favorite music and pet cute dogs and read big books and drink good coffee. you are here to see beauty in the world and create it when you can’t find any. you are not here to impress people with how you look.

[xxwitchyxwomanxx]

[jenny-jinya]

Kinda unhappy with this one, had too much story/ideas in my mind, but too few pages lol. Anyway, the message is still important. Rabbits often suffer from poor keeping and are often abandoned, especially around Easter time.

[hexeandharmony]

🤍Daily Affirmation🤍

“I am learning to trust the journey.”

[servantofthefates]

Tarot Cards that are Marvelous When Reversed

Reversed cards like to rain on your parade, delaying what is hoped for and dampening what is great. But not all of them are villainous. These ones are especially auspicious.

The Devil

The ropes around you are loosening. Your liberation is coming.

Five of Cups

Pain has been dealt. Grief has been felt. Sorrow can now begin to melt.

The Moon

What is hidden will come to light. All will once again be clear and bright.

Five of Wands

Conflicts are almost over. Furious minds and hateful hearts will soon feel sober.

The Hanged Man

What is delayed is now in position. Action will soon succeed stagnation.

Four of Cups

A farewell to dullness and apathy. You will soon have a reason to be very happy.

Three of Swords

Forgiveness will be given or received. Your agony will hence be relieved.

The Tower

You survived or avoided a disaster. What awaits now are greener pastures.

Ten of Swords

The worst of it is over. From this moment, it all starts to get better.

Nine of Swords

There are no more reasons to worry. You can stop being scared and weary.

Five of Pentacles

All that you lost and all that you lack are now, at last, on their way back.

Knight of Swords

Sympathy and gentleness will banish cruelty and recklessness.

Eight of Swords

Remove now your blindfold. What was once copper has been turned into gold.

Ten of Wands

The heaviness will lift. You will put down your burdens and set them adrift.

Five of Swords

You are moving on from defeat. Enough of the bitter, and more of the sweet.

[random99musings-deactivated2021]

[aircademia]

i would like …. many books…. some plants….. a couple of candles…….. and some peace and quiet 

[softspellcaster]

Me: I don’t particularly want to work with deities. I’m not really sure how I feel about them.

Also me: Suddenly starts noticing possible signs from Apollo that I’ve probably been ignoring my whole life

[softspellcaster]

SO I don’t know if this is a sign or not BUT I do archery (been doing it for like a year) and the other day I was shooting in my back yard. I lost one arrow. I SAW it go into the hedge that surrounds my garden. I couldn’t find it, looked for hours and eventually just gave up.

Literally last night, I decided that I might try and see where this whole Apollo thing might go (along with Artemis as well because I’ve always LOVED the moon). Today I sorta revamped my altar, started thinking about things I might offer them, then went out to shoot some arrows. As I was collecting my last round of arrows, I found the one I lost, just LYING ON THE GRASS.

I don’t know what to make of it?? This is all so new to me. Any advice would be really helpful

[georgethegarbageman]

✨🐝Magick Bee Facts bc I'm bored in quarantine!!🐝✨

• Bees were thought to be the spirits of Aphrodite's high priestesses in Ancient Greece, this is why if you're seeing a lot of bees where you usually wouldn't, it could be a sign that Aphrodite is trying to contact you! (Source / tw: slightly transphobic language)

• Honey is a great offering for pretty much any Greek deity! I can't speak for other pantheons, but I know that most of the Greek gods/goddesses like honey!

• Use honey in a spell jar to sweeten the results! It can also represent a prolonged waiting period for the spell to work or a slow release of sweetness!

• if you see a struggling bee, mix water and white, granulated sugar to help them get their energy back! HOWEVER!! Do not leave the solution out in a bowl, this will revive the tired bee, but it will also bring more bees to the easy food source which doesn't really have much nutritional value in the first place, but the bees will also go for the sugar water over pollinating flowers, and you can see where the problem is with this solution. If you do want to help revive a tired bee, give them the solution on a teaspoon rather than in a bowl. If you want to help further, you can plant flowers that bloom all year round, and also leave some water in a bowl with some rocks and pebbles at the bottom for them to drink! (Source)

• Bees can symbolise productivity, and working hard, but also taking the time to enjoy yourself. The bee knows that there is a time and place for working and a time and place for relaxing and having fun.

• They're also just very cute and I love them haha SAVE THE BEES!!