A Soft Witch Boy

Witch Boy Genderfluid (he/him, they/them) Embroidery, Illustration, Non-binary Fashion EDS, POTS, Neurodiverse Follow my cat on ig: @jamesmcatavoy

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Non-Dairy Milk Correspondences 🌿🥛

Milk corresponds with love, nurturing and spirituality, but what happens when your milk is non-dairy? Here is a list of correspondences for vegan witches, lactose intolerant magic practitioners, and anyone else who doesn’t dig dairy in their craft. Enjoy!

(This is a collection of correspondences I’ve gathered from all over the web. I am not claiming that these are my own original correspondences.)

Non Dairy Milks:

🌿 Soy: Protection, Psychic Awareness, Spirituality

🌿 Almond: Healing, Prosperity, Wisdom, Overcoming Addiction, Abundance, Luck

🌿 Coconut: Allure, Confidence, Diversity, Flexibility, Protection, Psychic Awareness, Purification, Spirituality

🌿 Hemp: Positive Energy, Manifestation, Healing, Protection, Peace, Meditation, Removal of Negative Influences, Love, Binding, Psychic Visions

🌿 Oat: Grounding, Prosperity, Beauty, Healing, Health

🌿 Rice: Fertility, Abundance, Blessings, Protection, Rain, Security, Wealth

🌿 Cashew: Prosperity, Increase Energy, Communication

🌿 Flax: Beauty, Healing, Protection, Money, Psychic Enhancement

🌿 Pea: Love, Prosperity

🌿 Hazelnut: Fertility, Luck, Mental Enhancement, Wisdom, Dreams, Divination, Spirit Work, Wishes

🌿 Macadamia: Prosperity

🌿 Sunflower: Protection, Success, Positive Energy, Confidence, Happiness

🌿 Pistachio: Breaking Hexes/Curses, Breaking Trances, Grounding, Divination

Flavors:

🍫 Chocolate: Love, Romance, Friendship, Grounding, Prosperity, Comfort, Healing

🥛Vanilla: Love, Energy Restoration, Mental Enhancement, Good Fortune, Healing, Joy

🍓 Strawberry: Purification, Fertility, Love, Abundance, Dedication, Inner Vision, Success, Intensity

🍬 Sugar (not a flavor but many milks have added sugars): Love and Protection

[softwitchboy]

Going to make rice pudding into an emotional safety and growth spell.

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A small walk to collect snow for some winter cleaning spells.

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The Power of Snow

Snow has this way of brightening everything. Have you ever noticed that you can see at night when theres snow on the ground? Its like when it snows, the entire world can suddenly magnify the light of the sun and moon. I think snow is very powerful.

Here are the energies I get from snow and the symbolism behind it:

Purifying - the world is now covered in a blanket of white, a color of purity. The fridgid temperature cleanses disease.

Preserving - Snow can preserve food if the food is kept cool by it.

Trapping - snow packs into a hard bal of ice very easily, effectively ensnaring whatever you like within

Tranquility - Snow knows how to take life as it comes, It gives way for anything landing on it, but packs firmly beneath that object. It is also made of water.

Death and Sleep - the first snowfall begins the hybernation and death of all things, as the cycle goes.

Air and Water - Snow is the child of Air and Water as is any form of weather involving water from the sky.

As the snow falls in your neigborhood, resist the urge to hide from it. Use this plentiful magickal resource!

Banishing negative energy.

This one’s a simple one:

Take black tourmaline (or another symbol that absorbs negative energies) and hold it, focusing all your negative energy into it.

Take the (or replacement) outside and form a snowball around it. Pack it thickly around the object.

Throw said snowball as far as you can to banish negative energies and watch the snow scatter as it goes, sending the energy into the earth to be repurposed.

Hope you guys have fun working some snow magick!

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❄️ A Spell for Snow ❄️

inspired by the scene with lucy and the book of incantations in the voyage of the dawn treader, a spell to help bring snow and cold weather

❄️ gather: a pineocone, water, sugar, and a white ribbon. 

❄️ dip the pinecone in water, don’t let it soak

❄️ roll it in sugar until some sticks. 

❄️ tie the white ribbon around the pinecone

❄️ hang somewhere outside

❄️ as you hang it, chant:

“With these words your tongue must sew,

for all around there to be snow.”

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The Domestic Garden Witch: Po-Ta-Toes

So maybe you’re a college witch with limited space and money, limited to the one window in your dorm. Or, maybe you’re a witch without extensive backyard space who wants to start up a magical garden. Perhaps you’re a kitchen witch who wants the freshest herbs right at her fingertips.

For many witches, having a garden seems to be a bit of a no-brainer. After all, plants and magic go hand-in-hand. Plus, when thinking of a witch, it’s hard not to think of a cottage in the woods with a little vegetable garden out front. Unfortunately for the majority of us, our cottage in the woods is a tiny flat, and our garden out front is a windowsill with limited space.

This is when it comes time to embrace your craftiness and bring your garden indoors! Not only does it place your garden in a convenient location, it also allows you to freshen the air, recycle what would otherwise harm the earth, and embrace your witchy green thumb!

Samwise Gamgee’s Dream Come True!

Okay, so if you follow my blog, chances are that you’re wondering if this whole potato theme for today is because of St. Patrick’s. I promise, I’m not enforcing Irish stereotypes on purpose. I just really like potatoes, and when it comes to gardening, it’s a bit of a disservice to overlook this vegetable. After all, when we think about kitchen gardens or home gardens, we think of herbs or flowers, and not about the veggies we eat that live a rather subterranean existence. But potatoes - those lovely little brown lumps that we can get for a couple dollars per five pound bag in the supermarket - are not only inexpensive. They’re extremely hardy little plants that can be grown rather easily.

You don’t need much to get started with this project. First, you need “seed potatoes.” This is not hard to find. Simply take a few potatoes and allow them to grow a bit. They will sprout a few short little stalks from the eyes on the surface. Save these, and get potting mix and two medium to large plastic pots that can easily stack one inside the other.

Carefully cut a few panes out of the inner pot as in the picture above, then place the inner pot into the outer one. Fill the pot part way with soil, add your seed potatoes, and cover them with potting mix. Water as needed until the potato plants peek up out of the soil. Cover them again and repeat this process gradually until the pot is full.

In roughly three months, you’ll have potato plants that are ready to begin harvesting. Simply lift the inner pot up and pluck your potatoes as needed from the sides! Fresh potatoes, free!

Ideally, this method of potato cultivation can help feed a family of four for about a year. My family had used this method, and our family of five was able to stay fed for a year off of two of these planters (we like potatoes… and we eat them a lot…)

How Can I Witch This?

Potatoes are very useful in witchcraft, and you can find out some of their magickal uses in my Foodie Friday article about Seafood Gnocchi. As for growing them, many of those properties remain the same!

As with any gardening venture, add crystals to the soil to promote healthy and fruitful plants, draw sigils and symbols on the pottery or planters, and incorporate protection or fertility ingredients into the soil - such as eggshell or coffee grounds.

Outside of the useful culinary benefits of having a potato planter on your front porch, a garden such as this is useful for outdoor space cleansing in small spaces, and for inviting prosperity into your home or property since potatoes represent such comforts as full bellies and pockets.

Since a small number of potatoes can be used to produce a much larger quantity in this planting method, you could even turn them into a prosperity or slow growth money spell! Pour your intent into the seed potatoes when you plant them, and as they produce new crops, give them water and food as an offering in order to keep the spell fed! Some of the potatoes produced in this way can also be converted into offerings or used in spellwork, in addition to being used to cook with!

The possibilities are practically endless where potatoes are concerned! See what you can do with these nifty little spuds!

And may your harvests always be bountiful!

Blessed Be! )O(

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The ABC’s of Herbs; a common collection of lazy basics.

A

Allspice - Money, luck, healing, obtaining treasure. Determination and energy in spells. Almond - Wisdom, money, fruitfulness, and prosperity. Good for overcoming bad habits.

Apple – Love, friendship, healing, fertility.

Anise – Ward off judgement, happiness, psychic ability, help with nightmares, protection.

B

Basil - Love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Bay Leaves – Protection, luck, success, purification, strength, healing, psychic power. Birch - Protection, exorcism and purification. Black Pepper - Banishing negativity, exorcism, and protection from evil.

C

Catnip – Love, beauty, happiness, protection.

Celery Seed - Mental and psychic powers, concentration. Chamomile - Love, healing, and reducing stress. Add to sachets to increase chance of success. Cherry - Love, divination, gaiety and happiness. Chili Powder – Loyalty, love, hex breaking. Cilantro – Peace, protection, balance. Cinnamon - Spirituality, success, healing, protection, power, love, luck, strength, and prosperity. Coffee - Helps to dispel nightmares and negative thoughts and to overcome internal blockages. Provides peace of mind and grounding. Cloves – Exorcism, protection, love, money, banishing, purifiy. Cumin - Fidelity, protection, and exorcism. The seed is said to prevent the theft of any object which contains it.

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Vertibracelets by @highnoonheather. These are stackable and flexible and amazing!!!

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Check out these stackable vertebrae skeleton bracelets from @highnoonheather I know Halloween is technically over, but it’s never too late for this kind of epic witchy jewelry.

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Updating my wishlist with these pieces of art. <3

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Witch tip: Solo Yule

Ok, so here we go again: solitary witch tip to lowkey celebrate Yule, Jöl, Christmas, Winter Solstice, Natale, etc… if you have no coven, are away from your group, are a closeted witch or if you’re running on low spoons.

Just a note, I spent quite some time despising Christmas when I was a teenager up until when I realized the thibgs I liked about it so my tips might be filtered through that. Feel free to differ and add your own.

- decorate around the house, this is THE time of the year to deck out stars, holly, wreaths, greenery, reindeers and other animalbstatuibes, lights and candles, ANYTHING

- anyone said christmas tree? Even the most tradizional pine tree with glod and red globes (signifying a fruitful, bountiful new year) will do but you can also add all the symbols you like

- tradition: is there any local food that is prepared for this time of the year? Does your family have any traditional meal they always serve? Are there any folk traditions around? (i.e. my family alwats has the same menu, and then the night between the 24 and the 25 there is a biiiiiig bonfire outside the church, so we attend and sip mulled wine)

- speaking of mulled wine: learn to make some, and, for underage or non-drinking witches, you can make some spectacular mulled apple juice by warming it up with the same spices!!!

- learn to brew other hot beverages, you can concoct your “special christmas mixture” with blessing herbs and spices and you can give that out as a gift, or you can learn how to make hot cocoa from scrarch, consacrate the mixture and serve it to visiting friends and family while you talk about your plans and goals for the new year

- this is something I like to do: write down your “Santa’s list”, all the things you wish to get, but make it the big ones: a degree? A job? Love? A house? A familiar? A baby? Write all that down, with DETAILS!!! And then try to see if what you want can be summed up by one definition (a couple of years ago I wanted things that could be summed up by “stability”, another time it was “queen in my own right”). Then open photoshop, paste pictures found online that remind you of how you would feel if you already had those things you want (i.e. I once put a particularly happy picture of myself, where I looked confident, or for example if you want a year of coziness and relax, maybe a cabin in the forest, or if you want to travel the world a picture of an overflowing suitcase). Go overboard with it, don’t think you are being too greedy. Then print the collage and scribble your definition with a sympathetic colored ink. Keep the collage where you can see it everyday.

- on the winter solstice burn the old collage, or the old string with your wishes written on papers tied all together, and make the new one

- create new traditions

- notice how the days are getting shorter and darker… and then longer and lighter again

- clean up old junk and stuff

- let the frizzy air of winter clear out stale energies by opening up the windows for 30 minutes at least once a week

- find your best red lipstick and wear it. And if you want it enchant it to speak blessings to others

- know that the coldest months are upon us but light IS coming back

- make soups and stews with seasonal, local produce

- learn folk remedies to keep glu and cold at bay

-go out for a walk in the snow, let your cheeks become red and cold then come back home and warm up with a blanket and a good book

- watch seasonal movies

- learn some christmas carols to sing in the house, to charge it with positive energy (I like Annie Lennox’s God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)

- hang mistletoe and kiss underneath it

- jump over a bunch of tealights (it fucking works like a charm)

- pull out 13 tarot cards, one for each month and one for the overall year, write down their advice and check periodically throughout the year

- “be merry and bright” ;)

[softwitchboy]

Getting excited for yule.

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Amy Earles | Art of Amy Earles | Witch art, Art, Illustration art

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Love this for embroidery inspiration.

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October 2019 Illustrations  ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ

[softwitchboy]

Emotional: dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble Divinatory: Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. Always means honesty. May signify news about an unexpected heritage. Reversed: Good but severe, austere yet tolerant Physical: king on a throne holding a flowering branch. Wearing a cap of maintenance under crown. Image of a lion is emblazoned on his throne. Sources: King of Wands: https://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pktwaki.htm Wikipedia ‘Cap of Maintenance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_of_maintenance

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Old Burial Hill, Marblehead, MA

Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor 28-28mm lens

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[softwitchboy]

Finally got a new sketchbook! Broke it in with some beetles. ❤️

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Ashley Williams |Spring 2020 Ready-to-Wear

[softwitchboy]

Well now I need metal spiderweb lingerie.