Eldritch Pastel Goth

| Cecil | it/any | 24 | queer | | Capricorn sun | Cancer moon | | eclectic witch | gardening | tarot | my craft is loosely based in wicca, but holds stronger roots in the traditions i was raised with. i don’t curse, but i won’t judge you for choosing to. i haven’t hexed anyone, but i could see myself doing so. sideblog/digital BoS.

[stormbornwitch]

"The magic performed by witches is frequently either sympathetic or contagious. Sympathetic magic works by using a stand-in for the person who is the target of the magical act. Under this umbrella term, fall the use of poppet, bread baked into the shape of a person, or acts performed on a graven image. Contagious magic is similar but works on the principle of proximity: the use of hair or fingernails can bind the charm to the person for whom it is intended. In addition, placing the charm near a person or their property can confer the properties of the charm onto the target. The nature of these workings need not be baneful; charms worked via sympathy and contagion can bring blessings of protection and luck just as easily."

- Roger J. Horne's Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, & the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner.

[witchble]

Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is clean your room, open the window, and let the air move again. Energy needs circulation just like lungs do.

[faeberrywine]

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[amphisia]

A short list of ways to add some magic to your every day life (for disabled folks):

-say a blessing over your pills

-draw a sigil on the bottom of your cane; every time your cane strikes the ground your sigil is strengthened

-charge your electrolyte drink in the moon

-embroider sigils on your wheelchair cover

-let your energy/pain levels guide you in your day; listening to your body is indeed a form of magic

-bless your medical cannabis or other medicinal herbs

-draw sigils on yourself using pain cream or other topical medication

-charge your bottle of distilled water in the moon/sun before using it in your CPAP

-set intentions into braces (strength & support are some of my favorites)

-bless any & all mobility aids to help you

-use your pain when hexing or cursing

-ward your insulin pump against occlusions or failure

-set the intention of dumping the shit in your life when you empty your ostomy

-when using counter maneuvers for POTS, visualize yourself being grounded & connected to the earth

-use the extended digestion time with gastroperesis as a multiplier for kitchen magic

[thevixenwitch]

Witch tip: Buy crystals from rockhounds, not metaphysical shops. A rockhound is a lot more likely to charge you a fair rate based on actual value as opposed to a markup.

Side note, it’s usually good to check the actual going rate of stones to know if you may be getting ripped off. There is an insane stock to meet the incredible high demand for crystals, so there are plenty for everyone out there. Don’t feel rushed or pressured to buy anything.

Also, it’s a red flag if your provider doesn’t know where the crystals they’re selling were sourced. Same for most things one could find at a metaphysical shop, but the intense demand for crystals has created a pretty horrific market that relies on slave labor fairly often. The modern crystal market has been referred to as the new blood diamond trade for a reason!

Let’s all aim to be a bit more ethical with our consumption when we can, and acknowledge that having any kind of a collection is a privilege that we need to take some accountability for.

[solarpunk-witch]

happy solstice! i hope you found time to celebrate, even if only in a small way! i’m taking a cleansing bath with orange, apple, and grapefruit slices; basil leaves; and several sprigs of rosemary, plus some lavender, eucalyptus, mint, pink salt and other bath salts/bombs. had a very stressful year and i want to release all the negative energy that’s clinging to me from all year and intensified up until this moment, more or less.

things shall be ok. as i will, so it is.

🧿🤍🛡️🎄🪴🍊🧡💜🧡🍊🪴🎄🛡️🤍🧿

[buriedpentacles]

"I can't connect to nature because I live in a city" Incorrect.

"I can't connect to nature because I can't travel" Nuh-uh.

"I can't connect to nature because I-" Wrong.

Anyone can connect to nature. Please, remove the mindset that nature is something *out there*. Nature is all around you.

The dandelions peeking through pavement cracks, the birds you don't notice on your windowsill, the brambles in the alleys, the storms and sunshine.

All of this is nature. You are surrounded by it. Notice it, learn about it. Write down when you notice the days getting longer, when more butterflies appear and when ripen blackberries ripen. Connect to the nature that lives outside your window, just past the boundary of your front door.

Watch nature documentaries, build a small windowsill garden, let the spider in your room corner stay for a while.

Connection is not determined by proximity, but by effort.

[witches-bottle-deactivated20241]

Regardless of whether you stay in a great expanse of field or a city:

The Sun still rises

The Moon still rises

Ants still eat what they find

Plants grow in cracks

Someone's making bread with yeast

The rain still comes and goes

The wind still blows

Animals still have the sex

Plants and animals are born and die

Moss still grows in the drainage

The worlds goes on, Nature is a verb, not a noun or adjective. There is no separation.

[solarpunk-witch]

also: you are part of nature, too. check in with your body and connect with it. even if you lack the energy to look out your window, nature is within you already. notice how your energy changes from day to day, how the seasons affect that. notice how getting outside and standing in the sun/wind/rain or looking at local plants and animals makes your body and mind feel, notice how staying cooped up inside makes you feel. nature is everywhere, and you’re part of it. move your body, even if only a little. feel every fibre of your natural body and know that this, too, is a connection to nature.

[skincareroutine]

i love things that come in glass jars because once its over the glass jar is mine

[samwisethewitch]

Bewitching Your Coffee

I am 100% a coffee drinker. I love drinking it black, I love it in lattes and cappucini (yes, that's the actual plural of cappucino), and I especially love the experience of sharing coffee with another person. And, like everything that comes out of my kitchen, I like finding ways to make coffee more magical.

But even though coffee is a daily essential for a lot of us and has a long history in folk magic, people don't talk about it nearly as much as tea magic. I did some digging, and this post contains my research into the magic and lore of coffee and the things we like to add to coffee. I hope my fellow kitchen witches find this helpful!

Correspondences of Coffee and Common Coffee Add-ons

Coffee: Used for grounding and to anchor a spell in the physical world. Useful in spells for mental clarity and enhancing psychic senses. Used in several types of American folk magic as an offering for spirits. Author Starr Casas uses coffee for powerful cleansing and blockbusting in her Southern folk magic practice. Because of its association with energy and movement, coffee can be used to add strength to spells. I personally associate coffee with the Earth and Air elements and with the planet Uranus.

Milk has different correspondences based on whether you are using cow's milk or a plant-based milk.

Cow's Milk: Associated with nurturing, love, and abundance. In pagan Ireland, offering someone milk was an effective blessing. Milk and cream are said to be favorite offerings of fairies. I associate cow's milk with the Water element and the Moon.

Soy Milk: Soy may have been a sacred food crop in ancient China and is associated with blessings. During the Japanese festival Setsubun, soy beans are used to repel bad spirits and draw good fortune in a practice called mamemaki -- soy products can be used in spells for protection or good fortune. Use soy milk or other soy products in spells for success, good luck, and prosperity. I personally associate soy milk with the Earth element and with the planet Jupiter.

Almond Milk: Associated with prosperity, wealth, and success in business, as well as with increasing wisdom. Almond milk and other almond products are associated with the Air element and the planet Mercury.

Coconut Milk: Associated with purification, healing, and protection. In African American magic traditions, coconut can be used for peaceful home work and protection work, as well as ancestor offerings. Coconut is associated with the Water element and the moon.

Oatmilk: Associated with prosperity and money magic. Oats are associated with the Earth element and the planet Venus.

Sweeteners attract sweetness and good fortune. Different sweeteners have their own associations.

Sugar: Associated with love and lust. In Southern folk magic, sugar is sometimes used in money work. Sugar is associated with the Water element and the planet Venus.

Brown Sugar: Has the same associations as regular sugar, but works more slowly because it contains molasses.

Honey: Associated with home, family, love, and blessings. In Southern folk magic, honey is sometimes used in domination or control work, especially honeycomb. I personally associate honey with the Water element and with the planet Venus.

Maple Syrup: Associated with love, money, and long life. I personally associate maple with new life and transformation based on Robin Wall Kimmerer's writings about them in Braiding Sweetgrass. Associated with the Air element and the planet Jupiter.

Artificial Sweeteners (Splenda, xylitol, and other man-made sweeteners): There's very little written about the magical uses of these sweeteners, but I personally associate them with creativity, innovation, and new discoveries. I associate these sweeteners with the Air element and the planets Mercury and Uranus.

Caramel* is actually made from sugar, which is cooked over low heat until it caramelizes, or turns brown. Caramel has the same magical associations as sugar, but with a stronger connection to Fire energy and to transformation.

*Note: In the US, "caramel" is often made with corn syrup. For example, the caramel drizzle at Starbucks is basically 100% corn syrup, or at least was when I worked there a few years back. This isn't to say you can't work magically with corn syrup-based caramel, but the energy will be different. I don't have experience here because I have a corn allergy, so I'd love to hear if anyone has experience working with corn syrup in witchcraft!

Chocolate** is originally from Latin America and was an important ceremonial drink in Mayan culture. In Mexica (Aztec) culture, chocolate was used as currency and was said to be a gift from the gods. It was associated with the devil and with witchcraft when it was first brought to Spain by colonizers. Later, during the Renaissance, it was seen as a miracle cure for all kinds of medical conditions. Based on its history, chocolate can be used in magic for love, sex, energy, spirituality, magical abilities, and healing. I personally associate chocolate with the Fire element and with the Sun.

**Note: Scott Cunningham includes a note on "chocolate" in his book on magical herbs, but this is actually carob, Jacaranda procera. The cacao tree, which produces chocolate, is Theobroma cacao.

Cinnamon is associated with success, healing, adding power to spells, spirituality, wealth, and protection. Cinnamon is important in Christian folk magic because of its use in the Bible. In Southern folk magic, cinnamon is used for money, luck, and lust and is said to work very fast. It can also be used for blessings and protection spells. It is associated with the Fire element and the Sun.

Clove is probably most famous for its use in spells to stop gossip, but it is also used to drive away harmful spirits and to attract wealth. It is also sometimes used in love and sex magic and for successful business work. It is connected to the Fire element and the planet Jupiter.

Ginger adds power to spells and situations. It is used in spells for love, money, success, and healing, but it can be included in any spell to add power or make results happen faster. Ginger is associated with Fire and with the planet Mars.

Hazelnuts have long been used in Western European folk charms for luck and good fortune. It is said that eating hazelnuts makes you wise and can increase fertility. Hazel is also associated with protection and with granting wishes. It is connected to the Air element and the Sun.

Lavender is used in love spells, especially spells to attract a masculine partner. It also has a strong association with peacefulness and with calming emotions. It is sometimes used for protection and is said to both attract and banish spirits, depending on the source. Lavender has a long historic connection to the queer community. It is associated with Air and the planet Mercury.

Nutmeg is most famous as a good luck charm, but it is also used for healing, money, and success. In Southern folk magic, it is used mostly for money, success, and good luck. It is associated with Fire and with Jupiter.

Peppermint is commonly used in healing magic, but it can also be used for purification, attracting good spirits, divination, love, and money. In Southern folk magic, peppermint is used for hex breaking. It is associated with Fire and the planet Mercury.

Vanilla is strongly associated with love and comfort. It can sometimes be used in lust spells. Scott Cunningham mentions using vanilla to replenish lost energy. It is associated with the Water element and the planet Venus.

Magical Coffee Brews

With these ingredient correspondences, you can easily mix a spell into a coffee drink. For example, a pumpkin spice latte (which is made with pumpkin pie spice, i.e., a mix of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves) can be a spell for money and success. A lavender latte with oatmilk could be an excellent love spell, especially for queer love. A peppermint mocha (coffee with chocolate) could be a healing spell. There are lots of possibilities for a magic brew!

Sources:

Witchcraft for Everyone by Sam Wise

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham

Hoodoo Herbal by Starr Casas

Jambalaya by Luisah Teish

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Wikipedia article for soybeans

Wikipedia article for Setsubun

"History of Chocolate" on History.com

"Chocolate: From witchcraft to miracle worker in early modern Europe" by Erin Alice Cowling, published in The Conversation

[aegnor29]

[valentinebitchbaby]

[444her]

MONEY FLOWS TO ME IN EXPECTED AND UNEXPECTED WAYS

[studies-in-heathenry]

When it comes to my spiritual practice, I’d rather be inconsistent but sincere than consistent but empty.

[deerundevotee]

things ive learned just looking through about witchy/pagan stuff and experimenting myself

 - witchcraft is not religious inherently. wicca is its own thing, paganism is its own thing

- clear quartz and white candles are good replacements for anything else you might use crystal or candle wise

- playing cards make good tarot replacements, which is good if youre poor or in the broom closet

- the gods seem pretty chill. if they want you to know or do something, they’ll make sure it gets across

- religious guilt is really hard to deal with but there are a lot of people in the same boat. look for the comfort in your practice, rather than the condemnation

- you dont need the most expensive stuff to be a “real” witch/devotee/follower. what matters is the effort you put into things, not how much you spent on items 

- you dont have to tell a damn person about your journey. if you can and want to thats cool, but you do not have to. be safe first and foremost

[e-punx]

Choosing wood for my cane the way witches do with wands 💫

[windvexer]

Today's hot take: Witches thinking that spell types (like candle spells and jar spells, mainly) are boring/irritating/stupid just because they're popular with beginners or TikTokers, is a very unsexy reactionary stance.

You're giving power to trends to dictate your practice, trends that you supposedly don't care about.

You're reducing your own spiritual practice to "I'm not like other witches," which implies the only reason you're in this is because you want to feel special/unique and you feel your path is invalidated if it shares traits with mainstream spaces.

And if that is you, tbh just own it:

"I don't like jar spells because I find WitchTok to be really embarrassing and I don't want to do anything that's popular there right now."

Or now that all the l33t advanced witches have spent time polluting the waters, I think we'd be more likely to hear, "I don't like jar spells because I want to do real magic."

Because acting like these forms of magic are shitty just because they've got the spotlight of the mainstream on them is... shitty. And misleading. And it's a form of worshiping trends.

And acting like (or outright saying!) people who use and enjoy these forms of magic are "basic," boring, or oBvIoUsLy BeGinNeRs is actually not the cool kid in highschool move you think it is.

There's nothing wrong with saying, "all I see are candle spells and I'm bored with it, I want to explore and share other forms of magic." Or as a form of teaching, "the kind of jar spells I do are really different from what you normally see, don't mistake them for the Tiktok stuff."

But that's really different from acting like container/candle spells, in and of themselves, suck. And it's really different from taking a stance of superiority towards people who use them.

(ib4 "but what about people who genuinely just don't like those forms of magic?" because that's not what this post is about)

("the reason I don't like these spells is because I can never get them to work for me!")

[mothearts]

to add onto this, whenever witches do reject "trendy" types of spells they also rarely provide any alternatives or inform their audience of what they like to do instead. it's clear that those folks don't actually care about helping others advance in their practice. if you genuinely disliked those spells for any reason other than that theyre popular, the helpful thing to do would be to share other spells that are better/more powerful.

[friend-crow]

It's also kind of a bummer to see spell forms with historical significance reduced down to "trendy and therefore stupid".

It feels very similar to the phenomenon of people only listening to super obscure music, mostly because it's super obscure. It is, at least in part, more a matter of maintaining an elite image than finding music you love.

[stagkingswife]

I do like to encourage people to “think outside of the container spell” if that is the only style of spell they have ever done, but that’s more of a “It’s important and good to to try new things and get out of our comfort zones” train of thought than a “Container spell basic and bad” train of thought.

[windvexer]

Can't believe this post is going around again. I must have been in a MOOD when I wrote it.

[breelandwalker]

Your mood is 100% SHARED.

[aspelladay]

High John the Conqueror Victory Spell (2)

Line a small box with bay leaves and stuff it with calendula blossoms.

Add one High John the Conqueror root.

Remove High John from its magic box and carry with you as a courtcase talisman as needed. When not in use, let it sleep on its calendula bed, absorbing calendula’s powers of legal victory.

(from The Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes)