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Danny, 21, she/her ~ Follower of Bacchus~ Proficient at Spirit work, Demon work, and Chaos magic ~ Learning Ritual magic currently

[heatherwitch]

Bedridden Witch Series

For those of you who don’t know me, I suffer from a chronic illness and I spend a LOT of time bedridden. I also happen to be a witch! I don’t let being trapped in bed stop me from practicing my craft. Here are some resources I’ve compiled from my personal experiences and the help of others <3

Bedridden witch - Original edition

Bedridden witch  - Nature edition

Bedridden witch  - Worship edition

Bedridden witch- Divination edition

Bedridden witch - Stale energy edition

Bedridden witch - Elements edition

Bedridden witch - Pastel edition

Bedridden witch - Kitchen edition

Bedridden witch - Winter edition

Bedridden witch - Ocean edition

Bedridden witch - Love edition

Bedridden witch - Weather edition

Bedridden witch - Garden edition

Bedridden witch - Bath edition

Bedridden witch - Wheel of the Year edition

Bedridden witch - Discreet edition

Bedridden witch - The Setup

Check the notes for future updates! Updated 1/14/2020

[finalgirldigital]

People love natives in such a superficial way. People wanna stand with natives when we’re talking about the trees, and the land. People wanna stand with natives when we talk about philosophies of love and togetherness. But as soon as it’s time to talk about political side of being native. About dismantling a system built on the genocide of our people. About how we need a new system that isn’t built upon capital gain and benefitting white bodies. About putting up a fight. About how the colonial state we reside in is a disgusting imperial plague on this land. Suddenly y’all don’t wanna talk native.

[neechees]

"They spent hundreds of years trying to assimilate my ancestors, trying to create indians like me, who could blend in, but now they don’t want me either. They can’t make up their minds.

They want buckskin and face paint, drumming, songs in languages they can’t understand recorded for them but with English subtitles, of course. They want educated, well spoken, but not too smart. Christian, well behaved, never question. They want to learn the history of the people, but not the ones that are here now, waving signs in their faces, asking them for clean drinking water, asking them why their women are going missing, asking them why their land is being ruined.

They want fantastical stories of Indians that used to roam this land. They want my culture behind glass in a museum.

But they don’t want me." -Shelby Lisk

[officialstarscream]

there are guys in my dorm who decided to play cards in the elevator

[mibunookami-blog]

see what intrigues me about college isn’t the intellectual pursuit or the bonding or whatever, its the fact that people have the freedom to do random shit like this

[haedia]

Okay, everybody, I have a story about random shit in college. When I was in college, there was a particular class I took where, no matter what time you walked into class, if you made it into the room before the professor, you wouldn’t be counted late. I mean, that’s a pretty cool policy, given how some professors are really obnoxious about attendance. 

Well, one time, a fellow student of mine was running late to class. As she reached the edge of the building, she saw her professor making it to the front steps (super long rectangular building here). He looks up from walking and he sees her. He then points to his watch, gives her a well-meaning “Look who’s late” face, and walks on inside.

What he didn’t know, though, was that this particular student was like freakishly good at bouldering and related climbing skills, so she was just like “Fuck it” and SCALED THE BUILDING!

She tapped on the window of the 4th floor classroom (the floors had like 20ft ceilings, so, she was quite a ways up there), nearly making one student piss himself. They opened the window, she rolled through, onto the floor, and slid into her seat about five seconds before the professor opened the door to the classroom. 

He did a double take, started to say “How the hell d—” when a security guard ran in, red-faced and panting, pointed at her and bellowed “STOP DOING THAT!”

[chandrar-nalaar]

omfg the amount of fucks college kids don’t give astounds me

[nicoleting]

IVE ONLY SEEN THIS POST IN SCREENSHOTS

[thesilencedmasses]

I LOVE THE IMPLICATION THAT THIS STUDENT HAS A REPUTATION FOR SCALING THE BUILDINGS

[space-bones-official]

It has finally blessed my dash.

[kitsune--hime]

[forgotn1]

Always credit artists.  This was created by bluecollards on IG.

[crystalherbalist]

fire salt 🧂🔥

used for protection, banishing, power, cursing/hexing, chaos magic, or as a strong symbol of fire for a spell/alter.

sea salt

chili powder

black pepper

cinnamon

red chili flake

crush everything till combined in mortar & pestle, charge with candles before use if desired to reawaken your salt

earth salt [x] - air salt [x] - water salt [x]

[heatherwitch]

How to return to the craft

I’m finally looking to the future and creating posts I can link, instead of answering the same questions over and over. It’s not that I mind answering them, it’s just that I usually don’t have the energy to give you the solid answer you deserve.\

Where to start?

I generally wouldn’t recommend picking up where you left off. You spent a lot of time building up to that point, jumping right in is going to be a lot. I would recommend starting slow, and slowly building back up. Get a solid foundation back under your feet:

Make a list of the things that you’d like to relearn, and do one per day. 

Start at the basics, even if you knew the advanced stuff. Act like a beginner again and relearn. Chances are, you’ll learn some things you missed before!

Don’t compare it to your old craft. Crafts and paths are constantly shifting over time, taking a break doesn’t change this, time has passed and your craft will likely be different.

Do what excites you! Learn new things too! What drew you back into the craft? This is a great chance for a fresh start!

Drawing a blank? Here’s some ideas of things to research/relearn:

Altars.

Astral travel/projection.

Astrology.

Crystals.

Deities (perhaps learn about a new pantheon!)

Divination (any type)

Local wildlife; birds, animals, plants. 

Mythology (maybe local mythology and lore?)

Sigil creation and using.

Space; the cosmos.

Spell writing and casting. 

Spirit work.

Warding/protection.

Whatever you want!!

Some recommendations if you feel stuck/hit a block:

Browse the baby witch tag and help some beginners out. They have so much motivation and inspiration, and it’ll likely leak over to you (and you’ll reinforce some of the knowledge you forgot you had).

Buy yourself something witchy (it doesn’t have the be expensive, even just a new little candle you only burn for witchy things).

Find a friend who is also getting back into the craft, talk about your practices!

Look up some tips and tricks on overcoming art block/writer’s block and find a way to apply them.

Know that it’s perfectly normal to hit blocks and lose motivation (it happens to me all the time at least). And it’s okay to take as many breaks/hiatuses as you need.

[naomi121406-deactivated20210507]

☁Cloud Reading☁

☁️ Being able to read clouds is one of the many abilities a weather witch can master, knowing what types of clouds there are in the sky will tell us what winds are affecting our area at the moment, their qualities (temperature, humidity levels, etc) and more! Here's a quick reference of the main types of cloud formations and my personal correspondences for them☁️

☁️ Stratus: moving, incoming change, be careful not to make the wrong decisions, or they'll cause conflict, take everything people around you say with a pinch of salt. Hidden truths to be revealed or finally grasping a concept, getting to know or understand something after a long time.

☁️ Cumulus: prosperity, abundance, luck in travels, new journeys, enjoyment, and also finding peace within when your environment changes. Calm before the storm.

☁️ Cumulonimbus: the storm. Chaos, lightning, furu and rage, emotions out of control, letting go, banishing, exorcism. That feeling after finally getting it out of your chest.

☁️ Stratocumulus: doubts, fear, stasis. Not knowing what to do or how to act, feeling lost, getting behind, or feeling left behind. Unacknowledged feelings. Doing things the hard way.

☁️ Altocumulus: problems solving, the path before you getting cleared, new beginnings, getting new hopes, rearranging, reorganizing your life, getting a new perspective, or a more positive point of view of a situation.

☁️ Nimbostratus: strength, power, reaching new hights, claiming what's yours, dominance.

☁️ Altostratus: light, love, kindness. Sweet, childish feelings, fluttery heart. Healing emotionally and evolving as a person, or in a relationship.

☁️ Cirrus: sharpness, boldness, starting new projects, money, prosperity, business affairs, justice, speaking your truth, getting recognized for your successes.

☁️Cirrostratus: getting over the past, healing, closing a chapter of your life and starting anew, cleansing, purification.

☁️ Cirrocumulus: luck, fertility, love, children, passion, renewing energies, wishes, future planning, abundance.

☁️Some tips☁️

☁️"—stratus" clouds are associated with fogs, drizzling rain, and cold air flowing at low height.

☁️"—cumulus" clouds are associated with anticyclones, a.k.a. very low temperatures, high pressure, often high humidity, and will cause rain, more likely a storm.

☁️Research what specific winds affect your area and what kind of clouds they're associated with!

☁️With love, Nao☁️

[fw98]

Crash course on fake stones/misrepresentations

Because I have been too lazy to type this all up.

Quartz:

If your quartz has teeny air bubbles it’s glass.

If it’s got a fruit name it’s dyed. End of story. (strawberry, cherry, lemon, pineapple, blueberry) yes there may be some very rare exceptions-fire quartz being dubbed strawberry- but due to the rise in fakes with that name it’s generally called fire quartz now.

Aura quartz is a regular quartz that’s been bonded with another material. (man made)

Cinnabar Infused Quartz usually reconstituted and mixed together to make a red crystal.

Green quartz can be grown in a lab and anything that forrest green color is

Turquoise:

Magnesite and howlite look very very similar to turquoise when they’ve been dyed, magnesite will have very deep cracks in it though.

No there is no white turquoise. 

You can do a uv test to see if it’s real

Amber

Often faked with Copal. They look nearly identical.

Amber will float in salt water-copal will not.

Irradiated/dyed stones:

Very vibrant colors!!

Irradiated: (they irradiate the crystals to get a deeper or more vibrant color)

deeply pigmented topaz or kunzite

dark (almost black) smokey quartz 

very deep pink or red tourmaline 

colored diamonds 

some cultured pearls 

vibrant yellow heliodor 

Dyed:

Pearls

Agate

coral

other stones may be dyed as well, generally if it looks fake..it is.

Heat treated stones: (really not a bad thing but if you’re going for natural)

Amethyst-lighten color+remove brown

Citrine-heat treated amethyst.

Aquamarine-remove green

Ruby-clearer stone 

Sapphire-clearer stone

Rainbow Cal-Silica

Nope, completely fake 100%

Literally just car paint layered with calcite and resin.

Citrine: (im so sorry)

Much of the citrine on the market is lab made.

If it’s lab made it’s usually amethyst that’s been heated until it changes color

The bottom of these stones will be white with more color at the tips.

srry

Lapis Lazuli:

High quality is vibrant blue, hard to come by, and very expensive.

Low quality howlite, jasper or sodalite is dyed blue, and passed off as lapis.

Acetone will remove the dye but damage the stone.

Obsidian:

The clear green obsidian you see all over ebay is slag glass.

Natural green obsidian has been found but it is opaque and is more gray than green.

there is red obsidian as well but again, it’s not a vibrant red and is more brick colored.

Wikipedia is not always right.

Goldstone:

it’s glass it’s legitimately just glass

Opalite:

also glass. 

real opalite exists but it’s green and not commonly found

once again, don’t believe everything on wikipedia.

Bismuth:

Doesn’t naturally form in the crystals, lab made!!!

rlly pretty though

Hematite:

Not naturally magnetic!

Magnetic hematite is 100% man made!

I’ll add more as I come across them~

[fw98]

Jade:

Real jade is p. heavy! A way to tell if it is real is that it’ll be heavier than it looks.

Jade is faked with the following:

Serpentine “New Jade” or “Olive Jade”

Prehnite

Aventurine quartz

Grossular garnet “Transvaal jade”

Chrysoprase “Australian jade”

Malaysia Jade- dyed quartz that may be called by its color – Red Jade, Yellow Jade, Blue Jade

Opaque dolomite marble “Mountain Jade” (usually dyed)

Dragon vein agate: 

Quench cracked, bleached, and dyed agate and some is quench cracked, and dyed glass.

Snowflake obsidian:

Being faked with a very low grade cheap dalmatian jasper.!

Snowflake will be gray while Dalmatian should have a lighter color

Hollow galena:

A lot of pieces have been proven to have been faked through sand blasting + similar techniques (but there may be real ones I’m not 100%)

Charoite:

Chinese Charoite doesn’t exist.

If it’s called that then it’s not real, real charoite isn’t banded and is more swirly.

Moldavite:

Very very commonly faked!!

Biggest giveaway is the ‘wet’ look a faked piece has due to the molding process

White moldavite doesn’t exist!!

Sunspar:

It’s really just yellow Labradorite, which isn’t a v rare gem

[chemicalheart-deactivated202009]

i can confirm that this is 100% correct, most of the moldavite out there is literally just green glass. Like, if it looks like green glass that’s exactly what it is. True moldavite is very fragile but uh, u don’t exactly wanna test it by throwing it around or putting it in water :\ also a lot of people get a strange feeling called a ‘moldavite flush’ when handling it. Basically for gemstones u really wanna go to a reputable store and ideally in-person if you can. Also real citrine (as opposed to heat treated amethyst) is generally a lot lighter in colour.

[elvenwitch]

Another thing about hematite - EVERYONE SHOULD FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH HEMALYKE.

Hemalyke (also hemalike or hematine) is reconstituted hematite. That means it does have some hematite in it, yes, but it also has a bunch of fillers. It’s like the hot dog of gemstones.

There are tons and tons of shops out there, especially in the magic community, that will mislabel this brand of products as hematite. If you look at the stuff on Fire Mountain Gems, you’ll see a lot of the Hemalyke jewelry you’ve probably seen mislabeled as hematite in Etsy shops and from real life vendors. I’m a jewelry artist, and I use Hemalyke in a lot of pieces (and always label it as such). I’ve seen the same generic pendants in a dozen other places, mislabeled as hematite every time. So be aware of what you’re getting, because there’s a lot of this stuff out there.

[therainshallmakeadoor-deactivat]

Yes I AM cranky because I received NO PROPHETIC DREAMS to help me on my quest.

[stormsandspirits]

There have already been several parties at my University and classes haven't even started yet.

All employees were told to update their wills.

[sunflower-queen-13]

Dionysos—god of the vine, grape-harvest, wine-making, wine, fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, theatre

[stormsandspirits]

Hey guys! Sorry I've been gone I was in rehab for a bit but I'm back now and will be posting and active again.

[he-who-walks-among-the-trees]

[greek-memes]

Dionysus: I admire how when babies don’t want to hold something anymore they just drop it

[lovecorekiss]

Paean to Dionysus within Antigone

CHORAGOS:

God of many names

CHORUS:

of Kadmeian Semele

Guardian of the West of Eleusis’ plain

[Strophe 1]

[Exit CREON.] 

PAEN 13

O Iacchos son

O born of the Thunder! Regent

O Prince of maenad Thebes

 and the Dragon Field by rippling Ismenos

CHORAGOS:

God of many names 

CHORUS:

flares on our hills

the flame of torches

the nymphs of Iacchos dance at the spring of Castalia:

from the vine-close mountain

come ah come in ivy:

Evohe evohe! Sings through the streets of Thebes

CHORAGOS:

God of many names

CHORUS: 

heavenly Child

[Strophe 2] 

Iacchos of Thebes

of Semele bride of the Thunderer! The shadow of plague is upon us:

with clement feet down the long slopes

CHORAGOS:

come

oh come from Parnasos

across the lamenting water 

Io Fire! Chorister of the throbbing stars! O purest among the voices of the night! Thou son of God, blaze for us!

CHORUS:

Come with choric rapture of circling Maenads Who cry Io Iacche!

God of many names! 

EXODOS

- Antigone, by the playwrite Sophocles. Translation by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. 

For my new “Dionysus’ historic hymns” series.

[stormsandspirits]

I'm currently getting high and giving some offerings to Bacchus so if anyone wants some quick high readings hmu

[stormsandspirits]

Took a mental health break and got reconnected to Bacchus and took some time to work on myself with him and I'm back now

I deleted all reading requests because they were stressing me out because I felt bad aboht not having energy but I'm going to open them back up now :)