Strixhaven Study Hall

Magecraft, magical studies, and chaotic curriculum!

[strixhaven-study-hall]

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This account shares personal magecraft and beliefs, Unverifable Personal Gnosis is implied.

Tags guide:

#magecraft - Magic inspired by Magic The Gathering and Duel Masters

#shadowmagic - Magic inspired by YuGiOh!

#cartomancy - card based magic catch all

#magic - Magic in general

#tarot - Divination and tarot based magic

#chaosmagic - chaos magic

#energymagic - energy magic and Energy working

#shitpost - magic themed shitposts

For everything else, please see my fandom shitpost index located at @chaoskuriboh

This post will be updated over time!

[strixhaven-study-hall]

But I have been missing engaging with my magecraft online and I'm hoping to start journaling that a bit more.

[strixhaven-study-hall]

Today I took part in a Ritual Game of Magic The Gathering to refill my personal energy stores and I feel so refreshed. I should have taken the time to do this long ago.

[vampirerobot]

[windvexer]

I am a witch and I

believe in spirits as external and self-possessed beings

believe in spirits, but they're more like energies we project personhood onto

believe in spirits only as internal projections. Any 'spirit' you meet is you

am open to the belief in spirits but I'm on the fence

don't believe in spirits, but strong evidence could sway me

don't believe in spirits and no 'evidence' could convince me they're real

Voting ended onMar 13, 2025

no not a witch/nuance/other. vote truly with your heart if you want to see results, even if you don't identify as a witch.

This is mostly for people who self-identify as witches, though. But live your best life regardless.

Rebagels appreciated

[libraford]

Remembering the person who, knowing that I'm nonbinary, told me that I need to carry a moonstone with me at all times because it balances the male and female energies and when I tried to redirect the conversation by telling them that I prefer labradorite when it comes to feldspar they seemed confused and I had to explain gemstone classifications outside of their metaphysical meanings.

[libraford]

They also got kinda mad when I said I wasn't into crystal healing. Like... not their words, but definitely a sense of like 'how can you be a spiritual/witchy person and not believe in crystals?'

It's like... yeah I believe that stones can do stuff, but I think I get more mileage woo-wise out of the brick dust I stole from a former burlesque house than I do from a random crystal. And it's not saying that they don't work, though I remain skeptical of how their correspondences are assigned, just that I don't typically USE them.

[smolpocketmonstercoffee]

Oh you're a homemade witch not store bought

[libraford]

Why pay for tourmaline when you got perfectly good dirt at home?

[jasper-and-the-forty-servants]

Thank you to Quintorius, Loremaster - The Dancer. You've done so, so much to keep myself and my coworker afloat these few months with the work bullshit. There's still a lot coming at us, but I thank you for your support to this point. I will burn a candle for you, as promised when we first agreed to this.

[fernthewhimsical]

On this day I celebrate the Goddess Baduhenna.

Rootwoman, Mistbrewer, Valkyrie of Frisia. I love and honour you ♡

[witchquests]

The last traces of glimmering light disappear. Your Reveal Path - Level-Up spell was a success.

What's this? It seems that you need to be wise in the ways of Enchantment before you have any chance of finding Traversing the Brightwood.

>Practice Enchantment

You sit down at your desk and fetch a fresh quill and paper. Is it time to plan an enchantment?

>Yes ... ...

[windvexer]

splitting spell focus isn't your friend!

If you have a spell jar with the intent of "protected," that's 1 intent.

If you then open the jar and add another intent, like, "prosperous," that's 2 intents.

Even if you add a bunch of other correspondences to support the second intent, both intents will be weaker than if you did 1 jar each!

If I can charge my spell jar with 100 units of magical energy, then all 100 units go to the original intent, protected.

Now when I add my new intent, prosperous, the energy is split. If I'm lucky, 50 units of energy go to my new intent for prosperity. Now my protection intent is really weakened because its energy is diverted. Or maybe my original casting was really strong and 90 units of energy stay with protected, and only 10 units of energy go to prosperous. My first intent is STILL weakened but my second intent is barely charged.

Ok, so what if I am really good with energy work, and I superpower my jar spell. Now it has 200 units of magical energy!

Lucky me, now my original protected intent is now back to full power :) and my prosperous intent is equal power, they each have 100 units of energy.

But if I still did two individual jars.... and superpowered them both to 200 units of energy... I'm still 100% better off. I could have two jars of full power, instead of one jar dividing power.

Splitting spell intents definitely has its place, but IME for most situations its always going to be more powerful and more effective to cast independent spells with singular focus.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

which deity did you wish was your godly parent as a kid?

zeus

hera

poseidon

hades

demeter

athena

apollo

artemis

ares

aphrodite

hephaestus

hermes

Voting ended onFeb 7, 2025

[friend-crow]

When you get on here and rail about how the way you do magic is the only real way, and everyone else is just fantasizing, you're just demonstrating what a limited worldview you have.

People the world over have been doing magic in all sorts of ways since long before recorded history, but we're supposed to believe that you've found the one true way?

You haven't even learned to banish your head from your ass yet.

[strixhaven-study-hall]

Learning that Buddhism can cohabitate with your existing religious practices (and often does outside of Western tradition!) has inspired me to consider learning about dharma again. I fell out of the practice years ago and felt that my current beliefs and study was enough but I do really enjoy the wisdom of the many Buddhas who have come and gone.

[unhelpfultarot]

Nine of Swords reversed and Ten of Pentacles

Despite your recurring nightmares, lots of civilization still exists.

[strixhaven-study-hall]

You guys wanna build a wizard tower together? Heavy cloaks sound so cozy rn

[bace-jeleren]

Rejoice! The MTG wiki has finally separated itself from Fandom & is now being hosted by Scryfall at the new domain mtg.wiki !

[wizardbloggin]

I might actually contribute then! @jasper-the-menace to the lab!

[jasper-pagan-witch]

I've hit a very interesting point in my craft where my go-to substitution color is yellow. White actually has its own list of associations for me (thank you, Magic: The Gathering pop culture magic) and I just generally have a lot more yellow candles sitting about. Or, well, I did before I started burning all of them. But you get what I mean.