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June 2020 Update

This previous month I didn’t post any updates, and instead I started doing readings, so this is a bit late.  June was the month devoted to my physical grimoire, admittedly, not much progress was made except gluing new parchment over stuff I don’t use/believe in/need any longer.  

I didn’t do about half of my prompts so I’m gunna attempt to bumrush those tonight, tomorrow, and this week in general.  

I did manage to redo the Colors section.  It’s got a fold out page now- not much to show there except ykno.... it folds out.  I use the color wheel and how colors mix a lot, which is why it’s front and center.  IE, If I want to use both colors purple and red but only have a pink candle, the fact that it’s their ‘blend’ on the wheel thus means it can encapsulate both their correspondences.

On the note of ‘redoing’ pages, though, I get parchment (25c a page from my local metaphysical shop but because of good ol Rona I got this parchment off fucking amazon) and I cut it to about the size of the page.  For nice clean Redos like above, I work on the page before using my HandyDandy Purple GlueStick (The DISAPPEARING PURPLE!) to glue it in.  Usually there’s a bit of trimming required unless I purposefully make the new pages just a bit smaller than the actual pages.  That’s really all there is to it.  

For Fold Out Pages get a bit of a thicker parchment so that it doesn’t end up breaking down over time due to the folding in-out.

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I’ve mentioned this lil project in other posts, its a cemetery dish, a wee little graveyard since I identify myself as a graveyard witch.  I can’t get out with the pandemic- or rather, I could but I choose not to as my state is dumb and doesn’t take shit seriously.  Thus, I am bringing a little of my outside world to my patio with this!  

During the painting of the dish I used the paints to hide magical symbols and sigils that ended up blended in once it dried.  You can kind of make out the pentacle in the dish, still though.  

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July 2020 Update

Very quickly into July, I was taking a shower and a song came on, it gave me some thoughts.  This eventually resulted in a letter to my ex-gf, which originally I didn’t intend on sending, but then I was like, well fuck it, why not?

So this has resulted in, about 3 years later from our breakup, she and I talking about the issues of the relationship, how it dissolved, and the residual pains.  I won’t lie when I say that I feel like a bit of a victim still, and I’m trying to get over/through those feelings.  

Regardless, it’s been really emotionally exhausting these past 5 days, but not without merit.  I feel better, like I can finally put some of these negative thoughts that I had held on to for 3 years into their grave and say goodbye to them, and let them rest.  This is a nice transition into how I’ve been trying to identify some emotions, figure out where they stem from, so that I can lay them into the ‘emotional graveyard’ as well- a resting place for what no longer serves me but a respectful one that appreciates how each experience (both negative & positive) have helped me grow.  

The Goal: Every day I'm one day closer to being who I want to be.

It’s a lyric from this song, Highly recommend a listen.  It’s 3.5 minutes that I hope I can beseech you to share with me.

[the-corset-witch]

May 2020 Update

So, this month had plenty to do on the Grimoire Prompts, but that was lead astray.  I instead got caught up in a project of passion, so I do not think this is negative- passion leads us to wonderful things, and as I wrap up this passion project, I’ve decided to bookend it with this post.  There is also some updates on my 30DoM, deities, particularly, Hekate.  Updates on my bookshelf, and the other projects I’ve done.  The ramble is under the cut.

Bookshelf

Midsummer - This has just arrived, so I’m about to begin digging into it.   Evoking Hecate - This was a good, quick read that gave me a lot of understanding and many more questions.  I enjoyed it quite a bit.   The Temple of Hekate - I’m about 10% into this one and holy shitsnacks, LOTTA INFO.  So much, that I have to take a few breaks just to sit back and absorb it. The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Witchcraft - I checked this one out on Archive.Org and have been skimming my way through it for more research topics.   White Spells - Checked out through Archive.Org again, and barely started.  Meant to be a simple read, to be honest.

Cemetery Dish

A cemetery dish had been on my mind for a while, but I finally got down to it about a week and a half ago.  It became part passion project, part slight devotional project as I read deeper and deeper into Hekate.  I’m now maybe 80%(?) certain that this is the right way for me.  My virgo placement in my astrology chart hints that I have to be 100% sure before committing to anything, though, and honestly, that’s very true.  I really must be steadfast in my decisions, otherwise, they lack confidence and come back to haunt me.  I digress.

This dish is now outside on my patio table by my only still-alive succulent.  The sun hits it in the afternoon as I’m sitting outside after waking up (some of us work late, ok? ok) and the golden sheen obsidian just sparkles- its lovely.  

I’m also preparing for next month, slightly, by getting the journal mentioned in this post here.  Next month I work on my physical grimoire, so I’ve got parchment and a new journal.  Not that the old grimoire is filled up, but we’ll get to that next month.  

The cemetery has become a source of passion, so, inspired by this post, I have downloaded a map to add to the physical grimoire.  I had to kinda photoshop it so that I could tape paper to my monitor and trace the roads- that way it’s also done by my own hand, something I find significant in grimoire & magical workings.  

Personal Timeline

I created a personal timeline of my life recently, and plan on journaling about what each date means, what it did to impact my life, and so on.  I think this is a good thing for anyone to do, just to take stock.  Not every birthday is written down, eventually I’ll do a post on this, but as I’m still working through it for now.  

Despite not sticking to my list, I don’t feel like I haven’t made progress.  I’ve simply made a different kind of progress.

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May2020 Update

This month’s DoM is about deities, and how I relate to some.  This post is going to allow me to ramble about that for a moment, put it all down to paper without the hand cramps of actually writing it.  Feel free to continue scrolling, the ramble is below the cut.

I’ve had this, I really don’t know how to explain it, pull?  Toward Hekate?  I had, and have, been entertaining this for a long time, deities, and who could be my patron god or goddess.  I didn’t get a possible sign toward Hekate until my birthday, when a friend did a tarot reading for my birthday- completely unsolicited and by surprise, with no knowledge that this had been on my mind.  He drew a card from a deck with an image of Hekate, it was a card labeled Respect from an oracle deck- I’d have to look it up but I’m not going to right now.  The message he gave me didn’t outright say “worship Hekate”, or anything like that, either, but I still remember it, and her image on the card is still perfectly imprinted in my mind. 

So, as I began research she was on the list, and as one by one the list was narrowed, she stayed on.  Now that I’ve done some reading the pull, that low hum has turned into a tune I can make out, is getting a bit stronger.  I’m about to begin reading a bit more, but while I feel like maybe I should read a variety, truly look into the list deeper, the tune’s distinct and I’m following.  

I’m about two? maybe three? books into this, and I’m picking out my next one.  Meanwhile, I’ve been working on a few projects and they’re becoming heavily inspired by what I’m reading.  My small outside altar that I’m planning has a cemetery dish, on account of me being a cemetery witch and finding that energy relaxing and home, and this project has become heavily inspired by Hekate, and I think rightfully so.  [Photos of this project to come.]

I got a few new trinkets, a new journal is on its way, and I’m really looking forward to scrying, meditating, and thinking more on this.  I don’t know if anything is specifically significant, but these ramblings may come in handy later, I guess.  

[the-corset-witch]

February 2020 Reading List

30DoM Reading

A Little Bit of Runes  - Cassandra Eason Runes - Sofia Visconti Runes  - Sarah Thompson

General Reading

365 Tarot Spells - Sasha Graham Where to Park Your Broomstick - Lauren Manoy

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2020 Grimoire Prep

I’ve decided, through browsing in the past, that I will try to combine the ideas of 30 Days of Magic & the 2016 Grimoire Challenge.  This will hopefully result in a more magical life and self, which is usually one of my first complaints about how I live my life.  The idea will be to share these monthly focuses and projects on this blog and thus have some tangible record of my progress and what I’m doing, and maybe help inspire others in their own craft.  

I’ll, for tagging purposes, refer to it as my 2020GrimoireProject using that tag and 2020Grimoire[Month].  I’m taking today and maybe this weekend to decide monthly prompts and ideas for focus and such.  

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Day.1

Prompt: 50 words of adventure with an astronomer and a cowboy hat, starting with “Who needs friends?”

"Who needs friends?" The astronomer laughed, drunk off of whiskey and too many years in the prison of his ship. 

Celia kept her silence as she floated across the deck and perched a cowboy hat on the haggard man's head, cupping his face after. "Only those without good enemies, sir."