#eclectic with

[coinandcandle]

"The 9 to 5" - Workplace Protection Jar

Back when I was working for (store that shall not be named) we had to go through active shooter or aggravated assault training. It got me thinking...the world is scary. I worked with a lot of women and fem presenting folks that were shorter than average and I was always worried for them.

So I made this spell jar.

What I'm Using:

Black Candle - For protection and banishing negativity

Eucalyptus - Protection and Healing

Lavender - Psychic protection

Onyx - Protection and strength

Amethyst - Protection

Incense of choice - Cleansing and mental clarity

Bay Leaf - Manifestation and power

Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous - To enhance the spell

What I'm Doing:

Cast protection (a circle or whatever your way is) and cleanse area and ingredients.

With each ingredient added, state intention either aloud or internally then place it in the jar.

I always make a failsafe for spells so, state that if you dispose of the jar then it is no longer effective.

Once the jar is full, put the lid on and melt the candle on top of it.

Let it charge with either a sigil, crystal, or moonlight.

Thank the Jar for its future service to you.

Place this spell jar in the workplace if possible. If not that's okay, it'll still work since you put your intention into it.

Notes: This can be made for a person or pet as well, it would be best to add their name or something that reminds you of them.

[eclectic-crysith]

The madness behind all those asthetic pictures you see.

[the-witch-with-red-hair]

Things I would love to learn more about as a witch: - working with dieties - astrology 

 What are some things you'd like to learn more about or become better at?

[mystical-imagine]

honestly thinking about it, i was a pretty weird witchy-ish kid

-i was in scouts (you know outdoors activities and stuff) and i would tell everyone to "apologize to the trees when you break one of their branches" and for some reason, this is kind of silly, not chop wood because it was disrespectful, i almost cried over it as well.

-i also left gifts and drawings outside "for the fairies" this was linked to me believing Peter pan was real and being obsessed with him though.

-i only read tiny books about the occult (written for children and in a spiritual way for some reason, which led me to become afraid of vampires and sleeping with onions in my room lmao, still kept reading them though

- i was also obsessed with crystals and would beg to go to the crystal shop, and also hagstones.

-i also drew very unusual creatures and named them, and believed they were real. they were so unusual that my teacher commented on them to my parents, telling them i had a very vivid imagination

reblog with your own childhood stories (or stories from the present, i love hearing about them)

[voidcraft]

Looking back in my first spell log/journal from when I was 13 and new to the craft, I found that apparently I was a very nervous young witch. I'm glad I recorded all of it so that I can see my growth as a witch and as a person but mostly I'm struck by how anxious I was to make sure I was doing everything perfect. Now I'm a teacher myself and it's funny because the one thing I stress the most is to do what feels natural to you in your craft and not necessarily how everyone else does their magick. If it feels wrong, then it's probably not for you. If something calls to you but it isn't in the book? It's your craft and your journey. You will only learn by trial and error. Witchcraft is very hands on and diy. Don't worry about being perfect, adhere to your instincts, have fun, and make mistakes. You don't have to be a nervous witch, confidence will carry over into your magick and make it all the stronger, I promise you that you will feel more powerful and comfortable.

[valyriance]

Biromantic Protection sigil

[azurenrain-blog]

Awake to the Rain

My Path

Becoming a witch was not something I set out to do. Quite the contrary, I have dedicated a lot of my life to the study of spiritual and secular philosophy, yet I have always been naturally critical and a born skeptic. 

Looking back at my life now I realize that there had been clues all along. Some of them becoming more obvious in recent years.

I had experienced extremely vivid dreams most of my adult life. Some were prescient with answers to problems or issues. Some involved vivid and seemingly lucid experiences flying, meeting with people who had passed away or experiencing things in ways so vivid that I would awaken and remain disoriented for a few hours. All of this I had always written off as a vivid imagination, though more spiritual friends had long suggested it was something else.

I had also had a strong capacity to predict some things in the near future. Feeling when someone close to me was in trouble, had been hurt or fallen ill were also common events. This I wrote off as my being naturally worried. But there were so many times, in retrospect, that this was extremely accurate despite even having a ocean separating me from some. 

There were many other signs that something was going on with me that I just dismissed for years. So what changed?

After moving to Tokyo I started to follow my wife's family spiritual practices, Japanese Shinto and Animism. The more I explored this belief system the more I started to really connect to the beliefs and to the spiritual aspects. This helped me feel like I had found a spiritual belief system that could co-exist with my secular ideas. 

Next came ten years of practicing and performing ethnic music. Especially ecstatic music from Central Asia from Kurds and Persians. This music was intended to create trance like experiences and put the musician and listener in touch with the spiritual world. It was incredibly effective. We soon had experiences that were truly moving and spiritual. Sometimes sensing we had entered another level of consciousness. 

A side effect of this was that the older incidents began to take hold in the here and now. I had more lucid and predictive dream occurrences. The lucid dreams seemed to become controllable to some degree. I had more instances where I could sense when something negative had happened to those around me. And I slowly started to sense things differently. Feeling something change in both myself and in how I perceived the world around me.

I had studied Wicca and Traditional Witchcraft on and off out of curiosity for years. But I had always left it to move on to exploring something else. I had always felt this curiosity called to me more than other ideas I had read and studied, but I honestly dismissed it as something I would be unlikely to embrace.

The forth time it returned to my attention I decided to dig in much deeper. That is when I started to see that much of what had been going on with me had happened to many others who found their path to witchcraft. The more I experienced, the more I realized that I was becoming a witch. Something I never thought I would say. The skeptic becoming the witch. So unlikely.

Now it is a while later and I am still exploring. I am writing about my chosen path and the elements of other belief systems that make up the foundations and ideas I have adopted. I see the similarities in my family's Shinto faith and in my evolving relationship with witchcraft. I see the magic in the Sufi music traditions that remain a key part of my practice. And I am learning to be able to open myself to more.

So here I am. An Eclectic Witch. A believer of many Shinto, Sufi, Animist and Secular ideas and philosophies. I practice my craft, though I am not very public with my practice. I am still seeking truth and new ideas. I am not religious and likely never will be. And so I am a solitary practitioner and adherent only to my own path as I grow to understand it.

The road ahead seems filled with possibilities. After all, if a skeptic like me can find a spiritual path in witchcraft and unlock so much of who I am, then I believe anything is possible and the road ahead likely takes me to places I could not have imagined before.