#light magick

[thepracticeofmagick]

Do any witches/magickal people know anything about or practice dream work? I’d really like to start exploring that, I am already a very vivid dreamer, and feel very connected to my dreams so if there are any practices, techniques, resources or knowledge you’d be willing to share I’d be so appreciative 💕

[violatememoreplease]

My thoughts on "white/ black" magick

When I first read about the term as a baby witch, I always prefered the "black". Even though it wasn't that long ago, back then most representation on social media where wiccans who strictly followed the rule of three. So I thought that's what a witch did, and I reluctantly followed it - even though in the back of my mind I had a hard time marrying this doctrine with the folkloric archetype that I looked up to...

Being a tumblr regular, I soon came to find out that the rule of three wasn't for everybody (yey!) and that the dicotomy of "black/ white" is just racist rhetoric (goddammit). So I stopped using those terms, switching to "light/ dark" instead, because - yeah, don't be racist folks'.

But alas, even my new terminology has racist undertones - or at least colourist. Which actually came as a surprise to me. See, where I come from, my immediate association with both "black/ white magick" and "light/ dark" has never been connected to skin colour, I've always thought of it as night and day. And in that I've really come to like the "light/ dark" terminology... Like, I don't see "dark" magick as bad/ evil/ neferious etc; I see it as a harder kind of magick to perform.

Imagine magick like walking through a forest. Doing it in the daylight, you can easily see where you walk. There aren't many predators lurking around, and you can just relaxe and breathe in the atmosphere. The same place in the dark however, can be really dangerous. If you aren't careful you could hurt yourself on something as silly as a root. In general, you wouldn't venture out in a dark forest unless you knew it really well in the light first - or was desperate.

Maybe I should change my terminology to "nightmagick" and "daymagick"... Although I'd imagine that would become a little confusing if I wanted to to a "nightspell" during the day or vice verse. Anyways; in my strictly personal view, wanting to have a "light" practise is completely respectible, but looking down on "dark" workers just tells me that you're really afraid of the dark... And what was that thing Terry Pratchett said about witches?

[iridescent-witch-life]

📷 wiccantips 📖 light magic for dark times

I borrowed this from the library recently but haven’t had the chance to read it yet. If you have, what did you think?

[ripleysgh0st]

Magick Can Be Dark

Holy Magick Light Magick White Magick Grey Magick Black Magick Blood Magick

Most forms of magick are somewhere in or between these lines (there are obvious exceptions for those in the know. For those that aren't, I don't have the past 7 years of my craft life written down sorry). But the misconception is that white magick = good and black magick = evil with no in-between. False. Holy magick can be used for bad things, and even blood magick (the kind of stuff you see falsely tied to Satanists exclusively) can be used for good.

A pen isn't evil just because it is darker and more free-flowing than a pencil, is it? That's ridiculous. Just like writing utensils as an example, there is a spectrum of graphite to ink with many exceptions to those 2 categories.

Witchcraft doesn't follow a strict left-right path, and witches who say so have not branched out their knowledge. It isn’t their fault, it is just our job to teach them.

On that same note, not all witches function on karma and the idea of right or wrong, so "BEWARE THE CREED" is very exclusive and derogatory to witches who use magick just as a tool rather than a lifestyle. Most magick isn't love and light. I know summoning spells, binding runes, and have a candle which I have dripped blood into. But people who know me will not say I am evil. I've never wished harm upon another with my spells. It's the principle to get to the end result, not a matter of conscious thought. In fact, most magick should be second nature and second-guessing it with conscious thought is diluting your power.

So please, don't be an exclusive craft-hole.

[pidgekins]

help!!!!

OKAY SO i’ve been doing a lot a lot of research today on witchcraft and jotting lots of stuff down in my grimoire and i was wondering... how do you call upon angels and such? like light magick? i dont even know any saints or angels cause my family just didn’t believed in that stuff (like praying to saints and such) so i’m extremely confused! i was also wondering if you should only make moon water on a full moon or if its okay to just charge it whenever? 

[thedivinationwitch]

A fellow witch shared this with me, so now I will share this with all of you 🖤

I know for sure this book can be bought from Spencer’s ✨

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[nocturnalhuntress]

New book haul in preparation for intense self-care this year! The Light Magic for Dark Times has a bunch of great spells/rituals for self-care... So glad I picked it up and I can’t wait to try them. (: 

[lady-boa]

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