Experimenting with doing spells and rituals in minecraft again recently and noticing the difference from where i was back then to where i am now
I was and still am a witch in the broom closet, but getting a little older and more crafty and more observant i felt that my practice was a little stagnant and so i spent time branching out with spells and other relevant skills in the physical
Ending up with a lot of experimentation and exploration with types of spellwork since sigilwork wasn't doing it for me anymore
Eventually landed on something I was comfortable with, which was essentially container magic, filling it with herbs and plants that ive bought or grown the past year which was been pretty cool
I've needed the time and experience to develop some of my foundational skills that i thought i had a good handle on but didn't really, and i feel that i know how I can work best now and how to tap into my sense better and feel out energy
Which was interesting when i got back into doing spells with minecraft again
I was going through a tough time the past few days in my personal life, and while the source of stress and my fear had passed, there still lingered a feeling of heaviness in my heart and I wanted to help myself with processing it
So it felt like it was the best time to experiment
Last time, i had been testing and theorising about pixel sigilwork but again it just wasn't cutting it for me anymore
I let my instincts be my guide, and i outlined a few things it had to do
One, the main intentions are cleansing and healing, what i had felt has already been addressed and acknowledged, it just had to be nudged along, and i needed the beginning of my healing process to help me further move forward
Two, putting ingredients / components into a container like a barrel or shulker just wasn't going to cut it because instead of releasing the energy, i felt that that was just going to keep it so i had to take another avenue
Which led me to referring back to my correspondence posts and working on something there
I eventually found myself setting up in the birch forest, finding a nice area to set up the spell in
I have decided that biome due to the associations of birch being of new beginnings, and calming nerves and anxieties
Also i have decided on the idea of the idea of some of well build, since the idea was to throw the ingredients into lava to burn but i had another idea
A minecraft mechanic was that items automatically despawn after a few minutes if you don’t pick it up and i felt that that was the perfect opportunity to utilise it to make it so that each time one of them does, it's like it's releasing it's energy and intentions out into the world
So the lava was replaced at the bottom of the well, where i instead replaced it with water, and later covered the bottom with dripleaves, to signify that despite my trouble and struggles, there is still room for new growth
Also it made a very cool effect of drooping to drop the items i threw on top of it into the water beneath and i didn't want to pass it up
The colour schemes i chose were black and green, allowing myself to essentially build and texture a black well, surrounding it with a design at the edges with green and then lighting the area up with candles and froglights
The next part was choosing the spell components i wanted to use, and when that was done, I put away my blocks and my tools, leaving the ingredients in my hotbar and casted a circle in the game to set up the space
I won't really detail how i did that since im not sure that feels right now, so i'll be doing more testing in the future
Next was me trying to replicate what I tend to do to charge the ingredients of the spells with the specific intentions I was going for, and i found that in going down the hotbar, putting the component into my offhand and speaking my focus and intentions to it like that actually worked great
So slowly i worked with each of them, feeling when the energy settled or felt like it was ready before i threw it down the well
And once my hotbar was clear, i waited and felt out the energy, checking to see if the items below had all despawned completely
When it was, i winded things down and closed the circle, and found that the heaviness in my chest had eased quite a bit and i felt a little more settled
It was extremely effective, much more than i thought it would and I'll probably do more spells and experimenting in the future
Also more posts of correspondences to other parts of the game
Excited to do more!
