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[elysian-muse222]

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[patchwork-divinations]

Hello wisdom seekers! If you are familiar with me I have been gone for a while a lot of life changes have come about ,but I’ll continue this blog with not just tarot readings I’ll answer any questions about witch craft and on my Twitch channel I read books on spirituality !

All are welcome!

(Except racist, bigots, nazis and other shit humans)

Blessed be✨

[pastrygeckos]

patchworkpagan submitted to pastrygeckos

Cleo says she loves your gecks

Aaa look at this beb what a child what a goob!!!

[kaijutegu]

I know you have interest in human bones, but what about animal bones?

YES. My favorite is my cow femur and I found it in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Sometimes I hug it when I’m lying on the couch or floor. It’s kind of like a security blanket? I have a ton of animal bones- a bunch that I picked up in the Mojave (I did this neato field school out there and developed this field test for magnesium staining and I kept the bones and they’re in a bag on top of my fridge) and then some that I bought- I’ve got this GREAT ram skull named Ramuel Clemens, and then this pretty goat skull named Kismet, and- actually, here, here’s some pictures of various bits and bobs I’ve got. 

This one’s a raccoon skull I decorated with gold leaf!

This is Kismet, I decorated her a few years ago.

There’s Egg, sitting on Ramuel Clemens. 

Here’s a bunch of them back at the old apartment- my peccaries, a sheep I decorated later, Kismet, my raccoon, a beaver, and my femur.

Also one of my undergraduate specialties was animal bones! For the longest time, I thought I was gonna be a zooarchaeologist. My very first research project was on changes in butchering trends through time at this site in northern Indiana, and then that turned into my first conference paper! Here, lemme show you a picture- these were the actual specimens I examined! 

Oh, fun story with those- that project almost got me kicked out of my dorm. I was comparing them to some modern butchering cuts and I was... sort of macerating them on the stove in my dorm’s kitchen at night. I was basically stewing all the meat off so that I could study the cuts in the bones and I was trying to do it when nobody saw, but long story short, the cleaning woman came in, saw me with this huge pile of bloody pig bones, and started screaming... yeah, that took some explaining. Ahh, memories. Then my huuuuge project from my internship was examining the faunal remains from a dump site on the Swahili coast in Kenya- the idea was that I was looking for haram animals because the site was like, ostensibly Islamic and I was studying Islamic adherence- and what I found was that they were eating a ton of animals that weren’t halal, which combined with architecture and burial practices showed some interesting syncretism. I don’t have pictures of those, though!

[breelandwalker]

Well I'm feeling like I ought to get a wand. My main question is do I have to make one or is purchasing one just as good? I'm awful with crafting of any kind

Oooo wands, yes. I’m just starting on this area of the craft myself, let me see….

From what I’ve read, it pretty much works just as well either way. Many books tout the important of making certain ritual tools by hand for a more personal connection but like you said, some of us just aren’t that crafty. (Just like some of us don’t have the time or the resources or the skill to grow our own herbs, which is why those Only Herbs You Grow Yourself Are Magical passages really singe my biscuits …but I digress.)

Plenty of practitioners make perfectly good wands for sale to others. I suggest searching “wands” on etsy to get started. Heck, you can even use a replica Wizarding World movie wand, if that’s the way your preferences go. Or if you want, you can spring for something with wood and crystals that you find appealing.

The point is not how fancy or expensive the wand is, or how much time you spent laboring to make it. It’s the focus and the intention you put into the spell that’s going to go through it. Tools can only do so much; the power lies with you. :)

For more specific information on wands and what materials you may want to look for, talk to @heirophant-jack.

[lizardbeans]

ur a lizard ween

no u

[love--witch]

@patchworkpagan

[witchtips]

Not sure if this counts as a witchtip or anything, but when I bake cakes/cookies or anything, I like to draw a sigil in the batter then sing whilst I cook it to charge the sigil. They always taste better when I do this, and the sigil disappears so no one finds out you're a witch or anything

That’s definitely a witch tip! I love it thank you so much for sharing!