#safe hex

[haikumaven]

More Halloween content!! Since I've already done Thorn, I decided to put together a Luna cosplay from the Hex Girls next 💜🌕🦇🎹

Made a few changes and styled the wig myself

[readinthedarkpod]

the tragic life of Poe (she wants to fuck everyone but doesn't know if it's weird)

LAETY: Not only that but Auden, the man who features in her kinkiest dreams, is now engaged to Delphine. KRISTEN: Tragic! LAETY: Yeah. I mean, Tragic. But also like... Delphine is how, and Poe kind of knows that she's hot and she's kind of like, tragic but also like, she's like, "Can we blame him?" KAITLYN: She's self-aware. KRISTEN: She's like, "It's tragic but can I get between you guys?"

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[lunefrog]

To Bind One’s Sight

a spell gifted to me from my Ancestors, who so kindly helped me in my time of need.

you’ll need: -One buckeye per person whose Sight you are binding -Many many skeins of thread. I used embroidery, but you can use whatever you like -Cotton balls -At least one candle per person whose Sight you are binding, they should be relatively small. Votives work quite nicely for this

This spell is aimed towards use on magic users who may pry into your life using divination or other kinds of Sight. It’s meant to stop prying. Paired with a sator square i think it’d keep things out quite nicely. It is originally meant to keep two people from prying, so that is how it will be referred from now on.

Take the first buckeye and name it after the first person. Light your candle, you can carve their name in it. Begin to wrap it, over the lighter “pupil” first. It can be a bit tricky but you’ll get the hang of it. Begin crafting a rhyme as you go, beginning with “thy prying eyes, what do you see?” this part is very important to be original. Once the buckeye is completely wrapped, bind the end of the string to the pupil with wax.

Take the second buckeye, and do the same but with the second person. This spell shall bind their Sight together, so that they are equally blind and unable to pry. It’s alright to get mean with the rhyme, i’d personally encourage it.

After both the buckeyes are bound and the wax on the pupils has hardened, make sure the wax in the candles is still liquid. Take a cotton ball and dip it in the wax--make sure the candle is out or it will just go up in flames. Alternatively you could squash the cotton ball between the buckeyes and pour the wax in, whatever floats your boat. Begin wrapping the two together, pupils in, separated by the cotton ball. Stuff a few in, coated in wax, at your discretion. Make sure it’s all wrapped tight, making up the rhyme as you go. 

Once it’s all done, seal up any openings with wax. Make sure none of the buckeye is showing. Now you’ve got yourself a nice little charm, except it will probably look like a total mess but that’s fine.

Have fun and stay safe tadpoles

[sepp-gw]

Practice safe hex, y'all. 🖤

[readinthedarkpod]

Admitting to being a Disney adult on a public platform... the bravery.

B: But it's like one of those multi-industry companies that needs to do charity campaigns to distract from the big corporate wheeling and dealing that they do. KRISTEN: *fake coughs* Disney. LAETY: Great. Yeah, pretty much. B: *laughs* you said it, not me! KRISTEN: Well I can hate on Disney because I'm a Disney adult!

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[lunefrog]

What to do when shit Feels Bad

Remember to rule out all mundane causes for this feeling. This includes mental illness, physical sickness, etc.

Clean the room that feels Bad (when you've got the time/spoons)

Sprinkle salt (Or spray salt water) around the room

Do a banishing ritual (with bells/harsh sounds, candles, and salt) essentially telling all bad things that they need to Go

Declutter, sometimes bad vibes get trapped

Take a cleansing + warding shower. Sometimes the bad vibes are on you

Wash your blankets, bedsheets, and pillowcases. Sometimes the bad vibes collect where you sleep

Throw away/delete things with bad memories attached

If you're a green witch like me, prune your plants and water them if they need it

Draw a warding/banishing sigil in the room/place that feels Bad. It'll work if you put it on your skin, too (just be careful!)

Spray your shoes with salt water and clean them, make sure to get all the salt off afterwards though

(Yeah I know a lot of these involve cleaning)

Play shows/music that you feel have Good Vibes

Enchant your lights to drive away bad vibes and all that wishes you ill

Get a little plushie, or statuette, or really anything solid you can keep in that room and enchant it to protect that room. It's that room's protector now (This includes plants!)

Perform a banishing ritual

Ward that room

This isn't a comprehensive list and you're more than welcome to add more!

[lunefrog]

Lune's Guide to Curses

Curses, hexes, jinxes, bindings, and other malevolent magic are often looked down upon in the witch community, but as a curse-positive witch I feel that they are often necessary and deserved. Even so, I wouldn't recommend firing off curses wildly, even if they're low-effort if they backfire they can and will find their way back to you.

Safety when cursing

It's important to set up precautions before you curse or bind, not so much I feel with hexes or jinxes. Curses & bindings tend to be more complex and take more energy, so if things go wrong things will go wrong hard. Learn to set up wards, protect yourself.

What I don't often see addressed is how to stop the curses you've fired off, and this is very dangerous. Magic is traceable, and unless you can remove any possibility of them finding you and reversing the curse, there's a chance it'll rebound and come back to you. So, put a kill switch on your curses & bindings.

With hexes and jinxes, they'll fade away eventually, tending to be more annoyances and bad luck anyways. You don't really need to worry about putting a safety on those, unless you really want to.

You can, however, fire accidental curses. Spending enough time and energy thinking about someone in a negative way and putting that energy into the universe can lead to a mis-cast curse. These can be very dangerous, depending on how strongly you feel about it, and if you see you've accidentally cast one I suggest you work on terminating it--unless the person deserves it. They can be very strong or pitifully weak, and may or may not burn themselves out eventually.

You can also accidentally cast curses on yourself! Believing you have been cursed well and truly, even when no one's cursed you, can develop into a real, nasty curse. Just do your typical cleansing, protection, and ward (I suggest a warding shower!)

Getting nasty

When you're casting a heavy duty malevolence (such as curses or bindings) they can take a lot of energy, and can leave residual negativity. It's recommended that you cleanse, protect, and ward your space (and yourself!) afterwards, because those residual bits can feed/build Something nasty. Personally, I like to eat something really nice and just forget about it after I'm done and cleaned up.

Curses take, in my experience, strong negative emotion. Such as hate, fear, sadness, or anger. Many spells require being calm, but personally I say harness that emotion! Though you shouldn't be firing off curses willy-nilly, and you should definitely be sure there isn't anything better and/or mundane you can do about it (but you should also do any mundane things available.) Curse, but curse responsibly.

Should your curse be sent back to you, a kill switch can be very very useful. It'll completely terminate the spell and you won't have to worry at all. But, say, you don't have one or have forgotten it, what do you do? Take the remaining ingredients from your spell and dispose of them, remove all the energy and fuel they gave the curse. Then cleanse, protect, and ward.

Hexes and jinxes, however, require very little energy and can be cast very easily. You can cast a hex simply by saying "May you stub your toe thirteen times" to your target. Needless to say, I don't recommend putting too much energy into these, unless you're binding the hex to an item to use indefinitely.

Curse correspondences

These are different for everyone, but typically they can cause discomfort, pain, and/or injury. For me, every plant, animal, rock, and star has it's sour points. Take aloe, for example. To me they're associated with protection (because of spines) and physical+emotional healing (because it heals burns.) But to use it in a curse, you could take these things away from someone, prevent them from healing, or make the spines that once protected them now press in claustrophobically. Any item can be a curse item if you use it right.

Bindings typically use things like invasive plants, vines, chords, wire, anything that binds one thing to another. Since water is the universal solvent, it can be used in bindings and curses alike. Just be careful not to drink it. You might turn into a frog or get a permanent bad hair day or something.

Since hexes and jinxes are simple, they don't tend to include ingredients, but if they do they're similar to a curse's, except more annoyance and bad luck oriented. The most I use in a hex is some ill-wishing with a little force behind it.

Extra

Please curse responsibly, and take any necessary precauldrons. It's important to practice safe hex!

[readinthedarkpod]

Sometimes, the little things bother you. We can't explain why it sucks, but it does.

B: Let's complain about the smut now! KRISTEN: Oh! Oh! Let's go! B: So, Gareth has telekinesis and he uses it regularly during sex. His POV always calls it... TK. It's annoying as hell. KAITLYN: No, I hate that. I fucking hate that. LAETY: Oh, no. (pause) We have nothing to say about that. It just sucks. B: I know, cause it's so annoying. KAITLYN: It sucks!

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