#triplevirgo

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autumn colors on my altar 🎃🌼🌸💜

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original painting, watercolor & acrylic 🎨💎✨

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okay, i know i haven’t posted any pictures of my grimoire for awhile (sorry to everyone who followed me hoping to see more). here’s the real reason: i get very anxious sharing my work when i don’t feel like it’s “perfect”, and i haven’t had much energy lately to create my own magical work, much less pretty grimoire pages about it.

so i’m taking a deep breath and posting some spellwork i did, even though it’s not attractive. there was a lot of brainstorming and refining and reiterating and reordering that went into making this spell, which was specifically targeted towards one situation that i couldn’t directly control. it doesn’t look great but it doesn’t matter because -

- it worked!

after months of frustration, i texted the person in question two days after completing the spell, and discovered that all the obstacles in the way were gone! there’s really nothing like seeing your intent manifest to believe in your own power.

so i just wanted to share my success with you guys, even though it’s messy, and encourage you to document your own messy work as well 💕

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a corner of my altar in the sunlight 🐚🌊✨

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been a little while since i tended to my altar - in grief and exhaustion i'd let it get dusty. then a surprise gift of money from my partner's dad made me remember that i still need to be present and at least give thanks for what i receive (the rose, for hermes, who always provides me with enough to keep going). just taking a little time to clean and give it attention was helpful to my state of mind. 🌹🕯

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been awhile since i pulled out the cards. sometimes i feel like i am waiting for the right moment just to ask for help - a problem i have always struggled with - but it’s usually worth it when i finally do.

the stabbed heart of the three of swords in the center just made me sigh when i saw it; it’s exactly how i’ve been feeling this week. betrayed, let down, and letting those feelings really cloud my mind. being let down hurts. and when my heart gets hurt so badly i struggle to complete any work, to feel positively about myself, to believe in the underlying worth of anything i’m trying to do. feeling undervalued starts a spiral of sad, angry feelings that can easily drag me under for weeks.

but the bright warmth of the two of pentacles and the fool remind me to have faith in what i’ve already set in motion. i have a lot of irons in the fire right now, and the figure here balances their two radiant pentacles easily, able to be gracefully handle what they have taken on. the fool gently encourages me to have faith in the journey. this same card came up for me in a reading about my business that was done for me by another reader. together these cards remind me that i am capable, despite my darkest fears, and that my challenge is to embrace the fool's lack of fear.

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two new things:

constellations and stars and the seasons of the year, printed on a lovely piece of scrapbook paper i found

& a pendant i made with a crystal quartz stone and a white glass bead (which i handmade years ago), netted in blue cotton with a braided cord

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rough digital painting of a 🍄