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Witch Tip:

Things to add to your black salt to give it a little ✨spice✨:

Herbs from past spells (cleansed and thanked for their service)

Old manifestations come to life

Incense ashes

Your literal trash (something something rebirth cleansing fire yadda yadda)

Objects that once meant something special to you but not anymore

Literally anything you can set on fire

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Witch Tip

Make a Carrd.

You don't have to show it to anyone, in fact I highly recommend keeping it all to yourself. But writing down everything that makes you you is a really good shadow work exercise.

There's something about the challenge of putting down all of your beliefs, your desires, and your fears in a short concise manner that can really help you understand where you are and where you're going.

Do it yearly; on new years, or your birthday, or whenever. And keep a record of who you were throughout your life.

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Your sleep-deprived witch bitch greeting ya'll a Happy Independence Day!

May you have some opportunity to behead your enemies as our ancestors did!

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A Little Bit of Animism in Urban Witchery: A Rant

There's a lot of stuff going on about how Cities aren't connected to nature. Which is bullshit.

Everything we build is still a part of nature. Would you look at a beaver dam and condemn it because a beaver built it? No! That would be absurd. - Avery Hart

Modern day cities are just as natural as the forests that once grew beneath them. Yes, they don't quite feel like your typical mountain trail, but neither does the beach.

It's simply a matter of transforming energy. Concrete doesn't feel like sand and rocks and water because it's not "sand and rocks and water", it's Concrete.

It's like the whole "coffee is just bean water" debate.

Cities feel different because the very buildings themselves have different energies than what they were built from. Add on the power grids and the sewage systems and the people, well no wonder it's different from the rest of nature.

But that doesn't mean it's not natural.

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Kitchen Witch Tip

Make spice blends with specific intentions, such as;

Rosemary, parsley, finely ground pepper, and garlic powder for Vitality, Success & Purification.

Curry, whole black pepper kernels, and cayenne for Protection & Banishing.

And add to your food whenever needed!

(Broom Closet Interpretation: make sure that each spice blend has an individual flavor profile so no one can fault you for making different blends/spells.)

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"This phone will always have charge."

I did my first Sigil and am really happy?! It's at about the same size as the average phone screen, but cropping it should be easy enough...

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Broom Closet Witch Tip

Put all your witchy apps on one page of your home screen, and then intersperse games with them.

Make sure that the apps that are more obviously games are smack dab in the center and upper part, this helps promote the assumption that these are just mobile games.

And if you don't have that much games, then add social media apps, and it just looks like a "Recreation" page.

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Actually Good Wicca 101

Alright I found a question asking for Wicca resources, so I dug my list of surprisingly good books and then lost the question (curse you facebook mobile).  

So here’s the list instead.

TL; DR, STAY AWAY FROM ARIN CHAMBERLAIN, REDE LITERALLY MEANS ADVICE AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO FOLLOW IT ALL THE FUCKING TIME, THE RULE OF THREE MAKES NO SENSE.

"Maiden Moon: An Advanced Wicca 101" by Simon Craft

Maiden Moon is such a great book, especially if you're just starting off. His mostly acerbic humour is fantastic, especially since he actually does do what he claims to do, which is lay down the basics of Wicca. It's especially hard to find something that actively mentions the more strict traditions, such as Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca. 

Also, he mentions “Dragon Tradition Wicca”, which is a tradition he’s a part of (founded?) but isn’t around anymore.

The copyright of the book doesn’t ban us from sharing it online so here (no that’s not my wordpress)

“A Wiccan Bible: Exploring the Mysteries of the Craft from Birth to Summerland" by A. J. Drew It's an entirely different take on the concept of Wicca than I had expected. The name had made me shy away for awhile, expecting a second Arin Chamberlains, but it is genuinely an in depth look into the religion. It brings to attention concepts, that while I don't always agree with, are certainly worth looking into. 

Most importantly, he shows you why he came to this conclusion. YES

"A Witches’ Bible: The Complete Witches’ Handbook” by Janet and Stewart Farrar; or even just “The Witches Way”

I haven’t finished reading it yet, but it has definitely piqued my interest. Mainly because of how it’s very centric around the idea that “this way works, but its not the only one” which almost encourages you to cut and paste around what makes sense to you and what doesn’t.

“Living Wicca” and “Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner” by Scott Cunningham

If the above book almost encourages you to cut and paste, then this one has a neon sign for it. I’m putting both books as one item because it’s practically the same book but written twice. Which is a good thing because it helps put different things in perspective.

DO NOT read it as your introduction to Wicca, because it assumes you already have the basics down pat. Read another  101 (multiple preferably),before reading this, because then you’re stuck with “what’s important”. Then consider that Scott Cunningham died in 1993. He died 30 years ago, and that means at least some of this content is heavily outdated.