#western witch

[metalichotchoco]

West x north

I always love a new spin on the wizard of oz there’s so many ways to take the ideas and concepts and it’s all nice and public domain too

I wanted to really play with the directions much more so, Glinda became more “north” (even if in the books she’s the witch of the south) and w.w (or elphaba) became more “west”

W.W, ( i need an actual name for her) has a poncho instead of a cape, leather boots, gloves and her hat, and leans in with more gold in her design. I wanted a fire-gunpowder motif. Not pictured here is that her broom is one of those blown up shotguns with a wooden base that she uses as a focus for spellcasting. She’s the type to be on wanted posters

Glinda, is based mostly off her 1939 film look but with some of my own flair. Her crown is now a sort of Cossack, her bubble motif is communicated with pearls on her outfit. The sillouette of her dress was altered just a bit to look like an 80s wedding dress because I like the shapes and they fit the movie/ covering her more since I wanted her to look kinda prepared for the cold. The layers of the dress I wanted to be almost shell like in structure, the insides of them being underneath the pleats. The glitter also is sorta snowy too. I wanted her to be slightly iridescent

[saguarosorceress]

DESERT WITCH AESTHETIC : REBIRTH

[parsleysagerosemary-and-time]

Local Practice: a Series

Hey y’all! So I know my blog is a teeny-tiny little pebble in the pool of all of witchblr out there, but I’ve been having a time for the last...oh...year and a bit...trying to really grasp the deepening pull of witchcraft in my life, but without quite knowing the direction of it, you feel me? I’ve been traversing deeper into my heritage practices (Mediterranean Strega, Celtic witchcraft), which has been good, trying to sort out my feelings around Divinities and spirits (and what the difference is, and if I even believe there really is a difference?), where I stand on low magic vs high magic (decidedly low, folk, and land-based), and what it means to be a witch, for me, and the considerations that come with it (including appropriation, racism, terfs, etc), and how to work witchcraft with serious and exacerbated mental health issues (thanks COVID! Oh, and special thanks to my parents on this one too!).  I think I’ve figured out the next leg in my practice. Deeply and vocally localizing my practice. I do a lot already with my local area, I know it well, but I haven’t documented it, I don’t go posting about it, and it’s not something I really write down, but I think it’s important for me to chronicle it, to think more deeply about it than the sort of inherent knowledge one gets from being a witch in a place, and deeply root, as it were, instead. I also think it’s a great opportunity to put some helpful how-to’s out there, and to build out a more authentic practice for my region for anyone who may be new to paganism and witchcraft. I read a lot of books and listen to a lot of podcasts about witchcraft in North America, and generally, when they say North America, they mean the States. I want to change that. I want to make sure Canada and Canadian witches have a way to localize their practices. So I’m going to do my best to do it, from my little corner of things. I’m going to start a Local Practice series, based on Calgary, Alberta. Some post topics I’m considering:

Animal allies

Seasons and weather

Spirits and land wights/Genus Loci

Places of power

Elements and encountering them

Local folklore, magic, and correspondences

How to build a local practice

Identifying your biome

Plant allies

How to hunt and gather your research and sources

(as a note, I am approaching this from a settler white pagan perspective. I intend to honour the land of the indigenous people of Treaty 7, on which I work and live, and that means identifying and honouring Indigenous local culture, and not appropriating their practices, traditions, or spirits. Indigenous practices are closed.)

If you have any questions, suggestions, or comments, feel free to hit up my asks!

[north-of-annwn]

My Personal Journey and Vision for this Blog | Spirituality and Magic in Colorado | The Spiral Path

What's in a Name? I thought I'd begin this blog by introducing myself and talking a bit about my personal journey. I'm Elisa, a name that I grew into rather th...

Hello, my lovelies! The site is finally finished, and now my first blog post is published!

In this first post, I’ll introduce myself (if you don’t know me already), share my experiences that led me to paganism, and talk about what I hope to achieve with the blog going forward. Blessings! And I hope you’ll join me on this journey filled with magic and western wildcraft.