#witches new year

[candidlywhimsical]

When the veil grows thin and the last harvest rests, we honor our dead and welcome the Witches’ New Year.

Blessed Samhain 🍂🕯️✨

[wicked-witch-dude]

Wishing everyone a Merry Samhain and a happy Halloween.

🎃🐈‍⬛🦇💀🦇🐈‍⬛🎃

[morrigans-crows]

When most witches talk about ancestor work, they think of bloodlines, family trees, and names that can be traced on a map. But not all ancestors share your DNA—some share your struggle, your resistance, and your defiance.

This Samhain, the veil thins and the dead draw near. It’s the perfect time to remember the ones history tried to silence. Queer ancestors who loved in secret, carving out joy in a world that punished them for it. Women who labored, resisted, and bled for rights they were denied. BIPOC ancestors who built empires with their hands, their backs, their lives—while their names were erased from the record. Workers who rose up, demanded more, and were buried in shallow graves, their cries echoing long after their bodies turned to dust.

These are the ghosts we can’t ignore. And they are ancestors, too.

Ancestor work isn’t limited to blood ties. Ancestors are those whose battles you inherit, whose sacrifices ripple through your life, whose survival made your own possible. If you are queer, femme, marginalized, a witch, or simply alive in a world shaped by those who came before—you are carrying their fire.

So how do you honor them? Create space on your altar for the forgotten. Light a candle for the nameless. Speak their causes aloud, even if you don’t know their names. Dedicate your Samhain ritual to more than family—dedicate it to lineage. To survival. To the ghosts who shaped the path you walk today.

Because ancestor work isn’t only about who made you by blood—it’s about who made you possible.

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[thedarkmaidenn]

Well it’s that time of year again! I just wanted to tell anyone who might find this post a little bit about myself and who I am. Im literally just a small town nobody who shares her own ideas and practices on the internet. I am no teacher, in fact I’m still a student. I’ve only really had my hands in the craft for 6 years, and in truth I think that still makes me a baby. Take all that I post lightly, I only post the ideas I come up with for myself in hopes it might inspire others.

When I first started doing spells and rituals (I usually refer to spells/rituals as “altar sessions”) I would copy other rituals and spells I found online and in books. This helped me to get an understanding of what I was doing, which magical tool is used for what and the art of writing incantations. But copying rituals and spells stressed me out. I had to have everything prepared ahead of time and If one thing went wrong, if I didn’t do it exactly the way it had to be done, I believed that all the magic would be lost and the spell/ritual would be ineffective.

One night, after a busy week, I looked up at the night sky and saw that the moon had gone completely dark. It was a New Moon night and I’d forgotten all about it. I didn’t prepare or look into any spells or rituals to preform. At that time, I was doing all these intricate spells and rituals every new and full moon. Something I learned eventually was not all that sustainable. Anyway, that night I sat in front of my altar with zero preparation for what I was about to do. I had no choice but to let my intuition call the shots, and that’s what I did.

That was the altar session that helped me to realize that all the stress and preparation that I did every month, twice a month, was what was really draining the magic from every altar session I’ve ever had until that night. This altar session was the most powerful one I’d ever had, and I walked away feeling more connecting to the higher powers that, I believe, pull the strings. With all the knowledge and information I acquired from the spells and rituals I’d found online and in books, I decided to start letting my intuition do the work, and I’ve been doing that ever since.

The things I share are all the spells/rituals I’ve done using my intuition. I go back to these rites often and I reuse them because they work for me. Last year I decided to start sharing them. I don’t share them because I recommend that this is what you have to do. I share them because when I was just starting out, it was the information I found online and in books that helped me to start crafting my own altar sessions. It is my hope that maybe my posts can help inspire others who are just starting out, like I was 6 years ago.

You do not have to copy anything to a T. You can switch things up and make it your own altar session using the things that speak to you the most. Let your intuition be your guide and remember that the magic is not lost, as long as you believe in it. Don’t stress yourself out over perfection, because perfection simply does not exist. To me, the craft is essentially the act of using earthly materials, (whether it be tools, herbs, words, images, visualization or meditation) to connect to the divine, or whatever higher power you believe in. You have complete freedom to mix and match whatever you’d like in order to establish your special connection with the divine.

If someone tells your you’re doing it wrong, don’t take that to heart. As long as you are not harming others or the earth, there is no wrong way to practice your craft. You are doing just fine and you’ll only get better as time goes on.

Happy New Year ♥️

[the-clumsywitch]

🖤🎃Samhain/Halloween🖤🎃

[mummym6]

Samhain Blessings 💀🕯🍁🎃

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[optimalmastery]

Soul Cakes Recipe: Samhain Baking to Bless Our Ancestors

Print ShareCopied to clipboard Facebook Pinterest X Jump to Recipe As autumn deepens and the season of Samhain approaches, we find ourselves in a liminal space—a time when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead grows thin. Samhain, celebrated on the night of October 31st (in the Northern Hemisphere), has long been regarded as a time for honoring the dead, connecting with…

Soul Cakes Recipe: Samhain Baking to Bless Our Ancestors

[wybielune]

Happy Ostara, guys!

Today is the first day of Ostara, the pagan festival of fertility. It also celebrates rebirth and renewal, so in some ways, I see it as a Pagan type of New Year.

Which is great for me, because I've been trying to lose weight for an upcoming surgery, (that's in part why I've been missing, got a lot of health concerns right now) and I got ill a while ago and put back on all the weight I'd lost, but today, I'm renewing my efforts!

Happy Ostara!