#witchraft

[vcreatures]

On the backs of infernal beasts the Green Annis, the true witch, answers the beckoning of her Reverend's call.

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[charnel-grounds]

“Ritual” by Psyché Ophiuchus, 2019

from Taschen’s ‘Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica’

[spokelse-heks]

Pick a pile: The mark of the dragon: How to begin a new transformation process?

Before you begin: Draconian energies are heavy and difficult. You may read things you don't like. The Draconian path is dark and will drag you through the mud. Reading a pick-a-card won't change your life, but it can confront you with things you don't want to face. I speak from my own experience. Now that you've been warned, it's up to you.

Pile 1: 8 of cups, queen of swords and 3 of wands.

This is the moment you need to leave your emotional caves. Leave behind attachments and dramas that no longer fuel your inner fire. You're not doing this out of weakness; it's because you've matured, and that place is too small for you.

Put your cool mind to work like a dragon. Align your intellect with your purpose and cut off doubts at the root, because you need the commitment to be true to your logic and your power.

Your new era doesn't begin with chaos; it begins with building a solid, stable, and worthy kingdom. Your transformation triumphs when you commit to your own truth.

Pile 2: The hermit, the Strength and The Empress.

Three major arcana together indicate that this path of transformation is a complete spiritual paradigm shift.

It's the call to the cave. To begin a new era, you don't need to seek answers outside or ask for anyone's approval. Light your own inner lantern and look inward. It's a time for silence, to study your own history and understand your own rhythms.

The dragon does not destroy the magician; the magician tames the dragon's fire with self-love and temperance. Your greatest strength is not aggression, but your ability to remain calm, heal your wounds, and tame your deepest fears.

When you transcend your own darkness and master your power, you become the pure channel of creation. The Empress is the embodiment of your dreams. Your new era manifests as fertile ground where everything you touch will blossom, grow, and expand.

Your new era is one of absolute abundance, creative power, and manifestation. Everything you plant after this retreat will blossom with unstoppable force. Your power is born from your peace.

Pile 3: The Knigth of wands, ace of swords and the Fool.

In Draconian Magic, this combination represents the awakening of the dragon's fire, breaking all chains at once. It is an energy of absolute liberation, speed, and a completely radical beginning. A quantum leap is on the horizon.

Your new era begins by igniting your passion and moving swiftly. The dragon spreads its wings and takes flight without hesitation. There is no more time to wait or over-plan; it is the moment for audacity.

For this move to be successful, you need to take the leap of faith that will allow you to spread your dragon wings and fly. Let go of expectations, forget the rules of the past, and start fresh with a light heart. The dragon doesn't need a map to fly; it only needs to trust its own wings and its instincts. Free yourself and relinquish control; you don't need to rely on anything or anyone but yourself.

Dividers made by @uzmacchiato

[creature-wizard]

"Things are done the way they are for a reason" is a thought terminating cliche.

[nihti]

☽◯☾ During my studies of archives and legends, I have found the perfect recipe for a witch’s ointment.

🦇🌘 Ointment of Nocturnal Flights 🌘🦇

Behold the recipe of foulness and abomination, offered in honor of the night. Take thou the root and leaf of black henbane, called Hyoscyamus niger, and grind them well in a mortar till their sap be runneth free. Sprinkle with the seed of poppy, Papaver somniferum, to cast the senses into slumber. Add the seeds of a deadly thorn-apple, which they name Datura stramonium, that the mind be plunged into the darkness and strange phantasms manifold to appear.

Let a single drop of living blood fall from the wing of a downy bat, for the nocturnal power. Gather wolfsbane, which men call Aconitum napellus, but do so gloved and mix it with spotted hemlock, known as Conium maculatum, that the heart may quake with dread and the body grown stiff and cold as death.

Seal your ears with beeswax not to be gravely disturbed by the mandrake which by a black hound must be torn from the ground. Grate it fine as horseradish and join it to the ointment, that the thoughts may take flight free. Add also swan’s grass or silverweed, called Potentilla anserina, for it brings women relief in their hidden pains.

Grind all together with the fat of a sacrilegious man until it grows black and slick. Rub the secret parts of the body, where the flesh most readily drinks in the potion. Whoever prepares and uses it shall behold devils, revels and frenzy dances. You shall fly by night and commit deeds of abomination under the moon.

Ink & brush on paper + digital edition

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🦇🌘 Maść nocnych lotów🌘🦇

Oto recepta plugastwa ku czci nocy. Weźmij korzeń i liść lulka czarnego, hyoscyamus niger zwany, dobrze utłuczcie w moździerzu, aż soki swoje upuści. Makiem, to jest Papaver somniferum, posyp dla uśpienia zmysłów, bielunia nasienie, którego zwą Datura stramonium, dodaj, aby umysł w mroki pogrążyć i widzenia dziwne mnogie przywiódł.

Kroplę żywej krwie ze skrzydła puchatego gacka spuść, dla nocnej mocy. Tojad, zowią Aconitum napellus, w rękawiczkach zrywać masz i ze szczwółem plamistym, Conium maculatum zwanym, dodaj, by serce lękiem napełniło się i ciało w zdrętwieniu umartwiło.

Wosk pszczeli w uszy dla zatkania wsadzić trzeba, a mandragorę, psem czarnem z ziemie wykopaną, jako chrzan utrzeć i do maści przyłączyć, by myśli lotne były. Łabędzia trawa, srebrnik czyli Potentilla anserina, też dołóż, albowiem niewiastom Tamże ulgę przynosi.

Wszystko z łojem świętokradcy ucieraj, aż czarne i tłuste się stanie. Smaruj miejsca sekretne, gdzie ciało snadnie soki w siębie pije. A kto tak czyni, ten diabły, libacje i tańce widzi, fruwa po nocy i plugastwa czynił będzie.

[zmiyina]

The Young Witch

In Ukraine, it was believed that a household spirit can be created by a childless woman carrying a chicken's last egg by her heart. This spirit usually showed up as a small person, or as a snake living in the foundation of the house.

[810nd1]

Slavic witchcraft lesson no 2

Bad dreams, nightmares and dreams that make no sense are warnings from your ancestors. It could be a warning about anything, but usually it means a tragedy in the near future.

For example I had nightmares on Wednesday about a war. Planes were dropping bombs everywhere I can't remember remember exactly but I think I tried to run. I woke up from it at 3 a.m., went back to sleep. And I had another weird dream. I found a child under the debris. I digged it out, the child was hurt so I was carrying it, trying to get help, find a doctor just anything to save that child.

On Wednesday my close family member was involved in an accident. Thank you spirits for the heads up.

[huhwinonahuh]

You'd be surprised how good pop music works as cleanser. Yes, blast that Chappell Roan song to cleanse your crystals or Born This Way to get rid of unwanted energy