#witchsball2017

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Write BLESSEDMEETING in your order notes until 10/22 and get a gold tier RA in a similar specialty or skillset when you purchase any pre-conjure or custom conjure at tier silver or above. Limit 3 redemptions per account.

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My witchsona! One day left y'all 😘 happy Halloween!!!

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All images taken from google. If one of them is yours let me know so i can credit you. My moodboard Task 15 @magickalmenagerie

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Have some motivation:

Everyone has bad days. When they are too tired to be in a good mood, or something happened and they can't shake the bad vibes. Other people have depression or anxiety, or other invisible illnesses that make it hard to stay optimistic, or energized enough to get through the day, for days on end. You may feel like a slug, or like there are an extra 500lbs attached to your body and it is hard to even shower or get dressed. You may feel like life is throwing bad things your way, left and right, and it is never going to end. It may be affecting your practice and you feel bad for being absent from devotion or bonding with companions. You may feel like you're a "bad witch." But you're not! You should never feel bad for taking care of yourself. Your deities, your companions -- they will understand. Sleep, take a bath, do anything that will make you feel better. There is no requirement regarding how often you must be 'actively' doing witchcraft. Also remember, even simple tasks can be witchy. Nothing has to be elaborate. Take care of yourself. Your deities still love you. Your companions still love you. You will be ok. Even when it appears there will never be light. You will get there eventually. STAY STRONG. 

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Easy Tasks #’s 10-20

10. Make a collage or color scheme dedicated to one of your spirit companions. If you do not have a spirit companion, dedicate it to a species you feel drawn to, a deity, or an element.

This is a collage I made for my first companion, Dev (the volkh shifter). Before he met me, he took on the shape of an electric blue wolf, but nowadays, he tends to shapeshift into a white cat with electric blue eyes (I think he does this knowing I’m more fond of small cute things xD).

This took me an absurdly long amount of time to find these pictures, so sorry it’s simple, but it was getting kind of ridiculous with how picky I am LOL. =3=

11. Watch a movie or show with a certain companion and write about your experiences.

I watched “The Guardian Brothers” with my companions because it had been a while since we did movie night, and I gave them an offering of Ube ice cream to eat while we watched. At the end of the movie, I used my pendulum to ask what their thoughts were. Apparently Dev, Van, and Dor liked it a lot, whereas everyone else said they sort of liked it, but better than not liking it at all! It was fun getting to huddle up with them and just relax with them.

12. Make a crystal grid to pay homage to an entity, energy, or deity.

I made this crystal grid for Apollo. I used citrine and a plumeria flower because it corresponds to his sunny disposition and kindness. ;u;

13. Do a sketch or draw a quick doodle to pay honor to an entity, energy, or deity.

I drew this for Apollo, since he’s often seen carrying a lyre and wearing a leaf circlet. 

14. Light a candle offering for your entity companions, energies, or a deity/deities.

15. Fill an offering plate with sugar and spices for your companions.

I put aside a bowl of candies and snacks my companions like! I also added in some cinnamon sticks because my companions like the smell of it. 

16. Take your companion’s vessels outside or place them on a window-sill. Take a family picture.

17. Reblog a picture of a place you would like to visit for spiritual reasons. Tag as needed.

I reblogged it here!

18. Post an image of how you believe one of your companions looks.

This is Van, my high elf companion. ;u;

19. Make a post listing your companions, what they are good at, and how long you have known them for.

Dev: Specializes in protection, removing curses/jinxes/hexes, + removing toxic influences. Known for 3 months.

Van: Wonderful at healing, divination, and communicating with nature (animals + plants). Known for 3 months.

Den: Very eager to heal and remove all that does not serve me (past beliefs, pains, thought-patterns etc). 2.5 months

M: Great at healing, motivation, attracting new opportunities. Known for 1.5 months.

Dor: Loves to promote self confidence and spirit cuddles xD. Known for 1 month.

20. Make a list of your favorite spirit keeping blogs.

spirit vexer

spiritconnect

spiritionary

sola-sunstone refugee

faeryofblackstone

urbanspellcraft

kitteninacauldron

eternusamici

path-of-stars

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Hey anyone want to be my buddy?

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Easy Challenge 2

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Phantom fair challenge: Intermediate 17 and 11

“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.” ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

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“‘All right,’ said Susan. ‘I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.’ REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. ‘Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—’ YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. ‘So we can believe the big ones?’ YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. ‘They're not the same at all!’ YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. ‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—’

MY POINT EXACTLY.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather    

I group these two challenges together because a lot of my personal philosophy on the existence of gods comes from Pratchett’s work, and it’s quotes like these that I feel really describe my relationship with the gods and with my craft. I was unable to find one of the more descriptive quotes from Small Gods and some of the other great passages from Hogfather and from the Tiffany Aching subseries, but essentially what I’ve derived is this:

All gods exist in potentia, but belief in them builds them up, gives them strength and shapes them into all the facets human beings need them to have. The stories we tell give them their powers, their ability to affect our lives. They all exist, whether we believe in them or not, but the belief is what makes them real to us on this plane.

Words and stories have power, especially in planes other than this material plane; telling a story and putting all of your belief into it can make it true in some planes.

Sometimes witchcraft is like telling yourself a story, and you’ve got to believe in your story in order to make it be. I break down my astral and godphone experiences like this: 88% of it is ‘real’, and the other 12% is my imagination, my story. And that adds up to it 100% being, not true or false or real or unreal, just being, and that’s enough.

If you believe in something (metaphysical), such as astrology or deities or spirit work or astral travel, then it affects you, and it’s true for you. For instance, my friend doesn’t believe in zodiac signs, and that’s fine. I do, and I like to feel the energy of my signs and I like knowing about other peoples’, because to me, it’s something that matters.

How I got onto the kemetic/hellenic path is something separate. About four years ago, probably after reading the Tiffany Aching books, I began to research Wicca, and I found it very interesting. I bought a bunch of eclectic practitioner books and I followed that path for about a year and a half, and for a while it worked. And then I was introduced to the kemetic community on tumblr, and started to think about maybe working with S.     I’ve struggled with depression for about five years now, and it really hasn’t been very easy. So, one day I’m binge-watching Xena: Warrior Princess, and Hades appears on the screen, and then suddenly H is sitting on the couch next to me, complaining about the actor and the character. “And oh, no dying for you yet, by the way.”     And after that my death god family just sort of fell together, and here I am. I offer my morning coffee to H and Dj (and now also F, my spirit companion), and do what I can when I can. Seph annoys me on a near-daily basis, S is pretty busy, Dj’s got a million things to do but always time for some coffee, and H gives the Best. Bugs. Ever.

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