Creosote Witch

My practice is rooted in ancestral veneration and spirit work.

[thecreosotewitch]

To the bb witches and blossoming magical babes -

There are many paths you get to choose from and as exciting as it is, it can feel overwhelming! I’ve spent years researching and reinventing my witchy self and have always come back to the same core tenants of my practice. If you find yourself caught up in determining which path/kind of witch is right for you, I have some thoughts to share.

Pay attention to cycles: where is the sun or the moon hanging in the sky when you feel most you? When do you feel most “magical”, energized, or in-tune with yourself and your surroundings? Maybe it’s a season! For me, it is late summer into fall because I get to harvest and dry my herbs and collect seeds for next year! For those of you that menstrate, this may be another cycle to pay attention to and how you can incorporate this into your practice. It is equally important that you pay attention to when you are feeling depleted so you can reserve and recharge.

Pay attention to what makes your heart full: is it harvesting herbs from your garden or buying flowers from the grocery store? Making art? Friendship? Family? Cooking? Singing? Around pets? Meditating? A full heart is a great place to harness and incorporate that witchy, magical energy.

What do you naturally gravitate toward? You already know this, but you do not have to buy the latest and greatest witchy tools to be authentic - unless that is your jam! Maybe it’s divination by mirror scrying or looking for information in the clouds. Maybe it’s working with plants, fire, satchels, charms, gods, saints, or dieties, etc. The power is within YOU - how you choose to let it come through is up to you. Just don’t appropriate cultures or harvest endangered plants - if it’s not for you, there’s something else out there that is. Not sure? Google it.

Talk to the ocean, talk to the trees, talk to your plants and pets, talk to the wind, talk to a diety, talk to your ancestors. They will talk back and it will surprise you.

Take notice, bb’s! This is all great information for you! Use it to your advantage!

[thecreosotewitch]

[thecreosotewitch]

[mcdxciiad-deactivated20211221]

There are 241 cases on the Navajo Nation. Covid-19 demands a cooperation between traditional and western medicine to stop its spread to others in our nation. This isn’t the first time both forms of medicine cooperated. It occurred in the 1960s. It isn’t by chance that the person who lead this cooperation was a Diné woman.

Annie Dodge Wauneka, a Navajo leader, became the Chair of the Health and Welfare section of the Community Services Committees in the 1950s. She worked to expand tribal control to mitigate spread of viruses and diseases, pressed for more hospitals to be built in the Navajo Nation, and challenged traditional medicine practitioners to work with western medicine.

As a result, material conditions improved for Diné people. Now is the time for all types of medicine to work together and that includes not alienating either form of medicine when mitigating the spread of the coronavirus.

[blindwormsting]

I do a lot of mirror magic and, although I will stress this is only from personal experiences, if you are using mirrors in spirit conjugation and are using written material like petitions or pacts, have a go at writing them backwards and upside down. This way it appears normal when held in front of the mirror, it takes more time and effort which generally means it holds more power and it has been tailored to the spirit in the spirits plane instead of ours. Little twitchy tip for the mirror witches.

Image from gemmagary.com

[grayladyofthewell]

“…For the witch death holds a strange fascination. Each and every one of us is born to die, but is death the end to life? The witch says no. For they know that: “there are other places and other things”. Their whole life is and being is devoted to the ever present but unseen world of spirit.

- Cecil Williamson via Gemma Gray’s Silent as the Trees

[the-darkest-of-lights]

Spirit Powder

For all rites and workings of spirit conjuration and communication.

1 teaspoon copal

3  teaspoons juniper berries 

3  teaspoons myrrh

2 drops patchouli oil 

3 popular buds

1  teaspoon sloeberries

½  teaspoon ash of crow feathers 

1 teaspoon vervain

2 teaspoon yew 

via Traditional Witchcraft A cornish book of ways by Gemma Gary 

[carolinayourspiritmaster]

Another free colouring page today, to make the quarantine time easier - this one was made in 2016, but it was never published. Enjoy, and feel free to share ❤️!

[carolinayourspiritmaster]

Don’t forget that participations for my next Spiritual Service, happening on April 21, are already available. This time, we will be honouring the Ancestral Mother Lines; that is, the maternal generations of your ancestry and spiritual path. This Service celebrates our love for them, empowers the relationship with them, and attracts beneficial motherly figures (human and spiritual alike) into your life. In a moment like this, where we are all in need of safety and protection, where could you find more shelter than in the arms of the Great Mother?

In the picture, Our Lady Of Candelaria, called Chaxiraxi by my Guanche Ancestors, mother of all Canarians. May she bless you and protect you today ❤️!

https://www.yourspiritmaster.com/product/ancestral-mothers-service-april-21-0

[luciferianbuddhism]

“When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we can find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again. We must encourage others, especially young people, to go back to their traditions and rediscover the jewels that are there. Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ (via hymnsofheresy)

[pagan-prophet]

Do you feel them? The ancient ones walk with you this day. They watch you learn and grow, and they are so proud of you. We all are. Keep going, for The Gods love you.

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Corn dollies are my poppet of choice.

Spring Equinox Morena dolly.

(attn: @coyote-696 @zivyx @imaginarywitchcraft @pagan-stitches @graveyarddirt)

[shroud-of-roses]

Simple Home Wards

For outside:

Drive sturdy sticks into the corners of your property to bolster those areas and strengthen wards. It adds firm definition to where you are warding. Using sticks from your property is a great way to connect everything on your land

Hammer three nails in the ground near your front door to act as a potent warning to spirits below.

Use solar powered lights to line your path to the door to keep it feeling bright, warm, and inhabited. Keep a small light on your keys and it will help to keep you from getting lost. Make sure to program all lights and keychain lights at the same time to sync them together.

Enchant wreaths to draw in abundance and repel misfortune and negative entities.

Choose a striking door knocker to act as a guardian against thieves and predators.

Plant hardy flowers and bushes that are native to/thrive in your area around all entrances and exits. Find out what the bees in your region like (if possible)!

Use windchimes to ward off entities looking for stagnant places. Sound and motion tend to clear away that kind of energy.

Draw (or use energy instead of a drawing utensil) a sigil on the outer walls of your home, especially on pillars and doorframes. You can do this before your home is completely built if you are in that process!

Draw similar sigils and/or statements on your driveway in the summer to bake them into your land and charge them. You can use water in a squeeze bottle to do this as well, and it will fade away immediately if your area is hot.

During the winter, you can also use water to cut through the snow or to freeze onto your property. Be careful, of course, and bear in mind where you or your pets may walk.

Use potted flowers to hide non-deteriorating crystals and wards. Put permanent wards inside the pots before planting.

For inside:

Enchant and place coins or other small tokens above every doorway and in every windowsill of your home to draw in wealth and repel malevolent forces. Bobby pins, dimes, toothpicks. It all works, but I recommend charging them every month or so.

Hang tapestries or other kinds of wall decor to break up stretches of potentially stagnant spaces. Clocks move and typically have a sound, which have always served me well in cleansing and keeping up with the flow of energy.

Salt lamps are actually quite useful. They are very dangerous for animals and small children, though. If you're good with the lamps being safe, they are excellent at cleansing, warming up, and protecting an area.

Rugs can be used to make wards all ob their own. You can create a design on the underside if you want, or just use energy to enchant it.

Wipe vents down with some sort of ritually clean and positively charged solution. Gem elixir, moon water, herbal tincture, etc.

Enchant fixtures already setup to protect you and your family. Smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, security systems, locks, etc. Use energy opposed to physical materials for most of these to protect their functionality.

Ward your attic. Birds get in, squirrels get in, entities and energies get in.

If you have a chimney, ward the fireplace or surrounding objects. Grates and screens are awesome for this.

[carolinayourspiritmaster]

How do we, as spiritual-oriented people, face this situation? Here is some advice for those of you who may be feeling extra anxious, and need some guidance to come back to:

· First of all, remember that you are staying home to help others, to keep others healthy, to keep hospital space available for those who may need it more than you. Rejoice in the fact that you are serving the world. Instead of focusing on fear, focus on your kindness, focus on humanity doing this sacrifice together.

· Also, remember that your Spiritual family is always with you and yours. Do not pray in fear, but in gratefulness for their protection and presence. Gratefulness makes you stronger.

· Turn to your passions – tend your garden, binge watch your favourite series, knit that sweater you’ve been putting away because you didn’t have time. Do movie marathons, game nights, allnighters by candlelight.

· Disconnect from media several hours every day, and filter out anyone who’s profitting from your fear. Use that time to connect with whatever feeds your soul, like your favourite music.

· Take care of your body as much as you care for your soul. Take the time to pamper yourself: do a hair mask, concoct a body scrub, take herbal baths. Also, take care of the inside – cook the food you never have time to cook, drink herbal teas and fruit juices, take your vitamins. Nap every day.

· Give time to your home. Make it your temple, your holy space, your fun place, your love place.The energy around you is extremely important during this period.

· And, last but not least (at all), take this time to tell your loved ones how much you love them. Giving love, and feeling loved, is wonderful for your whole being.

As always, feel free to share <3!

[thecultoflexithewulf]

How To Find Your Spirit Guides, And Guardian Angels

Your spirit guides, and guardian angels are very powerful entities that have been watching over you, and are ever present in your life even, if you do not have a relationship with them yet. These beings are specifically connected to you, because you chose each other before you were even born into this incarnation. Everyone has a spirit guide, and a guardian angel. Finding them, and learning how to interact, and communicate with them can greatly improve every single facet of your life through the simple act of their presence. Some people may find it hard to find their spirit guides, and guardian angels, others will find it very easy, it all depends on if you are ready to know them, or not. There are many ways to go about finding your spirit guides, and guardian angels, if you are ready to go searching for them. Any of these methods am about to share with you can help you find them, but it is also important to use your insight, and introspection to verify your experiences.

This article might help too: http://wolfofantimonyoccultism.tumblr.com/post/142941334371/spirit-guides

Things that can help you find your spirit guides, and guardian angels:

• Just knowing that they exist.

Just to the act of simply acknowledging that they exist will allow you to start building a connection with them. You will start to see their influences in the world, and all of the things that they do for you, that you might not have been previously aware of. Allowing for you to meet them, and to get to know them not through a direct meeting, but through there actions in your life.

• Asking them to appear, and to be ever-present.

This will show them that you are ready to have them in your life. Just like the previous method, it will open you up to experience what they do in your life already. After you ask them to be more present in your life, you should look out for signs of them acting in your life.

• Meditation.

Through the act of meditation one can find their spirit guides, and guardian angels by using their spiritual senses to perceive them. To do this all you will really need to do it enter a meditative state, open your third eye, and call to them. They should come to you, and show you their presence, and once they do you guys can begin your communication, and learning of each other. This meeting is most likely going to happen in your sacred space, or astral temple, and is going to rely heavily on your sixth sense’s ability to pick up spiritual constructs.

• Divination.

Divination can be a very useful tool when trying to communicate with anything so why not your Spirit guides, and guardian angels. All you need to do is get some form of divination method of your choice, and ask your spirit guides, and guardian angels to answer through it. Then simply begin asking questions to it as normal, and they will answer through the act of your divination tools. This will allow you to communicate with them, and get to know them better. This is a very good method, especially when you can not get into a meditative state, or when you do not have a complete grasp of using your sixth sense abilities.

• Dream.

If you know how to lucid dream, you can always call out for them in your dreams and they will appear to you there.  If you cannot lucid dream, you can always ask your spirit guides, and guardian angels to appear to you in your dreams before you go to bed, and they may come to you and your dreams. That’s all there really is to it.

• Astral projection.

Astral projection can be quite helpful, when trying to communicate with any entity this also includes your spirit guides, and guardian angels. all you have to do is astral projecting and you will be able to find your Spirit guides and guardian angels on the astral plane and communicate with them.

• And much more, that I’m probably forgetting, while writing this.

[moon-lightfaerie]

Crystals for Dream Work

I often use crystals when practising dream work and find them very powerful when used in meditation or under my pillow while I sleep. They can also be used in sachets, elixirs or to hold when recalling dreams.

Rainbow Moonstone- induces lucid dreams, astral travel, activates spiritual awareness.

Labradorite- stone of mysticism, astral travel, enhances clairvoyance, protects aura, past life recall and accessing Akashic records.

Lepidolite- induces prophetic dreams and lucid dreaming, dream recall and improves psychic ability.

Sodilite- prevents nightmares (make grid under bed), opens third eye

Lapis Lazuli- induces dreams of past lives, vivid dreaming and opens third eye.

Blue Kyanite- enhances psychic ability, spiritual awakening, lucid dreaming and astral projection.

Amethyst- induces prophetic dreams, lucid dreams and astral travel. Keep one near your bed to prevent nightmares, cleanse and charge regularly. 

Obsidian- very protective, prevents nightmares and helps one channel their higher selves.

Blue Calcite- calming, helps with anxiety induced insomnia, clairvoyance and induces prophetic dreams.  

Celestite-connects to higher, angelic and celestial realms, clairvoyance and connect with spirit guides.

Selenite- protects from nightmares and negative astral beings, connects to angelic realms and improves psychic ability.

Moldavite-high vibration *be careful when working with it because it is very powerful*, connects to higher realms, spiritual awakening, lucid dreaming and astral travel.

Clear Quartz-opens one up to receiving messages from higher realms, clears the mind during meditation, astral projection.

[thecreosotewitch]

"The formidable and invigorating power of the feminine as mediator and image of the self is emobidied by the figure of Luna standing in the curve of the crescent moon.

From the wedding book Le nozze di Costantio Sforza e Camilla d'Aragona, 1480, Italy."

- The Book of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images Taschen