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[thewitchescraft]

Do you guys know anything about out of body experiences?

I don’t know if I’m the only one left here paying attention or not, but I personally dont’. I’m sorry. If you let me know what you’re looking for I’ll try to find resources for you. I’m fairly good at that.

-Mod Clover

[thewitchescraft]

Hi! I'm pretty new to the world of witchcraft and such. Any good recommendations for learning sources? (Aside from this blog 😉)

HI! Sorry this has been sitting here for so long, @theoremofwhat

I highly recommend books by Llywellyn. They put out Almanacs, spell books, date books (for keeping track of phases and events) and so many other useful items. You can find that, and a rune interpretation book (and a work book!) on Amazon. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head but I hope you find what you’re looking for.

-Clover

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Meet me behind the Denny’s for a chakra alignment

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Totally you @cidnovak75

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Little cosmic eye sketch 🌙✨

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Lughnasadth/Summer CrossQuarter Personal Correspondences

The Summer harvest is approaching! It’s the first harvest of the year! This sabbat to me represents reaping the rewards of hard work all year long, and if you feel like your goals have not been met, you still have 5 months (a little less than a half a year) to achieve them! Especially if you started a garden in spring you will see literal ‘rewards’ emerging in your garden now. Vegetables are ripening, garden herbs are ready for use, this is also the time when berries are ready to be foraged and farmers markets are bustling with fresh produce. Lughnasadth is about celebrating the abundance and the awards you’ve gathered from hard work from the first half of the year. It also marks the beginning of the harvest season! A great way to celebrate it is by having a garden party if you grow your own vegetables or a large picnic feast in the park.  

Lughnasadth - The First Harvest

August 1st

Colors:

Gold for Prosperity and wealth

Emerald for wealth, the summer greenery, the first garden harvest, money and abundance. 

Beige color of wheat, grains, potatoes, bread and Ale. The central foods that are in harvest.

Crystals:

Aventurine

Citrine

Tiger’s Eye

Moss Agate

Herbs and Plants:

Wheat

Corn

Black Eyed Susans

Garden Herbs

Sunflowers

Animals:

Bees

crickets for the summer music!

grasshoppers I associate the ant and the grasshopper with this sabbat for its morals

Decorations:

Wheat garland

Green garland like leaves and ivy

Corn husks more traditional: Corn Dolls

Hay

Food:

Wheat, Dough and Corn: The biggest symbol and major focus of harvest on this day is Wheat! It is custom to bake bread with the flour of the first harvested wheat as a symbol of gratitude and reward for hard work and what your hard work will reap for the resting period of the year. Bread is custom, and breads with herbs can honor the garden herbs in season. There’s a lot that can be done with bread and dough. Since a lot of vegetables are in season one could make a well seasoned summer vegetable pizza with spiced zucchinis and eggplants. One could make a soup bowl, or dip bowl. Corn is more involved in American cuisine, but we are (or at least I am) in America and corn is the staple of many cultures as well so if you feel more inclined to use corn do so! Both are great and are golden and represent wealth! If you have more of a caribbean or latino background you can make some delicious polenta with summer vegetables or bring tortilla chips with dip to a gathering or make handmade tortillas. I mean whether it’s grits, cornbread (my favorite), or just corn on the cob with butter cream, herbs and paprika, corn is very versatile and can be served in a number of ways, especially if you care about establishing a connection to your heritage. If you are more of a wheat person you can stick to breads and pastas. Tomatoes are beginning to get in season around now so that will pair well with pasta salads or sauces for dishes.  

The Vegetable Harvest: As I’ve mentioned a number of times, many vegetables are coming in season. There are cucumbers, zucchinis, peppers and tomatoes to name a few off the top of my head. This year I would like to attempt to make ratatouille but any dish with in season vegetables especially if its from the fruit of your labor (the garden) or locally grown from a farmers market will represent the festivities of this sabbat. You can hit two birds with one stone by preparing some deliciously moist zucchini bread. 

Fruity Season: There are also many fruits that come in season at this time. Berries are ripe and ready to be picked. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries would be great to put in desserts. If you want to get into the spirit of the wheat harvest you could use some dough to make a berry pie or tart. Peaches are also ripe and in season and would make a great peach cobbler. Then there are the melons that I believe have been in season for a bit but now canteloupes are especially delicious and ripe along with honeydew and of course watermelon. Serving fruity wine, or a sangria or punch with these fruits would be great for the festivities or to bring to a picnic. 

Ale, Fruity Ciders, Wine and Whiskey! Also for drinks you can drink Ale or any wheat based bears. Whiskies are ok too since some like Bourbon, Wheat or Rye whiskey are corn and wheat based.  Fruity wines are a plus and wine in general because the grape harvest is soon. Fruity beers or ciders like Peach cider are perfect or fruity beers. I’m not the biggest fan of fruity beers but a fruity shandy like a light beer mixed with a fruit cider or fruit soda (or fruit syrup with club soda) could be a great subsitute. 

Sweets and Treats! For sweets like treats and candy anything that reflects the fruits in seasons like fruit gummies are great. Making home-made gummies are really easy, it’s just a lot of gelatin and fruit juice. If you want to go the extra mile you can make hard candy or gummies with fresh pressed fruit juices (or buy Hasboro fruit gummies that are cute and fruit shaped or even Welches honestly). Also since this sabbat is about abundance and earning from the hard work you put in then gold coin chocolates would be fun to pass out too!

Instruments/Music:

Acoustic guitar, Lute Also I love the album L'Ecornifleur by Francois Pernel, I feel like it captures the feeling of this time of the end of summer outdoors celebrating yet sleepy feel. (Link is to the full album to listen to!)

Fragrances/Incense:

Sandalwood

Nectar

Honey

Ylang ylang

Basil

Mint

[thewitchescraft]

Blessed Lammas, everybody!

[thewitchescraft]

Any spell to avoid seeing someone?

I like using a sort of double banishing spell with 2 poppets for avoidance.  It works like this: one poppet is you, and the other is the person you’re trying to avoid.  It helps a lot if you can make the poppets with personal affects of you and the person you’re trying to avoid.  Consecrate your poppets however you deem fit, or don’t.  It’s up to you.  I feel the act of making the poppets is consecration enough, but some witches would disagree.  

Anyway! Once you have your poppets ready to go, put them in 2 dark bags or boxes.  Hide yours in a dark place--in a closet, under the bed, somewhere out of sight and out of mind.  Say something simple like “I banish myself from X, I will not see them anymore.”  Then, get in the car and drive very far away (or, if you don’t have a car, just go to a different room of the house, or even simply the farthest point from your poppet in the same room--the farther the better).  When you’ve arrived at your spot, put the poppet somewhere dark and closed off (or bury it if it’s biodegradable), and say “X, I banish you from myself, you will not see me anymore.”  Then turn around and leave and try not to go back to that spot. As long as you keep the poppets separate and hidden, you shouldn’t see too much of the person you’re trying to avoid.

Good luck, my dear!

•▪☆¤●°Love, Moon •☆¤▪•○●

[Harvest-Moon-Mystic]

[thewitchescraft]

What kind of day spells are better done on a full, waxing and waning moon?

Hi honey!  I’m taking this information from www.moonmuses.com.  I use this site often for my lunar spellcraft.  It’s always proven useful and accurate for me.

* New Moon Magic *

New Moon workings can be done from the day of the new moon to three-and-a-half days after. The new moon is for starting new ventures, new beginnings. Also love and romance, health or job hunting.

* Waxing Moon Magic *

From seven to fourteen days after the new moon.The waxing moon is for constructive magic, such as love, wealth, success, courage, friendship, luck and health.

* Full Moon Magic *

From fourteen to seventeen-and-a-half days after the new moon. Prime time for rituals for prophecy, protection, divination. Any working that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healing for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money and dreams.

* Waning Moon Magic *

From three-and-a-half to ten-and-a-half days after the full moon.The waning moon is used for banishing magic, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity.

* Dark Moon Magic *

From ten-and-a-half to fourteen days after the full moon. The dark moon is a time for ridding oneself of bad habits, Binding spells, for exploring our darkest recesses and understanding our angers and passions. Also bringing justice to bear.

•▪☆¤●°Love, Moon •☆¤▪•○●

[Harvest-Moon-Mystic]

[thewitchescraft]

I'm desperate. I can't get my hands on any lavender oil which is required for a spell. Any suggestions as to what I can replace it with?

It depends on what the intent of the spell is, and what the other components are! Sometimes Lavender’s uses overlap with other plants that are easier had on hand. Sometimes those overlap plants bring something to the table that you 1000% do not want. I hope you weren’t waiting too long!

-Clover

[thewitchescraft]

So what is the likely hood of a witches jar coming back after being burriwd

Hi! Do you mean, the likelihood of the energy that has been buried with the jar? If you can ascertain that the jar was buried properly and bound to the earth and thus banished from you, I feel there’s no real danger in those energies coming back out to get you. But if you’re worried, you can always do a protection spell around yourself to make sure nothing bad gets in or you’re not affected by lingering energies that didnt get buried.

•▪☆¤●°Love, Moon •☆¤▪•○●

[Harvest-Moon-Mystic]

[thewitchescraft]

I have a couple crystals/gems and I'm excited to use them but I don't know how to use them exactly I know it has to do with energy but I'm apparently really bad at connecting with them and knowing what I can do with them so help? 😖 THANK YOU SO MUCH

Well, it depends on what your crystals are and what you want to do with them. 

I’d say a good place to start would be to check out what your stones are, then find their uses (aventurine for luck, rose quartz for healing ect) then meditate on what purposes you could have for them specifically?

- @clovistaire

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Muladhara: An Overview of The Root Chakra

It literally all starts with the root chakra! It is the chakra that provides a healthy flow to the other chakras. The root chakra is the color red. The color that starts the beginning of the spectrum. It’s tone is that of a low C and it’s symbol is the four-petalled lotus. It keeps us connected to the energy of the earth and the vitality of it because the chakra faces downward and the energy within it flows down connecting us with the earth. It is associated with Garnet, Obsidian, Apache Tear, Smoky Quartz, Agate, Bloodstone, Ruby, Red Coral, Fire Opal, Hematite, and Lodestone. The root chakra is located at the base of the spinal cord. It deals with all the solid parts of the human body such as the spine, bones and the teeth. It also deals with elimination in the rectum and colon, the blood, and cells. Circulation is a vital part of how our body really functions. Blood circulates to allow nutrients to reach the parts of the body that needs them. Circulation also allows oxygen to flow and allows us to breathe. Our bones make a firm foundation and allows our body to have something to hold it up. They support out every step through life. Physically, if this chakra is blocked, you will have issues with circulation, blood pressure, and your digestive system. You will also have a struggle with actually fighting off illness and disease due to the fact that your immune system runs off of your blood ciruclation and nourishment of your body’s system. Just like the root chakra deals physically with the bones and solid parts of our body that hold us up, Muladhara also deal with the support of relationships and stability within them. If you have ever had troubles within a romantic, familial or even a relationship with an aquaintance or coworker, it is a sign that your root chakra is not aligned with the rest of your chakras or a blocked chakra. It deals with our personal relationship with trust. If a relationship has no trust, it will fail to stand and go on peacefully. You may also have a blocked root chakra as well if you have a fear of abandonment because that fear roots itself in the lack of trust that the people in your life will remain there for you. It also roots itself off of the belief that you will not survive if you are left alone. A blocked root chakra can cause someone to be destructive to their own self. You will feel exhausted and physically run down on a constant basis if the root chakra is ignored. You will feel that you lack a sense of belonging. The root chakra is a vital component to the rest of the chakras within us. It keeps us strong. (1/22/16)

[clovistaire]

Hey guys. I’ve got a reading sitting in my inbox that I absolutely meant to get to sooner, but I haven’t been able to because I’ve been just so bogged down with real world things. With my condition flaring up, and getting sick left right and center (not the flu, thank god. that vaccine works!! ) and having trouble keeping food in my mouth (why is living so god damned expensive in the USA) 

I’m not currently open for tarot and pendulum readings. I’m sorry. If you want readings from me you’re going to have to visit the etsy shop I work out of, because I simply can’t balance any equation where I’m doing readings for free when I don’t have a whole lot of energy to begin with.. 

If you have general questions for me (Or other more experienced witches), I’m working with wonderful people over at @thewitchescraft

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[thewitchescraft]

-Cricket ( @gemini--cricket , @spellboundcricket )

[thewitchescraft]

could i ask for a general reading? thnx!

Hello love, I have the Queen of Swords reversed.  This card indicates a blockage in initiative drive.  You’re just not feelin it lately, and you’re having trouble getting motivated.  Sometimes, the best thing you can do for yourself is to break the cycle of laziness.  Force yourself to turn off the TV and take a walk, or write something.  You need to get your creative flow regularized.  Find a daily routine and don’t let yourself get sucked into non-productive activities that leave you feeling as though you’ve wasted time.  

Alternatively, this card also deals with feelings of inadequacy and emotional disruptance.  I feel there are hidden insecurities that you’re not being blunt about.  Address the root of these feelings you repress.  Perhaps it’s time to spend a day in meditation or at least conversation with yourself or a journal and get out those thoughts that you don’t want to see.  Once you purge them out of repression and get them out into the open, they’ll seem much less intimidating and you can strike them down :)

¤•●°☆Love, Moon○•¤°☆•○

[harvest-moon-mystic]

[thewitchescraft]

On a different note may I get a pendelum for whether I should work food or clothing for my soon to be second job? And, am I anything other than human?

Pendulum says no to food, yes to clothing, and no, you’re not anything other than human, although that’s a pretty amazing thing to be, dontcha think? :)  Best of luck to you in your job search!

¤•●°☆Love, Moon○•¤°☆•○

[harvest-moon-mystic]

[thewitchescraft]

Hey! If you're still open can I get a spread on my general future? If you need a question, a more specific aspect would be "how's my summer going to be" or "will any mutual love be had in the future"

Hello love, I pulled two insight cards for both of your questions--one each for the present and future.  About your summer:Present: The Devil reversed.  You’re feeling a little pent up right now--things aren’t moving forward like you’d hoped.  There are loose ends that need to be tied up in your personal affairs and the summer seems like the time that this will happen.Future: King of Wands reversed.  This card is telling you “no time like the present.”  In other words, don’t wait around for summer to get here.  You’ll get into the habit of procrastination and you won’t address those pressing personal matters.  Overall, I think your summer may be encumbered by obligation.  But you can ensure that this doesn’t happen by addressing your problems now, and as they spring up.About your love life:Present: Ace of Pentacles.  This card indicates your solitude.  It is a single coin--quite literal here.  You’re feeling reserved but also hopeful.  You believe that good things come to those who wait, and you’re holding out for love.  I see in the background of this card (which I perceive to be the future) an arbor of pink roses--symbolic of new love.  This is a hopeful and promising card.Future: 4 of Wands.  This card is quite literally the union card.  It’s long-lived commitment, possibly even marriage!  Regardless, the lover you’ll take in the near future will be someone who means the world to you.  It will be blessed and happy for its duration.

In general, I feel your future is quite promising and hopeful.  You’re on the verge of a new chapter in life and love.  Don’t procrastinate on turning the page.

¤•●°☆Love, Moon○•¤°☆•○ 

[harvest-moon-mystic]