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[aliengirltattoos]

Done by Alicia Anderson at Vintage Ink Tattoos in Clearwater, FL.

[tiny-mineral]

I had another shark dream

[theblondesabbat]

crystal.tribe

[witchy-choique]

👌🤓 Study Spell Sachet! 🤓👌

I’ve recently made this spell to help me concentrate on my studying and do well on my exams

It’s really easy to do, let me show you what you’ll need:

🌿 Rosemary: To aid with my memory 🌿 Lavender: To stay calm and not stress out too much! 🔮 Amethyst chip: To stay calm and focused 🔮 Lapis Lazuli: To enhance my communication skills and help me find the right words during the exam 🃏 A small print* of The Magician tarot card: For willpower, manifestation and creation 🃏 A small print of The Sun tarot card: For positivity and success 💙 A blue sachet ⭐ Something silvery (like a thread): To show that my intention is for the stars to charge my spell

I’m quite positive that I did well on my exam ✌😊🌌

[*CREDIT: I printed mine from this wonderful artist https://meizhun.tumblr.com/tagged/pixel-tarot - please consider checking out their amazing work!!!]

[themanicnami]

Sweet Scent (Pokemon Inspired)

A spell to attract a new friend.

You Will Need:

♡ A Pink Sachet ♡ Lavender ♡ Catnip ♡ Rosemary ♡ Honeysuckle Incense ♡ Aventurine, Garnet or Lapis Lazuli (small) ♡ (optional) piece of candy or sugar ♡ (optional) sigil for friendship or attracting friends

Steps:

♡ Light your incense and let it burn during the duration of your spell.

♡ In your sachet add your catnip, lavender, rosemary and piece of gemstone on top of the herbs (this may also be when you add your candy, sugar and/or sigil)

♡ Tie up or sew shut your sachet. Hold it close to your heart in your hands and focus on your desire to make a new friend

♡ Once ready run the sachet a few times through the smoke of your incense, still focusing on your intent

♡ Carry the sachet with you in your pocket or in a bag to attract a new friend

[themanicnami]

“I Send You Safety” Spell

A spell to send a friend or loved one protection and safety.

You Will Need:

❀ Salt ❀ Rosemary ❀ Angelica ❀ Dandelion Fluff ❀ Blue Lace Agate, Carnelian, or Garnet ❀ Name of your friend on a slip of paper ❀ White Sachet

Steps:

❀ Fill your sachet with the herbs, friend’s name and piece of crystal of your choice

❀ “I send you protection from all that may harm you, I send you the wish of safety, I send you the energies to keep you out of harms way.”

❀ Tie your sachet shut and gently kiss it it focusing on your desires to send your friend protection

❀ place your sachet in a window, if you can crack the window open to help send the energies to your friend. 

[tiny-mineral]

Does anyone know any good protection during pregnancy/easy pregnancy spell recipes for sachets, charms or candle mixes? One of my dear friends is preggers and I want to make & mail her something special!

[moonlitcreatures]

☽ Stunning witchy treasures for $35 and under ☾

[blauerozen-deactivated20191115]

Here’s to everyone fighting their own battles.

Here’s to every brave warrior.

Here’s to you.

Here’s to me.

[auorora-deactivated20181211]

I have never hit the fcking reblog button so goddamned fast 

[lavenderwaterwitch]

Altar Details 🍃🔮✨

Instagram – hillaryelis 🌿

[obsidianservant]

I love it, very happy with how this space turned out!

[theweepingdahlia]

Thorns

Uses in magic:

When doing a spell to help separate yourself from someone or to banish them, using a thorn to represent them can be a powerful metaphor.

If you do blood magic, use the thorn (AFTER THOROUGHLY CLEANING IT) to lightly prick your side. Another powerful metaphor.

If you are doing a hex jar that requires shaking, these are good additives to it.

Symbolism:

Can represent a person who is causing you pain and suffering

Can represent a hardship.

Can represent physical/emotional pain

[tyetknot]

I’m running a public Ostara ritual in a few weeks and I’ve just made an incense for it. It may come across as a bit cliché but I used Scott Cunningham’s recipe, with frankincense, benzoin, dragon’s blood, nutmeg, orange peel, rose petals, and violet. Why, you may ask? Because I think a lot of Scott’s recipes work out really well and usually smell good.

I ended up substituting the violets with a violet-scented frankincense that a fellow priest brought back for me from Greece, and the final blend is rich and floral at first, then intensely resinous with a bitter herbal undertone (presumably from the rose petals and orange peel) to finish. The nutmeg adds a tiny bit of warmth to it and the violet fragrance lingers once the smoke has dissipated. I rather like it and I hope others will too.

[tiny-mineral]

That sounds lovely. Honestly, I'm not even Wiccan but I love Scott Cunningham's recipes, he really knows his stuff.

[ofwoodandbone]

Sorry for not clarifying! I meant, what are your thoughts on Wicca relating to witchcraft? Like, do you believe it’s legit?

Unless if you’re a traditional witch (and even then, the line gets thin), Wicca is likely the ancestor of your witchcraft. Wicca caused the re-emergence of witchcraft in the public. It is the backbone behind all of the movements that have happened. When most people write about tools, they write with Wiccan beliefs, even if they don’t know it. The athame? A Wiccan tool.When people write about the Wheel of the Year, that’s something that became popularized by Wicca. Anything with the words ‘The Goddess’ referring to an overarching female deity? Wiccan. Now, trad craft is a little different. There are many traditional witches who came to trad craft after leaving Wicca, some who did the opposite, etc. Traditional witchcraft is a reconstruction of pre-Wiccan witchcraft, meaning that it majorly excludes things that are singular about Wicca. There are some traditions that look very similar to Wicca, but are not Wicca. There are some traditions completely removed from Wicca. Either way, Wicca definitely spurred the growth of traditional witchcraft, as it was a gateway for many witches to find witchcraft in the first place, no matter if they stayed or moved on from it. I personally never went the Wiccan route. I definitely practiced modern witchcraft, heavily influenced by Wicca, but I didn’t stay there and it was very much not for me. For others, it’s good. They just need to know where they come from. Wicca in the beginning was not what Wicca is portrayed to be now. Many of the so called ‘rules’ didn’t exist in the early days. However, whether someone wishes to be involved with Wicca, like the early days or like now, it doesn’t matter to me. I’m not Wiccan, so it’s none of my business. I’ve known some brilliant witches and practitioners who are Wiccan. I don’t think that being Wiccan means that the person is uneducated in witchcraft. It only denotes a different approach to an age old set of concepts. 

[tyetknot]

@ofwoodandbone continues to challenge my preconceptions of traditional witchcraft, and it’s a good thing.

[leaping-hare-witchery-deactivat]

After getting half a dozen compliments on a photo of her altar, this is what Gemma Gary posts.

Because remember kids, it’s okay and cool to make fun of other people’s altars and the way they practice their craft.

I never would have pegged Gemma Gary as the type to pull this nonsense, but then after seeing the public argument between her and Cassandra Latham again, maybe I should have. I’ve been moving away from Gemma’s material more and more as of late, and this is really a straw that breaks the camel’s back. I don’t care how many books you have out or how cool and edgy your altar may look, there’s truly no need for this crap.

Not cool, Gemma. Not cool.

[tyetknot]

Just about what I’ve come to expect from trad crafters on the Internet. It’s sad but my biases keep being confirmed. I want to believe it’s just a vocal minority but the consistency of it makes me suspect that it’s a broader issue.

[leaping-hare-witchery-deactivat]

It’s definitely a broader issue. What’s funny about it is that in her interview on “Down at the Crossroads,” Gemma explicitly states that she doesn’t think witches should bother doing…exactly this. In her (paraphrased) words: “I don’t think old witches would have been on about each other’s own practice. They were too busy getting in with their own business.”

I also wish this wasn’t something that happens so often, but the unfortunate reality of not is that when you identify as a traditional witch, this is what you get coupled with. The ego, the gatekeeping, the teasing, it’s just ridiculous. There’s a reason I don’t call myself a traditional witch anymore.

After this last book she put out and this mess on Facebook, I don’t think I’ll be bothering anymore.

[constantly-disheveled]

I was able to find the original poster of the photo, here at this site :

http://kellymcv.blogspot.com/2013/01/unicorn-pegasus-altar.html

[pop-witch]

I honestly don’t understand this attitude that Gemma has here, I find the choices for each altar really fascinating.  What speaks to one person doesn’t speak to another and both of these are beautiful to me.  

[tiny-mineral]

Am I missing something? 😅 both altars look lovely?

[ivi-maud]

Book of Shadows Ideas that Aren’t Basic

A local specific myth, cryptid, or legend

An obscure historical witch or an old historical spell

A map of your neighborhood with locations that appear ghostly or have interesting energy

Your personal associations to colors, plants to supplement traditional correspondence charts

A chart detailing information of spirits you have communed with

A guide to sailor knots for knot magick

Sustainable and eco friendly lifestyle tips

Magickal practices around the world

Obscure magickal tools or tools you invented

Varying viewpoints in magickal philosophy and technique

[ergiinmiddleearth]

[Images with text overlay

Panel 1: The Vikings didn’t have WHITE or NORDIC pride.They didn’t know what the Hel  those things were. Image: ‘Trade negotiations in the country of Eastern Slavs.’ (1909) By Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov.

Panel 2: Racism is the belief that humans are or should be classified into “races”, with criteria usually based on political motives, not reliable scientific data. Race =/= Ethnicity Image: Phrenology Booth, Ohio 1938

Panel 3: This nonsense started in the 1600s, in the American colonies to divide and alienate poor “white” people, indentured servants and African slaves. #GloucesterCountyConspiracy Image: A depiction of the Gloucester County conspiracy

Panel 4: Nordicism, an ideology of racial separatism which viewed Nordics* as an endangered racial group was created much later.In the late 19th century.*Joseph Deniker coined this name for an ethnic group. And also, the term, “ethnic group.” Image: Sigurd and Fafnir (1906)

Panel 5: Such ideas from“racial science”grew in popularity and acceptance throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Image: Cartoon of Hitler with his trousers pulled down to reveal swastika boxers with the caption: LET’S CATCH HIM WITH HIS “PANZERS” down!

Panel 6: So remember; White Pride has nothing to do with Heathenry or Asatru. You’re just an asshole. Image: Solid black background]

I suck at writing valentines, ya’ll. XD Some References:

ORIGIN OF THE IDEA OF RACE by Audrey Smedley, Anthropology Newsletter, November 1997 The Invention of the White Race, Verso Books Europeans invented the concept of race as we know it, by Anjana Cruz How America invented Racism — and Why you Don’t Have to Hate Black People to be a Racist, by Rachel Bjerstedt Medieval history scholars are suddenly on the front lines in the fight against white supremacists , by Brent Bambury We need to have a talk about Folkish Heathenry, by Grumpy Lokean Elder What The Heathen Community Needs to Know by lokavinr Wikipedia entry for Nordic race Were Medieval People Racist?, The Public Medievalist