Willow

I'm a witch on a windy road

[whinywillow]

About me 🌱

My craft name is Willow (20 she/her) I've been a witch for a few years now and I'm hoping to provide a space here for newer witches to gain some insight or ideas, or for more experienced practitioners to make friends with :)

I don't fall into any one category of witch: my practice is too vast and I'm interested in too many things including: green witchcraft, herbalism, chaos magick, astral work, divination by tarot and scrying, and more.

Anyway stick around for a while :)

Blessed be 🌱

Master list of my witchy posts 🍀

Okay I just made my first spell jar, now what?

Road openers and how I do them

Living in the city as a witch

(still under construction)

[whinywillow]

So I have a chalice on my deity altar that I fill up with water as an offering and it?? Evaporated? I think? This is the first time this has happened lol, a week or so went by and the water was gone?

Has this happened to anyone else?

[whinywillow]

Just to be clear I'm pretty sure this was a completely mundane thing that I thought was funny lol

[whinywillow]

So I have a chalice on my deity altar that I fill up with water as an offering and it?? Evaporated? I think? This is the first time this has happened lol, a week or so went by and the water was gone?

Has this happened to anyone else?

[cheshmenoor]

[whinywillow]

This hits so so hard for me

[ofcedarandbone]

Witch tip: Another way to use scraps is to dry your used teabags:

Squeeze out as much liquid as possible.

Carefully open the bag (some tea brands will just unfold, others will need to be cut).

Evenly spread the contents out, either on the bag itself or on a plate.

Then let them dry in a sunny dry place (you may need to agitate them once or twice to ensure even drying).

Once dry, store them for later use in spells.

Bonus tip: You can also save the dried bags and reuse them as a small biodegradable spell packet or as quick burning petition papers.

*Please make sure the bags are biodegradable and not plastic (thanks @scrap-weaver for pointing this out in the tags).

[whinywillow]

It's always so brilliantly satisfying when your spell comes to fruition

[whinywillow]

My craft right now has been genuinely so calming. I don't have any crazy large spells going on, I'm most often just routinely cleansing while I clean the house, then anointing protection oils and such. When I sit at my altar I pray to my goddess and give her fresh water, I clean my ritual tools and give them extra energy, idk.

[whinywillow]

Reminder that sometimes a candle dressed in spell oil is more than enough

[whinywillow]

An interesting tarot reading I wanted to share

Context: very recently someone from my past started trying to get back in contact with me through social media (he sent me 3 friend requests before I finally caved) but he has yet to actually *communicate*? And tell me what he wants

1. What's the overarching reason for him to suddenly reach out?/ What's happening in his life for him to have made this decision

I think he's going through a big change in his life, unclear as to why that made him want to reach out to me though.

2. Why isn't he communicating?/What's stopping him from starting a conversation (The ace of wands was first and the magician was a clearifyer)

Interestingly, I got the ace of wands first (upright) and since it was a problem question I decided to read it upside down. I asked for a clarifying card and I kid you not the magician JUMPED out of my deck despite me mixing carefully and landed RIGHT ON TOP of the ace of wands. I'm not sure how to interpret this other than it being maybe ego.

3. what is the outcome of this

Again, I'm not too sure how to interpret this. I think it could mean that I come out of this with some new knowledge or wisdome. I kinda interpret this also as mindgames.

4. What's my role to play in this situation/who do I have to embody in the situation.

Now this card came out upside down. I feel like it's telling me to take on a bit of an immature approach. (I have been debating just starting the conversation myself to see what he wants instead of waiting for him to tell me) And I feel like this card is telling me to do that.

Sorry if this wasn't very well explained/hard to understand lol. I haven't done a reading in a minute and just wanted to share

[ravenandmoon]

apparently, trying to daily worship deities when you barely keep track of what day it is, is, in fact, hard.

[whinywillow]

This is me I fear

[splattergutz]

i feel like i’m cursed forever but other than that i’m doing alright

[turnipfritters]

[canis-witchery]

does anyone else have the opinion that ALL the gods that are worshipped exist, but they might only help those who believe in them?

for example, God might only answer Christians, Allah might only answer Muslims, Zeus might only answer Helpols, Odin might only answer Norse pagans, etc etc

because i do fully believe people when they say “God helped me with XYZ”. but i do not believe people when they say “God helped you with XYZ”, because i simply don’t believe in the Christian God and i haven’t given him any reason to interact with me (i.e. i don’t pray to God, i pray to many other gods but not that one)

obviously its a lot more nuanced than this (like with folks who change religions because of a lack of interaction from their previous god(s)) but this is just, like, the most basic way i can explain it right now

sooo does anyone else feel similar? like every god that’s worshipped exists to help their worshippers?

this also ties into why i believe in pop culture paganism. i suppose it relates to the idea that humans created higher beings through worship, and anything can be made into a deity. similarly, gods that receive no worship may go dormant or die

[whinywillow]

This is probably the closest thing I've seen to my current beliefs about divinities, with some nuance of course

[whinywillow]

Being in my early twenties, I'm aware that the "everything is moving so fast and I feel like I'm constantly behind on everything and I'm so lost and have no idea what to do with my life" is normal to feel, it's just really hard to traverse, especially when you don't have much external support

[whinywillow]

I'm currently experimenting with witchy ways of helping my nighttime anxiety and nightmares. I'm trying something new tonight and we'll see if it yields good results.

I'm going to be experimenting with a few different things, seeing how I like them, and then I'll probably make a post about it. Hopefully it'll help some other people in similar situations

[whinywillow]

So to give an update to this:

First thing I tried was (along with some mundane things) smoke cleansing my room, concentrating around my bed, then placing some protective items on my bedside table. First night I slept very well, with no anxiety whatsoever which was very much needed.

Over the weeks I started to get anxious again little by little, and a few nightmares here and there and now it's almost as bad as it was before. I haven't had the energy to smoke cleanse since but I'll try tonight to see if it makes a difference. (Trying to understand if I should focus on purifying my space or putting up protections)

Anyway there are a few more things I want to try, I had the idea of creating a servitor to *eat* my nightmares and anxiety, need to work out the logistics of that and refresh my memory on servitor creation though.

[whinywillow]

Not to traumadump but I've been so depressed for months and I know I need to make an appointment with my therapist but it's been a year since I haven't seen her and it feels awkward af

[whinywillow]

I just found the cutest little copper cauldron at my local thriftomg

[thewitchesfortune]

You know, a lot of people on here have talked about the ethics of cursing, protections, and all that, but not a lot of people talk specifically about when you SHOULD lay a curse. Like, there's been a few times in my life when I was being able to lay a curse would have been useful but I didn't because I wasn't sure what the person was doing was "bad enough".

Of course laying a curse over a minor inconvenience is ridiculous, but someone being condescending to you at work? Fuck em up. Otherwise that will continue and others will follow suit. Put an end to it.

Someone keeps making you the butt of the joke? Fuck em up. Otherwise you'll allow yourself to become the laughing stock.

Someone tried to flirt with your significant other, or drunkenly confessed to them? Fuck them up. Especially when in the latter situation they spoke to your significant other but have not reached out to you at all to apologize for their behavior. It shows a complete lack of respect for you in any capacity.

Do not put up with disrespect. If you don't defend yourself, no one will. Do not let yourself be bullied just because you are being told to keep the peace. If keeping the peace means you being put down, looked down on, and possibly having everyone around you thinking negatively about you, that peace is not worth keeping

[space-queen]

do! not! be! a doormat!

[whinywillow]

Do no harm but take no shit as they say.

[thewitchesfortune]

"Do not harm" does not fit with the message of my post. I am fully advocating doing genuine harm to those who wrong you in any capacity. Justice does in fact require harm in some cases

[whinywillow]

Of course I see that, I've heard that sentence said in the context of not doing unnecessary harm to those who haven't done anything to us, but to not hold back on those who have. Which I thought fit with your post and I support it