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Keep this sigil on a keychain or something if you’re working with large machines in construction or something. Or draw this inside your helmet.
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Drawing my own tarot deck
I plan on posting one card per day
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🔮 PREPARING A LITHOMANCY SET 🔮
Lithomancy – the practise of divination through casting stones and reading how they fall – is one of the most ancient and (in my opinion) effective divining methods out there, as well as costing nothing to set up and being something you can completely teach yourself and make your own. I recently went on a trip to an incredible and magical beach where I collected an array of exceptional rocks, pebbles, shells and fossils for this purpose, so I thought I’d make a long post on creating and preparing a kit.
GATHERING
🔮 First of all – they need not be stones, or all be stones, although the name “lithomancy” refers specifically to stones. Some cast with bones, or sticks, or shells. Some cast with whatever the hell they can find at the time. Use whatever speaks to you.
🔮 It will feel more organic to find your stones out in their natural habitat, preferably in a place that you feel a connection with, but it’s okay to purchase. The most important thing is that the set is personalised to you and that each piece of it has been chosen by you, connected to you, for a reason. Even if that reason isn’t immediately clear – it doesn’t have to be yet. Assignation will happen later.
🔮 You should use a level of instinctive guidance to find your casting stones. Perhaps you’ve even been gathering them already, drawn to them and bringing them home with you – don’t rule out stones and bits and bobs already in your possession.
🔮 Take a moment for every potential casting stone you pick up. Hold it in your hand, roll it around, look at it, think on it, get a feel for it. Start to form a picture of what it may contribute to a divination. Keep what you can’t bear the thought of throwing away. Discard everything else.
CLEANSING
🔮 First of all, a physical cleaning. Nothing too harsh – you don’t want to damage the stones or scrub them raw. (For bones and the like though, research and follow good hygiene practises accordingly. Also recommended: the law.) Generally I find a shortish soak in some warm saltwater effective enough. A light sponging to get rid of any mud, sand, etc, if there is any. Apply common sense.
🔮 Then comes the more metaphysical cleansing. Depending on your practise, you could also consecrate or bless them. Some ideas: passing through incense or smoke, cleansing with blessed/spiritually purified or charged water (you could combine this with the physical cleaning), put into a grid with cleansing crystals, using bells/sound, and personally I’ve been using sunlight to cleanse as well as charge mine.
ASSIGNATION
🔮 Set aside some time, fire up the incense, get some mood music on, ground and centre and get yourself in a good headspace. Ideally you’ll also have a nice cleansed and moody space to carry out the assignation process. This will be when you give each of your stones/objects a ‘meaning’, similar to each Tarot card having its own set of meanings and associations, or the runes that some cast. But stones are more free-form and intuitive, and the meanings are discerned and given only by you.
🔮 What you’ll be doing is almost like meditating with each of your stones. Pick up the ones that speak strongly to you first, maybe the ones that you already have some idea of their meaning – these will be the easiest to assign meanings to.
🔮 The physical appearance of the stone is a good starting point. Make sure to have a good inspection of each one. Then, enclose it in your hand and close your eyes. Feel the life inside of the stone and what it says to you. Tell it what its name and meaning is – whisper it aloud into the stone if you must. Make contact. Make sure it’s working in accord with you.
🔮 The easiest way to note down these meanings for you to memorise is to set out a piece of paper or two, and once you know what a stone means, lay it down on the piece of paper and write underneath it the name, meanings and associations. This gives you a sort of physical ‘key.’ Taking a photo of the paper spread/s once it’s done will act as a handy cheat sheet.
🔮 You’ll want a nice, rounded-out set of associations in order to give your divination depth and reach. Some traditions suggest using the different planets (and their associations) for the stones, and other simple suggestions might be elements, deities, past/present/future, etc. There are some out there that suggest a lithomancy set must contain a certain number of stones and they must have certain fixed meanings, but my opinion is that using your own intuition will make it more powerful for you. Plus, most of these traditions I could find were western European in origin, which obviously isn’t where all of our practises are from anyway. Research your traditions or make your own meanings – it’s all down to you.
CHARGING
🔮 There are a ton of resources on charging out there, and you’ll likely learn or already know best what works for you. This is a good, simple post on it for beginners. My favourite method is charging by sunlight, not only because it’s simple but because of how it falls into my belief system too.
🔮 Some suggestions: sunlight, moonlight, starlight, charged crystals and crystal grids, water of various properties (rain, storm, sea), laying out on grass or soil or tree roots or in herb planters, bones (bone grid?) and feathers and such…
PRACTISE
🔮 After taking some time to familiarise yourself with your set and its meanings, it’s time to begin practising. Just chuck ‘em! Start off by doing readings for and about yourself. Get a feel for your set and how it speaks. This is also the time to make adjustments to the meanings of some of the stones, or add new associations.
🔮 You’ll also want to start putting together your pre-divination rituals. A cleanse and a charge, a bit of grounding with incense, a hearty meal, a word with your ancestors? What works for you will become clear with practise.
🔮 In terms of the reading itself: make note of the shape that they have fallen in. The stones that are close together, and the ones that are far apart. Any that line up or form a shape. Some like to use a “self” stone or object that they can use to orient the reading around.
🔮 Some don’t cast all of their stones in one reading – I don’t. You can pick relevant stones for readings that are more specific, or just grab a random handful of stones from a bag and use those. That way, which stones are ‘drawn’ will tell you something all by itself. Change up how you cast and read during your practise period, try every method you can think of. Get creative!
🔮 I don’t think casting stones is good for yes/no answers personally, but did find this quick tip: pick a stone to mean yes/positive, and one to mean no/negative. Pick a ‘self’ stone or object. Cast them. Whichever one lands closest to the ‘self,’ there’s your answer.
🔮 I don’t know if I will, but you may also want to look into creating and incorporating a casting grid. These are shape and charts (usually on cloth) that you can cast upon, and act as a ‘map’ so that stones landing in certain quadrants will let you know what that particular stone is relevant to.
UPKEEP
🔮 Over time you can add to, take away from and generally change up your lithomancy set – what you pick to start off with isn’t the end all, be all. The best divination sets will change and become more attuned to you over time.
🔮 I tie my stones up in a square of batik fabric when not using them, and also use the fabric to cast upon. Simple, neat, effective.
🔮 Remember to keep on cleansing and charging your set as required.
Reminder: Our Ancestors are not necessarily role models
More accurately they are:
- Here to help us not repeat their mistakes - Part of History (often a darker era) - Cautionary Tales - Road maps of Humanity’s evolution as a species.
Their beliefs, their laws, and their decisions are not always things to aspire to.
That goes for recent ancestors and more distant ones.
Example: - I am one of the closest dependents of one of the most notorious outlaws in history - My ancestors kept slaves - My ancestors voted against abolition - My ancestors would have had horrible beliefs about women - My ancestors would have had even worse ideas about medicine and science. - My ancestors believed in a skewed form of Justice.
Our Ancestors are not necessarily meant to be put on a pedestal of perfection. They are to be respected, for we wouldn’t be here without them. But they mean for us to learn from them. Many stick around to guide and teach their descendants. But do not be so enamored with the past that you fail to see or observe the evolution of mankind and our ability to be better than they were.
Warding meditation
This is about a 20-30min meditation.
Start by focusing yourself on your breath for 5 minutes.
Go back to a forest or other outdoor natural setting. Find your sacred space, your personal clearing in the woods that is only yours. It can be a picnic, a tent or a shack. You’ve decorated it yourself with herbs and a circle of flat, white rocks. There are two bushes there, stinging nettle, for protection. Be sure not to touch it.
Sit here and notice your body, where your feet are, how your ankles and knees are bent, where your arms are. Bring your attention to your skin. We’re going to put a silver metal onto it. Imagine the liquid silver climbing up from your toes, up your legs, across your stomach, and up your back, over your shoulders, and up over your head and face. Let the metal harden like armor, able to move when you move but hard enough to keep out anything. Sit and feel what this changes in yourself and how the outside feels like now.
Now imagine this silver armor expanding like an egg around you and encompassing your aura. It is dark in here, in the silver metal. You can place your palm on the metal surface and feel its smoothness.
Expand the silver out further until it is as big as your space, enclosing the picnic and even bigger to gather in the entire clearing which is yours. Let it reach into the trees and form a nice, smooth circle along the ground.
You can barely see the trees here. Let’s make the silver translucent. The hard material changes color, turns to glass, but unbreakable. We can see the trees now, the sun shining down, through the dome. Set your intention to your dome: to be safe, to ward against all influences and spirits not in accordance with your own energy, with peace and quiet.
Lastly. let’s change its material. Let that hard dome shift in an instant to a cloud, airy and still there, still filled with your intent, but we are able to pass through it easily now, able to let our thoughts breathe through it.
Finish by creating a little project here. Gather some twigs or rocks or feathers and flowers and create a symbol or sigil of protection with them.
A pentagram, a spiral going counter-clockwise, circles within squares and squares within circles. As you create, send your intention into your symbols and creation.
Your space is now protected. Sit and feel the difference in its energy. Come back with a big inhalation. Ground afterward with a snack.
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Spell to Say Farewell to a Deceased Pet
The loss of a pet can be traumatic and devastating. They are, after all, part of our families, and we love them unconditionally. Once a pet passes away, it can be hard to move on from the grief. Do this spell to help ease the transition after your pet has passed.
Materials:
A pink candle
Two stones, one to represent you and one to represent your pet
Symbols of the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water
Light the candle, and hold the stones together in your hand, remembering the love you felt for your pet. Think about the wonderful times you had together, and the joy you shared. It’s okay to cry if you need to.
When you’re ready to move forward, pass the two stones over the elemental symbols. As you do, say:
[PETS NAME] with the energies of Earth, I am with you in spirit, and you are with me.
Repeat this for each of the elements. When you’re done, say:
I thank you for being in my life, and for the honor of letting me be in yours. I release you now, but will never forget you.
Blow out the candle, and keep the stones in your pocket to rub together when you are thinking about your lost pet.
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Found in Daily Spellbook of the Good Witch by Patti Wigington
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i need a witchcraft-themed Wreck This Journal.
Page 1: Make plant presses and leave them in the journal :D
Page 50: Punt kick the journal into the middle of a field and do your ritual wherever it lands then write about how it went
Page 108: Just fuckin drag this through the forest on a string and pick up anything is lands on
you know what, valid
hey if there was a Wreck This Grimoire what would you put in it. i’m trying to make one up for myself but am having trouble thinkin.
-drip wax on this page, write down correspondences.
-press healing herbs here. press luck herbs there.
-dip this page in full moon-charged water. put it in your wallet.
-wrap a rose quartz in this page and put it under your pillow tonight.
-write a wish on this page, fill it with your intent, and burn it.
-use this page to brainstorm sigils
-write down a blessing here. write down a curse there.
-rub different kinds of dirt here and write down where they’re all from.
-meditate on this page, write down what comes to you.
-make a circle for pendulum or needle, ask it questions. write them down.
Stain this page with tea or coffee, what do the stains show
Write down your favourite guises for the fair folk here
Put this page in a jar and cover with salt
Write down shufflemancy lyrics here
Make a collage themed on your favourite celebration
Use this page to write down new moon intentions
Trace your favourite crystals and rocks on this page
Write down weird old names for herbs on this page
Write down fake astrological traits on this page
I tried to do something similar, but with a general planner approach and Heathenry. Basically so I could learn more of the myths and historical context they are born from. Like: January was for Odin. So my pages were color coded and themed for Him, and I’d read a book on Him and take notes. February was Freyja March was Loki April was Frigga, etc. I didn’t get it together in time for 2019 but I might aim for that again in 2020.
@wordsadwitchery I’m doing something similar with my regular daily planner! at the very beginning i wrote down the moon phases for the whole year, and the dates of the wheel of the year, then when i make my calendar(my notebook’s just a dot-grid one so i have to draw all my own stuff) i put down the major dates, the moon phases for the month, and then on the next page just write, like, SUMMER SOLSTICE! and write down all i know about it, color correspondences and everything. once you remember to write stuff like that down it gets way easier to plan for it, it’s just So Hard to remember in the first place.
dont ever think you cant be cottagecore and dark and mysterious at the same time. you havent heard of revolving bookshelves that hold many books about plants and animals leading into rooms filled with animal bones and banned literature? basement trapdoors hidden under rugs you knitted yourself with who knows what in the depths of it? shed for gardening tools actually leading to underground tunnels that take you to somewhere deep in the woods? that planter with the tomatoes in it? you buried something there. this tree? you put something there for the bark to grow around it, never meant to be seen again. the crows, bring you things because you feed them and the owls can always be seen in your trees because the garden attracts many critters. vultures fly in the sky over your woods because, well… you know.
Low spoon devotional ideas✨
For when you want to honor your gods but don’t have many spoons!
• Make a devotional notebook
In which you write to your deities, in which you make collages of pictures you think they might like, in which you write poems or songs for them. There are infinite possibilities, just paste onto it whatever shit you think your gods may appreciate.
• Write a letter
You don’t need to make it fancy, you just have to pour your heart and soul into it, the deities will appreciate this. Just grab a piece of paper and a pen and write your heart out. You can ask for things, you can tell them about your day or simply write a poem.
• Ask something through tarot
It’s a good way to practice your divination skills and you’d be communicating with a deity as well.
• Prepare two teas
Offer your god a cup of your favorite tea, or make two different ones, your favorite and the one you think the deity may like. You can even read the leaves to see what the deity wants to say to you.
• Sing a song
From personal experience, I can tell you most of the Hellenic deities are very fond of you singing to them. Singing songs that mean something to you will most definitely mean something to them, and they’ll ask for more.
Terminology: Spirits and Ghosts
In popular culture the words ghost, and spirit are used usually interchangeably though it is important to remember that these words are different concepts in the understandings of parapsychology, and spirituality.
Spirits are usually seen as entities that have passed over into the afterlife through the veil, or are entities that reside on a higher plane. Many entities are considered to be spirits such as loved ones and ancestors that have crossed over, nature spirits, and deities.
Ghosts are entities that have been trapped, or attach themselves to the physical plane after their physical bodies usually sudden, or tragic death. Ghost will become spirits after they go through the process of passing over the veil into the higher plane of existence.
The parapsychologist Hans Holzer was the first to devise this specific type of separation between these terms within his books. This gave us the understanding of spirit and ghost being separated in these ways.
Witch is a gender neutral term.
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