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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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This is a not-so-friendly reminder that this blog is not welcome to tradfems, terfs, transphobes, homophobes, biphobes, racists, n*zis, white supremacists, nationalists, exclusionists, or anyone who preaches an ideology of hatred. You are not welcome here. My blog is a manifestation of my hearth, which means it's a safe space for those who need a quiet place to rest and feel safe, and maybe exchange ideas and recipes and learn things along our respective journeys.
Me, doing Witch Shit for the first time in a very long time: oh yeah, I forgot I enjoyed this
Searching Etsy for "Nature Witch" and 99% of the thumbnails being AI generated is so frustrating.
unfortunately, Etsy is an AI minefield nowadays
i've stopped using it because it's so hard to find handmade products amongst all the dropshipped crap :/
I have a few witchy Etsy shops I can recommend!
DeathsHeadDivination by @torque-witch
TheDruidsForest by @thedruidsforest
TheRestlessWitch by @therestlesswitch
PortlandButtonWorks by @portlandbuttonworks
MossoftheWoods by @mossofthewoodsjewelry (makes quality botanical resin jewelery, I got a necklace 8 years ago and it’s still in great condition)
And a few non-Etsy shops:
Willow Wings Witch Shop by @breelandwalker
The Spiral House Shop (and Portland Button Works) by @spiralhouseshop
MossoftheWoods by @mossofthewoodsjewelry
Welcome October!
I think we need to bring local shrines back. Not in the sense of like, a church, but somewhere in a local community where offerings to the spirits, fae, deceased loved ones, can be left. not too dissimilar to community shrines to local spirits in Japan.
"How can I be a witch/pagan without falling for conspiracy theories/New Age cult stuff?" starter kit
Posts & Articles
Check your conspiracy theory. Does any of it sound like this?
Check your conspiracy theory part two: double, double, boil and trouble.
QAnon is an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, experts say
Some antisemitic dogwhistles to watch out for
Eugenicist and bioessentialist beliefs about magic
New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience
The New Age concept of ascension - what is it?
A quick intro to starseeds
Starseeds: Nazis in Space?
Reminder that the lizard alien conspiracy theory is antisemitism
The Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis is Racist and Harmful
The Truth About Atlantis
Why the Nazis were obsessed with finding the lost city of Atlantis
The Nazis' love affair with the occult
Occultism in Nazism
Red flag names in cult survivor resources/groups (all of them are far right conspiracy theorists/grifters)
The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse ‘memories’ is still causing damage today
Why Satanic Panic never really ended
Dangerous Therapy: The Story of Patricia Burgus and Multiple Personality Disorder
Remember a Previous Life? Maybe You Have a Bad Memory
A Case of Reincarnation - Reexamined
Crash and Burn: James Leininger Story Debunked
Debunking Myths About Easter/Ostara
Just How Pagan is Christmas, Really?
The Origins of the Christmas Tree
No, Santa Claus Is Not Inspired By Odin
Why Did The Patriarchal Greeks And Romans Worship Such Powerful Goddesses?
No, Athena Didn't Turn Medusa Into A Monster To Protect Her
Who Was the First God?
Were Ancient Civilizations Conservative Or Liberal?
How Misogyny, Homophobia, and Antisemitism Influence Transphobia
Podcasts & Videos
BS-Free Witchcraft
Angela's Symposium
ESOTERICA
ReligionForBreakfast
Weird Reads With Emily Louise
It's Probably (not!) Aliens
Conspirituality
Miniminuteman
Behind The Bastards
Witchcraft Exercise - Spring Cleaning
There’s a marked tradition of cleaning and airing out the house in the springtime when the weather warms. As you’re dusting and tidying and getting rid of winter stagnation, take some time to do the same with your craft.
Clean and organize your workspace. If you have an altar space or a shelf where you keep bottles and jars and the like, remove everything from the surface and give it a good dusting. Take the opportunity to rearrange things or swap out pieces if it suits you. If you have ritual tools that don’t often get cleaned, check them for signs or rust or wear and give them a bit of love. Repair things that need fixing, if you can. If you have an iron cauldron that you use for fire magic, get a wire brush or some steel wool and gently remove any burnt residue left inside.
Sort through your supplies. If you have lots of candles and crystals and small items laying about, consider getting some small totes or craft organizers to keep things tidy. Divided storage boxes for beads or scrapbooking supplies are great for small items, and shoebox-sized caddies are perfect for taper, chime, and votive candles. Organizing things will make your space easier to navigate and also gives you a proper idea of what you have on hand. Which might help you resist impulse purchases the next time you’re out shopping for witchcraft supplies. While you’re tidying, be sure to discard any rubbish, candle stubs, wax blobs, herb scraps, bits of string, incense bases, and so forth that might be cluttering up the place.
Discard things that are too old or worn to be useful. Dried plants and seasonings can usually be kept for 1-3 years if they remain in sealed containers. If they have no scent anymore or smell musty or mildewy, discard them and sanitize the container. If you’re using supermarket spices, you can use the expiration date on the container as a guide. Powdered material will likely last longer than whole herbs or cut-and-sifted material. One helpful tip is to put a purchase date on packets or bags of herbs when you buy them, or to put a little date sticker on your jars of herbs when you refill them. (Anyone who’s worked in food service will probably be familiar with the concept of container dating or day-dotting.)
If you make oils or tinctures or suchlike in your practice, check on these as well. Make sure nothing has gone off or lost its’ potency. Day-dotting your potion containers will help with this as well. A simple sticker with the name of the brew and the date it was bottled will help you keep track of your supplies and know when something needs to be tossed and replaced. (You can also print labels with the ingredients and purpose of the brew if you’re feeling super organized.)
Reorganize your books and resources. Review what's there and see if there are any materials that need to be weeded out, donated, or discarded. Remember that as you grow and progress, some things will become obsolete or may show themselves to be unhelpful or inaccurate. It's okay to remove things from your resource library that no longer serve you if you want to make some space on the shelves.
You can also cleanse your workspace and/or components while you’re tidying if you wish. It doesn’t have to be a full clean-slate-everything-must-go cleansing, but it can be helpful to just clear out stagnation or bring in some freshness and vitality.
Happy Witching! 🧼
Want more witchcraft exercises? Check out the masterpost here and visit my shop for spell kits, books, magical powders, and more!
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it’s 2028. trump is dead. elon is dead. zuckerberg is dead bezos is dead they’re all dead
jd vance and rfk jr are in prison
mike pence is having a really bad time in a low rent retirement home
When it comes to kitchen magic (or really witchcraft in general), people get too hung up in correspondences, esp when first starting out. And I think focusing too heavily on correspondences is what ends up making people feel like they cant advance their craft.
In my opinion part of it is "you need to make your own correspondences". Sure some rosemary in a stew might work for healing or purification, but do you also associate the herb that way? I think of my beautiful rosemary bushes over the years, tying and drying their branches, the beautiful scent, previous spells I have done. It feels me with a certain feeling of safety that I can then channel into my work.
When it comes to cooking, I feel like it's a lot of energy work. All spell work incorporates our energies in some way, I especially feel it with cooking. Your hands and cooking tools are vessels to transfer your energy. You transfer your energy when you knead bread, cut veggies, wash the rice, stir the soup, you get the idea. Yes you can focus on a specific mantra, but the point is you don't always have to do that. You using your energy to change ingredients into something new, something nourishing for the body, is magic in and of itself.
I also use my energy to charm my tools instead of individual meals/drinks. A special tea cup charmed with a spell to bring me relaxation doesn't need me to do a small spell or mantra every time I make a cup of tea (because I would forget to do that anyways). Instead it holds the calming energies I have already given it until I feel it needs to be charged again. A favorite soup stirring spoon is going to spread my love to every meal I make using it just because it has picked up my own energy throughout its use.
I think just accepting the magic of the everyday and of your energy is esp important for those of us who feel like we have less spoons. Me cooking uses enough of my precious energy, but it's something I do out of love and because I enjoy it. That's where the real magic is.
Magical Powder Recipes
A collection of some of my original magical powder recipes -
All-Purpose Cursing Powder
Bree's Banishing Powder
Clean House Powder
Come Hither Powder
Dead Man's Dust
Dream Dust
“Eye of Sauron” Revelation Powder
Get Thee Hence Powder
Ghost-Be-Gone Powder
Heal Thy Heart Powder
Hexbreaker Powder
Inspiration Salt
Lucky Day Powder
“Outta My Way” Powder
Peacekeeper Powder
Persuasion Powder
STFU Powder
Traveler’s Luck Powder
Truthfinder Powder
Addendum: The masterlists of oil recipes that I have made available -
Baneful Blends
Buffs and Blessings
Glamour Edition
Protection and Warding
For those of you who may not be able to find supplies and components locally, here are some online suppliers who consistently have affordable and high-quality products.
Penn Herb Co. - Bulk herbs, spices, and botanicals - including over 400 wildcrafted herbs, gathered from the United States and worldwide. Single ounce packages are available. Excellent source for powders.
Starwest Botanicals - Bulk herbs, spices, oils, and teas. Good amount of organic and Fair Trade products, as well as supplies for holistic medicine and tea-making.
Mountain Rose Herbs - Bulk herbs, spices, and sundries. Also carries organic products and essential oils, and has link to schools that offer courses in herbalism and herbology.
Bulk Apothecary - Bulk herbs, spices, and oils, in addition to materials for the home production of soap, candles, wine, and beer.
Specialty Bottle - Bottles, jars, and tins in many sizes at very reasonable bulk rates.
For more recipes to fill out your potion kit, you can check out Pestlework: A Book of Magical Powders & Oils. (Available on Amazon and in my shop!)
If you're enjoying my content, please feel free to drop a little something in the tip jar or check out my published works on Amazon or in the Willow Wings Witch Shop. 😊
The Yearly Spread
Present Position
Positive Influences New Year
Negative Influences New Year
Goal(s) for New Year
Yearly Lesson
Relationships (romantic, family, and or friends)
Work/School
Health
Spirituality
Deck’s Comment/Reading Reflection
Advice
This is a bit of a larger spread that I made for my birthday, but can be used for the new year as well! I typically like to do this on my birthday because it is a more personal way of counting years! Anyways, I really love the result I got, Honest, but what I needed to know! Looking forward to next year’s new adventures!
"This spell needs me to burn the entire candle, but I don't want to keep an eye on it for three hours-"
Birthday cake candles.
"I can't find a candle with orange AND blue-"
Birthday cake candles.
"I wish I had broom-closet safe candles-"
Birthday. Cake. Candles.
"All the colored candles I found are scented-"
BIRTHDAY. CAKE. CANDLES.
"Candles can get really expensive-"
BIRTHDAY! CAKE! CANDLES!
Ya'll! They're so cheap! I can get a pack of 12 white birthday candles at my grocery store for like, $0.75. They burn in less than 5 minutes and they're great to just stick on top of a spell jar and let burn down to seal it. They come in all kinds of colors and even numbers in some places! They're unscented and if someone you're not out as a witch to finds them, they're literally just birthday cake candles! I love to use them for that exact reason. Birthday cake candle supremecy.
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Tips and Commissions for a struggling witch: Ko-Fi
I know it's been a hot minute since I've posted, but someone reminded me of this post and I felt the need to share it again, so here we are. Blessed be, everyone, and remember to burn safely!
Friendly reminder that any crystal is a banishing crystal if you throw it hard enough at whomever you're banishing!
HEY CALIFORNIA PEOPLE!
HURRICANE ADVICE FROM A FLORIDIAN!
Make sure you've got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don't want fried in case of a power surge.
Don't tape your windows, it doesn't help and you'll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that's not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don't go in your attic. You'll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can't hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
What the fuck?
???? WHAT???
Ngl, "tropical storm in death valley" was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Drainage on our roads is shitty in SoCal, don't attempt to drive through water deep enough to touch your bumpers and don't attempt to walk across moving water, water only as deep as your ankles can knock you down and sweep you away.
Predicted wind speeds are similar to strong Santa Anas, so lock things down like you would for that, though keep in mind that yeah the combination of heavy rain and wind leads to more felled trees than just wind.
Take photos of the inside of your home now; flood insurance fucking sucks here and if you're in a possible flood zone you want as much documentation of your home and belongings as possible in case you need to make a claim.
Freezing water bottles also means you've got a lot of ice in your freezer if power goes out, and safe potable water once it thaws, so freeze bottles of water to have something to keep your fridge and freezer cool and store more water regardless of if you want cold water.
Remember water expands when you freeze it so pour a bit out of each bottle so they don't explode.
If you can't get bottled water anymore use sandwich bags full of ice for the same effect
Get a pet carrier or kennel ready in case of evac, shelters usually only allow contained animals
Pet go bags need leash, collars/harness, 3 days of food, and current vaccine records
Animals spook during storms and will slip a collar to flee if given a chance. Don't give them a chance, and do not chase them if they do
Rule of thumb down here is 3 days worth of food, but a week is probably better in places where hurricanes are not common
Fill your bathtub before the storm, floods often damage the water system and this will give you flushing and bathing water for a few days
Try to stay out of floodwaters all together, they are often full of sewage and can hide powerlines, sinkholes, and all kinds of dangers
Post storm: your fridge will stay cold for roughly 24 hrs if you never open it. Pack perishables in cooler bags before the storm, use some of your frozen water bottles as ice packs. Eat all that stuff first and if you're very lucky the power will return within 24 hrs
Do Not Cook in your home with an open flame
Do not run generators inside or under your roof. Generators like grills should be at least 20-30ft from the structure when running
I think the earlier newcomers learn that Wicca is one branch of witchcraft and not the whole of witchcraft the better.
Hard agree. The sooner they learn that witchcraft is not "anything that even remotely resembles magic" the better too. Not all magic is even witchcraft. There are THOUSANDS of traditions across the globe. They are all unique and are NOT interchangeable
I generally mention this any time I bring up Stephen Mitchell's Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages because Penn Press does sales on a surprisingly frequent basis, now being one of those times. This link should go to the search results for "Norse", which should bring up the aforementioned book along with Thomas DuBois' Nordic Religions in the Viking Age and a few other titles, but either of those comes out to about 16 USD for those of you who prefer physical media
also the whole site's on sale so obviously others may have interest
being hot isn’t about physical appearance or confidence or whatever. being hot is about being a WITCH FROM SLAVIC FOLKLORE, living in a HUT THAT STANDS ON CHICKEN LEGS, making HUMAN SOUP, and being completely and utterly MORALLY AMBIGUOUS
