Hi! I'm a baby witch, and the one constant piece of advice I get is to do my research. However, with a ton of unreliable information out there, I was wondering where you'd go to find good information with historical basis or widespread knowledge from actual witches. I just want to make sure I have all my bases covered. Thanks in advance!
I'm sorry I didn't answer before, it's just that I didn't have the notifications activated (due to my own mental health).
Regarding your question (which is very valid) I can advise you to try published books, there are many books with very good information, and I recommend you have a book (a grimoire or a book of shadows) where you write down your own experiences, that will help you to know what works for you. But remember that in witchcraft there are no rules, there is no wrong path, only YOUR path, and that is the most important thing.
Now, remember never to eat anything you don't know, check if you are allergic to something, always seek help from a medical professional, there are crystals that can be dangerous when in contact with water or can lose their color. Always stay safe.
🌙There are different authors who classify witches into different types.
🌙I loved these illustrations, so I decided to post them (I found them on Pinterest). But there are no rules for the path you want to follow. Follow your instincts and your tastes.
This artwork belong to: @waterofwhimsy or/and Regan Ralston.
Witchcraft: Topic Ideas for Your Book of Shadows/Grimoire
Please remember that these are just a small number of ideas! This isn't an end-all-be-all. Your magical journals should be personal to you and you alone. Additionally, your book of shadows/grimoire should always grow and change as you do. If you no longer resonate with something or find new information, add, take away, or archive pages! There is absolutely no shame in doing so. Most importantly, have fun!
These are listed in alphabetical order for your convenience.
Affirmations
Alchemy*
Altars
Ancestors*
Angels*
Animals (and their connection to you)
Anointing/Consecrating/Charging
Art magic
Astral projection*
Auras*
Banishing
Baneful magic*
Bath rituals
Besoms
Binding*
Birth chart (your own)
Blessings
Books (texts you can use for reference)
Candle magic
Celestial bodies (planets, the sun, etc.)
Chaos magic*
Charms, amulets, and talismans
Charm bags
Circle casting
Cleansing
Closed practices
Color magic
Constellations
Common herbs (used in the craft)
Correspondences
Crystals
Crystal grids
Daily thoughts
Days of the week (correspondences)
Deities*
Demonolatry*
Devotional practice*
Discernment
Divination (methods)
Dragons*
Dreams
Dream interpretation
Dream work
Elements (the four/five)
Elixirs
Energy work
Esbats (if Wiccan)
Essential oils
Fae*
Familiars*
Foraging calendar (for herbs)
Garden magic
Glamour magic
Green magic (herbs, plants, trees, etc.)
Grounding
Healing magic
Hearth magic
Herbalism
Herbology
Hex/curse breaking
Historical spells
Historical witches
History of witchcraft
Incense
Intention
Intention setting
Intuition
Journal entries
Kitchen magic
Knot magic
Local plants
Local myths, cryptids, or legends
Low cost magic
Low energy magic
Lunar cycle (the)
Lunar phases
Magical philosophy
Magical practices around the world
Magical technique
Magical terminology
Magical theory
Maps (of areas with interesting energy)
Meditation
Moons of the year
Mythology
Natural remedies
Obscure tools or tools you have invented
Past life exploration*
Pentacle (the)
Personal correspondence charts
Petition magic
Planetary hours
Plant identification
Poisons
Prayers
Protection magic
Recipes
Religion
Rituals
Sabbats (the)
Sachets
Sacred texts
Salts
Sea/ocean magic
Seasons (the four)
Seven psychic senses (the)
Shadow work*
Sigils
Spells (types, how to cast, ethics, etc.)
Spirits*
Spirituality
Spirit work*
Storm magic
Superstitions
Sustainable/eco-friendly lifestyle tips
Symbols
Symbol/image magic
Tarot spreads
Teas
Tech magic
Times of day (correspondences)
Tools (of the craft)
Traditional magic
Types of moons (dark moon, super moon, etc.)
Types of witches/paths of witches
Wand making
Warding
Waters (how to make, correspondences)
Weather (correspondences)
Words of power
Wheel of the year
Witch bottles
Witch's alphabet
Witch's ladder
Witchy DIY
Your magical rules
Your magical morals/ethics/values
Your reactions (to correspondences, workings, etc.)
Zodiac signs
*I believe these are more inclined for an intermediate/advanced skill level. This is because a good grasp on more basic skills (sensing energy, protection, vetting, etc.) is required to perform these practices safely and effectively with a higher rate of success.
My issue with the crystal, spiritual and witch communities is they're very classiest.
Listen I grew up way lower class so I thought
" wow finally communties that won't care about money "
Ha I was wrong.
Lets start with the crystal community and why it sucks:
1. The bullying people for buying man-made crystals
2. Bullying people for buying colored crystals
3. The shamimg of crystal sizes, legit people act like having a small crystal collection or small sized crystals is somehow bad??
Spiritual community issues:
1. The f🍀cking " spiritual " jewelry crazy... The trend of acting as if those that can't buy super pricey smithed jewlrey is somehow less spiritual...
2. The anti-homemade bs. Seriously people get treated like they're somehow not as spiritual for having home made stuff.
3. If you buy from big companies you get called a sell out but if you buy from small businesses then you're called a pick me, there is no winning with these people...
Witchy community issues:
1. Shaming homemade stuff again people act likw unless your stuff is new, shiny and cost your soul then you aren't really witchy...
2. Shaming of grewing your own herbs or not growing. Again it's a d🐝mned if you do and d🍓mned if you don't sort of thing... Legit not everyone has money or room for herbs like gardens or big herb bundles brought from buisnesses.
3. Witchy jewlrey... Witchy jewlrey is jewlrey that a witch wores. Witchy jewlrey is not hundreds/thousands of dollars on hand smithed jewltry..
4. Witchy clothing issue. Witchy clothing is whatever a witch is wearing! It's not pricey clothing that cost your right eye.
So how do these communties fix these issues? Well I'll tell you!
Mind your d🐝mn beeswax
So I'm seeing comments of people going
" that doesn't happen "
And
" I've never experienced-"
Well that's good for you like I'm glad you've never been through that but please take into account
This is also a issue of classism, racism, xenophobia, transphobic and often just bigotry in general.
It's the experience of many minorities that don't fit into the " white middle/upper class straight cis girl " ideals that is heavily present in witchcraft and other such communities.
Sadly I've explained this and people's reactions are
" but- "
" and well you're wrong "
No, I'm not wrong and I'll call this issue out.
Stop denying and start trying in making more safe communities for the lower class and minorities.
You are not required to be small.
You are not required to be pleasant.
You are not required to be conventional.
You are not required to be accommodating.
You are not required to be submissive.
You are not required to be merciful.
You are not required to be quiet.
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* Christian Passover & Easter was an appropriation of jewish Passover o "Pesach"
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica: “Passover, Hebrew Pesaḥ or Pesach, in Judaism, holiday commemorating the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt and the “passing over” of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord “smote the land of Egypt” on the eve of the Exodus. Passover begins with the 15th and ends with the 21st (or, outside of Israel and among Reform Jews, the 22nd) day of the month of Nisan (March or April). On these seven (or eight) days, all leaven, whether in bread or other mixture, is prohibited, and only unleavened bread, called matzo, may be eaten. The matzo symbolizes both the Hebrews’ suffering while in bondage and the haste with which they left Egypt in the course of the Exodus. Passover is also sometimes called the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Passover is celebrated from Sunday, March 28 to Sunday, April 4 in 2021.”
And in the Encyclopedia Americana states that the word Easter is “derived from the Norse Ostara o Eostre, meaning the festival of spring... when nature is in resurrection after winter”
I do not know which of these statements is true, but I do not mean, under any circumstances, to be disrespectful of any religion, belief or culture. My apologies if any Jewish person was offended by this post.
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