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Totoro growing dance
A ritual to help your plants grow faster
Coffee grounds
Egg shells
Banana peels
Mix and mash the ingredients to make a fertilizer. Spread it around the base of your plant and mix a bit into the soil. Then basically, what you do is what’s happening in the gif after tending to your garden. My kid and I did this after planting our starts earlier today except she jumped at the end for emphasis.
2020 Grimoire Challenge—day 3: planning
Okay, I’ll admit, I basically worked on this for more than a week nonstop. I, uh, really like planning, guys. I pretty much intend my grimoire’s creation to be a years-long, if not lifetime endeavor.
I intend the first picture to be the table of contents for the whole book, with each section having its own table of contents to suit the contents therein.
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So comprehensive! I love it!
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⭕❌Amend Fate Spell❌⭕
❌Fate is the way. The way is the natural order of the Universe, the state to which we naturally feel attracted to, consciously or not❌
❌This spell is meant for those who have troubles finding their way, to reconnect someone with their true life path and fate again.❌
❌ You’ll need:
🔥 Three red, purple or white candles.
🎀 A long piece of ribbon, cord or thread, I personally like waxed cotton thread!
⭕ Bracelet pattern (can be as simple as knots, or as complicated as crochet, choose whatever feels better for you)
❌Examples of easy beaded and knot bracelets!
❌Examples of crochet/macrame bracelets!
🌟 Decorations such as little charms or beads.
🙌 Optional: Imagery or items related to a Deity of your pantheon that rules over Fate, such as the Norns, the Moirai, Fortuna, etc, and an extra candle and offerings for them to help you too! Invoke them before commencing the ritual.
❌Ritual:
Set up the 3 candles in a straight line in front of you, one in the middle, one to your left, one to your right.
Light them up, from left to right if you’re in the NH, from right to left if you’re in the SH. As you do so, invoke your ancestors to come through the first candle, invoke your Deities, inner power, the universe, etc, to represent your present in the middle candle, and then invoke the future in the last one, it can be in the name of those to come, your descendants, etc.
Then, pick up the thread/cord, and slowly and carefully tie it to the first candle. Then connect it to the middle candle, tie it, and do so for the last one too. As you tie each knot, recite:
“From the past, as I have known
the present and future I’m being shown,
the neverending thread of fate
it can entangle, it can change state,
but I* shall never be afraid
for I* will always have a gate
to find my path and be led the right way.”
Then, simply take your remaining items and make that bracelet! When you start, recite the same chant. When you’re done, say it again. I personally recommend binding it to the person It’s meant for (you or else) with any bodily fluids (like saliva or blood), hair or simply charms and color correspondences, whatever you’re comfortable with and have in hand.
Once you’ve finished this, thank each candle and what they represent, give the corresponding offerings if you can, and keep the bracelet/charm with the person at all times!
⭕❌ A longer and a lot more specific version of this ritual was channeled to me by my ancestors when I asked for help in a certain situation, so use with caution and respect! I hope this less brujería-specific version is useful for anyone who may want to try it out in times of need!❌⭕
⭕❌ With love, Nao ❌⭕
DIY Ultralight Spice Kit (for Foodies or Gourmet Camping Food)
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Great for keeping your witchy herbs close at hand while you’re on the go!
Question to all the brujas/brujos: Can someone who isn't latine (or doesn't know if they have latine ancestry – i might have caribbean ancestry?? also i have ancestor who was mulatto and i heard that was a latine term??) call themselves a bruja? I've seen some things that say only latines can call themselves brujas, but others say anyone with black, indigenous, or latine ancestry, basically the poc of the americas (I'm black with fairly recent indigenous ancestry). I'm not a hoodoo practitioner yet so I don't want to call myself a rootworker, but I think my practices (or what i want to practice) are different enough from eurocentric practices to not just use 'witch'
I honestly shouldn't have asked, y'all are stressing me out. like chill, you're talking to a literal 16 year old who simply wants to be connected with her diaspora siblings but apparently thats so wrong smh 😒
@honeyedmelanin I’m the one who originally reblogged supporting you to reclaim the term. I had deactivated again last night because of anxiety/I honestly was sort of peeved off by the bullshit you were receiving in your mentions and I was worried I was going to get hit with shit and didn’t want to deal with it, but honestly I’m getting really fucking sick and tired of latinos and especially other fucking lightskinned/white passing people being on some xenophobic fuckshit. I regret deleting because I still 1000% stand by what I said and I remade so I can stand by what I said and defend you.
@naomi121406 First of all, this is why I blocked your ass on my original blog for trying to talk over me and my lived experiences on a personal post of someone asking me this same question. I'm gonna need you to check the way you talk to other Black people and think about why you're so quick to say and assume as a white-passing person that somebody who doesn't agree with you is suddenly not Latino because they think differently then you. You have a bad tendency of trying to silence or diminish and generally talk over and for other Afro Latino's opinions because we don't agree with you. "Don't question US latinos" you goofy clown, I am no different then you, I AM Latina, I AM Afro Latina, I am Latina on both sides of my family, your opinion isn't suddenly more valid than mine or any of the other Afro-Latinos here who disagree with you and you need to check and unpack that bullshit thought process QUICK.
Now I'mma talk to you from one light skinned biracial Afro-Latin to another multiracial lightskinned person and I'm gonna be frank as I can be.
You're questionable because you specifically are somebody who is white-passing and likes to make it a habit of talking over other Black latinos on their lived experiences like people wouldn't peep that you weren't only very very recently starting to refer to yourself as a Black mixed woman, when previously you were going by just an Indigenous mixed woman, up until you suddenly started calling yourself a rootworker, which you were not calling yourself before you changed your bio to Afro-Indigenous.
I find you questionable because you're not Afro-American but think it's okay to call yourself a rootworker while then turning around and telling an African American person they can't participate in this part of our culture, which tbh is unfair and weird and I think you should sit down and think about what then makes it okay for you to practice a specifically African American spiritual religious system and use a term that was coined by AfroAmericans, but then tell an AfroAmerican minor that they're appropriating and twisting the term "bruja" for wanting to reconnect and reclaim, all while using a term that doesn't belong to you either, because the words 'rootworker' and 'hoodoo' is not of your culture either, if you want to use that logic. You don't think that's questionable? You don't see how that's xenophobic? From one lightskin to another, you don't see how that's especially weird for someone who's white passing to do and how that can be you having the lightskint-ness privilege starting to pop out? You don't see how that don't make sense? You didn't even offer them any alternatives or advice, you just said that they're trying to twist shit, which is obviously not the truth not remotely helpful. All you do is alienate other Black diasporians trying to find their way while then taking from their culture as well. That's peak hypocrisy and you know you're being hypocritical for that.
I find you questionable because you continuously like to call me and other Afro-PuertoRicans who disagree with you 'yankees' which I personally find highly offensive bc that feels like erasure of United States' imperialism has had towards my people and island and feels like you're trying to other us, as fellow Black people, as "non-Latinos" or like we have the same privileges here as non-Black/Indigenous Latinos in this country. I find it offensive as well because you're someone who passes for white trying to take away other Afro-Latino's Latinidad as if you have the right to say who's opinion counts or not, calling us yankees and grouping us all together is weird as fuck. It's weird as fuck especially because you're someone who has said before that you believe "we're all Latino" when obviously me and other Afro-Latinos don't have the same lived experiences in the States as others who aren't Black.
I find you questionable because someone who's supposed to be pro-Black and for your fellow Black people wouldn't be so quick to try erase other Latino's lived experiences with Blackness and Latinidad just because you don't like that we're of the opinion of being open to sharing our culture with African Americans and aren't against them participating by disrespectfully calling us yankees as a way to diminish the validity of our opinion, and it's questionable because you're somebody who wasn't always referring to themselves as Black either for you to do this so often. You are white-passing and yes I find it really fucking weird and offensive for you to try and make me or other Black Latinos out to be "not Latino enough" to have an opinion by calling us yankees when you don't live or walk through this country or even in your own country as someone visually Black and a few of us responding to you actually DO navigate this world as immediately perceived for Black or non-White (I'm light, but I'm not white passing). "I speak spanish, that’s my mother tongue, and we don’t just say bruja, we use other words to be more specific like curandera, santera, etc." SEE, and THIS is why I say you're questionable. The fact that you would even try to compare a santera or curandera to being a bruja is telling, because you know damn well that being called a brujo for a lot of these communities is incredibly insulting and inaccurate or being labeled a bruja is damaging to one's wellbeing or reputation. Just like you wouldn't call hoodoo witchcraft, you don't call shit like curanderismo and Santeria brujeria because it's fucking not and people in these communities don't use the term because it's still seen as something negative and can cause social ramifications, like are you fucking serious. Like obviously there's exceptions and there are people who have decided to reclaim the term, just like some rootworkers decided to reclaim the term 'witch' but it's still disrespectful to hoodoo and it's history and to other practitioners period who dont agree with the term to call it witchcraft or them witches, stop saying Indigenous practices or African practices or Eastern practices are brujeria when they're not. No AfroAmerican is oppressing any Latino by using the term "brujeria" and our various cultural religions and spiritual traditions are not "brujeria", stop labeling indigenous and black practices like curanderismo and yoruba religion and eastern religious traditions brought here through immigration and exchange as "brujeria" because it's problematic as fuck, alternative religious beliefs are not brujeria, you know you're dead wrong for that and you know for a lot of people who practice the traditions that are routinely labeled as "brujeria" it's highly disrespectful to them and can cause them a lot of problems, it's not brujeria and people taking and choosing from actual religious traditions doesn't make it "folk magic", just like you wouldn't call those traditions witchcraft, brujeria is still a word that's slowly being reclaimed but has a dark history to this day and is used to persecute Black and Indigenous people practicing their native traditions.
I called you questionable because I peeped that one time you decided to tell another Afro-Latin person they didn't know what they were talking about for disagreeing with you about race relations in our cultures while referring to yourself as "mixed with everything" and saying "we're all Latino". That's why I guess it's not surprising that you like to lump other Black Latinos as just "american yankees" for our differing opinions but it doesn't make it any less problematic that you repeat that sort of rhetoric while also trying to silence other Black Latinos for our valid opinions and sharing our valid experiences with another Black sibling. I find you questionable because you're somebody who is only very recently claiming their Blackness but you're being hella loud with trying to tell another Black person of the diaspora, and specifically a minor, who is simply trying to figure out how to reconnect and feel welcomed, that they're "twisting" a word and that they're being appropriative like they're some fucking white person or somehow they're oppressing you by wanting to reclaim a word that they have EVERY RIGHT TO RECLAIM.
You're questionable as fuck and I question whether or not you've taken enough time to really sit down and think about where your feelings are coming from and what you can do more to better help our siblings who don't have the privilege of being able to pass as white. You have a really bad tendency to tell other Afro-Latinos on this website giving their lived experiences that we're wrong just because we're Caribbean and that somehow means we're not valid in our experiences when you're not even somebody who navigates this world with being perceived as Black.
I like how you said absolutely nothing about the fact that nobody goes this hard against non-Black and non-Indigenous latinos calling themselves "bruja/brujos". You're a joke if you really are going to sit here and tell me modern brujeria isn't just basically non-Black and non-Indigenous latinos being eclectic with their practices and taking from things and practices and traditions and religions that aren't brujeria and nor should you even call brujeria. Indigenous and Black people were and ARE STILL the ones who are persecuted for being called brujos, Black and Indigenous people are the ones who were executed for being labeled "brujos" even to this fucking day, Black and Indigenous people still can't openly practice without social ramifications, like are you kidding me? And yet who are the people that we see being the faces of brujeria on social media and television? Because any time I see anything having to do with tarot or astology on spanish television, it's white and mestize Latinos who get to go on television for a check and reclaim the term "bruja" and yet NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT THIS. No one ever talks about the fact that white and mestize Latinos can be "brujos" and get featured on television, popularized on social media, AND PAID FOR DOING IT, no one says that they're twisting the term and appropriating but you're really trying to convince me that an Afro-American who's ancestors were forced to leave their religious practices and hide just like our Afro-Latin ancestors did doesn't have the right to reclaim the term "bruja"? I think a Black or Indigenous person has more of a right then a white or mestize Latino but I never ever see Latinos go this hard against it being appropriative, only when it's AfroAmericans, because y'all just don't want to admit you have some closeted xenophobia towards AfroAmericans.
It's extremely questionable to me that you'd be okay with practicing an African-American system of spirituality and that's somehow not twisting shit or appropriative but it's not okay for Afro-American's to use the term brujo? Miss me with that xenophobic anti-AfroAmerican bullshit and miss me with that weird ass double standard. Go question white Latines and Spaniards why they choose to use a term that meant death and persecution for so many Black people and their ancestors even to this day as if they have a claim to it. Go question why you're quick to say "We're all Latino" but you wont accept another Black person of the diaspora.
I said what I said. Naomi, you're questionable as fuck, and you're not good at hiding it. If it's appropriative for Afro-Americans to use the term bruja, then stop reblogging my hoodoo posts meant for rootworkers from my original blog and stop calling yourself a rootworker because by your logic, YOU are the one "twisting" a term not of your culture "just because you like it". See what I did there?
Again, from one biracial Latin kid to another, stop coming for other Black people trying to navigate and find a place in this world like you're not somebody who's only recently exploring your Blackness as well. And maybe next time don't block me before you respond to me so that I can't respond back, because that's a punk ass move.
Ok, so this is one big hell of mess hon, but I’m gonna try to be as nice and understanding as possible with you, since you were trying to be honest with me too.
First of all, you’re saying you’re “latina from both sides”, cool, still living in the US, were you born on Puerto Rico? have you lived in Puerto Rico? Because I was born, raised and still live here in latinoamerica as I type this. I, unlike you, wasn’t born nor raised speaking english in the US, so you can tell I had a great total amount of 0 (cero) clue of what people meant by afroindigenous, whitepassing or anything else back in the day. My english was shit, and probably still is.
As of now, and after some years navigating the usamerican community, I have been able to understand how to express myself in english better, and find the labels that actually fit me ethnically speaking.
Let’s kill two birds with one stone shall we? You say calling a santera or curandera a “bruja” is wrong. I understand where you’re coming from, since my grandma was an afroindigenous curandera too, and like I have explained in an ask a while ago, she didn’t ever call herself a bruja, she actually taught me why she wouldn’t do so. In my country, and for my people as diaguitas, the word has quite a negative history. We’re afro-indigenous, unlike many other andean peoples, because the spaniards were really fixated on fucking us up and washing down our culture as much as possible after finding so much resistance from our peoples (specially most southern tribes, like the kilmes and mine) so they forced us into slavery, forced us to mix with other slaves brought from áfrica, and turned our culture into what it is today, an amalgamation of african and indigenous culture, not just andean like other nations far up north.
Like I’ve also explained many times already, I was brought up by a black, afroindigenous mom, and my white dad. I didn’t quite have much relationship with my paternal family until recently, because family issues, so I spent all childhood I can remember with my indigenous grandma and my maternal family. She was tucumana, and had to move to Buenos Aires (provincia, not the city) after marrying my grandfather, who was in the navy. That’s where my culture comes from, Tucumán, afroindigenous diaguita community.
The thing is: the US and Argentina are nothing alike in matter of race. I was brought up with the notion that we are all human, that’s our race. Black? not a thing. White? Not a thing. Indigenous, yes a thing, but not a race, a culture, passed down through lineages in our communities. Our culture is not tied to race, it’s a different thing, we’re latinos, because we’re part of latinoamerica. We’re argentineans, because that’s the country our ancestral lands now belong to and where we live? and we’re “indios” like my grandma used to say, because we’re indigenous. My grandma, also had the same beliefs that pretty much everyone in Tucumán has, and that I’ve also mentioned before in my blog: Curanderas heal, brujas curse. A curandera’s job many times entails healing through the maleficient work of a “bruja”.
Now, as much as I respect and love my deceased grandma, but I know calling us indians was something left by colonization, and part of my job as an indigenous person decolonizing myself is to change that to indigenous, and more specifically, due to our people’s history, afroindigenous. Because if you look at andean people in perú, they’re pretty much “andean looking” by stereotype, and absolutely no one in my community looks exactly like that. My maternal family’s skin is much darker, their hair black, curly and afro-textured. Don’t even get me started on the fact that curanderas in tucumán, like my grandma, were santeras, not by orisha practice, not lucumi practiced in caribbean communities, santera as in a curandera who worked through God and the Saints, and those Saints, even if not specifically associated to an orisha as in lucumi, do have different connotations and given powers that aren’t catholic at all. The names of the orishas were lost and associated with indigenous spirits like Pachamama too, but the practice itself remains, the way we work, the music, the offerings, it’s still santería and still african american culture.
And another task I take as an afroindigenous curandera is to stop the colonial mindset of brujas being evil. That’s why me and other latinas are reclaiming the word. It was used against my family, today, in my presence, and way before I was even born. Hell, i’m still living in latinoamerica hon, I myself have to deal with the negative connotations of being a bruja. I live in a small evangelist-dominant town in southern patagonia, and that means: brujas are evil satanists booo, when that couldn’t be more far from the truth. “Bruja” was and continues to be used against me and my people. I myself have gotten the side eyes and nasty ass comments from people passing by when I was doing a reading for my friend using my mesa, in la costanera, by the beach. I know what I’m talking about, because unlike those latine in the diaspora, I live here. I breathe, and spend every second of my life here in latam dealing with this shit. I cannot un-choose to be latine like you guys can. I cannot choose to forget my latinidad and just act usamerican like many latines have done after moving to the US.
I have taken my fair time to unpack my own identity and learn to navigate through an english speaking community, through an US-centric community, and that’s how I got to understand that while my grandma always called us “indiecitos bonaerenses”, we’re afroindigenous. Many young peoples in our communities, not just me, are reclaiming these terms, and reclaiming not just our indigeneity and decolonizing, but reclaiming our blackness, whitepassing or not. Hell, being black and indigenous to me was always in the same package, that’s just what I grew up around, two sides of the same coin. We were “indios” or “indígenas” and calling ourselves “negri” or “negrita” is still an endearment term we use among ourselves with family or friends.
Living in la patagonia I am closer to many mapuche and tehuelche communities too, which means I, again, everyday have contact with other afroindigenous and indigenous people and discuss things like this. Every other indigenous person who I’ve talked to agrees that “indio” is disrespectful af. Mapuches also have experiences with people calling them “aborígenes”, which they also find incredibly disrespectful. So we’re indigenous, or afroindigenous, period.
Onto hoodoo and afroindigeneity, since I am not a native english speaker, I didn’t even know the term afroindigenous existed. Just as back in the day, I didn’t even know “whitepassing” existed either. To me, I was just mixed. That’s literally the truth, that’s why I just identified as mixed latina at first, then as indigenous, because indigenous is the literal translation for indígena, and later, and thanks to other helpful black folks in the community, I was taught that the name in english that I was seeking is actually afroindigenous or BIPOC. It’s cool to learn new vocabulary when you’re not a native speaker actually. I also had some time to stop, and ask many, many rootworkers if It was ok for me, as a whitepassing afroindigenous person to practice hoodoo, since it was born in the southern black belt of the US. I got told, yes, you’re black, your ancestors and even your close family share our fight against slavery and racism, hoodoo is yours to reclaim, and so I did, as means to honor my black ancestors, and my own mother who had recently passed away too, and who I know have struggled with racism all their lives. This is a very personal thing for me that I take seriously for that same reason.
Now, I have never said “we’re all latinos”, because not all people are wtf. That makes literally no sense. But you can’t deny a simple truth: white latinos in latinoamerica are, well, latinos. And many times, these white latinos are more connected to their culture than the so called “latinxs” living in the US who have 1 great-great-great grandma who taught them how to make tamales. Being latino is not about race, it’s about our culture, we come in all shades and colors. My own family is proof of that. While my mom was afroindigenous, my dad is pretty much white, and both sides are all-latine born and raised here just like me. And even being “white”, he still suffers the US’s neocolonialism, how the US fucks up our economy every time they feel like it, how they just coup our governments out, how they just send people to kill us, he still deals with xenophobia when going to other countries (dammit, we got literally yelled at for more than 30 minutes by a random french asshole in a mall below the Louve museum when I was travelling with my family for my quinceaños, and you gonna tell me white latinos don’t face discrimination? the asshole literally just heard us SPEAK and started cursing us and asking the police to take us out of there for being “fucking latinos”).
You can’t tell me how to define latinidad, girl, I live here. I was born and raised here. It’s my land and my culture. Latinos are by definition those born and living in latinoamerica, so you can’t just press a button and delete white latinos just because they don’t fit your US-stereotype definition of latinidad based on race. Because again, this isn’t about race. “White latinos” still speak our tongue, watch telenovelas, eat milanesas and drink mate. Having a great-great-great granpa in europe doesn’t make you european and I got it very clear that europeans don’t fucking like us, calling us “sudacas” and treating us like shit on our own land.
Onto brujería, I have also discussed it many times, brujería is whatever the bruja defines it as. Brujería is a latine practice, just like bruxaria, because it is reclaiming a word that was used against us latinos, be us african american, asian american or indigenous. This is an experience that all POC latines share, the idea of colonizers calling us POC’s practices “brujería/bruxaria” and reclaiming that word for our peoples is our way to fight back, but our peoples are not all black. Some latines are black, yes, some are asian, some are white even, some, like me, are mixed afroindigenous. You can’t go to a latino and say “oh you can’t use brujería because you aren’t black”, because nor latinidad nor brujería are defined by blackness.
On the other hand, hoodoo is. So if you want a practice rooted in blackness, hoodoo is your go to. I’ve talked with many african american rootworkers and they’ve all agreed on other black practitioners of the diaspora practicing hoodoo as well. If you want a practice based on latinidad, then brujería. While hoodoo is rooted in the collective experience of blackness, slavery and fighting racism and white supremacy, brujería is the collective experience of latinidad, of opression of poc-latine practitioners and fighting against “el evangelio”, as our peoples say, fighting against the church who back in the day used religion as a tool to demonize our practices, calling them so, and take our culture away from us. They’re two completely different things: while hoodoo is learning to use what tools black peoples had available in america to survive and give power back to our peoples, brujería is a fairly new concept of reclaiming that word, historically used against us, to fight back the assimilation and de-culturization the church has tried to impose for so long. Brujería is not hoodoo, a rootworker is not a bruja. While brujería can come from an afrolatine and include rootwork, it’s not the norm. Brujería doesn’t stem from hoodoo.
Into the “mestize latinos” thing. Hon, I have said it, and will say it again. Mestizaje has way different connotations here in south america. I know you’re coming from a puerto rican pov, as someone who has had to deal with that “mestizaje cósmico” bullshit, and I can tell you with all honesty, the first time I ever heard of that shit was here in tumblr from another puerto rican. While mestize and white latinos may be a thing you call people far up north, it’s different here, and I honestly don’t understand why you guys have such big troubles with understanding that two societies can actually have different historical experiences and thus different perceptions about mestizaje.
I understand your anger, but that pov simply doesn’t apply to an entirely different community, with different experiences. That doesn’t mean your anger isn’t justified, you’re right, mestizaje was used in caribbean latine communities to fuck up black and indigenous folks, but not a single south american person I know has ever dealt with that experience, like, I have talked with my non-passing family, spoke to my non-passing friends, and not a single one of us had ever heard of that shit before. So, while things are, indeed, different with people in the caribe from communities with similar experiences to yours, what I speak is my truth, as someone from south america, and my people’s experiences are just as valid as yours.
I have never meant to silence black latinos or else. All I ask is for people to respect us when we reclaim that word, just as we respect rootworkers who reclaim hoodoo. You wouldn’t be happy with a person asking “hey, I don’t feel experieced enough to call myself a bruja, can I just say I am a rootworker?”, then why do you accept downgrading latine experiences?
When I say I am a rootworker, is because I am a black woman, and I have taken the time to learn rootwork as taught by black rootworkers. But that girl had no intention to learn brujería or be latine at all, she just wanted the word as a substitute for rootworker, and that’s wrong and disrespectful to us latines who are actually taking the time to learn our history and fight back past and present colonialism.
You say I call y’all gringos and that’s disrespectful, but that’s what you are? if you’re from the US, I have bad news for you, you’re a gringa. Acá y en la china, “here and in China”, which is an expression that means, go to wherever you want and you’ll get the same result, just be yourself, speak english, talk about race like you do, do your gringadas, and people are gonna know you’re american. That’s not being disrespectful, it’s acknowledging that latines living in the US have a different culture and pov from those in latam. That’s their experience as diaspora, while this is our experience living in the homeland.
Brujería is about reclaiming latinidad and reclaiming a word used against us latinos. Black latines, asian latines, whatever. If you’re poc latine, you can reclaim brujería because it was used against our peoples. We can discuss if white latines could reclaim brujería or not, since their ancestors didn’t directly get oppressed by it? and I agree with you on that. But what we can’t discuss is their latinidad. That’s simply a fact, you get born here, raised here, you have a documento nacional de identidad and a passport that says “mercosur”, well yeah, you’re latine, it’s part of their culture. Not all latinos are poc, that’s simply facts, like it or not.
I don’t know where you’re getting that brujería is an eclectic mess. Again, that may be the case in more northern communities? for uslatines? no clue. It’s not the case in latam, and definitely not the case in south america.
If you wanna discuss this more in depth, my DM’s are open, If you don’t, that’s also cool with me too. I truly hope y’all understand that people having different experiences is a thing, not just “disagreeing” for the sake of doing so. I can only speak for my own experiences, in the end, you can believe what you want to believe. This is my truth as someone, again, born, raised and living in latam, who isn’t a native english speaker, trying to make sense in a language that isn’t my own. Shame me for not being able to fully express myself in the past, maybe not even now, but at least I know I am trying to help others and that my intention was, and will always be, to protect both the black and latine communities, and respect our different experiences as poc, and as people from different places and societies. I have always spoken my truth in the best way I could, and I will continue to do so, but you can’t blame me for having a hard time adapting to an english-speaking, US-centric community.
aa what even is this,,,
GRIMTALK - Week 8
GRIMTALK is a weekly snapshot of my personal Grimoire as it progresses each week and this week on GRIMTALK is Healing Poppets.
A poppet is a physical representation of a person and is used in both baneful and beneficial witchcraft. Historically, poppets have been made out of roots carved into the shape of a human, grain or corn shafts, paper, wax, potatoes, clay, branches, and cloth figures stuffed with herbs.
Poppets also usually contain a taglock from the person they are to represent such as hair, finger/toenail clippings, blood, spit, tears, sweat, mucus, semen or urine. This taglock ensures that the poppet will only work on the person they represent.
Healing poppets are especially useful because you can target them towards a person’s specific needs. Cloth poppets are perfect for assisting with healing because they can easily be placed under the pillow or mattress of someone who is sick or injured.
Cloth poppets are quite easy to make. Simply, draw a humanoid figure on a piece of paper. Cut out the figure and transfer the outline to a folded-over piece of cloth. Cut the cloth around the paper outline so that you have two humanoid cloth shapes.
Now you can sew, draw or paint sigils, words or symbols onto the poppet to assist with healing. You can also sew on a little heart, yarn hair and button eyes if you wish.
Pin the two sides together and begin to stitch them around the edges. When three quarters of the poppet is stitched, fill it with the appropriate herbs and a taglock. Then finish sewing up the poppet and place it under the pillow or mattress of your target.
*(Note: Around the world, serpents have been to symbolise life, death and rebirth for thousands of years. Because snakes can heal as well as hurt – add shed snake skin to the poppet to speed the healing process.)
To see any of the previous weekly photos, check out the GRIMTALK page!
Things you could put in a devotional journal
•Their names in Ancient Greek, transliterated, translated, and pronunciation •Epithets (traditional and upg) •Favourite myths •Retelling/interpretation of the myths •Other information about Them •A photo or drawing of how They appear to you or that you think of as resembling Them •Delphic maxims •Key words in both languages and what they mean •An altar page or photo of an altar •Hymns, prayers, poems and stories •Pictures of other things you’ve made for Them •Updates on skills you’re learning in worship of Them •Letters you write to Them about anything at all (could just be telling them about your day or whatever) •Specific tarot spreads •Readings and conversations you’ve had with Them •Sacred animals/plants/colours/food/symbols etc (or just ones that make you think of Them) •Drawings/paintings/collages for Them •Experiences and encounters •Worship days/holidays/celebrations •Ideas for things you could do/make/give in offering (including low spoons devotional ideas) •Playlists •Books and movies that remind you of them •Aesthetic and word associations lists •Places that remind you of Them •Any other upg stuff •Quotes •Any signs or dreams etc you think might have been from them •Checklists for things you want to do for Them or have done and want to do again •Stick in pictures or dried flowers •Charities or other causes you can give to
*I’m mostly posting this for myself just to have the list saved but if anyone has any other ideas please feel free to add to it! I love having new things to add to my journals
30 Days of Deity Devotion
A basic introduction of the deity
How did you become first aware of this deity?
Symbols and icons of this deity
A favorite myth or myths of this deity
Members of the family – genealogical connections
Other related deities and entities associated with this deity
Names and epithets
Variations on this deity (aspects, regional forms, etc.)
Common mistakes about this deity
Offerings – historical and UPG
Festivals, days, and times sacred to this deity
Places associated with this deity and their worship
What modern cultural issues are closest to this deity’s heart?
Has worship of this deity changed in modern times?
Any mundane practices that are associated with this deity?
How do you think this deity represents the values of their pantheon and cultural origins?
How does this deity relate to other gods and other pantheons?
How does this deity stand in terms of gender and sexuality? (historical and/or UPG)
What quality or qualities of this god do you most admire? What quality or qualities of them do you find the most troubling?
Art that reminds you of this deity
Music that makes you think of this deity
A quote, a poem, or piece of writing that you think this deity resonates strongly with
Your own composition – a piece of writing about or for this deity
A time when this deity has helped you
A time when this deity has refused to help
How has your relationship with this deity changed over time?
Worst misconception about this deity that you have encountered
Something you wish you knew about this deity but don’t currently
Any interesting or unusual UPG to share?
Any suggestions for others just starting to learn about this deity?
[Source: dewognatos but they’re gone.]
Polytheist Prayer Journal Prompts
Write a thank you letter to the gods, the spirits, and/or the ancestors to describe something you feel extra-blessed with - either a situation you’ve found yourself in, a recent omen, etc.
Rewrite a favorite passage from Lore. Highlight the sentences or words that stand out in your mind. Meditate on their meaning in your life.
Make a list of all the times you’ve seen Them work in your life.
Write a list of Their epithets (ancient and/or modern). Choose one to meditate on. What does this name say about Them? What does it say about you, that you chose it?
Rewrite a myth (or passage from myth) in your own words.
What is a virtue that you’d like to work on, or that you struggle with? What can you do in the next week to incorporate it into your life?
Practice simple gratitude! What are three things you’re grateful for today? Let Them know what and why!
Copy quotes - from Lore, from music, from poetry - that remind you of your deities, or feel like messages from Them. Is there an overall theme or pattern you notice?
Was there ever a time that an aspect of your faith made you angry? (i.e., a need for privacy, feeling abandoned, lack of community) Why did it make you angry? How could (or how did, if the problem was finished) you resolve the problem?
Check in with yourself if you have a directive from your deities. How are you doing on that challenge? What are some things that are tripping you up when it comes to that directive? What are some things you can do to overcome that? Plan something for tomorrow, for next week, and for next month (if applicable).
Hidden Witchery: Witch’s Ladder Necklace
One of the hardest, but possibly most fun, ways of being a Surreptitious Solitary is trying to find ways to practice out in the open without anyone knowing. I’ve been wanting to do a witch’s ladder (sometimes called pagan prayer beads, witches rosaries, etc.) for some time. If you don’t know what a Witch’s Ladder is, there are a few articles out there, but the summary is: it’s knot and nature magic mostly intended for protection.
Generally, they’re made of string of different colors corresponding with protection (or whatever you’re making the ladder for), and natural items like feathers, sea glass, shells, stones, etc. Sometimes charms or taglocks can be incorporated. If you look on Etsy there are some really pretty ones out there.
As I researched them, I wondered how I could incorporate this crafty craft into my daily life. And I kind of came to the conclusion that I don’t have to have a big rope of feathers and rocks hanging outside my door to do it: I can make something to wear that would protect me wherever I go!
I debated for some time whether to make a bracelet or necklace, but I liked how the numbers and measurements worked out on a necklace.
If you want to make one, you’ll need:
About 6 feet of beading string in an appropriately corresponding color to your needs (I went with purple for spirituality and power)
Forty beads (6mm for the sizing to come out like mine; larger or smaller will affect it; I picked hematite mostly for the look, but also to keep me grounded)
Nine feather charms
One end charm (serves as your closeure; something with dimension will work better than the flat disc I chose which likes to slip out now and then)
To make your ladder necklace, you’ll have to tie a loop in it in a place so that you have one short strand about two feet long and one long strand of the remainder. The loop will be part of your closeure. Basically, fold your string so one part hangs two feet, and the remainder hangs on the other side. Tie a simple knot in the folded string so you have a loop that’s just big enough for your end charm to slip through with little/no excess.
Find something to affix this to for knotting (I slipped the loop through some tweezers which I then clamped into my clipboard).
Now get to knotting, just like middle school friendship bracelets. As you know, remember to set your intent for the ladder into each knot. Also remember to keep the short strand stationary: use the long strand to make a basic forward knot around the short strand.
Make four knots to establish (4K)
Thread a bead (B), make four knots (4K). This is your basic pattern.
For my ladder, I established a pattern of four beads to each side of each feather charm (F). The pattern runs like so from start to finish: [4K, (B, 4K)x4, F]x9, (4K, B)x4, 4K.
In other words, with four knots between each item, string beads and feather charms in a four-one pattern with nine repeats, then end with an additional four beads.
At the end, tie on your final charm using both strands (I used a clinch knot), and trim off the excess string.
Done! Hang it up or wear it for protection. No one needs to know you’re carrying a loaded charm. 😉
Blessed be!
Such a good idea! I really want to make something like this - I wonder if I can scrape enough things together to do it without having to buy anything 🤔🌱
AMULETS: Magic Tables Of The Planet
1. TABLE OF JUPITER
For good judgement and direction. This amulet will attract fortune and good luck and is helpful with overseas travel, assistance in business, legal cases and religious affairs. The table of Jupiter is a Four square, containing 16 numbers each adding in any direction, to 34 with its sum being 136.
2. TABLE OF MARS
For action and destruction. This amulet brings favors in battles, quarrels and wars, promotes strength and courage, understanding medicine and mechanics and cause distress to one’s enemies. The table of Mars is a Five square, containing 25 numbers each adding in any direction, to 55 with its sum being 325.
3. TABLE OF MERCURY
For movement and intuition, this table helps with acquiring knowledge, secures safety in traveling and aids in expression of speaking and writing. The table of Mercury is a Eight square, containing 64 numbers each adding in any direction, to 250 with its sum being 2080.
4. TABLE OF THE MOON
For imagination and forms. This table helps with settling quarrels, domestic problems and in gardening/farming. The table of the Moon is a Nine square, containing 81 numbers each adding in any direction, to 359 with its sum being 3321.
5. TABLE OF SATURN
For reserve and endurance. Used to strengthen the ability to perform jobs/carry out duties and responsibilities. Favorable to politicians, assisting in political activity and helps develop and increase business. The table of Saturn is a three square, containing 9 numbers each adding in any direction, to 15 with its sum being 45.
6. TABLE OF THE SUN
For activity and will - Good health, confidence in one’s own abilities, and draws out the powers and qualities of leadership dominance and supremacy. The table of Sun is a Six square, containing 36 numbers each adding in any direction, to 111 with its sum being 666.
7. TABLE OF VENUS
For love, matters of the heart, marriages, partnerships, social affairs and friendship. The table of Venus is a Seven square, containing 49 numbers each adding in any direction, to 175 with its sum being 1225.
28 Days of Devotional Journaling
This is a simple journaling challenge/exercise that I’ve put together that helps to explore and connect with chosen deity. The rules are simple: Choose a deity to work with, then for the next 28 days, complete one prompt per day. It’s that simple!
1. List all the various names of your deity, in your language and in the original language.
2. Write an epithet for your deity and write why you think it is befitting of them.
3. What is your favorite myth involving your chosen deity? Are there any retellings or interpretations that you prefer to the original?
4. Show off your favorite picture, drawing or moodboard that represents perfectly how you view your deity.
5. List any keywords and symbols that are associated with your deity. How do you feel about these words and symbols?
6. Build an altar, no matter how big or small, to your deity. If you are unable to do this, write or draw what you would have on that altar in your journal.
7. Make a list of Hymns or prayers, traditional or original, that you prefer.
8. In any form you choose, list any messages that you have received from them.
9. What are your deity’s correspondences?
10. What was considered sacred to your deity?
11. What are the worship days/holidays/popular celebrations associated with your deity?
12. Make a list of offering ideas
13. Write a playlist dedicated to your deity.
14. What locations or places are sacred to your deity?
15. Make a list of quotes that you associate with your deity.
16. What signs do you associate with them? How do you know when they communicate with you?
17. What are some activities, charities or other causes that you can do in their name to honor them?
18. Make a list of drinks and foods that your deity likes. Write down your favorite “modern” recipes.
19. Using the Five Senses, how would you describe your deity?
20. Write a ritual dedicated to them. This can be ceremonial or a routine.
21. What are some of the lessons that you are taught by the stories told about your deity?
22. Are there any media representations of your deity? What is your favorite?
23. What are some popular “modern” ways to honor your deity?
24. Write about their realm of influence. What all does your deity rule over?
25. What are some modern issues that would concern your deity?
26. Are there any other deities that your deity is often associated/confused with?
27. Who are the relatives of your deity? What is there most significant relationships?
28. What are your own personal practices to honor your deity?
ooo I might do this for february with Benten and Marici! <3
Current Witchy Goals
hello!
ive decided that in order to stick to my goals for the future, i will publicize them! by publicizing my goals, i hope that everyone who decides to follow me on my adventures will hold me to them. without further ado, my goals!!
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aAA FINALLY MY GOALS POST IS OUT!! if you havent already, please follow my more ~fancy~ witch blog where all the content posted is original!! i use this acc for gathering resources, sort of as a digital bos! however, my grimoire account is a bit more personal to me!! tysm in advance !! i love yall
Hearthstone Charm
It’s been a hot minute since I posted a spell or craft. Here’s one that’s both.
This is budget friendly and super low energy. It’s based on the Hearthstone in World of Warcraft (because you know me, I love my pop culture witchery). In Warcraft, your Hearthstone allows you to teleport back to one ‘home’ location anywhere in the game. You find an innkeeper, tell him to set that location as ‘home’, and then after that, you can return to that spot any time you choose no matter how far away you are.
That’s the idea we’re harnessing here. “There’s no place like home”, if you will. Sometimes I’m out in a public place and I get overloaded and really need to go home, or I’m having a really difficult day at work and I don’t want to be there anymore. I keep this stone in my pocket and then just hold it when I need a breather. I use my stone to get myself to a ‘home’ mindset, giving me a feeling of safety and calm. (If you want to go to the extra effort, you could enchant your stone to be a ‘go home early’ charm if you want to physically go home, but that’s up to you.)
You will need:
A rock from your chosen home location
Paint or a marker (light blue if you’re sticking with the Warcraft theme, but as usual, you do you, boo)
That’s it. That’s literally all the materials you need.
Now, I say “chosen home location”. My rock is from my yard at my house. For some people, their house is where they want to escape from, not return to, and that’s okay. You can also choose a rock from your school, your friend’s house, a park you love, or wherever you feel the most safe.
Here’s the beauty of the spell: The rock is already charged and cleansed because it’s been hanging out in the ground like rocks do, absorbing all that ‘home’ energy.
Give the rock a clean, but NOT a cleanse. You don’t want to clear out the energy your rock already has, but you do want to make sure you’re not carrying around any gross bacteria in your pocket. Soap, water, maybe some rubbing alcohol or something, but leave the salt and incense smoke out of it.
Paint or draw on the swirl symbol you see above. (If warcraft isn’t your jam and you have a different symbol you associate with home, or you want to make a sigil, go right ahead.)
That’s it. You’re done. The ground already did all the work for you, so you don’t need to expend any of your own energy.
✨🌙 Sailor Moon Glamour 🌙 ✨
inspired by sailor moon, a glamour to feel confident and beautiful, even when nervous and self-conscious
🌙 gather: quartz, a white candle, a pink ribbon, a flower, orange, thyme
✨ tie the ribbon around the candle
🌙 dress the candle with the flower, orange peel, and thyme
✨ burn the candle, chant, “in the name of the moon”
🌙 blow out the candle, pass the quartz through the smoke
✨ tie the quartz with the ribbon and keep on your person as a charm
🌙 use charm as needed
it’s time to evolve! feel free to dm me about how this spread goes for you :)
Mimikyu’s Disguise - a nonverbal spell to create a protective charm
*Inspired by mimikyu’s disguise, which protects it from its opponents initial attack*
Needed: - something to turn into your charm - Black, Dark Blue and Light Yellow - Ash - Basil - Cinnamon - Uncooked Rice - Black Salt - Smokey Quartz - Jet - Obsidian - A Container to put everything in and seal.
Steps: - Light your candles - Set your container out, and set your charm in the bottom. be sure that it wont be compromised by putting it in with the ingredients. - Sprinkle in your Ash and Cinnamon - Add a few basil leaves - Add a thin layer of rice - Add a thin layer of black salt - Add your crystals and Seal - blow out your candles. - let the container sit over night in a windowsill where moonlight can reach it. - remove it in the morning and clean it off. - Carry it with your to keep yourself protected.
-Aesa <3 This is my original spell. Do Not repost on any platform without my explicit permission. Reblogging is okay, Reposting is not. Do Not Advertise on my spell posts.
