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[thelittlehellenic]

Spiritual Guidance

-Tarot Spread

for when you’re feeling lost/stuck/distressed regarding your spiritual journey; perhaps you feel you’re losing faith

[i made & used this and it seriously helped me so much]

Where am I now/what state am I in, spiritually?

What I want/where I want to be, spiritually.

The root of the issue, what caused these feelings of distress. Wether you’re aware or not, this card will tell the deeper depth of the problem.

What is keeping you feeling this way or your anxieties about & affecting your situation.

Where you have been, what you have learnt/seen on your spiritual journey.

Where you are going. If the card is negative, this simply means to follow the advice given throughout the reading in hopes to avoid said outcome; if positive, this tells your outcome following the advice.

What should I keep/take with me moving forward?

What should I leave behind to positively move forward?

What is my power/what will support me as I go?

What challenges might I face as I continue my spiritual journey?

The advice card; this card will give you knowledge as to what you should or should not do to break out of this distress and get back on track.

Finally, this card will entail what you can expect following the given advice.

Best wishes to you all! 🔮💜

[asoulajar]

SPREADS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS

1. NEW RELATIONSHIP

1.  What I bring to the relationship. 2.  What the other person brings to the relationship. 3.  Nature of the relationship for me 4.  Challenges to the relationship for me. 5. How the relationship will progress.

2. FINDING THE RIGHT MATE

What I need to know about myself in partnership

What am I looking for in a partner?

Positive qualities I bring to a relationship.

Obstacles within myself to finding the right partner

What will help me find a new partner?

3. RELATIONSHIP SPREAD (for a specific loved one)

General situation between you and your object of desire.

How he/she feels about you.

How you feel about him/her.

Obstacles to a relationship with this person.

Outcome/Advice (answer to “Is this person for me?

4. GROWING TO RELATIONSHIP

Lay out six cards in an upward diagonal from left to right. Card 1: Where I am right now in my love journey. Cards 2-5: Lessons I need to learn or steps I need to take to attain love. Card 6: Outcome.

5. FUTURE LOVE

My future true love

Will the attraction be instant or a gradual awakening?

What will this person be like?

Challenges I’ll face.

What will help us along?

When/where/how will I meet this person?

6. LOVED ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE

How is my loved one doing?

Anything my loved one wants to say to me.

What’s it like on the other side?

How can I best support you?

7. YOUR CHILD

1. What my child came into life to learn. 2. How my child is doing now 3. What graces my child. 4. What my child needs from me. 5. Where the child is headed at this time?

8. YOUR PET

1.  What my pet is feeling. 2.  What my pet is trying to tell me. 3.  What my pet most wants from me. 4.  What I can do to help my pet. 5.  My pet’s general health.

9.  PERSON YOU DON’T LIKE SPREAD

What is it I don’t like about this person?

What is it that this person triggers within me that I have been avoiding?

How might this person be a teacher for me?

What obstacles are there to my learning?

 What do I need in order to grow from this relationship?

SPREADS ABOUT YOUR PURPOSE, LESSONS, SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

10. BLIND SIDE SPREAD

This is your outside appearance; what you know and others can see.

This is the unknown; what you’re not aware of, no one can see, but what is ruling.

This is the hidden; what you know but won’t show others.

This is the blind spot; what you can’t see but what others see in you.

11. DHARMA SPREAD (SPIRITUAL LIFE LESSONS)

What is my lesson right now?

How can I grow spiritually at this time?

How else can I grow spiritually at this time?

What’s my biggest challenge at this time?

Where am I headed?

12. MANDALA SPREAD

Overview of myself

Ambitions, goals

Achievements

Dependencies, faulty beliefs

Strengths

13. THE WORLD BEYOND

What is it like on the other side?

What does the other side have to teach me?

Why do we come here?

Anything else to know about the other side.

14. INNER PEACE SPREAD

1:  Quality within me that leads me to inner peace. 2:  Obstacle within me to attaining inner peace. 3:  If there is any one thing I should be doing to achieve inner peace? 4:  Something in my environment that helps or blocks me. 5:  Outcome

15. SELF DISCOVERY SPREAD

1. Who have I been? 2. Who am I? 3. Who am I becoming?

16. SIX STEPS TO FULFILLMENT

Lay out six cards in an upward diagonal from left to right. Card 1: Where I am right now in my journey to fulfillment. Card 2-5: Lessons I need to learn to reach fulfillment. Card 6: Outcome.

17. PATH TO HAPPINESS

1. What are the strengths I bring to every situation? 3. What quality in myself should I develop more? 4. Where am I headed in the short-term? 5. Where am I headed in the long-term? 18. MY PURPOSE – by Vicky

What is the purpose that I was brought here to fulfill?

What obstacles do I need to get over?

3 Lessons (lay out 3 cards) I need to learn along the way.

Who or what can help me attain my goal?

What can I give to the world?

19. TREASURE WITHIN ME by Linda

1. How do other people perceive me? 2. What is my shining self? 3. What is my inner most passion? 4. What is hidden within me that is waiting to be discovered?

20. MY PURPOSE THIS LIFETIME by Irene

What did you come into this world for this lifetime?

What did you come into your specific family for?

What is the specific emotion that’s been most difficult for you to learn to use to your advantage this time?

What is your biggest challenge this time around?

What will be your greatest gift this time?

What is your greatest lesson this time?

 CAREER, MONEY, HEALTH

21. CAREER SPREAD (FINDING MY LIFE’S WORK)

What I am good at doing.

What I enjoy doing.

My calling.

Biggest challenge within myself

Issues in my environment I should know about.

Anything else I should understand about finding my right work

The next best step to bring me to my true work.

Someone who will help me along the way.

 Outcome

22. MONEY

1.  My current financial situation. 2.  What is the lesson here for me regarding money? 3.  Who or what project will bring in more money? 4. Outcome

23. HEALTH SPREAD

1: What is the overall state of my health? 2: What is the overall state of my mind? 3: What is the overall state of my body? 4: What is the overall state of my spirit? 5: How do I integrate these parts of myself?

24. CHAKRA SPREAD Tells condition of your body’s energy centers

1: Root chakra – physical, including sexual, health 2: Hara – center of your being, digestion, overall life force 3: Solar Plexus – strength of will 4: Heart chakra – your love 5: Throat Chakra – communication center 6: Intellect Chakra – intellectual center 7: Crown Chakra – spiritual center

25. MY FOCUS AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE

1: The issue that’s upper most in my mind. 2: Something more to know about it. 3: Obstacle to my focus. 4: What to do about it? 5: Outcome

26. EMPOWERMENT SPREAD

1: This is my power. 2: How it is best used. 3: What inhibits this power within me? 4: How can I bring it out more?

27. ESSENCE OF YOU AT THIS TIME

Soul card

Personality or external card

Crossing card or challenge

SPREADS ABOUT A SPECIFIC SITUATION & WHAT TO DO

28. EVENT SPREAD1.What does this event have in store for me? 2. What do I need to watch out for? 3. What can I do about it? 4. Result 29. ADVICE SPREAD

Problem

Background

Advice

30. DO THIS-DON’T DO THAT-SPREAD

Do This

Don’t Do This

Overview

31. UNDERSTANDING SELF IN ANY SITUATION

My inner self regarding a situation

My outer self regarding a situation

What I need to confront.

What’s helping me.

Outcome.

32. PROBLEM SOLVING SPREAD

Nature of the problem

What led up to the current problem

Current attitude/actions that preserve the status quo

Secondary gains from staying in the situation

Necessary changes in attitude/actions

Outcome

33. STALEMATE SPREAD

The overall conlict/situation

How they really feel about you

How you really feel about them

Common Grounds (what the 2 of you have in common and can use to help the situation)

Outcome

34. ADVERSITY SPREAD

Describe the situation I find myself in.

What do I fear?

What’s the lesson in it for me?

How might I end out benefiting from this situation?

Obstacles within me to my growth

Outcome at this time.

SPREADS ABOUT THE FUTURE

35. FUTURE DIRECTION by Pam

1. What do I need to progress? 2. Is there a positive help to be asked for? 3. Is there a venue to pursue?

36. PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE by Janet

Past

Relationships

Financial

Professional

Present

Relationships

Financial

Professional

Future

Relationships

Financial

Professional

37. THE NEXT DECADE OF MY LIFE by Melissa

What am I finishing now and leaving?

Who are my guides for this next journey?

What traits can I work on to achieve a more successful outcome?

What will be my new learn strengths?

Outcome?

38. WHAT’S AHEAD OF ME?

1. What you need to leave behind, to release. 2. What you must confront. 3. What you need to know. 4. What you attain.

39. PAST LIFE SPREAD by Sotiria

1. Show me a past life. 2. What was my purpose in that life? 3. What what my profession or avocation in that life? 4. What other family members were in that life? 5. Were there other people from this life in that life? 6. What lessons did I learn? 7. Did I fulfill my purpose?

SPREADS FOR  SEASONS, MOON PHASES, PLANETARY SHIFTS

40. Full Moon Spread

What is my most important insight for my life at this time?

What message does spirit want to give me at this time?

What do I hope for in my life?

How can I live inside that hope?

Outcome.

41. Springtime Spread – Nurturing Growth Within Me

What’s ready to emerge from within me?

What must I overcome to push through?

How can I nourish it to grow and bear fruit? (2 cards)

Outcome

[follettina1111111111]

[the-witches-glossary]

Where/how do I begin?

This is the most common question I get on my blog. 

“Where do I start? how do I begin? What should I research? What books should I read?”

I get questions like these every day. Beginning witchcraft, whether you are including religion or not, is a huge undertaking that can feel daunting. There are so many different paths, different groups, different practices, and different cultures. There are different pantheons, and hundreds of way to divine. There’s green witchcraft, and hedge witchcraft, and eclectic witches..! It is really exciting (for me, at least) to be part of a practice that is so versatile and diverse. But that can also make beginners, and even practiced witches, to feel directionless. So where do you begin…?

Your natural attractions and inclinations are not a coincidence. That is where and how you start your craft.

If you have always had a connection to astrology, and you love to look at the stars, and study astronomy, and you have an interest space, and so on… start there! Develop your craft around your natural talents and interests, and go from there. You will probably also discover a lot of things you didn’t know you would love, too.

Your craft is supposed to serve you. Use it to deepen your connection with the world, and with yourself. Learn about the things you love and embrace them as a part of your life that has a need to be there.

[samhainspirit]

[captcreate-deactivated20251226]

Bring me the FEETIES

[swampseer]

Lemme read them beans

[perse-phoneee-deactivated202007]

A reminder that I posted on Twitter that I also wanted to post here!

If you're in the metaphysical business, any book that you buy, any class that you take, supplies (including tarot decks, spell supplies, etc.) that you use can be tax deductible as a business expense if you need it to run your business or further your skills!

[saturndivine]

The Signs as Classic Book Quotes

(check midheaven)

Aries- “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true” The Scarlett Letter, 1850

Taurus- “Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.” Gone With the Wind, 1935

Gemini- “If faces were different when lit from above or below – what was a face? What was anything?” Lord of The Flies, 1954

Cancer- “Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937

Leo- “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy” The Bell Jar, 1963

Virgo - “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” Pride & Prejudice, 1813

Libra- “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Scorpio- “I was told love should be unconditional. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever?If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?” Gone Girl, 2012

Sagittarius- “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life” The Great Gatsby, 1925

Capricorn- “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” The Outsiders, 1967

Aquarius- “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one” The Catcher in the Rye, 1951

Pisces- “What do you mean less than nothing? I don’t think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It’s the lowest you can go. It’s the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it’s just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.” Charlottes Web, 1952

[universeangelbabe]

☀️March affirmations☀️

🌿 I live in the present moment

🌿 I am filled with creative and positive energy

🌿 My spirit, mind and heart are in harmony

🌿 I am abundant in every aspect of my being

🌿 I welcome positive transformation into my life

🌿 I allow my true inner self to shine through

🌿 I approach life with love and compassion

🌿 Everything is happening in my favor

[owlwomantarot]

[universetalkz]

Some people could be given an entire field of roses and only see the thorns in it. Others could be given a single weed and only see the wildflower in it. Perception is a key component to gratitude, and gratitude is a key component to joy.

Amy Weatherly

[teaboot]

Went to the Aboriginal artifact exhibit in Chicago. And it’s interesting. How many blankets and masks and totem poles say ‘unknown source’, because every five seconds my mom would stop and point to something and say. “Pauline’s grandmother made that,” or, “That belongs to Mike’s family, I should call him” because. It’s all stolen

[teaboot]

“These artifacts were excavated by archaeologists from a burial site in the 1970’s. The remains were returned for reinterment” Okay cool, cool cool. So you just, like. Dug up the grave of a respected family member, stripped them naked, mailed their body back to their family and kept everything they were lovingly put to rest in. Like a graverobbing bastard

[toothmuncher3000]

Reminds me of the time when of the elders from my hometown started touching a totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology out at UBC and got yelled at by the staff, only to tell him that the pole had been stolen off of the front of her bighouse when she was ten years old.

Museum collectors did the equivalent of kidnapping a family member when they were away fishing.

[jenroses]

[totallynotagentphilcoulson]

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires all institutions that receive federal funding to repatriate remains and artifacts so if you can identify the source of something on display absolutely get a hold of that institute’s repatriation office

[magicandwondersabound]

A tarot spread I made for when you want to just do a quick divination check up on yourself, or for another!

Card 1: Physical health, how are you doing physically right now?

Card 2: Mental health, how are you doing mentally right now?

Card 3: Spiritual health, how are you doing spiritually?

Card 4: Prescription, what you can do to help yourself in one or more of those areas. You can pull this card 3 different times for each other card to gain more info if you want 💖!

Hope this helps some of you!

[hollowtowers]

my goal is to be the most healed, strong, empowered, peace-filled, light emanating, disciplined, and joyful person i can be.

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

Things to avoid as a new witch ✨

Cultural appropriation

don’t incorporate the practices of closed cultures into your craft - it’s not your place to do so; this includes “smudging,” the use of dream catchers when obtained from non-natives, engaging in practices that are exclusive to poc if you are not a poc, etc.

Stereotyping 

don’t buy into the idea that all witches are evil, female, worship the devil, are wiccan, etc.

on the same note, if you follow the wiccan ideology of the rule of three and “harm none” and all that jazz, don’t assume that everyone follows your path because, and this might be shocking to you, we don’t

Over-harvesting

refrain from using herbs that are endangered, threatened, or even sacred to some cultures, such as white sage or palo santo unless obtained from an ethical source, i.e. native sellers themselves or those who source from natives

there is always an alternative and an endless amount of herbs you can use in place of the popular ones you see floating around the internet

Purposely posting harmful information

before you freak out, hear me out: there is so much awful information out there, and part of me wants to believe that these people just don’t know any better but the other part of me knows that they legit believe in things like essential oils as a cure, and that vaccinations and healthcare providers are evil

don’t be that person

know that science and witchcraft can exist in the same world, and that you should not ignore medical advice in lieu of a magickal cure

Content theft 

even if you’re saving things for your own use at a later date, tumblr has this nifty feature in which you can “reblog” things rather than save them and reupload them yourself - don’t repost, reblog 

also please don’t screenshot popular posts and reupload them to places like instagram, pinterest, or facebook; rather, reblog our posts or find our instagram accounts to follow and support the original creators

it may seem utterly ridiculous, but believe it or not, content authors like myself put a ton of work into the stuff we post here - don’t think that because you reuploaded our work elsewhere that you’re “doing us a favor” and “helping to spread information” because you’re absolutely not

if you see content theft, please tell OP so they can report it and help put an end to the seemingly never ending content theft in this community

Gatekeeping

know that your path will likely differ from the next witch, and understand that there’s a difference between belittling someone for their beliefs and having a mature, educated discussion about it

the same goes for correcting actual misinformation or information that can be deemed harmful

it’s 100% okay to have different beliefs than what you see presented here on tumblr, just don’t be a dick about it

don’t like emoji spells? don’t use them. not a wiccan? who cares. perform curses? great!

in the grand scheme of things, we are all users on the same website - what we do with our practice in our own space is our business so, ultimately you should do what works for you but be open to criticism if you decide to post it publicly

edited on 1-3-20

[witchofapollo]

Basic Recipe of a Spell

Ingredients

Intent (what is the purpose of your spell?)

A correspondence (candles, stones, incense, etc.)

A source of power (your own energy, fire, a quartz crystal, etc.)

A binder to connect all of them (an offering, an incantation, dance, art, writing, etc)

A cleanser (a bell, ethically sourced sage, salt, etc.)

Steps:

Cleanse your working space

Ensure that your intent is clear and loud in your mind for the duration of the spell

Set up your working space in an organized way

Activate your source of power

Activate your correspondence

Activate your binder

Repeat but in reverse

This is not a definitive guide, but is rather a very easy to follow guide to making spells for those who don’t know where to begin! I recommend you tweak it for your needs and to match your magickal style.

[seekingbeyondtheveil]

[thegreenwolf]

Source; please do not remove.

[baubellum]

Thank you CYSIP (Central Yukon Species Inventory Project)