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"Honoring Your Ancestors" - Outline

My personal thoughts and feelings that I want to reflect on after reading this book. I only pick out what interest me or what I want to add to my practice, so if you want more information or detail on some of the rituals listed, I recommend checking out this book.

Who are the Ancestors?

Blood Ancestors: Both Granddads, a girl from my dad's side seems to come in as well (not sure who), O'Shea line

Linage Ancestors: Pop

Affinity Ancestors: ???? (vocation, cultural identity, other affinities)

Saints: Archangel Michael, San Martin Caballero, San Expedito, Santa Muerte, Virgen de la Carnidad

Spirit guides: James, Christopher, Jewels ete. ete. ete.

House Spirit: ???

Non-Human Ancestor: Bobby

Ritual to Reconnect to Ancestors pg.23-25

Healing Ancestral Trauma

Ritual for Elevating a Troubled Ancestor pg.34-35

Satipatthana Sutta

Memento Mori

Building Your Ancestor Altar

Ritual to Consecrating a New Ancestor Altar pg.59-60

Praying to and for Your Ancestors

How to pray pg. 80-82

How to sing pg.82-84

Requiem pg.84-85

Buddhist Prayer pg.87-88

Novenas

Prayers pg.92-95

Spiritual Hygiene

Storage Protection: Inside= charms to protect provisions; outside= charms to attract more of what is being stored

House Cleansing pg.103-106

Cleansing yourself with holy water pg.106-108

Mediumship is for Everyone

Rule to a magical practice: Only do things that set your heart on fire.

Magical Exercises pg. 122-127

Going Deeper with Mediumship

Invited to dance with the ancestors pg. 133-135

St. Ignatius

Playing card divination pg.137-141

Dream divination pg.141-144

Herbal Allies for Ancestor Veneration

Axis mundi

Plants are like people, multifaceted. Your associations with one plant may be completely different than another. How a plant acts depends on your relationship to it. Also, two plants that work in the same field can take different approaches to the situation.

Plants pg.151-165

Calling on Ancestral Power

Why do some spells succeed but others fail? pg. 170-174

Selection of Spells

Against nightmares pg.180

New opportunities pg. 182

Orientation pg. 182-183

Safe Travel pg.183-184

Self-Love pg.184-185

Get a job pg.187-188

Heal pg.188

Inoculate self against despair pg.188-189

Who your real friends are pg.188

Make new friends pg.188-189

Multiply fortune pg.190-192

Protect something or someone pg.192-193

Remove evil eye pg.193

Remove negative environmental influences pg.194-195

Success in any and all endeavors pg. 195-197

Win favor and influence people at work pg. 200

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It made me feel a lot better about my ancestral veneration. I don't have to be perfect or even get along with my immediate family to practice it and to practice it well. I'm thankful. I hope to spend more time on the things I highlighted here. Very comforting and inspiring read for me and my practice

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even having one true friend or person that loves you can change your life

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Pleiades M45

Credit: Rios Melillo

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"Let your craft be like a tree, firmly rooted in the old, but stretching into the new. Get your hands dirty, and find out what works and what doesn't work for you."

- Roger J Horne's Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land & the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner

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i love telling people "godspeed" it adds so much weight and dignity to everything i'll say it to a friend driving cross country or a coworker grabbing lunch from the corner store like good luck bitch!! may the road rise to meet you and the wind be at your back!!!

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most important thing I've read today. Not only for today, but for forever

Outlive the motherfucker. That's what you're doing to do. Survive and thrive out of sheer spite if necessary. Live for the day that nature takes it's course and you wake up in a world that no longer has them in it.

Apply where applicable. Repeat as necessary.

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Very much want to get back into this space

Witchblr/Tarotblr was such an important part of my life for such a long time, and I think I may want to lean on it again for community and comfort, especially over the next 4 years. Looking for new blogs to follow <3

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unfortunately i have a deep love for humanity and choose to believe conditions will improve. despite it all

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2025

ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR

KEEP THE FAITH DO THE WORK

PASSION ABOVE ALL IS THE REMEDY AGAINST BOREDOM

EVERY DAY IS ALL THERE IS

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE

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Literally one of the best things you can do for yourself as a beginning witch, occultist, or whatever, is to stop worrying about what other practitioners are saying and doing and go educate yourself on the history of magic and the occult. If you don't know where to start, I have a list of resources over here.

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All-Purpose Cursing Powder

To really fuck up someone’s life. Useful for all types of curses

Ingredients: Cayenne Black Pepper White Pepper Jalapeño Powder Bloodroot Black Walnut Hull Cinnamon Cramp Bark Nettle Paprika Onion Powder Glitter (optional)

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flexible hawk

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How to (Affordably) Use Selenite to Cleanse and Charge Other Crystals

Let's start this post off with a little definition of the two terms, charging and cleansing.

Cleansing is the removal of negative or unwanted energies from an object, in this case crystals. Charging is enhancing or activating the energy of crystals and/or adding intention to them. Some people believe this is b.s. and that crystals don't need to be charged, that is up to you to decide what you believe about this.

So how do you cleanse or charge your crystals without breaking the bank? Even though selenite is a very affordable crystal, Sometimes you'll see aesthetic social media posts of crystals charging in beautiful selenite bowls which is lovely but can be pricey. To get the same effect, simply take any piece of selenite you have, select the crystals you wish to work with. And place them in a bowl, on a plate, or wherever. Just make sure they are close to the selenite and that's it, you're done, no fancy crystal bowl needed. I have also heard some people say that a crystal only needs to be within three feet of an object to affect it, once again, that is for you to decide whether that works for you or not.

Note: I know there are other ways of cleansing and charging, this is not me saying any of those ways are wrong, this is just one way.

- Erika, The Clumsy Witch

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I know not all witches are goth, but I thought this belongs here.