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𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠. ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔ

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~ ig: serenee.c

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CR8jqYwHyOo/

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ig: adamsantiques , linflo66

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Tiles! I want to have a kitchen wall full with different designs

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cottage lifestyle

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Nature Weaving Wall Hanging Project

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𝕰𝖋𝖋𝖎𝖊’𝖘 𝖏𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖍𝖔𝖑𝖉 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓

An easily hide-able jar for those in the broom closet or just want to sneakily protect their household and its inhabitants.

ℑ𝔫𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰:

Cleansing method of choice: I use Florida water in an atomiser to spritz both myself and the jar.

Jar

Salt to purify and ground (put in first)

Sage: normal cooking sage not white sage that’s endangered and for closed practices only

Rue: protect against the evil eye and associated with Athena

Mandrake (May Apple version) spell strengthener and used for protection, healing and happiness

Hyssop: purification and banishes any unwanted energies or spirits

Cinnamon: protection and prosperity

Blessed thistle: protection against negativity and evil

Rosemary: protection and removal of negativity

Wormwood: protection, removes anger

Burdock: cleansing and wards off negativity

Bladderwrack: protection

A nail to represent each being that resides in your home that you wish to protect with this spell. The nail is two fold: both the being and the means of protection.

A candle in whichever colour you associate with protection. I used black.

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Fill your jar starting with salt as the base.

Place the rest of your herbs and think of your loved ones being protected.

Once all the herbs are in the jar, collect your nails that represent your loved ones (human and animal, I included my cats in this protection spell). The nails represent both the inhabitants and a means of protecting them.

Say aloud as you drop them into the filled jar.

These nails represent each inhabitant of this house that is protected by this spell, as long as this jar remains intact the inhabitants are protected from those who wish them harm and negative energies. As above so below. I mote it be.

I then petition the deities I am devoted to for their assistance and strength. Do this however you feel and in a way that befits your relationship with those deities.

To close: light your candle and drop the wax over the lid of your candle. Whilst doing this I petitioned Kirke for her protection. I also took the opportunity to gauge the strength of the spell by how strong the flame was, this is optional but use your intuition. You can also in-vision the spell getting stronger as the candle melts over the jar.

Keep this jar somewhere safe that holds meaning to you. Check on it intermittently to ensure it’s well-being. I like to think of these jars as living things, check them for mould etc.

- Effie 💕

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Time to start scrapbooking again

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some tarot tips i've collected over the years

- when shuffling, pay attention to the cards that fall out of the deck. sometimes they have a special message for you.

- questions aren't always necessary when reading. letting the cards tell you what they need to helps to develop your intuition, and the relationship between you and your deck (or the spirit you are working with, depending on how you divine information).

- when reading with multiple cards (i.e. as a spread), try and string the cards together rather than interpreting them by their individual meanings:

recurring suits, themes, symbols, and numbers

proportions of suits and uprights vs. reversals

position of the cards (e.g. if people are present in the cards, where are they looking?)

colours of the cards (e.g. do any of the cards stand out more than the rest?)

- although each card has a core meaning, different decks with different art could emanate different "flavours" of the core meaning.

- draw a clarifying card if something confuses you, but try not to draw any more than two cards per reading.

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🍂katiedaisy_artist🍂

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I’m working on some beginner materials to put out…eventually. But I think my advice is pretty much summed up with: 

give thanks/offerings to your ancestors - even if you didn’t like the ones you knew, I promise you’d like someone back there; doesn’t have to be daily but regularly and water counts

give thanks/offerings to the land - I don’t care where you are or if you like where you are, you’re only there because the land allows it; doesn’t have to be daily but regularly and water counts

pick a divination tool and use it - ideally pick 2; it’s very fashionable to study things in witchblr but expertise rests on a solid foundation of use; tarot, geomancy, dice, bibliomancy, and scrying are all great

pick a guiding philosophy/source of wisdom - a lot of paganism consists of practices which do not in of themselves guide how you should move through the world or make decisions; can be a philosophy, motto, or other religion

these are to me is what I’d consider the bare minimum but here’s the bonus round:

on each planet’s day, give thanks/offer to that planet - moon on monday, mars on tuesday, mercury on wednesday, jupiter on thursday, venus on friday, saturn on saturday, sun on sunday - water counts but they do love frankincense

track the moon - a lot of people are big into phases, I prefer tracking what sign she’s in; each month she will conjunct with every planet in the sky so tracking her a good way to stay aware of those influences

learn a method of cleansing self + space - fav instructions here; physical cleansing should always be a part of it if at all possible; smoke (incense, bound herbs), sound (clapping, snapping, singing, ringing), and energetic scraping are all good options

learn a method of warding self + space - go beyond visualization; witches bottle, salting, symbols of protection above a door, creating or appeasing a guarding spirit are all good options

learn a basic method of petition or spellcasting - a simple way to start is asking the spirits you’ve already been working with like your ancestors and the land and giving them a little extra back

decide on a small tradition for holidays - as you add in holidays, pick one small tradition to try to replicate next year; eating apples at Mabon, leaving an extra plate out at Samhain, lighting a candle on the stove for Imbolc, etc

doing these sorts of things for a year will honestly get you a lot further than most in my experience. these are a solid foundation from which to build in basically whatever direction you want. earnest practice beats passive theorizing and consumption any day. 

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Embroidery artist Jūra Gric “paints” expressive landscapes using a needle and thread.

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Inside the witches house

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orange appreciation post