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Destroy the idea that tattoos make you trashy

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🔮Working With Crystals🔮

PART 1

💎 Crystals can be categorized in three ways: shape,kind,and color. If you are uncertain of the kind when you encounter a new crystal, its color and size will act as a reliable guide to its properties. Over the years you can collect different shapes,kinds, and colors of crystals so you have a comprehensive collection for every purpose.

💎 If in doubt as to a crystal’s meaning, hold the crystal between cupped hands and allow images,words,and impressions to come into your mind. These sensations will guide you to the best use of individual crystals. If unsure, ask yourself, “What does this crystal make me feel?” Instinct will then kick in.

💎SHAPE 💎

Round crystals offer ongoing flowing energies and are ideal for every purpose.

Pointed crystals offer more powerful directed energies. Point the crystal inward to draw energy,healing,or protection toward you and outward to shed pain and negativity.

Square or Rectangular crystals bring stability and so balance an overactive home or workplace and absorb harm. (Wash them regularly under running water if you are using them protectively.)

Oval crystals attract love and fertility, and bring abundance and happiness to families,children,and animals,releasing gentle healing powers however and wherever needed.

Elongated,Barrel, or Wand-like crystals offer longer-term and slow-growing prosperity,career success,safe travel,and protection against ill-wishes. The wand shapes can be used to send a wish into the cosmos for yourself or others.(pointed crystals were probably the original magic wands).

Spheres,particularly clear quartz,energize and purify any room or workplace, attracting prosperity,health,and joy and transforming inertia,sickness,bad luck, or negativity into light and good fortune.

Pyramids,especially the squat-shaped ones, are natural transmitters of healing and enhanced psychic powers and will bring peaceful sleep in a bedroom, and calm, unity, and harmony in the home or workplace.

💎KIND💎

Quartz, the most common mineral found on earth, brings change and energizes any person,place,or situation, the intensity depending on whether it is a soft or sparkling crystal.

Jaspers bring power and growth

Agates offer balance,protection,and stability

Fossils slow down energies but bring wisdom and compassion.

Volcanic Stones, such as obsidian, cut through inertia and are fiercely defensive.

Geodes where tiny crystals are embedded in rock(a matrix)or, when split, reveal two halves of matching crystals heal any negative energies from the earth or contained in the land, remove spirits,and encourage the development of hidden talents.

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a very sexy thing:

when the subtitles tells you the name of the song that’s playing 

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A Guide To Exploring Abandoned Churches

If you go alone, don’t bring a flashlight. You’ll see things you don’t want to.

Don’t bring groups bigger than 12.

Bring water and some snacks, but no wine.

If you have to sleep there, sleep in the sanctuary, but not on a pew.

If you try to read the hymnal, the words won’t be english anymore.

The Bibles will be blank until you confess.

Don’t go into the confession booth. The man talking to you is not the priest, and you don’t want to know what he really is.

The cross on the wall changes locations, don’t look at it for too long.

If you see someone praying at the altar, don’t approach them. If they approach you, don’t talk to them. Leave immediately.

If you hear the organ playing while you’re in the basement, know that your time is running out.

If it plays while you’re in the sanctuary, your time is up.

Take whatever you want, but if you find that one of your possesions is missing, don’t look for it. Let them have it. It’s not worth your life.

If you find a rosary, don’t put it on. It won’t help.

The water isn’t holy anymore. Throwing it on the demons in the shadows won’t work.

Drink the wine if you wish to never leave.

Don’t get seperated from your friends.

If you spend the night, leave at sunrise otherwise you’ll enter another plane of reality with no way back.

If you don’t spend the night, leave through the doors you came in.

You might look behind you after leaving and see that the church isn’t there anymore. It means that they took what they wanted.

Never enter the same abandoned church twice. Even (especially) if you forgot something inside. That’s a lure. On your second tour through, they will know enough about you to keep you there.

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I’m so excited for autumn and winter, when everything gets darker and the weather is matching my soul

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First strawberries from my garden🍓✨

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just a lil manifestation spell i whipped up,

for a great month, the best luck, money in the bank and good karma (and health!!)

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🍀 ‘Felix Felicis’ Drink 🍀

inspired by jk rowling’s “ Felix Felicis “, a potion-drink to bring you luck

“One tiny bottle of Felix Felicis,” said Slughorn, taking a minuscule glass bottle with a cork in it out of his pocket and showing it to them all. “Enough for twelve hours’ luck. From dawn till dusk, you will be lucky in everything you attempt.”

🍀 gather: 

2 cup milk (or milk substitutes) 

1 tsp dried turmeric

1 tsp dried ginger 

a pinch of pepper

honey to taste

🍀 heat the milk on medium heat

🍀 add spices

🍀 stir frequently until it simmers. don’t let it reach a boil.  

🍀 turn off the heat. cover and let sit for 10 minutes. 

🍀 consume warm. add honey

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an emoji spell to help draw some good luck for your summer

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i wish to radiate moonlight and heavenly energy at all times

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Nobody:

The moon:

Me: OMG IT’S FULL MOON TMR I FORGOT AGHHHHSKSJABAB I NEED MOON WATER I NEED TO RESEARCH SKSKSKSKSSKSK

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Crystal cleansing

Cleansing your crystals is vital if you use crystals at all.

Imagine crystals like a drain or pipe: there are constantly things running through it, such as spells, energy work, human, spirit, deitiy or fae contact. All that creates build up over time, creating blockages. You need to clean those blockages for them to work well, if even at all.

Cleansing methods

I personally like to cleanse through the elements.

Prepare:

A small bowl of salt

A small bowl of water

A candle (+ match) preferably white for purity

Sage (you can use a sage scented inscense as well), which has cleansing properties

Open your ritual how you usually would (meditation, casting a circle, calling upon your deities, ect.), putting each element in it’s directional position. Earth = North, Fire = South, Air = East, Water = West

As you open your circle or meditate, put your hands over the salt and the water and bless them and concentrate your intent to purify over them. For the sage and candle, I love to use matches to light them. It helps me concentrate of my intent. Make sure you move deosil - clockwise - when you bless or light your elements.

Bury your crystals in the salt first, saying, “with salt of earth I cleanse and purify thee, so mote it be.”

Moving deosil, pass your crystals over the smoke of the inscense and say, “with smoke of air I cleanse and purify thee, so mote it be.”

Pass your crystals over the flame of the candle and say, “with flame of fire I cleanse and purify thee, so mote it be.”

Lastly, you can either submerge (if it is safe for that mineral) your crystals, or dip your fingers in the water and sprinkle the water over the crystals, saying, “with waves of water I cleanse and purify thee, so mote it be.”

Then, put your crystals in the center of the elements and say, “I dispell all impurities and negative energies, by my will/so mote it be!”

Close your circle or ceremony as you would. Enjoy your newly cleansed crystals!

Alternative Methods:

Cleanse in moonlight, either a full moon or under a waning moon

Bury your crystals for 3 days

I reccomend you cleanse at least once a month

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Some things I do to distract myself from obsessions

I noticed I get stuck in my head if I’m not doing anything, so I compiled a list of things I do to give my brain something else to focus on. I drew from multiple areas of things because some of these things might relate to your obsessions. In that case, don’t do them. Do something else. There are a lot of options here.

Listen to music– I recommend a coming of age movie soundtrack to feel simultaneously like you are infinitely small and part of something bigger

Bake chocolate chip cookies (put music or a podcast on in the background, sing along to Disney music! Occupy your thoughts with lyrics instead)

Look into how to make your own indoor garden!

Make a terrarium

Play a video game – Minecraft is good and the music is soothing. Play a podcast in the background. I recommend Dear Hank And John because I am vlogbrothers Trash

Read a book

Write a book

Moisturize your body

Paint a sheet of paper with watercolor, let dry, then write on it.

Start a bullet journal

Go on a run. I hate running but I can’t think when I run.

Learn Sign Language. If you have BFRBs, this helps so much to distract yourself. Learning just the alphabet is really easy and insanely helpful

Try to dance, even if you suck at it. Turn off the lights in your room, close your eyes, just dance.

Play Just Dance™. It’s a great game! Get ya exercise on!

Go to an animal shelter, look at cute animals. Local ones sometimes have meet-and-greet days, so I always go when they have a bunny run and I’ll just sit with rabbits. Very cute, bring a friend.

Text someone to tell them that you need a distraction. You don’t have to tell them what.

Poptropica

Make a blog and write a post about what you do to get your mind off things (haha… this is meta)

Watch old Buzzfeed Unsolved episodes and try to solve them.

Do a face mask. I use this when I need to not pick at my skin. Get free samples at Lush! Get a free sample of Cosmetic Warrior you won’t regret it.

Go Thrifting and listen to music/podcasts while you do

Bring a friend over to do ANY of these things with you. Especially if you have a talkative one. Maybe you can’t speak much because you’re in your head, but they usually can.

Try (and fail, probably) to make bath bombs. Idk why but they’re hard! maybe only for me bc I never have any of the ingredients so i just wing it

Go to the Dollar Store, try to find the weirdest product

Play the Sims, make at least one person in the family complete their ambition without cheats

Learn how to sew

Make your bed and clean your room while listening to the Tangled soundtrack

Try online therapy. This isn’t “get your mind off of it” as much as work through it, but it’s important. If you can’t see a therapist in your area, online therapy is great too. Therapy is important to help you be able to do these other distractions.

These aren’t gonna work for everyone all the time. I know it’s hard to get out of your head in a spiral. Sometimes it’s just not gonna happen. But if you can feel yourself starting to get stuck and you can put your brain power to something else, do. It will save you, at minimum, an hour or so of obsessing. And, at maximum, it will get you over the hump and you’ll be able to pull yourself out of the spiral. Good luck. It’s better on the other side of this.