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My friend sent me this today and I thought it was very important to share for all my fellow Viking/Norse mythology lovers. Daily reminder: fuck white supremacy.

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Hi Bree, do you know of any good books for herbology and folklore? I want to expand upon my knowledge of herbs and plants. Thank you in advance!

Folklore would largely depend on what region you’d want to focus on, but I do have a number of recommendations for books on plants and herbology.

Here are my usual recs for plant magic books:

GREEN WITCHCRAFT

Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Cunningham)

Garden Witchery (Dugan)

The Garden Witch’s Herbal (Dugan)

The Sacred Herbs of Samhain (Hopman)

The Real Witches’ Garden (West)

The Hearth Witch’s Compendium (Franklin)

The Hearth Witch’s Kitchen Herbal (Franklin)

The Green Witch Herbal (Griggs)

PRACTICAL HERBOLOGY

The Complete Guide to Herbal Medicines (Fetrow & Avila)

Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs (Carr)

Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs (Peterson Field Guides)

Edible Wild Plants (Peterson Field Guides)

Herbal Remedies (Chevallier)

The New American Herbal (Orr)

The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook (Green)

HISTORY OF PLANT MAGIC AND MEDICINE

Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants (Rätsch, Müller-Ebeling, and Storl)

The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present (Storl)

Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants, and Trees (Lehner)

Culpeper’s Complete Herbal & English Physician (Culpeper)

It looks like a lot, I know. Options are good to have, and it's also important to have practical sources on your shelves in addition to your magical books. I also posted some pictures of my personal library a while back. They're a little out of date, but you can see the titles pretty clearly, and that might give you some more ideas. If you're looking for books on working with plant spirits, I suggest looking into sources on druidry. (I'm just getting into that myself.) Dana O'Driscoll's Wordpress blog is a wealth of information on the topic.

I hope this helps! Remember as you're building your library that it's okay to keep what serves you and pass on the books that you don't find helpful or appealing. I've been revising my own collection for years now and it's gone through significant changes during that time. 

I’m going to be talking about how to find good sources and build your witchcraft library in a future episode of Hex Positive as well. :)

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Most powerful wizard

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Ways to bond with your tarot deck!

So, you got yourself a new tarot deck? Or want to connect with one you’ve had for a while?

Tarot cards were used as a divination method for quite some time. Those who become well versed in their meanings and their use in divination can easily incorporate the deck into their own personal magickal practices. Without having a proper bond to your deck does make it way harder than it should be.

Step 1) Cleanse the fuck out of your deck.

Especially if it’s been owned by someone else previously. This step is very important, so use your favorite cleansing method and get to it. Personally I smoke cleanse and then put a piece of selenite into my tarot bags, so it’ll stay _“fresh”_ at all times.

Step 2) Charging your deck.

You can use crystals, the moon or even your own energy. In my experience putting some of your own energy into the deck helps a ton. Of course your cards will always keep some of their own energy, though. To insert your energy into your deck you can simply use visualization. If you have difficulties with visualization you can use affirmations.

Step 3) Think of ways you could bond with your deck

- Keeping my deck near by while I’m sleeping. (Putting it next to you or under your pillow for example.)

- Take it with you where ever you go.

- Pull one card from that deck every single day.

- Use it for all different kinds of readings on different people.

- Meditate with your deck.

- Look through the cards and try interpreting each one. Mind every single detail you can find in the imagery.

- Do an interview spread with your deck.

After properly bonding with your tarot deck your readings will be way more accurate and personal. Make sure not to neglect your deck once you’ve build a relationship with it, though. It may not be a living thing, but it has it’s own energy like any other thing.

(Credit to Rio/Rion from the Divine Sent Discord Server)

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food and rest isn’t earned. please stop beating yourself up and overworking yourself so that you feel you ‘deserve’ to eat or rest. it’s a basic necessity, you don’t need an excuse to do it. if you wake up late, or don’t do anything, guess what ? you still deserve to rest. if you slip up on your healthy eating and eat something unhealthy, guess what? you still deserve to eat. please take care of your basic needs.

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“suffering feels religious if you do it right” no shut up it doesn’t. my friends laughing in the kitchen while i make dinner feels religious. the sun on my face after a long winter feels religious.

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my calendar said it was on the 28th but chabad.org said it was today so

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This book is thin, easy to digest, and full of lots of really great ideas on a no-dig, permaculture style of gardening. I’m really excited for Spring even though it could take a couple years to get this going— I just want to see stuff grow again!🌸 🌱

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Idk which Wiccan needs to hear this but you’re not a marginalized person

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Okay. Gardening 101; or “Auntie Sys I have a yard that’s currently a yard and don’t know SHIT or FUCK about how to make it not be a boring-ass yard.”

Step 1; go to your local landfill and get all of the newspaper you can. Cardboard will also work. If your neighborhood puts them out for recycling, go around and grab them all like a little newspaper goblin.

Step 2; acquire mulch. If you WANT, you can go pay for it at a garden store, but we’re all cheap lazy bitches here so screw that. Most landfills will collect yard waste and branches and chip them into woodchips, which you can get for PENNIES or FREE. Go load up on that good shit.

I like straw too, which I can get for barter because I am related to half the people around here and a solid 65% of my extended family are farmers. I give Uncle Daryl three quarts of elderberry jelly or a couple pounds of morels in spring and he loads me up with straw bales.

Step 3; figure what parts of grass you want to be not-grass, and cover that shit in newspaper, good and thick. 5-10 layers. It helps to wet the newspaper to keep it from blowing away as you work.

Now, cover that newspaper with a good thick layer of mulch.

Congrats, you’re removing the grass. It’ll starve to death under the mulch and newspaper and rot into compost. You now have garden beds and have not dug one single bit of sod.

If you can’t wait for six months to plant, pull the mulch aside, cut a hole in the newspaper, and dig out a plug of sod the size of the planting hole. Throw some compost in there and plant. Tuck mulch back around plant. Water well.

There ya go. Garden beds. In a year, when you pull back the mulch the newspaper will be almost rotted away, and the soil underneath soft and loamy.

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I was just informed Passover starts tomorrow so Happy Passover to all the wonderful jewish people I hope you'll have a great celebration !!!💕

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Important Announcement:

April Fools Day (April 1) is one week away. To that end, I just want it known now, well before the day, that this blog will NOT be posting any jump scares, fake announcements, freak-out posts, fake hackings, fake emergencies, fake news, and “gotcha!” stuff on April Fools Day. We’re staying safe and chill around here.

I’m honestly not into April Fools Day, really, unless the jokes are obvious and silly–like Rickrolls and Dad Jokes. Rickrolls and Dad Jokes are just traditional. 

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Embroidery patterns from an unspecified region of Russia. 1886.

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Do not claim that you can do something you can’t.

This reaaaally shouldn’t be something I have to say, but I’ve seen some people lately claiming phenomena but then being unable to back it up.

With witchcraft, you are the one who needs to prove you can do what you say you can do. You are the one who has the burden of proof. If you claim to talk to the dead, then you need to be able to prove it. If you claim you can tell the future consistently, then you need to be able to prove it. If you claim you can cause lightning to strike because you called on it, I better be seeing proof of it.

I am willing to believe anything as long as there is proof for it, and I feel like most people usually operate under that same sentiment as well.

Just, my point for posting this is I want people to be aware of what they claim, I want people to understand that if people don’t believe something you claim it’s not on them to be more open minded but on you to provide reliable information and proof.

(I’ve said proof and prove so much wow.)

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Please reblog if you have a good loving father! This is a dad positivity post! I want to see y'all appreciate your good good dads!

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Pictures of my chocolate truffle valentines day dress!

Believe it or not, this was actually finished in time and i got to wear it on the holiday! While this is definitely at the upper threshold of how much sweet lolita i can handle, it turned out to be the best dress I've sewn so far. Which is like... Duh. You keep practicing, you keep improving. But i mean that this dress feels good to wear and good to move in. The weight and texture of that bottom ruffle doesn't slide off the petti so the whole skirt moves when i move and i just...

I feel good about this one even tho i felt not-so-good at the time yknow?

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Silk panty with ravens and dandelions // FRKSlingerie