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I don't know what's happening here, but it's clearly powerful, you can tell from the dithering.

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You be the judge of how my vintage wizard collection is materializing.

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Tech Magick's Biggest Gift:

Minecraft

Witchcraft is all about intention, THAT is the most important thing. The tools we use are just conduits for that intention. While we are sure we all love the witchy aesthetic and proper traditional tools, that is not always viable. Some witches are in the closet, others may not be able to afford all the tools (it adds up rather quickly). So we came up with a clever way to practice witchcraft to our heart's content!

Altars

First let's create our space! Altars are something that can be hard to have IRL. They take up a lot of space and cost money to decorate. So why not do it in Minecraft?

In item frames go ahead and place an item that represents each element. Feel free to get creative with it! Luckily Minecraft added candles so you can use those instead of torches! You can even color the candles for color magick (before hand we just used Minecraft Education Edition and used their colored touches). Make sure to also have a bell for cleansing. For cleansing ingredients you may also want a cauldron with a fire under it.

Ingredients

Luckily Minecraft has a LOT of ingredients! There's amethyst, quartz, lavender. All very basic ingredients. And the ingredients you don't have you can make!

Simple rename an item that looks similar with an anvil! For example this emerald is now a jade. You can also install mods to expand your item options.

Spells

To make a spell jar grab a chest and throw them in! Feel free to label the chest with a sign so you can keep track.

You could also throw the ingredients into a cauldron if it's more of a stove spell.

Sigil spells are also possible! You can make pixel art of the sigil. Unfortunately these end up needing to be quite big, not easy to fit in a virtual house.

You can also use a book and quill! You can use the book as a book of shadows. Or you could write a petition and burn it.

Familiars! Contrary to popular belief a familiar does NOT have to be a living thing! It can be an object or really anything. So why not may it also be a piece of code?

You can also do tarot in Minecraft. This requires some knowledge on redstone. You can take pieces of paper and name them as cards from a tarot deck. Then put them in a redstone randomizer and boom, shuffled deck. We suck at redstone so we've never actually built this one.

Conclusion

There's probably SO much more you could do here, but these are just a few of our ideas! I hope it was able to kick start some people's imaginations and also help those in the broom closet or on a budget!

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I went through a phase, a creative period where I did a lot of interesting workings, all including a neon element. This was a type of sigil made from overhead projecting and photographing a series of images from magazines on a sheet.

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Grimore perhaps? This is like high ritual.

A sony laptop 1986.

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tarot twitch panels! so fun :)

makes me want to make a whole set...

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A magical device constructed according to the directions found in an ancient Disc of Shadows.

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Modern Witchcraft: Videogames as Foci

      As someone who is both a witch and a gamer, I have noticed an inherent potential of some videogames as tools of the craft. In witchcraft, it is very common for spells to involve visualization of the desired effects, imagining the outcome of the spell as though it is happening in real time before your eyes. For this purpose, a lot of spells will use fetishes and foci to help the witch focus and visualize. This is what Image Magic is all about- using things to represent other things for spell work. ��In much the same way, videogames can be used to represent the real world, more visually representing the changes you wish to make. Some games seem almost tailor-made to represent our real world, in fact. There are many ways that Minecraft, for example, could be used in spell work.  Consider the following ideas:

     -Use a nametag to name a Villager after someone who bullies you, use a lead to tie the villager to a post, then encase the whole thing in bedrock to restrict your aggressor’s actions in an unbreakable binding.

     -Surround your Minecraft home with a circle of pillars made of Gold and Emerald blocks to draw money and prosperity into your real-world home.

     -Use a block of Iron above the door of your Minecraft house to ward unwanted energies from your life outside the game.

     This methodology can easily be applied to other games as well, including The Sims. For example, make a Sim that looks like you and shares your name, then give that Sim traits that represent ways you’d like for your own personality to grow. Create Sims representing people who would like to be in a relationship, then use the game to help them along. The possibilities are nearly endless. This is also incredibly helpful for witches who wish to keep their practice a secret, giving them a way to engage in spell work in a powerful and tangible way without anyone raising any eyebrows. Someone walks in and sees you playing a videogame, they won’t bat an eyelash or pry into it. If they ask what you’re doing, you could even be completely honest with them and they would never even question that you’re just talking about your goals in the game.

Just Some Minecraft Correspondence Ideas

     Bedrock- Impermeable, Unbreakable, Containment.

     Wool, Stained Clay- Associated Color Correspondences. Wool for softness, gentleness. Clay for firmness, strength, sturdiness.

     Lead/Leash- Binding, Drawing, Containment.

     Slime/ Slime Block- Sticky, but also repellant and bouncy.

     Lava, Fire, Netherrack- Heat, Burning, Destruction, Pain, Light.

     Torch, Glowstone- Illumination, Guidance, Safety.

     Glass/ Glass Pane- Clarity, Separation, Vision.

     Redstone/ Redstone Block- Speed, Time, Power, Energy.

     Gold- Money, Magic, Solar energy

     Emerald- Money

     Books/Bookshelves- Wisdom, Knowledge, Mystery, Secrets.

     Other items can share the same qualities as their real-world counterparts; Iron, Oak, Birch, Poppy, Rose, etc. 

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I don't think you could fault somebody for having one of each kind.

Based on my earlier post...

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I dug up this old sigil generator I was working on. I remember absolutely nothing about the algo I used for the "GLITCH" sigil, but it had a fun result.

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I wish I had the foresight to keep the Dracula machine and used it to scry.

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I can hear it printing.

Sonya Rapoport, Shoe-Field Map, 1982. Dot matrix print on paper.