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There’s a lot of new witch activity happening on the site and something I need every single “baby witch” to understand is that this website is a squawk box of coal mine canaries with gas poisoning.

Not a single person here has all the answers, hell most of us don’t even agree on what “witch” even fucking means! Never let tumblr be your only resource. Read books, watch videos, find community, find your own answers.

I and many other people here are more than willing to answer questions but there’s a lot of power in discovering the answer through your own research or trial and error.

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by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

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The crane are calling the birds together before the hurricane hits.

Yeah cranes love to yell, but animals can sense storms in a way that we'll never understand, it's their natural survival instincts and Sandhill cranes are the oldest living bird species on earth.

Don't underestimate animals, especially birds because they follow the geomagnetic of the earth, so they know when there's been a change in the atmosphere.

Listen to the animals❗

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Candle magic aesthetic

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Psa that your witchcraft is tailor made to you. You can obviously adopt practices from others that you like, but your craft is your own. It can be as messy or as organized as you need/want. It can be inconsistent as fuck, or scheduled. Never feel bad for the way you practice. Witchcraft is meant to be tailored to each individual

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Celebrate whenever you feel works best, whatever “works best” means for you. If that’s when your local season is better suited to the holiday, go for it! If that’s next weekend, when it’s well past the equinox but you’ve actually got time to make that bread and cider you picked up the ingredients for and your friends have gotten the night off to come celebrate the season with you, go for it! If that’s the calendar equinox because you don’t have the energy right now for anything more involved than googling Mabon 2023 and picking up donuts and an apple cinnamon scented candle to enjoy while you watch Over the Garden Wall again, go for it! (Guess which one of these is me this year.)

Witchcraft is not an exact science and the universe is not a computer that only executes command functions by system time programming. It’s okay to work with “eh, close enough.” If you didn’t have a calendar or a phone to tell you the exact time and date of the equinox, how would you know when to celebrate? Would you accept being a little bit off, or would you rather not mark the occasion at all if you can’t be perfectly accurate?

Personally, I don’t think the exact precise moment is when the magic happens, for lack of a better term. The magical part is when you notice the world around you, when you become a part of it and when you let it become a part of you. I genuinely cannot tell what day is the precise equinox without asking Google, but I know that next weekend with my bread and cider and friends it’s going to feel like the equinox, because I’ll be taking my time to experience the current season and share that experience with the people I love. I don’t believe any ritual or working I do that night is going to be less magical or effective than one I do alone and burned out on the actual precisely calculated night of the equinox. If the season is mostly approximately right and you are willing to meet it with your own energy and intentions, it will all work out in the end.

I've only been practicing witchcraft for 3 ish years, and I don't always celebrate the wheel of the year holidays. But I've been wondering about the autumn/spring equinox. It's supposed to be the day that it's equal night and day aka 12 hours each. Obviously it's never exactly like that, and it's different in different areas, even in the same country. So for me it would actually be on Monday, when the sun rises at 7:02am and sets at 7:03pm. Would it be wrong to celebrate it then?

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Something to mark the occasion. I must admit, I'm pretty pleased with how this one turned out. Enjoy.

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happy autumn equinox!! 🌓 🍂

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My favourite deck I keep in regular use is the Ostara Tarot. I love the art style and the unique perspective it has on the classic tarot themes, and it’s one of the few decks I own made as a collaboration between multiple artists that doesn’t feel jarring or mismatched, artistically. When I’m doing public readings it’s always one of the decks I bring to the table.

My favourite deck in my whole collection is probably the Idiosyncradeck. I don’t use it for public readings or take it out of the house at all any more because it’s out of print now and I wouldn’t be able to replace it if anything happened to it. But I adore the art and working with it feels like sitting down for tea with a beloved and absolutely ruthless old friend.

What's your favorite tarot deck, everyone?

I've collected a few of the "big" ones over the years and never felt quite a connection to any of them as I do the Wildwood Tarot.

Just want to see what your thoughts are and which decks you've found connections with!

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I fell off tumblr for idk how long and need new blogs to follow :)

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🎃katiedaisy_artist🎃

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