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MIRROR SCRYING FOR PAST LIVES

make sure you won’t be disturbed

turn off all electronics that might produce light in your room

light a candle and place it at one side of the mirror

the candle light should hit only one side of your face

get into a relaxed position as you would when you’re about to enter a trance

empty your head 

focus on one part of your face, the eyes seem to do the trick best

chant “oracle of lunar light send me the second sight, show me a past life”

note: this spell is not mine

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50 Simple Charms

Basil at the door, windows, or scattered in the home will increase money.

Lay thorny branches on your doorstep to keep evil from your dwelling.

Eat a pinch of Thyme before bed, and you will have sweet dreams.

Place chips of Cedar wood in a box with some coins to draw money to you.

Carry an Anemone Flower with you to ward against illness.

Hang a bit of Seaweed in the kitchen to ward evil spirits.

Keep a jar of Alfalfa in your cupboards to ensure the prosperity of your house.

Burn Allspice as an incense to draw money or luck to you, as well as speed healing.

Cut an Apple in half, and give one half to your love to ensure a prosperous relationship.

Carry an Avocado pit with you to let your inner beauty shine outwardly. Avocado is also an aphrodisiac.

Strawberries are an aphrodisiac.

Place a piece of cotton in your sugar bowl to draw good luck to your house.

Celery is an aphrodisiac.

Place Almonds in your pocket when you need to find something.

Scatter Chili Peppers around your house to break a curse.

Carrying a packet of strawberry leaves will help ease the pains of pregnancy.

Scatter some sugar to purify a room.

Throw rice into the air to make rain.

Carry a potato in your pocket or purse all winter to ward against colds.

Eat five almonds before consuming alcohol, to lighten the effects of intoxication.

Place a pine branch above your bed to keep illness away.

Chew celery seeds to help you concentrate.

Carry of chunk of dry pineapple in a bag to draw luck to you.

Ask an orange a yes or no question before you eat it, then count the seeds: if the seeds are an even number, the answer is no. If an odd number, yes.

Eat olives to ensure fertility.

Toss Oats out your back door to ensure that your garden or crop will be bountiful.

Eat mustard seed to ensure fertility.

Place Lilacs around your house to rid yourself of unwanted spirits.

Eat Lettuce to drive lustful thoughts from your mind.

Rub a Lettuce leaf over your forehead to help you sleep.

Add Lemon juice to your bathwater for purification.

Eat grapes to increase psychic powers.

Carry a blade of grass to increase your psychic powers.

Smell Dill to get rid of hiccups.

If you place a Dill sachet over your door, those who wish you ill can not enter your home.

Place cotton on an aching tooth, and the pain will ease.

Burn cotton to cause rain.

Place pepper inside a piece of cotton and sew it shut to make a charm to bring back a lost love.

Carry a small onion to protect against venomous animals.

Eat grapes to increase fertility.

Place a sliced onion in the room of an ill person do draw out the sickness.

Place an onion underneath your pillow to have prophetic dreams.

Place morning glory seeds under your bed to cure nightmares.

Walk through the branches of a maple tree to ensure that you will have a long life.

Mix salt and pepper together and scatter it around your house to dispel evil.

Smell Lavender to help you sleep.  (Lavender makes me fall asleep so fast).

Hang a pea pod containing nine peas above the door to draw your future mate to you.

Eat a peach to assist in making a tough decision.

Carry peach wood to lengthen your lifespan.

Carry a walnut to strengthen your heart muscle.

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Daytime Magick Shared from Pagans & Witches Amino http://aminoapps.com/p/q11xx8

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Wild Strawberry - A Tasty Medicinal Plant

Ever since ancient times, all parts of wild straw berry have been used as herbal medicine. The leaves and roots have been used in herbal teas to improve bile and liver function, to treat inflammation of the bowel, and the berries have be used as a diuretic and an herbal remedy for gout.

The berries have also been used cosmetically in skin care creams to restore and strengthen the skin, reduce wrinkles, bleach freckles and relieve sunburns.

The leaves of wild strawberries are mildly astringent (contracting), diuretic and are considered to have blood-purifying properties.

For further information on this very interesting medicinal herb VISIT: https://www.herbal-supplement-resource.com/wild-strawberry-benefits.html

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Spirits #1: Sensing and Recognising

In this post, I will give you:

A forewarning.

Ways to recognise when a spirit is around.

Exercises to help you sense them.

Grounding Methods

Herbs for Psychic Powers/Tea recipes

Gems for Psychic awareness/powers

A Forewarning:

It’s easy to convince yourself that everything is a spirit. I’ve seen a lot of beginners and even more experienced people do so. There’s also the placebo effect. Your friend says they saw a spirit and now you start seeing that thing around you. It could be because you’re giving it energy, but it could very well be a type of placebo effect. So be careful. Not everything is a spirit…

… and not everything isn’t.

Now, here I will be giving out information I have gathered around, however, take it with a pinch of salt and add what you wish to it.

Finally, remember that grounding yourself is also very important. I’ll expand upon that in another post.

Recognise a Spirit:

There are ways to recognise a spirit through all five senses, and for some, even the sixth one.

There are spirits with higher frequencies, “good” spirits, if you will. And some with lower frequencies, “bad” spirits, as some will call them. I am of the mindset that there are no good or bad spirits, just like there are no good or bad people.

Please note: I am not talking about demons, here.

Spirits with higher or lower frequencies will feel or be sensed differently.

Again, here’s a strong disclaimer. Not everything is a spirit/ghost. Especially if you suffer with a mental illness, please be cautious.

Sight:

Shadows: Shadows are an easy way for spirits to manifest themselves. They’re not fully manifested, but you can see them. There’s a difference between shadows and shadow people, you’ll immediately feel the change in energy.

Partial Manifestation: Although rarer, spirits can fully manifest parts of themselves, such as eyes, face, hands. They’re often a whitish hue or even full colour. These don’t last long due to the tremendous energy it takes.

Full Manifestation: A full body manifestation is very rare and doesn’t last long, because for a spirit to fully manifest itself, it takes a lot of energy. Some people can help a spirit stay manifested longer, but I’ve seen it take an awful toll on those people’s health. I don’t suggest you try it.

Peripheral Vision: Seeing people or shadows out of the corner of your eyes.This is the most common way to see a spirit.

Air Distortions: Distortions in the air where there’s no reason to have any. Can be a sign of a spirit either trying to manifest itself or simply there.

Orbs: Orbs are small balls of light that are usually captured when taking a picture with a flash. Though a lot of them is just the flash catching dust or pollen, there are also “ghost orbs”, or spirit energy. There are even orbs that you can zoom in on and see faces/shapes.Orbs have also been spotted just floating around.

Light Distortion: Sometimes, when a spirit is of a lower frequency, the light in the room seems to be drained, lights can spontaneously go off, candle flames dwindle without a cause and so on. But when a spirit is of a higher frequency, lights seem to shine brighter and candle flames can burn high.

Hearing:

Hearing is the most delicate one since I have, in the past, suffered from insomnia induced psychosis for several months, and know what it is like to hear voices. Please don’t assume that the voices you hear are spirits. And even if they are, don’t let them tell you to do bad things. They have no power over you unless you give them power, whether they be real or not.

Tinnitus: So this one is rather nebulous, but a few of my psychic friends/acquaintances claim that often, when they hear a sharp ringing in their ears, it’s a spirit attempting to communicate, but either they aren’t ready to hear what they have to say, or the spirit isn’t capable to getting their message across the veil.

Zaps, Bangs and odd little sounds: Sometimes, a spirit can try and get your attention through odd little noises only you hear, and seemingly come from nowhere.

Footsteps: Footsteps in a room when nobody’s home, or on the walls or ceiling. Your house is making more noise than usual without any causing.

Tapping: Little knocks at your door or on your wall through which you can even communicate. Sometimes doors slam without wind.<

Buzzing: Your ears may buzz loudly when spirits are around.

Whispers: Hearing whispers when there is no reason to.

Voices: Hearing voices around you when there is no one. This is a delicate subject matter. Don’t trust the voices without being 1000% sure. Don’t trust the voices if you are currently in a bad mental place (unless it’s trying to cheer you up and help you, in that case, even if it’s a hallucination, at least it’s pretty positive) and don’t trust the voices if they’re telling you to do something bad. Or something that could lead to something bad. However, it is a way for spirits to communicate.

Taste:

Odd Tastes: This is an odd one and I only know two people other than me that have that reaction to spirits, but it’s basically when certain spirits give you tastes in your mouth, such as blood, dirt, sugar, spices and more.

Smell:

Good Smells: A spirit can manifest itself with good smells. Smells that remind you of a deceased loved one or something comforting.

Bad Smells: Just as similarly, some spirits come around with bad smells like rotting flesh or blood.

Other: Sometimes, a smell that has no reason to be there just appears. Like the smell of roast beef in the middle of the night, wafting from your kitchen.

Touch:

A gush of Warm/cool air: You randomly feel a breeze when there shouldn’t be one.

A stroke: You feel as though someone is touching you, stroking you, often in a loving way, or sometimes, in a more uncomfortable way. It gives you goosebumps or shivers.

A Blow: A full on blow to your body. This is rare and more often happens in dream/while you sleep, while real life physical consequences.

Marks: Odd marks on your body. For example, I had a hand shaped mark on my inner thigh, in a way my hands couldn’t have done it, it was outlined with a white line, but was not a scratch. Don’t assume every bump/scratch is a spirit.

Hands: You feel someone touching you. Not really like a stroke, just a hand on your shoulder, or around your throat, or on your cheek. Sometimes a hand holding yourself.

Change in Air pressure: The air around you feels lighter, or heavier, depending on the vibrations.

Pressure on Chest: a very common one I’ve heard is the feeling someone or something sitting on your chest, most of the time, in a very oppressive way.

Electric Shocks: Some people, like myself, feel electric shocks down our spines when close to spirits.

Skin: Your skin crawls, or goosebumps suddenly erupt for no reason, you feel dirty.

ESP:

Extra sensory perception, possibly the most common way to feel a spirit.

Anxiety: Unexplained anxiety, stress, fear, panic attacks, depression and such.

Joy: Euphoria, happiness, confidence, comfort, compassion, good emotions that come out of nowhere.

Empathy: Suddenly feeling emotions that aren’t yours when you, yourself aren’t an empath.

Paranoia: Sudden feelings of being watched, being in danger/vulnerable, feeling you’re not alone.

Intuition: Sudden increase in intuition, like someone is telling you something.

Dread: Your stomach drops,a feeling of dread, tight throat, unexplained sadness.

Dizziness: Dizziness, nausea, motion sickness, you just feel queasy and wrong.

Become more Sensitive:

I don’t know if someone who isn’t naturally sensitive to spirits can become it, though they probably can, I wouldn’t know the methods. So here, I’m going to list ways of increasing already existing sensitivity.

Always Start by Grounding: Grounding is incredibly important. Everyone has their method. Mine is to walk barefoot in the earth or to just stand up and feel my feet. You can meditate, use crystals and so on. I’ll list more grounding methods later.

Meditate: Meditation is an effective way of becoming more receptive to subtle things around you. Everyone has their techniques, but I like doing Anapana before expanding into consciousness projection.

Just get yourself into a spiritual state: May it be through music, walking in the woods, cooking, anything that gets you spiritual, it’ll increase your sensitivity.

Herbal Infusion: Make a herbal tea that favours psychic powers. I’ll give recipes later.

Open your Third Eye: Everyone has their method, but the third eye is a very effective way of doing so.

Work with Crystals: I’ll give a list of crystals later.

Get Spirit’s Attention: Again, many methods that I will list later, but you can find your own.

Channel: Play a good game of Ouija, or do some automatic writing, maybe use your pendulum or any methods of channeling you use. It can get you going.

There are many other methods. Find your own!

Grounding:

Walk: Take a long walk in nature, barefooted preferably, and just feel the earth beneath your feet.

Trees: Hug trees, meditate under trees, just be around trees, imagine yourself rooting yourself in the earth. Can work with house plants, just dig your hands into the earth and feeling your energy going deep.

Dance: Dance around, stomp your feet, rock the world, just get in touch with your physical body.

Meditate: Meditate. Just concentrate in your breath, your body. Then, you can try and expand your consciousness, but instead of reach up, go down, into the earth.

Massage: Massage yourself or get someone to massage you. Nothing airy. A nice, deep massage. Rub your limbs and pat yourself down. You’re here, in your body.

Exercise: Do physical exercise. Yoga in particular (I don’t recommend Kundalini or westernised Yoga Pilates/etc, but actual Indian yoga. Something grounding like standing poses, especially Tadasana/Mountain Pose.) and Qi Gong

Animals: Spend time stroking your dog, cat, horse, earth animal (not birds, or aquatic animals)

Earth Spirit: Ask earth spirits, such as trolls, gnomes and others to help you be grounded.

Herbs:

Herbs for Psychic Awareness:

NOT ALL OF THESE ARE SAFE TO INGEST!!!!!

Taken from Scott Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs. Feel free to do your own research.

Astral Protection: Mugwort, Poplar, Dittany of Crete

Mental Powers (Strengthen): Caraway, Celery, Eyebright, Grape, Horehound, Lily of the Valley, Mace, Mustard, Periwinkle, Rosemary, Rue, Spearmint

 Psychic Powers: Acacia, Althea, Bay, Bistort, Bladderwrack, Borage, Buchu, Celery, Cinnamon, Eyebright, Flax, Grass, Honeysuckle, Lemongrass, Mace, Marigold, Mastic, Mugwort, Peppermint, Rose, Rowan, Saffron, Star Anise, Thyme, Uva Ursa, Yarrow, Wormwood, Yerba Santa

Spirituality: African Violet, Aloes Wood, Gum Arabic, Cinnamon, Frankincense, Myrrh, Sandalwood

Tea Recipes:

Meditation: 6 tsp English breakfast tea, 2 tsp Chamomile, 1 tsp Rose hips, 1 tsp Elder flower

Psychic 1: 6 tsp Rose petal, 4 tsp Thyme, 4 tsp Yarrow, 2 tsp Cinnamon, 2 tsp Clove

Psychic 2: 1 tsp mugwort, 1 tsp Lemon Balm, 1 tsp peppermint, 1 tsp yarrow, ¼ tsp ground cinnamon, ¼ tsp ground clove,

There are other recipes, or make your own!

Crystals:

I am not listing them all since there are a lot. Feel free to do your own research.

Increase Psychic Awareness:

Azurite: It vibrates at the level of the third eye chakra, for clairvoyance, crown chakra, for heightened spiritual connections and throat chakra for psychic communication.

Angelite: Used to communicate with Angels and higher frequency. It helps open you up to new information and spiritual senses.

Amethyst: Opens higher chakras, helps strengthen psychic abilities, protects and good for meditation and dreams.

Bloodstone: This one is really known to strengthening psychic abilities of all kinds, especially clairvoyance. It also protects from lower frequencies.

Carnelian: This one helps heighten/develop intuition, clairvoyant and clairaudient gifts. Used to transfer living to the spirit realm and vice versa.

Fluorite: Offers psychic protection, from negative energies and psychic vampires. Helps strengthen intuition, psychic abilities, connection to spirits and spirit guides.

Herkimer Diamond: Especially known for having magical properties, the Herkimer Diamond helps with telepathy, connections to spirit guides, past life and enhancing psychic abilities.

Kyanite: Great stone to use in meditation, to aid lucid dreaming, astral projection, connecting to spirit guides and Intuition. (Do use with caution since it’s really strong)

Sapphire: Helps open communication lines with the spirit world, helps give clarity, open the third eye and enhance psychic visions. Also aids with out of body, telepathy, precognition and intuition.

Turquoise: Enhances clairvoyant and clairaudient abilities, strengthen psychic powers and balance chakras.

Quartz: Quartz is the most powerful stone for psychic abilities, and the most accessible. It enhances psychic vision, understanding messages from the spirit world, opening communication with it and balancing chakras.

Psychic Protection:

Labradorite: Good for protection against negative energies and very powerful psychic protection.

Tiger’s Eye: Also amazing to keep you safe from negativity, it helps mostly with more human bad energies. Still very good.

Black Tourmaline: Black tourmaline helps ground you and keeps you incredibly safe from negativity. Like a pillar. My personal choice.

Emerald: Emerald is incredibly powerful psychic tool and keeps you safe from negative energies.

Most of the crystals mentioned above are really good for protection too.

Most black stones are good for grounding/protection/Absorption of negative energies, such as: Apache tears, Black tourmaline, obsidians and more.

Finally, a disclaimer. I don’t know everything. I may have made some mistakes. Please take care of yourself when working with the subtle and please don’t force yourself into doing something that frightens you or that you don’t feel ready to do. If you are mentally unstable, first look into healing yourself before going into spirit communication, since spirits can trick you, just like humans.

Please take care, but don’t be afraid either since fear is food for spirits with lower vibrations.

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Creating banishing Stones

Create banishing stones:

Many people and energies pass through your home, create and use these stones to help banish and keep away evils from passing through your doorstep.

Items needed:

Flat stones, enough to place one on each side of your doors where people enter from the outside.

White paint

Black paint (optional to paint warding symbols onto the stones)

Find your stones and wash them off of any dirt.  Now paint them white, be sure to paint it completely.

After the white paint has dried, paint one warding symbol onto each stone.

once finished painting you can walk around your house and place the stones one on each side of the entrance to the doors.

As you place the say:

“Ward away all that can harm

stones by my door protect and ward.

Banish all spirits that come through my yard.”

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New Moon Forest Ritual

A ritual to learn what you need to work on this moon cycle.

Supplies

- A circle made of natural rocks in a forest

- 4 white taper candles 

-4 white tea lights

-An assortment of your favourite tumbled stones (optional)

-A fireproof bowl/cauldron

-A bay leaf

-A small orange tiger’s eye

-A palo santo stick

-A tarot board/ anything to stop your cards from getting wet

-A tarot deck

Ritual

Set Up

Set your tapers at equal intervals around your circle, making sure they are secure. Add the tea lights in between them. Randomly place your tumbled stones on the flattest rocks in your circle. Put your bowl/cauldron in the center of the circle,and your tarot board on it’s southwest side. Place your palo santo, bay leaf, and tiger’s eye in the center bowl. Light the candles and palo santo.

Performing the Ritual

Shuffle your tarot deck 3 times. Fan them, face down, and wave them in the smoke of the palo santo. Chant:

“I salute Mother Nature, 

The Forces of the Universe, 

and all that brought me here.

On this new moon

I ask of you

what I can change in my life

to make myself anew”

Shuffle your deck once more, then knock three times. Draw the topmost card and lay it on your tarot board.

Meditate on what that card means to you. End your ritual in a way you are familiar with.

Note: Please do not trespass to perform this ritual, and make sure to clean up properly. Leave nothing behind. Do NOT perform this ritual if there is a forest fire warning in your area, and be extra mindful of fire safety.

Have a nice new moon!

Raven

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Ways to Get Messages From Deities

Gut feeling

Shivers down your back

See a flash of an image in your mind

Hear a positive voice with a brief message

Smell something

An earth angel directly delivers the information to you

You find yourself giving advice to another person, and realize that is the advice you needed to hear

Déjà vu

A series of unmistakable repeating symbols or signs

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Daily Self Love and Healing Pt. 1

I can’t afford therapy. I’m on my meds and they work, but the cost just went up. Fortunately, in the meantime, I’m working on ways to help myself both practically and spiritually. I carry a lot of spiritual baggage, which means this is doubly important for me. 

Some of these tips are based on my own experiences, and some of them are my attempts at using actual psychology tools to develop rituals to help me. I’ll take it by days of the week sort of based on this post and expand it to various practical and spiritual practices and rituals. (This got long so I’m splitting it up into parts.)

Monday - Root energy, grounding, interconnectedness

Practical:

Wash a dish. I don’t care what dish. Just wash one. Picture yourself washing away the build up of mental health scum. Got enough spoons to do more? Awesome. Wash another. One dish all you can handle? Way to go, you just decreased the pile-up of dishes! 

Stand outside for a few minutes. I don’t care where. Just get some fresh air. Think about how everything is connected. 

Journal your thoughts. Tell your journal all. Even if all of it is just “I hate everything and feel nothing.”

Ack, intrusive thought! Have a few sayings written down somewhere to help you combat that intrusive thought. Suggestions:

That thought isn’t helpful right now.

This isn’t an emergency. I can think about this later.

I don’t have to be perfect to be OK.

These thoughts are not me and are not a reflection of my value. 

It’s OK that I just had that thought/image, and it doesn’t mean anything. I don’t have to pay attention to it.

This is irrational, and I’m going to let that thought go. 

It’s a good practice to let go of this worry, and I’m going to practice.

I can handle being wrong. 

I don’t have to have this figured out right now. 

Eat a vegetable. 

Text a friend. Doesn’t have to be a whole conversation, but say hi. 

Spiritual:

Meditate! Take a few minutes, find some relaxing meditation music on youtube and just breathe.

Actually root vegetables like carrots or potatoes can help with balancing your root, so do one of those for your vegetable. 

Burn some incense or whatever you use as an alternative

Patchouli

Cedar

Myrhh 

Angelica

Cinnamon

Herbs for the root

Rosemary

Cinnamon

Cloves

Ground coffee (drink your fave!)

Sage

Cayenne 

Dandelion

Crystals for the root

Obsidian (one of my faves)

Black tourmaline

Bloodstone

Hematite

Red Jasper

Carnelian (red)

Smoky Quartz

Anything dark/earthy or red

Repeat affirmations! Okay I can’t stress enough how helpful this is. These can help not just spiritually but can help cognitively. As a person with ADHD, it can be really helpful to have a phrase or two to use when I meditate so I have something to focus on. Even if you don’t really believe these at first, they can help rewrite your neural pathways to more positive thoughts the more they are repeated. Here are some Monday Affirmations!

I am loved.

I love my body.

I nurture myself.

I am united with the world around me.

I am grounded within myself. 

I am brave.

I am courageous for fighting this illness.

I stand for my values, truth, and justice.

I have a right to exist. 

I am open to healing. 

Do a grounding ritual. Shake it off, dance around, whatever. 

Thank the Universe/deity of choice/power of choice for your existence and the world around you.

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Making violet syrup for spring! We collected violets for this syrup the other day! After distilling the flowers in water and rum for two days we boiled sugar into it and added more alcohol! It’s delicious and tastes like flowers and jolly ranchers haha! Thanks Sarah Lawless for the recipe!

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What a voice, what a voice, what a voice I hear, It’s like the voice of my Willie dear An if I had wings like that swallow high I would clasp in the arms of my Billy boy

When my apron it hung low My true love followed through frost and snow And now my apron it is tae ma chin; He passes me by and he ne'er speirs in

It’s up and doon yon white hoose brae, He’s called a strange girlie to his knee An he’s telt her a tale that he once told me

There is a blackbird sits on yon tree, Some says it is blind and it cannae see Some says it is blind and it cannae see And so is my true love tae me

Oh I wish, I wish, oh I wish in vain, I wish I was a maid again But a maid again I will never be ‘Til a apple it grows on a orange tree

I wish, I wish that my babe was born An smiling on some nurse’s knee An for myself to be dead and gone An the long green grass growing over me

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sacred geometry: circles in Jewish folklore & mysticism

we’ve finally made it to unit four in YIVO’s Folklore of Ashkenaz class, which deals directly with folkloric ritual & belief - this is what i signed up for! in the first lecture, Professor Gottesman discussed the importance of circles - believed to be perfect shapes with the power to ward off evil - throughout many different Jewish customs. some examples:

circling one’s body to keep away demons

circling the groom under the wedding canopy for luck/protection

circling while beating willow branches on Hoshana Rabbah

eating bagels after returning from a burial to evoke the cycle of life and death, including common Diasporic Jewish belief in reincarnation

circling graves of pious Jews with thread, which is later used as wicks for candles in the synagogue (read more about kosher fodem here)

a folk remedy for eye swelling includes circling the eye with a ring

another folk remedy to prevent the further growth of hunchback calls for circling the hump with the hand of a dead man (!)

circles are a common motif on Jewish amulets, and ilan sefirot (diagrams of the Kabbalistic tree of life) often represent each sefira as a circle. feel free to reblog with more examples of Jewish circles! (kippahs/yarmulkes come to mind)

the top image is from a copy of the Sefer Raziel HaMalach published in Vilna in 1875, and while i couldn’t find a source on the bottom image, it appears to be a medieval volvelle with Hebrew lettering - would love to know more!

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Messy Witch Aesthetic

Most of the witchy pictures I see on my dashboard are the super beautiful, artfully arranged still lifes (lives?) that we know and love. But not all witchy aesthetics are photogenic! I think most of us, in some way or another, fit the Messy Witch type. These may or may not include:

Leaving the ashy remnants of incense in whatever it was burned in, until such a time as the incense burner needs to be used again

Half-empty teapots left out overnight

Unused “official” grimoire; “real” grimoire is a janky old notebook with notes and recipes scribbled hastily and almost illegibly

Seedlings growing in plastic solo cups

A fairly large tree branch sitting awkwardly in your closet, because you swear you’re going to make a broom one day

Notes, underlining, and sometimes scribbles in your favorite books

There’s no shame in not having a super photogenic, artsy brand of witchcraft! I want to start seeing photos of Messy Witch Aesthetic on my dashboard, too.

So reblog if you’re a Messy Witch, and add your own mess!

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Dewey Lake in KY This is arrowhead point (which water is covering ) . Normally you drive upon on the far left of the first pic to park then, walk on the right side into a huge flat rock . Photo credit is Allen Bowling