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✎﹏﹏﹏﹏ The Fool card has been following me for some time now. Life is different. My days in solitude have morphed into hours spent in class or doing homework. I'm always around people and spend more time on my appearance 📚🎓

In a way, I feel like I lost a part of myself. My focus is more on the exoteric rather than the esoteric 🐉

However, even though a snake has shed its skin, it still is a snake. I still regularly practice tarot and keep up with the astrological transits 🪐

I started listening to this audiobook by Jessica Dore called Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth. She explains how she combines the archetypes of tarot with psychological concepts, behavioral science, and spirituality.

It is encouraging to know that some individuals in the psychology field appreciate tools like tarot and believe it can be used for personal growth.

Right now, I have a 4.0 GPA, and I'm tired ᥫ᭡.

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No-Cook Kitchen Magick

Simple & easy ways to perform kitchen magick without ever having to touch your cauldron. 🪄

Pick snacks that correspond to your spellwork, for example if you're looking to manifest money choose something with cinnamon. It's a bonus if it's sweet, that way you can further enchant it to bring the money to you sweetly.

Choose a drink with the flavor or flavors with the correspondence that you need. an example would be orange pop which could be used for things like happiness and vitality.

For heavier spells or spells for multiple purposes find something that has multiple correspondences and enchant the food or drink for each one.

Write a sigil, rune, or symbol on the packaging or bottle of what you're eating or drinking.

When you know you will be speaking somewhere that specific words may be needed but you're not quite sure how exactly to say them. Get mints that correspond with what needs to be said.

Bring color magick into the mix by eating or drinking your meal from a bowl, plate, or glass that corresponds to your intention.

I understand that these tips may seem insignificant to some. But I hope that they are helpful to those that may not have access to a kitchen, are unable to cook, or for those that just want a different way to enchant their food & drinks. 💖

- Erika, The Clumsy Witch

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Alchemize the energy you receive through breath. Remember, still waters run deep. In silence, you find clarity. Inhale and allow your belly to expand. Imagine a thick fog around you. Exhale and blow it all away. See things for what they are⋆˚✿˖°

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Inspired by the heavens, fueled by the earth. Water for creativity, fire for drive. Air for information and ideas, earth to ground them 🩷☽。･:*:･

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Here are some easy alchemical practices for regular people. The purpose of these activities is to shift your energy to one that you desire. For instance, if you're in a bad mood after an annoying day at work, you can do a workout to transfer that energy to the earth. You can achieve this with visualization, music, and intention. Imagine sweating all the negativity away as you run on the treadmill.

No matter what your practice consists of, the activity you pursue relates to an element.

🕯️ Fire: heat, passion, energy, and the masculine principle

🌊 Water: coolness, intuition, and the feminine principle

🌬️ Air: movement, life force

🌱 Earth: stability, the physical body, solidity

You don't need to overthink this. Usually, the activities you are drawn to correspond with the element you need to find balance. I've seen some astrologers link natal placements to a preferred practice; however, I feel that's limiting. Astrology, people, and energy are dynamic, so follow your intuition.

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I also want to learn how to make wash day more efficient. I'm tired of spending a whole day styling my curls.

How do you guys feel about the Gregorian calendar? I prefer setting goals with the moon cycles because I fuck with the moon.

I have no idea when this post will leave my drafts, but hopefully, it'll be out in January.

‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ☾. * ੈ✩‧₊˚

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Mirror Magick Applications

Mirrors are a big part of our lives. Mirrored surfaces, both man-made and natural exist almost everywhere. Every culture has myths regarding mirrors and I'm sure some of these we have all heard. Such as breaking a mirror is worth seven years of bad luck, that you shouldn't keep them in the bedroom, or to cover all your mirrors after someone dies, so their soul isn't trapped. Mirrors are more than just shiny bathroom fixtures, they are literal portals and amplifiers with several magickal utilities.

Trapping Energy by Charging Mirrors

Mirrors can be used to 'trap' the energy of any setting you find particularly powerful. For example: leaving your mirror close to the ocean waves or in a dark forest overnight. It will absorb the potent natural energies, then you can use the mirror in late workings as you please.

Lunar magick is another area where mirror work is ideal. Place a few mirrors under the moon to charge them with the energy of that phase. If you want to use them for a specific purpose, consider marking them with a symbol or sigil. When you need the energy of the moon, or a moon phase, you can access it as needed by using an appropriately charged mirror.

Amplification

Mirrors, like crystals, can help to amplify the power of your spells ans rituals. Keeping a mirror on your altar can bolster and increase the success of your workings. Just as focused sunlight on a mirror ignites a fire, focused magick will ignite a spell. Make sure your spell components are reflected, or better yet, perform the working on top of a mirror, to substantially increase its power.

Scrying and Accessing Other Realms

When correctly utilized mirrors can be used to access messages and visions that we wouldn't normally be able to connect with. Scrying is an ancient divinatory magick that is often used as a form of fortune-telling. Traditionally, a lot of scrying was done with water, the ancient Celts and Greeks even practiced this form of divination. Mirror scrying is an evolution of these water oracles, with historical practitioners like the famous John Dee, who used highly polished silver, brass, mercury, or obsidian.

Scrying wit mirrors can be particularly powerful due to the idea that your reflection is the manifestation of your soul. When viewing your reflection, if you're well in tune with yourself, you can ask your soul questions regarding your life and development or even open up the door to another dimension entirely. Mirrors can be enchanted and sigified into being gateways in and of themselves.

Many scrying mirrors are black because one's own reflection can be rather distracting. The traditional material of a black mirror is obsidian, however you can craft your own by painting one side of a piece of glass black. Picture frames are great for this. A black mirror is the best option for scrying as you won't be distracted by your own features, leaving you open to interpret your visions.

Banishing

Mirrors, as reflective surfaces and magickal conductors, are often used in banishing spells. Banishing magick can be used when someone is directing negative energy your way or you're being harassed. In this case, a mirror can be used to return bad energy back to the person who sent it.

Banishing magick can be a wonderful tool when applied to bad habits or negative thoughts as well. To banish an idea or behavior, encant something akin to: "[what you're banishing] you've caused me pain, I banish you, now stay away. Mirror help to reflect my plight, and keep [what you're banishing] out of sight". Keep the mirror close to you in order to protect you from what you're banishing.

Defense

Mirrors are also an incredibly effective defensive tool. They can deflect any negative energy, ill intent, or malevolent spirits sent your way. By placing mirrors in areas where you need the most protection, you can repel any unwanted energy trying to infiltrate your space. For added potentcy, draw a protective sigil/symbol on the mirror and/or place a protective crystal in front of it.

Hexenspiegal: The Witch's Mirror

A hexenspiegal is a small mirror used as a protective charm to reflect away baneful/attack magick, the evil eye, and other bad omens and intentions, as well as return the energy back to its sender. Its basis is in German folk magick. Translated, it means "witch's mirror". Hexenspiegals may be suspended from cords, fastened to walls, or, in the case of small ones, worn as jewelry. You can make your own by cleansing, decorating (optional), and sigifying/enchanting a small mirror to your intent.

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i was an angel, but they made me leave

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𝔟𝔞𝔰𝔦𝔠 𝔡𝔢𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔰

❦ aries degrees: 1, 13, 25

❦ taurus degrees: 2, 14, 26

❦ gemini degree: 3, 15, 27

❦ cancer degrees: 4, 16, 28

❦ leo degrees: 5, 17, 29

❦ virgo degrees: 6, 18

❦ libra degrees: 7, 19

❦ scorpio degrees: 8, 20

❦ sagittarius degrees: 9, 21

❦ capricorn degrees: 10, 22

❦ aquarius degrees: 11, 23

❦ pisces degrees: 12, 24

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"Keep one foot in this world and one foot in the transcendent—this is the dance." - Eckhart Tolle

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Many areas of my life are changing, and I've been using my tarot and astrology knowledge to navigate these new waters. It's easier to transmute energy when you know what you're working with ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾

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"Level up your taste. The objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness. So we can better make the choices that might lead to our own great work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being ₊˚ʚ ᗢ₊˚✧ ﾟ.

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One of my favorite glamours is using fragrance. This practice is something I picked up after I started working with love and beauty deities, and it is interesting how it plays out in the real world.

What is your favorite fragrance? My favorite perfume is Burberry Goddess, but YSL Libre EDP is a close second. I also wear cologne and have been reaching for Versace Dylan Blue Pour Homme.

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Source:

https://www.thewiccanlady.co.uk/herbal-grimoire