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Seashells !

Are you going to the beach this summer? If that’s the case, remember to pick up some seashells for your witchy practice, they can be super useful!

♡To see the full tiny tutorial and many more, remember you can support us on our Patreon to get monthly exclusive content at: Witchystuff

https://www.patreon.com/witchystuff

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👻TRICK or TREAT witchblr 🎃

a fun little game for the witchblr community, taking place OCT. 1st - NOV. 1st.

please tag all answers or related posts #trick or treat game so people can blacklist the tag if they want to avoid it

how it works:

reblog this to let people know you’re participating!

if someone sends you an ask saying “trick or treat”, reply with either a trick or a treat, suggestions for those below!

you can stop at any time though, and please don’t feel pressured to answer all of them if it becomes overwhelming.

when you receive an ask that says “trick or treat”, reply with either a “trick” or a “treat”, perhaps use a random generator to decide which.

TREATS: sigils, tarot reading, shufflemancies, drawings, simple spells or charms, witch tips, or whatever you like!

TRICKS: silly gifs, cat pictures, rickrolls, random pictures, memes or whatever. please don’t use gore, flashing, or sexual images!

please don’t spam people for treats!! // please be kind and respectful!! happy halloween!

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Magick is a garden lush with potential to grow infinite. 🔮

( via WakingCanvas.com | EricTecce.com )

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Altar Ideas

Athena - Olive oil (Or leaves or wood) - Helm - Owls (Blankets, figures, owl feathers) - Shield/ Aegis (Here is a diy with a pan, puff paint and clay x ) - Lance or spear (You could find toy versions of these around halloween) - Snake or serpant imagery - Photo or postcard of your city (for prayers of safe keeping) - Diploma - Woven crafts - Any books you are currently learning from - Cow/Bull figures (given as offerings) - Spindle of wool - Workbooks - A copy of the Art of War - Articles of justice being reached, favorable diplomatic resolutions, or acts of heroism - University acceptance letters - Trophies from fighting sports (martial arts etc) - Flute - Journal and pen (The ultimate weapons of the mind) - Candles (white, gold, red, olive) Altar Ideas Amphitrite - Aphrodite - Apollo - Ares - Artemis - Asteria - Athena - Demeter - Dionysus - Hades - Hebe - Hekate - Hemera - Hephaestus - Hera - Hermes - Hestia - Khione - Persephone - Poseidon - Selene - Zeus

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A few years back I was fortunate enough to acquire some lionfish spines from a family friend and made a witch ladder using them. I used 6 spines and 3 rusty fishing hooks and then tied them with twine from my fishing supplies. It didn’t feel right to use any tools that didn’t have a connection to the ocean along with the spines. 

The ladder was supposed to be for protection but damn, I should’ve of used it for a curse or something. That lionfish spirit was a lot nastier than I expected, not because it was caught and killed. It actually didn’t seem too perturbed by that and was happy to assist in my magic. It was more like just a very aggressive and chaotic evil spirit lol. 

The protection ladder worked very well but when my husband and brother came to live with me they put up their own protections and the ladder was no longer necessary. I suppose I could’ve kept it but I could tell that the spirit was getting bored when there was nothing for it to attack. I decided to dismantle the ladder and release the spines back into the sea so it could go terrorize fishermen or whatever haha. It seemed happy with that decision lol but I miss it sometimes. 

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Othermagic Prompts Challenge

In an ongoing effort to encourage community participation and provoke thought in regards to alterhumanity, we’ve decided to make a prompts challenge in a similar style to other 30-day challenges floating around the community.

What makes this one so special? For one, you don’t need to do all of them. Ever. No pressure on 30 consecutive days of answering or doing things if you start it, you can pick it up and use absolutely any of the prompts for inspiration in any way you like! Do them all at once, do them whenever inspiration is low, do them all multiple times over.

Secondly, this is broken up into question prompts and activity prompts. The question prompts follow the same general lines as a lot of other community challenges go, but rather than asking about your identity and how you figured it out, they’re specifically tailored to the idea behind this blog: learning more about yourself as “other” and applying it to magic and daily life. The activity prompts, on the other hand, are ideas to try out, things to do and make and research and generally allow you to become a more active participant in your own self-discovery. Of course, there may be some overlap between the two types of prompts, but otherwise they’ve been categorized as best as possible. It’s also worth noting that any mentions of kintypes can be replaced with hearttypes, soulbonds, etc. if you so choose.

If you take up any of these prompts or ideas and post them on Tumblr or another website, please notify us or use the tag #othermagicpromptschallenge so we can see what you’ve done! We’d love to know and see what you guys do with this.

Question Prompts:

What part of your identity has had the most influence on your craft or things you’d like to work with?

Do you work with any deities or entities from another life? If so, who (so long as you’re comfortable mentioning it)? If not, is there anyone or anything you’d like to reach out to again?

Have you remembered anything that can be used for magic in this world? If not, do you know of anything from related sources (books and folklore related to kintypes, your source/canon or things similar to it) that you’d like to try out in this world or on the astral?

Have any other books, movies, pop culture sources, or mythological sources influenced the way you practice?

Do you know if you spoke another language? If so, have you attempted to recreate or relearn it in this life? If not, have you attempted to make a conlang (constructed language) or conscript (constructed script) that fits the feeling of your species/culture?

Have you made any crafts or recipes related to your kintype or constructed from memories? If so, what are they? Share pictures or details if you’d like!

Have you picked up any hobbies, skills or talents because of your kintype (e.g. sports, musical instruments, etc.)? What are they? If not, what would you like to pick up?

Do you remember anything about other inhabitants of your world/plane/planet/dimension/timeline/etc.? What sorts of relationships did you have with them, personally/individually or as a group/species? Would you ever want to work with them in any capacity again if you don’t already?

Was there a specific form of artistic expression (visual art techniques such as specific methods of sculpting or painting, musical instruments, song, dance, types of poetry, architecture, etc.) that doesn’t seem to have an equivalent here to your knowledge? If so, have you been able to replicate it to any degree?

If you remember there being magic in your world/plane/planet/dimension/timeline/etc., could you use it? If so, do you remember how it worked or how it felt, and have you attempted to recreate it?

Have parts of your practice changed after you found out about your otherness? Have any parts stayed the same?

Is there some part of your practice or your understanding of self that you’re having difficulty with? If so, what is it, and how can you make changes to it so you can continue to grow and explore? Are there things you haven’t given much thought to that you should consider? (For example, if you find yourself thinking mostly about people you used to know or the way you interact with your deities/other spirits and beings but not much about how your kintype affects you on a day-to-day basis or what sort of society, if any, you used to live in. Or vice versa.)

Has anything you questioned that turned out not to be a thing stayed with you in some ways? Has it influenced your craft or lifestyle or hobbies? If so, what and how?

Activity Prompts:

Make a conlang or conscript for your species or culture. If you already have one, make a variation or make one based on another species, culture, or group you remember.

Make sigils using your conlang/conscript and test them out.

Make sigils to represent your kintypes as you experience them and use them as meditation aids for self-reflection and deeper understanding of yourself.

Create a spell, ritual, potion, bath bomb, etc. intended to help you connect to the energy and qualities a being, creature, character, etc. that is NOT a kintype in any way so you can incorporate their positive traits into your life. (Note that this will in no way make you that thing, just more like them.)

Make sigils of your home world/plane/planet/dimension/timeline/etc. and use them to carry the energy of “home” with you, or use them as focus tools while astral traveling or projecting.

Use any aesthetic posts or moodboards you might have saved up around your blog/desktop/phone storage and use them as active meditation tools.

Make a list of positive traits of your kintype that you’d like to embody more as well as negative traits you’d like to diminish and work on.

Put together a set of clothing or accessories that remind you of your kintype, and enchant them to serve as a glamour/shadow shift inducer when worn all together.

Find, modify, or make a recipe of a type of food or drink you used to have or a substitution if there’s no equivalent here (such as souls or animals that don’t exist here) or if you have specific dietary needs that don’t match that of your past self.

Make a list of magical correspondences for your kintype(s). Add things like crystals, herbs, colors, household objects, animals or mythical creatures (if you aren’t one or making correspondences for one), weather phenomena, etc. that you associate with yourself.

Find historical/folkloric accounts, stories, fictional works (including fanfiction for fictionkind if you’re comfortable with it) and compare and contrast your experiences and memories with the author/creator’s portrayal. PLEASE do not directly involve the author/creator in any way (such as direct tagging or saying these things in the comments if applicable) and don’t attack anyone over differences in experience or perception.

Find home decor ideas, items, and/or DIY that will help you feel more at home (this includes things like pillow dens, blanket caves or nests and similar). Make a Pinterest board, a post with links and/or images, a bookmarks folder, or even a physical collage/idea board of things you’re most likely to be able to do or buy in your current living situation.

Look into stories, movies, or other media about shapeshifting or not quite fitting into a human world that aren’t directly related to your kintype(s) and compare and contrast your thoughts, feelings, and experiences.

Make a playlist of songs that you associate with your kintype(s) and use it for a shapeshifting ritual or experience.

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🌿🔮 made a witches bottle for strength, persistence and protection.. Using herbs ( lavender, sage, rosemary, mint) hagstone, shell…from my gardens Sigil for persistence And crystals…carnelian, lapis, sodialite, citrine , rose quartz, quartz, amethyst, blue lace agate , turquoise, aventurine, garnet

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It’s hilarious when you tell people to not appropriate closed cultures and they’re all “fuck you, I’ll practice what I want”

Like, go ahead, but what you’re doing is not the real thing.

You’re lacking the background knowledge and information to have a whole practice.

Some traditions only share information when you get past layers of secrecy and initiation.

You think some article you pulled off Tumblr is the real thing?

But if you want to cling to your watered down version of a culture you don’t understand, be my guest lmao

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moonstone ☾

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“The location of the faculties of the affections in both face and hand.” Descriptive mentality from the head, face and hand. 1899. 

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Summer time rituals and meditations 🍃🌸

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For all new witches:

Its okay if your first spells, sigils, and divinations don’t come true/don’t happen! You’re new to this, and nobody gets things correctly on their first try, especially if they dont have any experience with it beforehand. You arent any less of a witch because of it! You’ll get the hand of it eventually, I promise

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New Year’s Spell *:･ﾟ✧

This spell is to start the year with a fresh look on things and to take away whatever old things are still lurking in your life, it’s a cleanse for you and your space and a lot of good wishes for you!! Keep in your mind your particular goals for the next year for better results.

You can take advantage of the full moon in january 1st to make this spell even better ☆

**Let the candles consume themselves even if it takes days of turning them on and off.

*For closet witches it can be just an incense or a candle around the room and a sweep to a clot or piece of paper that you can throw away from your house. And just gather 12 seeds in a circle while you are doing the spell and leave them near your door for the year*･.｡

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Don´t forget that a New Year means new herbs for the potions! ♡

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