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royal stars ✦

the royal stars were notably regarded as “guardians of the sky” in ancient persia, but the idea of stars as guardians originated in old babylonia. it was believed that the sky was divided into four districts with each district being guarded by one of the four royal stars. because of their reverence as “guardians of the sky or heavens” society looked to these stars for both directional guidance and prophecy. these stars are the brightest stars in their associated constellation, and correspond with each of the cardinal directions, seasons, solstices, and equinoxes. 

the four royal stars ✦

aldebaran (watcher of the east)

time of year: vernal (spring) equinox

time of day: sunrise

constellation: taurus

zodiac sign: taurus

element: earth

associations: eloquence, intelligence, integrity, courage, popularity, agitation, loss, violent death

regulus (watcher of the north)

time of year: summer solstice 

time of day: noon

constellation: leo

zodiac sign: leo

element: fire

associations: success, power, nobility, ambition, fame, great power, alertness, leadership, sudden downfall, accidents, violence

antares (watcher of the west)

time of year: autumnal equinox 

time of day: sunset

constellation: scorpius

zodiac sign: scorpio

element: water

associations: passion, creativity, adventure, fortune, risk-taking, obstinacy, stubbornness, violence, intensity 

fomalhaut (watcher of the south) 

time of year: winter solstice 

time of day: midnight

constellation: piscis austrinus

zodiac sign: aquarius

element: air

associations: charisma, magic, fame, the occult, spirituality, alchemy, servitude, materialism 

*some correspondences are based on personal associations

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Here I am summoning clown fish water elemental spirits to help me with some candle magic despite the fact that I also have seafood pasta dinner sitting a few feet away from their summoning container.

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In regards to research:

Don’t accept witchcraft books for history. Read history texts. 

Don’t accept witchcraft books for mental processes. Read psychology and biological texts. 

Don’t accept witchcraft books for mythology. Don’t accept witchcraft books for religion. Read original texts and papers written researchers credited in their fields. 

Use witchcraft books for witchcraft, and witchcraft alone. That is what they specialize in and what they are published for. If it branches out into a different subject, be suspicious and research the topic later. 

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More Agrippa Salt

(a.k.a why I want to study physics so I can actually find out about real magic )

Note: I am not an atheist or anti magic since I believe in spirits and energy as everyone else does even though I'm not going to roll over and believe everything an old book is telling me. This is me roasting the hell out of a magic philosopher.

Now then I've got a question for all of the magical community. I'll even give you a million dollars if you answer it correctly.

So we have the solar system and their elements. The Sun is fire and the moon is water. Mars is also a fire elemental planet. Mercury is Air and so is Venus and Jupiter. Saturn is a Earth element planet. However Agrippa's Philosophy of Natural magic book says that

Okay, so we are on the same page then? Here's my question.

So if Mars is spiritually a fire planet...

WHY ON THE UNHOLY FUCK does MARS have ICE ON IT?? Yeah I said it. ICE. YOU KNOW, the cold WATERY shit that floats in your drink and keeps it cold????

And the temperature of Mars isn't better either. This is what I found on the NASA website.

Doesn't sound very hot now does it? Mars having water is already a doozy but it having more than 5 million cubic kilometers of ICE despite it ''supposedly'' representing fire is a spiritual abomination. It's the magical equivalent of a toucan breastfeeding a baby monkey. I know how it was in ancient times. Some guy looked at the sky a thousand years ago and called it Mars because it was red then people began to pull spiritual meanings out of their asses because of its name and color. If anything, ''Mars'' was an offering to the God Mars and therefore he kind of latched on it and also years worth of fire magic rituals people have been doing because of its name are now attached to Mars. Even red stars aren't the hottest stars in space,blue ones are with a temperature of approximately 40,000°C. In conclusion, red isn't always hot.

Sure, people may have felt hot energy come from Mars during energy work but would you at least consider the fact that you might be feeling the energetic ghosts of past fire rituals attached to it and the artificially added astral winds have fire coming out thanks to our old magic. Or Cognitive bias could be a factor in this as well. You're expecting fire so you're ''feeling'' fire.

Either way, I'm starting to think Agrippa gave his family food poisoning at Christmas dinner. He put the fucking chicken in his Red freezer and his coleslaw in the Blue oven.

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Hey chicken, I got hold of a pdf of scott cunningham " earth power" and "earth air fire and water " and something that confuses me in some spells is the method used relating to the goal. For example:

In one to help break bad habits, it says to write this bad habit in a a leaf, take it to a tree and bury close to the roots. Then put an offering for the tree in the same hole, cover it up and pour some water on the spot

But couldn't this action of burying and watering, be seen as "planting" the bad habit? And if you are planting it would grow...

Another one is for love/relationship, where with a burned stick you draw two hearts interwined in a piece of paper, visualizing a satisfying relationship and then put some rose petals in the paper, fold it and burn it in a candle or fire.

He describes that as it burns the power is released

But it makes me think that burning your wish in the paper would have an opposite effect, like destroying the wish

Idk. What do you thinks of those "mechanics" of spells? Am I overthinking?

Hi! I've never read those books and I'm not a Wiccan.

So I can only comment from my own perspective, which may be the incorrect perspective to accurately interpret what Cunningham is saying.

You are not over-thinking; you have stumbled onto a very important aspect of sorcery and one that is good to think about.

How is it that sometimes, a box is used to trap and bind energies, but at other times a box can be used to coalesce and radiate helpful energies?

How is it that a candle can both open portals and close portals? How can a candle both be banishing of spirits, and an offering to spirits?

How can burying something in the earth not only be destructive or even an aspect of curses, but also be a technique of prosperity and growth?

The reality is that burying something isn't magic and it doesn't do anything. Lighting a candle isn't magic and doesn't do anything.

"Doing magic" is not taking a leaf and writing things on it and burying it. A mundane person can do these things in a mundane way and no magic will occur.

Nothing is automatically happening; burying something neither automatically causes an act of banishing, nor an act of conjuring.

As the practitioner, it is you yourself who determines what happens. This is the vital and inexorable power of 'setting intent.'

The tree does not decide what happens to your habits leaf. The earth does not decide what happens to your habits leaf. YOU decide what happens to it.

No, it isn't strictly true that burying things is always an action of generative planting. A very popular form of cursing is to turn an apple into someone and then bury them to rot. But the Earth can also gently break things down through the cycle of decay. Or it can trap things, like a cave-in.

We see all of these things occurring in nature; of course you can plant seeds to grow strong. Of course if you bury a body it will rot. Of course leafs slowly decay and their particles return to nature.

All of these things are valid.

YOU decide which one happens. This decision is germinated with intent; it is gestated with technique. YOU are the creator god. The leaf is clay in your hands, and you can decide:

You are the body of the beloved that broke my heart, as this leaf decays their joy will decay.

You are the mustard seed that returns a hundredfold harvest, mightest among trees.

You are the leaf of the forest floor, breaking down and returning to nature, just as my bad habits break down and return to source.

It is not a leaf. It is not planting. It is a spell. You create the reality of what the leaf really is, and you dictate how it must try to interact with its environment.

It must be good with you, or it is not a good spell*.

So if you personally cannot get around the idea that burying something will always be an action of generative "planting," then you shouldn't do the spell like that!

It's not an issue of "wrong belief." You may be following valid intuition. You may be at a time in your practice where the Earth calls you to plant things to grow. You may be at a time in your practice where fire whispers sweet promises of destruction to you.

Explore what's around you and what you're feeling! Change the methods if you don't think they're right for you.

But it is also untrue to say that putting things into the earth is always an act of planting. It can be many things.

*This is not true but this is a post, not a book.

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farming magic versus wild foraging magic

It's been on my mind a bit but I really think in Witchcraft, a lot of it is finding power. A LOT of it.

You know I talk about my system a lot, building relationships with ally spirits ("correspondences"), evoking and petitioning spirits, laying a compass, carefully storing and distributing energy between spells.

And this is all kind of like farming; you can learn how to cultivate the magical ecosystem around you to carefully seed, grow, harvest, and store power, and to make friends with the gods and spirits within and around this system who help you (or decline to hinder you, which is also very good).

This farming is good because it serves the same function as regular farming, i.e., it's hard work but it provides reliable and predictable resources available throughout the year.

But that's not finding power, that's farming it.

Several months ago I did one of the most powerful workings I had done in a while, which transformed my life. There was no evoking correspondences or compass laying or invocations or spirit offerings.

I found a free-flowing source of incredible power (an eclipse, and I found it by looking up), called it into myself, and asked that it do something specific.

No candles, incense, bells, talismans, or whatever: the actual technique I performed was extremely basic energy work.

The results were humbling, and continue to humble me, and I believe it is probably beyond what I would have been able to accomplish working only through 'farming'.

After all, I am a competent adult. I could build a fish farm. I could learn to keep it regulated and sustained to provide fish all year round.

But it doesn't matter how good of a farmer I am, I'll never be able to compete with the open ocean.

A lot of this stuff about Witchcraft techniques - if it seems like a lot, that's because it is a lot; it seems like hard work because farming is hard work, and it seems like you must plan ahead so much because farmers must plan seasons ahead.

But that's not all of Witchcraft, and homesteading your magic isn't just farming - it's wild foraging, too.

So if all this Traditional stuff seems a bit stuffy and laborious and lacking in spontaneity, perhaps it's good to ask if you're ever leaving the boundaries of your homestead and venturing out into the woods.

And all those planets and transits and holy days and plant lore and special tricks for foraging power without profaning it are not tedious rules, but maps that show pathways to wild foraging your own power, bringing great boons and benefits to uplift your seasonal farming.

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question about animism, because its always confused me: since you (or, other animists, i cant say i know YOUR exact beliefs and practices on everything) want to respect all the ingredients you use in a spell because you believe in them all having spirits, like lets say lavender, you might ask for its permission to be used in the spellwork in a certain way, right? and that sometimes you may even give the lavender an offering, to build your relationship with lavender, and like as thanks/giving back after their help in your spell. but, my question is about that offering you might give lavender. if an animist believe everything has a spirit, doesnt that also include the things theyre offering? so, youd give an offering of, say, water, to lavender for helping you out, but then wouldnt you have to give your appreciation to water for being an offering/helping you improve your relationship with lavender? wouldnt that get you caught in, like, a loop of offerings and respect and stuff? just trying to get clarification on this idea, ive been wondering for a while and havent been able to find the answer on my own 😭💀

The act of offering water and the act of asking Lavender to do a work of sorcery for me are not equal acts that carry equal debt.

The reason I work to evoke Lavender into lavender is because the great spirit of Lavender is not already present. He is far away; he is attending to his many important concerns.

I work to call him, and when I have the sights of that powerful god on me, I thank him for his efforts and attention with the offering.

The reason I give Lavender an offering is because he has exerted energy to come to me and to help me, and that energy could be otherwise spent on tending to his personal affairs.

Where is the 'spirit' of the offering?

Well it's not there looking at me, because I never called it. Something can have spiritual presence without being an active vessel for a living spirit.

Something that shapes Witchcraft is the reality that spiritual power is not ubiquitous and evenly distributed! I think it's even fair to argue that the fundamental act of the Witch is learning how to find this power and bring it back and forth across the worlds, because it often isn't already here.

Just because I see a peacock at the zoo doesn't mean I'm in the presence of Lucifer. Just because I see a deer doesn't mean I'm in the presence of Artemis. And just because I offer a cup of water does not mean Water is with me in the room.

But even so: Water is an element. Elements are not Plants. They do not behave the same, not at all; they do not have the same concerns. Water and Lavender are not two members of the same species, they are as alike as a hydrogen atom is to an elephant.

Water is not Oceans, Streams, or Rain; Water is also not the Gray Toad, the King of Water, the Gatekeeper of the West (which is where I place water), or even an undine or a water elemental by any name.

Water is Water, which is a fundamental metaphysical building-block; it is not living in the common sense. Lavender is a living god that governs its living children in the middle world, and while it may be eternally accessible through the mystical, it could actually be killed in the physical; it is possible for this genetic strain to be eliminated and its children born no more. The same cannot be said for Water.

I belabor the point to say: just because Lavender and Water both have an essence beyond their mere physical bodies does not mean they want or need to be treated the same ways.

And just because I use an object in magic does not mean I am requesting favors from a spirit that should be rightfully repaid.

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Calling the Elements for Protection

This calls upon the four elements for protection against negative people specifically. This is a simpler element calling spell, only requiring four herbs. Best done on a full moon, Saturday, during Saturn hour.

Ingredients:

Cinnamon — represents fire

Chamomile — represents water

Nutmeg — represents earth

Basil — represents air

Moon water

Spray bottle

Steps:

Put the spray bottle and moon water in the center of your area, with the cinnamon south, chamomile west, nutmeg north, and basil east.

Cleanse your spray bottle.

Pick up the nutmeg. Say, "I invoke the element of earth to keep me grounded against those who wish to harm me." Add it to the bottle.

Pick up the chamomile. Say, "I invoke the element of water to strengthen my intuition to discern those who wish to harm me." Add it to the bottle.

Pick up the cinnamon. Say, "I invoke the element of fire to attack and defend against those who wish to harm me." Add it to the bottle.

Pick up the basil. Say, "I invoke the element of air to whisk away those who wish to harm me." Add it to the bottle.

Add the moon water to the bottle. Shake it. While shaking it, say "Thank you to the four elements for protecting me."

This was designed to spray around you whenever you deem fit. It's technically edible, but I'm not sure how great it would taste.

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Being that helpful spirits may be absent, here are three ways to facilitate their presence

Have got a few people in the tags saying they vibe with this other post about my animistic views, so here's a tie-in with Witchcraft:

You know how in that other post I say that the spirit of Lavender isn't already present in the physical lavender, and that's why I have to call him? Well three things!

One, what you are doing when you lay a compass opening metaphysical roads and gateways that make it easier and less burdensome for spirits to travel to you!

Imagine you live in a hut in the middle of the woods with no roads leading to it. You could call a spirit to visit you and they could, but it would be a laborious journey for them because they have to hike across the rugged terrain.

But as a witch, you have the power to weave gossamer fairy roads that float upon the air like spider silk, scintillating in the moonlight, floating high above the clawing trees, dense underbrush, and slippery rocks.

Spirits can walk back and forth across these magical roads, making it easier for them to arrive much more fully to you by exerting the same amount of effort. Also, it's nicer for them!

The point of opening roads is to facilitate the movement of the spirits, so that they are not wasting energy just traveling, but may have more left over to help you with, or appear to you.

Two, one way to get Lavender fully present inside of the physical lavender is to carefully harvest the lavender under auspicious times, and using charms and techniques meant to preserve the spiritual power of the plant.

This is wild foraging magic - and it's a very powerful way of gathering and storing power so that it lives with you in the hut, and you don't have to call for the attention of faraway entities.

One way to think about going out and gathering magic in this manner is mushrooming. You know how those mushroom people are like, "wait until the weather gets warm and it rains, then a few days later look under fallen hardwood logs"?

It's the same thing when witches say "wait until midnight on a Saturday and go to the churchyard fence and sing this charm while you harvest a flower stalk."

It's the same in the sense that it's not arbitrary steps you have to do to prove you're more traditional. It's a map to instruct you how to find power that is only present sometimes!

The nature of magic is such that the datura growing on the graveyard fence may always be physically there, but its spiritual power may wax and wane. If you harvest the datura while it's spiritually hibernating (or if you harvest it in such a way that the spirit retracts itself and leaves your harvest inert), you are not necessarily harvesting something of power just because it's not commercially grown.

Three, if I have a really wonderful relationship with Lavender or I really like this spirit and would love to have it be a big part of my practice, I can go through the steps to request that Lavender enter my home and my life as a familiar spirit, a tutelary spirit, or a helper spirit.

You know how we live in a hut in the woods with no roads leading to it? Well I can build Lavender a room in my house so he can always just stay there with me - that room is a spirit house, spirit vessel, or shrine that you build which is dedicated to Lavender and is sort of like a permanent, hardwired road for Lavender to travel down.

In this way, every single time I want to call on Lavender, I do not necessarily have to lay a compass and open a road to call to him. That is because he has permanent access to my house, until such a time as I sever the relationship or remove the shrine.

With a big step like this undertaken, Lavender may then be available to help me in many more ways than just simple acts of sorcery - maybe by teaching me things, protecting and guiding me while I engage in spirit flight, becoming a guardian of my home, and so forth, while in return receiving the support, attention, appreciation, and care deserved by such helpful and venerable spirits.

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Welp if Tiktok is supposedly going to bite the dust on Sunday, I'm downing some of my liked videos so they don't become lost media. Don't really care about my own though,they aren't exactly masterpieces.

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There's no way anybody can get me to trust the history written inside occult/magic books. Some Christian history professors would swear up and down that people found the real Noah's arc and Moses's body even though MANY of the historical accounts in the bible are inaccurate and nobody could actually find these two things in question and it's no different when it comes to witchcraft and the occult. It's like when you become a witch, you immediately begin to trust absolutely everything you read and start believing in the most ridiculous stuff.

Yeah sure the guy who written the emerald tablet absolutely got it from Atlantis. 🙄

Even Aleister Crowley threw out some Atlantis bs. There's just no point in me studying history.

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I’m not native american or indigenous to the land I live in. So i can’t speak as an authority on this subject

but I will speak based off of what my indigenous friends and local indigenous practitioners have told me

If you’re concerned about using white sage, if you’re worried it’s closed or whatever but you want to use it, this applies to all herbs by the way,

simply, very simply

BUY WHITE SAGE FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

BUY 👏 WHITE SAGE 👏 FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE 👏👏👏

SUPPORT INDIGENOUS BUSINESSES

White sage is a common herb in hoodoo and other folk practices outside of the indigenous peoples of America, the native americans were not the only ones to use it. It is a very important herb to multiple groups of people. This does not mean to say that it isn’t tragically over harvested by large corporations that expend the very culturally significant resource from actual practicing natives.

SO BUY WHITE SAGE FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

That’s all you have to do. Put some money into the pockets of indigenous people. If you can buy it in person, even better, you can speak to indigenous people and learn a thing or two about its use. Every single time I’ve bought herbs from indigenous people (not just sage, literally anything) they’re always so welcoming and happy that I’m there. They’re excited to share. All of my herbs and tools come directly from small local farmers and artist markets. We have one in my town every Wednesday and one in the city every Sunday. You most probably have some going on where you live too. Take the time to look around.

I consider interacting with these small businesses to be a devotional act, and it’s a million times more fulfilling than buying a bundle on amazon or from the witchy section of the craft store, not knowing whether the shit is quality or even what it claims to be.

I think the “white sage is banned point blank period” take is extremely retractive, especially when white people start talking over indigenous people so they can crowd control other white folks.

Most of the harvesters of white sage are indigenous, and it’s silly as fuck to see people harassing indigenous sellers on etsy because it’s “closed”. It sucks to see their sales dip to an all time low because everyone is being told to avoid them.

I wish the popular opinion this entire time had just been “witches who are not native can only use white sage that comes from native harvesters. We’re collectively cancelling big corp herbs and putting all of our attention into uplifting small indigenous businesses.”

All you have to do to assure that you’re not being disrespectful to indigenous people, is support them. This debate is so tired and frankly dumb as hell. It’s so so easy guys. The solution has been in front of us the entire time.

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Rompe Hechizos (Break Spells)

Boton de Oro (Marigold)

Canela (Cinnamon)

Palo Dulce (Licorice root)

Palo Rompe Zaraguey (Yerba Mate)

Agua Florida (Florida water)

Boil the herbs and add Florida water after. Also add Brandy to extend life of brew. Goes well in a glass spray bottle. Don't use plastic.

Excellent recipe, does break spells and hexes if worn. It "sweetens" the person sending negativity.

M.M. 💖💀💖

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Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

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Sarah Anne Lawless’ Masterpost of Rescued Blog Posts

Obviously not all of her posts are here, I’ve just saved the ones I thought were of more interest to me and others. These posts (except for one not rescued by me) are made private for legal reasons. I might update if specific blogs are requested.

Note: the links will not work on the Tumblr app. You must visualize them either through the desktop or your phone’s web browser. If still a link isn’t working, let me know.

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I wonder what would happen if you were to offer a self love candle to the universe or whatever divine influence you believe controls everything.

Maybe it would act like a peace spell candle offering for the spirit world and the physical world because of the macrocosm/microcosm relationship that is said to be a thing. Like this candle is telling the Universe to ''quit hurting yourself with evil and start loving yourself'' and it'll spread the candle's influence very thinly over everything,turning the candle offering into a extremely weak peace spell.