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A Crash Course in Warding

Let’s just start a series of crash courses in witchcraft, since sometimes we need to learn things the quick and dirty way. Today, let’s talk about wards.

What are wards? Wards are protective energy barriers. They keep things out. You can place them around your home, certain rooms, even on certain objects. With practice and clear intentions, you can focus the wards to block out everything or only certain things. We’ll get to that in a bit.

Why should I ward my space and my things? Wards can keep out all sorts of things you don’t want in your home. They can block out negative entities, wayward spirits, mischievous entities, demons, and (if you’re really good at what you’re doing) even gods. Some people ward their divination tools so they know there are no spirits tampering with the results.

So what do I need to do first? Cleanse. This is very important. Wards are kind of like walls, or perhaps more accurately, bubbles. If you don’t clean the space first, you might trap things inside your ward bubble. You do not want that. There are lots of methods of cleansing, from burning sage to spritzing oil-infused water. Find a method you’re comfortable with and cleanse everything you’re going to be warding.

I’ve cleansed my home/item. Now what? Now we ward. I’m going to give you a couple methods. Let’s start with my favorite, incense warding.

Incense warding can also be done with spritzes of water/essential oil blends or herb-infused water if you can’t have smoke in your space. Whichever you’re using, you want to have a blend of protective herbs. Bay leaves, cinnamon, ginger, mustard seed, and salt are some great options that you can find in the grocery store, no fancy witch shop necessary. If you’re using incense, make sure you’re using natural incense and not super cheap stuff that’s artificially scented. The magic is in the herbs, and you won’t get that from fake scents.

How to Incense/Spritz Ward an Item

Smoke or spray item.

Visualize the smoke or spray clinging to the item and wrapping around it like a tight blanket, protecting it from anything that would cause harm (or interference, etc.).

How to Incense/Spritz Ward Your Space

Pick a place to start. I always start at my altar, but it’s up to you. If you’re doing multiple floors, start either at the top or bottom floor.

Moving continuously to your right, smoke or spray along the walls and door frames. As you go, imagine a barrier being formed around the walls, ceiling, and floor, pushing outwards to fill the room. Visualize the smoke or spray forming the barrier to keep out anything that will do you harm. [If you have a hard time with visualization, you can simply focus on the intent of the smoke or spray keeping things out.]

Keep moving right, following the layout of your home, making sure you get all the closet spaces. You basically want to outline the entire area you’re protecting, whether it’s you’re room or your whole house.

For multiple floors, repeat on each level.

For big layouts where there are rooms in the middle, go around those rooms as well.

I like to reinforce the wards over outside doors, windows, and mirrors. These are all passages of sorts, and when I reach them, I use the incense to draw a pentagram in the air over them. This is entirely up to you.

You’re done when you’ve reached the point where you began.

So why do we go to the right? Is that important? Kind of. Going to the right is like going clockwise. It’s about making things and progression, where going to the left or counter-clockwise is about deconstruction or reversal. [I read this idea in a witchy book a long time ago and will try to find a source when I can. If you honestly don’t feel it makes a difference, do whatever you’re comfortable with.]

Can I place wards that keep out certain things but not others? Sure. When you’re going around your space/warding your item, your intent is what’s important. I like to ward out entities that mean harm - it’s nice and general and doesn’t keep the fae out. Some people might want certain spirits and not others. Have your intentions clear in your mind as you place your wards.

That’s neat and all, but what are some other ways to ward? Let’s list a few.

Symbol/Sigil Wards

Choose (or make) a symbol or sigil that has protective properties. I’ve done this with Pluto’s astrological symbol because I worship him and it’s my way of being like, “Hey, Pluto. Please protect me, kthanxbai.” Pentagrams are nice and basic witchy/pagan symbols if you like them.

Draw the symbol over doors and windows. You do not literally have to draw it. It can be in water, incense smoke, or just your finger against the surface if you want.

As you’re drawing, make sure you have your intentions in mind - that nothing harmful can pass through this door, that the windows remain closed against entities, etc.

Energy Bubbles (if you have control over your energy)

Pick an item - any item.

Get your warding intentions in mind.

Channel lots of energy into the item. Visualize it emanating from the item in a bubble to fill your space.

If you’ve got mad skillz, you can form the bubble to the walls and be super exact with where its barriers are.

Vocal Wards

If you like spoken (or thought) spells, come up with a small chant to protect your space.

You can repeat this chant as you focus on your item being protected or as you walk around your home, protecting every room.

This is really great to incorporate into basically any other form of warding and gives your magic an extra bit of oomph.

I’ve heard wards can “fade” over time. True or false? Wards are just energy. Like all energies, they can disperse and weaken over time, or if something particularly nasty puts effort into destroying them. Redo your wards every so often (I do mine every few months, but it’s up to you), and especially before spiritual interactions. I also like to do mine after I’ve had lots of company, to kind of clear out family’s lingering energies and reinforce what I don’t want in my house.

In general, the intent of your wards is the most important part. Know what you want to keep out. This concludes our crash course on warding. Now go forth and protect some stuff!

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Wings of Creativity Spell 🖋️

a spell to speed creativity and inspiration to you 

🖋️ gather: amber, bay leaf, coffee grounds, pen, and a yellow candle.

🖋️ charge the bay leaf in the sun in the morning.

🖋️ grind the bay leaf and coffee grounds together, as finely as possible.

🖋️ embed the amber in the candle, dress with the herbs.

🖋️ using the pen, carve a sigil of wings in the candle. 

🖋️ burn the candle and pass the pen through the smoke.

🖋️ burn the candle or use the pen when in need of creativity

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Bedroom Witch Tips

🌿Herb sachets hung above your bed (request herb sachet recipes from me if you’re interested).

🌿Hang Dry herbs upside down in your bedroom (Lavender helps for anxiety and depression… it is very calming or Mugwort for dreams. Mugwort is very invasive, you can find it growing everywhere).

🌿Herbs placed inside your pillow sheet (I place Mugwort leaves inside to active lucid dreams).

🌿Setup an Altar near your bed: add elements of earth, fire, water and air. You can also use your windowsill as an altar.

🌿Place Black Tourmaline under your bed: shields you energetically by taking the electromagnetic frequencies, and instead of absorbing them, tourmaline changes, redirects, cleanses, and purifies the energy. This is how it handles negativity, even energies of psychic attack too!

🌿Place Sigil writings or powders for protection and restful beauty sleep under your mattress.

🌿Keep a dream journal under your pillow! Dreams can help us get a glimpse into our subconscious and the more dreams you write the easier it becomes for you to remember them.

🌿Unless you are allergic, sleep with the window halfway open or cracked to let good energy move around and circulate in your room and keep skin hydrated during the night.

🌿Drink herbal tea before bed each night. (Request free herbal tea recipes from me if interested) Mugwort tea is great to have in the evening before bed to reach high levels of lucid dreaming

🌿Smoking Herbs before bed is great as well. I recommend this book for further reading: Smoke Plants Of North America by M.R. Ross. (Request free Smoke Blend recipes from me if interested). With reverence, Rosemary Milk 🌹

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Make Your Own Alkaline Vitamin Water

Find yourself needing a vitamin boost?  

Click here, for complete recipe and directions of my five signature colour-free, sugar-free and bpa plastic free alkaline vitamin waters or get inspired to make your own combinations.  

Recovery - This vitamin water is ideal for recovery post-workout or after a large bout of physical activity.  Blackberries and Cherries aid in replenishing oxygen in the blood while pomegranate and glutamine help to restore and repair muscle tissue damage

C*Power - This vitamin water gives you a boost of anti-viral and anti-inflammatory vitamin C.  With natural citrus fruits and camu camu powder, c*power is ideal for boosting your immunity after an illness or just keeping your body empowered.  This is an excellent combination for weight loss

Stressless - This is my favourite combination, the blend of watermelon and rosemary is divine.  This vitamin water is ideal for helping you balance stress on a mental and physiological level.  With the addition of B vitamins, hydrating watermelon and calming rosemary this combination is best used during times of stress or intensity

Digest It - Excellent for aiding in digestion and stimulating the colon and digestive tract.  With the combination of pineapple’s digestive enzymes, soothing, cooling mint and warming ginger, stimulating lemongrass, immunizing lychee and probiotics this water will aid in internal balance

Detox - Purify your blood and body with this awesome vitamin water!  Detox is ideal for the morning after a night out or when you are cleansing.  Created with hydrating coconut water, and fresh cucumber, nutrient rich coconut meat, detoxifying milk thistle and anti-oxidant loaded raspberries and blueberries, this combination will cleanse your body from the inside out

It simple, cheap and easy way to get your vitamins in a delicious and hydrating way.

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🌷🐰Happy Ostara!🐰🌷

It’s finally time to welcome one of my favorite seasons, spring! there’s a lot of debate about whether ostara is an actual Sabbat because the traditional wheel of the year only has seven Sabbats. ostara was essentially added to create balance and symmetry in the pagan year. whether or not you celebrate, there are still some awesome things you can do to invite some spring energy into your life!

☀️ clean out your room or arrange your altar space.

☀️ delete, block, clear, and repeat! if your holding on to any toxic friends rn, cut them tf out babes.

☀️do a spring tarot spread! (hint hint: I’ll be offering free readings today)

☀️light a candle, get some incense, and smudge your space like crazy.

☀️take a nice bath or an extra long shower!

☀️release some emotions through journaling!

☀️wear some pastel colors or white to get you into the spirit.

☀️prepare a lovely meal for yourself! traditional ostara foods include eggs (or tofu for my fellow vegans haha), strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, anything creamy, pastries and desserts!

☀️make yourself feel beautiful! do whatever you need to do to feel your best. ostara is all about recognizing the feminine and regenerating love.

hope some of this helped! have a blessed day! 💓🌸✨🐰

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A Simple “Fuck You” Curse

This simple curse will bad luck and mayhem into one’s life.

What You’ll Need

The target’s name on a piece of paper

A black or gray candle (can be a scented candle)

A small bowl

A small plate or tea saucer

A paint brush or stick

Cayenne pepper

Chili powder

Lime juice

Onion juice

What To Do

Place your candle behind the bowl and light it.

Take your ingredients and put two tablespoons of each in the bowl.

Mix them together until you get a gross, mushy paste.

Take your stick or paint brush and dip it into the paste.

Take your brush/stick and write “Fuck You” over the target’s name, while doing so say/think every injustice they’ve done you.

Once you’ve finished writing “Fuck You” on their name place the paper on the dish/saucer and drip the wax over it to seal their fate.

End the ritual by blowing out the candle and disposing of everything properly.

Keep that piece of paper in a dark area of your home where it won’t see sunlight.

***To break the curse cleanse the paper in full moon water, try to keep it from tearing, and burn it after it dries.***

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The Houses: An Extended Guide

I’ve been getting lots of questions about what houses are and how they contribute to an astrological chart. I admit, houses were the hardest thing in astrology for me to initially understand. So here is my guide on the houses for you. If you have any specific questions, let me know!

What is a house?

Astronomically, the positions of the houses in a natal chart are calculated using the person’s time of birth and geographical birth location. While the zodiac signs and the planets in the zodiac signs are based on the earth and the other planet’s revolution around the sun, the houses and the planets in the houses are based on the earth’s own rotation about its axis.

Astrologically, each house represents a different function of your life, and all the houses together encompass all the parts of a human’s full life.

What do the houses represent?

Here are the life functions each of the houses represent:

House I: Identity, expression

House II: Possessions, money

House III: Communication

House IV: Family, your roots and home

House V: Creativity, children, sex

House VI: Service, health

House VII: Relationships, marriage

House VIII: Death, transformation

House IX: Travel, philosophy

House X: Career, reputation

House XI: Friends, dreams

House XII: Secrets, self-undoing

So what does this mean for my chart?

Every planet in your chart is in a house the same way it is in a sign. There are two wheels in your chart as depicted below. There is the zodiac wheel which contain the signs (traced in purple) and the wheel of houses which contain the houses (traced in black). Houses can be uneven in size.

For example: look at the chart above, and find the moon symbol towards the top of the chart. It’s in the black division designated for the 9th house (you can see the tiny number 9 towards the center of the circle) and the purple division designated for Gemini (you can see the yellow glyph for Gemini at the edge of the chart above the moon).

The sign (Aries…Pisces) a planet is in shows HOW the planet is manifest in the person’s personality. The house (I…XII) a planet is in shows WHERE in the person’s life the planet’s energy is displayed. To read what the different positions for your planets mean, look at this site and find the position you’d like to learn more about.

How do I find the positions of my houses and what houses my planets are in?

To pull up a chart similar to the one above, go to astro.com. Hover over “Free Horoscopes”, and select “Natal Chart, Ascendant.” You can enter in your birth  information and pull up your chart.

Also, to easily find what sign each of your houses start in (i.e. the cusp of each house) go to cafeastrology’s chart generator here. You can pull a table similar to the below.

Under “Placidus Orb: 0″ is a listing of which sign each house begins in. For example, in the table above, the 3rd House (House III) starts 22º in Scorpio. Note that “ascendant” is the same as your rising, which is the same as the sign in which your 1st House starts, and your “midheaven” is the same as the sign in which your 10th House starts. 

What if I have empty houses? Did I do something wrong?

You did nothing wrong! Everybody has a few empty houses since there are 10 planets and 12 houses, and they are not necessarily bad. They simply mean that the part of your life that empty house rules won’t be too consciously prominent in your life. Of course an empty 7th house won’t mean you won’t get married and an empty 5th house won’t mean you won’t have children. It simply means your relationships or children won’t be a consciously prominent part of your life.

What are stelliums?

A stellium is when you have 4 or more planets or luminaries (i.e. Mercury…Pluto or sun or moon; nodes, asteroids, and points like Vertex or rising or midheaven aren’t counted) in one house or one sign. It is also debated that a stellium could also consist of 3 personal planets or luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars) as well. The sign or house in which the stellium is present will be very prominent in your life.

What are the different kinds of houses?

The twelve houses are divided into three groups: the angular houses (1st house, 4th house, 7th house, 10th house), the succedent houses (2nd house, 5th house, 8th house, 11th house), and the cadent houses (3rd house, 6th house, 9th house, 12th house). The three groups of houses are similar to the qualities or modalities of the zodiac signs. The angular houses (which are accepted as the most important) are similar in quality to the cardinal signs, the succedent houses are similar in quality to the fixed signs, and the cadent houses are similar in quality to the mutable signs.

The twelve houses are also divided into four other separate groups: the houses of life (1st house, 5th house, 9th house), the houses of wealth (2nd house, 6th house, 10th house), the houses of relationships (3rd house, 7th house, 11th house), and the houses of endings (4th house, 8th house, 12th house). These classifications are similar to the elements for the signs. The houses of life correspond with fire, the houses of wealth correspond with earth, the houses of relationships correspond with air, and the houses of endings correspond with water.

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Grimore Ideas

So you want to make a grimore, but you have no idea what to put it! Here are some ideas!

Spells, of course

The elements

Crystals and herbs you like, and their correspondences

Astrology: the signs, your chart, etc

Divination, both how to’s, and answers you’ve gotten

Sigils!

Moon phases, I find even sticking a calendar in there is good

Deities, Spirits, and things like that you’ve talked to or worked with

The Sabbats, if you do those, and what you can do on them

Recipes and Potions

Meditation charts and what you get out of them!

Dreams and dreamwork

Plant identification

Tarot card meanings

Art

Terminology

Crystal Grids

Pendulum keys

Tarot spreads

Essential oils you like

Mythology

Scrying

Pocket Altars

Runes

Hopefully this has give you some ideas! Good luck!

~Advicewitch Kween

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No problem :) I love watching movies with different pantheons in it. not much of a variety for films though and shows have even less and most are book adaptations, I coulda named a few more, but then itd of taken a step away from gods and goddesses to heros and lore. even though two of the ones I named centered around a hero

can you please recommend good movies about old gods and godesses?or cartoons or whatever

Hmmm Well I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard the Percy Jackson series is good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/

Other than that I don’t really know of any. I can however recommend a ton of books on Greek/Roman mythology. The best in my opinion is Mythology by Edith Hamilton. https://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Timeless-Tales-Gods-Heroes/dp/0446574759

Also, if you have time and are into it, I thoroughly recommend reading of both the Iliad and the Odyssey. They’re pretty big, and poems so they can take time if you’re not a reader or experienced, but if you like just try them out! I’m a bit more of a reader than a movie watcher. Good luck and happy watching/reading!

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the percy jackson series is good, but theres only two movies out right now and you learn more from the books than the movies on the gods/ goddesses, hercules the animated series would be a bit better to watch, more variety of gods and goddesses from the greek pantheon and some from other pantheons, clash of the titans and the sequel are also good, gods of egypt was really good and gives a fairly good reference for egyption deites, the thor movies will give a good reference for some of the mythos and deities from the norse pantheon. I'd still say read up on them as movies and shows will always alter characters to fit the plot

can you please recommend good movies about old gods and godesses?or cartoons or whatever

Hmmm Well I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard the Percy Jackson series is good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/

Other than that I don’t really know of any. I can however recommend a ton of books on Greek/Roman mythology. The best in my opinion is Mythology by Edith Hamilton. https://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Timeless-Tales-Gods-Heroes/dp/0446574759

Also, if you have time and are into it, I thoroughly recommend reading of both the Iliad and the Odyssey. They’re pretty big, and poems so they can take time if you’re not a reader or experienced, but if you like just try them out! I’m a bit more of a reader than a movie watcher. Good luck and happy watching/reading!

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Tarot cheat sheet

Major Arcana

The Fool-Beginnings, Risks The Magician- Actions, manifestations The High Priestess- Hidden knowledge, Secrets The Empress- Resources, Abundance The Emperor- Boundaries, Order The Heirophant- Education, Lessons, Unity The Lovers- Love, decisions The Chariot- Progress, determination Strength- Managing situations, endurance The Hermit- Searching, analysis The Wheel of Fortune- Fate, Luck Justice- Decisions, Balance The Hanged Man- Waiting, sacrifice Death- Transformation, Rebirth Temperance- Negotiation, common ground The Devil-Restrictions, Indulgence The Tower-Unexpected failure, breakdowns The Star- Hope and guidance The Moon- Anxiety and deep emotions The Sun- Growth, Recovery Judgement- The past, second chances The World- Success, completion

Minor Arcana

Cups- Water Element, “I feel”- How emotions rule over and work within the meanings of the cards.

Ace- Love, Beginnings Two- Partnerships Three- Celebration Four- Boredom, longing Five- Loss, sadness Six- Peace, reconciliation Seven- confusion, possibilities Eight- Departure, leaving behind Nine- A wish coming true, contentment Ten- Happiness, family Page- Opportunities, Chances Knights- Emotional and dreamy influence Queen- Intelligent and intuitive influence King- Charismatic and Wise influence

Pentacles- Earth Element, “I have”- How possessions rule over and work within the meanings of the cards.

Ace- Money, success, beginnings Two- Decisions, balancing finances Three- Showing talents, chances Four- Stability, hiding Five- Financial loss, chasing Six- Generosity, supporting Seven- Potential with work Eight- Money coming, building success Nine- Comfort, success Ten- Inheritance, something lost Page- An offer Knight- A dependable influence Queen- A genorous influence King- A prosperous influence

Swords- Air Element, “I think”- How thoughts rule over and work within the  meanings of the cards.

Ace-  Success Two- Stalemate Three- Heartbreak Four- Rest, overwhelmed Five- Conflict Six- Leaving conflict behind Seven- Theft of positivity Eight- Restriction Nine- Anxiety Ten- Endings Page- Intelligence, alertness Knight- A opposing influence Queen- An independent influence King- A strong willed influence

Wands- Fire Element, “I desire”- How desires rule over and work within the meanings of the cards.

Ace- News, beginnings, fertility Two- Making plans Three- Travel Four- Freedom, rest Five- Stong opinions, fights Six- Victory Seven- Work, effort Eight- News, attack Nine- Stress, suspicion, strength Ten- Burdened, work Page- A message, understanding Knight- A motivational influence Queen- A creative influence King- An expressive influence

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THIS IS IMPORTANT

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I'm so new to grimore writing, do you have any tips or maybe even a master list of ideas to put in one?

I have posts for this~!

[Book of Shadows]

[Grimoire/Book of Shadows Ideas] (tw: gif)

[Grimoire Organization]

[Grimoire Organization Ideas]

[Grimoire Prompts] (tw: gif)

[How to Make a Witchy Planner]

[Ideas for Your Grimoire]

[Ideas for Your Grimoire or Book of Shadows]

[Journaling Styles as Books of Shadows]

[Organizing Your Grimoire (Tips from a Neat Freak Virgo)]

Richtor’s Grimoire Tips: 

[Part 01 - Introduction]

[Part 02 - Styles of Grimoires]

[Part 03 - What Should I Write?]

[Part 04 - Organization]

[Part 05 - Decoration]

[Thoughts on Keeping a Magical Book or ‘Book of Shadows’]

[What to Put in Your Book of Shadows?]

Witch Tip - Book of Shadows / Grimoire:

[Part 01]

[Part 02]

The World of Grimoires:

[Part 01 - Why Keep a Grimoire?]

[Part 02 - Choose Your Weapons]

[Part 03 - Grimoire Styles]

Long story short: what do you want to put into it? 

It is your book, to do with as you will. Put in whatever you think you will want / need to know, that reflects your style of practicing, etc. 

In a tl;dr version of all those links, and a modified version of [this post], here’s some ideas on things you can put into a grimoire (based mostly around informational purposes). 

This list is not complete / extensive / ; moreso, it has a lot of different suggestions to give you some ideas of things you can put in. 

about you as a witch

these could be in the format of journal pages

what you want out of witchcraft, information about your natal / birth chart if you like astrology, any notes of things you do day to day, etc.

terminology of terms within witchcraft and magic

spell timing, such as Sabbats and esbats, moon phases, days of the week, time of the day, etc.

correspondences for herbs, essential oils, crystals / minerals, colors, the four elements, planetary associations, etc.

substitutions for particular items like herbs, crystals, etc.

any safety precautions for working with certain herbs, crystals, etc.

information on how to determine personal correspondences and associations

magical / non-magical materials that can be used in spells

information on the “basics” of witchcraft

what intent means, and how to work with it

what it means to visualize, and alternatives if you can’t

what meditation can do for magic, and how to do it

what channeling energy means, and how to do it

what it means to charge / enchant objects, and methods to do it

setting up an altar / magical work space, and how to do it

information on any religions you work within

example: for Wicca, you may wish to write out the Wiccan Rede, how to cast a circle, how to call the four corners / elements / guardians of the watchtowers, how to set up an altar, etc.

information on any deities you work with / wish to work with

offering ideas for any deities you work with

invocations for any deities you work with

rituals / dedications / prayers to any deities you work with

information on any spirits you work with / wish to work with

offering ideas for any spirits you work with (i.e. the fae, elemental spirits like sylphs and salamanders, etc.)

information on the history of witchcraft

information on familiars and working with animals in magic

information on varieties of magic

examples: energy work, candle magic, crystal magic / crystal grids, sachet magic, knot magic, kitchen magic / tea magic, bath magic, traditional magic, urban / modern magic, chaos magic, pop culture magic, green magic, hedgework, spirit work, shadow work, blood magic, sex magic, necromancy / death magic, etc.

MAGIC NO LONGER LOOKS LIKE A WORD TO ME

any safety precautions for working with certain varieties of magic

any divination methods you wish to try

examples: definitions of the tarot cards, tarot spreads, cartomancy interpretations, definitions of runes, reading tea leaves (tasseomancy) / coffee grounds, tips on pendulum reading, etc.

spells that you write yourself, or sigils you create yourself

any notes and observations you made when testing that spell / using it

spells or sigils from external sources that you may want to use and/or reference

specific categories of spells

examples: protection, cleansing / purification, banishing, binding, healing, new beginnings / moving on, happiness, self love, relationships, friendships, glamours, confidence, strength, energy, luck, money / wealth, school, employment, sleep, dreams / nightmares, divination, magic amplification, etc.

recipes for potions, powders, oils, tinctures, etc.

chants and incantations

blessings

curses

information on any magical groups or covens you participate in

coven rules and guidelines, members lists and contact information, etc.

I hope that helps you! Good luck!

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☄️Astrology starter pack - Master post🔱

This post contains useful information about astrology. It can be used for both beginners and more advanced people who wants to look over the basics. This is Astrology 101. It’ll help you get started out with astrology, and will provide you with basic knowledge, tips, pictures, help, and useful links.

If you’re wondering about anything, feel free to ask me, and I’ll answer!

Tip! If you’re wondering about anything, ask an astroblog. I’ll link my favourites down below. Don’t ask them to read your whole birthchart or to explain everything (unless they say they can) but ask them specific questions. And remember to shower them in the love and gratitude they deserve.

Why should you look into astrology?

Astrology can help you through anything in life. It can answer all your questions. It can help guide you. Exactly at the time you were born, all the planets and stars where lined up. And they all sent universal energy to you. Astrology and your birthchart is the blueprints you were born with. Your chart is the pavement, and the ground you stand on. The machine you were built into. It is the potential and the possibilities you have. What you chose to do with it is up to you. Which flowers you plant in the ground is your choice. How you’ll upgrade your machine is up to you.

How to start:

If you’re interested in astrology. First, you need to find out your chart. And for that, you need your birth date, place, and time. If you don’t have the time, you won’t have the possibility to look as deep into it as you might want to, but it’s better than nothing!

Here are some places you can calculate your birth chart. The first one is the most accurate.

The recommended one.

This is another one that works.

What does my chart mean?

Now that you have your chart. Make sure you have your chart drawing, a list of which Signs and degrees your Planets are in, a list of which Houses your Planets and Signs are, and a list of your aspects.

This is a link to where you can put in your birth info, and then click on the symbols in it for an explaination! It is very newbeginner-friendly!

Here is Marilyn Monroe’s chart which I made at astro.com:

Picture 1:

Picture 2:

In picture nr. 1 is her: Natal chart drawing, planets in the signs, degrees (exmample Sun 10 degrees Gemini. The degree is between the Planet and the Sign), the aspects, and the houses. But I reccommend looking for your houses in picture 2 instead with the tables. It’s easier to understand.

In order to recreate picture nr. 2 with all the tabels and details, click on:

This is what the symbols mean:

Connections and similarities:

Aries - Mars - 1st house

Taurus - Venus - 2nd house

Gemini - Mercury - 3rd house

Cancer - Moon - 4th house

Leo - Sun - 5th house

Virgo - Mercury - 6th house

Libra - Venus - 7th house

Scorpio - Pluto - 8th house

Sagittarius - Jupiter - 9th house

Capricorn - Saturn - 10th house

Aquarius - Uranus - 11th house

Pisces - Neptune - 12th house

Planets and Signs:

Planets represents what. Signs are why and who.

This link explains Planets in the Signs, and Planets in the Houses.

Sun is the ego, the pride, the glory.

Moon is the emotions, the feelings, the intuitive.

Mercury the intellect, the communication, and research.

Venus is love, art, beauty, sharing, relationships.

Mars is physical power, strength, aggression, passion, fire.

Jupiter enlarges everything it’s in contact with. Travel, knowledge, library, books, wisdom.

Saturn minimizes everything it’s in contact with. Suppression and control. Authoritive, and leading.

Uranus is rebellion, originality, uniqueness, the genuis, bizarre.

Neptune is the subconsciousness, 6th sense, imagination, fantasy, and dreams.

Pluto is transformation. Being reborn, rising from the ashes. Magnetism. Being obsessive.

Aspects:

The aspects is how the planets interact with each other within you, and how they affect each other. Like a bunch of marbles or dominos. One starts moving, and then all the others starts too!

Click here for a helpful link you can use to understand the aspects.

Houses:

Houses represents where.

Here’s an explaination.

1st house AKA Ascendant is you, self expression.

2nd house is possessions and marriage.

3rd house is connections and communication.

4th house AKA IC is roots, home, and family.

5th house is creativity, beauty, art, and drama.

6th house is the body, health, healing, education, work.

7th house is what you provide and give to others. What you share. And relationships.

8th house is sex, death, money, secrets, and mystery.

9th house is higher education, wisdom, knowledge, exploring, philosophy, travel.

10th house AKA Midheaven is career, social status, image.

11th house is hopes, wishes, friends, and community.

12th house is the realm between our world and the other. The doorway. What is hidden. Psychic abilities.

Links to check out:

http://astromatrix.org/

https://cafeastrology.com/

http://www.astro.com/index.htm

http://members.wizzards.net/~magyan/aspects.htm

https://www.sunsigns.org/

https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/astrology-posts/

What to do next:

If you’ve done all this now, I recommend looking into your minor aspects too.

Find out if there’s anything unusual about your chart. Any stelliums or interceptions. Stelliums are when there are 3-4 or more Planets in a House or Sign. Interceptions are when a Sign is enclosed within a house. When it jumps over that Sign at the list of Signs in the Houses.

Now that you know the basics, you can go ahead and continue to explore the astro-world! Find out more about your chart, look at other peoples’ charts, try synastry, vedic, vertex, draconic, persona charts, etc. Now that you have a solid footing, the rest is a lot easier. Let the inner curiousity for knowledge lead you into new areas of deeper and more interesting astrology!

Amazing and talented astro-blogs to follow:

@wizkhalibra @ayyries @astrolocherry @astrocelestial @astrollusion @ayat-the-aquarius @venusianvirgo @cutestrology @lilmajorshawty @leoasf @astrognossienne @shycancer @airmom @frozen-lunar @lulucute @sagpluto @eighthousesun @twelvehousemoon @ninthhousemoon @libraloving @coldbloodcapricorn @mars5th @sunin4th @astrologyputa @astrologymarina @yikes-cancer @aquariusqueen @aquarian-madness @typicalaquariusposts @glossoiogy @venusbased @curvestrology @capvenus @glassy-star @venusian5 @astrolofae @voguestrology @fauxastrology @deepstrology @venusians @jupiterswhore @zodiacale @zodiacharem @astro-hotline @tauro-la-sol @solilunar @astroloshy @astrawrlogy @aesthetics-astro @astrodickology

I wish I could add more, but I could only add 50! Check them out! These are some of the blogs I follow + some of my mutuals. They all post creative and helpful content, and they all are talented and astonishing people. They are all angels so give them a follow and some love!

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writing-prompt-s:

Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of fight you lost. Did you lose the battle with cancer? Maybe you died in a fist fight. Even facing addiction. After taking a deep drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down and asks for the glorious tale of your demise!

Oh my god, this is beautiful.

A small child enters Valhalla. The battle they lost was “hiding from an alcoholic father.” Odin sees the flinch when he slams the cup and refrains from doing it again. He hears the child’s pain; no glorious battle this, but one of fear and wretched survival.

He invites the child to sit with him, offers the choicest mead and instructs his men to bring a sword and shield, a bow and arrow, of the very best materials and appropriate size. “Here,” he says, “you will find no man who dares to harm you. But so you will know your own strength, and be happy all your days in Valhalla, I will teach you to use these weapons.”

The sad day comes when another child enters the hall. Odin does not slam his cup; he simply beams with pride as the first child approaches the newcomer, and holds out her bow and quiver, and says “nobody here will hurt you. Everyone will be so proud you did your best, and I’ll teach you to use these, so you always know how strong you are.”

————

A young man enters the hall. He hesitates when Odin asks his story, but at long last, it ekes out: skinheads after the Pride parade. His partner got into a building and called for help. The police took a little longer than perhaps they really needed to, and two of those selfsame skinheads are in the hospital now with broken bones that need setting, but six against one is no fair match. The fear in his face is obvious: here, among men large enough to break him in two, will he face an eternity of torment for the man he left behind?

Odin rumbles with anger. Curses the low worms who brought this man to his table, and regales him with tales of Loki so to show him his own welcome. “A day will come, my friend, when you seek to be reunited, and so you shall,” Odin tells him. “To request the aid of your comrades in battle is no shameful thing.”

———-

A woman in pink sits near the head of the table. She’s very nearly skin and bones, and has no hair. This will not last; health returns in Valhalla, and joy, and light, and merrymaking. But now her soul remembers the battle of her life, and it must heal.

Odin asks.

And asks again.

And the words pour out like poisoned water, things she couldn’t tell her husband or children. The pain of chemotherapy. The agony of a mastectomy, the pain still deeper of “we found a tumor in your lymph nodes. I’m so sorry.” And at last, the tortured question: what is left of her?

Odin raises his flagon high. “What is left of you, fair warrior queen, is a spirit bright as fire; a will as strong as any forged iron; a life as great as any sea. Your battle was hard-fought, and lost in the glory only such furor can bring, and now the pain and fight are behind you.“

In the months to come, she becomes a scop of the hall–no demotion, but simple choice. She tells the stories of the great healers, Agnes and Tanya, who fought alongside her and thousands of others, who turn from no battle in the belief that one day, one day, the war may be won; the warriors Jessie and Mabel and Jeri and Monique, still battling on; the queens and soldiers and great women of yore.

The day comes when she calls a familiar name, and another small, scarred woman, eyes sunken and dark, limbs frail, curly black hair shaved close to her head, looks up and sees her across the hall. Odin descends from his throne, a tall and foaming goblet in his hands, and stuns the hall entire into silence as he kneels before the newcomer and holds up the goblet between her small dark hands and bids her to drink.

“All-Father!” the feasting multitudes cry. “What brings great Odin, Spear-Shaker, Ancient One, Wand-Bearer, Teacher of Gods, to his knees for this lone waif?”

He waves them off with a hand.

“This woman, LaTeesha, Destroyer of Cancer, from whom the great tumors fly in fear, has fought that greatest battle,” he says, his voice rolling across the hall. “She has fought not another body, but her own; traded blows not with other limbs but with her own flesh; has allowed herself to be pierced with needles and scored with knives, taken poison into her very veins to defeat this enemy, and at long last it is time for her to put her weapons down. Do you think for a moment this fight is less glorious for being in silence, her deeds the less for having been aided by others who provided her weapons? She has a place in this great hall; indeed, the highest place.”

And the children perform feats of archery for the entertainment of all, and the women sing as the young man who still awaits his beloved plays a lute–which, after all, is not so different from the guitar he once used to break a man’s face in that great final fight.

Valhalla is a place of joy, of glory, of great feasting and merrymaking.

And it is a place for the soul and mind to heal.

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Smoke Cleansing With Wood

Smoke Cleansing. For most of us, Our first thought, Or go to would be white sage And While sage is great to use, It is to often relied on as the cure all and the only option. There are so many other herbs, and barks around us to use for their cleansing smoke that they are easy to overlook.  

My favorite wood to use is Palo Santo (Holy Wood from Peru) But not everyone has access to that. And for this reason, I present to you all, (SOME) Woods, And their magical correspondences.

Also note that the fallen leaves from these trees can also be used to smoke cleanse. Grind them up, And burn on charcoal. 

Birch-  Purification, Blessing, Protection, Expel negative Spirits

Cedar- Cleanses negative atmospheres

 Holly-  Purity, strength, Protection

Hawthorn- marriage, love and protection.

Juniper- Protection, and clears negativity 

Oak- healing, strength, money

Pine-  Purification, health, fortune, fertility, and prosperity

Willow-  Healing, protection, enchantments

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