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Felt like showing you my most recent artwork 💖 (10/07/25)

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Blueberry season

I'm soooo excited about blueberry season. My goal is to pick around 7.5 kg of berries (rinsed) so that I can eat them for breakfast. I've already done some progress on this goal since the first few blueberries popped up by the end of June. 🫐

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Finished spell

My prosperity, joy and self-love spell that I started on the summer solstice was finished a few days ago. I am currently wondering where I should despose of my spell ingredients (all of them are nature-safe).

I'm thinking about throwing them near a park or by the crossroads or other liminal space. I'm also thinking about putting it outside of my home but I live in an apartment so that isn't ideal to me.

I was wondering if anyone else has ideas on where I can put the ingredients?

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Harvesting wild herbs, fruits and berries

Image source: pinterest

I made a goal for 2025 of picking around 1 kg herbs and berries in total this summer and autumn. I am about to begin this soon more seriously because the berries are starting to ripen.

I already picked some lilacs and made lilac syrup. Now I want to pick blue berries and freeze them for winter. I also want to make jams and pies with self-harvested plants since I haven't really done that before.

I also want to study herbs but I don’t really know how that will go. As I wrote in my last post, life is moving quickly and so therefore I don't have as much time on my hands as I usually do.

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Lol I wanted to ask since I am experimenting with filming and I haven’t seen a lot of clips at all on tumblr. Thank you for your time! 💖

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Life is moving quickly

There have been a lot of changes lately. Early in June I found out that I got one of the jobs that I applied to however I decided to quit since I had summer school. I failed math class and therefore I had to go back to school after everyone else. It really took a toll on me both physically and mentally.

Because of this I want to focus on health and calmness which leads me to not knowing how much I will post now. I've been a lot in nature and picking berries that I will have for breakfast for the next year which makes me feel calm, fullfilled and productive at the same time.

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Blueberry picking 💙

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How summer vacation is going:

Finals week was crazy, can't blame me for just staying in bed all day long.

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Summer plans

I got summer break just a few days ago and I have quite a lot of plans.

Witchy

Meditation: I wanna keep my daily 180 day meditation practice going.

Manifestation: since summer feels like a great time for planning ahead I want to do so with some manifesting spellwork.

Midsummar celebration: I wanna celebrate midsommar like I have done every year (more about the holiday + litha in next weeks post).

Social / work / learning

Voluntering / internship: with the goal of knowledge and getting to know more people I find this to be important to me.

Writing / journaling: I want to start a writing project but also a bit of journaling for the sake of inspiration.

Saving money: money is an important aspect of life and so therefore I wanna make sure I have stability.

Mundane

TBE Vaccine: I love nature so much and am also scared of getting TBE so I want to get vaccinated soonly.

Cleaning routine: I have had a hard time to clean when going to school so I want to get more stable routines.

Workout routine: I lost my motivation to workout in May so when I got more time on my hands I want to prioritize it.

Health: As you can tell there's a lot of focus on health here. I want to become more healthy.

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It makes me so happy to know that so many witches around the world are currently working something big under this solstice ❤️☀️

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Litha / Midsommar / Summer Solstice

The Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year and is celebrated in many cultures. In this post I will focus on Litha the wiccan tradition, midsommar (the nordic tradition) and the general idea of the summer solstice.

Litha

Like many other wiccan and pagan sabbats, this celebration is inspired by celtic culture. In the reconstructed germanic calendar the Anglo-Saxon names for the months June and July is līða (litha) and it is from there that the tradition got its name.

During this day the sun is widely worshipped and worked with. It is somewhat concidered the beginning of summer and therefore divination and manifestation may be a good idea. Since this day also marks a shift in nature (days getting darker again) it can also be a day of reflection and meditation as well as inner power and brightness.

Midsommar

As a Swedish person this is a big part of my life. Even though this image looks rather outdated, the celebration looks very similar to this day. Some of my best and earliest memories are of this tradition.

Similar to the image, it is still common to dance around a maypole during this day. Earlier in the day, children and adults gather flowers to dress the maypole-skeleton with. When it is covered you raise it and place it in the ground. After that the dancing and singing can begin.

It is also belived that flowers and herbs have a greater magickal potency during this day. To harvest plants by midsummer evening ensures for strong herbs. A common thing that is still done in Sweden is putting seven different types of flowers under your pillow. This is belived to make you dream about your future partner. A simple form of love divination!

Midsommar has roots in pre-christianity, however the christian movement affected the holiday. John the Baptist is celebrated around the same time and is therefore an important figure during midsommar in some of the nordic countries (Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Norway) but in Sweden the tradition is not too influenced by christianity.

Previously midsommar was celebrated on the 21st in Sweden but in 1953 it started to be celebrated the Friday closest to the summer solstice.

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I have a math exam tomorrow because I failed the entire math course. Please wish me luck!

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Meditation day 60 of 180

I am 1/3 through my meditation challange! Here's a little bit about how it is going.

Backstory

I started reading "financial sorcery" by Jason Miller. Similarly to most witchy books, this book had a short section in the beginning about simple practices (meditation, grounding, protection, etc). Here Jason mentioned that meditation is important and that it will probably take 6 months for most people to meditate efficently. So I thought "Why not make it a challange!" Therefore I will meditate every day for 6 months (180 days)!

Practice

My first thought was to only meditate for 10 minutes for the entire 6 months however I switched it up a bit. So for the first 20 days I meditated for 10 minutes, after that I increased it with 2.5 minutes. Every 20 days I increase the time with another 2.5 minutes so that by the end of the 6 months I will have reached 30 mins.

Experience

Day 1 - 10: at first it was actually quite easy to meditate. I could easily let go of thoughts however the thing that bugged me was the time. I often wanted to open my eyes and check it.

Day 11 - 20: I finally was able to do my first 10 minute meditation sitting up. Since my knee injury I've had a hard time sitting in a meditation position.

Day 21 - 30: the added 2.5 minutes was quite hard to get used to. By this time I started experimenting with time of day. Before I only meditated in the morning but now sometimes in the evening.

Day 31 - 40: this was a difficult time. I often forgot meditations until late in the evening because life was stressful. However meditation brought me some peacefulness.

Day 41 - 50: this was the first time I successfully let go of all thoughs during a meditation. My body started feeling a bit "static" and I could feel my environment differently.

Day 51- 60: the 15 minute long meditations have been quite hard to be honest. I feel a bit afraid of increasing time tomorrow but at the same time I am excited about starting the second thrid of the challange.

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Knitting project - advice please

I started making these granny squares some time ago. My goal is to make a blanket thats 90 by 180 cm big. However I have found some problems since this is my first time crocheting ever!

I wanted to ask if anyone knows how to make the sqaures the same size? As you probably can tell, the skull sqaures are a bit smaller in size. I am afraid that they will stretch the blanket in an unpleasant way.

My second question is how to even crochet them together? Since they are different they don't have the same amount of stitches on the edge which makes me worried about crocheting them together.

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Money working results

I am very excited about my life right now! I started some money workings just a while back. Last Thursday I applied for jobs after preforming a simple money spell.

Yesterday I was at a job interview för the very first job I applied to that Thursday. Hopefully I will get it cause it seems very fun! They said they would get back to me today or tomorrow!