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We turn our backs on Christ when we demonize and dehumanize other people made in the image of God, or when we ignore the poor and vulnerable right before us

Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, "Remember Your Death Lenten Devotional"

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Mother of the Church, pray for us.

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got to go to a catholic mass today and like. woah. wtf. theres so much stuff happening. insane business. like, songs? up and down? communion? call and response prayers??? insane to my raised southern baptist brain. we just had to sit there in silence for like. an hour or so . maybe sing a hymn or two but like.. dude.. woagh.. v fun ill probably be back soon enough (also everything was so pretty its insane.. also also this place is like. the size of a theme park compared to what i grew up with)

-Dainn

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Nuestra Señora De La Amargura, Cieza (Murcia-España)

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hi. intro post.

this is the ghost sound system. we are a ddnos system, with some.. varying views on religion. and instead of giving everyone a different blog we are embracing the chaos of the body and keeping it all together in one. current line up is:

Dàinn, He/Him: Catholic, learning.

Kal, He/Him: Hellenistic pagan, devoted to Lady Hestia and Lord Hades.

Sasha, She/They: Jewitch, may or may not post.. she hasnt been out much.

Darion, He/Him, and Max, He/Him: agnostic? might be in to reblog random stuff who knows.

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fun that like. having some very conflicting ideas and trains of thought about religion. like we grew up southern baptist, and thats been an absolute struggle to get over. growing up in a not-great house and adding in 'god just tolerates you, and if you grovel at His feet and beg enough He *might* let you into heaven when you die' as a like. 10 year old. and now having a want to get into catholicism.. the struggler..... i want to get into this. but also if i do get into it we need to be so so so careful about it and how we let it affect us.

-Dàinn

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e-offering to Mother Mary

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Patron Saints for your problems

If you see a problem you're experiencing down below, pray to the associated saint for intercession to aid you. ♥

Insomnia — St. Peter Damian Headaches — St. Teresa of Avila Illness — St. Raphael the Archangel Chronic illness — St. Lidwina Burnout — St. Thomas Aquinas Animal wellness — St. Francis of Assisi Studying / academia — St. Joseph of Cupertino Housing insecurity — St. Benedict Joseph Labre Anxiety / depression — St. Dymphna Desperation / hopelessness — St. Jude Thaddaeus Loneliness — St. Rita of Cascia Gender identity — St. Joan of Arc Fear / insecurity — St. Michael the Archangel Dysfunctional families — St. Eugene de Mazenod Abuse — St. Monica Grief — St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Financial trouble — St. Matthew Lost items — St. Anthony of Padua Travel / motorists — St. Christopher Spiritual oppression — St. Benedict

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Fruit Correspondences

Apple: spirit work, offerings, love, healing, beauty, wisdom, harvest

Apricot: love, self love

Avocado: beauty, love, lust, fertility, spell work

Banana: wealth, luck, spirituality, religion, masculinity

Blueberry: protection, banishment, curses

Blackberry: protection, fertility, femininity, funerals, afterlife, moving on

Cantaloupe: spell work, protection, grounding, energy work

Cherry: lust, love, fertility

Clementine: childhood, dreams

Coconut: protection, cleansing, femininity

Cranberry: holidays, blood magic, spirit work

Date: fertility, luck, money

Dragon fruit: lust, passion, spell work

Durian: curses, cleansing, protection

Fig: happiness, divination, love

Grapefruit: cleansing

Grape: money, spell work, fertility, offerings

Guava: love, self love, lust

Honeydew: cleansing, energy, love

Jackfruit: divination, spell work, happiness

Kiwifruit: health, love, lust, happiness

Kumquat: luck, health, money

Lemon: cleansing, purification, protection, curse breaking

Lime: cleansing, protection, love

Lychee: love, self love, femininity, beauty

Mango: love, lust, fertility

Nectarine: love, self love, spell work

Orange: cleansing, protection, divination

Papaya: curse breaking, banishing, spirit work, love

Passion fruit: lust, love, passion

Peach: fertility, love, happiness, spirit work

Pear: offerings, happiness, luck, money, confidence

Persimmon: healing, love, luck, protection

Pineapple: protection, health, offerings, money, luck

Plantain: fertility, masculinity, lust, passion

Plum: love, healing, offerings

Pomegranate: offerings, blood magic, fertility, divination, spell work

Prune: cleansing, protection

Raspberry: love, dreams, health

Strawberry: love, wishes, dreams, happiness

Starfruit: lunar/solar magic, spell work, cleansing

Tangerine: solar magic, strength, energy work

Tomato: protection, cleansing, love, passion

Watermelon: healing, femininity, lust, love, spirit work, cleansing

Tip Jar

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Banana bread with blackberries and dates

A little kitchen witch magic for you all, I bake all the time so decided that I'll share some recipes once in a while on here too! This banana bread is perfect for (late) Lughnasadh celebrations, or just when you are in the mood to bake.

Witchy touches during baking;

Add the herbs or spices with intention! For example cinnamon for warmth and prosperity, nutmeg for protection and vanilla for love (while you add these spices, stir clockwise and say their magical properties aloud or in your head)

When pouring the cake batter in the baking mold, draw a sigil or rune of choice with intention.

Share the magic with loved ones or with yourself!

Banana bread recipe

240g flour (of choice)

15g baking powder

pinch of soda

1 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg powder

Few drops of vanilla/ 1 sachet vanilla sugar

5 dates (pit removed)

2 bananas

2 eggs

50g butter (of choice, can also be oil)

Handful blackberries

Preheat the oven to 210 degrees.

Mix dry ingredients together.

Blend the bananas, eggs and dates in a blender until smooth and add to the dry ingredients.

Mix this together, and add a handful of blackberries. Mash them a bit and fold through the batter.

Grease a cake mold, or cupcake mold with some butter and put the cake batter into the baking mold.

(Optional) You can also add walnuts, almonds whatever kind of nut you’d like.

Bake for 20-25 minutes, check with a skewer (if it comes out dry, the cake is done!)

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🔮 Absolutely random, assorted facts from my experience with Tarot:

You can set rules with your deck. Don’t like reversed cards? Don’t pull them. Don’t interpret them. Request not to get them. Don’t care about the position of the card and want only its meaning? Ask for it.

You can pull confirmation cards. If you are working with a companion, you can set up their personal confirmation card. If you’re working with the deck and the general universe, you can pick a feel-good card (or a rare card if you want) and request it whenever you want to get a vibecheck.

You can repull. If it feels weird, it probably is weird. If you keep pulling the same card all over again, it’s probably correct. But if you pulled one weird one that just doesn’t seem like it belongs, repull. Your deck - your rules.

You don’t need to sweat too much over “official meanings”. So what if the Tower means “something bad”? If it means something positive for you, go with your feelings first. Each practitioner will have their own associations with the cards. I for one quite like the Tower, but I genuinely hate getting the High Priestess. It’s individual.

You don’t need to work with a specific Deity, spirit, or daemon. The cards are powerful tools without any additional presence.

You can assign a deck to a particular entity. I have four decks, out of which three belong to (a) companion(s) of mine. This is completely individual and fully relies on who you want to touch your cards.

You can confuse the cards. When the reading starts to feel like it just reiterates your feelings, it probably is. Or you worded your question badly and the cards don’t know what to tell you. Or you already know the answer. Or maybe something else.

You might be turning your spread into multiple spreads. If your session with tarot can be broken into a number of smaller sessions, you are probably overworking yourself. It helps to step back and think whether or not your multi-card spread turned into a multitude of smaller spreads. Is that why nothing is making sense?

You might be told to read cards some other time. Bias, moods, instability, or the cards just being not in the good state - all of these can affect whether they agree to work with you in the first place. I’ve had decks that stayed “silent” for months on and decks that were willing to work with me every day. It depends.

P. S. One more time: this is just my experience. It is not universal.

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Cleansing Your Home

Introduction: What is Cleansing?  

Cleansing a space spiritually or energetically can be a fun and refreshing task. After an illness or at the close of a season, it can feel invigorating to move the old, stagnant energy out and welcome the new, fresh energy in.  

Cleansing, also known as purification, is found in every culture around the world in one form or another. The Indigenous people of America have rituals of smudging with white sage, while the Celts would practice saining, a similar practice. Regardless of your culture, it is possible to cleanse your home and space to ward off negative energy and bring about prosperity and peace. You can cleanse any space too! Your home, your car, an alter space, and so on. If you are a magical practitioner, it can be important to cleanse a space – and yourself – before and after any spell work.  

Consider cleansing as energetic hygiene as it is frequently referred to in modern spiritual sources. It is something that shouldn’t just be done when something bad happens, but rather done routinely as part of your housekeeping or maintenance. However, it can definitely be utilized for specific instances. You might consider cleansing your guest room after hosting a visitor or cleansing your home after an intense conversation with your spouse. Like any skill, cleansing becomes easier and more effective the more you do it. It becomes easier to clear out negative energy from a space, and it becomes harder for that negative energy to return in the future.  

Step 1: Grounding 

To start, you should ground yourself. Get barefoot – feel the ground outside your home and then feel the floor beneath your feet. Talk to your house: ask it how it’s feeling, if it needs anything or has any tender spots that need attention energetically. (I am a big proponent of talking to your house more! Dozens of different religions and spiritualities recognize the home as being alive and full of magical entities that can help you or make your life very difficult. So, be nice and make friends with them! You might find that missing necklace or sock appears on the coffee table after a good, long chat.) Meditate within the home to connect with it and ask its permission or tell the home what you will be doing. The idea is to slow your vibration to the speed of the house, so you can understand what it is telling you. This can be done by sitting or lying down, closing your eyes, and focusing on the natural sounds of your house and nature around you. You might also find that working with crystals and stones helps ground you. Maybe spending some time in your garden with your hands in the soil.  

Choose a method that feels real and organic in you, not the hottest trend on Instagram. Once you feel settled and connected to the home or space, you are ready to begin.  

Step 2: Physical Cleaning 

After the grounding work is complete, the cleansing work can begin. The first step is to physically clean the space. If you are coming out of a period of depression or illness, this activity can feel overwhelming. There may be a lot of dishes in the sink, piles of laundry to do, or clutter up to the ceiling. Take a deep breath. We have all been here before and, while the mess may reflect your current state of being, it is not a portrait of who you are. It is just a cluttered moment in time that you will cleanse yourself of and have a fresh start from on the other side. So, turn on some happy music, open the curtains and the windows so that light and fresh air can enter the space. Start small: only set aside 15 – 30 mins to clean and then give yourself a break. Know that this part is the longest and most tedious part, but it can have some major health benefits.   

Step 3: Choosing Your Method 

There are tons of ways to energetically cleanse a space, but not all of them are available to everyone. As mentioned before, the native Indigenous Americans frequently used a ritual called smudging to cleanse their spaces (ex: the Cheyenne and Navajo). This involved burning an herb bundle – often made of white sage – and using the smoke to drive out negative energy. Even though you can’t practice the ritual of smudging unless you have Indigenous ancestry, you can still use smoke to clean out spaces. Find an herb native to your culture to use. For example, people of Germanic or Pennsylvania Dutch descent might use bay leaves, while people of Asian descent might use cinnamon. Whatever you choose, make sure you do your research and pick an herb that has meaning to you. Take your time to find one that doesn’t just have purification qualities that suit your need, but also has spiritual significance to you and that you can source locally and sustainably. At the bottom of this page, you will find a couple Etsy shops that are great for sourcing herbs.  

Note: Please DO NOT use endangered species of herbs unless you are growing them yourself or know a sustainable, safe method of harvesting. WHITE SAGE IS ENDANGERED AND RARELY SUSTAINABLY SOURCED. Please replace it with common garden sage unless necessary for cultural ritual. Non-endangered purifying herbs include cinnamon, bay leaves, sweetgrass, juniper, lavender, and so many more.   

You could also investigate sweeping, a method of cleansing and protecting used by witches for centuries. Brooms are a classic tool utilized by magic practitioners. Some practitioners may encourage you to have a broom for magical purposes and a broom dedicated to household cleaning, however, the same broom was used for both tasks for centuries in homes. So, if you can’t afford or fit another broom in your life, that’s okay! You can find brooms on Esty that are handmade and imbued with good intentions as well. 

You can also use salt mixed with herbs to cleanse a space. Any form of salt that you have on hand works, and, once again, you should be working with herbs familiar and meaningful to you. Salt is meant to represent purification, fidelity, and endurance. You can similarly use water and herbs. In this case, preparing a few days ahead of time by purifying and charging your water can be helpful. Leave the water out in the sun or under the full or new moon for 1-3 days before cleansing your house. If putting water directly onto the floor or windowsills isn’t conducive to your home, you can easily turn your blessed water into a spray! 

Step 4: Purification 

The final step is actually going through the act of spiritually cleansing your home or space. 

First and foremost, set your intention. Clear your mind and focus on the fact that you are demanding the negative energy leave your home and that only peace and love be left in its place. With every movement, every stroke of the broom, everywhere the smoke touches, intend to free the space from negativity and leave only your good intentions. Your home is your responsibility to take care of and cleansing is an act of love. Set your intention with confidence, knowing you are in control, and this is your space, and these are your boundaries. Set your intention mentally in stone, water, fire, or air and then start your cleansing process. 

If you are using smoke to cleanse your space, craft or purchase your herb bundle. Light the end of the herbs and let the flame burn bright for a moment before blowing it out. This should leave your bundle burning silently, producing smoke for you to use throughout the house. (You may have to light your bundle more than once.) You can waft the smoke over yourself and throughout the space, or you can sit for a moment in each room, letting the smoke travel as it pleases.  

With any cleansing ritual, you typically want to work from the front of the house towards the back. Push any negative spots of energy you feel towards the open back door or open windows. Sending negative energy out the front door can invite it back into the house which is why we move from back to front. This is also in correlation with the Feng Shui method. 

If you are using the sweeping method, then you are literally trying to sweep the bad vibes out of the house! Make sure to stop in all corners and crevices of the house as energy can become stagnant in spots you don’t move through often. And pay attention to any closets, the laundry room, the basement, and even the garage! (If you have wall to wall carpeting, sweeping might seem pointless. Fear not! We can use a vacuum cleaner here, but intention is key. Make sure to imagine vacuuming up the negativity and unwanted substances, and then empty the container out the back door when you are done!) Leave your broom at your front door to ward off any negative energy that might try to come back. Final tip here: never sweep under someone’s feet! It’s considered bad luck. If you accidentally do, say “I will dance at your wedding” to break the curse.  

With salt or water, you want to purify by setting boundaries. Utilize the four corners of your home and any entryways you may have (I.e., windows and doors). Sprinkle the salt or water in each corner in a counterclockwise motion and line each entry way. Leave the salt or water in place for 1-2 days before sweeping or cleaning up. Here is where you would substitute that spray instead of sprinkling water. Spray every room thoroughly, repeating your intent with every spritz. Still work from the front to the back of your house. You can also leave bowls of salt and blessed water throughout the house between cleansings to absorb any negative energy. Place crystals like tourmaline and clear quartz in the bowls to kick up the protection a notch.  

Moving counterclockwise will banish negative energy, while moving clockwise will welcome fresh, positive energy while strengthening wards already in place.  You might find that making a lot of noise helps to break up the negative energy as well. Clap your hands, sing out loud, bang a drum – anything to get the vibrations in your house moving again and responding to your intent.  

Conclusion: Using Your New Space 

Congratulations! You have successfully cleansed your home or space. Now you can take a deep breath of that fresh air and feel peace knowing that any negative energy, leftover sickness, or general bad vibes have been expelled from your home. Place any wards or protective totems you may have in their proper place and carry on enjoying your day or spell craft.  

Placing selenite or black tourmaline in the corners of your home can add a boost of protection and increase the longevity of your cleansing. Or, try placing house plants near your entryways to absorb any negative energy that might be sent your way. 

Create a routine from here on out where you clean and cleanse your home regularly. Maybe it’s a weekly maintenance task for you, in which case I suggest making Fridays your cleansing day for the best effect. Or maybe you move with the seasons, finding the last full moon or first new moon to work on. Your cleansing ritual will be unique to you and your space. Don’t be afraid to try new things or add your own flare. Spiritualism is a personal and deeply intimate endeavor, so listen to your body throughout this process. You should feel better at the end and, if you don’t, perhaps more cleansing and new methods are needed. 

 

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