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19.06-25

They are so beautiful.

- Vivera Rossi

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Friendly reminder that the gods do not want you to worship at the expense of your mental and/or physical health!!!

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“Give Aphrodite a red candle!” “Give her a blue candle!” Give her a candle of your favorite color. Tell her why you love it so much; is it just comforting or does it symbolize something to you? When you see that candle you’ll think “aw I love that color!” That’s literally what some of her epithets personify her as, that feeling of love and warmth! Just an idea idk 🤷‍♀️

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Making actual posts? Nah. Reblogging vaguely witchy purple stuff

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♱ MISCELLANEOUS WHIMSIGOTH PNGS ♱

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˚˖𓍢ִ 🔮 ˚ celestialcore pngs — free to use !! no credits needed

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“Defy the gods” meanwhile Odysseus only survives bc of the advice and support of gods lmao

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channeling celestial energy

channeling celestial energy is useful for performing cosmic magic and charging objects. channeling energy in the most basic sense involves harnessing energy from an external source to use in spellwork. in this case, you’d be harnessing energy from planets, stars, constellations, comets, nebulae, or a variety of other celestial bodies. 

to accomplish this, i would suggest the following:

focus on whatever celestial body you want to harness energy from

imagine a trail of stardust, a string, a beam of light, whatever you want, acting as a tether from yourself to the source of energy you’ve chosen - think of it as a charger with a cord powering the battery of [insert thing here]

after you’ve filled up your battery, you can either store it for later or use it right then - up to you

you can do this wherever you want! if visualization isn't your jam, you could maybe use some imagery or music to inspire you - i like using ambient music or even rain sounds depending on the situation.

good luck! ✧

© 2025 bunny-claws

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An Alternate Look at Correspondences

I see a lot of people speaking about correspondences in a way that doesn’t line up with my study and experience at all, so I figured I’d put something out there and see where discussion leads.

There’s a big narrative on Witchblr that correspondences are an entirely personal phenomenon: that the same herb may be used in entirely different ways by two people within the same practice, and that anything can be substituted for almost anything else with the right mindset. I’m going to challenge that some. 

Personal Correspondences can absolutely exist but I think it’s false to say it’s because of the ingredient itself. Let’s take chamomile: if it’s been used for very similar goals across traditions and cultures for generations, there’s probably a reason chamomile is associated with sleep. Our ancestors didn’t pull correspondences from nowhere, they were pulling what worked. (Now we have some science to break down ingredients and explain where some of that effectiveness came from, but we can’t do that with things like luck or love. I think it’s safe to assume the same trust in logic should be applied.) So if you want to use chamomile to add energy and it works, that says “My personal energy prompted by this ingredient is enough to override the energies of the ingredient itself and still be effective.” Which is awesome and totally a thing! But that’s you being a good energy worker, not chamomile being good for energy.  Substitutions absolutely can be made, magic is designed to be workable with what you have around you. That said, you need to understand the role that ingredient plays and substitute accordingly. You would never substitute sugar with salt in the kitchen just because they look the same, you’d substitute the sugar with something designed to add sweetness! Lemon juice and cream of tartar are wildly different ingredients, but both will work as stabilizers in sweets and can easily be substituted in that context. But I wouldn’t sprinkle cream of tartar over my salmon when I don’t have a lemon. Spells are recipes and the ingredient is there for a reason to play a role; substitute for that role just like you would in a kitchen.

and of course, Different Traditions are going to have different ways they believe ingredients and correspondences work, certain associations based on folklore, etc. which all plays a factor in variation as well. With so much variation and conflicting information, I think setting personal rules for ourselves about how we believe correspondences do (and don’t!) work is an important part in establishing a solid practice. If the ingredients can equally mean whatever, then why would we bother mentioning specific ingredients at all, you know? 

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One of my personal ways of thinking about and relating to the minor arcana suites is mind (swords), heart (cups), body (pentacles), soul (wands).

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17 years a tarot reader now and I think my one piece of advice for beginners is to simply spend time with your cards.

Play with them, flip through them, make games out of them, take them places with you, know them and love them, do readings for your friends for fun.

Don't stress yourself out over memorizing every single card in the beginning. It'll come with time and practice.

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e-offering to Lord Apollo 𖤓

Paeon Apollon, deliver us from ill health. Pray that your healing light protect us and our loved ones. May you and your son, Asklepios, guide the hands of skilled health professionals to cure all ailments, mental and physical, so that in our good health we may appreciate your greatness and worship you, Apollo Aegle'tes. I ask that you bring light to the families suffering with uncertainty and hopelessness.