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The stress time is over! Or it might be. This is my next “mini altar” I made by things I found at home - feathers of pheasant, lumps of clay from my grandfather´s forest, some cinnamon and cloves, mini jingle bells and beads and the most important thing - beewax candle which I´ve saved for this occasion.

There is no aspect of watter element at this altar so maybe that´s why I don´t feel calm after all...

Well, I´ll try it better next time.

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Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.

Charlotte Eriksson (via wordsnquotes)

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Imbolc. I didn´t celebrate it as good as I should. My mind is so unfocused and unstable theese das so I just light up one candle. No ritual, no spells, no prayers... It´s such a shame. I know it. I´m just looking forward the end of all exams.

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Thanks for helping me during hard times of school exams.

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Working with Air

I love working with the element air, it’s my personal favorite out of all the elements for a few different reasons that I won’t get into (I could make pages upon pages on why I love the wind but that isn’t what this is about) This post is about how to work more closely with the wind. Enjoy dearies!

Here are a few ideas on how to work with the element Air:

Conjure up the wind by singing a sweet melody from the heart (like your all time favorite songs), whistle, or use a singing bowl. 

Go to a park or trail and walk around for as much as you would like and just feel the wind wrap around you. If leaves/flowers happen to fall upon you, collect them. NOTE: Make sure you do your research if you collect. Never pull or cut leaves/flowers unless you know what you are doing. Also, make sure you don’t collect anything that is harmful to your health. 

Go to a park/field/backyard and practice yoga. Allow the wind to help form your body while the earth keeps you steady. Stretch, relax, breathe.

On a windy day go outside and just sit there. Close your eyes and feel the air. Breathe in and out deeply, let it fill your soul. 

Burn a loose incense containing herbs that relate to air. (ex. lavender, lemongrass, pine, star anise, sage, etc) Meditate and connect to the element as the fragrance fills the room. You can burn an oil using essential oils for the same purpose. NOTE: Be careful burning anything; use a fireproof bowl, make sure it won’t fall, make sure the room is well ventilated, and most importantly, make sure you do your research. Do not burn herbs/oils that are harmful to your/others/and pets health. 

Make a sigil that means “I am protected by the winds.” or something along the lines (Personally I am not a sigil maker but I see others make damn cool ones so I’m adding it, haha) Wear it on you wherever you’d like while you are out and about so your always protected.  

Make a special air altar underneath a window, preferably facing East. Fill it with feathers, incenses, athame, a music player, your favorite books, colors of yellow and pale blues, whatever you’d like! 

Paint, dance, read, draw, sing, play an instrument, etc, Be creative. 

Learn. Do research. Gain as much knowledge about subjects you love.

Talk to the wind, communicate with it. Tell the air your problems, the joys you have felt, the pain you endured. No matter what, always your message is heard. 

Research fairies. Most fairies are related to element of air but there are some that live within the other elements. Find the fairy folk who live in the clouds, in the winds, and fly with the birds; work with them if you would like. NOTE: Be careful with working with fairies as you would with any spirit. There are so many different kinds of posts on how to communicate with them so I will list sources. (This is a very small list of sources regarding fairies but ones that I found informative.)  

On Fae and Spirit Work, source.

Faerie Sight, source.

Fae Tip #1: Offerings, source.

On the Fae, source.

Elements: 

Water  Earth Fire

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50 ideas for a Grimoire

I collected these ideas (and others) from different sources. What you see here is what I think would be interesting to put in my Grimoire (because apparently people need to be told these things).

1 ) decorations ; a personalized cover (with a picture of the moon, a pentagram, your patronus or something else, or maybe just a nice flowery design or leather cover), using a glitter pen and stickers, pressing flowers between the pages, drawing, taping photos and other visual ideas.

2 ) protection sigil on the reverse of the cover (so people won’t read it without your authorization)

3 ) your craft name and your reason for choosing it

4 ) how you define your path, can include coven rules, the tradition(s) you follow and/or a personal set of magickal rules

5 ) wheel of the year / rituals you observe as the year passes

6 ) dedication to one or several deities you worship (or alternatively, what your relationship with deities is like, whether it’s a specific deity or deities in general)

7 ) on that note, myths and information regarding gods, godesses and deities that could be useful for you

8 ) moon phases, their correspondences and what they’re good and bad for

9 ) elements and their correspondences (including the minor arcana of tarot)

10 ) recipes. not just kitchen witchcraft recipes, but also potions, beauty and cleaning products, natural remedies, powders, salts for a bath, oils, etc.

11 ) herbs/plants/flowers and their correspondences

12 ) runes and their meaning

13 ) crystals and crystal grids

14 ) spells, of course

15 ) divination (tarot spreads and cheatsheet, pendulum, scrying, astrology, etc.)

16 ) a pendulum board

17 ) dream diary

18 ) ancestors ; where they are from, specific people you wish to honour, family tree, pictures, location of graves, etc.

19 ) familiars

20 ) tools in your practice

21 ) list of charges, wards, sigils, spells, wards and enchanted items you have currently active

22 ) sigils and how to make them

23 ) spirit work

24 ) color correspondences

25 ) chakras

26 ) myths, myhtological creatures and legends

27 ) folk tales from your zone

28 ) family traditions

29 ) your views on the afterlife

30 ) binding/banishing and your experience with it

31 ) a portrait of your shadow self (let’s get jungian)

32 ) fictional and/or real witches you admire

33 ) past lives, if you know of any

34 ) how to contact you from the afterlife after you’re dead

35 ) psychic abilities

36 ) pop culture magick

37 ) photos of nature

38 ) your own alphabet or secret code

39 ) a letter to yourself in the future and/or the past

40 ) altars and altar planning

41 ) magickal moments of your life

42 ) smells of witchcraft you love

43 ) descriptions of places from astral travel or meditations

44 ) reasons you started to be a witch, magickal goals

45 ) letter to a deity, an ancestor, etc.

46 ) what your followers would leave you as offerings if you were a deity

47 ) draw or collage your own tarot card(s) ; you can make them more diverse than the original!

48 ) creae a magickal creature that would be your familiar

49 ) spiritual diary (how a spell did or didn’t work, or a tarot reading, for example)

50 ) a shiny page to scry with

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When you start to notice the mystical, the mystical will start to notice you.

Dacha Avelin (via wolfofantimonyoccultism)

And sometimes it isn't good thing...

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During this week I've visited a lot of beautiful places. I feel more close to nature and I realized that I really like my studies. I'm just a little bit afraid of my final bachelor thesis... I still don't know what to write about :/

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And here I'm. Nice weather, lots of work, away from studying. I like it.

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On the way to be closer to nature after long time. There will bee nobody I know and lot of foreigners so… It will be funny.

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<3 <3 I think I'll write something simillar soon :)

my name is witch and wen its night or wen the moon is shiyning bright and all the men ar sleeping well i stay up late i kast the spell

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I´ve been looking for some cauldron, or something simillar. I also tried to make some by myself, but it didn´t have good end.Today, when I went around the antique shop I found this. “I need it!” I said to me, but I hasitated because of money.

Wel, in the end I bought it, because it wasn´t as expensive as I imagined. A shop assistant told me that it is salt cellar - it surprised me little bit, because a thought that it is ashtray or something like that. But I think it doesn´t matter, it´s really nice thing to altar anyway. 

I´m looking forward that I fill it with herbs or salt or I will burn fire in it. :3

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I wanted something simillar in my kitchen, but this is so cool! :D

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I was working with potter's clay today. It was long time since I did it for the last time so I almost forgot that feeling when my hands are dryed. They look so old... I'm often joking about my age, I'm saying that I'm old. I'm not old but I'm not teenager anymore and this is strange for me. What happend? How is it possible that time runs so fast? 20 years. Am I adult? I should be but I don't feel it... Ok, but whats the point. When I looked on my dryed hands I saw hands of old woman and I realized that I'm not this old wise woman. Not yet. 20 years - what is it? If I have feeling that I have done "nothing" during last 20 years, that means I should do "something" during following 20 years. So hey girl! Do something! I don't know if it make sense but... It's interesting to think about it.

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