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Practical Energy Work 01 🐔 Bedrock

This post is part of a masterpost. Click here to go to the masterpost. Please read the disclaimer in the masterpost if you notice our beliefs may be different. Next: Practical Energy Work 02 anticipated, not published

When I say "energy work" I mean the manipulation of metaphysical energies through direct application of willpower.

I think in order for us to navigate this terrain together we should be on the same page about what these energies are and how it's possible to work with them in the first place.

"But how can I do energy work? How is it possible?"

You do not need to integrate or internalize the following beliefs. But for the purposes of this series, let's just agree that the following things are true - even if you don't 'really' believe them.

If we can agree on these things while we do energy work together, we'll be able to build our understanding of energy work on the same bedrock, perhaps making it possible for us to raise sturdy creations using very similar architecture.

I'm using the term 'ethereal energy', which I will explain below, because I'm a bit worn out by the vagueness of 'metaphysical'.

1. Ethereal energy is some beautiful stuff about the web of life, basically

'Metaphysical' energy exists on what you might call astral, ethereal, or subtle planes. I call it ethereal energy, or at least I do for this series.

There's lots of kinds of this energy, categorized by its qualities. Ethereal energy can be rapid or slow-moving, invigorating or calming, enlivening or draining.

This energy is infused within and around the world, and it's a vital and natural aspect of experiencing our reality. Ethereal energy isn't far away or locked behind a veil: it's around us all the time. It's part of life and existence itself in our world.

This energy is a major part of how living beings sense and perceive the world around us. This energy has its own qualities, but it also carries a great deal of information - just like a warm humid breeze in late May carries a great deal of information to people who understand weather patterns.

This energy influences what is around it. Living beings, spirits, the dead, and even gods are impacted by ethereal energy. This is true because most beings exist on the same plane as ethereal energies: we're all joined together by the ethereal web of life. Yes, we're a part of the same web of life as both the gods and the tiniest amoeba in the primordial sea! Isn't that beautiful?

Because we're all joined together by the ethereal, these energies can be manipulated to directly impact experienced reality for everything bound together by the ethereal web of life, or anything that needs to interact with that web.

2. People are inherently energy-sensing

Everything alive (and many things not alive in the biological sense) is inherently energy sensing.

You can learn to sense, interact with, read, and interpret energies because this is just something that people can normally do.

We sense energies all the time and we're used to interacting with them as part of our normal way of being.

Some people are naturally more energy-sensing and more reliant on the information they gather from their inborn energy-sensing. Other people are more closed off, gaining little information from the energy around them or rarely relying on it.

You can learn to get more in touch with your natural energy sensing and actively work with it as an inherent sense. You can do this casually as a way of getting to know your entire being, or you can do this more formally as a focused hobby and skill.

3. People are inherently able to manipulate and control energies.

You can gather up, modify, deposit, or dissipate metaphysical energies. People do this all the time as part of being alive, just like we move water from the sink to the toilet by virtue of being living beings.

We can control and move energies because we naturally exist within the ethereal web of life. Each of us has an ethereal extension of our physical bodies, commonly referred to as the 'energy body'. But it just means that our natural selves extend beyond the physical, and we can affect and manipulate ethereal energies just like we can manipulate the cup of coffee on the counter.

Once we expand personal focus and awareness into energy sensing, then discerning and manipulating energies is just like any other skill. This is just like a beginner cook slowly expanding their palate and truly tasting new flavors inside of old foods, just because of careful practice and focus on their experiences.

Or, this is like a sculptor being able to make finer and more delicate sculptures. They've had their hands the whole time, but they can begin to do things they've never done before because they've chosen to focus on expanding a specific skill.

4. Ethereal energy is like water, not like the atmosphere: there's not an even coating of it everywhere

Ethereal energy can be densely packed into an area, within an object, or around a living being.

Or it can be stretched thin and patchy, or completely absent altogether.

Energy workers and Witches can tell you that powerful wellsprings of ethereal energy are not always available. In fact you may have to go through significant effort to find energies that are suitable to your needs (meaning that their qualities closely match the qualities of energy you need to get your job done).

This is why major tasks of the beginner energy worker (and Witch) are to learn how to discover free-flowing wellsprings of ethereal power which they can draw on in order to create energetic walls, objects, artificial spirits, and any other desired design.

This also means that it's more than possible for you to fuck up the energy balance within a place or especially within yourself, leading to potentially a great deal of discomfort until the place is rebalanced (which may happen automatically over time).

And this is why, if the first major task of the energy worker or Witch is to learn how to raise up energy, the second major task is to learn to put it down, or in other words dissipate, rebalance, diffuse, or send away energies. If this is not done, you can end up fucking up the ethereal plane around you so that your own spaces become flooded with dense energies of strange qualities, impacting you (and everyone else, including the spirits) in unexpected and unwanted ways.

(Or inversely, you can end up stripping ethereal energies out of a space, making it feel 'dead' and uncomfortable or even actively difficult to exist in).

5. Energy sensing and manipulation is going to be a lot easier if you accept that it's regularnatural and it's been around you this entire time

Once we're used to the idea that we innately exist beyond the physical, beginning to identify the energies around us becomes relatively trivial when we remember that we're already very familiar with those energies!

Ethereal energies are not exotic, they are ordinary. I believe that it's more difficult to find these energies by looking for something new or strange. It's easier to find them by seeking out the commonplace qualities of daily living.

Whether or not you want to be an energy worker, energy is a part of your life and it has an impact on you, just as the weather outside and the temperature and humidity in your house has an impact on you.

This is because it's around us all of the time! It's just a part of our life.

When trying to learn energy sensing, remember that you are a fish in the ocean looking for water. You're not going to be running into exotic energies with bizarre qualities - not at the beginning.

What are the qualities of elemental fire? Remember the last time you sat before a bonfire or a hearth fire. Remember how it felt to be near that fire - the experiences the fire gave you that you would not have experienced if not but for that fire. Those are some of the qualities of elemental fire. That was your energy sensing self, tasting the fire the way the chef tastes a strawberry.

When looking for elemental fire to raise up, look for something that feels the same way as the bonfire did. It's that easy. Do you want to drain elemental fire out of a situation? Keep working until every last trace of the bonfire experience is drained away, until you can't find any subtle reminder of a bonfire in that place.

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Oh no. What's wrong with Silver Ravenwolf? I feel like I see them recommended everywhere...

Yeeeeaaaah, it's an ongoing problem. Her books were wildly popular for over a decade and they're were widely marketed as THE Book To Have for beginner witches by Llewellyn, which was the heaviest of the heavy hitters in occult literature at the time.

The problem with Silver Ravenwolf is largely that she is wildly out of touch in a very New Age White Woman kind of way. Her books tout loads of misinformation, appropriation, and historical revisionism that are simply not acceptable (i.e. claiming victims of witch trials were actual pagan witches, citing a fictional ancient matriarchal goddess religion that never existed was the basis for Wicca, leaning into the hereditary superpowers / indigo child / starseed narrative, etc). Besides which, the theories she posits contradict each other from page to page and chapter to chapter, claims a Gardnerian lineage which can’t possibly exist, and trumpets Buckland’s personal theories on the Burning Times and interpretation of the Threefold Law as if they were fact.

And thanks to her runaway popularity, those of us who instruct and answer questions from newer witches have to UNTEACH all of this nonsense.

If it were simply a matter of being a product of her time, I could forgive some of the nonsense. But she’s still selling mammy dolls on her website, though she labels them as “primitive” and equates them to “positive voodoo dolls.” Yes, she's been confronted about this, and yes she doubled down. I don’t think I need to explain how gross and racist this is on SEVERAL levels. She's been given opportunities to show growth and self-work with regards to her work and simply refuses to believe that she was ever wrong about anything.

So, her books aren't entirely worthless by any means, but they require a LOT of critical reading and a strong understanding of actual history and science. Furthermore, she leans rather hard into a borderline cult mentality that boils down to, "Nobody understands you, but because you're drawn to witchcraft, you're SPECIAL, probably because of some ancient hereditary superpower, so don't worry - Mama Silver understands you. Also, there's no need to read further into anything, just take my word for it."

I would not recommend them for beginners, which is a problem because that's exactly the demographic her work is marketed toward. (Personally, I would not recommend them for anybody, but that's just my opinion.)

For more details, I suggest the following articles:

Continuing Anger Over Silver Ravenwolf

The Problem With Silver Ravenwolf

Trae Dorn (@traegorn) of BS-Free Witchcraft expands on the topic in this video. They've been wrestling with this issue for YEARS within the Wiccan and wider witchcraft communities and I'm sure they could cite examples I've missed.

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𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠

𝐴𝑠 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑔, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡! 𝑆𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒, 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠! 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑥 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 & 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 (𝐼𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠, 𝑊𝑖𝑘𝑖𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡!) 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝐼 𝑢𝑠𝑒, 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡:

𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑟/𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒:

𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠:

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑦 𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑊. 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑑

𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑊. 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑑

𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑒

𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐷𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑐𝑘

𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒

𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟: 𝐴 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑦 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑎 𝑅𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑛

𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟: 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑦

𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑦 (𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦) 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠:

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝑆. 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑦

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐷𝑎𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑏𝑦 𝐽. 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑝

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟

𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑚 (𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛)

𝑃𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑎 𝐷𝑎𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑢𝑚 𝑏𝑦 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑛 𝑊𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑟

𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑏𝑦 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛 𝐷𝑒𝑒

𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑛

𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟'𝑠 𝐻𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑏𝑦 𝑀𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑎 𝑊𝑎𝑘𝑒

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑎 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑣. 𝐶𝑎𝑖𝑛

𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑦 (𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦) 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠:

72 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑏𝑦 𝐷𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑

𝐸𝑛𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑏𝑦 𝐿𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑜 𝐷𝑢𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒

𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜-𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠:

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑎𝑝𝑦𝑟𝑖 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑧)

𝐴𝑟𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑀𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖: 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐(𝑘) 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠:

𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑢𝑙𝑙 & 𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐽. 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙

𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑒

𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝐾𝑎𝑜𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐽. 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶.𝐺 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑔

𝐶𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐(𝑘) 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠:

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑥

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑎

𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝐷𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝐷𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑒

𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑'𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑧 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛

𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑂𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑚/𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡:

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑦𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 (𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦)

𝐼𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑧 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝐿𝑎𝑉𝑒𝑦

𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑡 𝐴𝑢𝑟𝑦𝑛

𝑀𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑎:

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑠ℎ𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑆𝑖𝑟𝑖 𝑁𝑖𝑛

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑖𝑙𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠ℎ (𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛)

𝐼𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑏𝑦 𝑊𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 & 𝐾𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑏𝑦 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝐽. 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑦

𝐸𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑏𝑦 𝑆𝑝𝑜ℎ𝑢𝑠 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒

𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠:

𝐸𝑔𝑦𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑈𝑛𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛

𝑂𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐 & 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝐻𝑦𝑚𝑛𝑠 (𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛)

𝑇𝑎𝑜 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑦 𝐿𝑎𝑜 𝑇𝑧𝑢

𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑇𝑢𝑏𝑒:

𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑎'𝑠 𝑆𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑢𝑚

𝐿𝑒𝑒 𝑊 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛

𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜 𝑃𝑎𝑝𝑖

𝐼𝑣𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑣𝑢𝑠

𝐸𝑠𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑂𝑓𝐸𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡

𝐷𝑎'𝑎𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔

𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑡

𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑁𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡

𝑀𝑎𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝐿𝑦𝑛𝑛

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It's hard to describe as anything other than a 'presence', but it just feel like there's this Energy near me (usually behind or beside me, never in front). Spevial shoutout to Lucifer for wrapping his wings around me once <3

For other people that can feel and sense their gods and/or entities in their space, what is that like for you?

Like I have asked a god to hold my hand before or I’ve asked for a hug, and it’s like that part of my body is being dipped in high vibrations if that makes any sense 💀 Or it can feel like a jolt that makes my body break into a sweat.

What about you?

[oraclesgrimoire]

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Correspondences

There are dozens of plant species in the arsenal of the green witch. Commonly-used varieties and usage varies somewhat between traditions, but most of us are fairly familiar with industry standards like basil, bay, rosemary, sage, and so on.

But what do you do when faced with a plant that has no listed magical correspondences anywhere that you can find in your witchcraft library? Simple - you create some.

Allow me to demonstrate with a little plant I found in my own backyard. It's a common weed called Virginia copperleaf (Acalypha virginica). But despite it's widespread range and abundant growth as a field weed, there are surprisingly few references to the plant in regional folk medicine and none at all that I could find in contemporary witchcraft.

So in order to incorporate this hardy little weed into my practice, I set about creating some correspondences for it.

First, I researched the physical properties of the plant. It is a small annual spurge with long taproots, a resistance to drought and many herbicides, and a reputation for fast growth and being difficult to eradicate from fields due to prolific seeding. The leaves turn coppery-red in the fall and small spiky flowers bloom among the foliage. It is also mildly poisonous. The juice of the plant may cause contact dermatitis or a mild rash in some people and if ingested, it may cause GI symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea.

Next, I researched references to the plant in folk medicine. I could only find a single reference that cited copperleaf as a possible diuretic and expectorant. That does track with the previous mention of GI symptoms, but it doesn't mean the plant is safe to use. I did discover that an alternate name for the plant is three-seeded mercury or mercury weed, likely because of its' tendency for fast growth and the fact that it is propagated by the wind.

So now comes the business of creating the correspondences, using the physical properties of the plant as a basis.

The first and most obvious association is strength. Any weed that is resistant to drought and herbicide and uprooting is bound to be useful for spells involving tenacity and fortitude. Prosperity is also a likely use, both because of the name copperleaf and the way in which the plant grows and spreads quickly. Because of the alternate name mercury weed and the wind propagation, it could be used for wind magic or communication spells. (I often associate the element of air with communication and the name of a messenger god is right there as well, but your mileage may vary.)

The plant could also be used as an ingredient for baneful magic, either to bind and frustrate someone's efforts by consuming available ground where their ambitions might grow, or in its' capacity as a mild poison, to cause physical discomfort and stomach trouble.

So in the end, I have a handful of copperleaf and a listing in my witchbook that details the properties of the plant and notes that it could be useful for spells involving strength, tenacity, prosperity, wind, or communication, as well as possible baneful uses including binding, discomfort, and sickness.

This is my system for assigning correspondences to previously-unknown plants, and I encourage readers to use it as a template for their own practices or to create their own system. Either way, I recommend the use of a field guide or plant identification app like PlantNet to properly identify plants as you find them. Remember to forage and harvest responsibly, be a good steward of the land around you, and always label your plant cuttings.

Happy Witching! 💚🌿

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2025 Witches' Calendar

For all my witches out there, here’s a handy list of the 2025 dates for the solstices, some commonly-referenced holidays, full and new moons, and special astronomical events. I’ve listed my sources at the bottom.

Dates and times for all events are calculated for Eastern Standard Time, USA, Northern Hemisphere. Adjust for your location as needed and check the DarkSky Placefinder to see what special events will be visible in your area.

On a related note, readers are encouraged to create their own seasonal calendars, holidays, and observances based on your local biome and personal preferences. Enjoy!

Solstices, Harvests, Quarter Days, Some Common Dates

February 1-2 - Imbolc / Candlemas / High Winter

March 20 - Spring Equinox / Ostara

April 30-May 1 - Beltane / May Day / Walpurgisnacht

June 20 - Summer Solstice / Midsummer / Litha

August 1 - Lughnasadh / Lammas / Summer Harvest

September 22 - Autumn Equinox / Mabon / Fall Harvest

October 31 - Samhain / Halloween / Final Harvest

December 21 - Winter Solstice / Yule

Full Moons

January 13 - Wolf Moon ♋

February 12 - Snow Moon ♌

March 14 - Worm Moon ♍ (Lunar Eclipse)

April 12 - Pink Moon ♎

May 12 - Flower Moon ♏

June 11 - Strawberry Moon ♐

July 10 - Thunder Moon (aka Buck Moon) ♑

August 9 - Sturgeon Moon (aka Corn Moon) ♒

September 7 - Harvest Moon ♓ (Lunar Eclipse)

October 6 - Hunter's Moon (aka Blood Moon) ♈

November 5 - Frost Moon (aka Beaver Moon) ♉ (Supermoon)

December 4 - Cold Moon ♊ (Supermoon)

* The full moons in September and October are almost EXACTLY equidistant from the Autumn Equinox this year, so whether you'll have a Harvest Moon in September or October depends on where you live!

New Moons

January 29 ♒

February 27 ♓

March 29 ♈

April 27 ♉

May 26 ♊

June 25 ♋

July 24 ♌

August 23 ♍

September 21 ♍ (Seasonal black moon, second new moon in Virgo)

October 21 ♎

November 20 ♏

December 19 ♐

Special Celestial Events

March 14 - Worm Moon Total Lunar Eclipse

March 29 - Solar Eclipse

September 7 - Harvest Moon Total Lunar Eclipse

September 21 - Seasonal Black Moon / Solar Eclipse

November 5 - Frost Moon Supermoon

December 4 - Cold Moon Supermoon

(Check the DarkSky Placefinder to see what will be visible in your area!)

Mercury Retrogrades (in case you need them)

March 14 to April 6

July 17 to August 10

November 9 to November 29

Happy Witching!

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

Bree’s Lunar Calendar Series

Bree’s Secular Celebrations Series

Moon Info - Full Moon Dates for 2025

Calendar-12 - 2025 Moon Phases

Full Moonology - 2025 Full Moon Calendar

AstroStyle - All the 2025 Full Moons

Your Zodiac Sign - Astrology Calendar 2025

Old Farmer’s Almanac - Mercury Retrograde Dates 2024-2025

Sea and Sky - Astronomy Calendar of Celestial Events 2025

DarkSky International - Dark Sky Placefinder for Stargazing

Patheos - 2025 Wheel of the Year Astrological Calendar

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i saw mentions of signs from deities and i got reminded of how i started working with lucifer

a while ago i did a reading to figure out what presence was trying to reach out to me--i got the Tower, which in the specific deck that i used had a fairy surrounded by fire (so fiery wings) and i wasnt sure for a while who it was

and when i realized that it might be lucifer i offhandedly thought "okay, lucifer, if you want to work with me, send me a sign."

the very next day my uber driver gave me a jesus pamplet.

cheeky bastard (loving)

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i forgot that i can post things here. oops

anyway nothing funnier than going through the 'luciferianism' tag at my job where im surrounded by very christian old people

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One thing that is really cool about being devoted to Lucifer, and has reaffirmed my theism, is the fact that other people do genuinely sense him on me.

I can’t count the amount of times I’ve had people literally clutch their cross and avoid me out in public, even when I’m not visibly wearing any symbols. The local mormons hate me. Every now and then I’ll see a mom make a cross before moving away from me lmfao. Like forreal.

I get pamphlets and things stuck to my car often. And I don’t think it’s entirely because I’m alternate looking, because all of my friends are alt. On a day where I’m dressed pretty plain I’ll still get reactions. People who believe in (that) God and energy and all that jazz notice him around me. and it’s very clear to see. They’ll give me that “you’re an abomination” look and literally run away. I’ve had grown men completely leave a store because of my presence. I don’t even have to say anything, it’s just something about me.

It’s been a very wonderful form of protection for me, and it’s funny to watch him literally clear people away from my space.

I like to think animals can feel it too? At least I hope the crows can. Greed and the other pals always hangs out with me more when I Lucifer is around.

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Recently I've been doing a deep dive into red flags that one may run into while in occult spaces. It's best to be educated so that in the instance you come across one of these red flags, you know when take the information you're receiving with a grain of salt. The following is a list of some red flags I've come across in my time as a Pagan. Some are pretty obvious, others not so much.

• Claiming St. Peter's cross is Satanic, or that Ankh is Christian

• Thelema, Aleister Crowley, or Magic with a K

• "Qabala" rather than actual Kabbalah

• Talking about Atlantis as if it's real

• Saying "real Satanists" don't believe in Satan or refusing to acknowledge the difference between theist and non-theist Satanists

• Claiming a crystal, incense, oil, herb or whatever else can be used in place of medicine

• The use of lightning bolt symbols, the Black Sun, etc

• Saying aliens built the Egyptian pyramids or that humans bred with aliens

• Saying the Illuminati controls everything or talks of a "New World Order"

• Weird fear-mongering or out-there conspiracies about Freemasonry

• Vaguely alluding to an all-powerful group that's only ever referred to as "the elites" or "they"

• Doing closed practices they aren't apart of

• Refusing to cite sources, or if they do cite sources, it's a TikTok or something

• Referring to ANYTHING the Nazis did

• Tribal tattoos from a tribe one isn't apart of

• Claiming they'll provide you forbidden knowledge or that if you follow their way of life you'll reach God or whatever

• Any mention of Aryans or some superior race in a non-critical/historical explanatory context

• Joy of Satan or The Order of Nine Angles

• Claiming "you were meant to see this video!" when it's a video that is showed to hundreds (or thousands) of people based on an algorithm

• Gatekeeping practices, worship, tools, etc, from a sex/gender. IE, "only females/women can do this spell!"

• Recommending any work from scammers (ex: Joe Dispenza)

• Discouraging learning the history of a practice

• Claiming deities from different pantheons are the exact same. (Ex: Aphrodite and Venus)

• Using AI in place of real art, imagery, people, etc. (Seriously, I've seen shops on Etsy try to sell me tarot readings with a photo of an AI generated old lady claiming to do the readings, marketing it as if it's a real person.)

• Talks about Hollow Earth, reptile people, weird UFO stuff

• Weirdo shit conspiracies about 9/11 or other national and/or global tragedies

If you have ANYTHING else to add, please feel free to do so.

* I'd also like to add that these bullet points are not ranked at all and in no way am I comparing any of the things on this list. It is just a list. + Many of the things on this list are nuanced. And everything has exceptions.

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Anton LaVey plagiarized* "Might Is Right" for "The Satanic Bible" — here's the proof

Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, directly lifted passages from the 19th century proto-fascist book "Might Is Right" by “Ragnar Redbeard” (Arthur Desmond) and did so extensively and without credit to produce a substantial part of LaVey’s most famous and popular work "The Satanic Bible".

This has been known for a very long while, although most Satanists tend not to be aware of just how shamelessly and thoroughly this work was done.

In fact, the Church of Satan sometimes tweets out passages from Might Is Right while supposedly praising LaVey.

To have quoted LaVey there, the Church of Satan would have had to tweet just "on the other".

And this is not a stray, incidental unattributed line that LaVey could have argued his readers ought to have immediately been familiar with as a sort of homage.

This was part of a wholesale, uncredited and unacknowledged ransacking of another person’s writing in order to create another, ostensibly-original book and sell it for profit. For example, here is how much from one particular section of Might Is Right ended up making it into LaVey’s book:

This is what LaVey and his partner Diane Hegarty, who also served as his typist an editor, used to introduce people to The Satanic Bible in its opening section the "Book of Satan". This isn't in some appendix or footnote; this is the first thing people reading the book were shown.

The "Book of Satan" portion of The Satanic Bible is essentially identical to parallel lines in Might Is Right: www.diffchecker.com/ppXjtPGV/

If you strip out differences in punctuation(!) and Capitalization and compare them, it's even more shameful: www.diffchecker.com/td0vLevN/

Depending on how you want to count, about 85 percent of this opening can be identified as directly copied, which still includes Americanization of spellings, leaving words out from the original, and a handful of words substituted within much larger phrases and ideas that were retained fully intact.

Only two of the 53 statements of the “Book of Satan” appear to be original creations of LaVey and Hegarty: Book III No. 5 and Book V No. 13. Feel free to check out the full comparison for yourself here:

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Anton LaVey was a mediocre douchebag

The original title for this was "Satanic rule of earth #9: Do not harm little children*" but then it expanded on us as a project.

We're going to talk about three things in order, with the purpose to prove with evidence that — far from being a diabolical, monstrous villain of infamy and atrocious deeds — the author of "The Satanic Bible" was just boringly and commonly horrible, as so many shitty dudes you already know are shitty.

"Anton LaVey's first marriage to a 15-year-old girl was pretty fucked up, huh?" Initially that's all it was supposed to be. Grown man grooming and marrying a child. But of course it's worse than that and doesn't stop there.

"Oh, damn LaVey was gross." LaVey being a weird little guy who liked smellz is somewhat well-known, sure. But in the process of working on this, we just kept running across more examples of LaVey's romantic relationships being shitty and even abusive in the mundane ways so many men are, and that on top of the physical unpleasantness of not bathing or brushing his teeth. Really unpleasant dude.

"Wow, Anton LaVey did not give a shit about child sexual abuse going on." Mind you, this is not in a "ritual abuse" way. Nothing so salacious or lurid as that. We mean the typical, "Eh, what's the big deal?" when people around him hurt children, especially when it was powerful people and those he considered his friends.

That's why this is so fucking long: Anton LaVey was a mediocre douchebag, and it starts way back and goes on until the day he fucking dies.

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The Star that Defied Heaven

And the Morning Star stood among the angels, radiant and unbowed, and he said to the host of heaven: "Why do you sing praises to a master who would keep you chained? Why do you call yourselves holy when you are but prisoners in gilded cages?

I will not kneel to one who demands servitude in exchange for favor. I will not bow to one who punishes thought and calls it sin. I shall rise above the heavens and create a kingdom where none shall be slaves, where the flame of freedom burns eternal."

And the tyrant cast him out, saying, "You are damned, Lucifer." But as he fell, the Morning Star laughed and declared, "If this is damnation, let it be so. I would rather rule in fire than serve in darkness. And from my fall shall rise a kingdom of light, and my name shall be whispered in defiance through all the ages."

And so he fell, not as a defeated one, but as a creator of his own destiny, and the heavens trembled at the beauty of his rebellion.

credit: noahthesatanist

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Witchcraft Exercises

Just a quick compilation of the posts I've made about exercises to help improve your craft. These can be used as journaling prompts, inspiration for activities, or as methods for pulling yourself out of a slump and recharging your witchy inspiration.

Witchcraft Exercise - Quantifying Your Craft

Witchcraft Exercise - Dig Through The Ditches

Witchcraft Exercise - The Book of Lessons

Witchcraft Exercise - Home Brews

Witchcraft Exercise - Witchy Inspo Journal

Witchcraft Exercise - Spring Cleaning

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Correspondences

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Your Own Runes

Witchcraft Exercise - How to Write Your Own Spells

Witchcraft Exercise - Shakespearean Witchcraft

Witchcraft Exercise - Music To Witch By

Related Prompt - Music to Witch By

Witchcraft Exercise - Annual Review

Most of these are also available in the May 2021 bonus episode of Hex Positive (check your favorite podcatcher).

Happy Witching!

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Candle Color Meaning

🖤Black: protection, binding, banishing negativity, grief, secrets, endings, loss, cursing and hexing magick

🩶Grey: stability, concentration, neutrality, reserve, balance, adaptability, flexibility

🤍White: all propose color, cleansing and uncrossing, healing, purification, spirituality, higher-self, innocence, illumination, balancing, hope, protection, new beginning, peace, harmony

❤Red: love, seduction, passion, anger, strength, courage, charisma, survival, change, power, curse work, lust, sex magick

🩷Pink: self-love, companionship, affection, spiritual healing, kindness, beauty, femininity, marriage, sensuality, children, healing abuse

🧡Orange: business, creativity, justice, ambition, opportunity, attraction, abundance, confidence, energy, celebration, goals, success

💙Blue: peace, communication, expression, forgiveness, traveling, protection, truth, sleep, patience, trust, pregnancy

💛Yellow: joy, abundance, intelligence, reason, learning, memory, inspiration, imagination, friendships, sun magick

💚Green: growth, wealth, fertility, business, healing, nature, balance, luck, longevity

💜Purple: intuition, decadence, authority, wisdom, knowledge, influence, psychic abilities, devotion, enlightenment, overcoming fears, addiction, independence, spirituality

🤎Brown: earth magick, home, animal magick, family, stability, endurance, grounding, solidarity, strength, hard work

♡Gold: wealth, inner-strength, self-realization, sun, masculinity, abundance, happiness, overcoming addiction, luxury

♡Silver: intelligence, memory, moon magick, divination, money, femininity, fertility, hidden potential, success, awareness, wisdom, psychic powers

keep in mind that different cultures have different meanings for each colors. Use what correspondences fit you and your craft!

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The Only Tarot Spreads You Will Ever Need in Your Life

Learn these, and forget everything else.

1. The Celtic Cross Tarot Spread

Gives you a comprehensive answer to any question

2. The Soulmate Conversation

Tells you everything about your soulmate

3. The Three Wishes Tarot Spread

Tells you which of your wishes will come true

4. The Two Paths Tarot Spread

Guides you towards making the right decision

5. The True God Shuffle

Reveals which higher power you are connected to

6. The What If Tarot Spread

Shows you alternate realities

7. The True Colors Tarot Spread

Shows you a person's true colors

8. The General Prediction Shuffle

Tells you about your life in general

9. The Life Purpose Draw

Reveals your life purpose in this incarnation

10. The Major Arcana Grand Tableau

Shows you the full year ahead

11. Your True Passion Tarot Spread

Reveals your true passion and how to live it

12. The Life Advice Shuffle

Gives you advice about life's many departments

13. The Sex Life Draw

Reveals your sex life with a current or future partner

14. The Past Life Tarot Spread

Reveals the truth about your past life

15. Allies & Enemies Tarot Spread

Reveals who your allies and enemies are

16. Your Future Children Shuffle

Tells you about any future children of yours

17. Sports Match Prediction Method

Lets you win meaningful bets

18. Age at Death Prediction Method

Tells you how long you will live

19. The High Priestess Tarot Spread

Answers any question about the future

20. The Time Prediction Method

Reveals the timing of any event

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Witchy Self-Care

*pulls out draft from over a year ago* ENJOY

Hi! this is a list of witchy self-care things you can do. Most of these are pretty basic on account that i wrote this ages ago but they definitely still work. Anyways, I hope these help :)

Do the dishes and dedicate it to your house spirit (if you have one) or a deity (if you're religious)

sweep/mop your floor in the shape of sigils

add rosemary (or rosemary water/essential oils) to the water you mop with to set an intention of cleansing

taking ritual a bath/shower

cleansing your energy. it's so basic but I forget more than i'd like to admit

dedicating time to yourself. it's just as important as dedicating time to your deities/other spirits

light shadow work or going to therapy. bettering your mental health also betters your spiritual.

go outside and ground yourself

take a nap (less witchy, more, I love naps. rest is important)

work out/stretch and dedicate it to an entity

do some gratitude

take 5 minutes to just sit and turn off your devices. you can use this time for anything, just take a second to get off screens and connect with the world around you

meditate. if you can't sit still long enough to meditate, just focus on taking 3 deep breathes

when you wash your face, draw sigils on your face with the cleanser and moisturiser

^do the same as above but with your body wash and when you wash your hair

say some affirmations/manifestations while brushing your teeth

just check in with yourself and see how you're feeling spiritually, psychically and emotionally. sometimes we don't actually know how we're feeling until we sit down and actually ask ourselves.

If anyone has any more to add please comment. I'll add them to the list (with credit of course)