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Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie

Big stretch! Have a snack, take your meds.

To quote both my Dad and my fave fictional psychiatrist, it’s fine to be weird.

The Cursed Object understands the idea of sharing except when there’s homemade fruit compote.

❤️ Auntie Jilli

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Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie

Drop your shoulders, drink some water, take your meds.

Kindness is different from niceness. Be kind, and don’t worry about nice.

The Lurking Horror tried again to slide down the bannister. It again went poorly.

❤️ Auntie Jilli

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Witch things to add in your room, poor person edition

Fuck it Most of witchcraft people tell you to buy shit. So here's some stuff u can do for free

grab some sticks from the ground, bind them together in a shape you like, add intent (usually protection), hang it up

make a flower crown, add protection intent, dry it out, hang it up. protection spell and real ward. regularly recharge intent.

dry plants, set warding intent, hang them up.

crushed eggshells on your window sill to prevent bad energy.

wear a bandana or veil somewhere on your body, sometimes i use mine as belts, to protect from bad vibes.

paint your nails in the color meaning you want. mine are pink for self attraction rn

when you light up a candle always ask if theres a spirit or entity there, pyromancy skills can be learned through google, tumblr, and tiktok.

Regularly clean and rearrange your altar if you can't practice everyday, this keeos the space clean and shows entities around that even if ur not active, you're still a witch

A cup of water can be an offering to anyone, imagine being an entity and you can't have water at all for centuries??

If you have glasses, draw a sigil on them while you clean them (i usually wash mine with soap and water to make it extra clean ((and dry with paper towels)))

Give your wall art jobs. Sure they can be decorative, or they can be extra eyes to watch you while you sleep to make sure no one messes with you. (Ive had so much wall art fall in the middle of the night and turns out smth was trying to get in my room...)

If you have black-out/thick curtains, let the sun in!!! I keep them tied during the day so i can use natural light and ease up my electricity bill

Change ur bedsheets semi regularly, it doesn't need to be every week, but keep in mind bedbugs and other entities can get trapped there... or even try to get there to make your sleep unrestful.

If your room is a bio-hazard, at least make pathways so you can walk without injuring yourself.

Thats all i have for now <3 blessed be and fuck capitalism

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I think about him a lot more than I care to admit

Does he think of me too?

#feelings #ouchinthefeels #doeshethinkaboutmetoo

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Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel

[Text ID: “I wanted to be chosen, maybe loved. I wanted out of my life, out of my skin,”]

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hi! ive been getting back into the craft recently and i was wondering if you have any book reccomendations that i could learn more from! (i know youve published your own, which i will be checking out soon!!)

I have a book recs tag that contains most of the titles that I regularly recommend for witchcraft studies, but there are a few I could mention by name:

History:

Drawing Down The Moon (Margot Adler)

Triumph of the Moon (Ronald Hutton)

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present (Ronald Hutton)

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic (Owen Davies)

Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Owen Davies)

Witchcraft:

The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft: Seeking an Intentional Magical Path Seeking an Intentional Magical Path (Fire Lyte aka Don Martin)

New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic (Cory Thomas Hutcheson)

By Rust of Nail & Prick of Thorn: The Theory & Practice of Effective Home Warding (Althaea Sebastiani)

Sacred Actions: Living the Wheel of the Year through Earth-Centered Sustainable Practices (Dana O'Driscoll)

Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration (Mallorie Vaudoise)

Spellcrafting: Strengthen the Power of Your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells (Arin Murphy-Hiscock)

The Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand for Magic, Manifestation & Ritual (Lisa Marie Basile)

Light Magic for Dark Times: More than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis (Lisa Marie Basile)

Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols (Laura Tempest Zakroff)

The Hearth Witch's Year: Rituals, Recipes & Remedies Through the Seasons (Anna Franklin)

Previous Posts:

Here are the Top Ten foundational texts that I started out with.

Here are the books I recommend if you want to work with plants.

Here are the three titles I have on the market.

Here is the Dropbox I made with free (legal) historical texts on witchcraft and magic.

And here is my personal library (slightly out of date) which might give you some more ideas!

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Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

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This is the quote I need to walk with everyday to that place. Repeated like a mantra

Today's advice from your Goth Auntie

Unclench your jaw, drink some water, take your meds.

People who are rude about your personal identity aren’t worth your time.

The Lurking Horror has learned that dust isn’t an ingredient for cinnamon toast. Progress!

❤️Auntie Jill

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Every single bot is msging me!!! Wth!! Kill it with fire!!!!

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As long as my sh!ts together, then hell yea. I love learning and disputing information. It's so important when we put aside the ego and share and grow as a people, as herbalists, as witches, as Wicca's, to me most importantly those to love to get in synch with nature, a people who understand that living with not in war with. Girl come here and talk with everyone who is willing with an open mind. I may be in a bad spot and semi drunk but the only think I believe in is learning and sharing without judgement. Never judge and share with openness and love always

Would any witchy/religious mutual be interested in joining me for Studyblr on witchcraft/religion topics in 2023. 🤔📒

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The good bit is I finished my pc but my depression is in control. I will update my pc data as soon as I can. I'm sorry. I wanna try. I just feel like all efforts end in bad things or the worst endings.

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So I've been suspended and brought back on a verbal but apparently the general manager is allowed to insult and bully and cast fear and me saying I don't understand what's happening while he's screaming at me for 30 mins about transferring me or firing me is ok. So yea they have issued another letter to have another hearing, atleast it's not a tribunal to fire me with no prior notice. Nothing I do let's me feel ok. I feel like screaming that's wrong. I feel like crying that's wrong. I feel suffocated that's wrong. I am heart broken over a job that hates me, that sees me as a imposition that stops them from bringing a relative in that they would rather. But would that person actually work and care for people like me?

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Comparison is the thief of joy

i wonder how often i compare myself

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BANEFUL INGREDIENTS AND USES

This is a list I have compiled and have created. With the herbs, they must be negatively charged, just like anything else. Tell them what to do and charge them with your intent. Herbs have polarity, they can heal but they can also hex.

BANEFUL HERBS

Angelica root - misery, strife, distress

Asafoetida - drives enemies away

Bayberry - depression

Blueberry - confusion, strife

Catnip - distraction, loss

Cayenne - anxiety 

Chickory - to sow discord 

Chili powder/flakes - discord, spicy misery

Clove - stop gossip

Dahlia - bad luck, loss

Foxglove - causes, nightmares, vanity

Gardenia - seal their love life

Ginger - bitterness

Hemlock - discord, misery 

Ivy - binding

Lavender - depression, insomnia

Lotus - depression

Mandrake - misery, strife

Mint - visions, nightmares

Mistletoe - serious harm, anxiety, confusion

Mugwort - nightmares, hallucinations, paranoia

Mullein - nightmares

Nightshade - nightmares, anxiety, sickness

Onion - strife

Poppy seeds - discord, nightmares

Rose - tempt into cheating

Rosemary - nightmares, insecurity

Rue - misery 

Spanish moss - bad luck, binding

Tobacco - substitute for (most) any baneful herb

Vetiver - silence

Wormwood - misery, strife

OTHER INGREDIENTS Glass shards - reflect transgressions, to cause harm

Sharp objects (pins, needles, thumb tacks, thorns, etc) - damage, cause harm

Rusty nails - cause harm

Glitter - make their problems stick to them

Price tags - Debt, financial troubles

Dead battery - drain their energy

Vinegar - to sour, to rid yourself of them

Charcoal - block their vision, lack of clarity

Hot sauce - spicy misery

Cover hex jar with tin foil - make victim feel isolated and alone

Googly eyes - evil eye, to make them always feel watched, paranoia

Agar or Pectin - stick their problems to them, cause them stagnation

dog/cat shit - to shit on their life (energetically sever the connection to your pet though)

Cigarette butts - to cause addiction and troubles

Salted earth (just combine hydrophobic soil and salt) - dry up their resources, cause infertility

Nasty bong water - it's gross, need I say more?

Dog hair - fear, anxiety

Urine - to sour

Citric Acid - to pucker, to get them to stfu.

Pro-tip: use ingredients your target is allergic to. This can really help make a powerful hex, especially if they are allergic to nuts and go into anaphylactic shock or have any other extreme adverse reaction.

Any herb CAN be used banefully. Any crystal CAN be used banefully. First see what the herb/crystal is used for and, well, reverse it. Love => loneliness/loss of love. Peace => paranoia. Dream work => nightmares. Mental Clarity => delusions. All you need to do is negatively charge them. Tell them what to do and focus your rage and hate into the herbs/crystals to charge them up.

For more information on baneful ingredients, spellwork, and other herbs' uses, check out The Cobalt Athenaeum discord server!

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Welcome to My NOTION template! This isn’t 100% finished yet but I really wanted to release this today because truthfully I want to start using it. These images don’t include all of the features, either. I left some of them out.

If you want to tip me, check the discord <3

Let’s get the first thing out of the way. I made a discord here for this. It will be primarily used to hold one another accountable and promote good things in eachothers lives. However, it will double as a way to receive DIRECT feedback and suggestions.

HERE’S THE LINK ! Please let me know if it doesn’t work

My next step in plans is:

A complete workout / gym tracker

Meal Planner

“Kitchen” hub

Fridge & Pantry tracker (to avoid food waste)

Savings tracker

business expense tracker

taxes calculator hub

moving hub 

investment hub

mood tracker

For now, this notion includes:

HOME//

Flip clock widget

Moon phase widget

New years day countdown

Calendar

Multiple photo insert areas

Reminders list

Weekly goals overview

Time/task section for when you have a schedule or routine to maintain

Quote section

Pre-planned spotify playlist section (using the embed tool)

Complete navigation section

PLANNER//

No zero days tracker

Weekly task list

Monthly goal list

Yearly goal list

Month by month toggle list

Important dates list

Second Planner toggle list

Two photo insert sections

Navigation section

WORK//

Regulars Tracker

Small schedule table

Business expenses tracker (COMING SOON/INCOMPLETE)

Income tracker

To do list

Upcoming meetings/dates list

Multiple image areas

STUDIES//

Classroom

Library

Calendar

Quick Links

To do list

Exam dates list

Grades

Notes (COMING SOON)

SHOPPING//

Wishlist central

Table database

PERSONAL//

Inner work Journal

___ Of the day Journal

I feel Icky Checklist

Mental Health goals

Mental health reminders

Resources list

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So I found a book of just symbols at the library near my new place but I couldn't check it out so I took pics of pages I found very interesting and thought I'd share some with yall

Planetary and astronomy symbols

Apparently these are botanical symbols

Elements, the scientific kind not natural

And weather symbols

I got a kick out of these. I'm sure someone else might. I just think they're cool but I forgot the name of the book so I'll have to go back on my next day off 😅