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Why I like crystals

so many colors

so many shapes

so many textures

the sounds they make when I clack them together or on surfaces

each one is different and special

I can hold one in my hand

I can carry them in my backpack or pocket or purse

I can turn it over in my hand and study each line or spot or crevice in detail

they are older then any living creature, but even rock is impermanent

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Open Ritual for Skaði, Friday Feb. 23

The Godsring is hosting our weekly ritual this Friday from 6:00—7:00 p.m. ET, on Zoom. We will be honoring Skaði.

Zoom link (same link every week)

Our weekly rituals are open to everyone, so please feel free to invite others and attend as (in)frequently as you’d like. There is no obligation to verbally participate or have your camera on, but it is encouraged if you're up for it!

The first 10-15 minutes are dedicated to performing the ritual, and the remainder of the time is spent discussing the ritual and enjoying community with one another.

[[art: statue of Skaði, from the fantastic blog of a Skaði devotee: @jackalopewitch]]

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2024 Witches' Calendar

For all my witches out there, here's a handy list of the 2024 dates for the solstices, quarter days, full and new moons, and special 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. Enjoy!

Solstices, Harvests, and Quarter Days

February 1-2 - Imbolc / Candlemas

March 19 - Spring Equinox / Ostara

April 30-May 1 - Beltane / May Day

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 25 - Wolf Moon ♌

February 24 - Snow Moon ♍

March 25 - Worm Moon ♎

April 23 - Pink Moon ♏

May 23 - Flower Moon ♐

June 21 - Strawberry Moon ♑

July 21 - Thunder Moon (aka Buck Moon) ♑

August 19 - Sturgeon Moon* ♒

September 17 - Harvest Moon* ♓

October 17 - Hunter's Moon (aka Blood Moon)* ♈

November 15 - Frost Moon (or Beaver Moon)* ♉

December 15 - Cold Moon ♊

*- Supermoon

Fun Fact: The title of Harvest Moon is given to either the September or October full moon, whichever falls closest to the autumn equinox. Once again this year, that month will be September.

New Moons

January 11 ♑

February 9 ♒

March 10 ♓

April 8 ♈

May 7 ♉

June 6 ♊

July 5 ♋

August 4 ♌

September 2 ♍

October 2 ♎

November 1 ♏

December 1 ♐

December 30 (black moon) ♑

Special Celestial Events

January 3-4 - Quadrantids meteor shower peak

March 25 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

April 8 - Total solar eclipse

April 22-23 - Lyrids meteor shower peak

May 6-7 - Eta Aquarids meteor shower peak

August 11-13 - Perseids meteor shower peak

August 19 - Sturgeon Supermoon / Seasonal Blue Moon

September 17 - Harvest Supermoon / Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

October 2 - "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse

October 17 - Hunter's Supermoon

October 21-22 - Orionids meteor shower peak

November 15 - Frost Supermoon

November 16-17 - Leonids meteor shower peak

December 13-14 - Geminids meteor shower peak

December 30 - Black Moon

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

Mercury Retrogrades (in case you need them)

April 1 - April 24

August 4 - August 27

November 25 - December 15

Happy Witching!

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

Bree's Lunar Calendar Series

Bree's Secular Celebrations Series

Moon Info - Full Moon Dates for 2024

Calendar-12 - 2024 Moon Phases

Full Moonology - 2024 Full Moon Calendar

AstroStyle - All the 2024 Full Moons

Your Zodiac Sign - Astrology Calendar 2024

Old Farmer's Almanac - Mercury Retrograde Dates 2023-2024

Lonely Planet - Best Star-gazing Events of 2024

Sea and Sky - Astronomy Calendar of Celestial Events 2024

DarkSky International - Dark Sky Placefinder for Stargazing

Pagan Grimoire - Wheel of the Year: The 8 Festivals in the Wiccan Calendar (2024 Edition)

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EDIT: Mercury is stationed direct on Jan 1st, 2024. The source I used which stated it was in retrograde until the 18th had a typo.

EDIT: Fixed the zodiac signs for the full moons using a new source.

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Crystals: they taste good. Especially when used in magic. CRUMCH.

So do rocks. So do minerals. Just so deliciously spiritual. Y'know?

But they don't all taste good on your soul in the same way, because these words don't mean the same thing. GEM and STONE and CRYSTAL aren't synonyms, though their definitions sometimes overlap. In a casual setting it's fine to fart these words around interchangeably. I just wouldn't do it in any serious capacity.

🔮 YO WHY DOES THIS MATTER

🐻 In short: it'll make your spells more powerful.

🐻 In long...

To start getting into these lovely crunchy snacks, dear humans, you're going to have to know at least a little of the science. And if you're groaning right now, you're not ready to be a practitioner of any ding-dang metaphysical thing. You have to understand a touch of the natural world before working with it.

For instance: if you need fiery passion in your life, are you going to use something in your spell that comes out of a mollusk (a pearl) or from a volcano (obsidian)? If you need structure, is it better to use an object that's chemically a blobby mess (an opal) or orderly and neat (quartz)?

Unless you have prior associations with these objects, the basic science is all very crucial.

Still, I'm not gonna bore you. Let me just lay on you what you need to know to start with. You can go scurry off and read more as you please.

🔮 WHAT IS A CRYSTAL?

A crystal is a homogeneous solid substance with a repeating symmetrical structure. This structure is called a crystal lattice.

— Crystal Basics: The Energetic, Healing, and Spiritual Power of 200 Gemstones by Nicholas Pearson

What the hickety heck does that mean? Basically:

A crystal is a solid. OK.

Its internal chemical or molecular structure is homogeneous. All its parts are the same.

Its internal chemical or molecular structure is symmetrical, meaning its parts, on an axis, are the same. Mirrored. Think a butterfly, a snowflake, etc.

Its internal chemical structure also repeats. So you have the same chemicals or molecules repeating.

Its internal chemical structure is called a crystal lattice.

SALT is a crystal. It looks like this, way down on a teeny-weeny level:

Those are the elements sodium and chloride in a crystal lattice.

🐻 As an overview...

✨ USUALLY CRYSTALS: minerals ✨ SOMETIMES CRYSTALS: gemstones, stones ✨ USUALLY NOT CRYSTALS: mineraloids ✨ USUALLY NOT CRYSTALS, BUT MADE OF MINERALS: rocks ✨ DEFINITELY NOT A CRYSTAL: eggs, sadness, your mom

🔮 WHAT IS A MINERAL (AND MINERALOID)?

A mineral is a naturally occurring, inorganic crystal. That means that minerals must be formed by nature, from nonliving sources, and exhibit homogeneous compositions and symmetrically repetitive structures.

— Crystal Basics: The Energetic, Healing, and Spiritual Power of 200 Gemstones by Nicholas Pearson

Let's break this down again.

A mineral is naturally occurring, which means it forms in nature.

But it's also inorganic. Animals don't make them. Plants don't make them. Things that are alive can't make them. It's gotta come from the earth. (Which is alive in a spiritual sense but not in a scientific sense. It's not, like, an organism. You know what I mean?)

They have homogeneous compositions. This means they're made up of the same thing throughout their entire structure.

They also have symmetrically repetitive structures. Their composite parts mirror on an axis, again like a snowflake, and the patterns of their molecules, elements etc repeat.

Labradorite is a mineral. It comes out of igneous (magma-formed) rock and it has a repeating chemical mixture of oxygen, silicon, aluminum, calcium, and sodium.

🐻 On the other paw...

When a substance meets some, but not all, of the criteria of a mineral...it is called a mineraloid.

— Crystal Basics: The Energetic, Healing, and Spiritual Power of 200 Gemstones by Nicholas Pearson

If you have yourself a substance that's real close to a MINERAL but doesn't check off all the boxes, it's a mineraloid.

Obsidian is a mineraloid. It comes from lava, so it's non-organic. But its structure is amorphous, meaning it's not arranged in a crystal lattice.

🐻 So: a MINERAL is a CRYSTAL. A MINERALOID is generally not a CRYSTAL.

🔮 WHAT IS A ROCK?

This one's so easy I don't have to pull out a book for it: basically, a ROCK is made up of one or more MINERALS or MINERALOIDS.

Marble is a rock. It's composed of the MINERALS calcite and/or dolomite.

Limestone is a rock. Its parents are (generally) the MINERALS calcite and/or aragonite. I'm sure they're proud.

🔮 WHAT IS A STONE?

Not an official scientific term, as far as I know. This is one that's gonna vary depending on your dialect, your background, etc. I use STONE as a synonym for ROCK, but wouldn't use it for just any old MINERAL or MINERALOID. (Like, a piece of obsidian is not always a STONE to me.)

Your mileage may vary.

🔮 WHAT IS A GEMSTONE?

Also not an official scientific term, as far as I know. Like STONE, this will vary based on your background, dialect, etc. Generally, GEMSTONE refers to any MINERAL, MINERALOID, or ROCK that you humans have used to decorate yourselves over the years. Think jade (ROCK) or ruby (MINERAL) or opals (MINERALOID).

🔮 OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

There's way more scientific rocky rockiness to be talked about. For instance:

The rock cycle (how rocks are formed)

Crystal structures (based on the shape of their lattices)

Color, hardness, etc

...not to mention the METAPHYSICAL properties involved here. But this post is already long and to be honest I'm tired of speaking Human. More later.

Blessings, cubs!

(Typed up by my wife Mate-chan. Thank you, baby.)

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So you want to use tasty, tasty rocks and minerals in crystals in your correspondence magic.

Problem is, a lot of metaphysical sources don't cite their sources. Good folklore books, additionally, can be hard to find or acquire. Especially the ones that may give you a lead on ancient magical uses of various stones!

That's where science comes in. Good old GEOLOGY FACTS and LOGIC can show you where you can use stones in your spells when all else fails.

I already told you humans the difference between crystals and rocks and minerals and why it matters to spiritual folk. (We'll be using "stone" to cover all these categories in this post.)

Here's part 2: how to use science as correspondence inspiration. This will help you develop personal associations with the rocks as well.

When you have a stone, ask...

🔮 HOW'D THIS LITTLE TURD FORM?

How or where ye olde earth birthed your stone will give you hints as to its potential powers and associations. If you know the name of your stone, likely you can easily look it up on Google.

If it's a rock, for example, it might be...

Igneous. These rocks form when magma/lava cool. Good for fire magic, perhaps?

Sedimentary. These rocks form when layers of existing rock and other material glomp together. Decent for community magic, maybe?

Metamorphic. These rocks form when existing rocks change under pressure or intense heat. Great for transformation magic, perchance?

If you know where your stone was mined, think about that, too!

Of course, it may also be synthetic, or man-made. This is fine, because any object can have power, even if it's "unnatural." (You humans sure are obsessed with drawing a line between you and "nature.") But only you can decide if this will shape how you use it in spells.

🔮 THE HECK IS THIS STONE SHAPED LIKE?

This is one of the easiest aspects of your stone to figure out, since, like, it's right there.

For example, is your stone tumbled or carved? These are qualities you can use in any spell. A skull-shaped piece of quartz likely has a different vibe than a simpler tumbled round piece, y'know?

Orrrr...maybe your stone's natural? If so, what's its overall "habit" (general shape)? Prism-like? Plant-like? Needle-like?

🔮 HOW HARD IS THIS STONE?

Some stones are soft little boys and some are battle-hardened Warriors of the Big Tough. If you scratch the stone gently with your fingernail, does it leave a mark? How deep? Does powder come off of the stone?

Of course, sometimes a stone is too important to scratch like a poopy little kitty. In that case, most stones lie somewhere on the Mohs scale. If you know what kind of stone you have, you can likely Google its hardness on said scale.

All this, obviously, is just another property of the stone to note. If you're into correspondence magic, how might you use a very hard stone in a spell vs. a soft one?

🔮 WHAT'S THIS STONE'S COLOR?

Obviously, you'll want to take note of the stone's color and what connotations that brings up for you personally. One human's red isn't another human's red, as it so happens.

If the stone's synthetic, it's still fine to take note of its color. Angel aura quartz, for example, may not have come out of the ground all Rainbow Like That, but that doesn't mean it's any less Rainbow Like That.

Also take note of the stone's luster, or shininess. Like, is it shiny? And what kind of shiny? Is it metallic, glass-like, or more waxy? Think about the associations that might have when you use it in spellwork.

Finally, look at how transparent your stone happens to be. It may not be transparent at all. Or only a little. Or only in bits. Where might that quality come in useful for your spells?

🔮 HOW DO SCIENCE HUMANS GROUP THIS STONE?

There's a hundred thousand ways that scientists group various crystals and rocks and minerals depending on the various weird little traits they have. It's worthwhile to look those up and see what you find.

For example, minerals come in numerous flavors:

Oxides, which are combinations of metals and oxygen, like pretty much any ore,

Carbonates, which are a combination of oxygen, metals, and carbon, like malachite,

Silicates, which are a combo of oxygen and silica and include all quartzes ever,

...and many more.

How might these natural groupings affect your spellwork?

🔮 IN CONCLUSION

Use science where you don't have personal connections to a stone or are unsure a stone's traditional magical uses.

Uh. I don't give a rat's butt about actually concluding these things so just remember I also did a post on the difference between crystals and rocks and minerals and why that matters for a witch.

More later.

Blessings, cubs!

(Typed up by my wife Mate-chan. Thank you, baby.)

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A virtual offering to the Smiler. May you lead fun and laughter into our lives, and may you remind us to not take everything so seriously x0x

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December 17th prayers

hail Forsetti. mediator, peacemaker, presiding one! i pray that there be justice soon for those who've been treated unjustly. i pray for the war criminals to be stopped.

hail Eir. healer, doctor, nurse, therapist! i pray to you that there be healing for those who have survived this genocide. may they once more have access to medicine and rest.

hail Freyr. farmer-king, peaceful and battle-bold! i pray there be peace, that the bloodshed come to a stop. i pray the land and the people heal, and that indigenous peoples be given their lands back.

hail Frigg. hearth-lady, dear one, mother-friend, all-knowing! i pray that the displaced find home in their lands once more. i weep with you, for the parents who have mourned children. may all the victims find refuge.

hail Odin. father of victory, enemy of the wolf, god of prisoners! i pray for the freedom of the unjustly kidnapped and imprisioned. i beg that you give wisdom and power to those fighting fascism. may those waging horror be stilled.

hail Loki. change-creator, mischief-maker, shapeshifter! i pray that hypocrisy be uncovered and made clear. i ask that you turn the minds of those who would justify terrible wrongdoing. i pray for human society to drastically change for the better.

hail to the Nornir. weavers of wyrd, composers of chance, you who embroider history. i pray for an end to capitalism and war, to bigotry and bloodthirst. i beg that the horrors be over soon. i beg for frith to be.

(i wrote this set of prayers thinking of Palestine and Lebanon and North America, but this unfortunately could be used for multiple other things going on around the world. feel free to use or to share with credit.)

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Hail Mani

Hail to the Charioteer of the Moon Hail to the bold brother of Sunna Hail to the blessed son of Mundilfari Bless and walk with us this day

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Witchcraft tip: people are inherently drawn to what they need more of in their lives. Your best friend’s favorite color corresponds with what they want to manifest the most deep down. Same with your sister’s favorite foods. Listen to what those you love find joy in and use it to inform your craft.

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Color Magic Cheat Sheet

Hey all!

Color magic is a good way to incorporate magic into your day to day life and add more power to spells. Here is a little cheat sheet for you!

Red: Passion, Love, Charisma, Strength, Lust, Courage, Will, Vitality, Energy, Anger, Motivation(good in glamor spells)

Orange: Creativity, Justice, Success, Ambition, Joy, Opportunity, Harvest, Attraction.

Yellow: Learning, Knowledge, Focus, Confidence, Memory, Happiness, Friendship

Green: Prosperity, Nature, Grounding, Money, Luck, Fertility, Growth, Self-Awareness, Success, Hope, Growth

Blue: Communication, Travel, Loyalty, Forgiveness, Tranquility, Healing, Truth, Childhood

Purple: Psychic Ability, Divination, Wisdom, Knowledge, Intuition, Meditation, Spiritual Power, Astral

Pink: Love, Self-Love, Femininity, Beauty, Compassion, Romance, Affection, Emotional Healing

White: Spirituality, Peace, Calm, Cleansing, Purity, Higher Self, Truth, Innocence

Brown: Home, Protection, Fauna, Family, Loyalty, Stability, Grounding, Pets, Concentration

Black: Banish Negativity, Protection, Loyalty, Binding, Energy, Absorption, Defense, Justice

Silver: Divination, Lunar Energy, Clairvoyance, Intuition, Feminine Energy, Dreams

Gold: Healing, Wellbeing, Wealth, Cosmic Energy, Attraction, Luck, Prosperity, Abundance

I hope this helps!

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Why I like crystals

so many colors

so many shapes

so many textures

the sounds they make when I clack them together or on surfaces

each one is different and special

I can hold one in my hand

I can carry them in my backpack or pocket or purse

I can turn it over in my hand and study each line or spot or crevice in detail

they are older then any living creature, but even rock is impermanent

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Hail Thor

Hail to the red haired son of Odin Hail to the Thunderer whose laughter shakes the skies Hail to the Mighty One who battles ill meaning ice jotuns Bless and walk with us this day

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Resolving conflicting magical recommendations (for beginners)

(This isn't reactionary I promise, it's been on my mind for a couple of days 😅)

Idk really how helpful this will be, but if you're a beginner who is confused by a lot of apparently contradicting information, here are some thoughts/ideas that are too basic to have been this hard earned, but I'm not called Fool for no reason.

[All of the following are just my beliefs and aren't universal or applicable to everyone]

Resolving magical conflicts through intent

You can find apparent contradictions in almost any magical action. For example:

Light a candle to charge a crystal with energy

Light a candle to burn away an energy and dwindle it down to nothing

When you light the candle, is it going to fill the crystal with energy?

Or, is it going to burn away energy until nothing is left?

My belief is that this is where the idea of intent plays one of its most basic and vital roles in witchcraft.

When you perform a magical action, "setting intent" can be a vital first step that should not be skipped.

If you are aware that the fire could either charge or burn away, then it is very literally up to you what it does. As the agent of control and/or chaos, it is the witch who determines which facets of power come out to play.

Setting intent can be done inside of your head. Or, speak, sign, or write intent.

Rules about how you totally have to write intent can, for the most part, be ignored (e.g., "your intent must be present progressive tense or the Universe will never let you manifest your goals." Nah, the Universe doesn't even speak human language tbh.)

Setting intent is not the only step to working magic, and sometimes literally doesn't matter. ("It's my intent to honor the spirit of this lake with an offering! *Dumps cigarette butts and beer cans into the water* "The lake is honored because that was my intent 😌")

Having a limited set of beliefs about what a certain power can do is like automatically setting intent. ("It's only possible that candles burn away energy, so when I light it, of course it will have a banishing effect.")

Setting intent in this manner only works to the extent that the power you are working with could already do the thing. If you've got a freezer with an ice dispenser on the door you can intend to store food inside it to chill, or, you can intend to get water out of the door, but it doesn't matter how much you intend to fry a chicken. The fridge does not do that action.

Resolving magical contradictions through tradition

Tradition in and of itself can advise how to resolve contradictions of magical meaning. This includes religious, magical, and cultural traditions.

What's important to remember is that just because one group does it one way, it doesn't mean that their way is universally correct.

A lot of people enter into the world of witchcraft with the concept that there is one universally correct set of methods and rules by which to perform magic. These methods are secret, but written down somewhere, and the key to learning magic is to just find the truest set of rules to magic. Magical truth is mutually exclusive, and contradictory information must either replace current truth, or be rejected as falsehood.

And fortunately for everyone, none of that is true!

This is why someone in one school of magic can make a certain claim ("letting spell vessels touch the earth immediately robs them of their power and the magic becomes inert,") and someone else can make a totally contradictory claim ("bury spell vessels for three days to supercharge them with the power of Nature,") and both people can be equally right.

Which set of rules might be true for you?

Well, whichever tradition you're a part of.

This is why it's really important to understand where your beliefs come from, and also to engage in self-examination about what you believe about the cosmos, our planet, and your role within it.

Entering into a tradition has a curious effect - you tend to be bound to those rules and assumptions, whether you like it or not.

Reflect on whether or not your current traditions and beliefs can resolve conflicting information.

Ask yourself what beliefs must be inherent before an assumption about magical 'rules' can be true.

(P.S. you can learn multiple contradictory systems of magic and flip between them depending on needs)

Resolving magical contradictions through experimentation

One witch may be able to charge excellently by burning candles and using intent to direct the burning energy.

A second witch may discover that they really can't charge jack shit with a candle. The energy seems to slip between their fingertips. When they direct it at something, it seems to have a consuming effect - not an invigorating one.

Setting magical intent is like choosing which path to walk down. But, the paths are unique for each of us. For the first witch, the path of "Charging Through Candleflame" is wide and open, a beautiful paved boulevard they can stroll down.

For the second witch, the path of "Charging Through Candleflame" is like hiking up a steep hill littered with boulders, and also the hill is on fire.

Many magical contradictions can be explained by practitioners simply having different personal experiences, and incorrectly assuming that their experiences must be universal.

One excellent way to learn not only about magic as a whole, but also how magic works for you, is to earnestly experiment with contradictory meanings and discover which ones A) make sense to you, but more importantly, B) actually work for you.

Whether or not you can use a candle to charge, banish, or both; and whether or not that's more or less effective for you than using water, or the sun, or pop culture icons, is something that you'll only be able to discover for yourself through experimentation.

Resolving magical contradictions through technique

If setting intent is choosing what path to walk down, then on the course of walking down that path, there is a chance you trip and fall flat (see: "I'm honoring the lake by dumping trash in it!").

Tripping and falling flat doesn't mean that path of magic is impossible for you, or shouldn't be further explored.

It can really just mean that you need some hiking boots and a trail guide.

Or, in other words: setting intent can be insufficient to actually access and manifest certain types/aspects of power.

I have personal beliefs about sorcerous power that dictate that various powers can be more or less difficult to access depending on a variety of factors. And, a witch must learn techniques to access the power. The more remote or hidden that power is, the more capable or attuned a witch must be to access that power.

That is to say, someone intensely aligned with underworld powers may be able to easily access the facets of death and decay that exist within many natural forces. But, someone without that alignment might instead need capable techniques gained through learning and practice in order to access those same powers.

And someone with neither of those things, who only tries to set intent and starts on a difficult path filled with roadblocks, may falsely assume that something "just doesn't work for me," when in reality, it's just more difficult to access.

This is why one witch can say, "roosters are a powerful source of connection to the underworld," another witch can say, "roosters only connect to the underworld if you use their feathers in a certain ritual," and a third witch can say, "roosters don't connect to the underworld," and all three are speaking from valid personal experience.

Experimenting with different techniques means learning a wide variety of ways to perform magic, including different paradigms, rituals, techniques, and methodologies.

Many systems of witchcraft contain concepts of when power is more or less available (the easiest example is the types of power more freely available due to the phases of the moon). Learning these systems can assist in discovering the accessibility of various powers.

Research is your friend.

In summary,

There are many reasons why witches have different lived experiences with magic (the topic of which would be enough to fill a book or two). As a witch-practitioner, your role in the creation of magic can't be ignored.

It's through your own culture and traditions, your own intent, and your own sorcerous techniques and education, through which you will be able to determine what aspects of magic are true to you - and which do not apply.

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Invocation of Thor

[Written by a member of the Godsring. Shared with permission.]

Hail to you Lord Thor we call upon you! Son of Jotun Jord and Lord Odin!

Your connection to Midgard is felt in our hearts and rooted in our souls.

Hail to you Mighty Thor we call upon you, God of the Storm and Rain!

It is from your will and power that the rains come and bring life giving rain to the land.

Hail to you The God of Divine Strength!  We call upon you!

We see the many aspects of your divine strength, you have shown us your power is more than physical might! Through your examples, we see power within ourselves.

Hail to you the great defender.  We call upon you!

Your bold character and care for us in our times of need keeps us safe. This care compels us to do the same for others. 

Great Thor, we ask of you to hear our prayer.  We ask of you to accept our humble offerings as we extend them to you with love and gratitude within our hearts

Hail to you Lord Thor. 

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Niklaus Stoecklin (1896-1982, Swiss) ~ Christbaumzweig, 1941 

[Source: MutualArt]

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