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Sirius! with poofy hair <3

(his freckles are the Canis Major constellation)

sketch below!

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signs you're close to shifting

Disclaimer - If you don't have these signs, that's okay! Not everyone has the same experience so don't worry. Some people have shifted without any prior signs.

Shifting signs when you're doing a method

Twitching in your body or eyelids

Tingles

Faster heartbeat

Hearing voices or sounds from your desired reality

Seeing flashing lights

Feeling like you're falling out of your body

You may also experience these daily

Seeing repeating numbers (111, 222, 333)

Feeling disconnected from this reality

Experiencing reality glitches (Objects not being where you placed them etc)

Changes in your surroundings (Be aware of your surroundings, small changes mean you have shifted even if it's to a nearly identical reality)

Phones and computers slowing down, not working, glitching etc

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Shifting realities:

Scripting.

So scripting isn’t necessary some people script to help them.

Things to remember:

Don’t use negative words like not no etc

If you want to feel no pain script it! Say something like I will be protected from all harm.

Always say I am

Write in the present tense.

You can script that you don’t feel any emotion such but I prefer to feel emotion but it’s all up to you.

So essentially your script is kind of a guide like

You can say I am tall with brown hair for example.

You can also write a fanfic basically.

So this is an example put whatever you want in your script.

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Sup. How do you write a script. Like dos and donts and all the stuff i should know. Also things that i should definitely mention in it. Sorry i got right to it but your blog is really helpful so thanks.

Hi! So when writing a script, you can either write it on an electronic device (like computers and phones work, apps such as Notes on the phone or Docs/Word on computers are good!) or on paper. Personally I recommend digitally writing it as you can always print it out for a physical copy and hand-writing makes editing and revising harder in my opinion.

Your script also does not have to be writing. You can use images and anything else to help visualize or establish what your DR will be like! Personally, I like separating my script in sections (About me, about the relationships I have with others, about the DR in general, specific affirmations for my alternate self) and when I mention a person I insert a photo or visual.

Good to know

You are shifting to a fully developed reality just as complex as this one. When you script you are not creating a reality, just specifying which one you want to go to.

The same applies when you’re changing your script/scripting within the DR, you’re just manifesting what you want and shifting to a reality where you have that.

You can’t, in the literal sense, “forget” to shift something and either not get a reality with it or get a reality with the opposite or something.

You can, however, basically forget to want something and shift to a reality where it isn’t there. Shifting involves intent, and if you intend to shift to a reality with the detail and just forget to script it, it’s fine, you should still be there. A lot of people don’t go into major detail when scripting.

But if you don’t think about and solidify the thing you want in your mind before shifting, it likely won’t be there.

Example: I want to go to Hogwarts and I know I want to have a private bathroom. Unfortunately I forget to shift that I have one! No worries. I’ll likely still have it.

Versus

I want to go to Hogwarts. When I shift there, I realize it would be nice to have a private bathroom, but I didn’t consider that point before. In this reality there are no private bathrooms.

If you intend to have it, you should have it. If you didn’t, you probably won’t.

You don’t have to have a big detailed and complicated script, though this does help some people and I would probably recommend being fairly detailed for beginners.

If you intend to go to a reality where you have all you want, you don’t need to write down and manifest it, though I do recommend scripting to get your thoughts better together and to be sure. I especially recommend it for beginners.

Possible Format

There are shifting script formats on aminos, some tiktoks, and you could probably repurpose oc forms or story scripts or something but the format I use is basically:

My desired self (age, height, appearance, body, house, personality, past, job, hobbies, pets and family)

My relationships with people (my friends, what acitivies we do together, how we feel about each other, how they feel about me)

General desired reality info (what the location is like, the time difference, more general info about the world, that nothing can hurt me or is traumatic, that I’m safe)

Alternate self

Though this is unnecessary, this is just me making sure and affirming to be sure stuff my alternate self should do that I would do. (Homework, talk to family and friends, hobbies)

Waiting room information (description of the reality, how my script appears in the room, when I want to shift)

I can go more detailed in the future of course. Hope this helps!

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If I wanted to have a slowburn type romance with a character in my dr, would I have to script that specifically or can I be more vague? Also, how much detail do I need to go into in my script in genera?l I'm not sure if my habit of overexplaining things is gonna help or hurt me in this case.

Hi! Here’s some general tips on scripting.

And I’m gonna use your ask as an excuse for a big informational post.

Scripting romances

Tiktok will say it’s bad to script you’re already in a relationship because of... consent? Well, Tiktok is literally wrong and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of shifting and the multiverse.

You’re not creating a new reality in which your script would create a situation where you are in a romance without their consent. You’re just specifying via your script you want to go to a reality where you’re already in a relationship.

There are no issues with consent??? They’ve already consented to a relationship with you. You’re just shifting to a reality where that has already happened.

Some suggestions for scripting to shift to a preexisting relationship:

NAME and I are a happy couple.

NAME and I share a strong, healthy relationship.

NAME and I understand each other completely.

NAME and I have been happily dating for BLANK.

NAME and I love to spend time together.

NAME and I communicate well.

NAME appreciates me so much.

NAME wouldn’t dream of breaking up with me.

NAME is the perfect S/O and I am the perfect S/O.

If you feel like it would be out of character for them to be absolutely perfect (Draco Malfoy perhaps) you can leave behavior affirmations out and just focus on their love for you.

Some people like the experience of developing a romance with a DR person, and that’s fine! You don’t have to shift to an already existing romance. You can script you have or will develop feelings for each other using whatever affirmations you want. Here are some suggestions:

NAME finds me attractive.

NAME has eyes for no one but me.

NAME finds me irrestable.

NAME and I develop feelings for each other.

NAME and I have a strong bond that developes into a friendship into something more.

NAME’s interest in me grows with every second.

You can also script for specific romantic events to happen.

Some examples/possibly suggestions if they apply ig:

NAME and I watch a movie at their house, and they first recognize their feelings when they see me smiling at the film.

NAME asks me out after we fall asleep on FaceTime.

NAME and I kiss as a dare but the next time we are alone, continue without thinking about it.

For a slow burn romance, though your intent and imagination of what your DR life will be like will likely cover it, I think scripting it is a good specification. You could script specific events like before as your relationship grow and know/script the events have long periods between each other, or you could use more specific affirmations for a slow burn in general, some suggestions being:

NAME and I gradually develop feelings for each other.

NAME and I keep our romantic interest hidden.

NAME pines for me over time.

I pine for NAME over time.

Our romantic relationship develops slowly.

As we develop feelings for each other we long for each other.

NAME decides to hide their love for as long as possible.

BLANK keeps us from confessing.

Every time we drop a hint about our deeper emotions, the other writes it off.

NAME believes they’re reading too far into any possibly romantic interaction.

NAME and I have an impossibly strong bond.

NAME and I don’t address the growing tension between us.

All these affirmations can be applied to poly relationships, too, just add in the other names and people. There are realities out there where you are all poly together!! Go ahead and shift there if you want :)

REMINDER

These are real people. Unless they deserve it, I guess, please don’t cheat on them. Please don’t break their hearts for fun. Please don’t murder anybody else who has feelings for them. You need their consent for sexual activities. Don’t take advantage of emotional distress to get sex. Please treat them as you would a partner in your CR.

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Shifting Terms

Grammar lesson time babes ❤️🥰🥵

Shifting

The process of shifting ur awareness to the version of you in an alternate reality!

DR

(D)esired (R)eality; the reality you wish to go to

CR

(C)urrent (R)eality, the reality you are in right now

WR

(W)aiting (R)oom, a reality with some sort of room people often shift to before their DR to work on/finish their script, take time away from their CR, or to shift to between moving DRs

“Clone,” More Accurately: Alternate Self

Commonly referred to as a “clone” this is your consciousness left behind while your consciousness has shifted to your DR. As they are you, they act like you would and won’t do anything you wouldn’t do.

Script

Commonly writing but can be combined with images or music reminiscent of your DR, a script is a set of affirmations/manifestations to specify which reality you want to go to. A script is optional!

Examples:

I am [Desired Self’s name] in the MHA universe.

Percy Jackson finds me so fun to hang out with and we share a cabinet together.

My apartment looks like [insert image] and smells like cinnamon.

Can be vague or extensive, usually includes information on: who you are in your DR, where you live, who your friends are, etc.

Manifestation

The act of attracting what you desire into your life (shifting into a close-by universe where you have what you are manifesting)

“Respawning”

The belief that if you manifest your death and shift you can be reincarnated in your desired reality. Hopefully you can recognize the danger in just the definition.

I really don’t think it’s possible to control where you reincarnate. Impressionable shifters are basically k*lling themselves.

Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction is the ability/belief that we can attract into our lives what we focus on. We can manifest into reality the thoughts in our mind.

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Shifting Realities

So it’s come to my attention that not many know methods and a lot of people get their info from tiktok and a lot has been lost in translation. So I’m clearing this up.

(I have just started to try to shift so I’m giving my little knowledge on the subject and clearing up some myths)

METHODS:

The Raven method:

WARNING: this method can cause sleep paralysis. It’s important you know this. No you cant die from it for those who think you can.

Now this is the method that works for most I’ve tried it but it didn’t work because I was given little information on this method and it didn’t work.

So first lay down in a star fish position, no limbs touching.

Then close your eyes and count to 100

Eg:

Breath, 1 breath 2 etc

(You can play subliminals or rain sounds or other sounds.)

Then once you reach 100 you can either say your affirmations (like I have shifted now etc) or count to 100 again.

Once you open your eyes you’re supposed to have shifted.

The Sunni Method:

Now this method is easier than others I haven’t really tried this method yet.

So lay in a comfortable position one that you can fall asleep in.

Then imagine the room you want to “wake up” in use your minds eye.

You don’t have to just use one of your five senses you can use all of them. Like you can imagine the smells the sounds you’d hear.

Yes you can listen to subliminals or Theta noise etc.

Some Random things:

Don’t try to shift to an anime world first it’s 2D therefore harder to shift to(I know I want to visit class 1A it’s annoying), it’s best to shift to a 3D world first.

Time is different there so you could shift for 6 minutes but in the other reality you could be there for 6 months or even years.

Symptoms/signs you’re gonna shift:

Feeling tingling on your head

Feeling light headed/dizzy

I’m not listing more because some people experience different symptoms or some don’t feel symptoms at all.

SOME MYTHS:

No you cannot die there if that happens you’d be sent back.

Yes you can get hurt but you can script that you feel no pain. (Am doing a post on scripting)

People there cannot send you back only you can come back on your own.

It is another reality so the people there won’t be like robots they will actually be real and feel tings of their own.

You can’t make noise as your clone from that reality takes your place.

You are shifting your conscious to that reality your body can’t sustain any injuries

Post on scripting coming soon

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Before You Try Shifting!

1. Research!

Personally, I would recommend researching into topics that lead into or relate to shifting, such as spirituality, witchcraft, lucid dreaming, mediation, vibrations, or astral projecting. At the very least research please do some research into the multiverse/parallel realities!

Some good accounts to check out

Spirituality

The belief that you can shift your consciousness into the version of you in your DR is a spiritual belief! Researching other spiritual beliefs can help you understand the mechanics of shifting and the shifting process.

Witchcraft

I’m not sure if shifting is inherently witchcraft, as witchcraft usually involves harnessing magic while shifting more uses the energy of the universe? But, a lot of witches are involved in spirituality, and by researching you can learn more about energy, magic, and even shifting if the witches are involved in that as well.

Lucid Dreaming

I consider this pretty important as lucid dreaming is what you can very well mistake for shifting. You should probably research reality checks, how to tell if you’re lucid dreaming, and maybe try lucid dreaming before shifting so you can tell the difference. In the lucid dream you’ll likely have more control (be able to change what’s happening around you) than in a real, true reality like our own. (Where stuff doesn’t happen by your imagination as a dream might.) This can also help you differentiate the story of others, and help judge whether their shifting story was lucid dreaming taken as shifting.

Mediation

Learning how to mediate/practicing meditation or learning more about meditation in general before shifting can give you an advantage when first using methods as you’ll have experience in clearing your mind.

Vibrations

This is something I need to look more into myself, but I’ve seen some people talking about how higher vibrations make it easier to shift (though setting the intentions to shift is, I think, all you need) so this may be useful.

Astral projecting

I do not think you shoukd astral project unless you have been involved in witchcraft for a while and have done a ton of research, as astral projecting, from my understanding, is your soul leaving your body to go to the astral dimension. This is far more dangerous than shifting your consciousness and should be done with caution, experience, and protection. But, learning more about this can help protect you from misinformation that suggests you should astral project to shift or that tries to get you to astral project instead of shifting. I think there may have been a shifting account on tiktok spreading misinformation about astral projecting and how it wasn’t dangerous.

THE MULTIVERSE/PARALLEL REALITIES

This is the theory/basis of how our universe works. There are many realities in the multiverse, and we are shifting from one reality to the other. When we manifest we shift to a parallel reality where we have what we are manifesting. When we script we are essentially manifesting our DR.

11. More Research!

Even if you skip the background/related researching you should research into shifting specifically before trying. You should look into different shifting communities for your research, how to help you shift, and different ways to shift before picking one and trying.

Shifting communities

The shifting community doesn’t have a huge internet presence and not much will come up from a Google search. The primary shifting communities I know of are, somewhat in order: Amino, Tiktok, and Youtube. There may be books about it or a Reddit community or something but I’m not aware of them at this point.

Amino is often said to be the best place for information. There’s many shifting groups and I’ve heard that request-to-join ones are usually more trustworthy.

Tiktok can also be a good place for information, but accounts also tend to regurgitate the same information so misconceptions and misinformation spreads fast. Tiktokers that show their face and have a background in spirituality or witchcraft are often more trustworthy than background-and-text accounts or Harry Potter-shifting accounts that may be repeating bad information they’ve heard or talking about shifting without properly researching.

YouTube has several videos with varied titles of “how to shift to a desired reality/parallel reality” but it is also an amazing place for shifting subliminals or meditations or tones/binaural beats.

How to help you shift

This is stuff like subliminals, a helpful mindset, mediations, visualization, scripting, stuff like that aren’t necessarily directly part of a method but doing it will help your process.

Subliminals are especially helpful to start listening to early on as they can clear out doubts and help with your intentions.

Scripting is recommended especially for beginners to help solidify the reality you want to go to and to manifest basically yourself in that reality. Scripting can consist of stuff like images, music, and most commonly present-tense writing about your DR.

Shifting methods

Poke around the communities and understand the different methods. If you’ve meditated or visualized, try and understand your strengths/what you’re good at. Are you strong with keeping a clear mind? Can you visualize well? Can you feel like you’re there better? Absorb a lot of different methods before trying one so you know what’s available to you and can focus on your strengths or make your own.

METHODS ARE NOT MANDATORY. They also variate depending on who’s telling you what the steps of the method are—I’ve heard people say the Raven method counts backwards or that you can use a sleeping position other than starfish. There’s no “set” way. The intent to shift is the most important thing and people have shifted without using a method. Some people make their own personalized subliminals and listen to it.

111. Preparing to shift

I’ve heard people say that before they shift (which is typically during the day before their shifting attempt at or over night) they may visualize their DR, consume media related to their DR if it’s fictional in this reality, “feel” like they’re in their DR, act like they’re in their DR, try to disconnect from this reality, and that it’s best to shift alone as “glitches” or small changes around you may happen.

It’s a good idea to mediate beforehand to clear your mind before trying a method to shift or before intending to shift.

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Sabbat Altar and Celebration Ideas for the Solitary Witch

YULE Altar ideas: Put mistletoe and pine on your altar; put a candle up there to represent the Sun; keep your Yule log on your altar; use symbols of the Sun; decorate with red, green, white, blue, and yellow (red and green for holly, white and blue for snow and wintery colors, yellow for the Sun). Celebration ideas: Kiss a consenting person under the mistletoe for luck; give gifts; have a feast; make magickal wreaths with herbs corresponding to the spell intent (you might use lilac, lavender, and camomile for a wreath that brings peace into your home).

IMBOLC Altar ideas: Use candles to represent the return of spring; make a cute little corn dolly; put a Brigid’s cross on there to honor her; decorate with yellow and green to represent the Sun and return of spring. Celebration ideas: Clean your house; have a self-dedication ritual (to a particular path, deity, philosophy, standard of life, etc.); clean off your working altar and redo it; cleanse and charge any tools or crystals you need to.

OSTARA Altar ideas: Use fake eggs, rabbits, and other symbols of fertility or spring; put some potted plants on the altar; place some packets of seeds you might be planning on growing; decorate with purple, yellow, green, white, and other spring, pastel colors. Celebration ideas: Paint and blow eggs (take proper precautions when handling raw eggs, obviously, especially if you’re putting your mouth on them); if you have a greenhouse, want a potted plant, or it’s warm enough where you live to plant outside, plant some seeds; buy a potted plant; organize your herb shelf.

BELTAINE Altar ideas: Make a mini Maypole for your centerpiece; smack some candles up in there, especially beeswax, if that’s in your budget; put some faery symbols, like little statues or bells or something like that; a jar of honey or some beeswax is always dope; if you’re comfortable with it, some people like to put representations of genatalia on their altar. Celebration ideas: Light an awesome bonfire (also be very cautious with this because fire can quickly turn dangerous); leave offerings to the faeries; have a dance outside; this is a good time to plan to have a handfasting ceremony or wedding; cast any love workings you’ve been meaning to do; if you’re an adult and have a person/people who consent to it, you could choose to have sex during this time (but do be safe!); many people try to conceive children during Beltaine.

LITHA Altar ideas: Symbols of the Sun and the Moon, feminine and masculine symbols if that’s a thing in your tradition; decorate with black and white to symbolize the night and day. Celebration ideas: Get up before the Sun rises and go to sleep after it sets, so you can experience the day and night; have a bonfire (again, safety is important); have a picnic; just spend a lot of time outside.

LUGHNASADH Altar ideas: Put bread and grain on the altar; maybe some apples and other autumn fruits; pinecones and leaves are fall symbols; decorate with red, orange, yellow, brown, and other colors of the season. Celebration ideas: Bake (especially make the cute little bread men); give an offering to the Earth; go to an apple orchard and pick some apples; share a feast with the family or your friends.

MABON Altar ideas: Wine, or grape juice if alcohol is unavailable for any reason; leaves and pinecones; apples; a money jar (see first celebration suggestion below). Celebration ideas: For a week or two before Mabon, put money you can afford to give up in a jar, and donate it to charity or a cause you support on Mabon; have another apple harvest; have another feast; do a ritual to honor the Earth.

SAMHAIN Altar ideas: Pop a few gourds in there, more apples if you want; pictures of the deceased; tools for divination and spirit contact; decorate with black, white, and orange. Celebration ideas: Divination, spirit communication (obviously only if you know what you’re doing); hold a seance or a dumb supper if that’s more comfortable for you; light a candle in the window for spirits (use a fake one if you want it lit all night); leave some milk and honey for the Fair Folk; give offerings to the dead; put up wards and shields if you’re one of the people who would prefer to avoid spirit activity.

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The holidays’ wreaths, by Julia Nikita

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From my Instagram @creature.marie

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Marimo Moss Balls

Everything you need to know.

What is a marimo moss ball?

Well, first of all, it isn’t moss. It’s a type of algae that produces hundreds of thousands of little fibers that grow on top of each other in the form of a ball. They’re found in streams and lakes mainly in Japan, and get their round shape by rolling around at the bottom of these bodies of water.

Where can you get marimo moss balls?

Sometimes you can actually find them at pet stores in the aquarium section! They may not be under the name marimo, but by their other name Cladophora ball. You may be able to find them on amazon or ebay, but I’d highly reccommend looking for them on local plant store websites. I got mine from Succuterra which is based in Toronto. They have since become Plant Collective, and I don’t have any reviews for them since they made this change. But look around, look for reviews, look local. Mass produced places have a higher chance of being fakes.

How do I tell if my marimo is fake?

I like to use the easiest way, which is giving is a squeeze. Real marimo are very hardy. But don’t squeeze it too hard, or it might come apart – if it tears in two, this is actually okay! It just means you have two marimo now. It’ll take a long time for it to form a sphere, but it will happen. But anyway. A real marimo will have no hard core. It will be fibers and soft all the way through. If you squeeze out all the water of a real marimo, it’ll float when you put it back in water.

If you do want two marimo and open one up and find little shells, sand, clay, etc, this doesn’t mean your marimo is fake. As marimo form, they might pick up small shells or bits of sand. It actually means your marimo is definitely real.

How to I take care of a marimo?

Marimo are SUPER easy to care for. I literally just put mine in a jar in a shady part of my room and change the water every 2 weeks and leave it alone. Sometimes I give it a stir so it stays round. So really, that’s all you have to do. You can put them in fish tanks but you have to be careful of your fish eating the marimo. If they do that, you probably want to move it to a separate jar or bowl.

So here’s what not to do with a marimo:

Put it in direct sunlight. You want lowlight, as marimo are used to the dark murky waters of the bottom of rivers and lakes.

Put it in warm water. They love cold water. Heck, you can even put it in the fridge for half an hour if you think it’s looking a little sad. 

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thought i’d share some playlists for the sabbats, find them especially useful when i happen to be busy on those days and can’t do much else.

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And I Oop-

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sometimes all we need is to have a large greenhouse, where we can calm down while working with herbs