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Don’t let money or tools be the center of your craft.

Don’t wait for the metaphorical planets to align.

Do what you want to or need to do with what you have. Use the three year old candle, the empty jar of yogurt and the half dead potted plant.

Don’t be afraid to do your Craft even if you can’t have 10 tarot decks and four different types of rose quarz. Cleansed and blessed bottle water can be just as effective as rain or river water.

We all want beautiful altars and a dozen self grown herbs for our spells. The problem is, not all of us can have that. And that’s OK.

You are the center of your magic. What you decide is the most important thing. You decide if the purple craft glitter represents amethyst or not. You put the magic in the water or the cards or the stone.

Without you there would be no magic.

So please remember, having a lot of different tools is great. But the most important one, the one that makes everything possible in the first place, is you.

(not my original post, found this on facebook and would like to share with you all)

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Advice for Learning Astrology

People are always asking me for a good source to learn astrology from, and I can't ever give a great answer for that, cuz I didn't learn from any single source myself. Most of my knowledge of astrology has just been an accumulation of informatiom from countless sources over several years. There is no one source I would ultimately recommend, cuz a lot of it is just simple pattern recognition compared against real people within my own life. My clients ask this a lot but the advice I give for learning the basics of astrology isn't rooted in sources but rather a method. It's easy to learn astrology in "chunks". Each "chunk" adds onto what you already know, and as long as you aren't working under false assumptioms, learning more "chunks" will never conflict with what you've already learned. Astrology looks daunting but its really simple if you learn it in this order:

1 The Elements

2 The Modalities

3 The Signs (including the mythologies and the metaphysical archetypes associated with them)

4 The Planets (including the mythologies and the metaphysical archetypes associated with them)

>>> by here, astrology becomes super easy to know and any learning curve should've leveled out by now

5 The Houses

6 Misc placements (such as the nodes, ASC and DSC, metaphysical placements like Lilith, and less significant things like astroids and smaller planets, etc. There are so many of these little things tho, so feel free to come back to this step. You will time and time again, there is just so much extra stuff here. Don't get overwhelmed!)

7 Decans (this relates back to the signs, but it's a tad bit more advanced. It's also commonly ignored and i think that's a damn shame cuz its a very valuable concept for interpretating astrology. Cusps are fake, and only used by idiots who don't understand basic math. Decans replace cusping with a much more efficient and actually accurate system)

8 Aspects (arguably the most important key for reading a chart, but requires a confident understanding of the previous "chunks")

>>> by here, you should be very confident with astrology, being able to read a chart and interpret the highlights of it within minutes. Detailed interpretations will take longer but shouldn't be daunting

9 Application (moving past the psychological interpretations of astrology and beginning to apply them to events, objects, locations, and divinatory purposes)

10 Other Charts (learning to read other charts, such as dragonic charts, synastry charts, esoteric charts, etc. This stuff typically reads the same mechanically but are cast via specific methods and have alternative interpretations and purposes)

As for sources to learn this stuff? Just start with Google and read articles from different sources. Compare conflicting info yourself. There is no one ultimate source, so you really are studying and digging around yourself.

If you really need one place to start tho, id recommend "the only astrology book you'll ever need" by Joanne Martine Woolfolk. It is by no means the only book you'll ever need, but it's a good start imo

Id also recommend using astro.com to generate and store charts. A lot of people use Cosigns and Time Passages (both apps) and they're good but lacking imo. Cosigns is good for casual astrology fans tho, a lot of my friends use it. But they still ask me for interpretations and readings so its not a good substitute for personal knowledge. Personally I prefer Time Passages but it has a paywall for the full features, and has no cloud saving.

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🌱✨🌷Magical Associations of Natural Items🌷✨🌱

Regently I have been reading ‘The Green Witch’  by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock and I have found a really good and detailed list in it about all kind of herb, flowers, plants,trees and spices’s nature and I thought it may be useful for other ones too. 

I tried to categorize all the information, but as you can see there are ones which could be placed in more than one category. So I put these in just one category. 

🌶️SPICES🌶️

Allspice: prosperity, luck, healing, purification, protection, money

Cinnamon: healing, love, lust, success, purification, protection, money, psychic awareness

Clove: protection, mental abilities, attraction, purification, comfort

Coriander: healing, love, lust

Cumin: protection, antitheft, love, fidelity

Dill: protection, love, attraction, money, strength, luck, eases sleep, mental abilities, weight loss

Fennel: courage, strength, cleansing

Garlic: healing, house blessing, protection, lust, antitheft

Ginger: healing, love, money, energy

Majoram: protection, love, happiness, health, money, marriage, comfort

Nutmeg: clairvoyance, health, luck, fidelity

Oregano: peace

Parsley: healing, lust, fertility, love, passion, protection, hex breaker, prosperity, purification, eases grief

Pepper: protection, purification

Rosemary: cleansing, protection, healing, longevity, improves memory and concentration

Tarragon: cleansing, regeneration, transformation

Thyme: purification, psychic cleansing, divination, healing, enhances memory, eases sleep, courage

Vanilla: love, prosperity, lust, energy, mental abilities, creativity

🌿HERBS🌿

Anise: psychic abilities, lust, luck, purification, love

Basil: love, trust, abundance, prosperity, courage, discipline, protection, marriage, purification, luck, mental abilities

Bay: protection, purification, endurance, fidelity, psychic powers, divination, wisdom, strength

Catnip: cats, love, beauty, happiness, tranquility, luck

Chamomile: purification, healing, soothes anxiety, gently heals bad luck, soothes children

Mint: purification, preserves health, clarity of mind, protects travelers, attracts money, health, love, success

Sage: healing, longevity, good health, psychic awareness, protection

Verbena: purification, protection, blessings, communication with nature spirits

Yarrow: marriage, courage, love and friendship, psychic abilities, hex breaking 

🍎Fruits🍎

 Apple: love, healing, peace

Lemon: purification, love, protection, happiness

Lime: love, purification, luck, sleep

Orange: love, joy, purification, prosperity

🌷Plants🌷

Angelica:  protection, hex breaker, healing, psychic abilities, house blessing, purification

Bayberry: abundance, prosperity

Chickweed: animals, love, fidelity, healing, weight loss

Cinquefoil (five-finder): eloquence, cunning, money, protection, sleep, prophetic dreams, purification, love

Clover:  lust, hex breaking, prosperity, purification, love, luck, protection, success, fidelity, comfort

Comfrey: healing, prosperity, protection, travel

Daisy: nature spirits, love, children

Dangelion: longevity, enhances psychic ability, intuition, spiritual and emotional cleanser

Echinacea: healing

Elderflower: protection from lightning, beauty, divination, prosperity, purification, house blessing, healing, sleep

Eucalyptus: protection, healing

Eyebright: truth, pierces through illusion, certainty, psychic ability

Feverfew: love, fidelity, protection, healing

Gardenia: love, attraction, peace, meditation

Geranium: love, healing, protection, fertility

Hawthorn: protection, fertility, happines

Heather: protection, rain, luck

Heliotrope: clairvoyance, psychic abilities, health, money

Hibiscus: love, lust, divination, harmony, peace

Honeysuckle: abundance, luck, prosperity, eases sorrow, enhances psychic abilities (do not use the berries; they are poisonous)

Hops: healing, sleep

Hyacinth: love, comfort, protection

Hyssop: purification, protection

Jasmine: love, attraction, prosperity, tranquility

Juniper: cleansing, purification, protection against accidents, protection against illness, love, antitheft, fertility, psychic abilities

Lavender:  healing, love, happiness, heals grief and guilt, sleep, tranquility, protection, purification, peace, house blessing, wisdom, children, marriage

Licorice: love, lust, protection, fidelity

Lilac: protection, beauty, love, psychic abilities, purification, prosperity

Lily: protection, love antidote, truth

Lotus: blessing, meditation, protection

Marigold: positive energy, protection, eases legal stress, increases psychic awareness, peace

Meadowsweet: peace, love, happiness, psychic awareness

Mistletoe: healing, protection, love, fertility, sleep, luck

Mugwort: divination, protection, healing, strength, lust, psychic power, fertility, protects travelers

Nettle: cleansing, protects from danger, protects health

Patchouli: money, fertility, lust, clairvoyance, divination, love, attraction

Poppy: fertility, abundance, sleep, love

Rose: healing, love, conciliation, restoration, self-love, attracts love and good fortune, heals trouble, enhances psychic ability

Rowan: purification, house blessing, protection, healing, psychic abilities, wisdom, strengthens spells

Rue: protection, mental abilities, purification, health, comfort

St. Johnson’s Wort: courage, power of the sun, fertility, purification, healing, positive energy

Valerian: purification, protection, healing, love, sleep, attraction

Violet: tranquility, love, luck, protection, healing

🌳Woods🌳

Birch: protection, purification, new beginnings, children

Cedar: healing, purification, protection, prosperity

Cypress: protection, comfort, healing

Elm: love, protection

Maple: sweetness, prosperity, marriage, love, money

Oak: purification, protection, prosperity, health and healing, money, fertility, luck, strength

Pine: prosperity, healing, purification, fertility

Willow: communication, eloquence, protection, healing, love, dreams

🌰Seeds🌰

Almond: love, money, healing, wisdom

Hazel:  mental abilities, fertility, protection, wisdom, luck

Flax: money, protection, beauty, healing

Walnut:  healing, mental abilities

🧅Others🧅

Ash: protection, strength, healing, prosperity

Benzoin: purification, healing, prosperity

Onion: healing, protection, purification

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Forager’s Daughter Tarot Giveaway #2

Hello All, I hope you are well!

If you’ve seen my posts you probably know about the tarot project I’ve been working on. It’s been a year in the making, and finally coming to fruition. I’m overwhelmed with the amount of support I’ve received already, it’s truly been amazing to hear how the deck resonates with others, from all walks of life. 

I’d like to give back to everyone who has been a part of the project, with another deck giveaway! We are about halfway through the campaign, with lots of time left to reach the campaign stretch goals. Here we go!

One person chosen at random will win the following:

One Forager’s Daughter tarot deck and book

A die-cut sticker set (both designs!)

One three-card reading with the FD deck, sent via email with a PDF document of your personal spread and reading notes

One 9.5x5.5 inch digital print of a card of your choice

To enter, you must:

Follow me on Tumblr at @jessicaleihoward 

Reblog this post for one entry

Like the post for an additional entry

Comment or tag a friend for a third entry

Be 18 or older and able to provide a valid mailing address to which I can send your prize pack

Details:

This giveaway is open internationally! I will pay for all shipping, however international participants should know that I cannot pay for any import duties or extra taxes: that is their responsibility.

Giveaway ends on Sunday, September 29 at 5pm Eastern Time.

Make sure your inbox is turned on to be sure you receive any messages.

The winner must respond with their full name and shipping info within 24 hours of being notified, or a new winner will be chosen.

Your prize package will be shipped out to you once the Kickstarter campaign has ended and I am able to order the decks and books. The project is fully funded so everything will definitely be printed.

Good luck!

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📚Witchy Books 📚

Good day, lil’ Witches and Warlocks! With this little list I would like to share with you some PDF books I have been using. I hope it will be useful for someone. 

The Common Book of Witchcraft and Wicca by The Ancestors

A Wiccan Bible by A. J. Drew

A Witch’s Notebook by Silver Ravenwolf 

A Witch’s Bible : The complete witches’ handbook by Janet and Stewart Farrar

Beginner Guide to the Basics of Witchcraft by Ashe. G.

Celtic Magic by D.J. Conway

Charms, Spells and Herbs by Esteban Portela

The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft &Wicca  by Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch by Rachel Patterson

Wicca: A guide for the solitary practitioner  by Scott Cunningham

The Green Witch by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock

The Inner Temple of Witchcraft by Christopher Penczak

The Way of the Green Witch by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock

The Way of the Hedge Witch  by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock

The Witch’s Book of Self-Care by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Th Spiral Dance by Starhawk

Wicca Book of Spells and Witchcraft for Beginners by Arin Chamberlains

Wicca for Beginners by Lisa Chamberlain

Wicca for One: The path of Solitary Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland

Witchcraft Step by Step 

Witchcraft Today  by Gerald B. Gardner

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🍂Mabon🍁

We’re so close to the autumn equinox! I thought I’d make a post about it especially for all the baby witches who are following me. 🧡

What’s mabon?!? In the wheel of the year, it’s a holiday to celebrate the autumn equinox, harvest and abundance. It is observed by many modern witches and pagans. At this time most crops are being harvested, food is being storaged for the cold winter and days are getting darker. 

🍎 Simbolysm: Apples, autumn flowers, candles, corn, grapes, harvest symobls in general, leaves, nuts, pumpkins, wine. 

🧡 Colors: Brown, indigo, orange, red, yellow. 

🔮 Tarot cards: Judgement and the world. 

🥖 Foods: apples, berries, bread, carrots, dried fruits, grapes, nuts, onions, potatoes, pies, pumpkin, soup, wine. 

💎 Crystals: Amber, clear quartz, diamond, gold.

✨ Spells: Balance, blessing, divination, harmony, harvest, prosperity, protection, security, self confidence. 

🍁 Activities: Bake a pumpkin pie, collect fallen leaves, decorate your altar, decorate your home, donate to charity, eat seasonal foods and vegetables, go for a walk in the forest, light an orange, red or yellow candle, meditate, picking apples, spend time outside, watch the birds and other small animals and appreciate nature.  

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Witches. Place magic all around you. Carry a notebook, jot down all the feathers you see as you walk to work. Carry acorns from the oak tree nearest your house and scatter them in the new places you visit. Say hello to the squirrels around you. Pick up rocks that catch your face and place them down somewhere new; they probably get as restless as we do. Find a lucky number and stir your coffee exactly that long every time. Press leaves and sew them into cloth to hang by your window. Paint eyeliner sigils under your clothes. Add rainwater to your tea kettle before you put it on to boil. Burn your candles, your insecurities, your nail clippings, your fears. Sit in the forgotten grassy spots tucked beside graveyards and roadways and the edges around parks. 

You exist in a world of wonder. You exist in the place of magic. Your actions are put forth into the world, and you have every right to wear the scorn others throw at you like a first-place medal.

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my anxiety: if I do not Produce and Achieve I will Die

my depression:

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hey guys i made a meme :)

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The Hanged Man.

Clear your mind of all doubt and uncertainty. Look at your world from a new point of view. Seek only truth and understanding.

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🌻 ALL ABOUT LAMMAS & HOW TO CELEBRATE 🌻

Blessed Lammas! In the video below I share all about the traditions & origins of this Wiccan holiday. I also review various ways you can celebrate as well. 

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT LAMMAS

It falls on August 1 or 2

Lammas is one of the four “Greater Sabbats,” (Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas and Samhain) making it one of the most important days on the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. 

Another name for Lammas is Lughnasadh, after the ancient Celtic festival celebrated on this date which honors the god Lugh, who is associated with the Sun.

It marks the beginning of the harvest season when the first hints of Autumn are perceptible.

During Lammas we give thanks for the abundance of the past growing season and look forward to the remaining weeks of light and warmth.

Wiccan mythology holds that the God’s power begins to wane at this time, as the days grow shorter and the crops are ready to be cut down. In some traditions, the Sun God actually infuses the grain with his power, and so is sacrificed, in a sense, when the grain is harvested. 

Bread-making is a common way to mark the holiday.  People also might make a corn dolly from straw for use in ritual and magic. 

You can decorate your altar with the colors of summer and fall (yellow, orange, red, green and brown) and use harvest imagery like scythes and baskets and, of course, loaves of bread. 

Will you be celebrating Lammas this year? Share your plans & thoughts in the comments below. 👇

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Tarot Numerology 🔮

in a reading:

1️⃣’s 

positive: creation, ideas, beginnings, invention, originality, drive, incentive

negative: willfulness, selfishness

multiple: a situation is beginning or in the beginning stages - starting a new chapter in your life

2️⃣’s

positive: waiting, sharing, balance, duality, diplomacy, receptivity, application

negative: intolerance, impatience, imbalance

multiple: a waiting period, partial success, more to be revealed later, reconciliations, reunions

3️⃣’s

positive: communicating, feeling, sharing, self-expression, playing, friendship, having fun

negative: not communicating, scattered energy, overreacting, overindulging, criticism

multiple: several parties involved, delays, future success

4️⃣’s

positive: application, formation, foundations, organization, planning, concentrating, building

negative: limiting, blocks, opposition, dull work, too much focus on  material things

multiple: things coming to fruition, there’s a foundation or space for things to grow/develop

5️⃣’s

positive: curiosity, new opportunities, attraction, good fortune, travel/adventure

negative: defeatist attitude, dogmatism, fear of change, failure

multiple: challenges and fluctuations (for better or worse)

6️⃣’s

positive: harmony, balance, compassion, responsibility, social consciousness, concern, domesticity

negative: discord, disharmony, closed-minded, anxiety, interference

multiple: adjustments to thoughts, attitudes, or conditions. overcoming difficulties

7️⃣’s

positive: observation, investigation, meditation, discovery, knowledge, perfection

negative: fear, faithlessness, pessimism, skepticism, doubt, escapism

multiple: periods of introspection and solitude. gains to be discovered through unexpected situations. 

8️⃣’s

positive: capability, success, recognition, accomplishment, attainment

negative: strain, oppression, sense of lack, overemotional, abuse of power

multiple: positive changes in mindset and/or status

9️⃣’s

positive: fulfillment, selflessness, magnetism, idealism, inspiring

negative: personal loss, emotional extremes, releasing attachments

multiple: situations are completed or nearing completion - another chapter is on the horizon

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Cosmic-Supplies Giveaway 2019

Hey y’all welcome to my third giveaway, I will be sending these beautiful crystals to one lucky winner, there will also be two runner up prizes this time, anyone can enter! :)

Here’s what’s up for grabs: 

First prize: (not pictured) A very large sunshine aura quartz cluster, Green Calcite, Aventurine Thumbstone, Fluorite Thumbstone, Natural Fluorite, Aragonite Sputnik, Angelite, Cubic Pyrite, Selenite Wand, Tourmaline Wand, Citrine Point, Blue Quartz, Amethyst Cluster and Rose Quartz two large palmstone pieces (Flower Jasper and Sodalite) and a seed of life grid cloth. 

Two runner up prizes: An Amethyst cluster, Selenite wand and Rose Quartz. 

RULES:

Likes, reblogs and follows count as one entry each (for a total of three entries) you can only reblog this once for an entry, multiple reblogs don’t count.

You must be willing to give out a valid shipping address, if you are under 18 please make sure you have permission from your legal guardians.

Anyone can enter, it is a worldwide giveaway so if you’d like to enter do not feel limited by where you live.

The giveaway will end March 28th 2019 

This giveaway is not sponsored by or in any way affiliated with tumblr, do not tag this as “tumblr giveaway” please.