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How to Write a Ritual

What is the purpose of the ritual?

Are you crafting a ritual for meditation? A spell? A sabbat? A lunar phase? The first part to writing a ritual is what type of ritual you’re wanting to write.

What do you want to include in a ritual?

Something that I always incorporate in my rituals is a shielding and meditative portion. I find that meditation and shielding is incredibly important to my ritual work, particularly if you’re working with deities or spirits.

Determine time, place, etc.

Determining the time, place, location, and so forth, of a ritual is incredibly important. When writing rituals, I also like to take into consideration day of the week, the weather, phase of the moon, and even the time. All of these can factor into the power and the energy of the ritual.

Cleansing and Protection

One of the most important factors, at least to me, is cleansing. I never, ever do a ritual without cleansing beforehand because I don’t know what kind of energy I’ll be bringing to the ritual. Cleansing is a good way of ridding myself of energy that won’t benefit me throughout my ritual.

Some practitioners (myself included) also like to cast circles prior to starting the ritual. If you’re unsure of how to cast a circle, here’s a pretty good video of protection (just be aware that the OP is a Wiccan and that does inform their craft!) OR here’s a great post by @themori-witch about warding! Reasons to ward can include the energy spilling out into an unprotected space (i.e. if you live in an apartment) and helps really focus the energy, or at least that’s my experience. Every witch’s experience is different!

Invoking/Summoning Entities and Using Energy

Some rituals will invoke or summon various entities (i.e. ancestors, guardians, elements, etc.). Determine prior to your ritual what kind of entity you’ll be invoking or summoning and determining that will help focus the energy of your ritual.

The same thing goes for what kind of energy you’ll be using. When I used to practice with a grove of Druids, we would invoke a lot of Norse divine energy and that energy is radically different compared to fey/fairy energy or even celestial/planetary energy. Determining how you’ll use this energy will help you figure out how you’ll raise your energy, which will help focus it. For example, when I work with Apollon in a solar ritual, I find that singing or dancing really helps focus that energy since he is a creative god.

Ritual Components

Decide on which components you’ll use in your ritual. This can include things like athames, candles, incense, poppets, animals, oils, herbs, etc.

Dissolving Protection/Circles and Resolution

Once your ritual is complete, you’ll want to take down the protections and also release the entities that you’ve invited. This is the perfect opportunity to provide an offering to the entities you worked with since entities ought to be thanked for their participation. Dissolving protections and circles also refers to cleaning up the mundane part of the ritual (i.e. disposing of cups or plates, etc.)

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Our dear Meadow has gotten a makeover! She’ll be the one you’ll be buying animals from and she’ll also be a romance option for everyone. This is also a little preview of the art style for our avatars since they’ll be in a similar style.

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Our website’s banner is now complete thanks to our wonderful artist Bomsyakala!  It’s a nice little welcome into the city itself. The backgrounds for the virtual novel will also be in the same style, so a little preview of what’s to come. Coming up next, some different designs for the website, we’ll have some polls on our Patreon page to decide the final look of the game.  

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Mad cat! 

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ACAPELLA. There will never be another Marvin Gaye.

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((is it socially acceptable to post this yet))

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🌤Solar Motivation Spell🌤

a spell designed to grant you motivation, drawing on the sun’s power

gather:

✨bergamot incense and earl grey tea bag

✨potable water to charge

✨pen & paper (or bay leaf! I used some homemade floral paper with yellow dyes)

✨yellow candle

✨motivation sigil

directions:

💫find a sunny space, ideally outside

💫begin the rite as you prefer: cast circles, call quarters, ground, centre etc

💫light the incense and set the water in a jar near you

💫write out what you need motivation for, eg exams

💫carve the sigil into the candle and light it

💫burn the paper/leaf with the candle whilst saying:

“that which now I burn, 

will to me hereafter return.

Might sun and Goddess sweet, 

fill me with what is required, 

to reach what is desired.”

💫close the rite, then allow the water to charge in the sun’s rays to make earl grey tea with it later

💫drink and let the motivation bloom!

Best of wishes, 

faint🐇

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My submission for the scholastic art and writing competition

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𝔪𝔶 𝔞𝔭𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔬𝔣 𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔰 𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔶, 𝔪𝔶 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔱𝔥 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔥 𝔭𝔥𝔶𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 + 𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔩 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔢𝔰. 𝔡𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔳𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤... | ☉♐︎ ☾ ♌︎ ||

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Does anyone have recommendations on Necromancy books?

I’ll take good and bad books, I want to be able to learn what to look out for and whatnot.

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It seems like people really liked my Galarian Vulpix, so I made one more!!! ♥ ♥ ////

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Some facts:

1) Black Americans created jazz. 2) Jewish Americans created comic books. 3) These things are said to be the only original American art forms.

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it's 2022. donald trump has died in disgrace days after being impeached and jailed. my chemical romance's new album is coming out the same day as the new spiderverse movie. the lizzo and janelle monaé collab song is blowing up the radio. lil nas x has a verse in it. you and your partner have time and energy for dates after work after jeff bezos' assets have been seized and distributed to the public in the wake of his arrest for keeping employees in unsafe working conditions.

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Ive been getting really interested in death magic and would like to start practicing. But I have virtually no idea how to start, could you maybe guide me in the right direction (´•ω•`๑)

Hi, and welcome! I’ll absolutely help you in any way I can! I’m going to link you to a bunch of asks that I’ve answered on the subject; hopefully these will give you a good starting point, and then you can ask me any questions you have.

What is death witchcraft, and how do I start?

Some essential tools for death witchcraft

On conquering your fear of death

Crystals for death and ancestral work

If you’re interested in necromancy

Offerings for the dead

Protection techniques

I hope all this helps! I’m glad you’re interested, and keep your eye out for an FAQ I’m making on death witchcraft, to be posted whenever I finished it. You can also find a lot more posts on death witchcraft on my death witch tag.

Have a beautiful night, hun! (*＞ｖ＜)ゞ*゜+