#black snakeroot

[vandaliatraveler]

I suppose if any wildflower can be said to embody the bounty and energy of summer, it must be black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa, or Actaea racemosa). Anyone who has grown up in Central Appalachia will instantly recognize and connect with the towering "fairy candles" of this woods-dwelling perennial in the buttercup family - some might even suggest a spiritual bond exists between the people of the mountains and the plant. This isn't surprising - black cohosh has a long and storied history as a medicinal herb, dating back to the Native American tribes, who used an extract from its root to treat everything from musculoskeletal pain to snake bites, and continuing with the European settlers, who used it to treat the symptoms of menopause. While there is little evidence from clinical trials indicating the plant's efficacy in treating menopausal symptoms, higher quality studies are being urged and may yet prove the plant's value in supporting female reproductive health. Irrespective of its potential contributions to medicine, black cohosh is the living spirit of Appalachia's summer woods, and one of the most spectacular wildflowers of North America.

[aisling-saoirse]

Sanicula Odorata - Common Black Snakeroot

[thebelmontrooster]

A Little Catching Up Part 2...

A Little Catching Up Part 2…

Lotus corniculatus (Bird’s Foot Trefoil) on Brandon Road along the south side of Farrington Park on 6-12-22, #890-36. Hello everyone! I am back again with part two. It has been very hot but we had a little more rain which cooled things down a bit for a couple of days. It will be in the upper 90’s again this week. It’s OK as long as I can keep working in the shade and there is a little…

[kemetic-dreams]

Several African American blues singers and musicians composed songs about the culture of Hoodoo, including W.C. Handy, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Big Lucky Carter, and Al Williams. African American blues performers were influenced by the culture of Hoodoo and wrote songs about mojo bags, love workings, and spirits. Their songs brought awareness of Hoodoo practices to the American mainstream population.

Several blues songs describe love charms or other folk magic. In her "Louisiana Hoodoo Blues" Gertrude Ma Rainey sang about a Hoodoo work to keep a man faithful: ""Take some of you hair, boil it in a pot, Take some of your clothes, tie them in a knot, Put them in a snuff can, bury them under the step…." Bessie Smith's song "Red Mountain Blues" tells of a fortune teller who recommends that a woman get some snakeroot and a High John the Conqueror root, chew them, place them in her boot and pocket to make her man love her. Several other Bessie Smith songs also mention Hoodoo. The song "Got My Mojo Working," written by Preston "Red" Foster in 1956 and popularized by Muddy Waters throughout his career, addresses a woman who is able to resist the power of the singer's Hoodoo amulets.

Hoodoo practitioner Aunt Caroline Dye was born enslaved in Spartanburg, South Carolina and sold to New Port, Arkansas as a child, where she became known for soothsaying and divination with playing cards. She is mentioned by name in the Memphis Jug Band's "Aunt Caroline Dye Blues" (1930) and in Johnny Temple's song "Hoodoo Woman" (1937).

Blues singer Robert Johnson is known for his song about going "down to the crossroads" to sell his soul to the devil to become a better musician. Some authors suggest that the song invokes a Hoodoo belief in crossroads spirits, a belief that originated in Central Africa among the Kongo people. However, the devil figure in Johnson's song, a black man with a cane who haunts crossroads, closely resembles Papa Legba, a spirit associated with Louisiana Voodoo and Haitian Vodou

[d-inoxia]

LIST OF ENDANGERED PLANTS

(This is a list of common herbs in witchcraft that are endangered)

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED:

Elephant Tree – Bursera microphylla

False Unicorn – Chamaelirium luteum

Lady’s Slipper Orchid – Cypripedium spp.

Peyote – Lophophora williamsii

Sandalwood – Santalum spp. (Hawaii only)

Sundew – Drosera spp.

Trillium, Beth Root – Trillium spp.

Venus Fly Trap – Dionaea muscipula

AT RISK:

American Ginseng – Panax quinquefolius

Black Cohosh – Actaea racemosa

Bloodroot – Sanguinaria canadensis

Blue Cohosh – Caulophyllum thalictroides

Butterfly Weed – Asclepias tuberosa

Cascara Sagrada – Frangula purshiana

Chaparro – Castela emoryi

Echinacea – Echinacea spp.

Gentian – Gentiana spp.

Goldenseal – Hydrastis canadensis

Goldthread – Coptis spp.

Kava – Piper methysticum (Hawaii only)

Lomatium – Lomatium dissectum

Maidenhair Fern – Adiantum pedatum

Mayapple – Podophyllum peltatum

Oregon Root – Berberis spp.

Osha – Ligusticum porteri

Palo Santo - Bursera graveolens

Partridge Berry – Mitchella repens

Pink Root – Spigelia marilandica

Pipsissewa – Chimaphila umbellata

Ramps – Allium tricoccum

Slippery Elm – Ulmus rubra

Squirrel Corn – Dicentra canadensis

Stone Root – Collinsonia canadensis

Stream Orchid – Epipactis gigantea

True Unicorn – Aletris farinosa

Virginia Snakeroot – Aristolochia serpentaria

White Sage – Salvia apiana

Wild Indigo – Baptisia tinctoria

Wild Yam – Dioscorea villosa

Yerba Mansa – Anemopsis californica

"IN REVIEW"

Arnica – Arnica spp.

Chaga – Inonotus obliquus

Eyebright – Euphrasia spp.

Ghost Pipe – Monotropa uniflora

Lobelia – Lobelia inflata

Skunk Cabbage – Symplocarpus foetidus

Solomon’s Seal – Polygonatum biflorum

Wild Cherry – Prunus serotina

(source)

But Grimsley, what ever else will I use?

ALTERNATIVES (these are just suggestions)

Rosemary (you can get it in a stick like sage)

Lavender

Dried flowers like Roses, Hibiscus, Jasmine, Chrysanthemum, Chamomile, Marigolds, Cornflower, Peony

Rose Hips

Incense (there's a wide variety and easy to make yourself, may be more potent than white sage alone so i would use incense. all you need is makko powder and essential oils and a stick to wrap it all up in)

Essential oils

Black Salt

White Salt

Mugwort

White Willow Bark

Acorns

Cinnamon Sticks

really it all comes down to what you correspond what to what. rosemary can almost totally replace white sage. lets leave the sacred herbs to who they actually belong to.

[galpalaven]

Interactive Fiction Game Recs

Hey, guys! I had a few people asking about suggestions for other IFs that aren't Wayhaven, so I've taken my list I keep for myself and put them all together here for you!

KEY Favorite** Complete On Hiatus Purchase Required* if you liked The Wayhaven Chronicles !

under the cut for length ;w;

Visual Novels

Our Life: Beginnings & Always***

Blooming Panic**

Andromeda Six

Ebon Light**

Touchstarved

It Lives Within** (fanmade sequel to It Lives in The Woods / It Lives Beneath available through the Choices app)

Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York* !

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York* !

MeChat (available through the App Store)

ChoiceScript Games

The Exile**

Golden**

Hollowed Minds**

Mind Blind** !

Witches of Ferngrove

The Golden Rose*

The Fernweh Saga*** !

The Passenger*** !

OFNA: Birds of a Feather**

God of the Red Mountain (on hiatus)**

Virtue’s End

Body Count (on hiatus)

Creme de la Creme* (I've only played book one, but there are two of these!)

Infamous**

Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road* !

Vampire: The Masquerade - Parliament of Knives* !

Itch.io

Attollo**

A Tale of Crowns**

Project Hadea**

The Northern Passage**

Greenwarden

Vespertines

Red Sugar Society**

The Nameless**

The Numbers Game

When Twilight Strikes** !

The Black River**

Event Horizon

Swan Song

Scout: An Apocalypse Story**

Larkin** !

Tell Me If There’s A Way Home

Snakeroot

The Gray Ascendancy

Zorlok**

Sinners

The Eight Years Revolution

Signal Hill**

Speaker**

Supernova: Renegade**

All links should go directly to the game! However, most (as in, like, 80% probably) of these games do have development tumblrs!

You can find the tumblr linked for the itch.io games on their itch.io pages mostly.

The choicescript games you can probably find by googling (name) tumblr.

Sidenote: Please don't be offended by anything not marked 'favorite' if it's on this list it means I really like it!!! It's just an Extra Hard recommendation instead of a regular one ;w;

[3rdeyeblaque]

FREE select herbs or crystals for the first 25 orders of The 2024 Hoodoo's Calendar 🤗 🌟 DM for Link & Password 🌟

These are flora & crystals that I hold dear and use in my own workings/medicines that I am lovingly parting ways with as a small blessing from me to you to carry with you into the new calendar year. Use them for rootwork, planting, teas, etc. So, I hope you love them!

They are as follows (from top left to bottom right):

- Fenugreek seeds (organic) - for money work & grounding + promotes lactation & aids in childbirth

- Rue leaf/sticks - for heavy [self] protection, clearing [exorcism], & healing work + induce menses & eases bruising/sprains

- Lavender buds - for clearing, love & peace work [in all relationships], and for calm/soothing rest & dreaming + eases insomnia, depression, & anxiety

- Dandelion leaf - for healing, protection, & clearing work, and for wishes granted + stomach aches

- Yellow Mustard seeds - for luck & protection work; keep trouble/unwanted energy away + clears lung congestion & supports digestion

- Poke Root berries - for heavy uncrossing work + supports breast health & eases PMS symptoms

- Black Snakeroot (aka Cohosh) - for heavy [home] protection, healing, & uncrossing work + ease PMS symptoms & heal snake bites

- Assortment of crystal shards (amethyst, garnet, & rose quartz)

The herbs will come in sealed pouches. The crystals will come in vials. All of which are to be cleared and solar-charged.

For whichever gift you receive, be sure to pray/speak/breath over them; speak life into their spirit, awaken them to your intentions, & forge the bond necessary for potency and purpose.

🌟 Link & Password in Newsletter & DM 🌟

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[alpha-ratsnest]

poem by Brigit Pegeen Kelly from her book The Orchard, text under the cut. i love this poem. the plants it references are tallgrass prairie plants. the goldenrods are blooming (it's the beginning of august) and i know summer is mostly over. i think about this poem a lot at this time of year.

Blessed is the Field

In the late heat the snakeroot and goldenrod run high, White and gold, the steaming flowers, green and gold, The acid-bitten leaves....It is good to say first

An invocation. Though the words do not always Seem to work. Still, one must try. Bow your head. Cross your arms. Say: Blessed is the day. And the one

Who destroys the day. Blessed is this ring of fire In which we live....How bitter the burning leaves. How bitter and sweet. How bitter and sweet the sound

Of the single gold and black insect repeating Its two lonely notes. The insect's song both magnifies The field and casts a shadow over it, the way

A doorbell ringing through an abandoned house Makes the falling rooms, papered with lilies and roses And two-headed goats, seem larger and more ghostly.

The high grasses spill their seed. It is hard to know The right way in or out. But here, you can have Which flower you like, though there are not many left,

Lady's thumb in the gravel by the wood's fringe And on the shale spit beneath the black walnut that houses The crow, the peculiar cat's-paw, sweet everlasting,

Unbearably soft. Do not mind the crow's bark. He is fierce and solitary, but he will let us pass, Patron of the lost and broken-spirited. Behind him

In the quarter ring of sumacs, flagged like circus tents, The deer I follow, and that even now are watching us, Sleep at night their restless sleep. I find their droppings

In the morning. And here at my feet is the self-heal, Humblest of flowers, bloomless but still intact. I ate Some whole once and did not get well but it may strike

Your fancy. The smell of burning rubber is from A rabbit carcass the dog dragged into the ravine. And the smell of lemon is the snakeroot I am crushing

Between my thumb and forefinger....There could be Beneath this field an underground river full Of sweet liquid. A dowser might find it with his witching

Wand and his prayers. Some prayers can move Even the stubborn dirt....Do you hear? The bird I have never seen is back. Each day at this time

He takes up his ominous clucking, fretting like a baby, Lonely sweetling. It is hard to know the right way In or out. But look, the goldenrod is the color

Of beaten skin. Say: Blessed are those who stand still In their confusion. Blessed is the field as it burns.

[harvestmoss]

🌿 Cleansing (Milo's Ultimate Guide)

Cleansing is the most important spellwork and ritual a witch should know. We may take showers and vacuum our houses, but we’re missing the spiritually cleansing part of ourselves, objects, and spaces. Spiritual cleansing is the practice of removing unwanted energies or spirits from our space, it may also help with “restarting” objects and to remove stale energies. Knowingly or unknowingly, these unwanted energies can obstruct and weaken your physic work, and lessens your chances of success. Typically before doing any spells, one should cleanse using a method they see fit.

If a room doesn’t feel right all of a sudden, an animal refuses to go into a space, the air feels oppressive and off, areas that are frequently the scenes of violence, a cleansing is needed. When receiving new tools for your craft, one should cleanse them from the past. If your body is icky or your charging is not powerful, a cleansing of yourself is needed. Here are some different ways to cleanse. Things I've found in other books, done myself, mixed with other spellworks, and more. Picked straight from my grimoire! Chapters:

Cleansing with Water.

Cleansing with Smoke.

Cleansing with Fire.

Cleansing with Sound.

Cleansing with your Broomstick.

Cleansing with Dirt, Herbs, Spit, and More.

Closing Notes.

Cleansing with Water

Spray the following waters on any objects, yourself, space, etc to cleanse them. Some of these waters can be added to baths, spray bottles, bowls and be used for regular cleaning too, these waters have been "modified" to enhance cleansing. While the most basic cleansing water is Salt Water, in which you mix water and salt together to gain cleansing waters. These waters may have more enhanced effects. For example, Florida Water empowers any formulae to which it is added.

Holy water

Florida water

Indigo water

Marie Laveau water

Notre Dame water

Pollution water

Rose of Jericho water

Tar water

War water

Make an infusion by pouring boiling water over black snakeroot/black cohosh, sprinkle it with rosemary wand to erase evil spirits.

You can throw evil spirits, bad vibrations and used amulets into the water. Go to a stream with running water and throw the object against the current. Then throw water three times after it. Clean your hands and face in water afterwards.

If you want to clean bowls, jars, pots and pans that you may have caught annoying spirits with or they feel stale and negative, then clean the jar by pulling it against the current three times so that it is flooded with water. Clean your hands and face afterwards. Feel free to mumble cleansing spells or prayers in between.

If you want to clean or renew the energy in amulets, jewellery and the like, you can tie the object to a tree and let it float in the running water for a few hours. It is best on a day when the sun's light plays in the spring's abundance. You can also place the object in a glass bowl. Sprinkle marjoram around it. Pour spring water over and let it soak in a beautiful spot in the sun from sunrise to sunset.

Spring water or water from a running stream is filled in clear bowls, pans, or jars and rests in the sun for a few hours. Take them inside and let them trap negative vibrations, spirits and air overnight. The water can be scented with herbs or oils as desired. The next day, the water is poured into running water (depends on how you scented the water). Holy Water can be used if spring water is not available at the time.

Make a strong infusion with angelica, strain out the herbs, and add the infusion together with white vinegar to a bucket of wash water to cleanse the floors and surfaces of a house. Boiling water to burn the evil spirits that’s in your floor boards.

In a big bot or iron cauldron, simmer rue, stinging nettle, and vervain. When the mixture is steaming, plunge or douse your knives, athames, and swords with the water.

Good to note that different types of water exist in nature such as, snow, rain, storm, spring water, water fall, etc. These waters also can have different effects for your cleansing.

Submerge your body in the ocean or a lake, feel how the natural water washes away the unwanted energies out of you, how your body gets recharged from the natural world. Alternatively, taking a bath or a shower to quite literally clean and bath yourself is also a valid spiritual cleansing method.

Cleansing with Smoke

The smell of incense smoke harmonizes soul and mind, the scent is the soul of the flower and brings memories of the sun, the moon, deep nights and forests into the room you’re cleansing. Scents gives birth to imagination and inspiration. The scent fills the room with ethereal beauty. Scents can also calm down anxiety and anxious thoughts. And smelling certain scents can have effects on your body. Mugwort, for example, is often used for sleeping as well as lavender, and smelling these flowers and herbs induces sleep.

Use dry herbs. Herbs and roots with an aromatic scent should be dominant in a scented incense. Green herbs without a strong scent smell like hay when burned. Herbal mixture can be tied up in strings or set on fire, you can hold it in your hand or place it in an ashtray. You can also throw it on a fire or lit charcoal.

Sage*, mugwort, rosemary, juniper, and frankincense are great for purifying. Bundle it together or burn incense sticks separately. Other combinations:

3 parts frankincense, 2 parts benzoin, 1 part myrrh.

Mix 2 parts St. John's wort, 1 part camphor, 1 part juniper and ½ part sage*. 

1 part juniper, 1 part sage*, ½ part elderberry og ½ part tansy.

Calendula, lavender, rose, orange peels, woodruff, pine needles, a bit of clover, cinnamon, and coriander.

Camphor, cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood.

Benzoin, dragon’s blood, frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood, sea salt.

Cinnamon, clovers, coriander seeds.

Dragon’s blood powder and frankincense.

Mastic resin tears or powder, myrtle leaves and berries, rose petals.

(* I think I should note that I use common garden sage that I grow myself, and not white sage.)

Instead of herb bundles, you can also make incense sticks yourself. To make your own incense sticks, you’ll need: Dry wood or charcoal, aroma of your choice, resin or SAP, thin wooden sticks.

Use a mortar and pestle to make dry wood or coal into powder. Here you can add plants or spices.

Once in powder form, set some of the powder to the side for later, as for the rest, add your essential oils to your mix. Depending on how many sticks you’re making and the amount of powder you have. You can mx this in a bigger pan.

Add some water to get the appropriate consistency, your mixture must be moldable.

Take your wooden sticks and a piece of your mixture and roll it onto the stick till it’s covered, leave a piece of blank wood at the bottom so you can hold the stick.

Sprinkle the incense stick with the powder you saved earlier.

Let the incense sticks dry in a cool dark place for about a week.

Cleansing with Fire

Fire is purifying and protective, but watch out, fire is such a strong cleansing method, it could burn your house down to a crisp and cleanse it that way, haha. Carry a candle light through the room. Go left three times through your spaces with your candle light, while calling the power of light and the sun's rays to warm and light your home.

Outdoors, you can light up your entire plot with torches. Sing and pray as you walk with your light in the dark. To cleanse with fire outside is done after sunset.

Create a blessing oil composed of frankincense and benzoin to a blend of olive and jojoba oils. Use either the essential oils or ground resin. Dress white and blue candles with the oil and burn to cleanse the atmosphere.

At witches' circles, parties, Litha, and bonfires, you can throw used amulets and things you want rid of into the fire. It will burn up and release you from the binding.

You can cleanse amulets, gifts, objects, clothes, etc. by spreading them in the sun and letting it shine through them. Turn them once in a while and take them in before the dusk falls. The objects can also hang in a window where the sun's rays fall. If a vigorous cleansing is required, this is repeated three days in a row.

Use mugwort and weave a wreath while tying everything you want to rid yourself of in the mugwort wreath. Burn the wreath in the fire and then jump over the fire**. Fill the space you want to cleanse, with the freedom you have been given.

(** Depending on how big your fire is, what you're wearing and your jumping abilities and comfortability to jumping over fire, proceed with caution.)

Cleansing with Sound

Ghosts are typically harmless and won’t do anything, so just leave them be. However, if you have a particularly annoying ghost, take your broom and sweep it out from each corner while yelling, yapping, and scolding.

Tuning a singing bowl as you meditate will cleanse a space and yourself. Generally, music and song will do the same. Fill a room up with noise and song and you’ll cleanse the space right out. Keeping the doors and windows open is best.

Hanging bells by the front door will keep spirits and unwanted energies out every time you open the door.

Hanging wind chimes around your property protects your space and scares unwanted spirits away.

Cleansing with your Broomstick

Broomsticks are not only meant for flying, but also cleaning, they are literally sweeping the dirt away. But broomsticks are excellent spiritual cleansers. Some spells call for ritual brooms that get used once, then destroyed. Other spells call for a regular broom to be used for spellwork.

Get a large bucket of spring water or use other cleansing water and let your broomstick rest in the water for a few hours. Then splash the water over the room you want to clean. Preferably during the emission of loud noises that cause unwanted spirits to flee.

Use the broom to sweep the dust from West to East. Collect the dust and burn it, toshing the ashes outdoors, you can complete the ritual by mopping the floors.

This includes a single use, ritual, broom that will get disassembled. Use any of the following botanicals: rosemary, hyssop, fennel, cedar, sage*, and vervain. Arrange the botanicals onto the bottom of a branch of birch (or any branch can be used), visualizing, charging and knotting. Sprinkle with cleansing water then sweep the area that needs cleansing. When done, disassemble the broom outside, away from the cleansed area. Bury the components in the ground or toss them into running water, flowing away from you.

Cleansing with Dirt, Herbs, Spit, and more

Soil covers everything. You can bury amulets, letters and anything else you want to rid yourself of in the ground. Go to a peaceful place, bury the object and feel the earth release you from it. Cover the ground with stones, moss, grass or branches so that the spot is invisible.

You can also cleanse with herbs by having them in the house. Rose geraniums and woodland wreaths will renew the air and their mild scents will chase away evil spirits.

Place a clove of garlic on each window. If the energies, ghosts, or spirits are particularly annoying, place a whole garlic. The garlic will stay there overnight, or more. If you feel the need is there, take the garlic the next day and burn them outside.

If you find a coin, stone or amulet, spit on both sides of it before using it. It cleanses the amulet and removes any bound energies.

If you have an amulet or object that you want purified or charged with your energy, hold it between your thumb and ring finger. Now sneeze over the object, turn it over and sneeze again. Now your energy is charged into the object.

You can also cleanse a space, person, or object with crystals. Clear quartz or selenite is a good option for cleansing.

Hang garlic, silver crosses, and/or rosary over the door frame to keep ghosts and unwanted energies out.

Keep a dish of salt and place your amulets and jewellry on it overnight to cleanse them, the salt will absorb the stale or unwanted energies. Toss the salt out in the trash when you’re done.

Cleans by literally cleaning your tools, sometimes they just need a bit of soap and visualization with it. While you’re at it, give them a good rub with your hands, you can cleanse through touch.

Since evil spirits and demons cannot cross salt, it is the best available protection. Sprinkle salt around your home or create a circle. If the evil spirit or demon is particularly annoying, use black salt for extra potency. 

Cleanse by intimidating your object, stare at it intensely and visualize your stare scaring the stale energies or unwanted energies out of the object.

Open your windows and let the fresh air cleanse your space.

Closing Notes

Thank you so much for reading this extremely long post, I hope you got some inspirations on how to cleanse your space! It should be noted, these are different ways I cleanse, but there are so many more ways to cleanse than what I have written here!

Also, hopefully, There won't be any spelling errors, if there is, please forgive me, especially for grammatical errors as English is not my native language.

Blessed day!! :D

(Image credit: Me! I drew this :) )

[gautiersylvain]

i was tagged by @chloefrazer to answer these questions for one of my ocs! i filled this out for vati, my bg3 oath of vengeance paladin

i'm tagging @bhaalbabe, @kirkwall, @zahra-hydris and anyone else that wants to do this 💃

ANIMALS

bengal tiger, caracal, gray wolf, blackbuck

COLOR

burgundy, charcoal, eggshell, marigold, ochre, opal, sage, tuscan red

MONTH

september (the transition from summer to fall) - the days are still long and the sun still warm on your skin, but the leaves are changing colors and you know it's only a matter of time until autumn arrives in earnest. savor the transition, the reliability of the seasons, for all things must end but so too they will begin again.

SONGS

daylight - david kushner (try to follow your light, but it's nighttime, please don't leave me in the end) king - florence + the machine (i am no mother, i am no bride, i am king) the horror and the wild - the amazing devil (witness me, old man, i am the Wild)

NUMBER

4

PLANTS

acacia arabica, dendrobium, snakeroot, jasmine, cardamom

SMELLS

campfire, myrrh, saffron, citron, rosemary

GEMSTONE

rose quartz

TIME OF DAY

sunset

SEASON

fall

PLACES

the beach, the elfsong tavern, wherever astarion is

FOOD

bhindi masala, samosas, omelettes, biryani

DRINKS

rose milk, fresh fruit juice, noon chai, lemonade

ELEMENT

earth

SEASONINGS

cinnamon, nutmeg, turmeric, cardamom

SKY

sunset, a kaleidoscope of colors from inky black to vivid yellows, reds, and pinks. the kind of transition from day to night that takes your breath away

WEATHER

mist

MAGICAL POWER

crusader's mantle - radiate a holy power that emboldens nearby allies, their weapon attacks deal an additional 1d4 radiant damage

WEAPONS

the blood of lathander, shield of devotion, radiant light

CANDY/DESSERTS

anything fried and/or sugary - jalebi, labanga latika, malpua, phirni, panipuri

METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL

horseback, she learned to ride at a young age and feels at home in a saddle

ART STYLE

rococo

FEAR

abandonment, loved ones voluntarily leaving her. loss, loved ones dying and being unable to stop it. loss of control, loss of bodily autonomy. being emotionally vulnerable.

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE

one of the erinyes, ancient greek chthonic deities of vengeance

PIECE OF STATIONARY

a piece of parchment, elegant script becoming more sloppy down the page, ripped out of a notebook to burn in the fire

THREE EMOJIS

🐴🛡️🌟

CELESTIAL BODY

polaris, the north star - a constant, steady presence in the sky, helping the lost find their way

[stagewitch]

Correspondences Running Master List (M-O)

Manifestation - balm of gilead, dittany of crete, mastic, lemon balm

Meditation - bodhi, gotu kola

Mental Clarity - fluorite

Mental Powers - caraway, celery, eyebright, grape, horehound, lily of the valley, mace, mustard, periwinkle, rosemary, rue, summer savory, spearmint, walnut, fluorite

Memory - fluorite, carnelian, rosemary

Money/Wealth - alfalfa, allspice, almond, basil, orange bergamot, blackberry, bladderwrack, blue flag, briony, bromeliad, buckwheat, calamus, camellia, cascara sagrada, cashew, cedar, chamomile, cinnamon, cinquefoil, clove, clover, comfrey, cowslip, dill, dock, elder, fenugreek, fern, flax, fumitory, galangal, ginger, goldenrod, golden seal, gorse, grains of paradise, grape, heliotrope, high john the conqueror, honesty, honeysuckle, horse chestnut, irish moss, jasmine, lucky hand, mandrake, maple, marjoram, may apple, mint, moonwort, moss, myrtle, nutmeg, oak, oats, onion, orange, oregano, grape, patchouli, pea, pecan, periwinkle, pine, pineapple, pipsissewa, pomegranate, poplar, poppy, rattlesnake root, rice, snapdragon, sassafras, sesame, snakeroot, black snakeroot, squill, tea, tonka, trillium, vervain, vetivert, wheat, woodruff

New Beginnings - blue goldstone, black moonstone

Organization - smoky quartz

[vandaliatraveler]

Hazy mid-summer day on the Sods, Part 2.

The planet's fantastic life energy reaches its peak in mid to late summer as the sun's precious light shrinks by the day and every living thing senses its time is running out. On the Plains of Dolly Sods, where the growing season is already compressed by the high elevation, plants compete for the swirling, buzzing masses of insects with their gaudy blooms and produce successive waves of berries to seed new generations. The drone of the insects carrying out their instinctive missions of renewal is constantly in your head as they dive and dart and skirt around you. You barely register as a distraction against the great drama playing out here - one whose stakes are survival, regeneration, salvation. I feel so privileged to have connected with this life force in the most intimate way, even for the few short years of my mayfly existence. I will die a happy man for having immersed myself in its lovely, purposeful chaos and becoming part of something much greater than myself.

[xanfeursel]

oc + random associations tag game

ty @dekarios for the tag :-) doing this with my two dark urges vyper + lophi

under a cut cause i figure this will get long lol. tagging anyone who'd like to do this bc. i dont wanna unintentionally bother anyone by @-ing them directly AGFHGF

ANIMALS:

VYPER; leopard geckos, dogs (specifically rottweilers + shiba inus!)

LOPHI; swans, bat eared foxes

COLORS:

VYPER; reds, greens, golds + specifically very ashy red tones. essentially the colors of his scales LOL but they're the colors i tend to dress him in as well.

LOPHI; black, white, purple, pink! sometimes red also but that's more pre-game lophi.

MONTH:

VYPER; march

LOPHI; january

SONGS:

digging from their playlists again but

VYPER; zoo - nilfruits

LOPHI; the greatest living show - toby fox & itoki hana

NUMBER:

VYPER; 7

LOPHI; 2

PLANTS:

VYPER; venus flytraps, white snakeroot, ericas

LOPHI; hydrangeas, lewisia, magnolias

SCENTS:

VYPER; burnt iron, the outdoors after it's freshly rained

LOPHI: wood, carnival food

GEMSTONE:

VYPER; alexandrite

LOPHI; rhodonite

TIME OF DAY:

VYPER; sundown

LOPHI; sunrise

SEASON:

VYPER; autumn

LOPHI; winter

PLACES:

VYPER; cozy inns, abandoned temples, the wilderness

LOPHI; theaters, carnivals, opera houses

FOOD:

VYPER; a nice, rare steak- prepared with love.

LOPHI; a sweet raspberry tart whos' filling gets all over your fingers

DRINKS:

VYPER; white tea that's a little too hot upon first sip

LOPHI; a sweet cocktail with a bitter aftertaste

ELEMENT

VYPER; fire

LOPHI; air

SEASONINGS:

VYPER; peppercorn, turmeric, thyme

LOPHI; vinegar, cinnamon, star anise

SKY:

VYPER; the night sky on a summer night as you have a bonfire

LOPHI; the clear sunny sky after a rainstorm

MAGICAL POWERS:

VYPER; holy and righteous magic, magical smites and such.

LOPHI: magic that can power her allies; rather than smiting her foes.

WEAPONS:

VYPER; a heavy greataxe

LOPHI: an elegant rapier

CANDIES:

VYPER; chewy taffy

LOPHI; pop rocks

ARTSTYLE:

VYPER; abstract expressionism, action painting

LOPHI; romanticism, art nouveau, classic fairytale illustrations

FEAR:

VYPER; of loosing control, loosing yourself

LOPHI; of being back to where you once were

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE:

VYPER; chimera, minotaur

LOPHI; pheonix

PIECE OF STATIONARY:

VYPER; a well loved fountain pen

LOPHI; a half empty bottle of red ink

THREE EMOJIS:

VYPER; 🫀🐕💥

LOPHI; 🪽🎻🪦

CELESTIAL BODY:

VYPER; the sun

LOPHI; the moon

WHEW . THIS WAS A LOT. BUT VERY FUN. if you read this whole thing ily

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

More flowers from my garden!

Desmodium canadense (showy tick trefoil)

Callirhoe involucrata (purple poppymallow)

Pycnanthemum virginianum (Virginia mountain mint)

Verbena stricta (hoary vervain)

Eupatorium purpureum (sweet joe-pye-weed)

Monarda punctata (spotted beebalm)

Solidago juncea (early goldenrod)

Verbena hastata (blue vervain)

Impatiens capensis (spotted jewelweed)

Helianthus nuttallii (common tall sunflower)

Symphyotrichum ciliatum (fringed blue aster)

Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mountains bee plant)

Actaea racemosa (black snakeroot)

Helianthus pauciflorus (stiff sunflower)

Liatris spicata (dense blazing star)

Hypericum punctatum (spotted St. John's wort)

Spiraea alba (meadowsweet)

Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed)

Agastache foeniculum (anise hyssop)

Anaphalis margaritacea (pearly everlasting)

Symphyotrichum laeve (smooth aster)

Lilium michiganense (Michigan lily)

Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris (common selfheal)

Symphyotrichum lanceolate (panicled aster)

Astragalus canadensis (Canada milk vetch)

Campanulastrum americanum (marsh harebell)

Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry)

Mertensia paniculata (tall bluebells)

Oenothera fruticosa (narrow-leaved sundrops)

Lilium philadelphicum (wood lily)

And cut off again. lol

[honoringthor]

Hel correspondences

Most of this is upg.

Plants🌱 (most are associated w/death and memory.)

🌹 flowers

White flowers, Lilacs , Roses (esp dark red/crimson, black, dried white), Forget-me-not, Poet daffodil (narcissus poeticus), Fairy bells, mullien, Waterlily, arum lily, big leaf periwinkle, viola, zinnia, snakeroot, Bluebonnet, carnations (pink, purple) mandrake, henbane, anemone, asphodel,

🌿 herbs

Rosemary, thyme, tobacco,

🌲 trees/shrubs

Cypress, Yew, Beech, elder, elm, apple trees, willow, blackthorn, evergreens, oleander, hydragea

Colors

🖤 maroon, 💙, 🤍 ♥️

🪨 stones

Onyx, smokey quartz, quartz, fossils, jet, vulcanite, amethyst, apache tears, carnelian, turquoise,

Animals.🐶🐍

Dogs 🐶 flies, carrion beetles 🪲, vultures, butterflies butterfly 🦋, corvids 🐦‍⬛, snakes 🐍, scavengers,

Other stuff

Mourning jewelry, grave markers, things you inherited, mushrooms, fall leaves, ....

Offerings.

visit/care for cemeteries, pay respects to the dead, playlist, poetry, skulls/bones, food, water, wine, tea, coffee, make art, learn about death traditions (if you're in the right headspace) , things you find comfort in, doing something you've always wanted too, self care, learn about history, tell/read ghost stories, a place of on your alter if you have one, whatever feels right,

👻☠️🖤💀🍂🍄

What do you associate with Hel?

🍄💀🖤

[aisling-saoirse]

My Side Garden Over 4 Years

In 2019 the last of the 15 Ash Trees adjacent to my mother's home were taken out and I had decided to garden now that I had access to a yard again. The soil here is very rocky, prior to being constructed the side of this yard was a forest on the property line of a farm, that's why our ash were massive before they succumb to the borer.

The first year I planted some Perennials from a box-store and threw a random 'wildflower' seed mix in and unsurprisingly most of them died (although sweet-williams and cornflower persist which is fine with me)

The next year a whole bunch of annual cosmos and Zinnia took over but the only surviving perennials were native plants, after that I got more into native plants and got some native seeds from an adjacent field, Prairie Moon, and the forest that I spread. Then I got some native perennials from a local grower or took some divisions from my aunt (and grew some marigolds to keep the deer away).

The next year everything established and I did a layer of mulch over leaf litter to improve the soil a little, I discovered that in the coming drought this retained a decent amount of moisture for my young plants, I also noticed the diversity of insects and bird life that these plants brought. Our Yard was the only one with monarch caterpillars, constantly churning with butterflies, I noticed all new stingless bee species I'd never seen before, so many fascinating native fauna that never had decent habitat prior to this. I convinced the rest of my family to change their ways, less lawn, no pesticides at all, and less aggressive maintenance (I still weed but not as much because the perennials block out a lot of new growth). I noticed something else, fireflies I had grown up seeing were disappearing around the neighborhood, but not in this yard, because we had provided that proper leaf layer habitat for these fireflies, they were extremely abundant in our patch of garden. all the other neighbors who poison their gardens and heavily maintain lawns had nothing lighting up around them.

I'm studying in Landscape Architecture, work in architecture currently, my gardens look horrible because to me they are an opportunity to learn how plants grow. This year I made sure to keep leaf layer untouched in the hopes I could keep the fireflies, the garden looks really full even with little rain this may! it doesn't look perfect but the garden is more for ecosystem value (albeit rather small but to expand upon existing field nearby).

I try to plant things that I've seen growing wild locally, local natives in my garden as seen above include: Joe Pye Weed, Blueberry bush (highbush), Common Milkweed, Swamp Rose Milkweed, Butterfly Weed (ascelpias tuberosa), Columbines, White Snakeroot, spicebush, elderberry (this one is small in this garden), wild bergamot, various aster species, anise hyssop, and a tulip poplar sapling :)

Natives that are within this ecological region but not common to my area: blazing star, prairie blazing star, False Indigo, Blue flag Iris, Black eye'd Susan's, purple coneflower, obedient plant, Prairie dropseed, palm sedge, various sunflower species, bee balm, st. John's wort, whorled milkweed, various azaeleas, tickseed, eastern bluestar, Blue lobelia, and a persimmon tree

Nonnatives that do well and don't compete: English lavender, sweet Williams, 'Shasta' daisies, rocket larkspur, astilbes, cosmos (self seeding), tea rose, various herbs and annuals I throw in there like sunflowers, corn, amaranth.