#irishwitchcraft

[magnoliawitchcraft]

So you wanna make your own incense?

You've come to the right place sweetness. For clarity's sake I want to specify that I am not a professional. This is simply what I did to make the incense that I use. Always research your herbs and herbal mixtures, be aware of your allergies, and remember to use herbs from high quality sources to protect your health. And remember, the best witchcraft is safely practiced witchcraft.

What you'll need: Herb of choice (no correlations listed here, otherwise we will be here all night)

Coffee grinder (or a mortar and pestel, but baby we are in the 21st century work smarter not harder)

Tap water (charge it if you want for extra pizzazz)

Optional: oven, preheat to 190 degrees Fahrenheit

Step one: grind up your herbs in the coffee grinder, the finer the better. My herb was food grade lavender.

Step two: Divide the ground herb into two separate bowls, a wet bowl and a dry bowl. Into the wet bowl, mix into the herb with some water so the consistency is a modable clay. Sacred water is great for this.

Step three: Form the clay into a cone shape in any way that makes the most sense for your body. For me, that involves using my thumbs and middle fingers, but whatever way works best.

Roll the wet cone into the dry bowl, coating the cone in a layer of powdered lavender.

You can either leave the cone to dry over night, alternatively---

Place in oven for 40 minutes to an hour to dehydrate the cones!

Ta-da! I hope these directions inspire you to give this a shot yourself. I know I had a lot of fun making this lavendar incense, and I know I'm excited to make more in the future. Don't stop creating lovelies.

<3 Magnolia

[poisonerspath]

Hagstone Season is upon us! Hag stones, holey stones, witch stones and Odin stones are spiritually significant in many folkloric practices because of their natural holes. Small stones can be carried for luck, protection and spirit contact. They can be looked through when scrying to see spirits and receive insights. Large stones, big enough for humans to pass through have been erected and used in healing rituals. All of my hagstones are collected off the coast of Ireland. Available now via link in bio. - - - #hagstones #irishwitch #irishwitchcraft #folkwitch #folkwitchcraft #ritualjewelry #occultjewelry https://www.instagram.com/p/CiaYHger6v6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the-glass-coffin]

Irish Witchcraft & Demonology. St. John D. Seymour. 1996. Hardcover. 255 Pages. Condition: Good. Available online @ www.TheGlassCoffin.RIP #TheGlassCoffin #IrishWitchcraft #Demonology #OccultBooks (at The Glass Coffin: Vampire Parlour) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFLbtPgg5Cr/?igshid=1hutwamb05wgh

[sarahsheilart]

"Bitter Communion II" (The Islandmagee witch trials). Ink and graphite on True Grain mounted on paper. 14.5/20cm. #Islandmageewitchtrials #irishwitchcraft #islandmageewitches #sarahsheilart

[magnoliawitchcraft]

Witchy Ways to Celebrate the Death of the Queen

- Have a party

- Live Laugh and Love

- Whip out your tiddies and howl at the moon

- Eat the Bible (optional)

[magnoliawitchcraft]

Are you feeling stuck in your practice? Consider taking inventory. Look through your herbs and your candles and your crystals. What do you have the most of? What do you have very little of? This is a wonderful way to reframe your craft and study areas that you might not be as familiar with.

<3 Magnolia

[magnoliawitchcraft]

HOLD A FUNERAL FOR YOUR OLD HEART

I have been thinking a lot about grief. Probably because I have been doing it pretty consistently. Sometimes I feel as if I am getting worse. Other times I feel as if I am getting better. But it sits like a cannonball on my chest. It caves in my ribs and hollows me. But that's part of my practice, learning to sit with it. Letting time pass and heal with people I love and devotion to my practice. A victory only won through patience and the gifts of others.

That being said, I am also crazy.

So I did what any stellar, big bosomed, dramatic woman of my stature would do. I threw a party. If you're still reading, you might be interested in throwing a fun'eral for your old, broken heart too. I know I did. Fuck it, that bitch will be back in a week. Here's how I did mine. You're going to need:

-empty box (make it small, like a cardboard jewelry box or a matchbook)

- piece of paper

- something to draw with, but the more time you put into the drawing, the better.

- Something to light this on fire (don't be stupid, stupid. It's not witchcraft if it's not fire safe).

THE PROCESS

Draw your heart. Make it however you want. Runes, sigils, art, secrets. Something worth devotion and time, literally put your heart into it. For easy prompt, write down what you feared and what's worth acknowledging and letting go of.

Put that shit in the box (if you're Yzma from the Emporer's New Groove, put that box in another box. And then mail that box to yourself. And then smash it with a hammer.)

Now here comes the fun part. Throw yourself a party. Just for you. Alone. Get all dressed up in your best goth outfit. There are musts in witchcraft, but theatrics for this spell is a mist. Play the most over dramatic funeral music you can. Like "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban. Or "Wind Beneath my Wings" by Bette Midler. Lean into the silliness of the whole event. Make sure that you are along and have a genuinely nice time by yourself. And when you're done putting on this show for yourself, read the person who you were a eulogy. This is the one serious part of this entire endeavor.

-THE EULOGY-

This is the hard part because you have to be kind to the person who you were. You have to be kind to the part of yourself that feels yucky. Self love isn't always accessible, but you're by yourself. This is a good time to practice one action of self kindness. Depending on where you are emotionally, you might not have the practice and strength to be able to perform self kindness. If not, you're more than welcome to base yours of mine.

For me I wrote something like this:

"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to honor the passing of me.

From one point of time to the next, I will move and transform. The person who I was is honored here. They are at rest within the casket of time. You have taught me much, but I no longer wish to be ruled by you. Thank you for serving me well. May your rest be sweet and warm. I ask for your guidance and protection cares and informs me."

This concludes the eulogy.

-THE BURIAL-

It's time to bury your heart! This is an important step because the earth heals all that is returned to it. There are lots of ways to give your old heart a burial. The traditional way of burying it in the earth is most conventional (if it's not biodegradable like plastic or glass, don't put it in the ground, we share the earth with critters). However you can also:

- burn it

- let it down a stream

- put it deep in the garbage

- scatter it to the wind

- take it to a park and leave it underneath a bush and then when you try to get on the bus you realize you were late to the bus and then wait 20 minutes for the next bus because you're not psychic just a witch

Regardless, there is one final offering that we leave for the person that we were. That is the joy of living now. Before leaving or releasing your heart in its coffin, thank your heart and tell it a story. Sing it a song. From your body and breath, speak words of promise for tomorrow. While the old heart might not be able to come with, the new heart will experience enough joy for the person you are and the person you were.

Now get on the bus and listen to some 70s disco. Congrats on the fun'eral, go celebrate.

May the gifts of the earth be ceaseless at your hearth.

<3 Magnolia

[magnoliawitchcraft]

Yeah cursework is great, but before you fuck up your day and time doing all that, have you considered just leaving their life? Sometimes the real magic is tending to yourself and in the process cursing them to a life without you. The mundane is magical.

Go cursin' loves

<3 Magnolia

[magnoliawitchcraft]

[magnoliawitchcraft]

I just had a really interesting conversation with my goddess.

This is a fucking bananas statement.

Nonetheless, it is true, but it is also fucking bananas. Here's what happened.

I practice witchcraft in a closet. I smoke my little ouid. I do my little tarot card readings I write them down on a piece of paper. I have been doing this since 07/16/22, and it is now the 25th. I have pulled 38 cards total. The 38th cards was the IX of Wands. This is a card of resilience, perseverance, and grit. Just at the finish line, fatigued and close to success. I wrote into my notebook, a purple 60 sheet memo book "Just keep going." This would be the phrase I would keep in my mind as I proceeded to meditate. What happens next is a bit of a blur, but into the faceless figurine I have of her I almost see a face, a shadow.

My body high becomes very intense. Like hands pressing into the crown of my head and into my shoulder blades and trapizeus muscles. I chant her names. Baithe, Macha, Morrigú. The names all blur together as i whisper over and over, changing the pitch of the whisper, wondering what the voices would sound like as one. Eventually I begin to stir, grab sharpie, and begin to write down things that are devotional practices that I can do for each sister as well as the totality.

Anyway I didn't have anyone to share this with and um any guidance or requests to see the list I wrote would be sick.

[magnoliawitchcraft]

If your craft does not include the study and inclusion of climate change then your practice is incomplete.

[magnoliawitchcraft]

God there's so many good Irish witchcraft websites and I just need an anthology of them....

Well, I guess it's time to start amassing an anthology of sites.

[magnoliawitchcraft]

I can read books however I would like to.

I can skip pages, and highlight silly things. I can bookmark every page that matters even if I don't remember why later on. I can comment and scribble and dog-ear and doodle. Let my instincts be sacred on a book well loved. Let every heart and tear be seen. I can read my book however I please.