#nd witch

[curious-kitchen-witch]

A neurodivergent witch's guide to starting a grimoire 🌿✨️

I remember when I was first starting out with building a grimoire and getting frustrated with how few resources there are on what a grimoire is supposed to be. I wanted clear directions and examples of what to include, but I mostly found YouTubers giving vague descriptions and repeating over and over again that it's extremely personal and private so they wouldn't say anything specific. As a neurodivergent person, it was very frustrating to try to figure out what to do from that. It took me a while to figure out what my own specifics were, so for any beginner witches out there, here are some specific ideas for starting off! Once you get more used to it, it'll get easier and easier to figure out what you do and don't want to include.

I'd recommend researching sigils and creating one to protect your grimoire; I placed mine on the second page after I dedicated the notebook for it, but you can put it wherever you feel like

Dates of moon cycles/information on how they affect your practice

Wheel of the year/sabbats if you celebrate them

Record rituals for sabbats if you choose to do anything for them, that way you have a reference for next year

Information on the elements- earth, air, fire, water, and/or spirit depending on your practice

Information on herbs or crystals you have- I like to print out pictures to include with the correspondences and leave space to write down specific things I use them for

Also, a quick reference list of ways you can care for individual crystals will be very helpful if you use them! Pay extra attention to which ones are sensitive to sun or water, it'll save you crystals later on

Basics of tarot, runes, or other divination methods

Color correspondences!

Information on zodiac signs; I printed out my star chart and put it in

When you do spellwork, write down everything you did and date it. Later you can come back and update whether it worked, what the effects were, and tweak it if necessary- basically treat it like a magic recipe book

A grimoire is not the same as a journal- if you want to write down personal reflections on meditation or your emotional experiences, I would suggest using a separate notebook for those things.

While I understand why people are so hesitant to show their grimoires, I have no qualms with showing a few pages for example purposes. However, I would suggest that you don't share anything that is personalized to your craft to others unless you can 100% guarantee that they won't cause you harm with it.

The only reason I'm ok with putting pictures on here is because they're full of basic information that anyone with Google could find and nothing that's specific to me.

With that being said, here are a few examples from my own grimoire as a reference!

[cleverwitch-wolfskin]

Having adhd as a witch is feeling that weird surge of energy and good mood when you are suddenly reminded that you can study magic and work on spells and it just makes you so excited

[rainbluealoekitten]

on today's episode of "what the fuck is going on," am i a medium or is this thing just happening because Autism™️?

[creatorofcalmqueerchaos]

Any other ND/disabled witches relate to this?

Any other witches feel like they wish they could do a lot more witchcraft and spend more time with magik in their life but- they just have no energy? 

[inkskinned]

i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?

[olymp1xarts]

I discovered this musical recently and this pairing absolutely kills me. I love me some sad sapphic love story. also it's not like I really like women with sharp facial features and dark hair and-

[bess-turani-marvin]

nancy drew playlist

god, i loved you, babe, did i tell you that? two weeks ago - maisie peters

[rainbowangelcastiel]

https://x.com/Gingerhazing/status/1302464666887581696?s=20

God I wish this happened in the musical

[nekosd43]

HAVE YOU READ HELLAWEEN BY @dinolich ? YOU SHOULD, ITS GOOD.

[astronomicaltaxon]

back from the dead w a new pfp

ALSO I will b doing rosemary month but not everyday

[pechachaos]

a walk in the skies✨⛅️ + some old tang nd his silly kitty friend

[curious-kitchen-witch]

Little reminder that devotional arts don't have to be high level

You can draw as a devotion to a deity even if you're not an artist

You can write poetry even if you're not a poet

You can cook offerings even if you're not a great cook

You can tie knots, you can knit, you can crochet, you can sew, you can color, you can trace, you can make word documents

You can even dedicate your self care to your deities! Brigid has helped me stay hydrated as a devotional act for her in the past.

As long as you're dedicating your work to your deity, it doesn't matter if it isn't perfect

[aq2003]

so true david

[ari-kari]

oh look, my personal heroes. time to respond very normally to this situation (snap pictures of them from afar while avoiding them completely)

[weedle-testaburger]

i just finished the witch boy and it's wonderful and trans af, but I'm just fixating on this...

shoutout to charlie for trying to get aster into su

[drewlyyours]

Reading “The Witch Tree Symbol” for the first time rn. And like, of course it’s obvious this was written almost 70 years ago, but it still gets me sometimes. Like on the last page, I didn’t skip a beat when it calls a non-living thing ‘queer’ (completely aware of what the author intended) but I just read, “[Bess] was a gay companion…” and have not been able to think straight for five minutes.

Like, is this Carolyn trying TO TELL US SOMETHING