#ritual work

[ome-magical-ramblings]

Setting Light into the past, for spells, ancestors and beyond.

Setting light is a common practice in a lot of tradition, spiritual lamps are used EVERYWHERE...so it isn't very restrictive to one tradition but as a concept that you can tweak your petitions and your intentions when you set it, I hope that people try it and report back :D

A candle burn straight down, but the light it gives off goes all the way and around. It goes forward, backward, and all around...That's how we are as human when we are "time" burns one way, but the light it gives off is all around. That's how time is, that's how our spiritual families are, that's how a lot of magical work should be, by reaching into the past. Even if I say this in a million way, don't do a candle spell to change the future, change the future by setting that light into the past.

The spiritual dead people who are connected with you by blood, by soul, and by actions are many and as many as the grains of sand in the world. To think of that it's only a backward motion is to only look at them as dead people not as people in different stages in their "life", the difference between them is the difference between an old person and a baby. Not much except time have passed. Really what you think of as ancestral predecessors are only what you see, hear, touch from your own "genetics" but if that was the only way we live, we wouldn't have spiritual heroes like the prophets, saints, righteous people, immortals, wanderer, hermits and so on. The world as we know it is only the tip of the iceberg for the whole "world" as it is. To assume that it only extend to your family is to assume that your family is only related to you by blood and nothing more. Your Ancestors from the start till today are all here and listening carefully to each letter you read, and each word you speak for they carry their weight for them as your words are the "scale" by which they can elevate and evaluate you, it's not a one-way street or two-way street, the streets and paths are endless as the street and paths in sand tracks, YES there are easily more identifiable ones but that's not important, what's important is that you go to each path and "Call" with a sincere heart and offer a sincere word, that's what really carries the Word not if this path is more identifiable than that path. Light, and it was there. To close off, instead of praying to someone to improve, pray to their ancestors, send your prayers of light to their "spiritual family", let it go beyond in time to the past. That's the important thing, there's a million way to skin a cat and reach Rome and this is my way of opening up a different approach to the petition and workings you do, REACH into the past and work with that. The past is just as malleable as the future, and the present is the only thing we "have" and can work with to influence all other points. Remember, Your future and past are two columns by which you enter the mysteries of the holy temple of God and Time. Let the Light go into the past and see it illuminate you right now. His light is like a niche in which there is a lamp, the lamp is in a crystal, the crystal is like a shining star, lit from ˹the oil of˺ a blessed olive tree, ˹located˺ neither to the east nor the west, whose oil would almost glow, even without being touched by fire. Light upon light!

[casualwitchbitch]

Shadow work ALWAYS comes before ritual work. Like, it’s all very well to do a spell for anxiety, but where is that anxiety coming from? Is it straight up fear? Unresolved trauma? Is your nervous system fucked? Is it a mental disorder? Is it generalised or specific? Are your hormones all over the place? Is someone in your life just being a dick? Without doing the work to find the root cause, you can’t know where to point your ritual compass, ya know? Do the shadow work, THEN do the ritual.

Important side note: not everyone is in the right place/time to do shadow work. It can be a lot. Make sure you have the right support (professional if needed!) if you’re gonna do it. 🖤

[arcane-abomination]

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[crazycatsiren]

Incense cones my beloved. That's all.

[grimiorething]

Io Lupercalia! Hope everyone also had a good St. Valentines day yesterday. Cross-posted this to some of my other socials. Small clip of some of my ritual work today, will be preparing a feast later tonight.

[eclecticcollectics]

Introducing~

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These sweet little setups would make the perfect addition to any witch’s or warlock’s assemblage! ~With a cute collection of crystals, bones, seashells & other natural elements to add to your altar space~ and mini Tarot cards, candle, & the tiniest Spellbook to up to your ritual game~ even on the go! 📖💎🦴🪲🐚🔮🕯️

In order, with 3 photos of each, we present:

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There are these 5 Witch’s Edition kits available total~ & we’ll be posting each one in more detail here, or you’re welcome to check them all out on our site 🙏

Thanks for looking!

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[ome-magical-ramblings]

Enjoy your practice!

Learn at first concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light! Meditations on Tarot, Magician.

“My yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew xi, 30).

This is a targeted blog post, it is specifically for one person but I feel like if I write my thoughts out in a personal message he might find it offensive. This is coming from the heart kind of advice for them and maybe some people might find usefulness out of this.

Dear Friend, When I see you coming to the practice all frowned up, stressed but successful I wonder if this is what you want? You're skillful in your work but I always find that you're burdened then happy with what you practice. I don't blame you because while I am younger than you I can see that age make us more realistic of how much we can achieve.

I feel that the urge to see but I see the fatalness in your practice, you blame moral turbidity or failing but is it really far. Why must you beat yourself up about it? I understand that your conditions is hard and I can't blame anyone for their conditions or situations where they're oppressed or bogged down by their environment. Some people take their environment for granted...and I am grateful to have a conductive place to my practice. I just think of you, how can I help you. and really that's one of the things that goes back and forth for me. It's understandable to be goal oriented and to be "focused" on getting results, that at least pushes away the delusional mindset but it also makes it very dry…Have you ever drunk silence? If in the affirmative, you know what concentration without effort is.

“Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it” (Mark x, 15)

And that's the crux of it, don't use a timer or a counter like you're being grounded "INTO THE MEDITATION CORNER, 15 MINUTES" let's be honest, that's not enjoyable. That doesn't mean a play to be lousy but you can see kids when they're playing, they're not lousy nor are they divided in attention. Anyone who confuses lack of concentration with concentration without effort, and streams of simple mental associations with the vision without effort of correspondences by analogy, will necessarily become a charlatan. If you think you're natural psychic ;) haha but I am saying this in jest. Relax, your body then mind. Like that you need to get used to relaxing yourself and not approaching this like an impossible task! if you keep pulling and pulling and pulling then you will only hurt yourself. Ease into it, Enjoy it, don't force it but also don't slack. Don't worry :)

[casualwitchbitch]

🦀 How to use crab shells in witchcraft

Use them on your altar to symbolise the element of water

Use as a candle holder or offering bowl

Use in rituals for protection, strength, resilience, tenacity, transition or independence/self sufficiency

Hang them in doorways or windows as a protective charm (you can also paint sigils on the inside of the shell)

Use small shells (or shell powder) in spells bags, bottles and amulets

Use them as a focus point for a meditation/visualisation on change, life cycles or strength

Remember…

Crab shells have bacteria that can make you sick - boil them for 10 mins and clean them thoroughly with a stiff brush

Don’t be smashing crabs like a Vogon - vacated shells only, please!

If you forage them from a beach, take only one and only when needed - leave the others for nature

If you buy them, consider the ethical implications

When you forage on the beach, make an offering by litter picking as well

If you let them dry out too quickly, they will crack

[lexstellaris]

lol not me forgetting (and I did remind myself last week) that I should be doing the Rite of Her Sacred Fires for Hekate at the full moon tonight.

Ahh well, it gives me more time to prepare the protection magic, bc I will need some Supplies. >_>

[lewdlucidity]

The storms around here have been intense.

On a bike ride Sunday I was lucky enough to come across a beautiful cedar which had been blown down the previous night. It fell between two houses and had completely blocked the street, yet had not damaged a single thing. By my estimation it was around 75-80 feet tall. When it fell, it cracked in two uneven halves in the street. I stood there for several minutes, breathing in the tang of its oils and touching the inner rings of the great giant. I thanked them for their oxygen, their knowledge, those countless nameless graces trees give us.

Cedars can live to be over 1000 years old. They are associated with wisdom, protection, and strength.

I am doing my best to honor this offering. I started by crafting a couple of large wreaths, and gave one to our next door neighbors to thank them for repairing part of our fence that had also been felled by the wind. I hope it will bring peace and protection to their home, but at a bare minimum it's lovely and it smells nice.

Today I am harvesting as much of the greenery as I can to dry and use for ritual work, and working with the pliable woody portions. What a beautiful blessing to begin the year 🖤🌲

[mother-raven]

Samhain candle is dressed & ready for Salem~🥀

[raining-tulips]

Printable ritual / spell card I designed 🩸 loving how blood the red is

[thetarotman]

The Witch Bitch Newsletter: Tuesday--Day of Mars

The second installment in my newest series of blog posts about the Planetary Energies and their corresponding Days of the Week is live!

In Magickal Traditions, Tuesday is the Day of Mars.  Personally speaking, Tuesday is my day for taking decisive, powerful, and, if necessary, bold action. Any project or task that seems like a struggle or situation that has me feeling as though I AM wading into battle, Tuesday is my day for those activities. Magickally speaking, Tuesdays are great days for Spells and Rituals focused on:…