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I need this more than I realized.

[Lunar Eclipse - September 17, 2024]

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incense magic

part of @witchcasket [January 2024 - Magick Rituals]

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The Woman Behind The World’s Most Famous Tarot Deck Was Nearly Lost In History

For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.

The cards’ enigmatic symbols have become culturally ingrained in music, art and film, but the woman who inked and painted the illustrations of the most widely used set of cards today – the Rider-Waite deck from 1909, originally published by Rider & Co. – fell into obscurity, overshadowed by the man who commissioned her, Arthur Edward Waite.

Now, over 70 years after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York highlighting many underappreciated artists of early 20th-century American modernism in addition to famous names like Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Nevelson.

CNN

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No, I don't have any idea what's going on and no I will not perform a divination to find out.

Why?

Because fuck it, that's why.

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Birthday Witchery

Because you deserve the best on your birthday!

Witchy Things To Do:

Birthday magic

Cute little suggestion

Some ideas of what to do!

More ideas of what to do!

5 simple birthday rituals

Spells:

Birthday spell

Morning birthday spell

Simple lil’ birthday spell

Candle and cake birthday spell

Birthday wishes spell jar

Masterpost of wish spells

Tarot Spreads:

Birthday spread (3 card)

Birthday spread (5 card)

A birthday spread (8 card)

The yearly spread (11 card)

Birthday spread (17 card)

Emoji Spells:

To feel like royalty on your birthday

Happy birthday emoji spell!

Updated February of 2022, please inform me of broken links via askbox!

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Power Oil

Ingredients

1 ½ Cups Olive Oil 1 Jar 1 Cigar (Cleansing) (Leave out if you are a Minor) 1 palo Santo/ceder (Cleansing) “use cedar unless you are latine/indigenous” 13 Whole Cloves (Protection, Power, banishing) 13 Black Pepper (Hex Breaking, Banishing, Protection) 1 raw Clear Quartz (charged by your own energy 2 small Cinnamon sticks (Protection, Power, Healing) Orange Peel (Blessings, Protection, Energy, Raising Vibration) Rosemary (Protection, Cleansing, Consecration, Memory) Blue Sage (Health, Healing, Prosperity,)

Step One- Light your candles on your altar. Cleans your jar with your Cigar Smoke and Palo Santo/Cedar, cork the jar with the Smoke in the jar and let sit for a little bit.

Step Two- Put all your Dry ingredients “Clove, Clear Quartz, Cinnamon Sticks, Black Pepper, Orange Peel, Rosemary, Blue Sage, ” into the jar and then your Oil into the jar and Cork the jar. Step Three- Now you are going to enchant and imbue your Oil with your own Energy and power, just the way you prefer to by a prayer or a spell its up to you. Note’s- Add a few drops of this oil into your Bath to give it a little energizing of power, Drop this oil around when you are casting a circle to add a extra boost of power, anoint your house with this oil to help power wards you have set in place, you can use this to draw invisible sigils the oil will act like a batterie being recharged by the Sun, Moon, and other magical workings in the home…

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EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT LILITH

Lots of people are interested in Lilith, and understandably so: she’s fascinating! Unfortunately this interest often leads to a lot of cultural appropriation, misinformation, and even antisemitism, so here’s a quick (ok… medium) rundown of everybody’s favorite mythological femme fatale:

WHO IS LILITH?

The most central and most popular story of Lilith comes from a midrash, a Jewish Rabbinical text designed to fill holes/answer questions within Jewish teachings. Lilith was the world’s first woman, created alongside Adam from the same clay. Adam insisted that Lilith must “lie beneath him” (either literally during sex or figuratively through general submissiveness, depending on your translation/interpretation) but Lilith refused, asserting they were equals. When both sides refused to relent, Lilith spoke a sacred name of Gd and took flight, choosing to leave the Garden of Eden completely rather than stay and be subjugated by Adam. Here her role shifts to something traditionally more “villainous:” she becomes the mother of demons, corrupted seductress of human men, consort to Samael, and an explanation for infant mortality. Sometimes “big” Lilith (Demon Queen, demon mother) and “little” Lilith (succubus, baby killer) are separated as two different sheydim, but usually she’s treated as just one singular figure. 

It’s easy to see why a figure like this would scare the shit out of a patriarchal society. Lilith was considered a threat to Jewish survival, killing babies, corrupting the women and emasculating the men. Her image scared people of all genders into submission. However, Lilith’s image has undergone a feminist shift in recent decades. While many Jewish communities to this day still perceive her as a totally evil active threat, she can also represent a more nuanced look at what Jewish femininity means, how a patriarchal society pushes and twists the narratives of Jewish women, standing up for ourselves even if we’re viewed as monstrous, and even bodily autonomy, sexual freedom, and abortion rights.

One thing to clear up right away- traditionally, Lilith is NOT a goddess. She is a sheyd, or a Jewish demon. While she often gets absorbed into the Wiccan goddess archetypes and conflated with other entities who ARE considered deities in their respective religions, Lilith was never considered a goddess herself in Jewish tradition. You will sometimes hear the claim that she was a Sumerian goddess that Judaism “stole” and demonized (we’ll come back to this) but the credibility of this take is….dubious, at best. Likely the class of Sumerians called the lilit/u helped influence her depictions, but there’s no evidence to suggest a singular Sumerian goddess figure named Lilith. Her stories come from texts exclusive to Judaism that are not shared with other Abrahamic religions. Her  

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

The fetishization of Judaism (and Lilith in particular) within ceremonial occultism and a new wave of New Age, goddess-focused spirituality created a perfect storm for Lilith to be picked up and flown away with. As you can imagine, Lilith is a deeply complicated figure, and most of those conversations are internal ones within the context of Judaism. Most of the time, Lilith gets reduced to nothing but a spooky sexy #BossBabe bone-thin white woman with absolutely zero nuance or self awareness. She’s the occult world’s imaginary goth girlfriend. She is declawed, forced into goddess archetypes she was never made for, nonchalantly twisted into whatever entity goyim want her to be, then passed along with ahistorical misinformation about her origins. 

This content then floods the market, making it extraordinarily difficult for Jewish people to find accurate, reliable information about figures from their own culture.

Even better, sometimes people will take the idea that Judaism “stole” Lilith to perpetuate antisemitism, talking about how Jews were/are “rabid monotheists” (a genuine quote I heard once,) how we must all just be so sexist and terrible, The Jews™ ruined Paganism, etc.

WHAT IF I WANT TO WORK WITH LILITH?

There’s definitely nothing wrong with learning ABOUT Lilith, recognizing her or believing in her, but if you want to work with her consider more open, respectful alternatives. She often gets conflated with Ishtar, Hekate, the Morrigan, Nyx. Maybe you’re a spirit worker and can look into succubi or the Sumerian liilitu. Look at WHY she interests you; have you been taken in by the goyiche allure of a declawed goth #BossBabe? Can you simply take inspiration from her stories and use it to reflect on yourself/think about it without worshipping her? If you HAVE to work with SPECIFICALLY her, why? Are you willing to go through the proper channels and convert?

As always, please feel free to ask me any questions and I’ll do what I can to help! 

FURTHER STUDY MATERIAL 

Podcast: Throwing Sheyd, better living through Jewish demonology 

Article: Origins of Lilith: Jewish or Not? by the wonderful @jewitchry

Article: Who is Lilith? (And Everything Else You’ve Ever Wanted to Ask About Lilith) by the wonderful @spiritroots

Book: Which Lilith?: Feminist Writers Re-Create the World’s First Woman (edited by Enid Dame

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Phone Call With Spirits Tarot Spread

If you are looking to contact a loved one, a ancestor, a spirit lingering around your house. This is a perfect tarot spread for you. The month of October the veil to the spirit world is very thin, spirits want to communicate with us.

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I was having a conversation about energy work and was thinking about how much energy is in the body and all the movement it can make. I was thinking about how just thoughts and emotions can affect our heart rate and tense our muscles. I was curious about how far our blood is pumped each day, so I looked it up.

Your heart pumps your blood 12,000 miles a day. That's like crossing the US four times in a day.

Think of all than energy in your body next time you do energy work.

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Zodiac Terminology!

Sun Sign

The controller. This is your main sign. The sign you have known your whole life thinking that’s where it ended.

Moon Sign

Your inner-self. Your emotions, inner-thoughts, wants and needs are all controlled by your moon sign.

Ascendant/Rising

Acceptably called either, the Ascendant/Rising is your natural mask in the face of society. So basically, this is how people view you.

Mercury

A very important sign, it rules your decision making mind. It is how you communicate and can be easy to spot in a person.

Venus

This sign rules love and finances. 

Mars

Most represent Mars with anger, and this is true. But it is so much more than that. This sign rules our animal instincts, energy, action and sexual desires.

Jupiter

This sign covers rules both generosity, tolerance and wisdom.

Saturn

This sign represents fears, our limitations and responsibility

Uranus

This sign is all about individuality. Progressiveness, forward-thinking and fresh-starts.

Neptune

This sign rules the subconscious. Dreams, psychic-sensitivity and inspiration.

Pluto

This sign represents rebirth. New-beginnings and growth.

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🕯Weed in Witchcraft🔮

***PLEASE be smart and do extensive, thorough research or consult a healthcare professional before smoking or ingesting herbs of any kind! Some plants may have negative side effects or become straight up poisonous when smoked, may interfere with certain prescription medications, or may be harmful to pregnant women!***

The cannabis plant is extremely versatile when used in witchcraft. It serves many purposes based on your intent and works as a magickal amplifier to boost spells. So even if you don’t smoke, you can use the dried flowers and leaves in things like incense blends or herbal sachets to amplify your intent and help manifest your goals. Regular users already know that cannabis has the ability to put you a very relaxed state physically and/or mentally, so it’s ideal for meditation and divination!

Magickal correspondences: Meditation, manifestation, healing, clearing negative energy, love, sex, money, abundance, protection, sleep, communication with spirits, cursing, and death.

Indica strains are best used for: Self love, healing, meditation, protection, and psychic work.

Sativa strains are best used for: Love, lust, luck, money, creativity, and curses/hexes.

Below is a list of various plants you can smoke with cannabis! Please note that these will not get you high, they mostly just affect the taste and smell of the smoke:

🍃 Rose petals - love, beauty, confidence

🍃 Lavender - relaxation, healing, sleep

🍃 Mint - love, luck, money, protection, clearing negativity

🍃 Ground cloves - money, clearing negativity

🍃 White horehound - protection, mental clarity, creativity, balance

🍃 Blue lotus petals - divination, opening of the mind, connecting with deities

🍃 Mugwort - protection, psychic powers

🍃 Red raspberry leaves - protection, femininity, easing menstrual pain

🍃 Passionflower - attracting friendships, prosperity

🍃 Mullein - protection, communicating with spirits

🍃 Hyssop - healing, protection, breaking hexes/curses

🍃 Skullcap - love, fidelity, peace, meditation, healing from loss

🍃 Bergamot - protection, prosperity

🍃 Damiana - lust, love, relaxation

🍃 Catnip - bonding with your familiar, promoting happiness and kindness, easing menstrual pain

Have fun experimenting my fellow stoner witches, and above all, be safe! 🌱

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Anyone have any spells to protect someone from curses?

Idk I’m getting worried that I might get cursed lol… But really the only thing I did was charm a pentagram and a pentacle with protection and hung them by my bedside, tried to charge myself with protection with air/fire and some herbs, and made a protection jar but I’m still getting anxiety over it so if anyone could help? Thanks

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Witchcraft for the grieving

To anyone who needs this post, I am sending gentle and loving energy your way. Know that grief is meant to hurt, and with time it WILL get easier (but may not go away, and that’s okay). Please utilize this post only as a supplement, and talk to a therapist or loved ones if you need to.

Spells/Rituals:

Grief powder

Sage drops spell

Relieving grief

Jar of grief spell

Honoring the dead

Ritual of grief

A remembrance spell

A spell for passing and mourning

Sigils:

Grief over death is easier for me and effects me less

My grief does not control me

To bring aid in times of crisis and grief

Loss of pets:

Funerary spell

Animal Release Spell

Pet Farewell Ritual

Pet Funerary Spell

Other:

Emoji spell to bring comfort to those who are grieving

“I’ll be alright” spell jar (for grief)

Tarot spread to ease grief

Crystals in death magic (include some for grief)

Crystals for PTSD (include some for grief)

Similar posts:

Masterpost for grief 

Masterpost for overcoming heartbreak

This post by @thewitchofthenorse

Recommended tags to utilize when you’re ready:

Moving on spell + Moving forward spell + Letting go spell

Mental health sigils + Mental health spell

Self love magic + Self care magic

Release spell

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Soul Boat Tarot Spread, developed by Marcus Katz