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Official Announcement for #ReclaimTheDay2022

What is it: If you’ve followed my blog since I first created it years ago, then you’re very familiar with this event. If not, please read below.  Reclaim the day is an annual event in which witches of color flood the tags with pictures of their craft. These pictures can be anything that they feel captures their craft, whether it be their tarot and oracle spreads, grimoire pages, Book of Shadows, etc. As long as it pertains to your craft, you can post it!  Who can participate: The event is for people of color as well as Jewish witches.  Rules: There is literally no limit on the photos or content you can post. Please just ensure that it’s age appropriate. Please tag it in #recliamtheday and mention me @witches-ofcolor​.  If you are a witch of color, also tag it in the witches of color tag!  When is it? January 25th, 2022. This should provide a full moon cycle for those of us who’s magic is dependant on the moon.  Please share, reblog, and follow me for more! 

And yes, if you are white you can share this! Chances are you will see this post replicated in other tags! 

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Let’s Learn Tarot Masterpost

This is a masterpost of all of the lessons in the Let’s Learn Tarot Series with The Little Oracle. It will be updated as more lessons are added. 

This version is current as of: July 26, 2021

Series Introduction

Tarot Decks are comprised of the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana relate to everyday events of our lives, and are divided into four suits: Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. Each suit has cards with numbers 1 through 10, as well as the court cards of Page, Knight, Queen, and King.

When learning the minor arcana of tarot, instead of trying to memorize the meaning of each card, it is much more effective to understand the core concepts of the suits and the numbers of the cards, and from there extrapolate the meaning of each card. This will let you become a more intuitive and effective tarot reader.

Minor Arcana Suits

Wands | Cups | Swords | Pentacles

Minor Arcana Numbers and Court Cards

Ace | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine | Ten

Page | Knight | Queen | King

Other posts:

Divination with a regular deck of cards

Major Arcana: The Fool’s Journey

Reading Reversals

Shared meanings: Tarot cards with similar meanings

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I’ve picked up my Grimoire again and begun developing my Tarot section, (which is going to be huge and very time consuming but I am SO excited!)

Please feel free to use these pages as a guide in your own practices or as inspiration for your own BOS or Grimoire :) All I ask is that if you wish to recreate my design or wording, please credit in the description of your post!! Thank you 💕

✨Pages in my Grimoire on Tarot ✨

These pages begin my Tarot study on the symbols associated with the Major Arcana, the 4 Suites and associated zodiacs/meanings, the court cards and what they represent in meanings, numerology and their associated majors, and lastly color symbolism. this is basically all I need to do intuitive readings with the tarot!!

The next chunk of this will be meanings for each of the major arcana, based off of my own practices and what i’ve learned about their symbols.

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Wondering how you and that special someone you’ve got your eye on would actually match up??

(Yes it’s supposed to look like a heart but it’s a bit f*cked up there)

DM me for tarot readings if you can’t do it yourself!!

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BETTER SHIT TO PUT IN YOUR GRIMOIRES THAN THE BASIC SHIT EVERYONE SAYS:

Maps! Maps! MAPS! If you're a death witch, get one for the cemeteries you visit and mark gravestones/areas you've practiced in! Garden witches! Map out your gardens! Green witches! Map where you find specific herbs in your area! Lunar witches! Mark the best spots to go look at the sky! Make a key! Take notes!

Recipes for COMPONENTS! Write down how to make the mixtures you use in spells often- A special salt mixed with herbs and put under the moon, a mixture of oils for protection, the herb mixes sachets you keep making to add to sachets, whatever!

For green witches- press samples of stuff and glue them in! Go to an arboretum and ask for permission to take leaves to press, they'll usually let you take some- add them in with your notes about trees

Cool ways to make spells! I make spells in envelopes and on empty spools, what are some ways you do?

The local plants in your area and what they do. You're not going to be likely to find chrysanthemums to forage in Missouri, but you will find creeping charlie and prairie plants. What can you do with a thistle?

When you celebrate a sabbat, write down what you did and include samples! Ribbons from your Beltane altar, a pressed sample of your lemmas harvest, a scrap of your Yule decorations. Maybe do a spell and tape the remnants into your grimoire in a plastic baggie

Learn how to make an envelope out of paper just by folding it, how to string seeds, how to dry plants, how to macrame rocks and hang them from your window. Find those little witchy skills and write them down.

How to incorporate your hobby into your magic. Sigiling origami paper, weaving knot magick into your crochet, making blessed bookmarks, etc

Substitutes! Rosemary, rose and clear quartz are good for most things, but there are more substitutes to be used that are more powerful. Roanoke bells are good substitutes for bluebells, apparently.

Correspondences of odd things. Turns out different kinds of cats have different correspondences, huh.

Superstitions and such from where you're from.

For kitchen witches: easy to alter recipes. An egg noodle recipe that takes herbs really well, a simple bread recipe that can be dressed up for spells or rituals, how to make a good pie crust that you can sprinkle nutmeg in or whatever you desire.

Or: What foods go good with what herbs. You'll make a better apple pie (and get the benefits of apples, nutmeg, and cinnamon together!) If you know how your herbs taste together with your cooking. (Most kitchen witches know this stuff, but for a green witch who likes to make teas or a sea witch that likes to make soup, etc, this is important)

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Unconditional love AF

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My Northern California botanical series.

“English Lavender”, “Eucalyptus”, and “California Poppy”.

Find prints and more.

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TAROT CHEAT SHEET #1

MAJOR ARCANA

0. THE FOOL | blank slate, beginning, innocence ®* | reckless, negligence, unaware of consequences 1. THE MAGICIAN | willpower, manifestation of desires ® | trickery, illusions, lies, out of touch w/ truth 2. THE HIGH PRIESTESS | intuition, inner voice ® | repressed/unheard inner voice 3. THE EMPRESS | mother figure, nurture, earth/nature ® | smothering, dependence, needing to let go 4. THE EMPEROR | authority, structure, control, father figure ® | tyranny, too much control 5. THE HIEROPHANT | tradition, conformity, morality ® | rebellion, subversiveness, divergence 6. THE LOVERS | union, duality, choice, harmony ® | disharmony, loss of balance 7. THE CHARIOT | self-control & willpower leading to victory ® | loss of control, lack of direction 8. STRENGTH | bravery, inner understanding that radiates power ® | self-doubt, insecurity, weakness 9. THE HERMIT | solitude, contemplation, seeking inner truth ® | loneliness, isolation, disconnect w/ fellow humans 10. WHEEL OF FORTUNE | change, cycles, inevitability ® | bad luck, helplessness, series of bad events 11. JUSTICE | cause & effect, karmic retribution ® | unpunished misbehavior, unfair, turning a blind eye 12. THE HANGED MAN | willing sacrifice, release of control ® | stalling, needless sacrifice, waiting to no avail 13. DEATH | end, cyclical closure, metamorphosis ® | fear of change, stagnation, limbo, holding on 14. TEMPERANCE | moderation, balance, middle path ® | extremes, excess, lack of balance 15. THE DEVIL | materialism, destructive patterns, excess ® | freedom, release, restoring control 16. THE TOWER | sudden disaster, upheaval, collapse ® | delaying inevitable disaster, avoiding suffering that could lead to growth 17. THE STAR | hope, faith, guidance ® | faithlessness, lack of guidance, negative thoughts 18. THE MOON | unconscious, intuition, illusions, dreams ® | confusion, misinterpretation 19. THE SUN | success, clarity, positivity, conscious ® | negativity, depression, sadness, pessimism 20. JUDGEMENT | reckoning, honest evaluation of oneself ® | lack of self-awareness, self-loathing 21. THE WORLD | completion, wholeness, fulfillment ® | incompletion, no closure, nearing end of journey but something is missing

*® = reverse card meaning*® = reverse card meaning

Tarot Cheat Sheet #1 - Major Arcana

Tarot Cheat Sheet #2 - Wands

Tarot Cheat Sheet #3 - Cups

Tarot Cheat Sheet #4 - Swords

Tarot Cheat Sheet #5 - Pentacles

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Say something

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Nlitvvin

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💖 💖 💖 I am protected from any ill will or negative energy. My life flourishes out of positive energy and high vibrations 💖 💖 💖

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