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So, more and more the dystopian nightmare we're living through is mirroring the (ongoing) military coup I lived through in 2021 in Myanmar (Burma).

I've been reflecting on it a lot, and I really think the US needs to join (or at least learn from) #TheMilkTeaAlliance - an anti-totalitarian social media solidarity movement formed by Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Myanmar.

A synopsis for those interested

In Myanmar they had 2 big symbols of resistance they used that were powerful and moving.

The three finger salute (yes, from Hunger Games)

Banging on pots and pans (to dispell evil spirits) EVERY night at 8pm.

I'm really ready to bang on some pots again... can we make something like this happen? Do we need new symbols, or can we unite internationally?

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Made a spell jar for my wife to pass her driving test. Thankfully, I added some protection in there because apparently she wasn't ready to pass it, so we got in a major car accident instead, drastically delaying her actually TAKING the test.

“There are no mistakes in witchcraft”

Oh really?

How about casting a love spell on someone only to have them become your stalker?

How about performing a ritual for money and not being specific enough so it comes from the inheritance of your father after he has a brutal death via an accident at work?

How about making an invisibility talisman so you can petition the dead in your local cemetery at night without being seen but having it work too well and you get hit by a car on the way back?

How about forgetting to bring your alms to the servitor you created and it bringing poltergeist tier disturbances into your home?

How about using the goetia to acquire something you desperately need last minute and agreeing to give the demon 7 years of your life because you didn’t know how to properly bind and compel it, or that you even had an option to refuse a clearly raw deal and now you’re paying for it in time–a priceless currency?

These scenarios are real. They have happened. Some of them to people I know personally with many successes but also huge regrets. Real magic is not a LARP. Real magic is not a moodboard. It’s not a lifestyle aesthetic. It’s not a game. It is a skill set with very real consequences. Sometimes that includes madness, illness, poverty, and even death.

Maybe some of you should have a good long think.

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While I always emphasise spending time with nature in order to build that connection with spirits, this does not automatically mean that you have to hike up a mountain or head out into the middle of a forest.

You can connect to nature from your bed, from the middle of a city, in your kitchen and on a slab of pavement next to a railway.

Nature is everywhere. Nature is everything. You are nature. Rock and stone is nature. Gulls and wasps are nature.

Can't get out of bed? Watch a cool documentary or short ecology video. Read a book on local flora. Draw some cool animals. Talk to your houseplants.

Live in a city? Pray to the dandelions and nettles alongside the pavement. Ask the Spirit of Rat to help you. Look up and see the sky. Feel below and sense the earth. (Making a more detailed urban nature spirit work post, will link here too).

If you are someone who wants to work with nature spirits in your practice, please do not anything (or anyone) make you feel like you can't.

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Herb's Properties

Basil:  money, luck, prosperity, happiness

Bay Leaf: energy, cleansing, can be charged with almost any intention

Camomile: Caring, kindness, luck, growth, self-love growth, confidence, avoiding negativity, happiness

Cinnamon: passion, quick success, fire magick

Chia seeds: Growth, health, kindness, Property

Chilli flakes:  Pride, confidence, power, strength, Passion

Cumin: Courage, bravery, protection, loyalty

Dandelion: wishes, charisma, success, good luck

Dill: sexual love, luck, protection

Eucalyptus: cleansing, healing, purifying, relaxing, comfort

Fennel:  hate, anger

Flax seeds: Prosperity, growth, new beginnings

Ginger: fiery passion, success, and personal power

Jasmine: love, dreams, sensuality, luxury and kindness

Lavender: love and attraction, purification, relaxation, restful sleep

Nutmeg: luck, Health, Fidelity, Love, Prosperity, comfort, loyalty

Oregano:  comfort, love, warmth

Paprika:  Pride, confidence, power, strength

Parsley: Cleansing. purification

Peppermint: healing, purification, love and energy, cleansing, prosperity

Poppy seeds: protection, intuition, self-assurance, hexing and cursing

Rose: love, beauty, harmony, romance, attraction

Rosemary: cleansing, purification, wisdom, protection

Sesame seeds: Prosperity, growth, health, nurturing

Spearmint: love, cleansing, renewal, blessing

Sunflower seeds: happiness, growth, joy

Thyme: beauty, strength, courage

Turmeric: confidence, creativity, energy

Vanilla: love and sexuality

tip jar

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🧙‍♀️ 🧹 🌕 #witchy #art #witch #witchyvibes #loveit

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For many, their spiritual or mystical experience seemed to be of supreme importance, but they were unable to discuss it with their families and friends for fear of ridicule or being thought mentally unbalanced. This research has revealed in fact that there is a widespread taboo in our society against admitting to such experience…. If nature is inanimate, then experience of a mystical connection with a living presence or power in nature must be illusory, and so it is best not to pay too much attention to it lest it have an unbalancing effect on the rational mind. But if nature is alive, such an experience of a living connection may be just what it seems to be.

—Rupert Sheldrake in The Return of Nature

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I feel like not enough people know that you can just go do witchcraft. Like yeah, all the pretty and aesthetic things you see online can be really expensive, and if you live in a place where witchcraft is frowned upon it can be hard to hide things, but your practice can literally be anything you want.

Part of my practice is making friendship bracelets with colors of what I want to manifest. I learned morse code and tie my goals into the bracelet. It look like a normal bracelet, no one would know the difference unless I told them. Your manifestations and spells can be verbal and whispered to the wind, your sigils can look like doodled stars or stick figures, your altar doesn't need to be anything more than the tools you use (if you even need an altar). You can put spells together based on what you have and what the things around you mean to you.

You do not need to buy things for witchcraft or have a very visible practice, just do what feels right for you. Your practice is what you make it.

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I'm not sure how much I buy into omens, especially apocalyptic ones.

Yet I do believe in personal signs from the universe, so logically it follows that the universe would use big signs when it's trying to tell a lot of us something.

March 13th -14th, 2025, we had a blood moon with a total lunar eclipse visible in much of the US. This is considered a chaotic omen, but also one of great change - not necessarily negative change, but transformation for sure.

Friday, March 28th, a massive earthquake splits open Myanmar - centered in Mandalay, Myanmar.

The earth literally cracked the nation in two, with the epicenter in Sagaing: the "hills of a thousand temples" just south of the country's original Capitol city, my second home, Mandalay Myanmar.

Meanwhile, Pyin Oo Lwin, "flower mountain", just north of Mandalay stays relatively safe.

This is a place I called heaven on earth, yet evil existed there, too, in the military bases tucked in beside the flowers and pagodas.

Saturday, March 29th, a partial solar eclipse seen across the US creates a "devil horn" effect.

(Photo taken by Fabrizio Melandri)

I don't dabble in divination myself, but I still believe in the power of prophecy.

Read into these omens what you will, I'm not sure I like what I see.

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Some little things I've learned over a decade of witchcraft:

If you are feel called to work but are tired/drained, sit outside. Take in all the energies around you. Nature can help charge you

Every witch does a little bit of a bunch of types of magic but sticks mainly to one or two in general. You usually won't be eclectic forever. You'll find what magics work best with you.

Never be lazy or cut corners with spirits. Always be respectful and always tell them to leave when you're done

When you see a plant or ingredient with a long list of properties, there are different things at play. Season of collection, the part of the plant, the health of the plant, etc all play a role in impacting which properties it will carry.

Don't call on spirits unless you have confidence and control

Be careful with sea/water magic. Get into it gently and slowly until you have the energy figured out because it can get out of hand quickly.

Adding a little pinch of magic into your breakfast can make a major difference in your day.

Your personal emotions/feelings over something will impact a work

Planting some plants is good, not only to have a garden, but the dirt helps cleanse you too. Get all dirty and muddy. It's good for ya

Not all trees are nice

The more you listen to your intuition, the easier it will be to tell it apart from your anxieties and worries

Incense is very easy to make which is why it's usually cheap to buy. But you can find a million tutorials online on how to make your own personal incense which is great if you want a spell to take effect over a while but also want to infuse the fire energy in it.

The more you work with something the better feel you get for it. Cinnamon goes in almost everything i cook and most of my spells because me and cinnamon just get right along

Your path is yours and no one else's. It will look like yours and no one else's

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Stab the tyrants

Behead the kings

Eat the rich

As justice clings -

to hope and truth

Don't give up yet

Stab the facists

Before sunset

And as I speak

So mote it be

Punch all the nazis

Make America free

every year the Ides of March feels like a fun little meme, but this year it actually feels more like trying to cast a spell

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✨ crystals to help with anxiety ✨

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Blood magic, baby.

forward my shambling soldiers and slay without thinking. let blood flow into every crevice of this rotten land

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⏰ Set your alarms to see a total lunar eclipse this Thursday night/Friday morning!

Watch as the full Moon passes through Earth’s shadow, then turns a spectacular red-orange hue during totality. During a lunar eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned like this:

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Eclipse timeline (in central time):

10:57 pm, March 13: Eclipse begins. The full Moon will begin to diminish in brightness as it enters Earth’s outer shadow, called the penumbra.

12:09 am, March 14: The Moon, full but dim, enters Earth’s inner shadow, called the umbra.

1:26 am: Totality begins! The Moon appears red as it is now fully inside Earth’s umbra.

1:58 am: Maximum eclipse (if you only get up once to see the eclipse, this is the best time!): The deep red Moon is near the center of Earth’s shadow.

2:31 am: Totality ends: The Moon begins to exit Earth’s umbra.

3:47 am: The Moon is now fully outside of the umbra but still in the penumbra. The red color has faded.

5:00 am: Is anyone still watching? The eclipse ends as the full Moon exits Earth’s shadow and returns to its normal brightness.

✨ Enjoy the eclipse!

How are you celebrating?

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Happiness Will Come To You.

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���I have inspiration and ideas for my craft”

For those that get artist’s block. This applies to any sort of creative ability (writing, drawing, sculpting, hell even spell writing!). Write it on a slip of paper and tape it around your pencil / pen, or copy it onto a new layer in an art program, or attach it somehow to whatever medium you work with.

Requested by anonymous

~Richtor

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Gentle Tea Magic

To calm~

Calm and happy tea

Calm tea

To bring joy~

‘Give me sunshine’ potion for happiness

A cup of sunshine - liquid positivity

Overall positivi-tea

To recharge~

Rejuvenating tea

Mental reboost tea spell

Easy energy tea spell

To heal~

Tiny tea spell to feel better

Heal your heart potion

Other~

Tea potion for change

For creativity

Gentle coffee magic / Gentle cocoa magic