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Worldy Witchcraft Ideas

Take care of your mother.

🌱 Green Witch: volunteering at community gardens, planting trees, recycling garbage into pots

🐚 Sea Witch: trash pickups, guiding sea turtles, raising awareness for over fishing

☀ Solar Witch: turning off the lights during the day and letting the sun in, supporting solar energy, growing sunflowers and leaving their seeds for birds

☕ Kitchen Witch: cooking vegan/plant based meals, buying local ingredients, remembering reusable grocery bags and travel mugs

🎐 Hedge Witch: cleaning up trash in graveyards, growing plants that attract spirits, making your own candles from leftover wax and clementine caps

⚡ Storm Witch: using rainwater for plants, appreciating electricity keeping it off during the day and admiring it at night, supporting wind power

🌆 Urban Witch: guerilla gardening, walking/biking instead of driving (or carpool), supporting eco friendly buisnesses

🌙 Lunar Witch: recycling to make decor for a nocturnal garden (ft. moonflowers and silvery things), leaving out bird baths that make reflective pools at night, turning the lights off at night to let her shine

🔮 Crystal Witch: collecting your own stones & tumbling them at home, advocating against damaging mining projects

🌸 Fae Witch: starting a butterfly garden, leaving out bee rest stops, building bird houses from recyled goods

I know I’m leaving out some stuff so feel free to add on with your own ideas, tips, types, and how to’s!

~ That Witch

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Just a little reminder: if you are not a Native American don’t do smudging cause it’s reserved only for those.  🙏🏽  But you can try a smoke cleansing instead. I hope I haven’t offended anyone with this post. 

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🍂🌾Mabon🌾🍂

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🎃 happy spooky season from my furry pals 🎃

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September Reads

Hi y’all! I’m a little late but here’s my reading wrap-up for September. If you want to know more about any of these books or you just want to chat about them I’m always up for it!

Bold = I love it a lot Italics = I really liked it Plain = It was good Strikethrough = do not recommend

Webcomics:

My Gentle Giant (Tapas) – I’m not far into this but I like what I’ve read so far!

Covenant (Webtoon)

Manga:

Blue Exorcist Vol. 24

Black Butler Vol. 29

Attack on Titan Vol. 31

Ajin Vol. 15

Given Vol. 2

Audiobooks:

The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

This Is My America by Kim Johnson

Best Laid Plaids by Ella Stainton

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (reread)

Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova

Storm Front by Jim Butcher (reread)

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

Books:

The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig

Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

The Sugared Game by K. J. Charles

Bishop by A. E. Via

Wood by A. E. Via

The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters

In Strange Woods by Claire Cray

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Merrick by Claire Cray

Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro

Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova

William by Claire Cray

Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine

Wild Sky by Zaya Feli

Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine

Heart of Dust by H. L. Moore

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Art by Sam Yang

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If this isn’t an entrance to a fairy world then I don’t know what is…

Fairy Glen, Isle of Skye, Scotland, April 2014

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There is an old belief in Serbian villages and small towns that certain pumpkins (and watermelons), when left outside during a full moon, will turn in to a vampire.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

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And the wind was knocking at my window…

#pascalcampion

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Bird Symbolism

So I was looking out my window and saw two birds and the idea of making a list of symbolism associated with types of birds came to mind. My mom always taught me if you see an animal -especially if they are doing something out of the ordinary- you should take it as an omen. So here’s a list of some basic birds, some of the associations are personal but I hope you like it!

Blue Jay-the truth will be revealed, high energy, playfulness, clarity and communication.

Cardinal-hope, joy, good health, some associate them with angels or deceased love ones, passion and warmth.

Crow-often associated with magic and witches, transformation, power, intelligence and mystery. 

Duck-friendships, new friends, happiness, good fortune and protect against negative energies “water off a ducks back” :)

Dove-peace, harmony, joy, love, might be telling you to break away from a toxic situation, think positive, often associated with Aphrodite or Jesus or Angels

Eagle-power, leadership, freedom, adventure, breaking free.

Hawk- common as spirit guides, courage, protection, and awareness. 

Hummingbird- I adore hummingbirds and often associate them with faeries. Creativity, joy, love and beauty. Can be a sign that you are moving too fast in life and need to take a break.

Magpie-Magpies represent duality because seeing them can be really good or really bad, I know it’s confusing :/ Seeing a magpie can be a good luck omen and new oppurtunities will appear. They also represent illusion and trickery, maybe someone is being a two-faced friend to you. 

Owl- wisdom, associated with the goddess Athena, intuition, spiritual exploration, change, observation and intelligence.

Raven- associated with the nordic god Odin, mystery, magic, fae magic, knowledge, mischieve, and can be seen as a death omen (but can also mean change) 

Robin- luck, prosperity, good things will happen, joy and your hard work will soon be rewarded. 

Sparrow- associated with Aphrodite, new love and relationships, fertility, team work, time of productivity and stop procrastinating.

Stork-long life, prosperity, fertility, new life, wisdom, take time to relax, motherhood and luck.

Swan- also associated with Aphrodite and Apollo, gracefulness, beauty, music, poetry, creativity, loyalty, and long lasting relationships.

Vulture-death, cleaning up other people’s messes, renewal, patient, use your resources and be perceptive.

Woodpecker- hard work, take advantage of new oppurtunities, attention, progress and determination.

Tip! If you are repeatedly seeing a certain animal or have a strong liking to an animal it could be a way a spirit guide is trying to get your attention (or that animal is just really common in your area lol )

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A friendship was made that day

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Candle colors and what they represent ✨

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Where to start in witchcraft: Free resources

When recommending resources for witchcraft, I usually recommend books because authors often put together the best organized methods to start out. Or to increase your knowledge. But purchasing books can be expensive and sometimes we want resources that won’t cost us anything. This list is only meant to get you started. It will lead you to other resources as you build your path.

https://wildhunt.org/  - news, politics, reviews, and more https://witchesandpagans.com/ - online magazine, articles, pagan paths https://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/index.htm - Gardner’s Book of Shadows plus some older, historical works https://www.gutenberg.org/ - project gutenberg is free public domain books, including mythology books http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49513 - this is Culpepers Complete Herbal on Project Gutenberg. A medical herbal reference from the 1650s. (For historical reference of course. Not all those old cures were, well, healthy) http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/digital.html - Cornell’s rare manuscript collection on witchcraft (historical, mostly late 1500s to early 1700s) https://www.alchemy-works.com/planetary_corresp.html - planetary and elemental correspondences http://www.learntarot.com/ - a free online tarot course https://labyrinthos.co/ - free tarot app, course and resources (plus stuff to buy) https://www.facebook.com/downatthecrossroadspodcast/ - podcast. This is the Facebook page but they’re on most podcast apps. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaHXTaHUeP-Z331QoC2Fu4A/ - Laura Tempest Zakroff on YouTube.  (She also has a book “Weaving the Liminal which is an excellent beginner resource)

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Grounding

And here we are, hi witches around the world! Today we talking about grounding so let’s get started.

What is grounding? 

Grounding is basically cleaning and releasing the excess of energy as well to renew energy. It can be a huge ritual or a simply visualization, here are some grounding types for my fellow witches!

9 easy ways of grounding for broom closet/teen/broken witches!

a. in the shower! I personally ground myself in the shower by sitting in the floor and feeling how the water touches my body. 

b. Drink a glass of water. This is really easy, drink water and feel how it goes down through your organism. 

c. Breathing exercises!

d. Focus on an intention and breathe, focus in your breathings and visualize energy growing around you, a tree growing, etc.

e. Feel the wind in your face when you go out, feel how it touches your face, eyes, nose, mouth!

f. General meditation.

g. place your hands in the ground (i touch my apartment floor so chill if you can’t go out) and feel how your energy connects to the Earth.

h. Visualize your energy surrounding you, going down.

i. Visualize roots growing around you then visualize your energy going through them. 

 I know its a short af thing but i feel its def necessary to know! My post are dedicated to beginner witches (including myself) so yup. Blessed be pals!

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