Adders and Acers

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.

Messy, Wild Hair, likely filled with Leaves or small Yellow/Blue Flowers

Anything Tolkien-related (fits the theme of Nature-Filled Academic Life)

Very Sentimental and Curious Personality, almost Whimsical or Otherworldly even

Tea, however you like it prepared

Probably the type to put flowers or little sentimental items in their pockets until they’re full to bursting

Likely has interest in Mythology, Folklore, Religion, History, Psychology, Linguistics or any of the Humanity and History-related academic pursuits

Also probably has interest in things like Botany, Bird-keeping, Farmwork and other Nature-related pursuits

Foggy, Rainy and Snowy Weather are preferred

Interest in Classical Literature

Writing Letters, Keeping Journals, Creative Writing, really anything that involved Pen and Paper

A Wild Soul, full of Wanderlust, who feels out of place in a modern media-driven World, Really existential and just wants to focus on what Matters

Is genuinely considering running away into the forest and never coming back

Firmly believes in Science, but is undoubtedly fascinated by the Supernatural and Spiritual. The type to study and believe History and Science in school, but secretly collect Books on Witchcraft in their free time.

Treats the Supernatural less like a believer, and more like an Anthropologist. The type to try and document different Supernatural Creatures, or study the Culture and Ways of the Fair Folk. Wants to learn everything about things beyond the scope of Human Comprehension, particularly those related to nature.

Taking walks in the Rain and writing down your strange / friendly encounters you had along the way in your personal journal

Knowing a little too much about seemingly Everything

Being weirdly okay with Death, Burial, the Afterlife and the Concept of Decay

Loving Gothic and Classical Architecture, but also having a deep affinity for Nature and its inevitable Reclamation

Clothes: 

Glasses, Sweaters, Scarves, Large Book-filled Satchels, Flat-Caps, Beanies, Cardigans, Long (knee-length or ankle) Skirts, and the lik

Large, Cozy Jackets, particularly if they’re lined with wool (or fake wool, at least) or have especially large/numerous pockets

Dress Shirts, Dark Pants (especially with stripes), Suspenders, Plant Motifs

Neutral Colors like Browns, Blacks, Greens, Dark Blues, Whites and Tans

Hobbies: 

Studying, Taking Walks, Going on Adventures, Collecting Books Bones and Antiques, Writing, Painting, Sketching, Reading, Baking, Gardening, Embroidery, Wood or Soap Carving, Collecting Items with personal Sentimental Value (like the first gift that really meant something to you, or older letters and notes from loved ones)

Music Playlist: (Playlist Transcript Below)

Learn the basics. Jus the very basics that you can find on tumblr. Lunar cycles, candles, herbs,meditation, really just the basics.

And then I want you to sit down and think about what you want to do with your path. Try to figure out what path would work for you or what interests you before you do anything else. And then leave witchblr and witchtok, forget the spells you find and try to look for books on that certain topic instead.

Because what I see a lot of baby witches do, and it's something I'm also guilty of, is that they dive in head first into the modern, western witchcraft that's all over witchtok and tumblr. Which is good if that's what you want to do. But allow yourself to move away from that path and find out what truly interests you.