cosmic witch

Jupiter in the 2nd House: Lucky green. Rarely looks down upon themselves. 

Jupiter in the 3rd House: Mental zeal. Has thought of it all. Black hole for learning.

Jupiter in the 4th House: Exciting or interesting family life, home is where they rest their head. 

Jupiter in the 5th House: Will try anything once, exploration is how they celebrate and enjoy. 

Jupiter in the 6th House: Gives back endlessly, good health or has buckets of mental strengths to make up for physical weaknesses. 

Jupiter in the 7th House: Freedom loving in the truest form. 

Jupiter in the 8th House: Candle in dark times, shed some light in that spooky, haunted corner. 

Jupiter in the 9th House: Traveling is inherit to their being somehow. Beliefs are formed in the forge of their heart. 

Jupiter in the 10th House: Radiant impressions. Aims high. 

Jupiter in the 11th House: The future is always bright. Makes friends wherever they go. Groups are bonded by shared beliefs. 

A retrograde is defined as when a planet is rotating in the opposite direction that it is normally rotating in. And sometimes, at the time of our birth, there are one or more planets that are in retrograde, therefore influencing our natal chart. Anything planet that is in retrograde in our natal chart internalizes the influence of that planet, and makes the qualities of that planet something that can be felt clearly on the inside but something that isn’t able to be expressed on the outside.

✨THE SUN AND THE MOON DO NOT GO INTO RETROGRADE✨

NATAL MERCURY IN RETROGRADE

The mind becomes an extension of the subconscious instead of a form of outer expression. Words are internalized and will bloom inside, they will take root within your brain and will rarely be shown the light of day. (And I don’t mean shallow conversation, I mean the deeper, more private side of you and of your words). Words will flow freely in your mind but mean all the wrong things when they come out of your mouth. What you speak is not always what you think, and what you think is not always what you speak. Traditional public education may be difficult, as you are not always best equipped to express your mind in a strictly academic environment. Try expressing your mind through alternative means like art, music, and dance, something that allows for your mind to speak without words.

NATAL VENUS IN RETROGRADE

Your love and what you find beautiful is internalized. Your personal aesthetic or your personal style may be hard to come up with or hard to find,you may never be truly comfortable in the clothing that you wear. Your expression of love and affection is something that has to be forcibly pulled out from deep inside, and you may feel like love is something that you lack, or rather something that you do not show enough. Love and relationships will be a tender and deep part of your life for you, and something that you will constantly have to work through. You may feel like you could have always been more in a relationship. More loving. More tender. More comforting. More kind. More, more, and more, you will give all of yourself away and never realize that your love on its own is enough. You do not have to prove that you love someone/something. We all love in different and naturally complex ways. Take your time.

NATAL MARS IN RETROGRADE

There is an anger inside but something will prevent it from leaving your body and your mind. Those that are cruel to you will mistake your silence for weakness or indifference. Your anger is not a flame but it is an ocean, and many people will not recognize water as anger. Your passion is something that is sedated. And sometimes you will drown in the ocean that you have created, with the outer expression of anger and passion being just above the surface but being unable to escape. Because of the silencing of the warrior inside you have learned to avoid confrontation, arguments, competition, anything that requires you to express something that you often fear that you do not possess. And sometimes will you direct all of the anger that is not able to be expressed back onto yourself. You do not have to prove your anger. Your energy. Your drive. And during the course of your life, learn to not destroy yourself.

NATAL JUPITER IN RETROGRADE

Your philosophies and expansion will be on the inside. Your life will be one of constant and unyielding self expansion internally, with thoughts and ideas about life being yours and yours only. Your view on the world may be seen as different, as modern day religions and spiritual concepts are never are able to completely define the way that you feel about this earth on the inside. Society cannot “taint” your personal philosophies and preconceived ideas about life itself. With all of this self growth you may look at the rest of the world and wonder why others cannot simply grow too, why they seemingly cannot expand from who they used to be and involve into who they actually are. However, with all of this internalized growth your external growth may be stagnant. You may plan, start something new, throw away all of your progress, plan again, and the cycle continues. It may seem as if you have so many great ideas but they never come into fruition, that your ideas stay ideas and never become visible. Growth on the inside will not be as easy. Take time to projects and care for your ideas, it may take you longer to execute them but it does not mean that they are not worth it.

NATAL SATURN IN RETROGRADE

Saturn has barricaded you from yourself. Who you are and who you can be is often not felt, there will be a deep rooted fear that you will never live up to other’s expectations and that you will never be enough. You truly knows what it feels like to have restrictions harbored within yourself, to know what it feels like to go through life lesson after life lesson until you are unable to recognize yourself. You are uncertain in your abilities and who you will become later on. You may feel as if you are blocked off from doing things or achieving things that you want to achieve because of something holding you back deep within yourself. This is not a curse, it is only something that if accepted instead of rejected will allow you to grow. Saturn is the teacher and what you will have to learn is yourself. How to grow when everything that you are has been taken away. Who you are when no one else, not even yourself, is able to define you. What life lessons truly mean and how they help you grow.

NATAL URANUS IN RETROGRADE

I promise that you inner individuality is there. That your uniqueness is there. No human on this earth is like any other and you are no exception. You may not be able to see it on the outside but is definitely within, your ideas and personal revolutions challenge society itself. And sometimes, many times, society will fail to reflect how you feel the world should be inside. And sometimes, many times, you’ll feel helpless and as if you’re unable to change that. Your ideas may just be your own but it does not mean that they are small. It does not mean that they are unable to be shown. Expressing your view on the world may be difficult, yes, explaining how you think society should change may be difficult, yes, but as long as you are promoting a positive change what is the harm in trying? Promoting something positive is not harmful to anyone, not even yourself. Pursue the personal growth and change that you desire. Inspire others to do the same. Remember to be kind. With time you and your ideals will thrive.

NATAL NEPTUNE IN RETROGRADE

Neptune has made who you are and what life is an illusion to even yourself, inside there is a dense fog that does not allow you to see who you really are. Your feelings may muffle what is actually happening, like personal sadness overcasting beautiful moments. And your mind will always be a mind that wanders. Daydreams, fantasies, things that you find beautiful, they swirl around inside and become apart of who you are. And at this point you will have to distinguish between yourself and a dream. Your heart and a mirage. Your mind and enchantment. Life is not always as kind as you may make it out to be. People are not always as soft as you see them as. Some experiences cannot be romanticized. And you have to accept that there is a both a real version of the world and a real version of yourself. Something raw, something unmistakably unkind. The world is not as it seems, people are not as they seem, and you are not as you seem to yourself. Be careful to not let everything that is genuine and true be masked by something that is not reality.

NATAL PLUTO IN RETROGRADE

the athame (typically pronounced ah-tha-mey) is a blade used for ritual purposes both in traditional witchcraft and in neopagan practices like wicca. it is considered one of the four elemental tools in modern occultism, along with the wand, pentacle, and chalice. a typical athame is a small double-edged blade with a black handle (which sometimes features symbolic carvings).

purposes of the athame

contrary to naive assumptions, athames are not traditionally used for sacrifice or blood magick. they are used to direct energy during rituals, to represent the element of fire (though other practices associate it with air), for banishment rituals, and rituals involving fertility when accompanied with the chalice.

some practitioners strongly believe that the athame is not meant for any kind of physical cutting, while others will use its blade to cut plants, fabric, cord, and other things pertinent to a spell or ritual. keep in mind that the athame absorbs and channels the energy of what it interacts with, so avoid letting others use your athame and be mindful of what items you cut with it, if at all.

consecrating and blessing a new athame before use

when you get a new athame, it’s important to cleanse it and properly declare it your own. gather two candles, one white and one black. 

⤏ pass the athame’s blade over the white candleflame, which cleanses it of its previously held energies and purifies its intentions. 

⤏ pass the blade over the black candleflame, to endow it with protective properties.

⤏ finally, stick the blade into rich soil, to bless it with earth magick. wash the blade off with water, and it is ready to use.

ways to incorporate the athame into your craft

⤏ cast a circle by outlining it with the blade, channeling protective energy

⤏ cut open and re-close circles you’ve already cast by slicing and redrawing

⤏ use the blade to cut and harvest herbs for spellwork or kitchen witchcraft

⤏ carve sigils and other symbols into candles for candle magick

⤏ use the blade in banishing rituals to cut negative energy away

⤏ use in place of a wand during house exorcisms/protection spells

⤏ use in place of a wand during rituals involving fire

a few easy rituals you can perform with just an athame

love ritual: hold the athame in your dominant hand and visualize the kind of relationship you want to have, or your ideal partner. trace a large heart in the air in front of you with the athame and walk through the energy-heart.

protection ritual: hold the athame in your dominant hand and say “may your blade protect me from harm and ill will.” hover the blade over your body, starting at the head and moving down to your feet.

This is my own personal correspondence table for the use of alcohol in magick. It may not match your own usage of alcohol, but if you like anything you see, feel free to adopt it. Some of this is based in what the alcohol is made from, some on its history, and some of this is based in personal experience or associations. This is not about alcohol as an offering, but the usage of it as a spell component. The list is in no way exhaustive and does not include mixed drinks or brands. Just your basics.

Distilled Spirits

Absinthe: (Air) Useful in protection work. It is especially useful for safe astral travel. Using it to draw sigils for safe travels on one’s body before leaving it can keep away nasties in the meantime.

Gin: (Earth) Useful in spells promoting good health and is good as a binding ingredient for other alcohols’ properties. It can also be a good to use if the caster of the spell lives in poverty and this is pertinent to the spell in some way.

Rum: (Water) Useful in money spells or spells for gaining other material possessions. Rum can be especially useful in a spell involving an underhanded motive or intention, especially if the results leave you with more as a side effect of the spell’s main goal.

Tequila: (Fire) Tequila is all about timing. Perfect, exact timing. It can be used in spells involving punctuality, appointments, or decision making. It can be used when something has to be done just right, as well. Never use it for something involving the past or anything about the future. Tequila is always for the present, and in this moment, as they come issues.

Vodka: (Fire and Water) Good for strength and courage. Lifting yourself up by the bootstraps and carrying on with what needs to be done no matter how hard it is or how tired you are. Can be used in spells involving getting through difficult times, motivation, pushing forward, finishing projects. Shit’s gotta get done? Vodka.

Whiskey: (Water) Whiskey can be used in spells to promote change, usually when change is unwanted by someone else. It helps bypass interference and bring the change about in ways that which opposes it does not immediately notice.

Brandy: (Earth) Brandy can be used in love spells, especially those for preserving pre-existing love. It can also be used for attracting a long-lasting love as opposed to a fling.

Fermented Beverages

Beer: (Earth) Beer is used in spells involving the home, family, and the past. It can also be used in spells involving practicality vs desire.

Cider: (Earth) Cider is used in spells for harvesting what you’ve already planted. It helps ensure that the things you’re working towards are successful and your effort is not wasted. But you must put in the effort.

Wine: (Earth and Air) Wine can be used in spells for health, stress relief, and blessings. It can also be used for spells involving standing on your own and independence.

Mead: (Air) Mead can be used for spells involving inspiration, study, education, scholarly pursuits, the arts, and oratory issues. It can also be used to sweeten the temper of yourself or someone else.

The Serpent’s Lock

The seal of protection, privacy and invisibility – can be stamped or marked on documents to protect them from prying eyes, lest the witches’ venom befall them. Can also be used to hide oneself from that which walks on the astral plane. 

The Serpent’s Key

salt bowls, with some herb magick thrown in, are a potent method of ridding bad energy, harmful spirits or emotional hauntings from the home. 

☾ the bowl

salt can damage porous materials like wood, so using a bowl made of glass, ceramic or metal is best. glass helps clarify and amplify magickal intention. ceramic embodies earth energy— robust, strong, and unwavering. metal of any type helps project magick to fill a space.

☾ the salt

regular table salt is a classic cleanser and protecter. other specialty salts can have additional magickal impact: sea salt, associated with the water element, relieves residual negative emotions, like sadness and anger. himalayan pink salt is associated with astral travel and can help dispel curses and hauntings. if you need some serious no-nonsense banishing, add powdered charcoal to any salt.

☾ banishing / cleansing herbs

basil, black peppercorns, cloves, cumin, fern, garlic, lemongrass, mullein, pine, st. john’s wort, thyme, yarrow

i’m honestly curious? would you do this? doesn’t scream every cell in your body that this is not okay? i’m not sure how it is for other people, but for me.. exactly this is what it feels like to do free readings on tumblr.

This is what it looks like in my asks right now:

Past life reading 4/14/98 East Peoria, IL 7:02 PM

Relationship reading 2/17/83 Madison, WI 5:12 AM

Past life reading 7/26/89 Liverpool, UK 3:33 AM

That goes on for the vast majority of the ~80 messages that are in my box right now.

It’s disheartening. It makes me feel like a vending machine. It’s burning me out, even though I love doing readings. 

The rest, yeah, is just heart-deadening. In those clients’ defense, I think I have a part to play since I’ve done readings for people who treat me that way. One thing I’ve learned about doing readings on tumblr is that people will just copy requests for readings they see you’ve already done. (If you’ve ever gotten a reading from someone who seems to be following your guidelines but clearly hasn’t read a thing on your blog and knows nothing about you, readers, this is why.) If those people see a finished reading in response to a rude ask, they probably just assume that’s the right way to treat me. And other readers, too. Shit. 

my personal solution for this is that i am now only answering the requests for the people who i see reguarly on my blog, who are interacting with me, friends, people who send asks that show they have common sense and courtesy, who have read the rules and who don’t treat me like a divination machine.

and furthermore .. i know this step might be harsh, but i am doing this however. when i am explicitly disclaiming that the requirement to send me a reading requests IS that you GIVE FEEDBACK - and if it doesn’t happen within three days, the people are getting blocked.

i know this sounds like “whoa noony chill” but i am seeing this too often in this community and i am honestly sick of it. people AS A WHOLE should think about the way they treat other people, especially people who do a service for them FOR FREE.

OK…OK..So hear me out.

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Here is a fantastic nightmare jar that has been of tremendous use for me and my friends and family.  I will say this - it only lasts about a year before you will need to make a new one.

Ingredients

1 small jar you can seal

~8 in. Black Yarn

3-10 strands of hair from the person you are trying to protect

8-20 sharp objects like rusty nails, broken glass, etc.

Salt

Lavender

Mint

Rose Petals (optional)

Bay Leaves

Candle

Sharpie

Directions

Start by placing the hair into the vessel. This tricks whatever is causing the nightmares into the jar. Then put in the sharp objects to poke and prod the negativity and trap it in the jar once and for all.

Next, put in your herbs. Mint and lavender are meant to bring restful and calm sleep, and the bay leaves are meant for cleansing and keeping evil at bay. The rose petals will bring dreams of love. 

SIDE NOTE: In my experience, the rose petals brought a lot of insanely sexual dreams.  So take that and do what you want with it.

Now add about half of your salt. The black yarn absorbs the negative energies. Wrap it up in a little ball and drop it into the jar, visualizing the negativity being sucked into a black hole. Pour the remaining salt into the jar and seal it with wax from your candle.

Feel free to write inscribe protective runes or sigils into the jar with the sharpie if you so choose.

Charge the nightmare jar in the light of the moon, and keep near the bed. A window sill is best as it will need to be recharged from time to time.

besoms are a witch’s ritual broom; they are excellent tools for cleansing, blessing and spellcasting. i personally find besoms to be just as useful and integral in my craft as wands, if not more.

in tradition, besoms were made with sacred woods; a shaft of ash, twigs of birch as bristles, and strands of willow to bind it together. ash brings prosperity and protection, birch for cleansing, and willow for lunar goddess magick. of course, different woods have different properties, and based on what you want your besom to embody, you can use any of these woods:

alder for decision making and courage

ash for health and prosperity

cedar for power and strength

hawthorn for fae magick and rebirth

hazel for creativity and knowledge

maple for longevity and luck

oak for truth and protection

there are many ways to use a besom in witchcraft. a common use is to cleanse a ritual area or space before casting spells, by literally sweeping away any residual energies (though the besoms doesn’t have to touch the floor - leave the dust sweeping to the household broom!). similarly, you can cleanse your home by sweeping the energies up and sending them out the front door. if a guest brings negative energy with them for a visit, simply sweep the area in which they resided after they’ve left.

besoms are also protective. simply placing one by your front door is a powerful protective charm of its own. placing it under your bed is one way to prevent nightmares or harmful energies from influencing your dreams. 

Since it’s super hard to find them when you need them! Anyone is welcome to use these, but I don’t want to see “this is great for people who DON’T have chronic illnesses too” (trust us, we know).

These are to be used as a supplement in addition to professional medical care, treatment and medication, not as a sole alternative!

Back + neck issues:

“Ease my neck pain” sigil

“Ease my lower back and hip pain” sigil

“My back is relaxed and free of pain” sigil

“I am free of back pain” sigil

Brainfog:

Brainfog lifting

Brainfog relief spell

Memory masterpost Memory and concentration spell

“Brainfog begone” sigil

Fatigue:

Spell for energy

Energy gain spell

Energy jar

Energy bath

Crystals for fatigue

“No fatigue” sigil

“Energy” sigil

“I am energetic” sigil

“I have the energy to take a shower” sigil

Headaches: 

Headache soothing tea spell

Headache healing

To banish a headache

Tea for cluster headaches

Curing a headache

“Ease my morning headaches” sigil

“Headache” sigil

“Against headaches” sigil

“My headache goes away” sigil

Immune system:

Masterpost of sigils to boost your immune system

Joint pain:

Joint pain spell

“Ease my joint pain” sigil

“My arthritis is manageable” sigil

“My joints are stable” sigil

Migraine:

Anti-migraine spell

A spell for migraines

Anti-migraine spell bottle

Migraine relief bath

Migraine magic (herbs and crystals)

Witch tip for migraines

“Ease my migraine” sigil

Muscle pain + spasms:

Crystals for rheumatic and muscular pain

Muscle pain sachet

“Ease my jaw tension” sigil/s

“My muscles are relaxed” sigil

Pain (general):

Chant to ease the pain

Chant for bad pain days

Simple ease the pain spell

Chronic pain relief spell

Release my pain to the wind spell

Bath spell to ease chronic pain

Change the pain spell jar

“I find moments of peace from my pain” sigil

“The pain is gone” sigil

“Relieve chronic pain” sigil

Sleep problems:

Sleep crystal spell

Spell to help you sleep when you’re in pain

Sleep easy spell sachet

Sleepy witch tip

Sleep aid art

“My chronic pain doesn’t affect my sleep” sigil 

Stomach issues:

Soothing tummy tea

Anti-nausea bath

“Anti-nausea” sigil

“Find your way out” (constipation) sigil

“My digestive issues are eased” sigil

“I overcome stomach pains” sigil