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Breathe into the back of your ribs

Now if that is 3 o’clock, try to breathe into 12, 6, and 9. 6 o’clock can feel really good, like a hello to your pelvic floor

Trace the perimeter of your body. You can even trace it with a magic wand, a sponge, etc for utility

Just a quick compilation of the posts I've made about exercises to help improve your craft. These can be used as journaling prompts, inspiration for activities, or as methods for pulling yourself out of a slump and recharging your witchy inspiration.

Witchcraft Exercise - Quantifying Your Craft

Witchcraft Exercise - Dig Through The Ditches

Witchcraft Exercise - The Book of Lessons

Witchcraft Exercise - Home Brews

Witchcraft Exercise - Witchy Inspo Journal

Witchcraft Exercise - Spring Cleaning

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Correspondences

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Your Own Runes

Witchcraft Exercise - Shakespearean Witchcraft

Witchcraft Exercise - Music To Witch By

Related Prompt - Music to Witch By

Witchcraft Exercise - Annual Review

Most of these are also available in the May 2021 bonus episode of Hex Positive (check your favorite podcatcher).

Happy Witching!

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Intuition is a powerful gift that we all possess. It's the inner knowing, the gut feeling, the psychic sense that guides us. Whether you're new to exploring your intuitive abilities or looking to enhance them, here are some exercises and tips to help you tap into the magic of your own intuition.

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1. Meditation for Clarity 🧘‍♂️🌌

Take time each day to meditate. Clear your mind, focus on your breath, and allow your intuition to surface. The more you practice, the more in tune you become with your inner wisdom.

2. Trust Your Gut Feeling 🤔💭

Start small by listening to your gut instincts in everyday situations. Trust that inner voice when making decisions. Over time, this will strengthen your intuitive muscle.

3. Tarot and Oracle Cards 🔮🃏

Experiment with divination tools like Tarot or Oracle cards. These can be excellent tools for honing your intuitive skills. Draw a card daily and interpret its message based on your intuition.

4. Dream Journaling 🌙📓

Keep a dream journal by your bedside. Record your dreams as soon as you wake up. Often, dreams contain intuitive insights and symbolism that can be deciphered over time.

5. Practice Empathy and Active Listening 👂❤️

Empathize with others and practice active listening. Tuning into their emotions and thoughts can help you fine-tune your intuitive abilities.

6. Nature Connection 🌿🌳

Spend time in nature. The natural world has its own intuitive energy. Take walks, sit quietly, and observe. Nature can amplify your intuitive senses.

7. Develop Your Third Eye Chakra 🧘‍♀️👁️

Work on balancing and opening your third eye chakra through meditation and visualization exercises. This energy center is often associated with intuition.

8. Trust the Process 🌟🌈

Remember, developing intuition takes time and patience. Trust in your own unique journey. Your intuition is like a muscle; the more you use it, the stronger it becomes.

9. Seek Guidance 🤝🌠

Consider seeking guidance from experienced intuitives or psychics. They can offer insights and techniques based on their own experiences.

10. Keep a Journal of Intuitive Experiences 📔✨

Document your intuitive experiences in a journal. This helps you track your progress and learn from your insights.

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Your intuition is a valuable compass on your life's journey. Embrace it, nurture it, and allow it to illuminate your path. The more you connect with your intuition, the more you'll discover the profound wisdom that resides within you.

Embrace the magic of your intuition, and let it lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you.

Fuck it Most of witchcraft people tell you to buy shit. So here's some stuff u can do for free

grab some sticks from the ground, bind them together in a shape you like, add intent (usually protection), hang it up

make a flower crown, add protection intent, dry it out, hang it up. protection spell and real ward. regularly recharge intent.

dry plants, set warding intent, hang them up.

crushed eggshells on your window sill to prevent bad energy.

wear a bandana or veil somewhere on your body, sometimes i use mine as belts, to protect from bad vibes.

paint your nails in the color meaning you want. mine are pink for self attraction rn

when you light up a candle always ask if theres a spirit or entity there, pyromancy skills can be learned through google, tumblr, and tiktok.

Regularly clean and rearrange your altar if you can't practice everyday, this keeos the space clean and shows entities around that even if ur not active, you're still a witch

A cup of water can be an offering to anyone, imagine being an entity and you can't have water at all for centuries??

If you have glasses, draw a sigil on them while you clean them (i usually wash mine with soap and water to make it extra clean ((and dry with paper towels)))

Give your wall art jobs. Sure they can be decorative, or they can be extra eyes to watch you while you sleep to make sure no one messes with you. (Ive had so much wall art fall in the middle of the night and turns out smth was trying to get in my room...)

If you have black-out/thick curtains, let the sun in!!! I keep them tied during the day so i can use natural light and ease up my electricity bill

Change ur bedsheets semi regularly, it doesn't need to be every week, but keep in mind bedbugs and other entities can get trapped there... or even try to get there to make your sleep unrestful.

If your room is a bio-hazard, at least make pathways so you can walk without injuring yourself.

My witch of a grandmother gave me her beautiful encyclopedia on healing plants to celebrate Ostara!

I told her about my blog and she asked me to share some of her advice “for those lovely internet disciples of yours”.

No, Yeyé, that’s not how this works…

But hey! When the crone talks, you listen!

“A jar of glass keeps away envious spirits and people who want to hurt you.”

“Everything dead deserves to be honored.”

“Strings of seeds bring prosperity.”

“A stone in the windowsill is a soldier that keeps away thieves, but make sure it’s not a pretty rock cause they might steal it!”

“When you trim a vine, keep some branches by the door so all the hard work you’ve done doesn’t disappear in a single day!”

“When you’re old and can’t move so much anymore, keep a jar of seeds by the Gods so they can pick their offerings as they please.”

“I keep lavender by the computer because it helps me remember how to open Facebook. Lavender is good for memory. Tell your friends of the internet.”

“I keep the obsidian and the agathe geodes in front of the TV so there will be no bad news.”

So there you have it.

Advice from an authentic crone with over 70 years of Craft , Old Yeyé.

She wishes you all many blessings and love and hopes you are all well guided.

Happy new season from lucky Old Yeyé!

in case you want to mark your calendar.

astrological new year - the sun into aries marks off the equinox, and the start of a sort of new year, as it goes from the beginning of the zodiac back around for another trip.

lunar eclipse - and that new year kicks off with the start of another eclipse season shortly after! so this will be a major period of change and upheaval, broadly speaking focused on relationships vs the self (although of course it always depends on your personal natal astrology.) this one is a full moon eclipse in libra.

mercury retrograde in aries - this retrograde goes from the 27th degree of aries to the 15th and goes from april fool's day (seriously) until april 25th. be very careful around hotheaded people and in situations where accidents may occur. apply your mercury retrograde protocols (review, revise, introspect, etc) to aries themes as much as possible.

solar eclipse - in aries on april 8, whereas the lunar eclipse focused on relationships this one is focused more on the self. it is volatile energy, so it is not necessarily advised to set any intentions you're really attached to, but rather have a willingness to change and be changed.

But this way of believing says that a stream or a tree isn't just a Thing, you can't just use it however you want, it's a Life and you owe it respect. And if you want to cut down a tree, you have to think really hard about whether you really need to use that tree, because there's a Process, and you have to really think about and dwell on the fact that you're killing something that's alive and that gives life.

And the important thing is, if you see the trees and plants and rivers as sacred and living, dumping toxic radioactive waste in the water and clear cutting the forest is an unthinkable act of sacrilege. If you see that the mountains are sacred and have spirit, you can't rip them wide open to blast and dig out coal with dynamite and pickaxes.

This.

There‘s a post going around that halfway makes this crossing by saying that ppl in tech and other such ‘contemporary’ sciences need to learn about past belief systems in order to understand their perspectives and why they were wrong (aka superstitions, misunderstood biological perceptions) as a window into realizing that current scientific perspectives and assumptions can also be wrong.

But it’s HIGH FUCKING TIME people also and primarily learn about why precolonial indigenous ~superstitions~ were fucking right and highly intelligent systems of social and environmental management.

hi! Ezra here. first, i want to say that i appreciate the spirit of the question - beginning to learn about cultural appropriation can be (from personal experience!) pretty difficult & requires a willingness to be vulnerable & patient (with other people & with yourself). it’s really important! i say all this because my answer to your question is one that might be hard to hear, but i hope you’ll spend some time with it.

as a non-Jewish person (or goy - goyim is plural) who respects Jewish culture & sincerely wants to avoid appropriation, you’re going to want to avoid traditional ceremonial/high magic. i’m not aware of any forms of western “ceremonial” occultism that don’t draw directly from medieval sources rife with anti-semitic appropriation. 

if it’s a non-Jewish source that includes Hebrew, uses kabbalistic diagrams, references Jewish figures like Solomon as “magicians” who control demons, etc. - it’s appropriation, and it’s part of a long legacy of depicting Jews as powerful, corrupt sorcerers who selfishly hoard secret wisdom that would be better off in the hands of Christians (and yes, the people who wrote these books & used them were Christian - often members of the clergy themselves - who were then persecuted by other Christians. for a really in-depth history of this kind of magic, i recommend Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies, and for an excellent view of actual Jewish experience during this time, read Jewish Magic & Superstition by Joshua Trachtenberg)

Jewish sources on Jewish magic have a very different perspective on these things & while you’re welcome to read & learn about our traditions, putting them into practice is for Jews!

here’s the thing: part of the reason i started learning more about my own Jewish heritage & discovering the history of Jewish magic is because i was a once a young aspiring witchy-type who didn’t particularly understand cultural appropriation & was looking for spirituality in a lot of places i had no real connection to! i remember thinking (around age 12) that the only way i could get involved with magic was to worship neo-pagan Celtic-style deities, because that’s what was presented as “real witchcraft” in the Wiccan books i had access to. i also felt like i could just pick & choose from global traditions based on how cool they sounded, ignoring the actual histories of the people who originated those practices. once i got a little more educated, i went through a period of “well, what’s for ME?” & even though that started as a sort of pouty “why am i not allowed to touch everything” (which is a question that has some important answers!) it turned into “wait, if i actually dig, what’s my own history? what did MY ancestors do? what’s my story?” 

in my opinion, that kind of digging is really rewarding.

in the (very unlikely) event that you don’t find something you connect to in your own heritage - remember that you don’t actually need to follow a pre-laid path! i know folks whose magic & spirituality is entirely self-invented. that’s real too.

It’s apparently also going to be a Super Moon AND the biggest Full Moon of the year!!!

*Updated and revised for 2020*

Here it is, lovers! The 30 Days of Aphrodite challenge for the month of April! If you decide to participate here on tumblr please tag your posts with  “30 Days of Aphrodite” so that we can all enjoy each others contributions (you can also tag me in your post!) I will absolutely be following the tag and interacting with everyone and reblogging posts! Also, if you can please link back to this post when making your own posts so that others can participate if they so choose!

Oh and no pressure to do all 30 days. Do what you can and the days you want. I don’t want anyone beating themselves up over this! So seriously, its okay to only do what you can manage! I still want to hear from you!

And with that said, i hope you all enjoy your 30 Days of Aphrodite! <3

1) Talk about how you first began your relationship with Aphrodite

2) Plan a special ritual in honor of Aphrodite and your love for her

3) Share your own personal associations (concepts/symbols/animals/colors/etc)

4) Which of her myths is your favorite?

5) List your favorite epithets and why

6) Share your favorite hymn

7) Full Moon Time! Do the ritual you planned and share how it went!

8) Talk about a UPG you have

9) Songs that remind you of Aphrodite or share your playlist

10) What’s a poem that reminds you of Aphrodite or write your own

11) What are some daily things you do for/in honor of Aphrodite?

12) Talk about how you personally see Aphrodite or create/share an image

13) A person that you associate with Aphrodite (someone you know or celebrity)

14) A fictional character you associate with Aphrodite

15) Tell a story yours and Aphrodite’s relationship

16) What do you love most about Aphrodite?

17) Where do you most find/feel Aphrodite?

18)Share your favorite piece of artwork that depicts Aphrodite or that you personally relate to her

19) What are some resources that you used to help you get closer to Aphrodite?

20) Share some movies you associate with Aphrodite

21) What are some couples whose love reminds you of Aphrodite?

22) In honor of the New Moon, what’s something new you would like to bring into your worship/devotion?

23) Talk about one of Aphrodite’s lovers

24) Write a letter to Aphrodite

25) Come up with a new and modern epithet for her

26) What’s a misconception about Aphrodite that annoys you the most?

27) What’s one question you would really like to ask her?

28) If you’re comfortable with it, share a pic of your altar/shrine and talk about it. If you don’t have one or are not comfortable sharing a picture, talk about what you would like your altar/shrine to look like and/or what it represents to you

29) If you could build your own Temple of Aphrodite what would it look like and what would you include in it?