to walk with spirits is to never walk alone

One home ward for general protection, probably as a container spell or as an artificial spirit (perhaps using clove, red pepper, cinnamon, and soil or dust from the corners of the home/property), for the purpose of keeping out ill-fortune, ill-intent, and unwanted guests

One completely separate home ward, probably as a container spell (perhaps using dill, rosemary, and garlic), for the purpose of keeping out uninvited spirits, unwanted spirits, and malefica sent intentionally or unintentionally by other practitioners

One heavy-duty protective amulet, probably made of rusty nails or a piece of hematite or otherwise iron, for the purpose of behaving as a suit of heavy armor in case of spiritual alarm; to be carried about as you solve the problem; the effects of which may be encumbering and too imposing for everyday use

One more mild protective amulet (perhaps made of amethyst jewelry, or an acorn, or an oak twig cross), for the purpose of providing an immediate protection against ill spirits and energies; to be worn when a shield is desired, but a shielding energy-working technique is too draining or time-consuming; should be comfortable to wear as often as desired

Of all of these things, avoid repeating ingredients across charms, unless you are in special allyship with a certain spirit.

Those persons also suffering from nightmares or disturbed dreams may also benefit from:

One bedroom ward, probably a container spell or Witch's Ladder (perhaps containing star anise, amethyst, knotted cord, spiders or the forms of spiders, and rosemary), for the purpose of tangling up ill spirits and ill energies which inspire bad dreams.

I'm not entirely a part of any community, so I don't really have anyone else to ask, my apologies... But I would like to look more into protective wards/charms/etc in particular... and I do suffer from nightmares, night terrors, the like... Unfortunately, even medication doesn't get rid of it. It tampers it down but it never gets rid of the worst of it

I don't have repeating dreams but they can be incredibly distressing, stressful, and leave me very troubled. (if you'd like more information, feel free to message me)

I would like to have my try at wards for nightmares and the lot, but I've no idea what 'feeding' it would mean or comprise of and so any extra information would be very helpful.

Here is a longer post I wrote about how to do it.

This is another post about making a specially prepared oil to feed/charge magical objects.

By @/antoniosacrux on TikTok

Celebration of Falliphoria in Athens 🍇

Wish I could be there to witness this.

It's nice to see that despite the overwhelming majority of Greece being Orthodox Christian, there are people dedicated to keeping our ancient traditions alive

Genuine question - Where do you get your update concepts? Where do you keep getting these ideas about "what tumblr users want" with regard to the use and functionality of this website?

Because for true and for serious, whoever is giving you these ideas, they have no idea what they're talking about.

If you're using a focus group, get a new one. If you're using a consultant, fire them. If you're looking at other social media sites and using that as a template, STOP.

The entire charm of tumblr is that it is NOT like other websites. We like it the way it is. We've built a home and a culture and a community that's lasted for over 20 years now, which is more than most other text-based social media sites from the 2010s can say.

If you want ideas on how to improve the site, ASK ACTUAL TUMBLR USERS. They'll tell you things like :

improve the search function

improve the tag system

improve user support and problem reporting

improve account filters to weed out pornbots and spam accounts

do something about the repetitive dashboard ads so that blocking them actually works

use human-intelligence review to prevent hate-reporting against marginalized users and needless deletion of their accounts

do better with removing hate groups and hate content from the site

Or, if you want something else to do, fix the mobile app. Half the time, it doesn't work at all.

It's weird here. It's unconventional. It's nerdy and niche and hard to pin down. And that's kind of the point.

We love our big blue hellsite.

Don't fuck it up.

Sincerely,

It is! In fact! Not! To take those very varied cultural concepts and lump them together under energy or manifestation is to water them down and try to make them fit a homogenous narrative that goes directly against my ethics. We should take great care to learn about the actual cosmological systems of the faiths we choose to engage ourselves with, because they will always form a more complete picture than attempting to make them fit the energy work / manifestation narrative - especially given both of those things entered the European spiritual zeitgeist through third wave Western Esotericism appropriating concepts from eastern traditions.

wrong. Divine.