Spirit Work + Witchcraft

divination (esp tarot)

energy work

astral work

spirit work 

sigil work

hellenism 

persephone or eos

witch content related to transness or queerness

spoonie witch tips and tricks

and i especially want to follow witches who:

are trans or queer

are hellenists or incorporate hellenism into their craft

are not trans- or male- exclusionist

understand cultural appropriation and argue against its use in craft

aren’t going to devalue or explain away a person’s upg

my dash is dead and i’d like to follow some active witchblrs 

reblog/like if you post any of the following: 

-tarot/tarot spreads

-sigils/sigil magic

-spells

-green magic

-kitchen magic

-witch tips

-emoji spells

-witchy aesthetics 

-stuff about crystals

Thing to know:

Theories on how magick works Theurgy and Thaumaturgy 

Magic Vs. Magick 

Types Of Witches

List Of Magick Tools 

Magickal Tools   

List Of Different Theistic Doctrines

List Of Acronyms For Magickal Concepts 

Derogatory terms that I have ran into in the magickal community

The Crazy Stage 

Things to remember 

Belief 

Understanding substituting, and reworking in spells, and rituals. 

Reasons that a magick spell, or ritual would fail 

Spiritual Verification? UPG To Lore!

How to undo a spell

Things you can use instead of candles in witchcraft, and other forms of magick.

Simple methods in order to help you opening your third eye 

Energetic Blockages 

Energetic Burnout

Energetic Overflow 

Basic:

How to get started on your magickal journey!

Chi Energy 

Visualization 

Exercise ideas for strengthening your visualization skills 

Centering

Centering 2

Grounding

Grounding 2

Power Hand

Power Hand, and Receptive hand   

Affirmations

Magickal Names 

Magickal Names 2

Altered States Of Consciousness

Book of Shadows (BOS) 

Pentagram, Pentacle, And Goat Of Mendes 

Invoking, And Banishing The Pentagram 

Casting And Undoing A Circle 

Bubble Of White Light Protection

Warding In Witchcraft

Ways to cleanse a room

Shielding

Raising the cone of power

Liminality    

Taglocks, And Magickal Links 

Tarot Reading For Beginners 

Connecting To The Elements

Spiritual Senses: The Clairs

Make:

Making A Magickal Wand, Or Staff 

How exactly do you use a sigil?

Creating your own tarot spreads, and oracle cards spreads 

Learning to write your own spells, and/or rituals 

Curse:

Symptoms Of Being Cursed, and Diagnostics methods 

The 3 steps to get rid of a curse.

Meditation:

Meditation 

Focal Meditation 

Void Meditation 

Problems, And Solutions For People Who Can’t Meditate 

Universal Maps:

Planes Of Existence   

The subtle bodies of the soul 

The 10 Dimensions 

Guides:

Types of Personal Spirit Guides 

How To Find Your Spirit Guides, And Guardian Angels

Spirit Guides

The Higher Self 

Laws:

The Laws Of Magick 

The Seven Hermetic Principles of the Kybalion

This is a worksheet to write down as many aspects of someone’s energy signature as possible. This is good practice for honing your more detailed energy senses, or even for beginners to attempt to sense more detail. As you practice, always try to grind for the most detail; details are where the consistencies begin to happen.

When sensing, do NOT try to interpret! Interpretation comes at the Conclusion Section, AFTER you have finished your sensing. Interpretation during sensing will cause bias, thus causing you to not see what is “actually there”. Energy Signatures are often highly concrete/consistent to an extent as long as you do not try to interpret while sensing them.

Textures:

Outer Layer(s):

Inner Layer(s):

Colors:

Outer Layer(s):

Inner Layer(s):

Scents:

Environmental

Recipient: 

Sounds:

Environmental

Recipient

Soundwaves:

Taste:

Elements:

Elemental Strengths/Affiliations:

Elemental Weaknesses:

Environmental Elements:

Thickness: 

Intensity: 

Concentration: 

Concentration Range: 

Flexibility: 

Malleability: 

Adaptability: 

Range of Adaptability:

Adaptability Resistance: 

Sentience Level:*

Controllability: 

Damage Potential:

Personality Impressions (not as constant as the other factors; this varies more based on interpretation/the sensor’s personality):

Miscellaneous Feelings/Impressions:

Conclusions:

Item Associations (this will vary more widely based on the sensor’s beliefs; more of a “just for fun/reference” conclusion rather than something solid):

Plants:

Rocks:

Spirit Fragments:

Definitely Not: Your energy feels nothing like these entities.

Probably Not: Your energy feels very dissimilar, though it’s not a complete impossibility.

Example: Lowborn Demons. Your energy carries the density of general underground demonic energy. However, it is far too dense/heavy to be considered Lowborn. Additionally, your energy is very intense while Lowborn energy tends to feel quite light in weight (and often color too) in comparison.

Possibly: Your energy feels similar enough for it to be a possibility.

Example: Deep Hellborn Demon. Your energy carries the heavy, dense, and void-like qualities of Deep Hellborn Demons, more so than those from the Upper Levels or the Aboveground portions of Hell.

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Notes: (Not part of the actual worksheet).

For Layers, can add more as needed. 

Taste- Could be considered creepy, you may want to ask the recipient if it’s okay to taste their energy first.

Spirit Fragments readings are where energy is compared for similarities/differences to entities the sensor is with. People tend to get along better with entities that have more similar energy to them, and similar energy can be a sign of past life/current life magical influence.

Spirit Fragments- I usually don’t explain for Definitely Not, as it tends to be obvious and the reasoning is really just “feels nothing like this”. Probably Not and Possibly are where you want to do more of your explaining, based on their energy signature.

*Some types of energy are sentient in themselves, such as eldritch energy. This forms a consciousness separate from the person’s own. 

My other resources on Energy Work are: 

Jelly’s Energy System Notes: Introduction

Types of Energy Reading

How to Read an Energy System

Healing: Energy Systems

Types of Energetic Blockages/Anomalies (and how to deal)

Healing: Communicating With Points

Detecting and Dealing With Energy Parasites

Dangers of a Direct Binding (aka Body Binding, Soul Binding)

First, a lengthy explanation as to why you would want to do this. Then, how to do it. Scroll all the way to the bottom if you want to get to the part that actually has the information.

Note: for the duration of this post, gods are being considered part of the larger category of spirits.

Spirits can generally understand you better than you can understand them. It’s a kind of an annoying one-way street, though practicing will help balance things out.

SO. Spirits can communicate in various ways

signs and omens. images and symbols associated with them showing up repeatedly

Dreams. I personally don’t place much stock in these

Divination.

Directly, (more or less) through things like telepathy. You can hear/see/feel them in your MIND. You can you can get general feelings from them, like emotions

And more! But I’m focusing on the last one here.

I don’t recommend trying to work with spirits until you have gotten your spirit-sensing skills to a certain point. Not because it’s dangerous, which it can be, but mainly because you wouldn’t even know what’s going on!

This is not me gatekeeping or nothin, I’m literally just being realistic. And speaking from experience.

When I was first starting out spirit work, (note that I am still no expert, if such a thing exists), I tried summoning spirits and just kind of had to guess at what they were saying. It’s like stumbling around in the dark.

Honestly, you get things done so much more easily and so much more quickly when you can directly communicate with spirits. 10/10 highly recommend

You can use divination as a means of communication, which is good when you’re just starting out, but it’s not necessarily the best idea to rely on only that forever.

In a way, jumping into spirit work without sensing-skills is like… going to France and trying to talk to the locals when you do not speak a lick of French.

With this weird analogy, divinatory tools could be compared to a translator:

It’s not always accurate.

It can be hard to interpret.

It’s better to not need to use it at all, but it’s useful for those who are still learning

The translator is best used in tandem with your knowledge of the language, until you get to a point where you no longer need it.

So how do you learn French??

Honing this skill is similar to meditation. You basically just… clear your mind and open yourself up to receiving messages.

And then repeat. A lot. With plants, with bones, with places. Try sensing the energy within everything.

It’s not terribly difficult, but it is slow going.

The exact way in which you sense energy and spirits varies. Like I said before, it can be hearing/ seeing/ feeling/ a combination/ something else entirely.

And, I mean, there are people who go their entire lives relying on the translator. It is an option, but it’s not necessarily the best option, ya dig

More information:

http://da-at-ass.tumblr.com/post/158566768538/ways-that-people-see-and-hear-spirits-and-how-it

https://umbra-et-lux-spirits.tumblr.com/post/164126074261/a-starting-path-to-spirit-work-but-abbreviated

Growing herbs in water makes it easier to control your plants growth conditions, it takes up less space, and produces bigger and healthier plants.  Easiest/most common herbs to grow in water from cuttings (propagate) are lemon-balm, mints, basil, sage, thyme, and oregano. Rosemary also works, but will take longer to sprout roots. Herbs like ginger, turmeric, and garlic might not do very well. 

To start, you’ll need:

- A jar/ container

- Tap or bottled water (avoid distilled water)

- Liquid plant food

- Rooting hormone 

- Herb stems 

Cutting Stems:

Choose a stem that is a good 4-6" tall, and looks healthy and strong, and cut it below a leaf joint. You can also buy cut herb stems in the produce section of your grocery store. A good example:

Next, strip the bottom leaves so that about ½-¾ of the stem is bare.

Then use scissors to make a slanted cut right below the lowest leaf joint. The area that the leaves grow out of, leaf joints or nodes, have a lot of meristem cells, which form a callus over the cut and sprouts roots. And cutting at a slanted angle increases the surface area for both water and nutrient uptake.