Frog's Hole

Misadventures in time magic while crafting planetary seals! My life is ridiculous.

It was around 2017, the time I started getting really sick, that this idea began stewing in my brain. This idea that I was running out of time or didn’t have enough time. Or worse yet, that I had to hunker down, and pick just one art project (and only one) to focus on in order to be “successful”. This whole year has been me versus this mind virus versus chronic illness. Ironic for someone who works with time magic. Long story short? I’ve succeeded in getting nothing done by believing my time was limited. And only sunk myself deeper into depression.

Time isn’t linear despite our standard perceptions of it. Time is an infinite pool. A minute can stretch on like days sometimes. A half an hour can go by in the blink of an eye. And after some really powerful epiphanies this month, I decided that it was time to banish this toxic idea. I want to greet 2019 prepared for a new way of going about things. Inspired by a post wandering around on Tumblr, I started today’s magical activities off with some time magic; A time servitor based on the image of a hummingbird, to be exact.

[For those of you who are new to the term “servitor”, a servitor is a created spirit made out of your intent, to carry out a command that you give it. They’re like little butlers only way cooler.]

I read on that wandering post that the Mayans believed hummingbirds had the power to stop, slow down, and speed up the flow of time. That if you ever needed extra time to do anything, ask a hummingbird for help. Since I am laboring under the idea that I don’t have enough time, I fashioned myself a hummingbird servitor made out of the intentional statement: “I will always have enough time”. I lit a candle and burned some sweet floral incense to give the servitor (because hummingbirds like flowers) energy and asked it to help me get everything done that I needed to today. Because today I had plans to kick myself back into gear!

Keep this in mind as I ramble on.

Mercury entered Saggitarius at 4:25 p.m. And today (well yesterday) was Wednesday, Mercury’s sacred day. I decided on making a Third Pentacle of Mercury talisman to help inspire me to write and break my writer’s block and inner critic. Traditionally, you want to craft a planetary seal during it’s corresponding hour on it’s corresponding day. Well, because of unforeseen circumstances, I was running late. And stressing about “not enough time”. I messed up my first attempt at drawing the seal on some birch paper and almost gave up on the endeavor when my room mate reminds me that my time table was forty minutes early instead of forty minutes late.

And somehow, I went from not having enough time to create the Third Pentacle of Mercury to having forty minutes to relax, eat something, and prepare myself!

That hummingbird servitor took me running late and somehow created an extra forty minutes out of thin air for me! I was able to leisurely create the Pentacle and now it’s sitting near a statue of Thoth (Egyptian Mercury) to charge for a week until next Wednesday. I’ll be sharing that Hummingbird servitor and it’s sigil soon for you all to use, people who are reading this.

[For those of you who don’t know what a sigil is, a sigil is a magic symbol imbued with intent and power. It’s like a whole spell inside a doodle]

I also spent some time making rice, honey, and macha green tea offerings to two Inari fox spirits that I have befriended since August. Again, I thought I wouldn’t have time inbetween chores, cooking dinner, and other things to serve them on their appropriate hour (the planetary hour of Venus since they’re linked to Inari, god of rice, and fertility) but I had plenty of time to spare!

Hell, I even had so much time that I got in a few readings and started researching for my full moon post because-

Yup. I’m going back to writing about astrology again!! That and a lot more.

Can’t seem to escape the way your feeling? Anxious and can’t calm down? Unreasonable irritated with friends/lovers/fam? Scared and trying to work up the courage to do something you need to do or want to do / ask for? Procrastinating on doing the stuff you know you’d be happier if you could get done? Having trouble standing up for yourself?

Often times our day to day life/emotional health can be effected/soured just by a few random negative interactions, a collection of misunderstanding or just having a shitty brain chemistry day.

Well here is a simple portal spell I like to use when I’m struggling to escape my own reality and need to find a different version of myself.

This spell allows you to step across versions of your own realities and into a version of yourself that ALREADY EXISTS that  just has a different perspective of your current situation/ just didn’t take the turns in your day that put you on the path your currently on/ has readied the skills you need

:approach a simple man-made or natural portal: (doorway, fae arch)

:identify the feeling in yourself you want to be different / isn’t serving you: (example: I get bouts of unreasonable anxiety and fear that can suddenly make it hard for me to handle basic social interactions like asking for something I need, or making me terrified I didn’t lock my front door so something bad will happen to my cat which then makes it hard to leave my house)

:focus on a version of yourself that can better handle your situation / is the person you need / that can help you: (cool superhero you, badass swagger you, confident siren you, boss bitch you etc)

[:bonus boost if you are listening to music and can tune it to match your alternative self thematically:]

:walk through the portal and step into that person / pass into the reality where you became that person:

:keep walking, don’t look back:

:and BOOM you’ve shifted between your own realities:

wintry visions

(Part II is now up here.)

Tinctures are a great way to preserve some of the benefits of plants you may have in a stable way that holds a lot of the medicinal benefits without much risk of spoilage. It’s especially good for more herb-y or medicinal stuff that you wouldn’t necessarily want to make a syrup or jam of. 

There rest of this will be below a cut, because it’s long and has lots of pictures. Let’s go!

Charlie

Charlie