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Embroidering skulls, daggers and poisonous plants and fungi on everything

Collecting good stones in your garden and mossy bark in your bedroom

A lone candle burning softly at night

Carrying a basket around with you on daily adventures for finds and spare warm layers

Braiding velvet ribbons into your hair

Sitting out in your garden under the moon and talking about your dreams with friends

Earth magic, kitchen magic, folk magic

Softly petting cats in new neighborhoods

Walk around barefoot like a child and really ground yourself

Make yourself a dark apron with pearlescent buttons and big pockets

Befriend your local ghosts

Dark wood furniture with carved accents of lions heads and roses

Hand washing your clothes with essential oils

Take a ceramics class and make yourself a three legged cauldron

Soft jumpers/sweatshirts with long sleeves

Start the day by chopping up fresh vegetables for a slow cook stew

Get involved with your local community; plant a small bee garden, research plants that are good for cleaning water and go put a few near your local stream, give some of your homegrown herbs and veggies to others

I give it MASCLES

And I wanna stress that when i say “top of the leg” i’m not talking about the crotch (please don’t flag me tumblr it’s an anatomical term) i’m talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:

It’s easier to see what I’m talking about in this photo of a man squatting: 

So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:

But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!

This is a question I see posed a lot…and I mean a LOT…in witchcraft-related tags.

“Something fell over on my altar. What does it MEAN?”

“This candle burned faster than that one. What does it MEAN?”

“My horoscope just changed drastically from last week. What does it MEAN?”

“I can’t find my crystal keychain. What does it MEAN?”

“My cat stares at nothing in the middle of the night. What does it MEAN?”

First of all, y’all need to take a breath. Most of the time, what it means is Shit Happens.

The table got bumped or a vibration from someone walking by toppled the item. Shit Happens.

This candle might have a heftier wick or different wax composition than that one. Shit Happens.

Horoscopes change all the time. Shit Happens.

You probably misplaced your keychain. Shit Happens.

Cats stare at nothing all the time. It’s what cats do.

Shit. Happens.

As tempting as it is to assign a deeper spiritual or mystical meaning to everything that happens in life, something shit just….happens. And even as we believe in magic and the power of nature and send spells out into the greater universe hoping to effect change, we need to be ready to look for mundane causes before magical ones, rational explanations before supernatural ones, and be prepared to consult the Google oracle to satisfy our curiosity.

Does this mean that there is NEVER a magical mystical meaning to odd things that happen in our lives? Of course not. But becoming a witch shouldn’t mean that you completely forget common sense or lose touch with reality. If you wouldn’t have assigned a mystical meaning to something in the past, you don’t have to start doing it now just because you’re wearing a new hat.

I’m not saying you need to abandon your sense of wonder or stop looking for signs. I’m not saying that inquisitive cats or quick-burning candles or lost items aren’t potential indicators of Something. But I AM saying that critical thinking is a witch’s best friend, and you should prepared to endure a little disappointment (”Darn it, totally mundane explanation for that”) in order to maintain perspective.

If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest, wild mice will come and run on it.

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters