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My thoughts don’t make me a bad person

My feelings don’t make me a bad person

My thoughts, feelings, and impulses only exist inside my head, and none of it matters unless I act on it

Nobody can see my thoughts or emotions

The only things anyone can see and judge me on are my actions

There’s no such thing as a thought crime

Simple wand work using smoke 🌀

Perfect for spellwork, cleansing, and intention setting.

🔁 Clockwise – To Attract

Bring in love, luck, prosperity, energy.

🔄 Counterclockwise – To Banish

Release negativity, bad habits, toxic energy.

⭐ Draw a Pentagram – To Protect

Aim the incense at your target and trace a pentagram in the air.

🌀 Spiral Motion – To Cleanse

Circle gently over the target to lift away stagnant or harmful energy.

Essential oils are FLAMMABLE, keep away from fire, don't put it on candles!

Don't pour salt on plants or certain rocks. It kills plants and fucks up some rocks. DO NOT THROW SALT OUTSIDE.

🌙Aeromancy

A means of divination through the interpretation of atmospheric phenomena such as cloud formations, wind currents, rain, fog, lightning, thunder, cosmological events, and positions favorable or unfavorable to the planet.

🌙Cartomancy

A form of divination where you use cards to get the answer to your questions. There are different forms of cartomancy like playing cards, tarot, lenormand and oracle cards.

🌙Osteomancy

Or bone throwing. It's an ancient form of divination used by many cultures. This method consist of throwing the bones and then interpret the results and pattern.

🌙Pendulum

This method consist of observing the subtle movements of the pendulum to gain information about a question, object, or situation.

🌙Scrying

Scrying is divination by seeking a vision while gazing into a transparent, translucent, or reflective object and it's often done by crystal ball gazing, fire scrying, water scrying, mirror scrying, etc.

🌙Astrology

This type of divination interpret movements and relative positions of celestial bodies, and how they influence us. Astrology gives an understanding of situations in our lives, based on our individual astrological birth chart.

🌙Lithomancy

Also known as stone divination, is a form of divination that uses stones or crystals to gain insight into an individual’s future or to provide guidance on a specific issue.

🌙Necromancy

Necromancy is divination through communication with the dead. In this method the practitioner summons or communicate with spirits of the dead in order to gain wisdom.

🌙Ceromancy

The practice of reading the flames and wax of a candle. The candle is lit and the flame examined for clues to the mood and energy surrounding the situation and then the wax is allowed to drip into a bowl of cold water or sometimes onto a piece of paper. The practitioner examines the shapes formed by the melted wax and makes predictions based on his or her interpretation of the shapes.

🌙Tasseography

Is a method of divination where you read pattern and symbols from tea leaves or coffee grounds sediments.

🌙Arithmancy/Numerology

Arithmancy is known as divination using numbers, while numerology is divination through using dates and words turned to numbers. Numerology doesn't require any psychic abilities, instead the method use calculations involving name and birth date numbers.

🌙Palmistry

Palmistry is also referred to as palm reading and is divination through reading and interpreting the lines and structure of the hand. It is common to read the dominant hand as a characterization and also predicting the future.

🌙Bibliomancy

is the divination by randomly chosen passages in books, often religious books or Grimoires. This method consist of picking a random passage from a book to answer a question.

🌙Conchomancy

is a form of divination using sea shells. Placing a seashell on your ear and analyzing the sound counts as Conchomancy. You can also use seashells in Casting divination.

not every witch has access to metaphysical shops that sell specialty herbs, or herbs you can’t find in your local grocery store, so here is a list of common (and affordable) herbs and spices that you can easily access, or that you may already have! 

aside from obtaining these herbs and spices individually, look for bottles of poultry or beef seasoning, and other seasoning blends (cajun, italian, etc.) - they usually contain a variety of these herbs in one convenient container. 

pro-tip: visit your grocery store's international food aisle for super affordable herb options!

allspice - prosperity, luck, healing, energy

anise seed - protection, happiness, enhanced psychic ability, cleansing, warding off nightmares and disturbing dreams

basil -  love, banishing, wealth, success, sympathy, protection; dispelling confusion, fears, and weakness

bay leaf - wishes, protection, good fortune, success, cleansing, strength, healing, inducing prophetic dreams, enhanced psychic ability

black pepper - protection, banishing, cursing

chamomile - peace, relaxation, restful sleep, love, healing, luck, prosperity, removing curses or negating spells

chili powder - love, fidelity, cursing, removing curses or negating spells

cinnamon - success, healing, protection, power, love, luck, strength, prosperity

cloves - protection, love, prosperity, banishing, friendship, stopping gossip

cumin - love, fidelity, protection, banishing, preventing theft

dill - prosperity, protection, luck, lust

fennel - strength, vitality, sexual virility; prevents curses and wards off negative energy

garlic powder & garlic salt - healing, protection, banishing

ginger - sensuality, sexuality, personal confidence, prosperity, success, health, protection, new experiences and adventures

mace - concentration, focus, self-discipline, studying

marjoram - cleansing, dispelling negative energy, protection, love, wealth, revealing the truth through dreams, overcoming sadness and grief

mustard Seed - courage, endurance, preventing physical injury, luck, success

nutmeg - prosperity, luck, protection, intellect, removing curses

onion powder & onion salt - prosperity, stability, endurance, protection, breaking bad habits, cleansing

oregano - happiness, strength, energy, vitality 

paprika - energy

parsley - spirit work, the afterlife, protection, warding, death and rebirth

red pepper - energy, banishing, cursing

rosemary - healing, love, lust, improved memory, dispelling negative energy, cleansing, warding off nightmares

sage - cleansing, wisdom, healing, dispelling negative energy, wishes, overcoming grief and loss

sea salt - cleansing, banishing, protection

sesame seed - prosperity, lust, passion

tarragon - healing, compassion

thyme - loyalty, affection, strength, courage, banishing, cleansing, healing, luck, prosperity, restful sleep, warding off nightmares

turmeric - cleansing, purification

common spice brands include: 

mc-cormick

mrs. dash

lawry’s

old bay

Don't become so wrapped up in your spiritual journey that you begin criticizing yourself for being human. You are meant to make mistakes, to not understand everything, and feel things that come along with the human experience. You were given this experience to expand spiritually. Your humanity is not a hindrance to your spiritual growth, it contributes to it. Even the most human gritty parts of you contribute to your growth, stop criticizing yourself. You're doing your best and you are growing even if all you're doing is surviving at the moment.

You're doing enough, you are enough, your spiritual growth & expansion is enough. 🪷

I'm a firm believer in the idea that divination is an extremely flexible tool, and anybody can develop their own unique methods for practicing it. There are a few common elements to all divination types which make them reliable, and they feel pretty obvious but it's still good to make it explicit. As long as your new method has these, you should be good to go.

A way to receive a message/response. Simple enough. Whether it be pictures, the movements of birds, overheard bits of conversation, or the way different symbols fall on a mat, you need to receive something to interpret. Simply asking a question to the Universe with no established way to get an answer wouldn't really be divination. It can be as abstract or nebulous as you want, but you should know what it is.

An established method of interpretation before you start. Depending on your method of choice this could be really broad, but you should have a general idea of how you'd interpret different messages going in. Deciding how to interpret the message after the fact opens itself up to bias since you can just decide what the answer means. Granted, when you're developing new methods you're inevitably going to run into messages you didn't consider, but even if it's just "good symbols=good outcome, bad symbols=bad outcome," that gives you the ability to accept messages you might not want, and that's important. If it only tells you what you want to hear, that's not reliable.

An element of randomness/something out of your control. In my opinion, this is what makes something divination to begin with. You can't control which card you draw from a blindly-shuffled deck, which plant grows faster when you treat them the same, which number a die lands on. If you have complete control over the message, then it's not going to be effective or reliable because it's too easy to manipulate.

Some random examples to show what I'm talking about:

Once I used a simple method of divination when a food company catered the summer camp I worked at for a day. The food boxes each came either an M&M cookie, regular chocolate chip cookie, or oatmeal raisin cookie. It was random which one you got because you couldn't see inside the boxes. I decided that each of these cookies meant yes/good, neutral, and no/bad respectively, then would ask a question before I selected my box.

I also really enjoy using Rory's Story Cubes for divination. You cast them on a mat and use the abstract symbols as different hints toward the message, especially how they worked together in concert with eachother to develop more complex ideas.

A local bar I enjoy has a lot of graffiti in the bathroom stall. When I go there, I let my eyes fall wherever they lay and interpret the first piece of graffiti I see as my message for whatever question is on my mind. That said, I go to this bar a lot and am getting pretty familiar with what messages are where, so I may retire this method soon.

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Say a small prayer or do a short meditation before you get out of bed in the morning.

Write down dreams or visions you had.

Stir your first cup of coffee or tea counterclockwise to banish negativity and bad luck or clockwise to bring positive energy.

Draw daily tarot or oracle cards (you can also use a pendulum) for guidance.

Cleansing yourself and home using sound or smoke.

Ancestor or spirit offerings

Pick out your clothes, shoes, jewelry... ect with intention.

Write a sigil or petition paper and burn it.

Take a ritual shower. You can spice it up with candles, herbs, and crystals, or you can simply step under the water and imagine all the negativity and bad energy washing off you. You can also recite a chant.

Every time you look into the mirror, say an affirmation

Take a walk outside and ground yourself to Mother Earth.

Dance!! Dancing is an excellent way to rise the energy, and it helps with opening the sacral and solar plexus chakra and getting in touch with the inner child.

Take this as your reminder to first of all, spend time with your spirits, without expecting anything in return. Heavy on that last part. You don't make and maintain a genuine connection with someone just by showing up to their doorstep every time you need something from them. Treat them as people because they are. Your people. You should care for them as much as they care for you.

Be it ancestors (specifically direct blood lineage or adoptive family, any deceased human relative) or ancestral spirits (in general, that is, all ancestral allies and hereditary connections not just your ancestors). Just make time to hang out. Walk up to their space, a cup of your favorite drink in hand, give them their preferred drink and just chat. Don't ask anything in return. If you have an altar for them, do that. But it can be just going to visit their graves and giving libations and flowers, and telling them how your life's going, sharing memories together, remembrance, or just to listen. It can also be going to the beach or a river, and same thing, pour a drink and talk to them, and listen back. It can be your plant allies, while you're watering them, or putting eggshells or honey or sugar water or other good nutrients and fertilizers on their soil. It can be visiting your ancestors in dreams, and spending time with them there. There's so many ways to do this.

The second level to this is letting them sit in your body too. Listen. Become familiar with how they make you feel. With the signs of their arrival and presence. With the signs they communicate with and what they mean to you. With how they let you know they have a message, or that they're in for a visit. And let them in. Dance to your grandma's favorite beats. Sing your grandpa's favorite songs. Make a family recipe and share a meal with them, enjoy it for them and with them.

Ancestral reverence isn't just the big rituals and they're not the most important aspect of it, it is the everyday coexistence, in your little but constant everyday ways.

Do as you do but also as they did. You're an extension of them and they're an extension of you. They not only walk with you, you carry them within you.