The Everyday Magic of an Ever Improving Witch

1. What can I do right now to stop my cycle of negative thinking?

2. What excuses am I rationalizing that are keeping me from living my ideal life?

3. What expectations do I hold for my self that aren’t rooted in reality?

4. How are my thoughts and actions misaligned?

TO BIND- wrap in black thread, drip wax over, or seal in a jar and hide it in the dark.

TO BANISH- burn an effect to ash and sweep off the back door step, cast it out a window, or bury in the ground and spit on it

TO ENCOURAGE-  plant it by the front door/steps, bury by a window, or place it on a windowsill

TO HIDE- place in a jar painted black, cover with cloth and bury, or wrap with a ribbon

TO CLEANSE- bury it in a bowl of  salt, burn herbs and pass through the smoke, or lay it in a moonwater bath

TO GLAMOUR- leave under the full moon, hold its reflection over a mirror with herbs, or 

TO WISH- place before a candle and blow it out, drown a coin in water, or let seeds blow into the wind

TO COMMUNICATE- (with a spirit or deity) - anoint a candle, leave out offerings, or open the front doors and windows

TO WARD- leave part of the spell in four corners, draw lines around the protected area, or plant an object of projection in the north, east, south, and west edges

TO CURSE- spit on it, drag your nails down it, or stick sharp things in it

TO DISCOURAGE - plant or bury by the back door, or burn to ash

TO JINX- say it three times out loud, or say a word the same time as someone else

TO MANIPULATE - use wax, use poppets, or tie several strings to pieces of an effect

Compilation of the two card spreads I have posted so far!

core / context

do / don’t

worst case scenario / best case scenario

short term / long term

want / need

change / remain

Link to my 2016 stolen version

Also:

Which can ALL still be found on my blog with time stamps and comments. There are also messages from witches and collaborative efforts all still up from years ago.

I’ve been working on the list since 2015 with the collaboration of fellow witches and followers.

- don’t drink water in the dark

- don’t look out windows at night

- if you feel it watching don’t look for it just hurry on your way, but to be safe if you feel running for some reason would insult This One then don’t

- take only dead wood from forests, fallen berries and flowers are safe too, the living things are Not For You

- NEVER stomp on the mushrooms

- stay on the animal paths

- leave an offering in the woods to be left in peace during your walks

- the hills and fields may seem open and empty but They Never Are

- listening to the wind is fine but you should never reply to it, if you feel it shift it’s time to go

- if your dog won’t go near it neither should you

- if It’s in your room then shut your eyes or otherwise don’t acknowledge It, It will eventually lose interest

- ghosts can and will lie to you

- don’t give anything your full name

- if you feel weak, don’t rest - leave

- your shadow doesn’t always belong to you

- check your seats before entering your vehicle, do not look back for ANYTHING after

- better yet keep things in your seats

Some stuff I’ve learned/picked up over the years:

• Ask before entering a graveyard

• If you feel like something attached to you, it did

• The trees know what’s in the woods. Learn to listen to them

• Don’t follow lights or singing in the woods

• Try to know what you’re talking to so you respond correctly. Apologizing to the spirit of someone deceased might be recommended, but doing so to the Fair Folk isn’t

• If you’re able to see it (either literally, since some people have the Sight, or in your mind) check for things that look odd (backward feet, hollow backs, etc)

I hope you are ready to read me raving for a while. I’m very excited about writing this post, because I am in love. So I’ll go straight to today’s topic: the absolutely beautiful and magical Aurora Tarot created by June Shibusawa. While this isn’t exactly a tarot deck as it doesn’t have 78 cards, and it is more an oracle deck, this breathtaking 42 card deck could honestly be called whatever and I would still love it. And don’t worry about the Japanese-only site, I will get to that later!

It is inspired by the beauty of the Arctic, its cultures and its nature. June wants this deck to transport people to a different world, so that hopefully that gives them a new perspective about the issues they are dealing with. The 90+ page booklet helps this come to life. It includes an introduction, how to shuffle, layouts (the most important one being the hexagram) and card information. The latter includes the name of the card, a general meaning, and several meanings by position for the hexagram layout (so at least seven). The booklet is in Japanese though, but the website features beautifully written card meanings too, which are easy to translate online. Actually I love these, as I find they are more free to interpretation. They are also lengthier and contain cultural or scientific information of the main element of the card when needed.

It has been illustrated by Eri Yoneda. The awe-inspiring mix of brights and pastels, lights and darks, and the art style in general feel magical and otherworldly, and simply looking at them is a delight. There is not a single card I don’t like. After meditating with the first one, both the illustrations and what June has written spark a feeling of wanting to know the deck immediately and entirely. Like falling in love! If you have already checked the meanings page out, you will have also seen the images, so I think you’ll get what I mean! The illustrations are framed by a very thin white border, and then by a wider black border. They have a number on top and their name on the bottom.

I see a lot of witches drying rose petals for floral arrangements or even making rose water from them. Please keep in mind that roses grown for florists are over treated with pesticides and fertilizers. Anything made from these petals isn’t safe to ingest. 

If you’re doing work that requires making a rose preparation for ingestion or topical application that will be absorbed into the skin, you’ll want to get rose petals from a shop that sells for these purposes. 

Wishcraft Goods on Etsy

Okay, so, Labradorite.  Labradorite is complicated and sciencey, as all good rocks are.  I’ll see if I can explain it in a way that makes any sense!  (Once again, I’m not a scientist!  Correct me if I’m wrong!)

Most minerals, when they’re bright and pretty and colorful, look like that because while they were forming some impurities got mixed into them - usually metals like iron, copper, or titanium.  Without any impurities, these rocks would naturally be colorless.  We call these guys allochromatic (other-colored).

Other gemstones are certain colors because those elements are an important part of how they formed.  They’re not impurities that got mixed in, they’re actually part of the gemstone.  Their natural color IS the color you’re seeing.  We call them idiochromatic (inherently colored).

But labradorite doesn’t get its color from either of those things.  Labradorite is special.  It’s part of a third group: psudochromatic (false colored).  These rocks aren’t colorful at all, but they LOOK that way when light passes through them.

See, labradorite is actually just… grey.  From most angles, it looks like this:

You have to look at labradorite from a pretty specific angle to get those flashy colors, so when we cut it into cabochons for jewelry, or just polish up big pieces of it, we’re careful to do so at the most flattering angle, the angle that shows the most schiller, or “those cool glowy colors.”

Why just the one angle?  It’s all about labradorite’s crystal structure, and how it’s formed.

Labradorite is a rock that cooled down really slowly.  Because of that, it’s made of lots of very very thin layers of crystal, stacked on top of each other and all pretty much aligned in the same direction.  These are alternating layers of albite (mostly sodium), and orthoclase (mostly potassium), which solidify at very slightly different temperatures.  Labradorite is a rock that cooled in just the right way for a thin layer of albite to form, then a thin layer of orthoclase, then another thin layer of albite, and so on.

When light hits labradorite at the perfect angle to pass through a bunch of these layers, you get the schiller effect.  Basically, a little bit of the light gets bounced off the first layer and back to your eyes.  The rest of the light passes through to the second layer, and a little bit gets bounced back to your eyes again, and so on.  Every time more light gets sent back to you, it’s a little out of sync, and this makes it look like a different color.

(This is a very simplified way of explaining this.)

If these layers were all perfectly the same size, you’d get a uniform color, like the blue in moonstone.  But in labradorite, these layers might be different widths in different places, so different parts of the stone will reflect back wildly different colors!  We call this effect labradorescence to differentiate it from the uniform colored adularescence found in moonstone and some opals.

Depending on where it’s found in the world, labradorite can reflect all sorts of different colors!

One of my top favorite blogs JUST GOT DELETED!!!

If you followed @thewitchofthenorse you will need to now follow her back up blog @thewitchofthenorseispissed

BUT I HAVE A HUGE FAVOR TO ASK; 

I also don’t know if this is possible but I think so? If you could look back at anything and everything you’ve re blogged from her old account to send her a link or screen shot? Figured that’d be helpful for her right now in case there are some things she lost.

Don’t accept witchcraft books for history. Read history texts. 

Don’t accept witchcraft books for mental processes. Read psychology and biological texts. 

Don’t accept witchcraft books for mythology. Don’t accept witchcraft books for religion. Read original texts and papers written researchers credited in their fields. 

Full Moon Dates.

🌕 Full moon : Jan 21

🌕 Full moon : Feb 19

🌕 Full moon : Mar 20

🌕 Full moon : Apr 19

🌕 Full moon : May 18

🌕 Full moon : Jun 17

🌕 Full moon : Jul 16

🌕 Full moon : Aug 15

🌕 Full moon : Sep 14

🌕 Full moon : Oct 13

🌕 Full moon : Nov 12

🌕 Full moon : Dec 12

Sabbat Festivals.

🕯 Imbolc - Candlemas : Feb 1

🌸 Ostara - Vernal Equinox : Mar 20

🔥 Beltane - Mid Spring : May 1

☀️ Litha - Summer Solstice : Jun 24

🌾 Lammas - Harvest Festival : Aug 1

🍁 Mabon - Autumnal Equinox : Sep 21

🎃 Samhain - All Hallows’ Eve : Oct 31

❄️ Yule - Winter Solstice : Dec 21

Celestial Signs.

♑️ Capricorn : Dec 22 - Jan 19

♒️ Aquarius : Jan 20 - Feb 18

♓️ Pisces : Feb 19 - Mar 20

♈️ Aries : Mar 21 - Apr 19

♉️ Taurus : Apr 20 - May 20

♊️ Gemini : May 21 - Jun 20

♋️ Cancer : Jun 21 - Jul 22

♌️ Leo : Jul 23 - Aug 22

♍️ Virgo : Aug 23 - Sep 22

♎️ Libra : Sep 23 - Oct 22

♏️ Scorpio : Oct 23 - Nov 21

I don’t really know what people generally call this method of sigil making, so I’m just calling it “Letter Shaping” because you’re using the basic shapes from certain letters. This is the most common form of sigil making, and it allows the most creative influence. As you see above the sigils are for nearly the same thing, yet the sigils came out completely different. Not because the purpose was different, but because I approached them both a different creative way, and that’s what I like so much about this method. There’s a lot of freedom and personalization involved.

You got 12 days to get your shit together and put it in a bag because Uranus enters Taurus on May 15th.

This hasn’t happened since the 1940’s and it completely revolutionized consensus.

Uranus=The lightning bolt of inspiration, the revolutionary, and anarchist

Enters and upturns

Taurus=Material reality and the physical plane.

We have a once in a life-time opportunity to strike at the separation between material and spiritual if we all do this synchronized together!

We gotta come up with a ritual that is simple to do. I propose using a knife like a lightning rod, calling upon that Uranus energy, and directing the strike to puncture whatever reality you wanna let into this world. Like using a needle and piercing fabric, pulling a thread through, and binding the second material to the first. Even more perfect that it’s happening on a new moon which is perfect for planting new seeds.

Ocean Sculptures, by Elemental Urchin on Etsy

TO BIND- wrap in black thread, drip wax over, or seal in a jar and hide it in the dark.

TO BANISH- burn an effect to ash and sweep off the back door step, cast it out a window, or bury in the ground and spit on it

TO ENCOURAGE-  plant it by the front door/steps, bury by a window, or place it on a windowsill

TO HIDE- place in a jar painted black, cover with cloth and bury, or wrap with a ribbon

TO CLEANSE- bury it in a bowl of  salt, burn herbs and pass through the smoke, or lay it in a moonwater bath

TO GLAMOUR- leave under the full moon, hold its reflection over a mirror with herbs, or 

TO WISH- place before a candle and blow it out, drown a coin in water, or let seeds blow into the wind

TO COMMUNICATE- (with a spirit or deity) - anoint a candle, leave out offerings, or open the front doors and windows

TO WARD- leave part of the spell in four corners, draw lines around the protected area, or plant an object of projection in the north, east, south, and west edges

TO CURSE- spit on it, drag your nails down it, or stick sharp things in it

TO DISCOURAGE - plant or bury by the back door, or burn to ash

TO JINX- say it three times out loud, or say a word the same time as someone else

TO MANIPULATE - use wax, use poppets, or tie several strings to pieces of an effect