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Dinan Hadyan

This is gonna be a long ass post. My apologies. Anyone is more than welcome to add to this list.

Blogs I recommend: X

 Beginner Witchcraft

Old Motherredcap’s Reading List

Advice for beginner witches

Things to consider

Defining “witchcraft”

Magic and witchcraft

Research for Newbie Witches

Websites for Herbal Properties and Useage

Different Types of Witchcraft

Secular Witchcraft

Cultural Appropriation

The G word

Spells and charms for Beginners

Dispelling Spells

Lavender’s Wishing Spell

Burning Bridges Spell

Chocolate Money Spell

Spell to Ease Jealousy

Emotional Cleansing Spell

Rainbow Protection Bottle

Wreaths for Protection and Happiness

Energy Bath

Motivation Chant

Pick me up Cleansing Jar

Protection Jar

Rosemary and Lavender Smokeless Cleansing

List of Cleansing Spells

Meditation

50 Meditation Tips

An Earth Meditation

Benefits of Meditation

Breathe & Relax

Grounding, Centering, & Shielding

Grounding - Grounding Techniques - Ungrounded Symptoms

Grounding & Centering

Centering

Shielding: (1) (2)

Budgeted Witchcraft:

Tips & Tricks for Frugal Witches

Moonstone Beginning’s Frugal Pagan Resource

A Witch in a Pinch (Blog)

Budget Witch (Blog)

Witchcraft on a Budget

Being a Witch on a Budget

Budget Witchcraft (Site)

Accumulating Witch Stuff on a Budget

Ways to Practice Witchcraft with Little or No Money

Chaos Magic:

Chaos Magic in a Nutshell

What is Chaos Magick? 

Chaos Magic- The Misunderstood Path

Chaos Magick (a multitude of articles pertaining to chaos magic)

Introduction to Chaos Magic

Chaos Magic Theory

Chaoism & Chaos Magic: A Personal View

Oven-Ready Chaos; Phil Hine

Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic- Peter J. Carroll

Sigil Crafting:

A Beginner’s Guide to Sigil Craft

Ways to Use Sigils 

Sigils Reboot: How To Get Big Magic From Little Squiggles

An Essay On Sigil Crafting 

Practical Sigil Magic- Frater U. D.

Sigilmaking with Lee 

Sigil Magic: Making a Magical Sigil

Sigils… 

Sigil Daily: Creation & Activation

Magic/Sigil Circles 

Chaos Magic: Basic Sigil Magic

Sigils 

A Brief Overview of Sigil Magick

Sigils and Seals 101 

Sigils

Sigil Crafting Method 

Creating a Sigil

Sigil Masterpost (gif warning!)

Sigils in Theory and Practice

How Do You Make Sigils? 

On the Preparation and Usage of Sigils

Sigil Magic

Sigil 101 

Practical Sigil Magick

The Sigil Bowl 

Sigil Basics

What Are Sigils? 

Making Outdoor Sigils

Online Sigil Generator

Sigilisation

Sigil Magic

Sigil Making Process, by Rook 

Sigil Making Process, by Richtor 

Sigil Charging:

My Super-Physically-Mentally Intense Method of Charging Sigils…

How to Charge Sigils 

Firing Off Sigils

A Personal Method of Charging Sigils 

How to Charge a Sigil Playing Video Games

Charging Your Sigils- A Brief Explanation 

Charging and Firing Sigils 

How to Use Sigils 

The Fae Resources

Books

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries – W.Y. Evans-Wentz

The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies – Robert Kirk

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry – Yeats

Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore – Yeats

The Fairies in Tradition and Literature – Katherine Briggs

An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures – Katherine Briggs

The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends – Katherine Briggs

The Sidhe: Wisdom from the Celtic Otherworld – John Matthews

Through the Faerie Glass-Kenny Klein

Websites

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Sacred Texts)

The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (Sacred Texts)

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland – Lady Wilde

Puck – That shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow

The Fairy Family: A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe

The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries

“The Fairy Doctor” – Lady Wilde

Sacred Text: Fairy Mythology Index

Divination

Tarot

All About Tarot

All About Tarot Readings

Many Different Uses For The Tarot

Tarot Deck Outline

Choosing The Tarot Deck That Is Right For You

What To Look For In A Tarot Deck

Choosing A Tarot Deck Just For Reading Others

Connecting With Your Tarot Deck

Top 3 Beginner Tarot Books

When To Cleanse Your Tarot Deck

How To Cleanse Your Tarot Deck

Recharging Your Tarot Cards

Cleansing Your Tarot Reading Space

Purifying Your Tarot Cards

Three Ways To Shuffle Your Tarot Deck

Six Ways To Choose A Tarot Card

How To Clear Your Tarot Deck

How To Store And Care For Your Tarot Cards

Minor Arcana Keyword Chart

Tarot: Quick and Dirty Keyword Sheets

Tarot Cheat Sheets

Tarot Reversal Keyword Sheet

Major Arcana Meanings

Court Card Interpretations

The Major Arcana

Court Cards In Tarot

The Tarot Suits

Tarot Suit Info Cards

Topics You Can Use In Your Own Custom Tarot Spreads

Great Topics To Ask The Tarot With Only 1-3 Cards

Four Decks To Help You Create Your Own Tarot Spreads

How To Design A Tarot Spread For A Client

Classic Tarot Spread Positions

Interview Your New Tarot Deck

Effective Tarot Questions

How To Create Your Own Spreads

Tips When Reading Tarot For Others

New And Old Tarot Traditions

Four Myths About Fortune Telling

Fortune Teller Isn’t A Bad Word

Quirky Tarot Habits

Six Types Of Tarot Readers

4 Easy Steps to Learn Tarot

How To Read Tarot Cards

Why “Free” Tarot Readings Are Not Ever Really Free

How To Interpret Reversed Tarot Cards

What To Do With Jumper Cards

Tarot Exhaustion

Tarot Relaxation And Grounding Exercise

Four Tips On Reading “Negative” Tarot Cards

How To Deal With “Going Blank” During A Tarot Reading

Tips When Reading Tarot At A Special Event

Ideologies That Hold You Back As A Tarot Reader

Six Mistakes To Avoid When Reading Tarot For Yourself

How To Obtain The Clients Energy During a Tarot Reading Without Them Touching Your Cards

Reading Tarot With Confidence

Scrying

How to

Lithomancy

How to

Runes

Interpretations

Glamours

Glamoured Shower Disks

Goddess Glamour Bath

Witch of the Waste’s Glamour Enchanted Jewelry Spell

Blood Magic

Ethics and Safety

PSA to Blood Witches

Blood Magic 101

Starting Blood Magic

When you’re no longer a beginner

Blood Christening

How Not to Use Blood Magic

Sexual Sangomancy and Blood Bonding; Pros, Cons, and Safety

Blood and Bone Magick

Use of Blood in Folklore and Magic

Potions

Quick Guide to Potions and Lotions

Herbal Brews Introduction

Herbal How To: Infusion

Herbal How To: Tinctures and Extracts

Minerals that are NOT Suitable for Adding to Water

Magical Properties of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, Barks, and Resins

Herbs to Avoid During Pregnancy

Poisonous Herbs: Hazards

List of Poisonous Herbs (Magical Uses and Safety Warnings)

Familiars

What are they?

Is this my familiar?

The Familiar Self

Familiars and Gender

The Three Kinds of Familiars

Plants as Familiars

My boyfriend is doing something awesome.

He’s making an online spell maker/ witch encyclopedia

Basically you can type in an intent or keywords and get ideas for spells

Or you can type out everything you want and it is also color coded (key words like love are red, courage is orange, etc.) and do cyber spells

By Greenspell

Dream lucidity is awareness that you are dreaming. This awareness can range from a faint recognition of the fact to a momentous broadening of perspective. Lucid dreams usually occur while a person is in the middle of a regular dream and suddenly realizes that they are dreaming. This is called a dream-initiated lucid dream. A wake-initiated lucid dream occurs when you go from a normal waking state directly into a dream state, with no apparent lapse in consciousness. In either case, the dreams tend to be more bizarre and emotional than regular dreams. Most importantly, you will have at least some ability to control your “dream self” and the surrounding dream.

Method 1 of 3: Using Dream Awareness Techniques 

Keep a dream journal.

Keep it close by your bed at night, and write down your dream immediately after waking, or the emotions and sensations you experience right when you wake up. This will train you to remember more of your dreams, which is important for lucid dreaming. Plus, there’s not much point in controlling your dreams if you forget the experience before the morning.

Alternatively, keep a recording device by your bed.

You might remember more of your dream if you stay still for a few minutes concentrating on the memory, before you start writing.

Use reality checks frequently.

Every few hours during the day, ask yourself “Am I dreaming?” and perform one of the following reality checks. With enough practice, you’ll start following the habit in your dreams as well, cluing you in to the fact that you’re dreaming.

Read a page of text or the time on a clock, look away, then look back again. In dreams, the text or time will be blurry or nonsensical, or will be different each time you look.

Pinch your nose, close your mouth, and test whether you can still breathe.

Simply look at your hands and feet. These are often distorted in dreams when you inspect them closely.

Repeat “I will be aware that I’m dreaming” each time you fall asleep.

Each night as you fall asleep, repeat to yourself “I will know I’m dreaming” or a similar phrase until you drift out of consciousness. This technique is known as Mnemonic Induction to Lucid Dreaming, or MILD. Mnemonic induction just means “using memory aids,” or in this case using a rote phrase to turn the awareness of your dreaming into an automatic habit.

Some people like to combine this step with a reality check by staring at their hands for a few minutes before they go to sleep.

Learn to recognize your personal dream signs.

Read through your journal regularly and look for recurring “dream signs.” These are recurring situations or events that you may notice in your dreams. Become familiar with these, and you may recognize them while you dream, and therefore notice that you’re dreaming.

You probably know some of these already. Common dream events include losing your teeth, being chased by something large, or going into public without clothes on.

Drift back to sleep when awakened from a dream.

When you wake up and remember your dream, write it down in your dream journal, then close your eyes and focus on the dream. Imagine that you were in the dream, noticed a dream sign or reality check, and realized it was a dream. Hold on to this thought as you drift back to sleep, and you may enter a lucid dream.

Note that most lucid dreams occur while the person is fully asleep, usually because he notices a bizarre event and realizes he’s in a dream. This is just an alternate trigger that starts off about 25% of lucid dreams.

Consider purchasing a light alarm.

Go online and purchase a light-based, instead of a sound-based alarm, or even a specialized “DreamLight” designed to induce lucid dreaming. Set it for 4.5, 6, or 7 hours after you fall asleep, or set it to go off every hour if possible. While sound, touch, or other stimuli during REM sleep can also make a dreamer aware of the fact he’s dreaming, one study shows that light cues are most effective.

You don’t want to actually wake yourself up (unless you try the Wake Back to Bed method below). Keep the light alarm more than arm’s reach away from your bed, and/or cover it with a sheet to dim the light.

An infograph showing how to lucid dream. Here are some similar posts I have on my blog, you may enjoy. 

Manipulating Dreams

Everything on Astral Projection

“She was almost there. She could feel the weight of herself, the ponderousness of her body, the distant memories of the dawn of time when rock was molten and free. For the first time in her life she knew what it was like to have balconies.” - Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

One of the skills of the witches in Pratchett’s Discworld series is called Borrowing, which Wikipedia defines (via Granny Weatherwax) as “the art of overlaying her mind on the mind of another creature so that she can see through its eyes and steer its actions without it being aware of her presence – and can tune her mind to the point that she can sense the underlying mood of her surroundings (including the mood of plants, animals and the earth)” (source).

This is fairly high-level, as it requires an ability to slip into a light trance, or, as my family has always called it, “spacing out.” Spacing out is getting yourself into a mindset where you’re not thinking of anything and you’re in this deep, comfortable space of blankness. Once you get there, and become deft at maintaining it, you’re able to mentally shift between awareness and unawareness while holding onto that feeling of deep relaxation. But you can’t force it – think of it more so as making space for it to happen of its own accord. Kind of like making a mental nest or burrow. Once you’re there, you are open to Borrowing.

1. Start out by finding something you’d like to Borrow. This can really be anything (animal, vegetable or mineral, as they say), but it’s best for beginners to start out with something that doesn’t move around a whole lot – a tree, a boulder, a pond. Get into a comfortable sitting position and rest your eyes on your subject– the keyword being rest (don’t look at it too hard).

2. Think of something relaxing and simple (even boring), and let your mind wander in that realm of thought. Get lost in your thoughts; don’t try to direct them toward anything in particular. What often helps me is centering on the feeling of the wind sweeping against me and listening to it rush through the leaves in the trees around me, or watching the sunlight play on the leaves.

It may help to entertain thoughts of what it must be like to be in your subject’s position – what is it like to feel the wind in your leaves? How does it feel to be shapeless and fluid, to seep over rocks and settle into crevices, to be warmed slowly by the sun and cooled by the depths of the earth? Open yourself up to the experience, rather than trying to make it happen.

3. Forget yourself – your worries and concerns, your desires and goals, your awareness of your body. Forget that you have a body, a name. Forget your humanity. This can be scary for a lot of people and is the biggest barrier against Borrowing successfully. But once you forget yourself, you can transcend yourself and enter into the awareness of other beings around you.

What does this forgetting feel like? For me, my eyes lose focus and I kind of settle into myself, somewhere between my heart and my solar plexus. I am blank, almost death-like in the sense that I am not thinking or feeling anything in particular; I am pure, unfocused, unadulterated existence. (This sounds pretty lofty and grand, but it’s actually more of a plain, simple experience.)

It’s only when I access this space without interruption that the awareness of other beings creeps into me, or perhaps I creep into them. I’ve been in the mind of a koi, looking upward from beneath the surface of a pond and feeling the cool water all around and within me; I’ve been in the mind of a cardinal, grasping a branch with my clawed feet and feeling the wind ruffle my feathers. Today, I felt my skin covered with large, scaly bark when I slipped into the spirit-mind of a pine tree in my front yard. This awareness was so visceral that I can still recall it, hours later. This isn’t imaginative play – it’s a full-scale sensory experience, and I’ve found that the better I become at doing it, the longer it lasts, the more complete the experience becomes, and the more clearly I remember it later.

When this first started happening, I immediately connected it with Pratchett’s conception of Borrowing, but it didn’t start with the Discworld series. Witches and other magic workers have been doing this for centuries, calling it by different names, most notably shapeshifting.