Queen Nehelania

How to magically clean your home on a Monday

Areas of Focus: bedroom, bathroom, laundry, mopping, washing

Energies: the moon, sleep, water, peace, emotions

Ingredients: lavender, mugwort, verbena, jasmine, water

Tasks to choose from: change the bedsheets; mop the floors; do the dishes; run a load of laundry; tidy your bedroom; wipe down mirrors; clean your drains; wash the shower curtains; clean buildup off any faucets; wipe down toilets, sinks, showers, and tubs; clean the toilet bowl; spray and wipe down any dirty surfaces

Cleaning recipes (if you’re into that): 1:1 water and vinegar, steep lavender buds or sleepytime teabags and wash surfaces with it (after they’ve been cleaned with mundane cleaning solutions); spray your rooms with a lavender room mist, use water, lavender buds or oil, amethyst or quartz, add jasmine, yglang ylang, vanilla, or other calming scents if you want, mix mix mix in a spray bottle and go to town

Enchantments: play ocean waves while cleaning; sing sea shanties or lullabies; use water to make sigils on surfaces before you clean them

Green witch divination: grows lavender, mugwort, bay leaves, rosemary, and other intuitive herbs. Has an herbal tea garden. “He loves me, he loves me not” petal divination. Omens of the season ahead in their current garden. 

Kitchen witch divination: adept at mixing teas. Reads tea leaves, coffee grounds, egg yolks, rice grains, and so on as part of regular kitchen activities. Always throwing salt over their shoulder. Uses intuitive ingredients like lavender, mugwort, chamomile, and/or cannabis. Tasseomancy. 

Hedge witch divination: divines to speak with the dead. Wisdom comes from ancestral guides. Bone-casting. Seances. Vulture culture. 

Sea witch divination: shell divination, driftwood, and seaglass divination. In tune with lunar cycles. Scrying with seawater. Meditates to ocean waves.

Art witch divination: draws, paints, or collages their own tarot cards. Paints runes on bones or pieces of wood. Ink-blot or paint-blot reading, where you press ink or paint between two pages and interpret the pattern left behind when you open the pages back up. ~Beautiful✨ grimoire pages. 

To connect with your genius loci~

Been seeing a lot about pancakes as a traditional Imbolc food, and how they are eaten on Imbolc because they resemble round bellies and sunshine. That may be true, but it’s also important to remember that, historically*, when living with the seasons and the land, you’d probably be sick and tired of pancakes on February 1st, because that’s all you have left to eat before the first spring harvest. Refrigerators and trucks that ship food to your city from around the world weren’t exactly around when Imbolc was first celebrated, and eggs, milk, butter, and meat were basically all you had left that was fresh. Grain and flour keeps a long time. Pancakes were just what people were able to eat. *Not to discount the symbolism at all, just to add another layer to the holiday!

Hundred Acre Woods🐝🎈🐻: hunny used in almost every spell. Ceramics and clay pitchers as vessels. Heavy magical baking going on. Drinks milk with their toast. Rainwater as a cleansing and playful force. Splashing in puddles in their rain boots and their umbrella while chanting spells. Inner child work. Loves the bees. Force of sunshine, joy, laughter, and kindness. Animal familiar is some kind of pastoral wildlife, such as a badger, gopher, or field mouse. Lives in rural England, friends with the local trees and flowers. Understands that weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. 

Wonderland♥️❤️🐛: dream work, keeps a detailed dream journal. Lover of tarts. Interprets the cards while playing poker. Cat familiar. Works closely with butterfly and caterpillar spirits. Knows how to identify the local mushrooms in the woods. Sassy, knows their own self-worth, and is very opinionated. Can be competitive at croquet. Tarot card identifier the Queen of Cups. 

Witch tip I’ve learned the hard way: if you are a little witch like me who struggles with mental health and may have fewer spoons on certain days, don’t wait for Sunday to roll around to start a project. Same with the first day of the month. Do not fall for New Years. If you want to start a project on a Sunday, but it’s a Wednesday, go for it, because you may not have the spoons by the time Sunday rolls around. And don’t start tasks in the morning with the hope you’ll end in the evening. Time doesn’t have a set beginning and end anyway, it’s much more fluid and chaotic than that. 

If you want to use time in your magical practice, start when you feel like it, and work time into where you are currently. If you want to start a new habit but it’s a Tuesday night, cool. Work with the Mars energy. It takes a lot of energy and courage to start a new habit, and Mars takes action no matter what. Night isn’t known for new beginnings, but it is known for emotion, intuition, etc. Can you use that emotional moon energy to do some reflection and shadow work on why you wanna do the new habit? Get to the ‘why’ and make more effective systems to make the new habit work? 

The clean slate of a new week/month/year works really well for some people, but as someone with a schizoaffective brain, I want to take action when I can. If my magical ritual really doesn’t vibe with whatever time “now” is, I’m going to look for the soonest possible time I can do it. Because I might hit a depressive episode, might need to pivot my priorities, etc. 

Laid out all the major arcana from my Everyday Tarot Mini deck to look for patterns and meaning from the hero’s journey. 

Then got super distracted interpreting not just the progression but the symbols on the cards. 

Like how Death has a sunflower on his flag. See that??? It’s there, on his flag. Wtf Death. That’s a suspiciously cheery image, considering the sunflower symbol is only on The Fool, The Empress, Strength, and The Sun, all cards associated with life and vitality and joy. I knew that the Death card wasn’t the big bad card of the deck, because I’d memorized the meanings and such, but then when I noticed he had a sunflower, I got super excited because EVERYTHING MUST END (note the keys on his belt, I hate gendered imagery of any kind but damn he doesn’t discriminate) BUT EVERY END LEADS TO NEW LIFE AND REBIRTH. Fuck. And the Sun comes after Death!!! Right before Judgement and The World!!! DEATH’S PROMISE CAME TRUE holy fuck I love the cards. 

AND THEN I got super excited because I noticed that The Moon in this deck literally obscures the image of The Sun. Fear and mystery and shadows obscure clarity and any chance you may have at fully integrated joy. 

Speaking of The Moon. Ever notice that The Chariot has moon symbols on her cape? She’s wearing the moon, a symbol of fear, unknown, and mystery, on her sleeves. Like, The High Priestess is all about being in tune with mystery and your shadowy side, but I was NOT expecting to notice the moon in The Chariot. That’s so cool! Especially considering: 

The Chariot, which I normally consider a super forceful, driven card--characteristics I typically associate with The Sun--doesn’t have a sun symbol anywhere on her. She’s wearing the moons as her badge of honor, and her crown has The Star. Yes, The Chariot is all about taking control of your life, but it’s not a certain, clear, joyful occasion. She has no idea what’s going to happen. She doesn’t need to know either. She has hope, and that’s enough for her. And it’s SUPER cool considering that the next card after The Chariot, Strength, DOES have the sun image on her. Which mirrors the later part of the Fool’s journey, after the Tower collapses, and he is guided by the Star to keep going and confront the fears present in The Moon, after which he can step into The Sun. 

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Hello! Nehelania here 🥰 I use tumblr for witchy stuff, and I thought I’d introduce myself! I am a tarot reader and dabbling stitch witch going through a quarter life Renaissance of discovering new knowledge, skills, and ways of being. Pronouns are she/her, sexuality is being questioned every day, age is 26, witchy practice is fairly young, mottos are Fuck Capitalism, Fight Consumerism, and Be Nice Goddammit. 

Some more info: 

⭐️ My practice involves tarot, shadow work, tasseomancy, elemental magic, art/crafting magic, and little pieces of other methodologies

⭐️ I use tumblr to post grimoire pages I’m proud of, connect with other witches, and get inspired

⭐️ Taurus ☀️, Capricorn 🌙, Cancer ⬆️, my birth chart is overwhelmingly earth signs...

⭐️ Secular witch

⭐️ Craftivist 

⭐️ Cat lover

⭐️ Knitter 

⭐️ Magical being from a rose-covered planet 

Honeybee Witch 🐝🍯: honey honey honey, used in every single spell. Tons of fertility rituals. Green witchcraft, but specializing in small, shallow, nectar-filled flowers that bees love. Probably dreams of having an apiary one day. Works with the Sun. Tons of altars to productivity and successful work. Loves amber, gold, obsidian, hematite, citrine, topaz, and jet. Sex-positive. Feminist. 

Spider Witch 🕷🕸: loves fiber crafts. Owns a tabletop loom and weaves. Knows the difference between heddles and treadles. Knot magic practitioner. Crochets webs infused with magical intent. Probably weaves tapestries with magical images. Divination witch, very intuitive. Shadow work. Unafraid of the dark. Knows they’re the scariest thing out there. 

just for fun

Unicorn Witch 🦄⭐️✨: color magic infused into every aspect of their practice. Rainbows worked into their glamour for the day (think rainbow makeup, colorful outfits, and bright accessories). Crystals--particularly the sparkly druzy or aura ones. Probably identifies with air or water, all free flowing love and light. Definitely bakes magical cupcakes for their friends, their favorite recipe is probably a lemon cake base for joy, strawberry icing for love, and lots of sprinkles for pure fun. 

Mermaid Witch 🐬🐠🐚: sea witchcraft at its finest, along with a healthy dose of good, old fashioned, vain glamour spells at all hours of the day. Always brushing negativity out of their hair. Swimming. Singing their enchantments. Not just lunar magic like sea witches, they have to sunbathe frequently to keep up their energy. High sodium, needs to watch their salt intake. Drinks rum. 

Lately in my grimoire, I’ve been working on stitchcraft, knitting, and fiber magick information. Thought I’d share! I couldn’t find a lot of stuff on this, so lemme know if you have information to fill in the gaps, or if I’ve forgotten something. I most definitely have not used every piece of this post in a single project, that would be overwhelming, I just pick and choose depending on what’s appropriate, realistic, and attainable for the project. 

Tools based on materials and purpose

Knitting/Sewing Needles - fire; the wands tarot suit; manifestation; turning nothing into something

Subcategories - aluminum needles for air, Mercury, communication, mental energy, making gifts for someone else to express something; bamboo needles for earth, prosperity, abundance, growth, attraction, finishing quickly and making lots and lots of lovely knitting; plastic needles for...air?, flexibility, durability, adaptability, and the ability to change and bend without breaking

Scissors - air; the swords tarot suit; judgement; clarity; banishing; “cutting back” on unwanted or excessive energies

Stitch Patterns based on the quality of the fabric it produces or the process of making the fabric

Garter/Stockinette/Ribbing/Moss - earth; strong foundations; grounding 

Cable - binding; protection; flow; cycles; attraction; earth or water *cables draw the fabric in as well as intertwine with other strands of knitting, great for drawing in or tying together energies

Stranded colorwork - protection; security; warmth; earth or fire *stranded knitting makes a very thick and warm fabric, that’s why it’s great for mittens and sweaters

Lace - air; wind; adaptability; flexibility; mental energy; clarity 

Waves/Chevron - water (duh); flow; emotions

Fiber Types based on the qualities the fiber has and the symbolism of the creature or plant it comes from *synthetic fibers also listed, had trouble with those, mostly based on how it behaves once it’s knitted

Wool - warmth; safety; protection; warding; new beginnings; spring; love; probably any element tbh

Mohair - air or fire; freedom; mental energy

Silk - the Moon; water or air; the underworld; shadow work; banishing; protection; binding

Cotton - water, air; strength; durability

Bamboo - earth; abundance; prosperity

Linen - water; flow; slow progress; adaptability; quiet but unyielding strength

Nylon - earth; strength; durability

Acrylic - water; flexible; adaptability, durability, longevity

Knitting Techniques based on what you’re doing with the fiber to make it do what you want

Steeking - banishing

Casting on - new beginnings

Binding off - binding

Weaving in ends - endings

Dropped stitches - dropping an unwanted energy

Intarsia/Shapes/Embedded Images - depends on what you’re putting in there, ex: hearts for love, moon for emotions or shadows, the sun for joy, spirals for progression and growth

Numerology use for pattern or stitch repeats/counts *I’m not great at numerology, this is very beginner

0 - potential, empty space, clean slate, new beginnings. *Represent with a yo/eyelet

1 - BOOM, manifestation, new beginnings, the start of something new

2 - balance, duality, choices, binaries

3 - creation, growth, relationships, looking ahead

4 - foundations, structure, stability

5 - change, challenge

6 - compassion, harmony

7 - magic, spirituality, divine, wisdom, reflection, understanding

8 -  movement, progress, change

9 - completion, fulfilment

10 - cycle ends and begins again, transformation

Other Things to Incorporate just random techniques you can layer

Embellishments - appliques/embroidery/etc can be sigils or spell out messages, make sure your decorations are themed with the project’s intent

Color Magic - for intent

Green Witchcraft - use herbs in the water you use to soak and block your knits once you’re finished, or use oils to dab on your tools