Scientist. Witch.

Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.

I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.

I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”

Written by a pregnant witch for pregnant witches and mom witches, enjoy!🍼👼🏾🎀🚼

💎Crystals:

For pregnancy in general: pink flourite, pink calcite, rose quartz, unakite, agate, red jasper, moonstone, amber, rhodochrosite, carnelian, turquoise, pearl

For lactation: moonstone, pearl, milky quartz, white quartz, selenite, chalcedony

For physical healing/energy: red jasper, bloodstone, garnet, clear quartz

For emotional stability and strength: blue lace agate, rose quartz, amethyst, lapis lazuli, amber, labradorite, jasper, howlite

For restful sleep: amethyst, selenite, moonstone, tourmaline quartz

For children: (protection, peace, etc.) Rose quartz, cats eye, flourite, agate, peridot, amber

🍵Tea blends:

* these are all pregnancy safe!

Nausea Relief #1:

Lavender

Mint

Nausea relief #2:

Ginger

Lemon

Good nights sleep:

Lavender

Rose

Lemon balm

Energy boost *caffeine free*:

Chai

Apple chunks

Orange

💐Other pregnancy tips:

🍼Use breastmilk and baby oil in your craft

🍑Here’s some fruit correspondences for when you have morning sickness but still wanna do witchy things,

you can infuse water with it to keep you hydrated or make a fruit salad/smoothies to eat to help relieve nausea

🛌If you’re on bedrest try some bedridden witchcraft

🥄Or try spoonie magic if you’re low on energy

🌟If you’re religious, look into goddesses of childbirth like Artemis, Juno, Hera, Demeter, Hathor, Frigg, and more

🌎If you arent religious, try connecting to other pregnancy/motherly energies such as earth, sun, and moon energies

🌠Look up your babies astrology signs

💌Add cute witchy things to your pregnancy journal, such as sigils, recipes, etc.

💕Focus on self-care and self-love magic during this time

🍼More posts:

Pregnancy beauty spell

Pregnancy essential oil blend

Tips for pregnant witches

Anti-miscarrige spell

Baby come out! spell for when you’re overdue

Witchcraft while pregnant (a trimester by trimester guide!)

Pregnant and new mommy witch tips

Mommy witch tips part 1 // part 2

Incorporating magic into parenting

As y'all know, I want to get pregnant. I have worked some great manifesting magic this year, and my goal is to have a confirmed, healthy pregnancy by the end of 2018!

So I thinks to myself: why not start ACTING like I have a baby? maybe it will attract in a baby?

So I’m doing it. I chose a stuffed animal host for play-babying. I bought a baby blanket today (one of my favorite things about baby gear is muslin blankets… so freaking soft!).

For good measure, I burned a bay leaf for the second time this year with fertility intentions. I’ve also given a few offerings to Freyja.

In addition to the things I mentioned above, I'd also:

- Been off birth control for years.

- Taken a prenatal vitamin and supplemental folic acid every day for months.

- Lost weight (I was obese and I lost 20% of my body weight-- slowly throughout the year-- which is supposed to help with fertility; I also did manifesting magic for weight loss at Imbolc).

- Planned with my partners.

- Eaten dairy daily and pineapple a few times around conception (the pineapple thing may be a myth but I did it anyway).

my personal correspondences by weekday, complied form my grimoire. i’ve interpreted the below poem “children” as anything that will be produced by your efforts. 

Monday - “Monday’s child is fair of face” - glamours, beauty and confidence spells. weather work. healing spells. 

Tuesday - “Tuesday’s child is full of grace” - communication and love spells, friendship spells. any delicate magic. plant and herb-based magic

Wednesday - “Wednesday’s child is full of woe” - cursing, hexes, bindings and banishments. space and cosmic witchcraft.

Thursday - “Thursday’s child has far to go” - spells for travel and protection, astral travel and psychic protections. sea witchcraft, hedgecraft

Friday - “Friday’s child is loving and giving” - any spell planned for someone else, love/lust spells. banishing barriers, friendship spells. kitchen witchcraft.

Saturday - “Saturday’s child works hard for its living” - job and money spells, sucess and motivation spells. creativity and truth.

As a woman I was taught that my desires and opinions are trivial, but men's are important to consider.

As a victim of emotional relationship abuse, I was taught that my desires and even my needs were not only trivial, but positively embarrassing and Too Much To Ask.

Going through graduate school definitely indoctrinated those things-- it teaches you to devalue yourself and your health, and to above all value the criticisms of others. My experience in academia was harsh and unforgiving. I am programmed to go for jobs I don't want that don't pay well because it's prestigious and what I'm supposed to do. It's been really difficult for me to try to figure out what I really want to do.

You know what has helped? Not "listen to your heart," but "listen to your bitching."