#folkmagic

Salt has always carried two jobs for us: the line nothing crosses, and the welcome at the door. We've written it both ways because we've felt it both ways, sometimes in the same season. We're curious which reading lands first for you: the boundary, or the invitation? Tell us in the comments. We read all of them.

✨ May your pockets be full, your bills be paid, and your opportunities be plentiful. ✨

let me explain what i mean, you can practice Witchcraft without it becoming your job/career. You are still a Witch if you work as a nurse, or the trades, in hospitality or food industry. your Still a Witch if your Disabled or differently abled and cant work, or cant work often. if you would like you can spend a little time reading and doing work for friends and family and community members to make some supplemental income (never do any work without some kind of exchange. i accept a homecooked meal as payment sometimes). you don't have to open an Etsy shop, you don't even have to become a priest/priestess/Preistex. A Witch is a Witch no matter what they are doing. even if your not doing work for clients. now in full transparency, i hope to open an Occult shop with some friends in the not so distant future but i'm still in school for psych and i have no urge to do work on behalf of a full roster of clients that's just not who i am and that's ok.

Working on creating my own divination tool with Hebrew letter and Gematria based on the concept of casting lots

I plan to document my studies here

As a Cunning person and Animist Witch I have a lot of respect for Ceremonial magicians. The grimoire tradition has been a great influence on folk traditions of magic and Witchcraft. But the ways in which the cunning folk and witches of the past would have used the grimoire tradition, It was in a very practical way. We didn't concern ourselves with intricate circles on the floor and specifically timed rituals. To Folk practitioners like myself, magic is a tool that can be wielded at any time to work your will. I'm not claiming that folk magic and traditional forms of Witchcraft are in any way Superior to ceremonial magic or the grimoire tradition Because it is not. But I'm shocked that I still encounter The classism and pompousness of ceremonial magicians. Who think that they're magic is somehow better than my "peasant" magic. This is a pretty old divide, many European and American Cunning folk were treated the same way. I find it frustrating because often when one looks at the spells in the grimoires you can see the folk magic that they come from. Especially if you studied folk magic for as long as I have. Making effigies of a person To cause them to quarrel with other people that's Old sympathetic witchery. The sharing of magic doesn't just go one way, You got from us. We get from you. It's fair. And our animist ways are not inherently anti -grimoire tradition. We just approach Spirit working with a different framework. And we may understand what spirits and God(s) are differently. But I think that a little respect goes a long way. I don't have to agree with everything that you do for me to believe that you are a capable magical practitioner. I don't even agree with every Folk magician and Animist Witch. But that doesn't mean that I think that they're wrong.