#glamors

a cleansing ritual does not have to be complicated! this ritual is intended to be as simple or complex as you desire. at its core, it is all about visualization- add herbs, scents, and portions of your routine as you see fit.

what you will need:

your shower, of course

whatever shower items you want to use (shampoo, conditioner, body wash, shower oil, so on. this is YOUR ritual, you can make this as involved or laid-back as you want)

optional: an herb sachet, a shower steamer, candles, crystals (be certain your crystals are safe to have in/around water!)

the ritual:

make your water temperature comfortable, whether you love your showers hot, cold, lukewarm. whatever will make you feel most comfortable. if you are choosing to use a shower steamer, herb sachet, candles, etc, make sure you place these in appropriate places; I often hang a sachet of herbs that align with my intentions from my shower head and let the steam do the heavy lifting.

stand under the water spray and close your eyes. envision the water running down your body, picturing it washing away what you wish to release. every droplet that trickles down your body catches those bits of negative energy, exhaustion, stress, and sends it all down the drain.

begin your shower routine, whatever that may be for this ritual. with each step, continue to envision that every drop of water, every bubble of soap, every granule of scrub latches onto whatever is bogging you down. let the negativity cling to your cleansers, rinsing away under the water, and feel as a weight is lifted with each step.

as you wash away the negativity, welcome in what you wish to see manifest in your life. self-love, joy, abundance, and so on. as you welcome these things in, envision yourself being enveloped in a warm glow; we want to imagine ourselves purified from everything we just released.

when you've finished your shower, as you towel off, finish off with some form of protection. I typically envision that glow entering my body, locking in what I manifest and repelling that which I wish to release. you can also follow up with your skincare, seeing any lotions, oils, and so on as protective barriers against what you wish to keep away.

self-care and magic are very entwined for so many of us. everyday rituals like this can really help you to heal and manifest the life you desire.

Guess who finally got around to finishing these pages lmao. XD tbh the watercolour pencils I used to colour the illustrations aren't ... quite the right shade for Vexes, but it is what it is. The photos kind of make them look slightly better tbh.

There's part of me that's not entirely happy with the conclusions this piece comes to, but the best thing about an iterative grimoire like this, for those who have never kept a grimoire or have no idea what grimoires are and what they include, is that there is room to revisit a topic, and I do plan to do something on the masks later, so there will be more expansion on this and on my thinking and how that's changed since I wrote this piece. Which does tell you how long ago I wrote this lol.

Also a note on my approach to this: I'm attempting to emulate Scar and Cub's voices and energy and vibe through these pieces and the style of handwriting I have chosen to use for each of them, rather than do any kind of (weird stalkery tbh) form of copying their actual handwriting. And I think that approach is a good one, because it wouldn't matter how close my handwriting was if their voices didn't sound right. So that's the choice I've made here.

Alsoalso: Scar is the Vex with the tail, bc of how much he said he wanted one in that bit where they were setting up ConCorp in s6, and Cub was like, wtf would you want a tail? So it gives me an easy way to distinguish the two of them in their Vex forms.

The transcript below has been tidied up and spaced out a little more than it is in the book itself, just to make it easier to read and you don't have to have a wall of text to deal with.

And it just WRECKS their held-together-by-magic jewelry.