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Setting your intentions with the full moon is the best way to start living in cycles with the monthly moon phases. With the moon being full, its potency is a perfect time to direct your energy towards what you want to manifest in your life. 

What you’ll need:

White candle

Piece of paper and something to write with

Cleansing incense

White quartz crystal 

What you’ll do:

The very first thing you will need to do is cleanse yourself. I have personally found that I can’t manifest shit if I am dragging around the stress of the day-to-day. So cleanse. However, you need to connect and feel at peace. I do this by taking a cleansing bath, but feel free to meditate, draw, take a walk, or do whatever you need to do to settle your mind down to begin the process of redirecting your energy. 

After you have cleansed your energy you will want to cleanse your space. Crack your window and light your incense and white candle to and let that the smoke flow around for a few minutes visualizing a bright white light filling up the space. (If you are sensitive to incense, or are unable to light any in your living space, use a bowl of water and add about 2TBS of table salt to it. Mix it up and let it sit in the room absorbing anything cruddy. Dump the water outside AWAY from your home OR down the drain, OR flush it.) Feel around the energy of your space, once it seems lighter and clear of everything it’s time to begin your ritual. 

Take your quartz and place it in front of you. Write down your manifestation/goals for the month on your piece of paper. Really assess what is possible in the next 30 days. If you want something HUGE in your life to happen it needs to start with the smallest of steps. For instance if you want to be an astronaut, that is not going to happen in 30 days. What you can do is ask for school assistance, or admittance into the school of your desire, so you can work towards the larger goal. But really think about the next month, where you are and where do you want to be. 

When you are writing your sentences keep them short and simple as possible, and don’t sell yourself short, ask for exactly what you want. After you have written out your goals close your eyes and VISUALIZE everything you want to happen. (This is the important part.) Take your time and drag out the visualization. Talk to people, see what you would be wearing, where you would be going. Make it a full sensory experience and really feel exactly how you would feel if this was actually happening to you. 

LOVE, STONES AND CRYSTALS

Everyday we are filled and bombraded by what we must have in order to achieve this and this and this. What we must buy in order to be that and that and that. How we must look in order to call ourselves this and that. In order to be a part of a community.

Remember! 🌸 You already are a part of the community 🌸

In this world of magicka nostra, you are enough by existing. You are here with a purpose. Your purpose. And you deserve love and respect by just solely living.

Yet we a lot of times differentiate between one human to the other, comparing who is better, who looks better, who is more important, who has more value etc. And so we do with stones and crystals.

💫 We are everything and everything is us 💫

Yes. A crystal may have had a certain power that has been attributed to them over generation to generation. A crystal may have this exact power also now. But something that works for you might not work the same for the other. And what works for the other, might not work the same for you. And this is very important. This goes beyond crystals. It applies to solutions in life, at work, with family, friends. What works for you might not work for me.

We are indeed all one, yet all of us are our own, prescious version of the Universe. And the same part of this universe is a stone. Ofcourse, crystals may work for you wonderfuly and if you use them in your arts, that is completely OK. But raising awareness about how deep stones are, is also important.

🌟You may connect with a forest stone more than with a crystal 🌟

You can. There are millions and trillions of stones, each one of them with their own story, their own history, their own power. In the forest. On that pathway you walk every day. By the seaside. In front of your home. Wherever you go, there will be stones and rocks.

✨Choosing your stones✨

Go to a place where you feel comfortable. May be in the forest, on your way to some place, close to the sea or even in front of your home. Look around for stones. They vary in size from super tiny, to large. Find the ones that work with you. Touch them. Feel which one wants to be with you and support you on your way. There are many ways you can work with a stone - similarly to crystals. Hear them out and feel on which area they might support you. Use your inner guide and sensations to help you understand what each stone is the best in. 🧘🏾

I, my self, am accompanied by a lot of stones troughout the house and on the porch. So far, I have worked with stones mostly for protection. Some can also support health, and some deliver messages. Again, if you use crystals, that is completely fine. Adding stones to your wonderful collection can only benefit you and your path. 💙

💛 Stones are wonderful, vibrant parts of this universe, a beautiful part of our communities. They have a lot of history and stories to tell. And it is OK to give them a chance in supporting you on your way. 💛

Do you mostly work with crystals or stones?

I would love to meet your companions. Feel free to comment down below.

Took a while to make but I’m  proud of them.  

They have already been sold and it took me quite a while to gather the materials so if you want runes like these, you have to let me know well in advance as I don’t have the materials at hand. 

The bones have mostly been collected from meals.  I even asked the local butcher to collect them for me, which they found ... a little bit odd.  

How I made them:  

After collecting the bones I had to boil them in salt water for several hours, four to six depending on how much meat was still on them.  This is an extremely smelly business.  Really .. it smells really bad.    I collected the bones in a plastic bag in my freezer until I had enough to start carving them all at the same time.

As they are from meals, there were still brown spots on the bones that are hard to bleach, even after leaving them in the sun for a while (best natural bleach for bones is sunlight).   That helped a little but I still found them messy looking so I chalked them , which created this: 

After they had been dried I carved the runes in them:

Then I painted them in three colors for each aett:  green for Freya (earth) , red for Haegl (warrior) and blue for Tyr (mind).  The order you see on the picture.  After that I varnished them because I didn’t want the paint to deteriorate through use.  

I know this might not be everyone’s cup of tea and I realize this might offend some people’s sensibilities.    That’s not my intention, I do understand that these runes only cater to a specific niche of people and one of those people asked me to make these for them.   So I did!  And I’m still pretty happy with the result! 

INTRO TO WATER BRUJERIA, WATER ELEMENTAL MAGIC AND WATERBENDING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW6PDw_dxtc

Have you ever wanted to do magic with mermaids, wear the rain as armor, or be a master waterbender like Katara? In my new youtube video, you’ll find a free seminar on basic water witchcraft and implementation of waterbending magic techniques.

Learn to:

~Utilize water no matter your setting 

~Become a master waterbender on the astral plane

~Use water to heal yourself or others and to cleanse

~Use water to protect yourself or hex a stalker or fascist

~Work with local water spirits or call upon merpeople or selkies

~Use color magic that assists in your water witchcraft

~Find familiars that benefit your water craft and keep you company

~Implement social justice and philanthropy geared towards water rights in your practice

INGREDIENTS: FOR THE PUDDING

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/8 teaspoon kosher salt

1 3/4 cups whole milk, divided

4 egg yolks

1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter

3/4 teaspoons vanilla extract

FOR THE ASSEMBLY

5.5 ounce box vanilla wafers

3 medium bananas (sliced ½-inch thick)

FOR THE MERINGUE

4 egg whites

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

2/3 cups granulated sugar

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Make the Pudding: In a medium bowl, whisk together the sugar, flour, and salt. Whisk in ½ cup of the milk and the egg yolks. In a large saucepan, place the remaining 3 cups milk. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring frequently. Whisk 1 cup of the hot milk into the egg mixture. Whisk the egg mixture into the remaining hot milk in the saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened, about 3 minutes more. Remove from heat. Add the butter and vanilla, stirring until the butter is melted. Set aside to cool slightly while you prepare the remaining ingredients.

Assemble the Dish: Arrange vanilla wafers in the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish (you can reserve some to garnish, if you wish), and top with the banana slices. Pour the pudding through a fine-mesh sieve over the bananas and spread into an even layer.

Make the Meringue: In a large bowl, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar with a mixer on high speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add the sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. Spoon the meringue over the pudding, spreading it right up to the edges of the pan.

This is an extremely controversial and politicized topic, which ended up being huge in the witchcraft community. I try to focus on witchcraft in this blog and stay out of politics or other topics unrelated to witchcraft. Therefore, I feel very hesitant in making this post. However, since witchcraft is related to this topic and there are loads of witches doing different spells in order to support the Black Lives Matter movement, I feel like making this post on the issue of the Black Lives Matter, protests, and what you can do to help. 

As a witch, do you  have a duty to participate in BLM? 

Well... No. You don’t. Witchcraft and magic is, first and foremost, about freedom and cultivating your personal power. Witchcraft, in and of itself, is NOT a doctrine about ethics, morality, and duty. In fact, a lot of magical schools of though don’t even recognize “ethics and morals” in the same way as normal people do. They just think of them as “whatever society accepts and/or rejects”. Nothing more. Nothing less. Each witch (just like every person) has his/her own sense of morality. Choosing not to help BLM protestors DOES NOT make you bad at witchcraft. Nor does choosing to help makes you good at witchcraft. What you believe about politics, racial tensions, political movements, etc... have no relationship to your abilities within witchcraft. Saying otherwise would be simply dishonest. 

If you decided to participate, what can you do? 

Doing practical things to help the protestors: actually go to protests, donate money, make masks and give supplies to protestors, etc... 

Do rituals to help bless, strengthen, and protect the protestors. Speaking from personal experience, spells that are focused on a large group of people overall are not very effective. A better idea would be to focus on the individual protestors. For example, if your best friend is participating in the protests, make a protection charm for her. If you are going to be participating in the protests, cast a protection spell beforehand. Focusing on individuals usually yields better results then on large groups or more abstract concepts within witchcraft. 

Curse/Hex the police/Trump. Again, as mentioned previously, if you know any individuals, it’s best to focus on them rather then on the whole group. Alternatively, you can do rituals to ask for justice rather then outright curses/hexes. I would also suggest that you only participate in this if you are more experienced in witchcraft. 

What do I, personally, think? 

What happened to George Floyd is NOT OK. Abuse of power by the police is a problem. Disproportionate incarceration of black people to white people for small crimes that white people just get a “slap on the wrist” is a problem. Having policemen just randomly kill black people is a problem. A problem that people should have been up in arms about a long time ago. Way before George Floyd’s death. The policemen who had done this should be punished and sent to prison for a very long time (preferably, for life).