just wi♱chy stuff

So, I’ve decided that I’m no longer going to be a part of the witchblr community on this site. I’m still a practicing witch, but I feel that this community is having a detrimental effect on my attitudes to witchcraft in the sense that my self-worth as a witch is deteriorating because I do not possess an overwhelming amount of crystals, materials and other things that this site perpetuates as necessary in order to meet the set standard. Obviously, lots of my mutuals on here are lovely and I’m not unfollowing anyone, but honestly witchblr was something I became involved with because it was helpful whilst I was becoming familiar with aspects of witchcraft such as the wheel of the year and the associations of herbs and crystals. People who followed me for this reason are 100% welcome to unfollow if they please bc my posts have become increasingly less related to my craft and they will most likely cease entirely after this point. No hate to anyone involved in witchblr because it’s still a fairly wholesome community, it just wasn’t very healthy for me to continue with it personally.

I hope my blog can show people that your way of practicing witchcraft, is valid. No matter your materials or beliefs. This is such a diverse and creative community and I hope that we sort ourselves out before more and more people leave.

I feel such a sense of peace and acceptance of myself and my life. I’m possibly the most imperfect person to exist yet I just know that I’ll be okay in the future as long as I treat others and myself well. I really do love life like I never have before and I’m so proud of everything that has led me to this point- I may be imperfect but that doesn’t mean I’m irreparably flawed, everything and everyone can change in an instant and that’s how it’s been all my life, I only just realised it now. I have so much hope for humanity and the world and everyone in it, despite all the awful and disgusting things happening we are a beautiful and kind race deep down and we will find more peace soon. I love you all and I hope you’re all doing well, hopefully I’ll be posting more soon since I have more spare time.

we somehow found our love for the occult and decided we wanted to dive in head first, and then didn’t realize where to start

“is this a good one?” we say as we skim through the tiny metaphysical section at our local bookstore, and walk out with a mishmash of titles from various authors, all with conflicting opinions 

we jot down notes in old school notebooks because that leather grimoire we found online was too expensive

we ditched the books we read over and over again and turned to the internet, hungry for hidden knowledge

we all stumbled upon spellsofmagic.com and tried to do the unthinkable before realizing that it wasn’t working and got discouraged

we realized that *gasp* you can write your own spells, but how? 

we spent hours compiling correspondences for every herb and spice in our kitchen pantry, and dug through boxes to find our old crystal or seashell collection from when we were kids thinking “i could probably use these for… something”

we spent too much money on candles and incense before realizing we could get them cheaper online

we practiced drawing sigils and symbols to make them perfect before crumpling up the paper and starting all over

we learned to go outside and look at the moon to see what phase it was in and how we could possibly use that to our advantage 

“what cardinal direction was for fire again? south?” we went back to the drawing board, digging through our notes to find the section in which we wrote down the information before giving up and doing a quick google search instead

we set up wiccan altars because we didn’t know that there was anything else out there at first

we learned about intent, and made sure that we were careful to stir our tea or coffee in one direction or the other to set the mood for the day

we would squint at bottles of body wash in the shower to find the ingredients and quickly figure out how to use them for magick: “jasmine and lavender? i think that’s good for peace or something”

we say little incantations when we cook dinner, or pour food for our pets - “bunny, you are happy and healthy. enjoy!”