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My name is Jatta and I’m the new intern here at Rune Riot!

I’m a baby witch in the broom closet and have only been practicing for three months. Despite how new I am to all this I love researching, studying and learning through experience, hence my eagerness to help out and learn as an intern!

I am most interested in spirit work, shadow work, sigils, divination through playing cards and pendulum and attraction and abundance spells.

I love collecting info and learning more so if you ever just wanted to ramble about anything witchy then hi! I exist! Hit me up :)

I hope I can become closer with all of you and all the spirits here and help you all find the companions for you!

My blog’s @jattathewitch​

Thanks for reading <3 

My name is Jatta and I’m the new intern here at Rune Riot!

I’m a baby witch in the broom closet and have only been practicing for three months. Despite how new I am to all this I love researching, studying and learning through experience, hence my eagerness to help out and learn as an intern!

I am most interested in spirit work, shadow work, sigils, divination through playing cards and pendulum and attraction and abundance spells.

I love collecting info and learning more so if you ever just wanted to ramble about anything witchy then hi! I exist! Hit me up :)

I hope I can become closer with all of you and all the spirits here and help you all find the companions for you!

My blog’s @jattathewitch​

Thanks for reading <3 

I wanted to say something out of character for a moment if you’ll bare with me.

I started this blog nearly three years ago, back in 2016. It was a writing exercise. Something to force me to be creative every day. I never intended anyone to read it. It was a pet project, I had other more important things to focus on. 

I was in the deepest depression of my life. I had flunked out of school, and was struggling to find work. Every plan I had set for life had gone utterly belly up. I was a nervous wreck who was too scared to even mention my near-constant thoughts of suicide to my therapist. 

This blog kept me grounded. Seeing that people enjoyed what I wrote, that it made them laugh, was a reason to see another sunrise. There was safety in focusing everything on writing, if just for a little bit. 

And it just didnt stop. I got regulars. I made friends. The mythos started forming and changing. I had, and still do have, an enormous amount of fun in this collaborative effort of storytelling. 

I started making money.

I published a book.

Last year, I gave myself an ultimatum. I would spend a year doing this, treating writing like a real, professional job, and if I could make actual money by Halloween of 2019, I would consider it a success. If not, it was time to look for other employment. 

Make no mistake, this was a move half out of despair. Nothing I had ever expected of myself had gone right, so sure, fuck it, why not try being a writer? I had nothing to lose. I expected failure, or at least lackluster success. 

But here we are. I’m staring at my patreon numbers with tears in my eyes. Its not much, but its so, so, so much more than I ever expected. 

There are truly no words for how grateful I am, and I want every last one of you to know that, in no small way, you have saved my life. 

From the bottom of my heart, thank you, and happy Halloween.

So, dear caretaker, I offer you my and all of your followers’ gratitude, infinite appreciation and love. All I ask is you accept it and never lose that smile on your face, as well as the happiness in your eyes. Thank you so, so much for being here. 

Aries: The pikes that won an empire. Hundreds of thousands left thrust into the earth where old soldiers fell. Long forgotten spearheads still unearthed by the farmers that till those same fields. 

Taurus: The odd sickle-and-chain weapon used by foreign infiltrators. An understanding of why warriors from their lands never carry shields.

Gemini: Worried rumors from the gravetenders. A stranger in town with a heavy executioners axe on their back. The blade sparkles in the moonlight, leaving a trail of leaden dust. Bodiless voices in the night now silenced.

Cancer: Tales of mutiny. A vessel with scarlet sails hunting the slave ships. Garb of the aristocracy dyed red in a dramatic display of new ownership. Cane knives worn on the hip like imperial cutlasses.

Leo: One of an elite group of sappers and siege-breakers. Heavy warpicks piercing stone and armor and skull. Blast resistant helms emerging from the earth in clouds of rubble and dust.

Virgo: Bodyguard to a self-proclaimed queen who carries no weapon. Tales of blades parried with her bare hands, using only what she can steal from attackers. Padding and plate metal concealed under courtly attire.

Libra: Poor unfortunate souls. Armor and limbs and skin stretched into unnatural shapes. Twice the height of a normal man, spine buckling, bent under the weight of a body not meant for it. 

Scorpio: Wreck of an old warship. Armor covered with coral and anemones. All the metal has rusted away. New knights, armored by the sea itself.

Ophiuchus: A hulk stalking the battlefield. Bits and pieces of the fallen re-purposed to a grisly end.  Dead meat and battered metal grinding together as it walks.  

Sagittarius: Knights from another place. A warrior caste. Hardened skin marbled red and black, tough as any metal armor. Sharp teeth. A moments pause for the first time in the sun.

Capricorn: The roaming, masterless legion. Skills shared out of necessity. Innovation born of desperation. Flexible, unpredictable tactics. Their entire lives carried only on their backs. 

Aquarius: An order of nostalgics adapting to a new world of powder and shot. Weaponry that mirrors their weilders, a liminal point between the old and new. The importance of familiarity.

Something good is coming to me.

Something good is coming to me.

I'm sure all you readers out there have been in some pretty awkward situations because of the lack of client etiquette. Maybe you are a client and you want to know what is acceptable and what should not be discussed. Or perhaps you are just starting out and you want to learn the Divination Do's and Don't's.

So what is acceptable?

💫You can ask for a general reading! These readings will touch on anything that the cards, runes, or what have you feel should be brought up and nothing more. It is what is most important at the time of the reading, and should be entered without any expectations.

💫Ask about your path. If you've been having doubts, this can be a good way to clear things up. It can give you a glimpse of how a certain choice can affect your life and help you to make the right decision.

💫Use a reading to check in with yourself to see how your spirit is doing and what your guides might have to say to you. Check ins are perfect for staying connected to your guides and yourself, so use them!

💫Give Feedback! We want to know if we are accurate, so please tell us. Send us an email or message saying whether or not you understood the reading, if it resonated with you, and if what we said was accurate. Let us know in a few weeks or months if what we said might happen happens. We want to know how we can improve ourselves, so we need to know what we are doing right and what we need to work on.

Generally not acceptable

💫Asking about celebrity crushes. No, they most likely will not end up marrying you and having children with you. You have no idea how often this is asked to a reader and how many negative reviews are given because of the answers. Don't do it.

💫Leaving a negative review because the reading was not what you wanted to hear. Tarot and other tools dpn't care what you want, they tell you what you NEED. So don't leave rude comments because they told you that a certain behavior or relationship is toxic. It isn't kind. You came to the reader for the truth, and that is what they are giving to the best of their knowledge.

💫Ask for free readings. For a lot of us, this is our job, so asking for it for free when you are a complete stranger can be frustrating. It does take time and energy to do readings for others, so many readers want there to be some form of exchange. (More on this in the Readers Descration section below.)

💫Ask for readings for another person without their presence and consent. This is a violation of the third party's privacy, so it is not acceptable. Don't ask a reader about someone else's feelings, relationships, or life. If they want a reading, they need to ask for it themselves because it is not your place to trespass in their energy like that.

💫Legal and Medical help (including mental and physical help). If your reader just so happens to also be a professional in the field you are asking about, then this may be acceptable. However, most of us are not doctors or lawyers of any kind, so we are in no place to be giving any proper advice in these areas. These topics are best discussed with professionals.

Reader's Descretion

This section will cover some of the topics that may or may not be allowed depending on the reader. We will also talk about exchanges that some will accept and others may not.

💫Love. Not all readers want to discuss love unless it naturally shows up in the reading. Be sure to ask if a reader will accept these kinds of readings before hand, and don't get upset if they don't feel comfortable with it.

💫Death and Spirits. There are some readers out there who can and will connect to spirits and act as a medium as well, but not all of us. As for death, the majority don't feel comfortable with trying to see how and when a loved one will die, so ask beforehand if this is a topic they accept.

💫Pregnancy. If there are several cards that signify, then it may be brought up as a possibility, but most readers will not accept questions where the main focus is pregnancy.

💫Energetic Exchanges. Some readers will only accept money as payment, as is their right for providing a service. There are some, however, that will allow a read for read if both parties are readers (they will each conduct a reading of approximately the same depth for the other party, trading readings), and some will allow trades of items, art, music, and so on. This is something that should be discussed beforehand so that everyone is on the same page.

💫Some readers will offer free readings on occasion, some offer them regularly. If you are uncertain, ask if the reader has any free options. If they do not, then dont push them by asking them to make an exception. They are well within their rights to charge.

Please keep these in mind before asking someone for a reading! It will help everything to go a lot more smoothly as well as a more accurate and meaningful reading.

[I reposted this from an amino I am in because I figured it would be useful here as well, but I am the original author. I simply had it on the amino prior to this]