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This is a charging board!

It is a simple way to charge up and cleanse your crystals without having to focus on visualisation. Simply put your crystal in the center of a piece of paper, and write around it two categories of words: the things you want to fill your crystal with, and the things you want out of them. Then draw arrows pointing into the crystal for the positives, and away from it for the negatives.

This is a visual way to charge/cleanse without having to maintain focus. I’m certain it could work for any object you want to use, not just crystals!

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i’ve been seeing a lot of shitty divination advice going around on witchblr, especially concerning alternative tarot and cartomancy reading techniques. fuck that. anyways, here is the cartomancy system that i use lmao. it’s based heavily (but not exactly) on the minor arcana of the thoth tarot deck. there are a ton of playing card divination systems that often conflict or rely on really niche esoteric folk symbolism, so i just use this system. it works for me, it can work for you. great for if you dont have any tarot cards on hand, even better for parties. give a reading with the cards they were just playing with! never fails to impress haha. the absence of the major arcana also keeps the mood light without losing any of the details.

this system uses words that are collectively idealized. it’s a system to work with the ego. remember, with truth comes burden and with pleasure comes pain. 

magic = power, force, unseen nature, divine will

compassion = love in all it’s forms (storge, philia, eros, and agape)

understanding = knowledge and application of human machination(s)

opportunity = a moment in space/time for new manifestations

the court cards represent people, objects, events and otherwise tangible focal points of any readings they appear in

i’ll also mark the jokers, one as The Fool and another as The World. if there is a 3rd joker, i toss it. but marking it as The Devil or even as The Lover would be good options imho. 

hope this is helpful to someone out there <3

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Top Ward Mistakes I

These are some common reasons why wards, even powerful ones, fail at times. I have noticed these over the years, through my mistakes and others. 

Not enough layers: Wards are made of pure energy, and usually aren’t sentient- meaning they aren’t smart and usually don’t adjust to different attackers. Without the ability to adjust, attackers can get by with ease. Having multiple layers of wards helps prevent this. While layers will vary of course based on your needs, I always recommend three basic layers for a ward, going outwards to the inside: 1) non-detection, 2) offensive ward, 3) defensive ward. The reason for these particular layers being: an attacker can’t attack if it can’t find you. If they do find you, they are then dissuaded by a ward that attacks them. They will have to go through the ward that hurts them to even get to the ward that defends you, thus weakening them and making it harder to get through that final line of defense at the same time.

Too rigid: What shatters more easily when hit- a plastic case, or a rubber ball? The plastic case- why? Because it is super rigid and unable to bend; thus, just one concentrated hit could break through it with ease. This applies to wards as well- you don’t want your wards to be unable to bend- else they shatter under a concentrated hit. Being flexible doesn’t make a ward weaker- you can still have a super tough and thick ward that bends!

Not selective or specific enough: “Keep out malicious entities.” Okay, well what do you mean by malicious? Being as specific as possible is best when it comes to protections. Instead of just saying “malicious” how about- “those that would bring me nightmares”, “those that would harm me”. This also ties into the next point-

…From whose point of view?: Okay, you did it, you made your ward. “Keep out anything with malicious intent.” But the key is…who judges the malicious intent? A nasty entity could easily go, “this is good for me!” and bypass the ward. Additionally, an abusive entity who believes, from their point of view, that what they are doing is “helping” you, and thus not malicious, could easily bypass an unspecific ward. It is best to say something along the lines of, “Things I deem as a malicious intention.” That way, it is based on YOUR judgement alone, what YOU deem as bad, and thus it cannot be interpreted any other way by trickster entities.

A circular wall, or a sphere?: You made your ward- it’s selective, not super rigid, and you made sure the terms were from your point of view. And yet- it’s still easily bypassed! Bad Entities appear in your room, seemingly untouched by the wards. What could’ve happened? Well- this ability called “teleportation” exists. If your innermost ward is a circular wall- not filled in- then an entity could easily bypass your wards just by teleporting directly to you or directly into your space! To protect against this, you want your innermost ward to be like a sphere- filled in on the inside with protective energies as well. Thus, the constraints applying to the outer layers of your wards (no malicious intent from my point of view) are applied to your actual space as well- thus nullifying the teleporting ability, or dealing damage to any entities that manage to teleport inside anyways.  

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》 a list of witchy apps I use

These apps are all free and easy to use. Keep in mind that I have an android phone, so some of these may not be aviable on IOS/Iphone.

🔮 Spellcaster : a simple app that contains a very small Spell Book, 3 cards tarot readings and a daily horoscope. Crystals guide and rune readings must be purchased separately.

📜 Wicca Calendar : a calendar for wiccan sabbats, it also has a Book Of Shadows you can fill, a glossary and it tells you the current moon phase. I'm not sure if the app is aviable only in Italian or if there is also an english translation.

🌌 Mystic Mondays: this app is very aesthetically pleasing. It has a tarot library with the meanings of each card, and a "card of the day" feature.

🗝 Labyrinthos: this one is Amazing with a capital "A". It's a tarot app but with lots of features! It has multiple tarot decks and a LOT of tarot spreads. And there is also a section for lessons, on all tarot cards (both upright and reversed), lenormand cards, moon phases, astrology and advanced tarot lessons!

👁 Seventh Sphere: this is a Lenormand & Tarot app, there are lessons and card meanings for both. It features 5 Lenormand spreads and 3 tarot spreads.

🌜It's just a phase: a simple app for moon phases! Also it tells you in wich sign the moon is. You can leave notes on how you feel, and there is also a crystal ball.

💫 Sanctuary: this is an astrology/horoscope app. I chose this app becuase it takes in consideration your natal chart and not only the sun sign. It gives you daily horiscope for your sun and rising sign, and a lucky emoji for the day. Inside there are also astrology guides for the basics, planets, signs, moon phases, aspects, asteroid & comets, elements, modalities, nodes, transits and on the 12 houses.

🧿 Awoken: An app for lucid dreaming. It features a dream journal, totem sounds, reality check notifications and guides to lucid dreaming.

🎱 Numerology: This app is for learing all about numerology. It will calculate your life path, relationship with numbers and more. There is also a compatibility analysis.

🧹 I Love Hue Too: a relaxing game in which you have to order geometric shapes to make a color gradient. I play this for a bit to clear my mind before meditating. It's way better with earphones on. Also turn off wi-fi and outside data (3G,4G,etc) so you won't get ads

🌿 Viridi: a cute virtual succulent you can take care of.

🌧 Atmosphere: an ambient sound app with a lot of options (really, it amazing). I use it especially for the vast choice of rain sounds, I find it very relaxing.

🍵 Amino: not a witchy app per se, but there are a lot of different witchcraft communities you can join.

- Crow

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cauldron kitties !

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“I’m Committed To My Goals”

Keep this sigil up somewhere as a reminder to stay committed to your goal. If it’s a job or work related goal keep it in your office or locker. If it’s a savings related goal draw it on the back of your debit or credit card, or keep it in your wallet. If it’s a fitness related goal sew it into your workout clothes or a sweat cloth or draw it on a water bottle you use.

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Fun little thing about medieval medicine.

So there's this old German remedy for getting rid of boils. A mix of eggshells, egg whites, and sulfur rubbed into the boil while reciting the incantation and saying five Paternosters. And according to my prof's friend (a doctor), it's all very sensible. The eggshells abrade the skin so the sulfur can sink in and fry the boil. The egg white forms a flexible protective barrier. The incantation and prayers are important because you need to rub it in for a certain amount of time.

It's easy to take the magic words as superstition, but they're important.

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I hope you all had a wonderful Mabon and enjoy the rest of the Fall Equinox as the leaves start to change. I find it to be so peaceful around this time of year, just listening to the rain. <3

Can’t wait for cloak weather!!

The rest of this set can be found on my Patreon Page. :)

https://www.patreon.com/archerinventive

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Candle Color Correspondence 🕯🔮

🕯RED: Binding, Courage, Strength, Lust, Magnetism, Competitiveness, Fertility, Health, Attraction, Protection Magick, Conflict, Dispelling Anger & Hate.

🕯PINK: Emotional Healing, Spiritual Healing, Love, Friendship, Compassion, Protection if Children, Affection.

🕯ORANGE: Luck, Strength, Power, Attracting Luck, Creativity, Success, Professional Growth, Justice, Energy, Happiness, Ambition.

🕯YELLOW: Clairvoyance, Communication, Action, Inspiration, Psychic Power, Memory, Divination, Confidence, Imagination, Wisdom, The Sun.

🕯GREEN: Mother Earth, Balance, Growth, Wealth, Money, Health, Dispelling Envy & Jealously, Dispelling Greed, Beauty, Abundance, Luck, Harmony, Fertility.

🕯BLUE: Communication, Inspiration, Harmony, Occult Wisdom, Forgiveness, Fidelity, Focus, Protection, Truth, Loyalty, Banishing Anger.

🕯PURPLE: 3rd Eye, Psychic Power, Spirituality, Confidence, Success, Divination, Contacting Spirits, Increase of Willpower & Inner Strength, Independence, Spiritual Guidance, Protection.

🕯WHITE: Peace, Truth, Purification, Protection, Spirituality, Positive Outcome, Happiness, Moon Magick, Cleansing, Balance.

WHITE CAN BE USED IN PLACE OF ALL COLORS DURING SPELLS AND RITUALS

🕯BLACK: Binding, Dispelling, Reversing of Spells Hexes and Curses, Destruction of Evil & Negative, Habit Breaking, Grounding & Protecting, Repelling Spells.

🕯BROWN: Friendship & Balance, Intuition, Concentration, Animal & Earth Magick, Healing, Locating lost objects, Blessing of a Home.

🕯INDIGO: Balance restoring, Spell Blocking, Creating Balance, Karma.

🕯GOLD: Divination, Luck, Money, Success, Wealth, Sun Worship

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I’m a mod here! Come hang out

Hello there, well met, and welcome to Spellcraft and Sundry!  We here at S&S are a community of witches all clustered together into one server.  We recently have done some remodeling, and we’ll be adding more channels as the demand for them grows!  At S&S we aim to be a positive and kind community, striving to help others grow and learn more about themselves and the craft!  We all want to be able to help each other and share our findings in our Journey, and we all appreciate the new and amazing additions everyone contributes to our server! 

 Things we have include: 

-custom roles  -a custom conlang/witchlang that’s in the making (ensinari) -new channels when the need arises -a welcoming community of like-minded people -lgbtqia+ friend community -and more! 

You can find the link or code to join us in our blog description since tumblr isn’t a huge fan of links. We hope you would like to join our server, have an amazing day!

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we have redone the server, starting new! come join us :D

https://discord.gg/rKk5EM5

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Offering: Leaf Envelopes

Recently I saw a very cute post about using leaf envelopes as a vessel for offerings and prayer. So in honor of Lughnasadh, I decided to try a few!

I started with large leaves (elephant ear) cut into 10cm x 10cm squares, and folded two corners inward like so:

Then fold the bottom corner up as well, and glue in place.

For one I made it to help with my Mental Health.

Inside: Rosemary (healing)

Ginger (success)

Sage (wisdom)

Blessed Thistle (purification)

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(stability)

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(clarity)

This was charged with Abalone, Bloodstone and pink, blue and white candles.

Another I made for devotion to Arianrhod.

Inside: Lavendar (healing)

Sage (prosperity)

Bay leaf (protection)

Rose Petals (love, luck)

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(rebirth)

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(growth)

This was charged with Moonstone, Selenite, Smoky Quartz and purple and white candles.

Last step is to fold down the top corner, and seal with wax. To add to the wax I used a seed on silver wax for Arianrhod and part of a pinecone on blue wax for Mental Health.

These are very customizable and pretty easy to put together! I love the way they look on my altar, and I have two more planned that I'll add when I make them.

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Spellcraft & Sundry - Discord Server

What is discord? Discord is basically like skype, but with more options. You can create a “server”, like Spellcraft & Sundry, and within that server, you can have multiple “chats” or rooms, such as “divination” or “cosmic-astrology”.  You can check out discord’s list of features here!

What’s Spellcraft & Sundry? It’s a community of witches who help each other learn, make friends, and have fun. We do daily activities and hold lessons about a variety of topics. We also have a variety of roles so you can notify people who have that role and they’ll get a notification, for example, if I wanted to know about tarot I would type @tarot and everyone with that role would be notified. 

How do I join? 1. Sign up for discord at discordapp.com 2. Click this link or hit join server and put in this code: EpU4TNx 3. That’s it!

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I am aware that we are living in this overwhelming trend of everything being casual - faith and practice alike - and while I understand it and appreciate it in some contexts, I deeply mourn it in all the others.

witchcraft is all memes and jokes and pretty moodboards, gods are all buddies and punch lines in a joke - rituals are just quirky, and prayer has to sound funny, and blase, and casual, off-hand. and that is fine. it is okay. everyone has their own way of approaching their path, and gods know that our old pagan faiths have never been solemn worship and stuck-up silent celebrations.

but I encourage everyone to abandon this need to be casual at least in one aspect of their path - laugh, be merry, joke, of course, speak to your gods as to your friends, but for once in a blue moon do not be casual about it. forget to be cool and blase and unaffected for a moment. let the worship swallow you, let the celebration drown you in gold and hymn, let the prayer make the earth tremble with its power. don’t just be yourself in this moment, snap out of your ordinary thought - be the highest priestess, be the beast, be the oracle. be both the altar, and the offering, and the knife that cuts it. allow yourself to be both elevated and wild, mortal and forever in that moment. abandon the shame and fear of being too deep into it. don’t be just cozy and comfortable with the warmth of your worship, burn with it - and burn madly, and reach the skies with your flames. 

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Update on my pentacle garden altar - plants inside: mugwort, hosta, calla lilly, parsley, mint, petunias, bugleweed, marshmallow, chamomile, calendula, periwinkle, and rosemary.

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The Wiccan’s Glossary

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My cat and fox skeletons.