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Yemen is facing the worlds largest hunger crisis and the world is too quiet.

And it’s the children that pay the highest price. An estimated 85,000 children have lost their lives to extreme starvation alone. Every 10 minutes, a child under 5 dies of preventable causes in Yemen. When choosing what charities or goals you want to support during the last few days of Ramadan, I urge you to keep the children of Yemen in mind. And if you’re not celebrating Ramadan, or are not religious.. you’re still human.

These are a few of charities that I know of that you can donate to:

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/yemen-crisis?

https://www.muslimglobalrelief.org/yemen-appeal (100% donation policy)

https://oxfamapps.org.uk/yemen

https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/yemen-crisis-appeal

http://sharethemeal.org

Remember, it’s the smallest donations that build up or even just rebloging/sharing would help. May Allah smile upon us all, and relieve the children of this world of their heartache.

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This Day in History: Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United Sates. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

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W.I.T.C.H. BOSTON | INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST COVEN | RITUAL & RESISTANCE | witchboston.org

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CIRCLE CASTING 101

A magickal circle is an energetic construct that you build or envision around yourself before working magick, doing a ritual, some like to cast a circle before meditating or reading tarots. For a solitary practitioner the circle is typically 5-6 ft in diameter, but the size expands based on the size of the group. It can be defined physically, energetically, or both.

Circles provide protection and serves as a container for your personal energy as well as the energy you conjure.

Please remember that this is just what i personally like to do when casting a circle, but that there are many methods.

Preparation for circle casting

1. Determine how much space you will need.

2. Cleanse your area. Vacuum, sweep, throw away any trash in the area.

3.Make sure you have everything you need for your ritual! Theres nothing more frustrating than having your circle casted and realizing you’ve forgotten an herb or any supplies you need for the work you’re about to do.

4. Purify your area. Light purifying incense, sage, sprinkle salt and holy 💧. Most importantly, Visualize the negative energy dispersing. If you don’t focus & visualize, your physical actions will have little effect. Visualization is hands down one of the most important things in any and all magickal workings!

5. Now its time to cast your circle!

Visualize protective energy coming from within you and direct it towards your casting arm. Focus it through a casting tool (Athame, wand, or ✋)  and visualize a beam of energy coming from it and settling on the ground. Trace your circle with this energy, 3 times in a clockwise direction. Once for protection, once for focus, and once for power.

Call the 4 quarters

Face North and say “I call to the North, to the element of Earth. Grant me (us if not practicing alone) your endurance, your strength.”                                  Sprinkle salt onto your altar or crumble soil into a bowl on your altar.

Face East and say “I call to the East, to the element of Air. Grant me your creativity and your intuition.”                                                                             Light incense, wave a fan,or drop feathers onto your altar.

Face south and say “I call to the South, to the element of Fire. Grant me your passion and your energy.”                                                                                 Light candles.

Face west and say “I call to the West, to the element of Water. Grant me your empathy and your emotion.”                                                                              Pour blessed/storm/moon/natural water into a bowl or into your chalice.

Now would be the time to call on any deities you’d wish to work with. You can call any Goddess or Angel by personalizing this to them. I typically do not personally work with deities, but if you were to want to, Call to them similar to how the Elements are called. Ex. “I call to Gaia, Mother Goddess, Spirit of Earth.” and then place an offering symbolizing them, so for Gaia you might place  grain on your altar as an offering.

If not solitary, now would be the time to invite others to the circle. The group leader typically invites others in by a series of phrases, although i know every coven has their own method fine tuned for themselves, This is just the method i’ve seen used and am familiar with.                                                                    Group leader:”Children of the Goddess, I now invite you to enter our circle.” Each member will be asked “How do you enter this circle?” The response should be “In perfect love and perfect trust.”

Now its time to raise energy. This is the most important part of this process. It is so important because when you open your circle at the end of spellwork, You release all of your energy you have filled with intent out into the universe to go manifest whatever it may be you have called to. You want as much energy as possible to be released carrying your intent!

Here are a few ways! There is no wrong way to do this part, and there are SO MANY ways. You can fine tune this all to you. Remember that this is your ritual, and you want your energy fully behind everything you are doing. This is all customizable, most of all the energy raising.

-Witches Rune Chant

“Darksome night and shining Moon,

East, then South, then West, then North,

Hearken to the witches’ rune;

Here i come to call thee forth.

Earth and Water, Air and Fire.

Wand and pentacle and sword,

Work ye unto my desire,

Hearken ye into my word.

Cords and censer, scourge and knife,

Power of the witches blade waken all ye unto life,

Come ye as the charm is made.

Queen of Heaven, Queen of Hell, Lend your power unto my spell,

and work my will by magic rite.

By all the power of Land and Sea, By all the might of Moon and Sun,

As I do will, So mote it be;

Chant the spell, and be it done.

Eko, Eko Azarak

Eko, Eko Zamilak

Eko, Eko Karnayna

Eko, Eko Aradia”

-Meditating to raise energy. Visualize energy building and building by visualizing warm, yellow light fill your body until its expanding out of your body and filling the dome above your circle. visualize it filling with energy until you are content.

-Music or Drumming, Dancing and Chanting.

Once you reach your desired energy level, it is time to get into whatever spellwork or ritual you desire to preform!

After your spellwork, its time for Cakes and Ale. I like to make little spirit cakes and have some red wine after a ritual. Expelling all of that energy from your body is draining, and you should take your time to enjoy this part of the ritual. Set a cake and some wine aside for the entities who have lent you their energy as thanks. Cakes can be anything, from saltine crackers to cupcakes. Ale can be water. Anything that works for you is ok. For my cakes, i bake a shortbread and mix whatever ingredients i want into the dough. This way, I can craft them with the intent for whatever ritual i may be doing.

ONCE YOU FINISH YOUR WORK SAY GOODBYE TO THE ELEMENTS AND THANK THEM FOR THE POWER THEY BROUGHT. ALWAYS SAY GOODBYE AND THANK ANY DEITIES CALLED ON. 

HERE IS HOW I DO IT:

-Farewell to Goddess. ex. “I thank you, Gaia, for gracing me with your glory. Farewell and Merry met.”

-Farewell to Quarters (Counterclockwise). 

“My thanks to the element of Water, Your compassion was a gift. Farewell & Blessed be.” Now cover your dish of water or pour it out, Physically say goodbye as well.

“My thanks to the element of Fire, Your fierceness was a gift. Farewell & Blessed be.” Douse your candle. 

“My thanks to the element of Air, Your wisdom was a gift. Farewell & Blessed be.” Douse incense/flip fan/turn over feather.

“My thanks to the element of Earth, Your protection was a gift. Farewell & Blessed be.” Cover earth with a cloth, or return it to ground.

I like to walk the circle the opposite way of its casting three times, and voila!

Keep in mind that this is just my method! There are many methods and this is just one of them.

I hope this is helpful to you! 

-Love and light, @lapiscat

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Hey uh

Don’t practice closed religions or practices

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Via Pinterest | credit to @creature-witch for this amazing spread 🌿

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Via Pinterest

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Witchy Teas I use

Hello! I’m back, and because I’m obsessed with herbs and tea, I wanted to post about them!

Also,some of these plants can be found in the wild. Be sure to research them and take care of them properly before using them!

♡ For Sleep ♡

🌱 Lemon Balm (can also be used in energizing teas)

🌿 Lavender

🌱 Chamomile

♡ For Energy ♡

🌿 Oregano

🌱 Green Tea

🌿 Matcha

🌱 Black Tea

♡ For Health ♡

🌿 Ginger

🌱 Rosemary

🌿 Green Tea

🌱 Matcha

♡ For Pain Relief/ sicknesses♡

🌿 Raspberry leaves and alchemille for all feminine troubles

🌱 Mint

🌿 Ginger

🌱 Lemon

🌿 Honey

🌱 Meadowsweet for Pain Relief

🌿Fireweed for Stomach Issues (Be sure to drink a bit of it before traveling!)

♡ For Psychic Abilities ♡

🌱 Dandelion

🌿 Rosemary

🌱 Sage

🌿 Apple

🌱 Lavender

♡ For Empowerment ♡

🌿 Rose

🌱 Lavender

🌿 Raspberry leaves

🌱 Honey

Also

🌹 Boil crystal infused water ( take the crystals off and then boil it) to add a little bit of extra power to your tea!

🌸 Remember to charge your tea with your Energy!

🌹 Always, always make sure your ingredients are clean and safe before using them!

🌸 These are only suggestions and everybody feels the different way about different herbs. Hell, they’re different individuals as well, so your experiences might be different!

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this might sound silly but i’ve been trying to meditate for awhile now. i have add so reaching a full meditative state has taken some practice. but tonight i meditated with some crystals and it felt different but good! when i came out of it i had such a bad headache focused on like the top of my head? although it’s a pain it makes me feel like it worked <3

xx a baby witch

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them: you can’t go hiking in a dress

me: watch me. *picks up skirts and flounces towards the forest*

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why am i not pickin' strawberries in my lil' garden, next to my tiny yellow cottage in an eerie forest. i want the early morning sunlight pouring through the tree leaves and hear the birds chirping.

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These are called Fairy stones! Most of these are found in certain areas of Canada. They are actually formed by underwater colonies of tiny organisms. 

The property that is discussed in most legends is that of luck and prosperity! Fisherman used to carry these stones with them, or wear them during fishing and hunting trips!

For many centuries, these stones have also been used as gifts of love! Each one is unique and believed to embody the pure, unique love towards a partner.

Because these are concretions, they embody several grounding, stabilizing properties. They’re said to help the wearer remain pragmatic and stabilize thought processes.

I’ve used these for meditation and find that they really help me stay focused and each stone has a very unique energy and leads to a very different meditation session! Super cool!

Many psychics and those working on Astral Travel also prefer these stones as they help create a grounding tether during these activities.

One of the neatest things I’ve heard about these stones is that people believe they CHOOSE their owner. Once a Fairy Stone has chosen you, it remains your little helper as long as its needed! Awesome!

I have a few for sale in my shop!

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hi i’m a baby, closeted witch!

i post about my progress in the craft and whatever other witchy things i feel like <3

There’s so many of these posts, but like many others that post this, my dash is deceased. 

So reblog if you post about: 

Random Witch Things

Chaos Magic

Green Witchcraft

Witchy Herbs 

The Fae 

Runes and/or Sigils  

Norse Paganism/Heathenry 

Craft Names

And reblog if you’re: 

A Witchling/Baby Witch

LGBT+ Witch

A Witchy POC

A Male Witch 

A Closeted Witch 

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i can't wait to grow up and live my enchanted farm dreams!

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fae

question for all my lovely elder witches <3 

so, although my serious research into witchcraft hasn’t been extensively long i have always been very spiritual in a sense. growing up in a christian family i never felt myself being connected to the Christian God. I always felt called to the universe as a whole. does that make sense? 

i remember as kid always making “potions” in the woods out of sticks, leaves or whatever i could find. my little sister and i would also make up nonsense spells in whatever game we were playing. in my early teens my oldest sister introduced me to my love of crystals. she was a self proclaimed yogi and started to really get me in tune with my spirituality. from then on my practices slowly grew, i honestly didn’t even recognize i was practicing witchcraft. at that point i was just doing what made me feel good. i read so many books throughout this time; about auras, dreams, chakras etc. finally i realized i was being called to witchcraft, i guess it just took some time for me to let that sink in (all my other witches who grew up in religious households can relate). 

anyways, i brought up my interests as a child because a huge interest of mine was the fae. of course at the time i was so young, couldn’t have been older than like 8 when it all started, so i still thought of them as the little cartoony faeries you see in movies. i had these really pretty, ornate books all about faeries and my best friend at the time and i would always have sleepovers where we would read these books and take notes, creating like a mini book of shadows.

now, a 20 year old woman, i am still so enthralled by the fae. my knowledge has grown immensely since i was little and i now know why many choose not to work with the fae. i know more now but my knowledge is still growing on the subject. i know they are very complex and can be quite tricky but for some reason i cannot shake them from my mind. for some reason i feel like it’s some sort of sign. 

of course i do not plan to work with them anytime soon, regardless of the response to this post or not. it would be reckless for me to jump into that. for now i plan to keep researching them alongside the more fundamental aspects of the craft. i just wanted some more experienced people to give me their thoughts

(also this is a stupid question but when referring to the fae would it be faerie or faery, i’ve seen it both ways)

thank you,

xx a baby witch