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hola barberwitch. 63 yr old male Pagan based witch. Glad you're back. we have never met nor chatted yet, but i'm glad to see some folks that are a little longer down the path than new ones. Not sure what you posted before but it sounds like it was frequent; that's the kind of folk i'm looking for. Perhaps i'll work up the courage to post my Shadows...

best from south dakota,

Bart

I had some very positive messages and reposts, but your response solidified it for me.

While I’ve been on my path a while, just the length of life gives some perspective, so I really appreciate your outreach.

I did post frequently, I would do a witch tip Wednesday (to be honest [tbh] I think I was one of the first since I started so long ago) and some general tarot pulls either for the community at large or a specific tarot pull that just came through that I figured would be helpful for one of my followers.

While I’d love to see your book of shadows or personal working, I will say that I only shared some general personal workings, or would share 3/5ths of what some of me workings were. I have a post specifically (somewhere) about leaving some thing out because I’m a community of witches, you do want to leave some stuff out on the off hand you need to do a working against another witch 😅

I’ve done this for reasons you’ll probably get. 1) I gave structures with the hope that others would tailor things to their craft because mine is varied but specific. 2) I trust my perspective and while it may work, I don’t know the motivation on strangers on the internet.

I’ve given and done full working for and with friends or clients because I know where they coming from. I do baneful and left hand path stuff as part of my practice, and aside from that, I work with a lot of poisonous and toxic plants so I’m tentative of telling people to work with something that could potentially make them hallucinate, or give them heart palpitations as young adult.

Thanks for reaching out Bart, there’s some good magic in South Dakota that unless I lived there, I’ll never be able to use.

Since this is the first post from my touch stone and others will see:

I’m going to go back through all my posts, my advice and my personal practice and organize it. Maybe it’ll end up a book someday or even a series since I have a few friends who’ve published their craft.

Mostly, I need to remember what I’ve said and what I’ve posted so I don’t repeat myself when past self spent every Tuesday picking a perfect GIF and formatting my post.

Cheers,

🪢 Mr. Moonflower

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One advice I can give to new/young pagans today is that any religion that demands 100% of your time, energy, commitment, and devotion is a cult, pagan or not, so don't fall for that.

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Ascendant by Sam Gushue

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Hellenic Gods Fact Sheets and Hymns: Hecate

Other Names: Trivia, Brimo

Epithets: Anassa eneroi  (queen of those below), Aidonaia (lady of the Underworld), Amibousa (she who changes), Atalus (tender, delicate), Borborophorba (she who feeds on filth), Brimo (angry, terrifying), Despoina (mistress), Eileithyia (of childbirth), Enodia (of the roads), Epaine (dread), Euplokamos (bright-tressed), Khthonia (of the Underworld), Kleidouchos (keeper of the keys), Kourotrophos (protector of children), Krokopelos (saffron-robed), Liparokredemnos (bright-coiffed), Nycteria (nocturnal; of the night), Nyctipolos (night-wandering), Perseis (destroyer/ daughter of Perses), Phosphoros (light bearer), Propolos (guide), Propylaia (the one before the gate), Scylacagetis (leader of dogs), Soteira (savior), Trikephalos (three-headed/of the crossroads), Trimorphos (three-formed), Trioditis (of the three ways), Trivia (of the three ways).

Domains: Witchcraft, magic, necromancy, ghosts, nightmares, death, initiation, the crossroads, gateways, passage between worlds, and the night.

Appearance: [My UPG] A tall (over 6’) woman, neither young nor old, with waist-length black hair, pale skin, prominent cheekbones, a heavy jaw, and intense green eyes. She is usually dressed in black folds molded into a simple dress or robes. She has a severe expression and an intimidating presence. She speaks with a low voice.

Sacred Days and Festivals: Eleusinia (22 Metageitnion). Nemoralia (August 13th-15th). Deipnon, last day of each (lunar) month.

Symbols/Attributes: Torches, keys, daggers, strophalos (iynx wheel)

Sacred Animals: Dog, polecat, serpent, horse, frog.

Sacred Plants: Yew, cypress, garlic, willow, hazel, black poplar, aconite, belladonna, dittany, mandrake, hemlock, asphodel

Elemental Affinity: Darkness, light, fire

Planet: Moon

Colors: Black, saffron, silver.

Crystals: Black onyx, hematite, obsidian, black tourmaline, moonstone, smoky quartz, agate, amethyst.

Incense: Myrrh, almond, cypress, camphor, saffron, mugwort, pomegranate.

Tarot Cards: The High Priestess, The Moon, Death

Retinue: Empousai, ghosts of the dead, dogs, Lampades (torch-bearing underworld nymphs)

Associated People: Witches (and other magic-users), the dead

Offerings: Bread, eggs, honey, garlic, menstrual blood, graveyard dirt.

Syncretized With: Artemis, Diana, Persephone, Eileithyia, Selene, Nephthys, Ereshkigal, Nicnevin, Heqet

Hymns to Hecate

Orphic Hymn to Hecate

Hekate Enodia, Trivia, lovely dame, Of earthly, watery, and celestial frame, Sepulchral, in a saffron veil arrayed, Pleased with dark ghosts that wander through the shade; Daughter of Perses, solitary goddess, hail! The world’s key-bearer, never doomed to fail; In stags rejoicing, huntress, nightly seen, And drawn by bulls, unconquerable, monstrous queen; Leader, Nymphe, nurse, on mountains wandering, Hear the suppliants who with holy rites thy power revere, And to the herdsman with a favoring mind draw near.

Hecate’s Hymn to Herself

I come, a virgin of varied forms, wandering through the heavens, bull-faced, three-headed, ruthless, with golden arrows; chaste Phoebe bringing light to mortals, Eileithyia; bearing the three synthemata [sacred signs] of a triple nature.  In the Aether I appear in fiery forms and in the air I sit in a silver chariot, Earth reins in my black brood of puppies.

(From Porphyry’s lost commentary on the Chaldean Oracles, preserved by Eusebius of Caesaria in Praeparatio Evangelica. According to Porphyry, this hymn was composed by Hecate herself.)

Magical Invocation to Hecate

Approach, you of the netherworld, of earth, of heaven, Bombo! You by the wayside, at the crossroads, light-bearer, night-wanderer, Enemy of light, friend and companion of night, Rejoicing in the howl of dogs and in crimson gore, Lurking among the corpses and the tombs of lifeless dust, Lusting for blood, bringing terror to mortals, Grim one, Ogress [Mormo], Moon – you of many forms, May you come gracious to our sacrificial rites!

(Preserved in Refutation to All Heresies by Hippolytus)

Invocation to Hecate from PGM IV 2708-84

Come, giant Hecate, Dione’s guard, O Persia [daughter of Perses], Baubo Phroune, dart-shooter, Unconquered Lydian, the one untamed, Sired nobly, torch-bearing, guide, who bends down Proud necks, Kore, hear, you who’ve parted / gates Of steel unbreakable. O Artemis, Who, too, were once protectress, mighty one, Mistress, who burst forth from the earth, dog-leader, All-tamer, crossroad goddess, triple-headed, Bringer of light, august / virgin, I call you Fawn-slayer, crafty, O infernal one, And many-formed. Come, Hekate, goddess Of three ways, who with your fire-breathing phantoms Have been allotted dreaded roads and harsh / Enchantments, Hekate I call you

[…]

O Hekate of many names, O Virgin, Kore, Goddess, come, I ask, O guard and shelter of the threshing floor Persephone, O triple-headed goddess, Who walk on fire, cow-eyed BOUORPHORBE PANPHORBA PHORBARA AKITOPHI ERESHKIGAL / NEBOUTOSOUALETH Beside the doors, PYPYLEDEDEZO And gate-breaker; Come Hekate, of firey Counsel, I call you to my sacred chants.

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Apollo, god of the sun, medicine, prophecy and archery. Please take this e-offering as a showing of my devotion x

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Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

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Friendly reminder that:

The concept of starseeds promotes ableism by minimizing or denying ADHD and autism.

The ancient astronaut hypothesis promotes spiritual colonialism and destruction of other cultures by twisting other people's mythologies and sacred texts to fit their narratives.

The reptilian alien mythology is based on conspiracy theories historically used to justify oppressing and murdering real people. Loosh/blood/adrenochrome harvesting is just repackaged blood libel.

New Age mythology is chock full of repackaged right wing conspiracy theories, the same kind pushed by QAnon.

It's also full of repackaged racist pseudoscience about genetic superiority/inferiority and the function of evolution.

Ascension to 5D was supposed to have happened back in 2012, and the prediction failed.

New Agers are recycling their predictions over and over to catch new waves of people who don't know the movement's history.

Belief in Atlantis is strongly motivated by white supremacy.

For more info, see:

Looks like it's time to talk about starseeds and the New Age movement again.

How the mythology of starseeds, indigo children, crystal children, rainbow children, etc. harms kids

New Age YouTube channel caught recycling claims of imminent "first contact" for three years

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

What is spiritual eugenics?

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

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Even when it seems hopeless, don't give up

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take a deep breath, everything will be okay

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Apollo :) my fav Greek deity

Based off this statue:

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good morning and happy sunday, lord apollon,

protector of the young and god of plague.

thank you for the light that shines through my window,

i call this prayer to honor you and express my admiration.

bright shining apollon, hear my words and please enjoy the offerings i give you throughout the day.

it will be as you allow it 💛

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i praise you lady athena,

leader of battles, sprung from the head of zeus,

i say this prayer out of devotion and love for you.

i say thanks for all the wisdom you bring us,

i don't ask for anything besides for you to be with me.

it will be, as you allow it, i believe in your guidance.

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If you don't believe that crystals can keep away negative people in your life you've obviously never thrown one hard enough, my personal favourite that i recommend is called brick

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🕯🔥☀️🍂❤️🍂☀️🔥🕯

May Hestia keep your heart and soul warm, even in the darkest of times.

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the struggle

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Aurora and frozen trees

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