#12 magical nights

[christowitch]

It’s time for….

12 Magical Nights!

What you need:

13 slips of paper

A pen

A bowl or jar

A journal

Tarot cards.

A candle

A safe space to burn things.

What you will do:

Write down one thing you want to happen or want for yourself in the coming year on each piece of paper.

Fold the paper and place in the bowl.

Each night from the 21st-the 1st you will light your candle and take a scrap of paper (no peeking) and burn it. Then shuffle your tarot and pull a card. The card on each night will be your card for the month of the up coming year. Write it down and see what it says for the year.

When you get to the last night you will have two scraps of paper left. Burn one and then open the last one.

The other wishes have been sent to whom or wherever to handle while this last one.. the last one is up to you. Think of it as your resolution. It’s your goal to achieve while the universe works on the others.

Have a happy Yule my loves!

[groundedgreenwitch]

12 magical nights

june’s card: king of cups (reversed)

[fancassticfiction]

So, I did this manifestation ritual at the end of 2023, and I thought I would reflect on what happened and what didn't.

Frist, a bit about the ritual. It's called the 12 Magical Nights. In a notebook, on the 20th, you write down thirteen things that you have the power to make happen in your life. You then fold up each individual wish and burn one wish a day for the 12 days following. You don't look at the wishes. They are for the universe/fate/whatever diving entity you believe in to know. Now, if you're here thinking I'm bad at math, you aren't wrong, but not about this. After you burn your twelve wishes, the thirteenth wish becomes your responsibility because you can't just leave everything to fate. I wrote all thirteen in my journal just to reflect at the end. I have a video that breaks it down more at the end of this post.

But now I want to reflect, so here are the manifestations I made:

I thought I'd reflect on them since I'll do this year's ritual this Friday.

1. Publish my thesis - this one didn't happen. The process of trying to adapt this to multiple journals and their many different requirements just to be told my thesis was too unconventional and too personal was just not worth the very little time I had. I've recently been humoring the idea of just posting the whole damn thing on here or something.

2. Going to see multiple concerts in 2024! - This one happened! At the time of writing my manifestations, I only had tickets for Hozier, but not long into the year, Sleep Token announced a tour that I ended up going to! So this one came true!

3. Go on 3 dates! - This one definitely happened! I had been on 3 dates by March and met my now-ex boyfriend. We went on many dates.

4. Get a new record player! - I forgot I had manifested this one, but yeah! She just came in last week! The speakers for her come in Tuesday.

5. Going to strengthen friendships and meet new friends! - I'm very thankful. This was the wish I didn't burn, so this became my responsibility, and both happened! Thanks to my concert wish, I made some incredible new friends, some of whom are on here and who I'm very thankful for meeting (even if we're just goofy pictures of masked men to each other). I even met someone who lives just a mile down the road from me when I went to see Sleep Token in another fucking state.

6. Find a way to resolve stagnation in my career - I'm debating on if this one has happened or not because I did find a way to resolve my stagnation, but I'm not sure i want to go through with the solution I found. I've been debating on trying to teach in a new school district or quitting teaching all together (both ideas scare me.)

7. More opportunities to write - I won't go into a lot of detail here, but one of my beloved mutuals showed me a chance to write about music for a publication...and I got it. it's unpaid, but I don't give a shit about that because I ACTUALLY HAVE A CHANCE TO WRITE AGAIN, which actually feels pretty fucking great. I can't wait to tell you all about it when some of the writing happens. :)

8. Meet some online friends in real life - I actually had a plan to meet a friend over the summer, but something happened in their outside life that kept that from happening. I didn't get to see them because of it. I did however send some mail to some other friends in a little informal summer gift exchange, and I have those gifts in a place of honor. 🩷

9. Celebrate my sibling's graduation - So, this one didn't happen yet because things happened. However, they start their capstone in January, so the time is getting close at hand!

10. Get a larger bed - I made this list when I was sharing a twin bed with three cats, and I thought a larger bed would give me more space to sleep. Now, I share a full bed with three cats and still have no room to sleep.

11. Build my personal and professional confidence - I'm the department chair and have been invited to conferences. I feel pretty confident at work (at least until kids and their parents hit me with some emotionally abusive bullshit). I also took the scary leap to start dating, and I feel pretty good about that (even if my relationship ended). I have also become quite a road trip fiend even though I used to hate driving (the things I do to see live music).

12. Start therapy - This should've happened. It needs to. I just haven't.

13. Start singing lessons—I'm going to try this manifestation again. As a teacher, I could use voice lessons; teachers get significant vocal damage. Also, I used to sing all the time, and it would be fun to jump back into it with some actual training this time.

And here is the video for anyone that wants a breakdown.

[cleverlyconfidential]

Day 11/12

Day eleven of the 12 Days of Dreaming. How are you feeling as we approach the end of this cycle of intentional dreaming, wish-making, and manifesting? For me, it’s a mix of hopefulness and exhaustion—a good kind of tired, like after a workout or finishing a creative project I poured my heart into. There’s satisfaction in the effort, but also a readiness to rest and reflect. Today, the Eleventh…

[thecleverconfidante]

Day 11/12

Day eleven of the 12 Days of Dreaming. How are you feeling as we approach the end of this cycle of intentional dreaming, wish-making, and manifesting? For me, it’s a mix of hopefulness and exhaustion—a good kind of tired, like after a workout or finishing a creative project I poured my heart into. There’s satisfaction in the effort, but also a readiness to rest and reflect. Today, the Eleventh…

[asdis-die-hexe]

[aakipple]

some of my favorite stills from a cherry magic animatic i made yesterday :)

[sprinklesharkie]

duality of girl

[oohbuggypie]

OMFG I FORGOT YOU ALSO SHIP MAGIC COMBAT BOOTS

Ne ways pls gimmie anything for em- silly hcs, silly art, anything plssss

~ fna-mans

IM SO LATE IM SRRY CHARLIEEE .. but MAGIC COMBAT BOOTS ART IS OUT 4 ALL TO FEAST UPON 🩷 i never see Kaiser + Tiger appreciation so i wanted to put some extra love into this one !! Kaiser reads his magazine for entertainment while Tiger chooses to count his lover's moles for fun instead,, which he can never get a straight answer from 🩷

all that's scribbled out is my pen testing and crayon scratches so pls ignore that ! ANYWAYZZ um i exited out of Google Translate after fighting 4 my LIFE trying to write the Hindi correctly and i actually teared up bcuz now i don't know EXACTLY what he's saying but attempted translations below !

Hindi text reads:

"...और यह दोनों भुजाओं से 43 है। क्या इस बार मैंने सही गिनती की?"

English translation:

"...and that's 43 from both arms. Did I count right this time?"

German text reads:

"Letztes Mal hast du 55 gezählt. Viel Glück beim nächsten Mal, Liebes."

English translation:

"Last time you counted 55. Better luck next time, dear."

LAST EDIT ON THIS POST I SWEAR but i forgot the super smooshed and incomplete text cuz I couldn't fit it on the magazine says "Schnurrbärte", German for mustaches 🩷

hope u like this Charlie, again srry 4 the long wait but i hope u love it 🥹

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

one thing abt being disabled/chronically ill that some people don’t get is that sometimes body maintenance that ensures you have the absolute minimum amount of function can also be something that takes away a lot of control and autonomy. you can argue till the cows come home that making those decisions to try and help yourself (or realistically to try to make sure things aren’t worse than they already are) is something that exhibits control and autonomy and stuff, but they can be so limiting in practice because they’re things that take up so much time but have to be done to do anything else

[freshthoughts2020]

[groundedgreenwitch]

*~magick up close~*

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (April 12th)

Miss Buckingham Stussy/Miss Buckin (One Piece)

Syuya Nakayama (Big Windup!)

Cowboy (One Piece)

Ikue (Pop’n Music)

Hajime (Pop’n Music)

John.A.Chopper (Pop’n Music)

Takahashi (Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan)

Kazuradrop (Fate/Extra)

Melba (Animal Crossing)

Melorina (Jewelpet)

Koriki No. 2 (Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan)

Zeus Iliopoulos (Prince of Tennis)

Mitsuru Tokieda (World Trigger)

Miyuki Mikage (Tokyo Ghoul:re)

Apricot (Magical Pokémon Journey)

Parada (Seven Deadly Sins)

Hinata Mitsutsuka (ACTORS -Songs Connection-)

Verdant (Arknights)

[cleverlyconfidential]

Day 10/12

We are drawing near to the end of the 12 Days of Dreaming—it’s Day Ten. The tenth day of Yule, or Winter Solstice, marks a pivotal moment of celebration across cultures, uniting us in a shared reverence for the rebirth of the sun after the year’s longest night. This day honors the promise of renewal, a gentle yet powerful reminder that even in the darkest moments, the light will always return.…

[thecleverconfidante]

Day 10/12

We are drawing near to the end of the 12 Days of Dreaming—it’s Day Ten. The tenth day of Yule, or Winter Solstice, marks a pivotal moment of celebration across cultures, uniting us in a shared reverence for the rebirth of the sun after the year’s longest night. This day honors the promise of renewal, a gentle yet powerful reminder that even in the darkest moments, the light will always return.…