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[greenwitchcrafts]

September 2024 Witch Guide

New Moon: September 2nd

First Quarter: September 11th

Full moon: September 17th

Last Quarter: September 24th

Sabbats: Mabon- September 22nd

September Harvest Moon

Also known as: Autumn Moon, Child Moon, Corn Harvest Moon, Falling Leaves Moon, Haligmonath, Leaves Turning Moon, Mating Moon, Moon of Brown Leaves, Moon When Dear Paw the Earth, Rutting Moon, Singing Moon, Wine Moon, Witumanoth & Yellow Leaf Moon

Element: Earth

Zodiac: Virgo & Libra

Nature spirts: Trooping Faeries

Deities: Brigid, Ceres, Chang-e, Demeter, Freya, Isis, Depths & Vesta

Animals: Jackal & snake

Birds: Ibis & sparrow

Trees: Bay, hawthorn, hazel & larch

Herbs: Copal, fennel, rye, skullcap, valerian, wheat & witch hazel

Flowers: Lily & narcissus

Scents: Bergamot, gardenia, mastic & storax

Stones: Bloodstone,carnelian, cat's eye, chrysolite, citrine, iolite, lapis lazuli, olivine, peridot, sapphire, spinel(blue), tourmaline(blue) & zircon

Colors: Browns, dark blue, Earth tones, green & yellow

Issues, intentions & powers: Confidence, the home, manifestation & protection

Energy: Balance of light & dark, cleaning & straightening of all kinds, dietary matters, employment, health, intellectual pursuits, prosperity, psychism, rest, spirituality, success & work environment

The full Moon that happens nearest to the fall equinox (September 22nd or 23rd) always takes on the name “Harvest Moon.” Unlike other full Moons, this full Moon rises at nearly the same time—around sunset—for several evenings in a row, giving farmers several extra evenings of moonlight & allowing them to finish their harvests before the frosts of fall arrive. 

• While September’s full Moon is usually known as the Harvest Moon, if October’s full Moon happens to occur closer to the equinox than September’s, it takes on the name “Harvest Moon” instead. In this case, September’s full Moon would be referred to as the Corn Moon.

This time of year—late summer into early fall—corresponds with the time of harvesting corn in much of the northern United States. For this reason, a number of Native American peoples traditionally used some variation of the name “Corn Moon” to refer to the Moon of either August or September. 

Mabon

Known as: Autumn Equinox, Cornucopia, Witch's Thanksgiving & Alban Elved

Season: Autumn

Element: Air

Symbols: Acorns, apples, autumn leaves, balance, berries, corn, cornucopia( Horn of Plenty), dried seeds, equality, gourds, grains, grapes, ivy, pine cones, pomegranates, vines, wheat, white roses & wine

Colors: Blue, brown, dark red, deep gold, gold, indigo, leaf green, maroon, orange, red, russet. Violet & yellow

Oils/Incense: Apple, apple blossom, benzoin, black pepper, hay/straw, myrrh, passion flower, patchouli, pine, red poppy & sage

Animals: Dog & Wolf

Birds: Goose, hawk, swallow & swan

Stones: Agate, amethyst, carnelian, lapis lazuli, sapphire, yellow Agate & yellow topaz

Food: Apples, blackberries, blackberry wine, breads, carrots, cider, corn, cornbread, grapes, heather wine, nuts, onions, pomegranates, potatoes, squash, vegetables, wheat & wine

Herbs/Plants: Benzoin, bramble, corn, ferns, grains, hops, ivy, milkweed, myrrh, sage sassafras, Salomon's seal, thistle, tobacco & wheat

Flowers:  Aster, heather, honeysuckle, marigold, mums, passion flower, rose

Trees: Aspen, cedar, cypress, hazel, locust, maple, myrtle oak & pine

Goddesses: Danu, Epona, Inanna, Ishtar, Modron, Morgan, The Morrigan, Muses, Pomona, Persephone, Sin, Sophia & Sura

Gods:  Bacchus, Dionysus, Dumuzi, Esus, The Green Man, Hermes, Mannanan, Thor & Thoth

Issues, Intentions & Powers: Accomplishment, agriculture, balance, goals, gratitude & grounding

Spellwork: Balance, harmony, protection, prosperity, security & self-confidence

Activities:

•Scatter offerings in a harvested fields & Offer libations to trees

• Decorate your home and/or altar space for fall

• Bake bread

• Perform a ritual to restore balance and harmony to your life

• Cleanse your home of negative energies

• Pick apples

• Collect fall themed things from nature like acorns, changing leaves, pine cones, ect)

• Have a dinner or feast with your family and/or friends

• Set intentions for the upcoming year

• Purge what is no longer serving you & commit to healthy changes

•Take a walk in the woods

• Enjoy a pumpkin spice latte

• Donate to your local food bank

• Gather dried herbs, plants, seeds & pods

• Learn something new

• Make wine

• Fill a cornucopia

• Brew an apple cinnamon simmer pot

• Create an outdoor Mabon altar

•Adorn burial sites with leaves, acorns, & pinecones to honor those who have passed over & visit their graves

The name Mabon comes from the Welsh/Brythonic God Mabon Ap Modron, who's name means "Divine/great Son", However,there is evidence that the name was adopted in the 1970s for the Autumn Equinox & has nothing to do with this celebration or this time of year.

• Though many cultures see the second harvest (after the first harvest Lughnasadh) & Equinox as a time for giving thanks before the name Mabon was given because this time of year is traditionally when farmers know how well their summer crops did & how well fed their animals have become. This determines whether you & your family would have enough food for the winter.That is why people used to give thanks around this time, thanks for their crops, animals & food

Some believe it celebrates the autumn equinox when Nature is preparing for the winter months. Night & day are of equal legth  & the God's energy & strength are nearly gone. The Goddess begins to mourn the loss she knows is coming, but knows he will return when he is reborn at Yule.

Related festivals:

• Sukkot- Is a Torah-commanded holiday celebrated for seven days, beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei. It is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals on which Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Originally a harvest festival celebrating the autumn harvest, Sukkot’s modern observance is characterized by festive meals in a sukkah, a temporary wood-covered hut, celebrating the Exodus from Egypt.

• Mid-Autumn festival- September 17th

Is also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival. It is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture, similar holidays are celebrated by other cultures in East & Southeast Asia. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture; its popularity is on par with that of Chinese New Year. The history of the Mid-Autumn Festival dates back over 3,000 years.  On this day, it is believed that the Moon is at its brightest and fullest size, coinciding with harvest time in the middle of Autumn.

During the festival, lanterns of all size and shapes – which symbolize beacons that light people's path to prosperity & good fortune – are carried & displayed. Mooncakes, a rich pastry typically filled with sweet-bean, egg yolk, meat or lotus-seed paste, are traditionally eaten during this festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is based on the legend of Chang'e, the Moon goddess in Chinese mythology.

• Thanksgiving- This is a secular holiday which is similar to the cell of Mabon; A day to give thanks for the food & blessings of the previous year. The American Thanksgiving is the last Thursday of November while the Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated in October

• The Oschophoria- Were a set of ancient Greek festival rites held in Athens during the month Pyanepsion (autumn) in honor of Dionysus. The festival may have had both agricultural and initiatory functions.

-Amidst much singing of special songs, two young men dressed in women's clothes would bear branches with grape-clusters attached from Dionysus to the sanctuary of Athena Skiras & a footrace followed in which select ephebes competed.

Ancient sources connect the festival and its rituals to the Athenian hero-king Theseus & specifically to his return from his Cretan adventure. According to that myth, the Cretan princess Ariadne, whom Theseus had abandoned on the island of Naxos while voyaging home, was rescued by an admiring Dionysus; thus the Oschophoria may have honored Ariadne as well. A section of the ancient calendar frieze incorporated into the Byzantine Panagia Gorgoepikoos church in Athens, corresponding to the month Pyanopsion (alternate spelling), has been identified as an illustration of this festival's procession.

Sources:

Farmersalmanac .com

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kines

Wikipedia

A Witch's Book of Correspondences by Viktorija Briggs

Encyclopedia britannica

Llewellyn 2024 magical almanac Practical magic for everyday living

[novy2sirius]

signs you're at a high vibration

• the universe is constantly speaking to you through numbers, symbols, dreams, and/or visions

• kids and animals like you and feel safe when they’re around you

• people constantly stare at you

• strangers randomly tell you their life stories

• the energy shifts completely in any room you walk into

• you irritate toxic people by solely just being yourself

• you see 11:11 a lot

[manicpixieyandere]

Tech Magick's Biggest Gift:

Minecraft

Witchcraft is all about intention, THAT is the most important thing. The tools we use are just conduits for that intention. While we are sure we all love the witchy aesthetic and proper traditional tools, that is not always viable. Some witches are in the closet, others may not be able to afford all the tools (it adds up rather quickly). So we came up with a clever way to practice witchcraft to our heart's content!

Altars

First let's create our space! Altars are something that can be hard to have IRL. They take up a lot of space and cost money to decorate. So why not do it in Minecraft?

In item frames go ahead and place an item that represents each element. Feel free to get creative with it! Luckily Minecraft added candles so you can use those instead of torches! You can even color the candles for color magick (before hand we just used Minecraft Education Edition and used their colored touches). Make sure to also have a bell for cleansing. For cleansing ingredients you may also want a cauldron with a fire under it.

Ingredients

Luckily Minecraft has a LOT of ingredients! There's amethyst, quartz, lavender. All very basic ingredients. And the ingredients you don't have you can make!

Simple rename an item that looks similar with an anvil! For example this emerald is now a jade. You can also install mods to expand your item options.

Spells

To make a spell jar grab a chest and throw them in! Feel free to label the chest with a sign so you can keep track.

You could also throw the ingredients into a cauldron if it's more of a stove spell.

Sigil spells are also possible! You can make pixel art of the sigil. Unfortunately these end up needing to be quite big, not easy to fit in a virtual house.

You can also use a book and quill! You can use the book as a book of shadows. Or you could write a petition and burn it.

Familiars! Contrary to popular belief a familiar does NOT have to be a living thing! It can be an object or really anything. So why not may it also be a piece of code?

You can also do tarot in Minecraft. This requires some knowledge on redstone. You can take pieces of paper and name them as cards from a tarot deck. Then put them in a redstone randomizer and boom, shuffled deck. We suck at redstone so we've never actually built this one.

Conclusion

There's probably SO much more you could do here, but these are just a few of our ideas! I hope it was able to kick start some people's imaginations and also help those in the broom closet or on a budget!

[starsthewitch]

gosh i feel like my blog is just questions about witch things nowadays 😭

which is fine since i love to learn more about what it is being a witch, considering that i’ve been doing witchcraft for almost a year and feel like i know next to nothing at all

my question of the night is:

how do you know what kind of witch you are? i know theres all KINDS of different types like storm witches, solar witches, green witches, love witches, and even lunar witches! but how do i know what i am?

[thestrawberraebunn]

[dangerouslusttt]

[heulwenflower]

2.Ferns

May your leaves bring me luck

Protect me from the thunderstorms

And torrential rain

Protect me from the harsh unforgiving heat waves

Give me a place to rest when it's all unquiet

Lend me a hand when I walk alone

With a simple brush against my body

Reminding me I never truly walk alone

Prompt from @nosebleedclub

[illustratus]

Los Entering the Grave by William Blake

The frontispiece of Blake's poem 'Jerusalem,' we see this figure cautiously entering a door, carrying a spiritual orb for illumination. Los appears in William Blake's poetic mythology as a symbol of human dynamism and desire - Blake sometimes compared him to Napoleon, sometimes to Jesus Christ.

A figure carrying a mysterious orb invites us through a door, as if into the poem, or towards death itself.. In the coloured version of the frontispiece to his Jerusalem, Blake placed the thorns of the Passion beneath his own personification, Los, as he steps bravely through a door into a dark, grave-like void. This is not an end but the beginning: Los has embarked on an adventure, one hand raised in greeting and the other holding a blazing sun to illuminate the truths to be revealed in the following pages.

[realniggaspittin]

ur mind is SO powerful. right now is the perfect time to start changing! the world doesn't have to be as ugly as ur mind makes it out to be. ur life is only as awful as ur mindset. ofc there's things out of our control but if u balance things it won't matter !! nothing is impossible as long as u put the work in. i've spent so long trying to question why things are the way they are but it left me confused and sad. i had to spend a lot of time processing everything & one day something in me just clicked. none of this is real. it is physically real but we manifest our realities. we all make our own life brick by brick. including the evil evil on this earth, which was created therefore it can be erased. it's inside of us all. it's the ego. if u keep allowing urself to let the demons inside u win the ego us going to take control and do HORRIBLE things. the concept of demons are very real but they aren't a thing, they're YOU. you are the only person who can control them, bc they're apart of you. you made them. God isn't a person looking down on us, it is us. it's consciousness. Earth is Heaven. there is no afterlife, u don't go to heaven or hell after this bc it's not real. u don't get rewarded for being a good person bc u think u need to, u get rewarded bc ur subconscious manifests the life u want but it's up to YOU to put in the effort to get where u want to be. the human mind is much more complex than people make it out to be and everything you need is in front of you. watch what u read on the media and NEVER let anyone change the way you think. we all have our own values and KNOW what we really believe in deep down, it's up to you to do what u know is right. you can keep being a puppet or be the puppet master, it doesn't affect anyone else but u at the end of the day. u decide ur fate. no God is taking score of whos the better human, u don't get to just be a shitty person ur whole life and then "ask god for forgiveness". that's BULLSHIT & if you keep living a life where u repeat the same shitty cycles just to apologize and move forward ur an idiot. you have to FIX urself and change urself and the way u view this world. this isn't the life before the afterlife, it IS the afterlife. people spend their lives miserable bc their mind has manifested Hell on Earth for them. i've BEEN there and it's ugly. it's awful and there's too many people there. NOBODY can save you except urself. There is no superhero coming to save us, you have to be the change you wanna see in the world. Heaven on Earth isn't just a saying, it's a reality for a lot of people. the Good people. be one of us, open ur eyes and LOOK. this isn't a video game. this is real life. NOTHING is a coincidence, it's all perfectly aligned with the universe. Everything will come together, you better hope you're ready for when it happens bc if not it's over

[babesvanity]

[greenwitchcrafts]

Update: I have the list & I'm finishing it now-ish but it's a lot.

I'll be posting my monthly guide Monday and the herbal smoking list after so I have more time to write stuff down

💚

[cobwebgf]

hi lovelies ✨ answering spiritual, astrological, and witchcraft related ask today!! send any questions or thoughts you have

[musictyme]

Blanca - New Day feat. Jekalyn Carr

[starsthewitch]

anyone know a good spell jar for academic success?

crystals work as well!! :))

[thestrawberraebunn]

[maryleemaynard]

Balance

Poetry can raise issues on multiple levels, letting the reader determine it for themselves. It is subjective. Whether you see the same as the author's intention does not matter. The message will come across as it comes across.

You talk about a language, when I’ve seen entire cultures vanish You speak of your Country, yet you stand on our ancestor’s land You fear the invasion, while we’ve protected you for centuries You raise foundations, while we were confined to our reserves You grew wealth, while our water supplies were low You dream of big things, and send us crumbs of respect if any You anger yourself, while…