#Waking the Witches

[littlejourneyseverywhere]

Come and Sit, a poem on my Medicine Wheel Circle.

Come and Sit, a poem on my Medicine Wheel Circle.

https://mentalhealthathome.org/2020/12/22/medicine-wheel/ Come and Sit, a poem for my Medicine Wheel Circle Sitting in a Sacred way, With each new sun, we offer and pray, To East and North, South and West. Walking the Wheel, loving our best. We honor our tears, past, now, and yet, Ancestors guide us through every threat, And trial and season and even each love. Our Elders teach honor to…

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[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

October – William Merritt Chase // There it Goes – Maisie Peters

[dizzybizz]

i did the meme,,, i did the meme

[sothasil]

Custas and Dagda busy protecting their wares 💤

[beean-s]

ooo u wanna kiss her so bad ooo

[lunarharp]

shyly returning to drawing...

[terivarhol]

“Waking the Witch”

(Jeseniky Mountains, December 2022)

[curious-chaosmagiic]

Hypnos, lord of slumber, weaver of dreams

for you this small offering, to give me the energy to wake up from my nap to get today's activities done

may i be lulled to sleep swiftly, and may i feel your embrace when i dream 💤💕

[catalvarezs]

”baby i'm the illiad of course you couldn't read me” “and what was cheap to you was all i had” “oh mr bruce wayne where's that cape now?” ”nobody actually happy and healthy has ever felt so desperate to prove it” “i'm on a one way to trip to take over the world you could have come, babe i held out my hand” “well fucking sue me because at least then we could talk about it” “it was shining lights it was rock n roll”

[amoratearte]

It’s been Alys all along ✨

a little crossover, Daemon is in for a rude awakening

[interstellairs]

🌙 ⋆ dream work and magical heroes ᵎᵎ

NOTES 。this is NOT a roleplaying account, nor is this a form of delusion. the owner of this account is a practitioner of witchcraft, and IRL magical girls fall under the chaos magic and pop culture magic aspect of witchcraft.

as a practitioner whose main practices include the usage of dreams in my own magickal workings, i certainly do believe that it's possible to use them in the process of becoming a real life magical hero. this type of magick that i perform is referred to as dream work, and it's something that i think can go hand-in-hand with astral work, which is the secondary center of my witchcraft activities.

in this blog, i'll be discussing in length what dream work is, how it can be used by those who aspire to become magical heroes, and how it can also be used by non-magical heroes who practice witchcraft as an addition to their activities. in general, this will serve as a lengthy discussion to the magic and psychology held within the realm of dreams.

i think that everyone already knows what dreams are, but i'd like to expand further about them. dreams are believed by sigmund freud, a neurologist, as the unconscious' way of expressing itself in order to resolve repressed or unwanted emotions, experiences, and aggressive impulses. some experts suggests that having good dreams is related to good quality sleep.

in psychology, dream work is like what the name says; working with dreams to uncover secrets about ourselves, to explore the numerous images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that the dream presents us, in an attempt to discover how do these dreams manifests itself to us. those who work with dreams often thinks that a dream could have more than one meaning depending on what is being learned about and explored in the dream.

in gestalt-based dream work, it's suggested that all elements in a dream; the characters, the setting, basically everything that's seen, represent an aspect of the dreamer. it represents a part of the self, it shows you an inner dynamic.

the method in gestalt-based dream work is to revisit the dream from each perspective, to re-experience the dream as if you're each of these characters you saw in the dream, and as a result you can get a clear view on what is actually occuring with its underlying context, you find out what is actually going on within you, and at times dreams could be a reflection of our own reality, of what life is like to us.

in jungian-based dream work, it's believed that dreams are a way for the unconscious mind to communicate with the conscious mind. while freud thought that dreams hide their meanings, jung thought that dreams directly tell its own meanings through symbolisms and metaphors, placing heavy importance on the vivid mental images and symbolisms that these dreams shows us.

but if you're someone who's acquainted with your own dreams, such as being a lucid dreamer or dream work practitioner, you'd be able to achieve certain feats; from being able to remember your dreams in vivid detail, to being capable of tampering with it, communicating with entities through it, and even down to like setting up the dream realm as a place to perform certain spells and rituals without anyone knowing in the real world. we can also attain our goals of being a magical hero and communicate with our familiars through dreams.

in witchcraft, practitioners can use dream work as a way of entity communication, dream divination, dream interpretation, dream incubation, astral projection, and so forth. the following list includes the aforementioned activities and i'll explain how magical heroes can use these too.

dream work activities .ᐟ

dream interpretation: this is the process of assigning meaning and significance to a dream. dreams are subjective to each person, and even if there are shared meanings, it is best to look at the symbolisms from a personal point of view in interpretation.

some elements of the dream can have importance that is personal to the dreamer, while to others it does not, hence the subjectivity. for example, you dreamt of a red apple, and even if there are things online that you can use to base your interpretation off of, it's best to look into what a red apple would mean to you. in addition to that, dreams can be interpreted via intuition.

as a magical hero, sometimes we can get signs that are derived from the symbolisms and metaphors that we see during sleep, and i've witnessed some magical heroes be assigned a concept through a dream.

dream divination: also known as oneiromancy. it's a type of divination that focuses on gaining clarity and information derived from a dream, and this is something that is done alongside dream interpretation. this can be based on the belief that dreams sometimes come from entities, and to understand those messages, one must decipher what they dreamed of.

as a magical hero, this can be used as a way of communicating with your magical familiar or any other magical entity you'd like to get in contact with. personally, i met my familiar during a dream where they introduced themselves, and at times, me and my familiar would talk to each other in a dream.

dream incubation: dream incubation is the act of inducing a dream or intending for a specific thing to happen in a dream. this is a practice that had existed in ancient greece and ancient egypt. this can be done through placing a sigil/cartomancy card representing the dream that you want under the pillow you sleep on, affirmations and manifestation, or by talking to an entity and asking them to provide you a specific dream.

as a magical hero, i've witnessed others achieve their goals and be capable of transformation through a dream induced via dream incubation. for example, many puella magis performed the contract through a dream where they aren't lucid.

lucid dreaming: lucid dreaming is the act of becoming conscious in a dream where no one would normally be aware in, this can be by accident or intended. and in a lucid dream, you can set up the ambience and atmosphere of a dream into one where you'd be able to perform your ideal rituals, spellwork, or invite specific entities.

earlier, i mentioned how some magical heroes used dream incubation in order to meet their goals of becoming a fully pledged MH, but another alternative to that would be lucid dreaming where you'd be able to invoke the presence of a magical familiar or your transformation device.

astral projection: astral projection is the act of separating your astral body from the physical body. in a state of dreaming, the body is under sleep paralysis and therefore wouldn't be able to resist or react if the astral body separates itself via a dream. you can use the method of lucid dreaming in order to astral project.

i currently have plans on writing tutorial blogs that cover the topics of dream incubation, lucid dreaming, and astral projection, as methods to become a fully pledged magical hero. now that i'm on break from my civilian duties like being a student, i'm hoping that i'll be able to post more! still, i'm happy that i got a chance to ramble about dream work/dream magic because it's something i do a lot.

thank you!

( june 10, 2024 | monday )

[traditionalwitch]

Blessed Lughnasadh!! Also August 1st is the original beginning of Autumn (I googled it briefly !!!) so Fall has begun as far as I’m concerned :) 🧚🏽‍♂️

[unkreativstermensch]

Thinking about how the whole second half of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love album is a conceptual narrative (called The Ninth Wave) about a woman lost at sea fighting to survive and how she has to keep herself awake. And how she wishes she had her radio to “tune into some friendly voices” in order to not fall asleep and how there’s all these people trying to tell her to wake up and how, as some kind of spirit, she watches all her friends and family but they can’t hear her. And how her own future self comes to visit her to tell her not to give up…

And all that…just strikes me as a little too coincidental.

[thestarlightforge]

Now that the “Countdown to Agatha” is over. Starting my “Countdown until Billy figures out Doctor Strange and the Sorcerer Supreme left his mom for dead under a mountain (and Monica—AKA the only sane hero who believed he was real—is trapped in another dimension)” 🙃

[laigifs]

 I brought you the heart witch. Show me the terror.