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What kind of spell would you, personally, do for attracting a new home/house to yourself? What kind of spell or spell jar or ritual would you do for manifesting your desired home? Would you pray to/work with a specific deity for help?
I’m trying to craft a spell but struggling
#hearth magick#new home spell#home spell#house magic#house magick#home magick#hearth witchery#hearth witch#spell crafting#spell jars#spell work#spellwork#spells#polytheism#paganism#deities#dream home
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Observations about lucky colours
Wearing the colours associated with the Sign of each house in your chart will bring more luck to the matters of that house. The following are my personal observations about each house.
The colours of 1st house sign: people notice you more and comment on your appearance more, boost of confidence, high contrast look (the colours seem to make your features stand out)
The colours of 2nd & 7th house sign: look pleasing/harmonious on you, people are nicer towards you, good for going on dates or attract someone, good for meetings involving contracts, exchange, going to the bank
The colours of 3rd & 9th house sign: you feel more adventurous and more carefree, sometimes more impatient, good for exams/ tests, could have some delays or difficulties in traffic though
The colours of 4th house sign: look naturally good on your skin, match your features, comforting, peaceful, great to wear at home
The colours of 5th house sign: feel more exciting, fun, exuberant, boost of vitality, could be the colour you wore a lot when you were a kid
The colours of 6th house sign: increase or decrease of vitality and health, I usually avoid the colours of this house, they feel unlucky to me
The colours of 8th house sign: pretty similar to the effect of 1st house, but people seem to be more bold or in some case, rude when interact with you, I think these colours should be worn in a more private settings, could make you feel heavy and not in a great mood
The colours of 10th house sign: people take you more seriously, you look more professional, could bring some delays or heavy moods
The colours of 11th house sign: lucky colours, things go more smoothly, especially in public places or social medias, great when you need to do a presentation
The colours of 12th house sign: peaceful, great for travelling, also like the 4th house, these colours usually match the colours of your features, they blend and make a soft/ low contrast look
Colours of each sign (just a few examples)
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Honoring the Spirits of Home: Creating Sacred Spaces for the Unseen
Welcome back, Seekers! Within my local coven, we are journeying through the mysteries of Spirit until Winter Solstice. Today, I introduced the art of crafting Spirit Houses, and I thought it would be fitting to share a bit of that here. I like to keep these crafty posts simple and open-ended, leaving space for the practitioner to add their own touch. The best magick often arises from just diving in and letting your intuition guide the way. May this inspire you to connect, create, and explore! 🌙✨
As witches, we work with spirits every day, whether we realize it or not. Our homes, like ourselves, are steeped in the spirit world, alive with layers of unseen inhabitants that have their own roles, wisdom, and stories to tell. For many of us, it’s a quiet understanding that a witch’s home should be haunted—not in the fearful sense, but filled with life that pulses in harmony with our craft. From ancestral guides and house spirits, to the land’s ancient beings, these entities weave themselves into the very fabric of our spaces, enriching them with energy and presence.
Regardless of whether a home is newly built or weathered by decades, each dwelling becomes imbued with spirit. There’s an existing ecosystem of energies that connect to the land itself, the history of the area, and the layers of life that once lived or passed through. These spirits, sometimes subtle, sometimes profound, thrive within the space we call home, coexisting with us and enhancing our magick. But it is up to us to nurture a balanced and harmonious relationship with them.
Why Connect with the Spirits of Your Home?
Developing a deep, reciprocal relationship with the spirits of your home doesn’t just benefit your craft; it offers blessings for everyone under your roof. When these spirits feel acknowledged and respected, they offer protection, lend strength to your magickal workings, and create an atmosphere of peace and nourishment. A home can truly feel like a sanctuary when the spirits that dwell within it are in harmony with those who reside there in the flesh. This connection turns your space into an anchor—a place of personal power, healing, and resilience.
Building Friendships with Spirit
Nurturing relationships with spirits requires time, care, and a commitment to reciprocity. Just as with human friendships, there is a cycle of giving and receiving. Spirits respond to sincere attention and intention, as well as the gifts and gestures we offer them. One meaningful way to foster this connection is by creating a spirit house or a dedicated space where spirits can feel welcomed and honored.
A spirit house is both a physical symbol and a spiritual anchor. It becomes a place where offerings can be left, and it serves as a gateway for interaction with the spirit world in a respectful and clear manner. It’s a way of saying, “You are welcome here, I honor your presence, and I seek your guidance and protection.”
Creating Your Spirit House
Designing a spirit house is a creative, personal process. It need not be elaborate; sometimes, the simplest gestures carry the deepest respect. You may choose a small altar, a shelf, or even a discreet box placed in a peaceful corner of your home. Consider using natural materials—wood, clay, or stone—as they tend to resonate well with spirits of place. Personalize it with items like stones from your land, soil, dried herbs, or even water from a local stream. Each addition builds a bridge between your energy and the spirits you invite into your home.
When crafting your spirit house, remember that offerings and gifts can strengthen this relationship over time. Spirits, like friends, appreciate time, energy, love, and tokens of appreciation. Remember, spirits are aware of intention as much as they are of the physical offering, so approach this creative expression with reverence and sincerity.
For my spirit house, I’ve chosen to weave in unsea, or “old man’s beard,” gathered lovingly from my mother tree, a sacred link to the ancient and wise energies of the land. I've placed birds within the space, their forms standing as messengers and symbols of spirit, guiding and connecting with the unseen. Mushrooms, too, find their place here, embodying my bond with the natural world—grounded yet reaching into hidden realms. They carry the magick of spiritual growth, reminding me of the mystery and connection to realms beyond. Each piece breathes life into the space, deepening my relationship with the spirits I honor… and I placed a bell at the entrance, placed with the hope of hearing it softly chime as the spirits pass through.
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been thinking about the differences between SASASAP and ISAT lately. because looking just at ISAT and the two hats ending, you'd think loop went through the exact same house as our siffrin, but looking at SASASAP, it's different. it's mixed up. it's obviously a condensed prototype.
but. that doesn't have to mean it's a different universe entirely.
maybe that's just what happens after a thousand loops.
the house warped in act 5. siffrin lost their shit and the house got changed and corrupted, far past its baseline king uncanniness. so it wouldn't be too out-of-the-question for it to be able to warp in more subtle ways as well, due to a more subtle breakdown.
like a jpeg uploaded and downloaded a thousand times, siffrin changed, and the loops changed. over a thousand loops of efficiency, the house got more efficient. rooms combining. items moving. data compressing. and of course, run in a changed house, the script changed as well. it did so slowly, one bit at a time, over a thousand loops of zoned-out half-listening – and by the time siffrin would have noticed each difference, they were already used to it. (and in the moments that they did look at a room that was less familiar than it should be and realize that they had no idea where to find the key, well. that's just classic siffrin, isn't it.)
through sheer repetition, siffrin was corrupted, and the loops and the house along with them. all purpose lost, all signals distorted, until finally they couldn't recognize the meaning in any of it. it was all noise and despair.
so they made a wish. and the loop restarted. not just a reboot, but something more complete.
the data was backed up onto a star – a guide, a warning, a reference – and the loops were factory reset. and for the first time in a thousand loops, siffrin woke up to a clear mind and the crisp sound of birdsong.
#but NO MATTER HOW FAR LOOP WALKED they would STILL BE MADE OUT OF MUD!!!#sorry i love writing metaphors about loop i guess#here's a couple i had to cut. for cohesion. :#you ever sing along to a song so many times you could sing it in your sleep? you no longer use the same kind of music player that you first#listened to it on. but you still sing it in the shower and tap it onto your steering wheel and whistle it in the rain#and then one day you re-find the original on another platform and realize that somewhere along the line you'd started getting it wrong?#it was a little like that.#siffrin changed and the house changed and the script changed. one board of the deck and one thread of the sail at a time.#until one day that wreck of thesues could no longer recognize himself and made a wish.#in stars and time#isat loop#loop#isat#isat spoilers#in stars and time spoilers#sasasap#anyway. thinking of it this way makes it make a lot more sense to me why loop can't get magicked back to their old timeline#it doesn't exist. not any more than any of siffrin's 108 failed loops do.#siffrin is siffrin is siffrin#thoughts#thoughts about loop#thoughts about worldbuilding
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Aleister Crowley building his traditional gingerbread village for the holidays.
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𝙿𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚢 𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑 (1858–1956), 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎
(𝙳𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚜) #vintage #vintagefashion
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𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔: 𝙵𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 & 𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚣 𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝙽/𝚊, 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚊
#l o v e#we Need magick#house of worth#France#french fashion#antique#museum aesthetic#5/2024#nostalgia#Pink dresses#pink aesthetic#vintage#vintage fashion#aesthetic#gala dress#Glamour#x-heesy#now playing#music and art#art detail#1900s#1900s fashion#french#art history#contemporaryart#vintage aesthetic
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Buoyant is your spirit, gotta keep me near it
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Witchcore maximalism 🌲✨🖤🍶📚🧚♂️🔮
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Something I made for my Environment Design Class✨🧡
I designed Mummers House from Rainbow Rowell's book, Carry On!
In the book, Simon says that Watford was built around the 1500s so, according to that date and the fact that it's UK, the architecture I used is Tudor Architecture! It was really fun investigating about it and applying that to what is told to us about the building on the book!
I went for a more bricks and stone look of the Tudor style than with a wood and sharp black lines look because of what's described in the book by Simon!
I took extra time designing the turret Simon and Baz have their room in and figuring out how to fit it into the style while maintaining the overall silhouette!
#myart#simon snow#mummers house#rainbow rowell#carry on#tyrannus basilton grimm pitch#simon snow trilogy#tudor england#tudor architecture#enviroment art#environment design#watford#watford school of magicks
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This Correspondences page serves as a guide to the magical influences, tools, and deities associated with Scorpio, the 8th House, and Pluto, each representing different facets of transformation, protection, and the deep, hidden layers of existence. 🌑✨
feel free to add to your digital grimoire or print for reference. 👍
Grimoire Page: Scorpio Correspondences ♏
Scorpio ♏️
Crystals 💎
Black Obsidian (protection 🛡️, shadow work 🌑, emotional healing 💔)
Smoky Quartz (grounding 🌍, releasing negativity 🚫, transformation 🔄)
Garnet (passion ❤️, empowerment ��, courage 🦁)
Malachite (transformation 🔄, protection 🛡️, deep emotional healing 💧)
Labradorite (intuition 👁️, psychic protection 🕯️, uncovering hidden truths 🔍)
Herbs 🌿
Mugwort (psychic development 🔮, intuition 👁️, dreams 🌙)
Wormwood (protection 🛡️, banishing negativity 🚫, spirit communication 👻)
Patchouli (grounding 🌍, sensuality 💋, attraction 💫)
Hibiscus (passion ❤️, love 💖, courage 🦁)
Sage (cleansing ✨, protection 🛡️, purification 🔥)
Symbols
Scorpion, Phoenix, Eagle 🦂🦅🔥
Color associations: black ⚫️, dark red 🔴
Water element 🌊, mysteries of the night 🌌
Magical Workings
Shadow work 🌑, deep emotional healing 💔, transformation 🔄
Protection 🛡️ and banishing 🚫
Sexual empowerment ❤️🔥 and passion 🔥
Psychic development 🔮 and intuition enhancement 👁️
Ancestral work 👻 and spirit communication 🌠
Deities
Hades 🏛️⚰️ (Greek God of the Underworld)
Kali 🔥🕉️ (Hindu Goddess of Destruction and Rebirth)
8th House 🏠
Crystals 💎
Amethyst (spiritual awareness 🔮, emotional healing 💧, transformation 🔄)
Bloodstone (strength 💪, courage 🦁, grounding 🌍)
Jet (protection 🛡️, absorbing negativity 🚫, grounding 🌑)
Onyx (strength 💪, protection 🛡️, focus 🎯)
Moonstone (intuition 👁️, emotional balance ⚖️, cycles of change 🌙)
Herbs 🌿
Myrrh (spiritual connection 🕯️, purification 🔥, protection 🛡️)
Frankincense (cleansing ✨, spiritual insight 👁️, grounding 🌍)
Rosemary (memory and focus 🧠, protection 🛡️, clarity 💡)
Cedar (purification 🔥, protection 🛡️, spiritual strength 🌳)
Dandelion Root (wishes 🌠, resilience 🌿, releasing negativity 🚫)
Symbols
Death and rebirth ⚰️🔄, cycles of life ♾️
Skulls 💀, dark waters 🌊, gates or thresholds 🚪
Serpents 🐍, alchemy ⚗️, transformation 🔄
Magical Workings
Mediumship 👻 and spirit contact 🕯️
Exploring past lives 🔄 and karmic patterns 🌌
Financial rituals 💰, especially shared resources 🪙 and debts
Rituals for letting go ✨, endings 🌑, and new beginnings 🌱
Protection 🛡️ and boundary setting 🚧
Deities
Anubis ⚖️💀 (Egyptian God of Death and the Afterlife)
Persephone 🌷⚰️ (Greek Queen of the Underworld)
Hel ❄️💀 (Norse Goddess of the Underworld)
Pluto ♇
Crystals 💎
Obsidian (protection 🛡️, grounding 🌍, transformation 🔄)
Black Tourmaline (absorbing negativity 🚫, protection 🛡️, grounding 🌑)
Lapis Lazuli (spiritual truth 👁️, inner power 💪, mental clarity 💡)
Garnet (passion ❤️, strength 💪, transformation 🔄)
Amber (healing 🩹, vitality 🌞, grounding 🌍)
Herbs 🌿
Mandrake (protection 🛡️, power 💪, spirit communication 👻)
Belladonna (protection 🛡️, banishing 🚫, psychic awareness 👁️)
Patchouli (grounding 🌍, attraction 💫, sensuality 💋)
Dragon’s Blood (power 💪, protection 🛡️, vitality 🌟)
Poppy (sleep 😴, dreams 🌙, letting go 🚪)
Symbols
Underworld 🌑, hidden depths 🕳️
The color black ⚫️, volcanic imagery 🌋, the cauldron ⚗️
Serpent 🐍, phoenix 🔥, caves 🌄, ashes 🌫️
Magical Workings
Shadow work 🌑 and transformation 🔄
Power reclamation 👑 and personal sovereignty 💪
Rituals of destruction 🔥 and rebirth 🕊️
Deep psychological healing 🧠 and trauma work 💔
Removing blockages 🕵️♀️, uncovering hidden truths 🔍, and unearthing secrets
Deities
Hecate 🌙🕯️ (Greek Goddess of Witchcraft and Crossroads)
Morrigan 🦅⚔️ (Celtic Goddess of Battle and Transformation)
Ereshkigal 💀🏛️ (Mesopotamian Goddess of the Underworld)
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Use your 3rd house & Mercury for manifestation
Finding your own manifestation method that gives consistent results, at a consistent frequency is peak life magic for me.
My manifestation method is called "Written coloured words on calendar". I have a theory that since Mercury is associated with The Magician in Tarot, it has something to do with manifesting, especially by using verbal or written words. Mercury will help manifesting the themes of the house that it rules. While the energy of the planet that rules your 3rd house will be the tool to communicate and express your messages.
Do give it a try and tell me if it's effective for you too. If you have your own manifestation method, feel free to spread the magic.
1. What you need
Coloured pens (the colour of the ink of the pen or the lead if you are using pencils, not the colour of the case)
A calendar that has space to write on (other things like a piece of paper or notebook don't work)
Basic astrology knowledge & your chart: you should know what planet rules your 3rd house and what house does Mercury rule in your chart
2. How I do it
The colour: Choose the pen with the colour that matches the colour associated with the planet that rules your 3rd house.
The phrase: I write "I want/need change" with that coloured pen around the space of the present day on the calendar. The phrase should be short, with a broad meaning, conveys the matters related to the house that Mercury rules in your chart. Don't be too specific like I want a red dress or I want 100$, start with general terms like asking for changes, surprises, chances, opportunities, helps, guidance.
Timing: the manifestation will happen within the next week, without fail, this is how it worked for me, the speed might depend on the planet that rules your 3rd house.
Example of how it works: I have Mercury rules my 3rd house & 6th house so it can be straightforward, whenever I wrote "I want change" with green (colour of Mercury) pen on the calendar, within the next week, a new business partnership/offer & more works (3rd & 6th house matters) appeared, I met someone new who would have Gemini or Virgo or both placements in their chart, who I would do business with, work with, travel with or became my friend (3rd & 6th house matters).
*Notes:
So you won't be able to manifest other things related to different houses & planets other than 3rd house and Mercury? → Most likely, I've tried with different houses & planets but it usually had short-term effect or no observable effect, while 3rd house and Mercury gave more long-term effects.
Each manifestation works only once, if you want it to happen again, you will need to write again.
3. Colours associated with each planet & their effect
Here is the list of effects I have observed through the years practising this. It can change depending on your chart though, try to experiment with each one yourself.
Yellow - Sun: Joyful events
Grey - Moon: No observable effect
Green - Mercury: Business, friendships, partnerships (strongest manifestation power, at least for me)
Pink - Venus: Interactions, pleasant exchanges
Red - Mars, Black - Pluto: Immediate unpleasant effects like traffic problems, meeting people in bad moods, troubles with machines, things become more hectic
Navy - Saturn, Blue - Uranus, Teal - Neptune : No observable effect
Purple - Neptune/Jupiter : Increase or decrease of interactions with people, can give rise to popularity but can also slow down your progress (I haven't really figured out this one yet)
Orange - Jupiter: Chances to expand your perspective, be more brave, test your resolution and faith. Some events can be negative at first but will turn out alright, after that you will learn some valuable lessons.
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coven
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Fall of the House of X #5
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sigil for the house of the dragon || tattoo ticket
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Kitchen Altars - Placement Pros and Cons
For those unaware, an Altar in Witchcraft is a surface where you do most of your magical or spiritual "stuff". It helps you focus your intentions, harness power, and is your general working space. I see a lot of Kitchen Witches making or wanting to make altars to have in their kitchen. It can give them a space to charge items, to leave offerings, to gather energy and power, ect. They may also use it to invite a specific deity or entity into their kitchen. So what or where can be your Altar? Here are some ideas depending on your needs.
The entire Kitchen This is the route I think many traditional Kitchen Witches Take. An altar is meant to be a working space. Your kitchen is like a swiss army knife of working space. If you want your entire kitchen to be your altar, don't be afraid to add things to Up it's magical energy. Kitchen/Cottage Witch Poppets, Decorative Crystals, Important Symbols, hand made garlands, charms, Whatever.
However, the down side to this is: first, It's harder to stay in the broom closet the more you have on display. I am very lucky in that I don't fear any kind of persecution from family, friends, neighbors, ect. But not everyone feels as secure openly practicing. Second, if you are someone who shares a kitchen with many people like roommates or extended family, you may not be able to set up or decorate the kitchen exactly as you want. Additionally, All these extra people coming in an out at different times with different moods can throw off the energy in the space. So having something separate might work better for you.
Counters Probably the most popular place to set up an altar in a kitchen as it's the most obvious. You may want to set aside a small section of your counter and dedicate it to an altar. A shallow wooden box or tray for you to put your altar in may be a good idea. This is because the main downside to having an altar set up on your counter is you lose counter space. Which can be very valuable. So by building your altar on or in a tray allows you to move it temporarily should you need the extra counter space.
Cupboards or Drawers This is a little more broom closet friendly. You can set up an altar in an obscure cupboard shelf or unused drawer, then open it up when you want to use it. Then when not in use, it's closed up out of sight. Since it's closed off, you don't need to worry as much about dust or kitchen grim. However, the downside is your altar is either taking up valuable storage space or it's in an awkward to get to area. Like that corner cupboard that you need to get on a chair in order to reach the back, or that drawer that can only open when you have the oven door open. If it's a pain in the ass to get to, you're less likely to use it.
Kitchen Table If your table is large enough to hold a bowl or basket as a decorative center piece, consider building your altar in that bowl or basket. This tends to be a great option for those with their foot in the broom closet since the altar can be written off as a decorative piece. It's also good in that it doesn't take up work or storage space. And since it's in a basket or other container, you can move it when you need the space.
The downside is for us witches who are a little more...chaotic...in our organization style. Stuff gets dropped on the kitchen table to be dealt with later, only for later to never come. Mail, clothes, documents, drinking glasses; things just get lost in the layers of time. Your altar may end up lost or damaged.
Windowsill Another popular choice for Kitchen Witches who like to grow herbs or plants. They'll set up their foliage by the window and base an altar around that. Space tends to be a bit limited in these cases, so make sure any additions are small. Also be carful when setting up crystals in your windowsill. While sunlight is great for plants, it can be harmful for some popular crystals like Amethyst and fade the color.
Also, pay attention to how your window opens. If you want to open the window and it slides, or you need to crank a handle, you don't want anything to block the window from opening. And on the flip side, you don't want to damage your altar items if opening the window causes them to fall.
Shelves Specifically shelves that are separate from the kitchen cupboards. You may want to install a floating shelf or just get a corner shelf stand. You can build your altar on one (or all) of the shelf surfaces. It's great as it can be set out of the way but still in an area that's convenient to get to.
The downside tends to be cost and installation. Floating shelves tend to be cheaper than a standing corner shelf. You can find some nice wooden floating shelves at second hand stores or flea markets for anywhere between 10 to 60 dollars. But when you install them, you want to make sure you drill part of it into a wall stud. This helps stop them from falling down. This is assuming you CAN drill into a wall, as many rental agreements don't allow you to put holes in walls. A small, standing shelf is a good alternative and renter friendly. However, you tend to need to buy these new and can cost several hundred dollars. If you or someone you know are good with carpentry, maybe you can build a custom shelf. But new wood is still very expensive.
Fridge Close the fridge, we're not putting it inside. I mean you can; but that might be messy. Most fridges have at lest 1 magnetic surface. And did you know there are a lot of things you can get with magnets attached? Magnetic Jars or Containers, Magnetic shelves, Magnetic hooks- Not to mention the plethora of decorative magnets. I've seen tarot card magnets, moon phase magnets, Astrology magnets, ect. You can arrange your fridge to be a vertical altar.
The downside here being most of these items will probably be bought online, and the quality of the magnetism can vary. Make sure you read reviews and make sure something won't just fall off one day. And avoid pushing the strength of things like Magnetic shelves by loading them up with heavy objects. Another downside may be your fridge doesn't have a magnetic side exposed. Stainless steel fridges tend to not be magnetic on the front. Something about the metal used. They are magnetic on the sides, but if your fridge doesn't have exposed sides due to placement, you may be SOL for a fridge altar.
Outside the Kitchen Lastly, remember that just because you practice kitchen magic, doesn't mean you need to restrict yourself to the kitchen. Kitchen witches are allowed to practice other kinds of magic in addition to kitchen magic. You may want an altar for these situations. So set one up in the living room, dining room, bedroom, backyard, bathroom, wherever works for you. And if it doesn't work for you, don't be afraid to move it!
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