#it has rosemary and black pepper and sea salt in it btw

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

I've never managed to photographed my bread before taking a big chomp out of it

[chronicas]

Okay just because this has been on my mind for weeks now. You should never have to choose between food and rent. One, if such a choice comes up, always choose rent, obviously. BUT if not being able to afford food is the problem, there are options. Sorry this post got so long it wasn’t meant to..

Apologies in advance I only know how this works in America, but it’s likely your country has something similar. What you’ve gotta do for this is go to your state government page and find your state’s food assistance program, SNAP, Food Stamps, whatever it is, find that and apply. You’ll probably get around $250 a month for a single household. If you’re low income, you should be eligible. If you’re on SSI/SSDI or Medicaid, you are almost certainly eligible. On top of that you gotta find a local food bank. They might ask you for your income, but they likely won’t bar you from their services if they’re a good food bank. This is a good place to get any kind of canned food and pasta, but good food banks will likely also have meat, eggs, and milk. A lot of food banks have even started delivering straight to your home. I’ve also worked with a lot of Churches to get food. I’m sure plenty of Synagogs and other religions orgs have similar programs, but it depends on how well funded they are.

Use any money you save from this for your fresh produce, but I recommend getting frozen vegetables as they have just as much nutrients as fresh produce would. I also recommend getting an instant pot or slow cooker if you can afford it. Thrift stores might have some that still work decently. I got my instant pot and my slow cooker second hand from family members so I got lucky, but if you can afford them they’re seriously a life saver.

My biggest recommendations of food to keep on hand is bread and stuff you like on sandwiches, always have eggs, always have rice, and always have some frozen vegetables. Invest in spices wherever you can, you can make a lot or really delicious meals that are super simple just by having some good seasonings. If you get on food assistance, spices are covered by that, basically everything consumable is except alcohol.

Spices I recommend to keep on hand: Sea Salt, Black Pepper, Basil, Thyme, Oregano, Ginger, Red Pepper, Garlic, Onion, any Umami/Mushroom Blend, Rosemary, Marjoram, Sage. That’s everything I use for 90% of my meals.

Also grow your own food! Mainly herbs! The easiest one to start with is green onions, you can buy some from the store, put the bottoms in a small cup with just enough water to reach the roots, let the roots grow a bit then put them in soil after about a week. Basil, thyme, parsley, and rosemary are my other favorites to grow. You can get a devoted pair of kitchen scissors to just cut your herbs directly into whatever you’re cooking! If you have enough space and time on your hands I really recommend growing tomatoes and bell peppers!! Feel free to ask me about gardening!

My Favorite Easy Meals:

Spaghetti with meat sauce: Get canned tomato sauce and diced tomatoes, mix those in a pan and add as many spices as you want until you like the flavor, you can look online for common spaghetti sauce seasonings. Get some ground beef (btw meat can be frozen indefinitely) and cook that up then throw it in your sauce. Cook noodles while you’re doing that, the whole process shouldn’t take more than an hour if you have an extra pair of hands, hour and a half if you’re by yourself at max.

Teriyaki Chicken: Easiest thing ever, just buy some chicken strips and some teriyaki sauce, marinate that shit then pop it in the oven for like around 20min or until it’s cooked to 165°F.

Egg Fried Rice: One of my favorite easy meals. Pop the (WASHED!!) rice in an instant pot or rice cooker (if you don’t have either a pot with a lid will work fine!), toss in about a tablespoon of mirin in with your rice then let it do it’s thing following instructions. About 15min before your rice is done throw some frozen vegetables in a pan (whatever kind of vegetables you like!! It really doesn’t matter!) cook those a little, put em aside in a bowl. Then take some eggs, scramble em in the same pan, put aside. Throw your cooked rice in the pan then add soy sauce, red pepper, umami blend, and any other spices you’d like (but no salt! There’s plenty of sodium in the soy sauce!).Then add your ingredients you put to the side. If you add enough eggs or are just tired, this can be it’s own meal! Or you can have it as a side with teriyaki chicken or anything else you think it’d taste good with!

Ramen: Get a bunch of packs of cheap ramen noodles but don’t use the soup packet. Make your own soup with any kind of broth (chicken or seafood works best, but just pick a favorite), add a tablespoon of soy sauce to a cup of broth, a teaspoon of mirin to cup of broth, some minced ginger (or powered) to taste, any spices you want (I like to add the mushroom blends and some seaweed flakes), cook the noodles for the recommended time in the broth then add an egg cooked in any style you want. You can get fancy with a soft boiled egg, but those take a while to learn to get right. I normally fry my eggs. And if you have any ham or beef strips those also go good with it! Top it with green onions! Takes about 45 minutes roughly.

Omelet: Whisk some eggs in a cup and add some spices (and fresh green onions if you want!), throw it in a pan, add any cheese, meat, or veggies you like on it (I like cheddar, bell peppers, and bacon in mine) then wait for it to cook on one side then fold it in half, after it’s cooked on one of the half sides, flip it over to get the other side, you can stab it in the middle to see if it’s fully cooked in the center. Takes less than 20 minutes.

Buttered Potatoes: You can get some small potatoes, cut em up, throw them in an oven-safe dish with some butter (1/4-1/2 a stick depending on how many potatoes you’re making), salt, rosemary, and black pepper. Cook them in the oven on like 350°F for about 25-30min. You can use this as a side with any kind of meat or anything else you feel it’d go good with! Sometimes it just makes a good snack as leftovers.

Things you can cook up and add to other stuff: cook a bunch of bacon and you can crumble it into stuff like omelets, mac ‘n cheese, salads!

Feel free to ask me for cooking advice! It’s one of my favorite things to do and there’s a good chance I can help you figure out how to make something. I’m happy to help talk to you about dietary restrictions and substitutes also!

I do all this and never spend a penny from my paycheck on my food! Good food is obtainable! Look online for more recipes or try and use some of these methods to enhance a simple recipe you already know!

And remember to fight to keep food assistance programs open and available! It’s an insanely valuable resource for folks in poverty! If your local government acts against these programs, speak up against them! If you can, please donate to your food bank and ask them what kind of food they need. Volunteer with them also if you can!

[quantum-natura]

What do you suggest I buy for supplies? I'm a newbie witch and all I have is a candle and some incense. Btw I love your blog!💖

Welcome to witchery, Anon! I’m so excited for you!! 

As far as supplies are concerned, the relevancy of what you might need depends on the type of magic you’ll be doing and whether you’ll be following a specific path/witch type. A sea witch’s supplies are gonna be a bit different from an urban witch’s. 

That being said, the most important thing you’ll ever need when working with magic is your own intent. There are of course many tools that can help enhance this and that are beneficial to have, regardless of the magical path you choose. The great thing is that you probably already have a lot of them at home or can easily obtain them. 

Here is a list of common witchy tools that are great for beginners and are fairly simple to obtain:

Herbs from your kitchen cabinet: Things like rosemary, sage, cinnamon, pepper, thyme, garlic, cloves, basil and the like are all common cooking herbs that are also used extensively in magic. Don’t feel like you need to go out and buy every rare and exotic herb out there. You can build your herbal collection over time while taking advantage of what’s already in your kitchen.

Table salt: Salt is used quite a bit in the craft, often for protection and cleansing. There are many different kinds of salts out there with various properties, but common table salt or inexpensive sea salt is a great place to start for beginners. You can easily craft your own black salt out of a blend of table salt and ashes/charcoal. If you decide you want to get fancy and incorporate things like Himalayan pink salt and Celtic sea salt into your craft, go right ahead! It certainly isn’t necessary, though. 

Spiral notebooks or loose paper: I use notebooks constantly in my craft for anything from jotting down spell ideas, to crafting sigils. Even my current grimoire is a simple spiral notebook. I eventually plan on transferring the information to a nicer hard-cover journal, but that is just a preference and not necessary for my craft or yours. Paper and notebooks are always useful for witchcraft, but they don’t have to be fancy unless you want them to be. 

Recycled jars: Jars are always useful for witchcraft, in my opinion. You can use them to cast jar spells, store herbs, collect and charge waters, canning and pickling for kitchen witchcraft, and anything else you can think of. No need to go out and buy fancy jars, either. A repurposed pasta sauce jar is just as effective as a pretty mason jar. It’s really about preference and how much you want to spend.

Crystals/rocks found in nature: So if you’ve followed my blog for any amount of time, you’ve probably noticed that crystals are a huge part of my craft. It’s taken me a while to establish my collection and it’s still growing, but much of what I use even now in spell-work are found rocks. I hike a lot and have discovered many rocks that are of the quartz variety just by spending time in nature. Quartz is great for beginners because it’s super programable and easy to work with. If you don’t want to buy crystals or can’t afford to, working with natural quartz rocks found outside is a great place to start and can be quite effective. 

Birthday candles & tea lights: Spell candles are totally rad and can usually be ordered online pretty inexpensively, but birthday candles are a great way to incorporate color magic and intent into your spells for even cheaper. Ritual and pillar candles are also nice to have, but tea-lights can be just as effective. They are super inexpensive and are great for carving sigils in and sealing spell jars. 

Playing cards: If divination via cartomancy is something you’d like to explore, you can get a feel for it using a simple deck of playing cards. Here is a link to a PDF containing in-depth explantations of each card’s meaning. If you already feel you like want to divine using tarot, go right on ahead and purchase whatever deck you feel drawn to. Just don’t feel like you have to spend a bunch of money, or like you have to do it at all. Not every witch is a diviner, and not ever diviner is a witch.

Necklace pendulum: Just like cartomancy, pendulum divination may not be your thing and it’s certainly not a requirement, but if you decide you want to explore it, you can easily make one out of a necklace. All you need is a chain with a pendant on it. It could be a crystal, it could be a decorative metal; what really matters is that it has enough weight to move as a pendulum would. If you decide you like to divine that way, you can purchase pendulums online or in metaphysical shops, usually for under $15, but I’ve seen pendulums for as low as $5. It all depends on your preference, really.

Tree branch wand: I don’t often use a wand in my craft personally (I might pull mine out for the occasional ritual, but I’m more of an Athame person) but many do as they can be quite effective in directing energy. There are tons of beautiful wands for sale that may be fashioned out of various materials including metals, woods, and crystals. You are welcome to purchase one of these if you are so inclined, but a found tree branch can be just as effective. My wand is a manzanita branch I found while hiking. If you do decide to use a tree branch wand, I suggest asking the tree in question for permission to take their branch and leaving a small offering as thanks. This can be a rock you found, some nature safe herbs (please don’t leave salt as an offering outdoors), or even an incantation of thanks recited either aloud or in your head in front of the tree. 

Various ritual tools found in the kitchen: If you want to incorporate things like a chalice, cauldron, and athame into your craft, you can purchase those items at occult and metaphysical shops, but you probably already have close representations in your kitchen. A wine goblet or champagne flute can easily be used as a chalice, a favorite small pot can be fashioned into a cauldron, and if you really want to be thrifty; a butter knife can work as an athame, though you might raise eyebrows and cause giggles with the last one. It’s really up to you what you decide to use or not. 

For online resources with spell craft and correspondences, I suggest checking out both Pincone.pub and Witchipedia 

That about covers the basics, I think. Thank you so much for the kind words! Best wishes with your craft, Anon!! ヽ(^◇^*)/

[torque-witch]

Idk if you or maybe your followers could help me, but I have a hematite ring that I've been wearing recently and I wanna enchant it for massive protection and control of my emotions (before school starts). I'd really like to enchant it using the solar eclipse. I was wondering if you (or anyone else willing) could create an enchantment set up so I can do so. BTW you're so pretty and I love your blog (are you also a death witch, I've been looking for more of them to follow)

Okay I’m not sure how complicated you would like this to be, but I’m going to go with mid-level? If you think you want something more, then just send me another ask with specifications about what you’d be more interested in!

So basically you are constructing an amulet - an enchanted piece of jewelry for a specific purpose. My methods are usually pretty spur-of-the-moment, but I’ll try to walk you through something more structured.

Protection herbs to use:

Sea Salt, Black Pepper, Bay Leaf, Rosemary (common)

Dragon’s Blood & Mugwort (less common)

*Most double as protective by way of banishing negative energy

Herbs for emotional stability/calmness:

Lavender, Chamomile, Peppermint (common)

Raspberry Leaf, Mugwort, Skullcap (less common)

Other items needed:

Bowl

White or Black Candles

Knife or something sharp to carve with

Lighter

Instructions:

So for this I would do a two-tier enchantment since you have two specific purposes you want the amulet to aid in. In my opinion you should do your protection tier first, as it sounds like that is the stronger main concept of its purpose (doubles as protection of emotions, as opposed to a separate concept).

If you feel necessary, ground and center yourself before starting. You may also consider creating a circle. [ multiple methods ]

Protection

Gather the herbs/ingredients you want to use. Grind them together while keeping your protective intentions in mind. Place the herb mixture over a layer of salt at the bottom of a bowl. I always like to have a salt layer at the bottom because it is the strongest (and most recognized) ingredient when dealing with protection. Place your hematite ring on top of, or immersed in the ingredients in the bowl.

Next, grab your working candle. What I would do for continuity’s sake is carve your working protection sigil near the top part of the candle that you know will burn through in a reasonable amount of time. If you want to make this process more drawn-out, you are welcome to.

 You can find some protection sigils here x, x, x or create your own!

Sigils need energy before they are destroyed or reshaped. To charge your sigil, place your hands around the candle and energetically focus your intent of immense protection into the sigil. You could easily do this also by pressing your thumb onto it and directing energy that way if you need touch. Light the candle when you are ready, repeating the process of directing protective energy (with the herbs & sigils & whatever crystals you feel necessary) into the ring until the sigil has melted through and you feel satisfied with the process. 

You could consider supplementing this with music that makes you feel powerful, drinking coffee (for extra energy) or dancing/sing to raise the energy of your process.

You could also choose to do this with a wax melter, and would probably be slightly easier.

Emotional Stability

So for this process I would honestly repeat the process mentioned above, but with your herbs for emotional health instead and music or other such items that help you calm down. Take the ring out of the protective herbs and place it into your second bowl. 

Sigils for emotional stability are here x, x, x

What I would do for an end process would be taking the ring outside and leaving it to charge under the eclipse, for whatever duration it is supposed to be present. 

You will most likely need to cleanse and charge this item on occasion when you start to feel like it isn’t working as well anymore. Barriers will dissolve over time with repetitive opposite energies hitting them. So just like building a wall or house, you need to be willing to do the upkeep. You don’t need to repeat the entire process, but just refresh the energy.

If you want something simple instead, I found this! It does not include emotional stability, but is an option for protection.

Badass Protection Ring Enchantment - [ witchthatiam ] 

And to address your other questions, thank you! And yes, I’m still learning about death witchcraft, but it is starting to become part of my practice :)