#sacred circle

[mila-stardust]

Book Of Shadows

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I've been editing my Book of Shadows for a few days now and I think it's time to share some of it here. These are just a few excerpts from it. I purposely made it black&white so it looks Victorian and uses less ink when printed on parchment paper.

1. History of Paganism

2. Satanic Panic

3. The Sacred Circle & Altar

4. Lunar Transit

5. Moon Phases

6. Wheel of the Year + Imbolc

Keep in mind that these are just some of the random pages I picked so it's unorganized. I'll be sharing my Table of Contents next time to show you how I organized it all.

P.S. Almost all of the fonts are free to download from Dafont. So if you want any font from these pages let me know :) We do not gatekeep here!

[katscratching]

Goddess, the Mother of All, Protect Me

from other people’s partners              from other people’s children                         from other people’s dogs

[johnny-hoxton]

We sang the songs of childhood Hymns of faith that made us strong Ones that mother Maybelle taught us Hear the angels sing along

Will the circle be unbroken By and by, lord, by and by There's a better home a-waiting In the sky, lord, in the sky

Johnny Cash

Anima Ardens - choreographed by Thierry Smits

[noughtlux]

Mystic Arabian Nights Drawings/MIxed media 2024 (Lic.: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

[xmimikyuusx]

whenever I hear the shit like "trans men can't say tranny that belongs to trans women" "trans men using transandrophobia are just stealing language from trans women/trying to copy them for attention" "trans men can't use the egg cracking analogy because that belongs to trans women" "trans men are trying to appropriate trans women culture" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean) it reminds me of being 12 and changing schools, and being a child in the 2010's, I was obsessed with using the word coolio. However, the kids were very quick to inform me that there was Already another kid who was saying coolio and that word belonged to them/was their catch phrase, so I couldn't say it. Even though to me, I'd been using that long since I showed up there. I'd been saying dumb shit like that forever.

So like. Infantile shit. To try and say that certain words belong to your specific identity and anyone who might even remotely relate to you is doing it to steal your thunder. I promise if someone from a different identity uses a term that you use for yourself it literally doesn't affect anything other than your ego.

a note*: the above doesn't apply to indigenous/POC who have had their language essentially colonized, very much a different situation

[caedmonofwhitby]

Lucas de Heere (1534–1584)

English: One of the earliest near-accurate depictions of Stonehenge.

Date between 1573 and 1575

watercolor

British Library

[earthjournalbyawildrose]

No.22 Mountain Mist Sacred Circle by Rose Eads

source

[tomasorban]

Lane End Down, Nr Beauworth, Hampshire.

Reported 9th July 2023

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[cosmicportal]

Etchilhampton , Wiltshire 8/8/24.

[sylviaritter]

Noble Numbat

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.340. You are here

[thresholdbb]

Apparently Sacred Ground is a wildly niche cosplay

[noughtlux]

Inner Divine Geometry Drawings, Paintings 2024 (Lic.: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

[roaenexists]

CIRCLE TIP:

I know books from the seventies would have you believe otherwise, but you don't have to mentally hold circle for the whole ritual, and you don't have to physically mark the whole circle boundary, nor do you need a coven member to hold space. You can put regular old rocks at each of the cardinal directions along the walls of your room or along the outer perimeter of the sacred space and use those as anchor points for the energy you lay.

Start by gathering, cleansing, and sanctifying/consecrating/blessing/charging/whatever four stones of any shape and size that suits your needs. Larger stones are good if you want them to be a visible reminder of the boundaries of circle, but smaller ones are good for discretion. Anoint them with a protection oil if you'd like (I only recommend doing this if you are using them indoors with no animals around), and/or pencil protection sigils on them. Cast circle but make sure your energy hits each stone and runs through it. If you call in the quarters, invite them to reside in their respective directional stones. Boom, done, now you have an easily marked sacred space that doesn't need constant maintain.

And, fun fact, circle doesn't HAVE to be round. Round is easiest when you're using mental energy to hold the space, but if you use physical barriers like existing walls then your cast energy resides in that physical block and is held automatically. I especially love doing this as a quasi-permanent marker to sanctify an entire room because any doorways become defacto entrances/exits that spiritually open and close when physically opened and closed.

Okay but isn't this being lazy? NO you rude hypothetical, it's not. It's being resourceful. Using these physical anchors allows a solitary practitioner to put their focus towards other things. I use this method when I'm studying magic texts, or so I can hang out with my ancestors and spirit friends casually for extended periods of time, or if I am going to be attempting astral projection. And by "I use this method," I mean it is one of the permanent protections I have in place in my home.

Has anyone else tried this? Please share any experiences or circle hacks you might have!