#spell charging

[jklpopcorn-art]

More Hornets!! This time uwu I mean Uumuu and Charged Lumafly Hornets by @silksongeveryday!

[ryllen]

hanging around sebastian is automatic code to become a mom friend

[harvestmoss]

Beginner Witch Tips

Where does one even start? Well, there's hundreds of lovely people both on Tumblr and other blog spaces, as well as wonderful beginner books and online resources out there that love to help. This is just one of many other witches takes on what a beginner witch may want to start researching and do, and some extra bits.

Before Magic:

What is magic to you? - You can't start performing magic until you learn how magic functions in your eyes. How do you make sure a spell will work? What is energy in magic? It may be a lot to ask, but it's something to keep in mind as you research other topics that might help uncover this question more, or vice versa, it can help you understand other topics.

Meditation is not *just* sitting and doing nothing - In my path I beat myself up so hard for not being able to sit down with my legs crossed and hands on my knees, sitting perfectly still, and just empty my thoughts for 10 boring long minutes. Meditation is a practice that involves focusing the mind to achieve a state of calm and clarity. Which means that if you can make your mind more clear and calm by sewing, listening to music, doing exercise, chant, etc. Learn what sort of meditation works best for you. I meditate outside by looking down at the ground to find amulets, or swimming, and inside it's when I draw or focus on a task.

Correspondence list - Find out what correspondences (example) basil has, but also, why does it have that? And maybe, it doesn't have those correspondences to you at all! This counts for colours, crystals and other things too.

Closed practices - It's good to know which sorts of practices are closed, semi closed, and open. As well as what practices Wicca preach and so on, it's a way to recognize what perspective your sources are writing from.

Pregnant or medicated people, please be careful - This may seem strange, but before just casting a spell or using herbs, please be mindful of what it contains as some herbs can have negative effects on pregnant people or your medication you're taking. This counts for poisonous herbs as well, know what to avoid or be careful with.

Do your own research - I can spew a lot of things to you, but I can only do it from my perspective. Learn from more than just one place. From both in real life and online.

Time For Magic

Cleansing magic - Figure out how to cleanse a space for magic use, you don't want energies mixing in with your spells. As an example, I can't cook in a kitchen that's filled with dishes and dirty counters. The same goes for spells, I can't perform spells until energies are clear and gone.

Protection magic - Every witch says this. But yes. Protection magic is useful even if you have no enemies. Once you have gotten rid of unwanted energies, it's time to make sure they won't come back in and make sure to up keep your protection regularly.

Warding and banishing magic - Listen, you can clean as much as you want, but you simply won't get rid of mold unless you use bleach. You simply can't get rid of annoying spirits unless you have a good banishing and warding spells you can rely on. Especially if you plan on summoning spirits whenever it's the elements or some high level demon later down your path. You must have a banishing spell in case things go wrong.

Charging and binding magic - Your magic will prove more powerful if you learn how to charge your energy and tools and also binding them to certain powerful uses. You may find a stick and use it as a wand, but it'll be more powerful if you spend the time to charge it, learn about it, and only use it for specific rituals.

Bonus Tips:

Stop researching about different types of witches - Maybe this is a hot take or not. Besides knowing what a pagan and wiccan is and closed practices, there's no need to write about what a sea witch, a hearth witch, a death witch, a divination witch, etc is! When I first started out, I got so stressed out because once I got done writing and research about 10 different witches, another 400 would show up, I gave up about it and used my focus and energy on other more crucial things than "a sea witch is someone who works with the ocean and..." *snores* we know, it's in the name. Besides, you shouldn't focus on labels so early on in your practice.

Amulets are not just shiny jewellery - Movies love to predict amulets and talismans as these hereditary important gemstone necklaces. But honestly, you can make an amulet out of anything. Snail houses, rocks, seashells, bags of herbs, nails, sea glass, horseshoe, or actually your every day jewellery like your wedding ring, earrings, and favourite bracelet.

Self-care witchcraft is not that fantastic - Maybe it's just me but the last thing I wanna do in a "self-care" ritual is clean up all the herb baths and find herbs and grind my own tea. True self-care witchcraft is taking care of your doctors appointment and enchanting them with luck and good news. Or Finally getting around to cleaning the oven (the hearth) so that your home is healthy once again.

Use things you have in your area - Learn what's around you in your city, not just stores but what can you get from parks, lakes, forests, and beaches near you? When do the herbs in your area bloom? When can you harvest acorns? Can you get flowers from the park or do you have to source them somewhere else in your area? Are you able to grow your own stuff in on your balcony or kitchen? And also, be mindful, always leave some left so it can come back next year.

[amoritasart]

He learned from the best ! ☺️

Meanwhile Caleb

Based on my AU

[telekitnetic-art]

inspired by:

someone probably already did this exact poll but idc. we did it with lizzy we can do it again.

[july-19th-club]

if baru fisher agonist cormorant had just squandered her potential and quit being a savant and instead adopted a shawn spencerian attitude and told everyone she had a psychic vision of the destruction of falcrest and that it could only be achieved by sneakenomics then multiple ashen sea cultures wouldve gotten on board immediately and she wouldn't have had to do all that other stuff

[the-punforgiven]

Im curious, for people who have beaten the Shadow of the Erdtree final boss, rb and put in the tags how you did it!

(Don't say who it is though, I've still got mutuals who haven't played it and are avoiding spoilers lol)

[lookstairs]

[Escape room in Gotham]

Speaker: Alright stowaways you have one hour to escape the ship before the crew finds you and you’re forced to walk the plank! Good luck!

Duke: Alright so the first riddle is “I’m as light as a feather, and can keep it afloat. I’m with you always, in whisper and song. Even the strongest of men can’t hold me for long.”

Duke: Light as a feather? Maybe that means-

Damian: Wait is that map wrong?

Duke: I don’t know? Maybe? Anyway we-

Tim: No he’s right. The employee said this ship was from the 1600s but thats a modern map

Duke: Ok? I think it’s just a prop let’s focus-

Damian: Drake has a point. What would pirates be doing with a map that hasn’t even been made yet?

Duke: I. Don’t. Know. Just-

Tim: Hold on this could be a clue. These “pirates” may not be who they say they are. Damian help me get this down.

Duke: Can we PLEASE focus on the actual riddle!

Damian: The answer is “your breath”. Pfft really Duke, that was obviously put there to distract us from the real clue. A child could have figured it out

Duke: (Sigh)

…………………………………………………..

Dick: Hey how’d the escape room go?

Duke: I don’t wanna talk about it.

[queercontrarian]

High Lady Helion

mommy

[nostalgia-tblr]

oh aye, it's all fun and games until your fic needs someone on asgard to change a law and then you realise they have no functioning... anything... and your thought process of "well first the king would have to summon the parliament..." is nonsense and you don't even know how they pick a regent there despite that being a crucial plot point in the first film. you fool. just say a wizard did it!

[sky-ham]

saw that Cleric was the least played class so I decided to play it for my Honor mode run and it's the most fun I've ever had in this game so far

with the right build not only can you can hit like a truck and lock down an area, you can also debuff / damage enemies regardless if they hit or miss you

don't touch the cleric challenge

[lexalovesbooks]

One tts thing that always makes me giggle is the de-escalation of how rune uses Exodus every book. Like, we’ve got:

Book one- after saving it up for fifteen years, Rune uses it on the big bad of the book (also one of his past abusers) and kills him to smithereens. Also destroys the entire cathedral the confrontation happens in as collateral.

Book two- Exodus has a few months of juice in it, Rune uses it mid-book to (mostly) take out a mythical creature, a billboard that gets cut in half is the extent of the collateral this time.

Book three- Rune, high as fuck, gets startled and accidentally calls Exodus up while trying to summon a completely different spell. Discharges it against a wall in a panic so that it doesn’t explode him and accidentally scares the utter shit out of Random Unscrupulous Teen.

Considering how Rune has admitted that this spell in particular and the reason he keeps it on him at all times is pretty deeply linked to his past, there’s probably something in here about his increasing willingness to use it freely instead of saving it as an absolute last resort, about the past having less of a stranglehold on him and him feeling comfortable enough to live without a nuclear bomb in his back pocket at all times. It is also, however, when you look at it in text just incredibly fucking funny. Building-leveling weapon that Rune does the equivalent of accidentally releasing on a sneeze two books later.

[normalbrothers]

#where tommy kneels inside a semi-circle of very erect ... men

[hwashitape]

"Yes, it's beautiful—so beautiful and gorgeous that I could faint. The most beautiful part of all is the way the answer is zero. That said, I feel like there isn't really any reason to calculate all that out if the answer is just going to be zero."

[raven--stag]

✨fuck that old man✨

[egg-king]

lil arty poster for good luck