#was just gonna post the drawings but the whole sketchbook page was a vibe

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this meme but make it Emotion

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My message as a crusty and incredibly poor witch:

You don't have to buy all that stuff! You don't need three different books to keep witch notes in! Your altar doesn't need all the fancy trimmings from the metaphysical store I promise!

I know that's like, a no brainer and most witchy pages and resources will tell you that, but it bears repeating cause I keep seeing "witchcraft shopping hauls" from new witches and it makes me wanna gag, it serves so much capitalism I hate it. So I'm gonna give my two cents on having an affordable and sustainable practice. Today's post will be about magical notebooks, and I'll probably write other posts about things like spell ingredients and tools, and I definitely wanna do a whole one about witchcraft books. Content warning, I explicitly advocate theft among other things.

I have an incredibly loosey-goosey practice, it's 100% vibes based most of the time and 80% when it's not. I keep a journal and it's full of songs I've written, correspondences and spells I'm workshopping (love going back and taking notes on how it worked out), tarot readings, adventures I've had, stories I've written, photos and drawings and stuff (my favorite is my staff badge from when I sold fireworks). It's very personal and goes everywhere with me, so it's full of my own energy. My journals are hardcover sketch journals I liberate from the local big box, but they can be anything you write in, or even a note document on your phone (though it's hard to press a cool leaf in your phone). I actually think it's incredibly important to meld your mundane and magical journaling, because it emphasizes that one's practice isn't just a Thing You Do Sometimes, it's a way of living and interacting with the world.

Whenever I remember, I go and put my spells, correspondences, and tarot spreads I feel I've got a good grasp of in a second journal that lives on my shelf. Its purpose is a reference, as opposed to the journalistic nature of my, well, journals. This one was a gift from a friend, a beautiful handmade tome with heavy paper, but again it can be anything you can store writings in; if I didn't have it I'd probably just steal another sketchbook. I write in this one with a quill I found at an antique shop (tips are cheap enough online or steal em from Hobby Lobby, I always advocate theft from corporations) and ink I make from blackberries I forage (storebought is fine, of course, and alum is in the spice aisle of the grocery). That's where my spells live once I feel like I've ironed them out well. I probably do this about once a month, I try to do it during the New Moon, as it has correspondences of creativity and new things, but sometimes it's just when I remember.

You don't gotta buy special journals for stuff, it doesn't have to be a fancy handcrafted leather-bound ordeal, you don't have to have separate books for your mundane and magical musings (everything is magical once you open your eyes to it). It's your practice and as long as you're doing things with intention and respect to the natural world, as long as you're learning about the world around you and appreciating magic in all its forms, you're doing it right.

Blessed be and up the punx, y'all~

[dontdropthedoughnut]

24 October 2019 - Okay, okay I will stop posting up recommendations of other artists and post up my own work instead...soon...

So one last artist recommendation who I just have to mention! I was scrolling through YouTube looking at the video recommendations and the YouTube algorithm decided to suggest Kasey Golden's video "Drawing Silly Faces on 64 Pages - SKETCHBOOK TOUR".

So in the video she does an unboxing of ArtSnacks' monthly art supply subscription box and the supplies are the typical ones you'd expect for Inktober. What I'm waaay more inspired about is the sketches she does! Instead of being too precious about drawing in a brand new sketchbook and making each drawing beautifully rendered, she has a screw it, let's do it attitude!

Watching her I get the vibe that she's having so much fun and ideas just seem to be free flowing to her. It's a process I want to attempt, I think it would be a really good method to generate ideas when stuck...I'm gonna put it on my Art Impossible List! Definitively give her video a watch, just loving the whole graphic and bold vibe she's giving!!!