#witch diary

[akkifuar]

День, когда снег в ноябре задержался дольше обычного ~

Ветер вздыхал и шуршал среди побуревших, покрытых инеем больших папоротников, затем грустно затихал, удаляясь вниз по ручью. Уолтер сказал однажды, что любит эту меланхолию ноябрьского ветра. Верные Влюбленные Деревья, как и прежде, держали друг друга в нежных объятиях, и ветви Белой Леди, давно превратившейся в громадное дерево, белели, красивые и изящные, на фоне серого бархата затянутого тучами неба. Уолтер дал им эти имена много лет назад, а в прошлом ноябре, когда проходил вместе с ней и мисс Оливер через Долину Радуг, заметил, глядя на ствол и голые ветви Белой Леди, над которой висел серебристый молодой месяц: «Белая береза — прекрасная юная язычница, не утратившая известного в раю секрета, как не стыдиться своей наготы».

[bellegrangerwitchcraft]

I do not dwell on unwanted thoughts sigil

[satanhersxlf]

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[slowlyawitch]

Todays spell work

Three wishes spell

Very simple, we’ll see how effective it is.

I have three wishes, something about my career, something about my love life and just to have a nice happy Christmas this year.

The red candle is christmas spice, I carved my wish to have a happy christmas in it and sprinkled pink salt in it for pure protection.

The purple candle is lavendar, I carved my love related wish into it and sprinkled cinnamon on it.

The orange candle is mango, I carved my career wish in it and sprinkled a bit of dried basil on there.

I drew out a triangle, wrote my wishes at each tip in a different colour pen (purple for christmas, pink for love and blue for career), and drew one of my personal use sigils in the center. I folded the paper to triangle shape, placed the candles to their corresponding tips and lit them.

May the full moon hear my prayer, may my intentions be carried through the rest of its cycle, may my wishes come true

Update: it worked!

[ye-spirits]

The universe has a funny sense of humor. I cast a spell to summon pizza at a low cost. It had to be delicious and it had to be accessible to me given my limited resources. Magic, as always takes the path of least resistance, and helpfully reminded me after I cast the spell that I had frozen pizza in my freezer that I've been ignoring for months. Obviously, I cooked the pizza and it was delicious. I would consider this spell a success. I'm expecting it to keep working though. I did say that I also wanted other italian take out food too... and wings. We'll see if that works any further haha!

[cavorta]

July 10, 2024

I have revised one of my books:

My Magical Witch's Diary - A Book of Shadows

In this book of shadows diary you‘ll find 200 illustrated pages waiting to be filled, for the following topics:

⭐Your witchcraft experiences – here you can write down anything to do with your craft, like in a diary.

⭐Witchhandicraft – anything you handcraft for witchcraft, for instance poppets, decorations, jewellery…

⭐You will also find pages for these topics: Dreams, Deities, Chants, Songs, Altar(s), Prayers, Recipes, Rituals, Shopping lists, Herbs & Plants, Crystals, Astrology and finally Miscellaneous for everything else that doesn‘t fit into one of those categories.

⭐There are also pages with decorative frames where you can doodle or draw pictures, symbols or else.

⭐At the end, there are some pages for your own magical correspondences.

Available on Amazon worldwide, for instance here:

[raven-runes]

Witchcraft and poetry are inseparable for me. What is a poem but a spell, every word woven with care and intention? A poem has the potential to craft new worlds, to open a portal into unseen realities, to rewild our hearts and souls. Poetry is spellcraft.

~Tadhg Ó hErodáin

[louisbxne]

black vampires + witches

akasha, queen of the damned (2002)

louis & claudia, interview with the vampire (2022-)

tara thorton, true blood (2008-2014)

blade, blade (1998)

marcel gerard, the originals (2013-2018)

sarah fox, my babysitter's a vampire (2011-2012)

alex & camryn, twitches (2005)

rochelle zimmerman, the craft (1996)

bonnie bennett, the vampire diaries (2009-2017)

vincent griffith, the originals (2013-2018)

marie laveau, american horror story (2011-)

macy vaughn, charmed (2018-2022)

[normalaboutstories]

[ashey111]

Not me shifting right after blocking shifttok off my fyp 😋😋

Late merry Christmas shifters!!

[pink-yuri]

♡ Albino and Witch ♡

[akkifuar]

"Это был октябрь ветров,маленьких, что мурлыкали в долине, и больших, что хлестали и раскачивали верхушки кленов, ветров, что с завыванием проносились вдоль песчаного берега, но припадали к земле, когда достигали скал. Ночи, с их сонной и красной полной луной, были такими прохладными, что мысль о теплой постели казалась очень приятной; листики брусники стали алыми, засохшие папоротники — красно-коричневыми, а за конюшней пламенел сумах; зеленые пастбища лежали тут и там как заплаты на сухих, сжатых полях Верхнего Глена, а в углу лужайки, где росли ели, зацвели золотые и желтовато-коричневые хризантемы. Повсюду весело верещали белки, и сверчки-скрипачи аккомпанировали танцам фей на тысяче холмов. И надо было собирать яблоки и дергать морковку." 🍂

[bellegrangerwitchcraft]

I am blessed in my magical work sigil

[queenbonniebennett]

Nothing but facts. Go argue with a wall

[pencilscratchins]

to everyone asking when i’m gonna post art again… hey guys i recently acquired six incredibly large clown paintings so i’m sort of booked at the moment

[ye-spirits]

The Book of Abramelin: A Review

The Book of Abramelin is a Jewish magical text that began circulating in the 15th century. The author purports to be a Jewish man named Abraham von Worms who wrote this text as a magical guide for his second son, Lamech. Abraham details his journey from Germany to Egypt and back again, during which time, Abraham meets multiple “masters” of the magical arts. One of these masters, Abramelin, he regards above all else and, indeed, he discards the others as frauds and agents of the devil after meeting Abramelin. After they meet, Abraham is taught the secrets of the hermit’s magic, which is Kabbalistic in nature, and bound in service to God. Abramelin directs him to live a good and pure life according to the will of God and Abraham agrees to this despite, as he puts it, appearing to “my friends, relatives, and other Jews as a bad and crazy person.” (P. 16) Some of the text in the book is, according to Abraham, directly from Abramelin himself, who bestowed several Kabbalistic texts upon the author before he left him.

The ritualistic magic described in the book directs the reader to purify themself in the eyes of God in order to meet their Holy Guardian Angel. By meeting the Holy Guardian Angel, the reader is then able to safely command various spirits, including the Four Kings of Hell, Lucifer, Satan, Leviathan, and Belial. The whole operation takes place over eighteen months, though this detail is not consistent across all versions seeing as the Mathers version states that the operation takes six months instead. 

Unlike many magical texts of the time that I am familiar with, this one decries the use of astrology. In Chapter Six of my translation, Abraham von Worms compares consulting the “stars, sun, and moon” with asking wild game for permission to hunt it (P. 120). Despite feeling it a pointless exercise, Abraham goes on to describe how Astrologers divide the planetary hours in great detail and he does admit to believing that the stars and planets affect different things, but only in regards to earthly matters, such as the weather. 

The earliest manuscripts of this text are written in German and date back to the 1600s. Having no talent for other languages and no copy of the original text, I cannot speak to the writing voice of Abraham von Worms himself or how engaging the text is. This is a translation compiled and edited by George Dehn and translated by Steven Guth. Originally, it was also written in German, but Dehn decided to create an English translation with Guth in the early 2000s. If I recall correctly, unlike Macgregor Mather’s translation, the authors of this translation decided to update the language to feel more contemporary. This makes the reading experience easier and more enjoyable overall. I sped through this book fairly quickly, at least compared to other books on similar subjects so I would give this a very positive score for readability. It is also surprisingly funny and I found myself laughing out loud at a couple of parts over the course of reading this book.

Final thoughts:

I'm not planning on enacting this operation myself. I don't really have the patience for this kind of ritual work right now and I'm also not a big believer in God. That said, I think this was a fascinating and entertaining read and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the Grimoire traditions of Western Ceremonial Magic. I hope to get my hands on a copy of MacGregor Mathers version so I can see the differences for myself and because I personally enjoy collecting occult books.

Citation:

Abraham ben Simeon, Georg Dehn, and Steven Guth. The Book of Abramelin: A New Translation. Lake Worth, FL: Ibis Press, 2015.