#witch journal

[violet-hearth]

Blessing Bouquets

Blessing bouquets are bouquets of flowers made using Victorian flower language or cultural flower associations. They make excellent gifts, are great for home blessings, an can be made either fresh or with dried flowers.

Some deities also have flowers associated with their stories and folktales such as paeonia and hyacinths for Apollon, and anemones and violets for Aphrodite. They also make excellent offerings to ancestors and spirits in most western practices (exceptions are Judaism and Islam)

Adapt to make flower crowns, wreaths, press flowers and hang in garlands etc.

Prep your stems and greenery, if fresh remove the bottom leaves and snip the stems at an angle

Build the base by adding flowers at an angle one by one, turning your bouquet after every flower added. The base should be the bulk of your greenery and flowers

Add in your focal flowers, these may the the larger blooms or brighter colours, you can feed them into the middle of the bouquet

Work in the smaller blooms and greenery, you can feed them into any part of the bouquet

Secure with twine, ribbon, paper or an ecstatic band

Some Flower Meanings:

Rose - love, passion beauty

Lily - purity, virtue, devotion,

Peony - prosperity, good fortune

Daffodil - rebirth, new beginnings

Poppy - sleep, rest, mourning

Anemone - anticipation, fragility

Primrose - youth, love, fidelity

Iris - faith, wisdom hope

Chrysanthemum - longevity, love

Resources (links):

Floriography

Flowers in greek myths

Flower in different religions

Funeral flower etiquette

[thewatersandthewilds]

Magical journal or Grimoire

I find this shift to all beginner witches calling their magical notebook their grimoire interesting, but it somehow doesn’t quite sit right with me. When I was younger, we had very little information on anything but Wicca, so the term Book of Shadows was used for your book of information and Book of Mirrors for the journaling side. Many merged the two and called it one term or the other, or simply a name of their own. However, recently Grimoire is everywhere and I think my sticking point with it is that it appears quite misunderstood.

Grimoires tend to be books of ceremonial magic. Some were huge tomes available only to the aristocracy, while others, such as the Bibliotheque Bleue genre, were available to the masses - these specifically being pamphlets printed on cheap, blue paper in early modern France.

Grimoires, like all books, reflect the time they are written, but it’s now believed (and take a moment to thank the late Jake Stratton-Kent) that they link back to earlier pagan rituals and beliefs.

As far as my understanding goes, the original grimoires (expensive tomes) were published first. The choices may have been aesthetically pleasing or practical, but they also served a magical purpose. These books were magically brought to life and given purpose - and I think that is key. Equally, these books tended to have full systems to work through.

These grimoires were carefully planned, noted, researched and developed for years. As far as I’m aware, they were not notebooks that witches jotted things down in. I can’t help but feel that the use of the term applied so broadly to journals with correspondences written by someone else, not remembered, printed out and stuck in just takes something away from the reality and history of grimoires. If a witch is creating a system, building the book, bringing it to life magically, then it’s totally different and appropriate to call it a grimoire - but if it’s currently your notes, then it’s your notes.

Yes, language changes and we all evolve with time. And, yes, I do, personally, think language choice is important and that specific words change our understanding. However, it’s also much harder for new witches to research grimoires and their fascinating history online now because all that comes up is a lot of other new witches showing off their printed and pritt-sticked pages.

So, feel free to ignore the ramblings of this witch, but if some of this rings true, think about what can be lost if we become so loose with witchy words that they begin to lose real meaning.

[theancientirishcraft]

[wastelandwild]

Sunflower Journal 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

[nyx-rgbb]

[soliloquyjewelry]

Collection sketches from years past.

[coinandcandle]

✨ Weekly Witchy Questions ✨

Here are a few questions to get your witchy brain juice flowing! Feel free to answer in the comments or in a reblog or use these questions in your personal witchy journal <:

🔥 What is your goal for your craft this week?

🔥 Do you practice/subscribe to the idea of elemental magic?

🔥 If so, what element do you prefer to work with? Explain why.

🔥 If not, what do you feel this idea lacks that causes you to not believe in it?

🔥 What element(s) are you least familiar with? What do you think you could do to strengthen this connection?

🔥 What can you do to learn more about elements and their place in magic?

[the-corset-witch]

Checked Out

Howdy witchlings! I keep meaning to do this, so I am just slapping it together. This is supposed to be my current reading list, which can shift by week, biweekly, or monthly, it is not on a schedule because I don't read on a schedule. To the books I'm currently reading!

New World Witchery (Cory Thomas Hutcheson) This is the book club book, we've got about 4 chapters left, and I have found it reads more like a history book on witchy folklore stories (and sometimes leaves me wishing there was more about those stories) than a book about witchery.

Becoming Dangerous (Katie West) Kinda digging what I've read of it already, which is the first two essays. I am not sure that the essays match the introduction, which was really promising, but it feels too early to call it.

[ophrysapifera]

About me

Hello! You can call me Ilex 👋 I'm 29 and I'm a secular green witch from the UK. This is just my personal space to post about witchcraft, gardening, herbalism, nature, solarpunk and rewilding myself. Welcome! (except for racists and terfs, who are very unwelcome)

I don't post anything NSFW/gore etc ✌️

🖤💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤

[rariishop]

Witchy Hyperlinked Digital Monthly Calendar, Planner, and Journal!

[gooseberry-n-lilac]

A page from my witchy journal -- maybe I can call it a grimoire? It's not very organized or neat, I just jot down spells, sigils, recipes and the like in it.

[chimichica]

6/19/24:

Apollo has really been making his presence known… crow, mice, cicada and now today a customer came in with a lyre necklace. I asked if it was for Apollo and he was shocked that I asked or even knew about it.

The Gods sure do work in wild ways.

It’s funny… because I was SO against working with masculine deities. (Who runs the world?— GURLS) But, I find that both He and Hermes have been way more obvious in my life than the female ones that I have so whole heartedly put my service into.

I’d say that’s some spiritual growth for me for sure.

(Bev library sun dial, and the sun circle in Marblehead)

[sharavintage]

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[theancientirishcraft]

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