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new drinking game idea! if you see this post you legally have to drink some water. self-care time bitch. consider this a threat.

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anyways here are beauty tips from a 2,000 year old Mediterranean funerary moasic:

rosewater on your face and neck each night

hair left in an up-do with only a slight face framing piece in a gentle curl

earth tone eyeshadow and kohl black eye liner to look sultry even in death

staining your lips a tender red with pomegranate seeds or kisses from a cherry

minimal gold embellishments and a sip or two of red wine to darken your cheeks when you smile in the dreamlike haze caused by Dionysus

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I'm very sorry to those of you who requested free readings from me. A lot of shit happened in the past week and I don't think I'll be able to go them.

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HONEY ALMOND CEREAL BARS FOR HAPPINESS

A treat or breakfast, anytime you need a pick me up throughout the day. You can infuse these bars with your intentions, and charge them with a crystal of choice. I hope you guys enjoy! ~ Angel.

For the Bars:

½ cup (170g) honey

happiness, healing, prosperity

½ cup (120g) almond butter

prosperity, universal love, luck

1 box Honey Nut Cheerios

happiness, nostalgia, prosperity

For the Coating:

½ cups (75g) white chocolate

friendship, self-love, fun

1/3 cup (85g) greek yogurt

2 tbsp honey

happiness

1 tsp vanilla extract

self-love, attraction

Directions

On medium heat, combine honey, almond butter, and your honey nut cheerios in a rather large pan. Make sure the almond butter has melted and the cheerios are fully coated. This should take about no longer then 7 minutes. About 3 plays of Set Fire to the Rain by Adele. 

Once you have done this, spread evenly into a glass baking dish until it sets completely. This can take 1-3 hours.

Cut them into bars. Combine your greek yogurt, honey, melted white chocolate, and vanilla together, and dip the bottoms into the mixture, Let them set for an additional hour.

Enjoy!

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REBLOG If you are an account dedicated to Aphrodite, Apollo, Freya, or Morpheus. I will go through and follow each and everyone ^_^

~ xoxo, Angel

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Hello! I really love your blog and have been basically living off ramen lately. It's there any way I could get a witchy ramen recipe please? If not, that's totally fine. Thank you!

Aww, thank you so much! Funny that I do in fact have one, for the days where you’ve got almost nothing in the pantry.

NO FAKE FRIENDS WITCHES RAMEN

This ramen dispels negative people from your life and brings new beginnings and good things.

Ingredients

1 pack instant ramen noodles

2 cups sun water

protection, happiness, healing, luck, cleansing

1 egg

strength, protection

1 tsp sriracha sauce

cleansing, warding, hex breaker

1 tsp garlic powder

warding, banishing, anti-negative energy, dispel bad people

1 clove garlic (minced)

strengthens the spell, protection, remove negative energy, protects against negative people/energy vampires

1/8 cup chopped green onion

2 tsp sesame oil/any oil of choice

1 tsp soy sauce

warding, protection, cleansing

1 tsp miso paste

1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

protection

Directions

In a saucepan on medium-high heat add your sesame oil, and cook your garlic, and green onions until fragrant. Add in your sriracha and garlic powder. Stir (be careful because this stuff can splatter). Quickly add in your sun water, and a packet of the seasonings your instant ramen came with.

Add in Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, and miso paste. Bring to a boil and add in your noodles. Cook for 2 minutes.

Crack in an egg and cover with a lid for 1 minute. stir everything together and turn off the heat.

Ladle into a bowl and enjoy!

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Welp I know what I'm making tonight!

WITCHY APOLLO SUNSHINE BREAD

Thank you so much for 5,000 followers! The recipe is in the description…

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The summer solstice is almost here! And I want to share with everyone one of my favorite cookie recipes that is perfect for this time of year. They are soft, chewy, and full of honey goodness! 🍯🍪💛

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Dandelioncore

Unapologetically loving yourself as you are

Dandelions and other plants considered weeds

Growing and surviving in adversity

Being yourself, unfiltered

Refusing to bow to others expectations

Neurodiversity babes!

Finding beauty in unexpected places

Bright colours and 'ugly' clothes

Being LGBTQ+! (But ofc literally everyone is welcome even if you aren't lgbt!)

Unconventional intrests

Maximalism rather than minimalism (think cluttered libraries, nick-nacks on every shelf)

Houseplants/gardening

Insects/rats/'gross' animals

Fungi!!!

Honestly? This is about being yourself, so anything important to you, anything you feel makes you you? That's Dandelioncore babey!

Love yourself, accept yourself.mp4

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Relaxing with dandelions

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Dandelions deserve all the rights

The Minneapolis Star, Minnesota, May 15, 1934

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yeah sex is cool but have you ever made friends with someone new and hesitantly asked for their star sign but then they told their sun moon and rising signs as well?

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imagine trump just dying from covid-19.  imagine trump dying alone in a hospital bed and going to hell.  Imagine trump and pence burning forever in Hell for murdering 80,000 people in just a month and a half. That’s seeming more and more likely as time goes on here.  

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Free readings are currently closed. I've got some stuff going on emotional that have been affecting my readings. I'll try to finish the rest of the readings currently in my inbox. Thanks for being understanding.

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Apollo: *walks into a room*

Artemis, internally: there he is: my favorite person. he is my precious brother and i’d pick all the stars out of the sky for him. i must greet him in a manner that shows him how much i appreciate and love him

Artemis: the fuck you want now?

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Witchcraft 102 Masterpost

So. You’ve covered the basics. You know what every kind of ritual tool does, you understand all the terms that seemed alien to you before and you think you’re finally starting to get a feel for this witchcraft thing. You’re not a baby witch anymore, but… where to from here? Making the move from beginner witch to intermediate witch is a lot more difficult than it seems, purely because resources aimed at intermediate witchcraft are few and far between. But there’s a good reason for that.

There are general rules and ideas that can be applied across all of witchcraft. There’s so much to learn from other witches, but your greatest teacher will always be yourself. There is a reason witchcraft is so customisable to the individual: some things just work better for certain people. Not to mention pretty much every magick practice in history was developed by witches using their intuition! Because of this, it’s hard to create resources that tell somehow how to go from a beginner to an intermediate. However, they do exist! You’ll just find that most of them will act as prompts or scaffolds. They’ll instruct you on how to figure things out for yourself.

This next stage of your craft will involve a lot of introspection, and a lot of trusting your gut. It’s the reason you learnt all that baby witch stuff in the first place. This is where most of the personal growth happens. It can be scary, but it’ll also be magical. It’ll be a while before you actually qualify as an ‘intermediate witch’, and there’s no shame in that. The process of moving from beginner to intermediate is one that can take years, simply because witchcraft is such a deep and complex art. I myself definitely wouldn’t identify as a baby witch, but I’m still a beginner in many aspects despite having been a witch for years.

Without further ado, I present to you witchcraft 102.

GENERAL

The Problem with Sharing Advanced Magic

Using Tumblr as a Resource

How to Stop Being a Beginner Witch

How to Deepen Your Craft

Developing Your Craft Beyond Tumblr

Creating a Spiritual Calendar

SOAP Journaling: a Devotional Framework

Devotional Journal (for deity worship)

Questions for a Deeper Spiritual Practice

ORGANISATION

When reading through information, I recommend taking notes on the content, as well as your thoughts on it. Do you notice any connections to other texts or ideas? Do you have any questions you’d like to follow up? This will not only help you remember the information, but encourage you to look at it critically and see the bigger picture. Here is an example of my personal note-taking scaffold which includes some of the notes I took a while ago. I adapted it from the Cornell notes system based on my personal needs.

At TechnoCoven, a recent online witchcraft convention, there was an hour-long panel about planning in witchcraft called Spirit Papers. Here is a link to the recording. It goes over different organisation systems, notebooks, etc.

Why you should cite sources

How to cite sources

What is an annotated bibliography?

I would highly recommend setting aside a specific time every day to study witchcraft. This way, you will be improving your craft every day. Even if you only set aside half an hour, you will be doing three and a half hours of study a week. An hour a day totals to seven hours a week. If you can’t find a specific time every day, then find a specific time every week. 6pm-8pm on Tuesday and Saturday, for example, or reserve all of Sunday afternoon. This structure obviously isn’t compulsory, but with it you will advance at a much quicker pace and probably find your craft more fulfilling.

You should definitely have a grimoire already, but if you don’t, get one. It can be on paper or online, if you’d prefer. OneNote, Evernote, Microsoft Word and Google Docs are all viable digital options. You probably have lots of loose information lying around, whether its physical, in note form or on your Tumblr blog. Categorise it and order it. Then go through it. Document the important and useful parts in your grimoire.

READING

Elemental Magick in Science

Elemental Systems

The Darker Elements

History of Magick Part 1

History of Magick Part 2

History of Magick Part 3

History of Magick Part 4

How Location and History Affect Spiritual Practices

Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health (ebook)

TAROT

Stop Learning Tarot Like Flash Cards

Learning the Major Arcana

Learning the Court Cards

Reading Tarot Cards Vertically

Reading Reversed Cards

How to Take Notes on a (New) Tarot Deck

Understanding Yourself Tarot Mega-Spread

Conceptions of the Self Through Spreads

Shadow February Divination Challenge

Daily Tarot Journal Printable

SHADOW WORK

Introduction to Shadow Work

6 Phrases for Shadow Work

Safety Planning (good to have one of these if you’re doing shadow work and have a mental illness)

Shadow Working with Stuck Points

Shadow Work with Hillbillyoracle (pt. 1)

Shadow Work with Hillbillyoracle (pt. 2)

Hillbillyoracle’s Personal Shadow Work Framework

RESEARCH

Good Things to Research When You Don’t Know What to Research

Areas of Research for the Intermediate Witch

Masterlist of Journals, Articles & Books on Folklore, Mythology and the Occult

Index of Old Grimoires

Working with Plants

Tips on How to Google Correspondences

The Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection

Sacred Text Archive

Bocastle Museum of Witchcraft

Occult Library

Hermetics Library

Project Gutenberg Paganism Bookshelf

Legal Free Ebooks Masterpost

Good Pagan & Wiccan Publishers

How to Get Use Out of Older Texts

Finding Experienced Witches

PRACTICE

What to Do When You Fall out of Practice

Making Your Own Correspondences

Pendulum Dowsing for Correspondences

2019 Grimoire Challenge (a year of grimoire prompts)

Stones for Advanced Practitioners

On Tools and Psychodrama

A Way to Astral Project

Energy Alignment Identification

Magic in the Body

Spell Circles

Irish Concept of “On the Breath”

Sky Catch

Verbal Sigils

PODCASTS

Tea With the Gods

The Hillbilly Oracle

Hex Positive

The History of Witchcraft

The Empowered Modern Witches Show

Academy of Affluence

TESTIMONIALS

A Samhain Fairytale

Foundations of Diywitchery’s Practice

Godphoning

Devotional activities

GET OFF TUMBLR (AKA GET SOME VARIETY IN YOUR SOURCES) I’ve got some examples listed here but there are definitely more out there!

Bree NicGarran’s Blog

Luna Luna Magazine (Blog)

Witchy Words (Blog)

Mumble & Things (Blog)

Down the Forest Path (Blog)

The Travelling Witch (Blog)

Prisoner’s Apothecary (Blog)

Harmony Nice (Youtube)

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

6 Books for Advancing Your Craft

Hellenic Polytheism Books

Walker Between Worlds by Robert Kirk (I haven’t read it so I can’t vouch for its quality but I’ve heard its a valuable resources for those wanting to learn about the fae)

The Study of Witchcraft: A Guidebook to Advanced Wicca by Deborah Lipp (I will link to my book review here; this book is essentially a study guide)

Evolution of Goddess by Emma Mildon (book recommendation) (especially good if you are looking to find a deity but are unsure of where to start)

The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic: An Illustrated History by Christopher Dell (a fantastic starting place for looking into occult history)

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Hi, I’m JG Sagittarius can I have reading on my relationship with CG Aquarius

Ace of Wands

This card tells you that the relationship is about to undergo a ‘new beginning,' and you will rise to new levels of understanding each other. Express yourself. You are most likely feeling energetic and positive at the moment.