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[wybielune]

Hi guys! I know it's been a long time, but my mental health went on an olympic marathon straight down the toilet. We're talking Flushed Away bad, but, I'm coming out of it very slowly, and I've been thinking about coming back.

What I'm here to talk about today might not seem very witchy, but it is. I didn't realise just how important shadow work is. It's basically being your own therapist, except you don't have a doctorate, so you have nobody to sue if a treatment you choose doesn't work the way you want it to.

I've been quite ill for a long time, so I referred myself to a talking therapies group. While I'm waiting for an appointment, they gave me a website with info on it to help me understand mental health, how to care for mine, and exercises I could do to help make me feel better.

I'm still doing the online course while I wait to be paired with a therapist, but I felt that I should share some of my experiences here.

Journaling helped me a lot. Keeping track of my feelings and thoughts. Getting up and doing something, anything, really does help too. I know you don't want to. I've been there, I still have those days, but the thing is, I actually did an experiment.

I hadn't wanted to do anything for weeks beforehand, so that gave me a firm baseline to start from.

For the next several days, I had opportunities pop up to leave the house, which I don't like doing, I know, I'm a hermit. Relatives needed help with things, so even though I really didn't want to go, I went anyway. And I hated it.

I have a number of health problems, and these trips exacerbated them. I was tired, I had intense pain by the end, and hated every second of being out, but I found that the next day, I actually felt a little bit better, and by taking note of it and my experiment in the journal, I actually noticed the difference.

Once wasn't enough though, so I repeated it another three times, and my answer came back consistently, even though I'd had trouble getting myself up and moving, I did in fact benefit from it the next day.

So I highly recommend trying this yourself. Get a journal, or a pad of paper, anything you can write on give the experiment a go.

Don't go hurting yourself like I did, of course. I didn't have a choice, with my conditions, pain is just something I have to deal with, so keep yourself as safe and pain free as you can, but also, push yourself a little.

Wash your cup when you're done using it straight away.

Pull your blanket up. You don't have to do the whole bed if you're not up for it.

Get the hoover out for a quick go round, or go for a short walk. Doesn't matter how short, all you have to do is try, you can work up to longer walks.

Forgot something downstairs? Go get it. Dont put it off until you go downstairs next.

It can be done. I did the experiment first for you. Now we know it works, you can try :)

Thanks for reading.

[wybielune]

Happy Ostara, guys!

Today is the first day of Ostara, the pagan festival of fertility. It also celebrates rebirth and renewal, so in some ways, I see it as a Pagan type of New Year.

Which is great for me, because I've been trying to lose weight for an upcoming surgery, (that's in part why I've been missing, got a lot of health concerns right now) and I got ill a while ago and put back on all the weight I'd lost, but today, I'm renewing my efforts!

Happy Ostara!

[wybielune]

I think for me, it's Season of the Witch by Lana Del Ray, and Bewitched by Frank Sinatra. I was turned on to it by the Will Ferrell movie 😀

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Hmm, never heard of Scholomance before but I read the blurb and it has a really interesting plot, thank you for suggesting! 😀

I need suggestion! Stories about kids who went to magic schools. Yes, I know, Harry Potter, I have the whole collection from before Rowling proved herself a transphobe and cancelled herself.

It's a novel writing project, and I need several examples of the story type to study. Books are better, but I'll also take tv, movie and anime suggestions. I can easily study those too.

Blue Exorcist and Soul Eater could count, but I'd prefer examples with more ordinary protagonists.

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Oooooh, that sound really interesting! I'll see if I can find it. Thank you!

I need suggestion! Stories about kids who went to magic schools. Yes, I know, Harry Potter, I have the whole collection from before Rowling proved herself a transphobe and cancelled herself.

It's a novel writing project, and I need several examples of the story type to study. Books are better, but I'll also take tv, movie and anime suggestions. I can easily study those too.

Blue Exorcist and Soul Eater could count, but I'd prefer examples with more ordinary protagonists.

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Thank you very much for your suggestions. There are so many of them! I'll be on for a long time with these 😀 Doesn't have to be anything recent, I should have added that to the original post, I'll go back and do that.

I'll definitely look into these, oh, and that, 'she who will not be named,' bit made me laugh 😆

I need suggestion! Stories about kids who went to magic schools. Yes, I know, Harry Potter, I have the whole collection from before Rowling proved herself a transphobe and cancelled herself.

It's a novel writing project, and I need several examples of the story type to study. Books are better, but I'll also take tv, movie and anime suggestions. I can easily study those too.

Blue Exorcist and Soul Eater could count, but I'd prefer examples with more ordinary protagonists.

[wybielune]

I need suggestion! Stories about kids who went to magic schools. Yes, I know, Harry Potter, I have the whole collection from before Rowling proved herself a transphobe and cancelled herself.

It's a novel writing project, and I need several examples of the story type to study. Books are better, but I'll also take tv, movie and anime suggestions. I can easily study those too.

Blue Exorcist and Soul Eater could count, but I'd prefer examples with more ordinary protagonists.

Ps. Suggestions don't have to be only modern stories. Anything goes.

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Happy Samhain, guys!!

Halloween is such a special time of year for me, and not just because I'm a witch. My mum always made Halloween special, right from when I was tiny.

Well before our family became involved in spiritualism, my mum was into the more creepy and ethereal things. Spirits, Vampires, monsters, etc. She would have fit in perfectly at the gothic celebrations at Whitby if she'd known about them at the time and their wonderful costumes.

We were perfectly average at that time, no magick, no spiritualism, but my mum always had a really special connection to the spooky, and made that connection for my sister and me growing up.

We'd have several days leading up to Halloween where she'd plan what we were doing, food, music, stories, what films we would watch to put us in the mood, stuff like Hocus Pocus-

The scary movies from the 80s like Bram Stoker's Dracula-

A Nightmare On Elm Street-

All when we were ready of course, and old classics like The Halloween Tree-

And we'd put up the decorations a few days before, leaving the larger decorations for the big day of course.

Then for a few days afterward we'd have have the decorations, gradually taking them down, and continuing in the spooky celebrations.

There was always too much for us to do! We couldn't cram it all into one night.

It wasn't until many years later that Halloween became even more special to us, as we became involved in spiritualism. Then some years later, I fell into witchcraft and found out the Samhain lasts for 3 days for us regardless.

I found it funny that our celebration of the season lasted for about a week, when, not knowing, Samhain lasted for several days anyway.

It's like we were always meant to be what we became.

My mother is a truly special person who I love deeply and will always treasure. I probably wouldn't be a witch today if she hadn't pursued spirit the way she did, and allowed me to do so as well.

Happy Halloween!

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Witch Diaries 1

This is one of my experiences from the other day. I was listening to the music channels with my mum. She’s a spiritualist, so conversations on gathering and using energy are everyday with her.

Regardless, Counting stars by One Republic starts playing, and its such a great track. One of the few that makes me want to get up and try to dance to it. It wouldn’t be a very pretty sight, I am a horrible dancer. So I was telling mom that you can use the energy from music to gather power for your spells. As an example, I cupped my hands as though holding a ball and let myself feel the music, the pace, the rhythm, the gathering tension leading to the pay off in the chorus, and let those feelings gather in my hands. After a minute, I called my mum over, and asked her to sense it. We tend to use the hands method. Holding a hand out to the energy and feeling for tingling in our fingers and palms. And as she reached her hand out to hover over mine, there was an audible crack, and she jerked her hand away. I’d gathered enough energy in a minute of listening to a good song, to administer, by accident, a shock!

I was so incredibly proud and excited in that moment that I had to post here about it. So if you’re having trouble raising energy for spell work, put your headphones on and find out a track that makes you want to sing and dance. That’ll do the trick.

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Correspondences 1

Welcome back! Today, we’re looking at correspondences and what they are.

Generally, they’re a very big, confusing sounding word for something not that big and confusing.

The dictionary definition of the word is, a close similarity, connection, or equivalence, which is exactly what they are.

When a spell or potion calls for certain ingredients, its because each ingredient has an equivalent meaning to it.

There are a number of correspondences that even non-witches are aware of, so we’ll start there. Lavender for example has a connection to calmness, so someone might add lavender scented Epsom salts to their bath water. Likewise, someone trying to enhance self-love, might wear a rose scented perfume or aftershave.

So, non-witches are doing witchy things without even knowing about it. Its like how when people see a bouquet of roses, and how the giving of one is considered a deeply romantic act.

This is just the very basics of correspondences. In short, every food, crystal, fluid, has some special meaning attached to it, which is why spells call for specific ingredients. There is however, more to it.

Multiple items might have the same correspondence. An example of this would be the lavender that we mentioned before, and chamomile. Maybe the witch doesn’t have time for a 30 minute soak to take in the spell, so making up a cup of chamomile tea might be the next best, fastest option. A minute and a half steeping plus a 30 second enchantment are a lot faster than the time it takes to run a bath.

Now, having covered that multiple items can have the same meaning, its important to mention that all items can have multiple meanings as well.

The most well known correspondence of rose is love, but it can also be used in spells that require items that represent luck, happiness, protection, and even friendship. Calm is the correspondence of lavender, but lavender also represents success, money, and even drawing in a new, loving partner.

This can be useful, because there are a number of spells that require items that I just don’t have, or even items that go against your morals to use. For example, grave dirt, or coffin nails. Others can use those if they want to, but I personally feel that in my own practice, it’d be wrong, so finding out an item that has the same correspondence would be great.

Grave dirt can be used in rituals for the upcoming festival of Samhain, but items that can be used instead are patchouli or coffee grounds.

This can be important for spells that require correspondences that against your morals and your wallet.

For example, vegans would be against using animal products in their spells, so finding an available alternative is the only alternative.

As for finding out what correspondences the items have, google is your friend.

Find out what herbs, foods, spices and such that you have in your home and go into google. Type in, Magical properties of, and then the name of the item. Once you’ve found them out, you can list the items and what to use them for in your Book of Shadows, something I can go into in another post.

Thanks for reading, and, until next time, stay safe guys. Blessed Be.

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It's finally happened! I started a kofi account coz I need a new computer for making art and witch videos, and today, I finally got my first donation!! I was just so huffed I had to share.

I'm thinking about new witchy topics to cover in the meantime. If you have any suggestions, I'd be please to hear them :)

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There's a disney villains tarot, but I was wondering, which characters would be the major arcana for a disney good guys tarot? I've got-

Young hercules for The Fool

Yen Sid as The Magician

Rapunzel for The Star, although I can see and understand the temptation for her to be The Tpwer as well.

And Bruno Madrigal for The Moon

I could also consider rapunzel and mirable as female alternates for The Fool since I feel they fit the character pretty well too.

And yes. Hades for Death. Because of course.

Although I can also see Abuela , Gepetto or Simba as death, as all of them lose something important to them but then a new type of life opens up for them.

So, which characters do you have for which cards?

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When you're trying to solve a problem using the cards and they keep spitting out the same cards no matter how many times you reshuffle or re-ask the question

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I don't do curses but-

Witches that have been wronged:

It made me laugh :)

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Just got done putting this shelf up and I was so proud, I had to share :)

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Gonna try a new spell tomorrow!

I usually make fullmoon water to relax my family since some of us have nervous conditions, but lately, I been lacking motivation.

The new moon is perfect for setting intentions and starting new things, so I'm gonna make a moon water based around that!

We'll see how that goes though, most spells and potions I make end up as sleeps spells and potions.

[wybielune]

do u know of a spell for figuring out how ur future spouse looks???

I don't know if there's a spell for that, however they look now could change, dyed or cut hair, contact lenses, tattoo, they might lose a limb, but you could try divination. Just do it safely :)