will-o-the-witch:

marigoldwitch:

When learning about witchcraft on Tumblr

Originally posted by weenie-moon

Make sure you understand the basics of magick : Most of us, sharing our spells and rituals on Tumblr, do not include the basics of magick in every single post. 

Do your own research outside of Tumblr : If you find a “witch tip” and it doesn’t give much explanation on why you’re suppose to use a certain herb, crystal, moon phase, tool etc., then do your own research and find out why. A lot of times witches share spells and they don’t give a detailed description of everything you need because they assume you already know why you need these things or why they’re being used in a particular spell or ritual.

Don’t assume magick is the only thing they’re doing : When you see a spell to help someone find employment, don’t assume that a spell is all the witch is doing and don’t assume this spell is all you have to do. Most witches understand that magick works with the mundane. Much like if you see an anti depression spell (or tea or something along those lines) don’t assume they are advocating for replacing medicine with magick. You’ll usually find that they’re suggesting using magick in conjunction with medicine. 

Ask for clarification if you need it : Most witches on Tumblr are kind and helpful. If you have a question about a spell, ritual, recipe or whatever don’t be shy about asking the witch who shared it for clarification. I’ve found that witches on Tumblr are eager to help and don’t mind answering politely asked questions.

Take everything with a grain of salt : Sometimes things come of as preachy, gate keeping, authoritarian etc. If someone is “preaching” to you or you feel like what they’re saying isn’t sitting well with your beliefs, that’s okay. Don’t take everything as absolute and don’t let people bully you into thinking or believing a certain way. As nice as most of us witches on Tumblr are, there’s always a few rotten fruit laying around. 

Don’t be afraid to explore the community : Talk to different people. Ask 5 different witches the same question and if how much their answers vary. To truly get an understanding of just how unique every witches path is. 

Originally posted by stardust-specks

Just a few little tips for navigating the Tumblr witchcraft community. If you have anything to add to this list please do :) Remember to have fun too. Just because it’s learning doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. 

Great post! Here’s some other stuff I feel like adding:

Take everything with a grain of salt pt. 2- this goes for authoritarian preachiness for sure, but there are also lots of people who are friendly but unreliable. There are many fantastic, well-read, experienced witches here. There are also many people who are very young and inexperienced.They’re friendly folks but spread misinformation because they genuinely just don’t know better. Some people even hide their lack of experience and take on education/mentorship roles when they really aren’t ready to be teaching yet. Just never take a piece of information on someone’s word alone. 

You can usually find a lot of reliable information in places that AREN’T about witchcraft.  This goes for doing online research and for following blogs. If you’re into learning plant magic, follow your witchy blogs and also your botany blogs, your plant care blogs, your plant science blogs, etc. Marrying your magic with your science is a great way to find out what’s good for what.

Follow witchy blogs that aren’t like you. Witchblr is no more immune from bias, bigotry, and privilege than anywhere else; some biases actually come out very strongly. A great way to mitigate this is to diversify your dash. Follow witches of color, disabled witches, witches of all genders and sexualities, witches with different religious beliefs, witches in different countries, you get it. 

Also- I definitely recommend asking more than one person questions! But please don’t copy paste the exact same ask into several account’s inboxes. We often DO follow each other and we WILL notice. Take some time to treat your go-to blogs like real people. ^^

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innocentartemis:

So, you want to learn more about curses? Now, I can only share my own knowledge and experience, but hopefully it helps to clarify things for you.

Let’s start with the basics

A curse is a spell specifically designed to cause harm to someone in the long term. It’s often confused for a hex, which also causes harm, but often less and with a shorter duration. A curse can cause bad luck, illness, and even death. It’s not something to be trifled with. That’s why I wanted to make this informative post.

When to use a curse

There can be various reasons for cursing someone, ranging from heartbreak to abuse and everything in between. Everyone has their own reasons to curse someone, so I can’t name them all. I can, however, name reasons why you SHOULDN’T curse someone.

When NOT to curse someone:

- When you are emotionally unstable: maybe the event just happened, and your anger/sadness wil subside. Cursing when you are not your stable self usually causes more harm than intended. How hard it may be, try to distract yourself and calm down. Then, you can make the decision whether you want to curse that person or not.

- When a hex/jinx will do the trick. Like I’ve said before, curses are powerful and not to be trifled with. If a hex or jinx can do the trick, why curse someone? A hex or jinx costs less energy and often are simpler too.

- Out of malice. You don’t like someone, even though they haven’t done anything wrong per sé. Again, a hex or jinx would be better to use in this case, or nothing at all. Just because you dislike someone, is not a reason to curse them.

- When you wish death upon someone. No matter how bad a person is, wishing death upon someone is incredibly harmful and irreversible. Whether the curse fails or works, you will notice the effects on yourself too. Also, wouldn’t it be better to just make their life harder and watch them suffer, rather than to watch them die? If what they did was unforgivable and illegal, you should get authorities involved rather than to take matters into your own hands.

How to curse someone

There are various ways to curse someone. The best way is to create your own curse. There is nothing wrong with using a pre-existing curse. However, I found that creating your own adds a dash of power to it that a premade curse doesn’t have.

You can use as many or as little ingredients as you’d like. When you use spices, my rule is: the spicier, the better for curses. Sour ingredients, like lemon juice, vinegar, or pickle juice also work well. Salt, like in supernatural series, works well for banishing.

You can also use herbs, berries and flowers. For berries, I found that the darker the berries, the better their effects in curses.

You can also use animal products, like bones, feathers, teeth, or even spit, blood, and feces. However, I haven’t used those ingredients yet so I can’t vouch for them.

I haven’t gotten a great guide on magickal curse properties of various ingredients. However, you simply have to find a suitable intent for the ingredient. For instance, you can reverse the properties of lavender by adding it in a curse. So, when you want your recipient to lose sleep, you can add lavender with the intent of losing sleep to your mixture.

The best way to curse someone is by either burying the mixture, by burning it, or a combination of the two. Try to stay as environmentally friendly though. So, if you plan on buying something, do so in an untreated cardboard box and don’t bury plastic items.

Paper is the way to go when writing down someone’s name and burning it. It can also be used to write down your intentions and burn those too. And you can put all the anger you have towards this person into the writings, now IS the time to get reared up and unleash your fury!

I prefer to add the spices to cover the name of the recipient, bind the paper with safe-to-burn rope and to burn the paper. Then, I place the ashes along with the other ingredients in a jar, and cover it with dirt. I let it sit for an hour before flushing it down the toilet. The flushing symbolizes sending the curse on its way, away from the sender. It helps to flush away the thoughts from my mind too.

Why would you curse someone?

Cursing is not something every witch feels comfortable doing. I’m often a very peaceful and non-confrontational person. However, I absolutely detest injustice. So whenever something like that happens, and the offensive party does is not on speaking terms/just throwing out hate, a curse is my way to go. Also, when someone does harm to someone or something innocent is when I get reared up. Still, I always make sure to calm down before deciding to cast a curse.

If you don’t want to use curses, that’s fine! There are plenty of other ways to go about it. For others, however, it’s a great way to seek justice.

I hope this post helped you! PLEASE be careful though and never curse someone if you’re not 100% sure. Also, make sure to ground and cleanse yourself both before and after casting a curse, otherwise, there may be some remnants left on you and you don’t want that to bite you in the butt.

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witchinamondernworld:

Tarot card combinations

• Empress + Ace = childbirth
• 2 or more pages = Schools, education
• 4 of wands + Sun = Babyshowers, an amazing family gathering, sometimes weddings
• King of pentacles + Magican (if querent is a man or NB) or high priestess (if querent is a woman)= Querent’s money
• 10 of swords + death = only time death can actually mean death (in my style of reading)
• Death + king of pentacles = sudden changes of money
• Death (reversed) + king of pentacles = need to change money situation; need to manage money differently
• The Hierophant + 4 of swords = a place of worship, church, mosque, etc

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heatherwitch:

Mentally ill witchcraft: For your symptoms

It’s really common to find witchy mental illness/health related content that is catered towards specific illnesses (usually anxiety and depression). This is more catered to specific symptoms.

Witchcraft is to be used as a supplement to proper medical care, medication and therapy - not as a sole alternative!

Anger:

• Amethyst anger release spell
• Easy anger release spell
• A quick way to cool anger
• Anger dispersion magic tea
• Anger reducing bath
• Bath spell to release anger
• “I channel my anger in a healthy, safe and productive manner” sigil
• “My anger is under control” sigil
• This masterpost

Anxiety:

• Anti-anxiety shower spell
• Soothing bath spell
• Rainy day anxiety spell
• I will be okay spell
• Anti-anxiety spell jar
• Anti-anxiety spell charm
• Anti-anxiety tea

Brain Fog + Memory:

• ADHD concentration spell bottle
• Brainfog lifting
• “Brainfog begone” sigil
• Rosemary memory spell
• Finding things/ memory spell
• Memory and concentration spell
• Memory enhancement sachet
• Memory and awareness spell bottle 

Depression:

• Post-depressive-episode bath spell
• Ease my depression spell bottle
• “Last hope” spell for depression
• Anti-depression tea
• Gems for depression

Disassociation: 

• Spell for disassociation 
• Witch’s disassociation bracelet 
• “Anti-disassociation” sigil
• “I am grounded and in control of my emotions + reactions” sigil

Fatigue:

• Spell for energy
• Energy gain spell
• Energy jar
• Energy bath
• Crystals for fatigue
• “No fatigue” sigil
• “Energy” sigil
• “I am energetic” sigil
• “I have the energy to take a shower” sigil

Flashbacks/trauma

• Spell to release emotional blockage
• Piece by piece trauma healing spell
• Healing from childhood trauma spell bottle
• Spell bottle for reassurance 
• “My trauma does not hold me back” sigil

Insomnia + nightmares:

• Restful sleep and sweet dreams sachet
• Sleep crystal spell
• Stuffed animal sleep spell
• Sleep easy spell sachet
• Sleepy witch tip
• Nightmare ward charm
• Nightmare repellent
• Nightmare prevention - crystals and herbs
• Dream witch nightmare tips

Intrusive thoughts:

• OCD assistance bath
• Spell to ward against intrusive thoughts
• Spell to control intrusive thoughts
• Banish intrusive thoughts incantation
• Banishing unwanted thoughts spell
• Intrusive thought banishing spell
• “I am in control of my OCD” sigil 

Panic attacks:

• Panic attack relief pouch
• Anti-panic attack spell earrings
• Rose Quartz calming spell
• “Ease my panic attacks” sigil
• “I have less panic attacks” sigil

Paranoia:

• Crystals for paranoia
• “My paranoia does not control me” sigil
• “I don’t let paranoid thoughts overcome me” sigil
• “My paranoia does not affect me” sigil

Picking (hair, skin, etc.):

• Ease skin picking spell
• “I resist the urge to pick my skin” sigil
• “I keep from picking” sigil
• “My trichotillomania is under control” sigil
• “I don’t pull out my hair or eyelashes” sigil
• “I am in control and resist the desire to pick my hair” sigil

Mood Swings/Emotional Balance: 

• Increasing your emotional tolerance spell
• Crystals for BPD
• “I regulate my emotions well”
• “I am happy and do not have mood swings” sigil

If anyone has content on a category I wasn’t able to include, or for a category that is lacking, feel free to send it my way and I’ll get a part two started for this post! Click [here] for the chronically ill symptoms masterpost. 

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persephoneandthepomegranates:

A Sachet To Help Provide Good Dreams And A Restful Recharge

Ingredients:

• Purple Bag/Organza Pouch (sleep)
  
• Amethyst Chips (sleep, relaxation, intuitive dreams)
  
• Lavender (sleep)
  
• Thyme (healing)
  
• Rosemary (sleep, healing)
  
• Rose Petals (healing)
  

Directions:

1. Open the pouch and place the amethyst chips at the bottom.
2. Next, add the lavender, rosemary, and thyme before finishing up with the rose petals.
3. Close the pouch and give it a good few shakes to make sure every layer mixes together.
4. Place where you sleep such as under your pillow, in a stuffed animal, or in a pillow.

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themanicnami:

A spell to help ease anxiety.

Originally posted by itadakimasu-letmeeat

You Will Need:

💛 Chamomile Tea
💛 Sugar or honey
💛 Cut up cherry

Steps:

💛 While your tea steeps carefully cut and de-pit a cherry or two

💛 In your hot tea stir in your sugar or honey clockwise. 

💛 “Things seem hard, things are stressful, but I know deep down, things will be okay.” repeat this as you desire

💛 Add in your cherries and continue stirring repeating “Things will be okay”

💛 Find a calm quiet place you enjoy being and drink you tea. 

💛 Afterwards do something you enjoy that is also calming. Take a bath, watch a movie, read a book, watch the rain, listen to music, write in a journal; whatever makes you smile.

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moonspookies:

beltane 🌸

what is it? 🤍

beltane is a pagan holiday which celebrates the peak of spring and the beginning of summer. this is the sabbat of fertility and the sexuality of life! this is a popular day for pagans to get wedded on.

when is it? 🌷

beltane is celebrated on may 1st in the northern hemisphere and on november 1st in the southern hemisphere

colors 🌈

red, white, green, purple, yellow

activities 🔮

make love, maypole dancing, create a wish box, bake beltane bread, have a bonfire, and go camping, beltane tarot

alternative names 🦋

may day, walburga, rudemas, roodmas

altar ideas 💐

cauldron, plants, mini maypole, floral incense, genital candles

crystals 💎

bloodstone, carnelian, rose quartz

foods 🍯

beltane cakes, strawberries, cherries, bread, honey, wine, dairy