A technology addict tries to get back to nature through gardening (and a little bit of magic).
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Trying to work on my spirituality this year. Going to work on improving my knowledge and practice of green/kitchen witchcraft, but also want to learn a little bit about pop culture magic and chaos magic (no practicing until I learn more)
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Posted 2, June, 2016

BIRTHDAY WITCHCRAFT

thiscrookedcrown:

It’s your birthday? AWESOME. Here’s some witchy (and non-witchy) shit you can do to celebrate and make your birthday awesomer.

  • FUBAR’d your New Year’s Resolution? DO NOT DESPAIR. Use your birthday as a new start date for your resolution. Your birthday is December 31? Even one day is better than none. Make that resolution!
  • ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES. Take every birthday wish as a personal good luck spell or blessing. Run with the idea that each person isn’t being polite and wishing you happy birthday, but they are literally telling you the day is happier because you were born today. Hell yes.
  • Birthday candles. If you can get ahold of your birthday candles ahead of time enchant them. Good luck, love, money, protection, whatever. Just make sure you don’t coat them with anything that can be set further on fire or is toxic. (Best not coat them at all, really.)
  • Clean your place before your birthday. No, seriously. Cleanse it and beef up your protection. You’ll be bringing in new things if you accept gifts so it might be necessary. Do the same for the gifts when you get the chance. 
  • Make your own birthday dessert and fold spells into the creation of it. A cake, mini cake, cookies, cupcake, ice cream, pudding, pie, pastries, muffins, whatever. You could do this with regular food too but sometimes having a mini personal cake you don’t have to share with other folks is the best idea ever.
  • Going out and want ALL the attention? Glamour ALL THE THINGS! I’ve got a couple posts in my resources on it but seriously, the easiest way is to enchant some water and drawn sigils, symbols, or write a spell into clothing, hair, skin, shoes, etc.
  • You want to look fabulous? You want to spend time on your appearance? Then do it. Use all that bath stuff you buy and never seem to get a chance to use. I enchant mine for varying purposes.
  • Need more time? Get an egg timer and enchant it so that while it runs, you will have peace.
  • Coat your wallet and/or handbag with enchanted water or oil to help save you money. This might end up with drinks comped or free food. Or you might find there’s no cover charge at a bar or hell, you find twenty bucks in your jeans. Whatever. Saving money is awesome.
  • Rock a new outfit. Or at least something new. Even if you have to make it. You can even restyle old T-shirts into new clothing. Combine it with something old and beloved. Again, this is sort of like a new year. Celebrate by bringing in the old and new as you go forward throughout the day. Bring the old time, the memories, where you came from with you and the new outfit represents the future life you want and WILL have. Make it so. Wash the clothing in a special, non-dying laundry soap (or spritz it with enchanted water).

After a certain age, many folks don’t bother to celebrate their birthdays. WHY I DON’T KNOW. You made it. You survived this crazy planet for another year. And that shit is not easy to do. WHY WOULDN’T YOU CELEBRATE THAT? Don’t be afraid to say, “No. Fuck that. I’m going to do a thing today. I don’t care that I’m X age. I’m going to celebrate.”

You go and be awesome and fabulous.

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Posted 31, May, 2016

Tea (and such)

yroxis:

MAKE YOUR OWN TEA

Using Wild/Local Herbs

(please don’t go eating/drinking random things you’ve found in your yard or park, do the research and save yourself a hospital trip; a lot of these require special preparation so please look into that before potentially harming yourself)

Freebies

Tea Supplies

DiY and Upcycling

Buy Herbs/Tea/Dried Flowers/Ect

Spiritual

Health

Water

Misc.

This is what has come out of saving websites to my drafts for later use. 

A masterpost based off of tea.

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Posted 29, May, 2016

hufflepuffilicious:

Listen to me.

You don’t need to have had a fucked up childhood or some traumatic event happen to you in order to have depression/anxiety/panic attacks. You could have had a perfectly normal upbringing with loving friends and family. Mental illness does not discriminate; it can hit anyone at any time. Your feelings are valid. Don’t let anyone make you feel otherwise.

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Posted 24, May, 2016
sleepywizard: “ This spread is for those moments when you feel lousy, but can’t figure out why or what to do. My Problem - The reason you’re feeling this way. What to do now - Things you should consider doing while you feel bad. What to do later -...

sleepywizard:

This spread is for those moments when you feel lousy, but can’t figure out why or what to do.

My Problem - The reason you’re feeling this way.

What to do now - Things you should consider doing while you feel bad.

What to do later - Steps you can take to prevent feeling this way in the future.

What I need to hear - The insight you need to get through this.

What I should avoid - Pretty much what it says on the tin.

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Posted 24, May, 2016

How to answer Yes/No questions using tarot

bassatru:

So there are several great ways to answer yes/no questions using a tarot deck.  Here I will outline my three favorite methods.

Also, these methods work with single card or any odd number of cards.  Not only will these methods give you a yes/no answer, they will also give you a reason why if it applies to the question or if you or the client is even interested in an explanation.  Obviously using more cards will give you a more detailed explanation, as is the case with any tarot reading, so if you want a simple yes or no you can use one card.

Method One:  Reversals

Upright cards are yes, reversed is no.  Pretty straight forward.

Method Two:  Odd/Even

If you don’t like to shuffle reversals, you can use the number of the cards as an alternative.  Even is yes, odd is no, or whichever way you want to assign them.  Court cards also follow this pattern with the Page and Queen being odd and the Knight and King being even.

Method Three: Suits

For this method I personally like to remove the major arcana from the deck.  Each suit of the minor arcana is assigned either as yes or no.  I personally use Wands and Swords as yes and Pentacles and Chalices as no, but feel free to use whichever associations you want.  I use this association because of the elements associated with the cards, and the symbols associated with the elements.

If you choose to use more than one card for your reading the majority rules.  For example, if you use the reversal method and two cards are upright and one is reversed your overall answer is yes.  The reversed card might be an obstacle in reaching the end result, however.  (Again, this is just an example of how to read this.)

As I said these are simply my preferred methods to read for yes/no questions, and I am sure that there are several others.  Feel free to add your favorites!

I feel like I must also mention that in regards to medical concerns you should always consult a medical professional before a tarot deck!