John William Godward  (1861 –1922)

#I can’t come I’m sick [tiny elegant cough]

my aunt had these in her beauty parlor when I was growing up and they had such an impact on my aesthetic

Some Affirmations for Witches

⚡️My touch is power ⚡️I drink and breathe magic ⚡️I speak the language of the universe ⚡️The tapestry of my life is mine to weave ⚡️The moon and stars commune with me ⚡️My craft connects me to those who have come before me ⚡️I command respect ⚡️I see beyond the surface of this world ⚡️My soul will not deny the old ways ⚡️I am a creator of new traditions ⚡️I am a part of the natural world ⚡️I project powerful energies ⚡️My heart knows best ⚡️I know how to protect myself ⚡️I am powerful ⚡️I am a witch

Glimpses of Loki in Everyday Life

- Andrea Gibson

Whimsical Cosmic Creations Fit For a Mermaid by Martina Gutfreund

Canadian artist Martina Gutfreund’s obsession with creating art lead her design to evil into stunning mystical and cosmic pieces with a life of their own. Gutfreund artistically showcases minerals and crystals through whimsical and quirky jewellery pieces. Inspired by magic, from fairies to mermaids to even witchcraft, her work is a reflection of her creativity and fascination with minerals. Find her collection in her Etsy shop, The Spirit Nectar.

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Well I wanted to finish it, and I thought that a kiss could be a good way to calm a hysterical and worried Sigyn ;)

Loki sketch for my altar 

reblog if you’re a lokean!

looking for more blogs to follow! 

First artistic homage to Loki, my lovely god. ♥

This has been several days in the making since I have the most trouble with gouache. haha. Made with india ink and white gel pen as well!

Enjoy!

Trickster’s Prayer

As I lay me down to rest,

Trickster, won’t you be my guest.

Come and see me in my sleep,

And know my heart is yours to keep.

And when the morning dawns with light,

Trickster, keep me in your sight.

As I go about my day

Come and teach me in your way.

And when the world is harsh and cruel,

Trickster, use me as your tool.

Correct the wrongs as you see fit,

Criticise with word and wit.

And when a problem comes my way,

Trickster, promise me you’ll stay

To see it through until the end

And all the while remain my friend.

And when my heart is hard and hollow,

Trickster, find me in my sorrow.

Comfort me in times of pain,

And help me learn to smile again.

And when my heart is filled with glee,

Trickster, won’t you laugh with me?

Together, shall we mock the Earth,

Lighten our hearts with joy and mirth.

As I lay me down to bed,

Trickster, you are in my head.

Whatever morning has in store,

Be with me forevermore.

Mischievous: (of a person, animal, or their behavior) causing or showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way.

Glimpses of Loki in Everyday Life

remember that just bc you can’t sense your gods and communicate with them 100% of the time doesn’t mean they’re not real or that you’re a bad devotee and pagan

A List of the Pagan and Witchcraft Themed "30 Day" Challenges I have Found So Far...

1. Introduction: Paganism/Polytheism & Your Path - Your story of how you came to your paganistic/polytheistic faith and what your current path is. 2. Foundations: Cosmology - How you see the universe and its make-up. 3. Foundations: Nature & Earth - How you view nature and the earth, and your relationship with it. 4. Foundations: Day-to-Day Practice - An explanation of your day-to-day practices, and how you incorporate those practices into daily life. 5. Foundations: Rites of Passage - How you see the “cycles of life,” and how you view reincarnation, death, the afterlife, and milestones. 6. Foundations: Non-Theistic Beliefs - The non-theistic/secular aspects of your faith. 7. Foundations: Tools, Altar/Shrine, & Sacred Space - General beliefs on tools, the altar/shrine, and your sacred space. 8. Foundations: Places of Spiritual Significance - Any locations that you believe to be intrinsically holy. 9. Foundations: Festivals & Calendar - The holidays in your path’s calendar year. 10. Relationships: Gods/Deities/Pantheon - General beliefs on the deity or deities on your path, as well as how you came to the pantheon you now worship. 11. Relationships: Patronage with the Deities - How close you believe your faith can allow you to be with the deity/deities of your path. 12. Relationships: Relationship with a Deity or Deities - Your relationship with a specific deity or deities (can be considered patrons). 13. Relationships: Other Relationships - Your relationship with any beings other then Gods, such as ancestors, spirits of the land, etc. 14. Relationships: Deity Gender Roles - Gender roles as prescribed by the mythology of your path, and your beliefs of their gender roles. 15. Relationships: Ritual, Worship, & Reverence - Your own way or worshiping and revering various deities, etc. 16. Relationships: Priesthood & Clergy - Whether you have priests and clergy in your path, and what would normally entail within your path. 17. Inspirations: Prayer & Reciprocity - Your beliefs on or practice of praying, and the Gods reactions to your prayers. 18. Inspirations: Meditation - Your meditation practices. 29. Inspirations: Ethics, Virtues, & Values - Both your own ethics and values, along with the ethics and values of your path. 20. Inspirations: Divination and/or Magic - Your divination practices, and your view on magic according to your path, as well as the various magical practices of your faith. 21. Inspirations: Mysticism and Philosophy - Beliefs in truths that are believed to be intuitive or above normal understanding, as well as beliefs that are rooted in rational investigation and knowledge and how they work together. (transcendental/intuitive vs scientific/historic/practical) 22. Inspirations: Music, Poetry, Storytelling, Myth, & Aesthetics - What do you include in a ritual, and the aesthetics of ritual and/or magic. 23. Experiences: Faith & Times of Need - An experience you had that you would not likely have come through without your faith. 24. Experiences: Ritual and/or Magic - Your personal experiences with magic and/or rituals. 25. Experiences: Other Explorations - Your experience with other paths and faiths, as well as beliefs you may incorporate into your practice from them. 26. Everyday Life: Paganism/Polytheism & Family Life/Friends - How your conversion has affected your various relationships with your friends and family. 27. Everyday Life: Paganism/Polytheism & Romance - How your conversion has affected your love life. 28. Everyday Life: Paganism/Polytheism & Work/Career - How your conversion has affected your work/career. 29. Everyday Life: Paganism/Polytheism & Community - You, your community, and your ties with other practitioners of your faith. 30. Conclusion: Misconceptions - Clear up a misconception or more that you believe that most people nowadays have about your path/faith/religion. 31. Conclusion: Advice to the Seeker - Any advice you have to give to others who are seeking a paganistic/polytheistic path.

After seeing all of the 31 days challenges, I decided to make my own. This is one just for beliefs, and to help define your own even more. So~ enjoy c:

30 Days of Paganism

1. Introduction: Paganism/Polytheism & Your Path - Your story of how you came to your paganistic/polytheistic faith and what your current path is. 2. Foundations: Cosmology - How you see the universe and its make-up. 3. Foundations: Nature & Earth - How you view nature and the earth, and your relationship with it. 4. Foundations: Day-to-Day Practice - An explanation of your day-to-day practices, and how you incorporate those practices into daily life. 5. Foundations: Rites of Passage - How you see the “cycles of life,” and how you view reincarnation, death, the afterlife, and milestones. 6. Foundations: Non-Theistic Beliefs - The non-theistic/secular aspects of your faith. 7. Foundations: Tools, Altar/Shrine, & Sacred Space - General beliefs on tools, the altar/shrine, and your sacred space. 8. Foundations: Places of Spiritual Significance - Any locations that you believe to be intrinsically holy. 9. Foundations: Festivals & Calendar - The holidays in your path’s calendar year. 10. Relationships: Gods/Deities/Pantheon - General beliefs on the deity or deities on your path, as well as how you came to the pantheon you now worship. 11. Relationships: Patronage with the Deities - How close you believe your faith can allow you to be with the deity/deities of your path. 12. Relationships: Relationship with a Deity or Deities - Your relationship with a specific deity or deities (can be considered patrons). 13. Relationships: Other Relationships - Your relationship with any beings other then Gods, such as ancestors, spirits of the land, etc. 14. Relationships: Deity Gender Roles - Gender roles as prescribed by the mythology of your path, and your beliefs of their gender roles. 15. Relationships: Ritual, Worship, & Reverence - Your own way or worshiping and revering various deities, etc. 16. Relationships: Priesthood & Clergy - Whether you have priests and clergy in your path, and what would normally entail within your path. 17. Inspirations: Prayer & Reciprocity - Your beliefs on or practice of praying, and the Gods reactions to your prayers. 18. Inspirations: Meditation - Your meditation practices. 29. Inspirations: Ethics, Virtues, & Values - Both your own ethics and values, along with the ethics and values of your path. 20. Inspirations: Divination and/or Magic - Your divination practices, and your view on magic according to your path, as well as the various magical practices of your faith. 21. Inspirations: Mysticism and Philosophy - Beliefs in truths that are believed to be intuitive or above normal understanding, as well as beliefs that are rooted in rational investigation and knowledge and how they work together. (transcendental/intuitive vs scientific/historic/practical) 22. Inspirations: Music, Poetry, Storytelling, Myth, & Aesthetics - What do you include in a ritual, and the aesthetics of ritual and/or magic. 23. Experiences: Faith & Times of Need - An experience you had that you would not likely have come through without your faith. 24. Experiences: Ritual and/or Magic - Your personal experiences with magic and/or rituals. 25. Experiences: Other Explorations - Your experience with other paths and faiths, as well as beliefs you may incorporate into your practice from them. 26. Everyday Life: Paganism/Polytheism & Family Life/Friends - How your conversion has affected your various relationships with your friends and family. 27. Everyday Life: Paganism/Polytheism & Romance - How your conversion has affected your love life. 28. Everyday Life: Paganism/Polytheism & Work/Career - How your conversion has affected your work/career. 29. Everyday Life: Paganism/Polytheism & Community - You, your community, and your ties with other practitioners of your faith. 30. Conclusion: Misconceptions - Clear up a misconception or more that you believe that most people nowadays have about your path/faith/religion. 31. Conclusion: Advice to the Seeker - Any advice you have to give to others who are seeking a paganistic/polytheistic path.

After seeing all of the 31 days challenges, I decided to make my own. This is one just for beliefs, and to help define your own even more. So~ enjoy c:

30 Days of Paganism

Does anyone have this 31 days of witchcraft post or list of all the days I cant bloody find it!?

Okay, here they are, there are 6 different ones, so not sure which one it was you were looking for. The reason you are having trouble finding the original posts is because in each case the original poster did not tag the post, making them VERY hard to search for. Also because so many folks don’t tag their replies you also miss out on seeing a lot of the answers, unless you follow that person and just see all of their posts, so make sure you use the tags if you want folks to read your posts! I’m just going to copy and paste the entire list right into this post for you. Hopeful the one you are looking for is one of these…

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For all of these lists use the use tags:

#30 Days of Challenge 

#31 Days of Challenge

#witch

#witchcraft

#pagan

#paganism

#spirituality

#beliefs

#religion

#magic arts

#Pagan Study Group

#practicing witch

Remember that people use tags to find your post, don’t forget to also add tags that are very topic specific to each individual answer you write, for example #divination, #altar, #Wicca, #Voodoo, #Druid, #Sea Witch, #Solitary Witch, #polytheist, #deities, #crystals, #candle magic, #tarot, #color meaning, etc.

plus use the specific tags I have put with each list:

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use tags

#31 Days of Witchcraft

and

#31 Days of Paganism 

for this one:

rdreamwalker:

31 Days of Witchcraft

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use tags

#30 Days of Paganism

and

#30 Days of Witchcraft

for this one:

1. Beliefs – Why Paganism?

2. Beliefs – Cosmology

3. Beliefs – Deities

4. Beliefs – Birth, death and rebirth

5. Beliefs – Magic, spellcraft, mysticism etc

6. Beliefs – The power of prayer/reciprocity

7. Beliefs – Patronage and other deeper relationships

8. Beliefs – Holidays

9. Deity Gender

10. Patrons

11. Pantheon – For these posts, pick a deity or speak of elements of the

patheon, such as tribes or nature spirits, etc.

12. Pantheon –

13. Pantheon –

14. Pantheon –

15. Pantheon (anti) – On finding a pantheon.

16. The meaning of terms like “earth-based” and what they mean to this path

17. My ways of worship

18. Community

19. Paganism and my family/friends

20. Paganism and my relationship

21. Other paths I’ve explored

22. Paganism and major life events

23. Ethics

24. Personal aesthetics with magic and ritual

25. Priest? Clergy? One or both? Neither?

26. Any “secular” pastimes with religious significance, and why

27. How your faith has helped you in difficult times

28. One misconception about Paganism you’d like to clear up

29. The future of Paganism

30. Places of spiritual significance

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use tags

#31 Days of Belief

and

#31 Days of Spirituality 

for this one:

31 Days of Belief →

1. What religion or spirituality do you follow? If its your own creation, what is its name and why? If you don’t have a name for your spiritual path why?

2. Could you give a little bit of information behind your belief system? Cosmology?

3. Could you give a little bit of information behind your belief system? Afterlife?

4. Could you give a little bit of information behind your belief system? Deities?

5. Could you give a little bit of information behind your belief system? Moral Code?

6. Could you give a little bit of information behind your belief system? Magic?

7. Could you give a little bit of information behind your belief system? Holidays?

8. Could you give a little bit of information behind your belief system? Mythology?

9. How long have you been practicing this belief system? Why do you like it so much?

10. Could you talk a little bit about your deities/other important figures in your belief system? What is their Gender?

11. Could you talk a little bit about your deities/other important figures in your belief system? Symbols?

Could you talk a little bit about your deities/other important figures in your belief system? What are some of their powers or domains?

12. Could you talk a little bit about your deities/other important figures in your belief system? What is some history behind them?

13. Could you talk a little bit about your deities/other important figures in your belief system? Why do you celebrate them?

14. What are some practices behind your belief system?

15. How did you find this particular belief system?

16. What inspired you to find this path? What inspired you to create this belief system? (If its your own religion)

17. What are some important aspects of your belief?

18. What are some important practices you do in your belief?

19. How have others reacted when/if you told them. If you haven’t told anyone, why?

20. how does your belief affect your life?

21. how has your faith helped with difficult times?

22. The Easiest part of your belief?

23. The Hardest part of your belief?

24. Do others share your belief?

25. Would you teach others of your belief?

26. Do you plan on teaching your children your belief (if you’ll have children).

27. What are some sacred places to your belief?

28. Would you write a book about your belief system?

29. How do you incorporate your belief system with your day to day life?

30. What does the future hold for your beliefs? 

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use tags

#Pagan Blog Project

#PBP13

#52 Weeks of Witchcraft

and

#52 Weeks of Paganism 

for this one:

The Pagan Blog Project… I did this last year on Blogger and WordPress. I’ve misplaced the original post, but I’ve made up my own list for 2013 (I believe the dates are correct). Basically, you spend two weeks focusing on a letter, and write at least two blog posts (one each week) about a pagan topic, which starts with that week’s letter (for example A is for Altar, B is for Book of Shadows, etc).  You can write up to 14 topics per letter (1 post each day for the 2 weeks) or as little as 2 (one each week), or any amount in between. Basically the goal is to write as many Pagan topics per year, as you can think of to write about.

Why would you do this? The goal of this Blog Posting Challenge is to share with others how you practice your personal religious traditions. It is intended to be a learning experience to help end much of the Hollywood inspired confusion and misconceptions about Witches and Pagans.

Here is the date list for anyone who wishes to join in. Simply fill in the blank with any pagan related topic of your own choosing. Enjoy!

~EK

January 4 - A is for …

January 11 - A is for …

January 21 - B is for …

January 28 - B is for …

February 4 - C is for …

February 11 - C is for …

February 15 - D is for …

February 22 - D is for …

March 1 - E is for …

March 8 - E is for …

March 15 - F is for …

March 22 - F is for …

March 29 - G is for …

April 5 - G is for …

April 12 - H is for …

April 19 - H is for …

April 26 - I is for …

May 3 - I is for …

May 10 - J is for …

May 17 - J is for …

May 24 - K is for …

May 31 - K is for …

June 7 - L is for …

June 14 - L is for …

June 21 - M is for …

June 28 - M is for …

July 5 - N is for …

July 12 - N is for …

July 15 - O is for …

July 26 - O is for …

August 2 - P is for …

August 9 - P is for …

August 16 - Q is for …

August 23 - Q is for …

August 30 - R is for …

September 6 - R is for …

September 13 - S is for …

September 20 - S is for …

September 27 - T is for …

October 4 - T is for …

October 11 - U is for …

October 18 - U is for …

October 25 - V is for …

November 1 - V is for …

November 8 - W is for …

November 15 - W is for …

November 22 - X is for …

November 29 - X is for …

December 6 - Y is for …

December 13 - Y is for …

December 20 - Z is for …

December 27 - Z is for …

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use tags

#44 Days of Witchcraft

and

#44 Days of Witchery 

for this one:

The 44 Days of Witchery Challenge →

1. What’s your witchy background?

2. A myth or story from folklore.

3. Witchy tools: athame.

4. Picture of nature (water element).

5. A favourite Goddess.

6. A favourite God.

7. Air element.

8. A photo of a magical place outdoors.

9. A favourite mythological animal.

10. Your sun sign.

11. Witchy tools: oils.

12. Picture of nature (air element).

13. What are some of the witchy books that influenced you?

14. A favourite pagan holiday that you celebrate.

15. Thoughts on the afterlife?

16. Favourite witchy website(s).

17. Picture of nature (fire element).

18. Have you had any paranormal experiences?

19. Fire element.

20. A picture of a tarot or oracle card, and its meaning.

21. A favourite scent.

22. Current moon phase.

23. A favourite candle.

24. Your moon sign.

25. How do your close ones feel about your witchy path? Do they know? Why or why not?

26. A witchy podcast.

27. Picture of nature (earth element).

28. A picture of a witchy I-Want-It-Now!

29. Water element.

30. Witchy tools: wand.

31. A favourite pagan/witchy movie.

32. A pagan/witchy artwork.

33. Faerie of your choice.

34. Rune of your choice.

35. Something that I think people who don’t know much about paganism/witchcraft should know.

36. Flower of your choice, and its magical properties.

37. A famous pagan/witch!

38. Witchy tools: cauldron.

39. Something that inspires you.

40. Your altar, if you have one!

41. A spell you have done.

42. A favourite nature spirit.

43. A magical recipe.

44. Witch’s choice!

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use tags

#30 Days of Polytheism

and

#30 Days of Paganism 

for this one:

30 Days of Polytheism

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