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Alternatives to breadmaking for this lughnasadh:
Yule blessings and Happy Winter Solstice everyone ❤️
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Bright Yule blessings
When I first started on my witchcraft journey, I thought that I was doing everything wrong. I thought that I could never be more than knowledgable and that my power was stifled by my depression.
I would ask all the elders and so called experts if my spells would work or if my manifestations would actually come if I was depressed. I got no responses, and when I did, it was to say that I was defective.
There was one mentor I had, who I eventually stuck with, that taught me that my soul and the will of my heart was more powerful than my illness. She taught me that I could still manifest great things while being in a depressive episode.
And while that may be common knowledge to most practitioners now, I know that there is a baby witch out there, thinking about the effectivness of their power. Wondering if it will ever amount to their knowledge on the craft, or if they’d just be a waste energy.
To that person, your mental health has no power over your own. It may feel like it leaks into all areas of your life and stops you from creating an amazing life where all your wishes are fulfilled, but you can do all that and more while still going through your sadness. You are not perpetually in 3D, you are not low vibrational, you are not spiritually defective.
You’re just a witch with mental issues.
Much important.
Paolo Sebastian “Persephone”
The winter solstice is a lovely reminder about the nature of perspective.
Our longest night doesn't mean that the sun is generating less light.
It's a function of where we are in relation to the light.
Hope, like sunlight, may be shadowed without being fundamentally diminished.
These are not mine, nor am I claiming them to be. The information here is good & I needed a place to save it for when I can incorporate it into my home.
Rice in witchcraft is known for it's properties of Prosperity, Wealth, Protection, and Fertility. You can add rice to your spell jars, placing it around your house, or to carrying it with you.
Other uses for Rice:
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Normalize laughing with your deities
Normalize telling your deities jokes
Normalize playing music for your deities at any time it feels right
Normalize drawing silly little doodles for your deities regardless of skill
Normalize sharing a walk with your deities
Normalize soaking in the sunlight and dark mystery of night with your deities
Normalize letting your deities in, letting them be there
Normalize shedding tears of joy and sadness and expressing negative emotions that aren’t pretty with your deities
Normalize various levels of intimacy both casual and intense with your deities
Normalize following what works for you and your deities no matter what when it’s just about you and them, no one else
hello!! if you don’t mind me asking, how do you undo a spell?
Bring the spell remnant back into Magical Space (whatever space, mindset, or rituals you require in order for your mundane actions to become magical).
Perform Undoing actions on the spell remnants. Cut or untie a knot, melt or pulverize wax, mix ashes with magically nullifying substances such as salt and iron, etc.
While performing Undoing actions, also give clear linguistic Instructions on what you expect to happen. These instructions may be spoken, thought, signed, written, read, or be imposed upon your Magical Space in any way you prefer.
Tie your instructions to your physical actions, such as:
I highly recommend using clear and direct sentences to the effect of "I am undoing this spell and I don't want the magic to work any more" (for those who only use present-tense intents: "this spell is undone, the magic has stopped working."
Dispose of the remnants in a permanent way.
Consecrate a new object (new thread to be knotted, new candle, new piece of paper) to represent the old spell. Ideally, this object will be chosen or modified to resemble the vibes of the old spell as closely as possible.
Any consecration ritual will do. The goal is to give a new physical body to your old spell; you are making an "poppet" of the spell.
Once the new physical object has become synonymous with the old spell, perform the Undoing and Instruction method that was described above.
(New candles should probably be snapped in half or burned upside down; burning them normally is more likely to empower the old spell).
The "poppet" method above will tend to work if you know what you're doing with things. However, one of these might be more reliable:
Method One: Bless a thread with binding, limiting energies (Saturn is ideal) and trap the unwanted spell by tying it in a knot. Then burn the thread, ideally while Instructing what is supposed to happen.
Method Two: Carve the end of a taper candle so that the wick is visible on the bottom. Treat this bottom as your new "active" end, and draw correspondences from the new active end, downwards.
Coat the candle with a pepper-infused oil, score the surface lengthwise with iron nails, or otherwise mark the candle with destructive and banishing correspondences.
While doing this, Instruct the candle that its job is to banish, burn away, and destroy the unwanted spell. Light the candle. (A temporary holder may be obtained for the awkward shape by filling a deep dish with sand, soil, or salt).
It is generally wise to construct all spells with "kill codes" in case you need to undo them. This is essentially a special sort of intent that you build into the spell which undoes the spell on your command.
To avoid intrusive thought anxiety, it is almost always best to have this "code" require a specific set of physical actions, such as writing "Spell Cast on [date], be undone and begone" seven times over on a piece of paper.
Undoing a spell does not teleport you back in time to before it was ever cast. Imagine a valley with a river. A spell is cast that dams up the river. The entire ecosystem of the valley changes because the river was stopped.
Later on we can dismantle the dam and let the water flow again. But the valley will not "magically" go back to what it used to be. The spell may be undone but there will also still be significant changes already affected on this valley.
Record keeping is one of your best allies in knowing how to undo your own spells. The more you know about your spell (or anyone else's), the easier it is for you to undo or counter.
Once a spell is undone, you may still have more work to do. Suppose someone hexes me. Even if I undo the hex, my house may still be filled with nasty energy and I can still have anxiety. I will have to do a good self-cleansing and home-clearing before the effects are fully erased. Undoing a spell is not the same thing as cleaning up after it.
In sticky situations, you may also want to cast additional spells to protect against the effects of the unwanted spell.
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Happy Hanukkah to all my Jewish human friends and Happy Hannukkat to their cats!
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