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Autumnnnnn  The maples in my yard are turning red and stamping the ground with their colors~

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Wizard Island - Crater Lake National Park 

Harry Snowden

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frozen trees, photo by Ivan Golovin

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♡ Takashi ♡ 

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Pumpkin Nook~

It’s witchy season! Are you all snuggled up and cozy with a hot cup of pumpkin spice potion?

 I also added a strategic steam hole in her hat ;)

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Kiki’s Plant Delivery Service~

I would order plants from her everyday until I live in a jungle.

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I don't know if I believe in any kind of afterlife, either. But this article gives me a little hope that maybe the all the loved ones I have recently lost are out there somewhere, waiting to be reunited with me. Maybe I just miss them so much, I want it to be true.

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Fighting Consumerism in Magic

aka, little things to distance your craft from capitalism

Let’s all just admit that buying stuff is fun. That said, there’s a big issue of consumerism within the witchy/pagan scene. As magic work and the pagan “aesthetic” becomes more of a commodity in the mainstream, there’s a mounting attitude of needing All The Items in the highest quality (even if we’re not certain we’ll use them,) and big corporations mass-producing cheap stuff to make a buck off of a growing trend. Here’s some things you can do to help detach your practice from that and support other people in the craft:

Go outside. Check your backyard or local park for local plant life, waters, roots, etc. If your work involves things from nature at all, you can probably find a lot of your supplies… in nature. It takes a little more time, but it’s free and then you’ve gathered stuff yourself! 

Make stuff. This one is pretty straightforward. There may be key items to your practice that you can make yourself instead of buying it! That said, I know sometimes spending money is inevitable so I won’t dwell too much on this… let’s talk more about shopping:

Shop mindfully. The price of a lot of items will skyrocket once it has a pentacle or other symbol engraved on it. For example, little mortars and pestles can be very pricey in witchy shops, but you could probably get a bigger one that’s actually food safe for less at a nice grocery store. Antique stores and international markets are now your new best friends.

Support small businesses! Things are cheaper on Amazon, but the extra money goes to support real people, likely other practitioners. If you can, supporting small, local, independent shopkeepers and crafters does a ton of good. It also helps build and sustain a local community. 

Shop based on need. Don’t get something “just in case” (unless it’s banishing or hex breaking stuff; those are decent to have on hand.) It’s tempting to impulse-buy a ton of niche items and ingredients, but unless you have a reasonable idea what you’re going to use them for in the near future, it’ll probably just create clutter for you to deal with later.

Prioritize effectiveness over aesthetic. Ultimately your practice has to work for you, not just look good. I think making your work aesthetically pleasing to yourself can be an important part of really connecting with what you’re doing, but don’t make that desire burn a hole in your wallet and distract you from what brought you to this path in the first place. Altar envy is a real thing. 

Recycle/Upcycle. Use old clothing fabric for an altar cloth. That old trinket dish makes a great offering dish. Enchant jewelry you already own. That jar of strawberry jelly you just finished off will work just fine for that spell. Things can be re-purposed and made into new things.

Analyze your offerings. Special occasion wine isn’t a special occasion if you do it every time. Not every offering needs to be a grand gesture, regular maintenance is more important generally.

Organize trades. Have any pals that also practice? See if you can help each other! You could trade different goods (that old mini cauldron you bought and never used for that abandoned tarot deck, maybe?) but also services. A protection spell for a luck charm. A reading for a reading. You help them with the laundry and they cook you a meal one day. 

As always, the goal is to foster a local community of individuals doing honest work, and shedding the consumerist mindset society taught us to make us spend more money. Take up the idea that you can do magic completely on your own with what you already around you, and if you do want to spend money, see if you can do it in a way that helps the world a tiny bit.  :) 

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Reblog if you’re norse / pagan and are anti fascist / anti nazi

Trying to prove a point to all you nazi scums out there that use our religion to hide in.

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“Eye of the Dragon”

A climber stands at the opening of an ice cave while a curtain of aurora shimmers above the mountains in the distance. Can you spot the eyelash-like icicles dangling overhead?

What would you caption this image instead? — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3xzolB7

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Marc Adamus

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2008

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Selections from “The Somnia Tarot” - Nicolas Bruno

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ideas about sigils

creating a sigil

start with a phrase or short sentence, stating your will or desire, or your end goal in present tense. “I am confident.” “I can afford rent this month.”

avoid negative language; for example, use “I will pass this test” instead of “I will not fail this test”

traditionally, take out vowels and repeated letters, and shape the remaining letters in an artistic way to create a symbol

you can also turn the letters into their most basic shapes

you can use cursive versions of letters, other alphabets such as the runic alphabet

you can use a sigil wheel, a letter grid, or other alphabets such as runes

you can add flourishes, little circles, extra lines and shapes

you can make a pictorial sigil if you want, manipulating symbols or other imagery (but I’d recommend skewing them to the point where you don’t actively recognize them on sight, so it can be banished easier)

you can place a boundary around your sigil (a circle, square, or triangle, for example) if you feel it will help secure the intent

activating and charging a sigil

🔥 with fire 🔥

burn it (and place in chalice or cauldron) - you can use these ashes creatively as well!

carve it into a candle and let it all melt away

draw it on a firework and set it off

⛰️ with earth ⛰️

bury it and let it decompose (make sure it is biodegradable!!!)

draw it in dirt somewhere it will be worn away

craft it with twigs, leaves, stems, etc, and burn it

carve it into bark or draw it on a stone (be nice to earth, I’d recommend doing this to loose bark, trees/stones you “own” like potted plants or trees in your yard, or dead trees… use good sense!)

draw it somewhere with salt

🌊 with water 🌊

write on body in eyeliner or other makeup before bathing

carve it into a soap bar and bathe with it

draw it on something that will dissolve and dissolve it

draw on a tea bag (with something edible like honey or edible ink), steep it, and drink the tea

🌀 with air 🌀

wave it through incense

draw it on a balloon, blow it up, and pop it

draw it on a kite and fly it

✨ other neat ways ✨

use it while cooking - oil on a pan, stirring a spoon in a pot, adding sauce, pouring honey into tea, etc.

write it with something (a colored ink, essential oil, food dye, etc.) on an eggshell and crush it into eggshell powder (great for sigils and spells to do with rebirth/rejuvenation/fertility/the new moon, or others that include eggshells)

write it on a bay leaf or other leaf that corresponds with your intent - and then maybe wrap it up into a spell jar, keep it in your wallet, crush it into a powder for a spell, etc.

write it on a piece of paper with invisible ink or a white crayon

write it on a piece of paper and seal it with wax

paint it with glow in the dark paint

paint it on an empty canvas before painting something else on top

place it in a music box, wind it, and let the music charge it

place it under your pillow at night (great for sigils to do with dreams/sleep, or studying/recalling knowledge)

paint on nails before painting them with nail polish

place in sun or moonlight

draw on a foggy mirror

use it as a background on phone/computer and leave it up while charging the device

draw it on your body

focus on it while orgasming

focus on it while experience pain or another extreme emotion

add a drop of blood to the sigil

okay, so what happens next?

once you activate and charge your sigil, laying it deep down into your unconscious mind, banish it. destroy it. forget about it entirely so it can work its magic.

go do something entirely unrelated shortly afterwards, like watching a movie or cooking dinner. forget about it entirely so it can work its magic.

you may elect to display it in a place you’ll see it often, but passively - such as the side of your bathroom mirror or on your fridge. the idea is to let it trigger your unconscious mind, instead of focusing on it consciously. if you find yourself thinking about it every time you see it, consider removing it.