#desert witch

[cottagecore4life]

#Sedona #Arizona #sedona arizona #desertcore #desert aesthetic #desert witch #desert life #desert plants #desert #cottagecore #cottage witch #fairycore #nature #naturecore #faecore #gnomecore #druidcore #fairy #druid

[thesorceresstemple]

#priestess #sorceress #goddess #oracle #red moon #desert witch #futuristic illustration

[thehuntressdevote]

solar phases

Dawn/Birth: New beginnings, changes, health, renewal, and finding direction

Noon/Maturity: Health, physical energy, wisdom, and knowledge

Sunset/Old Age: Removing negativity, stress, letting go, releasing, and finding the truth

Midnight/Death: Psychic energy, banishing bad habits, and endings

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[kailixvk]

"growing up in a desert must have been so boring because there is no color"

what it looked like to grow up in a desert:

(photos sourced from pinterest sorry! so if u know Who took them lmk!)

#🏜 #dont look too close at my emojis they are self conscious! #sonoran desert #arizona #california #nevada #southwest #desert #desertsunset #desert witch #desert aesthetic #my emojis are also angry about peoples opinions of deserts #meow meow :3

[anthologiemystika]

Sonoran Desert Plants & Their Magic

Creosote Bush

Larrea tridentata

A.k.a Stinkweed, Chaparral, and Hediondilla

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Creosote is a prominent plant in the southwestern portion of North America, it's range includes the Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts.

Correspondences

• Element: Water

• Powers: Permanence, longevity, healthy isolation (living alone with a purpose i.e introspection or healing), developing a "tough skin", overcoming challenges, logic, reasoning, order

Mesquite Tree

Prosopis velutina

A.k.a Velvet Mesquite

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Velvet Mesquite is found naturally, and plays an important ecological role, in the Sonoran Desert. They grow 20-50 feet in height, or more in well watered areas, less in dry grasslands. The roots far extend the height of the tree, as such Velvet Mesquite can access water sources that are deeper than most plants can reach.

Correspondences

Planet: Saturn

Element: Water, Earth

Powers: Healing, protection, cleansing, purification

Chuparosa

Justica californica

A.k.a Hummingbird Bush

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Chuparosa is a flowering bush native to the deserts of Southern California, Arizona, and Northern Mexico. Chuparosa and Chiporosa are both colloquial Spanish terms for "hummingbird". For a short while this shrub produces succulent leaves, it then loses those leaves and grows plentiful tubular flowers. These flowers are generally shades of bright red, but can also be found in shades of yellow. Hummingbirds frequent this low bush to feed on the sweet nectar hidden in the flowers.

Correspondences

Planet: Venus

Powers: Beauty, self-esteem, romance, sexual energy, love, new beginnings, positivity

Brittle Bush

Encelia farinosa

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Brittle bush is a rather common little shrub found in Northern Mexico, Arizona, Southern California, Nevada, and Utah. It's name comes from the brittleness of the stems. A Spanish name for this plant is "incienso" because the dried sap was burned by the early Spanish missions in the New World as incense.

Correspondences

Planetary: Sun

Element: Earth

Powers: Healing, cleansing, luck, empathy, friendship, protection, banishing sickness

Desert Lavender

Hyptis emoryi

A.k.a Bee Sage or Bushmints

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Desert Lavender is found in Arizona, Nevada, California, and Northwestern Mexico. It is a medium to tall perennial shrub that is favored by honeybees in early spring. The violet-blue flowers are profuse along the main stem and side branches.

Native American tribes like the Akimel O'Odham saw this plant as a "pure and holy plant that cleanses all evils away from one's spirit". It's traditional Native American uses include smudge wands that were burned to cleanse the body of diseases and stop heavy menstruation and internal bleeding.

Correspondences

Element: Earth

Animal: Honeybees

Powers: Spirits, purity, banishing, warding, psychic energy & ability, cleansing, protection

Ephedra

Ephedra fasciculata

A.k.a Mormon Tea or Arizona Ephedra

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This plant is found mainly in the Mojave, Colorado, and Sonoran deserts. It thrives in creosote bush scrub. Historically it has been used as an alternative to coffee.

Correspondences

Element: Air

Planet: Earth

Powers: Protection, healing, positive energy, cleansing, friendship, happiness, purity, alertness & focus

Yellow Bells

Tecoma stans

A.k.a Yellow Trumpetbush

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Yellow Bells is an attractive ornamental vine native to the Americas, and is the official flower of the United States Virgin Islands. It is hardy in nature and can be grown nearly anywhere, becoming an invasive species in some areas. It's large yellow flowers attract many creatures such as hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies.

Correspondences

Element: Earth

Powers: Resilience, dominance, strength, healing, cleansing, banishment, cursing, retaliation

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[snakecultmystic]

･ﾟ⊹ ˚ · desert witch ･ﾟ⊹ ˚ ·

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[witchyfashion]

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[badlandsbewitched]

fall cleaning

(a ritual to renew before winter)

-intentions: remove old obstacles, release shame and guilt, & unfasten unwanted bonds

-begin from the harvest moon or the last full moon before autumn, to be completed on the next new moon

-clip nails (just fingers, or all) & save them

-deep clean your home/space; focus on the things that you have been avoiding

-prepare a black candle, with salt representing purification

-throughout this time period, meditate on what you will be letting go of & leaving behind; memories, situations, people, objects, ideologies

-finish your cleaning before the sun rises on the day of the new moon

-trim the ends of your hair & combine it with your nails

-on the night of the new moon, light the salted black candle, and bury the hair & nails in a small, but deep, hole. tamp the dirt out to help return its undisturbed appearance, and if possible, cover with a stone or rock (s)

#great basin bitch #bewitching badlands #fall cleaning #cleansing ritual #cleansing spell #fall cleansing #release ritual #release spell #desert witch #filipino witch #witchblr

[minkys-world]

are there any witches who practice in desert environments (I’m specifically from US southwest)? I feel like a lot of practices surround around 4 distinct seasons and nature being green plants. I’d love to hear from witches with a similar environment and how y’all connect with nature/use it in your craft

#witchblr #magick #witchcraft #witch #desert witch

[selenesmoodboards]

Witch aesthetics: Desert/sand witch

#witch moodboard #witch aesthetic #moodboard #sand witch #desert witch #desert #sand

[cottagecore4life]

#desertcore #desert aesthetic #desert witch #desert life #desert plants #desert #cottagecore #cottage witch #fairycore #nature #naturecore #faecore #gnomecore #druidcore #fairy #druid

[thesorceresstemple]

#witchy fashion #desert witch #sand witch #sorceress #priestess

[thehuntressdevote]

moon phases

Full Moon

Abundance, accomplishment, action & activate/awaken || Beauty & business || Creativity || Divination || Emotions, empowerment & energy || Fertility || Goals & growth || Healing || Illumination & inspiration || Light & love || Magick, manifestation & money || Needs & nurture || Power, pregnancy/childbirth, problems, protection & psychic abilities || Relationships & romance || Sex/Sexuality & strength || Transformation || Wisdom

Waning Moon

|| Banish & bind || Creativity || Darkness, death & divination || Endings || Intuition || Loss || Magick || Obstacles & the Otherworld/Underworld || Problems, prophecy, protection & purification || Rebirth/Renewal, release & reversal || Secrets, self-works, spirits & spirituality || Transformation || Wisdom

Waxing Moon

Abundance & attraction || Beginnings & business || Courage & creativity || Divination || Empathy || Friendship || Growth || Increase & inspiration || Knowledge || Love & luck || Money & motivation || Passion, power, protection & psychic abilities || Sensuality & strength || Wisdom 

New Moon

|| Beauty & beginnings || Darkness, destruction & divination || Illumination & improvement || Loneliness || Magick || Optimism || Psychic abilities || Rebirth/Renewal & relationships || Self-work & stability || Well-being & wisdom

#witchcraft #witch #witches of tumblr #witchtok #paganism #pagan #pagantok #pagans of tumblr #eclectic pagan #desert witchery #desert witchcraft #desert witch #hearth and home witchcraft #hearth and home witchery #hearth and home witch #hearth witchery #hearth witch #home witchery #home witch #home witchcraft #basic witch #basic witchcraft #basic witchery #boring witch #references

[olivefairies]

does anyone have any spells or things they can share with me about how to soothe yourself after a nightmare? i know of all the prevention techniques but that’s for before the nightmare. sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night and i can’t soothe myself from the nightmare, and i lose sleep.

#witchblr #witches #witchcraft #witchesoftumblr #wicca #wiccawoman #wiccan #desert witch #spirituality #herbalism #green witch #hearth witch #fae witch #mine #divination #spellwork #dream interpretation

[pepperporcini]

#new mexico #desert witch

[demonandthedogstar]

meta writing asks: all odds!

Tell us about your current project(s)  – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it? Currently editing my upcoming werewolf novel, We Are the Beast in The Woods. Progress is....fine. Editing is always the part where I'm just looking at it in pieces, adding some stuff, taking some stuff out, re-arranging stuff, and hoping I can fit it back together as a cohesive narrative. I love that I've actually finished a draft of it when I thought I would.

What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway) I have a very specific, like, the heroes are fighting against a villain who has gained the power to rewrite all of reality to fit their (terrible) vision of a utopia, and they begin the process while blaring Heaven Is A Place On Earth by Belinda Carlyle. I will never be able to come up with a good reason why the villain would be doing that, though. So.

What character that you’re writing do you most identify with? I have been noodling around with something new recently, and the MC of that is so far the one I've put the most of myself into. By a fair amount.

What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree? Hmm... I honestly don't know. @graysongraysoff What do you think?

Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other? Longfic. I had to look up what Pantser meant just now, but that one for sure.

What do you envy in other writers? Their way of putting together sentences and paragraphs in such a beautiful, flowing way that it just feels satisfying to read.

Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself? Yeah, I've published one (1) novel so far, with more to come this year. It is Desert Witch by Nicholas Todd on Amazon, available as an e-book and paperback. I have many projects that will never see the light of day, that I wrote and edited and read again and decided to shelve it forever.

Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)? Titles are so hard for me.

Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations? Maybe? I'm not sure what would surprise them? Maybe that I've never written a real outline for anything. I generally have a list of characters and important places in a doc, and then I just start writing in a separate doc.

Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?) Every story I've ever written has a really tall queer woman in it. I will never stop.

What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?) Comic books, probably. I feel like half the time I think about scenes in my head as I'm writing as comic panels and splash pages. So I think it would translate well.

What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest? An Urban Fantasy about three friends gaining powers from an eldritch monster and using them to protect the Earth while grappling with the fact that the powers originated from a thing that was pure evil.

What part of writing is the most fun? Writing the one scene in the story that made me want to start writing said story in the first place. I love getting there.

#writing #me #desert witch #antique romantic #graysongraysoff