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To Persephone,..

O Beloved Mother, I hear your voice on the evening wind. The faint traces of your energy linger in the air. It's there, but barely so. It's begun to fade, and the sweet kiss of fall has been placed upon the earth.

No longer do your footfalls echo in the night. They've gone underground, racing towards your love. Back to your Home, to Father.

I eagerly await the first bite of autumn, that lovely chill in the air. Your departure brings out the other side of you. Dark, and unruly. Powerful and sacred.

So few understand your duality...

Mother of Life and Death. Queen of the Underworld.

Persephone.

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I love Persephone so fucking much. She has helped and cared for me more than any person in my life ever has. I love my Lady. My Goddess

Thank you so fucking much. <3

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DEATH (XIII) - Scorpio’s Card - Water - Ruled by Pluto

Upright: Endings, Transformation, Rebirth, Change

Reversed: Resistance to Change, Drawn-out Endings, Uncertainty, Fear

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Persephone Offerings

"Persephone is the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Hades, and the goddess of spring growth along with her mother, Demeter."

Large Altars:

Pomegranates

Pomegranate juice or wine

Honey or honey infused wine

Honey made from flowers

Spring water

Floral tea

Flower or herb infused water

Breads, grains, cakes, sweets, etc.

Sweet fruits

Flower crowns

Flower arrangements

Potted plants

Floral scented incense

Almond, vanilla, bergamot, or pomegranate scented incense

Purple, magenta, indigo, green, and black candles

Crowns

Statues or paintings of bats, rams, and/or deer

Small/hidden Altars:

Pomegranate seeds

Pomegranate candies

Dark chocolate

Spring flowers

Wild flowers

Fake flowers

Crushed mint

Small animal bones

Fake or animal skulls

Toy coffins

Floral scented perfumes

Almond, vanilla, bergamot, or pomegranate scented perfumes

Jewlery

Gems such as crystal, quartz, agate, black onyx, pink tourmaline, obsidian, coral, and jasper

Artwork

Poetry

Seeds

Plush toys of bats, rams, and deer

Devotional Acts:

Tend to a garden or keep a plant

Learn herbalism

Learn about flowers, try baking with them, using them in bath spells, etc.

Make a playlist of songs that remind you of Her

Meditate outside

Go on nature walks

Clean up nature trails

Smell the flowers

Celebrate the coming of spring and Her return

Likewise, celebrate the coming of fall and Her departure to the underworld

Honor the dead

Visit graveyards

Clean up graveyards

Donate to those who can't afford a funeral service

Honor the fae and work with them

Honor Hades

Honor Demeter

Sources:

Artwork from Smite

https://vocal.media/futurism/ways-of-worship-persephone

https://occult-world.com/persephone/

https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Persephone.html

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O to sit and dream of a Goddess so fearsome the ancients wouldn’t speak Her name…. 

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I know some of you may be tired of reminders like this one, but I just really want to talk about this. Remember Aphrodite has a “dark” side too. Remember that Gods are not bound to fulfill our selfish human expectations of what “good” is supposed to be on a casual level, which often involves just our benefit. The Gods are good on a cosmic level. They are concerned with the progress of this universal mechanism we call existence, and they do not serve humanity (we serve them by helping with this task, being virtuous).

Now, I talk about Aphrodite mainly because I saw a tweet last night about her, and something on that post just got me thinking. Perhaps I had been focusing too much on her Loving, Creative, and soft sides. It terrifies me a bit to remember her epithets. Yes, Aphrodite is the Mother of Love, and she's a world spirit, a cosmic womb; she's a creator and gives birth to Life; but she's also Androphonos, the eater of men. She's Melainis, the dark one. She's Areia, war-like. She's Tumborukhos, the grave-digger. Aphrodite is also a goddess of trickery and illusion. She's heavily associated to Persephone, and in some ancient mystery schools Persephone was regarded as the saviour from Aphrodite's darker side. There is a part of her that belong to death, dirt, bloodshed, strife. There is a part of us, too, that responds to that nature of hers and of the other Gods, as well as a part of us that belongs to their goodness, and love, wisdom, light.

This does not mean they are ‘evil’. Please. Forget the very christian idea that God must be pure goodness. That's a deformed platonic premise. The goodness we see in God does not have to fulfill our human standards, I repeat. It's not your goodness. It's the universe’s goodness. Gods are enormous, and they've been alive literally since the begining of existence, even before our material universe emerged. We are so, so small, like ants; we don't even realise how small we are in comparison, how little power we have. We owe Them everything. How can existence be evil?

And because the Gods are the main cause of existence, then everything that exists, including the things that hurt us —and the ones that make us happy—, come from them. And that's fine. Because it's supposed to be that way.

So love them. Love them despite the dark things, the tricks, the illusions, the death. That's life itself, we live through them. It hurts us more to think that they must satisfy our own benefits and needs. Let them, and let us, be. We are whole.

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Do I believe in a traditional biblical God? Well, not in the sense that the ancient Israelites believed in Him. I could never make the full leap to accepting a God who rolls up his sleeves and fiddles with our lives like a novelist does his characters. I’m still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I’m now a reverent agnostic. I now believe that whether or not there’s a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It’s possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn’t take away from its power or importance.

A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically

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Actually useful shit to have as a witch

You really don't need all the fancy bullshit every tumblr influencer will ever tell you to use. Here's my countdown ofaxtually useful shit.

A pocket knife, preferably with a wood handle. Use that bitch for everything, enchant it, carve symbols in it. It will absolutely be your best friend.

A good bag or backpack with a couple of plastic or ziploc bags in it. If you ever run off into the woods to find minerals, bones, plants, etc. A set aside bag and some things to store your treasures in becomes a necessity.

Basic divinatory sets. You don't have to buy fancy shit, learn to divine with playing cards and dice, or learn geomancy, lithomancy, or rune casting with homemade sets. A tarot deck is nice, but it isn't necessary when you've got so many other divinatory aids available.

A nice sized chunk of scrap cloth. When you process dried plants or sort new ones, that shit can and will get everywhere. A scrap piece of muslin or linen can help contain all of that mess and make clean up way easier.

A stash of good rocks. Draw sigils or symbols on those babies and leave them in the garden, the windowsill,property boundaries, under the stoop, etc. You can never have too many good rocks.

A pendulum, for fucks sake. The cards are going to be vague as hell when you're trying to figure out yes or no questions, and using a candle to communicate with spirits is really fucking hard outside. If you can't afford one, find a nice chunk of pointy quartz and learn to macrame.

A workspace. Everyone talks about having big fancy altars, but no one mentions that you need a good surface to do all your work on.

Storage, so much storage. I'm not talking about mason jars and pill bottles, I'm talking about where you put all the things you put in those jars. Having a workspace with drawers is immeasurably helpful.

A broom and water source. You're going to be cleaning up after yourself a lot, it's helpful to have a jug of water and a broom that stays by your workspace.

A mode of cleansing. I make a salt concoction to scatter around my workspace on short notice and store it close by.

On that note: SOMETHING TO CANCEL SPELLS WITH. Eventually, something will go wrong. You'll want to end that spell immediately. Have something to do it with.

A strainer. If you don't have a blender, rub dried plants across it to get a powder. If you do have a blender, you can strain that powder with it. Either way, if you intend to powder shit, get a strainer.

Small trays. It makes drying flowers so much easier if you have a small metal surface to contain them with- then just stick those suckers in a southern window and let em go.

Yarn/string scraps. Having a box or drawer of scraps makes trying this up to dry easier and a bit less wasteful.

A stash of offerings for whatever you work with. Honey for fae, coins for graveyard gatekeepers, alcohol for ancestors, etc.

Protective talismans or charms. Once you're into all of this stuff, you'll likely stick your nose in something you shouldn't. Having basic protection with you or in your workspace is incredibly important. A key and hagstone with red string is simple and effective.

A lighter- so many people forget the most basic shit. You're going to want to light shit on fire if you're a witch.

And a last tip- if something is too hard for a mortar and pestle, a plastic bag and hammer works too.

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by Pavel’s Snapshots

more fab skies here ❤️

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Altar ideas for Hades

❀ Bones

❀ Coins

❀ Metallic objects

❀ Black things

❀ Dog imagery

❀ Dried flowers

❀ Pomegranates

❀ Skulls

❀ Keys

❀ Black/shiny stones

❀ Gold/Silver objects

❀ Black rams imagery

❀ Barn owl imagery

❀ Screech owl imagery

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I wrote a song

I’m turning my poetry into song lyrics- did I post the original? Probably. Maybe I’ll post the audio when I’m done.

PRAISE SONG FOR THE GODDESS OF THE DEAD

I sing of dread Persephone,

I sing of She

Who makes flowers bloom by graves

Who said don’t afraid 

of the Dark.

As You descend I will remember You.

O my Lady,

O my Lady,

O my Lady.

O my Lady,

O my Lady,

O my Lady.

I sing of dirt and death and day,

I sing of holiest decay,

give me six seeds

spirit me away.

As You descend I will remember You.

O my Lady,

O my Lady,

O my Lady.

O my Lady,

O my Lady,

O my Lady.

Asphodel blooms in Her wake

I know Whom I love and I will not wait.

As You descend I will adore You.

O my Lady,

O my Lady,

O my Lady.

O my Lady,

O my Lady,

O my Lady.

O my Lady,

O my Lady,

O my Lady.

O my Lady,

O my Lady,

O my Lady.

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✨Crystal Cleansing 101✨

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4 Elements Candles by WickedandLovelyStore

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Medusa with the Head of Perseus, Luciano Garbati, 2008

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Pregnancy is basically a really slow summoning spell with side effects and a casting time of 9 months.