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This cacophony of light and color is the wall that forms my altars. One on the windowsill, one on the far right, one in the centre, one on the left, and one even further left, on the bookcase. In order: for the Lady of the Stars, for my ancestors, for Morrigan, Brighid, and Manannan in …
Continue reading “44 Days of Witchery, Day 40: Your altar, if you have one!”
Bad picture. Sorry. My cauldron is brass and up until now has been used to burn candles in, surrounded by water. I may change its use, however. I’m not sure.
Roses are a pretty popular flower, and it may be because of their various magical properties. (Or it could be because of capitalist Valentine’s Day propaganda; who knows.) They’re my favourite flower, which I didn’t want to admit for all of high school but which I say proudly nowadays, mainly because it means my boyfriend …
Continue reading “44 Days of Witchery, Day 36: Flower of your choice, and its magical properties.”
I have two. Made them both. One is a piece of driftwood, because I felt that contained all the elements (earth, fire — sun, water, air). I carved it a bit and put a crystal in the tip before wrapping it up in leather. Eventually the leather came off and I wrapped it up in …
Continue reading “44 Days of Witchery, Day 30: Witchy tools: wand.”
Anyone I consider close knows about my path, and those that have a problem with it are not close for long. My religion is private, but it’s intensely important to me that those I am close with respect that my faith is serious and important to me. If they’re going to treat it like it’s …
Pine needles. When I lived in Hawaii we couldn’t afford to buy a real pine tree every year for solstice, so we got a fake one. In order to make things more real, we also bought a spray to be used on said tree that would make it smell like a real pine tree. When …
Normally I would say The Cauldron, but it’s not a witchy website. It’s an interfaith forum with a pagan focus. It is my favourite forum and one I spend a lot of time at. As I get more and more interested in rootwork, herbalism, and real earth magic (down and dirty, baby), I find The …
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I need to divide this list into two sections: good influences, and bad influences. It’s not fair to group some books together. First, though, I have to mention the first witchy book I ever read, when I decided I wanted to curse the assholes at school who bullied me: The Crone’s Book of Words, by …
I have a lot of essential oils. A lot from Guatemala, actually, from a store with an Egyptian motif. Strange story, that. I love oils. I also love candles. I anoint candles with oils, I put drops of oil on burning charcoal (along with resin or loose incense), I burn it in an oil diffuser, …
Continue reading “44 Days of Witchery, Day 11: Witchy Tools: oils”
Air is the power of the sword, of intellect. The sword cuts away what does not belong; it destroys the extraneous. Cool logic, intellect, allow us to do so as well. I do not connect well to air. I’m a fire/earth person; water and air elude me. The power of cutting away the extraneous is …