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If you've visited my blog before, you know I talk about witchcraft, spirituality, and magical topics.
You also know that I own a tarot reading shop on Etsy. Been up since November and it's starting to take off bit by bit. Thanks to Etsy Academy.
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After the Magician, the next person The Fool encounters on his journey is the High Priestess.
She sits on a throne, draped like royalty, patiently waiting for him. She knew The Fool was coming, just like she knows where he's going. The High Priestess is a symbol of our intuition, our unconscious mind trying to tell us important messages. But she doesn't just stand for that.
I get this question a lot, especially as I offer both tarot and oracle readings. There's also some common confusion, and sometimes heated debate, over what the differences between oracle cards and tarot cards are.
That ends today! We've gone over different examples of knot magic and easy ways to use it on the blog before. It's an incredibly fun and easy type of magic to do everyday.
Yet if you want to make a really powerful statement with knot magic, you can be as precise and detailed as you want. One specification being the type of fabric you choose. Fabric, and how a garment is made in general, can play a large part in a garment or poppet you make as they each have different spiritual correspondences. Cotton is a perfect example of this, especially as it's such a common substances in fabric and yarn. Let's introduce an entire type of witchcraft today: mine! Well, one of the two I claim.
Cottage witchcraft is a specialty of those who like to work with anything in the home, the Home and Hearth to be precise. This means cooking, cleaning, family magic, gardening, etc. We're gonna go over my personal cottage witchy practice and what I use for everyday magical things. Last week I introduced you guys to candle magic and it's basics. Now, I want to introduce you to a wonderful lady who's taken candle magic, what you can do with it, and what it means to her to a whole new level.
Hey guys! Today's post is an interview with Nova Fortin from Intention Charms, a jewelry shop on Etsy which focuses on meditative and chakra-balancing pieces made with raw crystals.
We're going to see a little bit of how Nova come into making these pieces and what her shop really is all about. Let's get into it! Pearls are made when a sand or speck of dirt that's irritating the inside of a mollusk is covered in layers of nacre.
It's the calm nourishing itself of the irritation, which is why pearls are considered to be a nourishing gemstone. It's well known for it's healing properties, especially in Asian medicine. The first time I encountered the magic of pearls was in 2012 in China. When I first started learning tarot, it was a little overwhelming.
I mean, I had a book of 78-card meanings that I had to memorize, forwards and backwards, upside down and right side up (literally), and I could barely remember what ONE card was. It sucked. I got a deck from my roommate, the Enchanted World Tarot, and just was dumbstruck. What does all this crap mean? There's a meditation DVD and book?! But how do I meditate the right way? Why are there swords stabbing this man?! I started researching, looking around for the best ways to memorize the tarot and maybe even (maybe one day) read them intuitively. The best advice I found? Start a tarot journal. I've been obsessed with candles since I was a child.
My mother told me one time, when the power was out in our apartment, she lit about thirty or so candles every where so we had light. Little four-year-old me ran around the house, ridiculously excited, and came back every two minutes or so to tell her the house wasn't on fire. I remember coming home to my room smelling like cupcakes because of my vanilla and chocolate-scented candles when I was nine. I remember laying on my bed, blasting Evanescence, writing poetry, and having twenty or so candles lit all around me when I was fourteen. I would constantly keep candles in my dorm, even though we weren't allowed to have them, when I was nineteen. I still have a billion candles, even those without wicks, now. Candle magic is one of the easiest forms of witchcraft to learn. So let's start having some waxy fun! I do not have experience when it comes to crystals and magic; however, knowing their correspondences and how they can heal or balance your body is an active research of mine.
The ability to re-balance your aura and spirit with yoga, simple exercises, food, and gemstones, the topic of today's post, is fascinating to me. These activities are an example of everyday magic. BOOM, my kind of topic. Today, we're going to take a look at a specific bracelet made by a fellow Etsy shop owner. It not only contributes towards your spiritual health, but your physical health as well. Psst....If you haven't read the first part yet, go here...
And welcome back! This week we'll finish up going over some tarot myths that we started last week. So let's get right into it: Today's topic is more informative and controversial than others I've gone over. But it needs to be discussed at some point, especially for those new to witchcraft.
There's a lot of confusion around what it means to be Pagan, to be Wiccan, and to be a witch. Whether they intertwine or not. Those questions will be answered today: Over the past year or so, my husband has been steadily getting more and more interested in practicing magic. As an atheist, he has a difficult time considering anything works unless he sees it himself.
After seeing me become more confident in my magic, and encouraging me to come out of the broom closet little-by-little, he started looking around for tarot decks to try. Naturally, I was excited as shit. I immediately started scouring the interwebs (because we're currently in rural Colorado with no metaphysical things to speak of around) for a deck. Then one day, we found the perfect deck for him on Etsy: The Gothic Horror Tarot. This is what we think: Throughout the tarot community, especially online, there seems to be a misconception between what you must be and what you don't have to be when it comes to reading tarot.
I go more into a general sense of that in this blog post, but today's we're going to go over some of the rumors about being a tarot reader, what a "real" reader is/does. So it's time for some myth busting from an actual tarot reader. <meta name="p:domain_verify" content="08216d7b14ed4bbcb0b7abd5ddb0e9c8"/> So a bit of a story comes along before I share the spell itself.
In March of 2016, I was preparing my senior thesis. As a theatre major, you can choose between a variety of ways to do your thesis as long as it's involved with a production; I chose to direct. My cast for The Intruder by Maurice Maeterlinck was combining with another cast for an evening of drama. My partner was another student doing his thesis for Flowers for Algernon. Well, the day we combined shows, to allow for tech crew to see the run time and everything that needed to be moved and the casts to see each show, my cast completely forgot 3/4 of their lines. There are TONS of things lying around your house, that you'd most like throw away, that can be used for magic.
Seriously. Magic doesnt have to be expensive herbs guys! I promise! I'm waaaay too broke for that myself. So here's some ideas for the next time you're a broke, little witchling and need some spell ingredients on-the-go:
This type of water is for when you're going to battle; metaphorically. Maybe literally if you're in that kind of mood.
This type of water is used for extreme cases. Typically when you're in psychic warfare within another witch and you need protection and negative energy absorption. However, there's a very thin line between making war water and curse water. This type of water basically gives a giant, magic punch-in-the-face while screaming "fuck off". It's rough. If you amplify it so anyone who touches an area you've covered in war water will have bad luck and get messed up outside the magical or spiritual spectrum, it's curse water. Whatever you choose to turn it into, this handy little guide can help you make some. You can ask my husband, I spend WAAAY too long in the bathtub. Water is just so soothing for me.
Maybe it's because I'm a very emotional person and water is the emotional element. Hmm.. Any way, I've shared one of my spells with you that involves bath magic. Now, I want to share some more tips and tricks for bath-related magical goodness that I've found over the years. And away we go! We’ve gone over The Fool here on the blog before, how it’s all about new beginnings and taking a leap of faith.
I think the next best step is to continue along The Fool’s journey in the Major Arcana: What image first comes to mind when I say the word "witch"?
Is it an old lady with warts mixing potions in a giant, black cauldron with a equally-black feline by her side? Or is it a preteen girl being tied to a stake while piles of wood are lit as a priest declares her a heretic? Or maybe a group of women dancing naked on a full moon around a bonfire while they have orgies and drink each other's blood and worship the Devil? It's not surprising that these images of witches are the ones that come up when we hear the word "witch". It's commonly used as a curse, as something to disgust and fear. Witches are given a very poor representation because of history. Now, do some witches not have bonfire orgies and drink blood and mix potions? No, some do. But that's not what defines you as a witch. A fantastic question I got this past week was about how I do long distance readings.
Don't you have to be across from the person? How do you know it's accurate if they're not there? Well, let me explain it to you: One of the best ways to start out practicing magic is doing something simple. Even better: something simple that you love to do.
There are way to many awesome tarot decks out there!My personal wishlist for decks is RIDICULOUSLY long. There's people I know who have hundreds of decks and, knowing they need to downsize, buy even more!
Many people believe a tarot or oracle deck need to speak personally to you. That you need to go out in person and touch the decks, sensing their energy and if it's right for you. Others believe you must be gifted a deck from another person. Here's my problem with both of these methods: I live in a tiny-ass, conservative town in the middle of no-where. There are no stores that sell tarot cards, let alone crystals or runes or anything else of the witchy-variety within 200 miles. The one deck that was gifted to me I can't stand. It's nice, it was a lovely gift, but it drives me nuts. No matter how many times I cleanse or shuffle it, the cards don't want me; they want the original owner. |