Blessed Ostara! Even though I’m a bit sick and my sense of smell has vanished for five days, I needed to bake SOMETHING for the spring equinox!

This is an Italian Ostara braided bread. It was suppose to have regular sized dyed eggs in the center, but I didn’t have time to find a Easter egg kit so chocolate eggies seemed like the way to go! Looks like a cute, little nest. Baking has given me some peace and order during this chaotic time.

How are you spending Ostara? 🌿🌸🥚

"Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life." - CHRISTOPHER PENCZAK

I feel like in this day and age this is super important to remember. Grow at your own pace.

Via: Medieval Dreams

spending a lot of time in the kitchen, baking bread with herbs, reading old kitchen book and trying new recipe, growing my own vegetables and fruits, having diners with neighbours and friends, and relaxing while taking the bath after the long day

Time is too slow for those who wait,  too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

- Henry van Dyke

Reblog if you’re an adult in witchcraft. (20+)

On that same note, since it’s the season, and witchcraft has become so big in pop culture these days, I hate to be Like this, but after browsing the “pagan/esoteric” section in a big-name bookstore last week, I feel the need to warn y’all that the MAJORITY of these books are full of bad information, mistakes, or just blatant lies.

You get used to spotting BS as you go, but here are two major and common red flags:

No, no, and no. They almost Exclusively cited Other Authors in the same section, and when I pulled THOSE books, they also cited other pagan & esoteric authors.

At this point, it was just a paper trail of people making stuff up at worst, believing BS without question and spreading misinformation for money at best.

If you want to learn about this stuff, I’m Begging you to skip (most of) the bookstore pagan section and head to your local or university library’s folklore and history sections instead! You will find a Lot of relevant, and Real information there!

You CAN find good books on magic practices in the witch community, and there are some authors even now with blogs putting out some great literature, but just watch out for those signals that something may be amiss!

Also, keep in mind info changes all the time. In the last decade, researches have totally overhauled a LOT of what we’ve recognized as “Celtic” history and facts, and text books are still trying to catch up!

this is true, but i feel like pointing out that Irish people know quite a lot about pre-christian Ireland and Irish culture and religion, it’s just not what’s written about in those ~aesthetic witchy~ books. nor is it for non-Irish people to practice.

In fact, much of pre-Chrisrian Irish religious practices and beliefs were of oral tradition, and the written accounts we have of them weren’t put to paper until after the Christianization of Ireland, often by Christian Monks, which is why we have texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn ( called the book of invasions in English), a text that alleges to describe the ancient populating of Ireland, but it mixes in Irish mythology while claiming children of Noah (the one with the ark) peopled the isles.

It’s difficult to find accounts of Irish religious and magical practices that don’t have a Christian tint to them as a result of when they were recorded in writing.

We also have accounts by Romans, but those are highly suspect, because the Romans loved sensationalizing their accounts of Celtic cultural practices.

I didn’t claim Irish people don’t know anything about their country before Christianity.

What I am saying is that if someone’s (usually these books are American or English) claiming to know what the druids believed exactly, or to have spells, recipes, etc. by them for modern pagans to reference exactly, that’s just not true.

a Tangled (2010) rainbow

Could you please reblog this if you are a witch who isn’t Wiccan?

Happy Mabon to all! 🍁🍂🍄🌻 I hope your summers have been warm and plentiful and your autumn and winter to come will be cosy and safe

everyone who reads this post will get some big spicy joy within 24 large minutes (hours)

Ok y'all but like I’m not even kidding about this I read this post yesterday and today I got an email from the peeps at hamilton and I won the lotto gor $10 tickets and I would like to give all my thanks to the internet’s favorite fish, Goldie Gurston, for making this possible because I totally believe they did this with their amazing gay powers

So I know this is likely a coincidence…but I reblogged this and just now discovered I’ve been given a $150 amazon gift card as a bonus at work. So thank you, fish!

If it worked for them I hope it works for everyone else

Some big spicy joy pls

SOME BIG SPICY JOY PLEASE

i request the big spicy joy

Here are a few manifestations I will be repeating:

Something that I feel that everyone needs to remember:

Being spiritual does not mean you cannnot feel rage.

Being spiritual does not mean you cannot be depressed.

Being spiritual does not mean you cannot want to fight a person.

You can still be spiritual and feel ALL your feelings, negative or positive, because we are human, and that's part of the experience.

Spirituality does not mean positivity only.