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god fuck i love wizards. abracababra baby
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So while searching through amazon for more journals *coughcough* I found these things called “Observer’s Notebook”. There are a couple of them, and they’re like journals but include extra stuff that could be really nice to have in witchcraft! For example:
Here’s the Weather Notebook. It includes stuff like an atlas of clouds, different types of snowflakes, pictures of storms, and a bunch of charts you can use to track different weather while still writing in this journal just like its any old notebook. The weather witch in me is thrilled. And so is my need to hoard notebooks.
There’s also notebooks for astronomy and trees! They’re all under $20, the weather one is about $13 right now as the least expensive, and the Astronomy is about $19 as the most.
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the walmart pa system announces a hex on me and i levitate in the middle of the frozen food aisle
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Tonglen begins with becoming conscious of the moment. Then, as opposed to the meditations or visualizations that invite you to breathe in peace and breath out pain, you breathe in dukkha and breathe out resourceful states. Like a tree converting carbon dioxide to oxygen, you become the filter that purifies the air for others to breathe.
While the idea of breathing in spiritual exhaust may not appeal at first, this practice is also designed as a way to overcome selfishness, or the act of cherishing oneself above other beings.
When taken to the pragmatic level you can see that the practice of tonglen serves; when we become willing to transmute suffering it allows us to actively “be the change we wish to see in the world,” whether the suffering we transform is truly only our own or is a more global suffering.
The magic of tonglen is a simple yet profound process of spiritual alchemy. By converting the suffering of yourself and the suffering of all beings through your consciousness and breath, you are contributing to conversion of the clouds of attachment, which can be visualized as clouds of spiritual exhaust. This spiritual exhaust is created by attachment, which, according the many spiritual philosophies, produces suffering.
The practice of tonglen touches and purifies all occurrences of attachment that arise in the experience of being.
How to Practice Tonglen:
- Become conscious of the moment you are in. Don’t grasp at attachment to a purity of awareness, but be exactly where you are. Every moment of experience, be it joyful, blissful, angry, exuberant, sad, or frustrated has equal opportunity for your coming fully present in awakening.
- Breathe the dukkha, or spiritual exhaust, in. You may imagine the dukkha as smoke, haze, or as a having a color if that helps. If it helps, you may also or alternatively visualize one who is suffering, or the cause of suffering itself. You may visualize breathing in the dukkha surrounding the one who is suffering. Remember, this may be you. You may visualize your own dukkha and breathe it in, or the dukkha of others.
- In your center, allow the dukkha to transform. You are transmuting that spiritual exhaust to pure spiritual oxygen, like a tree transforms exhaust to clear air. Create this transformation by allowing the dukkha to dissolve into the nothingness at the center of everything. Or, as my friend Durga Fuller says, allow it to dissolve into “the emptiness that we are essentially.”
- As the transformation occurs, the dukkha transitions to nonattachment, joy, bliss, ease, peace. Allow yourself to fill your center with whatever of these states is within your reach. All merit you have accrued through the enactment of practice in the world will help to power this transformation.
- Breathe out the cleared and resourceful emotion or state, and send it out into the world in the form of non-attachment, bliss, joy, ease, happiness, peace.
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afrowitch aesthetic :: male crystal witch💎 ✨
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How many faces, how many bodies can you recognize, with your eyes closed, only by touching them? Have you ever closed your eyes and acted unconsciously? Or loved someone so blindly, you could almost feel their energy in a dark room and be moved by the powerful touch of their ideas?
Jean Baudrillard, Journal, 1981 (via beyonslayed)
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Drown in your horrors curse
For someone that has caused pain to your life
Ingredients
- jar with lid
- very salty water
- black candle
- red candle
- thumbtacks
- sea glass
- paper with the name(preferably full name) of the target
Steps
- Light candles
- fill your jar up full with the water
- put thumbtacks and sea glass in
- put the paper in the jar
- say “you’ve drowned me in horrors, wronged me in so many ways. Now it’ll reflect on you. Drown,drown,drown in the horrors you’ve given me”
- put lid on
- drip candle wax over to seal
- blow out candle
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@ngardewine-blog house protection spell! Coconut split open, with basil, bay leaves, Apple, ash, black pepper, blackberry, cinnamon, clover, coffee, cilantro, paprika, sea salt inside. Sealed back together with a white candle & barried in the NW side of the yard. 🕯
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ever had a dream with such breathtaking obvious Symbolism that it’s like your subconscious contracted out to a shitty art film screenwriter
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One of my favorite things about magick and witchcraft is that it’s an amazing coping mechanism.
No, really.
Are some of my spells placebos? Probably! And honestly, I’m okay with that. Because whether or not it works isn’t what matters to me sometimes. I have a poppet that I made for self love and healing. I charge it by listening to songs that remind me of self love and put it under my bed.
Even if this poppet isn’t working in a magickal sense, it forces me to take some time every once in a while and think about loving myself and how my goal is to fully heal from my past and love myself as I am. My brain is sick and this helps me rewrite the patterns my brain takes.
As a kid I was often implicitly taught not to be angry or over emotional, that I sort of had to have it all together. For a variety of reasons I learned that if something bad happened to me, it was probably because I did something wrong.
Witchcraft gives me the power to unlearn that. I’m angry at being mistreated? I find a spell to let go, burn a candle, or do a binding spell or curse if I’m desperate.
For some reason today I’ve been thinking a lot about friendships I’ve let go of, things I’ve left behind in the name of recovery. And honestly some of it is just plain thinking about the people who have wounded and hurt me, people who have used and abused me. Instead of thinking about wanting to go back to them and talk to them and return to the past, I’m thinking of ways I can use music and crystals and magick to make a spell to encourage healing and move on.
Whether or not it works, witchcraft means the world to me.
I honestly think that magick is a rad way of channeling our own thoughts and energy into things we need/want in our lives. 🌙
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Anyone who has ever been compelled to think about it — anyone, for example, who has ever been in love — knows that the one face that one can never see is one’s own face. One’s lover — or one’s brother, or one’s enemy — sees the face you wear, and this face can elicit the most extraordinary reactions. We do the things we do and feel what we feel essentially because we must — we are responsible for our actions, but we rarely understand them. It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less. But the barrier between oneself and one’s knowledge of oneself is high indeed. There are so many things one would rather not know! We become social creatures because we cannot live any other way. But in order to become social, there are a great many other things that we must not become, and we are frightened, all of us, of these forces within us that perpetually menace our precarious security. Yet the forces are there: we cannot will them away. All we can do is learn to live with them. And we cannot learn this unless we are willing to tell the truth about ourselves, and the truth about us is always at variance with what we wish to be. The human effort is to bring these two realities into a relationship resembling reconciliation.
James Baldwin (via kosmicbrujx)
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since i get the question “(how) can i change this part of myself” a lot
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Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess
“She was a queen captured in her homeland, and forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean in the belly of a slave ship. In the New World, she would eventually rise up to become the leader of a new nation – of free Africans. However, not many people outside of Jamaica know of the legendary ‘Nanny’, warrior chieftainess of the Jamaican Maroons, one of the most celebrated, but least recognized heroines in the resistance history of the New World.
Queen Nanny is the only female among Jamaica’s seven national heroes. Her likeness appears on the country’s $500 bill. Yet, not much is known about this mystical person, who led a band of former enslaved Africans in the rugged and remote interiors of Jamaica in their victory over the mighty British army during the early to mid-eighteenth century.
Most of what we know about Queen Nanny comes through Maroon oral history and folklore, and very little is written about her in historical texts. So, who was this herbal healer, prophetess, and African warrior queen? Conceived by award-winning Jamaican-born, American filmmaker, Roy T. Anderson, and history professor, Harcourt T. Fuller, this landmark one-hour documentary film, Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess unearths and examines this mysterious figure that is Queen Nanny of the Maroons.
About the middle of the 18th century, runaway enslaved Africans in the Americas and the Caribbean were generally referred to as Cimarronesor Maroons. In Jamaica, this group waged an 80-year military campaign that resulted in the defeat of the formidable British army. As a result, two peace treaties were signed in 1738/39 granting the Maroons territorial sovereignty in their remote mountainous strongholds, including what is now the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park.
Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess documents the struggle for freedom by the Jamaican Maroons, led by the indomitable military genius, ‘Grandy’ Nanny. A spiritual leader, skilled in the use of herbs and ‘guerilla warfare’ tactics, from her mountain stronghold at the source of the Stony River in the Blue Mountains, she directed the warfare that effectively neutralized the vaunted British firepower.
Nanny symbolizes the pride of today’s Caribbean women. In fact, Jamaica’s first female and former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, paid homage to Queen Nanny in her January 2012 inauguration speech, and continues to do so at every opportunity. And although Maroons, who all proudly proclaim to be Grandy Nanny’s ‘pickibo’ (children), are appreciative that she was named National Hero in 1976, to them her historical importance is such that she is seen as a powerful, living, breathing presence for almost three centuries.
Shot in Jamaica, Ghana, Canada, and the United States over the course of two years, the film features interviews and conversations with world-renowned scholars and present-day Maroons. We also engage a select group of women, to explore Queen Nanny’s impact on their lives, and how she has influenced them in their own pioneering work.
One of the highlights of the film is a historic 35-person expedition to the rugged hills of Old Nanny Town in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Legend has it that only the bravest Maroons or those “free of bad deeds” can safely venture up to this sacred spot where Nanny’s powerful spirit still inhabits. As we seek to uncover the history and legacy of Queen Nanny, her intriguing story is also told through songs, performances, poetry, narration, and a series of re-enactments.
Following on the heels of Akwantu: the Journey (2012), Anderson’s award-winning film on the history of the Jamaican Maroons, Queen Nanny:Legendary Maroon Chieftainess expands on the story of the New World’s first successful freedom-fighters by shedding light on to one of the leading figures in that struggle. This documentary also serves as a prelude to the dramatic telling of the epic story of this larger-than-life iconic persona.”
for more info, visit QueenNannyMovie.com