felidae-sapiens:

cannibalcoalition:

You do not need to believe in a God or Goddess to be a witch. You do not need to believe in the Threefold Law. You do not need to belong to a coven, and you do not need anyone else’s approval.

And what you define as witchcraft is up to you as well!

I dislike this.

This is an attempt to take all substance from witchcraft, the word becomes meaningless and empty. If a person comes to me and says ‘so your a witch huh? What do you do?’ and I explained myself by saying ‘I just call myself a witch’ then… what is witchcraft? It would be dead, it would be a fandom and a scene.

The idea that you can do anything you want and call it witchcraft is cute and empowering to people who need that. A lot of damaged people become interested in the craft and they need all the support they can get. Shits like me are bad for folks who just need acceptance - I mistakenly believe they actually want to become good at magik -  So I have learnt to shut up and let people play their little pat each other on the back game.

This is too far though, it is hard enough to convince people that witchcraft is a legitimate belief and I am not role playing harry potter without this abuse, this assault on my faith. It is an attack. You are attempting to invalidate The Craft.

Why invalidate me, my faith and the title I use for myself?

Even if in your brain you know that the things you call laws are actually guidelines that are only true so long as they are relevant, by using the word rule or law you are cementing the idea in your belief system.

Cement doesn’t move or change. If you want to grow then choose flexibility. If you want to cease then become rigid.

Here is an idea about how magik works. Its called ‘the law of x’ and it means blah blah. Now using this rule you can view other magikal ideas and draw pre-mature conclusions with confidence, these pre-mature conclusions will also become fixed, supported by he previous incomplete ideology.

Soon you will be in a position where you are unable to deal with questioning. Rather than being an opportunity to grow and learn questioning will be a threat to your house of cards built on pre-mature conclusions. A prison of cards that you will have built yourself.

I visited the peak district today. While being driven through glorious British country side I looked out across the rolling hills, moors, rivers and other landscape and felt a great surge in energy, which I always do, and I drank deeply from it, which I always do.

All the things I experience exist as part of me. When you and I interact our experiences mesh and we each come away with a part of the other; changed. The same thing happens to the land, which in some perspectives might just be a symbol of the game board we have all agreed on. I look out across it and pollinate it with my ideas and thoughts of what the world should be like, we all do. So it grows and lives alongside us rather than becoming some forgotten stagnant set of black and white squares: obsolete to the technologically obsessed.

It’s okay to use lard if you don’t want to ruin your kitchen by rendering pig fat. I use lard. I make a candle out of lard with a small amount of animal blood mixed in and a strip of the poppets cloth wrapped around the wick. (I haven’t yet experimented with just the cloth as wick.)

Create the poppet in the light of this candle.

The body should be stitched out of 1 piece of cloth. Apparently there is a way to wrap a square piece so that it is in the shape of a person and needs only a hole to be tied up, but I haven’t figured this out with any satisfaction.

The filling should be neutral or relevant. The relevance can be to the target, I prefer the relevance to be the intended affects. To control someones thoughts I would use a herbal mix with lavender in it for example. I usually include earth or sand in the mix. A small amount of the lard mix should be placed in the dolls heart.

Keep these two items together. The candle should burn when you are using the poppet.

After lots of feedback from people who have used snail shells for positive results and some more detailed information from Rosesgrowamongviolets I am prepared to do further experimenting with snails shells.

Upon reaching this conclusion I made a visit to the shrine of one of my spiritual allies and lo! an empty snail shell rested there.

walkingthehedge:

Ha. I found a bunch of these in a box as I was sorting in the basement last week and gave them to Grey.

rosesgrowamongviolets:

Good for use in the following spells:

• Slow it down
• Take it easy
• New Home
• Safe Home

Clean thoroughly before use. Allow to dry out completely before using and take care to wash hands after handling. Charge in sunlight or earth. 

Not for consumption. 

cicadinae:

Reblogging because BUG MAGIC.

cultofthedead said:

eek. Snails aren’t like hermit crabs. They only leave their shells when they die; And don’t they just die horrifically? Withering in the sun, unable to move from poison, frothing madly in a failed attempt to keep the ants at bay, their ineffective shell pierced and smashed by predatory birds and ruthlessly crushed or thrown as high and hard as possible by gardeners and children.

All in all, I will only attribute snails shells to curses. A colleague of mine used them for protection of a friend (who then immediately entered emergency care with an undiagnosed problem) and I experimented further by placing some snails shells on canes out the front of the house (lost my job within a week.)

rosesgrowamongviolets said:

I’m going to address this because it shows how personal associations are so fucking important. They really are. Personal associations reign far over what any book or chart will give you. 

For this person death, any death, is horrible and anything taken from something in death is only good for cursing.

In my case, I know that my mother does not use pesticides on her garden. That means that the only way that snail could have died was by the natural order of things. Since the shell was completely vacant, it was likely plucked out and likely by a raccoon. While that has no real bearing on my using it, it usually puts another’s mind at ease. 

But not for this person. I imagine they do not use commercially prepared (since they indicated a “horrible death” as what bothered them) seashells, pearls, coral, feathers, bones, or anything that came from anything that ever died. And there is nothing wrong with that. What is important is that is how they associate it. 

So once again, even in those big fat books and all the famous grimoires, if the association doesn’t sit well with you, either by philosophy or experience, don’t follow it. 

If by this person you mean me, then kind of but not really. At all actually. That is quite a leap to make without first perusing my blog to back up the opinion. All my witchcraft is taken from death. Stop imagining my opinion and whether something bothers me or not, do a spell with snails shells on your self and (or if you have already done this *just*) report the results.

Personal associations aside, I also shared experience and an associates experience. Bear in mind the associates personal association was that the snails shells were regenerative and protective and it made no difference to the outcome.

Has anyone one reading this successfully used snails shells in a way that didn’t end the way you would expect a curse too? If so, please tell me how. I am only interested in learning and helping others learn.

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walkingthehedge:

Ha. I found a bunch of these in a box as I was sorting in the basement last week and gave them to Grey.

rosesgrowamongviolets:

Good for use in the following spells:

• Slow it down
• Take it easy
• New Home
• Safe Home

Clean thoroughly before use. Allow to dry out completely before using and take care to wash hands after handling. Charge in sunlight or earth. 

Not for consumption. 

cicadinae:

Reblogging because BUG MAGIC.

eek. Snails aren’t like hermit crabs. They only leave their shells when they die; And don’t they just die horrifically? Withering in the sun, unable to move from poison, frothing madly in a failed attempt to keep the ants at bay, their ineffective shell pierced and smashed by predatory birds and ruthlessly crushed or thrown as high and hard as possible by gardeners and children.

All in all, I will only attribute snails shells to curses. A colleague of mine used them for protection of a friend (who then immediately entered emergency care with an undiagnosed problem) and I experimented further by placing some snails shells on canes out the front of the house (lost my job within a week.)

The more you put into a spell, blah blah. So candle magik ought to involve a bit more than just rubbing a candle with some oil before lighting it.

Take three candles and melt them. This is easily done in a pan in pan of boiling water. Reform these three candles into one.

Do this three times in total.

Reform the resulting candles into one as before. Now you have a SUPER CANDLE.

What symbols you etch into the candles at each stage what colours, scents or other reagents you add and when, what reagents you dip the wicks in. These things are what make the spell yours and work for you. Will you dip the candles or mold them?

Please not that at each stage of melting down the candles will lose paraffin, which is added to standard candles to increase the brightness of the flame and shorten the burn time.

faith-and-the-craft:

How do you know what you experience is real?

I’m not trolling here. tl;dr, in the past I have been gaslighted into oblivion & I doubt everything & I’m really struggling with this.

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You need to break everything in order to be free of doubt.  There is no way to validate any experience, I can only accept what I perceive. Perception is based on deletion, distortion and generalisation. There are many messages from the environment which are simply deleted because you do not need to think about them such as how many blades of grass are in a field, the sound of the fridge humming, the feeling of your foot. You can feel your foot attached, but since the messages are not important at this moment they are deleted.

When a person speaks and you hear only select things, people actually delete words from a sentence if they don’t make sense or if the person disagrees (but doesn’t want to.) They change the meanings of words to fit their world view. That is distortion, ever wondered how people seem to deliberately misunderstand what you are saying? It’s not you at fault, they are simply receiving a different message to the one you are sending. If you want them to get the right message you have to change the information so that they distort it in the right way.

Speaking of distortion, people with emotional and mental ‘handicaps’ see and hear very different things from you, a person who hallucinates is definitely convinced of what they see. The reason these people are considered disable is because their perceptions and reactions are rejected by the majority, so finding someone to agree with you is your strongest evidence of reality. (Perhaps this is why spirit work is so hard to believe, because the majority have no aptitude for it.)

Generalising is most blatantly used when we present information, it is an excellent method of communication for leaders to use because the masses distort it to mean what they want to hear. An example of generalising received information is the difference between the way you see a knife and chef sees a knife, the way a carpenter views a wooden chair, the way an environment conservationist sees a woodland.

You could be locked in a padded room creating every single day in your head, including this text. Better to accept the information you think you are receiving than reject it on the basis of other peoples projected reality. Other people are always wrong.

herbalrog:

Wait a sec. Why aren’t runes okay? Forgive me I’m new. (Answer on private because my dash goes 1000000000 miles an hour and I’ll never see it if you don’t)

They’re a Nordic alphabet that, when used magically or in magical workings, or in ways that are essentially inherently…

As a British Witch I use them outside of Norse context, from my understanding they came from Britain.

Odin travelled to the land of the dead to learn the runes, in the same way that all cultures have death initiation and many European groups sent their elders to Britain to learn. Britain is the land of the dead.

It is also the land of giants. Germanic mythology involves war with the giants (whom they also learnt magik from) and in actual history they were at war with Britain. British mythology involves more tales of giants than any other, British people were much taller than others such as the invading Italians and Isaac newtons quote is around the 2 pound coin, ‘standing on the shoulders of giants.’

The above is a couple of highlights rather than the whole case, many small indicators and the collation of lots of information from lots of sources has led me to this position.

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