Offerings?

I haven't given an offering to anything for 14 years at least. The last time I gave one, I was a Christian and it was money to the preacher man. I believed in a god then. I don't know what to believe these days, but I chose an open mind and heart.

I baked a spice cake. What you see above is the top part I carved off to make it flat. I will offer this up to nature in the morning and place upon it my intentions to be carried off by the birds and the squirrel.

It just feels like the right thing to do.

Tomorrow I plan on doing a chamomile tea cleanse of my home. I tried to drink some, and while it was very strong in aroma and flavorful, I couldn't stand to drink it. To me, it was like drinking perfume. Maybe I'll try it again mixed with Green tea, but only just a little.

I plan on brewing this strong tea, and with my intent, use it to cleanse around my windows and door frames to protect my home from any negativity from entering my home. Be they thoughts, intentions, or entities, they are not welcome across my thresholds.

I might not enjoy drinking it, but I can't bare to not have a use for it when it's all said and done.

Weed Magik?

I'm on day two of a 3 day spell. It's just a little sigil/candle/incense magic I'm working on. Something simple. It's all I really need.

.I decided to incorporate a bit of weed into the magical vapor concoction. I would never have thought on my own to use marihuana in spell work (beyond just having a buzz while casting a spell), but I'm glad to have stumbled upon it.

I'm learning some interesting things while doing my studies. I never thought of magical breath as being a thing. Add in the extra layer of cleaning or imbuing the ganja onto the spell to help with intents and the like, was something I enjoyed doing.

Now I just let the candle burn as long as the incense does. I'll most likely breath more magic breath into it at least one more time before it's through.

I wonder what other ways can I bring weed into magic like this I wonder what other ganja tips for magic there are to discover.

I know there is more I wanted to write about when this post first started. It just hit me man. I gotta chill and make this spell manifest. Time to feed it my power and meditate it into being.

Samhain and Hecate

Hello. It's been a bit longer between posts than I intended. I had a lot going on with my move and overtime every day at work. I'm moved in, but still have a lot to do.

The move did cause a hold up in my usual celebration for Halloween. In fact I still have three pumpkins to carve. I've yet to get all my Halloween decorations out of my boxes, and I didn't get to do any spell work to pay my respects to the dead.

I am going to get a black Christmas tree this year however. I can use it for Halloween and for Yule/Christmas, but I digress.

Since I have decided that in this stage of my life I am going to embrace my calling to witchcraft, that means a switch up in how I celebrate holidays...and standing up for myself in these things.

I'll talk about Yule/Christmas/what the heck do I do this year??? post for later. I want to move onto Hecate and why the heck is she whispering in my ear?

I'm new to this. I didn't even know who the hell she was (I still don't to be really quite frank with you) but she started to just show up before my eyes. Strictly speaking as an agnostic atheist, that is kinda throwing me for a loop.

In what little I know, she is not a deity for a new witch to be working with (I think), but now that I'm intrigued, I could at least learn a thing or two for when I am ready. I mean, to do otherwise would be rude. Don't you think?

Generally speaking, I'm making tiny little steps forward in the craft. VERY TINY. I don't want to overwhelm myself and lose sight of why I'm doing this in the first place. There is a lot to learn. I lot of history. And, for me at least, a bit of a crooked path.

Exercise 1: Personally Defining Traditional Witchcraft

To give some context to the title you see here, it’s an exercise question in the book I’m reading titled, ‘The Crooked Path An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft’ by Kelden. And because I have other things to say in this post, and I know my answer to this isn’t going to be substantial, I’ll answer now. I don’t know.  I honestly don’t really know at this point what is traditional witchcraft, and I don’t think I will for a while yet.  I mean it is the beginning of the book after all, and the beginning of the craft for me. 

I guess I can get into what the meat of this post is for me.  I’m just starting out in the craft seriously. I’ve always been drawn to the craft and the occult for as long as I can remember, but wasn’t allowed to delve into it much due to being in a Christian home. I would sneak a book here and there in my teenage years, but then would feel guilty and toss it away thanks to the self thought policing I was taught in church. 

In my mid twenties, I became an Atheist. I was angry as a lot of atheists' are when they leave Christianity like I did. So I still policed myself against the craft when I’d buy a book or delve into a curiosity by telling myself that it was foolish and that magic and such isn’t real. 

I’m not going to get into very much more than that right now. I think this is more than enough.  I just wanted to establish my journaling here for now.  I don’t see myself posting a lot at first.  but I will at least try too when I come to another exercise in my book. 

I just wanted it to be known that while it isn’t really my first experience with the craft, it is the first time in my life that I’ve decided to actually pursue it’s knowledge fully and without pushing it at bay.  I’ve decided to have it be a real part of my life.  I am years behind where I should be, and I always will be.  My path has always been slow and winding, but I’ve accepted that it’s just the nature of my being to be that way. And so, here I am, a (sort of) new witch on my path to discovery.