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coinandcandle · 8 months

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Paradigm Time! - What is a Paradigm?

TL;DR: Paradigms are how you make sense of magic and how it fits into the world in your experiences. They aren't right or wrong and they often change!

Paradigm: a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind

Note: There are a few different definitions of paradigm depending on the field you're talking about. In the case of magic, we are using the definition above.

Paradigms are essentially how you make sense of the world around you. In magic, these paradigms are ways in which someone understands magic, how it works, and how it is used in the world.

Other people have used words like “framework”, or “beliefs/belief system”. Whatever you call it is fine!

Paradigms can and often do change over time, maybe you used to believe “xyz”, but now you’re thinking more “abc”. This doesn't make everything that you did while you believed in “xyz” invalid, it just means you understand it differently now.

Since paradigms are basically belief systems, they are not factual and are not “right” or “wrong” they simply are. One person may disagree with another, who may disagree with someone else, who may have similar but slightly different experiences than another. More than anything else, paradigms are fluid.

Furthermore, paradigms are fluid not just within ourselves but within communities too!

Here’s an example:

Say everyone in x community generally agrees that crystals hold power. However, some may believe that crystals only hold power once charged, like how a cup can only hold water once filled. While others may believe there is an inherent power within the crystal. Others in turn might believe that some crystals hold power and others don’t. Yet they all still believe the paradigm that crystals hold power.

Now let’s take a few paradigms about correspondences as another example.

In one witch’s paradigm, they might be used as ingredients that hold inherent power. -> “I am using the magical properties inherent to basil to power my money jar.” In another, the correspondences are spirits that you petition to help power the magical working. -> “I am working with the spirit of basil and asking them to help with my money jar.” In another, the correspondences are offerings that you give to a spirit that you’re petitioning. -> “I am using basil as an offering to a spirit to help with my money jar.” In yet another the correspondences are spirits that you don’t even need to petition, their very presence influences the spell. -> “I’m using basil in this spell because the spirit of basil will help influence my money jar.”

Here are some other examples of paradigms:

Spirit-Working sorcery, where spirits are petitioned for aid, and the strength of workings tends to depend on the depth of the relationship developed with the spirit, and/or success in evoking them in that instance.

Thinking or focusing on your intent in your head is fine, writing it down is better, but speaking it aloud is best.

Energy is the battery of magic. Magic is the change caused by whatever you’re doing but energy is what powers that change, be it a spell, prayer, whatever.

Gods can be called upon and petitioned for help with a spell, but the relationship between the caster and the god will determine the strength of the spell or their willingness to help. Otherwise, you can try to appeal to them with offerings to make up for the lack of a relationship, though their help will still not be as strong as if there were a pre-existing relationship.

Inanimate objects do not have spirits, but animals, plants, fungi, and humans do.

Again, these are not universal paradigms, they are just examples. I honestly don't think there even is a universal paradigm when it comes to magic and witchcraft.

Thank you to @windvexer @friend-crow @stagkingswife and @rose-colored-tarot for your help in writing this post!

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thejournallo · 3 months

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Explain the basic: Spells, Hexes and Curses

As always, I will love to hear your thoughts! and if you have any questions, I will be more than happy to answer them! If you liked it, leave a comment or reblog (that is always appreciated!). if you are intrested in more method check the masterlist!

Discleimer: Don't start your journey as a witch by doing spells without knowing how to protect yourself.

It's important to note that the concept of spells, hexes, and curses can vary widely among practitioners. Some may follow positive and ethical paths, while others may engage in practices that involve more negative or harmful energies. Here's a general overview:

Spells:

Spells are rituals or actions performed with the intention of bringing about a specific result or change.

They can be categorized as positive (such as healing or protection spells) or negative (such as banishing or binding spells).

Spellwork often involves the use of herbs, crystals, candles, symbols, and spoken words to channel energy and focus intent.

Hexes:

A hex is typically considered a negative spell with the intent to cause harm or misfortune to the target.

Hexes are believed to work by manipulating energy to bring about negative consequences.

It's important to note that many practitioners follow the Wiccan Rede, which encourages the use of magic for positive purposes and advises against causing harm.

Curses:

Curses are similar to hexes but may be more severe or long-lasting.

They are often intended to bring about significant harm or suffering to the person targeted.

Some practitioners believe in the concept of the "Rule of Three," which suggests that any energy or intent sent out into the world, whether positive or negative, will return to the sender threefold.

I do follow the rule of three because everything comes back to you; as you sow so you shall reap. So be careful with any spell (or hexes or curses) because it may come back to you!

It's also important to approach the subject with respect and cultural sensitivity, as different traditions and individuals may have varying beliefs and practices. As with any belief system, there are diverse perspectives within the witchcraft community, and not all practitioners engage in hexes or curses.

what to do before you start a spell?

I will explain step-by-step how I prepare before any spell.

I clense my space.

I protect myself with a symbol or by praying to a god, which means that I am dedicating that spell to the specific god or asking for protection and guidance during the spell.

I prepare everything I need and clense it with smoke one by one.

The first thing I did was light up a white candle to keep track of the spell with the flame (I will do another post where I explain better how to read flames).

then I proceed to do my spell.

some other posts of basic things you should know before a spell:

healing, protecting, and grounding.

shielding and banishing

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the-clumsywitch · 1 year

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A piece of advice that might be helpful for people that are just starting their witchcraft journey is you really only "need" two books. One to teach you and one to inspire you. And these don't even have to be books that you own, there are plenty of books on magick & witchcraft at the library.

- Erika, The Clumsy Witch

#witch #the clumsy witch #witchblr #witch blog #witch community #witchy #spiritual #witchy vibes #witchcraft #magick #witchy books #learning witchcraft #new witches

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fromneptune-withlove · 1 year

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So, for funsies, I decided to hop in to WitchCon 2023, and just to see what all of the lessons and classes were about. It’s a weekend long thing that began with calling the quarters, ritual drumming, and a little (drunken) Q&A with the hosts, some of the presenters, and eventually the musicians.

Listening in on the Q&A was just absolute chefs kiss. Holy shit.

The drumming performance was also spectacular, and reminded me of when I went to Native American things with my family and there’d be the drumming and this man who was our family friend who’d be dancing and singing and telling stories. (This memory is very, very hazy, as I can’t remember much of anything from that period in time— but it was cool, nonetheless.)

Today brings loads of lessons throughout the day. I’m excited to learn~.

And I’ll probably make a summary post on Monday on all the things I’ve taken away from the Con! 🧚✨

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brizobituin · 1 year

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I should probably write something about the name change. For the first year and a half of my witchcraft journey, I was using my usual internet name as my witchy name (Xy Starlight). Mostly because I didn't know where my practice was going to take me. The past year or so has taught me a lot things spiritually and also mundanely! I've met some great witchy friends along the way and have learnt and absorbed so much. I also stayed in touch with my friends in person, fandom friends and friends from other corners of the internet. I feel like I've settled into my path. I know where I want to go and this marks, not necessarily a new era, but more of a snake shedding old skin. Still the same snake just shinier and a little tender. I'm ready to shake away the old and continue progressing and learning about the craft.

Thank you for reading and I look forward to continue updating everyone on my journey as a witch. Stellar regards, Brizo Bituin ✨

#witch community #witchcraft #witch names #witchy things #witches #witchblr #chaos witch #dream witch #dream witchcraft #folk witch #learning witchcraft #tech witch #witch #witch blog #witchcraft community #witchery #witches of the world #witches of tumblr #witchy

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themilophant · 2 years

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Last week's episode of the BS-Free Witchcraft podcast (follow @traegorn if you don’t yet!) came to the unavoidable conclusion that Tiktok is hostile to human life, which, unavoidable, yeah. But it got me thinking about social media and witchcraft slightly more carefully than my usual thought about social media and witchcraft, which is “don't.” And – I still pretty much think, “don't” – but we can dig a little deeper, I feel!

The obvious problem with social media, which I am not breaking any new ground by saying, is that it thrives on Engagement, which means that the reach of something that engages the limbic system is disproportionate to the reach of something that might be insightful or truthful or even useful, but feels dry. The more all-powerful the algorithm, the more this takes on a life of its own (literally, for all I know...), but the rules of Engagement are in effect all over the internet, with generally unpositive outcomes for Discourse in every field. (To clarify: I think the internet itself has a number of positive qualities and benefits for human flourishing, but all of that has to be weighed against the fact that the internet also operates as basically a 24/7/365 Propaganda Engine that pushes people to be ever more inflammatory and/or pandering in order to break through the background noise.)

In that sense, then, witchcraft isn't anything unusual – it's just another area of human activity that's undergoing the same stresses online as all the other areas of human activity. But I actually think there's a sense where witchcraft does suffer particularly acutely from this dynamic. To explain how I get to this conclusion, I kind of have to slam my hand down on the third rail, so here we go: What Is Witchcraft, Actually?

Look, long story short: I'm not going to come to your house and slap the mortar and pestle out of your hand, so if you think I'm full of shit on this, so be it, just keep on keeping on. I'm not the sheriff of the Craft and I wouldn't want the power to enforce this definition even if that were possible, but I am a guy who prefers to have some kind of sense of what a word means before I run around using it, so I've given the question a lot of thought for myself, and I have (quite cleverly! I'm clever!) distilled three elements that I feel like are sort of load-bearing pillars of the Craft that show up more or less throughout the various versions and generally distinguish them from other paths either of occultism or spirituality. I like to think of them as Eros, Gnosis, and Heresy (well, Hairesis if we wanted to keep the Greek conceit going, but I just say Heresy in my mind). There's no reason to go into all three at length here; I'm saying this just to lay the groundwork that I believe witchcraft isn't just incidentally heretical as defined by certain outside institutional forces, but that in fact practicing Heresy is foundational and required.

By “practicing heresy,” I don't mean that you have to do the opposite of whatever your parents do, or that I think Christians get to set the standard by which everything else is judged deviant. I think those are both mental traps that people fall into, but I mean something much simpler than that. I'm using etymology to root the English word “heresy” in the Greek word hairesis, meaning “a thing that's chosen” or “one's (essentially) free choice.” To be a heretic, merging the modern and root definition, is to be someone who has insisted on making a choice for themselves. I think the reason witches are notoriously so fractious and disorganized and so disinclined to cob together and do the same thing in either the short or the long term is that our very nature is to treat every single piece of received wisdom or authoritative pronouncement as a big maybe. If we choose it. If we agree. If it works for us.

I mock that phrase a lot, honestly, maybe more than I should. Ask any witch why they do things the way they do, and you have like an 80% chance of hearing “well, it works for me.” Which I love, in theory! I love the idea of us as a group of mad experimenters, putting everything to the test and accepting it only once it's proven to work for us. In practice, though, there's one major problem, which is: it works to do what for you? What kind of results are you getting? Hell, what kind of result do you want or expect from practicing witchcraft? The concrete markers of mundane flourishing: financial security, rewarding relationships, good health, good reputation? Creative inspiration? The power to know and to enact your True Will? Self-development – moral, psychological, spiritual? Psychic powers, insight into the nature of reality, mystic secrets? A sense of belonging to a cosmos that's enchanted, wondrous, meaningful? Surprisingly few of us can answer that question, and if we don't know what we're aiming at, of course we can't know if the things we do are getting us closer or further away – if those things are working for us at all.

I think that makes witches particularly susceptible to all the flaws of the social media attention economy. We want all the options, we are choosers of things, so we're hungry for input, information, ideas. But most of us are unable to practice the core skill of being good at heresy, which is discernment. We don't know which of our myriad of options are better or worse than the others, because we're mostly not consciously navigating toward anything in particular, except an unarticulated feeling of desire to be somehow more than we are, other than we are. And that's a deeply human desire! It's also one that most schools of philosophy or religions or spiritual practices will at least attempt to provide some form for. You feel an inarticulate longing for Not This? Great, here's what you really want, what will satisfy the deep restlessness of your soul, and here's how a person gets from here to there. Some of those roadmaps are more structured than others, but they tend to have some language around what the Not This is all about, where this road is taking you. And then you have some combination of texts and live mentorship and co-learning community and Tradition and your own discernment that all collaborate to help you figure out what's going to Work for you as you do the Work.

Those things aren't exactly absent from witchcraft – you can still read books and find teachers and join communities and learn from history and practice discernment. You can do all those things, and hopefully you hit on the particular combination of factors that, well, works for you to help you learn and advance. But witches, being a whole community full of people who are deeply, fundamentally inclined toward Heresy, do tend to not do that first part, the part where they tell you where you're going. You can go wherever you want! It's your path! Hell, I did it a few paragraphs ago: I reassured you that I wasn't trying to tell you what witchcraft means, because it's not my place to do that for you, only for me.

I don't think you can make witchcraft non-heretical in that sense, or make witches not a bunch of heretics ready to throw hands in defense of their right to choose their own path. I wouldn't want to! It's not a flaw, it's part of (in my humble opinion) our identity and our magic. But you take that and throw it in a vat of the internet's constant content, constant Hot Takes, constant ever-increasing competition for the limited resource of Attention and Engagement, and it's just fucking overwhelming. It's being lost in the wilderness with no map and no compass and told it's your privilege to build your own map and compass. Grateful as you may theoretically be for your freedom, the reality is you're going to walk in a lot of circles. And you're probably going to fall in with the first other person you run into who really seems to know where they're going.

My unpopular solution to this is – silence. It's time. It's spaciousness. It's asking a lot of questions. It's taking in a lot of ideas without attaching yourself too tightly to the first ones that feel good – it's giving yourself room to wonder why an idea feels good to you, if it's nourishing a real hunger for you, or if it's stroking your ego by echoing your biases back to you. It's spending a significant amount of time in a space of humility. It's loving questions at least as much as you love answers, or at the very least defeating your fear of doubt and uncertainty to some degree. None of these are things that social media will ever give you, and honestly the internet is going to get in the way of most of that for you. And when you are ready to make a Choice about your path, or at least the next leg of your path, the solution is to find guides who seem to be going somewhere that you would actually want to end up – in a real way, not just the ones who are good at curating an image that appeals to you. Which is a talent, yes, but once you learn everything there is to know about curating an image, my guess is you're going to feel like there should be more. And you'll be right.

#things said #learning witchcraft #witchcraft community

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serpentandthreads · 5 months

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Some of y'all are a little too quick to condemn Chrsitians and claim the Church stole everything from ancient pagans while simultaneously jumping to the defensive as soon as you're confronted with the fact that a huge chunk of trendy/modern witchcraft and spiritual practices are appropriated from closed practices and religions. Or while y'all somehow manage to misappropriate things from open/semi-open practices and religions.

#witchblr #witchcraft #witch community #folk magic #witches of tumblr #folk witch #serpentandthreads #some of y'all need to learn what syncreticism is and how it happens

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grey-sorcery · 7 months

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New to witchcraft? Awesome! Here's some things that you should avoid:

Divine [insert gender] or Sacred [insert gender]

Wicca (Especially "Wicca is ancient" bs)

Anything from Lewellyn Publishing

Visualization used as if it was energy work

Godphoning (talking to a deity for someone else, especially when it's non-consensual)

Spirit Animals

Spirit Shops

Spirit impreg

"Raising/higher Vibrations"

Contemporary/Western Reiki

New Age / Age of Aquarius

"Ascended Masters"

"Reptilians" (Aliens/pre-human terrestrials)

Emerald Tablets

Theosophy

New Thought

Anything related to Aleister Crowley

The Kybalion

"One True Way"

Witchcraft requiring a womb

"Men can't be witches" (Especially if they include trans women in this statement)

The Law of Attraction/Assumption

Spells purely with correspondences (Most spell candles/jars)

Appropriation (Dreamcatchers, Lilith, "Qabalah" or non-Jewish Kabbalah, Chakras, Kundalini, Yoga, Western Druidry, White Sage, voodoo, Hoodoo, etc outside of appropriate cultural context.)

"Black" or "White" magic

"Fae Council"

Claims of being a changeling

"Witchcraft requires sacrifice"

"Blood magic makes spells more powerful"

Reality Shifting

Magic/theology that requires self-harm

"Coven" (Especially if it's online)

If you see anyone endorsing anything on this list that is highlighted red, BLOCK THEM immediately.

#learn witchcraft #witch tips #baby witch #baby witch tips #beginner witch #witchcraft 101 #witchcraft community #wicca #pagan #spiritual awakening #spirituality

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tenofmuses · 7 months

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I just saw a TikTok just now about “how to become a witch,” with a list of steps for beginners to follow. The first two things on the list were to buy books on witchcraft, and then to buy a bunch of materials. So here’s me reminding you that you don’t need to buy anything to become a witch. Sure, buying the tools is fun and all, but it isn’t a requirement to getting started. Witchcraft is a spiritual practice, not a consumerist hobby.

#I would also argue that it’s easier for beginners to grow in their practice when they aren’t bogged down by materials that they #don’t understand yet #I can make a guide later on some free stuff beginners can do to start learning #but spending a bunch of money on tools when you aren’t sure what sort of practice you’ll be drawn towards seems unnecessary #wish I would’ve known this when I was starting out and worried that I couldn’t be a witch because I was too broke #witchcraft #witchblr #baby witch #beginner witch #em rambles

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klainegifs · 5 months

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Klaine + the (sometimes strangely) significant role that arts and crafts play in their relationship

#it took hours of witchcraft and the learning of a couple new skills to get the box scene looking halfway decent #just doing my best here lol #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #klaine #misc.#klaine misc.#glee #~

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thecastironcrow · 1 year

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What it's like trying to learn about the Occult

Trying to learn more about the occult is so intimidating. I am trying to gather as much knowledge as I can, but there is so much reading material. Like for most other western religions it's "𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬. 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴." But for the occult it's "𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺. 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳."

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coinandcandle · 11 months

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Coin's New Witch Research List

New to witchcraft? Feeling overwhelmed? Don’t know where to start? I’ve got you covered! This is a list of things I personally think are worth checking out when first getting into witchcraft.

Most of these are my own posts, so please keep in mind that they are often subject to my personal opinions and experiences. Feel free to take inspiration from the topics of the posts for your personal research list.

Basics

Magical Misconceptions

Intention and Magic

Definitions in Modern Magical Context

5 Forms of Divination

Wheel of the Year: A Comprehensive Guide

Types of Altars (ask)

Coin’s Research Tips

Witchy Red Flags

Deity Work

Tips for Discernment by @will-o-the-witch

Spell Crafting

Spell Types - Physical types of spells.

Anatomy of a Spell - What a spell needs to be a spell. Plus the Anatomy of a Spell infographic.

Questions for Spell Crafting - Questions to ask yourself when crafting a spell.

7-Day Spell Creation Practice - Practice for spell creation.

Spell Oils - Simple way to make spell oils.

Hex vs Curse - The difference between a hex and a curse.

History

Origin of Tarot

Angel Numbers and Pythagorean Numerology

Familiar Spirits and the Witches’ Familiar

Misc

Elemental Magic

Astrology

Herbal Correspondences - Focus on five to ten to start out, then go from there.

Crystal/rock Correspondences - Same as herbals, start small

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#witchblr #beginner witch #new witch #witchcraft #learning witchcraft

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cassiepotter · 5 months

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no but imagine witch!reader and farmer!james.

your cottage is down the road from his sheep pen so you naturally begin having little chats as he goes past. when he offhandedly mentions how one of his cows is sick, the next day he returns smiling and tells you that the vet said she's perfectly healthy now.

you notice that his wheat fields look a bit droopy, and a week later the entire farm looks green and lush.

and when it turns to winter and he gets a cold, you invite him in for tea and by the time he leaves your house, he's no longer sniffling.

and then it's you in your room enchanting crystals and burning herbs for health and abundance with his name carved into every candle. doing spells for lust and attraction with the strongest sigils and runes you know.

#james potter #farmer!james #farmer!james potter #cottagecore #james potter x reader #james potter x y/n #witchcraft #witch!reader #this is because im learning witchcraft again #this isnt my fault #the voices told me that witch reader was real #the voices #witchcore #witches

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the-clumsywitch · 1 year

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This just feels accurate lol

#witch #the clumsy witch #witchblr #witch blog #witch community #witchy #witchy vibes #witchcraft #magick #learning #sleeping

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poisonnxkki · 1 year

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Mistakes I Made In The Beginning Of My Practice🦋

What Makes Something a Mistake?

How do we define a mistake? How do we know when we've messed up? These were questions that haunted me in the beginning of my practice. I was overly worried about doing things wrong and having to pay the price for those mess ups. The uncertainty of it all made me really hesitant to start experimenting in my craft. I would later come to terms with the fact that mistakes are inevitable, but as a beginner I was definitely intimidated.

The truth is, I'm not really sure there's a surefire way to know if something is a mistake until we've messed up. Spell work can be tricky in the sense that we often define our own parameters of success. This means that a spell can be failure to one person and a success to another based on their personal views of what success means. If a spell has consequences that we don't intend it to have or manifests in a way we weren't expecting, does that constitute as a failure? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. In my opinion the best way to determine if something's a mistake is to mess up. You won't know until things go wrong.

How I Rectify Mistakes:

To start, remember mistakes are inevitable. We can't avoid them and we shouldn't try to. Sometimes spell work isn't going to manifest in the way we were expecting. Sometimes our spells are going to force us to confront uncomfortable truths or set boundaries in order to get what we want, and there may be no other way around that. This is a reality that we should strive to accept rather than avoid.

But what happens when we actually do mess up? How do we go about fixing what we've done? I follow a few guidelines which help me determine what my next steps should be and hopefully these are helpful for you too.

Determine what has happened and if the spell is influencing the situation- the effects of some spells are relatively short lived so if the spell isn't currently influencing the situation then you're on damage control (and a good cleansing should be enough). However, some spells (often spells that are contained within a vessel or are tethered to you) need to be undone first.

Cleanse or banish- depending on the type of spell you may feel like cleansing just isn't enough. If that's the case, doing a banishment of the effects/energy of your previous spell should do the trick.

Mundane over magical- the effects of spell work often show up in our daily lives so taking the time to fix/heal from life events is super important.

Reflect- it's important to try and understand exactly what went wrong. Were you specific enough? What ingredients did you use? What order? What did your petition say (if you used one)? Where was your mind when you were casting? Going over how you did the spell can be helpful when determining what went wrong. It's important to reiterate that sometimes our spells are going to force us to confront uncomfortable truths or set boundaries in order to get what we want. Something that feels like a mistake now, could play an important role in you getting what you want later on so keep that in mind.

Mistakes I've Made:

I've talked about this before but I once did self-love spell for myself and a group of friends. This was fine, my mistake was trying to do them at the same time. I ended up accidentally binding myself to all of them. Months later we had a major falling out, which inevitably ended our friendship and was especially difficult on me. I was sick for several days and ended up doing several chord cutting spells to rectify the situation.

I was struggling with severe anxiety a few years ago and decided to do a spell to help with it. The problem was that I didn't define what I wanted from the spell. I kinda just said "no more anxiety" and lit the flame. When doing this spell, social situations had been the driving force behind my anxiety. However, it became health related after this spell. I should have been more clear in my intention when doing that spell but more importantly, I should have known that there is no "easy" fix for anxiety.

My first baneful protection was a blunder because it didn't work. I was nervous about messing up, which caused me to. Something I find influences baneful protections are boundaries (and our ability to set them). If you can't set boundaries in the physical world, then you aren't going to be able to set them energetically (in my personal opinion). I was an absolute pushover in relationships. I let people take advantage of my kindness and had trouble putting my foot down. My energy reflected that and the baneful protection did absolutely nothing, it was both a waste of ingredients and time.

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beastrambles · 1 year

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I think part of what irks me about the modern Witchcraft community is how strictly people have taken to "following the rules," ex. "You MUST do X, Y, Z for this to work", "Here is exactly how to do [insert thing here]", "This is what this Symbol means according to this one Book from this One Dead Guy", etc.

Honestly, get out of my face.

I understand wanting a starting place for your practices, I get it, really, but a majority of the information I have seen lately is just the same bland 'instructions' and bare bones information copy & pasted and treated as law. It's dull. It's boring.

No one is going to arrest you for trying something different, I promise. And if anyone gives you shit, bite them.

#obv this does NOT apply to closed cultures #respect those and dont even think about touching those practices with a stick #rambles #salt #witch #witchblr #pagan #witchcraft #occult #paganism #learn your history and information from credible sources

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