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Lucy’s Star Dresses + Official Art
You can vote for your favorite star dress here! ^_^
(I hope we see the Capricorn one very soon. *_* )
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Nightmare Tips
Use relaxation strategies pre-bedtime to decrease the fear and anxiety associated with the “anticipation” of nightmares/inability to sleep.
If awoken by a nightmare:
Turn on a light and move to a different part of the room or bed
Get out of bed if you can’t fall back asleep and read, or do some other form of self-soothing or relaxing activity.
Get an ice pack or ice water and use for at least ten minutes to decrease arousal level that interferes with getting back to sleep (TIP).
Use grounding materials to be mindful (i.e., cat purring, worry rock)
Imagery Re-Scripting And Rehearsal:
Write down a new dream that you would like to have, and then practice the new dream (making it as dreamlike as possible) twice a day for 3 minutes. Any intrusive/negative images should be stopped immediately - not rehearsed. After a couple of weeks, the nightmares will dramatically decrease in frequency.
Breathing Exercise:
Breathe in, saying to yourself “Mindfully breathing…”
Breathe out, saying, “Letting go of distressing images…”
Repeat this for 10 minutes or more, especially when going to sleep.
Bedtime Script:
Say to yourself: I may awaken in the night feeling ____ (name of anticipated feeling, usually fear), and will be sensing in my body ____ (describe 3 or more bodily sensations) because I will be remembering ____ (‘title’ of trauma - no details). At the same time, I will look around, where I am now ____ (current location) in ___ (current year, date), and I will see ____ (describe some of the things that are present in current location around bed and room), so I will know ____ (‘title’ of trauma) is not happening now/anymore.
Grounding:
When awakened from a nightmare, turn on the light and:
Name 5 things you see, 5 things you hear, 5 things you feel
Name 4 things you see, 4 things you hear, 4 things you feel
Name 3 things you see, 3 things you hear, 3 things you feel
Name 2 things you see, 2 things you hear, 2 things you feel
Name 1 thing you see, 1 thing you hear, 1 thing you feel
Repeat as many times as you’d like
Disclaimer: BB does not own the above material. It was taken from Alyssa’s personal DBT notes. The author is unknown. No copyright infringement intended.
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Here’s some advice I had about sigils, a fun and accessible way to make your life more magical! There was a lot I wanted to say so I hope it’s not too wordy.
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Herbs and Spices at Barley Hall by alh1 at Flickr.
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shipping-the-gods:
justyour-averagewitch:
wrachhud:
pigcatapult:
lawfulgoodness:
char-portraits:
heroineimages:
and-beastly:
ronandhermy:
zenosanalytic:
chazkeats:
autisticenjolras:
hades isn’t a badass. hades named his three-headed-guard-of-the-underworld-dog spot. hades whispers to his flowers to make them grow. hades grows fruit. there’s no sun in the underworld.
hades isn’t a badass. stop saying this false thing
#hades probably double knots his laces
In myth, Hades’ most remarked upon traits are 1) how responsible/reliable he is, 2) how sober-minded he is, 3) how dedicated, implacable, and long-remembering he is, and 4) how boring and grim most of the other Olympians think he is to be around. Oh and notably, that if you play him a song he likes, he’ll basically give you anything you ask for (though not without conditions.)
Hades is, canonically, a gigantic nerd. If they’d had train sets, he’d have been the Olympian who collected train sets, meticulously corrected with exacto knife and hobby-paints the errors toy-makers introduced to those train sets, and then endlessly talked about those train sets to anyone sat next to him at thanksgiving dinner (when he wasn’t trying to rope them into an interminable discussion about gardening or divine law, that is.)
He’s the sort of god who frequently handed out punishment like giving someone a million-piece puzzle where every piece is shaped the same, that resets itself at the start of every day if you don’t complete it, and then he keeps the last piece on his person at all times as a secret private joke for eternity because he finds you personally distasteful (not even because he’s mad at you or hates you particularly; he just doesn’t like you as a person)
He is. A. Gigantic. Nerd.
He’s also like one of the only gods who is faithful to his wife. And he listens to her like when she asks for a soul to be released and he’s like “But honey, the rules.” And she just gives him that look and he goes “Yes dear,” and lets the soul go with the easiest freaking instructions ever in a myth. And the human still fucks it up. Not his fault Persephone, not Hades’ fault this time.
Essentially, Hades is sorta like the accountant suburban dad who collects really specific figurines and gets really grumpy when people mess up his lawn. Do you know how hard his wife worked on those roses? He is calling his attorney. Oh wait, he is also an attorney.
anonllama you’ve probably seen this before but oh well~
Of Chronos’s sons, I always felt like Hades was probably the least ignoble. Modern portrayals of him as being synonymous with the devil are ignorant and prejudiced–and probably somehow the Victorians’ fault.
Aww, those poor Victorians get blamed for everything. :)
Hades/Pluto has been conflated with the christian Devil/Satan/Lucifer since late antiquity. It’s very common to turn an old god into a demon so that the new god can take over, and the distinction between ruler of Hades and ruler of Hell is soon lost. This goes on through the Middle Ages, with Hades taking aspects of the Devil and vice versa. In the Divine Comedy, Pluto presides over the 4th Circle of Hell.
The nuance of the original myth resurfaces during the Renaissance and later Romanticism (early Victorians included), with the rediscovery and idealization of all things Greco-Roman. The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice becomes wildly popular, and Hades stops looking like a bad copy of Satan. However, he’s still associated with death (duh), and therefore the macabre (“the Night’s Plutonian shore” and all that).
(Meanwhile, it was another maligned deity that was vilified by Christianity, idealized by classicism, and then sent back to hell by the Victorians: Pan. Arthur Machen wrote “The Great God Pan” in 1890, identifying him with the Devil himself. Of course, in all likelihood, Pan and similar deities were the reason why the devil got horns and cloven hooves in Christian folklore in the first place.)
But Hades wasn’t out of the frying pan yet. In the 20th century, new mass media would draw extensively from Greco-Roman mythology. Unfortunately, its nuances were utterly lost in the Heroes Vs Villains structure. In 1926, the Italian film “Maciste all'inferno” would feature a very old trope: the Underworld is Hell, and Pluto is the Devil.
In 1969, the hilarious “Hercules in New York” (Schwarzenegger’s first appearance) features Pluto as one of the villains. The trend continues all the way to Disney’s “Hercules”, “Xena”, and “Clash of the Titans”. Basically, unless it’s an ambitious Orpheus adaptation, whenever Hades appears on film or television, he’s the Bad Guy ™.
Superhero comics had a similarly slanted approach. Marvel’s Pluto is introduced in 1966 as a scheming supervillain who wants to overthrow Zeus. And DC’s Hades in the “Justice League” TV series is yet again portrayed as the devil, goatee and everything.
The last dishonorable mention goes to Dungeons & Dragons. In “Deities & Demigods”, the Greek pantheon gets stats and alignment entries, and Hades is Neutral Evil. D&D settings are traditionally based on the concept of opposing cosmic forces, so poor Hades gets stuck with the Evil part.
…And that’s exactly how Greek mythology does NOT work.
Hades, this much maligned chthonic deity, Lord of the Underworld or Persephone’s (the actual ruler’s) Consort, is depicted carrying a scepter, grains and seeds and flowers, a horn of plenty. Not a bloody pitchfork. He is feared, to the extent that humans fear death, but he’s also admired as a wise and just ruler, respected for preserving the natural order, and worshipped for his fertility aspect.
To understand him we must first understand his realm, and how it was perceived. Hades, the underworld, is nothing like hell. While eternal punishment/reward exists, it is reserved for exceptionally vile or virtuous mythical figures, it’s not the afterlife anyone fears or aspires to. Unlike the Christian Hell, the prospect of Tartarus is never used as a cudgel to scare people into conforming with the divine law.
Hades is where the Shades of the dead reside. It’s a grim and bleak place, as death is the antithesis of life: no joy, no desire, no memory, no purpose. And no torment, either. There’s nothing deliberately mean about it, and it’s the great equalizer. It sucks for Achilles just as it sucks for the lowliest peasant. In fact, Achilles’s shade in the Odyssey declares he would much rather be a humble servant above ground than king of kings among the dead.
Essentially, Hades is a cosmic reminder that this life, here on earth, is all we really have. It’s an incentive to cherish life, an imperative to embrace it fully and love it passionately. In a strange way, the greatest gift of the god of death is an uncompromising lust for life. Because it ends.
Reblogging for Lawful Neutral Hades.
Lawful Neutral Hades is best Hades.
Just read it all
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SOMEONE SAID IT~
SAID ALL OF IT
@cywscross - because this seems like something you might like
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A quick and dirty chart to tarot cards and their common meanings. Be open to different interpretations of these words. Researching deeper into the meaning of each card is recommended if things are still unclear, or these definitions aren’t jiving with you.
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Floral Tea Magic 💐✨
there are plenty of ways to work to work a little magic into your day without doing a full on ritual, and your daily (hourly?) tea is one of them! here’s just a couple of suggestions with flowers and their correspondences.
chamomile - for banishment, love, purification, sleep, and wealth.
dandelion root - for divination and wishes.
hibiscus - for divination, love, and lust.
peach blossom - for fertility, good wishes, longevity, protection, wisdom
jasmine - for love and wealth.
rose - for divination, fortune, healing, love, protection, and psychic abilities.
elderflower - for joy, protection, prosperity, health and psychic awareness
lavender - for chastity, happiness, love, peace, protection, and purification.
marjoram - for happiness, healing, love, protection, and wealth.
of course, this is not to say you should go out and start picking flowers for your tea! telling plants apart can sometime take an experienced, discerning eye, and it would be unfortunate if anyone tried to make tea with something like poison ivy or poison oak. unless you have knowledge in this area, it may be best to stick by store-bought teas.
herbal tea magic ✨ fruit tea magic ✨ general tea magic
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the worst thing about writing is that you aren’t just a writer. you have to be a thousand things. a poet, a flirt, a weapons expert, a bleeding heart, a scholar, a legendary cook, a theorist, an engineer, a reckless teenage girl, a dying god. you have to be able to write monologues and speeches and heartfelt confessions, and you have to make them believable. writing is putting yourself into someone else’s shoes.
writing is really hard (◕︿◕✿)
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Hogwarts Curriculum - Herbology
Divination/ Defence Against the Dark Arts/ Transfiguration/ Potions/ Charms/ Astronomy/ History of Magic/ Care of Magical Creatures/ Arithmancy/ Ancient Runes/ Muggle Studies
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30 Things You Can Add to Your Art Journal
Art journals can be decorated, simple, planned out, spontaneous, and a great outlet for stress. Here are some ideas for you to add to your own art journal.
1. Collage. Using magazines, newspapers, old books, posters, prints off the internet, you can make fabulously artistic pages.
2. Sew-on Decor. Instead of using glue, Mod Podge, or tape, try using thread to sew pictures onto the pages. It will give it a vintage, textured look.
3. Tea Stain. If you take a tea bag and steep it in hot water for a little, you can stain the pages to make the pages look old. Different teas make different colors, so experiment!
4. Paint. Water-color painting, acrylic painting, finger painting, or whatever the medium of paint is that you choose. Get in there and paint the pages however you want!
5. Sketch. Not all pages have to be pops of colors and textures. You can have pages of beautiful simple sketches.
6. Stamp. If you don’t have stamps, it’s easy to make your own. Search for some DIY stamps.
7. Nature. Tape or glue pieces of nature into your pages. Flowers, grass, leaves, or twigs.
8. Masking Tape. Make a pattern on the page with masking tape and color, paint, or doodle over the pattern. Take the tape off when you’re done to see the amazing pattern underneath.
9. Doodle. Draw anything and everything. Try using pens or markers instead of pencil. Make mistakes and live with them because mistakes are beautiful.
10. Outline Objects. Take a roll of tape, a phone case, pictures, or anything around you and outline them with pens, markers, or Sharpies. Overlap the shapes for an interesting effect.
11. Washi Tape. Decorate the pages with borders, wrap it around the edges, or create shapes.
12. Trace. If you have thin enough pages, you can trace shapes, images, and scenes. Just don’t claim that the tracing was your own art because that’s not cool.
13. Blow Paint. Glob some paint with some water and use a straw to blow the paint around the page.
14. Pastels. Experiment with pastels. Mix them with water, rubbing alcohol, or just smudge and mix them together.
15. Stencils. Use stencils to design pages with shapes and images. You can experiment by using paints or by overlapping.
16. Stickers. Plaster an entire page with stickers if you want or use them sparingly. It’s your call.
17. Divide the Page. Use a ruler or a flat edge to divide the page into various sizes of shapes. Color each shape in differently.
18. Etch. Etching is a technique in which you place an object under the page and shade over it. The final outcome is really amazing.
19. Sharpies. Scribble, sketch, doodle or experiment by mixing the Sharpies with rubbing alcohol.
20. Glitter. Throw some glitter (make it rain) on some wet paint, glue, or water-brushed pages.
21. Scribble. Exactly what it says.
22. Burn the Page. This one you need to be careful with because you could ruin the whole book. Take a lighter or a match and just gently burn the edges of the page to make it look old.
23. Outline Your Hands. By outlining your hands, you are making a page that no one else can…unless they have the same size hand as you.
24. Sponge. Dip a sponge in paint and press it on the page all over.
25. Make A Comic. Who says you have to draw out a comic? Collage it or paint it! Or just draw it because that’s pretty too.
26. Zentangles. If you aren’t sure what these are, just look them up. They are fun and are said to help people calm down.
27. Your Own Pictures. Add your own personal images of friends, family, yourself into your artwork.
28. Quotes. You can write them yourself, print them out, cut them from magazines, or cut them from books.
29. Maps. This might be difficult for those who don’t have maps or atlases. Mod Podge pieces of maps to the pages.
30. Mixed Media. Combine any of the previous suggestions for a fantastic piece that you’ll be proud of.
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Practical Shakespeare Quotes
Do you want to quote more Shakespeare in your life but never find opportunities to say “brevity is the soul of wit”? Do you rarely hang below balconies exchanging love vows with the daughter of your enemy? This is just the list for you.
“What an ass am I!”
—Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
“I am not a slut,”
—As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 3
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here,”
—The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2
“Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways,”
—Henry IV Part 2, Act 4, Scene 5
“This is the excellent foppery of the world,”
–King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2
“Making the beast with two backs,”
—Othello, Act 1, Scene 1
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool,”
—As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1
“To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee,”
—Henry VI Part 3, Act 3, Scene 2
(Works great for courting hot widows.)
“I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me,”
—Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 1
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me,”
—Richard II, Act 5, Scene 5
“Marry, sir, in her buttocks.”
—A Comedy of Errors, Act 2, Scene 5
(No judgement here.)
“My horse is my mistress,”
—Henry V, Act 3, Scene 7
(Uh, there might be something wrong with that.)
“Thou dost infect my eyes,”
—Richard III, Act 1, Scene 2
“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit,”
—Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 5
(“Wit” is Shakespearean slang for penis.)
“[Wine] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance,”
—Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3
“I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, than feed on cates and have him talk to me in any summer-house in Christendom,”
—Henry IV Part 2, Act 4 Scene 1
“Now, gods, stand up for bastards!”
—King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2
“Villain, I have done thy mother!”
—Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 2
(This means exactly what you think it does.)
“And thou unfit for any place but hell,”
—Richard III, Act 1, Scene 2
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,”
—Henry VI Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2
“Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.”
—Othello, Act 4, Scene 2
“Out, dunghill!”
—King John, Act 4, Scene 3
“This is too long.”
—Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
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Updated Master Post
Astral Projection
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Herbs/Minerals to ward off nightmares
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Smoke cleansing
Correspondences
Magical Metals: The Basics
Incense Uses and meanings
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Magical correspondences of food
Yankee candle theoi associations
More incense correspondences
More incense by use
Some crystals/minerals (Has pretty much everything!)
Cosmic Witchcraft
Cosmic Witchcraft 101: Tips for beginners
Cosmic witch tip
Cosmic Witchcraft 101: Lunar magic
How to make moon water
Cosmic Witchcraft 101: Solar Magic
Cosmic witchcraft altar and room ideas
Crystals
Cleansing and Charging crystals
Sapphire Info
Cleansing crystals
Cultural Appropriation
On Smudging
Reminder about the term spirit animal
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Common culturally appropriative terms
G*psy is a racial slur
Cursing
Cursing 101
Why hexing is the answer
“Just don’t curse” (pro-cursing)
Pumpkin-head Curse
You Cannot Touch Her curse/bind
So you just did a big curse (self-care, etc)
Potential Curse Ingredients (be careful with some of these)
‘Burn your wishes’ curse
Deity Related (not Pantheon specific)
Mythological book recommendations
Devotional acts don’t have to be high maintenance
Alternative Altars and devotions
A friendly gentle reminder
Modern ways to worship
30 days of deity devotion
Divination
Domino divination
How to read tea leaves
Divination symbolism
Ways to tell fortunes
Lithomancy
Pendulum tip
Green Witchcraft
Study tips for herbalists
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Herbal amulets
Herbs to use in sleep magic
Herb craft
Plant pictures (for your grimoire/BOS)
Hellenic Polytheism
Veiling and binding
Hair and hair binding in Pre-classical Greece
Miasma
Breif deity prayers
Basic Hellenic supplies
Basic Hellenic offering ritual
Hellenic crafts for kids
Small things about the Theoi
2016 Hellenion Calendar
Little Devotional Acts for Gods
Advice
Corrospondences
Persephone holidays
Kemetic Polytheism
Some Kickass papercrafts
Kemetic holidays
Goddesses and Gods of the Ancient Egyptians
Shrine Basics
Daily Ritual Basics
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Shoutout to kemetics…
What’s the lettuce thing about?
Kitchen Witchcraft
Moon cakes
Using soda in witchcraft
Magic pies
Magical uses for kitchen tools
An ask about soda in witchcraft
Ideas for kitchen witchcraft
Norse Paganism
Altars (possibly helpful for people who aren’t Norse pagans also)
Psa (Also possibly helpful for people who aren’t Norse pagans)
Offerings and Devotion for Specific Deities [Mostly Hellenic ATM]
Offerings for Haides
Devotional acts for Hermes
Offerings/Devotional acts for Aphrodite
Persephone Offerings
Hymn for Helios
More devotional act for Hermes
Theoi crafts: PoseidonTheoi crafts: Demeter
Other Masterposts
A Spirit-workers holy grail
DIY Witchery masterpost
A huge masterpot !!Great for beginners!!
Cosmic witch masterpost
Protecting and shielding masterpost
Astral travel/projection masterpost
A masterpost for space witches
Resources for Hellenismos
Pie’s Hellenic Polytheism Resource page
Cursing masterpost
The master list of lists
Limited witchcraft masterpost
Best of witchtips
Potions
“Give Me Sunshine” Potion for happiness
Secret witches
How to hide an altar (Also: Altoid tin travel kits)
Discrete witch tip: charge your toothbrush
Herbal and floral waters (Also good as offerings to deities/lots of other things)
Closet Altars and Offerings
Sigil Magic
3 Sigils by witchofthunder
Homophobes cannot see me
Sigil FAQ
Astral travel sigil (same as one in Astral Projection section)
Spells
Banish the bullshitter spell
Jar spell to attract love
Herbal sleep and dream pillows
A Spell to increase your tips
Spirit work/Necromancy
Herbs associated with the dead
The planchette did a spooky thing
Don’t Rob Graves, Use These Instead
Spirit Tip #2
Tarot cards
Twelve Olympians spread
Is an entity contacting me spread
I’m fucking perfect spread
Deity identification spread
Am I worth much spread
Ways to recharge your tarot deck
Using tarot for more than divination
Tarot & My Own Experience
Urban witchcraft
A post
Witch Tips
Witch Tip: Disabled tip
Making your room magical
Witchling tips
Witch tip (if you crochet)
A witchy tip (if you’re having guests)
Incense tips
Alternatives to lavender
Very good post
What to do if witchcraft suddenly gets too intense
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Things Draco has definitely said at some point
“Harry, if you don’t stop molesting me with your eyes I’m going to throw you out of a second story window”
“If one more person mentions my hair I swear to god I’m going to commit first degree murder in front of like a hundred witnesses”
“That shirt is atrocious and I am ashamed to even know of its existence”
“What the fuck made you think that was okay on any level?”
“I hate you all”
“No, you plebeian, I do not want one of your germ-infested free samples they’ve probably been on that tray for years anyway”
“Oh god it touched me I’m going to have to cut off that foot now”
“I’m not a cat and the next person to compare me to one will find out what it feels like to have my entire foot up their ass”
“Coffee is god’s second most important gift to mankind, with the first being me, of course. Harry, stop laughing”
“I can’t tell if that’s a picture of a barf stain or your dog”
“Why would you ever”
“This conversation has officially bored me to tears, so I’m going to go do something more entertaining, like watch grass grow. Draco out.”
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Some absolutely beautiful 3D artwork inspired by Skyrim and Morrowind.
Artist: Marine (Etrelley)
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Tools of the Trade
Earth: herbs, crystals, wood, plants, flowers, pentacle
Air: feather, wand, staff, incense, censer, pen, broom, bell
Fire: candle, lamp, athame, sword, dagger, burned herbs
Water: sea shells, ocean water, seaweed, hag stones, chalice, cup, cauldron
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Herbalist’s Workshop by Marcus Rodriguez
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