Tumgik
windvexer · 15 hours
Text
Children of the Corn (1984): The grip of belief can turn even children into monsters, and the rural areas that were supposed to be the purest ideal of Americana culture can be infected with terrors both incurable and inescapable. When innocence is subverted and that subversion is incomprehensible, rational adults become its most helpless victims in an eternal, unbreakable cycle.
Children of the Corn (2020): GMOs are really bad! The evil adults poisoned the earth with their GMOs :( Let's start a social media campaign to show how the corn has been hurt. Adults are evil, so killing them is at worst morally neutral. Also what if the only character with agency and competency was a tiny child? An eeevil child? Haha, yeah. Spooky corn kids. Just like the original.
14 notes · View notes
windvexer · 17 hours
Text
Curiosity killed the minx. Witch/Magician/Sorcerer/Whateveryouwannacallyourself, if you do magic answer and share, please. :)
obsv bad is subjective, but here we are.
68 notes · View notes
windvexer · 17 hours
Text
Tumblr media
16 notes · View notes
windvexer · 17 hours
Note
In your witchcraft practice do you had l "proof" that magic exists ?
Sometimes I'm like trying to do a ritual or spell and taking this specific herb for this and this candle for that and then suddenly I'm like what if this is all nonsense????
Hi!
The feeling of silliness is normal. Lots of people go through it, including yours truly 😊
I have proof sufficient to assuage my own fears. It took me a while to get myself there. Even to this day I have to restart most crochet projects three or four times before it turns out okay. And imagine working with invisible hooks and invisible yarn!
Here are two posts that you might like:
Witchcraft as a spirituality
ok but like how can you be into magic if it doesn't exist (via @friend-crow)
16 notes · View notes
windvexer · 17 hours
Text
I think this might be a slight derail, but I do think that there also could be some additional stuff coming from a witchcraft-specific context that bleeds through or just confuses the issue.
I don't recall everyone who's said it, but Paul Huson in Mastering Witchcraft (published in '79 I think?) said that practicing magic makes you "light up" to the spirit world and can generate spirit contact.
More contemporary authors also espouse this idea. Lee Morgan in Standing and Not Falling (2019) also does say that believing in spirits and practicing psychism makes people a beacon for spirits. This is a concept he describes as belief-belief, or like, totally definitely believing in spirits in a big way.
People who don’t ‘believe-believe’ belong to a different consensus reality, which doesn’t light them up the way we appear illuminated like a beacon. This is why the dead tend to make a bee-line for people with the Sight or who have recently begun to practise magic. Morgan, (Traditional witch) Lee . Standing and Not Falling: A Sorcerous Primer in Thirteen Moons (p. 11). John Hunt Publishing. Kindle Edition. [Emphasis my own]
But it's also relevant to note that both Huson and Morgan seem to be involved in spirit-working traditions.
I've also had experiences myself personally, as some of my friends have, that when we got into witchcraft we did suddenly get spontaneous spirit contact that never happened beforehand.
But, I think that all of this stuff revolves around the idea of spirit contact in general. Like, the spirits that I spontaneously met when I started practicing witchcraft are now my closest allies who finally had an avenue to contact me. The spirits that my friend spontaneously met were her guardians and the Green Man.
However, the idea that all of these spirits are malevolent, or that even people separate from spirit-working paths are going to be hounded by malevolent spirits? I 100% disagree. I'm w/ Bree on that - the badness and evilness of it all is good ol' Satanic Panic.
It also remains true that lots and lots of people start practicing magic and are never hit up by random spirits or have spontaneous spirit contact. So I think it's possible that some people suddenly start talking to like, their ancestors or previously hidden tutelary spirits, but I don't believe it's just swarms of evil shadow monsters or whatever waiting to get everyone.
Ok I got some witchcraft questions because I'm starting to think that my experiences are not universal.
I've run into so many people that say that using magic makes you a beacon to malevolent spirits and thats why you should always ward and protect and all that but like...
... I haven't ever felt like my magic makes me a beacon or anything? I usually do warding and whatnot first anyways or I incorporate it into the working somehow. But its less about warding off the creepies and more like... part of the ritual.
So I'm wondering where this warning comes from. Like... culturally.
234 notes · View notes
windvexer · 18 hours
Text
"you need protection as a pagan !!!!!!" "spirits can impersonate the Gods and block Them out when you worship !!!" "negative spirits are common so be careful your Deity isn't an Imposter !!!"
listen dude idk if you've felt a Deity before but I'm fairly sure that Dionysos blinking has enough power to incinerate a negative entity so why fear monger beginners when you could just Not
758 notes · View notes
windvexer · 20 hours
Text
My rage was ready to burn a hole through the infinite worlds but everyone really liked the sauce I made for the salmon so I'm happy and normal again
35 notes · View notes
windvexer · 22 hours
Text
People always ask me if I think it's a good idea to cast magic during Mercury retrograde. I definitely cast magic during Mercury retrogrades.
Protection magic is an obvious yes. Mercury does not impact that. Death work? 100 percent, Hermes was one of the only gods to enter the land of the dead and return to the upper world. A communication spell? Suuuuuure, if you're okay with it getting real weird. Retrogrades don't stop energy. They redirect it. They go at it from an unusual direction. (like the back of a Volkswagen)
Mercury is so changeable that trying to define their energy is challenging anyway. Your spell will manifest differently than when the planet is in direct motion.
That might even be the result that you are looking for. (if you've tried it all and nothing is working, maybe work with a retrograde, ya know?)
If you're a control freak, tho. Then nah...maybe just wait.
41 notes · View notes
windvexer · 22 hours
Note
I do enjoy the spatial aspect. Stepping in and out of areas, or even markers in an area (such as a branch over a hiking trail) can also delineate magical areas, even if only signifying that you're about to walk through a part of the spirit world. It's so interesting to me how the worlds can overlap, or be far away from each other, and how these points can intersect or be found.
I do like the idea of walking through a threshold with the intent of finding answers in the spirit world.
disappointment anon, i didnt actually know you could create spirit doors i thought i just had to hope that the spirits heard me after i called them to me because i dont have clairsenses or good divination.. LOL but thank you for that post that was extremely helpful :)
Hi! In Traditional Witchcraft and other related practices, I think I especially want to say Fairy Faith, the idea that the practitioner has the ability to find, capitalize on, or simply create portals, gateways, and roads into the spirit world is a dominant theme.
The only time I ever see this referenced in 101 stuff is casting a circle! The concept in Traditional Witchcraft is more or less the same as a Wiccan circle, but we call it a compass. If a lot of your education is coming from online sources, you may be unaware that a primary function of a magic circle is to "join the worlds" and, as Kelden puts it,
On a deeper level, though, and most central to Traditional Witchcraft, the compass is a liminal place, a doorway through which we can enter into the Otherworld.
On one hand, the word compass is synonymous with the word circle, but it also denotes the well-known navigational tool used in travel. This second meaning makes a lot of sense in the context that Traditional Witches use the compass round to navigate and traverse the different realms.
Kelden, The Crooked Path, 2020 (emphasis my own)
For a spirit-working witch, the skill of learning where to find spirits and how to reliably call them is a skill which I believe is separate from brokering deals. I also believe that working with these gateways is probably a fundamental skill of witchcraft.
The witch has many tools at their disposal for creating gateways into the spirit world and walking back and forth between this world and the next, with new knowledge, allies, and powers.
Some of these gateways are physical locations, each of which may lead to a different place in the otherworld, or make it easier or more difficult to access certain powers.
A small, secluded cave half-filled with water at the bottom of a steep riverbank may be the ideal location to enter the Underworld, or commune with chthonic powers.
A tiny thicket formed by the arch of a rosemary bush where it tangles with the branches of a thorny rose may be an excellent location to leave tiny gifts for the Greenwood and commune with the green folk.
Much more accessible for many of us is indeed just the concept of crossroads, either a 4-way X or a 3-way T. These locations are long famed for being the meeting places of spirits, or ideal locations to leave offerings or broker spirit deals. The Devil Himself is often said to be haunting just such remote crossroads.
But these gateways don't just have to be found. The witch has the power to create them.
Exhibit A - casting a circle (or more accurately to say, laying a compass).
Also, I believe the creation of a spellcasting altar, if properly magicked and tended to, begins to become liminal in and of itself - it literally becomes a doorway to the otherworlds.
Certain human-made locations, like gas stations and grocery stores, are often considered to be gateways and have been used by some practitioners to fulfill spellwork.
Various charms and talismans can assist with creating doorways navigating the liminal, most famously the Holey or Hag stone.
Robin Artisson details several methods of understanding, discovering, creating, and working with such doorways, I believe in Witching Way of Hollow Hill, but especially in An Carow Gwyn, in the section called The Breaching Charms: The Gateways into Sorcerous Experience.
Daniel Schulke, at least in Viridarium Umbris, provides several sigils and charms for obtaining entrance into the otherworld.
Roger J Horne, in A Broom at Midnight, details thirteen "gateways" to spirit flight. While these are specifically methods of entering astral travel, any student of the concept of gateways and doors within witchcraft I think would benefit from studying the rituals within.
Speaking of astral travel, many common methods espoused include imagining that a person is climbing down the roots of a tree, or inside of the trunk of a tree and floating down like an elevator; or going down a well. All of these things are analogous to (or, the same thing as) mentally seeking out a gateway to the otherworld, searching in mental constructs of places in nature where gateways are commonly found or believed to be found.
Indeed, the concept of roads, gates, thresholds, and doors, is (I think) a vital contemplation to the understanding of Witchcraft itself, and it is upon these bedrocks that a great deal of witchcraft has been built.
73 notes · View notes
windvexer · 23 hours
Text
"there are no rules, witchcraft is what you make it!"
"oh... oh my god, not like that. NOT LIKE THAT. Ban. Permanent lifetime ban. Get out."
Everyone's fine with ghostfucking until you try to fuck the wrong ghost smh
54 notes · View notes
windvexer · 23 hours
Note
disappointment anon, i didnt actually know you could create spirit doors i thought i just had to hope that the spirits heard me after i called them to me because i dont have clairsenses or good divination.. LOL but thank you for that post that was extremely helpful :)
Hi! In Traditional Witchcraft and other related practices, I think I especially want to say Fairy Faith, the idea that the practitioner has the ability to find, capitalize on, or simply create portals, gateways, and roads into the spirit world is a dominant theme.
The only time I ever see this referenced in 101 stuff is casting a circle! The concept in Traditional Witchcraft is more or less the same as a Wiccan circle, but we call it a compass. If a lot of your education is coming from online sources, you may be unaware that a primary function of a magic circle is to "join the worlds" and, as Kelden puts it,
On a deeper level, though, and most central to Traditional Witchcraft, the compass is a liminal place, a doorway through which we can enter into the Otherworld.
On one hand, the word compass is synonymous with the word circle, but it also denotes the well-known navigational tool used in travel. This second meaning makes a lot of sense in the context that Traditional Witches use the compass round to navigate and traverse the different realms.
Kelden, The Crooked Path, 2020 (emphasis my own)
For a spirit-working witch, the skill of learning where to find spirits and how to reliably call them is a skill which I believe is separate from brokering deals. I also believe that working with these gateways is probably a fundamental skill of witchcraft.
The witch has many tools at their disposal for creating gateways into the spirit world and walking back and forth between this world and the next, with new knowledge, allies, and powers.
Some of these gateways are physical locations, each of which may lead to a different place in the otherworld, or make it easier or more difficult to access certain powers.
A small, secluded cave half-filled with water at the bottom of a steep riverbank may be the ideal location to enter the Underworld, or commune with chthonic powers.
A tiny thicket formed by the arch of a rosemary bush where it tangles with the branches of a thorny rose may be an excellent location to leave tiny gifts for the Greenwood and commune with the green folk.
Much more accessible for many of us is indeed just the concept of crossroads, either a 4-way X or a 3-way T. These locations are long famed for being the meeting places of spirits, or ideal locations to leave offerings or broker spirit deals. The Devil Himself is often said to be haunting just such remote crossroads.
But these gateways don't just have to be found. The witch has the power to create them.
Exhibit A - casting a circle (or more accurately to say, laying a compass).
Also, I believe the creation of a spellcasting altar, if properly magicked and tended to, begins to become liminal in and of itself - it literally becomes a doorway to the otherworlds.
Certain human-made locations, like gas stations and grocery stores, are often considered to be gateways and have been used by some practitioners to fulfill spellwork.
Various charms and talismans can assist with creating doorways navigating the liminal, most famously the Holey or Hag stone.
Robin Artisson details several methods of understanding, discovering, creating, and working with such doorways, I believe in Witching Way of Hollow Hill, but especially in An Carow Gwyn, in the section called The Breaching Charms: The Gateways into Sorcerous Experience.
Daniel Schulke, at least in Viridarium Umbris, provides several sigils and charms for obtaining entrance into the otherworld.
Roger J Horne, in A Broom at Midnight, details thirteen "gateways" to spirit flight. While these are specifically methods of entering astral travel, any student of the concept of gateways and doors within witchcraft I think would benefit from studying the rituals within.
Speaking of astral travel, many common methods espoused include imagining that a person is climbing down the roots of a tree, or inside of the trunk of a tree and floating down like an elevator; or going down a well. All of these things are analogous to (or, the same thing as) mentally seeking out a gateway to the otherworld, searching in mental constructs of places in nature where gateways are commonly found or believed to be found.
Indeed, the concept of roads, gates, thresholds, and doors, is (I think) a vital contemplation to the understanding of Witchcraft itself, and it is upon these bedrocks that a great deal of witchcraft has been built.
73 notes · View notes
windvexer · 1 day
Note
i tried out working with a tarot spirit and attempted communication through my lenormand deck and the spirit couldn't communicate at all and we had to move to something else, has something like this happened to you?
Hi! It sounds to me like you pulled one card from your tarot deck and then attempted to communicate with it using a Lenormand deck, which didn't work.
To answer your question, yes, I've had lots and lots of failures of spirit communication, and I continue to have problems to this day. Sometimes I just don't follow my own established procedures for what I know works (lazy), but sometimes I just have off days.
You might have an easier time using that tarot deck itself for communication. Pull out the card you want to communicate with and use it as a signifier. Then, draw any amount of cards you like, with some question ideas below. Having single cards (or entire groups of cards) removed from the tarot deck is a perfectly traditional method to read.
How could you solve this problem for me?
What lessons do you have for me right now?
What areas of my life could use your energies the most?
How would you influence this spell's outcome?
What kinds of spells are you best at helping with?
What sorts of problems are you not as good at solving?
What am I not seeing about this issue?
Give me ideas of partner cards you'd pair well with to solve this problem.
20 notes · View notes
windvexer · 2 days
Note
how do you deal with the disappointment when a spirit takes your payment and then doesn't do the work?
A certain % of spells will always fail. I tend to approach it systematically.
Ritual work:
Did you explicitly state that spirits may only partake of the offering if they agree to do this job for you?
Did you limit access to the offerings to only spirits who are capable of carrying out the required task?
Did you plan your ritual around spirit gateways, such as certain astrological timings, days of week, or at natural spiritual gateways? Or, did you engage in acts of witchcraft to create spirit doors? All of these things make it easier to correctly contact and "call through" spirits.
Did you provide a "due by" date for the work to be completed?
Did you accurately and plainly describe exactly what it is you wanted to have happen?
Spirit work:
Did you correctly evoke the spirit? I.e., are you relatively sure the spirit was actually properly called into the ritual?
Did you evoke a single spirit, or many? If you only evoked one spirit, what steps did you take to ensure it would agree to do the job for you?
If you only evoked one single spirit, what steps did you take to ensure that the spirit is capable of doing the task at hand?
Is the spirit, or categories of spirits, known in lore to be able to deliver the kind of results you want? Are they related to, or do they dwell within, the domain where you want your results to occur?
Is that spirit(s) known to help people such as yourself? I.e., if you don't have a personal relationship with the spirit, are they known to help strangers?
Sorcerous strategy:
Did you perform divination before the spell to find out if there are blockages or problems you should address beforehand?
Did you perform divination before the spell to find out if evoking that spirit for that task would be effective?
Be reasonable with yourself:
Have you done many spirit evocations, and they usually succeed? If so, this may be a fluke.
Is this a new spirit you're working with, while other spirits usually deliver results? If so, you may have not yet learned how to correctly evoke that spirit, or how to engage with them for mutually satisfactory results.
If you're brand new to trafficking with spirits in order to work magic, then you may have just not learned all of the requisite skills necessary, or how to harmoniously put them together.
Have you successfully cast many spells in the past? If so, compare your spirit working rituals to prior, successful spells. See what aspects may be missing.
If you're new to magic and have had few or no successful manifestations, be patient with yourself. Magic is a complex, multifacited skillset with many variables.
44 notes · View notes
windvexer · 2 days
Note
for the resources post, it was for finding books / servers / or a teacher for witchcraft and i specifically remember u saying to put a mini chair on the altar i think?
I had to go through the blog archive on my PC and this is the only match:
4 notes · View notes
windvexer · 2 days
Text
I have been curious to look at a statistical insight into the different Elemental associations people have with the Cardinal Directions. There are 24 different ways that the directions and elements can be grouped together, but tumblr won't allow me to do a poll with 24 options. I could do an individual poll on each element, but I specifically want to look at which pairings of the four elements/directions are the most common, so I'm going to do a Part 1 and a Part 2 for this poll. Together, these will give all the options for how someone might associate the elements and directions together, so if you don't see your particular pairings in this post, then stay tuned for the follow-up poll.
82 notes · View notes
windvexer · 2 days
Note
since honey jars are usually pretty slow acting, would replacing the honey with sugar or syrup make the jar go faster? im going to try it out with sugar and instant coffee but i was wondering what you thought
In my current deal:
Elemental energies influence speed and characteristics of manifestation.
Speed in manifestation is obtained by the inclusion of fire, perhaps by burning a candle on the jar, or infusing it with ashes. Keeping the jar warm and often shaking it may be assistive.
Consider using tarot magic and evoking the power of the 8/Wands to encourage rapid manifestation.
12 notes · View notes
windvexer · 2 days
Note
hi, do you think you could help me find a post you made a few months ago? it was spell ideas for finding resources. ive tried to find it on duckduckgo but I can't find it
Spell ideas for finding resources, as in, spells to help you obtain material things? Do you have any other details? Nothing is coming to mind.
5 notes · View notes