I’ve been taking a bit of a social media break lately to protect my peace and focus on my mental health, but I couldn't let this moment pass without sharing.
Today marks 6 months of HRT! 🏳️⚧️😊 6 months of living the life I was supposed to have from the very beginning.
Sending love to all my sisters and siblings here! 💖💫
So my friend basically abandoned me and I have to spend 4 hours with him bcs of classes. I'm planning to veil, wear multiple evil eyes and wear christals. Do any of you know any more protection based stuff? I could also pray to Lady Aphrodite to protect me but he's also a witch and I don't wanna be hexed. I seriously need help bcs I just got out of a mental health crisis and it's currently pretty risky that I'm falling back in.
Holly Humberstone’s set design was genuinely stunning, everything felt so intentional and it matched the mood of her music perfectly.
There was something quite witchy about it too, soft but haunting, like you were being pulled into her world. Does anyone else get where I’m coming from or watched her set?
Time is a crazy thing from any measure or perspective. 4 years feels like an entire different life from where I am now, and I couldn't even imagine where I would be when I started taking those steps in the direction my intuition told me was correct. Always trust your tummy! I feel like I can watch some of the bigger changes over the years through Ren faire pics, along with my own positive mental health changes, and how I turned a walking stick from a dead friend into a part of my magic. I get to carry their memory while lighting my own path.
Here are some evolutionary pictures of myself and my staff from the last few years at the Ren faire. I added new vials with colored UV paint that flows for a long time after dark, and added UV LEDs as well! There is a small flashlight at the top that can change colors, or be super bright white for walking around the campgrounds or hiking at night! There is also a functional incense burner near the bottom. If you need an excuse to go and enjoy a bunch of queer love and acceptance, find your local faire!
From one gender witch to all witches, thank you for joining this staff meeting, I hope you all brought yours as well to share (Or post)!
It looks interesting but I’d like to hear what readers have to say before I buy it.
Hi all, so I've got a growing crystal collection I want to start taking out with me wherever I go. I know that it's ideal to bring your tarot deck with you wherever you go as well so that it gets familiar with your energy.
I want to make a bag that is ideal for all the witchy things. From practical (hair scrunchies, bandaids, pads, meds, etc) to magical (crystals, herb satchets, vials of moon water, tarot decks, etc) what are the things you would want to store in an ideal witch bag?
And then ideas for function - what would make the ideal witch bag functional? I'm thinking secret pockets for rotating through the crystals and dried plants satchets so far, but I want to hear what additional ideas you have!
(It will definitely have a protective pocket for a book, my books always get damaged in my other bags)And lastly, anything you think might be fun to see design wise on the outside of the bag! (Black cats and moons and stars and suns are a given 😊)
Cleaning a messy room/house can be extremely overwhelming. Not only do I have a comorbidity of AuDHD but I also grew up with a hoarder for a mother. I never really learned cleaning skills from my mom. My ADHD made it hard to put things away. My autism made me get extremely overwhelmed to the point of breakdown.
So when I started therapy for both of these, my therapist came over to my house and taught me how to clean with these tips.
( The Bocio from the fon people can ensure health, well being and safety, they can also represent people who were sold into slavery )
It is a thing that I noticed a bit in spaces about witchcraft — how voodoo is misinterpreted. You can pratice voodoo and also witchcraft but voodoo isn’t inherently witchcraft, it is a religion. Voodoo is praticed in Louisiana and also the Caribbean, it blend Vodun, Yoruba, Christianity and bakongo religion, results of slavery. It being considered as inherently witchcraft is a colonial stereotype meant to demonise black people’s traditional religion. Fun fact, voodoo dolls aren’t actually supposed to thrown harm/spells at someone, they actually represent deities, protection and during Jim Crows laws, they were used as a healing method since black Americans didnt have access to healthcare. Voodoo dolls being harmful is actually a pop culture stereotype that come from Hollywood.
I am of Beninese ethnicity ( I am Fon more specifically ) and Vodun, which is considered the indigenous pratice, came from us but it also a mix of other gbe people and Yoruba pratices. Here is an example of deities from Vodun :
Mawu-Lisa : Mawu and Lisa are dualistic deities, they can also be represented as one androgynous/agender being. Mawu is the Vodun ( she is a goddess) of the Moon and Lisa ( he is a god ) is the vodun of the Moon. Mawu is the creator of earth and life, she is also created humans with clay. Lisa was tasked with civilising them.
Mami Dan/Wata : She is the Vodun of water and beaches. She also represent love and beauty. She can bring wealth and happiness and can solve infertility and infant mortality.
Dan Houedo : Also now as the Rainbow snake, Dan is the vodun of snakes, rainbow, wind, thunder and many other things. She represent continuity of life. Dan helped Mawu to create earth by trusting it into the sky.
Can anyone else feel it?...( I would have made my flair be "crones" but I don't know if im considered that.) I am 38, had fallopean tubes removed last year, thankfully for that overall, anyway
I used to have a White Moon Cycle which is when my period would fall on the New moon, but lately it has shifted to the Full moon. I see this as positive yet cathartic. I am getting back to basics, learning to garden, grow food, medicinal herbs, and making greener meals. I used to be driven by capitalism and wasted more food and resources, focused mainly on just pleasing others.
Then I changed my major from Human services to General studies, which is cool because now I get to take oral communication and technology electives so everything worked out...
I am gardening and cooking more. But i dont have community or friends. That I am still lacking and not good at making friends, bur i have my kids and partner. Can anyone relate or offer any insight on this topic of moon cycles affecting your mood and inspiring you in any way, good or bad? Are you feeling that "back to the earth" type vibe lately?
Hi y’all 👋👋 About a year ago, I posted a POTUS voodoo doll on this sub and my whole life changed.
Everyone here was so enthusiastic and encouraging that I decided to share the ugly thing with more people (friends, coworkers, my therapist, mentors, etc.). They also loved it and it motivated me to start selling these on Etsy and I even made a kit and wrote a pattern for other needle felters / crafters. I’m usually very private and have a lot of fear around being loud, so this was a big step for me. I kept following the energy and I turned this one piece into a series of artwork and kits. Now I’m running a very tiny craft business, attending art markets, and my kits are even in a few small stores! I honestly owe so much of this progress to all of you 🥰🥰 it’s been a crazy journey so far and not an easy road in the slightest, but it feels right.
Thank you all again and here’s some of my latest work for your enjoyment. Stay strong and keep fighting ✊✊✊ ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
i’m not sure if i used the right flair so im sorry if i didnt
ok so a while back i (f25) had a very intense dream of me sitting on my knees in a dark room next to a lit fireplace. i could feel a presence watching me but i didn’t know who or what it was, didn’t see it, and wasn’t afraid of it. infront of me was a dead white rabbit. all i could think in the dream is that i need its foot to carry with me for good luck. the entire dream was me staring at this dead rabbit trying to decide if i should cut off its foot. i decided not to because i felt it was disrespectful to the rabbit and that the presence watching me would judge me harshly. the dream ended at that.
a few weeks after that im on a date with this girl (f27) i started seeing, i tell her about my dream- we connect with it because she actually has a rabbit foot. at the end of the date, she hands me the rabbits foot she had and said “i hope you find the luck you’re running away from”.
things have gotten BAD since i’ve gotten it. my whole life is currently being uprooted. i noticed that when i have it on my bag and wear it, it is a particularly very bad day and that’s usually when the big trauma bad things happen. like i had it on my bag last week and that same day i lost my relationship with my sisters and future housing- and those literally aren’t even the biggest things that have happened. i need to somehow get rid of it or rid it of its bad luck but im not sure how to do it because when i look into it theres so many different answers.
important to say i dont think she had any bad intentions at all, i think theres something weird with me and maybe im not supposed to have it? i thought of giving it back but i dont want to be rude. me and this girl are no longer dating anymore but we are on good terms and never had any bad/weird things happen to or between us. i had to end things with her because of how crazy my life was getting.
I love her message and now, once again, have it as an earworm. I wish I remembered where I found it but I'm an old crone and my brain doesn't brain right sometimes. Enjoy.
So for the past few years I have been carving turnips for Samhain and letting them dry out afterwards. I've got a small collection going at this point. Last year I couldn't find them for sale, so my "turnips" were actually potatoes. The 3 red potatoes dried out really well, but the russet is looking ready for spring! I normally toss sprouted potatoes, but I feel like I just *have* to plant this guy for Bealtaine. Like, how could I not? Additionally I would not even have guessed that this was possible??
Anyway, this is my first post here (hi everyone!) and I was so amused I had to share!
I don't know who s/he or enby this garage is owned by, but, I felt an affinity to them when I saw the vandalism, baha 😤