Baby Witch Tips

Baby Witch Tips

•Learn stuff about where you live. This can help you with crystal magick and herbalism. I have a shit ton of quartz where I live, and a bunch of edible plants that grow in the woods. This way, you can start your witchy collection for free. (Be careful with harvesting wild plants, obviously.)

•You don’t have to follow spells you find exactly. Say you find a great spell for restful sleep online, but it calls for lavender and chamomile, and you only have lavender. That’s fine! Take the chamomile out or substitute it. 

•Learn a tiny bit of a lot of things. Don’t feel like you have to focus on one thing yet. Take some time to read up on stuff and figure out what appeals to you. 

•Make your own tools. You don’t have to waste money on fancy tools to be a valid witch. My wand, some of my candles, my pentacle, and my staff are all homemade. 

•On the line of saving money, thrift stores are your best friends. 

•DO NOT FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO LABEL YOURSELF. This took me so long to figure out. You don’t have to decide that you’re a chaote or a spirit worker or a Heathen or an eclectic witch or a Neowiccan or anything. If one of those labels strongly appeals to you, awesome! But don’t feel pressured to pick one.

•If you’re in the broom closet and live with someone who you don’t want to figure out about your practice, make a mini altar in a shoebox! Put all your altar stuff in the box and put it under your bed. You can set up the altar on the box when praying or doing spells or anything like that. 

•It’s okay to be Wiccan, but you don’t have to be. There are a ton of other options. 

•Don’t put yourself down if magick or astral projecting or spirit work or any other practice doesn’t come naturally to you. Practicing is an option, and so is not doing it at all. 

•It’s okay to take breaks from your practice.

I did some more research last night finally!! I'm reading this book on queer witchcraft rn and it seems great so far. Im super excited!!! Im raking notes like a dork cuz my memory is shit

Oh! If anyone knows any poc witches on social media I could follow that'd be dope!!!

LGBTQ+ and Kemeticism

I thought a lot today about being LGBTQ+ and being a Kemetic Pagan. I have been a little worried about being “out” because I didn’t want anyone to think less of me. I have been struggling with my identity for a while and it sucks that I’m not sure which Kemetics would be accepting of it. Heru-sa-Aset made me feel a little bit better by reassuring me that he is also LGBTQ+ and he loves and watches every LGBTQ+ person. But that got me wondering why there is so little documentation of LGBTQ+ in Ancient Egypt. However, with the help of Djehuty, Heru-sa-aset, other Netjeru, and some critical thinking, I came to this conclusion:

Ancient Egypt has a very long, complicated history, and writing only started in 3200 BC, therefore so much myth, and history is lost. Many things that were documented did not survive long enough to be discovered, and many things disintegrated over time.

Not only that, but it was an early civilization, and a state power hierarchy. Fertility was heavily emphasized because more people meant more contributions to the overall power/influence of the state, and more people to produce surplus of goods (for the elite, temples, etc). Warfare was common, so the more people= the more warriors and also the harder a place is to take over. Unfortunately, homosexuals can’t reproduce with each other, and common people who weren’t interested in a heterosexual relationship and reproducing were pretty much erased from Ancient Egyptian rhetoric and history. Even Pharoahs went through the pressure of reproduction, usually, they had marry to produce an eventual heir. So if they had any lovers that didn’t fall into this category, it was pretty much not talked about and eventually erased from history.

Furthermore, the Pharoah in charge dictated much of what was to be written and implemented in society, which is why Hatsheptut was almost erased from history (a sexist new Pharoah was jealous of her success and accomplishments, and wanted people to forget about her forever). This also happened to much of lgbtq+ history, partly because reproduction was so important to the success of the state and the more children commoners had the more workers the state had for upholding and building elite (and state) success.

I could go on, but remember, just because there’s not as much LGBTQ+ documentation in Ancient Egypt as say Ancient Rome and/or Ancient Greece doesn’t mean they didn’t exist! (Plus Egypt is way older than those two combined,and faced many changes, conquerors, erasers of history, and many documents disintegrated from age). So love yourself fellow LGBTQ+ Kemetics and be proud! Your Netjeru will love and accept you for who you are. If others think less of you because of who you are, that only reflects negatively on them, and means nothing negative about you. I send my support to all my fellow LGBTQ+ Kemetics!

And lmao this morning I jumped in numerology

My life path number is 8!!!!

Take that should not be surprising

You cannot live in accordance with Ma'at and be racist, transphobic, sexist, or homophobic.

Idk what my craft is gonna look like but Im gonna put more effort into it. This 👏🏾 Is 👏🏾 The 👏🏾 Year 👏🏾 Of 👏🏾 My 👏🏾 CRAFT!!!

I feel like ima be a mix of some type of space craft mixed with some green witch stuff and maybe something with ancestry?? Idk but im excited so lets see

If anyone got anything to recommend I check out hmu! ✌🏾