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Femicide in Turkey

Femicide: The killing of women and girls because of their gender.

On October 4, saturday a 19 year old boy called Semih Çelik brutally murdered two 19 year old girls, Ayşenur Halil and İkbal Uzuner with a gap of 30 minutes. Semih Çelik had been assaulting İkbal Uzuner since she was in high school. Because of this she was homeschooled. They had reported him to the police several times. The police did nothing as always. He got away with this during the day, in a crowded street. He had filmed a video a few days before the murder, saying he was planning to murder her and then kill himself but that God protected her and he changed his mind last minute. This would be prevented if the police cared enough to not let him be out on the streets. However many people like this live among us every day.

This is how normalized it is. This is how much he knows no one will protect her. This is the danger we face every single day. 3 more women were murdered after the incident as I'm writing this.

Here's a link to The Monument Counter. It has an explanation in English. Here you can see the names and numbers of every murdered woman in Turkey recorded. You can click on the years to highlight their names and see the number of how many were murdered.

It is vital for Turkish women to be heard internationally, quite literally, and hopefully this will better the lives of women abroad as well.

I will talk about the details of the murder below. However it is very brutal and graphic. I am warning you. Her mother said "I wish he shot her instead, it must've hurt so much.'

He tore her body into pieces, dragged her dead body and THREW HER SEVERED HEAD IN FRONT OF HER MOTHER down the gates. And then he hung himself off the building.

Planetary Days And Hours

Magick is at its best when performed during certain days and hours of the day. These time periods are associated with the seven celestial bodies in our solar system that we can observe with the naked eye. The associations are as follows:

A magical day is measured starting at sunrise and ending at sunset. Each sunrise and sunset period is divided into twelve equal parts, resulting in a (roughly) 24-hour day. Depending on your location relative to the equator, the planetary hours you calculate in your area may be longer or shorter than conventional hours.

The first hour of the day is always that of the planet the day represents. The hours then repeat infinitely in the following order: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon.

* Power hours; ** Witching hours

The first, eighth, fifteen and twenty second hours are called power hours. These are the hours in which the seven-planet cycle repeats. Notice that the cycle resets after the twenty fourth hour with the power hour of the subsequent day.

The two hours after the final power hour and the twenty third and twenty fourth hours are called the witching hours. (Conventional hours place the witching hours between midnight and 3am, or 3am to 6am) These hours are favored by black magicians for casting baneful magick.

Use these tables to reference ideal days and hours when scheduling your spells. The finer you tune the time of the ritual, the more potent your magick will be.

Cleansing

(I'm a beginner. This is my grimoire since I can't keep a physical one. I might update this as I learn more. Don't quote me, however I'll still post this in case it might be useful for someone.)

What is cleansing, why would you cleanse before spelwork?

Imagine you come home at the end of a tiring day, just wanting to get into comfy clothes and lay on your bed. How would you feel if all your clothes were on the floor and on your bed, scattered all around your room. Dirty glasses and plates just laying around. The clothes must've sucked all the oxygen from your room. Would you still like to lay on your bed? You open your windows and manage to find your comfy clothes but they smell bad because they've been under dirty clothes for days. And you gotta either lay on the clothes on your bed or push them out. Even after all that your room still smells awful and you can't rest comfortably.

Imagine your room is very comfortable and clean and you're just resting peacefully. However a few minutes later a person in your household barges into your room shouting, all stressed out. Even when I didn't believe in energies, psychologically it would leave a negative vibe in my room. To get rid of this I would open a window, and if it didn't leave I would go out and take a walk if I could.

In both instances you probably want to cleanse your room so you can feel better. By cleaning physically or spiritually. It might make sense to clean physically first and then magically, however I find that it's easier to clean physically after doing a little bit of spiritual cleansing. Just to ease the burden of having to clean.

And when it comes to witchcraft, cleansing yourself and your space will help you invite the energies you want to work with and help the energies move better. It's easier to walk around when you don't have clothes on the floor. Cleansing yourself and meditating can help you think more clearly as well.

Cleansing methods I like to use:

What I can do is kinda limited because I live with my parents. To get candles or incense I need to interact with them, even if I don't they'll question me on it and I don't want to deal with that. I won't include things I do physically beforehand that are just basic hygiene, like washing my face and brushing my teeth.

1. Sound cleansing with nature sounds

I know that there are cleansing frequencies but I usually wind chimes or rain sounds in my room. You can do this with other types of nature sounds and include elements as well.

2. Melodrama by Lorde

I used to cleanse by listening to this album even before I believed in these things. It works very well for me. I also cleanse myself by breathing according to the rhythm.

3. Cleansing meditations

I love this one. I do have to mention that I do change the colour of the golden light to whatever I please and I had used this to cleanse my whole room before. It's very useful. Love it.

remembering that one time i was on holiday, and i saw two lesbians in a very homophobic country just... out. being themselves. telling each other they love each other.

i was sitting behind them on the train.

Lady Aphrodite is with all kinds of love, and that was my first experience with it. and i'll never forget it.

Yes, but when I'm sick I only do it if I'm feeling well enough to get up and get through the other things. I try to keep as clean as possible out of respect, so usually after I wash my body to "wash the illness away" and air my room.

I don’t pray while I’m sick or on my period cause I usually feel like overall crap

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers (⌒‐⌒)

Sitting in the dark

Talking to Aphrodite

Reading books and fully immersing myself in them. I can't do this often unfortunately.

Talking to my best friend

Eating pastry

Watching the rain at night

Reblog this if it’s okay to DM you and shoot the friendship shot.

I’m curious if there’s a connection between gender identity and heavily gendered occult beliefs.

Housewarming Magic

For when you’ve moved into a new living situation or are ready for a new start <3

Cleansing:

Room cleansing

To clear negative energy from a room

Summer house cleansing

Herbal wall/floor wash + witchy cleaners

Home cleansing brew

Thoroughly clearing spaces

Crystals to cleanse the home

Home cleansing tips

Cleansing your space without smoke

Energy cleansing

Warding + Protection:

A crash course on warding

Warding (methods)

To ward the home

House claiming and warding

My home is protected spell

Home protection steam spell

A simple room shielding

Simple home protection jar spell

Room/home protection

Check out the sigils below!

Sigils:

“For a magical and happy home”

“Sospidonum”

“This space is full of life, light, and bright energy”

“I have a clean living space”

“No fighting in this home”

“My home is safe”

“This home is safe for all”

“This home is a safe and healthy environment”

“My house is protected from unwanted influences”

“My home is protected”

Witchin’ it up:

Let’s build a home spell jar

Home sweet home spell jar

Cozy home open spell jar

Doing the dishes the witchy way

Homemade laundry detergent recipe

Laundry magic

Pleasing household spirits

When a bad guest leaves

Odds and ends:

Magic, and power, in homemaking

The history and creation of witch bottles

Cottage witch tips

Hearth witch tips

The basics of kitchen and cottage witchcraft

You may also like:

Bedridden witch: garden / stale energy / kitchen edition

Spells for job seekers

Travel witchery

A prayer to Goddess Aphrodite:

' Beloved Aphrodite, goddess who grants to us

the greatest of joys, the harshest of sorrows,

the sharpest of pleasures, the dearest of pains.

Aphrodite, freshest of Olympos’ flowers,

your lightest touch can turn the hearts of men toward love;

with voice sweet as honey, sweet as wine, you speak

words of persuasion, we hear and heed, rapt in wonder.

O Aphrodite, grace and beauty surround you,

where you pass, the roses bloom, with sweetest scent

and sharpest thorn: with reckless hands we grasp them.

Aphrodite, born of blood in the cold salt sea,

born of the fallen sky, goddess whose kindness

can be so brutal, whose cruelty we cherish,

blessed are your children, blessed those you favor,

blessed those who have felt your might, blessed those

who dwell in your domain. Aphrodite, honored one,

incomparable one, with each breath I praise you '

Unsolicited Witch Tip 24

Catching a falling leaf before it hits the ground is supposed to be good luck. Add it to your altar for good luck, protection, and abundance throughout the autumn season.

Here's my own thought process on this:

I think if you see someone smoking next to children, animals all the time or if they keep smoking next to you they are hurting people other than themselves as well. We aren't always in a position to ask people not to smoke next to us or others. Therefore I think using witchcraft is reasonable in that situation.

However if they are only harming themselves they might be doing it for reasons we do not know and we might actually do more harm by stopping them from smoking. In this scenario it would be unethical unless they asked us to do a spell to stop them from smoking.

Witchcraft ethics: is it ethical to bind someone from smoking?

Turkish adaptation:

Afrofit; Sevgiye Övgülerle

Afrofit, sevgi ve güzelliğin vücut bulduğu Tanrıça

Çevremdeki sevgi için teşekkür ederim,

Ve hayatımı güzelleştiren dostlarım için.

Bana rehberlik et, sevgimi özgürce ifade edebilmem

Ve her anın tadını çıkarabilmem için.

Bu bağları beslememe yardımcı ol

Ki derinleşip daha anlamlı bir hâle gelsinler.

Zarafetinde güç ve ilham buluyorum

Sevgi yolumu aydınlatan ışık olduğu için.

Huzurunda uyum ve anlayış bulalım,

Sevgi ve destekle beraber büyüyelim,

Dostluk hediyesi için teşekkür ederim,

Bu lütuf hayatımın hazinesi olduğu için.

Aphrodite; In Praise Of Love

Aphrodite, embodiment of love and beauty

Thank you for the love that surrounds me,

For the cherished ones who enrich my life.

Bless my relationships, both near and far,

Guide me to express my love freely,

And to appreciate the beauty in every moment.

Help me nurture these connections,

So that they may grow deeper and more meaningful.

In your grace, I find strength and inspiration,

For love is the light that illuminates my path.

In your presence, may we find harmony and understanding,

Growing together in love and support.

Thank you for the gifts of connection,

For they are the treasures of my life.

✨️10 Things I always Include in My New Grimoire/Book Of Shadows✨️

I'm getting to the end of my second grimoire (prior to this I'd have random stuff in school notebooks that I unfortunately don't have anymore) so I thought it'd be fitting to talk about the stuff I benefited from copying over into my second Grimoire along with what I will most likely put into my third Grimoire.

Please Note: for my journey a Grimoire is the most fitting way for me to describe my preferred method of transcribing what I learn. As a result I will be referring to a Grimoire the whole time but this knowledge can be generally applied to other witchy books meant to hold knowledge.

To help with dictinctions:

Anything with an asterisk* indicates I regretted not including it before

Anything without is stuff I've included and benefitted from having on hand

1. The Elements and Their Correspondences

What I Include in this entry:

- A page dedicated to each element

- Tarot Card, Astrological sign, Color, Crystal, and Herb correspondes (condensed down to crystals and herbs I'm guaranteed to use)

- a vague list with ideas on what this element embodies vibe wise (for example: Earth can represent success, stability or fertility)

- A page dedicated to ideas on how I can work with each element

- how to invoke and banish an element with a pentacle

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

It makes for a very useful reference point when doing spellwork. I can easily see if I can use elemental symbolism and how I can incorporate it.

It also can be nice to reference if I'm celebrating a holiday that embodies the energy of a specific element. I can reference the page for ideas on herbs to use while cooking, colors I can incorporate, etc.

2. Moon Phases, Time, and Seasonal Correspondences

What I include in this Entry:

- a drawing of each moon phase along with about three adjectives to describe the phase

- lists of associations for each time of day

- a chart of the cardinal directions and which season and element corresponds with each one

Why I find this Entry Useful:

It might sound weird that I have all of this stuff condensed down into one entry but hear me out: it's so much nicer to plan rituals and spellwork when all you have to do is look through two pages??? Especially if your first grimoire has all of these entries in more detail (which I heavily reccomend so all of the knowledge is still recorded somewhere), it's nice to know you can easily access the basics without reading every little detail, and then you can always go back to your old grimoire when you need to access more information on the topic.

3. Cartomancy/Tarot

What I Include in this Entry:

- very brief definition of Major Arcana, Minor Arcana, and Court Cards

- elemental correspondences of minor arcana plus what they symbolize

- what each court card symbolizes

- a numerology "cheat sheet"

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

This is one of those things that will not be helpful for everyone but since I practice tarot frequently it's perfect for me. Even if you're not a big tarot person I at least reccomend you pick something you do a lot and create a condensed version for you to review when you need it!

4. The Witches Compass/Opening and Closing Circles

What I Include in this Entry:

- a brief explanation on why you'd use one

- a step by step guide on how you would open and close one

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

Even though I don't always utilize the Witches' Compass or a standard magic circle, I like to have a condensed form written in case I need to perform a ritual but don't have the space to lug around multiple books.

5. Alters, Shrines, and Temples

What I Include in This Entry:

- Definitions of each word

- a list of examples of types of alters

- a general run-down on what typically goes on an altar

- ideas on how to decorate an altar

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

I actually don't have an altar space currently, but I do find it useful to have inspiration on hand in case I need it. I also just find it useful to have the distinctions on hand in case I'm cross referencing my research.

6. Warding and Defensive Magic*

What I Include in this Entry:

- a list of types of wards with minor guidance on how to use them if I don't use them often

- ways I can use defensive magic if things go wrong

-When to ward/When not to ward a space

- a page dedicated to the Witches Ladder, how to make one, and I typically include one of my own spells with it.

- a page dedicated to a basic house protection spell

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

This is one of the topics I didn't copy over into my current Grimoire but really regret not doing. Since I like to dabble in Astral travel and a huge part of my practice is working with the in between this knowledge is nice to have on hand.

I'm personally of the school of thought that you don't need to ward everything at all times, however if you're like me and you do a warding spell every once in a while and then you forget how to do it... yeah might be nice to just always have it freshly recorded so you're not rifling through all of your stuff.

7. Magical Excersizes from Books, Media, Etc.

What I Include In This Entry:

- the source I got the excersize from

- what the goal of the excersize is

- a step-by-step rundown

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

It's especially nice when you're dealing with burnout or a mental block. It's also oddly refreshing to occasionally do one.

Now, I wouldn't reccomend having every magical exercise you've ever done in your new Grimoire, but I usually pick three or four that I really like and write them down.

8. About Me Page*

What I Include In This Entry:

- Deities I mainly Venerate

- What magical "paths" or ways of life I tend to follow

- How I feel about my practice (Do I need to improve in some areas? Do I feel lost? Etc.)

- Things I want to explore more or do more

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

This is another entry I seriously regret not including more. With my first Grimoire (that I didn't lose) it served as a good spot to check in order to see my growth, look for anything I hadn't learned yet but wanted to learn, and it served as a nice sentimental peice to look back on.

Some may not benefit from having an entry like this, but others may find they'll benefit from it like I do!

9. A Basic Guide on Fae Species (or other entities depending on your practice)

What I Include in this Entry:

- I usually pick about 8-10 Fae to make an entry on and I try to keep it in a broad, diverse range.

- A picture depicting each thing

- Name of species

- Anecdotes on their temperament, how you can avoid pissing them off, etc.

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

As a Celtic Pagan it feels right for me to have an entry that includes the Fae even though I avoid interacting with them when possible. I've also generally had a sort of fixation on the Fae and their way of life since I was young so it's a little something that speaks to my heart and my passions as well.

If you want to look at this more practically, having a guide of common entities can be good in case you encounter one that way you have a sort of code of conduct written down.

10. List of Herbs I Commonly Use and their Correspondences

What I Include in this Entry:

- Household herbs I can easily find in the pantry

- items I can easily forage and use from outside

Why I Find this Entry Useful:

My first ever list of herbs was basically every Herb under the sun and how I could use it. Did I use any of those herbs? Heck no! Now I keep a small, condensed list of stuff I actually use and have easy access to and if I use anything I'm not used to that's when I reference my giant list.

Not all of these topics may personally speak to you, but I hope that at least some of them could help you decide what you'd like to include in your own books!