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✨🌕The day after the full moon is a day where your priorities are focused on self care, mental health, and organizing through planning or tidying up around the house. 🌿✨

For all the wrong that we’ve done in our lives we can make up with changes in our perspectives and the kindness we share with others as we grow older. Molding yourself into the person you’ve always wanted to be is a long term goal and you can make it as easy or hard as you wish. But never limit yourself of what is possible and impossible.

What's Your Favourite Thing About Your Craft, Path, or Journey?

My favourite thing about my path is learning more about myself and why I am here. Finding a purpose is an extremely long goal to follow and it could take up to a lifetime to really know what your purpose truly is. Keeping this in mind, I like to take part in different activities each day whether it be a sport, reading Tarot, creating a ritual, or even just checking off my planner for the simplest things that I can accomplish throughout the day like drinking a full glass of water. Experiencing new things throughout my life is what makes life and living so much fun and it could be so fulfilling! Taking the time to meditate and gather what I have experienced through the day makes me extremely thankful for what I have and what the world has to offer to me. What's your favourite part? Share in the comments!

Blossom into something beautiful so that by the end of the year you may harvest what has been learned.

Having good intuition allows us to see from a different perspective everywhere we go. Understanding your surroundings and understanding human behavior all helps with how we interpret things around us. Letting it guide you allows you to be a better decision maker, a good friend to those you care about, and picking the right path that suites you to your best needs.

Showing Daily Gratitude

A short guide to showing daily gratitude in your practice:

🌞 Waking: write down your dreams and thank your spirit animals for guiding you to see possible insight. If there were no dreams, thank any higher powers that allow you the rest and the energy that it had given you to start the day.

👗 Getting ready for the day: wear colors that reflect a color correspondence or your favorite color, thank the higher powers for the clothes and accessories that you have and the confidence it brings you every day.

🫧At work, school, or home: appreciate the friends, coworkers, and family that help you when you are down or are there to chat. Showing gratitude towards others is rewarding and showsyou care.

🥝 Mealtimes: thank your ancestors, spirits, or deities for the food that allows you to keep moving each day. For those who love to give back, allow a small portion of your meal as a gift to these gods/goddesses or spirits to share.

🧼 Self Care: appreciate your appearance and the features you were blessed with. Self gratitude is the best gratitude to give yourself to begin truly loving yourself.

🌙 Bedtime: cherish this time right before completely falling asleep, allow yourself to meditate and show gratitude for the day that you had and feel blessed to wake up for another day to cherish.

So… status update!:

I am currently in the process of moving… again. Things didn’t work out like they were supposed to and me and my significant other have finally come to the conclusion to ditch any further roommates in the future. All have been unhealthy, exhausting (me having to clean up after everyone/I have to wear the big boy pants to get things done), and to add to all of it, I will be starting college at the end of the month. So I will probably not be as active until later this month or the start of July. Hope everyone’s summer is going swimmingly~ see you guys really soon~

🫧When life gets you down, slow your pace and take in what joys you have in the present. There may be something there that could brighten any day ✨

Journal 13 - 7/08/2022

This is going to be a long one, so stick with me here.

So my move in has been a success, need furniture, but I have a place to stay and that's what matters. I'm hoping that this will be a semi permanent solution for me to go back to school and grow in a better setting. The problem now is the negativity following me after finally getting out of the situation I was placed in.

I was previously in an environment with constant negative energy due to a friend going through a hard time because he was recently divorced. Me and my fiancé did our best to be there for him but he would not take our advice, made us out to be the bad guys saying that we weren't real friends, and was expecting us to put him before ourselves which caused a rift in our friendship unfortunately. We've tried to get him to seek help but he claims friends are all he needs but really he was expecting us to be his personal therapists, which isn't fair to me or my fiancé. We had no time to ourselves and whenever we did the friend would get mad that we weren't talking to him or inviting him to places that were meant for only me and my fiancé. I tried to include him in activities with other people and because he wasn't the center of attention he had a meltdown and blamed us for everything. It continued to get worse when he began posting everything to social media expecting to get a rise out of me or my fiancé even posting pictures of self harm (which I then reported).Long story short, right after we moved out due to the stress that he was putting on us, our friend then became more aggressive the more we refused to say anything about the posts and claimed that we were ignoring him and that he was going to take us to small claims court over rent money but we never signed anything for an official lease. Lastly, he stated that he was going to commit suicide due to us... THIS IS NOT OKAY.

I'm saying all this to present awareness that there are people out there that you simply cannot continuously entertain because it is detrimental to you as a person. Having someone else's crushing depression and self-injury guilt put on your shoulders every day is not okay. If you, your friend or family member are showing obvious signs of depression and increasingly negative thoughts, please call for welfare checks and refer them to the Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255 if possible.

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Quality of life isn’t how much you make, how much stuff you own, how much you do.

Quality of life is enjoying the here and now. Being grateful for what you have and the journeys that you have been on physically and mentally.

Happy Lammas everyone! A day late but better late than never! May the rest of Summer be full of fun in the sun as the harvest season begins to grow closer~

May the August Full Moon wash away any uncertainties and bring great blessings your way.

Magickal Properties: Peonies

♥About♥

Peonies are very sweet smelling flowers that bloom in late Spring and are perennials (they bloom every year, no need to replant). They can come in pink, white, purple, red, orange, and yellow. They are low maintenance besides the daily or weekly de-weeding process. They do not transplant well so it is always better to plant as a bulb in an area that can handle how big they grow (2-4 ft. in height and 2-4 ft. to spread). Peonies last a long time, some even growing up to 100 years old, a wonderful plant to share with the family for generations.

♥Cultural Symbolism and Legends♥

►Peony roots, seeds, and petals are edible in small amounts but could cause stomach aches if not careful!

►In Japanese culture the peony symbolizes a happy marriage, courage, good fortune, and beauty. The colors of the peony are also different in symbolism as the red peony symbolizes eroticism while the white peony symbolizes virgin purity of maidens.

►In Chinese culture the peony symbolizes prosperity and the embodiment of female beauty. By the Tang Dynasty the tree peony had become a symbol of wealth and status. And then by the Song Dynasty the peony had become a muse for Chinese painters.

►The Greeks believed that the flower symbolized healing. In legend, there was a physician named Paeon that served the Greek Gods who also been a student of Asclepius. Leto, the Greek Goddess of fertility, had told Paeon about a magic root that grows on Mount Olympus and could soothe any pain especially associated with childbirth. When Paeon went to search for this magical root, Asclepius had become angry about this and wanted to kill his student. Leto heard about this and asked for help from Zeus who had turned Paeon into the peony flower.

♥Using Peony in Your Spellwork♥

►Keep a root on you to promote attraction in beauty, wealth, or to protect from any mischievous imps and fairies.

►Boil down the petals to create peony infused water to add to your baths or, for a simple skin care regimen, splash a little on the face and pat dry.

►Keep petals with you to protect the mind, soul, and body from negative energies and allow for better clarity.

►Use in ritual for attraction, money, bonding, confidence, and cleansing.

Sources:

Cricket Hill Garden / Home for the Harvest / The Sacred Willow Good Witches Magickal Flowers and Herbs / Wikipedia / Three Pagans and a Cat

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For All Who Celebrate...

Have a wonderful and fulfilling Mabon!~

This is not a time for hexes or curses, fellow practitioners. But a time of harvest, staying cozy and warm as the months get colder, and prepare to arise anew in the upcoming year.

One week till Samhain~

RaveMey

Samhain 2022 Ritual

It's my first time truly celebrating Samhain so I wanted to share it with everyone~ I was late posting my Samhain ritual to Patreon so I will be allowing the public to view it~ I will be performing the ritual later tonight, so I will be posting the pictures here and on my patreon.

Please go check out the ritual here-> https://www.patreon.com/posts/74031062?pr=true

Thank you for pointing this out!

I, for one, am not very fond of being called a witch. I use the title of practitioner 👌

Annual reminder to Witchblr: if a spiritualist of any variety tells you they're not a witch, then they're not a witch.

I’ll be referring to this a lot now ~

13 Goals of a Witch

1. Know Yourself: Understand your thoughts and motivations and take stock of both your vices and virtues. Chose to define yourself, instead of having the world informing who you should be. 2. Know Your Craft:  Knowledge is not just obtained from books and teachers. Study and practice the craft; learn through your own experiences. Honor and celebrate; listen to nature. From your own theories and practices.  3. Learn:  Learning never ends. Look to books, look to nature, look within, and listen. Life is a journey and there will always be a new theory, technique or idea from which to glean knowledge: stay teachable. 4. Apply Knowledge with Wisdom:  Use gained wisdom to temper your action and to make informed decisions. Make your intentions clear and be ready to accept responsibility for any outcome.

5. Achieve Balance:  A balanced life is a good one; Embrace opposites. All of our efforts cannot be settled on one aspect. Take time to care for our emotional, spiritual, and physical self. Balance work with play; balance your diet and exercise and checkbook; magical and mundane intertwined: mental, physical, magical, and spiritual.

6. Keep Your Thoughts in Good Order:  Thoughts manifest reality according to your intent and will before words even form. Magical energy is directed by intention and has an impact on all aspects of our lives: emotionally, mentally, spiritually, magically, physically.

7. Keep Your Words in Good Order:  Words are bond. They are verbalization of thought and carry power to both wound or reward. They should always be treated as such.

8. Celebrate Life:  Existence on this planet is a gift and enjoy every breath. It is in acknowledging the little and big, the trials and triumphs, weeping and rejoicing, pleasure and sacrifice. Without the bad, there cannot be the good. Live life to the fullest!

9. Attune with the Cycles:  Experience nature and understand that we are part of it, not apart from it. Notice as we move through the year and attune yourself to these movements. Follow the lunar cycle, celebrate the wheel. Recognize each season through growing and resting. 

10: Breath and Eat Correctly:  “Your body is a temple.” Strive to achieve optimal health. Breathing aids in raising energy, focus, and stress relief. Wholeness also comes from taking care of oneself physically. Eating a proper diet will help to make our bodies healthier and live longer. Health aids in magical working and make mundane tasks easier. 11. Exercise the Body:  Respect the body that is given and keep it in shape. Things will come easier along with extra confidence. A healthy body feels better both physically and emotionally. We live longer are less encumbered during mundane and magical activities.

12. Meditate:  Good for the mind, body, and soul. More than just one form, it helps us form clarity, for both mundane and spiritual reason as it quiets and centers the mind. It allows us to focus the thought and will, reduces stress and helps with all tasks by being able to focus and think clearly.

13. Honor Deity:  This is more important for those who work include a spiritual aspect in their practice: honor those deities through rituals and celebrations. Serve them well and perhaps, more importantly, be an honor to them thought example.  By honoring them, we also honor ourselves and humans. They are present in every molecule.

Resources linked here: https://theteapractitioner.tumblr.com/post/189908569955/13-goals-of-a-witch-resources