The Witch You Tell Him Not To Worry About

Grimoire ideas

About you:

How you got started in the craft

Your spiritual journey

Things you connect to (animals, elements, plants, ect)

Types of magic you do

Your natal chart

Your deities (if you have any)

Correspondences:

Remember, you don't need to write down correspondences you will never need! So instead, write about...

Crystals you have/want

Plants you can grow yourself/already have around you. Check your spice cabinet

And list things to use those for! So that would be herb bundles to burn, salves, recipes, and so on.

Other things you can use in magic that you already have

This would be things like sea shells, snail shells, grass, dirt, candles. Get creative!

Other witchcraft stuff:

Your sigils

Planets

The sun/moon +moon phases

Zodiac signs

The elements

Symbolism (animals, shapes, and whatever else you wish to add)

Spells:

What makes a spell that works!!! This should help with making your own spells

What NOT to do

Different types of spells

Spells you will actually use

Divination:

A section on tarot cards and their meanings

How to use a pendulum

Meanings of oracle cards

Rune meanings and how to cast them

Lesser known forms of divination!!!

Mental health:

Grounding and centering

Burn out care and being energy efficient

A list of what motivates you to do your craft

Small spells for self care

Astral work:

Your astral space (a map, a description, drawings of important locations)

Your astral body, if it's any different than your physical one

A list of spirits and important information about them

Protection, sheilding, banishing, and safety

Manners when interacting with spirits and what NOT to do

Methods of projection/travel that work for you

Post-astral grounding methods

General spirit work:

How to interact with spirits and how NOT to interact with spirits

Protection, banishing, shielding, and other safety things

How to give offerings (there's more than one way!)

Methods of communicating with spirits

Signs of spirits

Ways spirits can send signs and messages (animals, dreams, and so on)

A list of different kinds of spirits you work with/have encountered

A section for research, especially if you're doing deity work.

Grounding, if it helps you afterwards

A log of interaction with spirits. This can be like a divination journal but with spirits, if that's what you do.

So my petty ex, who I left for being a rapist and sexually assaulting me in my sleep, is pathetically spreading dumbass little rumors about me on world of Warcraft of all things. I’m a bit annoyed, but it isn’t like it’s hard to change servers so I guess that’s what I’ll be working on tomorrow. I don’t even want to be bothered by it but I guess I can’t even do pet battles in peace on my server now. Sucks that I have too many characters to transfer so I’ll only take one and start from the beginning, but still. I think I have the right to be irritated. It is amazing how people who are abusers act like they are the ones who are hurt when you finally leave after being abused for two years. Oh, and when I did finally leave and did finally get all my things, I found in with my clothes the clothes of the girl he was cheating on me with before covid. Can’t be happier to have cut these ties.

meet the angy frog aka black rain frog☔🐸🖤

5 things you SHOULD do on Friday 13th

We've taken a look at the history and it's actually the perfect day for a few behaviours

Whether or not you believe in the superstition of Friday 13th, it's still a date that can send a shiver through your plans thanks to the attention and hype the ancient 'unlucky' date has built-up over the years.

But should we approach it with fear, or should we use it to our advantage and make a few different decisions? Country Living took a look at the history and have come up with five detoxing and rather enjoyable things which are best done on Friday 13th.

WHY IS FRIDAY 13TH CONSIDERED UNLUCKY?

The superstition dates back to the urban legends of the 1600s and, to understand it properly, we need to look at the day Friday and the number 13 separately.

So, why Friday? Steve Roud, author of The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland (£2.96, Amazon), explained to the BBC:

"Because Friday was the day of the crucifixion, Fridays were always regarded as a day of penance and abstinence," he says.

"This religious belief spilled over into a general dislike of starting anything - or doing anything important - on a Friday."

AND WHAT ABOUT THE NUMBER 13?

Well, back in the 1690s, an urban legend began to bubble that it was unlucky to have 13 people sat around a dinner table as this was the amount of people present at the Last Supper. It was also believed to be the number of witches needed to officially make a coven.

How did the two come together? "The Victorians who were intrigued by folklore put Friday and 13 together and created a doubly unlucky day," by the author of the Country Wisdom and Folklore Diary.

5 things we should do on Friday 13th

1. Disregard the 'unlucky' part

When legends like this circulate, it's easy to blame anything negative that happens on that day on the ideas. If your car won't start today or you put salt instead of sugar in your tea, blame coincidence.

2. Have an alcohol-free day

In the spirit of abstinence, and the fact that Christmas is soon approaching and will bring with it platefuls of indulgence, why not have a day without your favourite tipple. Instead, enjoy a soft alternative or hygge-inspired hot chocolate.

3. Write a list

We love a list - normally of the shopping to to-do variety – but, on a day when people were originally not meant to start something new, let's use this time to sit back, relax, and think about things we would like to start in the future.

Is there a hobby you've always wanted to try? A place you've always wanted to travel to? Or simply a walk you haven't trodden yet? Make a bucket list, stick it on the fridge and commit to ticking them off when you can. Just because we shouldn't do, doesn't mean we can't plan.

4. Take a moment to feel grateful

While you relax, soft drink in hand, thinking about the exciting activities you plan to do, also take a moment to appreciate what you have already done and the smile-inducing things in your life. Not having to worry about witches and penance should probably be top of the list...

5. Procrastinate

It's probably not a behaviour we are used to but, on a day when urban legend tells us not to do anything important, let's give it a go. Clean the oven tomorrow, sort out the post on Sunday and save the hoovering for the morning. Just sit, relax and be mindful.

So don't take that date to seriously...

Have a Happy Friday the 13th

By Country Living Magazine

Altars - My Digital Grimoire Series

*these are my pages, please do not repost as your own!*

So, you wanna get started with divination? (Masterlist)

Well, I am hardly an expert, but I can point you in the direction of others who are!

Introduction

Divination Intro

Tarot Cards

How to Get Started in Tarot

How to Read Tarot Cards When You Don’t Know Shit

Tips for Interpreting Tarot Cards

Reverse Tarot Cards

Yes/No Tarot Tips

Moon Phase Tarot Spread

How to Cleanse your Cards

Cartomancy

Cartomancy ABC Guide

Cartomancy: The Suits

How to Cleanse your Cards

Tasseography

Tasseography Guide

Lithomancy

Preparing a Lithomancy Set

Scrying

Scrying [Witchcraft 101]

Scrying Tips

Runeology

A Guide to Greek Alphabet Divination (Runes)

An Introduction to Norse Runeology

Elder Futhark Rune Correspondences

Blooding Runes

Candle Work

Reading a Candle

Reading a Candle (Yes/No Questions)

Misc.

Lesser known forms of Divination

Seashell Divination

Seashell Divination II

Flowers for types of witches🌺🌻🌼🌹🌷🌸

I decided to cataglorize some of my flower correapondeces for different types of witches. Enjoy! 🌼

💧Water/sea/lunar/love witches- lotus, lily, jasmine, gardenia, magnolia, violet, rose, peony, geranium, orchids, hydrangea, lilac, passion flower, petunia

☁️Air/storm/cosmic witches- (any aromatic/light flower) lavender, babys breath, dandelion, daisy, heather, freesia, daffodil, chrysanthemum, forget-me-nots, st John’s wort, primrose, bluebell, linden

🔥Fire/solar/desert witches- sunflower, hibiscus, poppy, chamomile, chrysanthemum, aster, marigold, calendula, snapdragon, cactus flower, prickly pear blossom, carnations, poinsettia, st John’s wort

🌲Green/earth/ forest witches-(any bulb/foraging/herbal flower) tulips, feverfew, echinacea, passionflower, comfrey, amaryllis, hyacinth, dahlia, iris, catnip flower, sage flower, basil flower

🏠Kitchen/cottage witches- (any edible/fruit/vegetable flower) such as elder flower, honeysuckle, passionflower, apple blossom, strawberry blossom, orange blossom, rose, pansy, squash flower, marigold

🌼Healing/garden/tea witches- (any healing/edible/aromatic flower) such as calendula, chamomile, helitrope, lavender, milk thistle, beebalm, yarrow, red clover, rosehip, passionflower, elderflower, lilac, violets, and orchids

**please do research on the flower before you ingest it in any way

Tasseomancy: Symbols

Tasseomancy or Tasseography is the practice and process of using tea leaves or coffee grounds to forecast, understand, or improve upcoming or current events. This can be used for planning ahead, or for personal growth, healing and development. One nearly finished a loose herbal concoction, and then flips the remaining biological powders onto a small plate. They then scry based off of the shapes or symbols the leaves lie in. Here are some basic shapes and their meanings.

Symbols:

Anchor: Stability, Stagnancy, permanence, and immobility. Angel: Fortune, positivity, and potential true romance. Apple: Health, longevity, academic or professional success. Aries: Strength, intensity, lust, and scorching emotion. Axe: You have overcome your challenges, victory and triumph. Boat: Reunification, fellowship, familiarity, and support. Bowl: Containment, stagnancy, summer, light, and Litha. Bridge: A wonderful voyage to embark on lies ahead of you. Candle: Enlightenment, guidance, illumination, and warmth. Car: Impending prosperity, fortune, and achievements. Chain: Accountability, a sequence of occasions, and stagnancy. Clouds: Trials and troubles ahead. If surrounded by dots; success is coming. Clover: Upcoming luck. The higher up its located, the sooner it will come. Compass: Guidance, direction, backing, assistance, and support. Crown: Triumph, magnificence, incentives or gifts, and admiration. Cup: Achievement, celebration, emotional healing, and purification. Dagger: Love, encouragement, assistance, and support from allies. Gun: Discord, tension, slander, defamation, and disharmony. Hammer: The journey and trials you’ve faced have been overcome. Hat: Accomplishment, success, and achievement in general. House: Stability, victory in profession or corporate choice. Knots: Apprehensions, concerns, tension, worry, and pressure. Ladder: Advancement, improvement, development, and progress. Mars: Movement, action, progress, vigor, and lustful love. Mountain: Forthcoming impediments, obstacles, and challenges. Mushroom: Rebirth, shifting, transformation, everlasting growth. Owl: Deceit, deception, loss, probable illness, or deprivation. Pear: Social status, wealth, prosperity, and admiration. Ring: Harmony, love, partnership, alliance, and marriage. Scissors: Arguments, disputes, separations, or possibility of ailment. Sun: Stamina, energy, vitality, triumph, and opportunities. Trees: Prosperity, direction, growth, happiness, and luck. Umbrella: Struggles, aggravations, provocations, and endurance. Venus: Romance, femininity, compassion, and love.

Fundamentals / Numbers / Shapes

Tarot 101: Using Personality Types to Understand Court Cards

One of the ways we might read court cards, as I discussed in the previous part of my Tarot 101 series, is to look at them as people. A pulled tarot card might represent yourself or someone in your life, or you might even choose to select a court card as a signifier to intentionally represent yourself or someone else in a reading. But how do you choose? We can personalize and analyze the qualities of each card to understand how a selected court card might represent one person or another, but one interesting way of attaching personality these cards that has been discussed is using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test.

What is Myers-Briggs?

By Jake Beech - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test (MBTI) is a “personality inventory” test used to make Carl Jung’s psychological research “understandable and useful” for people (Myers & Briggs Foundation). The test asks subjects to identify preferences based on the four dichotomies from Jung’s theories:

Favorite world - used to define Extraverted (E) or Introverted (I) personality types

Information - used to define Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) personality types 

Decisions - used to define Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) personality types

Structure - used to define Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) personality types

When the result of each of these dichotomies is defined, a personality type is expressed in a four character “code” (Myers & Briggs Foundation).

(You can take the MBTI test here.)

What About Court Cards? 

There are sixteen possible MBTI personality types (you can learn more about each type from the Myers-Briggs Foundation here). There are also sixteen court cards in a standard tarot deck with four face cards in each suit. The personality types can be more broadly attached to suits overall. For instance, Wands and Cups are both intuitive (N) suits, but wands are thinking (T) while cups are feeling (F). Swords and Pentacles can be paired in the same way. Both Swords and Pentacles are sensing (S) suits, but Swords are thinking (T) while Pentacles are feeling (F) (TarotX). 

Using the MBTI personality codes can help us understand the ways that the suits interact with in a deck and how the different court cards differ from one another. As an example, we can look at the Knight of Wands and the Knight of Cups. Both intuitive individuals, but the Knight of Wands takes more time to think logically while the Knight of Cups is more considerate of people’s feelings and emotionally driven consequences. 

It is also useful for breaking down stereotypes that are often embedded in the court cards, such as masculine power over feminine individuals with the implication that the Kings are move valuable cards than the Queens. (Plot twist: they’re equally capable and powerful cards, they just operate differently.) All MBTI personality types are equally valuable, and the court cards are too. Personality types of Individual Court Cards

Suit of Wands

Page of Wands - INTP

Knights of Wands - ENTP

Queen of Wands - INTJ

King of Wands - ENTJ

Suit of Cups

Page of Cups - INFP

Knights of Cups - ENFP

Queen of Cups - INFJ

King of Cups - ENFJ

Suit of Swords

Page of Swords - ISTP

Knight of Swords - ESTP

Queen of Swords - ISTJ

King of Swords - ESTJ

Suit of Pentacles

Page of Pentacles - ISFP

Knight of Pentacles - ESFP

Queen of Pentacles - ISFJ

King of Pentacles - ESFJ

Knowing your own MBTI personality type (or other’s) can be useful for getting a deeper understanding of the way court cards function should you choose to read them as people. It can also help you select signifiers by selecting the card that matches your particular personality type or selecting a card with a personality type you’d like to embody. For instance, if you are INTJ (Queen of Wands), you may choose to signify that you want to be more extroverted by placing an ENTJ (King of Wands) card.

Understanding and using MBTI tests and types and understanding Jung’s theories (which have been used to develop modern understandings of tarot and shadow work) is one way that you can continue to deepen your readings and give yourself more resources for approaching readings beyond card keywords.

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Sources:

“16 MBTI Personality Types in Tarot Court Cards.” TarotX, 13 Mar. 2020, tarotx.net/16-mbti-personality-court-cards/.

“MBTI Basics.” The Myers & Briggs Foundation - MBTI® Basics, www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/.

More Tarot 101: Welcome to Tarot / The Story of the Major Arcana / Card Keywords / Choosing a Deck /  Practice Makes Perfect / Bonding with Your Deck(s)  / An Introduction to Court Cards / Methods of Reading Court Cards /  Using Personality Types to Understand Court Cards 

Vivid Dream Spell

Hello witches! I couldn’t sleep last night, so I wandered to my altar and made a spell jar for vivid dreaming. I love dream magick, but sadly I find that I never remember my dreams/don’t dream at all most nights. This spell was powerful, and I was visited by Aphrodite in my dream. So I’d love to share it with you all✨

What You’ll Need:

A glass jar

A light blue and dark blue candle

Lavender incense

Moon water

Thyme

Lavender flowers

Sage

Black salt (for protection, this is optional)

Lavender oil (optional)

Your wand of choice (optional)

I also used amethyst, crystal quarts and selenite.

What To Do:

Cast your circle and cleanse the room you’ll be sleeping in (I use ethically sourced palo santo to cleanse). During this time I call upon whatever deities I wish to work with, but if you don’t work with the devine that’s okay too. After casting your circle, light the lavender incense and use the smoke to cleanse your materials.

Set your intention! What kind of things are you looking to gain from this dream? Are you performing this spell for what kind of reasons?

Light your blue candles. I used both light and dark blue.

Add your moon water to the jar, along with a few sprigs of thyme, a pinch of ground sage, lavender flowers, black salt and lavender oil. As your doing this, focus on your intention. Visualize what you’re wanting to gain from this spell.

I used a little chant while doing this:

Whatever the meaning, so mote it be. Show me the dream I wish to see.

Meditate on your intention. Call upon your deities if you work with them, ask them to guide you during your sleep.

Take the melted wax from your blue candles and pour it into the jar while you focus and meditate on your intention. After this, take your wand and trace a pentagram over the jar while using the chant above. Tap the glass three times with your wand to set the spell.

Once this is finished, take your desired crystals and the jar to a place beside your bed (i set my things on my bedside table). Put out your candles, incense, turn off the lights and get comfy in bed. Meditate on your intention as you fall asleep ✨