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Tips for subtle witchcraft

Starting a Grimoire

Ok so somebody asked for some tips on starting their grimoire so here’s this long ass post for anyone who needs it.

You do not need some big fancy notebook it can be a really cheap one or it can be online or in a scrapbook/binder

Ideas of what to put in your Grimoire

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Table of contents

A page about you, your birthstone, fav herbs/crystals to make it more personal

Types of magick

Types of witches

The history of magick/witches in your country or local area

About the deities you worship if you worship any

Local myths/legends of interest

herbs and their magickal properties

Candles and their magickal properties

Essential oils and their magickal properties

Crystals and their magickal propererties

Gemstones and their magickal properties

Runes

Sigils

Casting a circle

Spells and how to cast them

What days/times are best for casting spells

Zodiac signs

Moon phases

Familiars

Altars, what they are and what you need to set one up

Moon water

Sun water

Banishing

Binding

Cleansing

Grounding

Spirit work, how to do it and how to stay safe

Put protection sigils over the Grimoire to keep it safe and hidden

Planets and their relation to magick

Sabbats

Witch terminology 101

Organizing a Grimoire

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This isn’t needed, if you prefer the write as you go method that’s fine.

For those of us who prefer to have it organized a table of contents is a must.

Try and plan what your going to write down when. If it helps write down in a notebook or in your book of shadows every idea you can think of putting in your grimoire and number them.

It’s ok if it’s not ‘perfect’ chances are this is your first grimoire so not only is ok its natural to make a few mistakes here and there

Write in pencil if you don’t like crossing out mistakes or using tipex

The key thing to remember is that it doesn’t need to look 'Tumblr perfect’ as long as you understand it

Samhain

Since its coming soon i thought since I’m a native Gaeilge speaker (aka Irish) I’d show you how to pronounce it

Samhain= sow-in, ow like in cow or sometimes its said as sow-in-a

STOP!

You did it you really did it you made to this far take a second and take a breath cause I’m so proud of you

My Grimoire

Im just starting my grimoire now, i’ve been writing in my book of shadows since i became a witch but i really want to start my grimoire now. I’ve got a notebook but im not sire what to put in it any advice

Nothing beats

The feeling of drinking herbal tea in pyjamas updating your grimoire while watching a full moon

Starting out in witchcraft

I’ve been asked a lot of questions by people who are interested in witchcraft but don’t know where to start, and I gotta say, it is super difficult to figure where the best place to start is, and so I figured I would make a post specifically for those baby witches who aren’t sure where to start

Research

The most important part of being a baby witch is research, but theses such a huge amount of information out there that it can be difficult to know where to start. The easiest way to do it, and the way I did it, is by just starting with what drew you to witchcraft. I was drawn to runes initially so started researching runestones and divination, which is how I got into tarot and everything else came in turn. Even if what drew you to the craft is something as superficial as fashion, you can still research where those fashions came from. Question everything. You see lavender is used in a spell? Research why. You see that a certain colour of candle works better in a spell? Research why. You see a sigil? Find out the origin. Someone gives you a tip on the internet? Do background research into what they said. Never just blindly follow what someone says especially if you’re going to use it in your craft. Make sure you know exactly what everything is, means, and where it came from before using it in any capacity. The better informed you are, the more likely good things will come from your craft.

Book of Shadows and Grimiors

Keeping a book of shadows or a grimior (or both) is a great way to record your research. Its important not to get caught up in the way your book shadows looks. Of course if you want to make a beautiful book of shadows then that’s fantastic, but if a page takes you so long to write that it’s hindering your research, then I would consider keeping both a book of shadows and a grimior. A grimior is purely for information, facts, spells, etc… a grimior is worth taking time over. A book of shadows functions more as a journal. For writing personal experience, notes, etc… I keep a very messy book of shadows in a plain notebook that I just write whatever in. It has no kind of order to it all, and I suspect no one can read it but me. I also keep a grimior in a beautiful leather bound notebook that I bought in italy and I write in it in neat and specifically stylised writing that is easy to read. Infact, I also have a separate tarot journal. Having both, I find, puts less pressure on academics.

Start simple

Don’t expect too much too soon. I wouldn’t recommend diving right into complex spellwork. If you’ve just started, there are probably things you don’t know about casting spells that are important to keep you safe, and you haven’t had the time find your energy and how to focus it to the best of your abilities. Give yourself time to figure out what you want in your practice rather than diving into one specific path. And absolutely don’t work with the fae straight off the bat. Bad idea. Bad. Don’t do it. Do your research. I also would recommend getting a feel for the practice and for what you want from it before committing yourself to a deity/deities. Again, give yourself time to figure out what path to take. It’s totally ok to change your path along the way. If you initially decide to be a green witch but change your mind and opt for cottage witchcraft, that is totally ok. Changing you path even when you were absolutely certain, is absolutely fine, even if you’ve been on your initial path for years (even decades). I haven’t decided a specific path at all yet, so I’m currently an eclectic witch, but that may, and is likely, to change

It’s important to remember that every witch’s path is different. Gatekeeping is a big problem in the community but don’t allow people to tell you that you have to be born into a family of witches to be a witch. It’s a practice, not an inherited gift or race.

Tbh this post isnt complete and I’ll continue to add to it very time as I think of things

Year spread

The year spreads I usually do just month by month spread but this time i did a spread based on aspects of the year and i thought I’d share it (I found the spread on tumblr btw but I can’t remember who’s it is)

(Please excuse my handwriting, I don’t usually post stuff with my own writing but I didn’t want to type it out again)

Witchy planner for 2020!!

I saw a planner on tiktok that someone was recommending, and it wasn’t too expensive so I went ahead and bough it and it’s so cool!!

It’s called the Coloring Book of Shadows Planner for a Magical 2020, it cost £13.15 ($17.22) from Amazon

[NOT MY PHOTO] [found it on google]

It has a page for a tarot card for every month, it has information about how to use the planner within your practice, a wheel of the year, a seasons wheel, zodiac information, retrograde info, moon phases info (and moon phases calendar), stuff about chakras, divination, scrying, the basics for spell casting, a page to write you intuition for the coming year information on the different full moon, good spells to cast at certain times of the year, and of course, a month by month planner with space to write plans or thoughts for everyday.

Personally, I’m only using it to write events that are relevant to my practice, but you can use it like a normal planner too. I also noted down all the retrogrades for this year in the moon phases calendar.

I love this planner because I often forget things like retrogrades, full moons, important days to cast specific spells on, even sabbats. I don’t have a very good memory for these things so having the planner has already been really useful and I’ve only had it for 2 days! I’m also writing all of it as neatly as I can because like a book of shadows, it’ll be fun to look back at it in the future. Usually my handwriting wouldn’t be at all legible. (Infact I’m writing all of it in cursive with a fountain pen bc I’m a nerd).

I may even start writing my daily tarot cards in it!

I love this planner and would definitely recommend it to any witch, but especially if you tend to lose track of time or have a bad memory. (Or if you just like to be organized)

One of the best things about this planner is that the whole thing is also a coloring book!! All of the artwork is black outlines so that you can color it however you want! I think it’s super cool. It’s also very relaxing to color.

The Bastards Tarot Deck

The deck designed by Emerson Barrett of Palaye Royale arrived!!

It took a while because it was imported from the USA to Scotland, I missed the delivery last Wednesday, it was rescheduled to arrive on friday, but it didn’t, then it was rescheduled again again a arrived on Tuesday, but that’s ok.

Ok. The deck. Its stunning. The packaging is a red box, with a top that folds over and seals with magnets

The cards themselves are gold edged (which looks amazing) and have glitter. The glitter comes off on your hands at first, but when I was looking at them last night, there was no glitter left of my hands, so I think all the excess glitter had come off by that point. The cards were all quite stuck together at first, by I think it was just due to edging sticking and after shuffling them, they move and shuffle as smoothly as a deck that was never stuck in the first place (and separating the cards was pretty satisfying), although while they don’t stick, shuffling is still a little tricky with these cards due to the edge being slightly tacky (I would assume that the use of glitter requires some kind of glue or glue like paint) and the cards being of thick cardstock. The cardstock does mean that the cards are good quality a durable though, which is good.

There’s the original 78 and there’s 50+ (52, I think) original cards. Half of which serve as art cards, the other half are also intended as art cards (I think) but can actually function as a a mini Oracle deck, because they’re all named in a similar manner to Oracle decks. They could also be added to the deck to be used as extra major arcana cards.

The designs are beautiful, although some of them are a little tricky to read. If you are already very familiar with the standard Rider Waite deck, then it isn’t difficult to read, but I wouldn’t recommend this as a first deck, as it doesn’t have any kind of guide book or leaflet to say what each card means. The the cards predominantly use a colour scheme of black white and red, witch splashes of other colours. I split deck into light decks and dark deck, usually depending on border colour and and general colour scheme, and I would consider this one a dark/black deck.

I’ve only done 2 reading with this deck so far, one before I cleansed it and one after. Before I cleansed the deck, it was full of all kinds of bad mojo, but after one simple cleansing and getting to know the deck, the bad mojo is completely gone.

Tarot and how I use it

Figured it was finally time for a tarot master post

What is tarot?

Tarot cards are a divination tool, often used by pagans, wiccans, and other people who practice witchcraft. Tarot cards are (usually) used by asking a question/thinking about a situation, and laying out cards in a layout appropriate to the situation (you can use ones other people have made, but you can make your own spreads too), and every position in the layout represents a different aspect of the question or situation. For example:

This is a spread in which the first card represents the past, the second card represents the present, and the third card represents the future. There are many different layouts. I’ll post some in the future!

The Arcana: Major and Minor

Tarot cards are split into Major and Minor Arcana. The Major arcana are numbered 0 - 21, and the cards all have a meaning that correlates directly to the name of the card. For example, the Death card means the end of a cycle and change. The Minor Arcana are split into suits. The most common suits in the Minor Arcana are Cups, Pentacles, Swords, and Wands. Within the suits, the cards are numbered from Ace - 10 and there are four court cards per suit, generally labelled Page, Knight, Queen, and King, although in the Wild Unknown tarot deck, the court cards are Daughter, Son, Mother, and Father. The Cups represent feelings, emotion, intuition, and creativity. Pentacles represent finances, work, and material possessions. Swords represent thoughts words, and actions. Wands represent energy, motivation, and passion.

Cleansing tarot decks

Theres loads of different ways to cleanse a tarot deck. There’s plenty of cleansing rituals, but I would recommend doing your own research on that, because I don’t tend to do full rituals to cleanse my deck, so I don’t know much about them. My favourite ways to cleanse a deck are by using white sage or white sage incense, or deck knocking. To cleanse with sage, just run the cards through the smoke. To knock on the deck, all you have to do it put the deck down on a surface (table, floor, etc…) and knock on it like the deck is a door. Knocking just knocks out bad vibes and spirits and all of that, it’s the easiest and quickest way to cleanse a deck. If you’re only going to use knocking as your cleansing method, I’d recommend doing it before every reading.

I’ll add more to this post when I have time but I just wanted to get this posted today because I’ve had in my drafts for months

Decks I have:

• The Wild Unknown tarot by Kim Krans
• The Rider-Waite tarot
• The Bastards Tarot by Emerson Barrett and Emery Elizabeth

Free One Card Readings

I’ve done these before, but I’m on a long car ride and want something to do. I’ll reblog when the offer is closed.

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things all goblins can agree on:

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the crows outside my window at 3am: screaming menacingly

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I love the goblin/crowcore/etc. community because I make a post about moss and? y'all just go fucken feral. dirt? stones? frogs? y'all LOSE YOUR MINDS.

you’ve all heard of moss, so may I suggest to you:

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