Everything I’ve been working on this week is NSFT (Not Safe For Tumblr), so have a slightly older snippet from Kate and Caius’s second date.
With her fingertips curled over the edge of his cowl, she tugged him down to her level. Stretching up on the tips of her toes, she pressed her lips to his mouth plates, right above the edge of his mandible. Caius blinked at her in surprise as she pulled back, a pretty blush colouring her cheeks. He hadn’t expected her to make the first move, but now she was staring up at him with those big green eyes, watching to see how he’d react.
There was only one thing to do. Very carefully, Caius brushed her loose hair away from her cheek and tucked it gently behind her ear.
“I’ve wanted to do that all evening,” he confessed.
Kate didn’t move. Her eyes remained fixed on his, waiting. Her lips trembled as Caius tilted her chin up with his fingers and leaned down, stopping when their faces were only inches apart. They were so close that he could feel her breath on his mouth plates. Her eyes half-closed in anticipation and she swayed towards him. He closed the distance, pressing his mouth to her parted lips. When his tongue touched hers, she sighed. It was all the encouragement he needed. One hand cupped the back of her neck while the other slipped around her waist, pulling her body firmly against him. Her soft curves fit perfectly in his arms, like he’d know they would.
Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element:Water Energy:Feminine
Lemon Seeds in witchcraft
My favorite way to use lemon seeds in witchcraft is using what nature gave me. I clean some seeds, add to tamp paper towels, place them in a baggy, and hang them on my window for about 2-3 weeks. Once they sprout, I’ll plant no more than two into a tiny little cup planter and keep it on my altar. Every time i go to water it, I’m reminded to care for my altar. Every time I care for my altar, I’m reminded to water it. It’s a simple but extraordinarily effective way to measure my own personal growth as well. Once they’re big enough to need a home outside, I’ll replant it, and start all over with another kind of seed. My orchard is ever-growing.
Wearing lemon seeds can be a little difficult to style, but it can be done. I personally let them dry for about a month before I do this. You can take a small lemon seed and slip it into a locket to carry with you. Make a little wire cage, or simply poke a hole in it and string it onto a piece of leather cord. Lemon seeds are little pockets o sunshine for your soul and represent the ability to grow and harvest a new way of life wherever you end up. Gifting someone jewelry with lemon seeds represents you wishing them a lifetime of good health, energy, and spiritual wellbeing.
Lemon seeds are also great ways to add lemon essence to things like spell jars. If they’re dried properly, they allow you to harness that lemony effect without needing to watch your spell jar turn into an ecosystem of manifestation and mold.
Please consider this post open for all ideas, comments, tricks, and tips! I use a lot of interaction from my blog to come up with new things to post about - so if you wanna say something, go for it! As always everyone, be safe out there, and Blessed Be :)
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Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element:Water Energy:Feminine
Lemon peel in witchcraft
I love incorporating witchy things into my showers. Even if I melt down a soap bar and add lemon zest, toss in a few lemon slices into the tub, or make a sugar/salt body scrub with lemon zest, I feel like that little touch adds an energizing and wonderful spark in the mornings when I shower!
Lemon peel is also FULL of what is essentially… essential oil. You know when you have some orange peel, and you bend it about, a find mist propels into the air around it? Lemon peel does the same thing. Hack a slice off, spritz it onto the front of your shirt, and you’ll carry a light, refreshing, cleansing aura around with you all day! Plus, the effects linger, so when you wash it, your diluting a tiny bit of positivity into all of your clothes.
You can also use dried lemon peel as a smoke cleanse. It’s not very pleasant to smell, but it has an amazing effect. Lemon sucks up negativity like a vacuum, so naturally it’ll do just that as it’s wafting around your space. Open a window, turn on a fan, and watch a week’s worth of stress and anxiety rush right out of your home.
As always, if anyone has any other tips, tricks, or witchy hints on the subject, you are all more than welcome to add your ideas into comments, tags, and reblogs! My blog runs off of the ideas that you all give me, so interacting with posts not only get your ideas out there for others, but it also helps me find new topics to post about. As always, be safe, and blessed be!
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Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element:Water Energy:Feminine
Lemon flesh/juice in witchcraft
The best lemonade you’ll ever have is also a potent spiritual protection spell/potion! Cut off the peel of 2 large lemons, and slice the flesh into bits. Remove seeds. Add bits to a pot with a sprig of fresh basil, 2 cups of water, and 1 cup of sugar(or to taste, I personally only use ½ a cup). Simmer for 10 minutes and stir occasionally while mashing the lemon bits with a spoon. Remove from heat, cool to room temperature, and strain over 2 cups of ice water in a pitcher. This should give you about 4 or 5 cups of lemonade depending on your sugar taste. You can also add water, use more lemon - whatever calls to you.
Lemon juice is just full of cleansing energy and potent negative energy absorption. Add a bit to your water in the mornings to help absorb negativity all day! Easy, fast, delightful in sparkling water (but I am secretly a 65-year-old grandparent in a 22-year-old body so I like sparkling water)
Lemon juice is also very protective outside your body. You can dab it onto your clothes, add a tablespoon to your washing machine or dishwasher, or even just sprinkle a tiny bit into your mop bucket (And I mean TINY: a tablespoon to a gallon ratio, or even less). All of that with infuse you and your home with a clean, fresh energy.
Of course, these are just a few easy broom-closet-friendly ideas, so if you aren’t worried about keeping your practice hidden, feel free to add on your ideas and tricks! My blog is geared mostly towards beginners or people living in unfriendly environments, so a lot of my lists, tricks, and tips are for them. As always, remember to do your research and always practice in a cleansed environment! Blessed be!
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I’ve had a few people ask me for more information on lemons in witchcraft, so here’s a new series for you guys! There will be a few parts: whole lemons, flesh/juice, peel, and seeds. For simplicity sake, there will likely only be a max of three or four ideas on each post, so that it’s not overwhelming and I feel like I can go into detail without the posts getting too long. Without further delay, let’s get right into it!
Basics of lemons:
Zodiac: Cancer and Pisces Planet: The Moon Element:Water Energy:Feminine
Bring a whole lemon with you when you’re going somewhere that needs a significant amount of your energy. Lemons are extremely energizing and can offer a boost when you have tests, presentations, or interviews.
The first day after a full moon, press a whole clove into the feel of a whole lemon. Do this every day until the next full moon, preferably before you go to bed. The next full moon, bury it somewhere you consider a very peaceful place to invoke good luck and spiritual energy.
Throw one at your homophobic Mormon uncle.
Like I said, I’ll probably keep each post at three or four ideas, but if anyone wants to add more ideas or suggest a new kind of posts, my asks are open! Always remember to do your research and always practice in a cleansed environment :) Blessed be!
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Kristen Bjerre (May 17, 1869 - 1943) was a Danish painter and publican. He studied at the Royal Academy and with P.S. Krøyer, and then settled near his home town Lemvig, where he bought a small pub and boarding house in Ferring in 1891.
Many artists and writers came there, including some of Kristen’s brother Niels Bjerre’s friends, such as the painters Jens Vige and Jens Søndergaard who even bought a summer house there, at Bovbjerg where Kristen’s hotel relocated in 1901. Writers included Thøger Larsen, Jeppe Aakjær, and Johan Skjoldborg.
Above:Still Life with Pot Lid, Lemons and Plant, no year - oil on canvas (Privately owned)
