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Ways to Celebrate Mabon - the Autumn Equinox

Take a walk in nature to observe the transition of the seasons

Gather fall leaves, acorns, creek stones, and mushrooms

Gratitude journaling

Host a bonfire with music & dancing

Have a potluck or feast with loved ones

Hang up plants & herbs to dry

Practice ancestor veneration

Give offerings to your God or deities

Works of charity — give to others

Rituals for prosperity, protection, and power

Bake bread or fruit pies

Honor the Harvest Moon

Decorate your altar to honor and highlight the season

Visit an orchard or vineyard

Use grapes and apples in your spellwork

Pray or set intention for a bountiful harvest, new opportunities, and protection of your blessings

Pyromancy and fire rites

More detailed tips and info about the Autumn Equinox HERE

thescarlettbitch:

I made Athena a candle and I feel like she likes it. It’s a small white pillar candle (I forget what they are called but it’s small) with some scented wax from one of my old candles that the wicked burned out but it still have a lot of wax dripped on it, some chamomile from a tea bag pressed into it, some dragon’s blood incense ashes, and a red thread, and a blue thread wrapped around it.

Your spirit guides are here, right now. 

They’re an inevitable part of our existence but we might be still learning to be aware of their presence. Wise advice popped up in your mind, sudden turn to the unknown street to bring you to the amazing place, strange butterfly, symbols hidden in bus numbers.

There is an immense dramatic element to be here, on this earth, carrying the grandness of your soul, with all that stories, karma, dimensions, previous lives, and trying to manage in the same time - soul mission, releasing karma, integrating aspects and aspects of self, merging with soulmates, helping humanity, helping Earth and yet not forgetting to take care of yourself. 

We’re not supposed to go alone.

Your soul is weaved with all the beings out there - they speak to you, merge with your feelings, guide and bring all of you together, they root for you, love you. They’re your portals and main teachers, your soul family, they can be you.

Put spirit radio on, tune into the vibes you need nowadays.

***Spirit guides tarot spread can be a lot, just a lot of everything***

know the spirit guides connecting with you at present moment: ancestors and animal spirits, ascendant masters, angels, extraterrestrial beings, your Higher self

be aware of ways they connect with you, purpose and mystery of your connection - here you can learn about own unique abilities and psychic predispositions + study your personal myth and history 

find out how you can deepen connection with the spirit guides 

find out what is blocking you from connecting with the spirit guides and how to work through that

get messages from the spirit guides, something they’re trying to convey to you at present moment - it can be anything, from very practical things to mysterious revelations 

if you’ve a question to your guides this spread can be a portal trough which you can try to get an answer 

This spread needs highly intuitive or psychic reading, you’re definitely going to decipher the specific ways the spirit guides use to speak through tarot. 

Some ideas to begin with:

Lay down cards 1-9 first and interpret them. 

1 - basically this is you, your current state in general or in regard to the spirit guides - your feelings, expectations, attitude.

2-9:

Major Arcana or court cards represents the spirit guides

Minor Arcana cards: all about your connection with the spirit guides (if this is what you’re interested in), 

messages for you (especially if you’re asking your guides specific question) 

Depending on 1-9 cards, you can lay down a-p cards. Consider to do that especially when there are no spirit guides among 1-9 cards. 

a-p cards can be interpreted differently from 1-9 cards, as spiritual work need to be done, challenges to overcome, interference to clear away.

themanicnami:

Here is a list of unconventional and affordable ingredients that can be used in spells and witchcraft along with their correspondences; good for witches “in the woods” and witches on a budget. Many of these can be easily found for inexpensive prices or at home.

• Acorns/Acorn Caps: security, abundance, longevity, good luck, youth and brings good health
  
• Animal toys/stickers: relates to correspondences of that animal
• Artist’s Charcoal: banishing negativity, protection; cursing
• Baby Powder: cleansing, beauty, youth
• Baking Soda: cleansing, purification, protection
• Birthday Candles: wishes, joy; color magic and number magic depending on their color and/or what number they display
• Black Tea Bags (used): earth magic, grounding, strength, stability, banishing negativity; ending, death 
• Bottle Caps: prosperity, luck, material gain
• Bubble Bath: self-love, relaxation, emotional healing, serenity; plus whatever scent the bubble bath is affects correspondences
• Bubbles/Bubble Liquid: wishes, joy, whimsy, imagination, fantasy
• Buckeye Nuts: luck, sexual energies, warding
• Butter: femininity, flattery, friendship, warmth, happiness; good for fae work
• Candy Bars: love, romance, happiness, lust, fertility, emotional healing, healing of the heart, forgiveness, friendship
• Candy Corn: courage, imagination, endurance, energy, motivation, happiness, celebration
• Candy Foil: sweetness, secrets, protecting one’s emotions; color magic
• Chocolate Syrup/Milk: happiness, love, lust, romance, sweetening relationships
• Cocktail Swords: strength, assertiveness, competition; cursing, revenge; ending rumors
• Cotton Balls: beauty, gentleness, warmth, sleep
• Cotton Swabs: cleansing, purification
• Dice: chance, opportunity, luck; number magic
• Dirt: grounding, earth magic, growth, prosperity, patience, home and family; cursing
• Dish Soap: cleansing
• Duct Tape: binding, storing energy, cursing
• Egg Shells: cleansing, protection, warding
• Energy Drinks: energy, motivation
• Envelopes: messages, communication, protection during travel
• Epsom Salts: purification, cleansing, protection, pain relief, serenity, comfort, stress relief
• Fake/Play Money: wealth, prosperity
• Fish Sauce: prosperity, water magic, curses
• Foil: glamour, protection, storing energy, binding
• Glue: sealing, immobility, binding, curses
• Googley Eyes: vision, divination, scrying, creativity, protection, imagination; curses, paranoia, nightmares
• Grass: growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss
• Hand Soap: cleansing, curse removal
• Hole Punches: good for cursing
• Hot Sauce: motivation, lust, confidence; cursing, anger, revenge, emotional pain
• Koolaid: youth, sweetness, happiness; color magic, corresponds with flavors as well
• Lip Balm: glamour, confidence in speaking, honesty, beauty
• Lollipops: sweetness, innocence, ending rumors and lies, lust and sexual energies, love
• Lotion: protection, beauty
• Laundry Soap: cleansing, purification
• Marshmallows: friendliness, comfort, gentleness, fidelity, sleep and dreams
• Metal Crafting Wire: binding
• Modeling Clay: poppets, earth magic, grounding, balance, stability, creation, change
• Mud: grounding, earth magic; curses
• Muslin: poppets, change, creativity
• Noodles: Longevity, good health
• Pompoms (craft): gentleness, comfort, love, sleep, dreams
• Paper Clips: balance, focus, organization; curses, binding
• Pennies: luck, wealth
• Pickle Juice: curses to sour things
• Plastic Bags: protection; binding
• Plastic Ribbon (wrapping): happiness, glamour, delight; binding; color magic
• Plastic Wrap: binding
• Popsicle sticks: poppets
• Scissors: offensive magic, curses
• Seltzer Water: purification, removing negativity; curses
• Sewing Needles: curses, pain
• Shaving Cream: cleansing, softness, patience, calmness
• Stamps: travel, communication
• Sour Cream: cursing
• Soy Sauce: protection, banishment; cursing
• Sticky Notes: communication, memory
• Strawberry Milk: love, self-love, beauty, sweetness, friendship
• Syrup: joy, sweetening one’s emotions
• Taco Sauce: Focus, Energy, motivation
• Taffy: joy, flexibility
• Thumbtacks: curses
• Tissue Paper: softness, serenity; color magic
• Toothpaste: cleansing
• Toothpicks: curse
• Walnut Shells: protection, warding
• Wasabi: Energy; curses, anger, envy
• Whipped Cream: beauty, light-heartedness
• Whistles: communication, attention grabbing, warding

Other Tips:

• Recycle bottles, jars and medicine bottles for jar/bottle magic
  
• Reuse tea bags (though not too long after use) in bath magic
• If you do wish to use herbs, it is cheaper to order them online in bulk rather than the supermarket. Trust me, supermarkets and grocery stores really over price most herbs. You can get triple the amount for 2 dollars less online
• Make up and toiletries are great for glamours
• Its fine to use kitchen knives if you can’t afford am athame
• Look at the ingredients in food you eat to see what is in it and determine that food’s correspondences, quick and easy kitchen magic
• Crayons, colored pencils, markers and pens are good for easy sigil and color magic
• Binders are cheaper than blank books and make great grimoires

Bundling today with rosemary, lavender, and roses from the garden