CONTEGO

talk street magic to me

drawing power from the metro lines

illusionists busking illegally, shimmering lights disintegrating as they run

plant mages tending tiny rooftop and windowbox gardens

elementary kids learning basic sigils on the playground

wixen taking a while to key into the magic in new cities when they move

alchemists dealing on the side to support their experiments

middleschoolers making friendship talismans and amulets for everyone

numerologists who’ll do your math homework for $5 or divine your fortune for $10

kids mass-texting luck and speed spells when their parties get broken up by the cops

Sea Witchery//

(from my personal grimoire) this may be a little long, so here we goooo

Tools of the Trade// • Shark Teeth: Location, curses, glamours • Anchovies: beauty • Coral: emotions, healing, vivid dreams • Crab: protection • Fish: protection, fertility • Oyster:  fertility, love • Salt; cleansing, dispels evil • Sand: dreams, grounding, cleansing • Sardines: beauty • Seaweed: prosperity, good luck • Sea Horse: luck, love, understanding • Sponge: cleanses negative emotions • Water: dreams, cleansing, healing • Aquariums: ward away bad luck • Hag Stone: see the unseen, protection • Seaglass: change, purification

Water Types and Uses// • Sea Water: cleansing, banishing • Lake Water: secrets, divination • River Water: transformation, change • Storm Water: strength, chaos • Rain Water: creativity, inspiration • Swamp Water: patience, stagnation • Flower Vase Water: nourishing, growth

Seashell Types and Uses// • Abalone: general use • Clam: purification, love • Conch: love • Cone: protection • Cowrie: prosperity • Whelks: positive change • Limpet: courage • Scallop: travel • Sand dollar: good luck

Sea Creatures and what they mean// • Barracuda: go your own way • Bass: balance • Carp: love • Catfish: power of words • Clam: love • Coral: protection • Crab: sensitivity • Crayfish: face your fears • Eel: new journeys • Electric Eel: perception • Goldfish: peace • Jellyfish: cooperation • Moray Eel: observe • Mussel: perseverance • Octopus: intellect • Salmon: persistence • Sea Anemone: new tides • Sea Shell: feminine power • Sea Horse: chivalry • Shark: relentless • Squid: shapeshifting • Starfish: follow your own path • Stingray: stay on target • Beluga Whale: creative spirit • Dolphin: new promise • Humpback Whale: birth • Manatee: trust • Orca: creative depths • Sea Lion: imagination • Seal: dream activity • Walrus: psychic touch • Whale: inspiration

To Make Sea Water// • Sea salt • Sea Shells • Moon Water • Beach Sand

To make Ocean Powder (my take on cascarilla powder) for protection/purification// • Sea Shells • Egg Shells • Sea Salt • White Sand • Grind em up in a mortar and pestle

To make a Sea Witch’s Bath// • Sea Salt • Rosemary • Sea Shells (to set on the edge of tub) • Blue candle (to set on edge of tub)

Crystals good for Sea Witches// • Aquamarine • Blue Lace Agate • Blue Chalcedony • Larimar • Blue Aragonite • Lapis Lazuli • Azurite • Skagway Jasper • Hemimorphite • Canvasite

Plants/herbs good for Sea Witches// • Grapes • Lettuce • Jasmine • Lotus • Kelp • Cucumber • Seaweed • Chamomile • Nightshade • Hemp • Orange • Willow • Lemon • Watercress • Melons • Hops • Pansy • Skullcap • Orris Root

Mermaids// http://soothingvioletlight.tumblr.com/post/124996552227/mermaids

Selkies// http://soothingvioletlight.tumblr.com/post/125175490222/selkies

Kelpies// http://soothingvioletlight.tumblr.com/post/125211823552/kelpies

Take Care: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheriting Self-Hatred, Ella Wilson

“X bodily fluid is just filtered blood!” buddy I hate to break it to you but ALL of the fluids in your body are filtered blood. Your circulatory system is how water gets around your body. It all comes out of the blood (or lymph, which is just filtered blood).

It’s a journey. It wasn’t until I loved myself exactly as I was, that my body began to blossom and manifest to show a reflection of all the self love and self care I put into it. Eliminating the junk- not just junk food, but negative relationships and situations. By being true to myself and doing what I felt was best- I was able to make a new best friend- Me.

48. I got more to read!

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Creative Play

This is inspired by my experience assisting in daycares and preschools where children’s creative play was regulated to a pointless degree.

if anyone would like to learn a couple tricks for carving pumpkins:

- dont cut out the top to scoop out the seeds, cut out the bottom instead. this way the pumpkin doesnt cave in on itself and lasts longer - sprinkle some cinnamon inside at the top after carving. this way when you put the candle in it smells like pumpkin pie