This tumblr honors the African traditional religions that found new ways to survive as as a form of resistance, resilience, and ingenuity during the Atlantic slave trade within the African diaspora in South America, the Caribbean and North America.
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✨Also known as Candlemas or Brigid’s Day✨
🕯Date: February 1st🕯
⛅️- Imbolc is the celebration of the warmer days that are coming, the winter is starting to fade away now and spring is approaching.
⛅️- It’s a good time to start working on the goals you set for this new year, as the world is now starting to wake up and regenerate, so shall we.
⛅️- Cleansing and clearing rituals are amazing to do on Imbolc, shake off the winter blues and welcome the warmer days. It’s also the best time to get rid of anything that is no longer serving you, a fresh start.
⛅️- Some activities to do for Imbolc ✨
Clean, cleanse and change up your altar ✨🕯🔮
A spring clean of house and home 🏠
Cleansing negative energies from yourself and items you use in your craft🔮
Taking a walk and looking for signs of spring, reconnect with nature again 🌿
Cook a meal that contains fresh produce to represent the growth of the earth 🌱
Burn white and yellow candles at your altar 🕯
Make a Brigid’s cross ✨
✨🌱Have a blessed Imbolc everyone🌱✨
green witch: freshly pressed flowers, walking through a field of wildflowers, talking to the trees, terrariums, plants sitting on the windowsill, forest sounds
kitchen witch: cookbooks, stirring tea with intent, lots and lots of jars, herbs and more herbs, the smells of baking, tea blends swirling in jars
storm witch: lightning crackling, calling up a storm, dancing in the rain, getting excited when you feel a storm coming, checking the weather activity
dream witch: sleepy eyes, soft blankets, meditating in the mornings to remember your dreams, reality checks, sleeping with crystals under your pillow
divination witch: wearing your pendulum as a necklace, sleeping with your tarot deck, shaky hands, too many tarot decks, meditating with your tools
sea witch: jars of seawater, walking barefooted on the sand, sitting on the beach at night, missing the seashore, balmy sea breeze, seashell collection
lunar witch: setting alarms for moon phases, talking to the moon, making moon water, getting ready for the next lunar eclipse, quiet moonlit nights
spirit witch: bonding with spirit companions, feeling the presences in a room, setting out offerings, seeing shadows out of the corner of your eyes, amethyst
fire witch: a whole bunch of scented candles, the smell of incense, cosy warmth, dancing flames, jars of ashes, almost burning the whole house down
crystal witch: keeping crystals in your pockets, crystals sitting on your windowsill under the moonlight, crystalline light reflections
water witch: way too many jars, running out in the middle of a storm to collect water, carrying a jar everywhere, shower cleansing and grounding rituals
tech witch: embedding sigils in code, stereoscopic light of a phone screen, ambient soundtracks, witchy phone apps, emoji spells, digital grimoires
music witch: jamming to your tracks over a spell, shufflemancy, headphones on earbuds in, charging tools with your speakers, playlist for every occasion
urban witch: dollar stores, carrying around their magickal tools, sigils for not missing the bus or train, finding that one witch book in local bookstores
glamour witch: sigils on the mirror, rose quartz in random places, makeup bags, looking fly, youtube channels on makeup, on-the-spot glamours
closeted witch: hiding grimoires in drawers, sigils for invisibility, waiting for everyone else to go out, performing spells behind locked doors at night
art witches: moon water in your paint cup, paint-stained fingers, charmed drawing tablet, colour corresponding your art supplies, local bookshops
🐝🌿 honey correspondences
• happiness
• warmth
• healing
• love
• encouragement
• prosperity
• abundance
🍯 honey makes great offerings to most deities/spirits due to its alluring and sweet nature, top on the list being fae, aphrodite, apollo, and demeter.
🍯 placing honey over your lips can be a great natural lip moisturizer
🍯 add honey to your tea to attract kindness
🍯 honey is an amazing preservative and has strong antibacterial properties, making it an ideal addition to any salves etc
🍯 use honey as a natural cough aid
🍯 try to source local honey, this also helps with allergies!
Carrie (1976)
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