Types Of Witches

Remember the present.

How to create a trusting relationsip with the universe:

Stop looking for external solutions to internal problems. It is not anyone’s job to heal or “fix” you. You will only feel whole when you choose to see that as an option for yourself. You will only be whole when you choose to be whole. You will only be whole when you choose to claim that for yourself.

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Your inability to feel safe trusting others has nothing to do with their trustworthiness and everything to do with your inability to feel safe trusting yourself. That is not my problem.

Somewhere along the way, you ignored your intuition about somebody and things didn’t end well for you. Now, instead of taking accountability for your actions and the part you played in this situation by saying:

“I chose to do xyz and they chose to do abc and maybe the aftermath made me feel kind of hurt but their choices are not my responsibility. Their reaction to me trusting them has nothing to do with me and everything to do with their relationship with themself. I do feel hurt right now but feelings aren’t facts and this pain will move through me. It will not stay here unless I let it.”

You’re choosing to play the blame game and stay “safe”.

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Here’s the thing about safety thought… it’s an illusion. The universe is everchanging. Constantly moving. Never the same thing twice (or for very long). There’s no “safety” in that, only growth.

When you chose to place blame on other people, no matter the situation, you are choosing to give your power away. You are choosing to say that you are not in control of this situation and therefore are not in control of your life.

When you choose to claim emotions (or trauma) as personality traits or permanent fixtures in your life, you are choosing to give your power away. You are showing the universe that you are permanently affected by impermanent emotions and experiences. You are showing the universe that you are not in control of your thoughts or feelings and therefore are not in control of your life.

Instead of asking others to prove themselves to you, you need to be asking yourself why you aren’t connected to or trusting of your intuition. You need to ask your ego how it benefits from the comfortability of blaming others for your misfortunes and unhappy emotions.

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When you choose to trust yourself, nobody else can fuck with you. When you choose to trust yourself, you choose to stop blocking your blessings. When you choose to trust yourself, you choose to remove yourself from the cycle of perpetual fear, suffering, and healing.

When you choose to trust yourself, you choose to sit with the “unpleasant parts” with unconditional love and radical forgiveness. When you choose to trust yourself, you choose to be fully healed from traumas of the past. When you choose to trust yourself, the universe trusts you back.

Types Of Divination That Aren’t Tarot:

I’m tired of tarot cards and tarot readers everywhere…it’s awesome but there’s just too many of ya’ll. I just want my friends list to be more diverse. If I am gonna be honest, tarot isn’t most of your forte. Most of you just aren’t good at it. And further, you set yourself up for failure doing the job that 1000 other blitches are already doing and excelling at! But the good news is there are other options!

TYPES OF DIVINATION THAT AREN’T TAROT:

☕🍷Tasseomancy: Divination from tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediment. Put that drinking or herb habit to good use!

🔮🍶🕯️ Scrying: Divination using a crystal ball (gastromancy), mirror/black mirror (catoptromancy), bowl of water (hydromancy) or other reflective surface. Can also use a flame or ashes from a spell (cineromancy/ceneromancy). Go get some full moon water and Git it.

📖 Stichomancy/Bibliomancy/Rhapsodomancy: Divination from sacred and spiritual texts. Yes, we have sacred and spiritual books that aren’t the Bible. Yes much of our oral tradition has been written down. No excuses.

✋🏾Chiromancy: Palmistry, divination through the study of the hand. There are hands all around you! You have two! Grab and go, fam, grab and go!

🌬️Capnomancy/Libanomancy: Divination through reading smoke. COME ON where my potheads at this isn’t hard. Where my cigar smokers, pipe smokers, roll a bleezy and let’s get to it!

💃🏾Pendulum Reading: Energy reading using an object or your body as the pendulum.

☠️ Osteomancy: Divination with bones, shells, and other parts of nature.

🗿💎Lithomancy: Divination with stones that have symbols drawn on them (runes, a popular British Isles practice but I’m down if you want to drawn indigenous symbols from your culture)

💰I Ching Divination: Utilizes coins and yarrow stalks. You should probably only bust out Chinese coins with holes if you are in some way Chinese FYI. But why not use coins from your hometown? We all have coins laying in the sofa cushions! We all have native twigs in the grass outside!

🏚️🔠 Spirit Boards: Divination with a talking board–the most commonly called a Ouija board. Used since Ancient times (China, Africa, Greece) and for much more than talking to demons. Like please just stop obsessing with the devil lmao.

⚕️Dowsing Rod: A spiritual stick used for fortelling and finding. I’ve seen a million crystal “wands” being sold by blitches, go get one and do this thing!

☁️🌨️Nephomancy: Divination of the clouds. They are beautiful. Best of all…they are free and you don’t have to store them. My husband just reminded me that an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender was based on a woman who read the clouds ⛅

🌌✨Sortilege: Also called casting lots, ancient form of divination that is quite mysterious and open for interpretation. Found in the Bible 70+ times (most notably to throw Jonah to the whale) it involves taking a group of relevant objects and casting them for the truth. The objects can range from items to paper with words or symbols written on them. Typically all items are placed in a bag and you draw them out one at a time.

☀️🌅🌦️Heliomancy/Solaromancy : Divination of the rays and movement of the sun. We can all see the sun, really this one sounds easy. Why is none of you with Rah on your name jumped on this?

🌓🌔🌕 Selenomancy: Step 1, go outside and look at the moon. Step 2, ______. Step 3, profit. But for real ya’ll love the moon, go read her!

👨🏾👩🏿Physiognomy: Divination through facial reading. You seen faces before! Read them!

😪😴Narcomancy: Divination while sleeping /dreaming.

🌿🍃Phylomancy: Divination of leaves. Your divination pics will never look the same twice! Plus this is another free one!

🛣️Symbolomancy: Divination of things found on the road. I’d follow an IG of someone who did THAT in a meaningful way!

I hope this list inspires you to just jump in and try something new. Stop waiting for a teacher and just PRACTICE. The same way you all are doing with tarot. Feel bold and like you can practice something else…hell make up your own pieces and ways. Blaze a goddamn trail.

Signed,

Tahtahme

A Blitch Who Wants Some Options Damnit

You gotta wait, BABE 😂👏🏻🔮

Thank you for explaining! But what would be energy work? I looked it up and it seems to be some ancient techniques to heal energy balance in the body. I don't know what any of that means. And how would you confirm that it's god and not a trickster identity? I've heard plenty about those.

Hi! I know you're asking the other anon, and I do hope they see this, but I can give some basic answers that hopefully help too :)

Before you do any more research, please read this post!

In witchy and spiritual circles, energy work quite literally refers to working with energy! Your energy, the energy around you, and everything in between. Here's a good post about it (and some other things)! I would actually recommend going through their "energy work" tag for more posts.

When communicating with other beings, I'd say you'll get better at knowing who's who as you do it more. In general though, putting up the proper protections for whatever you're doing, trusting your gut, and knowing when to cut communication (aka banishing in this case) is important. Energy work is actually very helpful for this! One very basic part of energy work is protective work (which often involves visualizing a shield of energy surrounding you) and that is necessary when communicating with other beings. Here's a good post on protection!

If you already work with the law, use that to your advantage! Assume that you're properly protected at all times and that you're always communicating with who you want to communicate with (and/or any being who means no harm). I'd also assume that only the beings you want to communicate with can communicate with you! That's actually what I do with my deities because having them around can still be overwhelming. I imagine this would help a lot with trickster spirits.

Some clues that you may be dealing with someone/thing who's lying about their identity:

if you have a feeling they are (trust your gut!!)

if you find yourself low on energy, constantly or suddenly in a bad mood (for no apparent reason or everything is pissing you off), sudden frequent nightmares

if they constantly change their identity (not necessarily changing their names! most beings will tell you if they want you to refer to them as something else or if they're comfortable with another name. changing their identity for no reason is a whole other thing)

if they get very aggressive or angry when you ask for their real identity or say that you're going to banish them/ask them to leave

if they tell you that you're like... super important or powerful (like a god reincarnated or a high priest/priestess).

if they don't want to tell you their intentions for why they're talking to you

if they can't answer basic questions about themselves or you (or they keep answering with things like "maybe/idk". in general, you'll know the difference between an actual deity who's saying maybe for whatever reason and a trickster who's saying maybe because they don't actually know)

This is just some very basic information. This post isn't comprehensive! I hope none of this scares you because trust me if you have the right information and do the right things, you'll be completely fine. But you do need to know the right information and this post isn't all of it. So again, I don't want to overwhelm or scare you but if you find that you want to go into energy work or communicate with a deity, do more research.

I have a beautiful, protective, invisible force field around me like a giant pearl

Why you should lock your mirrors and how to do it

Taken from my BOS, inspired by a viral tiktok, adapted to my own practice

In Mesoamerican culture, mirrors were seen as portals. Some say that these portals are from one dimension to another, and others say it is a portal to the realm of the dead. This is why many witches suggest covering your mirrors at night or if they are facing your bed. However, some may want to have the full convenience of not covering their mirrors at all, during any time of day. This is where locking mirrors comes in. Not only is it convenient, but it adds another layer of protection to your home. Wards mean nothing if you have an open portal to the dead in your bathroom.

How to lock a mirror:

Gather full moon water, florida water, or another protective liquid that won’t leave a stain on the mirror.

Wash (physically clean) and cleanse (spiritually clean) your hands. You can do this by running them under water or passing them through incense smoke.

Dip your fingers into the moon water, or whatever liquid you are using, and draw a pentacle or protective sigil on the mirror. Imagine the mirror closing (you can visualize this as a light behind the mirror fading, or metal bars locking in front of the mirror--whatever your mind’s eye sees the portal as).

Let the water on the mirror air-dry on its own.

Intelligence types, personality types and magick

This could very well be me reading way too much into my own theories about magic. However, I do believe that intelligence types (verbal, spatial, intrapersonal, etc) play a part in how one works magic. Likewise, I also feel that personality types play a role as well. All of this culminates into a unique magical practice for each individual person. For the purpose of this post, I will be using my own personality type and intelligence type and relating it to my magical practice.

Let’s start with intelligence type, I am a linguistic-verbal intelligence type. My focus is writing, books, and speech. Along with this comes the physical traits of having hearing as my strongest sense. When I get scared watching a movie, I cover my ears because that is how I take in information.

In terms of my personality type, I am INFP-T. This breaks down into Introvert, iNtuitive, Feeling, and Perceptive. The “T” is for Turbulent meaning that I’m chaotic in both thought processes and in terms of action.

Now for the breakdown of how these relate to my magic. Intelligence type is how I express myself, I use speech and writing to express myself. My personality type is expressive of in what way my power is activated.

Introversion being that I like to practice alone without fear of being judged. On that front, I turn my thoughts inward and dive into a story or book or just journal.

Intuition is my drive. I am driven less by the prewritten spell work of others and more by what I hear when I interact with books or characters. My intuition is also how I know things will work right no matter how odd the components of a spell seem.

Feeling is my empathy for others. Without my empathy for others, I would be unable to tap into the deeper aspects of my power. This is also linked to my psychic abilities. My ability to feel the emotion behind the words of someone else.

Perceptive is how I see the world. Changing one little detail in a story or in an occurrence could have a domino effect. As an autistic person, my abilities to perceive the world is very different from a vast majority of the population. Perception is also linked to visualization, crossing the barrier between what is fictional or written and what is real. Speech and incantations fall into this. This is also where the power comes full circle. Linking back to my intelligence type.

Turbulence stands apart and on its own for various reasons. The first reason being that this is the spark. The fire that blazes deep within me. The is is passion, creativity, and insight. Turbulence is tapping into the chaos of the world and changing the way things are through the methods described above. This could be writing, or incantations or even pulling raw energy from a story. Turbulence is the core of my power. When I speak passionately about something, I can hypnotize people, this also links to my physical abilities. Touching someone while speaking passionately will amplify the effect.

So there you have it. This is the breakdown of my power via my personality type and intelligence type. It goes by many names and you can take your pick. Wordcraft seems most appropriate seeing as it’s defining of writing and eloquence. However, Bibliomancy could also be one. Whatever the term used to define this craft, this power, it is intrinsically a part of me. So what is your intelligence type and personality type, how does it link to your power?