Cartomancy

Talk to your house

Your house is a sentient being with it’s own spirit and soul. Some people identify this spirit as their household deities or friendly house spirits. But some people have altogether forgotten how important the spirit of their house is. Talk to your house. Houses that have been ignored tend to be dull, tired and susceptible to hauntings and negative energies.  So talk to your house, listen to its aches and pains, say hello. Tell it that you come in peace, tell it that you are there to listen to it speak. Be grateful to your house. And watch the energies of your home transform themselves into joy. 

Crescent Moon and Venus

🌱🌱Earth Magic🌱🌱

To Lose Troubles: 🌿

Take a handful of earth and gaze into it.

Pour into it all your problems.

Outline in minute detail all of those problems plaguing you.

Once finished, throw the dirt behind you and walk away, not looking back.

Earth Charms:🍀🌻

Firmly tie up in a small green square of cloth some fresh, rich soil.

Carry this with you if you have troubles with stability, security, and self-control; if you are apt to let your emotions rule your life or if you are constantly angry or nervous.

Earth Scrying:🏵️🏵️

Fill a small flat vessel at least 7 inches in diameter with earth.

Sir relaxed and gaze into the soil.

You will eventually notice the symbols staring uo from the earth.

Earth Protection Bottle: 🌼🌳

Pour fresh, clean soil into a bottle.

Fill it to the top and close it.

Place the bottle near an entrance, preferably a window, to guard against evil entering into your house.

Credit:

ig: Mysticalmoon_lunemystique

-credit to the creator-

Witchy Self Care & Mindfulness🌻🌿

Artwork by @CraftingWitch on Instagram

Intro to Magic ✨

Choose the purpose for the working

In magic it is true that you get what you ask for. It’s important to ask what you actually want. Before you do any magic, phrase your purpose in a single, clear sentence. Get rid of ambiguous wording and mixed meaning. It can be as specific or general as you want, just be sure you know exactly what you wish to accomplish.

Before you do magic make sure to check in with your self. Is the purpose of your magic ethical to your beliefs? Is the purpose of your magic going to require more energy than you have to give?

Ethics

There are many schools of thoughts on the magical implications of magic. These range from the idea that magic is a sin, to the idea that magic should have no restrictions because the the very purpose of magic is to do what you want, and ever idea between.

It is important to find your stance on magical ethics. It’s up to you to decide how you want to use your magic. Here are a few things ti consider when you are deciding whether to cast a spell:

look at the situation and gather as much information as you can from a reliable source

think about alternatives

consider your guidelines, values, and principles

test your limits and don’t discount your inner voice

make your own choice. you will have to live with it — right or wrong.

No one can make your choices and you can’t make someone else’ choices. Ultimately your ethical decisions —like your magic — comes from within you. Who you are — and who you will become — is something that only you can determine. It really is your CHOICE.

Limits

The limits of magic are complex and unclear, but there is a limit. Magic cannot break (or even bend) the ordinary laws of nature. Example: making objects float in mid air or making a duck bark. The effects of magical working will come gradually and naturally, not with a puff of smoke or the twitch of your nose. You will need to be patient with your work and try not to doubt the effect. The larger the area you wish to effect or the bigger more drastic the change you wish to make, the more energy you will need to put into your work. Your thoughts and ideas are unlimited but your ability to create the out you desire is limited by your personal energy. Before you try anything that requires energy be sure to make time to rest and recharge yourself.

Choosing the Correspondences

Correspondences can be used in your practice to add to your magical power. As you practice more you will be able to detect the subtle differences between various correspondences. Pay attention to these feelings, the more you recognize them the quicker you will learn. In some workings you may find it vest to use one correspondence and in others you’ll want to combine a little bit of everything. These decisions will come more naturally to you as you continue with your craft. You will discover along the way what works best for you and what doesn’t. Eventually, you will discover your own correspondences. Magic isn’t really about what’s right or wrong, its about what works. 

Choosing the Materials

After looking at the purpose and symbolism you’ve chosen you’ll want to choose materials. Materials allow your intent to be viewed in a physical way. This can be overwhelming due to the fact that there are literally thousands of materials to choose from. Keep your work simple and convenient. Choose materials that harmonize with the purpose and symbolism you have in mind. There are plenty of resources to help you and with plenty of practice you will master this process.

There are some traditionally agreed upon associations for magical uses but don’t allow yourself to become tied down to those. If you have a strong pull to a certain material then us it! Your emotions and feelings are tied to your magic, the materials you use will enhance it. You can always start with traditional correspondences for you materials until you find what fits and feel right to you. 

Herbs

There are so many types of plants in the world and each one could have it’s own meaning and associations for magical use. 

Correspondences for Herbs

Crystals

As with plants, there are countless crystals, some more well-known than others. And each one has a different purpose for magical use.

Correspondences for Crystals

Colors

Colors range from bright to dark, deep to light, pale to vibrant, regardless of their value or hue, colors affect us. They invoke different emotional responses and as such, they can be used in magic as well. The magic of colors can be used in many different ways, and the use of colors in magic is only limited by what you want to use the color for.

Correspondences for Colors

Choosing a Method

After you’ve decided your purpose or what you want to have happen, decided what correspondences will help, and found the materials you need to bring your intentions into your physical realm, you are ready to work the magic. There are a few methods you can use to do this. This will depend on what form your craft will take. Whether you plan to make an amulet, brew a potion, burn an incense, perform a spell/ritual, or something else, you will need to learn how to combine the purpose, correspondences and materials.Magic cycles through various levels of intensity over time. Your magic can be more powerful, work faster or more effectively, when magical energy is high. We’ll look at few ways to figure out the proper timing for your magic.

Sun and Moon Cycles

The moon cycles through phases, from new to full and back in about a month. Magical energies are weakest at the New Moon. As it waxes the energies increase to a maximum when the moon becomes full. The energies will decrease as the moon wanes back to a New Moon. As such there are times when certain types are more appropriate than other times.

The New Moon: reflect, expand your consciousness, learn about your shadow self, work with your subconscious, dream work, let go of fears, change something radically, renew

The Waxing Moon: bless something you want to start, to increase health, to increase success, to increase wealth

The Full Moon: health, success, charging/cleansing objects, rituals in general, wealth, heart’s desire

The Waning Moon: get rid of a bad habit or sickness/disease, remove obstacles, finish something, banish, purify

The solar cycle is reflected in the change of seasons and repeats each year. Depending on latitude and other factors the dates of the changes in season may be different. Generally in the northern hemisphere the cycle of seasons follow the pattern below.

Tide of Sowing: Ostra to Litha beginnings and growth (spring equinox, March 21 — summer solstice, June 21) with a peak at Beltane (May 1st)

Tide of Reaping: Lita to Mabon completion and fruitfulness (summer solstice, June 21 — fall equinox, September 23) with a peak at Lugnasadh (August 1st)

Tide of Planning: Mabon to Yule preservation and taking stock (fall equinox, September 23 — winter solstice, December 23) with a peak at Samhain (November 1st)

Tide of Destruction: Yule to Ostra destruction and purification (winter solstice, December 23 — spring equinox, March 21)  with a peak at Imbolc (February 1st)

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Blessed Be💜

-The Witchy Cat😻

2 Card Tarot Ideas

Do / Don't 

Life / Death

Problem / Solution

Now / Later

Logical / Emotional

Yes / No

Internal / External 

Past / Future

Growth / Stagnation

Love / Hate

Apathy / Empathy

Find / Lose

Flaws / Strengths

Day / Night

Physical / Abstract

Stay / Leave 

Creation / Destruction 

Give / Take

🎀 Astro Placements with the most AURA 🎀

🎀 Scorpio/Capricorn/Sagittarius Mars

🎀 Pluto/Sun 1H

🎀 Mars conjuct Venus

🎀 Capricorn Saturn

🎀 12H Sun

🎀 Neptune aspecting Ascendant

🎀 Jupiter aspecting the Ascendant

🎀 Pluto aspecting Moon

🎀 12H Neptune or Uranus

🎀 Mercury 1H

🎀 8H Sun/Moon

🎀 4H Moon/Cancer Moon

🎀 Sun in Leo

🎀 6H Saturn

🎀 Gemini/Virgo Mercury

🎀 Venus in Pisces/12H

🎀 Moon in Sagittarius/Moon in the 9H

🎀 Mercury aspecting Pluto

🎀 Uranus in the 1H

🎀 Aquarius Venus/11H Venus

🎀 Scorpio Venus/8H Venus

Do you have any of these placements?

I wanna share my favorite source’s keywords for the planets:

Sun: affection, ambition, authority, burning, children, citrus fruits, coins, constitution, courage, creativity, dignity, domineering, ego, emperors, energy, extravagance, fame, father, fiery, fire, gambling, generosity, gold, haughty, health, honour, hot, husband, identity, individuality, jewellery, joy, laughter, life, light, lions, magnanimity, nobility, ostentation, orange, passion, peacocks, pomp, popularity, positive, power, pride, prosperity, purpose, royalty, simplicity, spine, spirit, spotlights, stardom, strength, Sunday, superiors, vitality, warmth, will, yellow

Moon: agriculture, changes, childbirth, community, dairies, emotions, families, fecundity, feelings, fermentation, fluctuation, fluids, general public opinions, health, insanity, instinct, intuition, mariners, maternity, Monday, moods, mother, nursing, oats, plumbers, public, reproduction, response, silver, tears, the common people, the people, water, women, women

Mercury: air travel, authors, bargaining, books, clerks, clothing, commerce, computers, dealing, documents, editors, history, hygiene, intellect, language, lectures, logic, mercury (metal), messages, mind advertising, nerves, post, respiration, signals, talking, telephones, trade, transport, transportation, typewriters, Wednesday, wind, wit, writing, youth

Venus: amusement, art, beauty, boudoirs, brass, confectionery, dance, desire, dimples, doves, emeralds, entertainment, fashion, femininity, flowers, grapes, humour, immorality, intimacy, justice, lingerie, love, marriage, marriage, money, music, partnership, partnerships, pleasure Adornment, relationships,social interactions ,romance, relaxation, sexual intercourse, social centres, societies, style, women

Mars: armour, armies, blood, butchers, cars, controversy, disease, drive, energy, engineering, executives, garlic, guns, heat, heroes, incense, inflammations, iron, knives, locks, murder, passion, penetration, pipes, pirates, radiators, razors, sarcasm, stamina, sport, surgery, tobacco, virility, war, wrestlers

Jupiter: amplification, big, capitalism, celebrations, college, courts of law, doctors, expansion, feet, foreign countries furry animals, glory, gluttony, grand, humour, joviality, large, law, legality, luck, ceremonial magic, merchandise, merit, millionaires, monasteries, optimism, orthodoxy, over-indulgence, philanthropy, philosophy, preachers, prestige, professors, profit, pulpits, religion, science, ships, splendour, success, thighs, tin, Thursday, travel, truth, wisdom, religion, priests, The Law, courts and justice, aristocracy, publishing, overseas travel

Saturn: agriculture, archaeology, architecture, bones, cattle, civil service, death, domination, fatigue, history, land, leather, minerals, monogamy, monotony, obstacles, old age, perseverance, restriction, Saturday, self control, time, twilight, underground, widows, yesterdays. Old Father Time, Traditions, history, stability, authority, order, mines, death

Uranus: attraction, break-ups, chaos, disruption, divorce, earthquakes, eccentric, exciting, fanatical, freedom, major change, outrageous, quirky, rebellious, revolutionary, shocks, sudden, surprises, unconventional, unprecedented, unpredictable, unusual,  changes, revolutions, anarchy, innovations, technology, earthquakes

Neptune: alcohol, art, confusion, cynicism, deception, deep, disguise, disillusionment, dissolving, dreams, drink, drugs, escapism, fraud, ideas, imagination, instability, music, mystery, mysticism, oceans, poisoning, sea, smoke-screen, socialism, softness, transcendence, veil, water, yearnings, reform, ideals, trends, art

Pluto: communism, compulsive, crime, darkness, death, deep, hidden, magic, mystery, nuclear energy, occult, orgasm, paranoid, profundity, psychology, rebirth, recycle, reform, renewal, reproduction, revolutionary, self-transforming therapies, healing, sex, subconscious, taboo, transformation, unconscious, underneath, undermining, underworld, volcanoes, the underworld, detectives, disruption, decline, regeneration

(Slightly in response to a post seen on @starlightomatic 's Tumblr, posted by @jewish-harrypotter)

Okay I know we always talk about Jewish Wizards on Chanukah lighting candles with magic but

How about doing it the traditional way.

How about that one family who’ve been magical since the dawn of magic. They’ve been there since the beginning, learned traditional magic at the knees of their fathers in Egypt and from within secret caves while hiding from the Romans. They’ve watched the building of Hogwarts and the rise and fall of dark wizards, been expelled from Samaria and France and England and throughout it all, they have carried their traditions on. 

How about one family that has been lighting the Chanukah candles the traditional way, with a flame struck by a piece of wood and a dot of phosphorus or flint, anything that will light the way their forefathers did it. Every once in a while, the youngest child will ask why they do it the “muggle way”, and then the oldest of the elders - the matriarch, usually - will set the child down on a couch with a blanket and will tell them the story of their ancestors. 

Or how about the young muggleborn witch or wizard. 

How about the young muggleborn who has never really felt as if they belonged in either place - too muggle for magic, too magic for muggle, too religious for this secular school, not religious enough for her ultra-orthodox relatives; a foot in each world but unstable no matter where their foot lands. 

How about the young muggleborn who takes comfort in the customs and traditions of her parents in a place where everything is new and kind of scary. How about the feeling of comfort that comes from doing something that both predates you and will outlive you. 

Yes, an incendio would do just fine. Yes, magic is the life they live and the air they breathe. 

But tradition runs in their veins alongside the stories of their ancestors.

Sometimes, the magic doesn’t feel quite right... But tradition? That is enough.