Doing research – reading online or books, looking up videos, saving things on Tumblr – is absolutely great. Immerse yourself into it, study it, learn and let your psyche be awakened by your potential. But there’s a time when you gotta push past study and start practicing the craft.
What I recommend: attain one of those bulky, multimedia 100 page sketchbooks from the dollar store and start writing things down. This is a practice guild book (grimoire, bos) so it doesn’t have to be neat.
Go through your research and start writing things down. Try your hardest to break from the idea that it has to be neat, it doesn’t – it’s a PRACTICE guild book. Do it unfiltered, unrated and allow yourself to have absolute free range.
Here are some things your could focus on:
practice designing charts (natal chart, zodiac, moon phases, etc.)
practice diagrams (chakras, auroras, sigil making, palmistry)
design informational lists (tarot and runes reference sections, tea leaf reading, crystal and herbs correspondences)
write down some spells, intents, and/or rituals you’ve come across that you resonate with
practice sigil making by doodling along the sides and edges of your pages
list/sketch out altar ideas or deities
design or jot down some spreads for rune stones, tarot and/or oracle cards
pendulum boards
design your own tarot or oracle cards!!
practice with different mediums (watercolor, acrylic paint, berry juice, markers, home-made egg tempera, stitch, candle wax, ink and quill)
Anything and Everything
This is to help you finally get things rolling with your craft. Studying is great but you gotta start! Don’t let the fear of mediocrity from your PERSONAL guild book keep you from starting witchcraft.
After you’ve gained enough confidence then you can start going through the pages and seeing what needs work or what is ready to go into your official guild book notebook. Which doesn’t mean your sketchbook can’t be your official guild book, if that’s what your want.
Get out there and make some magic, you crazy witches!
I have always been impacted by the beauty of the moon. Since I recently started to describe myself also as a Lunar Witch, I figured out that I should make a post about its phases and their use in magick ✨
New Moon: It is the beginning of the Lunar Cycle. This phase is perfect for setting goals & intentions, taking stock
Dark Moon: A potent time for the most powerful destructive magic. This moon phase is perfect for destroying and banishing powerful energies. It is also good to go soul-searching during this time.
Waxing Crescent: Perfect for spells or rituals of self-improvement. New beginnings & constructive magic.
First Quarter: This phase is good for performing rituals & spells to attract things into your life and bring them into manifestation.
Waxing Gibbous: Perfect for a boost in the energies you have been working. This phase brings energy to renew your strength, will & determination to see your efforts through.
Full Moon: Perfect for spells & rituals of personal growth and spiritual development. This moon phase increases our intuitive awareness. Healing & releasing magick.
Waning Gibbous: Cleansing, banishing & releasing, endings. This is a good time to go and do some introspective work.
Third Quarter or Waning Half Moon: Helps you deal with any obstacles & blockages on your path. It’s also good to work with any transitions you need to make/ are going through at the time.
Waning Crescent: Clearing out negativity in your life & home. Banishing. Endings.
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‘She tells me there’s always a new empty room waiting for her. They used to make her feel free. Now they make her feel the opposite of free.’ Beginners (2010)
“He changed all his clothes. He got a boyfriend, Andy, a physical trainer who was also studying for his professional pyrotechnic license. He found an out gay priest to guide him spiritually. He saw a therapist for the fist time. He joined the Primetimers. Movie night. Los Angeles Pride, and then four years after he came out, he died in this room.”
