conceptualsolitude:

concept: my home is filled with sunshine, always, and the sound of wind chimes in the morning. the doors are always open and it smells like sea. i am never lonely. this is my place.

conceptualsolitude:

concept: in fifty years i’m an old witch and i tend to my garden all morning and cook fresh vegetables for lunch and watch the sea all afternoon with an old cat named bertha

saltwaterwitchery:

You aren’t alone.

You don’t need to isolate yourself.

You are not a burden.

Your illness does not make you less of a witch.

You have a friend in me, in so many of us.

You are worthy of living.

You are worthy of love.

You are part of our diverse and vast community…

…and you are one of the reasons why it is so beautiful and so unique.

Don’t forget that you are made of starstuff.

<3  I thought some of you might need this today.

thirdeyechai:

Calypso’s Into Earth Witch Soup

Once upon a time I read the first of Christine Feehan’s Carpathian novels (I have yet to res the rest…library soon??) ~ anywho ~ this soup reminded me of that book.
The carpathian vamps return to the Earth (beneath the soil) every so often to heal, recharge, and gather power. I was rather sick all week, so I concocted a soup plan haha. It turned out well!
*Can easily be made vegan using veggie broth.*

Ingredients:
5 or 6 organic carrots
One Vidalia onion (could def add shallots!)
Half head of purple cabbage
6 or 7 red potatoes, halved
13 medium cloves of garlic, chopped (those on the smaller side can go in whole)
2 fingers of ginger, peeled and finely chopped
Handful fresh oregano
Handful fresh sage
13ish large white (portabella) mushrooms, halved
2.5 TBSP beef bouillon
Red pepper flakes, salt, Rosemary to taste
Large soup pot filled halfway with water

To Make:
Fill soup pot halfway with water, turn burner to high.
Add garlic and ginger as soon as water starts simmering…after 5-10 minutes add fresh herbs
Wait a few minutes before adding onions and bouillon - wait for broth to come to boil
Add your peeled and chopped carrots
Stir, taste, adjust
Add mushrooms
Add cabbage
Cover, turn burner to medium and let simmer for 10 minutes.

***I suggest adding shallots, morels, merlot, and potatoes for a more bodied soup. In addition, onions & garlic could be browned in butter prior to making soup. Bone broth would be IDEAL.***

dark-witch-dark-night:

fawn-and-fang:

To all new witches…

Put down the purchased spellbook, stop hoarding candles, resist the urge to pilfer the family spice rack for ingredients you think you need, don’t feel bad because you can’t afford the beautiful wand your friend has and you think your magick won’t be as powerful, please for the love of goddess don’t insist to everyone that your spirit animal is a wolf, lion, hawk, or bear just because you think they’re cute/powerful. Just stop. Breathe. Relax.

Go outside and look around you. Take long walks through your neighborhood every single day no matter what the weather. Linger in the places you feel drawn to, whether that is an abandoned lot with glass on the ground or a pristine mountain waterfall. Listen to how your body feels in different environments. Pay attention to the places that lend you strength. Pay attention to the sad places that are in need of healing or sympathy. Get to know your local environment intimately. Dream about these places. Write all your feelings down.

Study the minerals, plants and animals around you. Collect local crystals if you can. Find a place where you can mine for them yourself. Identify local trees and herbs. Find plants that call out to you. Listen to them. Spend time with them. Learn from them. If something is out of balance you will be able to recognize it. Notice what animals live near you, which creatures you are actually going to be around every day. Watch a single spot outdoors in all seasons, all times of day, to learn the secrets of the animals there. Then you’ll know which ones you really identify with. Pay attention to your dreams at this time and you may be contacted by other familiars and Gods/Goddesses who will lend their energy and wisdom to your work.

Read your witchcraft books to learn from others in the craft, but also read books on natural history, geology, field guides, local naturalists, Ed Abbey, Thoreau, Emerson, Rachel Carson and Darwin. Read and study local legends and find out who used to live where you do. Research local First People beliefs. Learn to read the land itself.

Craft your ritual tools with your own hands, from materials you collect yourself.

Leave magickal offerings but also do practical things for the other species around you. Pick up trash on your street, clean up a local stream, donate money and time to the causes you believe in. Volunteer locally and in exotic places that you wish to experience and learn about. Clean up that abandoned lot and start a community garden. Back up your spirituality with sweat and hard work.

Do all this and more and you will become wise no matter what your path is or where it takes you.

This is so inspiring. I love this😍

witch-of-the-redwoods:

• Astrology
• Meaning of birth chart
• How a birth chart is created manually
• Divination
• Runes
• Pendulum
• Tarot
• Oracle Decks
• Tea Leaves
• Palmistry
• Herbalism 
• Herb correspondences
• Balm and Salve recipes
• Tincture recipes
• Essential oil blends
• Kitchen Witchcraft
• Incorporating intention into food preparation
• Properties of food ingredients
• Tea magic
• Fermenting
• Brewing
• Baking
• Recipes
• Crystals
• Crystal correspondences
• Using crystals in healing
• Using crystals in meditation
• Bath Magic
• Essential oils
• Candle correspondences
• Herb sachets
• Homemade bath bomb recipes
• Rituals
• Sabbats
• Dates and meanings of Sabbats
• Rituals
• Prayers/rites
• Traditional foods
• Traditional crafts
• Corresponding candles, crystals, herbs, etc.
• Incorporating Yoga into Witchcraft
• Using body as a channel for energy
• Using breath and intention for spell work
• Returning to Ways of the Earth
• Traditional eating plans
• Traditional cooking methods
• Seasonal foods
• Seasonal recipes
• Chicken raising
• Gardening
• Canning/preserving garden products
• General homesteading information
• For my Family
• Home protection
• Inviting in positive energy
• Removing negative energy
• Empaths
• Shielding
• Telekinesis - moving objects
• Telepathy - read thoughts
• Psychometry - receive energy from objects
• Geomancy - receive energy from nature/land/places
• Healing (emotional/physical)
• Precognition - knowing when something important is about to happen
• Claircognizance - knowing what needs to be done in a situation
• Self-Care

eibhlincatha:

There is witchcraft in your breath, your lips, the tips of your fingers. A word uttered in silence, a symbol etched into the wax of a tapered candle, these are the gestures of your craft. The passion of your creative mind and the ferocity in your eyes are the craft itself.

zionlifts:

Healing Rituals, Grlz Night Art Collective Winter Zine, Issue 2, Mixed Media, 2015 by artist Sami Cronk (please don’t remove artist credit) 

ravenwhitewitch:

🔮🌿LAVENDER TEA BREAD🌿🔮

INGREDIENTS
Lavender Cake:
¾ cup milk
3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh lavender
6 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt

Lavender Glaze:
½ cup milk
1 tablespoon dried lavender buds
1 cup confectioner’s sugar

PREPARATION
Cake: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan. Combine the milk and lavender in a small saucepan over medium heat. Heat to a simmer, then remove from heat, and allow to cool slightly. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg until the mixture is light and fluffy. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture alternately with the milk and lavender until just blended. Pour into the prepared pan. Bake for 50 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a wooden pick inserted into the crown of the loaf comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a wire rack.

Lavender Glaze: Place the milk in a saucepan over medium heat. When it starts to boil, take the pan off the heat and add the dried lavender buds. Let the mixture steep for 5-8 minutes, then strain the milk Whisk it into the sugar, a tablespoon at a time, until you get a smooth and opaque glaze. Pour or spoon over the cooled loaf.

healing-sun-witch:

shapeshifter-of-constellation:

aestheticalspace:

Iridescent clouds, looking like a rainbow in the clouds.

A diffraction phenomenon caused by small water droplets or small ice crystals individually scattering light. Larger ice crystals do not produce iridescence, but can cause halos, a different phenomenon.

@healing-sun-witch !! :D thought you’d like this

Omg how gorgeous 🌈🌈🌈🌈