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Prince Stolas Appreciation Post

Hail, Prince Stolas! Without his gracious help I would have not been able to complete two very important assignments :)

#prince stolas #ars goetia #demonolatry #stolas demon #demons

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had already sent this to a mutual of mine but i thought this might be helpful for anyone else who may need it

it’s a tarot spread on how to know what deities are trying to reach out with you and why, works like a charm i swear

have a good night everyone!

-star <3

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Flora by Valentine Walter Bromley (1874)

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Satan is watching, my friends, and his message is simple:

"You are doing so well, even in your darkest moments I am there. You may turn to me with all, with no fear of judgment or wrath, but with acceptance and love."

Satan loves you, and he hears your prayers. Let your faith be your safe haven from the brutalities of the world. He will love you regardless of your short comings, your hesitations, and your pain.

Ave Satanas!

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Energy Based Witchcraft and Quick Practices

All right, so this is essentially the beginning of energy related witchcraft that I’ll be posting about as I try it and learn new things. Feel free to try out some of the stuff I talk about here but please remember that this is your journey and you can and should edit and tweak everything to best fit you.

Types of Energy

Reserved Energy

Reserved Energy floats either just above or below your skin. It should feel like it’s attached to you and resist most attempts to use it. It is minimally pliant, minimally workable, and mostly just exists as a backup or protection.

Latent Energy

Latent Energy is typically a ball of energy that is extremely malleable and easily visualized. This type of energy is more ‘for your use’. It can be visualized anywhere in the body; however, where ever it best seems to fit (i.e. a ball of energy in your stomach, chest, head, etc) is normally where it stays. Latent energy is great to work with to give yourself a better mastery over molding both Reserved and Latent energy.

Neighboring/Immediate Energy

Neighboring (or Immediate) Energy is an amalgamation of your energies and outside forces. It’s best visualized and felt by meditating. If you’ve meditated and felt like you were basically out of your own body and hazy, you’ve felt Neighboring Energy. It’s less you and, as a by product, significantly harder to work with. It’s not as difficult as Reserved Energy since that’s an active rejection to change, and this is simply difficult because you’re reaching beyond yourself.

Visualizing Your Energy

Visualizing energy can be a bit tricky, but seeing your energy, in my opinion, is equally important as feeling it. Being able to see and acknowledge your energy makes feeling and moving it so much simpler. There are a couple of ways to visualize your energy, so we’ll hop into those first:

First Plane Visualization (FPV)

If you close your eyes to visualize your energy and the first thing you see is your body, this is where you’re at. First Plane Visualization essentially means your energy best manifests itself to you as a physical part of you. Personally, I feel this makes it easier to work with Latent and Reserved Energy, but harder to work with Neighboring.

Second Plane Visualization (SPV)

If attempting to visualize your energy brings up empty space with your energy in some form or shape in it, congrats, this is you. This type of visualization makes it significantly easier to work with energy that isn’t yours but more difficult to work with your own as well. Your energy seems to best manifest itself as a construct in your mind, essentially on a different plane than your physical body. To use it, you have to get around your own barrier between it and physicality whereas outside energies that are already on your plane don’t need any extra work for you to work with them.

When you visualize your energy, you’re essentially introducing yourself and greeting it. In the same way you most likely wouldn’t hand a stranger a thousand dollars, your energy isn’t likely to do much for you if you don’t at least know it.

Moving Your Energy

Think of your energy as a muscle, if you never use it, it becomes that much more difficult to begin using and to strengthen it.  Please don’t expect to hop in, visualize your energy once, and suddenly have it do everything you want it to.

First try visualizing your energy with your eyes closed. Spend some time with it, don’t demand anything of it. Is your energy naturally calm? Does it spin lazily as you sit with it? Is your energy a spitfire, constantly flinging out strands of itself and wrapping around everything it can without leaving it’s basic shape? Who is your energy? What kind of personality do you get from it?

Try to learn and love your energy every time you visualize it. When you’ve got the image of your energy firmly in your head, preferably to the point where you can almost feel  it wherever it’s best visualized, try moving it. Try to get a strand of it to detach from the bulk of your energy and pull it towards you. If that’s difficult, simply work on moving the bulk of your energy towards and away from you (SPV) or around your body (FPV). This should honestly take awhile. Remember that you’re not simply trying to visualize it, but feel it. As it moves, you should feel it. Once you’ve got a mastery of that, try opening your eyes and doing it over again.

When you can move your energy in bulk or pieces with a bit more ease, I recommend pushing it to the surface. The easiest place to feel Latent Energy is between your palms. If trying to move your energy with in yourself simply won’t work for you, try this instead, then move back to that later. To push your energy to your hands for FPV, imagine it wherever it tends to manifest itself. Push it, either in whole or (preferably) in part, down or up your body and into your palms. If you need your eyes closed to direct it, by all means, close them; however, once you’ve got it comfortably in your palms, open your eyes and try to get used to keeping a hold on your energy with your eyes open. Allow it to do as it pleases within the space between your palms. Start out with maybe half a foot between your hands and slowly increase the distance as you grow more confident.

For SPV, visualize your energy and bring it towards you. Bring out either two bits of it, still connected to the whole, or the bulk of it towards yourself until it feels like you’ve stepped inside of it or as though it’s encompassed you. Carefully, without losing that feeling, visualize it (either with your eyes opened or closed depending on what works better for you) sparking its way down your arms and into your hands. If that’s too far to visualize, simply imagine it condensing between or in your palms for the get-go. Because your own image is less involved in your own energy, expect to have a harder time keeping it where you want it to be.

Energy, like most objects, rejects movement without force. When you move it at first, it may feel like it snaps back to where it started no matter what you do. Keep practicing and remember that it hasn’t really moved in years, so it’ll take some work to get it to move now.

Energy Exercises

We’re finally at the end of what I can share for the time being. I only have a couple of practices that I’ve been using lately, only one of which I’ll add here, specifically for Reserved Energy because that’s what I’m practicing working with currently. I will update this as time goes on but I do want to be sure before I give put any exercises. For example, one of them uses hunger as a basis and I don’t know how I feel about giving a purpose to staying hungry, so I’ll wait to add that if at all.

Exercise 1

Find a cold room or area, cold enough to give you goosebumps but not enough to shiver. Furthermore, if it’s outdoors, make sure there’s little to no wind. Wear short or no sleeves. Allow the cold to seep into your skin. Visualize your reserved energy; this may be a thin layer above or below your skin.

If it appears above your skin, give it intent, push it to separate you from the cold. In practice, this literally felt like a wash of lukewarm warmth sliding down from my head. The cold felt like someone holding an ice cube near my skin, but didn’t actually make me cold.

If it appears below your skin, incite it to heat itself. The cold should sink into your skin and meet that barrier of energy and fizzle out. I can’t tell you how it feels in practice because my Reserved Energy appears above the skin. If you try this out and are okay to share, I’d love to know how it differs.

Updates

I’ll either update or make new posts on this as I learn. I love energy based craft and I’ve got a lot more things I’m practicing that I’m not confident enough in quite yet to share…but soon. Here’s a mini-list of what you can expect in the future:

Moving Energy Into Objects

Visualizing Neighboring Energy

Using Neighboring Energy

Taking Energy from an Object

NOTE: All of the names I’ve given energy, energy types, etc were made by me simply to make it easier to refer to and talk about. If you call any of the feelings or activities something else, by all means, continue doing so. This is just what makes it easiest to understand for me.

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Grimoire Challenge: Week 5 - Luck Correspondences and Spell

Typically, I would add a pinch or two of cinnamon or other herb into a spell for a bit of luck. A whole luck spell is a first for me, so I guess this might be a little simple.

Charge a ring with good luck 

Needed:

A ring (or other item)

Cinnamon Oil

Wheel of Fortune Tarot Card (or a picture of a wheel)

A white or green candle (or color you associate with luck)

To make cinnamon oil quickly:

In a large pan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add cinnamon, stir to combine, and simmer for about 5 minutes. Strain through a strainer lined with a coffee filter into a clean jar or bottle. Store in a cool, dark place for up to one month.

Alternatively you can let several whole cinnamon sticks soak in olive oil in a jar for a few weeks, shaking daily, then strain. To be honest, this would be the preferred method.

The Spell:

Anoint the candle with the oil, asserting that you are anointing the candle with the power of good luck.

Place the candle in a holder on top of the Wheel card, facing upright.

Place the ring in front of the candle also on the card.

Maybe sprinkle a ring of lucky herbs in a circle around the card, candle and ring as well.

Light the candle.

Say, “Wheel of Fortune, turn aright. Charge this ring with lucky might.”

Let the candle burn while you concentrate on lucky things and turning your luck for the better.

Feel free to carve lucky symbols or the words “good luck” in the candle or to place other lucky symbols, stones, and items around the candle.

Make sure to keep an eye on the candle while it’s lit.

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2024 Lunar Calendar by Duchess_of_Lore

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Hecate.

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To Lady Hekate for protection during the night

Hear me, Light-bringer Hekate,

Daughter of Star-bright Asteria and Perses the Destroyer.

She who guided Holy Demeter on her search for Maiden Persephone, with her flaming torches that oversaw their reunion,

Tender-hearted Hekate who is worshipped as a protector of oikos and travel,

If I have ever honoured your spirits, accept this prayer, Mighty Hekate,

I ask for your protection during the night and to grant me safe passage to my destination,

I ask for your favour with a token of my praise, I offer to you (offering)

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Before I go to sleep, I offer this prayer, mostly for my own peace of mind:

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To the loving gods of Olympos and beyond, the gods of the depths of the Underworld,

May Dionysos Androgynos stand by the side of all transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in the face of adversity.

May Ares Enyalios raise his arms in support of those who are impacted the most by the needless war that has been raged against us.

May Aphrodite Symmakhia remind those who struggle how beautiful, handsome, and gorgeous they look within their own skin and how worthy they are of love from others and love from themselves.

May Hermes Kharidotes grace the hearts of those suffering with boundless joy, adventure, and laughter, and may every new day bring something new to look forward to.

May Apollon Paean help to mend the internal (and even external) wounds of those who have endured countless emotional attacks and survived an endless mental warfare.

May Artemis Hemerasia soothe the troubles and worries of all those who doubt their own legitimacy and place in the world, and remind them that they do belong and that they are enough as they are.

May Athena Alalkomeneis watch over all who require her divine protection and keep them safe from all forms of harm, evil, and malintent.

May the Good Gods watch over us all - those who do not fit into society's standard of gender - and bring us peace, safety, and, above all, self-love. We deserve to feel happy, loved, and safe. Take care, everyone. 🧡

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hey hi hello can you reblog this if you’re a trans-inclusive witchcraft or paganism blog i am fighting for my LIFE out here

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hi! in your Deities 101 posts, you talk about "universal offerings". i have done research but cannot find anything on them. what are the universal offerings?

Universal offerings are offerings that can be given to any deity, spirit, etc. While they aren’t the same in all cultures and religions, they usually include the following:

Wine

Clean water

Bread

Incense

Candles/Other Flames

Some universal devotional acts include:

Research

Reading Their Myths

Cleaning

Taking Care of Yourself

Connecting to Nature

Any Hobbies You May Have (You Can Devote Anything to Anyone)

I hope this helps!

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A guide to worship of Hekate - cheat sheets

Hellenic cheat sheets

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Some of Hekate's Harsher Epithets

Agriope ‘Wild-eyed’, ‘Fierce-faced’, ‘Savage-watcher’, ‘wild-voiced’ Aimopotis ‘Blood-drinker’, ‘Murderer’ Amaimaketos ‘Unconquerable’, ‘Raging’, ‘Invincible’, ‘Unapproachable’, ‘Uncontrollable’ Androphonos ‘Killer of Men’ Antania ‘Enemy of Mankind’ Aôroboros ‘Devourer of the Prematurely Dead’, ‘Devourer of the Untimely Dead’ Brimô ‘Angry-One’, ‘Terrifying’ Charopos ‘Ferocious-aspected’, ‘Fierce’, ‘Grim’, ‘Flashing’, ‘Bright, ‘Having blue-grey eyes’, ‘of the Sea’ Chrysosandalaimopotichthonia ‘Goddess of the Lower World Wearing Golden Sandals and Drinking Blood’ Damasandra ‘Dominator of Men’, ‘Subduer of Men’ Dasplêtis ‘Horror’, ‘Frightful-one’ Deinos ‘Terrible’ Kapetoktypos ‘Tomb-disturber’, ‘Causing the Noise of Lamentation’ Kardiodaitos ‘Heart-Eater’, ‘Feasting on Men’s Hearts’ Karko ‘Lamia’, ‘Child-Eating’, ‘Nocturnal Spirit’ Katakampsypsaychenos ‘Bender of proud necks’ Mormo ‘She-Monster’ Nekuia / Nekyia ‘Goddess of death’, ‘Mistress of corpses’ Nerteron Prytanin ‘Mistress of the Dead’ Oistrophaneia ‘Manifester of Madness’ Oistroplaneia ‘Spreader of Madness’, ‘Causing the Wanderings of Madness’ Oksyboê ‘Shrill-screamer’, ‘Shrieker’ Oletis ‘Destroyer’ Oxythymia ‘Gallows’, ‘Quick to Anger’ Phoberos ‘Terrible’, ‘Fearful’ Phôtoplêx ‘Who smites with light’, ‘Who strikes with light’ Phthorênês ‘Ruin-Bringer’, ‘Corruptor’ Pyripnos / Pyripnoa ‘Fire-breather’, ‘Breathing Fire’ Sarkophagos ‘Flesh-Eater’ Thanatêgos ‘Death-Bringer’ Thea Deinos ‘The Dread Goddess’ Tymborychos ‘Gravedigger’, ‘Grave-Robber’

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Hekate's Appearance According to Her Epithets

Agriope ‘Wild-eyed’, ‘Fierce-faced’, ‘Savage-watcher’, ‘wild-voiced’ Aktinochiatis ‘Radiant haired’, ‘With Rays for Hair’ Amphiprosopos ‘Double-faced’ Amphistomos ‘Double-mouthed’ Azostos ‘Ungirt’, ‘Without a Belt’ Boôpis ‘Cow-eyed’ Charopos ‘Ferocious-aspected’, ‘Fierce’, ‘Grim’, ‘Flashing’, ‘Bright, ‘Having blue-grey eyes’, ‘of the Sea’ Chrysôpis ‘Golden-faced’ Chrysosandalos ‘of Golden Sandals’ Chrysosandalaimopotichthonia ‘Goddess of the Lower World Wearing Golden Sandals and Drinking Blood’ Chrysostephanos ‘Golden-Crowned’, ‘Crowned with Splendor’ Chrysostephês ‘Golden-crowned’ Dadophoros ‘Torchbearer’ Dadouchos ‘Torch-bearer’ Eidôlios ‘Phantasmal’, ‘Ghostly’ Hecatoncheires ‘Hundred-handed’ Hexacheira ‘Of Six Ways’, ‘Of Six Hands’ Hippoprosopos ‘Horse-Faced’ Indalimos ‘Beautiful’ Ippokyôn ‘Mare-Dog’, half dog/ half horse Ippoprosôpos ‘Horse-faced’ Kalkaea ‘Wearer of High Boots’ Kalliste ‘Fairest’ Keratôpis ‘Horned-faced’, ‘Horned Looking’ Keroeis ‘Horned’ Kore ‘Maiden’ Krokopeplos ‘Saffron-Cloaked’ Kynokephalos ‘Dog-Headed’ Kyôn ‘Bitch’, ‘Dog’ Kyôn Melaina ‘Black Bitch’, ‘Black Dog’ Leukophryne ‘White-Browed’, ‘Of the White-Browed Hill’ Liparokredemnos ‘Of the Bright Headband’, ‘Bright-Coiffed’ Liparoplokamos ‘Brilliant-Braided’ Lykaina ‘She-wolf’ Lyko ‘She-wolf’, ‘Wolf-formed’ Melaine ‘Black’ Melaneimôn ‘Black-clad’, ‘Wearing Black’ Monoprosopos ‘With One Face’ Mormo ‘She-Monster’ Opheôplokamos ‘Coiled with Snakes’, ‘With Snaky Curls’ Phoinikopeza ‘Ruddy-footed’ Polyplokamos ‘Of Many Tentacles’, ‘With Many Feelers’ Polymorphos ‘Many-formed’, ‘Of many forms’ Pyridrakontozônos ‘Girt with flaming serpents’ Pyripnos / Pyripnoa ‘Fire-breather’, ‘Breathing Fire’ Rhododaktylos ‘Rosy-Fingered’ Speirodrakontozonos ‘Girt with Serpent Coils’ Taurodrakaina ‘Bull-Dragon’, ‘half bull/ half serpent’ Taurokarênos ‘Bull-headed’ Tauromorphos ‘Bull-formed’ Taurôpis ‘Bull-faced’ Tetrakephalos ‘Four Headed’ Tetraprosôpos ‘Four-faced’, ‘Four-Headed’ Tetraprosôpinos ‘Four-faced’ Triauchenos ‘Triple-necked’, ‘With Three Necks’ Triceps ‘Three-Formed’ Trikaphalos ‘Three-headed’ Trikaranos ‘Three-headed’,’Three-faced’, ‘Triple-headed’ Trimorphos ‘Three-Formed’ Triprosôpos ‘Triple-faced’ Zônodrakontis / Zonodrakontos ‘Encircled by Serpents’, ‘Covered in Snakes’, ‘Intertwined with Snakes’

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