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moodboard-d · 3 months
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grottyoldhag · 7 months
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marisashorror · 29 days
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serpentandthreads · 5 months
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Something I feel like people getting into folk magic need to understand, for many people of many backgrounds, is folk magic started as a means of survival. It was struggle magic, and it is still struggle magic.
Where I'm living now and where I'm from, people planted by the signs to ensure their crops wouldn't go bad before harvesting. People used ocean water to soothe joint and muscle pains when they got old. People studied the native plants for medicine and were mindful to only take what was needed. People did little rituals and minded their grannies' words to keep their good luck. If they didn't know how to do something (or couldn't), they went to people who did.
Learning folk magic to reconnect with ancestral traditions from before your time is valid. Learning folk magic to connect with and work with the land is valid. There are many valid reasons to take up folk magic. Still, understand that folk magic is survival, and folk magic is community.
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pandorasworkshop · 7 months
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🃏 Astrology Observations Pt2 🃏
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❕ slightly nsfw ❕
🎱 Taurus mars like neck kisses maybe a little more if there are harsher degrees
🃏 Cancer mars can like dominant people and it can also indicate parental issues
🎱 If you have a fifth house overlay synastry with someone BE CAREFUL cause this is an indicator of having children or adopting pets with someone.
🃏 8th house overlay synastry can give enemies to lovers. Its a very intense synastry and can also be an indicator of possessiveness or obsessed with the planet person.
🎱 Living on your Jupiter MC line can bring you much success in business and give you good social opportunities.
🃏 Pluto lines are scaryyyy they bring up trauma, and make u rebirth entirely. Ancestral trauma is sometimes healed in these places on a Pluto DC line.
🎱 Having your rising in someone else's Venus and their rising in your Venus is positive for relationships.
🃏 Venus in 2nd house love language could be physical touch or gifts
����Venus in 6th house love languages could be acts of service and quality time
🃏 A lot of filmmakers have 6th and 12th house placements.
🎱Models tend to have Mars, Sun or Neptune in 10th or 1st house.
🃏if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask and if you want me to review anything just lemme know 🃏
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witches-bottle · 1 year
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There's no better joy in this world than watching someone collapse to their own self when you agree with them:
You know witchcraft is probably the placebo, right?
Me - yeah
Them expecting a fight - wait, why do you practice it then?
I don't know whether I'm placeboing myself a new life or whether I'm manipulating the forces of change in the universe but either way, I'm becoming a better version of myself and overcoming my enemies, my own issues and living well. Is that not what the end game is?
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mamaangiwine · 2 months
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news for some of you, but magic as you know it would not exist without Christianity, Islam, or Judaism.
Practicioners from these three faiths have contributed more than you'll ever know to magic thought and theory- to the point where you've probably picked up a "Witchcraft" Book and haven't even realized that a majority of the information inside is sourced from, if not taken verbatim, from their work.
Like, I'm not kidding.
These mystics and their work were foundational.
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folkandbooks · 5 months
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Pshh, hey. If you are in a budget or if you have to hide your practice, I have some witchy tips for you.
• You don’t need to have an altar. But if you want to, creating an altar on a wooden box is great; you can collect stuff to put in there and you can hide it under your bed.
• You don’t need crystals. Common rocks can be energised to act with a certain intention and they work just as well. You can also associate the place you got the stone/rock from with an intention, such as: a rock from a river or sea can be used for cleansing, purifying, taking energies away from you. A stone found at the property of a hospital can be used for health spells. These are vague examples, so I might make a list later on of all kinds of things you can do with mineral founding.
• Energised water is a great offering to most entities. Water holds memory and it’s easy to energise it with a certain intention if you concentrate.
• You don’t actually need candles. For many deities, an object that remembers you of them works as a taglock, an identification of the deity you’re worshipping. Besides, many spells do not need candles to work, such as: ritual baths, petitions, etc.
Have fun, and remember that your practice isn’t meant to look the same as other practitioners’. We are supposed to do things our own way, as long as it doesn’t harm anyone or anything.
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thehmn · 10 months
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Reading about old Scandinavian/Nordic folk-magic before it got influenced by modern Wicca for a comic I’ll hopefully make and it’s fascinating.
For example, binding knots was extremely powerful and was used for almost everything from trapping bad spirits to getting rid of warts, and the four corners of the world were all connected to the element of Air/Wind instead of Water, Air, Earth and Fire so people did certain types of magic depending on the direction of the wind (North for Resistance/Trouble/Harming Others, South for Personal Growth/Happiness/Health, East for Solutions/Luck/Love, West for Darkness/Evil/Illness) and while I know it will be tempting for people to connect this to the four elements that’s not how people at the time thought of it at all. It was all Wind to them.
This style of folk-magic is just intended to act as background flavour to give the world a more distinct Scandinavian feeling but it’s super fun to read about anyway.
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aleksandra-czudzak · 16 days
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NIEDŹWIEDŹ ✷ THE BEAR ✷ (Ursus arctos) ✷ "Jak mawiano niedźwiedzie mają duszę, a duch drapieżnika mści się na swoim zabójcy, np. prowadzi go na bezdroża lub w przepaście." "Niedźwiedź był również zwierzęciem demonicznym, symbolem płodności, urodzaju, sił wegetacyjnych, a z racji swojego trybu życia (sen zimowy) - odwiecznego zmagania się zimy-śmierci z życiodajną wiosną." ✷ "As they say, bears have souls, and their spirit takes a revenge on it's killer, for example, leading it astray or into the precipice." "The bear was also a demonic animal, a symbol of fertility, harvest, vegetative forces, and due to its lifestyle (hibernation) - the eternal struggle of winter-death with life-giving spring." - From "Góralskie czary. Leksykon Magii Podtatrza i Beskidów Zachodnich" by Katarzyna Ceklarz i Urszula Janicka-Krzywda. published by Tatrzański Park Narodowy -
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brujarojaderio · 21 days
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Sometimes cleansing your space is burning herbs.
Sometimes it's sweeping.
Sometimes it's weeding the garden.
The mundane is magical.
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moodboard-d · 2 months
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thesorceresstemple · 5 months
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grotesque-grimoire · 1 month
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I wish people understood that "folk magic" isn't just another homogenous flavor or type of magic, it's literally unique and different depending upon where you are in the world. Every culture and belief system will have folk magic and practices. They aren't 1:1. Some will have similar or overlapping elements, sure, but they're unique to where they come from and who they're practiced by, to the degree that two different individuals in the same area from the same culture could have completely different practices and methods. Often they lack larger structures and systems.
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serpentandthreads · 2 months
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There are people in the witchcraft and pagan communities that really need to come to terms with the fact that pagan isn't the universal term for everything that isn't Christian (or Jewish, or Islamic). Hinduism isn't pagan. Buddhism isn't pagan. Hoodoo isn't pagan. African traditional religions aren't pagan. Many regional folk practices aren't truly pagan. The list goes on. It's more of an insult than an identity for some of these groups.
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pandorasworkshop · 7 months
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🍁Astrology Observations Pt3 🍁
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🍁 Pluto in 2nd house can be an indicator of getting a lot of money later in life. Some millionaires have this placement be careful not to gamble though or you may just lose your material possessions.
🍂 Saturn in 9th house can be an indicator of not finishing school, having trouble in school, finishing school later in life or taking an alternative route of education. It can also be an indicator of not being the same religion as your parents or becoming religious later in life.
🍁 Moon in 8th may prefer to have emotional intimacy before having sex with somebody.
🍂 Venus in 5th may reallyyyyy love their pets and like have a lot of animals. Animals love this placement. Or their hobbies tend to bring them a lot of love internally or externally.
🍁Aries mercury tend to be very upfront and blunt when they are communicating. They have a kind of I am who I am attitude.
🍂 Jupiter in 8th can be an indicator or marrying rich.
🍁Venus AC line in astrocartography can bring you a lot of romance and find people who like you.
🍂 Saturn in 5th can indicate having children later in life.
🍁whatever is in your 12th house can represent what you like to watch on TV. For ex: cancer in 12th something comforting like Disney or studio Ghibli maybe more heartwarming stories about family.
🍂 Synastry overlay in 2nd can represent getting a lot of gifts from a person or giving a lot of gifts to someone.
🍁29° planet or asteroid can mean you have to finish something you started in a past life. And usually indicates doing something big.
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