tabithalovesstuff:

10 Prompts for Shadow Work

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1. Keep track of your feelings from day to day. Record how you felt and try to pin point why you felt certain ways in different situations. How could you habe handled it better? Why did you react the way you did?
2. Write a letter to your past self, or your future self. Then break down your thoughts on why you said the things you did. Address any emotions that pop up during this process and record them. Why did you feel that way? What events in your life made you right what you did?
3. Are you living true to yourself? Are you changing who you are based on who you’re around? What are those changes? Why do you make those changes?
4. Are you holding on to something or someone that you should let go of? Why do you hold on to it? What are steps you can take to let go of it?
5. What are your fears? Your REAL fears not just spiders or heights. Why are you afraid of those things? Are there any steps you can take to lessen that fear?
6. How do you treat the people in your life? Is there anything you could do for them to better your relationships? Are you being a positive, healthy influence on their life or are you being a toxic one? If toxic, what changes are you going to make to your behavior to stop being toxic?
7. What do you wish other people knew about you? Why do you keep it hidden?
8. Are you healing from past traumas and or incidents or have you just distracted yourself? What healthy ways could you address unhealed trauma in order to move to a healthier place?
9. Make a list of people you don’t like. Why don’t you like them? Are they actually bad or do you see bad parts of yourself reflecting in them and that’s why you don’t like them? Be honest.
10. Write down everything that happens to you in a week that makes you feel bad in any way. Examine this list and ask why certain events make you feel bad.

BONUS: Write down what you believe about a variety of things (from religion and karma all the way down to relationships and your career path). Why do you believe those things? Are these feelings set in stone or are you willing to accept alternate views? Why or why not?

Remember Shadow work is all about unlocking your subconscious. This helps you understand yourself better which is important for many different aspects in witchcraft, and your star seed will thank you for it.

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oshuns-ambience:

I know this is just my witchy blog I guess but I’m on a mental health journey now and thats new and important so

I want witchy friends so badddddddd

Me: *doing witchcraft*

My brain: Damn I messed up we gotta go bald

Me: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh

themori-witch:

diemond-s:

whichwitchami:

breelandwalker:

ofwoodandbone:

“Witchcraft is not safe. Witchcraft is not good and kind. Witchcraft is the domain of the trickster, the outcast, the wanderer, and the crooked. It belongs to those who know every light casts a shadow; who have looked into the depths of darkness in their soul and accepted what they’ve seen along with all that is good. Witchcraft requires cunning, manipulation, self-awareness, adaptable morals, and dash of madness.”

— Sarah Anne Lawless (via gardenofthequeen)

This speaks to the part of me that cringes and holds her tongue every time I see a post or an article that talks about witchcraft like it’s all flowy gestures and flower petals and peaceful hippie vibes. Like it’s supposed to be all safe and sanitized and suitably done up for aesthetic posts. Like the idea of shaking things up or acting with aggression or embracing fear or anger or pain or deceit as a part of the craft is anathema.

Me personally? I can’t do safe. I can’t do nice. I can’t do pastel or love-and-light. I can’t do the holy menstrual cycle. I can’t do peaceful forgiveness. I can’t do the dance of endlessly doubting and double-checking myself to make sure I’m truly Harming None.

My spells aren’t always kind. My wards aren’t friendly. My philosophies aren’t remotely pacifist. As a good friend once said, I walk this world with dirt in my nails and a brick in my hand. And that’s okay.

If your craft is all sunshine and happiness and that works for you, fantastic. But just remember where the roots of the tree are resting.

I found witchcraft because I was angry. Because I wanted to take back power in a world that made me believe being passive and demure was holding power. I don’t post a lot of my personal practice in Tumblr but I guarantee it’s not all sunshine and rainbows and uwu cuteness.

i refound it because i was grieving. 

this 100%. 

I found witchcraft because I was angry, powerless, and grieving.

That’s not to say that every witch has to have suffered or turned to magic through suffering, just that many of us find witchcraft in our darkest times and often, our practises reflect that

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but

themanicnami:

crystalwitch-in-the-tardis:

teawitch:

thesorcerersdiary:

Do NOT cast spells for positive effects that involve:

• Burning a picture of yourself*
• Burning a piece of paper that anywhere contains your name*
• Burning a piece of hair or other taglock*

*Unless you really know what you’re doing

I don’t know how sigil culture got people to think that burning anything = sending it off for spirits, but NO. Across pretty much every magical practice, burning involving a person = destruction. Burning as a means of generically sending things off is mainly used for offerings.

On a similar vein, do not cast spells for positive effects that involve taking a human figure and ripping up, burning, submerging in soil or water, or doing anything else to that figure that would maim or kill a real human. (unless you really know what you’re doing)

Remember the Law of Similarity. Destruction of an image = destruction of the thing itself.

I’ve left a group over this one. Though it was drowning not burning. To get rid of negativity in the group, we were supposed to make poppets of ourselves and then make a paper boat and put the poppets in the river. Where the river would carry them away as they sank. And drowned. 

I said no. This refusal created more negativity. Okay, I may have also said something like “I don’t know what Ophelia shit you’re up to here, but I’m not doing the spell.”  Which probably caused more negativity because the reference was probably went over some heads. But…

You do not create representations of yourself and destroy them. If anyone who thinks they should teach witchcraft or lead a group tries to get you to do that, you have every right to leave. Or to severely question what they think they’re up to. 

(Need to get rid of negativity or excess energy? Get a good size rock. Not a fancy crystal, just a hunk of basic rock. Hold the rock and let your energy flow into it. Then put the rock outside on the ground and the energy will flow into the earth. This transfers the energy without destroying anything. I know witches who have a specific rock just for this purpose.)

I can’t believe they wanted you to make a poppet of yourself and sink it. Besides the environmental impact, based on what materials used put in the river, this feels more like a curse than a remove negativity spell. Did the person who put the spell together want yall to be miserable together, stuck in a river? What happens when the river floods…. I love the Ophelia comment because definitely that feel.

I like the rock idea, I’ve done this with negativity, with harmful spirits too. If you really want it gone gone for good, that’s when you throw that rock in the river that contains your negative energy, etc.

New witches, if you do not curse personally remember to research into what cursing holds! This is exactly why.

You can definitely make poppets of yourself for positivity but you should never EVER destroy or harm those poppets unless you have already removed all connections to you from them - or else you are essentially unintentionally setting up yourself for the possibility of allowing some very negative unexpect outcomes to rear their heads into your life.

Remember the aspects of cursing and what different steps in cursing means to avoid doing that to yourself.

Actions to avoid doing to yourself or a poppet of you (this includes anything with your name or photo or other taglock unless you are doing very specific spirit work contracts but that is a whole different thing):

1. Burning: burning brings not only destruction it is often done to poppets and items of people to represent anger, hateful energy, bringing complete chaos and ruining good things that they have. In cursing you burn poppets of others as one of the more severe types of curses and often to get very large outcomes.

2. Submerging in Water: as discussed above this represents drowning which isn’t literal in most cases but often represents anxieties, sinking emotions, flooding or drowning someone with negative emotions or misery, losing control of one’s life and paranoia. Drowning is usually connected to extreme punishment connected to another’s emotions and their own self-views.

3. Burying: burying a poppet represents caging, confining, repressing and smothering them. It can also be used to ‘bury a person away’ or toss them out of your life. Doing this to something strongly connected to you outside of a properly made witch’s jar or well researched ritual is not only environmentally bad if its not made out of safe materials but can repress yourself from achieving goals, reaching milestones or succeeding in things you do such as trying to improve upon something.

4. Cutting/Slicing: never cut or slice a poppet meant to represent yourself! This represents pain, bringing old wounds to the surface and suffering. I’ve seen way too many younger communities try to say cutting up something with your face or name on it is letting go - it can be but not in this context. Cutting things like strings, ribbons, tangled up knots, etc is much safer and proper without risk of the above.

5. Tying, Knotting, Hanging: using thread, ribbon or anything else to bind up a poppet or photo even if its in a pretty bow is the same actions done as in binding spells - which are meant to restrict and immobilize others. Make sure you do not hang your poppet especially not by the neck or limbs for this can also represent suffocation (usually not literally but emotionally or socially) and removing someone’s ability to protect themselves and making the vulnerable.

Remember intent only goes so far! You can put as much intent as you want into things but that doesn’t always ensure that they will happen - do your research! Research what correspondences are to everything you use, make sure any actions you are using are not going to counteract with the spell or worse possibly ruin the whole spell and make sure you are well researched in self poppet and taglock work! 

Note: all craft is different, everyone walks their own path, just research before you try to tackle things that may go against what you are trying to do. As said intent only goes so far. If you are certain that you have a safe method for anything above and have done it before thats great! this is intended for witches who are new, finding their footing and may not realize how to properly protect themselves or master their craft yet. All craft is valid! We just want to make sure people do it safely and know the basics before they jump into things they aren’t prepared for

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lofishing-deactivated20210113:

C A N D L E

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kekmetic:

Hey!

like/reblog if you’re a big cutie kemetic like myself and maybe we can chat and be pals and whatever else

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LGBTQ+ and Kemeticism

kemetickreation:

I thought a lot today about being LGBTQ+ and being a Kemetic Pagan. I have been a little worried about being “out” because I didn’t want anyone to think less of me. I have been struggling with my identity for a while and it sucks that I’m not sure which Kemetics would be accepting of it. Heru-sa-Aset made me feel a little bit better by reassuring me that he is also LGBTQ+ and he loves and watches every LGBTQ+ person. But that got me wondering why there is so little documentation of LGBTQ+ in Ancient Egypt. However, with the help of Djehuty, Heru-sa-aset, other Netjeru, and some critical thinking, I came to this conclusion:

Ancient Egypt has a very long, complicated history, and writing only started in 3200 BC, therefore so much myth, and history is lost. Many things that were documented did not survive long enough to be discovered, and many things disintegrated over time.

Not only that, but it was an early civilization, and a state power hierarchy. Fertility was heavily emphasized because more people meant more contributions to the overall power/influence of the state, and more people to produce surplus of goods (for the elite, temples, etc). Warfare was common, so the more people= the more warriors and also the harder a place is to take over. Unfortunately, homosexuals can’t reproduce with each other, and common people who weren’t interested in a heterosexual relationship and reproducing were pretty much erased from Ancient Egyptian rhetoric and history. Even Pharoahs went through the pressure of reproduction, usually, they had marry to produce an eventual heir. So if they had any lovers that didn’t fall into this category, it was pretty much not talked about and eventually erased from history.

Furthermore, the Pharoah in charge dictated much of what was to be written and implemented in society, which is why Hatsheptut was almost erased from history (a sexist new Pharoah was jealous of her success and accomplishments, and wanted people to forget about her forever). This also happened to much of lgbtq+ history, partly because reproduction was so important to the success of the state and the more children commoners had the more workers the state had for upholding and building elite (and state) success.

I could go on, but remember, just because there’s not as much LGBTQ+ documentation in Ancient Egypt as say Ancient Rome and/or Ancient Greece doesn’t mean they didn’t exist! (Plus Egypt is way older than those two combined,and faced many changes, conquerors, erasers of history, and many documents disintegrated from age). So love yourself fellow LGBTQ+ Kemetics and be proud! Your Netjeru will love and accept you for who you are. If others think less of you because of who you are, that only reflects negatively on them, and means nothing negative about you. I send my support to all my fellow LGBTQ+ Kemetics!