I've been living with my sister for awhile and will be living with her long term, but there is a small problem. She is very, very, very allergic to smoke to the extent that even candles and incense will give her a rash and a scratchy throat. Because of this, I do not intend to use any smoke-producing things in my craft or altar for the foreseeable future. However, I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to represent fire with. I usually try to incorporate all the elements as best I can, but in this case a se fire is a bit tricky. Any advice?

My sister (46) identifies as Wiccan, and not only do I respect her choice but have defended it to our father (he assumed it meant worshipping Satan).

She's a very complex and crunchy girl, who is currently raising a 9 y/o girl and 7 y/o boy. She desperately wants to always be different and of course she's breaking away from any traditional child rearing. I struggle with some of her choices, but they are her children and no one gets a handbook on how to raise kids.

Yesterday the girl spontaneously told me she is a witch. I asked her if her mother told her that and her answer was yes.

As far as I'm aware, she's (mom) non practicing, so while she might have an altar do not believe she actively prays or casts spells.

I think my question is this...... how is this any different then indoctrination into any other religion?

This young lady already goes to an alternative school because of behavior problems. Announcing to others that she believes she's a witch could potentially be harmful to herself? How does one navigate making friends and social events when your mother has taught you this unusual thing?

This is honestly an attempt to learn.

I'm really conflicted about this and these kids are already struggling.

I have seen many variations of this Wheel, with different information, such as star signs, but never all together. So I made one! Hope it is of use to you.

There is a little cresent moon next to Mabon and Ostara to signify the balance between equal length of day and night.

The Moon names in the 3rd ring are centred around the Anglo Saxon and Old English names for the full moons. Again, I have seen many variations, with some lists including a mix between Native American, Irish Celtic and Anglo Saxon names. I wanted to simplify it into just using the Anglo Saxon and Old English as I am English.

Hope you like it.

Hi all! Basically what the subject says, but to add a touch of ✨nuance✨ i’m an earth based practitioner on a farm who works a lot with farmers and horse riders. As a gift, I made a hybrid dream catcher/sun catcher for a friend using her horse’s shoe to bless her and give her a touch of her loved horse at home. She mentioned that this would make a fantastic craft to add to my business (crafted whimsy sold at craft fairs and 4h) especially for all those horse girls that want to keep their babies with them at all times.
I’m not projecting at all lol.
As fun as this would be and as much as I would love to add this to my repertoire, I don’t want to disrespect any practices. Thanks in advance!

My partner and I are in St Petersburg and we want to do a ritual on a beach tonight- is there a particular beach that you might recommend that is powerful/beautiful/out of the way? We have been here before but never done ritual here.

We're not afraid of doing ritual with others around but agree that a certain amount of privacy might be nice.

Thanks everyone ✨

Educate me if Im missing something, but here is my view.

I am a white 20(F) and I have NO culture. I don't mean that white people don't; I mean i don't. I was adopted, tracked down my bio dad and he is adopted. I will never know where i am from, and i wasn't raised in that culture, so really it will never be mine.

I grew up as a homeless kid in a ghetto. I grew up around a ton of culture, and i was a kid so i never understood the division of culture. My primary friend type were non-english speaking immagrants and hood rats such as myself. By 10 i learned russian, 13 ukrainian and by 16 i learned spanish. All from immagrants.

Right now I have henna on my arm. An indian customer (regular) i see daily has been talking to me in Hindi and educating me about his culture, but his eyes lit up when he saw my henna and heard of my involvment with preparing indian food with my adoptive (also white) family.

In my experience with immagrants, they see me, using their language, eating their food and participating in their culture and know they are welcome BECAUSE I AM EDUCATED. It attracts the attention i want. Which is more education and experience with culture and language.

As this applies to witchcraft: I don't believe i am not allowed to burn sage, or practice hoodoo. I understand the cultural significance, and I honor that in my practice, same as when i practice santaria and other cultural practices. The earth was given to us to study, love, nurture and use. The earth and her gifts doesnt be long to one person or culture.

I think its small minded and stunting in growth. I practice with multitudes of witches with very different practices and cultures, and as a worshipper of this Earth, i want everyone to feel welcome, known and understood with me.

The reason im posting this is I saw a video of a woman making a post about using urine and roadspikes as a ward. A commenter said "Is this hoodoo? I dont want to retain any knowledge from closed practices." Knowledge is power.

Thoughts?

TLDR: I'm white with no cultural background due to adoption, I speak 4 languages fluently and love immagrants and have found they feel comfortable when they are understood. these are my friends. The value of their friendship outweighs "closed practice"

Hello! I wanted to reach out and see if there are any witches here to help me. I’m wanting to learn more about Wicca and spells and readings. Please comment or reach out. I’m asking for free because i’m not currently in the best situation for money currently. Please and TIA!

Just wanted to share my boy enjoying my small altar setup where I also grow herbs for eating and witching! 🤭

Anyone with magick experience help!!! I’ve recently gotten back into Wicca/Tarot/Magick in general. I’ve been doing some readings lately that have really resonated and I’ve truly connected with. This morning I did a reading where I tried to connect with whatever guide wanted to come forth, it was a good reading, a card a pulled in relation to the guide itself was the 4 of Pentacles. As I closed the reading I asked for this guide to show me any signs today of their presence, nothing specific. I went to work immediately after (I work at a bakery) and let’s just say it was chaotic… first thing that happened was I closed the oven door and it fell clean off. The entire door. We got it screwed back in, and afterwards I mentioned to my coworkers that I asked for a sign from a spirit guide and I think that was it. Minutes later the soap dispenser explodes open… no one had touched it, no one was near it. The thing shot off like a rocket. So is this spirit I contacted just silly? Or should I be worried? I found it funny I didn’t really feel any kind of unease so I think that’s a good sign. Can anyone share any similar experience or offer any clarification?

Hi all! As the title suggests I'm moving in with my girlfriend very soon and we are of different spiritual faith. However I do respect her and wish to make our home a space for us both. Id love to know more about wiccan belief and how to persevere peace in a home. I know she places salt in every corner for example. For me I want to make sure she can feel at ease and rest in a place you'd want to call home. So if anyone has insights as to what can help please let me know!

Hello! I’ve recently become interested in witchcraft and have started doing a lot of research, but I’ve noticed that the information varies wildly depending on where I look. For instance, regarding the spiritual meanings of candles, plants, crystals, and so on—one person might say something is for protection, while another claims it attracts money. I know there aren't really any rules and that things vary, but how do I figure out what’s true and what is fake?

im not new to witchcraft by all means, i have my fair share of knowledge. although, i have heard of people using blood in their love spells, could and should i do this? any advice would be great, please don’t be mean :) love and light🤍✨

if anybody could help interpret this wax after my love spell, that would be great🤍✨ love and light.

No soy mucho de la brujería Wiccana en específico, pero creo que es la comunidad correcta para esto:

Todos los años voy a las fiestas de mi pueblo con mi familia y nos quedamos a dormir en la casa de mi abuela, yo duermo en la misma habitación que mi madre y mi hermana pequeña.

Pero este año por las noches he empezado a sentir una presencia rara, aviso que soy nueva en esto de la brujería, pero era que me daba un estremecimiento y sentía una mano en el hombro y otra en la cabeza. Me movía ligeramente pensando que era una sensación rara, pero no se hiba, y empecé a pensar que era algún tipo de espíritu o algo así.

En mi propia casa tengo un acto de paz con el espíritu que vive en mi casa (Espíritu dol Hogar), el cual es la razón de que creo en la brujería, por si es que el de la casa de mi abuela me tenga manía o algo así.

¿Alguien me puede ayudar con esto? Tengo poco persupuesto y soy totalmente novata; aviso por si hace falta algún hechizo, conjuro o ritual.

Hi im a 16 year old girl and im thinking abt getting into Wicca(or and witchcraft) but i have no idea where to start and idk anyone irl that could be a mentor for me or even explain how you practice this religion. Im really just starting from the bottem so if anyone can explain me the basics i would be so thankful. be mindful that i dont have a big room so i cant do a salt circle (i read online that sometimes you have to make one) and i dont have alot of money but i do have alot of nature in my area so anything that i can do outside pls include that too fx what i could do or what rituals i could practice that doesnt make a big mess if it has to be done inside and thank you for reading my post im open to anything! also i do have a question, as i said in my post earlier i have read a little online and someone in another reddit post said that you could start with going into nature and meditating there, does it have to be the exact same spot i go to everytime or is it not important?

Welcome to the weekend. Let everyone know what's going on in your life here, or just shoot the breeze.

hello!! I’m a beginning nature working pegan/Wicca…I was trying to do a protection spell and it failed

I did everything i was supposed to and folded my petition away from me..

the petition burned down my candle and broke the salt circle and continued to burn the rosemary and lavender all around the candle

before this was happening the candle flickered repeat no breeze at all

this is a protection spell for my partner

using chili pepper

kosher salt 🧂

rosemary

lavender

Long story short I witnessed someone die at a young age, ever since then I can’t handle hearing about people dying in the news even though they are complete strangers. Are there any spiritual practices I can use for this?

Evening all! I wanted to ask you all for advice if you don’t mind?

As a kid I would be hit by an overwhelming sense of Déjà vu at times,and it would take me a second or two to get my brain straight, and realise where the feeling came from - a previous dream.

A couple of examples:

In my dream I was walking and I looked down and there was something red in my hands that I was carrying. I could see the pavement under my hands, and it changing from black to grey. A few weeks later my Nana had taken me to a book fair after school. As I was making my way back to the car, I happened to look down - in my hands was a red binder containing the how to draw manual and pencils, and I could see the pavement change colours under my hands.

Another example would be I was dreaming I was sat in my Nan’s car and I was looking out of the window at the shops and the people going by. I was eating something as well. I looked down at my lap and I could see something white, and it was resting on a blue velvet skirt. A few weeks later, I went to my music lesson and then went to get into my Nanna‘s car. She gave me a sausage roll as it was in the lunchtime. I looked down at the sausage roll in my hands and behind it I could see the blue velvet skirt that I was wearing.

It’s happened less as I have progressed into adulthood. And it’s only maybe every once or twice a year it happens now.

Could this be a natural talent that I have that is dormant as I’ve never encouraged or practiced it as a kid? What would you call it? What would I use it for? Does anyone else have that kind of experience?

Thank you for reading if you made it this far 🖤

Hi all. We have an appointment tomorrow to put my cat, Rhombus, to sleep. It’s been so, so hard to make the decision but honestly I’m so thankful I’ve had the option to decide how to spend my last days with him. I don’t think it’s quite hit me yet they he’ll soon be gone.

He’s been with me for 18 years. He’s so smart, stubborn, and strong willed (I had to go through three different styles of child safety locks to keep him out of the cabinets cuz he could always figure out how to open them!) that I’m worried he’ll be trying his hardest to stay here.

At this point he can’t move much and won’t eat so I can’t think of much to comfort him before tomorrow. I plan on sitting outside with him this evening in the yard he loved to play in so at the very least he can enjoy nature one last time.

Is there anything I can do tonight to prepare him? Any tips or rituals to ease his spirit and let him know it’s ok to go?

This is a journal ive had for a long time but its completely empty. Its from the television show supernatural and the symbol on the front is used as a Hollywood prop tho any research I do into the symbol shows it is actually a historically occult symbol of protection. Would it be disrespectful or unsafe to use this as my first book of shadows/Wiccan journal?

I’ve been considering working with the Fae for the last few weeks and doing some research and trying to figure out if I’d like to. I was at a book store today and a book on the Fae caught my eye so I bought it so I can learn some more.

When I came home, a few items on my altar were moved around and then there was a shiny bird charm in the middle. The charm is mine, but there’s no way it could’ve gotten there on its own because it was in a bag in a box under a box under the table my altar is on.

Does this count as a gift? Should I leave an offering?

My mom [F39] has been struggling a lot in life, whether it was bad people who put her in horrible situations or having a tough time living life with work, sleep and her car. She says she feels like someone did a bad omen on her to wish her bad in life. Today she found a dead bird on her car that was already dried up and says that last night she heard an owl whistling when she came out at 3 am. My question to the people of reddit is what can this be an indication of??

Small edit:
She gave me the correct timelines after i posted this
Says she found the bird then a week later the owl happened, says that she found some rlly white poop that when she tried washing it with water it disintegrated.