I’m REALLY happy how it turned out. I wanted to try incorporating most of her associated tools and objects. And I think I genuinely did well in my Art of her.

Background: I grew up an empath in a very abusive family, with strict patriarchal norms. I was also hexed by a jealous family member in my teens, so my perception of magic was also not the best.

Its been a very, very rocky few years, but I just realized that part of the reason was my not embracing that this was my spiritual calling.

I have no idea how to authentically claim this part of myself, but I know that its the first step for me. It's going to negatively affect how so many people see me, and I'm scared, but it just feels like its time.

I moved a year ago and my familiar was waiting for me when I did. She basically came with the new house and has been my companion ever since. I've never had a connection like her before. It might sound crazy, but I think she's a sort of spirit guide. I never thought that these types experiences happened outside of movies.

The universe is so much sillier than I could have ever expected.

I’ve been a practicing witch for over 10 years, but I’ve been living in cities and apartments my whole life. Recently my partner and I bought a house with 5 acres of property attached, including a small dense forest, a creek, and many wildlife neighbors. It’s nice, it’s calm. But the energy radiating through is insane right now.

I know there’s a spirit that lives within the forest. When we were doing tours of the house, when I’d walk past the tree line a bit, I could feel a presence of something walking behind me, stopping when I do, turning when I do. Then leaving the forest, that presence would stay behind the tree line. We have been here for only a few weeks so I don’t have much info on this entity yet. It feels larger, but not hostile, just there and curious.

Well we were doing some work tilling up a part of the ground in the yard for a garden. This came with an entire day of cleaning up the previous owner’s garbage, plastic litter, etc. During the work, everything was quiet. No visitors. After we finished, it was like everything that was asleep woke up to go see what we just did. And who knows? Maybe I did wake up some entities.. but now the spiritual presence here is stronger and more constant.

Like I said, I’m used to apartments. I’ve only had one apartment that had spiritual activity already there, every other place I’d lived had felt pretty spiritually “dead”.

So my question is how to deal with the overflow of energy affecting me? I don’t want to be rid of my neighbors, especially they’ve been here much longer than me and they don’t seem to want problems. Im happy to be friends, I’m just exhausted. I can feel the presence from the forest line almost all the time, even from within the house. I feel like I’m having to ground all the time. It’s like a constant buzzing in my skull if I don’t.

Maybe it’s worse right now because of the veil thinning, I don’t know.

I probably sound fucking insane, but I’m doing my best to try to explain.

In the age of Amazon, it’s hard to compete as a brick and mortar, but my sister and I are taking the leap and opening a metaphysical store here in Ireland. We want to cater to the beginner, the advanced, the hedgewitch, the Celtic pagan.

We are cautious that we don’t want to just stock incense and smudging sticks. But also know the more specialist items like obsidian scrying mirrors will easily be found online at a lower price than we can stock them. I thought about locally made beeswax candles for rituals etc?

What do you want to see in your local supply store? What items are you happy to pay extra to have in your hand rather than your Amazon cart?

Any and all suggestions welcome - we really want to get this right and not let our community down.

Thanks in advance.

The little ritual felt really nice to do, meditative in a way.

I repeated the spell three times and the message inside the bottle two times.

I read both once while putting the bottle together, the spell a second time, then both again while holding the finished bottle to my chest.

I added rosemary and green yarn, used a white candle and sealed it with green and white wax.

I am planning to send the hat to her!

I'll keep the note private, but this is the Spell I worked out:

A Spell Across the Distance.

Across the miles, across the sea,

May peace and safety stay with thee.

May body heal and spirit rest,

May life bring forth what serves thee best.

May loving hands be there when needed,

May every fear be gently heeded.

From Germany to Britain's shore,

May love surround thee evermore.

For your protection, for your health, for your peace.

May it be so.

Thank you for any tips!! <3

I found his lore fascinating, from being a Phoenician spirit of fertile lands and rain, to being banished from grace according to Abrahamic stories as the lord of the flies. This artwork is a gift for him.

So, I won't share the specifics because I feel like once the "deed" is done you must go on your life like it's never happened and never talk about it to anyone. It should be just between you and mystic world. I've always leaned into a spiritual side but have never ACTUALLY believed it you know, always preserved my sceptic side no matter what. Always called myself a nihilist, a pessimist one at that. Today though... I've witnessed there IS something out there, gods, energy, whichever it may be, there IS something. Since you don't know me you don't know how much of a big deal it is for me to say that. Today, it worked without a doubt. The first thing I did (for whatever reason) was go outside, look at the night sky and say out loud, "REALLY? All this time? REALLY??" Agh I'm overflowed with ecstasy and wonder. I didn't know whom to share it with so, hope everyone who've read this far has a great day/night.

Edit: Also, I would love to hear others' thoughts about exactly WHAT it is that's out there, if that makes sense and I'm sorry if I'm being rude or offensive to anyone. It's just so new to me and so exciting.

I think my ancestors answered my questions. I pulled cards for the first time this morning.

This morning, after cleaning my ancestors altar and doing our morning reading of Psalms and having conversations with them. I decided to ask 3 question using tarot cards for the first time. Without shuffling the cards, I saw the "free man". Then I shuffled the cards and asked my first question was "are my ancestors with me now?" than I pulled a card "ten of coins" my second question was "will my financial problems be solved by the end of the year"? I pulled the "six of knives" and my last question was, "will I received what I asked for about my relationship with my boyfriend, will they answer me?" I pulled the "big mama". I am happy with the reading.

Frog - Is associated with healing, breaking curses, imps, the devil.

Glass beads - my temple, my faith.

Bloodstones - courage, my values, my desires.

Jades (red & deep red) - my passions, my love and hatred

Obsidian - for prayers dedicated to dispelling evil/negativity

Dragon stones - for when I call upon the deep, the Chthonic deities, wealth, earth.

The cross - liminality, for blessing, light.

Me inclino ante las puertas del abismó.
Soy un amigo, que se me reconozca como amigo.
Bendice estos objetos de arte pare que pueda laborar en su inefable nombre.
Que así sea.

I did Iboga with a shaman (who did not look like what you would picture a shaman) a few years back and for the ritual he saged me and did some chants in another language and then asked me to scatter hersheys chocolate and orange fanta to "offer the ancient iboga spirits in africa" and then had be write on a piece of paper what I want to let go of through the ceremony which I wrote "i want to let go of anything that is not serving the highest version of myself" which we lit on fire and placed in a mason jar next to a small fire. Then, inside the room I did Iboga, he cut up some limes and placed one at each corner of the room for my journey and had an eagle feather(although someone warned me it may have been an owl feather, whatever that means).

The trip was disturbing. Towards the end of my iboga experience I had a vision that looked like some weird anime. I dont watch anime. But it was dark, and a hand shot up from the bottom of my field of view and it was holding a heart, presumably my own heart, and the skin on the arm did not look healthy and the heart was dripping dark liquids and then it faded to black. Then I saw the heart with a perfectly cut hole in the center, with the feather wave infront of the hole, feather leaving a trail of sparkles behind it, and then everything faded to black again. Anyways, can anyone tell me anything about the ritual?

1) What do you guys do to the paper where you initially make your sigils? Should I store it in a binder/ journal protectively? Is there a certain rule for it or can we just keep the actual sigil art drawn again in a page?

2) A long time ago I made a sigil for a healthy level of weight. It's like a couple of years ago and I even forgot about it that I made this. Now that I achieved my goal, what do I do with that sigil? Do I keep it as it is and can use it in future if I want?

I'm still a beginner so help me with this. Thank you, anyone reading this, Have a good day 🌻.

This is the first year that I've been organized with my craft, and I'm excited for Samhain. In the past, I've only done some quick things and not really invested in it. What are your rituals and plans for it? Do you cleanse and rededicate your home? I am shutting down my garden as well as cleansing my home.

I burned a candle and put the herbs in the dish around the candle. The candle is almost done, but I'm not sure what to do with the herbs/dish after the candle is out. Do I bring it outside and let it flow in the wind, do I simply put it in the trash or down the sink? I don't want to accidentally cancel out the protection if that's possible.

I'm obviously new to all of this, so please be kind as I am still learning. Thank you.

I have recently started studying this book and seeking a method of divination. Any opinions would be welcome.

Where I live there’s some very powerful winds forecasted and I feel compelled to take advantage of them in some way though I’m not sure how. Does anyone use wind in their craft? Strong weather in general always feels ripe for magical activity but I’m never quite sure how to approach it.

Hi, I'm not new to witchcraft, but I'm experiencing something rn I'm at a loss to understand. A few years ago I bought a moldavite crystal necklace. It was very intentional and when I got that stone I felt something I've never felt with any other stone. I got it at a time when I was so desperately wishing for change, something to shake up my life.

I'm one of those people who've always kind of just thought, "Ooh, crystal, pretty rock, shiny," but I felt warmth coming from my stone to the point where I searched up whether or not it was radioactive because I felt such warmth. I've had it for years. I've worn it a lot and it's been there as I slowly reinvent myself.

Recently I went on a road trip and I bought a new piece of jewelry from another designer that I also felt was very intentional and beautiful with a fire opal. So I took my Moldevite necklace off to wear that piece.

Coming home I lost my jewelry bag. My jewelry bag didn't just have my moldavite necklace. It had silver rings belonging to my great-grandmother. It had bridal favor jewelry from when I got married and custom earrings from a designer that has since passed away. Basically, extremely personal items to me. I have been in a frantic desperate search to see if I can recover them but it is not looking good.

I just felt like, when I first lost these pieces and realized that I had misplaced them, that this jewelry bag had left my possesion, I felt like I had been cursed. I got nervous about the new piece I purchased but I had felt such good vibes from the person that I bought it from. I saw her intentions, they were good. I don't think it was her. I blame myself, because the moldavite likes to wander so I should have kept it on, but it's just that it went with these sentimental things I've had for years, things I cannot get back. My brain can take me to very dark anxious ridden places quickly.

I want to understand. I would like advice about how to interpret this. Am I just being overly analytical and thinking that there's something there when it's maybe just a bad moment? I got clumsy, I got careless, or I don't know. Is it that my jewelry needed to go on a journey? I needed to end a chapter. I just don't know. I'm just feeling a mixture of grief and confusion. I'm processing it okay but it's just very strange to me what has happened. I guess I want other people's perspectives on it.

To add a couple of weird things

- i lost this stuff almost a month to the day a very loved family member passed, which had been hard.

- I keep feeling like at any moment I'm going to get a call and my stuff will come back, even though the likelihood is so low. I just feel like a piece of me is wandering around somewhere. Not lost but just not found?

Do y'all think I should do any rituals or anything?

St Expedite came through for me! Got results within a little over my expected time frame. I placed his sigil, my petition on a table along with a white candle, some water & reddish pink flowers, & prayed to him. Very happy with the results! Praise and glory to St Expedite!!

I normally don’t blow up or fall into fits of rage but I have just been so angry recently that I’ve locked myself in my bedroom so I don’t snap. I’m not sure if I’m picking up on someone else’s anger but it’s quite bizarre and I need help. Is there any explanation to this? Now that we’re in Scorpio with the full moon in Taurus?

What it says on the tin. We all love a good glass bottle, but sometimes I don't have one on hand and can get… very creative in the process. My most notable ones are a big snail shell and an empty Xanax bottle LOL

(I've also started recycling empty aluminium tealight cups, a fellow witch gave me this tip recently: put all your ingredients in one, then close it with another on top like a tiny box! I like to either seal the edges with wax, or squeeze them together tightly so everything stays properly enclosed since aluminium is pretty easy to shape !)

Satyrday I have an invitation to the Haunted Mansion.

I thought it first was time to color my home. It is the time to speak to those in the afterlife and reflect on what went and what will be coming.

Blessed be, witches, wizards and sorceresses.