Witchcraft XIII

What in nature am I drawn to; the ocean, animals, the trees, etc.?

 

I like penguins, groundhogs, opossums, and vultures.

I love lilacs and all the flowers I have growing around my house.

I love the Gasconade River.

I like to get lost in the woods.

I love living out in the sticks.

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doing it

i am doing it.

i made a plan last week. cue up my podcast, set timer for 20 mins, and go.

i got shit done. i got The Work done! i am making steps on getting this place up to snuff for wanting to do all my goals for the year.

i hit the 60% mark for the month. that is low but i am proud of the shit that got done.

i am making strides and i pray i can keep this momentum up and going!

Witchcraft XII

What are the basic morals and ethics I feel I should live by?

 

Harm none but take no shit.  Witchcraft Prompts

Witchcraft XI

Do I want to practice something similar to my ancestors?

 

It’s a hot mess of me finding out what my ancestors did.

I thought I came from a long line of German Roman Catholics. Then I find out we were Lutherans in the old county.

And on the other side, a mix of English Quakers.

And then I went down a rabbit hole of the Venus of Willendorf.

She was found 10 hours away (driving) from where my people came from in Germany. Not knowing what all was going on 30,000 years ago, my ancestors may have worship her.

Do I want to practice something similar to my ancestors? I think I am.

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trying to move

i am trying.

no SIMS tonight, i need to get shit done.

after i post this, i’m throwing cards, shower, meditate, and start a notebook.

this notebook is going to be a planner of sorts. i want to make list and plot out when i can do stuff and then DO IT!

chatted with Colt last night and i put words together.

i realized i have this habit of "doing ThIs will cure me of my current problem!" and then doing the thing, being better for a while, and then going back to square one.

i need to make real changes, no matter how small, to be able to move forward.

there is nothing holding me back but myself.

LIVE

i need to write and this is a half ass way of doing it.

i need to write, with pen and paper, something that might not make it to the world’s view and just kept to myself.

i know i need to write a plan. i tried this week and i got somewhere but not as far as i wanted.

i need to buckle down. do more, play less, get shit done. i don’t have doom hanging over my head, i have light and life and spring is almost here.

which means fall is starting soon (on the other side of the world) and i’m taking that energy and move forward with it.

i need to go. no more with plotting one thing that will cure me and then it happens and i don’t change.

change, i need to change and live.

Witchcraft X

What are my views on cursing/hexing?

 

Let’s say your friend get sick, cancer. You whip up a wonderful healing spell, to help them get cured of cancer.

It’s a healing spell, nothing as bane as a curse or hex. You would never do that!

But to the cancer, it’s a death curse, pure and simple.

Any work is bane work if you think about it. You want a job, you craft a spell for it, it pushes other people out of the way so you are the one getting the goods. You cursed someone so they didn’t get the job.

I firmly believe in hexing and cursing. It’s not evil or bad, it’s another tool in your caldron.

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Shadow and Light

 

This past week has been not good for me. I didn’t know I was waiting for Thursday afternoon.

It started that morning with work being work and me reaching god statues and being recognized by management that I am awesome. By the afternoon, I received not news but realization that a dark cloud that’s been over my head since May is now fucking gone.

I woke up to the sun shining and the cats singing. I saw this spread the other day and thought that this will give me insight but I have that now. I still want to do it because getting better is a never-ending action and this will get me to a new level of better.

What is hidden? Forget-Me-Not. What is hidden is this new life I can live out now. Things are going well and I don’t have to fear pending doom.

What is revealed? Sage. That I am done with one part of my life and can move to the next part.

How can the shadow serve you? Daisy. The shadow can show me the way to the light.

How can the light guide? Violet. I just need to bask in the light.

I thought February was going to be my starting month. I didn’t know that I needed things to align and it would take all of February.

I am ready for March.

Witchcraft IX

Simple or elaborate spells/rituals? Why?

 

Some days I need to pull out all the stops, light all the candles, put on the ritual dress.

Some days it’s just yelling in my backyard.

I need both. It’s just the way I roll.

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update

i am 67% done for the month, 12% done for the year, giving me a F.

i am not doing good. i fall into the Sims hole and not doing any The Work.

i don’t think i am going to reach my goal for this month. things just got away from me and Sims is sucking me down.

and with all that’s going on, i’m not seeing Izzy till freaking Ostara. haven’t seen them since Halloween and we are both ready for another date.

there is something poetic about the lining of our dates. and pagan.

they see me as a whole person and i swear it’s the first time a partner has seen me as a whole person. maybe it’s because i am a whole person now, not finding bits of myself and building who i am.

i need to get back on track. reading a page a day is moving forward and i’m not even doing that.

here’s to hoping by next week i am moving forward.

Witchcraft VIII

How do I believe magic works?

 

I believe that there is an energy that flows. I believe that magic is part of that, if not that. I believe that when I use certain herbs and colors and what not, I am bending that energy to make into that, i.e. using lavender to make things calm.

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the cards said to write and here i am

the cards said to write and here i am.

things are good. things are moving forward. i need to pick up speed but overall, i am content with myself.

Lent started today and i be damn if an asshole tried to manplain it to me. 8 years of Catholic wasn’t for nothing, motherfucker.

keep having chats with Izzy about stuff and, i’m going down a path i never thought i would. i don’t know if i am 100% certain and don’t know if i will live up to what they want but i am willing to try.

i have high hopes we see each other next week. i have hope in myself that i can live up to the texts i’ve been sending him.

i want to talk to Nicole but i am hesitant about it. i don’t know if i can commit to something so why ask for advice?

Fat Monday

want to write, have nothing to write.

Wednesday is Ash/Fish Day and i will be damn if any one tries to explain it to me.

trying to get another date with Izzy and shit keeps coming up. the texts, i think i am in danger but the good kind.

i think i am in good hands.

i just want those hands on me.

today marks 3 years of being celibate and being a recreational marijuana user. it also marks being 2 years single and 10 months of texting Izzy.

i am moving forward. just not in the ways i think i would be.

time to get some shit done to do The Work tonight.

blar

well, it’s been a week.

work has been a trip, mostly due to higher ups coming in and being dicks. that’s all i have to say about that shit.

Sims have been fun and i am trying to work a good balance of playing them and getting The Work done.

the cards say to study and i am failing with that. i need to clean a bit to get to the studying.

Witchcraft VII

What kind of deities, if any, do I want to honor?

 

Karpo. She is the Greek goddess of fall. I have fallen off the wagon so bad that a goal of this year is to get back into a devotion towards her.

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What's It All About?

i am still here. i only wanted to take January “off” and kick off February and then life happens.

i have been slacking. i tried playing Sims 4 and i just don’t care for the game. off chance i went to look to see if they had Sims 2 and they did. all of them for $30.

and down that hole i went, bad.

i am failing with doing The Work and that needs to stop, now. i am not moving forward and that is someone i don’t want to be.

the basement is getting cleaner, i have a job i like that is 1,000 times less stressful, i have a Bear in Rolla that likes me and wants me, i have my wonderful friends in Springfield, i have the fucking best niblings in the world, too many things are positive in my life for me to turn into mush.

so, tonight is the last night of goofing off. i need to buckle up and get to The Work. i need to step up my reading and studying. i need to get going with the cleaning.

is this all going to happen overnight? no. will i have setbacks, in this month alone? yes? can i read one page a day? fuck yes, i can do at least that.

let’s get going.

Witchcraft VI

 

Where do my witchy talents lie?

 

I know tarot is a big part of my practice and power. I also have a way in just creating spells in a hell of a creative way (love spell using a song from Rocky Horror Picture Show).

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Witchcraft V

What areas of witchcraft would I like to learn more about?

 

I have plans this year to work on some things with the tarot. I got some, ideas, and I want to try them out.

As for witchcraft as a whole, nothing is really hitting me right now.

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Witchcraft IV

Do I want to follow a path that has to do with a little nature, or a lot of nature?

 

My path has the right amount of nature for me.

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weekly update

i am 97% done for the month, 9% done for the year, giving me a F.

but i got the crafting shelf organized! fuck yes!

and i got projects unearthed that i need to work on.

and i got an idea what i want to paint. i have small canvas i can try things out on before i get out the big one.

next week i need to work on getting the crafting table cleaned off and then the living room and the altars.

the next step i need to work on is stop the scrolling in bed and start reading more. at minimum, i need to work on that Halloween poem book and the Sylvia Plath book.

and to get on with the working out and meditating.

i am moving forward, in more then one way.

Witchcraft III

What in witchcraft makes me happy?

 

That there is an answer for everything.

Whatever problem I have, I can find/work up a spell to solve it.

And there are so many ways to do witchcraft. I have body scrubs, body sprays, candles, charms. It’s all magic and it all works.

I am not powerless. I can look over my books and think and find an answer for anything.

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weekly update

i am 75% done for the month, 7% done for the year, giving me a F.

i am making forward progress on my weekends. i am cleaning and getting stuff done. what i am not doing is stuff during the week. i need to start doing something there.

i need to stop with the “doom scrolling” at night and just start reading in bed. i have too many books (just got 3 this week) and am not reading them. i saw a post where someone had a room floor covered with books they have not read, a foot or more deep.

i don’t want to be that person.

it also means i’m not going to the library for a while.

i also need to get on with working out and meditating.

and working towards the next level of my daily practice.

i did a post on Tumblr today that made me pause. it was about worshiping the Norse deities and said that start with what feels familiar/makes sense to you. after that, “Let your worship change as you develop a stronger interpersonal relationship with (and deeper understanding of) the deity you're venerating. You have complete freedom.”

i have fallen off the worshiping of Karpo that i don’t feel anything anymore. and last year made me rethink of how i ward my home and the adding of the seasonal oracle decks of Seasons of the Witch, i do have a lot of things in my head that i need to sit and work on.

but first, i need to clean this lair of mine.

maybe for Imbolc i can get the witchcraft rolling.

Witchcraft II

How do I see the divine?

 

My view of the divine have changed so much over the years I have been practicing.

Right now, I see the divine in the smallest of thing and the largest of things. Seeing the pray mantis in the fall, that is divine. The moon, that’s the divine. Sunsets and sunrises, all divine.

Nature is the divine for me.

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weekly update

i am 53% done with my January goals, 5% done for the year, giving me a F!

and we are only 3 days into this year!

i got my bedroom redone and i love it. there is more space. is it perfect? no but it will get tweaked as the year goes on.

i started on my vanity drawers. gods smack me if i buy another handkerchief.

after i wash them all, put them back into the vanity, i want to clean out the rest of that area. i know there are things i just need to toss and recognize what i have.

my plan is to start on one end of the basement and work my way towards the front. maybe by the end of the month i’ll be done? it would be nice.

i want everything to have a place, and not just a pile. i want to remember where i put things so they are not lost.

i think other parts of my life are in order that i feel the need to get my lair in order. a prim and proper order, and not this pile is the jean pile.

Witchcraft I

What draws me to witchcraft?

 

My first memories of wanting to be a witch was wanting to be the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. If I had to be green and deal with monkeys, so be it.

It wasn’t till I found the witchcraft section of my small-town library that I discovered that witches were real, and I can learn to cast spells.

And then I found out about a goddess, Catholicism was way over for me.

I have been practicing for over 20 years now and only getting better every day.

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magic misery madness mystery

Hello 2026.

I start this year a lot happier than I was a year ago. I don’t know what’s to come but I am hopeful and realistic about things.

My Card of the Year is Strength and I had a hell of a thought about it last night. Strength is a woman with a lion, and my brain went Beauty and the Beast.

I am a Beauty and there is a Beast (a bear!) in Rolla.

Me and Izzy had a hell of a chat Monday night. So much was said and so much put my mind at ease.

Strength might have many meanings for me this year and I am excited to see all the levels of it.

There were many things I wanted to do today but, the 100 gummy I took last night took me out, more then I thought. I took it easy, taking care of myself, energy I hope to carry with me all year long.

Tomorrow starts the work.