Witchy Tidings & Storytelling
I’ve heard a lot of complaints over the past few years about the “witchy aesthetic,” and I’m here to do one thing: discourage all the gatekeeping. So freaking what if someone just thinks it’s cool to wear moons on their clothes because it makes them feel badass? If they aren’t appropriating from a specific culture…
There are thousands of instructional materials out there regarding how to perform, experience, and personalize shadow work. Most resources don’t describe what happens afterwards. This is based upon my personal experience and what works for me. It might not happen for you this way, or it might. I’m putting this out there as something for…
Ending The Story with Style: Tips for Creating a Satisfying End to Your Roleplaying Game So you’ve been running a tabletop roleplaying game for your friends. It’s been a great adventure. Everyone has had a good time, but now it’s time for the story to come to a close. Regardless of whether you’ve only played…
When you wear an identity as a mantle, people will have their own ideas about what that word means. They will bring those ideas with them when they interact with you. These external beings, or those who are not you, may even be machines. However, you have agency to define your story and what it…
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Someone you love loves Dungeons & Dragons, and you love them. Maybe they’ve been playing the game for years, or maybe they caught the Honor Among Thieves movie last year and got hooked on the rich world. No matter what the case, you don’t need to know a lot about the game to find a…
First: the bad news. There aren’t any official Barbie tarot cards, but a creative individual did create a Barbie tarot project based on the imagery of the Rider-Waite Tarot. For your Barbie tarot needs, I have suggested some decks at the end of this post, which focus on empowerment and planning, and/or capture the Barbie…
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Like many people — especially young women — I encountered modern witchcraft largely on the internet. Ah, the 1990s. I didn’t know I was searching for empowerment, a means of breaking out of the boxes society put me in, or a way to classify myself that indicated I was already living outside of society’s intended…
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I’ve been writing, storytelling, and spellcrafting for decades, and many of you reading this have probably been doing at least one of those things for at least as long as I have. Maybe, like me, you’re also a human with an imperfect body telling imperfect stories and doing the best you can when you set…
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I’ve seen a lot of non-witches ask: is manifesting witchcraft? From my perspective, manifesting in most belief systems (or even without a belief in a greater universal tie or gods) has similar components and accomplishes similar results. While it might sound odd for a witch to say, I don’t necessarily believe that manifesting creates some…
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Content warning: negative body image of fat body Some people in this crowd are onions of firecrackers and water balloons with relief and sour taste I return to. They are so outcast, they are outcast from outcast, and their trauma becomes fingers wrapped around my neck and 3 am upchuck when I’m trying to sleep….
“I can’t just leave you here,” said my Mercedes-driving, smooth-talking Uber driver. There were smashing bottles, and a small crowd comprised of nervous tourists and locals hoping to offer them something more illicit than their fears. I was there earlier than my friends. My driver walked me to the door. I knocked three times, and…
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All you need to know about getting started with kitchen witchcraft Kitchen witchcraft has been around for hundreds of years and was passed down from generation to generation thanks to storytelling. Over time, those stories, recipes, and secrets were gathered in books that now we can easily get access to. In this post, I want…
The Fool is the first card of a tarot deck and the first Major Arcana. It often depicts a youthful figure, smiling and walking carefree toward the unknown. The Fool is, in a traditional deck, the medieval court jester, outside of the hierarchical structure and able to poke fun at everybody and everything, always unpredictable…
Sigils are a symbolic representation of a specific desire, created from an initial statement of intent and rendered down to visual or audible form. The sigil is then implanted into one’s subconscious mind using a method that creates a state of gnosis (‘no-mind). Here is a step-by-step guide to making sigils: Determine Expectation Make it…
