Flower Asks

Alisons: Sexuality?

Amaranth: Pronouns/Gender?

Amaryllis: Birthday?

Anemone: Favorite flower?

Angelonia: Favorite t.v. show?

Arum-Lily: What’s the farthest you’d go for a stranger?

Aster: What’s one of your favorite quotes?

Aubrieta: Favorite drink?

Baby’s Breath: Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?

Balsam Fir: Have you ever been in love?

Baneberries: Favorite song?

Basket of Gold: Describe your family.

Beebalm: Do you have a best friend? Who is it?

Begonia: Favorite color?

Bellflower: Favorite animal?

Bergenia: Are you a morning or night person?

Black-Eyed Susan: If you could be any animal for a day, what would it be?

Bloodroots: When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Bluemink: What are your thoughts on children?

Blazing Stars: What are you afraid of? Is there a reason why?

Borage: Give a random fact about your childhood.

Bugleherb: How would you spend your last day on Earth?

Buttercup: Relationship Status?

Camelia: If you could visit anywhere, where would you want to go?

Candytufts: When do you feel most loved?

Canna: Do you have any tattoos?

Canterbury Bells: Do you have any piercings?

California Poppy: Height?

Cardinal Flower: Do you believe in ghosts?

Carnation: What are you currently wearing?

Catnip: Have you ever slept with a nightlight?

Chives: Who was the last person you hugged?

Chrysanthemum: Who’s the last person you kissed?

Cock’s Comb: Favorite font?

Columbine: Are you tired?

Common Boneset: What are you looking forward to?

Coneflower: Dream job?

Crane’s-Bill: Introvert or extrovert?

Crocus: Have you ever been in love?

Crown Imperial: What’s the farthest you would go for someone you care about?

Cyclamen: Did you have a favorite stuffed animal as a child? What was it?

Daffodil: What’s your zodiac sign?

Dahlia: Have you done anything worth remembering?

Daisy: What do you feel is your greatest accomplishment?

Daylily: What would you do if your parents didn’t like your partner(s)?

Dendrobium: Who is the last person that you said “I love you” to?

False Goat’s Beard: What is something you are good at?

Foxgloves: What’s something you’re bad at?

Freesia: What are three good things that have happened in the past month?

Garden Cosmos: How was your day today?

Gardenia: Are you happy with where you’re at in your life?

Gladiolus: What is something you hope to do in the next year or two?

Glory-of-the-Snow: What are ten things that make you happy/you’re grateful to have in your life?

Heliotropium: What helps you calm down when you feel stressed?

Hellebore: How do you show affection?

Hoary Stock: What are you proudest of?

Hollyhock: Describe your ideal day.

Hyacinth: What do you like to do in your free time?

Hydrangea: How long have you known your best friend? How did you meet them?

Irises: Who can you talk to about (almost) everything?

Laceleaf: How many friends do you have?

Lantanas: What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?

Larkspur: What do you think of yourself?

Lavender: What’s your favorite thing about yourself?

Leather Flower: What’s your least favorite thing about yourself?

Lilac: What’s something you liked to do as a child?

Lily: Who was your best friend when you were a kid?

Lily of the Incas: What is something you still feel guilty for?

Lily of the Nile: What is something you feel guilty for that you shouldn’t feel guilty about?

Lupine: What does your name mean? Why is that your name?

Marigold: Where did you grow up? Tell us about it.

Morning Glory: What was your bedroom like growing up?

Mugworts: What was it like for you as a teenager? Did you enjoy your teenage years?

Norwegian Angelica: Tell us about your mom.

Onions: Tell about your dad.

Orchid: Tell about your grandparents.

Pansy: What was your most memorable birthday? What made it be so memorable?

Peony: What was your first job?

Petunia: If you’re in a relationship, how did you meet your partner(s)? If you’re not in a relationship, how did you meet your crush/how do you hope to meet your future partner(s), if you want any?

Pincushion: How do you deal with pain?

Pink: Where is home?

Plantain Lilies: If you could go back in time, what is one thing you would stop/change?

Prairie Gentian: Who is someone you look up to? Describe them.

Primrose: Describe your ideal life.

Rhodendron: What is something you used to believe in as a child?

Ricinus: Who’s the most important in your life?

Rose: What’s your favorite sound?

Rosemallows: What’s your favorite memory?

Sage: What’s your least favorite memory?

Snapdragon: At this moment, what do you want?

St. John’s Wort: Is it easy or difficult for you to express how you feel about things?

Sunflower: What is something you don’t want to imagine life without?

Sweet Pea: How much sleep did you get last night?

Tickseed: What’s your main reason to get up every morning?

Touch-Me-Not: How do you feel about your current job?

Transvaal Daisy: What’s your favorite item of clothing?

Tropical White Morning Glory: Describe your aesthetic.

Tulip: What would be the best present to get you?

Vervain: What’s stressing you out most right now?

Wisteria: How many books have you read in the past few months? What were they called?

Wolf’s Bane: Where do you want to be in life this time next year?

Yarrow: Do you know what vore is?

Zinnia: Give a random fact about yourself.

Why Yule Needs to Stay Creepy

“…There’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago…”

So I have been thinking about our Contemporary conceptualization of the Christmas season a lot lately and it’s kind of interesting. So many things we associate with Christmas – Christmas trees, greeting cards, Santa Claus, his reindeer and elves, gift-giving in general – all of these things came into vogue in the 19th Century and are very sticky-sweet, in my opinion. They’re lovely, but not filling. If we just scratch the surface of the Christmas we know and love and peek back into its history, we find something much meatier.

Before the cheerful Christmas tree, a number of other plants were associated with Christmas. The holly, associated with sacrifice and the blood of Christ, and the parasitic mistletoe, associated with the death of Baldur in Norse mythology – these were the plants associated with Christmas before the Christmas tree became the standard.

Also, the Yule log. The Yule log, meant to provide light on the darkest night of the year, was a magic charm in and of itself. If it did not burn through the night, it would be a terrible omen. By watching the fire and coals of the Yule log, one could also predict who would give birth and who would die in the coming year.

When our simple Santa Claus is reduced to his predecessors, one is left with Odin, ancient Norse God of battle, Saint Nicholas, the canonized former bishop of Turkey, and Father Christmas, the hard-drinking gluttonous representation of holiday merriment. And all of them brought ghastly friends – Odin, the spirits of the Wild Hunt and Saint Nicholas, his helpers (including Knecht Rupert, Krampus, etc.). Father Christmas, more of a personification of the season than a night visitor, undoubtedly brought many hangovers.

Before stories about reindeer, snowmen, or things of that ilk, there were ghost stories. Charles Dickens did not invent the Christmas ghost story in “A Christmas Carol,” but popularized an already-existing folkloric trend. If we look to the old tales of Christmas, we find stories about witches that rode the night air, cursing the birth of the Savior. There are stories about fairies, ghosts, and Devils that wreak havoc, frightening livestock and damaging property. In an era before television or radio, homemade storytelling was one of the primary forms of entertainment. And winter was the storytelling season.

You also have mumming, wassailing, and caroling – dressing up in colorful costumes and (sometimes drunkenly) begging for money door-to-door. As John Grossman notes in his book “Christmas Curiosities,” Christmas before the Contemporary Period resembles our Halloween more than it resembles the Christmas we know now.

Let us not forget, those of us who acknowledge the Wheel of the Year, that the season of darkness extends from Halloween to Christmas. This darkness only begins to fade when we gain back the Sun at the Winter Solstice. From Halloween to Christmas, the dead may roam the Earth and weird things may happen. In his classic “Mastering Witchcraft,” Paul Huson notes that Yule is not a time for pleasant spell work, but cursing! It is a time of dark magic and mystery. And we need this time. To understand the light, we must understand the darkness – the witches, ghosts, and Devils of the old Yuletide. Like the trees that go dormant, we must embrace the darkness of winter to grow and thrive.

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witchun-li

5 years ago

• 🍯 Honey Magick 🍯 •

Honey

Honey is a natural substance created by bees within their hives. The hive consists of primarily female bees, which will leave the hive to collect nectar from flowers and then return to transform this nectar into sugary honey for later consumption.

Humans have been collecting honey since 8000 BC, and it has been utilized by nearly every culture across the globe for food, healing, and spiritual purposes.

Honey is universally considered a talisman of prosperity, beauty, health, and sweetness, and it can be utilized in all of these types of witchcraft.

Prosperity

Honey is a representation of abundance: its primary use in nature is as a stored source of food to be used in times of hardship, both for bees and for humans. It is also created from the nectar of flowers, imbuing it with the energies of the Sun and springtime. As such, it can be added to spells for wealth, abundance, fertility, or prosperity in order to amplify the effects and create surplus in your life.

Beauty

Sympathetic Magick states that an object’s physical qualities are reminiscent of its spiritual properties. Honey is golden, pleasing to the eye, and sweet. On its own or added to face masks, it can cleanse, nourish, and moisturize the skin. It can also be added to beauty or glamour spells in order to add a sweet glow to your energy.

Healing

Honey has been used to treat wounds since the time of the Ancient Egyptians. Its viscosity and moisture creates a moist seal around a wound. It also contains natural antibacterial properties, providing a stable and sterile environment for wounds to heal in. Metaphysically, honey can be added to protection spells or wards in order to create an environment of positivity and sterility, and can also be added to healing spells in order to strengthen the recovery process.

Sweetness

Honey is appealing to humans and animals because, above all else, it is sweet. One of honey’s most ancient uses - utilized in magical practices ranging from Egyptian to Greek to Voudoo - is to add ‘sweetness’ to a spell.

It can be added to glamour magick to make the illusion more easily accepted. It can be added to curses in order to make the energy seem harmless when entering the target’s life. It can be added to money spells or job spells in order to ‘sweeten the deal’. It can be added to love or sex spells in order to sweeten a relationship or conjure an appealing partner. In general, it can be added to any spell to make the effects more pleasant and inviting.

Offering

Honey’s final use is especially helpful to witches who work with nature spirits, fairies, the Dead, or deities. Honey contains a very pleasing, warm, Sun-type energy, and therefore it is extremely enticing to spirits. Since the time of the Ancient Egyptians, honey has been used as an offering that symbolizes the utmost love, care, and respect.

Honey can be drizzled onto a candle and burned. It can be drizzled into a body of water or directly onto the earth. Most commonly, it can be drizzled into an offering bowl (or on top of an offering meal) and left outside, in a graveyard, or on an altar. Because it is excellent at preserving itself, offerings of honey can be left somewhere for prolonged periods of time without worry of it spoiling, which is extremely helpful to forgetful witches (like me) or witches with long-term altars.

So, all in all, honey is maybe one of the most underrated magical ingredients, and I hope this post got some of you hip to honey magick.

Happy Witching 🕉

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6 years ago

95 FOAMed Sites

FOAMed - Free & Open Access Medical Education resources

Famous ones

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witchun-li

6 years ago

The exoplanet Samh is named after a Muslim astronomer.

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witchun-li

6 years ago

Goals...

Another page from my grimoire, this time speaking about the planets and their meanings🌧

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witchun-li

6 years ago

✨ Days Of the Week + Magick ✨

Each day of the week is ruled by a planet which possesses specific magickal influences. Use this knowledge to further your own practices!

MONDAY (MOON): Peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friends, psychic awareness, purification, fertility.

TUESDAY (MARS): Passion, sex, courage, aggression, protection.

WEDNESDAY (MERCURY): The conscious mind, study, travel, divination, wisdom.

THURSDAY (JUPITER): Expansion, money, prosperity, generosity.

FRIDAY (VENUS): Love, friendship. reconciliation, beauty.

SATURDAY (SATURN): Longevity, exorcism, endings, homes, houses.

SUNDAY (SUN): Healing, spirituality, success, strength, protection.

(Credit to Llewellyn’s magical almanac. Happy spellcasting)!

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witchun-li

6 years ago

Fixed Signs - Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius:

Have trouble asking and accepting help. They don't want to compromise a position of control or their independence by revealing any weak spots that could relegate them, or have people questioning their competence, resilience, or state of mind. But it's all just a scenario in this cyclic head. People usually see them as being stronger and more capable by virtue of letting their defences down, sharing truthfully, exposing vulnerabilities, and reaching out for help

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witchun-li

5 years ago

Tried to infuse a jar of honey with blueberries.

Yeah…that went well. I shoulda squashed them first, because now they’re just floating at the top and not doing anything.

Tried squishing them against the glass, but they’re refusing to pop.

Sad blueberry honey experiment is probs just gonna wind up on toast and will not be spoken of ever again.

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witchun-li

6 years ago

honestly like real talk like real actual ““discourse”“

the problem with trying to define who is and isn’t lgbt+ is like….that’s…not….really how it works…..

like we don’t have membership. there’s no test to take. no one has a roster of people with gay credentials. and even if there were, the people demanding this stuff aren’t part of any High Council with the power to banish people. if someone says they’re lgbt+ the traditional way of dealing with it is just…believing them and not bothering to comb through every action they’ve taken to prove anything. and labels are so deeply personal and the possibility of mislabeling yourself is always on the table, so it’s really just like. if you feel an affinity for the community then sure. you’re probably right, at the very least you’re questioning now. so what up enjoy your stay.

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