“Magic can be anything you want it to be” implies that there are no inherent rules.
It does not imply that anything you can imagine will work or be effective.
“The game can be anything you want it to be” means you can make up any set of rules for how to toss the ball around with friends. It does not mean gravity isn’t real.
Sharing some scenes from a lovely full moon dinner ritual party I hosted this week. The Leo full moon had some beautiful clearing energy and brought a wicked storm to the UK. That day it was raining but by night the sky cleared to reveal the moon and brought with it devilish winds..
We did spells attracting love and stability with the Venus & Mars conjunction in Capricorn and did glamour magic by creating body oil potions with charged energy with what we want to embody.
We also had such a spread! I made love potion cocktails with raspberry pomegranate juice, cherry liqueur, rose water, pink Prosecco and raspberry cotton candy. I also made truffle pasta, Rosemary salmon with spiced shrimp and beetroot salad. Friends brought a whole cheeseboard/pate spread, rose Turkish delights, pear cake, spiced veggies, tons of red wine, it was incredible!!
We also had some of the most illuminating love tarot readings. I’m still sitting on my message. It was nice to gather friends and celebrate life with them. I’m feeling really loved and my friends said they felt a sense of community after.
If you want to see more posts I’m on Instagram @femmedrake but I’ll also put stuff here.
just wanna say that you have been a huge inspiration to my magical journey as another mixed black witch, and i just appreciate how you do you. wishing you healing, peace, and joy 🧡
Oh my god 😭😭😭😭💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
This message literally made me tear up 🥺
Thank you so much for these kind words. I think being mixed really adds an interesting experience to this practice cause you can’t take any path for granted and though in a way I feel unseen and it’s worse cause I’m a bit nomadic, there’s so much to magic and this path that is also unseen and in between. It’s kind of why the foundation of my path is so much about focusing on the source (nature) and finding divinity through there.
And there are many like us too. I think it’s important to be yourself and make space for yourself because in the end it can welcome others of likeness into your space. The Black diaspora is a collection of unique experiences and just by experiencing ourselves and allowing our full authenticity in these experiences we open up more spaces for everyone in our group.
I really want to be more active on here. Trying to figure out my life this year it’s just IRL has been insane. Also to add I got swallowed by the very underground niche queer witch of color community and it’s drama (most of them run the queer rave party scene it feels like euphoria mixed with The Craft over here) and wow I feel like I’ve gained a lot of interesting life experiences but also had little time to process it all and a new cycle is already here!!
Been really focusing on the foundations of my spiritual practice and maybe sharing some more intimate rituals here in the future
I made a set of candles for a witch friend and I. You can either make a set for yourself or (the intention was for future gatherings) you can make one or more sets for a ritual gathering. You don’t have to make a set per person at all since it’s about who draws what. (I just had to make two sets since we’re isolating lol).
Anyway each tealight appears to be white. You pick one to set intentions for the cycle to come and it’s color reveal has a message for you.
Red - more courage and confidence. You need to go for it with all your power!! Building confidence will help.
Sunny yellow - optimism and luck are by your side. You just have to seize the opportunity. Abundance is a mindset
Green - caring for your needs is crucial. Set boundaries and focus on your well being. Doors will open for you then.
Blue - communication and art will help. Be in touch with your emotions. Express yourself more.
Purple - this is a time for you to deepen your spiritual awareness and work on your magic. It’s time to expand your perspective. This will help your progress
Black - diving deep within, therapy, doing shadow work and managing trauma will help
Pink - friends, community and love will help
Brown - grounding and building firm foundations will help
White - you’re in the right place. Now move forward
I just need to add one more layer of white to each candle so it can be indistinguishable. The full white candles have a sparkle to them so you can tell the difference. (Pink has heart glitter to help distinguish from red)
I’m very excited to try these out. The idea is you keep your set and next Imbolc just make only 1 new candle. Next Imbolc gathering I’ll make a lot more so that there’s a bigger lottery of options for everyone
It’s been a year! I don’t think I’ll have the time again but this was a lot of fun to do with friends during a gathering
The version of the wheel of the year we see today was popularised by Wicca which was founded by Gerald Gardener. Who was an English man.
Ireland was very badly oppressed by English colonialism. The British slaughtered a lot of Irish people while they were being overtaken. And they are also the reason so many people starved in the famine. The British are also the reason Ireland converted to christianity instead of paganism.
This wheel is a jumbled up mess of a variety of European holidays all merged into one and labelled “Wicca”. This is appropriation as its unacknowledged where all these came from.
Not all European countries are the same and these colonial countries are not entitled to claiming the traditions they colonised.
In Ireland May Day/Bealtaine was still celebrated in certain counties until the last century. But people are still misusing it and mispronouncing it. Pronouncing Samhain “Sam hain” instead of “sow wen”, unaware that it is the Irish word for November. And that Bealtaine is the word for May. In a language still used.
English colonialism is the reason we starved The reason we stopped speaking our language as widely. And a religion popularised by an English man is now using our words without directly crediting the cultures.
And now its further reinforced by the way that people are taking these words out of context. Mixing them up with other European words. Without giving credit to any of the countries they came from.
Its like how people will take chakras from hinduism and sage from native americans and throw some jesus in and just call it “new age spirituality”
(Native people have it even worse than the situation with Irish culture. Native Americans are going through so much shit. Cause people use spirituality as an excuse to just take shit)
You can’t use things without acknowledging the fact that they are from specific cultures.
This is a more Irish accurate wheel of the years. Please acknowledge the cultures you got these words from.
I have more info on the holidays on my page. Lora o brien is another good native resource. Please share this with anyone who uses the wheel of the year.
Other European countries feel free to share a your countries more culturally accurate wheel of the year.
next time you start creating a negative story in your head, consider switching it to a positive scenario instead.. neither one is more likely to happen so we may as well play out everything going right instead of everything going wrong.
“Entering an altered state of mind, taking action in that state, and returning are the basic components of ritual. Ritual practice gets you out of your head, out of the mundane world, and into the mystical where magic can happen. It can help you transcend reality.”
From Mythology for a Magical Life, by Ember Grant. Loving this book so far!
Welcome everyone of the magical, the undefined, the chaotic and ethereal kind. This is a blog for my witch path and personal magical ramblings. I'm 28, a bioregional animist witch who is a bit nomadic but currently residing in London (air element, Libra). Originally from Montclair NJ and NYC. My preferred climate is four seasonal temperate deciduous. Coping with this gray oceanic highland climate in the UK that's like bi-seasonal. Femme-aligned agender, she/they, mixed black, pansexual, I follow the seasonal witch holidays but "secularly". I think my witch strengths are astrology (which most people follow me for) and spamming aesthetics/ideas for the sabbats.
