He’s been discharged and we’re going home. Thank you so much 🖤

I feel something is brewing under the surface, but I don't know what. I don't know if this is just a thing that will/would affect me personally, or more people, but I feel like it is about more people.

Personally, in the last couple of weeks, quite a few people have shown me their real faces. Some for the first time, some for the second or third time.

Sure, it could be something solely meant as a lesson for me, but it just feels bigger. It has been kind of calm in the realms, I feel, but now some gears have shifted.

Anyone else feel this?

I find myself in a very privileged position, unexpectedly. Sadly, it’s because my dad died earlier this year. Because I have been focused on grieving, I’ve only just realized exactly how lucky I am. Problem is, I am overwhelmed by the options available to me and I’m seeking help with deciding the next (concrete, real life) steps.

Short context: I will get my parents’ house and land when my mom moves into the city, which she wants to do soon. I’m an only child (had a sister; she passed in 1989 when I was 8), and so anything being passed down, goes to me. My parents were middle class at best when I was a kid; my teen years were pretty lean due to my dad losing his job and going ranching full-time but I’ve since realized how privileged that was in and of itself. I have never been well off as an adult. My parents did well after I left home with some good investments. So I will have an inheritance and my mom wants to start gifting it to me while she’s still alive so we don’t lose so much in taxes. Even typing this out gives me feelings of shame; I’m a social justice warrior, do not value money (though have fixed my relationship with it so I can see it as just a tool/resource), and also hyper aware of my identity as a descendant of colonizers. I don’t believe land should be “owned” but have to acknowledge the society I live in. I am choosing to act as a steward to the land I’ll inherit.

My question: beyond tarot in general (spread suggestions, or specific methods are welcome), and trusting my intuition, can anyone suggest methods (magickal or even otherwise lol) for figuring out my next solid steps? Divination is consistently telling me to trust my intuition. I do know what I need/want to do long term - my vision for the land and house (I wanna be the town witch lmao although that doesn’t feel like a realistic goal) - but what to do between here and there is an overwhelming question mark.

Oh, I should add that I’m on long term disability from an extremely toxic work environment, but need to quit soon as my reason for the disability leave is nearing resolution. I’m good financially until the end of the year but I’m not looking to become a deadbeat freeloader off my mom, and acknowledge that I will need to be doing something with my time moving forward.

I’m in the enviable position of “the world is my a” with a reliable safety net to fall back on. I feel soooo lucky but this scenario is far more paralyzing than I could have anticipated. Any strategies or tools or approaches are very welcome!!

I am beyond thankful and trying not to cry while I write this. I have only recently found you and I don't even have enough words to give gratitude back to you all. I have always been scared of who I am when I was around 15 and checked out very basic books from the library my mother found them. She called me a witch and was so mad at me. She told me I was going to hell. It was really hard to understand who I was and not be fearful of what people judge me as. I stuffed it down and tried to not listen and felt horrible when I did. I can't tell you how grateful I am to be part of this group. I hope all young witches can find a home as good as this before I did, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. I will share my light. I will share blessings I will help weave spells and contribute as much as I can. With all my heart I hug you I am grateful.

I want to extend my gratitude to everyone who helped with the Sunday spell a few months ago. I asked for the luck and fortitude to finish my first novel.

In another day or so, the manuscript will be up for global ebook vendors! Close to ten years of work, rewrites, drafts, computer crashes; and still it's here! That's your good will and strength at work, and I am so happy to know it's nearly complete!

My best friend has been moved from ICU to the progressive care unit. He feels much better. The nurses and doctors are stumped because he’s 39 and an avid gym goer. The only thing I ask is to take care of yourself today and hold a loved one. Even if you’re the only loved one, hug yourself extra tight. To the nurses and doctors, thank you.

Several months ago I did a proper cord cutting in hopes of getting out of my current situation (DV). To finalize the spell, I buried all the components not to far inside an empty lot out behind my house.

While things are moving...as expected?... for the situation, there is construction starting in the alley behind my house. This construction will most likely dig up where the components are buried. While I don't imagine they will end up back on my property, I'm a little concerned about them being disturbed. In my mind these represent a life/relationship that has been dead and gone for many years now. And let's face it, you just don't go around disturbing dead things, regardless of what they are.

Could this undo everything I've been fighting towards?

How do people make their products smell so good and last? Iv made oils with herbs but don’t retain smell, and basically tea water which doesn’t have a shelf life. I’d like to start selling some of my products but people would be more inclined to buy them if they smell nice and I would like them to have a longer shelf life then what they do now.

Update: can you guys point me to some good resources to learn how to do this more professionally?

My current process for oils is to use grape seed oil and a Mason jar stuffed tight with herbs. I then let that sit in my closet for at least 3 months (preferably 6) I don’t use any essential oils but if I did for smell how much would I add and before or after infusing?

My process for sprays is to literally make tea out of the herbs. My solution goes bad within a month though, Iv read that you can use alcohol but it always takes away from the smell and I don’t want it to be flammable either.

My best friend is in the ER for a heart attack. Please send whatever you can

A friend in Washington state post a photo of the full moon and there was a ring around it … and same with a friend in Montana …

Any idea what it means?

Thank you in advance !

Waning Moon, for those that follow that. Last quarter in about 5 days.

If you have more than one message, please split them up, and make each request a separate comment.

Limit of 2 requests.

At the end of the day, this post will be locked to new comments. For 2 weeks the energy of this spell will build as more people read the requests and lend their energies to those who made their desire known.

Pluto in Capricorn draws to a close, the last time under this full moon, as it prepares to leave Capricorn for good, at least, for another 250 years. I don’t plan to stick around for its return, not in this life, or the next. The Chandra symbol is very meaningful, but I’m reading off the Sun in Scorpio degree, not the Pluto in Aquarius degree. Different folks see different things in each chart, so take if it resonates, leave if it doesn’t. :)

(reminds me of the joke about the tech folk, ask 3 different tech folk and you get 7 different opinions on how to implement a given solution. Source: am tech witch, and will contribute 2 different opinions and a generalization ;) Gotta keep the numbers up)

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SCORPIO 29
An umbilical cord.
Definitely completely attached, but what you are attached to changes drastically. Each time it is to the source of sustenance. If at first a mother, womb, an elemental past, it can easily become later on a great teacher, a path, a journey. You are still thoroughly, personally hooked into the sweetness, the juice, the power. Yet as the levels shift, as the attunement deepens, you go from destructive enmeshment toward incredible openings.
And as you learn to cut loose from each last thing and to move toward the next greater thing, you become adept in the rough process of inner soul work. You have an extraordinary aptitude for taking the most binding and heavy-duty circuits and moving into and through them, grasping hold of the guiding influence of ever-greater circles of allegiance. Leading eventually toward mutation and evolutionary breakthrough of the first magnitude.

The symbol is a heavy one: I too have made the journey, being completely attached, to things that were clearly not good for me. Destructive influences, greater openings, having life burn to the ground repeatedly and yet the Phoenix extracts salt and ash from the remains as an offering to what cannot be consumed by the fire, taking the hardest and most difficult route as described by the symbol. The difficulty of the process speaks to me: Spiritwork is not for the faint of heart. If it feels like a difficult journey, it is. We have to hit rock bottom first before we can rebuild, and I don't know how much longer we have left to free fall. 

Some of us are tired, and perhaps may be able to relate to this quote:

“My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.” -- Chögyam Trungpa

For many of us, it is already at that stage where we no longer have an option, but have to finish what we started. On the flipside, they say that the rock bottom is where you can start to build a stable foundation once more. SMIB. 

Pluto stations direct at 12:43 PST.

Hi- so, I recently just did my first shadow work entry in a journal, and a topic I wrote about is what triggers me. During writing first of all- felt like went from sad, to angry, to sad again and the whole time it felt like was 'disociating' (sorry if spelt it wrong). Then an hour and a half later feel nothing. don't feel bored, I don't feel numb, not particularly happy, angry, or sad, just feel, nothing. I'm wondering if it's the shadow work 'working' and I'm just processing everything? Or if sometimes feeling nothing after a journal entry is normal after doing an entry. (Complete beginner while it comes to shadow work BTW). I'm starting the shadow work because my tarot cards told me if I want a s/o should work on myself, and figured shadow work would be a great way to do so.

Merry meet to all. I’m an hearth witch seeking clarity, guidance, advice, & suggestions on crafting a spell to stop wastage and leaking of resources in the home. Money comes & a situation arises, a family member being wasteful, leaving taps running, turning temperature to max, etc. For context they cannot leave for health reasons and are currently receiving treatment.

Much love and many thanks. I’m thankful for this community! BB!!!

hi everyone! i am just curious is having your own room has helped you conserve your energy and even helped with your practice. i have shared a room with my spouse for a decade now and he is a lovely human but i am just thinking maybe sleeping that close to someone else’s energy effects me. i am very empathic and also have young kids so i’m curious to know your experience!

I just moved to a new place and am starting new....everything. New home, new city, new job, etc.

I want to get a wreathe for my door. What plants/flowers/herbs would you get for the best symbolism and vibes?

Hi friends,

I think I'm experiencing some spiritual awakening/practice fatigue. I've been away from home for a year (I did get to go back twice for weeks at a time, but knowing I'd have to leave again made everything feel so--temporary.

I've spent the last year and some change in what feels like this prolonged holding pattern, and currently I'm feeling like I haven't usually made the most of my situation and I feel like a loser.

What's more, throughout this year my spiritual practice has strengthened and then become practically nonexistent. I can't seem to tend to my (temporary) altars like I should and I'm feeling guilty and like I should expect punishment any moment now. For example, I can't feel Medusa or Hecate anymore, and my patron deity Zeus is still with me but I can hardly feel him. I think it's mostly me. It's my fault.

I think I've hit a wall and I don't know how to get past it. I try but fail most days. I've resorted to spiritually bypassing by participating in banal shit like playing mindless games on my phone and WAY too much time on Reddit instead of meditating and things like that.

For example, yesterday was a full moon. The most I could muster was to leave my jewelry and healing stones overnight in the moonlight. I also used to take ritual baths every full and sometimes new moons. I really enjoyed adding my homemade ritual salts and oil blends.

But that was back home. My current living quarters only has a small shower stall and it just doesn't feel the same.

I can't really talk to anyone else in my life about these things because even though they're accepting of my practices, I know they don't believe in any of it so I feel like they just listen while trying to nudge aside their thoughts of me being delulu.

Sorry for the long, rambling post. Just want want comforting words, I guess. Any advice for this 40-year old "toddler" witch?