Hi! Looking for some ideas for things to do with friends gathering for the holidays. So far I'm thinking food (obviously), some tarot reading and making winter garlands with like dried orange slices, cinnamon, popcorn, etc.

Any other ideas that fit the theme?

TIA

Hello all,

I felt it was important to post about this topic, as many have asked about it. In 2014, I began working as an energetic surgeon, and learned about the effect of attachments. At this time where we are feeling the need to release what does not serve, and to bring harmony and balance to ourselves and to our lives, energetic decording can help a lot. Although we have non-physical assistance, this process can be done by ourselves, and I find that it is empowering and healing on many levels. If you have any questions, please let me know, and I will be happy to help.

One of the largest contributors to physical, emotional, and psychological depletion is energetic cording. Whenever we have a relationship with another person, whether it is with a parent, spouse, partner, sibling, friend, coworker, or another, we create energetic cording between ourselves and the other party. Energetic cords look like tubes that are connected from one person to another, and sometimes from one person to an entire group (such as a family unit or ancestry). Cording can go from any part of the energy body to any part of another's, for example, I have viewed cording between someone's head and another's head (thought transmission involving mental manipulation and judgement) as well as many other configurations, such as from one person's throat to another's solar plexus (transmissions of disempowering energies and also siphoning of another's power). The combinations of cording attachments is infinite, but always created by thought transfer.

As thoughts are tangible structures, each contain a specific vibrational frequency and energetic charge. When you have a thought about someone, that thought goes to the person, it does not disappear. And, depending on the emotional charge of the thought (positive, negative, or neutral), the thought will go through the cording to that person and integrate within their field, or it will dissipate. Over time, repeated transmissions of thoughts can create structures within yourself or another person, called "thoughtforms," which are clusters of thought energy that can shape one's perceptions and impede health. That is why it is very important to be vigilant about the thoughts we transmit, and the vibration of them, as they create.

Cords are also created by our beliefs, and are attached to thoughforms anchored in the 4th dimension. These thoughtforms are conglomerations of thoughts of the same belief and vibration, transmitted by every human on the planet with the same perception. Thoughtforms exist for anything to which humans believe and fear, so if one recognizes a belief or fear that is causing suffering, one can also decord from that thoughtform as well. For example, if you have a fear of heights or of an animal, you can decord from that fear. And you can also decord from an illness or addiction, and this release can help you to heal.

Energetic cording transmits thought energy to others, and it can also siphon as well. If you are attached to someone who is codependent, they can be continually siphoning your life force via your shared cording, which can create a host of physical issues for yourself, most especially depletion within the solar plexus, which includes physical weakness, exhaustion, stomach, intestine, and colon issues, and many other manifestations. Siphoning can also create headaches, lack of focus, and various other conditions, depending on where the cording is attached.

Decording can make a world of difference in our existence, as afterward we can rebalance and get to know our authentic self, without interference from others' thoughts and perceptions, and also life force siphoning. We regain strength and sovereignty. The results can be permanent and create a lot of healing, if we are willing to also reevaluate our relationships and to not accept anyone into our life who will take energetic advantage. Creating strong boundaries is essential to maintaining health and vibrational integrity. The higher our vibration, the better our health and clearer our spiritual perception. It is also equally important that we evaluate our own programming and clear what is not supportive, so we do not attract others into our life that mirror our own issues. Working on clearing ourselves after decording is always helpful and highly recommended, because the patterning we carry within is what expresses itself in all aspects of our daily life and relationships.

If you choose to decord yourself from another person, it is helpful that you intuit whether permission is first needed from their higher self, as we all contract our relationships with others at the "higher" levels. The physical person does not have to be asked, but you can make a request of their higher self, and then feel (or hear) a response. If you receive that the decording has been agreed upon, then go ahead with the process. If you feel any concern, then it may be best to wait until you feel a pull to ask again.

Sometimes decording can be done without asking for permission, for example if there is trauma involved and to stand in your power, you feel the need to immediately detach from another person. Also, permission is not needed to decord from mass consciousness belief and fear thoughtforms.

Please note that decording only removes energetic distortions, and the genuine love you may have in the relationship is not affected. So, if you intend the relationship to continue, decording can provide an opening for this love to be experienced and reflected more authentically.

Below is a statement that you can use to decord. You can use the statement alone, or if you would like, use it in addition to visualizing the release. By visualizing, see yourself and the other party attached, and then with holding a large pair of scissors, cut the cording from toe to head, while saying the statement. Either way is effective, either visualizing or not, so please do what intuitively resonates. I suggest you do this release in a quiet state, where there are no distractions, a state of peace and calm. And do it in a state of knowing, where you know all is cleared.

After the release, you may experience a clearing of the energies, either immediately or over time. If you feel emotional, tired, or anything different from how you usually feel, try to move through the feelings and observe them, instead of attaching to them, as this will prevent re-cording. Trusting and having confidence that all is released, is important.

"I now hereby permanently sever, cut, release, and remove all energetic cording, banding, attachments, and 4th dimensional thoughtforms connecting me to (a person, a belief, a fear, an addiction, or a past life)____________. I state that all vows, contracts, agreements, and karma are now null and void, and completed. I take back all power I have given to _________ and I take back all power __________ may have taken from me, and declare that now I regain and contain all power that is mine and inherent to me. I release and clear all energetic imprints, charges, and programming within my entire being I may have received from ________, and release and clear all programming within my mind and subconscious mind that __________may have transmitted to me, and declare I am now completely free and clear of any and all energetic distortions throughout my entire being, transmitted from ________ to me. I now state that I am free and sovereign, and am no longer attached to ________ in any way, shape or form. I am completely clear right now, and so it is.”

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Anyone know if the witches circle is a legitimate membership/ organization? They’re also on instagram under witches circle of insta.

https://thewitchescircle.org/pages/membership

Thanks!

We love to see the altars of our community, feel free to show them directly to the community today! Please post a picture and tell us about your altar. What do we see? Is it for yourself, a deity or an ancestor? Tell us about the things you made, bought or picked up in nature. Do you redecorate during the seasons? What is your latest addition to your altar?

Altars are highly personal. Some people have been handpicking items for over a decade or have had good fortune and could spend some coin on it. Please do not feel pressured or think that yours is not good enough. We love to see beginner altars as they show your personal journey of your craft.

And as always be kind to each other ♥

So my EX best friend of 5 years had a religious belief in Pixies. She told me she had one that would steal her things and hide them in places she would’ve never placed them. She has ADHD but I chalked it to misplacement.

When she moved in with me, my things started to disappear. I truly believe she stole some of them. But one day I was missing my favorite scrunchy and she told me to leave a trinket at her Pixie altar and that the pixie would give it back. Well I left it a crystal and it worked.

Me and this friend had a terrible falling out due to her being a disrespectful roommate who wouldn’t accept my boundaries and we now live over 500 miles apart. HOWEVER things that I need or have been keeping a keen eye on keep disappearing.

For instance I have diagnosed OCD and often do rituals to Check that items are still where I placed them. I’ll check once a day or even 3 times a day just to be sure and then it will randomly disappear.

I tried to set up a pixie altar but none of my items have yet returned.

Is it a pixie problem? How do I handle it? Did she give me the pixie when we separated? Did she convince the pixie to mess with me?

I heard in some lore that in old norse paganism, people would us blood to activate runes. I was thinking of using pigs blood as it is readily available at many asian grocery stores. Just wondering if anybody has done this or has any advice with this. Please don't debate me on ethics or morals. Any help is greatly appreciated, blessed be!

So yesterday my BFs brother hit/found a 2 year buck and was able to salvage a Lot of said animal

My BF ended up getting the pelt and today we worked on removing as much visersa and excess muscle/fat on it before salting it to keep said pelt

BF Is norse pagan while I'm a Satanic Pagan (follow norse but also part of Satanic church) and I said prepping the pelt is an offering in itself

I also wear a ring with runes on it and did an offering with the blood of the deer still on with a glass of mead

He was covered up to his forearm in blood yesterday helping break down said deer

As I'm slightly new to all of this, do you believe the gods will accept?

Hi and thanks in advance for the help.

My husband recently lit a dressed Road Opener candle. The entire bottom blew out, leaking green wax everywhere. Previously, a clairvoyant did a ritual on him to remove what she discovered to be an ancestral blockage.

I read that a candle breaking can mean someone is working against you. I immediately thought of the bad luck passed down through his lineage.

It freaked me out! Lol

Would you do an uncrossing spell? Should I go back to the clairvoyant?

This is my first post here and I'm hoping I'm the rhe right place. I have so many questions so I think this question is the best one to start with.

A little background.. I was brought up, I would say "loosely" catholic. I went to 13 years of catholic school (K>senior year) and got all my sacraments. But we weren't at mass every Sunday or deep dive into the church. To say rules were a part of our lives is an understatement. And of course, I rebelled with every rule I was given, especially at home.

I also have bi-polar & anxiety, along with my dad with dementia (caregiver and POA) so focusing is such an issue for me

Now I find myself stunted with my practice. This has been for years. I will start to do a candle ritual, sage the house or try to do intentions or manifestations and all of a sudden, the thoughts come....

Am I doing this right? What if I do it wrong? Why can't I focus? Am I going to do something wrong and ruin the purpose of the "spell"?

I know this is an individual practice and even when working with others, there are still no concrete path. I try so hard to find peace and lightness but all I find is frustration and roadblocks.

Does anyone else struggle with this? Some advice would be amazing...

Is it a good idea to leave the window open after you've had some incense on a New Moon past midnight?

I noticed that many people are recommending others to simply interpret the meaning of a card by looking at the imagery and then grasping the symbolism, but it seems kinda skeptical, so if any one knows, is this how tarot is read, or is this untraditional? Is there a more traditional or accurate way for tarot reading? Thanks x.

This is going to be kind of long so hopefully people stick around.

Back on November 14th I had a Great Horned Owl show up at my house. I was hopeful that it was a positive sign even though my native and Celtic roots both say otherwise. Fast forward to Friday the 22nd I’m notified that a friend from high school has gone missing. I immediately knew it wasn’t going to have a positive outcome. By Sunday he was still missing and I got very fatigued around 8:00 PM so I went to bed. That night I had a dream that I found him in the canyon near my house the next morning on my drive. Well I woke up, drove through the canyon with no signs of him (other than Linkin Park coming on the radio in the canyon which I took as a negative sign as well), once I got out of the canyon and got service back I received a message that he had been found in that canyon the night before at 8:00 PM when I had gone to sleep. The whole thing kinda shook me up especially when the next day I got a work call for my husband’s company that I had a bad feeling about once I got off the call, he was let go later that day. I guess my intuition/abilities are delayed.

The owl is now back at my house so I’m starting to get worried. I guess my point is to ask for advice to help hone in my skills so that they aren’t so delayed this time.

I went into my local CVS yesterday, looking for white taper candles, but I found these instead. I’ve actually never seen this product before, even though I’m aware of what road openers are. Is there a particular way anybody uses these?

If anyone has any favorite ways of using this product I’d be interested in knowing!

Hi everyone! I’ve been a very mystical person for years now however I find it hard to connect to astrology/magic/crystals etc in modern life.

if i lived in a cute little old fashioned cottage in the middle of nowhere I think itd be easier!!

instead i live in a very modern flat with white walls and everything…

so im wondering what do you guys do to feel more mystical in your everyday life?

for example, how could I decorate my home to feel more witchy when it is so modern and white? I’d love to make an altar but i dont have much room left to do it do Id like to make my whole flat more mystical etc

just wondering what you guys do in your homes to decorate!!

Also, what sorts of activities do you do in your every life/routines to incorporate more witchiness into your days? for example, I meditate with crystals, but other than that, unless im doing a big tarot reading or astrology reading for someone else, i struggle to feel connected day to day. especially as a corporate girl with a corporate job!

thanks for any help guys :)

TLDR; how do you bring witchiness and the mystical into your home and day to day life when you live in a modern, corporate world?

Hello !! I'm a baby witch looking for some advice on a sweetening spell I made about two weeks ago. It's been working just fine so far !! Besides the name of my person (folded 3 times and sealed with a sigil), I used sugar, cinnamon, some dried red and white rose petals, and sealed it with some red and lavander scented wax. ✨️

I light a candle on it every few days to keep working on it, and I've been seeing slow but steady results !!!!

However, yesterday I made a wrong choice regarding my person. I went against my intuition and ended up in a situation where they blocked me without another word.

I'm not sure what to do regarding my sweetening spell. Has this mistake diminished or removed all the progress I was making? Should I do it over from scratch? How should I go on about this? Maybe a communication spell would be better for now?

Any help is appreciated :( Thank you to everyone in advance !!!

I have a friend that is learning to tattoo and her family and I have let her practice on us. After the first couple of tattoos she started to say that she thinks tattooing is a form of blood magic. For some background she tells people she is a high priestess of Santa Muerte. But it’s a self proclaimed title.

But now I’m concerned that she has put her energy into the tattoos I have on my body, and it is not an energy I want. So does anyone know of anything I can do to cleanse my body of her energy or protect myself from her energy?

I have saged myself but just wondered if there’s a more in depth ritual out there.

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This is my first time asking something on Reddit but I could really do with the advice from other witches. I am a baby witch I am very new to everything, but manifesting, I have been manifesting and using law of assumption for about 3 years now.

So recently I had a love spell jar done for me to reconcile with my ex, I have also been manifesting to help with this, and I thought things were working. However, last night I text my ex and I told him I still loved him because the feeling to do so was too overwhelming it felt like I had to do it.

So I’m asking witch Reddit if the feeling I had to tell him last night was a part of my manifestation coming to fruition, or if it was a lack of self control. I also want to ask if saying this to him will have a negative effect on my manifestation and the spell.

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you

I recently went to a hypnotherapist, and it was a beautiful experience. She did craniosacral therapy, used therapy techniques, crystals, hypnosis, breathwork, and astrology. One thing that stuck with me though was her comment "some people are meant to live in delusion" in reference to me taking medication for bipolar disorder.

Some background here, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Type II at 19 after being misdiagnosed at 17 with paranoid schizophrenia. I have weeks-long manic episodes followed by months of depression, the classic Bipolar II cycle. Previous episodes have been full of searches for signs/synchronicities, extreme hyperspirituality (I was raised evangelical Christian), hypersexuality, extreme spending, racing thoughts, and going without sleep up to the point of exhaustion. I check out of reality completely.

I'm not thinking of going off my meds or anything. I am on the lowest dose to exist in this 3D space. But sometimes, I do wonder what it would be like to have been raised in a tribe where I would have been seen as tapping into the spiritual realm and trained as a shaman or a divination witch (this idea has come up for me in many spaces in the last few days). I have predicted meeting people or future events during past manic episodes so I know I'm tapped into something incredible but very powerful during my episodes, like the veil is thinner for me. I have used scrying, locking mirrors, protection spells, etc. without exposure to these techniques, only recently discovering these labels from WitchTok.

I'm just looking to find others who have had similar experiences.

Tomorrow is the first of the month and also happens to be a new moon. Are there any ritualistic things I could/should be doing to improve my quality of life during the duration of tomorrow?

Curious about other people's experiences. Have you ever been hexed? Have you ever hexed somebody? why and how did you know it worked? :) <3

I see Christmas all over the place but I wanna know now what everyone is doing for the pagan holiday

Hello!

I’m a baby (like newborn level lol) witch. My mom is having surgery in January, so for the holidays I wanted to make her a post-surgery care basket with some comfort items and books and such. I wanted to make a couple spell jars- one for protection and one for healing and put them in her basket.

Is it worth giving the healing jar prior to surgery, or should that be cast afterwards? I wanted to include them in her basket. I was raised Christian and am deconstructing from that, so I am not sure how she will receive them ultimately once I explain them. Do you all think it’s worth doing? I of course do for the intention of protecting my mother but if anyone has experience with doing this for someone I’d love some input. Thank you!💜

Hey all, I'm someone who's trying to become a witch and was just curious about what other talents and powers fellow witches had! Maybe it can steer me in the right direction of what kind of witchcraft I should pursue.

For me personally, I would say I'm like a psychic mind reader (empath but it's way too strong for my own good)

Im looking for information about tinctures—concentrated, liquid-forms of herbs or combinations of... I'm curious what has been used, or if any, what combinations there are. Thank you.

I moved out kind of recently and ever since I’ve bought more visible witchcraft supplies. I’ve hung some pentacles here and there. My altar is more visible and my witch supplies aren’t hidden in a drawer. Before moving out she told me I had to wait practicing witchcraft till i move out. I was very discreet about my witch supplies and I guess she kind of forgot that I actually practiced it.

Anyway, ever since I moved into my new house she’s been avoiding coming home to me. She claims it’s a “bad space” and that it is devilish. This is all very disappointing to me since she’s never really been like this before. Not even when I came out as lesbian. I’ve always thought she was a chill and supportive parent. I guess not?

Phew… I don’t even know where I’m getting with this. It’s just a bummer because I thought I finally was done hiding my religion from her…

Growing up, my family always went all out decorating for Christmas. Very religiously based (my mom has anywhere from 6-15 nativity sets). I haven't decorated my home since embracing witchcraft. This year I chose to be intentional with my decor and honor my beliefs. I cut fresh pine branches and hung them up and it came out beautifully and I'm so proud!

Added bonus of being out of reach of the cat!