Hey everyone! I know there are a lot of super cute chime candle holders out there, but if you are crafty like me, you would know that it is just as easy to make them yourself! Here’s what you need:
At least 1 chime candle (for impressions)
A conventional oven of some sort (I used a toaster oven)
Some polymer clay in any colors you want. These typically are very inexpensive and they come from any craft store. You can get away with making four of these out of one block of clay.
Wax Paper
A cookie sheet
Markers or paint if you want to add designs to them
So all you need to do is pull apart some clay, knead it in your hands to make it softer, as you can see, I smooshed some different colors together into one ball to make a swirly, then you just flatten the bottom a bit and stick the end of the chime candle into the ball of clay to make an impression so it will actually hold your candle. Preheat your oven, the polymer clay packaging will have instructions for baking. Now once they’re cooled off, you can get right to your spells with your fancy new chime candles!
Grab your notes and close everything down. Dismiss any spirits or entities you are working with. Close down the circle. End the ritual. Diffuse the energy of the spell and close it down. If you were enchanting an item, announce over it that it is closed and nothing more may come in or out.
Spells and rituals are little portals of power; if you leave one open without closing it, all sorts of things could get screwy and come through.
2. End any spooky/witchy atmosphere immediately.
Blow out all the candles.
Put out all the incense.
Turn on all the lights.
Turn off spooky chanting music. Turn on some happy music or better yet, a non-supernatural television show or movie you love.
If you were enchanting an item, immediately put it in salt.
3. Don’t destroy the items/notes you will need later.
Trust me, do not throw away the spell you wrote or the objects you were working on. If things go wrong in the future you will needthese to fix the problem.
► Immediately write down exactly what happened. Write down every deviation from the spell that you did. Write down exactly what you said and saw during any visualizations. Write down exactly when things started to get freaky.
► If you were enchanting an item, keep it in a black bag filled with salt until you are ready to deal with it.
4. Cleanse.
Use an energy cannonball to purify the space you were working in. Burn rosemary and bay leaves to fumigate the area, or spritz a premade water solution if you can’t have smoke. Pay special attention to all ritual tools.
If you feel the need to, cleanse yourself by visualizing the power of the smoke enveloping you and driving away any bad vibes; or take a shower if you really feel something has gone wrong.
5. Get out of the area you were working in.
Go to another room. Leave the house if possible. Seek the company of others or turn on the television if you are alone.
6. Do mundane things for a while.
Eat a nice meal. Drink a big glass of water. Go for a jog. Do some chores. Put anything magical totally out of your head. Absolutely do not focus on how weird things just got.
7. When you are ready, return to the area you were working in.
Relax yourself and judge the energies within the room. Are things still ‘creepy’? A heavy-duty cleansing is in order. Do you feel as if someone else is there? Open a window and command it to leave – if it does not, more fumigation or a banishing is required.
Judge your ritual tools and determine if they will need additional cleansing. If you were working on an object, determine if it has been corrupted or if anything is wrong with it. If so, put it back in the salt and deal with it as soon as you can.
8. Take a break from witchcraft for a couple of days.
9. Figure out what went wrong.
Fear is never a good thing. There is a difference between embracing the darkness and being afraid.
► Fear can be caused if an entity showed up you were unprepared to deal with.
► Fear can be caused if your intuition (or perhaps a spirit ally) was warning you that what you were about to do was a really bad idea.
► Fear can be caused if you tap in to powers that overwhelm you.
You need to figure out what went wrong. It isn’t a situation where you can say “oh well” and try something else later – because you screwed up, and next time you may not get an adequate warning before things go to hell.
You guys are acting a little bit like SJWs, liking trans people more than cis people, in the way that you like people more if they’re not Wiccan then if they’re Wiccan? I’m seeing, “reblog this if you’re a witch, especially if you’re:
Not Wiccan
Blah blah blah
Bleh”
And like, I’m Wiccan, I still post regular witch stuff. What’s wrong with that?
There’s nothing wrong with you being wiccan and posting witch stuff. People (non wiccan witches, Like myself) like to try and find and connect with others who are also non wiccan.
It’s not liking one note than the other it’s wanting other non wiccan witches to talk to.
First of all, sjw? Are we really getting in that discussion now?
It’s not “liking trans people more than cis people”. It’s giving trans people the representation, respect and love they’ve been lacking for centuries. I love all kinds of people, but I tend to show it more around other lgbtq+ people because, believe it or not, you’re probably going to value a hug and a kiss more if you’ve never received one, than if you’re hugged and kissed everyday. We go through a lot everyday. People saying all kinds of shit everyday about us. Even our families. Cis people don’t have to go through that. Think having to go through all the shit you go everyday AND also being discriminated and treated like shit just because you don’t fit the cishethet thing. Try to walk on other people’s shoes before judging how we behave around them.
Second, let’s define “regular witch stuff”, cause my “regular witch stuff” is definitely not yours, and yours is definitely not mine. It’s extremely subjective.
My “regular witch stuff” would mean sea-related brujería, hoodoo, folk magic of all sorts, fu talismans and other esoteric taoist practices, etc etc, while yours by a quick look at your blog is: green witchcraft, kitchen witchcraft, and a sea witchcraft sideblog (which I think I follow? So that’s good)
The thing is, my dear, I see wiccan stuff e v e r y w h e r e. You’ve gotta admit you wiccans are the vast majority. Not to mention it is a pretty new thing founded by an old white dude so excuse me if as a bruja I don’t like it much.
While I enjoy seeing wiccan stuff every once in a while (because some stuff is interesting, even if I won’t use it lol) I still reblog that kind of stuff because I would like to see more content of diaspora witches, African, Latinos, Eastern, etc. Which is extremely harder to find, and way more useful for me than… Well… wicca. Which looks nice and all but it’s not my thing. Sorry not sorry.
I’m not gonna lie, I enjoy more poc related witchcraft (and poc related stuff) than mainstream witchcraft (and stuff), for obvious reasons. (Bruja/latina af) I don’t know why op acting as if that was wrong tho? I mean, I’m not in my right to enjoy my culture and traditions? Since when it’s wrong for me to not like mainstream stuff? To value more my own heritage?
And btw, excuse me if the only way I have to enrich my practice of a religion destroyed by white people centuries ago (and what’s left being still discriminated today) is to reblog a post in tumblr saying “if you’re not wiccan pls reblog” which has “you may be of help for me to rebuild the religion of my ancestors” hidden between lines? Because the only people I have irl that practice similar brujería or other poc practices are in the other side of the freaking country (Misiones, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Mendoza), and everyone nearby practices… G u e s s w h a t. Wicca.
Being wiccan in the 2010’s, I can surely assume you’ve never had serious troubles finding information about your practice, your own culture, finding other people to talk about it with, or simply to feel less of a paria (outcast).
Wicca is simple to explain, “it has nothing to do with the devil, we don’t even believe on it, it’s a religion that worships a god and a goddess, nature and stuff, an ye harm non do as ye will, and stuff” people won’t be afraid of it.
But try to explain brujería without people running away from you. HAH.
I really hope you can understand the other side of the issue that I’m trying to cover here.
Yah dude, you’re kind of being a baby about this.
Smh. My dude… like have you been here long?
Like there’s SO MANY WITCHES who practice without a religion base to back them *cough* like myself *cough*. Just because I look for non-wicca blogs and repost from them more often than I interact with wicca-related blogs doesn’t mean I’m casting out Wicca or Wiccans. There’s just many of us who were brought up in different faiths or religions or even just discovered our craft outside of the Wicca parameters and guess what? We are allowed to denouce Wicca as our faith even if we practice witchcraft. Just because you practice Wicca doesn’t mean we all do. A lot of us are pro curse vs. the 3-F law that is taught in Wicca. A lot of us hate being told blessed be because it’s linked to fertility ceremonies in Wicca which make a lot of us super uncomfortable. Just because us non-wiccans don’t like you’re ideology doesn’t mean we are singling you out. Actually it’s quite the opposite. Because too many of us have been “shamed” by wiccans for our beliefs and the bottom line is we are tired of the judgment. So if you don’t like it maybe you should reflect a little bit and see why your faith is often looked from others this way. Maybe… just maybe you can see that your faith and beliefs isn’t everyone’s “normal”. It’s not Us vs. You my dear, it’s You trying to covert us into your beliefs and when we activily search for others who aren’t like you, you take it offensively.
Let me end this and say that Wicca like other more mainstream faiths like Christianity, might have a lot of followers who are assholes but there are many who aren’t like the vast majority. There are plenty of Wiccans who stay in their lane and are accepting of all and THOSE are the Wiccans I will associate with. The ones who are accepting regardless of who they are speaking with. Because being a Wiccan doesn’t equal to being an asshole it’s just that many who are in the Wicca faith act as such. So again, don’t like it? Than be the example of Wicca most of us don’t get to see.
I’m writing a paper on heathenism and, in particular, Loki.
I’m writing about how Loki is viewed both inside and outside of this community, why that is, and how to fix it. As a larger part, I’m writing this about heathenism as a whole, and the bad wrap we get from people who dont follow deities and who have a lack of knowledge in general (I’m sure I do as well, so any info you think is less than common knowledge would be great!).
I would love it if my fellow Lokeans could answer some questions I have? Or, im thinking of posting a survey and getting everyones opinions so I’ll have some numbers. Personal stories would also be nice.
Please contact me if you’re interested in helping! I’ll share the paper as I write it with people that work with me, and I’ll post the finished one for everyone.
We really need to stop romanticizing ritual abuse. If your working with a deity and they refuse to allow you to even speak to another deity, something is wrong. Let’s stop telling new Pagans/Witches/Polytheists that this is normal. If you keep finding your main deity hording you, getting mad/envious over you wanting to work with more than 1 deity, tell them off. You have the right to ensure your safety during deity work. Is deity work “safe”? You’ll hear many debates. But its time we stopped calling it “cute” or “Normal” when a deity tries to force someone to work only with them.
may the bridges I burn light the way 