I always considered myself a green or garden witch, because besides tarot and divination I always worked best with plants and teas, knowing properties by heart and taking pride in how beautiful the plants I'd host would be. Since I moved in I've finally got my dream to come true: I've got a terrasse I can use as a garden of my own #gardening #plants #greenwitch #greenwitchcraft #gardenwitch #gardenwitchlife #plantlovers
My coven gathers outdoors with the full moon. There's something about practicing witchcraft in the open air that can't be beat. So despite the cold, we went into the woods, near a lake and practiced our scrying. Have you ever tried scrying, or are you interested in how to do it? Read on...

Scrying is a form of divination in which the practitioner uses a medium to see images. It has been practiced across time, by peoples from all over the world.
What is the nature of the things you see? There's no definitive answer to that. Some will say you see things from past/present/future, others will say that it gives you a glimpse into your subconscious, some see it as a way to commune with deities.

How to do it?
There's many different methods and techniques, so what works for me might not work for you. We started with a meditation to open up. It helps to still your mind and to consciously go into an altered state where you are receptive to signs and signals.

We worked with a moonlit lake and the starry sky.
Fix your gaze on one point, and relax. Let thoughts slip from your mind and gaze at one spot. Things may start to appear in your peripheral vision, but you shouldn't try to look at them directly (because usually they will disappear as soon as you try to chase them).
Try not to immediately interpret what you see, but keep your mind quiet. Interpretation comes later.
It might take some experimentation and practice, like many things it becomes easier as you do it more often.

After you finish scrying, you don't want to leave yourself this open. So cleanse, close and protect yourself. Never forget to say a word of thanks to the place and the medium that you used.

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Dhรก Dhrom, Canfea, or the Ardgroom Stone Circle in the Beara Peninsula in Ireland.
Stone circles, dolmen, burial mounds and springs are important in my practice as places of power. These ancestral sites are tremendously powerful. These are the thin places, and by becoming still you can commune with the spirits of place. By honouring these spaces you step into the traditions of ancient humans, and you take your natural place as a being that is part of this great web.

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Meant to share the other day, but I have set up my irrigation pots and my planting pots with my sigils for the coming season!

All of the sigils are done in charcoal, charged with elemental fire and earth in the form of the sun. As the irrigation pots water my plants, they will slowly fade away. Charcoal is safe since it won't put extra stuff into the soil as it slowly dissolves.

The planting pots have protection sigils and fertility sigils on them. The irrigation pots are for purifying and healing water, for abundance and fertility, and for protection from disease.

This was what I did last year, figure no shame in keeping to what works.

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Spent a chunk of the morning reading about #greenwitchcraft. Iโ€™m so, so incredibly fresh in my #witchcraft journey. I donโ€™t even know if itโ€™s really safe to say Iโ€™ve actually begun, but this is an area that really excites me.

Very open to #recommendations for books, websites, really any resources at all that can help a new #greenwitch get their footing ๐ŸŒฑ

I think I found an important counter-balance in this current arc of this year's practice.

In as much as I must drink great droughts of method and data for the science of applied ecological support, so will expanding and deepening my #yoga practice (expanding into breath and a somatic-first perspective of vocal components) aid in communing with the simple, but infinitely valuable, incidental details of my immediate environment: the plots I'm working with, the swaths of land that I spend time on.

It is that Observing mind and Centered breath -- counting a breath that is happening instead of accomplishing the breath-task to satisfy a sequential count -- that is the portal of exploration for me right now.

There is a switch there.

I am understanding I will have to recover my heart from it's hiding places and protective curses if I am going to experience my environment again in the spiritually rich way I once had and crave yet.

The books and the data jingle like keys, but the hallway of hallways, with all it's curious doors, is in the kingdom and it's dreams.
There are the songs of the angels of earth, and then the murmmerations of its live churning.

#wormmoon #selfwork #shadowwork #lefthandpath #pranayama #mantra #greenwitchcraft #paganhealing

The wee folk dance here at night!
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Always! ๐ŸŽ  ๐Ÿ— ๐Ÿ•ฏ
Artist ~ Mary Oliver ๐ŸŽญ

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