Palmistry

     I guess, we all know, I dabble in damn near everything. Here's a lovely story for you. Oh & if you read palms, by all means feel free to add. Palms change & adapt every couple days. No divination is set in stone. I'm a trainer for the business I work at, I do classroom and on the job. A few months ago, I had the pleasure of training a little Asian woman. She was so fun & I hope she's still working with us. Her mother was a palm reader, and she picked up a few things when she was younger. Now as I said, this was months ago, several things in my life have since changed & I have had several major life changes good and bad. Some things may be different now. 

Another note, she only agreed to read, because she knew that I would not take it to heart. I read cards so, I know choices change things. 

The first thing she told me is that my lines meet the same way on both hands. In the way that they meet, means that I am extra stubborn, and I listen to no one. Next, she said that the markings on my life line say I walk alone with little to no support. My love line shows, that if I marry again it will also end with divorce. That I will have 3 children (I will definitely not if I can help it), and then some of my markings mean I act quickly with out thinking things through. After all of that, I had a little dot that has since faded, she told me that is a sign of fortune.

So, what do you think? Wanna have a gander at my hands?

I'm terrible with zodiac symbols & birth charts, so lets talk about it.

 

Feel free to comment & discuss.

Recently I learned my Moon & Rising signs. needless to say I was a little at awe. 

My sun sign is Libra

My moon sign is Leo 

and my rising sign is Aquarius. 

Someone so very special to me has their sun sign in Aquarius. This discovery made me miss them. 

So here's what I've gathered in a quick research on the topic of zodiacs that I most likely won't retain-but please feel free to put in your 2 cents on the matter. I'm extremely interested in learning more & hopefully some of it sticking. Also, by teaching me more, if you could site your references as well. I like to collect books & read.  

Women's Business Daily had an article called "What Is My Sun, Moon, and Rising sign?"

In it was an explanation on how to determine your signs. In that article it states, "Think of it as the energies that you put into the world. Whereas the sun sign represents your core self, the moon sign represents your inner self, and the rising sign is all about how you present yourself." They article also quotes Cafe Astrology saying, "The ascendant (or rising) is often considered the mask one wears when meeting others" 

With all that, I have gathered my core air sign Libra seeks balance and is obsessed with symmetry. We strive to create equilibrium in all areas of life.

 While my inner fire self, Leo is fiery and passionate about my feelings I'm highly creative and at home in the arts. (I dunno about all that, I am a crafting dabbler.) 

The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need by Joanna Woolfolk says that having a moon in Leo can modify your sun sun in 2 ways : the bright side: You are more exuberant, creative, broad-minded, colorful, and fun loving; the dark side: you are self-indulgent, self-centered, conceited, overbearing, and bullying. YIKES!

My mask would be another air sign, Aquarius. Meaning I make surprise moves and choices, often to the shock of others. I'm easy to be friends with, but can quickly transform into a loner.  

How about you, where do you fit in the zodiac?

A recent mouse found, but not caught

 has me thinking of a movie I watched as a child. One where members of the fae community helped the flowers bloom and road mice like horses. 

In all this adorable nostalgia, I remember, I have a book on Fairies. 

The Fairy Bible, which you can find here https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fairy-bible-teresa-moorey/1111742833

Generally, I customize my link colors and fuss over color matching, I'm not going to fuss any longer. its too much to keep up with, and no one cares enough to read these blogs anyway. 

A new Fae, I have met in The Fairy Bible, is known as The Gwargedd Annwn, (pronounced Grageth Anoon).

If you hadn't already guessed, its a sprite from Whales, specifically a water sprite. Typically, a blonde, female, irresistible to men, but devoted if you deserve it. 

They live beneath lakes and rivers. Commonly known, as Lake Maidens; The Lady of the Lake in Avalon is a Gwargedd Annwn. 

Not only can you read about them in The Fairy Bible, but there's also a story of one in John Rhys Celtic Folklore

Thinking about a new line of blog posts

 I have so many books, I've got divorced, and I've rearranged books, and lost bookmarks for past blogs.

I am currently considering .... poisonous plants, a garden. 

maybe coming soon to a blog near you.

Hi welcome to my rant...quit calling me negative

At somepoint the words people throw at you are...annoying. So, color me annoyed.

I'm not hurt. I'm not angry, I'm just fucking annoyed.

I can only speak for my experiance

Define witchcraft....

Here it is. . . from someone who practices when they see fit.

Witchcraft is a natures religion, which celebrates and revolves around all aspects of life including death. Just like all religions, there are extremists who are just down right fucking evil assholes. I'm not one of them.

Let me break this down for you. If I need a maple branch for some spell I'm working on... I normally try to find one that has fallen of its own accord so i don't have to damage a live plant. Witches, when having to take a live branch generally leave a thank you or an offering...not of a virgin or a first born child ... fucking idiots... usually a lock of their own hair, or some herb medley that they grew and harvested..

Think of spellwork ...as an ornamental prayer... fire and lightening doesn't spark from our wands... leave that shit with disney. Our wands or staff or any other tool we use is simply representation of a direction at which we choose our prayer to go or an amplifier so its a little louder than all the others.

Love spells aren't about making some poor unsuspecting soul love you that would otherwise think your barely tolerable...they're about asking the universe to help you find the love you're looking for.

The herbs we grow or offer nature ... compare them to the insence Catholics burn at mass. Its meant to cleanse the area and effect the mood, to keep out intentions that would go against prayer.. or in witch's cases spells.

The Jews, Catholics, and baptists all for as long as I can remember burn candles to send love or wishes for one reason or another.... witches do the same. Light a single large candle with 2 smaller ones ... to join in marriage, light a small white candle at mass in thought of a loved one whose passed or ill, do it in a church and no one bats an eye. Do it at home while casting a spell FOR THE SAME REASONS and you're an evil witch....

Witches drink tea to heal a sore throat or cough, they use witch hazel to ease skin irriatations, onions to pull out bacteria in the air... they're healers.

And that pentacle that you just love to hate on.... is a symbol of protection... lest you forget ... they're on Sheriffs badges and cars, most military vehicles, and I've recently spoted them in the breaklights of school buses.


I can only speak for myself here .... but you drink blood and eat flesh.....(yes I'm aware its wine ...grape juice... and stale bread wafers)

The difference between a witch and a christian isnt' that we're evil heathens or we're negative or synical. . It's that we struggle to believe in a book that has been translated by man, and is incomplete. They still have yet to find all the manuscripts that actually belong in the bible. There are around 20 years of Jesus's life missing.

On top of all of  that there are several places that are misinturpreted or contradictory.

Do not judge lest ye be judged....
Thou shall not kill.....
Thou shall not suffer a witch to live..... what does that mean...

So...I'm not supposed to judge anyone
and I'm not supposed to kill anyone buuuutttt.. ya want me to judge that someone is a witch and kill em????


Jesus hung with whores, gamblers, lepers... but i don't recall ever reading that he went to church...Jesus taught in the streets....

Listen here too.... before you decide to get all high and mighty thinking I dunno what I'm talking about. It took me a long time to leave the broom closet, I as never quietly there. I have never been a sheep and followed the masses... I carried the bible to school and  read the scripture, even then they were bitching about god being out of  schools.  I paid attention with my dad, his friend Ronnie, and my grandfather practiced their Hell, Fire, and Brimstone revival sermons. and way back then I was teased for it... called goody two shoes... mocked even in youth studies on Sunday nights with these called christians.

I carried my spell a day almanac an was mocked for that too... no matter what you belive you're going to catch shit for it.

But no religion is positive or negative. It is what you make of it, and my religion of Witchcraft IS NOT FUCKING EVIL OR NEGATIVE IN ANY FUCKING WAY.

And here is where I close my rant. I have this customer, a very kind man, a Protestant preacher. He brings me Moroccan coins with pentacle adornments so I can make jewelry from them. He performed a marriage for an atheist and  catholic, an he always letting me know if the antique store he works at has cast iron cauldrons.

I asked him once why he didn't look down on wicthcraft and other heathen religions the way most do and this in a nutshell is what he said to me.

I have faith that my path, is the one and only path. However, I am only human, and should I be wrong, I want to show kindness to those who may be right. So that when the time comes, if I am wrong, those people will show me kindness in return.

Moral of my story here and my rant. Stop telling me my religion is negative or evil, especially if you are uneducated and know nothing of it. I AM NOT LESS THAN.

Quit being stupid and ignorant and learn something new.

Give a witch a hug today! Trust me we need one.

We gotta lotta catching up to do

Mail Time

The name of a "wild flower that's a weed"

I have a fascination with unappreciated plants. A while back when I was out back-roading (LIKE 2 DAMN YEARS BACK). I saw three plants with this really pretty purple flower.
I picked one. I took it home. I asked everyone who might know and no one could tell me what this flower was. I started seeing it all over next to paved roads. Then I was told its just a weed, some kind of wild flower that probably takes over. . . SO WHAT... it's a pretty weed, let it take over.

Today, I'm scrolling through my Facebook feed and what shall I find but my unnamed wild flower weed.

Chicory.

This weed is called Chicory. Thank you Granny Goodwitch, for finally sharing my flower so I can google and learn more.

This Lil' Witchy, LOVES the GOOGLE.

Here's Granny's Post.

Now, off to the google... I have no idea if those links and references work, but here's a link to the page where they do JIC The Wikipedia

Common chicory, Cichorium intybus,^[4] is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or roots (var. sativum), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and food additive. In the 21st century, inulin, an extract from chicory root, has been used in food manufacturing as a sweetener and source of dietary fiber.^[5]

Chicory is grown as a forage crop for livestock.^[6] It lives as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and is now common in North America, China, and Australia, where it has become widely naturalized.^[7][8][9] "Chicory" is also the common name in the United States for curly endive (Cichorium endivia); these two closely related species are often confused.^[10]

Chicory root contains essential oils similar to those found in plants in the related genus Tanacetum.^[32]

In traditional medicine, chicory has been listed as one of the 38 plants used to prepare Bach flower remedies.^[33] According to Cancer Research UK, "essence therapists believe that using essences can help to increase your mental, emotional and spiritual well being ... Essences are not used to prevent, control, or cure cancer or any other physical condition."^[34]

On to my books. . I'm paraphrasing and adding my 2 cents... fuckin deal okay!

Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs....I'm not sure this is the same book but Close as I found...

Use the Roots and leaves, biennial or perennial that gets 2-4 feet with stalkless flowers usually blue (in my opinion they're purple but i'm not a scientist in this book) usually found on roadsides!! OH HEY That's where I found them. Use an ounce of root in 1 pint of water as a diuretic, laxative. Folk use in jaundice, skin eruprions, fevers. Extract diuretic, cardiotonic; lowers blood sugar, slightly sedative, and mildly laxative. Historically used for liver and gallbladder. The leaf is weaker than the root. 

If ya want all that medicinal crap buy the book I don't wanna give away too much. 

The roasted root is widely used as a coffee substitute and/or additive

Its rare but some people can be allergic. 

The Hedge Witch Herbal  by Nuit Moore. 

You're on your own with finding this book, its a small paper pamphlet I received in a Magick Mail (now called Inked Goddess Creations Box) so, if you really want it maybe check out www.inkedgoddesscreations.com or hit Mrs. Morgan Moss up. She's an amazing fellow witch. 

Chicory Root is good for digestion, assists with liver disorders and improves liver and digestive function. it's a mild laxative. 

identifying and harvesting edible and medicinal plants

Recognized by its flower in early spring, Chicory has a long deep taproot, in season all year. There are no poisonous look alike... Well isn't' that just awesome!

It differs from its relative the common dandelion because most of the leaves have irregular hairs on them, while the dandelion is hairless. Wild lettuce is similar, but with fibrous root.

Chicory grows in disturbed habitats, along roadsides, and in fields, throughout the USA. Young chicory tastes similar to dandelion and wild lettuce in early spring. Use Chicory the same way you'd use dandelion greens, before the mid-spring flower stalk appears, when it turns very bitter. 

Oh here's something new. According to this book the flower is edible but they wilt soon after picked and aren't especially good. BUT They are plentiful, so try batter and deep frying.

Tap root is dry and bitter, but roast it in a 250* F oven for 2-4 hours until dark brown, brittle, and fragrant. then grind in a blender to make homemade, caffeine free coffee substitute. Can be used in your coffee maker just as ground coffee, it tastes like coffee but doesn't create the nervous over-excitement that coffee creates, according to folklore.  

There you have it. Some days are just more interesting than others.. and if you need to poop. or you ran out of coffee... just dig up that purple flower on the side of the road.. I'm still not convinced its blue. 

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I took another nap, then forgot I recorded it.

Mushrooms- you can cautiously eat this one!

Latin Name: Agaricus Abruptibulbus Peck

Common Name: Abruptly-bulbous Agaricus

Width of Cap: 2-6 inches

Cap: Convex to broadly convex, becoming flattened; white to creamy white or tinged yellowish with age, staining reddish when waterlogged; surface smooth to silky-fibrillose, or slightly scaly with age, bruising yellow; margin sometimes ragged with remnants of the partial veil

Flesh: White, fragile, with a pleasant odor of anise or almond, taste mild. 

Gills: Free from the stalk, crowded; whitish to grayish pink when young, becoming pinkish brown then chocolate brown as the spores mature

Stalk: Slender, nearly equal with an abrupt bulb at the base; white bruising yellow; partial veil leaving a whitish skirt-like ring on the upper stalk

Spore Print: Chocolate-brown

Occurrence: Solitary or gregarious on the ground in woods, woodland margins, grassy groves, parklands, and landscaped areas; saprobic; summer-fall; common

Edibility: Edible and good with caution

Of the Birthday- September 20th

It's been a while since I've done an educational thing. SOOO I thought what the fuck why not now...

Crystal

Kakortokite

White, red, and black

Flecked Opaque stone

rare

Greenland, Alaska

Spiritually this stone teaches how to 'breathe and be,' experiencing at one and the same time a physical connection with the earth and a spiritual connection with the infinity of being. 

Herb

Siberian Ginseng

Parts Used: The root of a N.E. Asian shrub

This herb may be safely be used to increase stamina in the face of undue demands and stress. These may be physical or mental. It is used for debility, exhaustion, and depression, except where these are due to a specific medical reason. 

This herb is usually available as a tablet or powder, the dosage of which should be 0.2-1 gram 3 times a day. 

Birthday

Virgo (Aug 23- Sept 22)

Element: Earth
Ruling Planet: Mercury, the communicator
Symbol: The Virgin
Tarot Card: The Hermit (inner strength)
Number: 5
Favorable Colors: Yellow, Green, Brown
Key Phrase: Busy is better than bored. 

September 20

"As long as I learn from my setbacks I cannot fail"

The birthday of the charming controller. 

Your greatest challenge is learning to look before you leap

On the Dark Side: Condescending, controlling, superficial

At your best: Organized, practical, intelligent. 

Birthstone 

Constellations.

    So, I like to spend a lot of my time staring at the sky. Which is crazy, because with my work schedule I'm usually in bed before it's dark, and when I drive to work in the dark morning its foggy and the street lights steal the stars from my vision.

   I still have a very wondrous, dream state reaction to the back lit canopy with holes punched in it.This little blog will cover some of my favorite constellations, the pictures for references I've randomly stolen from the google. I may continue to do this through out the blog and cover several, but for now- start with some favorites.

Orion

     Orion is the hunter. I always see him as a man in traditional Greek combat attire. Breast plate, leather Pteruge, bow in one hand pulling an arrow with the other. Many depictions however, show him with a lion in one hand and a club in the other. That's the beauty of it, the shape is what you see.     

    Most of the world can see this constellation. The Greeks saw demigod Orion, powerful hunter that goddesses fought over. Egyptians saw Osiris, the God of Light. People of Brazil known as Bororo saw the constellation as a caiman, and the Maori of New Zealand, saw a canoe. 

Libra

  

    The Scales, Balance, the stars of my birth! We are all made of stardust you know. This was the last sign added to the Zodiac. In ancient times, the autumnal equinox occurred when  the Sun crossed the celestial equator in Libra. The scale represented equalizing of day and night. This has now moved to the constellation of Virgo.
   Libra is also associated with justice, and the scale sometimes shown in the hand of Goddess Astrea, who weighs right and wrong and is tattooed on my right ribcage. 

Ursa Minor & Ursa Major

Little Bear and Great Bear

   These are also commonly known as the Little and big dipper, although you will see that the big dipper is actually only part of the Ursa Major constellation. The story with these two is fun. 

  

Ursa Major

   Zeus fell in love with Callisto, a beautiful mortal. Hera furious transformed her into a bear. retaining her human sensibility, Callisto wandered the forest in terror of other animals until Zeus placed her in the stars. 

   The Native Americans saw this constellation as a great bear chased by 3 hunters. 

Ursa Minor 

   Zeus's desire for the beautiful Callisto resulted in a son Arcas. While roaming the forest as a bear Callisto saw her son out hunting and rose to embrace him. Seeing only an attacking bear, Arcas thrust at her with his spear. Zeus noticing the encounter, intervened at the last instant, placing both mother and son in the stars as bears. 

 

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Seriously am I the only one that wants to sing?

Here's the mail
it never fails
it makes me want to wag my tail
when it comes I wanna wail

MAAAIIIILLL

OK OK

I know you're not here to see me.
here's the video.....

JULY 2018 Hedgewitch is HERE!!!

You'll be super jelly if you missed it. . . its one of my FAVES!!... ok ok so their all my faves. I can't help it.

June Magick Mail 2018

This Girl Loves Trinkets

So, while I await my magick mail video going up I need to tell you all about my new trinkets!!!!

Ok, they aren't trinkets they're more like books and cards!

Trinket #1 Book

Stargazing!

This nifty little notebook!

You can order from the link above. It has a list of lunar eclipses  right in the cover. It teaches you the phases of the moon (if your reading this hopefully you already know those, but its nice to have references). The note pages are observation logs. In the back is a list of constellations (15) and a pull out of a simple astrolabe. 

Cool as fuck right!!!!

Trinket #2 Cards 

Constellations- A Deck of Knowledge.

This deck is bomb! Seriously! It has 48 cards. 1 card has definitions & info on it (front and back) and the other 47 look like so: 

That's right check out all that witchy history! A love for sure right!

Trinket #3 Book

Spooky Campfire Tales

This line of books also has a few for specific states! I've been in love with tales of haunting spirits since middle school when the librarian, (Who shaved his legs and dressed like a woman when we got our test scores up! He was great!). Read us the Tale Tale lilac!. 

Trinket #4 Book

Mountain Magic

Another book of lore just a little more local. I find these books all over the place (I usually grab them from a local book store.) But, on a treat-full occasion they can be found at local state/national parks in your area. There's nothing more I love than hiking out and about and visiting a gift shop to help support my favorite local parks.

HAPPY WITCHING!