Adorable! I’m a 50 year old baby witch! And the best part is, at my age I have no hang ups or need to conform to anything that doesn’t feel authentic to me❤️🌈💓🌺
Love this, Jessica. For quite a few years I have pretty much gone to acknowledging (rather than a big celebration) the solstices and equinoxes. It makes no difference where my ancestors were from, nor do i worry about appropriating ideas. The sun, the moon, the stars have been around much longer than any humans. And, yes, get outside and see what is happening where we live. We ARE nature! You are right.
You look WAY too young!! Ooh I love the dandelion? window coverings you have. LOVE how you have shrines for each day, what a great idea! I really enjoyed hearing some details of your practice. This was such a treat. 💜 It's so sweet that your son brings you wands. I really enjoyed seeing your working altar too, that hutch is everything. And the dust pan and broom!! 😍 Yes please for more about ancestor altars. Thank you for this glimpse into your sacred spaces. xoxo
☺️🤣 thank you Owlvine 💖 My son is definitely a natural witch. The window film is dandelions and I’ve been so happy with it. It only goes just over a third up the window but it means no one can see me from outside when I’m sitting in front of my altars 🙌🏼 I think I might do an ancestor video. Thank you so much for watching 💖🙌🏼🙏🏻❤️
Thank you so much for this wonderful altar/shrine tour ❤ I love that you showed everything as they are, dust and all, cause that is certainly how my altars look as well 😅 Lovely to see how you incorporate the planets, weekdays, the light, dark, red, godess and aspects of Christianity. This resonates, and gave me some new inspiration as well ❤💕
This was such a fabulous treat, Jessica! 💛 Thank you so much for sharing your sacred spaces with us. Your altars are beautiful, just like you. Many blessings to you, kindred soul 🥀 xxx
I’m in all kinds of awe of your set up. I love everything about it. For those wanting wood slices, wait til Christmas time. You can usually get wood slices for free from Christmas tree farms or lots.
I love that you have a permanent shrine for each day of the week. I tend to set up temporary alters for the energy of each day on that day but I really love having permanent alters and feel like they build in potency as time passes. Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you, yes, I definitely find that altars gather potency the more you work with them. There's something lovely about more ephemeral altars too though - setting them up for the energy of the day sounds a very mindful and creative practice 💗
thank you so much for sharing this :) i’ve studied astrology for years but am just now beginning to practice different parts of my craft more. this is just so amazing how dedicated you are to the planets and their energy, i think it’s absolutely stunning.
💖 thank you! I’m really glad you enjoyed it. And I love that you’re weaving astrology into practical crafting more. I feel there is so much power in that.
100% there’s no way you look old enough to be practicing for 30 years! Cashier at the liquor store “can I see your ID please” the look of sheer elation, and “sure… but could you repeat that a little louder please? Hunny, did you hear that? She asked for my ID!!!” Glowing… lol but your well rounded collection of bits and bobs and special things does indicate either an extensive practice or a shopping problem! Lovely set up, thank you for sharing!
🤣🤣🤣 right!?! The ID thing happens ALL the time. (It genuinely used to until I had children, which has most definitely aged me - in all the best ways 😂🥰).
This was wonderfully fun. Thank you for sharing your spiritual indoor spaces with us. I really loved hearing about your work with the days of the week and planets as beings. Resonates with me. You have a beautiful eye for design and set up and I really got a lot of inspiration. :)
Your channel popped up today and I really enjoyed it. I knew I needed to subscribe when your stones and crystals had dust on them. I so appreciated and identified with that!
Beautiful collection 💜it's funny to me that I've collected the majority of the types of objects you have and just thought it was "cool hippie stuff" more or less. Just things that I liked, never associated it with anything magical, at least not consciously. I was in a mystical shop yesterday telling the owner about the stuff I had and how I didn't know until recently that it was witchy, and he just gave me the side eye and smirked.
Magnific witchcraft Room, magnific witchcraft materials. Beautiful eclectic folk witch Altar. I loved. I am a Brazilian Wizard. Thank you and Blessed be.
Thank you for sharing your practice - it's very thoughtful and intentional. Especially love your ancestor altar and that it's located in the heart of your home. There's never been a greater need than now to honor and invoke the Divine Feminine energies and it gives me hope to see so many women doing that.💚
Hello!! So cool and pretty your altars! I loved it ❤. I got inspired by you and decided to have more than one as well... instead of only one for all things. Blessed be ❤
That little moon 🌙 that lights up is so cute I need one of those just like you would turn it on and say OK it’s time to do some workings. A.k.a. the witch is in! Ha ha
Beautiful alters and sneak peak in to your practice, thank you for sharing 😊 Totally agree about tiles, I used a large bathroom tile as an entire altar at one point!
Thank you Bronia ❤️ Yes, tiles for the win! So much easier to keep clean than altar cloths. How are you managing with altar space in the van? I’m guessing things will need to be pared back a LOT. Thanks for watching ❤️
@@JessicaandtheMoon oh yes, I have a small box that I store my witchy tools in and a small flip down table that I can use as an "altar". I brought barely anything with me! It was kind of liberating in a way 😄 thanks for asking ☺️
wow! Thank you for sharing your space. You have lots of treasures! 🤩 I thought I had too many things and too many altars, but now I realize I am very normal and still have rooms to grow! lol it's nice to have everything in the same dedicated room and altars already made for the moon and planets... You are well organized. I too am Goddess oriented. Very lovely and inspiring! :)
I’m so glad you enjoyed seeing my altars and shrines Rose-Marie 💖 and your comment made me laugh that you feel like, after watching, you’re very normal to have lots of things and sacred spaces. Of course you are 💖 witches aren’t naturally minimalist 🤣
❤️ thanks Jan. I think the modular (love that description 🤣) altars is my way of separating out the aspects of the divine in a way my human brain can comprehend.
@@samantog thank you! The goddess blend is equal parts mugwort, lavender, chamomile and yarrow with a small amount of black salt (because I use it for protective purposes) and as many dried rose petals as I can get my hands on 💗
I absolutely adored this video Jessica! Thank you so much for giving us a little peak into your practice and the witchy spaces in your home… something I find endlessly fascinating, as a design history aficionado, a fellow witch and just a curious (nosy!) person in general! 💕☺️💕
I am a new Novice. I have 2 Alter cloths. A bronze offering cups. 2 crystal wands 10 ceystals, 2 candles 1 white + a red one & a iron cauldron @ a bible!
It's a bit later from when you originally posted this video, but I just want to say thank you for sharing your personal spaces with us, in way too long comment format. I just loved all of your shrines, altars and working spaces. Your practice is much like mine in the way as, you have made it completely personal to yourself. I think baby witches are rigid these days, trying to become the perfect "type" of witch they see. They should be need to not practice as much from just learning what internet clutter has to say. though many are just practicing for the trend of witchcraft, I hope do not conjure up any damage in doing so. However, you are very inspirational. With that, I hope you guide baby witches of today in the direction to personalize their crafts as well. And btw... yes you look way too young to have been practicing for over thirty years. I as well have been practicing for over thirty years and look very young to have been doing so. Thank Goddess! )O(
All that witching keeps us young 😆❤️❤️❤️ I’m so glad you enjoyed seeing my shrines and altars. I think it is hard now for beginners in almost the opposite way that is was hard when we were starting. Now there is so much information everywhere, some of it great, lots not so good. It can be hard for people to filter out the noise.
this was such a lovely video to watch, it really inspired me to think about how i could create a space that is personal to me for my practice 🌙thank you!
Goodness. Thank you so much! This was wonderfully encouraging & inspiring. You have such a kind voice & endearing laugh. 💗 I look forward to exploring your other posts. 😊
Thank you for sharing your sacred spaces✨💕 Love the idea of daily altar spaces all ready to go...fantastic😸 so many wonderful and witchy treasures🦋💓loved this
Thank you Candy ❤️ It makes things flow so much easier for me having things set up this way. Though I do like busting out a working specific altar set up at times too 🤣
Thank you Jessica for a very beautiful tour . I collect gems and crystals . Even though Im not a practicing witch I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of your video tour . I'm very good at reading people's vibes and I can easily see that you are a lovely and kind soul .
Thanks for sharing.... it's so much fun to see other people's altars and how they work with them. Curiously, my current working altar is almost entirely dried plants and flowers (dried and living)! with a few candles and crystals, and I have been guided to *never* share pix of it with the general public! I notice you have very little dried or live plants. I'm curious what element your sun sign is in.
I’m glad you enjoyed it ❤️ I very rarely share photos or videos of my working altar and don’t actually keep anything much on it apart from what I’m actually using. The shrines are a different story as you saw in this video 😆❤️ yes, it’s interesting about the plants. I do put plants on them as offerings sometimes but live plants wouldn’t survive the way I have them set up. My chart is pretty balanced between the elements, but my sun sign is Gemini.
I find that i started with just one and now i could probably work at any space in my home for any reason. If God s forbid i had to hide or get rid of my altars i would have nothing left in my home....lol
I’ve been waiting patiently for a nose at all the goodies in your apothecary cabinet and delightful it is too! It’s lovely to see how the gifts and treasures collected on your journey have found their place in connection portals, shrines and alter spaces that make up the many hearts of your home. A really beautiful share and I thank you for letting us have a peek into your home and practice. You are such a delightful soul and inspire me to want to create more dedicated spaces to in my home for the things I cherish and enjoy connecting with. Blessed weekend Jessica ☀️🌻
Hello beautiful person thank you for sharing your magical space and your personal items how sweet I definitely need to get one of those I’ve got a speaker statues hopefully you have a Magical Autumn Halloween and I’m already are 🎃
Haha, you’re welcome ❤️ I loved it when I figured that out. Now I can switch out my wax melts hassle free (though I do always think I should buy some more aesthetic looking silicone cases 🤣)
That was wonderful! Thank you so much; I have always been interested in your actual lived practice and what that looks like, as well as hearing your thoughts about it. 💗
Thank you Ginny 💖 The goddess is insistent that I be more open to sharing my practice (although it pushes me out of my comfort zone 🙈) so likely there will be more videos around this. Is there anything which you have questions around?
@@JessicaandtheMoon I am interested in how you came to your path, how it shapes the way you see life (as opposed to a more typical modern secular view of life). How does it help answer those big questions and major life happenings? But really I am just happy to hear your thoughts.
@@GinnyShilliday ok, I will have a think about that. Thank you Ginny 🙏🏻 It’s useful to have a different perspective on it because to me it’s just my “normal” life. And it’s only when I run up against people who see the world very differently that I realise it’s anything out of the ordinary.
Lovely video ! What a brilliant idea to use silicone cake cases for melting candles! I will definitely try that...lovely spaces you have created and thank you for sharing xxx
Beautiful altars, your dedication to your craft is obvious! As a fledgling witch, I learned first and foremost to be careful with mirrors, as they are portals of various strengths. Your use of mirrors makes me curious though; when you cleanse a mirror, is it semi-permanent? Is there a set or suggested amount of time before you cleanse the mirror again, or should it be fine after the first or second time around? I don't have many mirrors in my home, but they are something I want to be mindful of.
Thank you 🙏🏻 That’s a good question about mirrors. I use mirrors a lot in my practice (as you noticed). You’re right, they are portals and are powerful. But then so are lakes, or puddles, or eyes. I don’t worry too much about anything being able to look in or get in through my portals. They are locked by protections. As far as cleansing, I do that when I first start using it and then maybe never again 😬😂 I do clean them if they get dusty. That’s just practical witchcraft 😉
I love your altar spaces! This gave me so much inspo, I’ve been craving a change-up with my altars. I was ogling your washi tape too 😍 Beautiful beautiful! 🌙
There's no way you've been practicing for over 30 years Jessica!!! I don't believe it - what is your skin care routine?!! 😂😉😘😘😘 You're looking gorgeous! 💖 And thank you for the altar tours! I love the way you have your daily devotional spaces set up!!! 🙏❤❤❤ I'd love to hear more about your ancestor work or altar or whatever you'd like to share about it, yes please! 🙏❤
@@JessicaandtheMoon 😭😬🤓😂 I only know because my mum was a convent boarding school girl and used to talked about it a lot. She was a pre-1972 catholic convert so her stories of her school days were filled with Dutch nuns in full habits with the sound of rosary beads clacking against their thighs while walking, and all these Latin words and terms! They weren’t as magical as they sound from a time afar apparently, but they were so fascinating to my child’s ears so they are stuck in my memory! You remind me, I have some military grade paracord rosaries (you heard that right) to review! You can design your own and pick your own parts and colours and such 🌸 I can’t decide whether to do that on this channel or my other channel. Anyways. Thanks for this lovely tour 😁 and once again so very congratulation on you evolution, here online, and off ❤️
@@NobodyHere paracord rosaries! 📿 now THERE’s something you don’t hear every day 🤣 I’d definitely watch a review of that! Your mum’s nun memories sound intense. I lived next door to a convent when I was in university and honestly the nuns mostly freaked me out (not all, but some were intimidating - to be fair they probably didn’t love having lairy students living next door). Thanks Anneke ❤️
Great video, I loved it! I just wanted to tell you something: idk if you already know this but the little "labyrinth" you use as a stand for the little yellow goddess is the sigil of the Greek goddess Hekate, a powerful dark goddess, maybe do some research on Her, she is truly fascinating! That's it, hope I was useful. Again great video! Bye❤️
Perfect timing for this comment. Thank you! I kind of knew that but don’t use it as that, but it’s spot on for what’s been coming through for me since the new moon. Thank you 🙏🏻
That is a lovely tour, I wondered what the name of the moon phase cards are - and if you know if they are available? I have just watched to the end, and loved your shrine/altar to Mary. I have recently bought the Black Madonna and White Madonna Tarot cards from Hettiene and am just starting my journey. I just felt a strong connection with her. Perhaps if it is not too personal, you could show how you work with your Mary cards. Regardless, your heart is beautiful.
Hello, I’m glad you enjoyed the video ❤️ I love the cards from Hettiene. I hope you enjoy using them. I had those moon phase cards from a subscription box years ago, and the artist isn’t making them anymore. There are lots of similar options available though if you look on Etsy ❤️
@@JessicaandtheMoon I have ordered something similar on Etsy. Thank you for replying. I am interested in the Moon monthly membership (sorry I cannot remember the name) but I cannot find the join button I have sent a message directly so hoping this can be resolved.
@@ladybooksmith3347 a Oh that’s great! Thank you for trying to join 🙏🏻 a few people have said they’ve found it hard to sign up on mobile. Like you said, the join button is missing 😣 if you have access to a computer apparently it’s much easier doing it that way. Once you’re in it’s easy to access everything on mobile. ❤️
What a lovely surprise and tour, Jessica ♥️ Thank you for sharing…creative focuses, energetic inspiration, and ways to incorporate and organize the potentially over-whelming number of things one might feel called to work with 🌟 I felt like I was there with you 😊…and for a moment, when you knocked your camera I would swear I felt the table on which my iPad was sitting wobble as if it had been right in your way 😆 …Magical 🥰
I am writing as I am watching, I noticed you have windows film privacy (very pretty btw) and I want to do this too, but I read it blocks the UV light. Since I have a lot of plants depending on that light... I didn't do it. So I am surprised that you have a plant growing? does she gets light none filtred higher or did you just recently put the film privacy on your window. I would really like to know! :)
The film has been on about a year or so. I have a few plants in the room and they all seem fine with it. The film only covers the bottom 2/5 or so of the window though 👍🏻
Something I struggle with when designing an altar is dusting...how often do you dust? Do you have any tips for dusting around a bunch of little things? What happens for me is I end up setting up something that is pleasing to me, but then it just gathers dust until I decide to take it apart and do something more simple and easy to dust around, and it's just a cycle that i can't get settled. I would say art supplies are definitely witchy :D Thank you for sharing this, you have so many beautiful items to make your space extra special and sacred. I love watching altar tours to get inspiration for my own.
Jen! So lovely to hear from you ❤️ I was thinking about you yesterday, wondering how you’re doing. Did you spot the skull you gave me above my ancestor altar? 🥰 I’m not sure I have good advice about the dusting thing. As you can see I mostly don’t do it 🤣 but I do clean the spaces now and again when they feel dirty, if that makes sense. You can get those little air puff cans which you can use to dust around small objects (like crystals) but I prefer to take everything out and clean it and then put it back. Maybe the same/ maybe different. I find the spaces have an energy and mind of their own.
One of the things I''ve seen people have on their altars or use is a goddess figurine. And many seem to have the swirl around their bellies or pregnant goddess. But I don't' think people realize just what it means. The swirl on the stomach where most women and only women can get pregnant and create life. But not to confuse people, it''s actually about Creation itself. The god and goddess is perfectly balanced and dual pair. God for Destructive and negative. Goddess for Creative and positive. Hence the balance and harmony of Creation and Destruction. The balance and harmony of positive and negative. Not all positive and not all negative. Not all Creation, and not all Destruction. Balance and harmony. God and Goddess so to speak. The whole yin and yang. So many different symbols that depict the balance and harmony of Creation and Destruction. And both men and women can do both. Men can Create or Destroy. Women can Create or Destroy. Men and women and Create and craft arts and crafts or create and build cars or buildings, or create and plan designs for buildings or cities. And both men and women can both Destroy; kill and destroy plants and animals to farm and process and make food for people. Cut and kill the lawn, lol. Kill and destroy friends and relationships. Or Create and and make new friends and relationships. Things like that.
What a great video Jessica ! Thank you for sharing your sacred space and altars with us all , I absolutely love them and it’s inspired me to change some of my alters about . I haven’t done much work with mother Mary but something just clicked when you started talking about her , I feel I’d like to learn a little more and bring her into my practice as I feel she will help with so of my emotional healing . Where will I find the two tarot decks you have and mentioned as they are beautiful. Thank you so much again as always , I love you your videos , much love and blessings xxx
Thank you Jane 🙏🏻 It is mother Mary who was insistent I make this video so she will be very pleased to wrap you in the folds of her starry cloak 💖📿 The two tarot decks are by Hettienne Grobler. Just a heads up, they are independently produced and expensive (they also have to ship from South Africa). The Mother Mary oracle is mass market and only about £20. I would really recommend getting that. You might also like the book “the way of the rose”. I’m being promoted to make a video on my Marian devotion practice and I’ll share more in that (just working up the courage to film that one. It might be a little while coming 🌹).
@@JessicaandtheMoon I’m much like yourself Jessica , I was brought up a Christian as a child , and I have never really thought about Mother Mary and worshiping her until now , and something nudged me while watching your video, and It felt like I was been drawn to her . I’ve been going through a really hard time this year with bad health and hard decisions that I have had to make that have been really difficult and very upsetting , but as soon as you started taking about Mary and showing all of us your altar dedicated to her and sparked something off in me . Yes I think I will order the oracle deck to start with and go from there . I would love to get the other decks as they are stunning , if I do so , do I just order them directly from them ? I look forward to your Mariam video , thank you so much Jessica as I feel this is is something I was meant to see and has come at exactly the right time for me . I can’t tell you enough how much I love your videos and how calming it is to listen to you . I also meant to say that I’d love to learn and see more about ancestor altars and how you work with the Santa muerte deck , I’d really love that . Bless you , much love as always xxx
Hello Jessica . I haven’t been on following for a while due to moving home with my mum and my health and the joys of been peri menopausal. I wondered if you managed to make another video about your Mary devotion since seeing this video a year ago I now get great comfort from Mary and you mention her starry cloak , which I love . I hope your well lovely lady ❤xxx
Thank you ☺️ I can’t help with the cat question as I don’t have one (I’m a crazy dog lady instead 😆) but I know lots of people do find it’s an issue and they have to choose items which won’t hurt the cat, or smash if they fall off. Some people keep altars in boxes and just take the lid off when working at the space. Hopefully someone with cats will come and give you a better answer soon ❤️
Love your space. The wine crates are a great idea also like your wood discs. I did an altar/room your on my channel, but now we are putting our house up for sale and once I’m settled in my new home I will have to set up new altars/ workspace.
Jessica how do you find out which planet is your ruling planet ? I’m very new to astrology, astronomy and It looks crazy when you look at a north chart for the first time ? I have one through an app I have but at first I can’t make sense of it lol oh dear ! Anyway I was just trying to work out which was my ruling planet . I think I’ve worked it out as my rising /ascendent sign is cancer and I think the corresponding planet to that is the moon ? Is the moon even a planet ? Lol not sure how that works , it would be really helpful if perhaps at some point you could do a video about this subject as I’m so interested and I’m just learning , still unsure about how my ruling planet works if it’s the moon ? I guess the moon is a planet? Xxx
Yes, that’s right Jane. If your ascendant is Cancer then your ruling planet is the moon. Obviously it’s not really a planet in the modern sense but the ancients called all the moving sky orbs planets (from the Latin for foot - traveller) to distinguish them from the stars which are fixed. I hope that helps xx
Your video is very special and whatever things you have kept has some meaning and theme. It's not for show off purpose. The thing I have applied from your video is that you have given seperate place for each planet energy. Being an astrologer, I like this idea and theme. Second thing I hardly get time to do the Graha Mantra Jaap which is I love to do. I got inspiration from your video to creat alter based on Planet theme, so I can worship them easily and I just give vibration through Affirmation. You give solution to my problem. So thank you very much.
@@nakshatraaastrology8715 that’s so lovely to hear. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻 I find having the spaces set up really helps to make connection with what is meaningful for us easy 💗
Of course! Sorry, I should have put that in the description. Most of my little goddesses are made by Molly and Mark Remer at Brigidsgrove.com I probably have a few too many of them 🙈 but I love them all ❤️
@@JessicaandtheMoon I have now got a little bit of an obsession with then too , they are absolutely stunning , I’m actually waiting on another order from them 🤫🤦♀️, I get so much from them ! Xxx