I so agree. I call myself a lazy witch. I have never felt comfortable doing elaborate rituals. I clean and cleanse my house, using regular cleaners and normal tools but I add a pinch of salt here, and herb there, some music while I work, burn some incense when a room is done, simple things within that mundane task to make it magical. Taking care of my family, my pets, my plants, my yard, all become little magical rituals. Taking a walk, reading a book, meditation. I fill my day with small routines, where having my morning coffee becomes magical. I don't do many spells at all anymore. I just try to make each moment magical in small ways. Now that I'm trying to incorporate deity work, I offer parts of my routine to them, even something as simple as making my bed or dusting my altars, feeding my pets, self care, whatever I'm doing. I find I feel more spiritual doing the simple things then I do trying to do some elaborate ritual.
I love this. I definitely suffer from information overload with my magical practice. I've really tried to remind myself lately that just sitting and doing something small and simple is better than doing nothing at all, like you said. It's so great to hear other people talk about doing meaningful simple things instead of giant, complicated rituals.
Love this! I haven't been practicing long - maybe just a few years, but honestly, most of my magic is dressing a candle and lighting it. Sometimes it's elaborately done with herbs, oils, & crystals, other times I put some oil or carve a sigil on it and light it. I don't like ceremony, and have at times wondered if my practice is valid because it's so simple. I do petition saints sometimes, and I have Isis and Mary on my altar. I'll burn candles to honor/thank them. And I read tarot. Thank you for the validation.✌️❤️🃏🕯🍀😻👻🧙♀️❤️
I can’t even begin to tell you how much I relate to this so deeply!! Not enough people are talking about this topic in this way. Your truly inspiring ❤
This 💯. The WC is so overwhelming right now. When I started in the 90s there was maybe two main books that you could find on the subject and now it’s just such an overload of information. I think just breaking it down to basics and taking time to really get to know the objects you’re working with is better than not trying anything at all because you don’t know where to start. Great video and keep doing unscripted- you’re so great at it!
Hardly ever do elaborate spells. Music, candles, and incense incorporates the majority of my practice. I enjoy being an armchair magician because I love learning new things, even if it’s not my cup of tea to practice. I do occasionally become overwhelmed with possibilities and that’s when I do a little bit of sigil work, cleanse and clean my room, and rock out to my witchcraft playlist or the playlist for my deity. I have slowly been incorporating giving regular offerings to my deity, as consistency has always been an issue for me. It’s nice to see that people are advocating for the slower more practical approach to magic.
This is exactly what I need right now. Been struggling with how I want to practice vs how other people do it. Glad to see I am not the only one who feels like breaking it down to basics. Always love seeing your videos and gaining the prospective of a fellow chaos magic practitioner.
I love this! I feel that the more simple I keep it, the clearer my intention is able to be set and it has better results. As far as deity work, Bast has her own altar on my main altar, and a cat accessible altar where I feed my 4 cats. I spoil my cats rotten in her name, and I do what I can to help other cats. I don't do anything particular daily, but I light a candle for her most days. I'll collect shed claws and whiskers that I find and place them on her altar. I use them in my practice, but always return them to her. Don't know why, I just feel like I'm supposed to do that. I don't have a lot of money, I work crazy retail hours, and am in pain and exhausted most days when I get home. I think she understands why I don't keep up a more regular, more elaborate practice. I do what I can! But mainly it's all about spoiling my kitties and keeping them happy.
I love this! My witchcraft didnt 'look' like 90s witchcraft and it doesnt look like insta witchcraft today. I use a pot that came with a baking cheese at christmas as a couldren, i have a stick that i found one day as a wand. I have very few tools but i connect deeply with every one of them. I think the first step for beginners is too see the magical in the mundane, to feel into your practice, not to worry if it looks pretty, what type of witch you are, but to really feel deeply into what you are called, drawn too. To be open minded to the idea that over time your practice will change, you will change. I believe we grow into our practice, as we change and learn it grows and so do we. Its nice to have the beautiful things, and they can enhance our practice, but i feel they only do so if we are open minded enough to see and feel that magic they hold. A stick is just a stick, a candle just a candle if we dont look beyond its physical form. If we make everything elaborate and worry if we get it right because it doesnt look like someone elses practice, we loose the essence of our own magic. I love learning from others and i love exploring different ways that others practice, but at the end of the day i have to be true to what i feel is right for me, to revel and enjoy the freedom of others practice without getting down about my own. If somedays all i do is stir the intention to have a good day into my first cup of coffee, im still a witch. I love your videos especially ones like this! Thankyou 🙏
All of this. Seeing the magical in the mundane is at the core of my practice, along with intentional simplicity and communing with the spirits of the land.
Thank you so much for this video, Ivy!! As someone who is new to witchcraft, I have often been very overwhelmed with what to do, how to do it, what to use for my practice. Unfortunately, when I get that overwhelmed the analysis paralysis sets it. It's very encouraging when someone with years of experience, like yourself, explain a more simplified way to practice. It truly helps us newbies!
One thing came to my mind while watching this video when you were talking about stimulation overload and lack of silence is that we often want one thing that does every single thing, for example cellphone it can be an amazing way of keeping online book of shadows with all pictures one could think of but it becomes so chaotic at a point. When I see my study lamp turned on my brain easily registers it's time to study, when I see my kindle my brain gets excited that I would read a book time rather than getting distracted and scrolling for hours. No offense to digital book of shadows or any advance expensive tools. I do agree with you when you said random and simplest stuff work effortlessly rather than complicated and expensive stuff (no offense to store bought tools).
I would like to say that even buying a tool or materials doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t be potent! for example i have a beautiful handmade wand with a pentacle carved into the handle from the renaissance faire. for one thing, i LOVE the ren faire and it has super special memories and energy to me, the place itself is very pagan and very friendly, high energy and happy. secondly the wand was handmade by an artist that was working there, and he etched the pentacle for free! so there’s passionate and careful energy from the artist, i got to support a small business and i got a dope ass wand w it! that thing is my pride and joy and currently sits in a potted plant to charge w earth energy! so, it really all depends on YOUR energy, intuition, and response to other ppl and things that make ur practice powerful! THATS why you don’t NEED the tools, it all comes from you still
I literally have been taking the pressure of my practice and have been leaning into easy- small -comfortable spells and rituals . I find there is more time for my magic when it’s more relaxed and simple ❤ perfect timing thank you
Thank you so much for this! I’ve been struggling with spending time at my altar and working my craft because I felt like if I wasn’t doing some type of ritual just to prepare for meditation or work with my cards then I was doing it wrong. And this led to many days where I did nothing because I was overwhelmed. Having osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia there are days when I barely feel like getting out of bed so I started feeling guilty that I wasn’t putting in time at my altar. On days like that I usually listen to guided meditations, shamanic journeys, etc…but I felt like I wasn’t doing enough. This video also helped me realize I don’t need every tool out there on my altar. I had it decorated so much that it didn’t leave any space to work 🤦🏾♀️. Loved this video, definitely subscribing 😊
Thank you. Your advice is quite useful for people that are entering the ways of the witch. I got into this in my 20s and I’m in my 70s now. To be honest I’m grateful that I didn’t learn from the Internet. Anyway, a person can learn is great, and your advice today,I believe can help some of this confusion that so many new people have, even us old people at times. I’m spirit taught and always have been. I have a reading disorder. Keep up the good work. Blessed Blessed Be. Jaz
Thank you, Ivy, for this chat, I relate completely to these subjects. Mondays are my spiritual witchy days, I sweep and mop with intention and use pine scented liquid or Florida Water, I make my coffee and make a couple extra cups as offerings. I light a candle in the kitchen and an incense as an offering to my home's spirit. Then water the plants. It's a very magickal day because I feel magickal when I am connecting to or doing things with intention and presence ✨️ Sending you love and appreciation ❤️
I always need this reminder!! It's difficult to not let the fancy photos online influence how much I want to do. Though, I know if it seems like it's too much, I'll put it off. Anything is better than nothing in this case, and I'm thankful for the reminder.
Thank you so much for this video. I have put my spiritual path on hiatus in the past because I overwhelmed myself. Now I try to remind myself to keep it simple.
When I first started witching I used and am still using the KISS system(keep it simple sweetie). Love your wand, I almost burned mine, I was starting my wood stove, grabbed a random stick to poke the fire and threw it in before I realized hey that simple stick had power! I got it out not burned! I carved in symbols and glued and wired the small rose quartz crystal my boyfriend found for me. Thanks for the video.
I've been thinking why i feel so disconected with my practice. I have this big altar and its just sitting there. I don't even sit at my altar unless it's the only free sit in the room 💀 Most things on it i don't even use but 2 times a year. Lately i just prefer tea and shadow work rather then rituals. Thank you for this enlightening video. Maybe i'm more connected with my practice then ever actually.
fantastic vlog, well said, totally agree. i've so much magick clutter (as well as mundane crap too). it really does make it difficult sometimes. i often feel like i am trying to learn and do too much at one time. de-clutter and simplifying is so necessary. thank you as always.
I didn’t even finish the video I yet but I need to touch on the simplifying aspect. Being silent, being mindful. I’ve spent the last decade raising 4 children with 5 years difference from oldest to youngest. I’m 31. My littlest has started pre-k this year so they’re now all at school and after about 10 years of constantly having people or children around, I finally have the alone time to find that silence and simplicity. I was honestly really scared leading up to it. But I find I enjoy the quiet. The time for myself to just…relax, and not have to rush. I can sit on the beach and read one of my witchy books for however long I want. I can grocery shop without rushing. And I can even just be in my own home and enjoy the lack of white noise in the background while I’m folding laundry. So many messages I’ve been getting from RU-vid tarot videos as well as my own divination have been telling me it’s a transformative time in my life, big changes. But I need to meditate, and calm all the chatter and just…simplify, let go, and reflect. I’m so happy to be at this point and find the next stage of my life, my witchcraft practice, and just where I’m supposed to go from here. I love your channel. You’re definitely one of my favorites, if not top at this point. Your personality is wonderful, I love your deliverance and I just am so happy I’ve found you. Please keep it all up, and I wish you the best in your life and all that is to come. You deserve it for your wonderful work and effort 💚 thank you
What you said about the stick vs the Etsy wand is so true, it’s similar with children too you buy them a toy that they begged for and they end up ignoring it in favor of the random treasures they find around the house or in nature!
So true, from start to finish. All the books I've read, and I'm still reading, have given me a panoramic view of magic that is so vast I (almost) got lost in it! And I've come to your same conclusions: what's the use of having so many "layers" (so they're often called) in my rituals when I'm spending more time on trying not to forget something important than entering my inner sacred space?
What a great point! When I do a lot of deep magic I do get exhausted. When I have too many things around me, I get exhausted. Today I figured out what magic I have been doing and wrote it all out in a more simplistic way. Then I crashed in my living room chair with all of my dogs around me and we just slept. Now I’m outside with them listening to the crickets and loving it! I’m definitely a hoarder too, and I’m the spring we cleaned so much stuff out of my witchy room! Now though, I need to do it again! LOL! Thank you for this video! One question… Where do you get most of your skeletons from that are around your home?
Oh gosh, I have collected various skeletons from all over! Some from antique shops or thrift shops, some from Michael's craft store or HomeGoods, some were gifted! 😊♥️
I love this! While I would say I'm at the latter end of beginner, I still haven't taken the deep, quality time with many plant spirits. There are some herbs I love working with, but that I haven't worked with one on one, and really deep dived into them. Perhaps this is my sign to do that! :) I definitely agree that it was somewhat overwhelming at first and I had to actively push against the need to buy a ton of stuff when I started in witchcraft. Sometimes I succeeded, and sometimes I failed. I'm definitely at the point where I want to work more with what I already have, and stay with that for awhile. The consumerism is rough sometimes. I have also just recently finally gotten into some of the more adventurous meditations/visualizations that I've read. Usually, when I meditate I would strictly just do the sitting with the eyes closed, and focus on the breath variety. And I have been of the mindset that I have to master that before moving on to anything else. But after trying some of the more visualization style meditations I think I may have been hindering myself. I definitely have to thank you for inspiring me to try out different meditation styles. Hearing about your experiences with that kind of stuff has really inspired me to branch out, and I've already noticed my visualization ability getting stronger from actually working on it in my meditations! All of that to say, actually trying stuff out, even what some might call more advanced stuff, is more beneficial at times than just reading about it. Minimizing clutter is definitely something that I needed to hear. For example, I have been hanging onto tarot decks for upwards 10, 15 years at this point and I don't even like some of them. And yet I've kept them. I deeply believe in minimizing and having only the things that I need and/or love, but I find it so hard to let go of stuff. I may take up your practice of purging every 6 months or so. Thanks for all of these reminders! 🖤
Hi Ivy! This is not strictly related to the topic of this video, but I have to share this with you, I hope you see my comment. My whole life, I had a rocky relationship with my mom, where I did not feel loved and accepted. We have both been trying to fix that for the past few years, and while we've made a lot of progress, subconsciouly I did not feel valued. Recently, I've started doing a ritual with oil for a certain deity. On the 3rd day of doing this, I spilt a lot of oil. I was FFREAKING OUT, because the mother I grew up with would've made me feel extremely bad for an accident like that. Guess what happened??? She was sooo kind and understanding, she was the best mom ever. I know this was my deity showing me that I could trust my mom. I am so grateful, Ivy. I would never have started worshipping this deity in the way I'm doing now if not for your videos. I cannot thank you enough.
Everything changed for me when I simplified, which happened by accident because I was moving. The magic and miracles I’ve experienced have been…amazing.❤
Being in peace with yourself and sitting quietly with no chaos in mind is the absolute best thing to b in tune with urself so to practice perfectly later❤..doing nothing smtimes is also good!!! Rather than to b into many things at one timr with absolute no knowledge n focus!!
Great reminder! Sometimes while watching elaborate videos or scrolling through social media and looking at all the fancy pictures, we forgot that just lighting a candle or holding a crystal or meditating for a few minutes is enough. Thanks for the reminder to clean my magical space, it is getting a little out of control right now. Lol
what a sign!!! I’ve been beating myself up for the last few months about struggling with keeping up with my craft, and then this shows up in my recommended. A wonderful reminder that things don’t have to be so elaborate and serious; sometimes things can be whimsy and simple.❤️
I agree with all of this. When I first started practicing in the early 2000s, most of the books available had information on very elaborate spells and rituals. It was so overwhelming that I would not do much at all. However, in the last 7ish years I have been doing a lot more consistently because I simplified things. I was starting fresh after taking a step away for a few years. I had no tools, herbs, or books which ended up being a great way to start fresh. I learned to use what I had or what I could find and it made my practice very special to me and I noticed my spells would work so much better with less. Simple acts like going for a hike or working out became magical. This whole video is great advice for anyone who feels overwhelmed with their practice.
So perfect really needed to hear this right now. I am a hoarder too and boy has it been piling up. Time to purge!!! Thank you Ivy for always thinking of us. Best wishes on your upcoming nuptials!!! I am sure all will be perfect💙🖤🖤🐈⬛🐾
This! Thank you so much for sharing these thoughts, Ivy. I work two jobs, so the things I do in my Craft have to be pretty basic and/or simple. Divination is a large part of my practice, and I work with candles and incense (using planetary correspondences), as well as sigils because they are easy to use given my time constraints. If and when time allows, I may incorporate more, but what I'm doing right now feels like enough. Thank you again for the video.
This was an amazing video Ivy. I'm 45 and have been actively practicing for about 15 years. I save elaborate rituals for emergent circumstances or special occasions. Simplicity keeps me grounded and much happier too.
You advice seemed so directed at me!! I do exactly what you say, I get that restless urge that I need to be doing something and then get totally overwhelmed and don't and then feel even worse! Thank you so much, I will definitely be following your advice xx
I had a clear quartz point I've had for years and a beat up chunk of selenite I "rescued" at TJ Maxx that I wound wire that I keep for jewelry making around to connect the 2 (using a tutorial on crystal wrapping) and, a couple ribbons I had already that happen to be pearly white with blue and purple shifts, and I have my wand. I already had all of these things, and it felt really special to craft it and make it into a wand thats my own. I would have 100 percent bought a wand if I saw one I can extend to, but it was nice repurposing things that were already in my possession
I have to say, I have been watching your videos for a couple of months now, and I love that what you convey really resonates with me. I have very low energy days and today was one of them, but I still want to connect with my practice. On days like today I tend to do things "my way", which is basically just simplifying down a spell/working and energetically do what I want in a very direct manner. I have found it to be very effective. Anyway, thank you for putting your videos out there! I enjoy the content, and it inspires me in my own practice.
So I know you’ve said your channel isn’t necessarily aimed toward beginner witchery, but you don’t know how much I appreciate this video. And as a beginner witch, I still find your videos extremely interesting and helpful. I just put your channel on, put an earbud in, and listen as I go about my day. And the more of your videos I listen to, I sometimes double back to videos I listened to previously, because information I pick up along the way helps develop and deepen the understanding I have about things I maybe didn’t understand much about the first time around. But THIS VIDEO… I felt it in my soul, and I needed to hear this. Thank you 🫶🏻🤘🏻💜
I resonated and agree about keeping things simple. I 💯 believe in this and practice this. It's amazing the amount of messages and communication you receive from the universe when you are silent.
Love this!! Thanks as always Ivy! It definitely is overwhelming at first and this video has so many valid points that get overlooked! You're the best! 🖤
I also have become very overwhelmed personally when trying to find the right tool. For example tarot cards I have so many but I don’t know which one to use it gives me almost anxiety especially when trying to figure out what I truly need in my practice. Kinda like you turn picky at the things you want to buy or to make or even what spell to cast. I believe we’ve (as Morden witches) came to notion that we have to buy our tools, to buy our way to be initiated into practices when we’re beginners when that’s not necessary we can make things at our disposal and we don’t have every single tool that a witch can use. I brought my chalice at TJ maxx it doesn’t need to be witchy to be affective I’m sure my ancestors did not buy these expensive tools nature can be a greatest gift giver ever. Just ask and you shall receive, I’m a beginner witch but I do know and still learning that you can be happy when making and forging things and buying cheap things. Also especially with social media people are throwing what not dos and do this, when they need to some time to think for themselves what they learn rather not shut them down and fear monger in the witch community.
I enjoy the "take it in moment of feel, smell, taste, and yumminess" when the local strawberries and peaches are in season (it only lasts either a few months for the strawberries and just a few weeks for the peaches) and then I wait an entire year to enjoy these again -- living in the seasons is an enjoyable way to simplify life ..just watching the garden grow and die, then grow again thank you for sharing
Love this! I know you've said youre into rock hounding and i am too just with actual rocks (i dont really have crystals around my area unfortunately) and other shrapnel i find laying around haha. I recently went through my whole rock collection because ive been wanting to learn more about Runes so i finally poked through and made my own with a delicious selection of rockaroonies I had! Im an artist as well so i just cant help making my own stuff. It brings me joy and like you said, i feel more connected to them. Many people that know me give me wierd looks when i have random sticks and stones and slag or other random items in my car... but... idc lol. Ive done it since i was a wee little thing.
Thank you, I needed to hear this right now. Sometimes I can get carried away... impulsive ♈️. You are so right about the stimuli, I have been expressing that to others lately.
I shared this with my mini coven, all of it resonated so much with me!!! And 2 of my members have small children so I know they’ll get it to!!! Love this!!! Going big is fun and the energy is amazing, but we do t always have time for that..😂 love this!!
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this video. How I wish I had seen it when I first started practicing. Thank you so much. This is going to sound so cringe, but you truly are an inspiration.
❤Another great video I'm am the one you talk about I get so overwhelmed I just cannot bring myself to actually do the spell I want to do in the end so thanks for the permission to stop over thinking and get on with it I needed that
Thank you for this Its funny a few months ago when i got back into my practice i brought myself a ton of stuff as i had the spsre cash to yet the thing ive become most attached to is my moonstone pendulum. Its gotten to the point where when im using it to communicate with Hecate and my spirit team its like i can feel the energy and isomething i managed to do really recently was that i felt like the energy wasn't vs strong/the answer wasnt coming through very clearly so i just randomly found myself allowing it to use some of my energy. This is definately the first time I've felt such a connection with a tool My magick practice is definately more mental/ manifestation mixed with witch craft these days than straight up spell work/rituals these days. Also on deity work the most i do these days is light some incense for Hecate (dragons blood is my current favourite offering to her) the one exception to this is on the new moon when i do a food offering which i leave at the cross roads in my back yard (im lucky yhat i have a 3 way cross path in my back yard)
Thank you for this wonderful video! I had to accept that it's just not in my nature to be an "elaborate" type of witch or pagan, I'm doing good to just light a candle once in awhile 😁
Brilliant video, thanks Ivy, really good info for me. I've been dithering for a couple of years, watching loads of utube videos, reading a couple of books but afraid to start practicing magic. I'm afraid of the spirit side of things, like what will i be inviting into my life 🤷♀️. But i suppose spirits are already there, i'm just deciding to become aware of this side of things. Better to be aware than oblivious, maybe? Yours confusedly 😂❤
Great tips! Thank you for the reminder that every working doesn’t have to be a grandiose and elaborate spectacle. I get stuck often with the “ritual” of the working and get overwhelmed and then I give up and not do anything.
Ivy… this resonates with me deeply, all of it… I must admit I am guilty of buying so many herbs, but yeah I don’t really have a deeper connection with a plant this way, so true…. Like you said, it’s just so overwhelming to a beginner….. I do love to get tools in nature though 😊 And btw I am a Libra rising so choosing is not sth I am good at for sure 😂 Thank you for this video, you have no idea how much this helps 🙏😘
I greatly appreciate this reminder. I have been running in circles today gathering, writing chasing my tail to prepare for a blow out full moon ritual. I looked at my pile after watching this and heard the words of Coco Channel believe or not! Put on all the jewelry and then take one off. I suddenly knew how to conduct my ritual and it will be even better because it's simple. Suddenly I have calm.
Thank you so very much for this Ivy! There are times that I think have I done enough today with my craft or have I done enough with this spell or that spell...have I done enough for my ancestors and or spirit guides today? Truly thank you for this reminder. xoxoxo
Great observation regarding our constant stimuli. I got into premium cigars (only tobacco leaf and nothing else) as a way to unplug and almost meditate for an hour. Was amazing until I started surfing Facebook or posting cigar pics….making it no longer meditative. Back to square one! 🤓
I think there's a lot to be said for having a hand in the tool(s) you utilize in your practice. The simple act of sitting down refining or creating a magickal tool in itself, is a deeply meditative experience. The simple act of creating art, is a very magickal ritual in itself. Harvesting a piece of wood that calls out to you while out on a nature walk (which is meditative in itself), then adding your own personalization charges your tool even more. The whole consecration process runs deep within the undercurrents in itself. I harvested my wand from a rose bush I planted from a cutting which grew into a rose tree (over 12 feet tall). I set my sights on a particular branch that was quite straight with an interesting feature on the end of the branch (It's shaped like a foot), my wand looks like a foot in the position of stomping out something. I connected with this feature as my intention was to use it primarily to remove energies/obstacles that would interfere with my path. I love the protection element of the huge thorns that embody my wand, soon I will be carving and wood burning my personalization into it. I encourage others to acquire magickal tools that you have added your personalization to, it really gives it so much more depth and meaning.
I'm only 3 and half minutes in, and this is what I have been very mindful of the last couple years!!! It's so overwhelming in our Era I honestly hate it! Like I want to be social but in very small gatherings of ppl and not feel drained afterwards like it's so much energy keeping up with everything! I feel like I'd be far more comfortable if I were in the 1940's or 1950's.
Ivy, could you pls share in regards to the decluttering thing, if you do anything to energetically disconnect YOUR personal energy from things before trashing, or especially gifting/donating things? Especially decks or other tools you either no longer have use for or have outgrown? Eye appreciate you and your channel/wisdom shared so much. Gratitude love🦋🙌🏽💖☺️
Quite interesting one there Ivy Thanks again for everything. It sort of partially answered my comment on one of your videos I gave that I didn't get a response. Could you brief us a little on how and what you do moving forward to another deity? What do you do with the correspondences you used with the former. Do you feel guilty or emotional leaving from the one to the other? How is the transition?
Very important message delivered beautifully-- you've become a really good communicator as an expression of K-space. Thanks for your work. Do you give your effort on this channel as an offering?
Hi ivy im new here , i recently started watching your videos on your channel and i just love them.❤ As baby witch i am learning so much from your videos from intros to casting all sort of magic spells 😊 you are wonderful human being and we are really eager to see who is lucky Guy you will marry on your channel soon.😊 it would be dream come true if have one session with your men on channel about what does he thinks about your practice and how did u 2 meet and is your relationship going with him. Lots of love R😊
What are your thoughts on social based syndromes in regard to magical practice? It seems in other cultures it’s normal for people to go through a traumatic event such as death of a loved one then going through depression that sometimes manifests as physical illness then the person has a vision and then goes through the process of becoming a shaman for example Sinbyeong in Korean shamanism. It seems common for many humans to seek spiritual practice after enduring trauma but it doesn’t seem to be viewed as an openly acknowledged cultural norm in western cultures. Do you feel there is a correlation between trauma and magic/magical practices?
I haven't practiced for about a week now and I'm not sure what to think about that. I just feel so drained and I just wonder if I'm cursed. What made me want to stop is learning ritual magick, it seems like a lot! I was researching LRP and I feel like I forgot everything I've learned within past 3 yrs. I'm wondering if I should even do such a ritual or will a regular magickal circle suffice.....
I'm so sorry you've been going through such a rough time! I hope the clouds part for you and you can get back to what makes you feel magical. 🖤 Maybe just sitting down with a single candle and talking to your guides would be a good place to start!
When you're decluttering and purging what you don't use, do you donate it or give it away? Because I was thinking you could probably set up an etsy for yourself and sell it on there if you wanted.
I usually just donate it or give it to friends who are just starting out :) I suppose I could sell some of it but it might be more trouble than it's worth!
I just posted the first episode 11 days ago! 😊♥️ I wish I could post a link in this comment but RU-vid filters out any comments with links. If you go to my list of videos, it is one of the videos I have posted most recently and it's called "Witch With Me" 😊
