If you need it:
I see you, witch.
Altar, 1st January, new year, full moon in Cancer
The spell jar holds mugwort, wizened and curled, picked on new year’s eve from the Talyllyn steam train tracks, the day seven of us silently retreated together in Tywyn. Milky quartz from the stream there. Yarrow from Teangue, from gathering what I recognised when I felt so lost, so recently, on Skye.
Reminders that magic
– symbolism
— messages
— guidance
—- healing
are available here, around me, wherever I am.
A reminder that the earth
offers me these things unconditionally.
Cerridwen and her cauldron, a dark goddess. Stones, a gift from Siobhan, from this community, from strangers who are friends who are colleagues who are fellow student witches and wise women. (I don’t know what these stones are. One is black tourmaline, I think.)
The High Priestess, femme sage of the Collective Tarot, old, at peace, well practiced in their ways. For finding my own path. For weaving my own tradition.
Art made on new year’s eve: a drawing in silence, an incantation, ‘step into your magic’, and then beside the fire, in lieu of a ‘vision board’, a magazine tapestry, weaving myself into a sacred circle.
Boundaries in a Bottle, just a small drop remaining, the wisdom and magic of Dori Midnight and through this symbol. all of my #witchyqueer heroes, too many to name but they’re here. I owe them so much. I will play it forwards.
A beeswax candle from my grandma, Narney. An otter shell from…well, I don’t know where. Some beautiful beach of West Scotland or Wales no doubt. It’s been around for a while.
‘To thine own self be true’. From Kathleen, the craftiest of them all.
My rainbow wand, direction, intention, manifestation.
I see you, witch.
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Tarot decks shown in this post are from the Dark Goddess Tarot and The Collective Tarot. Other links: Kathleen’s art, Dori Midnight, how to make a magic wand.
I’m a 30-something writer, artist, tarot reader, and perpetual explorer of the space between thought, feeling, and action.
I believe that spirituality and ritual are for everybody. I’m about the journey, in all of its messy, non-linear, chaotic iterations. I am excited by anticapitalist business and living with my whole entire self present. I use tarot cards to bring forth hidden truth, and ritual to affirm my commitment, over and over, to my ever-shifting path.
This. Is. Beauty.
Thank you! I love how creating an altar is a creative/art practice as much (for me, at least) as a spiritual one. xxx
Witnessing. Beautiful, Beth.
Many blessings on your recognition.
thank you
<3 <3 <3
Beautiful! Happy new year. Is Kathleen’s “To thine own self be true” poster available for sale online?
Beautiful.
Happy new year.
I love the idea of “play it forward” – the echo of “pay it forward” coupled with joy, spontaneity, that the Work doesn’t have to be arduous or tedious to accomplish what’s needed. <3 I’m going to try to keep that in mind for my own incoming projects.
This is beautiful. We see you, too. Happy New Year!