What is a typical day like for you, as a death witch? && What do you think happens after we die?

~ A typical day for me is really quite uneventful from a witchcraft perspective unless I purposefully set out to do some witchy work (which let’s be real hasn’t happened in awhile and doesn’t happen often when life gets in the way). 

Usually I wake up and get Hubby off to work, spend a little time in my headspace with whatever spirits or deities are around, spend a little time around the house caring for pets and/or cleaning if I have the spoons, try to remember to bring the Snake’s vessel with me, spend some time with Hubby once he gets home and after dinner, and then spend some more headspace time before sleep.

~ I think what happens after we die depends upon our faith and what we believe happens. A Christian, for instance, will most likely find themselves at the Pearly Gates while another person of another faith may find themselves in their religion’s version of the afterlife or lack thereof. 
For me I believe that I will be met by the entity that gave my soul existence. After that I’m uncertain except that I may be given the chance to reincarnate again at some point if I choose to.

🌊natural witch salts

lyrium:

💧white salt (sea salt)
+ purification, dispels negative energy

💧black salt (hawaiian lava salt)
+ warding areas from trouble and unwanted contact
+ absorbs negative energies, useful in purification baths
+ charged negative salts make for potent curses

💧pink salt (himalayan crystal salt)
+ promotes self-love and personal empowerment
+ heals emotional wounds, dissolves self-doubt and confusion
+ useful for wish magic, romance, and compassion

💧red salt (hawaiian alaea salt)
+ love, attraction, romance, passion for life
+ amplifies magical intent when burned with herbs
+ enhances energy, enthusiasm, and assertiveness

💧epsom salt (epsomite)
+ used in ritual baths for purification and physical healing

lonesome-bones:

Death Witch Asks

  • How do you communicate with spirits, if you do?
  • What is your favourite tool of the trade?
  • How do you think one could acquire bones/graveyard dirt respectfully?
  • What is your biggest pet peeve surrounding the idea of being a death witch?
  • How do you view death?
  • What made you want to be a death witch?
  • Are bones a part of your practice? Why or why not?
  • Do you honour ancestors of any kind (relatives, predecessors of your trade, etc)?
  • How have you learned more about death in your time as a death witch?
  • Name 5 things you wish someone had told you as a beginner death witch.
  • Are there any death witch, death work, or spirit worker blogs you can recommend?
  • If you could sum up your practice in one phrase, what would it be?
  • What is a typical day like for you, as a death witch?
  • What is the worst piece of advice you have ever received as a death witch?
  • What do you think happens after we die?
  • What are your thoughts on maintaining graveyards?
  • What are your tips for finding and using tools for death witchery?

☃️Ways to Celebrate Yule❄️

songsparrowwitch:

Yule is celebrated on the Winter Solstice and celebrates the return of the sun!

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☃️ Bake and cook for friends and family! Bless (with consent) the baked goods with the intent of prosperity and happiness and give your loved ones a delicious treat! You can try out wassail or mini Yule log cakes if you really want to get festive.

☃️ Decorate the home or an altar with mistletoe, holly, fairy lights, a Yule log, and a lovely homemade wreath! It will give your home or altar a touch of festivity.

☃️ Make some crafts with your friends and loved ones! You can try out these beautiful ice candle holders, make your own magical ornaments, and some candied oranges!

☃️ Divine your future to see what the next year holds for you! Gather some advice from your tarot cards, stones, bones, ravioli, and whatnot to see how bright the next year can be for you!

☃️ Take some time to do spells of peace, introspection, wishing, and new beginnings. If you know other witches, you can all try to do a spell together!

☃️ Write in your grimoire or book and reflect on the past year and its magical happenings. Write down goals that you want to achieve by the end of the year and for the upcoming year. Bless the page with motivation and love!

☃️ Volunteer and give back! If you have the time and energy, give back to your community. You can volunteer at a soup kitchen and bless food, donate old and unnecessary items and bless them, and so much more!

☃️ Create a Yule log and burn it in honor of the sun! Keep it around as a decoration for a while though since Yule logs are really pretty. You can keep it on an altar or dining room table!

☃️ Give gifts to your loved ones! Gifts don’t have to be extravagant. They can be as simple as blessed cookies, a spell bottle, or even a sigil. Of course, if you want to give someone a TV, then go ahead!

☃️ Build a fire with your loved ones and do some storytelling! This is especially great with kids. You can roast marshmallows over the fire and share stories, fiction or not, with your friends and family!

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petermorwood:

blacksheepboybucky:

trapperweasel:

justabrowncoatedwench:

proserpine-in-phases:

obstinate-nocturna:

coelasquid:

dracofidus:

stillwaterseas:

tokensouthernbelle:

dracofidus:

palindromordnilap:

dracofidus:

adeterminedloser:

dracofidus:

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

–Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

fuck OFF

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing 

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big. 

FUCK OFF

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are. 

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

Like seriously why the fuck y’all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour. 

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off. 

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?”

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

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…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

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…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

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…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest – I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

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…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

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…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

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…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford,
more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in
the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue
paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford
was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

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…and modern…

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…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

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So when Odysseus’s old nurse recognizes him by the scar he got from the boar-tusk slash that almost killed him… now you get the resonance.

This post…it just really went places on me.

I hope you read this entire post, and that it made your entire day so much better, even if just for a few moments, like it did mine.

Source: dracofidus
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