There are tons of informational lists out there for hurricane prep. But if you’re getting hit by anything a category 3 or up, I personally recommend just evacuating. This is my personal recommended list for what to take when you evacuate:
Flashlights (I recommend the little headlamps with adjustable elastic bands. They use cheap but bright LED lights, cost as little as $1, and leave your hands free. Don’t use candles – even if you manage to keep your matches dry, open flame presents a fire hazard and kids are likely to burn themselves.)
Water (1 gallon per person for each day – don’t forget some for pets).
Toilet paper, pads, & tampons
Trashbags in multiple sizes
Non-perishable food (Lipton cup soup, ramen, tuna, jerky, pretzels, etc)
Important documents (birth/marriage certificates, licenses/ID, professional certifications, wills, etc – a cheap and easy way to store these is in gallon Ziploc bags)
Pet food (non-perishable), leash/harness, comfort toy or bed
Diapers and wipes (even if you have a potty-trained toddler, grab a couple days’ worth becuse kids tend to regress in stressful situations)
Chargers (have an alternative on hand, like extra batteries or solar/car chargers)
Phone numbers and contact info (write it down, your phone may not be accessible)
Spare tire, jack, motor oil, antifreeze, radiator stop leak, portable battery charger
2-3 changes of clothes for you and your kids
First aid kit and comfort medicines (Tylenol, antihistamines, etc)
Prescription medicines and a list of dosages
Medical information kit for everyone and any pets (blood types, allergies, etc – write it down)
Identifying information and a current photo for everyone with you (including pets)
Comfort items (blankets, pillows, pictures of loved ones, a favorite book, toys for kids and pets)
Remember, if the professionals say you should evacuate, then fucking evacuate. Your house and your stuff is replaceable, you aren’t. If you do stay behind, remember:
- Keep a life vest or flotation device on hand if you get caught in a flash flood.
- Don’t drive through moving water. If you do feel your car starting to get swept away, immediately roll down the windows and undo your seat belts so you can get out in a hurry.
- Don’t go into an attic, climb onto the roof.
- Stay away from windows or make sure they’re boarded up securely (100+ mph winds can turn any projectile deadly).
Hi what can we do if we can’t evacuate?
If you can’t evacuate here are some tips.
Buy life jackets immediately a lot of deaths are from drowning. If you have a kayak, canoe, life raft, keep these near you they can come in handy.
Do not swim. You will tire yourself out especially if currents are going against you.
Have ample flashlights on hand.
Once the hurricane passes. Get on top of your roofs. Use flashlights at night and if on hand any pots and pans during the day.
Tarp and rope. You can use tarp to make a temporary repair if anything comes down.
Do not turn the power on if there’s flooding!
Do no drink water that hasn’t been previously stored! Assume that all water has bacterial contaminations (yes this goes for tap water as well if you have no other choice boil it first)
Don’t pick up trees, wires, debris, nothing.
Do not use charcoal or generators indoors!
Sand bags can be used to help prevent flooding.
En Español:
Si no es possible para evacuar aquí hay algunos consejos:
Comprar chalecos salvavidas. Una gran cantidad de muertes son de ahogamiento. Si usted tienes un kayak, canoa, balsa salvavidas, mantener estos cerca de ti pueden ser utilizada en emergencia
No naden!! Se van a cansar especialmente si las corrientes van en contra de usted.
Tenga suficientes linternas a la mano. Una linterna para cada persona.
Cuando pase el huracán si hay inducciones ve para el techo de las casa. Utilice linternas por la noche y si está a mano ollas y calderos durante el día.
Lona y cuerda. Laona puedes se utilizada para para hacer una reparación temporal si paredes o el techo se derrumban.
No enciendes ningunos electrónicos si hay inundaciones!
No tomen agua que no haya sido almacenada previamente! Suponga que todo el agua tiene contaminaciones bacterianas (esto también significa el agua del grifo, si no tienes otra opción hervir primero el agua del grifo)
No recojan árboles, alambres, escombros, nada.
No utilice carbón o generadores en interiores!
sacos de arena se pueden utilizar para ayudar a prevenir inundaciones.
Just a note that I will try my best to keep everyone updated and let you all know that my family and I are safe. It really all depends upon whether the power stays on or not.
I appreciate any and all thoughts and prayers for everyone in the storm’s path. 💜
Irma is supposed to turn northerly and hit Georgia and SC/NC by Monday
Fuuuuuuuuuuck
So Irma is going to completely miss us. That’s good news.
Sadly that means my more westerly friends and followers are now in its path and that has me worried.

The farther west Irma shifts the more I’m feeling like I’ve been right this whole week when I’ve been arguing the forecasted path. She is now headed up Florida, supposedly, and will go over the Georgia/Alabama line. I’m still watching closely because I’m doubtful of that hard turn north. If I’m right she’ll come into the gulf and straight for us.
My father says he’s had the same feeling that something was off with the path and is talking of buying up some water today. I feel validated that I wasn’t just spewing storm paranoia, but at the same time I’m so unhappy that it’s starting to look like I’ve been right.
Followers and mutuals if you live in Alabama, Georgia, or the panhandle of Florida get to prepping if you haven’t already it had further inland. I’ve got that sickening feeling that this is gonna be a bad one.
Stay safe, get prepared, and be smart. 💜
Regarding Hurricane Donations:
I’m going to provide some links to get you started in terms of donation resources that are available at this time for regions affected by the hurricanes that have passed through or will be coming soon. Feel free to add on.
Houston:
Flood Relief for Texas Children’s Hospital
Antigua and Barbuda:
Habitat for Humanity of Trinidad and Tobago (for Barbuda relief)
Antigua and Barbuda citizen Jessye Romeo is raising funds for Barbuda relief out of London, UK
St. Martin/St. Maarten:
St. Maarten youth living in France raise funds for relief of the island
St. Maarten Relief Fund on Youcaring
Hurricane Disaster Relief for St. Martin/ St. Maarten on Fundly
The French and Dutch Red Cross organizations are seeking donations at this time for their respective territories on then island (do research on any organization you are curious/ wary about before donating, as the Red Cross track record isn’t so hot)
Haiti:
Dominican Republic:
Puerto Rico:
Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha
US Virgin Islands:
Florida:
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida
Florida Keys Children’s Shelter
This is just a starting list. As said before, please feel free to add on.
It goes without saying but if you cannot afford to donate, share the information so someone who can afford to help has some options or a place to start looking if they’d like to help
If you can’t afford a donation – go donate blood. Blood banks network with each other and right now they’re working to get blood into affected areas as well as supporting their own hospitals. It won’t cost you a thing and they’ll probably give you a T-shirt for your trouble.
Hey, you know the original myth of Persephone when she was still Core/Kora and instead of being kidnapped, she willingly went down into the Underworld and decided that she liked it there/wanted to do good there?
I need a copy of it.
Can ANYBODY point me in the right direction? I don’t mean another tumblr post, I mean an actual scholarly article, or book, or .org- something.
It does not exist, sorry. It’s Tumblr fake information that has been spread as reliable but is fake.
The oldest mentions we have from Persephone are found in Hesiod’s Theogony, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and the Hymn to Demeter which is the longest and most detailed from the three.
Now there is a MODERN retelling done by Charlene Spretnak who created a short story where Persephone descends to the underworld to take care of souls (but she is alone and doesn’t meet Hades there). Google her name plus Persephone and you can find the pdfs easily. There is an illustrated version on Amazon as well.
Persephone’s myth as it was conceived and told by the Ancient Greeks was already empowering and Persephone was worshipped as any other goddess, like a strong and amazing one. There is no need to bring up those “original” -actually fake stories- to make Persephone a great and powerful goddess because she was always such for the Ancient Greeks.
Jinxes, Hexes, and Curses
About This Masterpost
Thicket’s Magical Masterpost
Jinxes,
hexes, and curses are all part of the same category of malicious
magic. This is magic done to harm. It may be done for the greater
good, but in general it is always offensive and always meant to hurt
another person.A
jinx is the least damaging of all malicious magics. It is more like a
nasty trick or prank than an actual attack. Considering they serve
little strategic value in battle, I consider jinxes to be just plain
cruel.Hexes
are magical attacks. A hex can be relatively minor or extremely
dangerous, depending on the spell chosen and how much power it has.Curses
are not simply more powerful hexes. In my path, a curse is
life-changing. It permanently alters fate and destiny. I doubt the
majority of magical workers in the world can cast a true curse. For
this reason we will mostly be talking about jinxes and hexes, since
curses are beyond the scope of this article. The purpose of this post
is to talk about hex and jinx identification and breaking.A
hex can have endless symptoms, from the vague to the specific. When
you are hexed, things just start to go wrong, in your body, your
mind, or your life (or all three, if you are against a wicked
opponent). When trying to identify hexing symptoms for yourself or
another, keep an eye on what is abnormal.
Don’t get what is normal twisted with what is a symptom of hexing. If
someone normally has anxiety, then don’t assume that is being caused
by a hex. Instead, keep an eye on if that anxiety worsens, changes,
or is triggered by new things.A
few common hexing symptoms: Headaches, nausea, stomach pain, body
pain, anxiety, worry, nightmares, insomnia, sleep paralysis,
uncontrollable thoughts, strange impulses or compulsions, being
unable to keep track of time, breaking objects on accident, phobias
or fears, being in physical danger (car accidents, assaults), people
treat you differently (as if they dislike you for some reason now),
always being at the wrong place at the wrong time, positive
relationships start decaying, unhealthy people come back in to your
life, things just plain going wrong.Now
let me slow your roll for a moment. Remember that you are looking for
abnormal symptoms. If
people haven’t liked you your entire life, it is unlikely that a
witch put a curse on you as an infant. If you have had a fear of
spiders since you were bitten twelve years ago, it doesn’t mean that
was a symptom of a spider-hex and now your natural spiders means you
are under magical attack. Be reasonable. People have headaches every
day for mundane reasons, and their “unexplainable” symptoms could
be traced back to their Oreo and Mountain Dew exclusive diet. What
you are looking for is a thread of unexplained commonality.Remember
that people seem to have a natural and powerful inclination to blame
their problems on magic. I absolutely know once I publish this
article I am going to get many messages from many people down on
their luck asking if they have been hexed or cursed. In reality,
their inability to take their foot off the gas pedal is what’s giving
them speeding tickets, not some magical scapegoat. That being said,
if you reasonably do believe you’ve been hexed, absolutely contact
me; my point is that people often like to think they have been hexed,
when they have not.Another
important part of identifying magical attack is figuring out where it
would have come from. A friend of mine has many common hexing
symptoms, and he knows of a magical practitioner who would have had
it out for him exactly at the time all these symptoms started. If not
for the knowledge of this person, I would doubt he was under magical
attack. So if you or a friend match a lot of these symptoms – where
did they come from? Magical attack does not spawn out of thin air.Or
does it?Many
of the symptoms of hexing are shared by symptoms of spirit attack.
Which can, literally, come from nowhere. There is no harm in doing a
full banishing along with a hex reversal. This is not the post to
discuss spirit attack, just be aware that you are not necessarily
being hexed even if you are under true spiritual attack.Ask
yourself what big event happened at the time a hex was supposedly
laid upon you or another. Did they get married, possibly inciting
jealousy in another? Did they screw someone over? Did they get
promoted, move, lose their job, find a new partner, or break up?
Gather all the information you can about what was going on in this
person’s life at the start of their symptoms. This will provide clues
as to the possible source of magical attack, allowing you to build
better defenses.Basically
when it comes to breaking spiritual attack, there are a few basic
steps you will want to take.Protect
the person as best you can. If someone is under a true spiritual
attack, there are two basic options. Either their opponent has hexed
them once and forgotten about it, or the attack is ongoing. If the
attack is ongoing, it means that any steps to break the hex may be
noticed and be met with redoubled efforts by the opponent. You will
want to lay personal protections on them, as well as creating a safe
haven in their bedroom or home/apartment. If you are going to be
helping yourself, check your wards and put a lot of solid energy in
to them. But don’t rely on them – after all, they did not prevent
the attack from coming through the first time. Question where your
protections are lacking and how you can reinforce them.Uncross
the person very thoroughly. An uncrossing is a way to remove magical
hexes and bindings. It is simple but powerful magic. Uncrossing
spells will be given at the end.[Cleanse]
the person and their home thoroughly, to remove any residual
energies.Bless
the person and their home, to restore a sense of peace, security, and
safety.Blast
the opponent, if necessary. If you have found yourself caught up in
an ongoing spiritual attack, sometimes the best way to handle it is
to cripple your opponent through your own offensive measures.Posts on protection,
uncrossing, and blessing will come later. Read about cleansing
[here].Let me encourage you not to
handle hexing cases alone. There is no shame in reaching out when
someone is actually attacking you, you know? It’s not something you
have to handle alone. Just make sure you don’t incite your friends to
mob mentality violence. That’s not cool, either.Let’s take a moment and talk
about blasting, owl-blinking, nightmaring, and hexing – on your
side of the fence. Hexes and curses get thrown around like cheap
Halloween candy on Tumblr, and most of them are radically dangerous,
written by teenagers and young adults who are out for vengeance no
matter the price.Well, screw that mentality.
You do not have to sacrifice yourself using dangerous hexes in
order to get back at someone. I’m not going to touch the issue
ethically, you are your own person and you get to choose who to hurt.
I am going to brush up against this issue magically, to try and teach
how to cast a safe hex. Incidentally, I don’t believe in the 3fold
law, for those of you who asked me.Hexing someone is like
dragging a bucket of shit through your house in order to dump it on
your cheating boyfriend. That nasty energy is going to get
everywhere. When I cleanse, I feel light and refreshed,
because that cleansing energy has rubbed off on me. When I cast a
love spell I hit up my boys afterwords because that love energy has
rubbed off on me. When I cast a hex, I feel angry, violent, and raw –
because that same energy has gotten in to my system. When you cast
a spell, part of that spell stays within you.The nasty energy starts when
you start thinking up the most vile things to throw at someone. As
you feed that anger, you also feed the hex growing within yourself.
But that energy doesn’t exist to hurt one person, it exists to hurt
everyone – including you. As you dwell on your anger and hurt and
plans to hex, that energy builds and builds and starts to overflow on
to your personal energies and life. Ever notice how people who spend
a lot of time hexing also seem to have shitty things constantly
happening to them through pure coincidence?When the hex itself is cast,
that bottled up energy explodes out in one direction, towards your
victim. But just as a gun fires a bullet, that gunpowder residue also
explodes and gets all over whoever fired the gun.But wait! There’s more. That
energy is going to follow a pipeline to your enemy – your astral
relationship pipeline. When no pipeline exists, a taglock such as a
photo, hair, or nail clippings are used instead. This is how a witch
with no personal investment can hex someone. But this relationship
pipeline isn’t reduced, damaged, or cut off when a hex is sent,
leaving you free from this person’s influence. The pipeline reacts
exactly how it is supposed to react when a huge amount of energy is
sent through it: it gets stronger. Ever notice how you can hex
someone ten times and your relationship seems to get deeper and more
complicated and shitty every time, leaving you in a swamp of shit
when you just wanted to hex someone and get them out of your life?
Yeah.So there are two basic
problems when it comes to hexing. The first is that the hex energy
gets all over you and fucks you up, and the second is that hexing
someone makes your astral relationship grow stronger, not weaker.
Fortunately taking care of these problems is easy.If you’ve made up your mind
to be a hex-witch, you need to build up your natural protections and
fortifications before you get deep in to the attack magic. This will
help guard against all that nasty energy hurting you. Engage in
regular cleansings – more than someone who doesn’t do hexes. Rip
hexes off like bandaids. You don’t need to feed a hex for weeks and
weeks before you cast it. Go deep, cast it hard, then cleanse
thoroughly. Use your most powerful cleansers on yourself, your home,
and the area you did the hex in.After you are aware that the
hex has been delivered (through social media, hearing about that
person’s troubles, or magical sensing) cut the bond between the two
of you through any regular spell. Check out my post on bindings for a
little more info on breaking a relationship bind.Then, release. Release that
anger. Release your need for justice and vengeance. The spell has
been cast, your work has been done. The more you hold on to it, the
more you give room for those shitty energies to build back up in your
life. Do a magical ritual. Burn your memories of that person. Burn
what they did to you. Let the ashes blow away in the wind. Recover.
Treat yo’ self. Hanging on, and casting hex after hex after hex just
to punish a person, is dragging yourself down with them. Eventually
your job will be done. (I will also argue that if one hex doesn’t cut
it, then two won’t either)Anyway, let’s focus on some
hex-breaking spells.Simple
Candle BusterTake
a black taper candle. The next best colors are red and white. Any
color taper will do in a pinch. Carve away the bottom end of the
candle so that the wick pokes out. This reversal symbolizes, well,
reversal. Coat the candle in any of the hex-breaking oils or waters
listed at the end. Surround the candle-holder with the hottest
peppers you have access to. Charge these peppers with the intent to
burn and shred any spell attached to you. Once your candle is set up
with the peppers, speak to the spell. Ask it to utterly destroy and
terrorize any malicious
spell cast upon you. Ask it to send the spell back to its creator.
Allow the candle to burn down fully.Egg-xit
My AuraTake a whole egg. Fresh is
best if you can get it, otherwise it doesn’t really matter. Rub the
egg all over your body or have someone else do it for you. Start at
the feet and go upwards. You do not have to be nude. Chant, “Egg,
egg, take away all the shit that’s in my way.” Vividly imagine that
every curse and hex placed upon you is consumed within the infinite
depths of the egg. Throw it away outside of your home. Do not break
it.You’ll
Rue The DayTake a very long and
enjoyable soak in a bath filled with rue, angelica, or any other
curse-breaker you know. Avoid adding chili peppers to the bath, for
obvious reasons. Ensure that you charge the bath with hex-breaking
properties. As you bathe, feel the plant spirits washing over you and
consuming the hex placed around you, both ethereally and astrally.
This is not for pregnant or nursing women.Doll
Hex-BreakerCraft a poppet of yourself.
Coat it in any hex-breaking oils that you see fit. Allow it to soak
in Four Thieves Vinegar overnight, in moonlight if possible. In the
morning, coddle the doll and coat it with uncrossing, protective, or
beneficial oils and waters. Keep the doll safe until it dries fully.
Undo the poppet magic (remove all traces of its association to you)
and store until you wish to use it again, or discard it.Flying
Devil PowderCreate a blend of black
pepper, cinnamon, dragon’s blood, patchouli, and vetiver. If not all
ingredients are available, use what you have. Add anything else
intuition tells you you should add. Burn this substance on a hot
charcoal and stand within the smoke. It makes the devils fly away.Lemon
Lime BathTake as many lemons and
limes as you have. Squeeze them in to the bath water and include the
rinds. Add nine bay leaves. Bathe thoroughly.War
Water BathAdd war water to the bath.
Bathe. Imagine that iron weapons spring from the bath and mutilate
any malicious spell placed upon you.Grind
It UpTake three of the hottest
dried peppers you have. Name each pepper, “you are the curse placed
upon me.” Grind the peppers together. Whack them a whole bunch with
the pestle, too. As you do so, imagine that the curses are being torn
to shreds. Take the ground up seeds and chili skin. Add it to a new
protective charm and wear it in addition to your other armors.Salted
LemonsThis is a more complex one.
You will need a lemon, some salt, and some holy water. Light one
black, one red, and one white candle. Light uncrossing incense (rue,
cinnamon, hyssop, bay leaf. Whatever you have). Pass a knife through
the incense smoke. Hold the blade in the flame of each of the three
candles, then sprinkle the blade with holy water. Using this knife,
slice the lemon in to three sections. Dip each section in to the holy
water, then in to the dish of salt so they are completely coated.
Leave the lemon slices out on a paper towel. When they are completely
dried, the hex is thoroughly removed. If the lemon slices start to
rot, the hex has not been removed. To negate the hex, use holy water.
To return the hex, use war water.Mesopotamian
IncantationThis useful hex-breaker
reaffirms your value to the universe, elevating you above the spells
mean to harm you. Begin chanting:“I am pleasing, I am
pleasingHeaven takes pleasure in me
Earth takes pleasure in me
The ocean takes pleasure in
meThe sky takes pleasure in me
The gods take pleasure in me
The sun takes pleasure in me
The moon takes pleasure in
meMy mother takes pleasure in
me…Continue on in this manner,
naming every good and wonderful thing you can think of. Your
significant other, your dogs. Whatever gives you power and strength,
affirm that it takes pleasure (loves you and wants you to be safe) in
you. Continue on for as long as you desire. Then, end with this.
Shout if necessary:“Many any evil magic on me
be dispelledMay any evil magic on me be
removed!”Second
Mesopotamian SpellChant
the following:“Evil
manEvil
EyeEvil
mouthEvil
tongueEvil
spellWitchcraft,
spit, saliva, evil deeds, evil thoughtsGet out of the house now!”
Four
Thieves VinegarUses:
Highly purifying and protective, also healing.Obtain
the best possible red wine or apple cider vinegar. Peel and crush
garlic cloves and add them to the vinegar; the more garlic, the
better. Choose four of the following ingredients to add: Black
pepper, whole chili pepper, coriander, lavender, mint, rosemary, rue,
sage, thyme, or wormwood. Allow to sit for four days, shaking once
daily, before using.Glory
WaterUses: Drives away ill
fortune, draws success. Perhaps very useful for your self care.In fresh water, combine the
following: Orange blossom water or neroli hydrosol. Frankincense
resin or essential oil. Essential oil of bergamont. Orange blossom
water/neroli is essential and cannot be substituted or replaced.Pollution
WaterUses: Clears pollution, aids
in banishmentGrind ashes, salt, and red
pepper in to a fine powder. Add this powder to spring water. The
product is intensified if the ashes are from burned holy verses or
prayers of protection.Crown
of Success OilUse: To bring success unto
its wearer.Combine bay leaves,
frankincense, sandalwood, and vetiver in to sunflower, olive, or
jojoba oils. Essential oils may be used instead of the dried plant
matter. Wear regularly as part of your self care. Something tells me
Joobs may like this one.Fiery
Wall of Protection OilUse: Protection
Blend powdered dragon’s
blood resin and sea salt together. Add frankincense and myrrh. Add to
castor oil. If necessary, include olive oil to reduce thickness. Wear
as a perfume to protect yourself, or add to a jar and carry as a
talisman. If you choose to add cinnamon and ginger, it cannot be worn
on the skin.Flying
Devil OilUse:
BanishmentBlend red pepper and/or hot
chili peppers in to olive oil or baby oil. This spicy mix will drive
away unwanted spirits and spells.Stay safe everyone
Psst! Hey, witches, I wanna follow you!!
Okay my dash has been pretty empty lately. I just unfollowed about 20 inactive blogs and I need more witchy people to follow. I’m an eclectic witch so I really don’t mind all that much what anyone blogs. I’m still pretty much a baby so I want to learn about anything and everything.
If you post anything to do with magic I’ll probably follow you but especially if you post things from the list below. Give this a reblog and I’ll give you a follow!
- Divination – tarot, pendulums, scrying, runes, hagstones, bones, anything!
- Sigils
- Spells
- Crystals
- Plants / herbs
- Elements
- Spirit work
- Energy magic
- Meditation
- Astral magic? work? planes? travel? (I’ve no idea what the right term is here XD)
I’d love to make some friends on here so don’t be afraid to come say hi to me as well! (That goes for the beautiful people that already follow me – love you guys!)
Have a beautiful and magical day 🙂
