Any Witches Here ? Part 2

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Or Wiccans. or Pagans? Or anyone who is interested in a magical path or feels some magical stirrings.

A place for support, learning, swapping ideas and magical inspiration

All welcome.

Jupiter9 Don't give up your day job just yet.

Hi ladies, I'm feeling a bit run down today. DD was in hospital for an operation yesterday, she did say dada for the first time though. It's taken a huge drain on me and I've come down with a cold.

I've put some essential oils on my pillow last night and I've just had a Epsom salts and oils. Is there anything else I can do to make myself a bit brighter?

Sorry to hear about your scare @speakout

ThatsNotEvenAWord love it!

@sockportal drink plenty of fluids. I got so dehydrated during my stays with youngest DS. The air in there is so dry and it really fatigues you. It's also emotionally demanding when our little ones go through something like that so personally I think you should allow yourself to rest (as much as is possible) and watch a comforting film/tv show or read. Whatever you feel will restore you.

sockportal sorry to hear about your DD, I hope she is on the mend.

Take some time to nurture yourself, it takes a lot out of us to support others, but we must keep our own tank filled.
I like to draw strength from the goddess when I am feeling low in energy, light a candle, use Tarot, meditate on her strength, use imagery.
I like to hold a crystal that is very special to me, a piece of rough quartz that was dug from the earth next to the oldest goddess temple in earth- a place very sacred to me.

Goddess work always

Thank you to everyone who offered support on this thread for my relative who is in hospital. They have had a slightly better day again today and family members have been able to visit.

I’m hoping to see them myself soon too. Thank you all.

Sorry to hear about the poorly people in here and sending you good wishes.

I have a question for the wise women on here. Somebody I know got close to a third party. The relationship was secret and very toxic and made the person I know very unhappy. As soon as the relationship came out into the open the person I know improved almost instantly and said they felt as though a spell had been lifted. During the relationship they copied a lot of the behaviour and language of the third party and they were very much not themselves at all, almost unrecognisable from their true self. They have repeated a few times that they felt as though they were acting under a spell. I don’t believe that the third party placed an actual spell on my friend but I wonder whether they could influence another person to act very differently to how they usually act? I would welcome your opinions wise women.

Thank you for your well wishes everyone. DD has caught my cold but we are enjoying lots of extra cuddles as a way to cheer us up. DH has made me a hot honey and lemon too.

@LARLARLAND yes, I believe someone with bad intentions can influence someone. These horrible people have a way of chipping away at small vulnerable chinks in others peoples armour and it doesn't take long to make massive cracks.

This is something I talk about from personal experience. My first ever boyfriend was older than me and emotionally abusive. All my friends and family saw him as dark and dangerous. It was only years later when I was older that my best friend told me that when she spoke to me she felt like she was having a conversation with him.

I learnt from it though and no one will ever control me like that again. Carry on supporting your friend, she may need to tell you more about it so you can help her become strong again.

Thank you for your reply sockportal. I do wonder if some people are able to cast spells on people, even if they don’t realise that’s what they are actually doing!

@sockportal

Sorry to hear that both you and your DD hate under the weather.

I find that homemade lemon and ginger tea (or even Twinings) can help to keep you hydrated and give you a bit of a lift when you feel under the weather. Finely chop the ginger, slice the lemon and add hot water. Leave to infuse. You can add honey too which can be very soothing. If you really want some zing then grate the ginger. 😉

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Checking in so I don't lose you all

Morning witch friends!

I have slept so late this morning, I am normally up at the crack of dawn, but it has been a very stressful week and the sleep has nurtured me.
Autumn is starting to come upon is, it is a lovely feeling, I love this season, feeling the crackle in the air soon.
I am off to have a sweet orange "Spa" shower, that is always invigorating,.

Having been given the all clear at the breast clinic on Thursday has put a spring in my step, re-shuffled my deck a bit, has put a lot of things into a new perspective in a really good way.

It has shown me that some of the other things in life I was giving worry energy to are really of no great consequence at all, and I like these new rosy specs that I am wearing!

I will be making Rose and Violet Aphrodite Candles this afternoon when I get back from shopping, also a little scout around charity shops this morning to see if I can find treasures to decorate my besom!

Have a magical day!

speakout that’s wonderful. Hope you have a great day everyone.

Great news speakout.

Gee I'm so glad to hear your relative is doing better.

speakout I'm really glad you got the all-clear. I like that something positive has been forged from a time of great worry.

sockportal hope you and your DD are on the mend soon.

Hi the first post of this thread really caught my eye, I have always looked to the moon even as a child and felt some thing powerful from and I still do, I love nature, I feel a connection to animals, they give me an internal feeling that nothing else does! Particularly winged animals, chickens especially?! I make my own scrubs and have a fascination with the powers of herbs just don't have the time to do anything with it at the minute.

I need help tapping into this daily, as a form of guidance or spiritual soul growth, am I in the right place or direction even?

Sorry if this directs the thread, I wasn't sure where to start my own thread but I've recently been doing 12 step meetings and going through the programme with a 'sponsor" and had a massive realisation that it's a huge form of brain washing and basically trains you into thinking you're fucked and the only answer is to keep going to meetings and working the programme. After 9 months my life and mental health has deteriorated so much, I shared this and was told I'm not working the programme enough!! You are taught to watch your thinking constantly for fear, resentment, selfishness and ego - all of which are character defects that only god will remove, and you must seek forgiveness for these. It basically prevents any form of free thinking, intuition and basic human emotion to normal day to day things. This has completely fucked with my mind and I need to find a new way of living that actually corresponds with my inner self. I've spent my who,e life having low self esteem, low worth, thinking I'm a band person and I finally don't feel like any more but this bloody programme is beating me down and basically my own mind is out to get me, it wants me dead and I've not to trust it! I knew something was really wrong so I've taken a step back and done some research which has confirmed my thoughts.

So lovely witches please help me tap into my inner witch (apologies I do t know the right terminology) how do I grow into the person that's inside me and use it daily in my life???

So glad to hear of the improvements in health of some of the people with physical challenges, and sending healing thoughts to those who need them.
Wishing us all a magical weekend!

Hi I am wiccan. (Puts the tea on) Who's got the biscuits?

Morning all! It's IKEA for me this morning - that place truly terrifies me but I can't put it of any longer.

Welcome isitme and bsbabas ( and anyone I've missed - the thought of IKEA doesn't help clarity of thought!)

Isitme - when I'm lacking direction I head out into the woods and sit under a tree for a bit. There is a lot of wisdom to be found in a tree. That course of yours sounds truly toxic. Shutting out your "character defects" is denying part of who you are. Once I acknowledged and accepted my own faults ( of which there are many) things sort of settled into place. It's a permanent work in progress though.

Thank you elphame I sit out in my garden a lot just looking at the sky but I love forrests, I grew up going to a cycle track that had a lovely wooded area and I've always been so drawn to it especially now, it's like everything in life has been directing me back to my spiritual places. It truly is toxic the programme I was doing and I can't even talk to anyone I've became friends with that also do it as you are taught that any deviation from it is spiritual sickness, it's dangerous.

I've got my candles lit and my seashells and stones next to them that I've collected over time, again things I thought were insignificant but really they were directing me to my true self. So feeling strong and happy right now

Hopefully you will allow me to join. Feeling down at the moment, my in laws are having some extensive work done on their garden and house, as a result the 50 year old hazelnut tree is going to have to be cut down in few months. I cried when I found out the other day, i get overwhelmed by sadness every time I remember 😪😔. Anyhoo, my OH and MIL suggested that in order to honour its memory we should try to get a sprout and few seeds and replant it so that in a way it continues to live. This morning I went to take its picture, say sorry and apologise to it (bit silly, I know) and as I was going back to the house the hazelnut fell from it! I will try to plant it along few other MIL will gather later in the hope it will grow. Sorry for the long post, just wanted to share with like minded folk x

Welcome isitme and bsbabas , lovely that you could drop by for a brew!

spinningpenguin Welcome.

That sounds a brilliant plan for the hazelnut tree- in effect it is not drying, you are preserving the life force of the tree.

I would take quite a few cuttings, cultivate them all, and once they root you could have a whole new family of trees!