Any Witches Here?- Part 17.

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This is the 17th thread- anyone looking for a deep dive into juicy magical topics may like to browse previous threads.....

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@VioletCharlotte Luckily not me that moved - that will take me out of commission for months! I dread the very thought although the house is much too big for us now. We had 3 removal vans coming in and we've extended since then... It's my parents who have moved - now very close and yes absorbing a lot of mental energy

@hilariousnamehere I am terrified of spiders. Absolutely phobic and the 200 year old house is irresistible to them. One evening after having been trapped in my chair by the corpse of a dead one between me and the door* I decided I needed to take action. We now have an energetic anti spider warding around the house to keep them out. It works very well!

The book did not improve - when I got to the page on mistletoe and its uses only to find it was illustrated with a picture of holly I gave up and returned it to Amazon.I may still try the cotton spell though!

*As it turned out the dead spider that trapped me in my chair for 4 hours til DP came home was not a dead spider at all. It was a little pile of brown embroidery thread

@Elphame you have made me feel much better - I too have had an incident with a spider that was actually a pile of hair from my hairbrush

did you set the warding yourself? I've just messaged a group chat of some close and mostly likeminded friends and it seems the consensus is no one but me even tries to keep them out, just moves them when they come across them 😱

@Fashiontatts yes to small magical things each day, I've been so focused on the house clearing but would really like to get back into having magic entwined into my day to day again 😁

Well I had a wonderful weekend. We camped over at a friend's party and there was much fun had. I met a couple of fellow tarot fans and so I took two of my more unusual decks over for them to have a look at.
I saw a much loved friend for the first time since 2019.
Then on the Sunday I took myself off to a local craft market event and spent a glorious 2.5 hours just chatting to friends and acquaintances and perusing the crafts. Being alone meant I didn't have DH and DS shuffling their feet out of boredom and it made it incredibly relaxing and fulfilling for me.

Back home and need to settle to organising uniform and and gear up to tidy the house after a summer of letting the youngest DS kind of reign free with Lego and other various toys/hobbies.
Foraging and preserving will begin in earnest.
Today another dear friend is popping in for a cuppa as they pass on their way back home. Fortunately they are one of my handful of friends who will take me as I am so I don't need to worry about tidying before their arrival.
Which is just as well.....

I am glad you had such a restorative weekend with friends queenrollo.
It gives me a glow when I hear of my sisters nourishing themselves.
As it should be.
My upbringing taught me that self nourishment is greedy and selfish, and it takes a long hard slog to get through that early conditioning.
I have just been shopping, the post office and made a big pot of minestrone soup for lunch- DD is coming over and she often asks for it.
I have also been going through some holiday clothes for my upcoming trip, seeing what fits, what I still love.
I have also bought a few things from Amazon and my local thrift shop.
Had an internal conversation with myself this morning as I was trying stuff on.
The kind of " I should have lost a stone for this holiday, look at my belly, I have wrinkles on my knees, back fat, matronly breasts to contain, wish I had a six pack" type of conversation.
I caught myself mid sentence
and pulled myself back.
These words are not nourishment for me.
I am 60, I have given birth ( twice), I am in good health, my body serves me well. I am human.
I
wouldn’t insult a friend with these words- so why do it to myself!
I am glad I was able to have a meeting with myself, inner critic stood down,
and I am pouring love onto the subject.
Maybe it is just me
who has these type of internal dialogues haha!
Lots of spiders here too- I am sorry for those that struggle.
The mating season for spiders brings out the ardent striders looking for a mate.
I have counted 7 in my house at the moment- the two that were on my bedroom ceiling had moved when I woke up, so will be elsewhere.
I have to admit I don’t deal with them. I have plenty of space and I don’t mind sharing- they will move along in their own time, and hopefully eat some flies or carpet moths during their stay.
I have often thought about spiders in a magical sense.
Common perceptions often link spiders with witches, Halloween etc. They
are represented in folklore and symbolism all over the world.
Their ability to weave, to capture and subdue, they are considered magical and a representation of the goddess.
Not even insects, they are closer to crabs than other insects and have a
group all of themselves- Arachnids. Very interesting creatures!

@speakout I so love how you look after your DD - reminds me very much of how my mum and I are, independent but love to spend time together and nurture each other when we can 💙

And yes, spiders are magical and wonderful, but a pesty part of my brain doesn't acknowledge that and utterly loses its shit when one appears - though I do have one friend who has conquered her fear by learning more about them so maybe this is something I need to find time to do :)

hilariousnamehere thank you for your kind words- I love the sund of the relationship you have with your mother.
I am always slightly in awe of people with supportive mothers- especially if they manage to keep good relationship as adults.
I can't know how that would feel.
But my upbbringing has shown me a lot of ways that I didn't want to parent, so in a way that was helpful.
I knew I would not want to parent with shame or riducule and tear down using physical and emotional abuse- as I was.
I knew it would be possible to raise children with a good self esteem, but I have had to work on my own voids at the same time as bringing up my own kids- it has been challenging.
But I have found healing through mothering, and along these years been able to bring my inner child along on that journey, reparenting her as I parented my own.

I understand about fear- not something you can easily control.
I don't do well with heights and don't like being in a car that is being driven fast.
I also had a phobia of balloons- I can trace that one back to a bad childhood memory, at one point I couldn't stay in a room with a balloon.
Of course it is hard to avoid balloons if you have children, so I have pushed myself on that one- and can now even blow one up.
(Still wouldn't be top of my to-do-list though!)

Oh I'm so glad this thread has come up again as I was thinking about it a few weeks ago while I was away. I've just returned from a week away with my family to Glastonbury like we do most years. We spent a lot of time on the Tor, in the Abbey grounds etc Very spiritual and multi cultural place. Lots of different religions and very accepting people there. Theres a beautiful shop called the Wonky Broomstick (I'm sure a lot of you will know it already) and the lady who runs it makes her own spells and things to sell in the shop.

If you've not been I highly recommend it. I've spent a few full moons on the Tor too taking in the energies and sights, its wonderful :)

Good to see you summersolstice43, and glad you had a fun time in Glastonbury.
It sounds a very magical place, and who doesn't love a root around a witchy shop!

Hello sisters,

I've been reading the thread although I've been quiet. I've definitely been feeling Autumn in the air over the last week, today, I can see it how the sun is shining. The light over my garden has that lovely golden rise autumn hue.

This is the month that I meet my baby! I can't wait! There has been lots of cleaning and preparing the house happening here. We only moved in December but now I feel like I know the house and how it will work for us. Such a lovely fuzzy feeling as I will see my family grow here.

I can feel the change too, the lower autumn sun casts such a golden mellow light, and a little crisp freshness to the air.
How exciting to be having a baby this month!
Late pregnancy is such a special time, as your body and baby get ready for the birth. Be super kind to yourself, good food- easy when local fresh produce is abundant, and get as much sleep as you can.
I had last minute cleaning and tidying sprees with my pregnancies, I remember feeling it was so important to clean the tops of wardrobes and under beds. OH would come home from work when I was 38 weeks pregnant to find me up a ladder painting a wall, or scrambling up to the loft on stepladders- he would tear his hair out because he was so afraid of me falling.
All made perfect sense to me though at the time!

Hi can I join? I’ve been trying to read through all the threads before I join in with the chat but I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to completely catch up😂

barefootnomadmam a warm welcome.
You don't need to read all the previous chat before posting, glad you dived in!
Popular topics seem to pop up wth regularity- and we have a lot of newcomers to the thread, I am always learning - we all have a differen slant on our enchanted lives!

Merry meet! Nice to see this thread, thanks for including the others you have also started op.

I'm a green/forest witch here. I do my own thing but follow some of the principles of Gardinerian Wiccan.

Mabon is one of my favourite celebrations so getting myself ready for that in 3 weeks, lots of cleaning and baking happening here. What's everyone else's Mabon rituals?

Conkers repel spiders.

@Trenzalor of course! I have a whole load of conkers in the house (where I touch wood rarely see spiders) and 0 in the office - thank you for the reminder!

@TurquoiseDreamCatcher squeee, this month! So excited for you!

Hello @1ittlegreen and @barefootnomadmam , welcome to the fireside.

Happy 1st September lovelies. We can officially get excited about autumn now! I've noticed that the nights are starting to draw in a little earlier, it was dark when I left my Pilates class at 8.30, whereas it was broad daylight just a week or so ago.

All of a sudden, I seem to have lots of plans and events coming up. I wanted to buy an academic year diary to keep track of things but nowhere seems to sell them anymore. I'm trying to buy things from local shops but will have to resort to online I think. I've just booked a yoga/ gong bath to celebrate the autumn equinox so looking foster to that.

I always get an urge to clean and declutter in autumn. I've got next week off so plan to dedicate a day to the house. I'm also hoping to get down to Glastonbury as I've not been yet this year.

Turquoisedreamcatcher I'm so excited for you! I love hearing about other peoples pregnancies and births, it brings back so many happy memories for me. I can't remember if this is your first baby?

A warm welcome to all newcomers, grab yourself a cushion and a tea and make yourselves comfy 😊

@VioletCharlotte this is baby 2 for me. My first DD came at 35 weeks so bring 37 weeks is a complete novelty to me 🤣

@VioletCharlotte the works has had academic diarys as has wilkos

@VioletCharlotte have a nose at TK Maxx too - either in store or online, I found the most beautiful planner the other day, a smaller version of the one I've used as a daily achievements tracker for the last few years by Fringe Studio, covers August 22 to December 23 :) a bit earlier than I've usually bought mine but good timing as I wanted one I can carry around with me as things start to book up for next year. Photo attached (excuse the shadows, it was nighttime and I have stupid overhead spotlights in my office) - I have a couple of the Fringe moon phase notebooks as well, and the paper is very nice quality. Climbs down from stationery geek soapbox 😂

I also noticed it being dark at 8.30 yesterday when it was definitely light not very long ago! And I wore my slippers by choice for the first time since the spring today - autumn is very much just round the corner. Though now I am in bed and even with summer duvet am overheating so maybe it's not quite here yet 😂

The skip was collected and I sent it on its way with love and thanks and a hope that almost everything in it will be recycled and find new life. I feel lighter for it all having gone, I've finally fixed the crack behind my altar which things kept escaping down and I'm definitely in a back to (witchy) school mood - ready to make some changes so life is as nice as possible and the important things fit into it as well as my beloved businesses.

Though this week is apparently all about the long zoom meetings!

@hilariousnamehere I've been back in my slippers for the past week. I've missed them! I've requested that DH buys me a new pair for Christmas.

Hi all! Welcome newcomers 🤍

@TurquoiseDreamCatcher ahh how exciting! My youngest is only just turning 7 months and yet I could happily do it all again tomorrow... I hope you're keeping well in these final weeks. Not long til baba 2 is in your arms

@VioletCharlotte I actually bought an academic diary just the other day in Tesco. They seemed to have a lot of bits and bobs they were selling off from their "back to school" range

I've been busy busy... and as of Monday I am officially a student, for the first time in my life at the grand old age of 33! Very excited to start, but I'm v aware of how difficult it will be to juggle two kids under 3 and a full time degree and placements... but the time feels right.

I'm loving the darker evenings coming in, love to feel the seasons changing!

1littlegreen- a warm welcome glad you have joined. I love Mabon too- in fact all the Sabbat and festivals. My celebrations differ, depends on how busy I am, my energy, work, other family members. I usually celebrate in some way, but
no two years are the same- do you have plans?
Yes to the baby stage, in fact all ages of children are so wonderful, as my kids have grown I have always thought “ this is the best time yet”- tiny one,
the crawling, talking, school, teenage years, young adulthood. I am currently navigating the stage of having young adult children, and find it very nostalgic, and a time of great reflection, seeing myself through the eyes of my adult children is very stark, stripped bare in a way as they can view me through their adult frame of reference.

What is your degree course fashiontatts?

@speakout I'm studying nursing. Something I've always felt drawn to and wanted to do for a long time, but life and general responsibilities always got in the way... And despite being busier than ever, the time feels perfect to try!

Fashiontatts that sounds wonderful.
I think the course is quite challenging- durin the placement blocks, but the academic months are easier. It's a long student year too- no long summer break like other students.
It is a real vocation and I applaud you for doing something you want to achieve.
I have been a bit short of sleep these past few days - noisy family and cats during the middle of the night.
Last night I just tumbled into bed early and was asleep by 8pm.
So feeling fresh this morning, and was awake for dawn- the first time in months.
I have a Body Balance class this morning then work at a slow flow pace.

I had a minor medical procedure yesterday. I had been quite anxious the last few weeks, not about the procedure itself so much as arriving on time as it was in a place we travel to frequently and it can either be a straighforward drive or prone to horrendous traffic.
I'm relieved to have it out of the way.
This morning I have rubbed my eyes on waking and one eyelid is very painful. I can see nothing but suspect a stye is brewing. I am applying a warm compress but if anyone has any helpful treatment/remedies I would appreciate them. I'm aware of the of 'rub it with a gold ring' thing but we have no gold in the house! DH and I both prefer silver.

I have to take it easy the next couple of days, which is badly timed but I will just have to switch to more sedate activities indoors and try not to feel too irritated by the call of the garden!