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How is your relationship with your dreams? Do you remember them regularly, or wake with the tantalizing feeling that something important happened in the night, but you can't quite bring it back with you? Imagine having an apothecary for your dreaming life. On its shelves might be plants to help you settle into sleep, remember your dreams, encourage vivid or lucid dreaming, seek guidance, or simply deepen your relationship with the mysterious world you enter each night. Some might be familiar plants growing just outside your door. Others might come to you through dreams themselves. I have always been a dreamer. I began keeping a dream journal as a teenager, long before I knew that people ...
By definition, paranormal cryptids (as opposed to the type of creature once thought a myth that's been proven to exist, such as the komodo dragon or gorilla) are elusive, including the more dangerous ones. We might not actually see them, but rather get indications of their presence by a variety of signs and phenomena. Here is a short list of phenomena that might indicate the presence of a cryptid in your neighborhood. Any of these phenomena could be taking place without paranormal origin, but the scarier cryptids seem to be more aggressive about presenting signs of their presence—they're not scared of us! If a number of these phenomena are happening frequently it might indicate that ...
I was always told to never define something by what it is not, because then you are defining it in the negative. You spend so much time telling people what belongs outside the fence that you never actually invite them into the yard. So, when people ask me what Devotional Witchcraft is, the best way I know to describe it is to use my clinical social work brain. That part of me immediately thinks, "Describe the model behavior." Show me what this thing looks like when somebody actually has to get up on a Tuesday morning, go to work, wash dishes, pay bills, deal with people, and somehow remain a spiritual person through all of it. For me, the Devotional Witch is embodied in the Good ...
The element of air can be found in the East on the spiral path of magic. Air represents the invisible forces that shape our lives, including how we breathe, feeling the wind against the skin on our face, and the frequencies that we listen to, and it also represents the unseen realms. The unseen realms may seem invisible, but they hold may connections to the element of air—especially the beliefs we hold about ourselves, the world, and the power of our ability to choose. Our beliefs create the thoughts that we have over and over. The thoughts that repeat then create the voice that we use to speak to ourselves. How we speak to ourselves and of ourselves influence every aspect of our ...
