Hello all! I’ve gotten quite a few people askin how I went about putting together my head for a recent costume I did at Anime Iowa 2014, so I figured I’d make a tutorial for it! More under the cut!
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Sea Witchcraft
Anchovies Ruler: sea goddess Powers; attract beauty, subduction, make your self beautiful
Coral Ruler: Venus, Neptune Powers: emotions. Unconscious, white coral opens subconscious/ vivid dreams, pink coral emotional healing, red coral passions, give it as a gift of love.
Crab Ruler: Venus Power: eat crab meat to protect the home, use the shell in real estate magic, stuff the empty shell with lavender and sage to protect your dwelling. When renting fill the shell with cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, and sea salt.
Fish: Ruler: Christ, Neptune, Venus, ocean deities Powers: fish eyes are protective, eat them to invoke magic, cook and eat the whole fish while visualizing protection/ prosperity. Draw fish on parchment or formed out if metal to create talismans. Carry a coin with the image of fish on it for wealth. Use the skin of fish in fertility magic.
Oyster Ruler: Neptune, Venus Powers: aphrodisiac, female genitals, increase orgasm, men eat them to make themselves better lovers, fertility.
Salt Ruler: earth Power: sacred substance of the earth, prosperity, add some to dark leafy greens to increase your income. Cleansing, sprinkle around the four corners of the room and add to baths to protect and dispel evil. Create sacred areas with salt, Sprinkle black salt on doorways to keep away undesirable influences.
Sand Ruler: ocean deities Salt represents the multitude of possibilities. One grain of sand represents Uniqueness, a handful sand represents the great influence wielded by like-minded people. Brace added to the home when you want to attract a group of people to share your same interest. Place it in a dish and burn incense on it. Hold sand in your hands to open possibilities and more options in your life. Build sand castles to make dreams come true. Wet sad helps to ground and realized potential colored sand brings verity to life.
Sardine Ruler: ocean goddess Power: beauty, seduction, eat them smoked with mustard to sharpen your best features.
Sea weed Ruler; Neptune, Venus Power: eat it for prosperity, scrub seaweed on your skin in the ocean to bring good luck. Leads to excellent employment opportunity.
Sea horse Ruler: Venus Power: talisman for luck and love, understanding, acceptance, emotional well being
Sponge Ruler: moon, Venus Power: loofa for beauty/ love spells, cleansing negative emotions, release anger
Water Ruler: Venus, Neptune, moon Powers: dreams, feelings, cleansing, love, healing, protection, prosperity.
Sacred waters: rain, spring, salt water , holy water, Florida water, consecrated water,
Moon Goddess loose incense 6 benzoin 3 onion skins 1 1/2 allspice 1 1/2 camphor ½ poppy 1 1/4 olive oil
Grind together then burn on a charcoal disk.
Moon incense 1 willow ½ reed ¼ cucumber 1 3/4 water ½ water lily ½ jasmine
Grind all ingredients together to form a past then sculpt small cones. Then let it dry for 2 weeks.
Lunar Oil 4 pt sandalwood 2 pt camphor 1 pt lemon
Mix and Add to career oil , use during lunar rites.
Water oil 3 drops palmarosa 2 drops ylang-ylang 1 drop jasmine
Wear to promote love, healing, psychic awareness, purification.
Floor wash: Protection wash
The floor wash includes ingredients meant to help Clean and purify home and promote peaceful happy feelings through open your windows while you wash down the house with this blend and finish up by burning protection incense.
2 pt rosemary 2 pt basil 2 large bay leaves 2 pt ginger 2 pt sea salt 1 pt dried garlic 1 pt black pepper
Pour hot water over the herbs for 10 to 15 minutes drain water into the bucket and add warm tapwater and a cleansing product of your choice.
Use to clean your floors, window seals, door frames
Ritual baths:
Sea witch bath 3 pt lotus bouquet 2 pt lavender 1 pt rosemary Color: dark blue
+ 3 pt Epsom salts 2 pt baking soda 1 pt table salt (or borax)
Add a bit of sea salt to this base. Bathe in the sea witches bath for gentle purification prior to magical works.
Water element bath
2pt palmarose 1 pt sandalwood 1 pt myrrh 1 pt geranium Color dark blue + 3 pt Epsom salts 2 pt baking soda 1 pt table salt (or borax)
Aquariums Thought to prosperity and ward the home from bad luck and accidents, not to mention all the energy they bring in to your life. Watching fish swim can lower blood pressure.
Hag stones A stone with a naturally made hole going through it, also known as adder stones/ witch stones. Hang them above the door way to promote milk from curtailing. Look through the hole to see the unseen, wear as a protection amulet, the more holes the more realities the stone holds. The stone is formed by water and moving currents.
My sources used in this post. [kris Bradley, Scott Cunningham, Steven Smith, Lexa Roséan]
I got a lot of asks about this so I made a tutorial on how I was able to emulate the 80s aesthetic, please keep in mind I’m not an expert and what I put here is just what I personally did. I hope you guys like it and hope it helps
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Skin tone swatches, for use as a resource.
Spudfuzz on Deviantart made the original resource, which I modified to be a bit more realistic. She gave me permission to post this.
☛These swatches, like all art resources, should be used as a “jumping off point!” All colours are relative, and change with lighting conditions. As they are now, these swatches work best for adoptables, character lineups, and other art where local colour is important. ☚
[DA]
Topaz
Citrine
Carnelian
Ruby
Red tiger’s eye
Apatite
Calcite
Masterpost for the complete series of poems so far, designed to aid learning for beginning witches. Most are theory, and a one or two are conceptual. The reason for this masterpost is that they’re all poorly tagged
Moon Phases
Color Magic
Water Magics
Charging Objects
Herbs
Fire (element)*
Quartzes*
Witch Tools*
Divination*
Kitchen Witchcraft*
Air (element)*
Tea Magics*
Salt
Wheel of the Year (Sabbats) requested by @fish-egs
Cleansing (an area) requested anonymously
Calling Circle requested by @dragonrhapsody
Spell Types requested anonymously
*with thanks to @lazywitchling, who helped inspire the second wave!
If there is something you would be willing to see in poetry form, send me an ask or drop me a message! As of 10/3/17, I am all out and no more are queued.
when ppl try to start shit on your blog
If I’m totally honest, 2016 has been a thoroughly execrable year for reasons that, to quote Noah Maxwell, “ranged from dispiriting to insipid to insidious” -both personally for many of us, myself included, and generally for the world at large. So it’s at times like these where the stories most resonant to me are the ones whose rare glimmers of hope will acknowledge that things aren’t okay, or even motivate out of spite alone, but persist nonetheless… anyways, I hope the quotes under the cut help you out a bit like they helped me.
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