I cannot find much on augury witchcraft or readings! Would you happen to have info or resources on it? I’m super drawn to the idea of using birds in my divinatory practices 🕊️
Have? No. Find? It's what I do!
Augury Bird Divination: History & How to Read Bird Flight Patterns
The Ancient Art of Augury
What are the Symbolic Meanings of Birds for Divination?
Augury Divination
"My Take On Modern Augury"
Orthinomancy: Divinatiom from the Flight and Cries of Birds
Also I found this book and this book. I have not read them. I have not researched them. But hopefully it's what you're looking for!
I know you didn't ask for this bit, but in light of my recent post I have to say this seems like the perfect thing to try working with from scratch or experimenting with! If you wanna use the flight of birds in your divinatory practice, just do it! You don't have to have a step by step guide. You can just start.
I hope this helps!
Since incense makes me sneeze, I’ve been resorting to a different method of cleansing lately - steam cleansing! It’s exactly what it sounds like, using steam to cleanse your space.
Ingredients:
A pot, to be used for boiling water
Essential oils of your choice (about 50 drops total)
Water
Instructions:
Add about 2 cups of water to your pot depending upon how large it is
Otherwise, just fill the pot about halfway with water
Add 50 drops of whichever essential oils you choose
Turn on your stove, and let the water boil
You should start to smell the essential oils throughout your house in very little time
When the water has almost completely evaporated, turn your stove off
Let the pot cool down and proceed to wash it as you would usually do with your dishes
The scent tends to linger all day, if not longer
Repeat as necessary :)
Essential oils for cleansing:
Anise
Camphor
Cedarwood
Citrus oils (bergamot, grapefruit, lemon, lemongrass, lime, orange, tangerine)
Dragon’s Blood
Hyssop
Lavender
Oregano
Peppermint
Pine
Rosemary
Sage
Sandalwood
Spearmint
Thyme
Some essential oils may cause respiratory irritation in both humans and animals, and many essential oils should not be used if pregnant or if you have other various medical problems. Please consult your physician if you have any questions about the use of essential oils.
Aromatherapy, Memory, & Magick
Shit. I don’t have an ice tray.
My spell for snow is me literally going outside, yelling at the sky to start snowing and then tossing a few ice cubes from my ice cube tray to motivate the sky.
It did work. It’s snowing right now even though it wasn’t supposed to in my area.
The trill ✨ of almost getting hit by a car at 7 in the morning
Related to my Skill Monkey Character Trope post
Learning how to throw my voice (Ventriloquist style)
Overtone Singing
How to properly feed and care for Crows and Corvids so you can build your own guild of feathered trinket-loving thieves
Actual Witchcraft (I’m literally a follower of Apollo. Like, actual Apollo)
Lock-picking (accidentally, it’s a long story)
Playing the Didgeridoo and Ukulele
Color Theory and Lighting
The culture and biology of fictional creatures
Vampire lore
How to do the entire Thriller Dance (They made us learn it in Elementary School for some reason. We didn’t even perform it or anything, it was just a semester in gym class for no reason)
Pendulum, Tarot, Osteomancy (Bone Divination), and Bibliomancy Divination
Every Renaissance Fair skill known to man, from metalsmithing to jousting
Magical and Alchemic symbols
The Fair Folk and all the arbitrary rules for interacting with them
Geology and the science of Gemstones for some reason
Tidbits about shows and movies I’ve literally never watched
Medieval Armor from around the world
Herbalism and Home Remedies
The cultural and spiritual Symbolism for almost anything
Wayyy to much lore from my favorite series
Basic etymology, like the meaning of names and such
Strange Historical facts, like Yasuke, the first Black Samurai
And too many other things
@beenovel, @cryptichobbit, @claraofthepen, @blueberryrock
Ok so like I have this beautiful idea for a costume. I can’t draw though. I want to design and wear it. Where do I design it and how do I make it? It has a mask inspired by spider man’s mask’s mechanical eyes, so I’ll need to learn some engineering but I wanna make it a reality!
The Homeric Hymns: http://www.theoi.com/Text/HomericHymns1.html
The premier translations by Apostolos N. Athanassakis are also available to read online for free: https://archive.org/details/homerichymns00home and https://archive.org/details/homerichymns00atha
The Orphic Hymns: http://www.theoi.com/Text/OrphicHymns1.html
The Delphic Maxims: https://www.scribd.com/document/186693295/Delphic-Maxims
Many other primary sources from ancient Greece can be found in English translations at theoi.com, which is a fantastic resource for information about the Theoi.
Modern prayers to the Theoi:
Hearthstone https://greekpagan.com and https://greekpagan.tumblr.com/ Note: downloads of Hearthstone’s two books of Hellenic prayers can be purchased at https://www.etsy.com/shop/HearthfireHandworks
winebrightruby https://winebrightruby.tumblr.com/devotional
Some of the best and most essential books to start with - and for continuous reference, in my opinion:
Handbook To Life In Ancient Greece by Lesley Adkins & Roy A. Adkins https://archive.org/details/handbooktolifein00adki
Greek Religion by Walter Burkert https://archive.org/details/greekreligionarchaicandclassical
The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World by Mavin Meyer https://archive.org/details/ancientmysteries0000unse_p7i2
The Homeric Gods by Walter Otto https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.4448/page/n5/mode/2up
The free student guide to Classical Mythology by Mark Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, and Michael Sham: https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199997329/
So I can roll my Rs and I really like doing it cuz it reminds me of the person who taught me how to do it. I just do that but softer and try not to make sounds from the throat. I learnt to roll my Rs while one of my caretakers was trying to teach me Indonesian, because as a mixed kid with Indonesian in their heritage, knowing the language is important, not that I remember anything now. So maybe look at the Indonesian alphabet thing
I hate how I’ve always been able to purr but not meow or hiss.
so I took people’s advice and started a journal of possibly alterhuman experiences, I’m a cat right?? here’s my list rn (current date: 20 jan 23)
feeling that there should be a tail on me (phantom tail?)
randomly purring even before starting vocal practice
feeling like my canine teeth are sharper/bigger when I see birds (phantom fangs?)
feeling like I should have claws when I think about my hands or feet (phantom claws?)
I bit some kid who tried to steal my stuff while shaking my hand lol
looking in the mirror and expecting to see something on all fours
Randomly almost doing quads in public instead of walking even though I don't do quadrobatics
feeling uncomfortable in an area that I’m 99% sure it was an animals’s territory but I can’t avoid if I wanna get to and from school
soo cat? i mean I think I’m a cat, or some sort of feline. I’ve been trying to do cat therian stuff to see if it feels right, and omg, it doesn’t feel wrong!
edit : cat therians and alterhumans in general, does this sound like some cat shit?
There is a major difference between manifesting something and working your ass off to get something. People will often say you can't manifest without working for it, that's bullshit! If that's the case you're just doing what the average person is doing, you work at something tirelessly, lose sleep, possibly suffer in your health, that's grinding not manifesting. This feels toxic to me, teaching people that you must work like a mule in order to manifest. Manifestation requires you to nurture your relationship with the Divine, beacause at the end of the day that's all it is. When working to manifest don't think of it as work just think of you matching the Divines energy, you're letting them know you are just as invested in what you seek to manifest as they are. Manifestation only requires that you match the energy of what you are manifesting, by overworking for what you are manifesting you are actually delaying it. It's saying that you only trust yourself and not the Divine, and that my dear is not manifestation, you're just working.
Note: This is my opinion and it's okay if it doesn't resonate with you.