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Witchkin, if you are going to a protest, let me offer a few suggestions ( and if you can't, maybe pitch in with supplies, or work on the backend?)...
1. Smudge. Cedar, Aspen, Rosemary, and Bay Leaves all make excellent choices for smudging yourself, space, and allies for...
1. Smudge. Cedar, Aspen, Rosemary, and Bay Leaves all make excellent choices for smudging yourself, space, and allies for...
... protection, calm, and grace. Preparing a number of wands, of any/or combinations of these ingredients to ensure you have enough to burn the whole (anticipated) while is a brilliant idea. Along with smudges for self and allies, you may also consider a few sage, juniper, and..
... mesquite smudges for clearing spaces of protest of unwanted and undesirable forces; clearing away negative energies, openly, in their presence, is a powerful act in itself.
2. Anointing. A small stock of choice essential oils for anointing yourself and allies for ...
2. Anointing. A small stock of choice essential oils for anointing yourself and allies for ...
... "protection and success," would be an awesome magical action.. A meaningful and inspired blessing, accompanied by a dab of a choice oil, and the comfort of a confident Witch's work can often invoke a very powerful spirit of courage, determination, and commitment in ...
... many folk. Oils I might recommend would be Myrrh, Clove, or Rosemary.
3. Fetishes. Premade fetishes and amulets, consecrated, blessed, and charged could be given to protesters for protection and strength. Obviously, each Witch should design their own, but choosing ...
3. Fetishes. Premade fetishes and amulets, consecrated, blessed, and charged could be given to protesters for protection and strength. Obviously, each Witch should design their own, but choosing ...
... materials & symbolism that express the powers of inspiration, boldness, and safety could certainly benefit their design. Perhaps consider the symbolic elements of the issue(s) of concern to incorporate into the fetishes or talismans. Even simple spell pouches containing...
... relevant herbs, stones, and other items, decorated in relevant ways could serve as vehicles for the intended (programmed) force they are blessed with.
4. Sigils of Power & Protection. If you intend to carry a protest sign, consider decorating and charging it with sigils ...
4. Sigils of Power & Protection. If you intend to carry a protest sign, consider decorating and charging it with sigils ...
... or runes of power and protection. You may also consider charging slips of paper bearing those symbols during chants or other periods of growing spirit, then burning them to release their energy, repeatedly during the protest; tapping into, directing, and releasing...
... their energy with purpose.
5. Engage in your ACT OF TRUTH with boldness. Bring your magic front and center, if for no other reason than the act alone is cultivating - loosening the soil of the anticipated reality - and allowing for the seeds of belief brought to the...
5. Engage in your ACT OF TRUTH with boldness. Bring your magic front and center, if for no other reason than the act alone is cultivating - loosening the soil of the anticipated reality - and allowing for the seeds of belief brought to the...
... protest to take firm root in the minds of everyone present.
6. Invoke… Often. Loud, clear, bold invocations of those spirits & deities who are most relevant to your cause, bidding their favor & their blessings for all present who are aligned in that cause can be a ...
6. Invoke… Often. Loud, clear, bold invocations of those spirits & deities who are most relevant to your cause, bidding their favor & their blessings for all present who are aligned in that cause can be a ...
... powerful inspiration for many too.
7. Witch, if you are white, step up and step in. Don't stay in the shadows. Our support is what is needed. As allies, defenders, healers, but most importantly, be bold in that support! Find within, what we need without!...
7. Witch, if you are white, step up and step in. Don't stay in the shadows. Our support is what is needed. As allies, defenders, healers, but most importantly, be bold in that support! Find within, what we need without!...
... 8. Carry with you - just in case - what will be helpful. Water, first aid kit, minor and major spirits of the abyss, lists of numbers for attorneys and other resources, a backup battery, maybe a prepaid phone, a few angry gods and goddesses, and the blessings of your Folk...
... As partakers of The Mystery which informs our Craft, regardless of our respective traditions... we are in the Service of Life... its defense, equitability, preservation, and support is vital, and that is ultimately the cost we must pay for our privilege to earn its secrets..
... no life holds more or less value than any other. We should not sit idly by while a war of spirit rages whose issue at heart is the respect, value, and security of any life, regardless of race, gender, nationality, or whatever. Stir the Old Gods from their slumber...
... speak their names into the face of the enemies of life. Call and conjure a new day, here and now. No archetype is so reviled as the bender, the twister, the shaper of reality; Witch! Love Justice, Speak Truth Boldly, and....
... Align yourself with those who are seeking no less than the same freedom and security in life that so many of us are PRIVILEGED to have... bring your power to their aid. If you are going "out there," be safe, wise, cunning, and stay blessed.
Sow Well. Sow Often.
Sow Well. Sow Often.
