Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven

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It is full of “spells” (mostly thought experiments, really) but it’s constantly explaining how much the authors don’t believe in witchcraft or the occult.

I am not a fan of motivational books but this one hooked me to read it because of feminine theme and nice illustrations. Before coming to Quirk she was the editor-in-chief of the digital magazine Electric Literature, publishing essays and humor about books and narrative media.I also like the spell for healing heartbreak, that’s based around reminding yourself of the things you still have and that still make you happy even after a breakup, severing your happiness from dependence on the other person. I’m really hating the fact that there are books being written that HAVE TO HAVE FEMINISM WITH WITCHES. She likes dogs, skulls, mythical monsters, nonlinear stories, industrial music, large-scale immersive art projects, the old internet, and science fiction comedy from the '80s, and her most useless skill is reading Morse code (not a written language).

Yes, the part of the book where emojis are presented as the modern version of runes is even more cringey. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. My only issue is the “attract a lover” spell involving making caramelized apples with cinnamon — although it sounds innocent, and caramelized apples with cinnamon are delicious, it is still a targeted love spell.And to that I say that this is a starting point for people like me, who are curious but overwhelmed by the amount of books and material on the internet about witches.

The props that the spells contain such as candles and photographs help you to overcome your worries and problems better than you could do on your own.Emotionally charging objects or clothes or cosmetics sounds like a great idea to me, but I really struggle with it, and this book won’t help that. On top of that if you take this as your first book and try some of the junk in this book you can and will be opening yourself to some not so fun things in your life. Once again, I can’t help but consider how an occultist could make such a spell literal instead of a metaphor. r/WitchesVsPatriarchy is a woman-centered sub with a witchy twist, aimed at healing, supporting, and uplifting one another through humor and magic. I'm never going to be that person who will find my inner light or believe in mercury retrograde or the universe making things happen.

If you speak when you’re told to be quiet, take pride when you’re told to feel shame, love what and who you love whether or not others approve, you’re practicing witchcraft. Issues such as self-esteem, self confidence, and body image are deep-seated issues that require an aggressive approach to heal. My religion and way of life should NOT BE TAUGHT AS A WAY TO SCARE MEN OR HEX PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE AN ASS!I like the idea that wearing black brings you “closer to infinity” — the vastness of the night sky, the deep ocean, the subconscious mind. Writing down everything you like about yourself is still an important step towards improving your self-esteem. It also addresses color correspondences with regards to makeup, and encourages the reader to try out vivid or bolder colors instead of trying to go for the natural, “no makeup” look. Some witches believe in white and black magic not as performances of good and evil but as representations of magical energy. If you're going to using the tarot in a spell, *maybe* you should at *least* have a basic understanding of the tarot as a system?