I finished this painting last weekend. I chose to make her grey because of my cat Paw Revere, and because Egyptian Maus are frequently grey. I promise the rest of the charm casting posts are coming, but maybe not very soon - I have some stuff coming up.
This is one I wanted to do for months and finally decided to paint this month because I celebrated Artio Rising at the beginning of it. (This is a holiday described briefly in the Pagan Portals book on Artio and Artaois; there's also a holiday in the fall
I taught an ATC class for a few friends this weekend and made two sets of my own: The Michigan cards have cherries (famous product of Traverse City), deer (state game animal), cherry blossoms (state floser), and robins (state bird) along with pieces of an outdated Michigan map. I realized
Once you've made your preparations, the next step is to select the charms for the reading. You can: * Deliberately pick charms with meanings that are useful for the question or subject * Randomly select a certain amount of charms * Have your querent randomly select a certain amount of charms
Apologies for the delay - I was planning to combine this part with performing a reading, the performing section is getting an overhaul from my old class notes, and it was a big enough undertaking that I didn't feel I had the spoons. But I don't
This was a winter art exchange present for someone who likes Animal Crossing and Tarot. I thought about what the other suits would be, but didn't have time to paint any more - cups would become scallops, wands would become lanterns, and my friend Kai suggested bees for
If any of my Bluesky peeps are wondering why I'm not posting this weekend, I tried to migrate to Northsky and it's stuck. My account deactivated and I can't get through the next step so the migrator will finish and reactivate it. The Northsky
I was just introduced to Colour Cubes, which are decks of cards with a color palette on each one. This got me thinking: I know what individual colors mean to me, but does that change in any way when it's a set of colors? More research is needed,
In the first virtual get-together for A Softer World, Effy Wild (the facilitator) mentioned that she enjoys heavy music some of the time. Which made me wonder what it would look like to have a class centered around A Heavier World, or just a series of paintings. Maybe a class
The charm casting posts will continue soon, but in the meantime, I was reminded yesterday that I have a short list of books to kickstart a new witch's practice if they want to do something similar to what I do. To be clear: I do a lot of
I may not normally write about knitting, but I enjoy it and I want to share a technique I figured out by myself. This is good for when you're transitioning between one color to another, each color is on a different row, and the first color ends with
Dedicating or consecrating your charm casting kit is an optional step. I'm not going to provide a ritual, but I'll say that you should consider whether you want to consecrate each separate piece going into your kit, or consecrate the container in a way that means
There are a few things handy to have for charm casting, besides what I've already covered. First: charm storage. If you separate all of your charms into groups, I recommend wedding favor tins. They're small, cheap, and light, and you can find them on Amazon or
There are some premade maps out there - Xia Hunt has a few and Etsy of course will provide - but you can make your own for even more customization goodness, or use things you already have. A good map has divisions by subject/theme, time, or another factor that
In hindsight, this is a big enough topic that I'll put the rest of my information about supplies in one or more subsequent posts! How many charms should you have for a charm casting set? You can get started with maybe a dozen, and you can expand into
This series of posts is largely based on a class I taught at Ann Arbor Pagan Pride Day 2024. I'll expand on how to interpret a casting from what was presented at the time. Charm casting is a form of divination in which small objects (charms) are dropped
(If you don't see a Part 4, it's because that part is for subscribers only!) For a long time, I had only 13 colors in my system and viewed them largely in terms of the energy centers I associated with them. Next, I created charm casting
I decided to use a base 10 numerology system, so I use d10s. I looked at several systems: * The one James R. Eads used for The Cerulean Sequence, which is the one I finally went with * The one in The Way of Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowsky * The one in 54
Since my color system is based on my personal associations and my energy body, I'd be surprised if it clicked in the same way for others. Not to mention that other things may be more meaningful than colors to another witch - maybe shapes, musical tones, textures, or
In 2007 or 2008, I developed a color magic system that I intended to use both in real life and in stories I planned to write. The stories are still on hold because some stories end up being more complicated than you expect. But I did end up using the
A Softer World is an art journaling class taught by Effy Wild - see https://learn.effywild.com/ for details. We're three volumes in so far; lessons are released monthly but some of us aren't calling them "month one" etc because there is no
These took me a few weeks! They're ATC/poker sized and I used mostly Mungyo watercolors, with three metallic colors from Beam Paints. Some of the colors were custom mixed and I didn't write down the recipes, but when I create the tutorial for these cards,