I Bet You Think About Me / Blank Space Part 1

Devotional Acts to Death/Chthonic Deities

These are just suggestions. Adapt to your own personal needs.

Have a saving account!

Clean up graves

Read the history of your culture

Volunteer at hospices and end of life planning

Sign up for organ donation

Write a will/last testament

Create a memento mori

Trace ancestry (if possible)

Ancestor altars

Legacy Projects

Visiting Memoirs

Reading/writing poetry about death

Read books/articles on death and funeral traditions: - What happens to the body after death? By Maria Cohurt - Forensic Entomology: The Use of Insects in Death Investigations by Dr. Gail Anderson - ‘Death: a graveside companion’ by Joanna Ebenstein and Will Self - ‘Western attitudes to death from the Middle Ages to the present’ by Philippe Ariès - ‘A social history of dying’ by Allan Kellehear - ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory’ by Caitlin Doughty - 'From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death’ by Caitlin Doughty - 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers’ by Mary Roach - 'Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary’ by Carla Valentine - 'All That Remains: A Life in Death’ by Sue Black - 'Written In Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind’ by Sue Black - 'Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go’ by Amy Wright Glenn - 'Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End’ by Atul Gawande - 'Traditions of Death and Burial’ by Dr Helen Frisby - 'The Adult Orphan Club: How I Learned to Grieve the Loss of My Parents’ by Flora Baker - 'Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death’ by Henry Fersko-Weiss

Video research: Demystifying Medical Aid in the Dying: Family Voices (part 1) Demystifying Medical Aid in the Dying: Family Voices (part 2) Why You Need to Plan Ahead for Death, with Alua Arthur

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The harsh truth about the moon signs

Aries moon: Your emotions are more important than everyone else’s because you think your emotions are harder to bear than theirs. Super whiny about whatever’s bothering you that day. You think you’ve had it worse and you think everyone should know. Very immature about handling your emotions. You won’t listen to others emotions because you’d rather “keep to yourself.”

Taurus moon: You’re materialistic and boast about it. You always want to know other’s problems to assert to yourself that at least you aren’t dumb enough to have their problems. You think the only way to win an argument is with a manipulative ultimatum. You think everyone needs your approval to feel their emotions.

Gemini moon: You always want to know everyone’s emotions and problems because you want to see what would happen if you told everyone involved. You can’t be held responsible. You think everyone’s over-exaggerating their problems. You always wait too long to apologize. Deflecting is your motto.

Cancer moon: You’ll probably cry over this. You’re way too overemotional. You tell everyone you follow your new breathing exercise when you start to freak out and panic. You get things by making others feel guilty for you. Unhealthily possessive of people and objects, probably shown in childhood, “She can’t be your favorite, she’s already my favorite!”

Leo moon: You want everyone to pity you because you thrive on attention. Also wanting people to hate you because you thrive on attention, even if it’s negative, so you hurt them. You get upset when you walk past people and they don’t say “speak of the devil!” or start whispering and pointing. You are dramatic when you’re recounting your past problems but always make your current problems seem better because you don’t like to admit that you actually can’t do everything by yourselves.

Virgo moon: You preach communication but you always fail to actually communicate. You claim to know the best for everyone and you will blame anyone else when your plan went south. Everyone treats you as their welcome mat and you let them. You worry to the point of panic. You aren’t actually the smartest person you know even though you think you are.

Libra moon: You are the most boring person emotionally. You bottle up your emotions really well until you can’t take it and you explode. You can never tell when it’s going to happen so you spend time driving people away before it can. You think you need to interfere with everyone else’s problems. “Stick a pin in it,” is your favorite quote.

Scorpio moon: You’re sensitive but can’t deal with anyone knowing it. You can’t handle your ‘intense’ emotions. You want to be emotionally detached but you always end up oversharing. Your unhealthy coping mechanisms aren’t as cute as you think they are. Your common sense seems to stop whenever you encounter a slight problem.

Sagittarius moon: You can’t handle staying some where for too long. Your random daydreaming is annoying. You’re always clueless to other peoples emotions, stemming from the fact that you just don’t care. You get so consumed in your beliefs that you won’t listen to reason or the truth. You think you can test your limits but then you end up in bed, moping for three days.

Capricorn moon: You think your responsibility equates to your emotional maturity, but you are one of the worst at dealing with your emotions. You need efficiency and sacrifice neatness to do it. But you won’t accept anyone else’s feelings unless they’re perfect or they benefit you. You always have a hard time emotionally connecting with people.

Aquarius moon: You crave individuality so much that you’ll ruin your life with anything that makes you feel different, like drugs. You can’t emotionally connect with people because any sign that someone feels the way you do feels like a personal attack. Aloof with their emotions.

Pisces moon: You claim to have everything under control but you can’t even handle your own emotions. When people talk about needing to use baby gloves they’re talking about you. You’re judgmental about everyone else’s emotions but you always have a justification for yours.

🕊16 days of Shadow Work

✨ Here are the prompts as I promised! They are timeless, whenever they find you, feel free to use them.

Feel free to share your thoughts with me!!

✧ Day 1 What do I need to stop running away from? Why am I always running away from this and what is going to happen if I face it head-on?

✧ Day 2 What is my definition of failure? What’s something that I have previously failed at and how did it make me feel? How can I deal with failure in a healthy way?

✧ Day 3 How do I lie to myself everyday? Why am I doing this and what am I trying to avoid?

✧ Day 4 If I could say one thing to the person who hurt me the most, what would it be and why? How would I feel afterwards? 

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10 Prompts for Shadow Work

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Keep track of your feelings from day to day. Record how you felt and try to pin point why you felt certain ways in different situations. How could you habe handled it better? Why did you react the way you did?

Write a letter to your past self, or your future self. Then break down your thoughts on why you said the things you did. Address any emotions that pop up during this process and record them. Why did you feel that way? What events in your life made you right what you did?

Are you living true to yourself? Are you changing who you are based on who you're around? What are those changes? Why do you make those changes?

Are you holding on to something or someone that you should let go of? Why do you hold on to it? What are steps you can take to let go of it?

What are your fears? Your REAL fears not just spiders or heights. Why are you afraid of those things? Are there any steps you can take to lessen that fear?

How do you treat the people in your life? Is there anything you could do for them to better your relationships? Are you being a positive, healthy influence on their life or are you being a toxic one? If toxic, what changes are you going to make to your behavior to stop being toxic?

What do you wish other people knew about you? Why do you keep it hidden?

Are you healing from past traumas and or incidents or have you just distracted yourself? What healthy ways could you address unhealed trauma in order to move to a healthier place?

Make a list of people you don't like. Why don't you like them? Are they actually bad or do you see bad parts of yourself reflecting in them and that's why you don't like them? Be honest.

Write down everything that happens to you in a week that makes you feel bad in any way. Examine this list and ask why certain events make you feel bad.

BONUS: Write down what you believe about a variety of things (from religion and karma all the way down to relationships and your career path). Why do you believe those things? Are these feelings set in stone or are you willing to accept alternate views? Why or why not?

Remember Shadow work is all about unlocking your subconscious. This helps you understand yourself better which is important for many different aspects in witchcraft, and your star seed will thank you for it.

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magic to protect the home

🗝 i recently got a new place and i’ve been coming up with all sorts of new wards and such for the new space (which has been so fun ahh) so i figured why not make a little list of things i’ve noticed have really great protective qualities for the home, i hope you guys find a few to string together for your personal home wards :)

- cinnamon; really great to shake up the energies after having troublesome visitors and bringing back the warm and cozy vibes

- rosemary; good for lightly refreshing stale energies, great for a new space or whenever you feel like things are sort of just stagnant in the house

- most black stones; particularly onyx, tourmaline, kyanite, obsidian, etc, are all great for either repelling/absorbing negative energies, just make sure you research which does what because you’ll wanna cleanse the ‘absorbers’ regularly!

- black pepper; similar to cinnamon it’s really good at getting rid of lingering energies from visitors, i’d say it’s a bit stronger for things like banishing and renewal though :)

- english ivy; really great for integrating good energy into the home and keeping it there, brings a grounded and secure energy to a home

- cayenne; really any red pepper is great for keeping out unwanted energies, also serves as a great restart button for particularly aggressive energies

- thyme; encourages civility in a chaotic household

- cacti thorns; careful getting these! but they’re amazing for keeping out unwanted energies, i wouldn’t recommend for cleansing necessarily though

🗝 there’s definitely so many more but these are the ones i’m most familiar with at the moment, so i might make a pt.2 eventually once i experiment a bit more, i hope this was helpful!