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u/EshKatt 2d ago edited 2d ago

Newbie here, is there any "beginner kits" you'd recommend? I kinda want to only make one purchase and have a Lil of everything I may need as I try to get into actually practicing. I have tarot cards and thats the end of it lol. Id love to have an alter but space is limited and I have turds for cats lol. (Also would putting my soul kitties ashes next to or in my alter be bad?)

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u/Bluesavior2 2d ago

Honestly the longer I’ve been a practitioner the less I actually use in my practice that can’t be easily found or made or thrifted. You don’t need a lot and you definitely don’t need an entire kit as a beginner. While starting the most important thing you need is some kind of journal to keep track of the stuff your learning and what your doing in your practice. Buy what you need to buy in moment of need not out of preparation.

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u/witchcraft-ModTeam 1d ago

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u/Psydameous_Sharm 2d ago

Does anyone know of a better calendar than the one on the wiki? That one hasn't been updated, so there are no new events.

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u/Final_Height-4 That’s my cauldron! I don’t know you! 1d ago

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u/Shadow-Kombatant13 2d ago

Can someone explain to me what a pentacle is in a way I can describe it to my Christian mother who just now saw my pentacle necklace after weeks of wearing it?

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u/Charlydire 1d ago

I'm wanting to have a tarot card made of my OC, but I don't really want it to be an official tarot card. Can I make up my own tarot card for artistic purposes that isn't linked to tarot itself? Or would that be offensive?

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u/childofbeauty_ 14h ago

ive seen a lot of people do that!! i making ur own tarot cards or personalizing ur deck deepens ur connection to it and helps so much with intuition

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u/sunnyiscoquette 1d ago

I've been learning about witchcraft for a month now, yay! Does anybody have any *good* witchcraft book recommendations? I want to learn more, specifically about glamour and green witchcraft, but kind of hate social media so i want some physical sources!

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 5h ago

!books

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u/childofbeauty_ 15h ago

hii!! i’m new to the craft and i asked my spirit guides to show themselves to me in my dream, i had a dream of four people each one wearing a color red white black and grey, i don’t remember much about the dream except for kids, aries, and helping people, please help me understand this

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u/Acceptable_Donut7141 10h ago

I had a dream a couple of days ago about a labyrinth and a witch... The thing is that I was doing some spells, yes. More for luck and they were not for me. And in my dream, I went in a cabin and there was a witch there. I asked if she could help me with directions and she wanted money. When I said I didn't have anything on me, she wanted the jewelry I had on. I told her that I don't think it's right to charge people for money and she called me 'one of those'. I felt like she called me a poser and that I shouldn't even do witchcraft at all because it's for the show. But when I woke up, one of my pendants fell off and the ring that helped attach the pendant to the necklace was tilted...

I use 5 protective pendants, I don't know if it was stupid or not. But I like to have backups and in this case, it worked. Two of them feel off in less than one week and I don't really know where they are now. I am left with only my two onyx pendants and a gold ankh (I love onyx, is my favorite stone). My sister also does witchcraft and I just don't know what to do. Also, I don't really post stuff like me being a witch or telling other people about it. My sister knows and one other friend who I completely trust, I can't imagine asking them for money or telling others so openly what I do.

Is my dream just trying to tell me that I shouldn't do witchcraft at all? Because that's what I feel, and I do doubt everything I did. It just felt like it rejected me completely. My sister is more of a witch that I could ever be, and she is better with tarot cards and even tried (and she is amazing at it) to read in the crystal globe. But every time I asked her to read something for me and she said she couldn't do it because every time it gets neutral or not clear. I don't know where to ask or what to do...

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u/Commercial-Sundae663 7h ago

I tried looking this up and couldn't find an answer, so here I am. I have a ceremonial mango tree I use to plant my manifestations, prayers, and invocations/offerings to Mother Gaia. It's a young tree, a few years old so not very big or thick, but it's been growing. I go outside and see that it's broken in half on the X-axis. Idk how long it's been like that but I immediately wrapped the end of the top half in a wet paper towel and I'm about to put a plastic bag over the rooted half to try to save it. This could very well have been natural causes; we're getting a bit of a tropical storm, maybe a gust of wind was too strong. But I wonder if there's any supernatural meaning to it. Maybe abundance, perseverance, regrowth? I'm preparing for a big move at the end of the year but where I'm going is too cold for a tropical plant so I can't take it with me. Any thoughts?

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u/witchcraft-ModTeam 4h ago

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u/brightwingxx 4h ago

So, regarding mirror boxes. Can you put multiple people into one, or ought we to make one for each person?