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The White She-Wolf’s Charms of Witch-Power

One charm bag for shapeshifting, spirit flight, adopting the fetch-skin of a wolf, and protection from night terrors. Shipping included.

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Key and I had a blast recording this one: an exploration of how to receive ritual instructions, recipes, and more from your tools. We speak primarily in the symbol set of cartomancy for this, but the entire philosophy applies to any method. Happy conjuring! Celebrating St. Charalambos with loved ones on his Julian feast. A key saint for me across traditions, whether in keeping disease at bay, curing through honey, negotiating with the wolves and the Auntie Čuma, or undoing the fabric of magic itself. What a joy and a gift it is to continue to learn of his folk ways under the guidance of mentors, family, and spirits. Today, on St. Charalambos' Julian feast, I'm thrilled to present a collaboration between @sword.and.scythe and myself - a pair of charms in honour of the Polish Wolfmother and the Balkan White She-Wolf! This month we are performing two group rituals, with the first of which was available not only to our Esteemed Initiates tier of our P@y🌳🔛 but also anyone who wished to enter their name or that of a loved one forward. This rite was performed on the 15th of February, being the date of Orthodox Candlemas or Sretenje, and completed on the Lunar New Year's new moon, under the auspices of Hekate and her torch-bearing nymphs for protection and invisibility, especially from corrupt officers of the law, and any adversaries that might pose threats of physical harm. It's always a pleasure to have the incredibly knowledgeable @greendragonhealer on, and this time it was for one of our most thorough and detailed episodes yet! Come dive in to everything you need to know for Lunar New Year, including important elemental and zodiacal shifts. Maria goes over an incredible depth of material over two hours, which is still only just a brief foray into what her fully personalized Year Ahead Ba Zi readings are like! Come check out her Lunar New Year ancestral offering ritual as well, there's still time to sign up to boost your dead for the upcoming year. This is a shift from our usual programming, with @barnowl.key having put together an important overview in an attempt to share resources and avenues for help in the current political climate. We omit the usual humour and any and all plugs to our own work and do our best to center both magical and mundane resources for how to be involved and help according to your risk level and ability. No matter where we are, all of us can play a part in protecting our neighbours, regardless of their status or documentation. If you or a loved one is in need of additional protection at this time, please don't hesitate to reach out to either of us; our monthly group rite will be one of protection and invisibility open to all. One of the most beloved forms of cartomancy in Serbia and Croatia are the "ciganske karte" or "sudbinske karte", a 36-card fortune-telling deck published by PIATNIK in the early 20th century, being an updated version of the Austrian 32-card Biedermeier deck. They are relatively easy to pick up and read with, with many readers and families having their own preferred methods including spreads, manners in which the client is involved in the selection of the cards, consecrations for the deck, different saints that accompany their use (one of my teachers assigns a different saint to each of the 36 cards, as well as other attributions), and various oral charms (bajalice or basme) that "unlock" the divination process. This process is known largely as "bacanje karte" ("throwing cards") or "gledanje u karte" ("gazing/scrying into cards"), and there are as many techniques and idiosyncratic ways of approaching the art as there are readers.  Yesterday was St. Sava's day, who is known not only as the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church but the great negotiator of pagan-Christian practices, allowing for the institution of the patron saint slava to emerge as a way to keep local deity cults and seasonal veneration practices among the notoriously pagan population alive via a more flexible Orthodox saint calendar. He is hugely associated with Dažbog, Veles, Gospodar Vukova, and many of the agriculture-protecting, wolf-shepherding, trickster-magician-poet deities and we have myriad legends about him revealing agricultural practices and outsmarting devils that are absolutely earlier inheritances, yet are also now a new integrated whole and not just a fresh skin for an old face. In addition to being the protector of the country and of education, he is also credited as the one who taught the people how to cook, make cheese, forge iron, grow vineyards and make wine, mill wheat, bake bread, and essentially any key skill tied to civilization and agriculture.  Only three of these wax pouring divination sets remain! Thank you all so much for your support, I'm so excited to see what you guys get up to with these. Whether you're divining for omens with saints and your house spirits or diagnosing and removing the evil eye through charming the wax that falls through the key's hole, I hope these bundles, lovingly worked and enchanted from my hearth over the long stretch of St. Barbara's day to Epiphany/Theophany, will provide you guidance, clarity, and light in the darkness. I am delighted to present a set of empowered tools for ceromancy, or wax pouring divination, worked from the long stretch of Sveta Varvara to Bogojavljenje. One tradition still observed by several of my teachers in Serbian folk magic is the care and cultivation around divinatory omens during this time period. As the Christmas wheat sown on Barbara’s day grows, eventually overcoming the winter solstice and heralding the return of the light on Christmas itself, so too does it imbue its fecundity to our collective attempts to seek light in darkness, understanding in ignorance, and clarity in confusion. Generally, outside of passive observation and scrying of omens, I refrain from divination purely for my own sake during the days between Barbara and Christmas—though Christmas Eve on the Serbian folk calendar is of course a renowned day for the scrying of fortunes in candles, in blessed water, and even in gravy at the dinner table! Rather, it is once this holy light itself briefly returns on Christmas, and then emerges once more after the perilous Nekršteni Dani (“Unbaptized Days” between Christmas and Epiphany) that we celebrate the manifestation and revelation of the Theophany through performing this art ourselves. In my training, this is especially done with ceromancy, or wax pouring divination.
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