I’ve got wild bees in my barn, black raspberries and irises in my fields, homemade bread in the kitchen, fog hanging in the trees and a big black snake in the forest shedding his skin for me.
I don’t care how many holes are in my shirts and that I’m down to three pairs of wearable pants/skirts, the first money I earn after finishing up all this tax bullshit is going to restocking the Temple service supplies. I don’t even have two tea lights to rub together and I haven’t seen a stick of incense in months. The only three things I’m spending a dime on right now:
(I have charcoal and resins, but you have to spend an hour dropping more on it and fumigating your neighborhood or it’s kind of a waste.)
New post up on my full-sized blog.
last night was a riot of candles, rain and incense. I have a dairy hangover - there was homemade butter, four or five forms of soft cheeses, heavy cream in the coffee, fresh buttermilk from making the butter, baked cheesecake, and sour cream on top of the beef stew. I’m going to post the ritual outline later on my Book of Bones so I can make notes of what worked better and what needs to be changed for the next rite.
magic pot for my Saraswati altar
flax seeds, sesame seeds, lemongrass, peppermint and turmeric with a piece of amazonite and ocean jasper on top.
A brief introduction to the Rabbit spirit.
My bonework moves forward tonight with the first of the reddening experiments. I’ve got a bottle of red wine, red ochre stones to pound into dust, poke berry for a purple hue and a few secret ingredients. I’ve only got a tiny bit of my blood to add, and I didn’t feel like using blood from a package of chicken hearts from the grocery store was appropriate. I’m testing the mixtures on the twin guardian cow skulls that sit on the front steps first, and they certainly didn’t want any chicken blood on them. The fox might feel differently given his affinity for chickens.
tell me what you know about black nightshade! not so much in a medicinal sense (because lol, solanine) but its uses in magic and other woo-woo practices.
I gathered a bunch of its close cousin, Tread-Soft or Horsenettle, today. It has the same flowers, growth pattern and toxicity, but it is also covered in large, painful spines.
