Taking Care of Yourself (Finding your Light)

Taking Care of Yourself....what does that even mean? you see it often. Take care of yourself so you can take care of others. What does taking care of yourself even look like?

A few years ago, after many years of struggling I had eventually found the answer to this, but then I got some pretty life altering news and I've been struggling to find the meaning of this ever since. Trying to find my way out of this spiralling black hole of emotions.

Could it be so simple as just taking quiet time for yourself? even taking a weekend to yourself? No. I have found that the answer is not that simple. One moment of fresh air every so often is not enough. I need to implement something in my everyday life to make this work. And it has to be fluid. Taking care of yourself changes as you change, a constant evolving... thingamajigger... for lack of a better word.

I keep going back and forth on whether I want to post this or not. Every day is a battle of self love. I am feeling drained as fuck. It's so very personal. And ss I am trying to incorporate the following into my life, every moment of every day is a battle to do right by myself.

Replenishing your spirit. What calls to you? What makes you happy. Sometimes not even that is enough, but what gives you that zing, even if it's a short one it is still a start. Make a list. It doesn't matter if it sounds stupid or doesn't sound important enough. Write it down.

For me here are a few zings:

Creating (anything)
Canning
Moving my things around in my daily space
Baking/Cooking new things
Shopping
Reading
Re-organizing my space
Making lists

Next make a list that you want to bring into your life. It can be anything.

Ideas to implement daily:

daily affirmation
exercies
kundalini yoga
alone time
coffee
read a book
outside time
light a nice smelling candle
candle lit suppers
be mindful of what you are thinking
have comfy pj's and slippers
a daily itinerary of your goals for the day/week
morning walk outside

Next make an itinerary of your day (see that's even on my list) and try to bring in from both lists. Start small. Don't overwhelm yourself. Don't expect that your mind will be blown. Just know that a few zings will happen in your day and eventually those little zings will get bigger and you're going to find your light again.


New Updates to my House this Week:

Birth Totems
Book of Shadows (Part One)

Harvest Moon

More to Come for whenever I get my shit together:
Chakra Doll
Baba Yaga
Pentacle Mobile
Mabon
Mabon Crafts
Mabon Recipes

Peace and Love
The Bone Witch

Dark Moon

Dark Moon, Solar Eclipse, Retrograde.... see you on the other side of all this madness!

It's a New Moon tonight. Leo this morning, Void this early afternoon and then out comes Virgo later this afternoon. I am feeling out of sorts within all this universal chaos. Highs and Lows coming at me in the most unexpected moments. I am trying to hold strong. Stay grounded. Pushing myself to craft, to continue on. Sometimes crashing, sometimes standing.

New to my House this week:

Black Salt
~ This was such a night. Bones and I working together after such a rough few weeks. Connection. Magick at it's most powerful. Blackened fingers, green fire and the unfortunate death of a wild animal.

Midnight Witching Hour
~ Some extra lore on the most powerful time for a Witch's Magick

Black Mirror
~ A fun new craft of a witchery tool

Mirror Scrying
~ Divination at it's finest. Practice makes perfect.

More to come:
Baba Yaga
Spirit Animals
Book of Shadows (Part 1)


Peace and Love
The Bone Witch

Werewolves, Oracles & The Moon

I don't know about you but I am not a huge fan of the full moon. Sure its all gorgeous in its full glory, shining down as powerful as the sun, lighting up our entire darkness with its burning light, BUT it brings out the werewolf in me, the darkness inside myself drawn to it's light. I feel exposed, raw, vulnerable, burned, over stimulated...in a bad way. This is not a fun time for me. I want to burrow into the ground and hide out until the new moon. Not do the work that the moon evokes from me, not follow its lighted path, not face any of it. This is how I feel right now. Bury it all, sweep it under the carpet and pretend it's not there. This is how I feel this Full Moon. The Corn Moon. A time when the energy is gathering, appreciating, harvesting...perhaps I should have done some sort of spellwork last night, but all I did was lay in my bed under the gaze of the moon....perhaps that is spellwork enough. Perhaps there was no need of fancy rituals and lighted candles. Just the moon and me. Her power and mine, Her refueling me, me refueling her.

                                   Wisdom               Divinity                    Evolve

My trinity spread today and I don't want to face it, but I am already halfway there. I get it, I see it, I'm currently working on it. I find it always amazes me how much people despise the person that creates a new path in life. They hate that you are doing the work because it makes them see that they also need to do the work. Carve the way. Stand up and have a voice. Just because this is how it was does not mean that this is how it has to be. Just because the ones surrounding you do not agree with you does not mean that you are wrong. Trust yourself. Trust your wolf. Trust your bones. Evolve.

All updates for last week are up!! There will be more to come after the Dark Moon, which happens this Friday!! So you can expect a few more on Saturday.

New addition to my Moon section, you can check out all the info on our last full moon the Corn Moon.

A new addition to my Crafts section where you can make your very own Pentacle Earrings.

Pentagrams and Pentacles and Evoking & Invoking are the newest additions to my Extra Lore section.

Some fun info on Pansies in my A Witch's Garden section as well as an addition of Oat Straw Infusion there too.

Peace and Love
The Bone Witch