never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.
find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.
talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore
picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else
if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.
i recently got gifted a beautiful new deck, and whenever i get a new deck, the first thing i do is bond with it! one of the ways i do that is holding a little interview session with it.
you’ve probably seen hundreds of ‘deck interview’ spreads, and they’re all really helpful! however, i find them a little limiting. i tend to use a different, more conversational method of interviewing my deck. i talk to my cards, pull cards when i feel an answer is ready, and just keep going and pulling cards as i go until i’m satisfied i know the deck well enough to proceed! here are some useful questions i tend to use for this.
who are you? (how do you see yourself?)
how do you see me?
what are your main goals?
how do you view life?
what’s your main characteristic?
what can you teach?
what kind of questions do you struggle with?
how should i continue with you?
what can you offer me?
what will the outcome of our relationship be?
what do you think i need to know?
how can i achieve that?
what do you want from me?
do you want to be used for others?
do you want to be used for paid readings?
should i read reversals?
from these questions you can get a scope of how the deck answers questions, its nature, whether it’s optimistic/pessimistic/realistic, whether it sugar coats or gives it to you straight… honestly, interviewing new and even old decks is invaluable.
also, this way i manage to get a feel for how the deck likes to be handled. all my decks like to be shuffled, cut and stacked in different ways – handling them how they like for me tends to give more accurate and helpful readings!
Visualisation is incredibly useful in witchcraft as it is the base of energy work. From this, you can do all kinds of practices.
You can use visualisation for meditation, astral travel, sending energy into objects and many other things. These will all be covered in the future.
So, how do I start?
Here’s a basic exercise for you to practice. It’s very simple and many of you will probably be able to pick it up easily if you’ve already done visualition techniques!
1. You’ll need a very quiet area where you’ll be comfortable. Even lying in bed and putting white noise in your headphones is useful. Get rid of all distractions, put your phone on silent etc.
2. Close your eyes and empty your mind. Your mind might feel like a blank sheet of paper, and you’re going to create something in there.
3. Picture an apple, any old apple. Zoom in and see its shape, it’s colour. Does it have leaves, more than one colour? Look at every tiny detail of the apple you’ve created.
4. Next, take a knife and cut this apple in half. Focus on the detail inside: the colour, how many seeds there are etc. The more detail, the better.
5. Now you use your senses. What the apple feels like, smells like. Bite into it and taste it. You’re using visualisation to not only see the apple but understand everything about it.
From this, you’re able to visualise and interact with objects in your mind. Practice often with anything you like!
fair--y backup 