I really enjoyed this video and I agree with the messages. But I agree the most with the last part - don't go around shouting you're a witch. I've done that. It creates amazing problems. Don't go out of your way to hide it, too. I've done that, too. It is not nice. The trick is to let people know YOU first, before telling them or letting them understand you dabble in the occult, IF that ever needs to happen. People are more inclined to accept your witchyness, if they've had a chance to know you first. Of course that doesn't apply for deeply religious people, who you KNOW won't like that. But just like I don't go around shouting what's my favourite dish or prefered love language, I no longer explain what I am and I just let people get to know me as a person and I no longer construct my whole identity around this one side of my life. We're complex creatures. ;)
Girl I’ve been struggling for 2 years because of my depression and I’m new to witchcraft but I’ve been an armchair witch for this long because of this exact reason of “not knowing how to start” but hearing you say this helps so much. I feel so motivated to just dive in and experiment without fear. I think before I was just unsure and not confident, thank you for this! ❤
Love this video. I’ve been an introvert all my life , had other kids poke fun at me, been rejected in school, etc. the handful of kids I knew back then, we all gravitated away from each other and lost touch. I’ve always been able to sense the unseen but got knocked off my path in my early 20’s. I’m 53 and I’ve been walking my path for a little over two years. Six months ago I started wearing my pentacle ring sometimes I’ll wear my necklace. I’m always wearing my Lilith and Hekate sigils. Folks at work stare, but I really don’t care. I get nasty looks from some folks but before I walked this path folks would scowl at me. I just think I may irritate their demons? Don’t know but I must remain true to myself. Thank you for this video.
Good point about not having to work with spirits. I spent too long in toxic religion to want to connect to "spirits" now. (Although I do talk to the archangels, lol.) Glad I found your channel!
Thank you! Being alienated is rough, but I never really fit in anyway. Honestly, assimilation has been dangled in front of marginalized people for generations to no real avail. At this point, I would rather be deemed "evil" than be labeled as "one of the good ones." You deserve more views! but these things take time I suppose. Keep being awesome!
Of Blood and Bones fundamentally changed my practice. I’d been practicing 20 years at that point and had read so many witch books. But this book had so much new information, it was incredible. Definitely my favorite witchy book.
Bit late to the party here, but I just wanted to say that what you said about us humans also being spirits absolutely blew me away, because I totally feel that way too, but I have never managed to put my finger on exactly what that feeling feeling was. I too am a spirit, but in a human physical body. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us all.
What a beautiful & Wise young person. Thank you for representing the youth of magickal human realm. I do not always involve spirits in my work and in fact deities told me not to contact them because I have all the power within me. I do work with ancestors who are vast in shamanistic magick.
thank you for your wise words to us other witches, especially beginners! I want to shout from the rooftop about my practice but I worry someone at work would find out and fire me for no reason!
Loved this video. To add to your point about sharing that you practice with other people. I had an experience recently that even sharing that you practice with other people who do practice can be weird and uncomfortable because the world of the ocult is so vast that people practice different things and people can be like "you practice what? I don't mess with that, is evil and dangerous" because they don't understand or keep repeating what they hear from other people.
Wanted to chime in about the Notion template in your shop. I love it so much! It's really helped me organize information and was easy to customize. Thanks so much!
Thank you very much for the video🖤✨, where im from ppl who are accused of being witches still get burned or shunned, the only "accepted" practitioners are traditional healers or sangomas, its very difficult to find like minded ppl as well as any form of written text regarding local witchcraft/magic practice, so solitary is definitely a must.
It's so funny how so many people think that you can get everything you need from one place I mean I have lots of books and I can say with all honesty that I don't draw my spirituality or witchcraft from just One of the books there are things in all of them I agree with and there are things in them that I don't I take what I want and I leave the rest I think that the reason people want to have it spoon-fed to them is because it's this generation way of doing everything but I know people that are my age and I'm on my 41 that do it too I really appreciate that you said this at the first thing you talked about so Thank you
for anyone with a more grounded mindset i recommend working with memories / feelings (instead of spirits). it just requires that you knew the person, or object.. more reality based you could say. the mind creates such weirdness from everything it observes, that´s why i don´t trust the spirit experience, even if i recognize it´s sort of real too (to me it´s real things twisted by the sub-consciousness, just like dreams). memories / feelings can be misleading too but maybe a little more accurate, no insects turned into demons there, not in my past anyway :) where i live feeler (tuntija) was actually one the main witch types (knower (tietäjä) was another, there´s dozens and dozens). if you take a list of six different witches from our lore two of them are always those who predict with different methods, one might be a healer, one a storyteller / singer and only one works specifically with spirits (usually different title for animal and human spirits, they were quite niche actually). probably the only way to get it wrong is to go against your own character.
Speaking of ancestors if in life your relatives were deeply troubled and/or abusive individuals how might you deal with the fear and anxiety of working with a long line of criminally insane individuals (in some cases I mean this literally)? Are they different in death? I like to think, at least, they have shed their egos and evolved but there is still an anxiety factor.
Nope. They don't change. There's a book called Badass Ancestors which addresses this, amongst many other things about ancestor veneration. Also, Ancestors don't have to be blood relatives.
@@CricketsBay I will have to check it out. I dedicated my ancestor shrine to Danu since my heritage is overwhelming Irish and then I just pray for my ancestors to find peace, blood or otherwise.
Hello Astraetluna 👋 I am new to witchcraft but I am not new to spirits - sighting, intuitively sensing, visitation, etc., and have had unwelcome spirit/entity follow me home & then evicting it - I have many untapped psychic/medium gifts - long story - but, my point is - make sure to have Boundaries! Never feel like you have no control, because YOU DO! We've already been given power & authority. I'm not experienced in communicating with spirits other than divination with tarot/ouija, etc., I was a Christian, feared my gifts & feared that they were all demonic entities or feared that if I communicated with them - because thats what i was told & believed - that essentially would serve as an invitation - I've only learned how to evict them & keep them from following me home... I'm hoping this makes sense... In my Puerto Rican heritage, my paternal Great Grandmother used a broom to evict unwanted spirits/entities/negative energies and learned from her son, my Grandfather after something followed me home - 20+ years ago. 1. Pray/Petition - Ask your higher power, God's, Goddess's, spirit guides, ancestors, etc., to help you. Ask them to take care of whatever you cannot and TRUST that they will! 2. Open the windows & door to the outside. 3. Start from the furthest walking distance from the open door, announce your intention & command. For example: "Whatever has followed me home, entered my home & sacred space without an invitation; you are not welcome! I did not invite you! You must leave now, get out!" - Word it however you like, but remember, there is no need to be disrespectful. If you feel fear, that's normal- PUSH PASSED IT! Remember, fear is nothing more than an emotion. Do not let it take root. Do not let it control you - push forward & focus! 4. Begin sweeping - focus on your sweeping - ignoring everything else - no distractions, DO NOT STOP FOR ANY REASON, imagine/visualize that you are sweeping away all negativity, all negative energies, spirits, entities, etc... continue announcing your command over, and over, and over, until you have swept out the door. Repeat your command a final time and add "This space is protected by "___" (name of god/goddess, ancestor, etc. - all those that you asked to assist you) Entrance into my sacred space is by invitation only. As I will it, so Mote it be!" Close the door. 5. Thank all those that you have asked to assist you. Trust that it is done. Do not doubt! Confidence is key! If you're not sure you can handle that, if you're not CONVINCED that you have the power & authority to do this, if you don't BELIEVE that you can do this or doubt that it will work - THEN DON'T even start. Hire a professional psychic medium instead... but since you're a witch, I'm confident that's not going to be a problem for you - that was more for anyone else reading this. 😉 *** If you sense/see/feel/hear/know/encounter a spirit/entity and want to ensure that it DOES NOT follow you home - prior to leaving the area/walking out the door - announce OUTLOUD - "Do Not follow me. You are not welcome." Be confident, stand firm and believe that this boundary will be heard & respected. Blessed Be ❤️💪✊️✨️💫
I have been finding it hard to connect with people in general as a witch. Anybody else experience this? Like I'm so much pickier with who I share my energy with. I am more judgmental, although I do my best to respect everyone and everything that exists. I feel like a kid again, not really knowing how to talk to people while watching everyone else get along just fine. It also seems like such an exerted effort to talk to people. After having done SO MUCH inner work, clearing work as I like to call it, you can just see the insecurity and lack of self-love so many people carry with them. I have studied & cleared gunk in order to love myself and express myself as authentically as I can, to make use and derive advantage from all my experiences, to generally have a good attitude, but man, am I in an inner-conflict stage, lol. People complain about so much. I'm aware that we as creatures exchange energy and acclimate to one another once connected, whether topically or intimately, which is the case for everything on this planet too. I know I have fear of being rejected as well by putting myself out there. I know I have been disappointed by the company around me when I have hung out with people. Maybe I'm expecting too much too quickly from folks. I guess, as an unaware , naive adolescent, it was easier for me to form bonds. But as a more intuitive child, and now an intuitive adult, fuck. It is an isolating path. *tears* We'll see.
My craft includes technology. Like wand and aphamie, the hammer is missing. I use circuitry, welding, wood joinery and all other craft skills. I am from the land of Lemonkinon. If I use a money spell the 10:38 craft will be taken from me. I have an old account. Lost access years ago.
Is it the actual spell that has power or is it the energy you put into the craft as a practitioner that holds the power? I think it’s the power of the practitioner not the text or instructions
Oii, te adoro demais! Sou brasileira tb e queria te perguntar se tu pensa em fazer algum vídeo em ptbr? Seria muito massa. (Ai teria q ser legendando, no caso p galera gringa kkkk)
Aster thank you for this video it cross my path this weekend and listened on the way to work. This is good information as I am figuring out my journey and what path I want to take. Thank you for all you do and share 😊🫶🏼
I really enjoyed this video and I agree with the messages. But I agree the most with the last part - don't go around shouting you're a witch. I've done that. It creates amazing problems. Don't go out of your way to hide it, too. I've done that, too. It is not nice. The trick is to let people know YOU first, before telling them or letting them understand you dabble in the occult, IF that ever needs to happen. People are more inclined to accept your witchyness, if they've had a chance to know you first. Of course that doesn't apply for deeply religious people, who you KNOW won't like that. But just like I don't go around shouting what's my favourite dish or prefered love language, I no longer explain what I am and I just let people get to know me as a person and I no longer construct my whole identity around this one side of my life. We're complex creatures. ;)
Girl I’ve been struggling for 2 years because of my depression and I’m new to witchcraft but I’ve been an armchair witch for this long because of this exact reason of “not knowing how to start” but hearing you say this helps so much. I feel so motivated to just dive in and experiment without fear. I think before I was just unsure and not confident, thank you for this! ❤
Love this video. I’ve been an introvert all my life , had other kids poke fun at me, been rejected in school, etc. the handful of kids I knew back then, we all gravitated away from each other and lost touch. I’ve always been able to sense the unseen but got knocked off my path in my early 20’s. I’m 53 and I’ve been walking my path for a little over two years. Six months ago I started wearing my pentacle ring sometimes I’ll wear my necklace. I’m always wearing my Lilith and Hekate sigils. Folks at work stare, but I really don’t care. I get nasty looks from some folks but before I walked this path folks would scowl at me. I just think I may irritate their demons? Don’t know but I must remain true to myself.
Thank you for this video.
Good point about not having to work with spirits. I spent too long in toxic religion to want to connect to "spirits" now. (Although I do talk to the archangels, lol.) Glad I found your channel!
Very nice to hear from a Brazilian witch!
You’re very pure it’s beautiful ❤
Thank you! Being alienated is rough, but I never really fit in anyway. Honestly, assimilation has been dangled in front of marginalized people for generations to no real avail.
At this point, I would rather be deemed "evil" than be labeled as "one of the good ones." You deserve more views! but these things take time I suppose. Keep being awesome!
Blood and Bones is Important because of all her topics are not Vanilla. Its real. Everyone who claims to be a Witch needs that and Psychic Witch.
@satori2890 I should check them both out, do you know what the author name is it at any book store or Amazon?😊
Of blood and bones is hands down my favourite, also psychic witch. I also love Bree Nicgarran grovedaughter witchery 😊
Of Blood and Bones fundamentally changed my practice. I’d been practicing 20 years at that point and had read so many witch books. But this book had so much new information, it was incredible. Definitely my favorite witchy book.
@@riveramnell143 Lots of good stuff that had been Oral Tradition in one place
THIS QUEEN IS SO BEAUTIFUL
Can't wait for your expanded video on the solitary life. Thank you again for the awesome video ❤
Bit late to the party here, but I just wanted to say that what you said about us humans also being spirits absolutely blew me away, because I totally feel that way too, but I have never managed to put my finger on exactly what that feeling feeling was. I too am a spirit, but in a human physical body. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us all.
Thank you for sharing my tribe and being so truthful
What a beautiful & Wise young person. Thank you for representing the youth of magickal human realm. I do not always involve spirits in my work and in fact deities told me not to contact them because I have all the power within me. I do work with ancestors who are vast in shamanistic magick.
thank you for your wise words to us other witches, especially beginners! I want to shout from the rooftop about my practice but I worry someone at work would find out and fire me for no reason!
Loved this video. To add to your point about sharing that you practice with other people. I had an experience recently that even sharing that you practice with other people who do practice can be weird and uncomfortable because the world of the ocult is so vast that people practice different things and people can be like "you practice what? I don't mess with that, is evil and dangerous" because they don't understand or keep repeating what they hear from other people.
Wanted to chime in about the Notion template in your shop. I love it so much! It's really helped me organize information and was easy to customize. Thanks so much!
Thank you very much for the video🖤✨, where im from ppl who are accused of being witches still get burned or shunned, the only "accepted" practitioners are traditional healers or sangomas, its very difficult to find like minded ppl as well as any form of written text regarding local witchcraft/magic practice, so solitary is definitely a must.
This is soo true that’s why only my immediate family knows and no one else.
Thank you 🥰 Blessed be 🥰💫✨️
It's so funny how so many people think that you can get everything you need from one place I mean I have lots of books and I can say with all honesty that I don't draw my spirituality or witchcraft from just One of the books there are things in all of them I agree with and there are things in them that I don't I take what I want and I leave the rest I think that the reason people want to have it spoon-fed to them is because it's this generation way of doing everything but I know people that are my age and I'm on my 41 that do it too I really appreciate that you said this at the first thing you talked about so Thank you
love your video!!!
for anyone with a more grounded
mindset i recommend working
with memories / feelings (instead
of spirits).
it just requires that you knew
the person, or object.. more
reality based you could say.
the mind creates such weirdness
from everything it observes,
that´s why i don´t trust the
spirit experience, even if i
recognize it´s sort of real too
(to me it´s real things twisted
by the sub-consciousness,
just like dreams).
memories / feelings can be
misleading too but maybe a little
more accurate, no insects turned
into demons there, not in my past
anyway :)
where i live feeler (tuntija)
was actually one the main witch
types (knower (tietäjä) was
another, there´s dozens and
dozens).
if you take a list of six
different witches from our
lore two of them are always
those who predict with different
methods, one might be a healer,
one a storyteller / singer
and only one works specifically
with spirits (usually different
title for animal and human
spirits, they were quite niche
actually).
probably the only way to get it
wrong is to go against your own
character.
The english her is perfct ❤
Speaking of ancestors if in life your relatives were deeply troubled and/or abusive individuals how might you deal with the fear and anxiety of working with a long line of criminally insane individuals (in some cases I mean this literally)? Are they different in death? I like to think, at least, they have shed their egos and evolved but there is still an anxiety factor.
Nope. They don't change. There's a book called Badass Ancestors which addresses this, amongst many other things about ancestor veneration. Also, Ancestors don't have to be blood relatives.
@@CricketsBay I will have to check it out. I dedicated my ancestor shrine to Danu since my heritage is overwhelming Irish and then I just pray for my ancestors to find peace, blood or otherwise.
I was looking for this EXACT video! Thank you!!!!!
Great video!
indeed it can be very energetically draining
Os melhores do Brasil são sempre "tipo exportação"!
Belo vídeo!
I’m gotta a bunch of fairy’s and aliens and angels around me 😅 scared the crap out of me. Now I have roommates 👀🧚🛸
Hello Astraetluna 👋
I am new to witchcraft but I am not new to spirits - sighting, intuitively sensing, visitation, etc., and have had unwelcome spirit/entity follow me home & then evicting it - I have many untapped psychic/medium gifts - long story - but, my point is - make sure to have Boundaries!
Never feel like you have no control, because YOU DO!
We've already been given power & authority.
I'm not experienced in communicating with spirits other than divination with tarot/ouija, etc., I was a Christian, feared my gifts & feared that they were all demonic entities or feared that if I communicated with them - because thats what i was told & believed - that essentially would serve as an invitation - I've only learned how to evict them & keep them from following me home... I'm hoping this makes sense... In my Puerto Rican heritage, my paternal Great Grandmother used a broom to evict unwanted spirits/entities/negative energies and learned from her son, my Grandfather after something followed me home - 20+ years ago.
1. Pray/Petition - Ask your higher power, God's, Goddess's, spirit guides, ancestors, etc., to help you. Ask them to take care of whatever you cannot and TRUST that they will!
2. Open the windows & door to the outside.
3. Start from the furthest walking distance from the open door, announce your intention & command.
For example:
"Whatever has followed me home, entered my home & sacred space without an invitation; you are not welcome!
I did not invite you! You must leave now, get out!"
- Word it however you like, but remember, there is no need to be disrespectful.
If you feel fear, that's normal- PUSH PASSED IT! Remember, fear is nothing more than an emotion. Do not let it take root. Do not let it control you - push forward & focus!
4. Begin sweeping - focus on your sweeping - ignoring everything else - no distractions, DO NOT STOP FOR ANY REASON, imagine/visualize that you are sweeping away all negativity, all negative energies, spirits, entities, etc... continue announcing your command over, and over, and over, until you have swept out the door.
Repeat your command a final time and add "This space is protected by "___" (name of god/goddess, ancestor, etc. - all those that you asked to assist you) Entrance into my sacred space is by invitation only. As I will it, so Mote it be!"
Close the door.
5. Thank all those that you have asked to assist you.
Trust that it is done. Do not doubt!
Confidence is key!
If you're not sure you can handle that, if you're not CONVINCED that you have the power & authority to do this, if you don't BELIEVE that you can do this or doubt that it will work - THEN DON'T even start.
Hire a professional psychic medium instead... but since you're a witch, I'm confident that's not going to be a problem for you - that was more for anyone else reading this. 😉
*** If you sense/see/feel/hear/know/encounter a spirit/entity and want to ensure that it DOES NOT follow you home - prior to leaving the area/walking out the door - announce OUTLOUD - "Do Not follow me. You are not welcome." Be confident, stand firm and believe that this boundary will be heard & respected.
Blessed Be ❤️💪✊️✨️💫
The roommates I'd like to have instead of human ones 🤣
Excellent video.
I have been finding it hard to connect with people in general as a witch. Anybody else experience this? Like I'm so much pickier with who I share my energy with. I am more judgmental, although I do my best to respect everyone and everything that exists. I feel like a kid again, not really knowing how to talk to people while watching everyone else get along just fine. It also seems like such an exerted effort to talk to people. After having done SO MUCH inner work, clearing work as I like to call it, you can just see the insecurity and lack of self-love so many people carry with them. I have studied & cleared gunk in order to love myself and express myself as authentically as I can, to make use and derive advantage from all my experiences, to generally have a good attitude, but man, am I in an inner-conflict stage, lol. People complain about so much. I'm aware that we as creatures exchange energy and acclimate to one another once connected, whether topically or intimately, which is the case for everything on this planet too. I know I have fear of being rejected as well by putting myself out there. I know I have been disappointed by the company around me when I have hung out with people. Maybe I'm expecting too much too quickly from folks. I guess, as an unaware , naive adolescent, it was easier for me to form bonds. But as a more intuitive child, and now an intuitive adult, fuck. It is an isolating path. *tears*
We'll see.
Fantástico ❤
❤️❤️❤️
My craft includes technology. Like wand and aphamie, the hammer is missing. I use circuitry, welding, wood joinery and all other craft skills. I am from the land of Lemonkinon. If I use a money spell the 10:38 craft will be taken from me. I have an old account. Lost access years ago.
Is it the actual spell that has power or is it the energy you put into the craft as a practitioner that holds the power? I think it’s the power of the practitioner not the text or instructions
Nobody knows what a real witch is and it shows whew this is tiring to see over and over again I need my candles
Você é do Brasil?
Eu sou! 😊
✨💖✨
Oii, te adoro demais! Sou brasileira tb e queria te perguntar se tu pensa em fazer algum vídeo em ptbr? Seria muito massa. (Ai teria q ser legendando, no caso p galera gringa kkkk)
Aster thank you for this video it cross my path this weekend and listened on the way to work.
This is good information as I am figuring out my journey and what path I want to take. Thank you for all you do and share 😊🫶🏼