Scarlet Witch By Adam Hughes

✨Aesthetics✨ For different Types of Witches

Weather Witch

☔ Accidentally summons weather with their feelings

☔ You or your Storm Deities summon weather at almost every major event 

☔ *Dramatically looks up at the sky* A storm in coming

☔ Has a million different jars on the windowsill for rain water

☔ Saying Hi to your storm deities whenever you hear thunder

☔ Dresses in weather-related motifs for the fun of it

☔ Genuinely annoyed when it’s too hot

☔ Has almost single handedly been keeping their hometown out of drought with all the rain they summon

☔Gets very worried when it snows later in the season

☔ Probably talk too loud

☔ Very protective 

☔ Not afraid to curse people

Stitch Witch

🧵 Sews magic into everything they make (literally)

🧵 Constantly enchanting their clothes and jewelry

🧵 Probably makes the coziest quilts ever

🧵 Will sew a quilt for nightmare free sleep

🧵 Always trying new crochet and sewing projects

🧵 A natural caretaker who loves helping people

🧵 Knows color symbolism like the back of their hand

🧵 Is always looking for meaning prints on fabrics 

🧵 Has correspondences and meaning for every type or fabric they use

🧵 Puts intent into every stitch

🧵 Talking to your clothes to set intentions for them

🧵 Probably has a really lovely, aesthetically-pleasing home

Kitchen/Hearth Witch

🍳 Their Book of Shadows is basically a cookbook

🍳 Thinks cooking is a love language (it is)

🍳 Hates the idea of cleaning but loves it once they actually start

🍳 Probably an incredibly forgetful witch

🍳 Talks to your home and spirits inside

🍳 Always baking

🍳 Stirring intention into your cooking

🍳 Knows what direction to stir to bring things or dispel them

🍳 Saving egg shells and drying orange peels

🍳 Drying and pressing herbs

🍳 Very impressive herb collection

🍳 Owns a mortar and pestle

Fairy Witch

🍄 Stumbled ass-backwards into a faerie contract

🍄 Things constantly go missing around the house

🍄 Has a garden but rarely needs to maintain it (that’s the fairy’s garden)

🍄 Their plants and garden flourish effortlessly 

🍄 Researching plants that fae like

🍄 Has a million different names and aliases for safety

🍄 Definitely liked Fairies as a kid and now it’s come full circle as an adult

🍄 Researching the different types of fae in their area

🍄 Weird dreams

🍄 So many bees, butterflies, birds and insects around their house

🍄 Never harms spiders

🍄 Lowkey scared of the fae

🍄 I feel like they’d enjoy trying out fun hairstyles

🍄 Suddenly smelling floral scents with no explanation

Death Witch

🪦 Always asks spirits before collecting graveyard dirt

🪦 Possibly Chronically Ill

🪦 Wears the same outfit every single day

🪦 Saves the dirt from dead plant pots

🪦 Always looks forward to when Pomegranates are in season

🪦 Knows the deceased will be well cared for by their deities, which brings them comfort

🪦 Really into taxidermy (it’s like goth stuffed animals)

🪦 Not put off by Vulture Culture or roadkill

🪦 Loves making playlists

🪦 Loves oddities and strange happenings 

🪦 Knows all the local graveyards

🪦 Probably has a favorite grave

🪦 Has already designed their headstone

🪦 Doesn’t fear old age as much as everyone else

🪦 Loves their ancestors and keeps in touch with them even after death

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THE DIARY METHOD

the diary method is something i came up with in the first stages of my manifestation journey. i don’t know if anyone else came up with a similar idea or if it’s an original, but i still thought i’d share this with you, because it was so fun and helpful!

so, what is the diary method? the diary method is basically writing (scripting) a diary from the point of view of the version of yourself that has what you want. this is how it works:

first of all, you need a journal. whether it’s an old journal, or a new one you just bought. or, if it’s more comfortable for you, you can also use your notes!

then, write a date on top of the page, then write “dear diary,…” and then start writing about what a perfect day you had, inserting your desires in it. for example, if you want a new job, write that the most perfect job for you was offered to you on that day! or, if you want a dog, write about how on that day you just adopted the cutest, sweetest little puppy!

now, everyday, take five minutes out of your day to script your perfect days, and add you having your desires in those days!

this is so fun to do, it helps both with assumptions and visualizations, and you’ll get what you want so fast!!! if any of you decide to try it out, let me know how it goes! <3

BRINGING UP BABY 1938, dir. Howard Hawks

𝐌𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐌𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐌𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃

i am entitled to my desires. nothing can and nothing will separate me from them. everything is already done; the second i desire something is the same second i have it within the 4d and it gets reflected into my 3d just as instantly. my reality is always shifting to make me happy because that’s what it’s supposed to do. i was born to be content since i am the operant power. everything comes to me easily, i don’t have to lift a single finger. i’ve been manifesting for as long i can remember. i have always been a master at stepping into my desired state in little to no time. it’s so easy for me i even do it in my sleep. i never dwell or doubt myself because i know i am truly powerful and can change any circumstance in a matter of seconds. all i have to do is declare it as true and it becomes just that. isn’t it wonderful?

𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛：

♡︎ I always...

♡︎ it’s a fact that…

♡︎ it’s so obvious…

♡︎ Everyone knows that…

♡︎ I am known for…

♡︎ Of course…

♡︎ I have no doubt…

♡︎ Why..?

♡︎ It’s natural for me…

♡︎ It is my birthright to…

♡︎ I am known for…

♡︎ It’s crazy that…

♡︎ I am certain that…

♡︎ i have always…

♡︎ It’s normal for me…

May Week 1 - Understanding Magical Symbols

Apologies for the lateness of this post! I’ve been working some overtime and dealing with a lot of personal and family issues. But I am working ahead on everything this week so the posts will be done and queued!

This week’s focus is on magical symbols of all kinds, their origins, meanings, how to use them and so on. Without further ado, let’s dive in!

Part 1 - Lab Notebook

So let’s make a list of the various types of symbols we already know about. Think about them. Runes? Sigils? What other magical symbols do you know of? The alchemical symbols? Put this list on a separate piece of paper inside your notebook. Expand it as necessary when you find more types of symbols to add.

On a page in your notebook, dedicate one to the symbols listed below.

alchemical symbols

runes

sigils

the ogham script

One each of those pages, write out what you already know about each of those, then expand on that and learn a little more about each one of them. For the sigils page, write out how you have learned to make them or, all the methods to making them, as there are various methods.

Dig deep with these, but also, give it your personal touch. I have created my own magical symbol that I place on things for various reasons, but mostly for protection.

Part 2 - Origins, Meanings, Adaptations

Look into the origins of the runes (example: the elder futhark runes), sigils, and alchemical symbols. Add this information to your pages. Along with that, look into the meanings of the various symbols and make a list of them if you choose, that you can look back on for reference or study and memorize. Continue further and look into various adaptations of these symbols through history. Let this be the bulk of this week’s study, learn as much as you can!

Part 3 - Use

What are the purpose and uses of these symbols through history and today? How have they changed or stayed the same? And why do you think that is? How can you incorporate any or all of these into your own practice?

Part 4 - Practical: Make Some Sigils/ Runes/ Symbols

Using the methods you have learned about, make some symbols of your own to use in your practice. Anything from a single symbol to a small set of them, or even an entire alphabet! Have fun with this. Incorporate color and other elements in the creation of your sigils to give it purpose and personal power! Feel free to share these if you like!

Part 5 - Meditate/ Journal

It is spring! The rain is falling, the sun is shining and the plants are growing. Let’s continue to meditate and journal on spring, the idea of rebirth, growth and abundance in our lives and in our practice. What does spring mean to you? What does it bring or take away from you? What can you learn from the natural world around you as spring embraces the world completely?

Okay! That wraps up week one! We will continue with more prompts next week and stay tuned this week for another bonus prompt!

-Mod Hazel

Writing Superpowers, and Reality Warpers in particular

The difficulty with writing superpowered characters, particularly high-tier ones, is that it’s easy to make a character feel overpowered, but there is a simple remedy for this: the character’s power set should be based around one basic concept.

I’ll start by explaining what I mean by “this character feels overpowered”. I don’t mean “this character is, on paper, far more powerful than their opponent” - that can actually be a good thing, forcing the opponent to make their clash a battle of brains rather than brawn. What I do mean is “this character’s powers are so immense that the only way to challenge them narratively is through contrived circumstances or a plot device that should be used sparingly”. Superman manages to be a good example of both, depending on which depiction you look at, but he’s not gonna be the focus of this post. Instead, we’ll start with Gwenpool.

The premise of Gwenpool’s solo comic is “Gwen is from the real world but ends up in the comic book world”, and as the story goes on she learns to use her awareness of the fact that she’s in a comic book to do stuff that is essentially reality-warping. And it’s a bizarre kind of reality warping, but everything she does makes sense because it follows the core premise: “she can do this because she can interact with the medium of the comic”. She can step from one panel into the next, she can come out of a flashback and into the present day, she can grab sound effects and so cancel out noises, she can interact with thought-boxes and speech-bubbles. And because her powers follow a core premise, she doesn’t feel overpowered, because you don’t end up feeling like she can do anything the plot demands

If a character is a magic-user then they’re essentially a reality warper. The scale of reality-warping their capable of will depend on their skill, their raw power, and the magic system at play. Now, there are arguments for hard magic systems and for soft magic systems, but I think even if you’re working with a soft magic system, a core premise helps a lot. I might make another post some day examining different magic systems (I think I’d specifically look at Avatar and at Chronicles of Ancient Darkness), but this post isn’t the time for an in-depth look at that.

There are also plenty of sci-fi reality warpers. There’s often some attempt at explaining it (”higher-dimensional beings” or “extremly advanced aliens”) but if you asked me, I’d say there were three main options for how to portray a genuine reality warper in a sci-fi story, without resorting to “space magic, but we don’t call it that.” These are: physics manipulation, higher-dimensional beings, and something I’ll call constrained omnipotence.

A physics manipulator would be someone who can locally alter the laws of physics. There’s two ways to go about this: changing the values of the physical constants, like G or c, or manipulating the quantum fields that define the laws of physics. If you go with the former… well, imagine you’re a computer programmer and decide to change one letter in one line of code, and you’ll start to understand how much this can mess things up. If you go with the latter, it’s probably a similar thing. I don’t understand much about quantum fields and how they interact just yet, but I do know that raising one a few energy levels in a specific place would a) take a lot of power, b) create some really Weird Physics in that place, and c) release a lot of potential energy when it goes back to normal. I’m talking “massive explosion”. The fun part, though, is that Weird Physics - I have no idea how it would look, but if we assume that the non-reality warpers can enter the Weird Physics Zone without blinking out of existence or dying horrifically, they’ll be faced with a world that doesn’t make sense. None of their technology would work properly, if at all. And in contrast, the reality warper might have tech specifically designed to work in the Weird Physics Zone. Remember that technology is just our way of taking advantage of physics to do cool stuff - a differently coded videogame is going to have very different glitches to exploit.

The point is, a physics manipulator can do certain things: they can make physics Weird and then take advantage of that weirdness. They can’t do anything the plot demands.

A higher-dimensional being’s whole deal is going to be that they move stuff around in more dimensions than we can see. There are a few videos on youtube demonstrating how that might look, if you wanna get an idea of how to depict something like that. And once again, a higher-dimensional being can do certain things: they can make stuff appear, disappear, distort, hover, et c. by moving it around in more dimensions than we can observe. If they’re 4-dimensional, they can move throughout time, and move objects throughout time. If they’re 5-dimensional or higher they can probably move through multiple timelines as well. They can’t do anything the plot demands.

And the last one is the constrained omnipotent character. True omnipotence is logically impossible - by definition it creates paradoxes - but we could conceivably have a character who can do anything within the bounds of physics. Presumably this character can use an insane amount of energy with an insane degree of precision, since that’s kind of required to do anything as long as it doesn’t break physics - but that’s also the point. They can do anything except stuff that breaks physics. Ergo, they can’t do anything the plot demands, only certain things.

tl,dr: no matter how powerful a character is, their powers should have some sort of core concept, as this will make them feel grounded even if they’re completly ludicrous on paper. You don’t have to explain in detail how their powers work, but if you keep that core concept in mind, then you can get a lot more creative with how they use their powers than just saying “ok, what does the plot need them to do?”

i will hold a conversation with my reflection in the mirror because well that’s not me

Could you elaborate on diffrent types of affirmations? From adding emotion to it, to asking yourself why you have everything you want.

The goal of affirmations is one, to revert your attention from what you don’t want to what you do want.

There are many subcategories including (but not limited to):

simple affirmations:

I am happy, my SP is in love with me, I have the job of my dreams, etc...

general affirmations (like simple but don’t have a specific focus):

I am the god of my reality, I am the woman/man that has it all, I am extremely lucky....

Askfirmations:

Why am I so happy?, why does everything always work out so well for me?, why do I always get what I want?....

These are meant to trick the brain into perceiving the contents of the question as true more easily. This happens because questions make our brain focus on the answer instead of focusing on doubting them.

Scripting:

“Omg Samantha you won’t believe it! I just got a phone call from that job I applied last week and they told me I was hired! I’m staring next week!”

Scripting is much like affirming but instead of using small sentences you create a little story (message, letter, etc..) and you read that. This is very convenient if you find yourself being bored of affirming or just can’t find the right affirmations.

Isn’t it wonderful:

Isn’t it wonderful that I am in this amazing relationship with the guy of my dreams?

This is much like any other askfirmation, it ultimately comes down to your personal preference wether you like to add it.

Adding feeling:

Feeling is a great way to make yourself believe your affirmations faster. People say that feelings don’t manifest which is true, but feelings do boost manifesting. (Though if you can’t do it don’t stress about it, focus on affirming and your all good.)

Phone call technique:

You can use your phone on flight mode with that if you like too. Just relax and imagine a phone call between you and either a friend where you’re tell them the good news (much like the scripting example) or between you and your SP/employer or whomever you want to manifest this conversation with. “Hear” them telling you what you want to hear from them or “hear” yourself telling them the good news and them responding excited. Repeat as needed.