Sean The War Witch

Harvey Milk If you do not know who Harvey Milk is then this is where you find out! If you haven't already realized I am a part of the LGBTQIA family. I am a non-binary witch. I go by he/they pronouns. Today is Harvey Milk Day.  Harvey is an important part of LGBTQIA history. Just like the rioters at Stonewall they played an important part in obtaining equality for our community. They started it all by standing up to New York city police and their continuous raids on gay bars. Being gay in the 1960's was illegal. This was only 60 years ago people. Our rights are still being threatened and we are still dying for the fight for human rights. Fighting for basic HUMAN RIGHTS is in our blood. (Note: Tip your drag queen!!) The day was started by the Harvey Milk Foundation and what put into California law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009, through perseverance, and a movie titled " Milk ", it passed in the California Assembly and Senate, via petitions from...

Okay Witches! I thought I would let you dive into a look in my Book of Shadows! Or in this case Books of Shadows. I have a few. Guess what? That is okay! BOOM! You can have more then one spiritual book for yourself. Like come on you will eventually run out of room, it's just going to happen. You can even designate a theme to each Book of Shadows you own. I have three for all of my Tarot work. Another two for all of my spells and experiences that I have had. And a new one for my dreams. (Especially after Theresa Reeds Twitter post about sleep. I had a few weird dreams and I should probably start writing them down!) You can even do one for just crystals, plants, earth magick, water magick, or whatever that you want! There are so many ways you can create your book of Shadows too. You can create it to be nothing my artsy, like drawing out the spells and recipes, or creating it to be so extravagant that you have a regular old tome, like from Charmed! Anyway you would like to create yo...

Personal Altar First and foremost your altar space is something that you set up for yourself and no body else! There is no wrong way involved with setting up your altar. You can have flowers or crystals or nothing of the sort on it. It is all up to you. But for this blog post, I am going to discuss what I like to do to set up my altar for my practice! For my spiritual and magickal practice, I follow the Ancient Egyptian pantheon, like Sekhmet, Bastet, Anubis, Horus, Isis, and so on. I tend to tailor my practice towards the energies of those particular gods and goddesses. The first Goddess that has ever really called to me was Sekhmet out of this pantheon and, eventually, she became my Matron Goddess. This is the one that is at the head of all your practice. She is the one I like to talk and honor the most. When I set up my altar, I do it with the intention that I wish to convey into the practice. So if I am doing something that brings healing, I will collect items that sig...

If you didn't hear it, May is National Teen Self-Esteem month. This month was created to bring awareness to the struggles of adolescences. Being a former teen, I get it! The peer pressure, the hormonal changes, and just trying to figure out yourself. So what are some things that you can do to boost your teens self-esteem? First, don't expect them to be what you want them to be. That is the first mistake. They are still human beings and are unique. Try to expand that uniqueness by supporting them in anything they do. I can say this as a former teenager myself. I felt pressured to be something I never was just to fit in. Not only for my parents, because I didn't want to let them down, but to also be safer at school. So another thing is to teach them how to stand up for themselves and tell them that it is okay. Fight that school tooth and nail for your kid. Don't let them walk over your kid or you. I can strongly say that my parents taught me that and I am better for...

You may have not known, but it was Mothers' Day yesterday! May 10th, 2020. And in light of that I did a little research into the history of the day. I have another business, massage therapy, and I do a blog there too, and for that blog site I wanted to do a Mothers' Day post. So I dived in for some research and I found out who was the mother of Mothers' day! And how it was inspired to become a day. But, since that is separate form this blog, I did more research into history. I found that we have always celebrated the Divine Feminine. Not just with a day and festivities, but even a week of honoring the Divine Feminine. Not all countries celebrate mothers day, but we do here in the USA. This is what I found out about the history of it here in the US.... Mother's day is celebrated every year on the second Sunday of May, established as a National Holiday on May 9th 1914 by Congress. The first "real"time it was celebrated was on May 10th, 1908 by Anna Jarvis. ...

So, whatcha all doing? Screwing? LOL!!! I'm totally kidding, please don't tell me! But I have noticed that my life has become one giant TikTok series, because there isn't much else to do. I have been writing, reading, and TikTok-ing my life away in this quarantine. I must say I am one of the lucky few that still have a job, because it is considered "essential." So I will say I'm blessed by the gods for that, but I have also been thinking on where I want my life to go. Do I stay at my dead end job that offers no fulfillment what so ever? Or do I bite the bullet and just quit to try and bring in fulfillment into my life? I have noticed that I have been able to do more since I only have the one job. Pre-Quarantine, I was massaging and working in an office answering phones. At that point I had to time to just...LIVE! I am now able to repair the house, plant flowers, spend time outside and in nature. I even have time to Pokemon hunt! Got to catch them all you kno...

Maypole Not to be confused with "red alert" from star trek! This is the first day of the month of May! Also known as May Day or Beltane! This is a fire festival that has been celebrated in Ancient Gaelic times. This is where everyone celebrated the union of the God and Goddess and in bringing new life back. It happened after the April showers. Hence the saying "April showers bring May flowers." Just kidding. I have no idea if that is when that came along. But I do know that this is a festival where you can dance around the Maypole! Clothing optional. *wink, wink* The maypole was a pagan phallic symbol of fertility and you would wrap colorful ribbon about the pole to symbolize the colors of spring and dance around it. When the Romans invaded the Isle it was still celebrated, but to Flora the Roman goddess of flowers. This festival today is celebrated by neo-pagans all over! It is a fun festival and I intend to celebrate! I want to celebrate, especially during...

Ethereal Visions Tarot by Matt Hughes Your mind is about to be BLOWN!!!! That's right Tarot and advancing your own personal craft! So first thing is first you're going to need a tarot deck, a black cat, a broom, and your glass of wine. Just kidding on the cat and broom, but you will need a tarot deck or an oracle deck and that glass of wine, because fuck it! Life's hard! So if someone tells you that you need to be gifted one first, no disrespect, but bull shit. Go buy one! Especially during this time, get it from a local bookstore, or small online business! Some links to those below! But now, how do you use that cartomancy to your help your witchyness? So, grab that oracle or tarot deck and let's get started. What I have learned, out of this in advancing my own craft, is firstly, do some Shadow Work. It is something hard, but it is a good confidence builder. Because, you are able to get to know yourself a little better. And that is how you are able to gain the i...

Happy Earth Day everyone! This is a holiday that is celebrated around the world. Why? Because it is in honor of this beautiful planet that we live on and how it can take care of us, if we take care of it. The first earth Day was on April 22nd, 1970. It launched awareness that we could easily poison our environment, and in turn, us. With that empowering knowledge, it gave birth to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Endangered Species Act. What can you do to help this planet? There are many ways that you can help protect the big, blue home we live on. Here are a few ideas! Reduce, reuse, recycle Bike more, drive less Volunteer to clean up trash Plant a tree or plant a plant that emits a lot of oxygen Buy less plastic Use long lastly light bulbs Don't put chemicals in waterways Educate Etc. and so many more! There are many ways that you can help the planet we live on. Check out the links and videos below! Get some fresh perspective of this...

So if you have been following this months posts then you know there are a few tarot spreads that I have done and liked! But what are my favorites? And why? Well there are a few that I loved using, just for the main reason of that, they are just cool! That's right they are just fun to do! So why not do them! Tarot doesn't have to be all dark and twisted during this time. There are a few that are positive. But then there are a few that are both, and a few that are negative that can be good. I will do a count down to my 5 favorite spreads that I have found or made up on the fly! 5. This is a three card spread turned 6 because I made it up on the fly! This one is mainly for shadow work, but it still can be a positive thing because it will help you heal from past wounds. I made this up after reading "Symptoms of being Human" by Jeff Garvin (Shameless plug for an amazing read), and it just came to me. I had drawn 3 cards for the 3 major feelings I was feeling at that mo...

During this exciting quarantine time, just kidding you are probably bored out of your own skull at this point, why not just do some self realizations. I am sure you are feeling some type of way right now, especially since you are spending so much time on your own. Why not just do some tarot spreads to help yourself out! Realize some things that you can do to help yourself heal and realize things that you need to grow. Most cases this is called Shadow Work, and I have definitely been doing this very thing recently. It can be a hard thing to face yourself, but sometimes it is necessary to heal and grow. So the blog for this week is all about that personal growth. The good and the bad. Because let's be real, tarot can call your ass OUT! So grab your tea, blanket, and tissues for when you do this. Grab things that can comfort you as you work the tarot and right it down. Then I strongly suggest to take a nice ritual bath, use some bath salts and imagine all this to run down the drai...