Kelly, ive only just started your video, but ive been following you for ages, i just wanna shout out n give you some love & gratitude for all this great content youve been giving us since the beginning 🙏 you look fantastic btw!
One thing i learn is "which element do i feel the most disconnected with at the moment?" It sounds basic but elemental magick is always here for you and you never finished to understand the elements. So if you feel disconnected to spirit realms, try to connect to water. If you feel like you need new ideas, try air. Feeling parasisted? Lost? Try earth. Need more creativity or a boost to acheive something? Go with fire.
I love this. I talk about this in a few different videos - just going back to the absolute foundations, the very first concepts and energies you worked with when you were first trying things from books. Things can get very convoluted and fruity and sometimes it's nice to 'sweep everything off the table' and just meditate on the four elements, listen to their wisdom, create new intimacy with them. As you said - our understanding is never finished. There is always something fresh to discover, especially as we ourselves change and learn over time. Revisiting the elements is definitely something I would like to do this year. x
My sacred text is Celebrating the Southern Seasons by Juliet Batten. She tells you ways to celebrate the southern seasons from a Pagan, Maori and Christian perspective. It gives you the history behind the reasons why we/they do the things you do like feasting, harvesting, sowing, and collecting certain things. Yes, I do live in the Southern Hemisphere where the seasons are opposite.
25+ years a witch and I have just realized my current "Sacred Text" is sitting on my night stand - your two books! Rebel Witch and Witch in Darkness. They are so easy to open, pick a page and be inspired. They are revitalizing my zest for me and my experience in this life! Thank you for being so good at sharing information and points of view.
I was uncharacteristically feeling a little bit blah today for reasons unknown to me and then I watched this video and the blah just lifted 😊 Thanks Kelly-Ann, as always you're a bloody legend ❤️
I will definitely say… your work online and in print is ever divine. Definitely a place I draw comfort and inspiration from. Definitely the first read and watch that gave me back my autonomy, my drive, my will when it comes to my craft. I wish I had these words growing up as a child. I think I would definitely have less trauma responses to the world around. Thank you for your raw and healing offerings.
I think mine is going to be Norse mythology by Neil Gaiman and I really want to do a witchy curriculum of Norse paganism, Wicca, and Traditional/Folkloric Witchcraft
I love love love your idea of identifying personalized sacred texts. One that comes to mind for myself is The Way of the Rose by Perdita Finn and David Clarke. Another one is The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. I also really like the idea of a self deification practice. Thank you for taking the time to put this out for us!
Ok, I need to read it. It's been in the back of my mind that I need to read it for so long, but your comment just seriously knocked it to the top of the 'to be read' list. And it's a short story, too. But you know, I just never got around to it somehow.
@@nikolinethomson4874 I strongly suspect I will. I have read quite a few books where the central narrative is a woman describing her descent into madness. It's a key genre for me since my teens, when I wrote about my own descent into madness. 😉
Talking about aesthetics, i've barely started this practice but every 1-3 years i rebrand my self, persona, creativity, spirituality and etc. i still can do quick different aesthetics but in the 1-3 years has 1 main concept. In early 2018 - 2020 i had an antibullying theme, "the ugly colours" like wired shades of brown, green, pink, yellow were like the colour scheme, my songwriting like most my songs were on antibullying (2 other aesthetic eras) In october 2023 - mid 2024 i had a leaving religion aesthetic, with maroon, borwn, purple, red, orange aesthetic. I have songs about leaving christianity and into atheistic witchcraft. i became a witch on October 2023 starting a witchcraft practice and starting out. I got more jewellery, especially more feminine jewellery. I'm planing for july 2025 - 2027 to have a cosmic and space theme but also be green themed, they don't go well together but i think it reflects my younger optimistic side of me well. I want to reflect my pisces ascendent for a dreamy like contemporary fake 70s clothing. i want to release my debut music album, which will be alternative pop and i wrote most the songs and produced most of them.
Thank you Kelly-Ann for these 10 amazing ideas! Can’t even think of a single one when I’m in a rut but you came up with ten, wow! As a refresher I’m currently experimenting with box magick to manifest my intentions for 2025, all thanks to your recent video about box magick, so thanks as well for that one! And just now you also inspired me to share this intention of mine, which is to find a new secure job for 2025, and my prize for when I achieve it is to join your Patreon. I’ve been following you for a long while, read and loved your 2 books, I think it’s time I got involved with the Patreon goodness. I can’t wait! Thanks again for your beautiful, inspiring and uplifting work ❤
I just finished listening to and reading both your books! They are both well considered, down to earth, and practical. They are both exceptional! I'm glad Ivy interviewed you and gave me an introduction to you. I am grateful for your work.
Thanks for this Kelly-Ann, I'm inspired to choose my sacred text as Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Some of the best writing and life advice I've ever come across ❤❤
Oh babe, I fully feel your pain. From one skin-picker to another, these are my best tools: - Anthropomorphise the places you usually pick. Seriously. Name them. Give them a little character. See yourself as the caretaker of these beings you're trying not to harm. I actually talk to my fingers as though they are friends that I am disappointing because I gnawed at their heads again, hahah! I apologise to my fingers when I pick/bite them. It helps. It's witchy and it makes you conscious of what you are doing. - fidget toys/squishy toys/stress balls (I have them all over my flat to grab when in need) - squishy/fidget keyrings for when you're away from home (one of my keyrings is a squishable thingie.) - Regular application of lotion to the area (I don't pick when the skin is more moist and when I've just done some self-care by applying the lotion) - If you pick your hands/fingers, false nails can be game-changing, if you're remotely into them. I pick my fingers a lot less when I have them on. - Ask powerful beings to help you. Every single time I take the issue to my goddess, she helps me with it. But you need to do this consistently. If it's a very in-built problem, asking for help once won't work. you need to surrender the problem to them consistently so they can inspire you to change the habit. Hope the video had helpful stuff in it too. x
@ thank you endlessly!!! It’s been more or less a huge problem for me for over 10 years 😭 and yes of course, I find all your videos so refreshing and inspiring and I’m so glad I came across your channel 🤎 I want your books!!
Amazing video! I've been rewatching your older videos and I gotta say I really do miss housework rambles, cardslinger rambles and all other kinds of long and chatty videos. Curious if you'll consider doing videos like that again, as they really are such a lovely time to listen to 🖤
Glad you like them! I definitely still intend to get chatty whenever I'm in the mood. Those videos have always come around in cycles for me. I never consider that style of video to be 'over'. It's just whenever the mood takes me, so don't worry about that. ❤
Amazing, as always. I am always so inspired by your videos. I just finished Witch in Darkness and WOW. Rebel Witch changed my life, but this one may be saving it. So much love and gratitude.
Immediately following the results of the U.S. election in November, I canceled a (well-funded) deck set I was backing on kickstarter. I decided that expanding my deck collection is not where I want to focus my attention and monetary resources. 2025 is going to be a low-buy year and I am focusing on getting to know my decks better and deciding how best to work with some of them. I'm also likely to do some decluttering or repurposing.what doesn't work for me. I've had an idea for an oracle deck based on the astrological associations in Tarot rattling in my brain for the last year or so. I keep getting hung up on the logistics of getting a deck published. Maybe I just need to make it for me on something like Make aplaying Cards. I feel like working with Freyja again, so Runes and Norse mythology are on the agenda as well.
(Lurker raising my hand 🤚 lol) speaking of breaking a habit right out of the gate I’ve actually spent today putting together a witchy tool kit to help me quit smoking. Thank you so much for your books. ❤Witch in Darkness has definitely inspired me in my efforts today. I’d like to be more involved in witchy community online. I’m just very shy and I’m not sure how to overcome that besides just toughing it out.
Hey, so. To anyone who's reading: how do you deal with the fear of doing spells? I explain: I was of the philosophy that, with good intentions and clean energy, making like, an amulet to attract prosperity, for example, shouldn't go wrong. Right? It shouldn't, I'm just attracting prosperity. But there's something about the entities around me or the law of attraction or something that if I make an oil to attract prosperity, it will put me in the worst, most gut-wrenching job that pays me 50 bucks a month and call it a day. It doesnt matter if I follow instructions or my intuition, it always happens this way. I ended up dismissing the idea of casting spells, any spells, be them generic or specific. It just always goes wrong. I've cleansed, meditated on this, asked my ancestors, asked the gods, I did a lot of stuff and I don't know what's wrong. The wish comes true, but it's always for the worst. What would you guys do?
When you say this 'always' happens, how many times has it happened roughly? And were you always doing the same kind of spellcraft with very specific intentions attached to each working?
@@kelly-annmaddox Thanks for answering me! I am 31 and have been practicing since I was 11. I have done spells to attract love, to attract prosperity, to get jobs, spells for cleansing and healing, protection bottles and amulets, sigils, a few goddess rituals... unfortunately I have lost count of how many went askew, but I'd say 70% do so. I have tried specific intentions and generic, like, "I want this particular job at this particular time with this particular salary", and also "I want to attract prosperity and open the ways of abundance into my life". I've even tried affirmations such as "show me how good life can get". Usually I find trustworthy witches like yourself, with values that align with mine when it comes to witchcraft and spirituality, and get their books or videos to either inspire me or to follow to the letter, depending on how I feel about it. The thing is: spells are so much fun. It feels so magical, so good, like I'm connected with the universe and with myself. I just wish my spells didn't go so "wrong". They don't even need to go right, the feeling of doing them itself is already nice enough. I just end up afraid to do something that makes me feel so good because it has awful consequences. That part sucks.
Hey. I don’t usually respond to comments (or even make them) but your’s caught my attention. So I’m just gunna ask. Have you tried a spell to break a hex or a jinx or the like? (Whatever terminology you prefer) Although I should preface that by saying that everyone’s belief structures and paradigms are different. Like how in science there’s the concept of there being multiple dimensions all playing out at once? We’re all operating in different paradigms so if this doesn’t resonate with you don’t think twice on it. But you mentioned entities and in the beginning of my practice I had an experience with one that was less than pleasant. Right at the beginning when my awareness opened up to deity I also discovered I had this “thing” attached to me. Not really a demon. Less than that. I kinda think of it like an imp. Whatever it was it had to go. Now I wasn’t doing spell work in the beginning so idk if it would have made my spells go sideways but it did try to mascaraed itself as my guardian deity. Maybe next time you meditate on it try feeling out your own energy, then pushing that energy out around you and open up your awareness with it. I’ll admit it’s kinda like feeling around in the dark. But try opening up your awareness and see if you can sense something that shouldn’t be there. It might not necessarily be an entity. It might just be a vague energy. But if you can identify it then you’ve got a place to start. Again, if this doesn’t fit your belief structure feel free to forget it. Anyway, sorry this was so long, I do have a tendency to be long winded lol.
@@autumnrain814 no, no, that was great, thank you so much for your suggestion! I do believe in things like that, yes. Maybe that's it. But then banishing and cleansing rituals should help, right?
@ I think so. I’ll admit I had help from Cernunnos to get rid of mine. It probably depends on what it is on how you should handle it. Sorry that’s a bit vague but I’m shooting from the hip here lol. I would identify it first before deciding what to do with it. And I don’t mean like finding it in a reference book or anything but just feeling it out. It’s energy signature or if it has a shape. See if you can put your own descriptor to it like when I called mine an imp. The more you can focus in on it when doing your cleansing or banishing the better. Or maybe even a cord cutting if it is an entity. I know we usually think of using that with our attachments to other people but it just popped into my head if it is an entity of some kind.
i really need to use my magick to push past the mental block I have about driving this year, this reminded me I really should. to push myself I already booked the theory for may and i know... nothing 😓
Hello Kelly-Ann, I've been a lurker of yours for a couple years now. Thought I'd take your advice and drop you a message. I'm definitely a magpie, I have so many things I want to learn and don't know where to start. I also have mental health issues as well as a chronic illness. Building a practice I can keep up with seems impossible most days. In the two years I've been practicing my craft, I've kept things as basic as possible. It has helped me keep going but I'm so bored with things. Any tips for people with a chronic illness and mental health issues? Would a coven be helpful? Or an online course? Thanks for all you do! I truly appreciate your videos.
Thanks for sticking with me for the last couple of years, sweet lurker. 😉 My feeling is that the practice has to mould itself to your life rather than the other way around, especially if you have mental and physical issues. You don't need an albatross around your neck, as they say - you need something that actually works and serves you on an individualised level. I would recommend flipping your mindset so that you're no longer thinking about what kind of practice you could 'keep up with' and instead start thinking about building a practice that can keep up with YOU! The practice is FOR you, to make YOUR life better. It's not supposed to be some kind of difficult challenge that's harder to do with chronic pain and mental illness; it's supposed to be a practice that HELPS you with your chronic pain and mental illness. That means it might look different to what a lot of other witches do, but that doesn't matter. I would recommend asking yourself how witchcraft could make your life more fun/interesting/easy/stable/soothing. Ask yourself what witchcraft could do for your pain when you're in pain, or for your instability when you're unstable. Like, how is it going to serve you during your difficulties? (Remember, you do not serve the craft; the craft serves YOU. The craft is a collection of tools and ideas to help YOU.) Remember, when you're ill, you need to find different ways to witch. The world is ableist as fuck, so the witchcraft world has some of that ableism in it too. One of the ways I got really good at astral travel was having a back injury and having to lie around in bed on combinations of strong pain relief all day. I built kingdoms there! I practiced and practiced. I trod the astral grounds a lot and did really meaningful workings. To anyone else, I was just a woman in a bed, on medication, probably half-asleep. But I knew what I was doing. You don't have to think of your time doing witchcraft as any time you spend at the altar. Notice where else you're doing it. Chronic illness sufferers do a lot of witchcraft when they're experiencing their symptoms or escaping from them. They do a lot of liminal work. Obviously, depending on what your mental health issue is, you need to decide what is safe and healthy to do. But yeah - witchcraft should be FULLY customised for the chronically ill and slightly mad witches, like you and me. x
@@kelly-annmaddox Thank you so much for your reply! I wasn't expecting such a lengthy response! You are right, I've been looking at my practice from the wrong perspective. That I could be using my 'down time' for my practice more. I've become a pro at dissociation just to deal with eveything that it's become a real problem. I could be using those moments for something productive, instead of an escape! I've wanted to be the witch with a witchy schedule of sorts, but my body doesn't work that way. I have too many days of pain or with vertigo that I can't plan for things like normal people. But I kept trying, LOL, cause I'm stubborn sometimes. I have to work on doing what I can in the moment, not what I wish I could do if I felt 'normal'. Thank you again for pointing out that I had it all backwards. Sending all the hugs your way!!
I also have this dreaded feeling that WHY aren't our guides, gods, deities, godesses, ancestors etc. Helping the Palestinians? Where are the divine interventions and where are all the guides? Why aren't they helping the Palestinians? Just feeling very low about it all
My personal view on gods is very changeable. But one thing that seems to have always been a cornerstone for me to one degree or another is that I think gods are supposed to be examples and inspirations to us, rather than interventionists in our human drama. I very rarely ask Hel to put her power into changing something on the earthly realm, for example. Instead, I ask her to inspire me to figure out how I can be a part of the change I want to see. In my mind, she is not there to intervene in anything. She's there to fill me with the bravery and integrity required to be someone who intervenes myself. I chose to journey with divine beings because I saw the inherent value in connecting with energies that could motivate me to do more with my life and be more courageous. With their power on my side, I wanted to see what could be achieved through me rather than through them. They might move an obstacle aside for me from time to time, but ultimately it is my journey and I need to align myself with their virtues and demonstrate them on the earthly level, as a form of devotion. I understand your despair about Palestine. It's honestly killing me. It's terrifying to witness and to be unable to stop it is intolerable.
I would like to join the witches for Palestinian raffle but I cannot do Instagram because I need to protect my energy from social media so it’s a decision never to get an insta account (or tic toc). Is there any other way I can join?
Thank you for wanting to donate to a good cause darling. I've copy and pasted the text from Activist Witches IG post below on how to enter 💖 1) make a donation of £5 or more to @cwtchestogaza2024 via their PayPal.me/giasgirl1 2) send proof of donation at witchesforpalestine@gmail.com You will receive an email reply with numbers assigned to you and That will be your Raffle entry. Cwtches to Gaza get your donation immediately and can help the families they are supporting in Cairo and the evacuation fund for Remas (13), Omar (3), and their mum Sana. You can win: Tarot readings Grimoire pages Custom mood boards 1:1 counselling sessions And more are added every day! Check out the list of witches and prizes involved at witchesforpalestine.start.page/
Kelly, ive only just started your video, but ive been following you for ages, i just wanna shout out n give you some love & gratitude for all this great content youve been giving us since the beginning 🙏 you look fantastic btw!
❤❤❤ Thank you so much, angel x
I will agree and second this comment!!! Such medicine ❤
@@HeathenBotanicals Thank you, doll xx
I third!!!
One thing i learn is "which element do i feel the most disconnected with at the moment?" It sounds basic but elemental magick is always here for you and you never finished to understand the elements. So if you feel disconnected to spirit realms, try to connect to water. If you feel like you need new ideas, try air. Feeling parasisted? Lost? Try earth. Need more creativity or a boost to acheive something? Go with fire.
I love this. I talk about this in a few different videos - just going back to the absolute foundations, the very first concepts and energies you worked with when you were first trying things from books. Things can get very convoluted and fruity and sometimes it's nice to 'sweep everything off the table' and just meditate on the four elements, listen to their wisdom, create new intimacy with them. As you said - our understanding is never finished. There is always something fresh to discover, especially as we ourselves change and learn over time. Revisiting the elements is definitely something I would like to do this year. x
My sacred text is Celebrating the Southern Seasons by Juliet Batten. She tells you ways to celebrate the southern seasons from a Pagan, Maori and Christian perspective. It gives you the history behind the reasons why we/they do the things you do like feasting, harvesting, sowing, and collecting certain things. Yes, I do live in the Southern Hemisphere where the seasons are opposite.
Been taking time off from my practice during my pregnancy; now that it's almost over, I'm ready for a fresh start in my craft
25+ years a witch and I have just realized my current "Sacred Text" is sitting on my night stand - your two books! Rebel Witch and Witch in Darkness. They are so easy to open, pick a page and be inspired. They are revitalizing my zest for me and my experience in this life! Thank you for being so good at sharing information and points of view.
🥹💖 LOVE this 🤭
I was uncharacteristically feeling a little bit blah today for reasons unknown to me and then I watched this video and the blah just lifted 😊 Thanks Kelly-Ann, as always you're a bloody legend ❤️
I will definitely say… your work online and in print is ever divine. Definitely a place I draw comfort and inspiration from. Definitely the first read and watch that gave me back my autonomy, my drive, my will when it comes to my craft. I wish I had these words growing up as a child. I think I would definitely have less trauma responses to the world around. Thank you for your raw and healing offerings.
I think mine is going to be Norse mythology by Neil Gaiman and I really want to do a witchy curriculum of Norse paganism, Wicca, and Traditional/Folkloric Witchcraft
I love love love your idea of identifying personalized sacred texts. One that comes to mind for myself is The Way of the Rose by Perdita Finn and David Clarke. Another one is The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. I also really like the idea of a self deification practice. Thank you for taking the time to put this out for us!
I FUCKING LOVE WAY OF THE ROSE 😋😋😋
on the subject of your book (i hope you see this!), it was on the display shelf of my local bookstore the other day! front and center!!!!
Ok I fucking love this. I reckon a subscriber works there. 😉😋 My dollfaces, keeping my books out front.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. For sure!
Ok, I need to read it. It's been in the back of my mind that I need to read it for so long, but your comment just seriously knocked it to the top of the 'to be read' list. And it's a short story, too. But you know, I just never got around to it somehow.
@kelly-annmaddox it's worth a read for sure. I hope you love it as much as I do!
@@nikolinethomson4874 I strongly suspect I will. I have read quite a few books where the central narrative is a woman describing her descent into madness. It's a key genre for me since my teens, when I wrote about my own descent into madness. 😉
I have 3 books by Joey Morris that I've been using for a year now as sacred text and it really is amazing having, ty for the suggestion.
Oooh, I have a Joey Morris book somewhere.. Thanks for reminding me. 🤩
It is always so exciting to listen to you and put new things into practice ❤❤
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it x
This was so inspiring. Thanks so much.
Talking about aesthetics, i've barely started this practice but every 1-3 years i rebrand my self, persona, creativity, spirituality and etc.
i still can do quick different aesthetics but in the 1-3 years has 1 main concept.
In early 2018 - 2020 i had an antibullying theme, "the ugly colours" like wired shades of brown, green, pink, yellow were like the colour scheme, my songwriting like most my songs were on antibullying
(2 other aesthetic eras)
In october 2023 - mid 2024 i had a leaving religion aesthetic, with maroon, borwn, purple, red, orange aesthetic. I have songs about leaving christianity and into atheistic witchcraft. i became a witch on October 2023 starting a witchcraft practice and starting out. I got more jewellery, especially more feminine jewellery.
I'm planing for july 2025 - 2027 to have a cosmic and space theme but also be green themed, they don't go well together but i think it reflects my younger optimistic side of me well. I want to reflect my pisces ascendent for a dreamy like contemporary fake 70s clothing. i want to release my debut music album, which will be alternative pop and i wrote most the songs and produced most of them.
Thank you Kelly-Ann for these 10 amazing ideas! Can’t even think of a single one when I’m in a rut but you came up with ten, wow! As a refresher I’m currently experimenting with box magick to manifest my intentions for 2025, all thanks to your recent video about box magick, so thanks as well for that one! And just now you also inspired me to share this intention of mine, which is to find a new secure job for 2025, and my prize for when I achieve it is to join your Patreon. I’ve been following you for a long while, read and loved your 2 books, I think it’s time I got involved with the Patreon goodness. I can’t wait! Thanks again for your beautiful, inspiring and uplifting work ❤
This was an excellent and incredibly informative video. Thank you so much Kelly-Ann!
I just finished listening to and reading both your books! They are both well considered, down to earth, and practical. They are both exceptional! I'm glad Ivy interviewed you and gave me an introduction to you. I am grateful for your work.
Thank you for investing! I'm thrilled you enjoyed reading them 😍 I LOVED my chat with Ivy, was a pleasure to be invited on her channel ❤️♥️💗
Thanks for this Kelly-Ann, I'm inspired to choose my sacred text as Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things. Some of the best writing and life advice I've ever come across ❤❤
Thank you Kelly-Ann for such a great video. Amazing ideas that I plan to put into practice soon
Fabulous video … brill suggestions! Thank you 🙏
My word of the year is Honour…you have set me on the right track. Blessed be 🖤
I’ve been wondering how I can use magic to help myself stop compulsively picking at my skin so thank you for suggesting that other video 😭
Oh babe, I fully feel your pain. From one skin-picker to another, these are my best tools:
- Anthropomorphise the places you usually pick. Seriously. Name them. Give them a little character. See yourself as the caretaker of these beings you're trying not to harm. I actually talk to my fingers as though they are friends that I am disappointing because I gnawed at their heads again, hahah! I apologise to my fingers when I pick/bite them. It helps. It's witchy and it makes you conscious of what you are doing.
- fidget toys/squishy toys/stress balls (I have them all over my flat to grab when in need)
- squishy/fidget keyrings for when you're away from home (one of my keyrings is a squishable thingie.)
- Regular application of lotion to the area (I don't pick when the skin is more moist and when I've just done some self-care by applying the lotion)
- If you pick your hands/fingers, false nails can be game-changing, if you're remotely into them. I pick my fingers a lot less when I have them on.
- Ask powerful beings to help you. Every single time I take the issue to my goddess, she helps me with it. But you need to do this consistently. If it's a very in-built problem, asking for help once won't work. you need to surrender the problem to them consistently so they can inspire you to change the habit.
Hope the video had helpful stuff in it too. x
@ thank you endlessly!!! It’s been more or less a huge problem for me for over 10 years 😭 and yes of course, I find all your videos so refreshing and inspiring and I’m so glad I came across your channel 🤎 I want your books!!
You're amazing Kelly-Ann! Hope you have an incredible year to come!🖤
Kelly Ann these are some really good tips. Happy and super magickal new year to you btw ❤❤❤
I always feel so inspired after watching your videos. p.s. have been meaning to say how gorgeous your collage backgrounds are.
Amazing video!
I've been rewatching your older videos and I gotta say I really do miss housework rambles, cardslinger rambles and all other kinds of long and chatty videos. Curious if you'll consider doing videos like that again, as they really are such a lovely time to listen to 🖤
Glad you like them! I definitely still intend to get chatty whenever I'm in the mood. Those videos have always come around in cycles for me. I never consider that style of video to be 'over'. It's just whenever the mood takes me, so don't worry about that. ❤
Great ideas and perfect timing! Also, I love bibliomancy ❤
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I get so happy when one of your videos pops up. You are wise beyond your years. Thanks for all of these great ideas!
Much love to you!
🤭🥹💖 Thank you darling thats really kind of you. Very fizzy about upcoming content this year 😌
Wonderful ideas. So inspiring. Thank you.
Super useful! Loved this video ❤❤❤❤ thank you 🙏🏼
I love the background. I love The Smiths. I love the video 😊
hehehe I LOVE this t shirt. Was gifted to me by my closest friend 🥰💖😍
Thank you so much for sharing this 👍 best wishes with the new year
Kelly-Ann, you really are an inspiration 😘 Thank you for everything you put out there!
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Amazing, as always. I am always so inspired by your videos. I just finished Witch in Darkness and WOW. Rebel Witch changed my life, but this one may be saving it. So much love and gratitude.
😍♥️🤗 Thank you for investing in my work darling!!
I read runes everyday but I think it's time to remeet them and write down what they mean to me in contrast with traditional meaning.
Immediately following the results of the U.S. election in November, I canceled a (well-funded) deck set I was backing on kickstarter. I decided that expanding my deck collection is not where I want to focus my attention and monetary resources. 2025 is going to be a low-buy year and I am focusing on getting to know my decks better and deciding how best to work with some of them. I'm also likely to do some decluttering or repurposing.what doesn't work for me.
I've had an idea for an oracle deck based on the astrological associations in Tarot rattling in my brain for the last year or so. I keep getting hung up on the logistics of getting a deck published. Maybe I just need to make it for me on something like Make aplaying Cards.
I feel like working with Freyja again, so Runes and Norse mythology are on the agenda as well.
Ty need this❤
(Lurker raising my hand 🤚 lol) speaking of breaking a habit right out of the gate I’ve actually spent today putting together a witchy tool kit to help me quit smoking. Thank you so much for your books. ❤Witch in Darkness has definitely inspired me in my efforts today. I’d like to be more involved in witchy community online. I’m just very shy and I’m not sure how to overcome that besides just toughing it out.
Thank you for sharing and having the courage to comment darling! I'm delighted WID has inspired you. 🥹😍🤗
@ thank you 💖 I’m trying my best.
Hey, so. To anyone who's reading: how do you deal with the fear of doing spells? I explain: I was of the philosophy that, with good intentions and clean energy, making like, an amulet to attract prosperity, for example, shouldn't go wrong. Right? It shouldn't, I'm just attracting prosperity. But there's something about the entities around me or the law of attraction or something that if I make an oil to attract prosperity, it will put me in the worst, most gut-wrenching job that pays me 50 bucks a month and call it a day. It doesnt matter if I follow instructions or my intuition, it always happens this way. I ended up dismissing the idea of casting spells, any spells, be them generic or specific. It just always goes wrong. I've cleansed, meditated on this, asked my ancestors, asked the gods, I did a lot of stuff and I don't know what's wrong. The wish comes true, but it's always for the worst. What would you guys do?
When you say this 'always' happens, how many times has it happened roughly? And were you always doing the same kind of spellcraft with very specific intentions attached to each working?
@@kelly-annmaddox Thanks for answering me! I am 31 and have been practicing since I was 11. I have done spells to attract love, to attract prosperity, to get jobs, spells for cleansing and healing, protection bottles and amulets, sigils, a few goddess rituals... unfortunately I have lost count of how many went askew, but I'd say 70% do so. I have tried specific intentions and generic, like, "I want this particular job at this particular time with this particular salary", and also "I want to attract prosperity and open the ways of abundance into my life". I've even tried affirmations such as "show me how good life can get".
Usually I find trustworthy witches like yourself, with values that align with mine when it comes to witchcraft and spirituality, and get their books or videos to either inspire me or to follow to the letter, depending on how I feel about it.
The thing is: spells are so much fun. It feels so magical, so good, like I'm connected with the universe and with myself. I just wish my spells didn't go so "wrong". They don't even need to go right, the feeling of doing them itself is already nice enough. I just end up afraid to do something that makes me feel so good because it has awful consequences. That part sucks.
Hey. I don’t usually respond to comments (or even make them) but your’s caught my attention. So I’m just gunna ask. Have you tried a spell to break a hex or a jinx or the like? (Whatever terminology you prefer) Although I should preface that by saying that everyone’s belief structures and paradigms are different. Like how in science there’s the concept of there being multiple dimensions all playing out at once? We’re all operating in different paradigms so if this doesn’t resonate with you don’t think twice on it. But you mentioned entities and in the beginning of my practice I had an experience with one that was less than pleasant. Right at the beginning when my awareness opened up to deity I also discovered I had this “thing” attached to me. Not really a demon. Less than that. I kinda think of it like an imp. Whatever it was it had to go. Now I wasn’t doing spell work in the beginning so idk if it would have made my spells go sideways but it did try to mascaraed itself as my guardian deity. Maybe next time you meditate on it try feeling out your own energy, then pushing that energy out around you and open up your awareness with it. I’ll admit it’s kinda like feeling around in the dark. But try opening up your awareness and see if you can sense something that shouldn’t be there. It might not necessarily be an entity. It might just be a vague energy. But if you can identify it then you’ve got a place to start. Again, if this doesn’t fit your belief structure feel free to forget it. Anyway, sorry this was so long, I do have a tendency to be long winded lol.
@@autumnrain814 no, no, that was great, thank you so much for your suggestion! I do believe in things like that, yes. Maybe that's it. But then banishing and cleansing rituals should help, right?
@ I think so. I’ll admit I had help from Cernunnos to get rid of mine. It probably depends on what it is on how you should handle it. Sorry that’s a bit vague but I’m shooting from the hip here lol. I would identify it first before deciding what to do with it. And I don’t mean like finding it in a reference book or anything but just feeling it out. It’s energy signature or if it has a shape. See if you can put your own descriptor to it like when I called mine an imp. The more you can focus in on it when doing your cleansing or banishing the better. Or maybe even a cord cutting if it is an entity. I know we usually think of using that with our attachments to other people but it just popped into my head if it is an entity of some kind.
i really need to use my magick to push past the mental block I have about driving this year, this reminded me I really should. to push myself I already booked the theory for may and i know... nothing 😓
Hello Kelly-Ann, I've been a lurker of yours for a couple years now. Thought I'd take your advice and drop you a message. I'm definitely a magpie, I have so many things I want to learn and don't know where to start. I also have mental health issues as well as a chronic illness. Building a practice I can keep up with seems impossible most days. In the two years I've been practicing my craft, I've kept things as basic as possible. It has helped me keep going but I'm so bored with things. Any tips for people with a chronic illness and mental health issues? Would a coven be helpful? Or an online course?
Thanks for all you do! I truly appreciate your videos.
Thanks for sticking with me for the last couple of years, sweet lurker. 😉 My feeling is that the practice has to mould itself to your life rather than the other way around, especially if you have mental and physical issues. You don't need an albatross around your neck, as they say - you need something that actually works and serves you on an individualised level. I would recommend flipping your mindset so that you're no longer thinking about what kind of practice you could 'keep up with' and instead start thinking about building a practice that can keep up with YOU! The practice is FOR you, to make YOUR life better. It's not supposed to be some kind of difficult challenge that's harder to do with chronic pain and mental illness; it's supposed to be a practice that HELPS you with your chronic pain and mental illness. That means it might look different to what a lot of other witches do, but that doesn't matter.
I would recommend asking yourself how witchcraft could make your life more fun/interesting/easy/stable/soothing. Ask yourself what witchcraft could do for your pain when you're in pain, or for your instability when you're unstable. Like, how is it going to serve you during your difficulties? (Remember, you do not serve the craft; the craft serves YOU. The craft is a collection of tools and ideas to help YOU.)
Remember, when you're ill, you need to find different ways to witch. The world is ableist as fuck, so the witchcraft world has some of that ableism in it too. One of the ways I got really good at astral travel was having a back injury and having to lie around in bed on combinations of strong pain relief all day. I built kingdoms there! I practiced and practiced. I trod the astral grounds a lot and did really meaningful workings. To anyone else, I was just a woman in a bed, on medication, probably half-asleep. But I knew what I was doing. You don't have to think of your time doing witchcraft as any time you spend at the altar. Notice where else you're doing it. Chronic illness sufferers do a lot of witchcraft when they're experiencing their symptoms or escaping from them. They do a lot of liminal work.
Obviously, depending on what your mental health issue is, you need to decide what is safe and healthy to do. But yeah - witchcraft should be FULLY customised for the chronically ill and slightly mad witches, like you and me. x
@@kelly-annmaddox Thank you so much for your reply! I wasn't expecting such a lengthy response! You are right, I've been looking at my practice from the wrong perspective. That I could be using my 'down time' for my practice more. I've become a pro at dissociation just to deal with eveything that it's become a real problem. I could be using those moments for something productive, instead of an escape! I've wanted to be the witch with a witchy schedule of sorts, but my body doesn't work that way. I have too many days of pain or with vertigo that I can't plan for things like normal people. But I kept trying, LOL, cause I'm stubborn sometimes. I have to work on doing what I can in the moment, not what I wish I could do if I felt 'normal'.
Thank you again for pointing out that I had it all backwards. Sending all the hugs your way!!
The Queen is dead! Alain Delon! Love it!
I also have this dreaded feeling that WHY aren't our guides, gods, deities, godesses, ancestors etc. Helping the Palestinians? Where are the divine interventions and where are all the guides? Why aren't they helping the Palestinians? Just feeling very low about it all
My personal view on gods is very changeable. But one thing that seems to have always been a cornerstone for me to one degree or another is that I think gods are supposed to be examples and inspirations to us, rather than interventionists in our human drama. I very rarely ask Hel to put her power into changing something on the earthly realm, for example. Instead, I ask her to inspire me to figure out how I can be a part of the change I want to see. In my mind, she is not there to intervene in anything. She's there to fill me with the bravery and integrity required to be someone who intervenes myself. I chose to journey with divine beings because I saw the inherent value in connecting with energies that could motivate me to do more with my life and be more courageous. With their power on my side, I wanted to see what could be achieved through me rather than through them. They might move an obstacle aside for me from time to time, but ultimately it is my journey and I need to align myself with their virtues and demonstrate them on the earthly level, as a form of devotion.
I understand your despair about Palestine. It's honestly killing me. It's terrifying to witness and to be unable to stop it is intolerable.
Thank you for responding, this does help in changing my viewpoint about their role. This was something that disturbed me so much, so thanks again
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Kelly-Ann, do you have some suggestions for online communities whether in the UK or US?
I don't have one, but I'd love to know what other people's religious texts are.
💞 The Smiths 💞
I would like to join the witches for Palestinian raffle but I cannot do Instagram because I need to protect my energy from social media so it’s a decision never to get an insta account (or tic toc). Is there any other way I can join?
Thank you for wanting to donate to a good cause darling. I've copy and pasted the text from Activist Witches IG post below on how to enter 💖
1) make a donation of £5 or more to @cwtchestogaza2024 via their PayPal.me/giasgirl1
2) send proof of donation at witchesforpalestine@gmail.com
You will receive an email reply with numbers assigned to you and That will be your Raffle entry. Cwtches to Gaza get your donation immediately and can help the families they are supporting in Cairo and the evacuation fund for Remas (13), Omar (3), and their mum Sana.
You can win:
Tarot readings
Grimoire pages
Custom mood boards
1:1 counselling sessions
And more are added every day!
Check out the list of witches and prizes involved at witchesforpalestine.start.page/