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Storm-Water-Witch

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When to Consult Divination

  • You're stuck in the decision-making process and want help thinking through it from a different angle.
  • You need to sort out your thoughts. Divination is good for breaking out of a circular thought process and approaching it in a different way.
  • You want something to focus and reflect on for the coming day/month/chapter in your life.
  • You need a second opinion on something spiritual.
  • You want something to aid your planning process by suggesting steps and strategies
  • You want advice for how to tackle a situation.

When NOT to Consult Divination

  • You're fishing for a specific answer and just want something to validate you. Your bias WILL get in the way of the truth.
  • You want very specific details about a future that hasn't happened yet. (What will my husband be like? When will I meet him? How many kids will I have?)
  • You want to know what someone is thinking/feeling/hiding. Literally just communicate with them.
  • Asking if you should break up with someone. It's like Googling "am I gay quiz." If you're at this point you already know the answer.
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Making Your Own Divination Methods

I'm a firm believer in the idea that divination is an extremely flexible tool, and anybody can develop their own unique methods for practicing it. There are a few common elements to all divination types which make them reliable, and they feel pretty obvious but it's still good to make it explicit. As long as your new method has these, you should be good to go.

A way to receive a message/response. Simple enough. Whether it be pictures, the movements of birds, overheard bits of conversation, or the way different symbols fall on a mat, you need to receive something to interpret. Simply asking a question to the Universe with no established way to get an answer wouldn't really be divination. It can be as abstract or nebulous as you want, but you should know what it is.

An established method of interpretation before you start. Depending on your method of choice this could be really broad, but you should have a general idea of how you'd interpret different messages going in. Deciding how to interpret the message after the fact opens itself up to bias since you can just decide what the answer means. Granted, when you're developing new methods you're inevitably going to run into messages you didn't consider, but even if it's just "good symbols=good outcome, bad symbols=bad outcome," that gives you the ability to accept messages you might not want, and that's important. If it only tells you what you want to hear, that's not reliable.

An element of randomness/something out of your control. In my opinion, this is what makes something divination to begin with. You can't control which card you draw from a blindly-shuffled deck, which plant grows faster when you treat them the same, which number a die lands on. If you have complete control over the message, then it's not going to be effective or reliable because it's too easy to manipulate.

Some random examples to show what I'm talking about:

  • Once I used a simple method of divination when a food company catered the summer camp I worked at for a day. The food boxes each came either an M&M cookie, regular chocolate chip cookie, or oatmeal raisin cookie. It was random which one you got because you couldn't see inside the boxes. I decided that each of these cookies meant yes/good, neutral, and no/bad respectively, then would ask a question before I selected my box.
  • I also really enjoy using Rory's Story Cubes for divination. You cast them on a mat and use the abstract symbols as different hints toward the message, especially how they worked together in concert with eachother to develop more complex ideas.
  • A local bar I enjoy has a lot of graffiti in the bathroom stall. When I go there, I let my eyes fall wherever they lay and interpret the first piece of graffiti I see as my message for whatever question is on my mind. That said, I go to this bar a lot and am getting pretty familiar with what messages are where, so I may retire this method soon.
  • I also collect TY Beanie Babies and have a chest full of them. Sometimes I'll mix them around, then reach in and draw one, using the poem on its tag as my message for the day.
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General Advice for Beginner Witches

A brief masterpost of some of my advice posts for beginner witches and the episodes of my podcast dealing with the same. (There is UPG here, particularly where marked, as I base a good deal of my advice on my own experience and observations of other witches.)

Hex Positive Podcast Episodes

  • Hex Positive, Ep. 04 - Advice for Beginner Witches (July 2020)
  • Hex Positive, Eps. 6-7 - Come In For A Spell 1 & 2 (Sept 2020)
  • Hex Positive, Ep. 12 - Witching From The Broom Closet (Jan 2021)
  • Hex Positive, Ep. 24 - Warding A Witchy Home (Dec 2021)
  • Hex Positive, Ep. 27 - When Inspo Takes A Holiday (March 2022)

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Tarot Grammar: from noun to verb

Having trouble figuring out what a card is doing? Try nouning the verb! Here’s some suggestions to start with. Like grammar, your usage can be flexible, and you should always feel free to make up new language rules to suit your style.

0. The Fool - Fooling I. The Magician - Ensorcelling II. The High Priestess - Scrying III. The Empress - Impressing IV. The Emperor - Impelling V. The Hierophant - Sanctifying VI. The Lovers - Loving VII. The Chariot - Charging VIII. Strength - Empowering IX. The Hermit - Hermiting X. The Wheel of Fortune - Wheeling and Dealing XI. Justice - Adjusting XII. The Hanged Man - Enduring XIII. Death - Dying XIV. Temperance - Tempering XV. The Devil - Bedeviling XVI. The Tower - Falling XVII. The Star - Fusing XVIII. The Moon - Phasing XIX. The Sun - Announcing XX. Judgement - Committing XXI. The World - Revolutionizing

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Willow Wings Witch Shop - January 2026 Newsletter

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Happy New Year, witches! Bit of a rough start to the year, but we remain tenacious and determined. We survive and thrive in spite of The State Of Things, and to do so, we set ourselves up for success where we can. Thus, this month’s features all deal with magics to prepare for the months ahead and to set the stage for our dreams and goals to have the best possible chance of succeeding.

This Month’s Featured Items:

  • Empowerment, Prosperity, & Protection Bottle Charms
  • Success and Health Wealth & Happiness Moon Jars
  • Witch Web Kits (All colors back in stock!

No markets and no merch drop this month, just to give myself a little time to recover from the holidays, but there’s still a poll up on my Patreon for next month’s release. Make sure you check that out and cast your vote to help pick one of the items for February! (If you’re not a subscriber yet, make sure you sign up to help pick next month’s merch drop!)

In place of this month’s merch drop, I’ll be sending out an email when the books are back in stock, since that shipment should be arriving soon. Make sure you’re signed up for the email list so you don’t miss it!

Use code LETSGOWITCHES for 20% off new and featured items all month long! 

Don’t forget to check out the Upcoming Events page for my full schedule of local markets and workshops. Tune in to Hex Positive on your favorite listening app and check out the Redbubble shop for fabulous podcast merch.

Stay Safe and Happy Witching! 🎉

Upcoming Events:

The Witches Table Discussion Group: Williamsburg Chapter First Wednesday of each month - dates TBA NEW LOCATION! - Virginia Beer Company, Williamsburg VA

Enchanted Book Fair Saturday, February 7 2026, 4pm-8pm As Above So Below 25 E Mellen St, Phoebus VA (USA) Hosted by Izzy’s Apothecary / See Which Books

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