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What is the book of shadows?

The book of shadows is a book/journal people who practice any kind of witchcraft or sourcery keep to write down infomation, ingredience, and records of their craft. And most pages also involve chants and prayers (abit like a bible or quran used by religeous people) some also include runes especially those who are advanced at the craft and prefer to keep their crafts secrate.

In ancient times it was unknown, never seen or found out weather or not witches had books or journals recording their crafts like we do today, We beleive the reason being is because witchcraft was illigal and if found or confessed could lead to excecution or any accusation lead to torture for a confession. Witches would generally pass infomation down to each other orally or were known to folow their own instincts and use their own intuition and had great power to cast how they liked or thought and felt without any given infomation, its because of them that today we find infomation from people who are blood born with witchcraft families who have had infomation passed from centuries and would often write books to reveal this to people today.

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Naomi Gibbons

Re: Tarot deck for beginners

hello hix, 
here are alist of place to try for you to order a deck :)
you would preferbly need a guide book to help you as they are full of infomation about the card, and meanings of the cards ect some books even show you basic layouts too.

Freyas couldron: https://www.freyascauldron.com/shop/search.php?q=tarot

the works: https://www.theworks.co.uk/p/tarot-books/tarot-box-set/9781488910227?CAWELAID=720011340002510564&CATARGETID=720011340002497956&cadevice=c&gclid=CjwKCAjwpfzOBRA5EiwAU0ccN9YGFxGFwhKhVcIz-9bTw3Yi8FcFqPaRDJH6YS3NPoeAwzvW7ajX1xoCYcIQAvD_BwE

Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/190976876327?chn=ps&dispItem=1&adgroupid=46178569849&rlsatarget=pla-355015756484&abcId=1128926&adtype=pla&merchantid=7275394&poi=&googleloc=1007266&device=c&campaignid=856228942&crdt=0

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Naomi Gibbons

Beginning a Reading - for beginners

When you are reading for yourself or for a friend, sit comfortably and lay out the cards on a clean, protected surface. As you consciously make space for the cards, you are creating a psychological space for yourself and anyone you are reading for.

Take the cards and shuffle them. If reading for a friend, you can ask them to shuffle the cards. the shuffling is important because you need to think of your question as you do this, Allowing events and emotions to surface. you may find that you conciously or unconciously turn cards upside down. if you are a baginner, you may prefer to turn them upright, but as you feel increasingly confident with your readings you can leave the cards in the reversed positions and refer to the reversed interpretations. Shuffle until you feel you are ready to stop, then cut the deck twice with your left hand, making three piles, Place the last cut on top of the remaining pile, Deal the cards from the top of the pile, Face down. For the simpler spreads, some readers prefer to spread the cards in a fan shape, and select the cards individually, While some prefer to ask the person they are reading for to do this. Choose whichever method you feel is intuitively right for you.

you are now ready to lay a spread, or arrangement of cards, ready for a reading.

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Naomi Gibbons

Tarot deck for beginners

Here is all the infomation you need to know about the tarot deck.

The standard tarot deck consists of 78 cards, comprising 22 major arcana cards and 56 minor arcana cards.
The word arcana is latin in derivation, and means secrate.

The origin of Tarot is the subject of much debate. It has been suggested that they were conceived in Egypt and their name is a corruption of Thoth (The ancient Egyptian god of magic) conversely, others beleive that tarot cards began in china, India, or ancient Greece.
There is some evidence that cards existed in fourteenth-century Germany, Belgium, and France (The word Tarot is the french name for the cards) but the first reference to the Tarot as we know it, with its major and minor arcanas, was in Italy during the fifteenth century.

There is no rule about acquiring tarot cards. Superstition holds that it is unlucky to buy your own cards or, conversely, that it is equally unlucky to be given them. Buy them for yourself or others, and receive them with grace. The essential part of working with the cards is to choose those that instinctively appeal to you.


When working with a new deck of cards, it is important that you become familiar with them. some tarot readers suggest sleeping with the deck under your pillow for the first seven days that they are brought into your home. weather you decide to do this or not, it is important to spend time studying each individual card, and look up its associated interpretation. Take note of those cards with which you feel less comfortable, and consider their positive meanings. quite often, These are the "Bad" cards, such as The tower, Death, or the Devil. However even those cards that appear unfortunate usually have a good side, offering insight and a constructive way to deal with even the worst circumstances.

Finally it is important that you dissuade people from playing with or using your cards, particualy when you are still bonding with a new deck. the cards are sensitive to your energies. so the more you handle them, the more accurate the readings are. other peoples energies can cause confusion, therefore, always be the last person to touch them after a reading. keep your cards wrapped in black or dark purple silk in a favourite box when they are not being used. always care for them and treat them with respect.

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Naomi Gibbons

Powerful love spell

Powerful candle love spell

what you will need:

• 4 white pillar candles
• 1 yellow candle
• 1 orange candle
• 1 green candle
• 1 purple candle
• 1 pink candle
• 1 red candle.
• plate, tile or platform for the center of your altar to put candles on.

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Naomi Gibbons

SAMHAIN ALTAR

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Naomi Gibbons

Zodiac Signs

lists of signs and dates to put in your book of shadowes.

Aquarious: January 20th - Febuary 18th
Pisces: Febuary 19th - March 20th
Aries: March 21 - April 19th
Taurus: April 20th - May 20th
Gemini: May 21st - June 21
Cancer: June 22 - July 22
Leo: July 23rd - August 22nd
Virgo: August 23rd - September 22nd
Libra: September 23rd - October 23rd
Scorpio: October 24th - November 21st
Sagittarious: November 22nd - December 21st
Capricorn: December 22nd - January 19th

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Naomi Gibbons

SAMHAIN

Samhain is the holiday in which we celerbrate what is commonly known as Halloween. 
witches however call this Samhain and is our new year, during this time we celerbrate the cycle of Death and Rebirth.
this usually takes place on october 31st.
Traditionally our altars would be decorated with the colours Orange and brown with pumpkins and rituals containing pumpkin seeds, pumpkin juice and pumpkin spice.

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Naomi Gibbons

The Pentacle

For all you beginners who have recently just entered the craft i have a basic explenation of the pentacle for you and i will make it very easy to understand. we will get to the more advansed stuff once this discussion has been understood and a different topic will be created in time :)


Here we have the 5 pointed star which often has a circle around it and we call it the Pentacle.
The pentacle represents our 5 elements that we often use in our spell work. Spirit - Ourselfs, Water - Cleansing, Fire - Heat, Earth - Grounding, and Air - words we speak. the meanings for the elements are my own beleifs and how i use them in my own spell work, you can choose your own.
Not only do witches use this in spell work but we also use it in astrology too, all the zodiac signs are grouped into each elemts and resembles the personalities of the zodiac signs too, the topic on this will be continued in a different discussion about astrology and elements.

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Naomi Gibbons

MAISY SUNBATHING

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Naomi Gibbons