faintheartless:

For many of us, the cold weather is rolling in so why not use these chilly days for some witchery🌧 To help with the visualisation of charging objects, blow over them whilst outside and your frosty breath will smother the object beautifully, enchanting it as you wish it to!

purplebuddhaproject:

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
(via purplebuddhaquotes)

evilsupplyco:

Folklore: “Here are various ways to keep ghosts out of your home.”

Ghosts, sniffing sadly: “We didn’t want to come in anyway.”

heatherwitch:

I spend a lot of my time wildlife tracking, these are based off of the animal’s baseline behavior and gaits! This can be used with the track itself, a plaster cast, an image of the track, whatever. Note: I’m only including the animals I most commonly track in my region.

• Black Bear – Confidence, forging a new path, taking what you want, uncaring, large but timid. 
• Bobcat – Being unseen, exploration, awkward but pulling it off, observer, intuition. 
• Cougar – Stealth, power, laziness, badass but dorky, achieving goals. 
• Coyote – Curiosity, relaxed, distracted efficiency, being the center of attention, trickster.
• Crow – Self-confidence, boldness, community, making yourself heard, bravery.
• Deer – Awareness, thinking things through, gentleness, quick action, standing your ground.
• Domestic Dog – Uncontrolled energy, passion, pure happiness, instinct, curiosity.
• House Cat – Observing, cautious but not quite enough, feeling out of place, instinct, memory.
• Rabbit – Caution, friendship, endless cycles, listening, playfulness. 
• Raccoon – Bold, powering through, resourcefulness, not giving a shit, caring for others. 
• River Otter – Playfulness, grace, paternal energy, having fun without worrying about the consequences, using what you have. 
• Wolf – Efficiency, companionship, being the top dog, grace, resting, family. 

heatherwitch:

You came to the right place my friend!! I’ve been hoarding collecting field guides since I was a kid 😀

North American wildlife books:

• Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America on my tracking weekends I carry this book with me to help figure out what areas to look for animal sign based off of animal habits!
• National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North America I’m by no means a birder but this book has almost always met my needs!
• Audubon Field Guide to North American Birds* fills in the gaps and is super helpful for confirming ID.
• Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species is the BEST guide for identifying the feather you find (and it may have been written by some acquaintances of mine)
• Audubon Field Guide to North American Reptiles & Amphibians* has always met my basic ID needs!
• Peterson Field Guide to Insects of North America is great when you find that weird lil critter and wonder what it is.
• Audubon Field Guide to Butterflies* fills in the gaps but is less needed!
• I know that was an info dump but I’ve found Peterson and Audubon to be pretty reliable, and this is just a broad base if you’re interested in naturalist stuffs!
• **Audubon has a bunch of apps too!!

PNW specific:

• Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest Okay so I am a little biased about this one because one of my mentors wrote it, but it’s honestly a super helpful book that introduces the basics of wildlife tracking and covers most PNW mammals! I bring it everywhere!
• Birds of Washington is a great beginner book and its color-coded!

• Field guide to the Cascades & Olympics I haven’t personally used this one much but it’s a really well-rounded book (local geology, mushrooms, plants, insects, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals).

• Audubon Field Guide to Rocky Mountain States honestly applies to everything East of the Cascades. Covers a lil bit of everything!

PNW specific plants (sorry I couldn’t resist!!):

• Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast if you don’t have this book, GET IT. Even if you don’t really care about plants. It covers most of the basics and you will turn to it eventually. Mine is so well-loved that it’s falling apart.
• Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West + Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West were both forced upon me when I was a little nerdy child by my mentor. Super helpful if you’re interested in wild plant medicine! Not so much for plant ID!
• I tend to use Audubon more than Peterson, but I have a LOT of plant books because you usually have to cross-reference (or have 6 different books out in my case) to ID plants. Again, there are apps out there too! 

Whew! That was maybe 1/10th of my books? Probably lower than that! I’d be happy to recommend more specific things too, I most likely have a couple of books covering the topic 🙂