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Do you actually live in a Ghibli film? (Asking for a friend)

Let’s see…

  • I’m a witch
  • I live with five cats
  • I also live with two mice and a rabbit
  • I live in a small meadow on the edge of a large forest
  • I have a bountiful garden
  • Almost all my veggies are home-grown or from the local farm stand
  • I love cooking, baking and cleaning
  • Tea is life
  • I like to go outside and just be
  • I passionately focus on my studies 
  • I harvest wild plants and make medicine from them
  • I have my own little apothecary 
  • I’m chronically ill and often bed bound
  • I savor the little things
  • I find beautiful landscapes and sit among them
  • I almost constantly have lovely instrumental soundtracks playing (x)
  • I have an agreement with the spirits and animals in my forest
  • I get along with animals better than people
  • I love going on trips for the sake of the trip

I’m not saying I live in a Ghibli movie but… I could. 

How I romanticize my life/make it more Ghibli-like (1) (2)

hi! so i have a few spirits that live in my room and there’s this lil hallway that leads to the bathroom in my room and in the hallway on each side are my closets and they both have sliding mirror door and my bathroom itself has a ton of mirrors and i’m 99% sure they come thru the mirrors and they don’t feel evil i think they’re just curious i just wanted to know what offerings or spells or smthn can i do/put out so they know we can be friends and they’re allowed to stay as long as they’re nice?

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I applaud you for taking time off from college to get better. I’m chronically ill and trying to tackle my sophomore year. I got really sick and am now in the hospital it’s very hard to be chronically ill and balance school.

Thank you, I really appreciate that! I absolutely adore college and intensive learning so it was a hard decision to take a break. But the stress was making my (already declining) health decline faster. College will be there when I’m ready.

I hope you’re able to recover quickly and find the best balance for you. Sending love, healing energy and spoons ❤️

Not really an ask, Just wanted to say, I love your blog, you inspire me to do more magic then i have ever before, i was raised by my grandmother who taught me some wicca at a young age, and when she passed away I took a step back, I stopped really doing any magic, let alone anything but sleep and smoke, I found your blog a while back, and I just… I want to thank you for giving me the courage to keep casting. My magic died with my grandmother, thank you for resurrecting me.

This makes me so happy to hear. I’m grateful that my blog has been able to reconnect and re-inspire you to your craft and your connection to your grandmother. Blessings for luck and courage to continue your path ❤️

any tips for beginning witches? i’m just starting off and have no idea where to start!! any ideas? thank you! xxxxxxx

I’d recommend checking out my FAQ series:

hello witch mom, tysm for your ghibli aesthetic post! but where i live it’s cold and gloomy most of the year. i’m freezing even in the summer sometimes and my hands are cold most of the time so i’m really not looking forward to even more coldness… do you have any tips to romanticize fall/winter ghibli style? you feel like someone who’s a pro at this :D

Oh I feel that so hard, I live in the greater Seattle area which is just dreary and gloomy and dark and has a constant drizzling, freezing rain for a majority of the year. It’s not excessively cold but it’s always perfect hypothermia weather. Cold and wet.

Here’s my other post on it, for anyone who is curious! (a couple of these are copied and pasted from there!)

  • Romanticize everything!!!
  • Fires. I have a woodstove which is our only source of heat in the cold months and I love tending it and being around it! Bonfires/outdoor fires are also nice!
  • Candles. You know how it goes “candles are how we keep fires as pets”. How cute is that!?
  • Baths. Baths are a huge part of ghibli scenes! Take a nice hot bath (or shower). Burn some candles, add some bath salts or oils, make it really enjoyable.
  • Hot drinks. Feel the warmth radiating from the mug into your hands. Savor the heat as you sip it and it spreads throughout your body. 
  • When bundling up to go outside, make it feel like your preparing for a big adventure. Also wear a cute scarf or hat or something!
  • Make it a part of your day to open all the windows and let that little amount of light in.
  • Make soup. Really take the time to make it. Chop those veggies, prepare those ingredients, sprinkle those spices and add that broth with love. 
  • Take up a project. Sketching, painting, knitting, crocheting, quilting, embroidering, felting, etc.
  • Clean. Clean your bedroom, do the laundry, wash the dishes, vacuum/sweep the floors. Listen to some music!
  • Really take the time to tend to your home (living space). This place is your escape from the weather, from the cold. You can make it how you want it to be. So take care of that!
  • Cuddle with a pet!
  • Find something that you’re excited about doing while you’re stuck inside. For me, that’s reading and knitting. 
  • Try to look at the things the cold brings with awe this year. The puddles from the freezing rain, the way the frost glints in the sun, the way the snow covers a landscape and makes everything quieter. And relish in the wildness of dirty snow water, the streets having little rivers along the sides (or middle) from rain, the ice making everything slippery. There’s a lot of moments in Ghibli with the less desirable aspects of the world in them!
  • Buy/prepare herbal teas to help with the sickness that comes with the colder months. 
  • Allot yourself a morning or evening with nothing to do. Keep it technology free and do what makes your heart happy. Read a book, cuddle with a pet, doodle, clean.
  • Invite your friends over, make a feast, have a movie marathon, etc.
  • Leave some birdseed out for the birds. Make it a ritual that forces you to go outside. Maybe leave it somewhere where you can stand with your hot drink and watch the birds for a while.
  • Find solace in the escape of warm places. The coffee shop, the library, the grocery store. Everyone in there survived the weather outside and made it to this little slice of heavenly warmth.
  • Make your life a fucking aesthetic. Make it what you want it to be. It won’t be perfect, but if it makes you happier then it’s worth it. 
  • Watch Ghibli movies!
  • Do what makes your heart happy!!!

I’m humbly curious about saving sigil designs you’re proud of. If you’re aiming to discard and forget to make it work, would it be counterproductive to have a copy of the design somewhere that you may look at again someday? Or does it matter once it manifests? Sorry if it’s a tough question. Newbie here. Hope you’re doing well!

I totally save my sigil designs! I used to keep them in a pocket in my grimoire, but now I post them here so I don’t really need it. I’d just draw them on a piece of paper, add a nullifying sigil at the top and keep them so you can use them again later!

And it really depends on the sigil, some are made for a very specific, one-time thing. I don’t save those. Other sigils I’ve made for myself or others to use repeatedly, so I save them!

hello friend I’m sorry to ask this but I’ve been lookin for a while now and can’t really find an answer and if I do it’s not something I feel is right for me but I just got a new tarot deck for the first time? How can I break it in? And is there anything I should do/any specific questions? Thank you so much I appreciate it ✨🐝

Hi! Congrats on getting a new deck!