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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Aphrodite's Garden. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #witchsky #pagansky #deities #aphrodite

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A Sexy Garden Ruffles a Venerable British Flower Show

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Today’s ritual tip: A drum is like an additional person in your ritual. Bad drumming is as bad as a disruptive person in your ritual. The drummer should watch the rite leader and speed up, slow down, go quieter, go louder and the rite requires. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky #RitualTips

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Today’s ritual tip: After a public ritual an elder said to me, “It’s not that they couldn’t raise energy, it’s that they didn’t do anything with the energy they raised.” It just fizzled out. What do you do with ritual energy? #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky #RitualTips

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

No, but there's no paywall. You can read it for free. I did know a group that did meet in their dreams.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I have had lucid dreams but it does not come to me easily. How about you? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #WitchSky #PaganSky #OccultSky

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Opinion | The Mind-Altering Power of Lucid Dreaming

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Today’s tip: If you expect to burn a candle completely, put an insulating layer of salt, sand, or cat litter between the candle & the dish. Go double if you're using incense charcoal. Use with metal dishes, too, so you don;t scorch the surface under it. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

And make sure their words and actions are plausibly the same as a named spirit/deity they claim to be.

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🌷🧿 khthoniaa 🧿🌷 @khthoniaa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"How do you know if you can trust a spirit?" The same way you learn if you can trust another living person: I take my time to get to know them & study their actions, values, motivations, and goals. You absolutely don't have to immediately trust any spirit who shows interest in you. #OccultSky

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

No, I learned my chants in the Midwest, East Coast, and the Southeast. I moved around a lot! But since the Reclaiming chants were recorded, a lot of people knew them. Don't worry about music, people will be most comfortable with something simple that they can learn quickly. Think Gregorian!

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🌷🧿 khthoniaa 🧿🌷 @khthoniaa.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Witch Tip: One way that you can practice the skill of discernment is to use the "CRAAP Test" to determine whether or not a source of information is trustworthy and viable for your research. It's much harder for misinformation to lead us astray when we take time to evaluate sources first. #OccultSky

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Library Guides: Evaluating Resources and Misinformation: CRAAP Test

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

That is a great resource, thank you for sharing it!

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

If you only want recorded music for a particular moment, someone has to detach from the group energy in order to fiddle with controls. Do not like. Live music, though, if the singers/players are in sync with the flow of the ritual, it's lovely. But if a song takes too long, it stops the flow. 4/4

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I dislike using recorded music mostly from back in the day when using the controls on cassette or CD players made disruptive click-clunk noises. Of course, if you have music on continuously, you avoid that, but then you have to hope/assume the music matches the flow of the whole ritual. 3/

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Fast forward. I now live on the west side of the Rockies (the Continental Divide is real) & hardly anyone knows them. In my private coven, we don't do much singing but I would like to. I use some kind of chanting in big groups because it helps create a group mind. 2/

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Interesting question. Back in the day ('80s, '90s) there were chants that most everyone seemed to know. We used those a lot. But that was when we met far more often f2f. Like kids share songs and games in the playground, we learned them from each other. 1/

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

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Judge Rules That R.F.K. Jr. Overstepped on Transgender Care

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

...directing energy can be done with wands. We spoke of "cutting" a circle (out of ordinary space) or cutting a door in the circle, etc. The people I work with now don't use them much which feels odd to me. You always wore your athame in circle.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I use it to cast circles, to direct energy, to salute the quarters, to draw sigils in the air and sometimes use the broad edge to snuff out candles. It's really an all-purpose tool in the circles in which I was trained. We really didn't use wands, although a number of these things, especially 1/2

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🌷🧿 khthoniaa 🧿🌷 @khthoniaa.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Light and Heat go hand-in-hand in physics and the metaphysical. So, if you're not a visualizer, instead of seeing Divinity as Light, it may be easier for you to *feel* Divinity as Heat. #WitchSky #OccultSky

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Today’s tip: Focus on quality work over quantity. The conundrum is, it may take a lot of so-so work before you consistently get quality work. Keep at it. But remember, practicing with bad mechanics does not make you a better tennis player. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Presence or lack of a daily routine does not make nor unmake a Witch. Value quality over quantity!

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Today’s tip: It’s perfectly OK to look up Tarot card meanings in the book. Everyone starts that way. In time it’ll come together for you. Over time some cards may talk to you with different meanings; if that works for you it’s good. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky #Tarot #divination

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

You are so right. I've lead rituals from 5 to 500 & more & in both cases you need to keep people engaged with the ritual energy. Of course I could tell some horror stories of public rituals where the facilitators seemed to be doing everything possible to shut the participants out!

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

It came to TikTok via a TV show. But the issue isn't whether it's traditional, the issue is whether it is strong, clear, and effective. Spells where you are actively doing something have more oomph that spells where you are sitting and watching something. And then there's the fire hazard thing.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

With my own layout I usually read reversals for the first few cards and then upright after that. I read reversals as something blocking the energy of the upright card. In some cases, that's good. But I have often told clients that their homework is to turn that card rightside up.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Indeed. That spell is a fire hazard!

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I am sure there are people who make it work, but that doesn't mean it's efficient. Cut the danged cord and get it over with!

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I'd never seen the candle thing until the last few years.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It's more efficient and effective to mop my floor than clean it bit by bit with paper towels. But maybe you learned to do it bit by bit with paper towels so you prefer that. But the mop is still more universally effective whether you like it or not.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Today's unpopular opinion: Cord cutting should involve the active use of a sharp tool to cut an actual cord. Watching and waiting for a candle to burn a cord is passive. There are many ways to do things but some things are more effective than others. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Today’s ritual tip: Before there was theater there was ritual. Theater's roots are in ritual. Don’t be afraid of being “theatrical”, theatrical is historically correct. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky #RitualTips

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Today’s ritual tip: If you need to teach a chant do it before the ritual starts. Note that most people are not going to remember more than two or three lines of something new. It can be longer if lines repeat or if some people know it already. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky #RitualTips

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

That's always the question, isn't it. Make what you have a need for. There's no extra credit given for excess. There's always going to be another moon, even another eclipse. Such waters are nice to have but not mandatory.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Pretty sure that's true. There's a family story about it, but who knows, he came to America alone.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Today’s ritual tip: If you want everyone to step a certain way or do hand/arm/body movements at certain times in the rite, explain and practice with the group before the ritual starts. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky #RitualTips

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I don't know anything about my ancestors farther back than my grandparents, except that my paternal great grandfather was a farmer. But because my grandfather was so intentionally vague about it, not even sure where. Somewhere in eastern Europe.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Today’s tip: Ancestor reverence doesn’t mean you revere everything and anything an ancestor did. Just acknowledge that without that chain of ancestors, you would not exist. Could be producing you is the best thing any of them ever did. Say thanks for that. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

You don't have to honor them for their lives, you only need to acknowledge that without them, you would not exist. It can help to think of that as the one good thing they did.

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience." -W.E.B. Du Bois, educator, activist, and writer (23 Feb 1868-1963)

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Lunareflect @lunareflect.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Intuition check: if you already know the answer but keep pulling cards.. you’re not asking, you’re negotiating. #witchcraft #witchsky #witch #intuitivewitch #intuition #intuitivewitchcraft

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Today’s tip: You can read all the books you want but you can’t ski until you strap on the skis and head down the mountain. #WitchSky #WitchTips #PaganSky #OccultSky

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Phaedra Bonewits @phaedra-b.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Which is not to be confused with "anything you do will work."

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