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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1 Oct 26🌖♊️🌥️85F🐇🐇 10 Vendémiaire honoring the Vat, Annie Besant b. 1847, St Thérèse of Lisieux, Kalends, Fidelia, Eleusinia, Sukkot, Vigil for Religious Freedom in China, Harvest Home, St Remigius Herb: St Remy’s Lily • Nerine humilis Card: Paracelsus’ Dreams Tarot • XIV Temperance: keep in balance

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “The name Remigius (Remy) comes from remi, to feed, and geos, earth, one who feeds earthlings with sound doctrine. Or the name comes from remi, shepherd, and gyon, wrestling, one who tends his flock and wrestles. Remy fed his flock with the word of his preaching, the good example of his life, and the support of his prayer. Moreover, there are three kinds of arms—for defense, such as the shield, for attack, like the sword, and for protection, like the breastplate and the helmet. Remy struggled against the devil with the shield of faith, the sword of the word of God, and the helmet of hope. His life was written by Hincmar,
archbishop of Rheims. Remy was a glorious confessor of the Lord, noted for his learning. His birth was foreseen by a hermit in the following manner. When the Vandal persecution
had devastated the whole of France, a certain recluse, a holy man who had lost the sight of his eyes, prayed the Lord for the peace of the Church in France. An angel appeared to him and said: ‘Know that the woman named Cilina will give birth to a son, Remy by name, who will free his people from the attacks of their wicked enemies.’ When the hermit awoke, he went immediately to the home of Cilina and told her all he had seen in a vision. She did not believe him because she was already old.” — Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, trans. William G. Ryan, late 13th century, 1993. Below the text is a card with a skeletal crane and frog and very tiny print quotes from Paracelsus; a clear plastic fountain pen; a swatch of black ink; and a droplet-shaped bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

30 September 2026🌖♉️☀️87F 9 Vendémiaire honoring the Parsnip, St. Jerome, Maetresse Delai, Meditrinalia, Eleusinia*, Sukkot*, Feast of Hathor, St. Gregory the Illuminator Herb: Blue Pimpernel • Lysimachia monelli & Aspen • Populus tremula Card: Occult Strategies • Explore oceans of other planets

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “A country name for the aspen is the Shivver-tree, a name which in some districts is also given to the poplar. The leaves of both trees tremble at the slightest stirring of air, so that they seem to move without ceasing when all
around is still. Because of this, both trees were formerly credited with the power to cure agues and fevers. A very old magical tradition held that ailments could most efficaciously be treated by something that resembled their effects; and since ague causes the patient to shake and tremble, he was likely to be healed by the shaking tree. In his Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties, William Henderson relates the story of a Lincolnshire girl who was thus cured of ague. She was advised to pin a lock of her hair to an aspen, saying as she did so, ‘Aspen-tree, aspen-tree, I prithee to shake and shiver instead of me.’ As was usual in such charms, her journey home had then to be made in complete silence, otherwise the magic
would not work. She followed the advice given, and many years later, when she was an old woman, she told Henderson’s informant that she had never been troubled with ague again. Another method was to bore a small hole in
the tree-trunk, insert the patient’s nail-parings, and close the hole securely. As the bark grew once more over the opening, so the disease would disappear.” — Christina Hole, ed, Encyclopedia of Superstitions, (1961), 1974. Below the text is a card with with small black print on a white background reading Explore oceans of other planets; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of deep red ink with red shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

29 Sept 2026🌖♉️☀️83F 8 Vendémiaire - Amaranth, Michaelmas, Feast of the Archangels, Manman Aloumandia, Eleusinia, Sukkot, Honor Utu/Shamash, Michael Servetus b1509 Herb: Michaelmas Daisy • Aster tradescanti or Tripolium pannonicum Card: Literary Witches • Anna Akhmatova • endurance: create through it

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “‘A sincere love of Christianity beams forth in every page of the work I have before me. His great anxiety was to restore religion to that purity, which he believed it to have lost. The doctrine he opposed was not that of Christ; it was that of the churchmen who had established, in his name, their own vain and fleeting opinions. The best proof that Calvin and Melancthon had deserted the mild, the charitable, the peaceful religion of truth, and that they followed not the divine precepts of their gentle Master, was, and is, that they pursued, even unto death, a helpless, poor, and learned man.’ It is well known that Servetus was denounced by Calvin to the government of Geneva, and that the civil authorities referred the case back to Calvin. ‘At the instance of Mr. Calvin and his associates he was condemned to be burnt alive ; which sentence was executed October 27, 1553. He was upwards of two hours in the fire; the wood being green, little in quantity, and the wind unfavourable.’ It is not now the fashion to burn a man for heresy : the modern mode is to exaggerate and distort his declared opinions; drive him from society by forging upon him those which he disclaims ; wound his spirit, and break his heart by continued aspersions; and,
when he is in his grave, award him the reputation of having been an amiable and mistaken man.” — Williams Hone, The Every-day Book and Table Book, or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, London, 1831. Below the text is a card with an illustration of Akhmatova in a shawl holding a potato with a folk art bird above her and the dead below; a sparkly peacock blue dip pen; a swatch of brownish red ink; and a droplet-shaped bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

28 Sept 26🌖♉️☀️77F 8 Vendémiaire honoring Carrot, Confucius’s birthday, Eleusinia, Sukkot, Sidonia von Borcke executed 1620, St Wenceslas Herb: Eustochium’s Rod • Solidago sempervirens & Hairy Hawkbit • Leontodon hirtus Card: Magickal Botanical • 10 Hellebore • Helleborus niger: spend some time alone

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “In European folklore, it was said to be one of the many toxic herbs used in witches’ flying
ointment, as it could grant invisibility and was considered to be an evil omen as it grew in
secluded places. In ancient Greece and Rome, it was used to relieve madness. This ‘medicine’
came from the myth or legend that Melampus observed the effect that eating hellebore had
on goats. He used their milk to treat the ‘mental derangement’ of the daughters of the King of Argos. You are, I suppose, no longer mad if you are dead. The herbalist John Gerard scoffed at people who strewed or perfumed their houses with hellebore to keep away evil spirits. In German and English folklore, black hellebore was seen as an herb of purity, associating it with Agnes, a virgin saint. It was planted by the front door or the dried root sprinkled around the house to keep evil spirits at bay. Black hellebore had to be gathered ritually both to be effective and to protect the person collecting it. Different sources emphasize different steps, but in short, one should eat garlic and drink some wine beforehand, go barefoot and clad in a white robe. Draw a circle around the plant with a sword, turn toward the east to offer prayers to Apollo and Aesculapius, pluck it from the ground with the right hand, then under the cover of the robe, convey it to the left hand. Leave an offering of bread and wine and look out for eagles.” — Victoria Raschke (me!), A Witch’s Book of Days, Chicago, 2026. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a feminine figure with a garland of hellebore for hair & the symbols for Venus, Saturn, Mars, Water & Poison; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of brownish red ink with green sheen; and a droplet-shaped bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Morning Pages 27 September 2026🌖♈️⛅️74F 6. Vendémiaire honoring Impatiens, Merlin Stone b. 1931, Eleusinia*, Sukkot*, Pitrupaksha begins*, Hunt of Ishtar*, Anat* Herb: Winter Cherry • Physalis alkekengi Card: Occult Tarot • 9 of Cups • 31 Foras - teaches logic, ethics & the values of stones & herbs

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Cherry, Winter. Latin binomial: Physalis alkekengi L. French names: alkékenge, alicacabut, cloqueret, herbe à cloques, vésicaire. Elemental qualities: cold and dry (alchemical symbol for the element of earth) Ruling planet: ♀ [symbol for the planet Venus or female] (apud Piobb) Zodiacal signatures: ♉ and ♎. Occult properties: The winter cherry, or Chinese lantern, has bechic, expectorant, and febrifugal properties. Its fruits, known as bladder cherries, are diuretic in action and are particularly effective in the treatment of edema.” — Paul Sédir. Occult Botany, Rochester Vermont, (1902), 2021. “Winter Cherry has been used successfully in intermittent fevers, dropsy, rheumatism and skin complaints. It is an hepatic stimulant.
Dioscorides recommended the plant as a cure for epilepsy and other herbalists refer to it as a remedy for gravel which the urinary symp-
toms it produces confirms. It has been used for stiffness and paralysis, and in the country is re-
garded as the right remedy to take after scarlet fever. On the Continent the berries are eaten as other fruit. The Physalis minima, an Indian species, is also used in dropsy and
urinary complaints.” — Hilda Leyel, The Compassionate Herbs, London, 1946. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a strongman letting a barbell rerelease ring the goetic demon Foras or Forcas; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of red ink with gold shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

26 Sept 26🌕♈️⛅️78 5 Vendémiaire - Horse, Mid-Autumn, Cyprian & Justina, Leo Martello b1931, John Chapman b1774, Bureflux, Eleusinia, Sukkot, Bhadrapada Purnima, Kin-Inanna, Lighting Fires of Neith Herb: Wormwood • Artemisia tenuifolia Deck: Wild Medicine & Moon: Crampbark & Full: healing past hurts

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “People in different parts of China have different ways to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, but mooncakes-cakes shaped like the moon-have played a central role throughout China. It is recorded that people began to eat mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Day in the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE). During the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE) improvements in cooking techniques produced delicate mooncakes, which were given elegant names, such as "lotus" and "golden flower." Since the Song dynasty the various designs molded on the mooncakes have depicted legends of the moon. Today fancy mooncakes often have impressions of Chinese characters on them and there are many variations of the recipe. Mooncake fillings include such traditional items China's Mid-Autumn Day as ‘five nut kernels,’ candied fruits, ‘shredded coconut lining,’ lotus seed paste, salted meat, and melon seed paste; modern mooncake fillings designed to cater to younger tastes include roast chicken, roast duck, roast pork, and ‘coffee and ice cream.’ Some manufacturers have even invented such fillings as shark's fin, edible bird's nest, and ‘pearl powder.’ Nevertheless the traditional sweet mooncakes are still liked by most people and are well received in the market. Some well-known stores in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou have been making mooncakes for more than a hundred years. Their delicate cakes are always the best sellers and are even exported to many other countries to satisfy the needs of Chinese in those countries on the festive occasion.” —Yang Lemei, “China’s Mid-Autumn Day”, Journal of Folklore Research, 2006. Below the text are two cards depicting watercolors of a crampbark in bloom and a full moon; a gray dip pen; a swatch of red ink with gold shimmer; & a teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

25 Sept 26🌔♓️⛅️77F 4. Vendémiaire - Autumn Crocus, bell hooks b1952, Roi Wongol and Mousondi, Erev Sukkot, Ganesh Visarjan, Anant Chaturdashi, Jacques Cazotte guillotined 1792 Herb: Helleborine • Serapis cordigera  Card: Oracle of Black Enchantment • 52 Witches’ Sabbat: time to celebrate with friends

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Many abuse survivors hone our strategic survival skills in childhood. More often than not those skills prove counter-productive when we attempt to use them in adult life. In my childhood the everyday hurts I suffered were mostly inflicted by verbal abuse. When I attempted to defend myself | would be described as difficult and more harshly as crazy. If it had not been for my intense passion
for reading, | would not have learned to stand back from family and observe. I would not have developed a practice of detachment that
empowered me to critically question and resist. Books brought into my life visions of family different from my own experience. And at times they brought into my life images of a shared fate, whether fact or fiction. Somewhere there were children experiencing all that I experienced, children deemed outcasts, weird, difficult, uncontrollable and those children managed to survive and every now and then to live happily ever after. Essentially one had to learn how to persevere, to not become a victim of soul murder. Understanding that I was not to blame for the pain and abuse inflicted on me helped me to survive. And that understanding came to me from books. From fairy tales to Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, and a seemingly endless number of books, I learned that children were often the unjust targets of adult rage, frustration, and projection. Knowing that I was an unjust target did nothing to ease the depths of my pain yet it did give me strength to resist.” — bell hooks, “no more crying” ed. Sabrina Chap, 2012. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a bacchanal of demons & witches under a full moon; a brown fountain pen; a swatch of brown ink; and a rounded rectangular bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Morning Pages 24 September 2026🌔♓️⛅️84F 3. Vendémiaire honoring the Chestnut, St. Robert of Knaresborough, Gedaechtnisz Tav, La Mercé, Feast of Ptah, Our Lady of Mercy Herb: Gray Shag • Coprinopsis cinerea  Card: The Black Bird Oracle • XL. The Dark Moon - growth is still happening

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “The creator god at Memphis was Ptah who was regarded as an intellectual principle; he provided the earliest example of how the creator’s mind and will functioned. Memphite theology described him as the supreme creator of the universe who made the world, the gods, their cult-centres, shrines and images, the cities, food, drink and all the physical requirements of life. As the Lord of Truth, he also created divine utterance and established ethics. His creative actions were carried out through his thoughts (expressed through his heart) and his will (spoken by means of his tongue). The creative role of Ptah is described in a text known as the ‘Memphite Theology’ which is carved on a black granite stone (the Shabaka Stone – British Museum No 498), which was prepared to be set up in the Temple of Ptah at Memphis. It dates to the reign of King Shabaka (Dynasty 25, c.710 BCE), who ordered it to be carved because the original – written on papyrus or leather – was worm-eaten. Until the 1970s ACE, because of the archaic form of the language, Egyptologists considered that the original must have dated to the Old Kingdom, making it the oldest surviving example of a philosophical treatise. However, more recent research indicates that the earliest possible date for the original is the reign of Ramesses II (Dynasty 19, c.1250 BCE).” — Rosalie David, Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt, New York, 2002. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a crescent moon in the branches of a bare tree; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of dark brown ink; and a small cylindrical bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Morning Pages 23 September 2026🌔♒️🌤️85F 2. Vendémiaire honoring Saffron, Dožinki, Demo Kratia*, Shū-ki Kōreisai, Katherina Paldauff burned 1675, a Tycho Brahe Day Herb: White Starwort • Erigeron annuus  Card: The Guardian of the Night • Five of Swords - follow your instinct

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “DAISY FLEABANE. SWEET SCABIOUS.
Erigeron annuus. Composite Family. Stem. — Stout; from three to five feet high; branched; hairy. Leaves. — Coarsely and sharply toothed; the lowest ovate, the upper narrower. Flower-heads. — Small; clustered; composed of both ray and disk-flowers, the former white, purplish, or pinkish, the latter yellow. During the summer months the fields and waysides are whitened with these very common flowers which look somewhat like small white daisies or asters. Another common species is E. strigosus, a smaller plant, with smaller flower-heads also, but with the white ray-flowers longer. The generic name is from two Greek words signifying spring and an old man, in allusion to the hoariness of certain species which flower in the spring. The fleabanes were so named from the belief that when burned they were objectionable to insects. They were formerly hung in country cottages for the purpose of excluding such unpleasant intruders.” — Mrs. Williams Star Dana [Frances Theodora Parsons], How to Know the Wild Flowers (1893), Boston, 1989. Below the text is a card with a digital collage of deer grazing with five razed stumps with a sword stuck in with ominous buildings in the background; a dark brown fountain pen with silver trim; a swatch of dark brown ink; and an empty sample of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

22 September 2026🌔♒️🌥️79F 1. Vendémiaire - Grape, Autumnal Equinox, Parsva Ekadashi*, Last hanging of Salem trials 1692, Harvest Home, a Tycho Brahe day Herb: Medlar • Mespilus germanica  Card: Secret Pocket Oracle • 39 Broom: domestic affairs; 47 Candle: enlightenment, hope; 81 Rope: a strong bond

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Have you ever met anyone who enjoys eating a ripe and rotten medlar? More than a hundred years ago, when J. C. Loudon compiled his Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, he wrote that the medlar might be very agreeable to some palates, ‘though it is, as Du Hamel observes, more wn fruit de Fantaisie, than one of utility’. Each medlar tree in the garden, each thorny and tough medlar shrub gone wild in the hedges, endures as a vegetable antique from the civilizations of south-western Asia, one of the most curious plants ever tamed into service. Long cultivated in Great Britain, Gerard already knew the Medlar as a wild tree, more or less, found ‘often-times in hedges among briars and brambles’. Examine the fruit, brownish-green, “bearing a crown as it were on the top, which were five green Leaves [the calyx], and being rubbed off or fallen away, the Head of the Fruit is seen to be somewhat hollow’. In Aelfric’s Glossary of about A.D. 1000 the Medlar is given its old, blunt English name from an all too obvious likeness, and one which suggested
various uses in medicine—‘mespila, openaers’. The name served for Chaucer. Osewold the Reeve, before he begins his tale, talks of his old age, of faring ‘as dooth an open-ers’— We olde men, I drede, so fare we;/ Til we be roten, can we not be rype. The name served for The Grete Herball (1526), and for the blunt William Turner, but Gerard is more polite and mentions only ‘Medlar’.” — Geoffrey Grigson, The Englishman’s Flora, London, 1958. Below the text are three small cards with simple illustrations of a broom, candle and rope; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of dark brown ink; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Morning Pages 21 September 2026🌔♑️🌥️78F La Fête des Récompenses, St. Matthew, Toyen b. 1902, Yom Kippur*, Int’l Day of Peace Herb: Ciliated Passionflower • Passiflora ciliata & Mangrove • Rhizophora Card: The Green Witch’s Oracle • Basil - the time is right

$#Notebook Chronicle Go-To, Col-o-ring #FountainPen Jinhao 82 - peacock, glass nib #30inks30days J. Herbin - Terre d’Ombre Notebook w/ handwritten text at top of the page w/ add’l text: “All religions have a pre-history, whose existing elements get taken up into the new system, whether that system arises out of self-conscious design or out of the interplay of personal and cultural forces in a dialectical process of community (re-)formation. In either case, the individual components of ideas and practices that enter into a process of religious formation take new meaning from each other, and find a place of relative equilibrium in the system that emerges. Besides reconstructing the exact form confession took in Manichaeism, therefore, we should be concerned to discern its function as an integral part of a system that tended towards putting all of its constituent parts in coherent relation to each other. Confession belongs to those religious phenomena that appear throughout the world and human history. By disclosing faults, one ritually rectifies the violation they entail, either to ward off various supposed consequences or to re-establish a state in which other ritual actions or contact with the sacred may occur. For the most part, then, rituals of confession have an occasional quality, employed as needed in response to specific infractions, or in response to some condition of illness, bad luck, or ritual failure indicating some undisclosed or unknown fault. But in certain traditions, confession becomes regularized into a periodic performance, in order to systematically clear away accumulated faults and re-establish or maintain a condition of individual and community purity. To this latter kind belong the annual Yom Kippur observances, or the Buddhist and Jaina ceremonies performed at the conclusion of the annual rainy-season retreat.” — Beduhn “The Manichaean Weekly Confession Ritual” 2013. Below is a card w/a basil plant; a pen; a swatch of ink; and a bottle of same.$

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

20 September 2026🌔♑️☁️74F La Fête de l’Opinion, Erev Yom Kippur*, Anna Katherina Spee executed 1631, St. Eustace, a Tycho Brahe day Herb: Naked Saffron • Crocus nudiflorus & Orange Blossom • Citrus x aurantium  Card: The Oracle of Forgotten Witches • The Fisherwife of Palermo - fight for your dreams

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “It
is a well-known truth that the Orange plant, consisting of the tree, flower, ancl fruit, possesses a strange fascination for every
one. Hence the Orange Blossoms are the favourite ornaments in the head-dress of those bridal decorations, which it is the privilege of the wealthy to make use of, and so highly are such ornaments prized, that where the genuine blossoms are unprocurable, the artificial ones are substituted. I know, that where so much partiality is shown towards a certain plant or
flower, that it proceeds frorn a higher source than caprice, or of modern conventionalism. Nor does such owe its existence to some accidental exploit on the part of the devotees of fashion. Nor is it the off-spring of reason, nor yet of all the functions of the brain combined. But it has its origin in the ideal; and, although man might not be able to realize that ideal whilst here ‘in the body pent,’ were it not that he possesses an organism, which enables him to make known on the outer piane of life; in the meantime this organism is not the creator of that ideal; and as I have elsewhere remarked, the ideal is the real. The ideal exists on the soul plane. The Orange Blossom with its parent tree existed anterior to the birth of history; and, not only is this the case with reference to its psychic state, but it did so in materialized form, at a period long before that Eden mentioned in our Bible, where our first parents were supposed to be occupied amid the fruits and flowers of a prolific garden,” — Charubel, Grimoire Sympathia, Thame, England, 1906, 2003. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a naked woman riding a black goat over a field; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of warm brown ink; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A tiny, magical botanical for today.

Colored pencil sketch of a black elderberry twig with six berries and two curling leaves. Text around the sketch reads: Wlder, Sambucus Mira, “Hildenoer”, European Black Elderberry, “Devil’s Wood”, “a catholicon against all infirmities whatever” — John Evelyn, Always ask permission to cut or pick, never burn elderwood, a home for witches and spirits. The symbols for the element of water and the sun and the planets Venus and Mercury are in the upper right hand corner.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Morning Pages 19September 2026🌔♑️⛅️82F La Fête du Travail, Ember Day*, Giles Corey executed 1692, Radha Ashtami*, Ötzi discovered 1991 Herb: Devil’s Bit • Succisa pratensis  Card: Cats Rule the Earth • 7 of Cups - look within and choose wisely

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Ember Days: fasting days, occurring one in each season, in the medieval liturgical year. “Ember” here has nothing to do with fireplace embers; the name comes from the Old English ymbrendagas, meaning ‘periodic days,’ because they occur periodically throughout the year. The other Ember Days [in addition to the ones after St. Lucia’s Day] are the Wednesday following Ash Wednesday, Whitsunday
(Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter), and Autumn Crouchmas (September 14). Those born on Ember Days were supposed to be able to see spirits.” — Linda Raedisch, The Old Magic of Christmas, 2013. “Tart for an Ember Day. 2 large onions; 1 tbsp melted butter; 4 eggs; 2 tbsp bread crumbs; pinch saffron; 1/2 tsp salt: 1/8 tsp sugar (plus, if you wish, a pinch of one or two mild spices, such as cardamom and mace); ca 2 tbsp currants; unbaked pie shell. Parboil the onions for about five minutes; cool and chop (or chop first, then parboil and strain: it is easier). Add butter to thoroughly drained onions. Mix remaining ingredients together in a bowl; add onions; pour into pie shell. Bake at 350° for 30 to 40 minutes, until the filling is set and the pastry lightly browned.” — Constance B Hieatt & Sharon Butler, Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks, Toronto, 1976. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a cat with 7 cups containing food or toys or a snake floating on clouds behind it; a peacock blue dip pen; a swatch of warm brown ink with gold shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

18 Sept 2026🌓♐️⛅️79F La Fête du Génie, Ember Day*, Cecil Hugh Williams b. 1909, St. Joseph of Cupertino, Inanna visits Nanna, Kryštof Alois Lautner executed 1685, Feast of Amun Herb: Yarrow • Achillea millefolium  Card: The Fountain Tarot • 3 of Wands - be patient, attentive, & most of all, nimble

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “On this date in 1685, Catholic priest Kryštof* Alois Lautner was degraded from the clergy and burnt at the stake as a sorcer — but his real crime was standing athwart a witch hunt. The term “witch craze” doesn’t quite seem the just one for the Northern Moravian witch trials since they spanned 18 terribly systematic years until the gouty main inquisitor mercifully retired in 1696, having put about 100 people to the sword and stake. Generally understood in the context of Catholic hostility to reform denominations on the soil of the present-day Czech Republic, this dreadful affair started when a Vernirovice woman was caught sneaking the Host out of Easter Mass in 1678, intending to use it as a charm for a folk spell to enhance the fertility of her cows. By 1679, that woman was burned at the stake — along with two others whom she was induced to accuse by the threat of torture.
These executions were the fruit of a witchcraft commission that had been empaneled to pursue the original desecration of the communion bread, but now that the witch team was an institution it began finding more and more necromancers, in a self-justifying spiral of accusations. Lautner, a well-liked deacon of Sumperk, spoke against the witch hunt when it came to that city and for his pains he was arrested there in 1680 … then leisurely broken by torture over a period of four years.” — Headsman, Executed Today blog, 18 September 2015. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a man in a muscle shirt manipulating energy manifesting as two rays and a length of rope; a gray plastic blue dip pen; a swatch of dark grey-brown ink; and a square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17 Sept 26🌒♐️⛅️75F Fête de la Vertu, Hildegard of Bingen, Artemis Agrotera, Vishwakarama Puja*, Kanya Sankranti*, Feast of Khnum, Harriet Tubman escaped enslavement 1849, St. Sophia Herb: Narrow-leaved Mallow • Sphaeralcea angustifolia  Card: Literary Witches • Virginia Woolf - develop your vision

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “112 AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF THE DEVIL. As early as Classical Antiquity, strong perfumes and odors were reputed to send demons fleeing, this is why, for example, they were placed in the tombs so that the demon could not come take possession of the corpse and animate it for his own ends. Garlic, mallow, and fennel were regularly used in the concoction of philters against the devil. It was said that betony opposed the intrigues of the devil and dementia. Saint Hildegard von Bingen asserted it fought lust and evil dreams, that is to say nightmares, and, in more recent times, the Italians used it as protection against the evil eye. Take buckthorn, garlic, lupin, mallow, fennel, hairgrass, and betony, sanctify these plants and pour the holy water into the beer. The beverage should be in the same room as the patient. Chant “Deus in nomine tuo salum me fac” three times over this beverage before he drinks it.” — Claude Lecouteux, The Book of Grimoires: The Secret Grammar of Magic, translated by Jon E. Graham, Rochester, Vermont, 2002. Below the text is a card with an illustration of Virginia Woolf (a white woman in a pintuck blouse with dark hair in a low bun) with a wolf pup under one arm and a flowering vine growing from an inkwell on her open palm; a gray plastic blue dip pen; a swatch of soft grey-brown ink; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Enfys is an excellent workshop leader and generally lovely human. If you are interested in developing a more consistent daily practice, their workshop is a wonderful place to start.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had a lovely conversation with JoAnna about her new book, her personal divination practices and a little bit about her musical career as a violinist and concertmaster.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Morning Pages 16 September 2026🌒♏️🌤️76F 30. Fructidor honoring the Pack Basket, Ember Day*, Lady Gwen Thompson b. 1928, Balarama Jayanti*, Inanna visits Ninlil Herb: Jerusalem Artichoke • Helianthus tuberosus & White Mulberry • Morus alba  Card: A Witch’s Ally • Eagle - consider the bigger picture

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “James I made a great effort to popularize mulberry culture in order to establish a silk industry. A circular letter, Instructions for the increasing of Mulberie Trees...Whereunto is annexed his Majesties Letters to the Lords Liefetenants, was sent to the Lords-Lieutenants of all the counties in 1609 ordering them to announce that the following March a thousand mulberry trees would be sent to each county town to be sold at three-farthings a plant or six shillings the hundred. All who were able were required to buy them. Seed was also distributed, but the seed was that of M. nigra, which is less suitable for silkworms than M. alba. The King himself established a mulberry garden, four acres in extent, outside the ‘King’s park’ (i.e. the park attached by Henry VIII to his palace of St. James). W. Stallenge was paid
£955 to wall, establish and plant ‘The Mulberry Garden’ and £120 a year for providing mulberry leaves for silkworms. The scheme failed, but it left a fine walled garden and the building afterwards known as Mulberry Garden House. The old mulberry trees which still adorn so many old gardens in this country probably date from James’ reign. Possibly the King had been inspired to make this effort to establish the silk industry in England by the publication in 1607 of The Perfect use of silk-wormes and their benefit...Done out of the French originall by D’Olivier de Serres, Lord of Pradel, into English
by Nicholas Geffe Esqre. With an annexed discourse of his owne for to have abundance of fine silke by feeding of silke-wormes with-in the Same.” — Eleanour Sinclair Rodhe, The Story of the Garden, 1933. Below the text is a card with an illustration an eagle soaring up dropping two feathers; a peacock blue dip pen; a swatch of soft brown ink; and a bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today’s tiny magical botanical. Colored pencil on unknown art paper.

Colored pencil sketch of two ginkgo leaves on the tree with the shadows of twigs projected onto them. Text around the image reads: Ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba, “Maidenhair tree”, “tree of life”; a living fossil, a sole survivor; an ally to elders, preserving memory; “as soon as humans take open-hearted notice of anything in the natural world, we find reason to love it” — Nathanael Johnson. The symbols for the planet Mars, the moon, and the element of air are in the upper right hand corner.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

15 Sept 26🌒♏️☀️82F 29. Fructidor honoring the Sweet Chestnut, Our Lady of Sorrows, Rishi Panchami*, Int’l Day of Democracy, Festival of Neith, Feast of the Eye of Horus Herb: Three-leaved Silphium • Silphium asteriscus var. trifoliatum  Card: Woodland Wardens • 32 The Badger & Ginkgo - healing wounds

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “The Sweet Spanish Chestnut tree is grown much less commonly in this country, and its fruit affords only material for food, without possessing medicinal properties ; though, in the United States of America, an infusion of the leaves is thought to be useful for staying the paroxysms of whooping-cough. Of all known nuts, this (the Sweet Chestnut, Stover Nut, or Meat Nut) is the most farinaceous and least oily; hence it is more easy of digestion than any other. To mountaineers it is invaluable, so that on the Apennines and the Pyrenees the Chestnut harvest is the event of the year. The
Italian Chestnut-cakes, called need, contain forty per cent, of nutritious matter soluble in cold water ; and Chestnut flour, when properly prepared, is a capital food for children. To be harvested the Chestnuts are spread on a frame
of lattice-work overhead, and a fire is kept burning underneath. When dry the fruit is boiled, or steamed, or roasted, or ground into a kind of flour, with which puddings are made, or an excellent, kind of bread is produced. The ripe Chestnut possesses a fine creamy flavour, and when roasted it becomes almost aromatic.
A good way to cook Chestnuts is to boil them for twenty minutes, and then place them for five minutes more in a Dutch oven.” — Williams T. Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, London, 1897. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a black and white faced badger holding a green fan of ginkgo leaf; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of soft brown ink; and a teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Morning Pages 14 September 2026🌒♏️☀️83F 28. Fructidor honoring Maize, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa b. 1486, St. Notburga, Holy Rood, Fast of Gedaliah*, Hartalika Teej*, Ganesh Chaturthi* Herb: Twinflower • Linnaea borealis  Card: Folkloric Forest Tarot • Four of Water - use this hiatus to recalibrate

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Henricus Cornelius Agrippa von was born on September 14, 1486, in the German city of
Cologne. His family, the von Nettesheims, were minor nobility who had served the royal house of Austria for generations. When Agrippa was born his father was engaged in this service, and Agrippa himself mentions in his letters that as a boy he aspired to nothing higher than to assist the new German emperor Maximilian I, who had succeeded his father Emperor Frederick III in 1493, when Agrippa was seven.
The name Agrippa was uncommon in those
times. There are two possible explanations for it. Aulus Gellius says that the word "agrippa" was coined by the Romans to signify a child born feet first and the difficulty experienced by the mother at such a birth. It was used this way by the Romans, and there is evidence that this usage was adopted in later times by European scholars and nobility who were anxious to display their classical learning. The name may
have been given to the infant von Nettesheim to
commemorate the manner of his birth. The other possibility involves the city of Cologne, which arose on the site of the chief town of the Ubii called Oppidum. The wife of the Emperor Claudius, Agrippina, was born here, and in the year 51 caused a Roman colony to be established in the town,” — Donald Tyson, ed., The Three Books of Occult Philosophy Completely Annotated with Modern Commentary, Woodbury, Minnesota, 2009. Below the text is a card of the painting Lormes Goat-girl sitting beside the stream in a forest by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875); a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of dark brown ink with with green sheen; and a rounded triangular bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today’s tiny magical botanical - a reward for me for getting through a chunk of the manuscript edits. Colored pencil on unknown art paper.

A colored pencil sketch of a whole beet leaning on one sliced in half showing the rings inside, the leaves disappear off the page. Text around the sketch reads: Beet or Beetroot, Beta vulgaris, for love & beauty, to stay the bloody flux, to help the yellow jaundice, “to be able to eat beets and not stink, bake beetroots and eat them” - The Greek Magical Papyri. The symbols for Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and the element of earth run down the left hand side of the page.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Morning Pages 13 September 2026🌒♎️☀️75F 27. Fructidor honoring Goldenrod, Ides, Niketeria*, Rosh Hashanah*, Feast of Satisfying the Hearts of Ennead, Festival of Khnum Herb: Decurrant False Aster • Boltonia decurrens Card: m The Antique Anatomy Tarot • VI. of Rods - hold your head high

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Goldenrod, Solidago spp., is often blamed for the allergies and hay fever caused by the less
showy ragweed that blooms at the same time. This sunny-looking plant of Venus, known by
the folk names woundwort and Aaron’s rod, has long been worked with in both magic and healing. It was used as a decoction for “inward bruises” and to flush cuts and scrapes. Though
now it is mostly drunk as a pleasant, anise-like tea and used by modern herbalists for things
like thrush and kidney and bladder complaints.
In English folklore, it was thought to grow where buried treasure could be found, and that the stems could be used to dowse for water. In Victorian floriography, it signified precaution, but wearing a sprig of goldenrod would promise a glimpse of one’s love the next day. Goldenrod may also be involved with a different case of mistaken identity. During the writing of this book, I have gone down so many rabbit holes, but the most interesting ones are sometimes the most frustrating. In Maud Grieve’s Modern Herbal and in the Hilda Leyel herbal books, goldenrod is said to be one of the main ingredients in a Swiss vulnerary called faltrank or falltrank. Though this may have been popular still, or at least known, when these two herbalists were writing (early twentieth century), there were no English lan-
guage formulas I could find.” — Victoria Raschke (me!), A Witch’s Book of Days, Chicago, 2026. Below the text is a card with an illustration of six Victorian medical instruments in a crisscross with three yellow daisies; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of dark brown ink with copper shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Morning Pages 12 September 2026🌒♎️☀️77F 26. Fructidor honoring the Bitter Orange, Margaret Hamilton b. 1902, St. Elvis, Agathos Daimon*, Rosh Hashanah* Herb: Semilunar Passionflower • Passiflora suberosa Card: The Black Bird Oracle • XV. A Wake of Vultures - scarcity mindset

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Day 2: Agathos Daimon. The second day of the lunar month is sacred to Agathos daimon
[Agathodaimon] (“Good Spirit”), a household spirit who appears as a snake, responsible for the protection of the household, bringing good
luck, protection, and divine assistance. On a daily basis, a few drops of unmixed wine (or more appropriately in this day and age, whatever beverage was being drunk) were poured on the ground (or a planter pot) as a libation to Agathos Daimon at the end of the meal. On this day, however, no compromise should be made, and unmixed wine should be poured out as a libation to Agathos Daimon.
Orphic Hymn LXXII. To the Daimon, or Genius
The Fumigation from Frankincense. Thee, mighty-ruling, Daimon dread,/ I call, mild Zeus, life-giving, and the source of all:/ Great Zeus, much-wand’ring, terrible and strong,/ to whom revenge and tortures dire belong./ Mankind from thee, in plenteous wealth abound,/ when in their dwellings joyful thou art found;/ Or pass thro’ life afflicted and distress’d,/ the needful means of bliss by thee supprest.” — Tony Mierzwicki, Hellenismos, Woodbury, Minnesota, 2014. Below the text is a card with an illustration of five vultures - two perched facing each other and three soaring above; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of dark brown ink; and a small cylindrical bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Morning Pages 11 September 2026🌒♍️🌤️82F 25. Fructidor honoring the Crayfish, O. Henry b. 1862, St. Mychal Judge, Asclepius temple anniversary, Noumenia*, Erev Rosh Hashanah*, Enkutatash Herb: Dyer’s Coreopsis • Coreopsis tinctoria Card: Angel Tarot • Knight of Swords • 59 Harahel - start the project

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Mychal Judge, Father EPITHET: The Saint of 9/11. CLASSIFICATION: unofficial saint. Father Mychal Judge died on September 11, 2001, the first recorded victim of the terrorist attack on New York City’s Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. Although Judge was not the first to die, his was the first body identified and so his body bag was labeled ‘Victim 0001.’ Born 11 May 1933 in Brooklyn, the son of Irish immigrants, his birth name was Robert Emmet Judge. Mychal was the religious name he adopted following his 1961 ordination as a Roman Catholic priest. His deep spiritual affinities and
wells of compassion manifested very early in his life. As a young child growing up during the Great Depression, he often gave his only quarter to beggars. He never lost this self-less generosity; later in life, as a priest, he literally gave the coat off his back to a homeless woman saying: ‘She needs it more than me.’ In 1992, Judge was appointed Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York City. His duties included counseling firefighters and their families; however, he consistently went above and beyond the call of duty. Father Mychal appeared at the fires themselves, as well as at hospitals and funerals. It was in that capacity
that Mychal Judge was at the World Trade Center on the fateful morning of 11 September 2001.” — Judika Illes, Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints & Sages, New York, 2011. Below the text is a card with an illustration of masculine angel wielding a sword above his head and holding a disk or coin to his breast; a aquarium blue dip pen with gold trim; a swatch of red brown ink with gold shimmer and verdigris sheen; and a square ink bottle with a gold cord and wax seal.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Decided to have dessert first today instead of waiting until after I’ve gotten through my to-do list. Watercolor on unknown art paper for #OliveArtClub

A tiny watercolor sketch of a tigger melon with surrounding text that reads: Tigger Melon, Cucumis melo cultivar, eaten as a means of ritual purification, #OliveArtClub, it is lucky to dream of melons and indicates you may live soon in foreign lands. The symbols for the moon and the element of water are in the upper right hand corner.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For this week’s #OliveArtClub please make art based on this Tigger melon. All skill levels and mediums welcome, special hello to absolute beginners or restarting artists. No AI. Feel free to share or sell any human-made art. I took the photo (and grew the melon)

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

10 Sept 2026🌑♍️🌥️94 24. Fructidor - Sorghum, Marie Laveau b1801, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke b1930, H.D. b1886, St Nicholas of Tolentino, Hekate’s Deipnon, John Heydon b1629, Procession of Bastet Herb: Swamp Magnolia • Magnolia virginiana Card: Mushroom Spirit Oracle • 12 Morel - do what brings you joy

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Morels are probably the most fetishized of all wild edible mushrooms. There are numerous Web sites devoted to hunting morels, replete with near pornographic close-ups of the wrinkly capped fungus, or shots of copious morel blooms or children happily posing with gargantuan specimens. Morel Web sites boast breathless postings of morel flushes throughout the country. (I am particularly fond of the online morel sighting maps, which are
updated daily during the season, like tornados on a midwestern weather map.) There are around 10 regional festivals throughout the midwestern states, at least one anthropological study on rural community morel hunts, and morel paraphernalia of all sorts for sale. Theories abound as to why morels are so culty, but Tom Nauman of www.morelmania.com says it’s because morels are well-known in the general population. I think Nauman is right. The morel is the American wild mushroom. The Morel Breakfast—held the first weekend in May, when the morels are generally, hopefully up—is always prefaced by a flurry of e-mails, first
the very hush-hush directions to our spot, an abandoned apple orchard in New York west of the Hudson River, then the admonitions not to hunt the orchard and pick all the mushrooms prior to the breakfast.” — Eugenia Bone, Mycophilia, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, 2013. Below the text is a card with an illustration of single morel mushroom; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of tawny brown ink with very heavy silver shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Morning Pages 9 September 2026🌘♌️⛅️97F 23. Fructidor honoring Hops Herb: Flaxed-leaved Fleabane • Seriocarpus linifolius & Atlantic Goldenrod • Solidago arguta Card: The Literary Witches Oracle • Creature’s Paw - the other, friendship, forgiveness

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Hops Choice: The first buds, or young branches shooting from the root, not yet leaf, or a tender and slender stalk. Use: Not only engenders singular good humours, but also reduces them into an equal and due temper: strengthens all the entrails: makes pure and refined blood. Hurt: Somewhat flatulent: stuffs the head. Correction: Boiled and eaten with Vinegar and Oil. Degree: Temperately hot, moist in the first. Season, age and constitution: For any season, age or constitution. Lupulus
STORY FOR TABLE-TALK Our forefathers knew not Hoppe: howbeit it is a most excellent herb, and exceeds all other for good juice: for cleansing the blood, and scouring all the entrails. Besides the necessity hereof in brewing Beer, is sufficiently known to Germany and England, and all these Northern parts of the world: yet I know not how it happened (as he Merrily says) that heresy and beer came hopping in England both in a year.” — Michelle Enzo as, ed., Big Buttes Book: Annotated Dyets Dry Dinner (1599) by Henry Buttes
with Elizabethan Recipes, Neustadt, Ontario, Canada, 2016. Below the text is a card with an illustration of an unknown creature’s claw on a beige background; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of brown-gold ink with very heavy gold shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It was delightful to catch up with @theunveiledspirit.bsky.social and be on the podcast.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Morning Pages 8 September 2026🌘♌️⛅️91F 22. Fructidor honoring the Hazelnut, Nativity of Mary, Feast of Oshun, Int’l Literacy Day Herb: Our Lady’s Fingers • Gentianopsis ciliata & Rose of Jericho • Anastatica hierochuntica Card: Crow Tarot • VII The Chariot - go forward with confidence

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “RESURRECTION PLANT Now and then will be found in city shops, or in the packs of those who hawk merchandise through the town, a
dried plant which is offered for sale as the ‘resurrection plant.’ It covers the space of a hand, and, placed in water, its infolded leaves relax and discover a certain symmetry. Often, too, the wetting restores a semblance of life. This anastatica hierochuntica, or holy resurrection flower, is also called the rose of Jericho, rosa Hyrici, Mary’s hand, and our
lady’s rose; yet it is not a rose, and in nowise resembles one. It grows in the desert, where it is said that the winds frequently uproot it, since it can have no deep hold on the sand. It requires faith to accept the further allegation that wherever it chances to stop it sends down a root and continues its interrupted growth till the next high wind. The early Christian church dedicated the plant to the Virgin, and in the east and in parts of Europe it is prized by women who believe that they shall become mothers of many. Wherever the holy family paused in its flight to Egypt this plant sprang from the earth, the first rising from the plain of Jericho to greet the infant Saviour.” — Charles M. Skinner, Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants, Philadelphia, 1911. Below the text is a card with a digital collage of a crow riding a cloud to victory in a stormy sky; a peacock blue and gold glitter dip pen with a glass nib; a swatch of dark red brown ink; and a tall square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today’s little, brain-soothing botanical.

Colored pencil sketch of a single pomegranate. Text surrounding the fruit reads: Pomegranate, Punica granatum, “wineapples”; Symbol of birth, death and rebirth; possesses the power to bind the souls of the dead to the underworld; fertility, generation, wealth. The symbols for Mercury, Venus and the element of fire.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Morning Pages 6 September 2026🌘♋️☀️78F 20. Fructidor honoring the Harvest Basket, St. Bega Herb: Bee Orchid • Oncidium papilio var. majus (Psychopsis papilio) Card: TreeLore Oracle • Tulip Poplar - utility, succession, ancient ancestors

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Liriodendron tulipifera Tuliptree American Tulip Tree, Apollo of the Woods, Canoewood Tree, Fiddle Tree, Ko-Yen-Ta-Ka-Ah-Tas, Oonseentia, Saddle Leaf Tree, Tulip Poplar, Tulipwood, Whitewood, Yellow Poplar MAXIMUM HEIGHT: 200 feet MEANINGS: Fame; Lily tree; Rural happiness. POWERS: Ancient Earth; Connection to the ancient past; Create oxygen; Ease transitions; Healing; Practical thinking; Sound resonance; Utility; Utilitarian planning. FOLKLORE & FACTS: Tuliptree is one of the tallest deciduous trees in eastern North America. The tallest specimen on Earth is approximately 200 feet tall. The Tuliptree flowers are very large & tulip-shaped. When the tree is in full bloom, its blossoms are upright. It is a majestic sight to behold. This enormous tree is easily grown from a seed. Tuliptree wood is used for the construction of musical instruments such as organs and pianos. It is also used for wide flooring, bowls, decorative boxes, and much more, including long passenger canoes. According to Captain John Smith in 1612, long dugout canoes could transport forty passengers. Morel mushrooms can often be found growing under or near a Tuliptree. There have been Tuliptree fossils discovered that are from the Upper Cretaceous period, dated to be one hundred million years old.” — S. Theresa Dietz, The Complete Language of Trees, Nee York, 2023. Below the text is a card with an ecoprint of two tulip poplar leaves; a peacock blue and gold glitter dip pen with a glass nib; a swatch of orange brown ink; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Morning Pages 5 September 2026🌘♊️🌤️79F 19. Fructidor honoring the Mexican Marigold, Nones, Mammes Vindemia Herb: Field Mushroom • Agaricus campestris Card: The Green Witch’s Oracle • The Oak Tree - stop avoiding that thing

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “Agaricus is the genus of the western world’s most economically important and widely used cultivated edible mushrooms. It is home to the nearly ubiquitous button mushroom, portabella, crimini, and other thoroughly domesticated mushrooms, along with some lovely wild cousins living in a suburban or rural neighborhood near you. The name is Latin, meaning gilled mushroom, and in the very early days of mushroom taxonomy, all gilled mushrooms were placed in the genus Agaricus. The system quickly became unwieldy and, as the recognition of related groups became more sophisticated, other genera and families were designated to accommodate the observed complexity. TAXONOMY. It is estimated that there are more than 200 species in the genus Agaricus in North America, although there has not been a close taxonomic study of the genus in some time. Most good mushroom field guides include, at most, six to ten common species. Clearly there are many other, less common species that do not make the guides. In the Northeast, the most common edible species are A. campestris, (the meadow mushroom or pink bottom), A. arvensis (the horse mushroom), followed closely by A. silvicola (woodland agaricus). Occasionally other species are collected and at least two have caused gastrointestinal distress. Along the West Coast, there are additional species and several more responsible for sickenings.” — Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares, White River Junction, Vermont, 2010. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a tiny oak tree growing out of an enormous acorn; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of red brown ink; and a tiny teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Morning Pages 3 September 2026🌖♊️🌦️76F 17. Fructidor honoring Teasel Herb: Harvest Bells • Campanula rotundifolia & Ghost Pipe • Monotropa uniflora Card: Urban Crow Oracle • 1. Abundance - focus your energy on what is waiting for you

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “TEAZLE, COMMON. Dipsacus sylvestris Synonyms. Venus’ Basin. Card Thistle. Barber’s Brush. Brushes and Combs. Church
Broom. Description. It is a biennial attaining the height of 4 or 5 feet, bearing cylindrical flower-heads, globular when like shape when in full flower. The whole heads plant is very harsh and prickly to the touch… Medicinal Action and Uses. Culpepper tells us that the medicinal uses of both the Wild and Fuller's Teazle are the same, and that 'the roots, which are the only parts used, are said to have a cleansing faculty.’ He refers to the use of the water in the leaf-basins as a cosmetic and eye-wash, and tells us, on the authority of Dioscorides, that an ointment made from the bruised roots is good, not only for warts and wens, but also against cankers and fistulas. Other old writers have recommended an infusion of the root for strengthening the stomach and creating an appetite. Also for removing obstructions of the liver, and as a remedy for jaundice. Lyte, in his translation of Dodoens, 1586, says that the small worms found often within the heads 'do cure and heale the quartaine ague, to be worne or carried about the necke or arme,' a theory which Gerard contemptuously discards, from his own personal experience.” — Mrs. M. Grieve, A Modern Herbal, Vol. II, London 1931, New York, 1971. Below the text is a card with an illustration of crows feasting from a basket of sardines on a dock with a cannery in the background; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of light orange-brown ink with very heavy gold shimmer; and a plastic sample vial of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today’s tiny, brain-scratching botanical.

Colored pencil sketch of a lemon hanging from a twig with two leaves shading it a bit. Text around the sketch reads: Lemon, Citrus x limon, “A lemon stuck full of pins of different colors always brings good fortune” — Aradia, “It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.” — Maud Grieve. The symbols for the Sun, the planet Mercury and the elemental of Fire are in the upper right hand corner.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Morning Pages 2 September 2026🌖♉️⛅️79F 16. Fructidor honoring the Lemon, Great Fire of London 1666 Herb: Golden Rod - Solidago virgaurea Catd: Cats Rule the Earth • XVIII The Moon - expect vivid dreams

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “2nd. (Lord's day.) Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up bout three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City. So I rose, and slipped on my night-gown, and went to her window; and thought it to be on the backside of Mark Lane at the farthest; but, being unused to such fires as followed, I thought it far enough off; and so went to bed again, and to sleep. About seven rose again to dress myself, and there looked out at the window, and saw the fire not so much as it was, and farther off. So to my closet to set things to rights, after yesterday's cleaning. By and by Jane comes and tells me that she hears that above 300 houses have been burned down to-night by the fire we saw, and that it is now burning down all Fish Street, by London Bridge.
So I made myself ready presently, and walked to the Tower; and there got up upon one of the high places, Sir J. Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at that end of the bridge all on fire, and an infinite great fire on this and the other side the end of the bridge; which, among other people, did trouble me for poor little Michell and our Sarah on the bridge. So down, with my heart full of trouble, to the Lieutenant of the Tower, who tells me that it began this morning in the King's baker's house in Pudding Lane, and that it hath burned down St. Magnus's Church and most part of Fish Street already.” — The diary of Samuel Pepys, annotated by Gregory Smith, London, 1903. Below the text is a card with a white cat standing between two distant towers in front of a large crescent moon; a gray plastic dip pen; a swatch of pinky tan ink; and a teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today’s brain reward for getting through some editing notes.

Colored pencil sketch of the top of a persimmon. Text surrounding the sketch reads: Persimmon, Diospyrus kaki, cultivar Hachiya, “Japenese medlar”, “Fruit of Jove”, used to hiccups, carminative, promotes happiness, “as though the mystery and sunshine of the mountain had congealed on my palm” — Junichirō Tanizaki, a arrow points to an ink puddle on the edge of the sketch with the words fountain pen accident. The symbols for the Sun, Venus and the element of water are in the upper right hand corner.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Morning Pages 1 September 2026🐇🐇🌖♉️⛅️74F 15. Fructidor honoring the Trout, Kalends, St. Giles the Hermit, New Style (Gregorian) Calendar adopted 1752 (UK & then colonies) Herb: St. Giles’s Orpine - Sedum telephium Card: Woodland Wardens Oracle • L. The Ram and Dahlia - see your ambitions through

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today’s creative brain food project. Still figuring out watercolors, an enjoyable if sometimes frustrating process.

Watercolor sketch of two ripe Persian walnuts, the hulls split open, on a twig. Text surrounding the sketch reads: Walnut, Juglans regia, Frsh husks make a deep brown dye, “help with quinsy [infected tonsillitis]” - Culpeper, eaten for increased intellectual abilities according to the doctrine of signatures, the walnut tree is a favorite haunt of witches. The plenary symbols for the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, with the alchemical symbol for the element of fire and the symbol for the zodiac sign of Sagittarius are in the upper right hand corner.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Morning Pages 31 August 2026🌖♈️⛅️79F 14. Fructidor honoring the Walnut, Agwe, Raymond Buckland b. 1934, Eleusinia*, Chai Elul*, Kajari Teej* Herb: Blackberry • Rubus fruticosus L. agg. Card: A Witch’s Ally Oracle • Deer - there is strength in gentleness and kindness

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “The Blackberry is known in some parts
of the country as ‘Scaldhead,’ either from
producing the eruption known as scaldhead
in children who eat the fruit to excess — the
over-ripe fruit being indigestible — or from
the curative effects of the leaves and berries
in this malady of the scalp, or from the
remedial effects of the leaves, when applied
externally to scalds. The leaves are said to
be still in use in England as a remedy for
burns and scalds; formerly their operation
was helped by a spoken charm. Creeping
under a Bramble-bush was itself a charm
against rheumatism, boils, blackheads, etc.
Blackberries were in olden days supposed to
give protection against all ‘evil runes,’ if
gathered at the right time of the moon. The
whole plant had once a considerable popular
reputation both as a medicine and as a charm
for various disorders. The flowers and fruit
were from very ancient times used to remedy
venomous bites; the young shoots, eaten as
a salad, were thought — though Gerard cau-
tiously suggests the addition of a little alum
—to fasten loose teeth. Gerard and other
herbalists regard the bramble as a valuable
astringent, whether eaten or applied: its
leaves ‘heal the eies that hang out,’ and are
a most useful application for piles; its fruit
stops looseness of the bowels and is good for
stone, and for soreness in mouth and throat.” — M. Grieve, A Modern Herbal, Vol. I, London, 1931. Below the text is a card with artwork of a deer emerging from a birch wood; a purple plastic fountain pen; a swatch of purple ink with green/gold shimmer and bronze sheen; and a tall square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

30 Aug 26🌖♈️☀️81F 13. Fructidor honoring the Barberry, Plague Sunday*, Mary Shelley b. 1797, Fred Hampton Sr. b. 1948, Leonor Fini b. 1907, Charesteria, Agwe, Eleusinia*, St. Margaret Wood executed 1588 Herb: Rose Lily • Nerine sarniensis Card: Cat Tarot • III of Wands - time to shift perspective

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “When the plague of 1665-66 was at its height in London a parcel of clothing was sent from the stricken capital to a tailor in the small village of Eyam. On Wakes Sunday members of the tailor’s family began to fall ill. They soon died, other villagers followed them, and the death roll mounted rapidly. The Rector of Eyam, William Mompesson, persuaded his parishioners to embark on a heroic line of action. This was for Eyam to become a voluntary prison from which nobody would try to escape, in order that the plague should not spread beyond the confines of the village. It was a remarkable example of communal heroism...The Duke of Devonshire, who owned Eyam, arranged for food to be left at the village boundary, and the able men and women carried it to their suffering neighbours. For months the plague persisted. It died down for a while but returned in the spring of 1666 and lasted until the autumn of that year, and during that time the people of Eyam bravely suffered its ravages, their only consolation being the knowledge that their isolation was preventing it from spreading. The church was closed; the rector preached from a rock in a hollow called Cucklet Delf. Three-quarters of the population of 350 or so died, but no case of infection was reported from anywhere outside the parish. An open-air service is now held in Eyam every Wakes Sunday in Cucklet Delf in memory of William Mompesson and his self-sacrificing parishioners.” — G. Palmer & N. Lloyd, A Year of Festivals, 1972. Below the text is a card with 2 cats playing with 3 ribbons, 1 cat faces the wall & 1 the viewer; a milky white fountain pen; a swatch of purple grey ink; & a tall square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got to my little art project late today.

Colored pencil sketch of fennel with the stalks running to the top of the page. Text surrounding it reads: Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, “Florence fennel”, “finocchio”, one in the nine sacred herbs healing charm, the staff of Dionysus’s thyrsus, worthy of all praise. The symbols for the planet Mercury, the element of fire, and the zodiac sign of Virgo are in the upper right hand corner.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Morning Pages 29 August 2026🌖♓️☀️80F 12. Fructidor honoring the Fennel, Nativity of Hathor, L’Orient, Eleusinia*, Beheading of John the Baptist, Lilias Adie dies in prison 1704 Herb: Pale Marshmallow • Althaea pallida Card: Tarot of the Cloisters • Knight of Pentacles - get to work

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Open notebook w/ handwritten text from the post at top of the page with more text: “Meanwhile, in the neighbouring parish of Torryburn, local elites were aiding witchcraft activity. The events of 1703–1704 unfolded following a rumour that Jean Bizet had been ‘molested by Satan’ and had arisen from her sleep shouting, ‘by God he is going to take me! O Lilly (Adie) with her blew doublet! O Mary, Mary Wilson! Christ keep me!’ Following these allegations, Jean Neilson claimed that she too was ‘dreadfully tormented’ by Lilias Adie. After her arrest, Adie confessed to being in a compact with the Devil and named Agnes Currie and Elspeth Williamson as witches she had recognised at meetings with the Devil.
Thus the chain of denunciation had been set in motion; seven were named in 1704 (Adie, Currie and Williamson, plus Bessie Callendar, Mary Carmichael, Janet White and Mary Wilson), plus two who had been executed recently (Grissel Anderson and Euphemia Stirt, appar-
ently in 1703), making a total of nine. The Devil played a prominent part in these confessions, being described by Adie as having a cloven
foot and appearing as ‘a shadow’, and by Williamson as having a silent step on the stubble. Adie’s account of her renouncing her baptism correlates exactly to those that had been related for over a century.74 After the
two executions of 1703, and Adie’s death in prison, nothing appears to have come of the accusation of 1704...Nevertheless, the meticulously stereotypical nature of the confessions, and the apparent encouragement to name accomplices, suggest that there were members of the local elite at the heart of the investigation.” Julian Goodare, ed, Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters 2013. Below the text is a round card made to look like a stained glass window of a knight on horseback; a clear & aqua plastic fountain pen; a swatch of aqua ink; and a small square bottle of same.

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Victoria Raschke @vvitchtoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

28 Aug 26🌖♓️🌦️81 11 Fructidor - Watermelon, E. Burne-Jones b1833, Janet Frame b1924, St Moses the Black, Eleusinia, Varalakshmi Vrat, Raksha Bandhari, Rakhi, Gayatri Jayanti, Chandra Graham Herb: Bent Goldenrod • Solidago flexicaulis Card: Nocturna Oracle, Fog - take heed & tread carefully

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Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at top of the page with additional text: “On [Varalakshmi Vratam], women worship the goddess Lakshmi with utmost devotion, offering fruits, sweets and flowers, usually a kalasha (representing the deity) is decorated with a sari, flowers and gold jewellery, with offerings placed in front. The puja begins with the formal welcome of Lakshmi into one's house. A wooden tray or a stand is placed outside the house's threshold. Rangoli is drawn in the puja room, usually inside the house. A kalasham (a brass or silver pot) is placed on the tray outside the house. The pot is decorated with mango leaves as well as flowers. Auspicious items such as rice, betel leaves, turmeric sticks, bananas, and coins are placed inside the pot. A thread dipped in turmeric is tied around the neck of the pot. A coconut scrubbed with turmeric is placed on the top of it. In some traditions, the face of the goddess may be drawn on the coconut, or a brass or silver face may be kept on the pot and decorated with kumkuma, turmeric, and sandalwood powder. During an auspicious hour, the women sing a song of greeting to Lakshmi, and carry the tray and kalasham into the puja room. After lighting the lamp and performing the arati, shlokas, and songs of the goddess are recited. The yellow thread is untied, and a piece is given to each girl or woman to tie around her right wrist. This is symbolic of the conclusion of the auspicious puja, as well as receiving the blessings of the deity.” — editors of Wikipedia, updated 25 August 2026. Below the text is a card with the skeletons of bare trees in a green-gray fog; a aluminum fountain pen with a black loop clip; a swatch of medium gray ink with silver shimmer; and a four-legged, concave-sided square bottle of same.

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