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Still chasing that rush of getting a full-sized candy bar on Halloween 🍫🎃

What Halloween memories from the 90s do you miss?!
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✨What is your witch aesthetic ✨

witchcraft and aesthetics: feel the whimsigoth vibes and follow spiritual energy 💜

#witchcraft🔮 #whimsigoth #aestheticpost 

@celestial.havennn
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If you are frustrated that you didn’t live your best witchy life on Sunday’s Summer Solstice, then I’m here to remind you that a weird witch summer still stretches ahead.

Firstly, seasonal energies don’t recognise a specific date on a calendar, and while the Summer Solstice is a potent astronomical event, Midsummer was more likely celebrated on 23-24 June. 

This is the Feast of St John the Baptist, one of the oldest dates in the Christian calendar and is a public holiday in some countries. Today, folk witches blend pre-Christian, Christian and folkloric celebrations reflecting their cultural traditions.

In England, we can trace Midsummer celebrations back to 1590s with details of civic processions, feasts, decorations with flowers and garlands, community festivities and bonfires. 

St John’s Eve was particularly associated with love divination, so consider trying some traditional methods such as putting a dish of flour under a rosemary bush on St John’s Eve to see if the initials of your future love has been written in the flour over night (source @icysedgwick book Bring Me Love, all about love magic).

It’s a time of year strongly associated with fire, although it’s likely that the leaping over bonfires was not about protection and purification as we often think, but fellas showing off (nothing changes 🙄). 

But that doesn’t stop us (safely) using fire magic for banishing and releasing, protection etc. if you wanted to incorporate some traditional aspects, throw herbs, such as mugwort into the fire or scatter the ashes for protection and fertility.

We also have strong associations with the fae and spirits at this time of year who are thought to move among us at Midsummer. It’s a liminal time as we cross the threshold to the waning part of the year. There is just a hint of fear with the incoming darkness of autumn and winter.

So, my message is to keep celebrating over the next few weeks. Summerween is afoot .. and it’s always a good time to sacrifice a billionaire to the fire gods 🔥 

Image 1 @justamountainwitch 
Image 2 @vingtage90switch 
Image 3 @avamorgyn 

Sources Icy Sedgwick, Bring Me Love and Simpson and Stroud, A Dictionary of English Folklore
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