Hello. I’ll try to keep things abbreviated so that I can rustle around in the links and get to making coffee that I’ve put off.
I’m from the US. Ended up finding this place after looking for recipes for wormwood ointment, something about the new moon, I can’t fully recall. I’ve been practicing extremely loosely for about 25 years, I’d garner. What initially started with wicca (because there was seemingly shit all else available at the used book store that drew my at the time teenager eyes). It always sat a little too meh for me. Too biased towards the fluff. I don’t have any particular path that I follow, aside from a dedication to Hekate. It’s more of a rummage for information, pluck what feels pertinent, and go with intuition. I look at it like recipes, where unless it’s baking (or in this case summoning/evo/invo), I do what feels right and it usually finds purchase. Poison path, necrmancy, general work with spirits seem to be a calling. I’ve had a clairolfaction with what I’m assuming is a very persistent spirit of air that smells distinctly like cigarette smoke and comes and goes for the past year and change. Follows me everywhere, pops up whenever, there’s no distinct timing that I can figure out.
I’m in a shit spot that seems very next to impossible to crawl out of, and oh my have I been kicked while down. The goal is to regain the power to exist again, rebuild my will and energy, and crawl out of the hellpit. I’m out of practice, suspect that I’ve got some degree of foul magick on me (y’all, it’s absurd the ways that shit completely hit the fan)