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#FediCoven Q8 What’s a mundane activity that becomes unexpectedly magical or spiritually significant when done attentively?
For me, it's several routine things every day. Making and drinking my morning pot of coffee is a spell of affirmations and intentions. Showering is my ritual of cleansing and dedication. Bathing is meditation and sometimes journeying.
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#FediCoven Q8 What’s a mundane activity that becomes unexpectedly magical or spiritually significant when done attentively?
Anything done mindfully is a meditation. Any meditation can turn into a breakthrough moment of transcendence.
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#FediCoven Q8 What’s a mundane activity that becomes unexpectedly magical or spiritually significant when done attentively?
Nearly anything can be, but lately I’ve noticed the spiritual significance of redecorating my home more. I love stuff, lots of funny stuff, so my home is about as chaotic as my mind. Which creates a rather direct link between the arrangement of my things, and my thoughts, my self. So, with reordering, I create new connections and discover things about my mind and spirit. It’s an unexpected bit of shadow work.
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Hello #FediCoven! For those who haven’t seen, I’m starting a monthly long-form witchcraft prompt series that I’m tentatively calling #RiteMonthly ✍️
The idea is to encourage long-form responses to the prompt (like on a blog or instance with higher character limits!) and have a bigger conversation together, commenting and responding to each other.
The prompt for this month is tools! Consider one of these angles, or choose your own:
- What is an unusual, unique, or important tool that you use in your work, and why?
- Are there any tools in your practice that you feel you have an unusual viewpoint or insight on?
- Are there any *figurative* tools that are important in your craft?Feel free to reply to this post with a link and/or use #RiteMonthly as a tag. Later this month I’ll encourage people to check the tag and respond to each other’s thoughts!
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I ordered a slew of #witchcraft goodies to bring to work for my #magic workings that I’m going to do right here at the root of the problems.
You want to retaliate? Then prepare for how weird I’m going to make shit for you.
Aside: Then I see how my purchases skew the suggestions on Etsy… I find things I want. #witch #Fedicoven
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#FediCoven 2026 Q7: What have seasonal changes taught you that books or teachers could not?
I've learned more from nature in general that I ever would have in school when it comes to many subjects. I allow myself to truly feel (and love) the changes during the year, throughout the seasons, and that alone has done a lot for me. Just as we as people change, Mother Earth does as well throughout the year. Change is good. It cleanses and renews.
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#FediCoven 2026 Q6: What relationship do you have with the moon and its phases, and how does that show up in your craft?
Ever since I was little, I've always felt connected to the moon. That hasn't changed, nor will it. The moon plays a big part in my practice, as I'm sure it does for many others as well. I usually work my schedule and spells around its phases.
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#FediCoven Q7: What have seasonal changes taught you that books or teachers could not?
For me, it's been the other way around. I spent many years immersed in nature, living with seasonal changes, and probably felt there wasn't too much more for me to learn about them. Then I started studying the history of Irish paganism and eventually immersed myself in that tradition, and books and my teachers taught me how ancient Irish people lived with the seasonal changes.
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#FediCoven Q7: What have seasonal changes taught you that books or teachers could not?
Been struggling with this one because of the sheer size of it.
Plant-sitting. Soil work. Watershed work. Understanding theological currents and their ebbs and flows. Landscape understanding and cooperation with its spirits. Learning to be part of an ecosystem. How to work with the world instead of imposing my will upon it. A deepened kinship with insects. Better relationship with entropy and decay. Respect for seeds. Care for the community through natural disaster. Climate impact. Weather forecasting. The cyclical medicinal applications of herbs and plants. Solar cycles. Deepened encounters with animal spirits. Work with the wind. Gratefulness for the shelter of my home. Resilience. The ecological and spiritual effects of capitalist extractioneering. Identifying birds by their song. Self-reliance. Thinking ahead and planning for the next season, the next year, the next ten years.
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#FediCoven Q7: What have seasonal changes taught you that books or teachers could not?
That those who love to garden can always find something for me to do outdoors, even when the weather looks unlikely.
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#FediCoven Q7: What have seasonal changes taught you that books or teachers could not?
You learn to adapt to the changing conditions and, having lived at the equator for four years, I can tell you those lessons are so worthwhile.
You learn to enjoy the quirks and foibles of natural weather patterns, unlike those we are currently experiencing.
You can take delight from the heat, the cold, the rain, the wind, the colours, the light, the dark...
All of nature's diversity is there. Enjoy!
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#FediCoven Q7: What have seasonal changes taught you that books or teachers could not?
The more I let myself feel the changes of the seasons, feel nature change and adapt and be part of that, the more I am confronted with the fact that a portion of me is my context, the surrounding plants, the winds, the animals, the soil, and clouds. This is especially clear when considering my diet, eating locally grown stuff sustains my body in a far more harmonious way. My blood sugar doesn't spike all over, and so my energy levels and emotional state are much more stable. Food that is in season, remains in season in my body as I eat it. So, I've learned that being out of sync with the seasons actually causes stress on my body, not just on a spiritual level. So, I'm happy to be making the first pumpkin soup of the season today!
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Oh, good one. Yes, let's get a little pedantic here. In your case, at least part of your craft, is poetry, no? Or do you consider that to be separate from your practice?
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- 'Craft' being what you do. (spells, drawings, sigils, etc)
- 'Practice' being which traditions, rituals, habits, etc. So the surrounding structure.
- And then 'path' is more worldview, pantheon, deities, etc.
Can we roughly agree on this #FediCoven ?
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PS: There is a big floating rock thing in the sky! Disregarding any other associations, how freaking magical is that?
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#FediCoven Q6: What relationship do you have with the moon and its phases, and how does that show up in your craft?
What craft?
I regard the natural cycles to be just that.
What significance I decide to attribute to them, at any given time, is the significance for that time.
I have acknowledged Hekate during the darkmoon period. I may, again. I've seen significance in the balance and interaction of moon and sun. There is poetic value in this.
But, for now, it's a big rock in the sky.
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#FediCoven Q6: What relationship do you have with the moon and its phases, and how does that show up in your craft?
Timing is important in Irish witchcraft, and I plan my practice by the moon's phases. Put simply, I aim to plant a thing, an idea, or an action when the moon is waxing in order for the new thing to grow strong and flourish. The waning moon is for letting things go. And in the full moon, when chaos rides, whatever is planted then will bolt fast.
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CW: witch stuff, trans stuff
#FediCoven Q6: What relationship do you have with the moon and its phases, and how does that show up in your craft?
The most obvious one is that my Estradiol injections are deliberately timed with moon phases, both the time that passes between them and when I take my large, medium or small dose.
It's all timed so that my E levels roughly correspond to how much Moon is visible in the sky.
I did it deliberately in order to enhance the feminizing effect of the hormone. I also do the injection in a mindful and slightly ritualized way, and the first injection I did with this timing, I cast a spell to set things into motion.
Other than that, I feel a strong affinity with the Moon as a signifier of femininity in general. When time is relevant for spells (which is to say, more often than not), I tend to pay attention to the Moon more than to Zodiac signs or day of the week. The only measure of time that matters to me more than the phase of the Moon are the solstice days.
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CW: FediCoven
#FediCoven Q6: What relationship do you have with the moon and its phases, and how does that show up in your craft?
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I think a lot of witches had early influences from drawing down the moon, esbats, Dianic tradition, etc., and I just kind of never slipped into that. The moon is one of our luminaries and that’s more the context I view it in. I think there’s a poetic beauty to the balance of the moon and the sun in the context of our existence: a heavenly body that we follow (the sun) and a heavenly body that follows us (the moon). That’s the aspect that I see the moon in: luminary, shadow, reflection, companion.
There are various forms of guidance on lunar timing, which I suppose I do align with, but there are other astrological timings that I get but don’t really use too, mostly because I’m not a “wait for the perfect time” kind of person.
There is a moon-related spirit that I work with and she can only be contacted in certain times of the lunar cycle. But that’s her prerogative, not mine. :)
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#FediCoven Q6: What relationship do you have with the moon and its phases, and how does that show up in your craft?
Moonlight helps me make choices. So, I tend to meditate and review what I want to release, and especially during a full moon, I sit outside and meditate in the moonlight. It triggers a liminal mind-space in which I find a connection to Hekate. She reminds me that I need to make choices, that I have that freedom. I also make a large jar of moonwater and drink this in a private little ritual the next day to cleanse my mind and shake off what I need to let go off. It's a nice little mindful ritual in which every sip I envision it clearing and relaxing my body and spirit.
The phases of the moon also remind me to behold the changes of the world around me. It's a passage of time, and so an indication of change. It shows me that however static some things are made to seem, time flows, things changes, and so must I.
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#FediCoven 2026 Q5: What helps you feel welcome in a pagan or witchy space? And what doesn't.
In broad agreement with several others who already answered this one about what makes a place welcoming. Inclusivity and acceptance except for rejecting fascism, kindness, support, respect, curiosity, conversation, connection.