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Sun Tea.

Sun tea is used to connect with the Sun, a Sun deity, or to feel the energy of the Sun within and or around you.

This is my Sun tea recipe:

Bay leaves

Orange peels

Black tea

Lemon juice

Honey

First, you boil the bay leaves and orange peels in a pot of water. I don’t count the minutes, I usually wait until the water is a greenish color. Once that’s done, pour the tea into a cup with some black tea (I usually use 2 packs of black tea to make it strong). Squeeze some lemon juice and use honey as a sweetener. If you don’t have honey, it’s okay to just use sugar and it’s also okay to use store bought lemon juice. 

I usually make my tea pretty strong (I like it that way) and I tend to measure by eyeballing and tasting instead so sorry about there not being a precise measurement for the bay leaves and orange peels to use.

So yeah, that’s my sun tea recipe. Pretty simple and tasty and a good way to connect to the Sun or deity. 

Affirmation, Sun Day

I am fierce and warm and untameable.

Don’t expect me to shine only for you.

How to Call Non-Human Spirits

I’ve written a post about connecting with human spirits, but now I would like to focus on finding and calling to non-human spirits. This is not a guide for deities, because the way you approach and worship different gods from different pantheons ranges so much. As a Hellenic Polytheist, I know for a fact I couldn’t tell you what you need to know for every open culture. If you’re looking for that kind of post, check religious blogs!

For this post, I will not focus on malevolent OR good-natured entities. This will be primarily about all entities as a whole, and how you decide to use this guide is up to you, not me. Towards the end i will provide some basic information about finding negative entities in particular, for those of you who are curious or are looking to come into contact with one. However, I don’t recommend it. This is purely educational, and if you make a dumb decision, that’s on you.

Using the Astral

You can explore your surroundings in the astral realm to find spirits, communicate with them, and build relationships. This is probably the most direct and least expensive and physical method for contacting entities. You can read more on astral travel on many blogs, including my own. Once you have a firm grasp on that, you can begin to actually seek them out and such. Here are my tips:

If you’re looking for particular spirits, find out where they are generally spotted. For fae, you may check the forest. For naiads, you could try the ocean. For death-related spirits, like psychopomp, hospitals and cemeteries may be your best bet. Honestly, wherever you think they’re likely to be, check. To travel to these places, I suggest:

Learning where the nearest place is to you, or where the place you want to travel to is

Finding a taglock for that place and holding it while you project

Practice going to this place purely for the sake of seeing it, in the astral sense

Use doorways you create (and close when you’re done) to quickly get there

Once you learn how to do the above, you can search for and communicate with any entities that are there. Always be prepared to be ignored, attacked, or tricked. Spirits can be a bit iffy. Don’t get upset if it doesn’t work out at first.

You can continue seeing these spirits you meet by setting up times to see one another, or making plans for them to come to you. Be sure you are talking to the spirit you are wanting to, as many spirits can and do trick people. There are spells you can cast for an allseeing eye, so you will be able to determine if they are disguising themselves in anyway.

I recommend doing this for a month before inviting them into your space. This prevents you rushing into things with spirits you know nothing about.

Using Locations

If you struggle with using the astral realm as a method of contact, you can try physically locating entities. This is a bit tricky sometimes, as you’ll have to rely on divination for a majority of the time, until you can begin communicating with them through a telepathic link. I would wait to establish this link until you feel comfortable doing so, because it can lead to the spirit being with you pretty often. I would do a spirit vessel before this in most cases.

When you are physically going to a location, protection is vital. You’ll need to make sure nothing can follow you home if you don’t want them too, or attach themselves to your body. A simple way to do this is to bathe with a mix of gem elixir (clear quartz) and moon water. Add any herbs you know are safe and have is liar correspondences as well, I use lavender oil and mint leaves. This helps ward your body and cleanse it, as well ad your aura.

To communicate, bring a tool for divination. Runes, tarot cards, Scrying mirrors, etc all work well. Some people use ouija boards, but it is not necessary. Whatever you feel is cost accurate for you is perfect.

Begin asking questions such as:

What kind of spirit are you? (let them tell you what they are. Do not say “are you a ____?” because they could easily put on a mask and pretend to be exactly who you want to talk to.)

Are you interested in communicating with me on a regular basis?

What is your alignment? (Malevolent, neutral, good-natured, etc)

Where are you from?

When are you from?

How did you come to be?

Etc

Basically, communicate like you are meeting someone for the first time. Because you are. Be considerate, vocal, and kind. Don’t rush headlong into questions, start by talking about why you’re here, and maybe give them a nickname of yours if you aren’t comfortable sharing your real one. Have a nice chat, and try to make them comfortable with you. First impressions are important.

If after a while of meeting them in this location you want to bring them home, tell them so. You can begin discussing the possibility of making them a vessel, and maybe binding them to it if they are interested at all. I have posts about that on my blog as well.

Using Bones, Plants, or Stones

These are for animals, plants, and earthen spirits. You can communicate with these types of spirits using their physical trigger objects, in this case, parts of their nonmetaphysical bodies.

Bones can be used with the permission of the spirit to contact them and be used as a vessel for them if that is what they want. Do not disturb these bones without asking first. Don’t even touch them. The very first thing you really need to do, before you even think about talking to any spirits, is to find out what kind of bones they are (which animal they belong to) and if you are even legally allowed to possess them. It is a big deal to mess with things like that, especially if they belong to an endangered or threatened species.

After that, you can communicate as directed with the location based spirit calling. It’s fairly simple and direct from then on.

Divination

What’s already around you? Do some divination and find out. Chances are, there is at least one nonhuman spirit nearby. See about contacting them if you don’t feel like they are dangerous, and always stay protected. Use whatever form of divination you wish, and keep up the communication to build a bond.

Finding Malevolent Entities

I told you I would put in a bit about this. You can’t say I haven’t warned you: negative entities are fully capable of causing harm on a sliding scale. Some can cause death. Some can cause injury. And some of them just like to screw with your head. If you aren’t prepared for this, don’t mess with them. Don’t call to a spirit if you can’t handle them. It’s as simple as that.

On the other hand, working with malevolent creatures can have its rewards. You can send them to people as curses, with their full consent and desire. You can learn things from them. You can do lots of things with them present, bit sometimes the risk outweighs the benefits. Be cautious, whatever you do. Here is a list of places I have come to discover are the breeding grounds for these entities:

Places where extreme violence has occurred

Places where death (especially violent or tragic death) has occurred

Places where mass amounts of death has occurred

Places where negative energy has been accumulated

Places that have been cursed

Abandoned, decaying, and destroyed places

Places where natural disasters have caused negative emotions en mass

Places where evil intent or thought has been carried out (sites for murders, homes of serial killers, etc)

Old buildings where underground crime has taken place

Places where malevolent humans lived

Of course, there are plenty more places where these entities thrive, including cemeteries (due to the large amount of death and sadness associated with it) and hospitals (for the same reason). To make contact, you can follow the rest of this guide, but with a ton of protection. Never invite anything home with you from these places if you get a really negative vibe, especially not the first time you meet them. If after a while you make the decision to do this, be cautious.

I hope this has helped you all with your endeavours!

🍓❤☀️Summer of Love Strawberry spell☀️❤🍓

A tasty snack, and spell, to bring you love this summer.

What you need:

🍓Strawberries- love (all types), happiness, summer magic (this spell also works with strawberry ice cream)

💎Sugar-love, sweetness, attraction

🍂Cinnamon- love, warmth, sun magic

☀️A sunny spot, especially outside

What to do:

🍓Get as many strawberries as you’d like

🍓Mix the sugar with a dash or 2 of cinnamon

🍓go sit in your sunny spot and feel the suns warmth

🍓say “this summer, is the summer of love”

🍓dip the strawberries in the cinnamon sugar. And as you do, focus on intent and the type of love you want in you life. Feel the sunshine manifesting the energy with you as you eat.

🍓when you finish eating the spell is done! Enjoy!

Region’s Main Deities

A wild Solgaleo appeared!!

Lemon Syrup

Lemons- happiness, vitality, friendship, rejuvenation, clarity, cleansing, healing, protection, solar energy.

Sugar- sweetness in life, happiness, attraction.

You'll need enough lemons to make 1/2 cup of squeezed lemon juice. For me, that was 3 lemons.

Before juicing them, separate the zest (the bright yellow part of the peel, not the white pith underneath, which will make your syrup bitter).

Then juice the lemons, and add to a pot with 3/4 to 1 cup of white sugar.

Let it boil, and once it does, reduce the boil to a simmer for 10 minutes. If you think the syrup is not thick enough, add more sugar.

Add the zest and turn off the heat entirely. Once it has cooled, strain it to remove all the zest and any pulp. Don't leave the zest in the syrup, even if it looks aesthetically appealing, because it'll turn bitter.

Keep it covered and chilled and it can keep up to a year. You can add it to teas, cocktails, use it for lemonade, drizzle it on pastries, etc.

Warm Sun tea:

fire element and solar energy tea!☀️🔥 it tastes warm, sweet, and spicy and taste good iced or hot.

Cinnamon

Hibiscus

Juniper berries (small amount) (can be substituted with red currant berries)

Orange and lemon peel

Saffron

Honey

Is there a way that pokemon companions can evolve, if so, how would that work? Like especially when it comes to pokemon that need items or need to be traded to evolve, as compared to "levelling up" like how would levelling up even work in the real world? And an extra question (sorry if I'm bombarding you lol) can pokemon companions be shiny? Like how would you find shiny pokemon, I suspect its near impossible. I did ask this elsewhere, just looking for a variety of opinions. Thanks!!

My opinion is that evolution would work less like it does in the games, and would be based more off of personal spiritual growth. “Leveling up” would be you growing in your spiritual practice as it relates to your bonds with that Pokémon.

I can see certain Pokémon who evolve via methods other than leveling up needing to meet certain prerequisites that are a little more metaphorical than they are literal (although maybe they could be pretty literal, depending.) Maybe Inkay will only evolve into Malamar once you have a big revelation that turns both your and Inkay’s worldview “upside-down.” (Okay that example is pretty corny.)

Or let’s say you are a storm witch and you deal with rain a lot but it doesn’t actually snow where you live. Ideally, you want to work with ice and snow. It’s your biggest goal as a storm witch. Your companion is an Eevee. Perhaps it can only become a Glaceon once you’re able to visit a snowy region and preform your first snow-based magick, growing as a storm witch.

With translating game-based mechanics to a real-world metaphysical set of rules, I don’t think it always has to be super literal and you can think more abstractly and be guided more by intuition. Or maybe someone’s specific practice is structured in a super literal way, where “leveling up” is calculating completely mathematically corresponding to a certain quota of EXP. Like, someone assigns “1 spell=[this much] EXP” and that makes sense to them. I wouldn’t do it that way, sounds too rigid. But some people like it that way.

As for Shiny Pokémon, again, I don’t think it’s based exactly on game rarity values. Like, I think in the Pokémon world, the average trainer would never interact with a handful of different legendary Pokémon, let alone be their trainer. You play the role of a very special hero whose dedication goes above and beyond that of the average trainer which is why you are able to save the world and seek out so many legendary Pokémon. In all honesty, I think the average trainer has a better chance of encountering a shiny Pokémon within their lifetime than they have of forming a relationship with a legendary Pokémon.

And yet? Most Poképagans I know work closely with legendaries. If you look at it holistically, the odds that we would all be working with legendaries? If we were in the Pokémon world? It wouldn’t happen. But we’re not in the Pokémon world. The legendaries are a lot easier to contact because they operate under different rules here.

I don’t think shiny Pokémon are impossible to work with. Especially if you consider the theory of Pop Culture Paganism that it is our energy, thoughts, and dedication to Pokémon as a piece of Pop Culture that gives it its spiritual power. If everyone thinks shinies are cool, and cares a lot about them, and invests a lot of emotions into searching for them, then that means they probably have a certain type of energy and power that is coveted. I think that means it won’t be impossible to find one.