So as someone who’s been trying out various magical pursuits over the past few years, I’ve decided I’d really like to hone in on trad witchcraft. I’ve seen some trad witches post resources and references, which is great, but I’m stuck in suburbia with little money. Do you know of ways to make the most of that in traditional witchcraft? I know it’s all about using your environment, but everything around me seems lackluster :/

ofwoodandbone:

mahigxn:

Suburbia is usually riddled with parks. unless you’re in Florida I guess. Go into those parks and talk to whatever spirits remain there. I’m sure they’ll be happy to get some attention. Leave offerings in a cemetery and talk to the inhabitants. Fly. You can use a lot of the trees and weeds growing in sidewalks and backyards for magic. I’d reccomend working with Dandelion. Wild Lettuce is also a slight hallucinogen you can use to achieve spirit communication or flight. Just work with the local spirits is what I’d reccomend. Visit your local library too. Read up on folklore and history and who’s dead, etc…

Yes to all of the above, and there’s even more that can be done. 
I grew up at the edge of a giant forest. At some point in time, I uprooted and moved to a city. I still go back and forth. 
You can imagine my horror when I thought that I couldn’t connect with the land. I was very, very wrong. 
Those giant buildings are towers of stone and steel, lasting generations, seeing hundreds of years of life. They’re filled with souls. 
The streets hum with the vibrations of thousands of feet, walking to and fro. 
The air is filled with electric currents, charging those great towers. 
The parks are the least of the power sources. 

The wilderness still exists in cities. It leaks in liminal places, in alleyways, in bus stops, in abandoned buildings, etc. In the night, it drips from parks and wide empty spaces. Learn to use it. 

The Land is the Land, whether covered in great formations or untouched by man. It has a memory and a voice if you can listen and hear. 
That sacredness, that power, still flows like blood in the land. You only need to find the veins.