when a spell calls to be disposed of in a certain place (crossroads, graveyard, in nature..), but the remnants aren’t biodegradable, consider looking for a trashcan in or near that location.
crossroads? most parks or open walking areas have these along their paths, and most of the time you can find a trashcan (and a water fountain!) right where the paths meet. graveyards often have at least one bin somewhere on the premises. and public parks with large wooded areas will usually provide cans even in the middle of the forest.
alternately, buy a small desktop trashcan with a lid and set that up to use during a spell in your preferred location. this will stand as the action of disposal. you can then dump the contents whenever and wherever without affecting the outcome of the spell.
When all other lights go down in an empty theater, a single light bulb remains lit onstage. The official reason for this is so that stagehands coming to turn the lights on in the morning don’t trip, but those who see the shadows in the catwalk and hear the creaking in the wings know the truth; every theater has a ghost, and every theater needs a ghost light.
The idea behind the ghost light is simple: If you leave a light on as an offering to the ghost every night, they will behave during the performances and rehearsals. I live on an extremely old, extremely haunted college campus, so I’ve developed an adaptation of the ghost light to help ease some of the activity in my building.
You Will Need:
A mini LED candle
Something to hold the candle, such as a lantern or votive holder
An object that you can use to connect the candle to the dead. Mine is a pinch of graveyard dirt and a necklace belonging to a deceased relative, but anything you feel carries “death energy” works fine
When I made my ghost light, I put a pinch of graveyard dirt at the bottom of a lantern, put in my LED candle, and then wrapped my necklace around the top of the lantern. I then simply said out loud: “Here spirits, this is for you”, but feel free to add your own incantation if that would make it more powerful for you. Every night before I turn my lights off, I turn my ghost light on and leave it on throughout the night. I’ve had mine up for a week now, and I haven’t had any weird activity since
(This post is my first in my Theatre Witchcraft series of spells and rituals inspired by the theatre and to help theatre witches. If you have any requests for theatre-related spells, hit up my inbox!)
found a huge amount of new podcasts to subscribe today bc who needs impulse control, so here’s all the ones i listen to currently + the new ones for anyone interested in finding something fun/fascinating
>Welcome to Nightvale
Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. turn on your radio and hide. Now listen, Night Vale, to the guiding sound of your radio host… Cecil.
>Alice Isn’t Dead
A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dad. In the course of her search, she will encounter the not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.
>King Falls AM
King Falls AM centres on a lonely little mountain town’s late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants. A town where zombies and ghosts are the LEAST of your problems…
>The Blood Crow Stories
The Blood Crow Stories is an anthology series of horror stories. Our first season highlights the story of the S.S. Utopia, a cruise ship in the early 1900s. Modern-day college student, Max, begins to do his thesis on the audio diaries of the passengers on the ship. What he didn’t know were the horrors that were waiting for him among the tapes, and why the ship sank so mysteriously almost 100 years ago.
Season Two is found in the small town of Blackchapel, in the middle of the wild west, that is seemingly beset by a series of horrific, confusing murders. The Sheriff has to gather a group of unlikely adventurers from far mountains, and the nearby women-only town of Mothers, to track down the culprit. Currently ongoing.
[If you’re looking for representation and a thrill-ride, subscribe.]
>The Thrilling Adventure Hour
A staged show in the style of old-time radio performed live, monthly at the Largo at the Coronet in Hollywood. Enjoy a myriad of adventures with Sparks Nevada – Marshal on Mars, Phillip Fathom – Deep Sea Detective, Captain Laserbeam! and the Adventurekateers, The Cross-Time Adventures of Colonel Tick-Tock, Jefferson Reid: Ace American, Down in Moonshine Holler, Amelia Earheart – fearless flyer, Cactoid Jim – King of the Martian Frontier, Tales of the United Solar System Alliance, and BEYOND BELIEF!
>Wolf359
Life’s not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the USS Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He’s stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 lightyears from Earth. His only company onboard the station are stern Mission Chief Minkowski, insane science officer Hilbert, and Hephaestus Station’s sentient, often malfunctioning operating system, Hera.
He doesn’t have much to do for his job other than monitoring static and intercepting the occasional decades-old radio broadcasts from Earth, so he spends most of his time creating extensive audio logs about the ordinary, day-to-day happenings within the station. But the Hephaestus is an odd place, and life is extremely isolated, zero gravity conditions has a way of doing funny things to people’s minds. Even the simplest tasks can turn into a gargantuan struggle, and the most ordinary-seeming things have a way of turning into anything but that…
>The Bunker
The Bunker is a breakfast radio show for the post-apocalyptic generation! One hundred years after a vague cataclysmic event, Tom, Dave and David decide to host a one hour radio programme from their underground bunker, complete with guests, interviews, short stories and music. They also have to deal with the possibility of starvation, madness, monsters -both metaphorical and literal- and, worst of all, each other.
>The Deep Vault
From the creators of Archive 81 comes The Deep Vault, a serialised audio drama set in an almost-post-apocalyptic United States. The story follows a group of longtime friends as they journey from the uninhabitable surface world into a mysterious underground bunker in search of safety and shelter.
>The Elysium Project
The Elysium Project follows those who are pulled into the world of a powerful formula that allows its subjects to manipulate the world around them based on thought and desire.
>Herbarium Podcasts
A family of podcasts that spans the multiverse.
>Lake Clarity
Five teens head up to Camp Clarity to celebrate their last summer together, but little do they know they’re about to stumble on dark secrets that surround the lake.
>Lesser Gods, An Audio Drama
Lesser Gods is a soundscaped, shifting perspective podcast. In a future where men and women are no longer able to reproduce, the five youngest people on Earth live a life of government subsidised excess. Rhea and the other Final Five only worry about drinking, sex and partying as the object of everyone’s obsession… Until they become someone’s target.
>The Leviathan Chronicles
The Leviathan Chronicles is a sci-fi podcast that tracks Macallan Orsel, a young genetic scientist in present-day New York City who discovers that immortality is not a fool’s fantasy, but rather a reality for several factions of powerful immortals living among us. The Leviathan Chronicles is the ultimate science fiction and fantasy audio drama podcast.
>The Orphans
The Orphans is a cinematic audio drama chronicling the castaways of a downed starship, The Venture. Stranded on a hostile planet, struggling to remember how they arrived and who they are. Mysterious creatures hunt them, and in this seemingly unpopulated world, a tower looms. The survivors: Nora, Richard, Olivia, Baz, William, Valerie, and the artificial intelligence, GeoFFRy, must learn to live with one another and work together as they fight for their lives in this alien wilderness.
>The Penumbra Podcast
Depending on who you ask, the Penumbra is either the grandest railway this side of Nowhere or a twice-monthly podcast series. Each episode takes the form of a 30-50min radio play. The Penumbra is all about stories you recognise told in ways you won’t expect. Your femme fatale might be an homme fatale; you might find that not every haunting needs a ghost. Your criminal underworld might advertise on billboards ten miles tall, and when push comes to shove your home might have more heart than you’re comfortable with.
It’s never just a heist, a Western, an adventure.
>Pleasure Town
Classic radio meets contemporary cable drama in this fictional serial podcast about a failed Oklahoma utopian society and its eclectic residents. Betrayal, murder and hedonism abound in PleasureTown.
>SAYER
SAYER is a narrative fiction podcast set on Earth’s man-made second moon, Typhon. The eponymous SAYER is a highly-advanced, self-aware AI created to help acclimate new residents to their new lives, and their new employment with AErolith Dynamics.
>SPINES
One day, Wren wakes up covered in blood, suffering from memory loss, and surrounded by the remnants of some strange cult rituals. SPINES is the story of her search for answers, and the deadly, powerful people she encounters along the way.
>Inkwyrm
Inkwyrm Magazine is an intergalactic fashion publication, bringing readers the newest looks from all over the universe. At the head of it all is Annie Inkwyrm, and directly behind her is Mella Sonder, AI caretaker and Annie’s PA. Along for the ride is overzealous PR director, a perpetually unimpressed physician, and an AI that really needs to learn some ethics.
Putting up with her boss is hard enough, but with the cutthroat fashion industry, and whatever is trying to kill everyone today, Mella and the gang have their hands full. One part sitcom, one part space-opera, Inkwyrm is an audio-drama for the truly fabulous.
>The Strange Case of Starship Iris
In 2189, Earth narrowly won a war against extraterrestrials. The Strange Case of Starship Iris is about what comes after. It’s a story of outer space, survival, espionage, resistance, identity, friendship, found family, romance, and secrets. (Also, there’s jokes!).
>Under Pressure
A near future podcast about life aboard the underwater research station Amphitrite featuring deep sea scholars, love, oblique literature references, and chaotic neutral kraken.
>We’re Alive
A classic style radio drama, updated for today with a full sound design and large cast of actors. This audio drama focuses on a group of survivors in a world on the brink of collapse after the zombie apocalypse comes to life… and it turns out they’re NOTHING like the movies…
>Wormwood: A Serialised Mystery
Tragedy forced Doctor Xander Crowe down the dark pathways of the occult, and the man was forever transformed. Now, chasing the vision of a drowned woman, Crowe finds himself in the haunted town of Wormwood, where evils lurk in the shadows and stains the souls of its inhabitants. Welcome to Wormwood.
>DARKEST NIGHT
Darkest Night is a binaural audio drama that places you, the listener, at the centre of a recovered memory that sounds as if its happening around you in real time. Each chapter delves into the last memories of the recently deceased, slowly revealing a horrifying master plan. Who is weaving this master conspiracy, and what is their ultimate goal?
Guys, Direct Relief (directrelief.org) is one of the highest-rated charities with 99% of donated money going directly to their programs. As I’m sure you’ve heard, Aleppo is about to be completely destroyed. DO is assisting with the Syrian Refugee Crisis and can use all the help they can get. If you are in a position to donate, please do so.
🌱 Clarity, we know what we must do, because the desire in our souls leads us this way, and the things that have troubled us fall away, as the promise of a new future, led by our true selves, overrides our fears. We feel empowered, and we do what we’ve always wanted to do (our soul knows it’s true)! 🔥
On April 15th the first new moon of the zodiac year occurs at 26 degrees Aries! This one is FULL of energetic Cardinal Aries energy. Keywords are: bold, new, confidence, fresh start, beginnings, rebelliousness. This new moon will be conjunct the planet Uranus, we have the energy to change and start what is needed. Make bold choices, go after what you want! The last few weeks have showed us what we have needed to let go. That energy will be strong as the new moon wants us to let go and move on. Uranus adds a bolt of lightning to the mix further fueling the need for change and eccentricity. It adds a rebelliousness to the new moons energy. AND Mercury will also go direct on the same day as the new moon. Time to let your truth be set free. This is not a time to hold your emotions in, repression is not in the cards. Let it out. If you aren’t yet aware of the change needed in your life, this moon will help illuminate that. Actually it could create drastic measures where stagnation is concerned. So go forth and be be bold and be you and have the confidence to go after what is true. ✨
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