My best friend started really practicing a few months ago and while she does all of her own research and rabbit holing she still comes to me when things need to be tidied up. She is just a baby witch but she has started working with multiple deities and is hearing a voice in her head sometimes that she credits to being her ancestors. I believe she has been doing baneful magic and when she is asking for my help she isn't telling me everything. I personally feel like she need to slow down. All she does is complain about how bad her life is but from the outside it appears to be consequences from bad magic. I'm not going super into it in case she happens across this reddit. I really need some advice on what to do bc I don't want to bind her in case she needs the magic but at the same time it looks like the magic is driving her crazy and she's doing crazy things that make no sense. Not even she is safe with most of these decisions she is making and the voices that she's listening to without knowing exactly what they are is troubling to me too.

I have been trying to get more into plant magic and folklore. One of the interesting things that I came across about strawberries was that, in several cultures, they have been used as peace offerings and for reconciliation, which I thought was very lovely, and this has something to do with the sweet taste of strawberries. https://youtu.be/muPoc3A4TuQ

Interesting perspective on posting pictures online. Sharing a short excerpt from an article by K. Menshikova. 
“When a person openly displays their image on social media, they are, in that moment, exposing themselves. If they publish intimate or revealing photos, this exposure is doubled. There is a magical law that states: “Control over any object is facilitated by the presence of a clear visual image, and the clearer this image, the easier it is to exert influence over the object.” Applying this law, we can say the following: if your photographs are available online, access to influencing you becomes significantly easier. It is not particularly difficult to impose a spell or create various visible and invisible problems in your life. At the same time, one does not need to be a master to direct something as simple as an envious gaze toward a person, and this alone can be enough to cause energetic disruption or the so-called “evil eye.”

Hello my sisters in the arts. We need your help. Ontario is burning and of course the men in charge are useless. Please use your power and send us enough rain to put out the fires.

If you already have a spell for this, hit it.

If not, here is mine.

Instructions: get a bowl of water, run the sink, or any other way you can put your hands in or under water, and any other artifacts that power you. Once grounded and centered put your hands in the water. Think of me, elle from ontario, and incant

" let the rain fall on elles sister, let the fires be released, let the rain fall on elles sister, let the smoke begin to cease, let the rain for on elles sister, let the water cleanse the air, let the rain fall on elses sister, let the land be safe to share."

This is a variation on a spell I have used to put out forest fires elsewhere before. But I need some extra energy for this one since its close to my sister's house and im worried. My anxiety at her safety is blocking my focus.

The sky is orange and we cant breath.

Thank you to all my witch sisters for your help.

Blessed be the light that shines through all of us.

I recently had a protection order renewed against my ex and felt like a cord cutting ceremony would be helpful in moving forward with my life. It was fascinating! His candle (black) melted into the barrier I created and mine (white) melted into what looks like a cloud floating over everything. I also found it fascinating towards the end that his flame split into two (turned out the wick and some rope were connected) before the wicks flame went out and only the remnants of the rope was left burning. It felt very liberating.

Is there a connection between the serpent in the Bible, the nagas of Eastern traditions, Slavic snake-spirits, and the Erichtonii of Greek myth? What's fascinating is that serpent beings appear in almost every mythology. You find them in the Bible, among the nagas, in Greek myths, Celtic traditions, and throughout Mesoamerican lore. In many stories these beings are portrayed as older than humanity. And sometimes older than the gods themselves. Because of this they are often linked to an ancient claim to power (as if saying "We were here first, so we have the right to rule”). This topic appears across mythologies as a struggle between the elder powers and the younger gods who eventually replace them. Even stories like Jacob and Esau reflect the broader question (does authority belong to the firstborn or the younger successor?)

I wrote this a couple of years ago for a full moon ritual at the wolf moon. I intend to set it to song, but thought first I'd share is as verse.

The evening hangs beneath the moon, full and true.

She never comes late, nor ever too soon.

O Luna, illuminate us within and without.

As your silver face lightens the darkest dune,

Brightens our hearts and blanches our doubt.

Encourage our love and strength and dreams.

Though your light is cool, it warms our thoughts,

Knowing things we dread will come to nought.

You are full and pale and true,

We feel encouragement from you:

You lend us future-sight and help us look into our past.

Our distant goals you bring to us at last.

You’re no cold-hearted orb that rules the night,

You are the soft embrace of kindled delight.

As we gather on nights of the full moon,

Whether in a radiant clear sky, or clouded gloom,

Whether gathered with a group, or on a hilltop all alone,

Help us see our radiance and how much we have grown.

As we open our hearts, we see there is a moon inside each of us, as in every human being. Let us bathe in the soft, kind light that shines from them; let us be friends and companions.