Edit: Helicrysum Double
Ok, this took a while to writte. I'm really sorry for leaving it hanging for so long, but it really couldn`t be helped. I hope I did`t lose the touch after so long.
One tradition remaining now... The one that I'm least familiar with, so any help would be most welcome. I would like to thanks anyone that is brave enough to read these posts, you are the reason that keeps me going.
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Past Lists:
Basic Rotes for the Traditions
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Time
O - The Pace of Magic
Effect: Allows the mage to track the steps of a ritual, recipe, chant or required to fulfill her duties as a witch, daughter of a coven or member of a chantry. Also allows for silent arrangements and instruction to be passed between people familiar with a plan, schedule or ceremony.
The craft has a life of it’s own beyond the designs of any witch or god. The teachings of the many covens and the rites of old religions are streams splitting this great river, and initiation is about drowning in mysterious waters. Learning the ways of the verbena is not about decorating stale formulas. It is befriending a wild horse, finding harmony with its movements and riding along strong passions. As the mind learns to surrender, power blossoms like a beautiful crimson flower. At every generation, witches add their own blood to the flow, their creations, art and spirits renewing the craft as it is reborn in new forms - an timeless spirit dancing through the world once again as a child.
Brands, tattoos, jewelry and ritual tools are the key of this rote. Physical manifestation of one’s connection to the tradition, these implements are meant to be always kept by the practitioner’s side. Their influence is felt pulling at the heart and the mind, giving instinctual commands of when to act and when to hold to succeed in all processes related to magical crafts. Witches are led by their bodies into rituals and dances, hands moving by themselves aware of the correct times to take a pan out of the fire or a brew away from the sun and sudden daydreams remind practitioners of incoming compromises and seasonal rites. As long as the Verbena has been taught the steps of a ritual or recipe, intuition orchestrates exactly when one needs to prepare, act or start moving to perform a given task.
Not only helping with physical motions and timing, this rote also keeps track of the weight of given words. The compromis
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For tea and kombucha. Ideally near the U
I forgot about spiced chai, lavender dew and French press!
