u/Constance283

Today is the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere so I pulled cards asking what do I need to know for the new year. I just shuffle and see what cards jump out and I pulled

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The Magician, 3 pentacles, page swords, ten pentacles, and nine swords reversed.

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I interpreted this as learning new skills in the workplace (magician, 3 pentacle). And workhard and you will be rewarded, even though you may feel shame, fear or doubt (ten pentacles and nine swords reversed). The page of swords is tripping me up a bit though. Honestly when I read cards I read less into the meaning and just listen to what the cards are telling me (if that makes sense)

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I am relatively new to tarot and not great at interpreting for myself as well as currently experiencing a third eye blockage so I would love a second opinion incase im looking at this completely wrong

Shitposting a genuine question. My brown hair keeps getting pure white stands! Is this a sign? Am I just better than everyone else? - sun damage aside First time poster - be gentle, soft hands, just the tip etc.

Sorry if this has been done before! Im looking for a dumb phone that just runs Spotify and a good camera. Preferably something built like a brick (a slim brick) and indestructible as I am a farm hand. I love the old flip phone look!

I know a lot of witches are vegan/ vegetarian. I am not. It is my belief that dead things should be honoured and nothing wasted. I grew up on a farm so I am very connected to the source of my food and have no problem processing animals for produce. I believe that wasting product is disrespectful, so hides, bones and body should all be used (respectfully). I wanted to hear some other perspectives and why do some witches think a dead animal should be left to rot?

Edit: thank you for all the replies! I didn't write this post very well amd more wanted to know your thoughts on using animal products in your practises thank you for all your discussion tho

Most resources treat that as a list. Four separate folk beliefs, vaguely related, filed under "rosemary correspondences." You memorize it, or you don't, and either way you don't really understand why.

That's the problem r/materiamagica is trying to solve.

The sub is built around a simple but underused idea: every magical ingredient has a Virtue, a single underlying power that explains everything it does. Rosemary's is Remembrance. Once you see that, the list stops being a list and starts being a logical system. It sharpens memory. It holds the identity of a space against intrusion. It anchors oaths in time. It carries grief across the boundary of death. Same power, different contexts.

There are many ways to pet a cat. Here's a simpler version of that idea: if you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen, drink a glass of water, put a cold cloth on your forehead, or sleep. All of them can work. But they work through completely different mechanisms. Ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Water fixes dehydration. Cold constricts blood vessels. Sleep resets your nervous system. Knowing how each one works tells you which one to reach for.

Materia magica works the same way. Multiple ingredients can protect a home. But salt does it through Extraction, drawing out and purging what doesn't belong. Rosemary does it through Remembrance, holding the identity of the space against what contradicts it. These aren't the same working in different wrappers. They're different tools that happen to overlap in one area of their range.

Understanding Virtues means you stop swapping ingredients randomly and start choosing intentionally. It also means you start noticing things: convergences across traditions, physical signatures that point toward function, the places where Roman herbalists and Appalachian root workers landed on identical conclusions from completely different directions.

That's what we're here to dig into. Come share what you know.