Herbalist here! I specialize in tea making (despite hating tea myself as a coffee chugging American). But, herbal teas when prepared correctly with good quality herbs have complex flavors. When in school I learned that herbal teas should be steeped longer than store bought teas. 20mins is the standard for herbal teas, especially if you want their medicinal value.
Also... Don't burn the herbs... Water temperature as with green tea. After steeping the infusion can be heated carefully.... It's technically an infusion btw if it doesn't actually contain tea (camelia sinensis leaves).
I love Margot Adler’s take on the threefold law. When she encountered a group of witches that said, “ WE believe in the threefold law, and EVERYTHING you do will come back to you THREE times…” and Margot went, “Why not two and a half?” 😂☠️ There is dogma everywhere, lol.
@@AlisonQ1 Instant gratification and having something already done for you just doesn't have the same energy. You are right about bath bombs being in the same league as Yule balls. Where do you stand on pre-made "spell jars"?
Apartments with bathtubs are becoming progressively less accessible to low income people in my area. Not being able to do a "bath ritual" doesn't make one less of a witch. The mountain grannies and backwoods witch ladies used baths for healing but they wouldn't have wasted precious water and herbs for a personal ritual.
I'd not heard of bathtubs being inaccessible on a financial basis! You are absolutely correct about backwoods grannies not wasting resources like that!
My initial thought as an alternative to a ritual bath was the old-fashioned "washcloth bath". Might be my option of choice in the winter when I don't want to risk getting my hair wet (I have terrible luck with shower caps😅)
When I first saw the title, I excitedly said "Oohh... she's gonna go after the Threefold Law!" Your opinion aligns very strongly with mine. It's part of a specific religion and members of that religion need to stop trying to force apply it across all witchcraft. It's no different than the Carpenter's fan club trying to force their religious views on everyone else. Also, on Brandon Sanderson... he's local to me and I've gotten to meet him a few times. He's a pretty cool dude.
Plant a seed--and the seed will grow. Whether that seed is a literal seed, or the seed of magickal intention. That is what the threefold law means. Now, why is that so hard to understand--and why are witches so hell bent on pretending that they can act without consequence--when the very nature of our work is consequences. I'm rather ashamed of the mindset I see in many of the comments--this attempt to evade responsibility and encouraging people to share in the delusion.
2:45 You grumpy old crone! 😹 I love how in one breath you’re “forage for tea? Who does that!” & in the next breath, you’re “go i to your garden, pull something up, then steep it!” Hah! I love it
Yeah my Christian parents have asked me. "If you don't believe in God, what keeps you from becoming a murderer?". I think it's telling of their morels that they need someone looking over their shoulder and the threat of hell to be decent people. I kinda think the same if the rule of three. Like, really you need threat of retribution to be decent? I think there's a place for baneful magic. Specially because magic had historically been for the downtrodden and disenfranchised. But also it's not my first move to curse someone that their left sock is always wet. So yeah, I think you're correct it's going to be different for different people. Thank you for the video
To be fair, the idea that some disagreeable people might be walking around with soggy left socks made me smile (it was a guilty pleasure smile, but nevertheless very broad) 😁
It's the whole shopping cart test thing. Some people will only put the cart back when someone is looking (to keep them honest), other people don't need anyone/anything keeping them honest and will put the cart back just cuz it is the right thing to do. Some people need God/a god to keep them from doing bad stuff, other people don't need that and will just be a good person cuz it's the right thing to do. We r all diff and I guess as long as the end point is a person who is good and not being a nuisance on society than who cares if they worship the Christian God or the one of the many pagan gods or a yellow #2 pencil. Lol. Idk where I am going with this cuz I am a bit drunk, lol, but I thought I'd give my 2 cents. Sry if this is a ramble lol
The thing to remember about the rhyming Parts of Wiccan lore is that it was Made up by a Middle-class class Middle aged woman fueled by copious amounts of red wine. Namely, Doreen Valiente. It isn't Holy Writ (not that Holy Writ is either). She was probably just trying to trump the Golden Rule. Thinking of infusion, we went through a fad for home made spirit liqueurs. Most relevant were, lavender - which created a sort of inability to motivate - an extreme chill pill. Spice with a lot of *nutmeg* - hallucinogenic. Filter coffee and brandy - dubbed by the local ladies patched motorcycle club as 'rocket fuel' because it makes you very drunk and very awake at the same time. We stopped after the lavender because we were worried someone might end up catatonic.
I don't see why being middle class is relevant to someone's Witchery, and what is wrong about being a middle aged woman? They have experience and usually some wisdom. This is oddly dismissive about a woman who knew and wrote so much about witchcraft, Wicca and other traditions, some quite beautiful poetry - and prose, ritual and otherwise, whether fuelled by red wine or not. It's almost like hearing someone say the Beatles were overrated. I'd rather my initiates read Valiente than some of the other choices. (Often written by 20 year olds in black lace, who read a book last week)
@@Helen-ge5ng Typical inverse snobbery I'm afraid. People love to put other people in easy-to-dismiss boxes rather than actually accept that people other than their own type can have value.
Valente wrote poetry. That's not the same as establishing a religion and its practices. Regardless, what does her age, gender or financial bracket have to do with anything?
@@operationgoldfish8331 Have you read Philip Heselton's book, “Doreen Valiente Witch”? Perhaps it would help to enlarge the limited view some people seem to have of her.
@@peridot1706 to claim that race, gender, age and economic fortune do not have an impact on the history of the craft in it's various forms is to disregard a large part of that very history. There are plenty of "new age" nonsenses out there that were specifically targeted towards the Pinterest obsessed, middle-aged white woman and her teenage counterparts. This aesthetic and superficial craft is meant as a cash grab for those who can afford such ventures. The long and storied tradition of the disenfranchised witch is the antithesis of this "new age" model. The abused, the women of color, the impoverished, those lacking in social power are the backbone of the history of the craft throughout the ages and the reason it has survived and continues to draw in new generations of witches.
I've never seen the sense in dumping various floaty bits into a bath. I do for a bath what you suggested for the shower, wrap herbs in cheese cloth, let it steep while the tub fills. Washing with handmade soaps made with the appropriate scents & herbs solves the issue of dumping oil in the bath. If you want a bubble bath, it's easy enough to turn some of that handmade bar into liquid soap. Add a bit of glycerin for added moisturizing.
You're right in that some people get obsessed with cinnamon, but as for the “keep the food in the kitchen,“ sentiment you also expressed in a short, I have to disagree. Here in the US, we have long running traditions of hoodoo practice and one of the many “tools” in that toolbox are sprinkling powders. There are traditional mixes, and mixes that a practitioner can create on their own, and while I’ve never heard of any specific thing about blowing cinnamon around, it fits in well with some of what folks do. Also, food items like honey, eggshells, crabshells, and cornmeal are used in other workings. Remember, not everyone who practices witchcraft is coming from an English perspective. Side note: rosemary, sage and lavender are food too. 😄 Love your channel, keep up the grump!
I've always found the Threefold Law to be daft and innane. When I first started exploring witchcraft, I figured that the idea that energy returns in kind makes more sense. That is, if you put positive energy out, you'll eventually get a roughly equal amount of positive energy back, but not necessarily in the same form. Nowadays, as I philosophise about it more and more, I'm increasingly feeling like simple cause and effect makes the most sense.
Plant a seed and the seed grows--whether mundanely or magickally. If your studies have not caused you to glean that much, then I suggest you go back to the beginning.
That same cheese cloth bag with herbs will also help in the tub, if you really want a bath! Just leave out the dreaded essential oils, because they are the pits to clean out...
I came here to say the same thing. I also have a thing a friend gave me that is like a giant tea-infusing ball. Perfect for steeping as many herbs as I want in the bath.
Yes ma'am to the note of cursing well my ex spent 13 years in jail and he ruined his own damn life I had nothing to do with it I do admit though I enjoyed every moment😊
I've started growing plants specifically for tea in my garden this year, so the tea doesn't just taste "green". Most common household spices also make fantastic tea
The most wonderful tub I have ever used was a seven foot long clawfoot tub. It had very tall sides. The overflow drain was also at a higher level. When I reclined I couldn't see over the edge and could fill it to the point I had to tilt my head back to breathe. I loved that tub. Bathtubs are one of those things that imo the Victorians did better than anyone has managed to accomplish since then.
I needed this meat and potato today. Last year, I found out my (then) husband is a nonse. He's under investigation by police, I'm a newly single mother of six on food stamps, a job that barely pays the bills (after 20 years as a SAHM) and a gofundme to try to afford my attorney fees. I know he will get what is his, that the universe is biding it's time for sure, but this discussion on the "Rule of 3" and pursuing your conscience is so important. I honestly don't think I would feel guilt over workings against him. I also want better for myself and my kids. I'm so tired of being the bigger person sometimes. I want my heart to be at peace with what is happening and the waiting game is no place of peace for me. I want action. I appreciate your perspective on this. Thank you.
Oh also as I'm listening.... ritual bath. I usually do a shower for that because I believe if you needing to be cleaned and prepped for ritual ypu need running water..just me. But I will take a therapeutic healing bath but I prepare my herbs like a tea. I steep them in boiling water then strain and then pour into my bath the strained tea. Same effect and less mess. So basically I steep myself in a tub of tea water.
The way you go abt baths is so mind-blowing to me bc it's so smart but so simple i could of thought of it but somehow didn't 😅 i just hate that if you use loose leaf tea in a bath it looks like bugs and the cleanup afterwards is not fun
Lol i am that person who grows heaps of medicinal herbs & plants on my allotment to use in herbal teas, tinctures, salves, bath ‘teas’ (I use giant muslin tea bag thingies so no mess & I don’t add oils). The teas mostly do taste ‘green’ 😂 but they very much help reduce the nasty symptoms of the autoimmune illnesses I unfortunately live with. I do have a witchcraft garden too, mostly not to used in such things ☠️ 👻 As for an enjoyable cuppa ☕️ it’s Earl Grey black tea for me ♥️🖤
Yorkshire tea girl here too ❤ I visualise gold and white light rain in the shower just to get rid off the negatively and crap from the day always helps me! I have very sensitive skin so herbs and oils are no! Brilliant advice Annie. X
There's a story about a farmer whose son broke his leg right before harvest. "What a disaster!" everyone said. "He won't be able to help you get the crops in!" But the next day the emperor's soldiers came through the village, conscripting every able-bodied young man they found. "How lucky for you," the neighbors told the farmer, "that your son can't be drafted and marched away to fight and probably be killed!" But the very next week... You can see where this story is going. I meditate on it every time I believe something is Good or Bad. Right & wrong, in contrast, is something we ourselves understand about our own actions, and our right to judge each other's choices, and others' right to judge ours, is limited.
"Who does that?" Me, honestly, though I'm personally of the opinion that herbal infusions don't count as tea unless there's actual leaves from the tea plant in it. 😂 On the other hand, the (heh) ritual of gathering the herbs together and slowly steeping them before adding honey and stirring to combine acts as much as a slowing down prelude to the relaxing boosted by then drinking the infusion. Those self care books don't go into that bit of it much, though, focusing more on the "potion" portion than the "use the brewing of this to kickstart making yourself slow down to relax".
I've never licked a bath-bomb but oh my goodness I've wanted to eat their soap bars that smell of chocolate... I prefer foot baths for this sort of thing. I agree I can't be arsed to scrub out the bath just for this. Thank you for being one of the most sensible people on the internet! Also: Definitely sign me up for the Church of Anti-Cinnamon...
In 2022 my boss got me the first mistborn for Christmas, i spent the rest of 2023 making my way through the series (and onto the stormlight archive). I had your exact notions about Mr. Sanderson before I read them, and each of the first three books left me weeping, actual snot-dripping *weeping!* 😅 I felt so human after them haha
in traditions that call to remove spirit nasties, one of their golden/best methods is running water. stand under the shower to remove the nasties. no herbs or anything needed. just have a shower, done. soap optional, depending on how grotty you feel lol
The only and last ‘ritual bath’ I had was at my initiation back in ‘87 or so. I had been a solitary before that and after it ended in 2000 I returned to that for the most part. I don’t like baths and now I am semi-crippled by the broken leg/ankle which, altho healed, will never be like before. Therefore getting in and out of a bath is life threatening. Even showers are daunting. BTW, Malbec, known as ‘the black wine of the Quercy’ was drunk at the wedding of Henry II and Eleanore of Aquataine! Cheers!
Yes, yes, yes and yes again! Also the not hexing the ex: Well done and Congratulations on that ( likened to drinking from a poisoned well in order to cure yourself) Cheers looking forward to your next broadcast x
In a similar vein to the cheesecloth bag shower, i use reusable tea bags for my ritual baths, often bringing the herbs over my body prior to putting in the bag and getting into the bath
As a non-brittish person I must say I very much enjoy walking out in nature to pick my own herbs and brew a tea on them, but I understand that it may not be everybody's ... *badum-dish* .. cup of tea! Ha-ha. 😅 I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist. 🙈 I'm totally with you on the three fold law-thing, and I just loved the pebbles in the lake-metafor. I believe it's just like you describe it, nothing is black and white, good or bad. It's just different perspectives depending on how you choose to see it.
Bath bomb bath solution... If you have taken a plain Epsom salt bath the sticky icky hair is worse. Crazy thing is, if you spritz your hair with vinegar, it becomes soft and kind of like hair conditioner. You can then wash your hair as usual. I learned that from using sensory deprivation tanks, full of salt water. They had a spray bottle with watered down ACV for hair care and it worked 🤷♀️🤯
Bath bombs are nice, but I learned when starting out from writers who had to heat and prepare their own bathwater, so brewing an infusion as a pour-over or sponge bath, followed by fresh water and/or some kind of shower seemed the most obvious way to take a cleansing bath. They're also the easiest thing to clean up without breaking the mood before ritual, IMO. Happiness and contentment are excellent goals to maintain at home, and where you can, really. Enough health and enough wealth that you can take some time to pause and read something you enjoy with a favorite beverage is something i wish for us all.
As soon as I saw this title I KNEW it was going to be the rule of 3 - SO with you on this!! Wicca is a religion created by a person, and the rule of 3 is one of the tenets of that religion - it always frustrates me when Wiccans push it on others with different Pagan/magical practices! Also drinking a lovely merlot as I watch - cheers 🍷
I just wanted to pop in and say that you are quickly becoming one of my favorite creators on this platform. Your videos are so delightful to listen to and I really appreciate what you’re putting out into the world!
The 3 fold law feels very… Christian. Ick! Fear mongering, too. I’m studying herbalism and have heaps of plants for potion and medicine making. A good cup of herbal tea properly made is delightful!! I stopped using bath bombs and turned to making bath salts and milk baths so the essential oils are incorporated. I use reusable bags so I don’t have any clean up.
Yes I'll be that person. I do alot of tea blends from the green and flower bits I grab from my garden. But I am herbalist and a witch. I do the flower and green bits in my tea for more than just the raste...lol
Sometimes when I brew something medicinal (nettles mostly) it really just tastes 'green', but I noticed that ginger, lemon zest and mint can make anything tasty
Your comments on happy vs content are so spot-on! Happy is more akin to a mood, and contentment is more akin to a state of being. My therapist drove this home years ago and the relief of 'oh, it's not supposed to hang about as a state of being' was enormous! Fantastic video as always, and just the chuckle I needed on a Monday.
I occasionally do a ritual purification shower by putting the requisite ingredients in a bowl of warm water, saying an incantation over it, and then just pouring that over myself. Because I'm not a huge bath person, and the Lush bath bomb bath story reminds me why.
For ritual baths, I either make a tea from the herbs I'm using to pour over myself before soaking, or I use cheesecloth to wrap the herbs and toss that into the tub. It never makes a mess. As for curses, yes, I've done them. Only two led to very dramatic consequences, one in a similar circumstance to what you mentioned that resulted in a lost business, home, and arrest, the other in a child abuse case that led to arrest and loss of custody. I've never regretted that, and I don't feel like I suffered any sort of backlash or bad luck afterward. I helped people who needed it get justice they were otherwise denied. I can think of few better uses for magic.
Few things in modern paganism are more misunderstood than the Wiccan Rede and Rule of Three. Briefly... tldr 1: Context matters. While the word "wicca" gets applied to all sorts of things, traditional Wiccan concepts are exclusively for and about... *Wiccan initiates*. Not solitaries, not eclectics, not any other type of witch or pagan. tldr 2: Neither the Rede or 3Fold is emphasized in traditional Wicca, they're not taught to be universal laws (gasp!). That attribution (or accusation) they are was made by everyone else. tldr 3: *The Threefold does not imply what people think it does.* It is not about the universe heaping rewards or punishment in X-amount on anyone (gasp!). In context, it pertains to the actions of the initiate. tldr 4: Subsequently, non-initiates either try to abide by or hate on what's really distorted info. And give the Rede & 3Fold far, FAR more attention than is found within the practice they come from.
Decades ago when I actually did spells and not energy work, I would take a ritual bath after each spell as my spell wrap up/release. I used herbs wrapped in a cheesecloth and nothing else. Then I would rinse in a shower afterwards (which also rinsed the tub lol). If I did use ritual tea, I'd use the same herbs as I would be bathing in later and would drink it prior to the spellwork. But I agree...not a fan of drinking green lol. I've never heard of the cinnamon thing. But I HAVE used cinnamon around windows and floorboards (but that was as a natural deterrent for ants, not any kind of ritual thing lol). Also, I'm not a fan of "rules" lol. The rule of 3/7/10 is ridiculous. That's not how any of this works. And honestly, it is fairly toxic when you think about it. If you suddenly have a streak of bad luck, it leaves you wondering what you've done wrong, etc. I've even seen others blame "bad karma" (which don't get me started on how karma is completely misrepresented) and such for really nasty things happening to people and that's awful. It's not a universal law. The universe runs on balance. Chaos exists to prevent balance from growing stagnant. But good and bad are just matters of perspective...something bad happening to YOU might be something good happening to someone else. It's all a cycle. Trying to live and work in a place of balance is the key. Golden rules are great for morals and ethics but have nothing to do with universal laws. Really enjoying your perspective. It's lovely to have a fellow grump out there sharing real wisdom.
While listening to your video, I got a message from the Tarot Spirit telling me to pick a card for you, third from the back of my deck. The card I drew for you is the 9 of Wands, which means you should keep pushing forward with your passion and don't give up because you're nearly "there" whatever "there" is to you!
As someone who sadly has no bath in my rented cottage, I just want to thank you for the genius idea of the herbal shower. Im just annoyed at myself for not having the initiative to think of this myself 😂
I have no bath in my off-grid home, so I bought a collapsible one that fits in the shower stall. It’s delightfully deep and relaxing, if you’re longing for a bath experience.
@Shetooktothewoods I did buy an inflatable bath once for my last pregnancy. It was great having it set up in the lounge, with the open fire and TV, but it was too much of a pain to fill and then drain. I just have the occasional bath at my adult daughter's house every once in a while. ❤️
I doubt I will use curse or hex magic very often; but, I am not worried about backlash. People do awful things, truly brutal, all the time and get by with it. You are right..no balance sheet. What is everyone doing for Imbolc? This will be my first, but it will be at home. Cheers Annie for another fun video! ❤
Hello. Thank you for sharing your insight, much appreciated. The unfortunate aspect of believing in "you get what you give" in whatever form it is touted is that then when a person experiences hardship or injustice it can be dismissed as if they had done something to bring it on themselves, while conversely equating success and well being with being a worthy, deserving person. I hear this type of rhetoric in conservative religious, self congratulatory voices. I agree with you in that this really doesn't hold up to scrutiny, it's more like a blame and shame game disguised as morality.... Just a thought .... 🦉
Yeah, that's a whole mad viewpoint right there. I hate the concept of people living with disabilities have somehow brought it on themselves. Makes me pretty angry, actually.
We have a similar story. Married 25 years and he cheated too. Blindsided me and it was a lot of pain to process. He married her too. It lead me to my current husband of almost 7 years and I truly didn’t know married life could be so fulfilling. Makes me sad I didn’t know how bad it truly was in first marriage. Life is … interesting …yeah let’s go with that lol. I’m sorry you went through the same pain but thankful you also found a happier life too. Thanks for sharing. It still does my heart good to hear others survived that betrayal too. ((hugs)) ETA: I didn’t hex my ex or his mistress either. Ultimately I decided they weren’t worth the energy. That energy was best served in helping my children and myself heal and move on. It was damn tempting though. 😂
Thank you, Annie, that was very philosophical. And enjoyable. The thing about the threefold law is one of the reasons I abandoned Wicca eventually. But beyond that, this is such an excellent piece, I hope anyone who is confused about the issue gets to see it. But what I really came to say is, if you’re into ritual baths…the idea of the cheesecloth bag works really well to contain floaty bits there, too. Or those ridiculously huge Lush bath bombs. Which are good for two or three baths, really. Now, any chance to get some of that Malbec? 😉
I made a terrible mistake with someone;offering friendship and help. The end result was I wound up impoverished and crippled, but at least saving my home and land. OTOH the one who betrayed and injured me has been sitting in jail for over 2 years and if he is convicted at the upcoming trial, he will go to prison for the rest of his life. Alas, my ‘gut’ seems quite unreliable & even my dog liked this person. I made a ‘rookie mistake’ with the charts, and at my level and age, the penalty was huge. Now I am a nearly total recluse, surviving out here which takes a lot of time and effort, which at least keeps me active. Is this an example of the Rule? I think looking at one’s chart helps to understand how and in what circumstances that Rule may apply.
I do pick and steep my own mint and sage tea. I must admit the sage was a mistake the first time but it's pleasantly peppery (to my taste buds anyway). I have never liked proper tea, it makes me ill. I enjoy SOME herbal teas but a lot of them just taste like cardboard
I love your sensible advice is so refreshing, and thank you for the laughs ❤😂 And as a fellow resident of the UK (north of the border) - Yorkshire tea 👌
Good video, I really enjoy your content and to hear perspectives that I believe usually aren’t very loudly heard in the community. Whenever I thought of the three-fold rule I always found myself wondering how so many ascribe importance to it even though, like you said, life doesn’t really work that way. And it’s complicated. I scoffed at it, thinking of all the people who have done others very wrong and yet they were perfectly fine. Sometimes I also wonder what effect such beliefs can have on those who are prone to anxiety and overthinking, leading to a spiral where each and every action is scrutinised and worried over because of fear. Happy to know someone else isn’t very fond of the concept.
ooookkkaaayyyy...i'm with you re: tea (love yorkshire gold). i like mine "barefoot" thank you. yes, about those books (i prefer showers 🤪). yes! having to fing clean the tub *after* the fing bath! all the things (what's up with the blowing cinnamon??? what a mess!). i have a completely different take on 'the rule of 3' (nature, action, intent...i believe i did a little video about it). looks like your story came round to a happy point 🩵 we had a bit of snow and my family and i loved it ❄️❄️❄️
Rules and paradigms based on numbers and numerology are innately cultural &/or personal. Not all are in threes, or will happen as such. Luck is not quantifiable-it is as the Universe decides, and what happens is what's deemed fair. A wise witch once told me: "If you cannot sue or press charges, move on. Use your magic to bring what you want to see in the world; use it for good and not spite." That being said, a well-timed hex can just as much be a blessing for many as much as it is a curse for one.
Can i confess... I hate bathbombs. The mess is horrendous! And the smell of lush gives me a headache. However, I'm with you on the ritual shower and have used the cheesecloth herb bag idea, and I've also put it in the bath as well, saves a lot of cleaning.
I took herbalist classes and I use herbs a lot in my work - a proper boquet is not easy to concoct, and the taste heavily relies on the quality of the herbs. Most store-bought mixes are as tasty as hay, even for the most fragrant herbs like mint and lavender.
sea salt hair is not nice😝 great video, licking a Lush bath bomb🤣 My son bought me some Radox bath soak. Heavens knows what they have done to it, it is not anything like it used to be and I was not relaxed after it at all. Wine, essential oil and candle light is far better but I'm a shower girl these days, takes far less time and I can read in bed without dropping my book in the bath water.😀 Every action has a reaction but the rule of three has puzzled me. 3 snowflakes, how true. The hoar frost in south Warwickshire on Saturday was a real treat to drive in though the fog, not so. Meditation tips would be nice. I struggle to switch my little voices that bounce around inside my head. The, they are just thoughts ,let them go. I didn't ask for the thought and once it's there I can not just forget it. Forget where my keys or phone are is dead easy though best wishes and enjoy your next book😃
Does anyone remember 'Bath Cubes' that were huge in the 80s, given at almost every female birthday? And also those tiny soaps shaped like fruit, animals etc that could be bought in gift shops? We had a bowl of them in our bathroom.
BATH CUBES!!!!! I bought them for my Nan every year.... The little shaped soaps were always in decorative bowls, weren't they? I never actually remember using them to wash my hands at all...
@@GrumpyOldCroneNo, never used the soaps. Mums bowl just got dustier and dustier... and I've just remembered bath pearls!!! 😂 with their weird deflated bag that floated past your body in the bath. 😅😅😅😅😅
I've always used the teabag for the potpourri fantasy or lush's fizzy bath and hair assaults for ✨️ritual bath time✨️ I will NOT bend the knee for tub potpourri! 😂😂
As a Lush customer of many years, and having a condition called Pica, yes I have licked many, many bath bombs, soaps, solid shampoo and conditioner bars, and I've swigged shower gels aplenty. If it smells "edible" I have to try it....and luckily the staff in my local Lush shop are used to me by now!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I loved your take on things that you are now happier in your life after the heartache of divorce than you would have been if you had not had the divorce. You are absolutely right that happiness may be catching. I may not believe doggedly about the law of threes, but I DO notice that if you smile at someone, you may very well have made their day and they smile back and vice versa if you are crabby at someone (and your crabbiness doesn't count here since we are here by choice and forewarned that you will be crabby ☺) they will probably be crabby right back and go on with a thoroughly horrible day for both parties. BTW I enjoyed your rant. ( I may be a glutton for punishment. ☺)
Annie, I love you and your channel! However, I will stick with my "green" tasting tea that I make with the herbs from my garden! I find personal enjoyment in crafting my own blends and I find the "green" flavor to be quite nice! 😂❤️❤️
I don’t have baths anymore but I did used to notice that sometimes that lush bathbomb stickiness used to transfer to my skin. Also, nothing says cleansed more than steeping in your own mank to me personally but I totally get why people do it :)
So I take it we won't find you in a Bird and Blend shop anytime soon. My daughter (the same one who 'borrowed' one of my tarot decks) dragged me to the Norwich one, oh my did my purse take a beating. Normally Earl Grey is my poison of choice, No milk no sugar. But the teas in Bird and blend are so 'intense' I had to put some runny hunny in. Very nice though. :)
You could mix your ritual tea and bath experience by making a pot of herbal tea, strain it, and pour it over your body in ritualistic manner, in the shower. Ta-da! No bits to clean out of the drain later. Oh, and they make shower bombs now. They are more for the scented steam. I think you put it in the bottom of the shower so the hot water can hit it and make your shower smell nice. I got one for Christmas but haven’t used it yet. 😊
That's given me an idea. What if you put some herb stuff in a cheesecloth then hang it on one of the bath taps, squeeze it and lt the oils etc go into the bath, just something similar to what you recommended doing in the shower?
Re: 3-fold return: Well done, Grumpy. Never heard it put so eloquently. Tho i s'pose it means three times the "good" we put out doesn't necessarily come back to us either, alas!
Thank you for talking about the 3 fold law, karma, and cosmic justice. I have discussions with people all the time where I ask them to think very hard about what the world would be like if their idea of karma was real. The sorts of people you mentioned do whatever they like and face zero consequences, so a fantasy people have of them experiencing some kind of justice doesn't sit well with me either. More often than not it just doesn't happen, and it's important to face that reality! Another great video, thank you. 😊
I'm a Buddhist, and actually the believe in karma is much of what she described with this pebbles metaphor, than pop-culture understanding of it being "points" for bad and good deeds. It's just cause and effect in action - things we do collectively as humans adding up and having a collective effect. Treating karma like a point system is actually, in my opinion, understanding this concept through abrahamic religion lense. When Buddhist thinks of karma, it's like: given big enough time frame and many reincarnations, ripple causes of your actions will hit you, but not because "you" earned this bad karma, because our collective actions through miriad cause and effect are working. Also concept of "you" as something separate is a lie xD
I do make my own tea with various things from my garden and i make various teas that do help me physically and mentally!! My tea does not taste green either. I don’t follow any recipes in books tho it’s just something I’ve been doing for the last 20 years
Hm, a different medium can be used for spiritual baths. You don't really need to use that much, even if you are using salt and bicarb. You could always make a tea and use that.
I never really took the threefold law at face value, I always understood it as a general warning of karma. Like yeah, if you're not very nice to someone, they're probably gonna match your tone. And they might even over correct and be even nastier to you than you have been to them. Or similarly, if you draw in negative energy to yourself, you'll be wallowing in negative energy, probably worse than the negativity you started out with. You reap what you sow basically, I don't take it as a literal fact that everything you do is multiplied by 3.
Herbalist here! I specialize in tea making (despite hating tea myself as a coffee chugging American). But, herbal teas when prepared correctly with good quality herbs have complex flavors. When in school I learned that herbal teas should be steeped longer than store bought teas. 20mins is the standard for herbal teas, especially if you want their medicinal value.
I grow the vast majority of my own herbs, I'm going to try steeping it longer - thanks for the tip!
Cover the tea while steeping also. Holds in the flavor and medicinal properties. I hated chamomile tea until I properly made a cup.
Also... Don't burn the herbs...
Water temperature as with green tea.
After steeping the infusion can be heated carefully....
It's technically an infusion btw if it doesn't actually contain tea (camelia sinensis leaves).
I love Margot Adler’s take on the threefold law. When she encountered a group of witches that said, “ WE believe in the threefold law, and EVERYTHING you do will come back to you THREE times…” and Margot went, “Why not two and a half?”
😂☠️
There is dogma everywhere, lol.
'Bath bomb bath' has the same joyful energy as 'yule balls'
@@AlisonQ1 Instant gratification and having something already done for you just doesn't have the same energy. You are right about bath bombs being in the same league as Yule balls. Where do you stand on pre-made "spell jars"?
Apartments with bathtubs are becoming progressively less accessible to low income people in my area.
Not being able to do a "bath ritual" doesn't make one less of a witch. The mountain grannies and backwoods witch ladies used baths for healing but they wouldn't have wasted precious water and herbs for a personal ritual.
I'd not heard of bathtubs being inaccessible on a financial basis! You are absolutely correct about backwoods grannies not wasting resources like that!
@@GrumpyOldCroneyep, it’s true. Apartments barely come with a private bath anymore.❤ I’m glad you mentioned a cheesecloth shower, I love it.
My initial thought as an alternative to a ritual bath was the old-fashioned "washcloth bath". Might be my option of choice in the winter when I don't want to risk getting my hair wet (I have terrible luck with shower caps😅)
When I first saw the title, I excitedly said "Oohh... she's gonna go after the Threefold Law!" Your opinion aligns very strongly with mine. It's part of a specific religion and members of that religion need to stop trying to force apply it across all witchcraft. It's no different than the Carpenter's fan club trying to force their religious views on everyone else.
Also, on Brandon Sanderson... he's local to me and I've gotten to meet him a few times. He's a pretty cool dude.
I met him at a convention once, can confirm he is a cool dude
Plant a seed--and the seed will grow. Whether that seed is a literal seed, or the seed of magickal intention. That is what the threefold law means. Now, why is that so hard to understand--and why are witches so hell bent on pretending that they can act without consequence--when the very nature of our work is consequences.
I'm rather ashamed of the mindset I see in many of the comments--this attempt to evade responsibility and encouraging people to share in the delusion.
2:45 You grumpy old crone! 😹 I love how in one breath you’re “forage for tea? Who does that!”
& in the next breath, you’re “go i to your garden, pull something up, then steep it!”
Hah!
I love it
Yeah my Christian parents have asked me. "If you don't believe in God, what keeps you from becoming a murderer?". I think it's telling of their morels that they need someone looking over their shoulder and the threat of hell to be decent people.
I kinda think the same if the rule of three. Like, really you need threat of retribution to be decent?
I think there's a place for baneful magic. Specially because magic had historically been for the downtrodden and disenfranchised. But also it's not my first move to curse someone that their left sock is always wet.
So yeah, I think you're correct it's going to be different for different people.
Thank you for the video
enslaved people used to do spells on their captors, I see absolutely nothing wrong with that...
To be fair, the idea that some disagreeable people might be walking around with soggy left socks made me smile (it was a guilty pleasure smile, but nevertheless very broad) 😁
It's the whole shopping cart test thing. Some people will only put the cart back when someone is looking (to keep them honest), other people don't need anyone/anything keeping them honest and will put the cart back just cuz it is the right thing to do. Some people need God/a god to keep them from doing bad stuff, other people don't need that and will just be a good person cuz it's the right thing to do. We r all diff and I guess as long as the end point is a person who is good and not being a nuisance on society than who cares if they worship the Christian God or the one of the many pagan gods or a yellow #2 pencil. Lol. Idk where I am going with this cuz I am a bit drunk, lol, but I thought I'd give my 2 cents. Sry if this is a ramble lol
Morels are mushrooms ;)
The thing to remember about the rhyming Parts of Wiccan lore is that it was Made up by a Middle-class class Middle aged woman fueled by copious amounts of red wine. Namely, Doreen Valiente. It isn't Holy Writ (not that Holy Writ is either). She was probably just trying to trump the Golden Rule.
Thinking of infusion, we went through a fad for home made spirit liqueurs. Most relevant were, lavender - which created a sort of inability to motivate - an extreme chill pill. Spice with a lot of *nutmeg* - hallucinogenic. Filter coffee and brandy - dubbed by the local ladies patched motorcycle club as 'rocket fuel' because it makes you very drunk and very awake at the same time. We stopped after the lavender because we were worried someone might end up catatonic.
I don't see why being middle class is relevant to someone's Witchery, and what is wrong about being a middle aged woman? They have experience and usually some wisdom. This is oddly dismissive about a woman who knew and wrote so much about witchcraft, Wicca and other traditions, some quite beautiful poetry - and prose, ritual and otherwise, whether fuelled by red wine or not. It's almost like hearing someone say the Beatles were overrated. I'd rather my initiates read Valiente than some of the other choices. (Often written by 20 year olds in black lace, who read a book last week)
@@Helen-ge5ng Typical inverse snobbery I'm afraid. People love to put other people in easy-to-dismiss boxes rather than actually accept that people other than their own type can have value.
Valente wrote poetry. That's not the same as establishing a religion and its practices. Regardless, what does her age, gender or financial bracket have to do with anything?
@@operationgoldfish8331 Have you read Philip Heselton's book, “Doreen Valiente Witch”? Perhaps it would help to enlarge the limited view some people seem to have of her.
@@peridot1706 to claim that race, gender, age and economic fortune do not have an impact on the history of the craft in it's various forms is to disregard a large part of that very history. There are plenty of "new age" nonsenses out there that were specifically targeted towards the Pinterest obsessed, middle-aged white woman and her teenage counterparts. This aesthetic and superficial craft is meant as a cash grab for those who can afford such ventures. The long and storied tradition of the disenfranchised witch is the antithesis of this "new age" model. The abused, the women of color, the impoverished, those lacking in social power are the backbone of the history of the craft throughout the ages and the reason it has survived and continues to draw in new generations of witches.
I've never seen the sense in dumping various floaty bits into a bath. I do for a bath what you suggested for the shower, wrap herbs in cheese cloth, let it steep while the tub fills. Washing with handmade soaps made with the appropriate scents & herbs solves the issue of dumping oil in the bath. If you want a bubble bath, it's easy enough to turn some of that handmade bar into liquid soap. Add a bit of glycerin for added moisturizing.
You're right in that some people get obsessed with cinnamon, but as for the “keep the food in the kitchen,“ sentiment you also expressed in a short, I have to disagree. Here in the US, we have long running traditions of hoodoo practice and one of the many “tools” in that toolbox are sprinkling powders. There are traditional mixes, and mixes that a practitioner can create on their own, and while I’ve never heard of any specific thing about blowing cinnamon around, it fits in well with some of what folks do.
Also, food items like honey, eggshells, crabshells, and cornmeal are used in other workings. Remember, not everyone who practices witchcraft is coming from an English perspective. Side note: rosemary, sage and lavender are food too. 😄 Love your channel, keep up the grump!
I've always found the Threefold Law to be daft and innane. When I first started exploring witchcraft, I figured that the idea that energy returns in kind makes more sense. That is, if you put positive energy out, you'll eventually get a roughly equal amount of positive energy back, but not necessarily in the same form. Nowadays, as I philosophise about it more and more, I'm increasingly feeling like simple cause and effect makes the most sense.
Plant a seed and the seed grows--whether mundanely or magickally. If your studies have not caused you to glean that much, then I suggest you go back to the beginning.
Annie: “if im being honest….”
Us: “ yes yes , go on that’s whats we here for”
😂
We would ask for a refund if there were to be any 'holding back'.
Yes'm. Tell it to us straight!
That same cheese cloth bag with herbs will also help in the tub, if you really want a bath! Just leave out the dreaded essential oils, because they are the pits to clean out...
Other people have said this. It's the perfect idea. You are all so much more clued up than I am!
I came here to say the same thing. I also have a thing a friend gave me that is like a giant tea-infusing ball. Perfect for steeping as many herbs as I want in the bath.
I recommend plain ole vinegar to clean up oily substances. Works like a charm and the smell disappears rather quickly
Pure facts. I cannot think of anyone who did me (or WORSE--my kids) dirty who got any comeuppance.
I'm sorry. I wish the universe was fair.
Yes ma'am to the note of cursing well my ex spent 13 years in jail and he ruined his own damn life I had nothing to do with it I do admit though I enjoyed every moment😊
The German word for this is "schadenfreude" - taking joy in a justified downfall. I'm a huge fan of schadenfreude!
As someone who likes herbal tea, I just get it from the store. I don't know enough about herbs to go out and get my own herbs. 😅
I've started growing plants specifically for tea in my garden this year, so the tea doesn't just taste "green". Most common household spices also make fantastic tea
The most wonderful tub I have ever used was a seven foot long clawfoot tub. It had very tall sides. The overflow drain was also at a higher level. When I reclined I couldn't see over the edge and could fill it to the point I had to tilt my head back to breathe. I loved that tub. Bathtubs are one of those things that imo the Victorians did better than anyone has managed to accomplish since then.
I needed this meat and potato today. Last year, I found out my (then) husband is a nonse. He's under investigation by police, I'm a newly single mother of six on food stamps, a job that barely pays the bills (after 20 years as a SAHM) and a gofundme to try to afford my attorney fees. I know he will get what is his, that the universe is biding it's time for sure, but this discussion on the "Rule of 3" and pursuing your conscience is so important. I honestly don't think I would feel guilt over workings against him. I also want better for myself and my kids. I'm so tired of being the bigger person sometimes. I want my heart to be at peace with what is happening and the waiting game is no place of peace for me. I want action. I appreciate your perspective on this. Thank you.
My favorite garden tea is spearmint tea. I get the leaves before the mint flowers and then dehydrate the leaves. This goes really well in black tea.
Oh also as I'm listening.... ritual bath. I usually do a shower for that because I believe if you needing to be cleaned and prepped for ritual ypu need running water..just me. But I will take a therapeutic healing bath but I prepare my herbs like a tea. I steep them in boiling water then strain and then pour into my bath the strained tea. Same effect and less mess. So basically I steep myself in a tub of tea water.
You are right about the running water, it can erase much more loaded electrons than a bath and therefore, clean your energy better
The steeping method is far more effective for extracting the various compounds than herbs in bath temp water, too.
a big human teacup. Ooh, or soup!
Sorry, that made me giggle this morning :)
The way you go abt baths is so mind-blowing to me bc it's so smart but so simple i could of thought of it but somehow didn't 😅 i just hate that if you use loose leaf tea in a bath it looks like bugs and the cleanup afterwards is not fun
Lol i am that person who grows heaps of medicinal herbs & plants on my allotment to use in herbal teas, tinctures, salves, bath ‘teas’ (I use giant muslin tea bag thingies so no mess & I don’t add oils). The teas mostly do taste ‘green’ 😂 but they very much help reduce the nasty symptoms of the autoimmune illnesses I unfortunately live with. I do have a witchcraft garden too, mostly not to used in such things ☠️ 👻
As for an enjoyable cuppa ☕️ it’s Earl Grey black tea for me ♥️🖤
Yorkshire tea girl here too ❤ I visualise gold and white light rain in the shower just to get rid off the negatively and crap from the day always helps me! I have very sensitive skin so herbs and oils are no! Brilliant advice Annie. X
There's a story about a farmer whose son broke his leg right before harvest. "What a disaster!" everyone said. "He won't be able to help you get the crops in!" But the next day the emperor's soldiers came through the village, conscripting every able-bodied young man they found. "How lucky for you," the neighbors told the farmer, "that your son can't be drafted and marched away to fight and probably be killed!" But the very next week... You can see where this story is going. I meditate on it every time I believe something is Good or Bad. Right & wrong, in contrast, is something we ourselves understand about our own actions, and our right to judge each other's choices, and others' right to judge ours, is limited.
"Who does that?" Me, honestly, though I'm personally of the opinion that herbal infusions don't count as tea unless there's actual leaves from the tea plant in it. 😂 On the other hand, the (heh) ritual of gathering the herbs together and slowly steeping them before adding honey and stirring to combine acts as much as a slowing down prelude to the relaxing boosted by then drinking the infusion. Those self care books don't go into that bit of it much, though, focusing more on the "potion" portion than the "use the brewing of this to kickstart making yourself slow down to relax".
I've never licked a bath-bomb but oh my goodness I've wanted to eat their soap bars that smell of chocolate...
I prefer foot baths for this sort of thing. I agree I can't be arsed to scrub out the bath just for this. Thank you for being one of the most sensible people on the internet!
Also: Definitely sign me up for the Church of Anti-Cinnamon...
It all just smells too good...
In 2022 my boss got me the first mistborn for Christmas, i spent the rest of 2023 making my way through the series (and onto the stormlight archive). I had your exact notions about Mr. Sanderson before I read them, and each of the first three books left me weeping, actual snot-dripping *weeping!* 😅 I felt so human after them haha
in traditions that call to remove spirit nasties, one of their golden/best methods is running water. stand under the shower to remove the nasties. no herbs or anything needed. just have a shower, done. soap optional, depending on how grotty you feel lol
The only and last ‘ritual bath’ I had was at my initiation back in ‘87 or so. I had been a solitary before that and after it ended in 2000 I returned to that for the most part. I don’t like baths and now I am semi-crippled by the broken leg/ankle which, altho healed, will never be like before. Therefore getting in and out of a bath is life threatening. Even showers are daunting. BTW, Malbec, known as ‘the black wine of the Quercy’ was drunk at the wedding of Henry II and Eleanore of Aquataine! Cheers!
Oh dear gawsh, I can't breath, I'm laughing so hard! Between the ritual bath outcome and the fancy tea, no greater truths have been told!
Thankyou!
Yes, yes, yes and yes again! Also the not hexing the ex: Well done and Congratulations on that ( likened to drinking from a poisoned well in order to cure yourself) Cheers looking forward to your next broadcast x
In a similar vein to the cheesecloth bag shower, i use reusable tea bags for my ritual baths, often bringing the herbs over my body prior to putting in the bag and getting into the bath
As a non-brittish person I must say I very much enjoy walking out in nature to pick my own herbs and brew a tea on them, but I understand that it may not be everybody's ... *badum-dish* .. cup of tea! Ha-ha. 😅 I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist. 🙈
I'm totally with you on the three fold law-thing, and I just loved the pebbles in the lake-metafor. I believe it's just like you describe it, nothing is black and white, good or bad. It's just different perspectives depending on how you choose to see it.
I've always followed the concept of "Do what you will but harm none unless in defense." Works well fo me.
Bath bomb bath solution... If you have taken a plain Epsom salt bath the sticky icky hair is worse.
Crazy thing is, if you spritz your hair with vinegar, it becomes soft and kind of like hair conditioner. You can then wash your hair as usual. I learned that from using sensory deprivation tanks, full of salt water. They had a spray bottle with watered down ACV for hair care and it worked 🤷♀️🤯
Salt and vinegar though, you will smell like a salad 🥗
@@4namolly lol nothing like smelling like a bag of chips to make you all spiritually cleansed and relaxed
Bath bombs are nice, but I learned when starting out from writers who had to heat and prepare their own bathwater, so brewing an infusion as a pour-over or sponge bath, followed by fresh water and/or some kind of shower seemed the most obvious way to take a cleansing bath. They're also the easiest thing to clean up without breaking the mood before ritual, IMO.
Happiness and contentment are excellent goals to maintain at home, and where you can, really. Enough health and enough wealth that you can take some time to pause and read something you enjoy with a favorite beverage is something i wish for us all.
The salt from the bath bomb will also make a metal tub start to rust.
As soon as I saw this title I KNEW it was going to be the rule of 3 - SO with you on this!! Wicca is a religion created by a person, and the rule of 3 is one of the tenets of that religion - it always frustrates me when Wiccans push it on others with different Pagan/magical practices!
Also drinking a lovely merlot as I watch - cheers 🍷
I just wanted to pop in and say that you are quickly becoming one of my favorite creators on this platform. Your videos are so delightful to listen to and I really appreciate what you’re putting out into the world!
The 3 fold law feels very… Christian. Ick! Fear mongering, too.
I’m studying herbalism and have heaps of plants for potion and medicine making. A good cup of herbal tea properly made is delightful!!
I stopped using bath bombs and turned to making bath salts and milk baths so the essential oils are incorporated. I use reusable bags so I don’t have any clean up.
Yes I'll be that person. I do alot of tea blends from the green and flower bits I grab from my garden. But I am herbalist and a witch. I do the flower and green bits in my tea for more than just the raste...lol
Sometimes when I brew something medicinal (nettles mostly) it really just tastes 'green', but I noticed that ginger, lemon zest and mint can make anything tasty
Your comments on happy vs content are so spot-on!
Happy is more akin to a mood, and contentment is more akin to a state of being. My therapist drove this home years ago and the relief of 'oh, it's not supposed to hang about as a state of being' was enormous!
Fantastic video as always, and just the chuckle I needed on a Monday.
I occasionally do a ritual purification shower by putting the requisite ingredients in a bowl of warm water, saying an incantation over it, and then just pouring that over myself. Because I'm not a huge bath person, and the Lush bath bomb bath story reminds me why.
Sometimes I am the "karma" and I'm not sorry and I would do it again!
For ritual baths, I either make a tea from the herbs I'm using to pour over myself before soaking, or I use cheesecloth to wrap the herbs and toss that into the tub. It never makes a mess.
As for curses, yes, I've done them. Only two led to very dramatic consequences, one in a similar circumstance to what you mentioned that resulted in a lost business, home, and arrest, the other in a child abuse case that led to arrest and loss of custody. I've never regretted that, and I don't feel like I suffered any sort of backlash or bad luck afterward. I helped people who needed it get justice they were otherwise denied. I can think of few better uses for magic.
I love listening to you! So glad I found your channel. ❤🔥
Few things in modern paganism are more misunderstood than the Wiccan Rede and Rule of Three. Briefly...
tldr 1: Context matters. While the word "wicca" gets applied to all sorts of things, traditional Wiccan concepts are exclusively for and about... *Wiccan initiates*. Not solitaries, not eclectics, not any other type of witch or pagan.
tldr 2: Neither the Rede or 3Fold is emphasized in traditional Wicca, they're not taught to be universal laws (gasp!). That attribution (or accusation) they are was made by everyone else.
tldr 3: *The Threefold does not imply what people think it does.* It is not about the universe heaping rewards or punishment in X-amount on anyone (gasp!). In context, it pertains to the actions of the initiate.
tldr 4: Subsequently, non-initiates either try to abide by or hate on what's really distorted info. And give the Rede & 3Fold far, FAR more attention than is found within the practice they come from.
Decades ago when I actually did spells and not energy work, I would take a ritual bath after each spell as my spell wrap up/release. I used herbs wrapped in a cheesecloth and nothing else. Then I would rinse in a shower afterwards (which also rinsed the tub lol). If I did use ritual tea, I'd use the same herbs as I would be bathing in later and would drink it prior to the spellwork. But I agree...not a fan of drinking green lol.
I've never heard of the cinnamon thing. But I HAVE used cinnamon around windows and floorboards (but that was as a natural deterrent for ants, not any kind of ritual thing lol).
Also, I'm not a fan of "rules" lol. The rule of 3/7/10 is ridiculous. That's not how any of this works. And honestly, it is fairly toxic when you think about it. If you suddenly have a streak of bad luck, it leaves you wondering what you've done wrong, etc. I've even seen others blame "bad karma" (which don't get me started on how karma is completely misrepresented) and such for really nasty things happening to people and that's awful. It's not a universal law. The universe runs on balance. Chaos exists to prevent balance from growing stagnant. But good and bad are just matters of perspective...something bad happening to YOU might be something good happening to someone else. It's all a cycle. Trying to live and work in a place of balance is the key. Golden rules are great for morals and ethics but have nothing to do with universal laws.
Really enjoying your perspective. It's lovely to have a fellow grump out there sharing real wisdom.
While listening to your video, I got a message from the Tarot Spirit telling me to pick a card for you, third from the back of my deck.
The card I drew for you is the 9 of Wands, which means you should keep pushing forward with your passion and don't give up because you're nearly "there" whatever "there" is to you!
As someone who sadly has no bath in my rented cottage, I just want to thank you for the genius idea of the herbal shower. Im just annoyed at myself for not having the initiative to think of this myself 😂
I have no bath in my off-grid home, so I bought a collapsible one that fits in the shower stall. It’s delightfully deep and relaxing, if you’re longing for a bath experience.
@Shetooktothewoods I did buy an inflatable bath once for my last pregnancy. It was great having it set up in the lounge, with the open fire and TV, but it was too much of a pain to fill and then drain. I just have the occasional bath at my adult daughter's house every once in a while. ❤️
I doubt I will use curse or hex magic very often; but, I am not worried about backlash. People do awful things, truly brutal, all the time and get by with it. You are right..no balance sheet.
What is everyone doing for Imbolc? This will be my first, but it will be at home. Cheers Annie for another fun video! ❤
Yorkshire tea for me . When I cannot switch my head off to sleep then it’s a chamomile for me. Enjoying your channel thank you.
Hello. Thank you for sharing your insight, much appreciated. The unfortunate aspect of believing in "you get what you give" in whatever form it is touted is that then when a person experiences hardship or injustice it can be dismissed as if they had done something to bring it on themselves, while conversely equating success and well being with being a worthy, deserving person. I hear this type of rhetoric in conservative religious, self congratulatory voices. I agree with you in that this really doesn't hold up to scrutiny, it's more like a blame and shame game disguised as morality.... Just a thought .... 🦉
Yeah, that's a whole mad viewpoint right there. I hate the concept of people living with disabilities have somehow brought it on themselves. Makes me pretty angry, actually.
It's not a hex, it's a 'judicial working' ;).
and you get to be judge, jury and executor. but no worries--I'm sure there's noooooooooo responsibility for that.
@brigantiablackbird Asking for Justice is not the same as asking for vengeance. You only ask for what that person deserves, nothing more.
We have a similar story. Married 25 years and he cheated too. Blindsided me and it was a lot of pain to process. He married her too. It lead me to my current husband of almost 7 years and I truly didn’t know married life could be so fulfilling. Makes me sad I didn’t know how bad it truly was in first marriage. Life is … interesting …yeah let’s go with that lol. I’m sorry you went through the same pain but thankful you also found a happier life too. Thanks for sharing. It still does my heart good to hear others survived that betrayal too. ((hugs))
ETA: I didn’t hex my ex or his mistress either. Ultimately I decided they weren’t worth the energy. That energy was best served in helping my children and myself heal and move on. It was damn tempting though. 😂
Enjoyed this episode as well! Hope the grumpy old crone household is staying warm in the cold!
Thank you, Annie, that was very philosophical. And enjoyable. The thing about the threefold law is one of the reasons I abandoned Wicca eventually. But beyond that, this is such an excellent piece, I hope anyone who is confused about the issue gets to see it.
But what I really came to say is, if you’re into ritual baths…the idea of the cheesecloth bag works really well to contain floaty bits there, too. Or those ridiculously huge Lush bath bombs. Which are good for two or three baths, really.
Now, any chance to get some of that Malbec? 😉
Just ordered the mist born series. Just finishing off a book on the solstices first then I’m going to dive in! Glad to hear you enjoyed them!
I made a terrible mistake with someone;offering friendship and help. The end result was I wound up impoverished and crippled, but at least saving my home and land. OTOH the one who betrayed and injured me has been sitting in jail for over 2 years and if he is convicted at the upcoming trial, he will go to prison for the rest of his life. Alas, my ‘gut’ seems quite unreliable & even my dog liked this person. I made a ‘rookie mistake’ with the charts, and at my level and age, the penalty was huge. Now I am a nearly total recluse, surviving out here which takes a lot of time and effort, which at least keeps me active. Is this an example of the Rule? I think looking at one’s chart helps to understand how and in what circumstances that Rule may apply.
Sending so much positivity to you! I'm sorry you are having to deal with all of that.
@ Thank you, it is much appreciated!
I do pick and steep my own mint and sage tea. I must admit the sage was a mistake the first time but it's pleasantly peppery (to my taste buds anyway).
I have never liked proper tea, it makes me ill.
I enjoy SOME herbal teas but a lot of them just taste like cardboard
I really loved your cosmic justice explanation. Never thought about situations like that, and I am really grateful for your insight! Very eye opening!
I love your sensible advice is so refreshing, and thank you for the laughs ❤😂
And as a fellow resident of the UK (north of the border) - Yorkshire tea 👌
Good video, I really enjoy your content and to hear perspectives that I believe usually aren’t very loudly heard in the community. Whenever I thought of the three-fold rule I always found myself wondering how so many ascribe importance to it even though, like you said, life doesn’t really work that way. And it’s complicated.
I scoffed at it, thinking of all the people who have done others very wrong and yet they were perfectly fine. Sometimes I also wonder what effect such beliefs can have on those who are prone to anxiety and overthinking, leading to a spiral where each and every action is scrutinised and worried over because of fear.
Happy to know someone else isn’t very fond of the concept.
ooookkkaaayyyy...i'm with you re: tea (love yorkshire gold). i like mine "barefoot" thank you. yes, about those books (i prefer showers 🤪). yes! having to fing clean the tub *after* the fing bath! all the things (what's up with the blowing cinnamon??? what a mess!). i have a completely different take on 'the rule of 3' (nature, action, intent...i believe i did a little video about it). looks like your story came round to a happy point 🩵 we had a bit of snow and my family and i loved it ❄️❄️❄️
Rules and paradigms based on numbers and numerology are innately cultural &/or personal. Not all are in threes, or will happen as such. Luck is not quantifiable-it is as the Universe decides, and what happens is what's deemed fair. A wise witch once told me: "If you cannot sue or press charges, move on. Use your magic to bring what you want to see in the world; use it for good and not spite." That being said, a well-timed hex can just as much be a blessing for many as much as it is a curse for one.
Can i confess... I hate bathbombs. The mess is horrendous! And the smell of lush gives me a headache. However, I'm with you on the ritual shower and have used the cheesecloth herb bag idea, and I've also put it in the bath as well, saves a lot of cleaning.
I hate bath bombs, too.
I took herbalist classes and I use herbs a lot in my work - a proper boquet is not easy to concoct, and the taste heavily relies on the quality of the herbs. Most store-bought mixes are as tasty as hay, even for the most fragrant herbs like mint and lavender.
sea salt hair is not nice😝
great video, licking a Lush bath bomb🤣
My son bought me some Radox bath soak. Heavens knows what they have done to it, it is not anything like it used to be and I was not relaxed after it at all. Wine, essential oil and candle light is far better but I'm a shower girl these days, takes far less time and I can read in bed without dropping my book in the bath water.😀
Every action has a reaction but the rule of three has puzzled me.
3 snowflakes, how true. The hoar frost in south Warwickshire on Saturday was a real treat to drive in though the fog, not so.
Meditation tips would be nice. I struggle to switch my little voices that bounce around inside my head. The, they are just thoughts ,let them go. I didn't ask for the thought and once it's there I can not just forget it. Forget where my keys or phone are is dead easy though
best wishes and enjoy your next book😃
Happiness: seeing a notification you posted. Contentment: taking half an hour of my day to watch you! Thank you!
Hexes and curses are part of my craft.
The best way to avoid the flower or herb-clogged drain - brew them before you get in the bath and use that infusion in your bath, sans greenery.
Does anyone remember 'Bath Cubes' that were huge in the 80s, given at almost every female birthday? And also those tiny soaps shaped like fruit, animals etc that could be bought in gift shops? We had a bowl of them in our bathroom.
BATH CUBES!!!!! I bought them for my Nan every year.... The little shaped soaps were always in decorative bowls, weren't they? I never actually remember using them to wash my hands at all...
@@GrumpyOldCroneNo, never used the soaps. Mums bowl just got dustier and dustier... and I've just remembered bath pearls!!! 😂 with their weird deflated bag that floated past your body in the bath. 😅😅😅😅😅
wonderful rant... thank you
are you being bombathtic ?
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I've always used the teabag for the potpourri fantasy or lush's fizzy bath and hair assaults for ✨️ritual bath time✨️ I will NOT bend the knee for tub potpourri! 😂😂
milk and sugar and Yorkshire gold for me! 😉
A person after my own heart! (Skip the sugar for me, but YG and milk all the way!)
As a Lush customer of many years, and having a condition called Pica, yes I have licked many, many bath bombs, soaps, solid shampoo and conditioner bars, and I've swigged shower gels aplenty. If it smells "edible" I have to try it....and luckily the staff in my local Lush shop are used to me by now!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
this has been a great upload , thank you so much !
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved your take on things that you are now happier in your life after the heartache of divorce than you would have been if you had not had the divorce. You are absolutely right that happiness may be catching. I may not believe doggedly about the law of threes, but I DO notice that if you smile at someone, you may very well have made their day and they smile back and vice versa if you are crabby at someone (and your crabbiness doesn't count here since we are here by choice and forewarned that you will be crabby ☺) they will probably be crabby right back and go on with a thoroughly horrible day for both parties. BTW I enjoyed your rant. ( I may be a glutton for punishment. ☺)
I'm English... The only tea I drink is builders' tea ! Aldi Gold Label is pretty good 👍. I can't abide herbal tea personally 😂
ritual shower....GENIUS!!!
"...and misplaced Amazon orders." LOL
If you *need* an over simplification of how things work:
Do as You Will shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the Law. Love under Will.
Annie, I love you and your channel! However, I will stick with my "green" tasting tea that I make with the herbs from my garden! I find personal enjoyment in crafting my own blends and I find the "green" flavor to be quite nice! 😂❤️❤️
I don’t have baths anymore but I did used to notice that sometimes that lush bathbomb stickiness used to transfer to my skin. Also, nothing says cleansed more than steeping in your own mank to me personally but I totally get why people do it :)
So I take it we won't find you in a Bird and Blend shop anytime soon. My daughter (the same one who 'borrowed' one of my tarot decks) dragged me to the Norwich one, oh my did my purse take a beating. Normally Earl Grey is my poison of choice, No milk no sugar. But the teas in Bird and blend are so 'intense' I had to put some runny hunny in. Very nice though. :)
You could mix your ritual tea and bath experience by making a pot of herbal tea, strain it, and pour it over your body in ritualistic manner, in the shower. Ta-da! No bits to clean out of the drain later. Oh, and they make shower bombs now. They are more for the scented steam. I think you put it in the bottom of the shower so the hot water can hit it and make your shower smell nice. I got one for Christmas but haven’t used it yet. 😊
That's given me an idea. What if you put some herb stuff in a cheesecloth then hang it on one of the bath taps, squeeze it and lt the oils etc go into the bath, just something similar to what you recommended doing in the shower?
Other people have said the same. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I'm obviously a bit challenged today!
Ritual shower >>> ritual bath for me these days since I'm living on my own.
Really like the wine glass you have, enjoy listening to your point of view
Re: 3-fold return: Well done, Grumpy. Never heard it put so eloquently. Tho i s'pose it means three times the "good" we put out doesn't necessarily come back to us either, alas!
Thank you for talking about the 3 fold law, karma, and cosmic justice. I have discussions with people all the time where I ask them to think very hard about what the world would be like if their idea of karma was real. The sorts of people you mentioned do whatever they like and face zero consequences, so a fantasy people have of them experiencing some kind of justice doesn't sit well with me either. More often than not it just doesn't happen, and it's important to face that reality! Another great video, thank you. 😊
I'm a Buddhist, and actually the believe in karma is much of what she described with this pebbles metaphor, than pop-culture understanding of it being "points" for bad and good deeds. It's just cause and effect in action - things we do collectively as humans adding up and having a collective effect. Treating karma like a point system is actually, in my opinion, understanding this concept through abrahamic religion lense. When Buddhist thinks of karma, it's like: given big enough time frame and many reincarnations, ripple causes of your actions will hit you, but not because "you" earned this bad karma, because our collective actions through miriad cause and effect are working. Also concept of "you" as something separate is a lie xD
well I hadn't tasted a lush bath bomb, but now I want to...
I really don't recommend it. Bitter salt. Bleurgh!
"...with a knowledge of the things that are out there that won't kill you..." Excellent advice, LOL
I live in the US and LOVE Yorkshire Gold but it is hard to get. 🙂
I do make my own tea with various things from my garden and i make various teas that do help me physically and mentally!! My tea does not taste green either. I don’t follow any recipes in books tho it’s just something I’ve been doing for the last 20 years
I love how cinnamon has become the villain in your TH-cam witch arc. Or is cinnamon the origin of your TH-cam witch villain arc? 👀
I ve always thought the Lush shop smells like the colour purple 😂xx
I don't like ritual showers because you can't relax if you standing up.
Hm, a different medium can be used for spiritual baths. You don't really need to use that much, even if you are using salt and bicarb. You could always make a tea and use that.
I never really took the threefold law at face value, I always understood it as a general warning of karma. Like yeah, if you're not very nice to someone, they're probably gonna match your tone. And they might even over correct and be even nastier to you than you have been to them. Or similarly, if you draw in negative energy to yourself, you'll be wallowing in negative energy, probably worse than the negativity you started out with. You reap what you sow basically, I don't take it as a literal fact that everything you do is multiplied by 3.
I think you've put this very well.