Hacking a Cheap Wacom Tablet

escentia:

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When I received my Intuos5 in 2012, I expected it to turn me into a drawing grand master with all the cool extra functions it had.

I was a bit disappointed to find out that it drew exactly like my old Bamboo, except the pen was nicer to hold. Since then, I’ve tried not to throw more money at Wacom
than I absolutely have to. 

I’m currently using a medium Wacom ONE, which is Wacom’s cheapest tablet. The pressure sensitivity is great, and it draws
perfectly well. However, it’s less comfortable to use compared to my
previous Wacom tablets. Since I do use the tablet for hours every day I decided
to do a bit of DIY!


1)    
Changing the nib

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The Wacom tablet pen comes with the default
plastic nib which works but I like the other nibs better.

I found that the white-tipped flex nibs are
nice for smooth, worn out tablet surfaces. I used them a lot last year when I did
digital painting.

Nowadays, I spend a lot of time sketching and
doing detailed lineart on the computer. I find the grey felt tips more suited for
this task, for they provide a more pencil-like texture.

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The nibs used to be marketed as only compatible with
professional range tablets. Honestly, though, they work with any cheap Wacom
tablet! I’ve tried these nibs on my old Bamboo Pen and Intuos Draw and they fit
just fine.


2)    
Protecting the surface with Bristol Board

Ever since I started working on my comic in
2015, I spend around 3 hours using my tablet every day. I managed to create a
smooth shiny bald patch on this tablet in a month.

I couldn’t find any good surface protectors
on the internet so I experimented with different types of papers.

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So far, my favourite is the Bristol Board.
It has an extremely fine paper texture that comes pretty close to the original
surface texture of the tablet.

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valentinesdaywitch:

💐Picnic witchcraft guide💐

Sandwich correspondences

Tea correspondences (sun tea, tea in general, floral tea)

Fruit correspondences

Vegetable correspondences

Flower correspondences– can be used as decoration, for flower crowns, as a fun nature activity (collecting them respectfully, of course), and edible flowers can be used for deserts, drinks, and salads!

Desserts- here’s some witchy dessert recipes, perfect for any picnic!

(Tiny strawberry pies, cranberry pistachio shortbreads, cardamom pear cake, ginger and fig tart, apricot coconut bites, and lavender tea bread)

Locations- fun witchy locations for picnics include:

🌹a botanical garden, floral garden, or any sort of garden (perfect for fae, floral, air, green, life, spring, and summer witchcraft)

☀️a sunny open field/area (probably has wild flowers!, great for air, sun, floral, and weather witchcraft)

🌙⭐a night picnic under the stars and moon! (Perfect for lunar, nocturnal, and cosmic witchcraft)

🌳a park (great for all witchcraft, very versatile)

🌊💧a beach, pond, lake or near any body of water (perfect for water, sea, and love witchcraft)

👻a cemetery (perfect for death, spirit, medium, and floral witchcraft. Just make sure it’s allowed and you’re respectful of graves)

🌲A forest (perfect for forest, tree, nature, green, earth, and hedge witchcraft, here’s some tree correspondences)

Other witchy picnic ideas:

Stones/crystals to bring– it depends a lot on location and the general theme of the picnic! But a few favorites of mine are:

rose quartz, opalite, any aura quartz, sunstone, agate, tigers eye, and selenite (especially peach selenite)

Scents– I like to focus on scents a lot during picnics. It can make the experience so much more enjoyable! Location once again plays a huge role, but you can always spray your picnic blanket with essential oils, use strongly scented herbs or flowers, use a specific perfume, or even a specific tea that smells good. Some scents I like to focus on during picnics are:

lemon, orange, grapefruit, lemongrass, strawberry, orange blossom, gardenia, rose and lavender

Bring some little spells or offerings with you! A picnic in nature is the perfect time to do a little crafting, especially love, self care, fae, peace and happiness spells. And you can correspond your picnic with the intent of the spell!

It’s also a great time for devotional offerings and any other offerings, especially fae offerings.

Put together a picnic spell- an entire picnic can be a spell! Everything from location, to drinks, to food, and the extra stuff you bring along can be in it.

🍑Have fun picnic witching! 💐

HOW CRYSTAL MAGIC WORKS

thesilverwitch:

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No one can yet say categorically how crystals work, although there have been many suggestions based on vibrational resonance and the water and crystalline content of the human body.

Michael Gienger postulates that the power of a crystal to generate light interacts with the cells of the physical body. What is clear is that crystals have an energy field that interacts with any other energy field near it. The interaction of the energy field of a crystal and a human being can, for example, be photographed with a Kirlian camera.

At the simplest level, many crystals contain traces of therapeutic minerals that pass across the skin barrier to bring about physiological changes. Kunzite, as already mentioned, contains lithium, which is used by doctors to medicate depression and bipolar disorders. Crystal users hold Kunzite or place it on their heart and feel uplifted.

Similarly the copper content in Malachite alleviates arthritic discomfort – although too much is toxic. It’s a matter of maintaining the balance. However, as Michael Gienger puts it, crystals are actually an information system that radiates energy. Find the right information, and the correct crystal carrier, and the body will be brought back into balance.

As we have seen, crystals have an orderliness of structure at the molecular level, with each molecule vibrating at the same rate as all the others. Synchronization takes place so that all the units within the crystal – and every other crystal of the same type – vibrate in unison (a harmonic convergence). Each crystal type has its own fundamental frequency or harmonic note. This creates a coherent, resonant system with a stable frequency template.

Coherent systems are difficult to disrupt. Even if there is disharmony or discord nearby, their energy remains stable – and can restore equilibrium to the disrupted energy.

Crystal energy is shaped, amplified and discharged from a crystal’s termination and goes out rather like ripples in a pond, creating a rhythmic pattern that pulses in harmony. The basic template can be modified or directed by other energy, such as magnetism, color waves, intention or the power of thought, passing through it.

Scalar waves may well be the mechanism through which all energetic healing is effected. We’ll get to that in a moment.

EVERYTHING IS ENERGY

At the most basic level, everything is energy. How it manifests is simply a matter of vibrational frequency and the crystalline structure (organic or inorganic) that enfolds it. The human body is no exception. It is a conductive energy system with crystalline structures in and around the blood, lymph and cells and it is repaired and maintained by a complex electrochemical system.

In other words, it runs on vibrations.

This is not only with regard to physiological processes. Emotions and thoughts also have their own vibration (see the work of Bruce Lipton and Valerie Hunt), which go out of kilter during stress and can distort an internal crystal lattice in the body.

Through resonance and entrainment, crystals can restore equilibrium to us. But there is more to it than this. Crystal healing works at a distance. A subtle electromagnetic current passes between a crystal and a person whether or not they are in physical contact. What links and activates them is, I believe, consciousness and intention.

UNIFIED FIELD THEORY

Einstein coined the term ‘uniform field theory’ when trying to find an overall system that would link all the known forces in the universe with fundamental particle physics. But thousands of years before that the Hindu text the Mundaka Upanishad declared:

‘The sparks, though of one nature with the fire, leap from it, uncounted beings leap from the Everlasting, but these, my son merge into It again. The Everlasting is shapeless, birthless, breathless, mindless, above everything, outside everything, inside everything.’

This description sounds exactly like the universe from the perspective of a quantum physicist or a modern mystic such as the systems theorist Ervin Laszlo, who says: ‘The primary “stuff” of the universe is energy and not matter, and space is neither empty nor passive – it’s filled with virtual energies and information.’ This also describes crystal energy.

CONSCIOUSNESS: RIDING THE CREST OF A WAVE

Quantum physics suggests energy is not continuous but rather exists as packets of energy – energy that behaves like particles and yet acts like a wave.

Theoretical quantum physicist Dr. Fred Alan Wolf suggested that consciousness was a huge oceanic wave:

‘Consciousness is a huge oceanic wave that washes through everything, and it has ripples and vibrations in it. When there are acts of consciousness, the wave turns into bubbles at that moment, it turns to froth.’

He pointed out that everything, human beings included, was composed of quantum ‘froth’ and that under an electron microscope we would see:

‘A rather bizarre-looking light show, of things popping on and off, vanishing and reappearing, matter created out of nothing and then vanishing. And in that vanishing and creation, an electromagnetic signal is piped from one point to another point.’

This perfectly describes how I perceive crystal energy moving from a crystal to a body, or going out into the future to bring back information (in quantum physics, particles of energy move forward and backward, see below), or entraining two energy fields.

ENTRAINMENT

Entrainment is an energetic interaction. It is defined as ‘the synchronization of two or more rhythmic cycles’. In conventional entrainment, a smaller energetic field takes on the characteristics of a larger field, but this works both ways, and the larger field can take on the characteristics of the smaller, especially when directed by intention.

So, the crystalline structures in the body, especially its flowing tides of blood, lymph, intercellular and synovial fluid, can be entrained into a more perfect energy pattern.

Time and distance have no relevance here. Research has shown that the brainwaves of a healer and the recipient synchronize, or entrain, no matter what the distance. The same may well be true of crystals.

A crystal’s pulsing energy field has perfect equilibrium and its sympathetic resonance stabilizes a larger field through the energetic synchronization of two crystalline structures.

QUANTUM CRYSTALS

Quantum physics has demonstrated that simultaneous transfer of energy is possible. A particle can be in one place and in another at the same time and thought has an instantaneous effect over vast distances. So it seems feasible that crystal energy can travel from a crystal to the recipient.

It is my belief that what unifies and pervades the quantum and the crystal field is consciousness, which is present in and around everything in the universe. Although consciousness studies are increasing, research has not yet turned its attention to crystal consciousness.

BIOSCALAR WAVES

Research has, however, been conducted into bioscalar waves. A bioscalar wave is a standing energy field created when two fields interact from different angles and counteract each other so that the field reverts to a ‘static state of potentiality’.

Research scientist and Professor Emeritus of Physiological Science at UCLA Dr. Valerie V. Hunt says that bioscalar waves are ‘alive with checked and balanced energies that cancel each other out so that they cannot be measured or evaluated by the instruments in current use’. It is, she says, a ‘strong, huge, and yet passive [force]… Only its effects tell us that it exists in space and has power.’

Laser therapy specialist Kalon Prensky describes a scalar wave as ‘a non-linear, non-Hertzian, standing wave capable of supporting significant effects including carrying information and inducing higher levels of cellular energy, which greatly enhances the performance and effectiveness of the body and immune system.

Additionally, it helps to clear cellular memory by shifting polarity, similar to erasing the memory of a cassette tape with a magnet.’ He states that ‘Scalar Waves travel faster than the speed of light and do not decay over time or distance.’ This sounds very much like crystal energy, and depictions of scalar waves look incredibly similar to the crystal energy perceived by a Kirlian camera or the intuitive eye.

Many of the newer crystals such as Anandalite, Que Sera, Quantum Quattro and Rainbow Mayanite contain concentrated bioscalar energy. All healing crystals probably have this energy within their matrix and generate it through their crystalline structure.

If, as subtle energy researcher Lilli Botchis asserts, ‘When the human body enters a scalar wave field, the electromagnetic field of the individual becomes excited [and] this catalyzes the mind/body complex to return to a more optimal state that is representative of its original, natural, electrical matrix form,’ we can see how a crystal with its optimal energy pattern might operate on the human – and planetary – energy body.

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Crystals That Can Help With Anxiety

yinepupep:

The listed crystals and stones have properties that can assist in combating or soothing anxiety and negativity.

✨Amazonite – calm, peace, joy, overcoming grief, luck, success.

✨Amber – cleansing, positive energy, luck, healing, strength, happiness, self confidence.

✨Emerald – psychic awareness, meditation, peace, tranquility, sleep, healing, faith, serenity.

✨Herkimer Quartz – Meditation, stress relief, calming.

✨Jasper – stability, healing, balancing emotions.

✨Lepidolite – serenity, peace, tranquility, stress relief, overcoming dependencies and addiction, clear communication, acceptance of change.

✨Lodestone – focus, sleep, and grounding.

✨Obsidian – grounding, centering, cleansing, protection, clarity, divination.

✨Quartz – healing, drawing out pain and negativity, meditation, balancing.

✨Rose Quartz – peace, love, healing, calm, self-esteem.

✨Sodalite – alleviates fears and calms the mind, lessens conflict, soothes fears, stress relief, peace, harmony, balance, wisdom, relaxation.

✨Turquoise – Meditation, friendship, emotional balance, loyalty, divination, healing, soothing, psychic development, trust, courage

10 Magical Uses for Roses

solitary-autumn-witch:

  1. Carry them in a sachet to attract love.
  2. Add them to your bath to balance emotions and increase confidence.
  3. Use the petals to cast your circle or sprinkle on your altar.
  4. Use them to make magical perfumes, tinctures or rose water.
  5. Use red roses in spells for love and passion.
  6. Use white roses in spells for unconditional love.
  7. Use pink roses in spells for friendship.
  8. Use yellow roses in spells for joy and healing.
  9. Use red roses to represent the masculine, active principle and use white roses to represent the feminine, respective principle.
  10. Use the combination of white and red to symbolize unity.

Good Things to Research When You Don’t Know What to Research

will-o-the-witch:

They don’t exactly teach this stuff in schools. This list is designed for the beginner witch, who keeps hearing the advice “Research!” but wants some better specifics on what exactly that means.

Now, you don’t have to be a complete expert on all of these or even most of these! You don’t even have to incorporate all of them into your practice. They’re just some stuff it’s good to have a basic working knowledge of in the Craft.

🌻Planetary Correspondences- Even if cosmic witchcraft isn’t your thing, a lot (and I mean a LOTTTT) of correspondences in any other category are going to eventually lead back to the planets. Having a basic understanding of what each planet governs is extremely helpful when learning the correspondences of basically anything else.

🌻Herb Correspondences- Herbs and spices are incredibly useful! They’re probably one of the most versatile of the “big categories” since they can be used in herbalism and kitchen witchery, as well as a great add-on to any other variation of witchcraft. It’s good to have a working knowledge of what herbs you can use in a pinch, especially the stuff you already have in your kitchen. When an emergency calls, it’s good to know how that chili powder can help you.

🌻Crystal Correspondences- This is another great add on! Crystals can often be used to enhance and focus the energy of a spell, as well as cleanse any ritual tools you have. Besides, who doesn’t like pretty rocks? Crystals can be particularly great for the witch who has a tactile mind, and likes to have things they can feel and roll around in their hand.

🌻Days of the Week- Knowing the right time to cast a spell can be very important! Casting a love spell on a Friday gives it an added boost, or at the very least creates a path of least resistance. Besides, there’s only seven of them, so it’s easy to learn quickly. You get a lot of bang for your buck!

🌻Phases of the Moon- We have a really big collective crush on the moon, it seems. And for good reason! The moon is a great source of power and mystery even in a completely mundane setting! Understanding the phases of the moon and how it can affect your craft is extremely important. (Hint: you can cast spells even when it isn’t the Full Moon.)

🌻Basic Mythology and Lore- This is an absolute must if you plan on going into any type of spirit work. Even if that isn’t your thing, it’s good to know a little bit. Firstly, because you may draw unwanted attention from spirits, and it’s good to know how to deal with them if it happens. Secondly, because if you draw from a path with any history behind it, it’s good to know how the rules go down on their turf.

🌻Basic Divination- Not everyone has the money or the time to pick up and learn how to read a 78-card Tarot deck, but things like scrying and pendulums are pretty easy to figure out quickly. What’s more, they can be done on little to no budget. Divination’s a useful tool to have on your utility belt, and who wants to pay someone to use a pendulum for them when you can learn it yourself?

🌻Anthropology of different cultures/religions- You don’t have to be a religious witch at all, but witchcraft still has its roots as a religious practice! Lot’s of practices have a cultural context as well, which can be important to know in order to fully understand the action you’re performing. A lot of correspondences, traditions, and rites come from cultural or religious roots. It’s good to know not only what people did, but why they did it! Does X tool have some symbolic meaning or was it just what was available at the time? What was simply a product of the culture around them?

🌻Science- It’s a HUGE category, and I left it that way on purpose. If something interests you, look at the mundane side of it as well! Do you like kitchen witchery? Read up on food chemistry and how different nutrients affect the brain. Into crystals? Learn about how they’re formed! Read about gardening or psychology, anything that can help enhance your path.

Happy researching!

WITCH TIPS: GOOD BOOKS

hekatesoasis:

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I linked all of these books from Amazon so you could all see the covers, authors, and prices!! As i’m looking up books i’ve bought in shops, i’m shocked at how overpriced they were 😦

i’ll continue to edit this post as i come across new books!

feel free to pop in my asks with your favorite witchy books here

@lapiscat 

Energies of the super blue blood moon

wolfofantimonyoccultism:

On January 31st there is going to be a super blue blood moon, which is quite a rare event, and will have many energies that you may want to bring into your working. The super blue blood moon is the meeting up of 3 different interactions between the earth, moon, & sun. This Trinity of interaction can be a very good time for many different magickal practices, that will be able to use this energy in order to manifest, and enhance the practitioners life. Any metaphysical properties that appear on Multiple Lists will be extra enhanced.

Energies of the super full moon:

A super moon occurs when the moon, becomes full at a time where it has reached the closest point of its orbit to the Earth allowing it to look bigger. This also means the lunar energy is closer to us, and because of that it makes the lunar energy more intense, and enhanced.

Metaphysical properties:

  • Enhancement
  • Strength
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Psychic and spiritual awareness
  • Femininity
  • Yin
  • Night
  • Darkness
  • Passivity
  • Receptivity
  • Mysteries
  • Intuition
  • Emotion
  • Balance
  • Clarity
  • Reflection
  • Cycles
  • Renewal
  • Perception
  • Illumination
  • Water
  • Fullness
  • Obtainment of desire
  • Fullness
  • Healing
  • Protection
  • Insight,
  • Wisdom
  • Prophecy

Energies of a blue Snow moon:

A Blue Moon occurs when a 2nd full moon happens in the same calendar month. Since we already had the wolf moon this will be known as the snow Moon, though it does not take place in February where the snow Moon usually occurs. It will still take on the energy of the snow moon. This full moon is also called the storm moon, the hungry moon, and the quickening moon.

Metaphysical properties:

  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Heightened clarity
  • Connection to the divine
  • Psychic, and spiritual awareness
  • Ascendancy
  • Clarity
  • Purification
  • Subtlety
  • Transition
  • Power
  • Initiation
  • Divination
  • Moving towards goals
  • Balance, and a link between the god, and goddess
  • Balance, and a link between physicality, and spirituality
  • Home, hearth, and family
  • Survival
  • Endurance
  • Planning
  • Preparedness
  • Forgive
  • Accept responsibility for past mistakes
  • Self-love
  • Healing
  • Change
  • Fertility
  • Strength
  • Perservere
  • Femininity
  • Yin

Energies of the blood moon / total lunar eclipse:

A blood moon occurs when there is a total lunar eclipse, and the moon passes into the earth’s shadow which provides the moon with a very reddish glow.

Metaphysical properties:

  • Acknowledging and releasing emotions
  • Dreams
  • Growth
  • Endings and New Beginnings
  • Renewal
  • Subconscious
  • Shadow sides of ourselves
  • Protection
  • Recharge
  • Healing
  • Femininity
  • Yin

A Coursework List for Magical Education

spiritvexer:

This
is half a list I want to go over with my new learning buddy, and half
something I may make in to a master post in the future. Use it as a
syllabus to guide learning and fill in all the answers with your own
research. Let me know if you would be interested in this being made in to a master post.

Cleansing

  • Why do we need to cleanse?
  • When do we need to cleanse?
  • Self
    cleansing
  • Item/Object
    cleansing
  • Room
    cleansing

Banishments

  • Banishing
    a spirit
  • Banishing
    a person
  • Banishing
    an energy
  • Banishing
    a situation
  • Why
    do banishments fail?
  • What
    to do when banishing fails.

Protections

  • Protection
    from energies
  • Protection
    from people
  • Protection
    from spirits
  • Protection
    from situations
  • Balancing
    and layering protections
  • The
    consequences of too much protection
  • When
    do we need protection?
  • Protecting
    yourself
  • Protecting
    items
  • Protecting
    rooms/areas
  • Magical
    protection circles

Honoring
Spirits

  • What
    are spirits?
  • Building
    altars
  • Making
    offerings
  • Maintaining
    healthy relationships with spirits
  • Working
    with problem spirits
  • Meeting
    your spirit companions
  • Making
    new spirit companions
  • Creating
    spirit vessels
  • House
    rules

Prosperity

  • Building
    your first prosperity altar
  • Money
    Magic: Your First Spells

Self-Work
Magic

  • Uncrossing
    magic
  • Blessing
    magic
  • Self-love
    magic
  • Beauty
    magic

Spellwork

  • Spell
    theory
  • Working
    long-term spells
  • Working
    short-term spells
  • Different
    techniques of spellcasting
  • Different
    spellcasting tools
  • Crafting
    your own spells

Divination

  • What
    is divination?
  • Why
    does divination work?
  • Divination
    with tarot cards
  • Divination
    with oracle cards
  • Divination
    with runes
  • Divination
    with I-Ching
  • Divination
    with spirit boards
  • Divination
    with pendulums
  • Creating
    your own system of divination

Hexes,
Curses, and Dark Arts

  • What
    the heck are they
  • Why
    do people use them?
  • Dangers
    of the left-handed path
  • Hex
    breaking

Healing

  • How
    does energetic healing work?
  • How
    do crystals and plants aid in energetic healing?
  • Basic
    energetic healing spells and rituals
  • When
    to heal

Advanced Magic

  • The problem with teaching next level magic