Clover Constantine

@clover-constantine.bsky.social

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My profile pic was made by my friend Charlie for a story of ours. I’m a witch, Celtic pagan, writer, and researching herbalism as well as Alchemy. Hi!

I doodled Odin using a post it and a black pen. He looks a bit too baby faced in this one so I fix it in the next picture. I also do not know how to draw people or spears lol.
A look at my street through a window. The cars, lawn, and roof of my neighbor’s house are dusted with snow.
The two books I got yesterday. The big novel is The Rose Field by Phillip Pullman and beside it is the Illustrated Herbiary.
My kobo in sleeping mode with the cover of The Path of the Hedge Witch in muted earthy tones. Illustrated by Jessica Roux.
Attempts one and two at a blue jay. Please ignore how unproportioned the first attempt is. The second attempt is much better and I put the blue jay on a tombstone for Halloween. Not as colorful though. Used light blue gel pen and black normal ink pen.
From YouTube, a community post from the channel Esoterica promoting Dr. Jackson Crawford’s expanded second edition of his translation of the Poetic Edda. The cover looks blue and gold with two ravens on the cover surrounding the title text.
This is an incomplete drawing. It’s meant to be either a sunrise or sunset over an ocean and hitting a cliff face.
The book is small and has a green cover with a clear glass teapot showing the herbs in the tea blend as well as a cup with a flower growing out of it. Its title is in fancy quasi-Gothic text in black that reads: “A Tea Witch’s Grimoire”. “SM Harlow” is written in smaller similar white text on the bottom left of the cover.
The picture shows two clear glasses of Witches’ Brew, the spell I used to bless my family with health and vitality for fall, on a granite countertop. Witches’ Brew is a drink my mom used to make for us around Halloween time. It consists of vanilla ice cream, honey, cinnamon, and apple cider. The ingredients are as follows: -4 scoops of Lactaid Vanilla ice cream -Almost 2 cups of apple cider for health, mainly because apples are at their peak starting around this time and moving into early October. (PS: I eyeball the apple cider and it usually works every time. No need for exact measurements.) -Cinnamon sprinkled counterclockwise to keep the lethargy away. -Honey for sweetness in the fall to come.
Four different containers of books are shown in the photo as I systematically clean the containers, put the books in there, and stack them in a corner of my room. I have one cardboard Amazon box, one big sliding plastic container to fit under my bed, and two of my three milk crates in the photo.
A purple leather bound notebook that has the sun, the moon, the stars and a pretty geometric border. The word on the cover is notebook. It all appears to be engraved versus stamped.
It’s a spread for interviewing a new deck! It starts with the red card, then you travel up to the brown card, down to the green card, up to the orange card, up to the cream card, and down finally to the blue card. The questions are as follows: 1) Tell me about yourself 2) What are your strengths as a deck? 3) What are your limits as a deck? 4) What are you here to teach me? 5) How best can I learn and collaborate with you? 6) What is the potential outcome of our relationship?
So it’s a very rough sketch using my gel pens. The greens represent the mound, cave entrance and trees. The blue represents mists I envision rolling in and up like a handle to the side of the cave opening to make it look like a tea cup. The orange stars are above because I see this in my head as a night scene, accompanied by the crescent moon. The crescent moon is in there because I associate it with the Keen Edge translation of the Mórrígan’s name.
Using night mode on my phone camera, I got a picture of a deer while taking out my dogs.
The White Peach Ginger simple syrup in an old instant coffee glass jar. I pour it into a glass with ice and some seltzer and mix it all up.
A rough sketch using acrylic paint markers and a dotted lined page of my journal. It’s meant to be the first draft of a tea tray altar offering to the Morrigan. I have a white lined tea cup in the center of a black rectangle outlined in bronze. Above it are crow, horse, and wolf tracks to signify the Morrigan’s transformations. To the bottom left is a bundle of lavender and to the right is a mist slowly rolling in as a reference to the Morrigan’s control of magic during the Battle with the Formorians… It’s a complete mess lol. There are arrows heading to notes explaining whatever why something was there. The different paint colored lines were to clean the paint markers after layering. It’s a chaotic mess.
My black belt with my name embroidered in Katakana.
I pulled the four of swords/Fenrir, The High Priestess/Scheherazade, and The Moon from The Tarot of the Divine deck.
A picture of my first attempt at making nice cream. The flavor is mint chocolate chip; however, peppermint extract with a mainly banana base creates an odd flavor that I’m not totally against but not sure I like either. I’m thinking of trying again with pineapple-mango, strawberry chocolate, and more attempts at the mint chip flavors. Mint chocolate chip would definitely be good for luck and perseverance I think. A good pick me up for a rough Monday and to help make the rest of the week better.
Here are all the stickers laid out on my bed. The crow is for the Morrigan while the herbs are for my tea witch/green witch/kitchen witch labels! Roses and the yellow flowers and strawberries and lavender definitely give me herbalism and honoring the Gentry vibes. The mink holding tea is a representation of my dæmon if I lived in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials universe, I call him Bard.
The cover to Fairy Witchcraft by Morgan Daimler as screenshot from library on Kobo
A green vine comes down from the top left corner of the inside cover of the shoebox. At the end of each vine is a pinkish red strawberry with bright creamy yellow seeds. In between the vines, I added golden butterflies. I heard the Gentry like pretty things, so I hope this is an acceptable offering to both the Irish gods and the Good Neighbors!
My pull from Thursday. Four Of Coins Representing Macha’s part in the message, the King of Swords representing Badh’s, and the Six of Wands representing Morgu’s. And it confuses me a bit because it doesn’t seem like a bad message at all, which is why I’m asking for help.
So the base is ehwaz, for progression, teamwork, and change. It takes a community to have a home worth living in and that’s what I want for my apartment to be a home worth living in surrounded by people worth loving. The Progression and change aspects of the rune are important too as I’m trying to move forward with my life and change my current situation. On both the left and right side of ehwaz is berkano, the rune for growth and nurturing. I’m aware I need to work for and put an effort towards gaining a space of my own. Not just by working two jobs to ensure I can afford it, but by actively searching for open apartments and most importantly, taking care of myself. The top and bottom runes that connect to ehwaz are fehu. Fehu is for wealth and abundance. I need money to afford a roof over my head and the bills. Mainly, the use of Fehu equates more so for helping me train the tools and necessary skills to be able to get this new apartment and to handle myself on my own two feet. Finally, Jera surrounds the Ehwaz, Berkano, and Fehu runes as it represents the harvest I’m working towards. The very thing I’m trying to achieve—my own apartment and, in some ways, independence. Jera is the thing holding the foundation together. The reason for everything. Small bundles of lavender can be seen next to the runes as a representation of the protection and serenity I want for my future home. While the stalks of wheat represent always being able to hold my own financially and to keep food on my table. But yeah! That’s my sigil!
A work in progress. The grey leather cover has the words “Feeling Accomplished” stamped in gold on the cover. To the left, poppies on gold stems, on the bottom of the cover a river, bronze border, and in the top right corner sits the crescent moon. Medium: (probably fake) leather cover and acrylic paint pens.
The Tarot of the Divine box! I got it at a local bookstore, felt very pulled to it. I love the deck so far! The box itself is blue with gold moon borders. The card represented is the Moon card, a beautiful woman with long black hair is on a red bridge over a small body of water looking at the full moon.
A digital sketch of me, Clover, reading an alchemy 101 book with my His Dark Materials dæmon, Bard, a mink, on my shoulder. Made by Charlie (who sadly I couldn’t tag because Bluesky has character limits). The paper is tinged purple since that’s my favorite color.
The chocolate strawberry overnight oats before going in the fridge last night. Ingredients: 1/2 cup rolled oats 1/4 Greek yogurt 1 tbs chia seeds 2 tbs cocoa powder 1 tsp of maple syrup 1/2 tsp of vanilla 4 large diced strawberries, soaked in a 1 tsp of maple syrup for about five to ten minutes.
GIF of His Dark Materials TV series version of Serafina Pekkala, Queen of the witches of the Lake Enara Clan. Taken from google images, and Google says the gif was originally from Tumblr.
The possible structure of the stained glass dragon that guards the apples Chicory must harvest before she meets Frau Holle.
The first picture of the hedge. I’m slowly letting it show me one piece at a time what it wants to be.
In pink pen to represent today’s date, I’ve noted the use of the name Némain as a reference to the Morrigan before I even read the assigned text for the day. I plan to hand write it out if possible and then give my thoughts, hence the TBC and arrow drawn at the end of the note. Here’s to day one indeed!
I pulled the Hermit Upright, the World Reversed, and the Queen of Swords reversed. The general interpretation (that I feel comfortable sharing) is that I am now feeling lost in my career due to lack of purpose—especially as some things in my life are coming to a close and I feel empty about it. The Queen of Swords reversed only enhances this situation with lack of proper communication and reminding me to research whatever I decide to do and make sure it *is* what I want. And a big component to this is redefining my idea of success and how I can achieve it. There are past decisions I cannot change, but the future is still mine to make.
A depiction of the Green Lion devouring the sun in alchemy found on Google Images. It’s used as a way to represent Aqua Regia, a specific nitric acid that, when Medieval European alchemists placed gold within it, would breakdown the gold chemically and the clear liquid would turn green. The gold used at the time contained some trace minerals of copper, and it’s believed that the copper was why Aqua Regia turned green during its decomposition stage.
My offering to Lady Morgan. She agreed to help me with my alchemical research and so I drew a hermetically sealed jar with two red roses to symbolize the philosopher’s stone, a red and white dragon to represent the alchemical processes meant to go on in the vessel (as well as sulfur/sun for the red dragon and mercury/moon for the white), the sparkles are just to represent Lady Morgan as I associate blue with her.
My notes on my reading I performed this morning with Morgana agreeing to work with me concerning my shift to learning alchemy’s history and perhaps using it as a spiritual and psychological witchcraft practice.
She gave the word a capital “T” as these *felt* different. The threads formed tall—or long, that was technically more appropriate—thin sheets. Bright golds, captivating ceruleans, engaging emeralds—these pieces of woven art shimmered despite the lack of light. Astrid stepped reverently into the large hall. The young maiden noted that, despite each Tapestries’s differences in art styles and fabrics used, eight out of the nine Tapestries followed the same series of events. The Ninth Tapestry was shorter and looked… (Continued in other picture’s alt text)