Cinder Path Crafts

06/01/2026

Obsidian
In skilled hands, Obsidian’s cathartic qualities are exceedingly valuable.
It provides deep soul healing. Obsidian can aid in going back to past lives to heal festering emotions or trauma that has carried forward into the present.
Obsidian is a strongly protective stone, forming a shield against negativity.
It provides a grounding cord from the base chakra to the centre of the earth, absorbs negative energies from the environment and strengthens in times of need.
It is helpful for highly sensitive people.
It blocks psychic attack and removes negative spiritual influences.
A large piece of Obsidian can be extremely efficient at blocking geopathic stress or soaking up environmental pollution but its propensity for exploding the truth out into the open has to be taken into account.
Many people find its powerful effects overwhelming and prefer to choose a gentler stone for this task. But it is extremely helpful for therapists and counsellors as it not only facilitates getting to the core of the problem but also mops up energies released as a result. One of the gentler forms of Obsidian such as an Apache Tear or Snowflake would be best for this. As Obsidian is so effective in soaking up negative energies, it is essential to clean the stone under running water each time it has been used in this way.
Spiritually, Obsidian vitalizes soul purpose. It eliminates energy blockages and relieves tension integrating the psychological shadow into the whole to bring spiritual integrity.
It anchors the spirit into the body.
Source: Judy Hall
Image: Pinterest

02/01/2026

So...crystals 😅🫣. How does everyone store their hoards? My collection was very organised until it's burst out of every system I've tried to implement. I'm not even getting started on pendulums, sets and jewellery...there needs to be a crystals anonymous

21/12/2025

21/12/2025

𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟏 – 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

This morning leads into the longest night of the year. Later today, the sun will reach its lowest point in the sky, bringing the shortest day and the longest stretch of darkness. The turning has not happened yet. It comes with the night.

That makes this morning different. It sits on the edge of the dark rather than beyond it. A last full walk through the shortest day, knowing what waits on the other side. Winter is fully here.

However you move through today, do it with awareness. Tend what needs tending. Rest where you can. When night falls and the solstice passes, the light will begin its slow return. Minute by minute.

31/10/2025

My absolute favourite celebration of the year....enjoy it however you choose to. Brightest blessings 🥰

23/10/2025

Each year they parade her about, The traditional Halloween witch.

Misshapen green face, stringy scraps of hair, A toothless mouth beneath her disfigured nose. Gnarled knobby fingers twisted into a claw protracting form. A bent and twisted torso that lurches about on wobbly legs.

Most think this is abject image to be the creation of a prejudiced mind or merely a Halloween caricature, I disagree, I believe this to be how witches were really seen.

Consider that most witches were women, were abducted in the night and smuggled into dungeons or prisons under secrecy of darkness and presented by the light of day as a confessed witch.

Few, if any saw a frightened normal looking woman being dragged into a secret room filled with instruments of torture, to be questioned until she confessed to anything that was suggested to her, and to give names or say whatever would stop the questions.

Crowds saw the aberration denounced to the world as a self-proclaimed witch. As the witch was paraded through the town, in route to be burned, hanged, drowned, stoned, or disposed of in various, horrible ways, all created to free and save her soul from her depraved body.

The jeering crowds viewed the result of hours of torture. The face, bruised and broken by countless blows, bore a hue of sickly green. The once warm and loving smile gone, replaced by a grimace of broken teeth, and torn gums that leer beneath a battered disfigured nose.

The disheveled hair conceals bleeding gaps of torn scalp from whence cruel hands had torn away the lovely tresses. Broken, twisted hands clutched the wagon for support. Fractured fingers locked like cropping claws to steady her broken body.

All semblance of humanity gone. This was truly a demon, a bride of Satan, a witch.

I revere this Halloween Witch and hold her sacred. I honor her courage and listen to her warnings of the dark side of humanity.

Each year I shed tears of respect.

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11/10/2025

Set up and goodie bags ready 😊