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Melissa Love
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Just a Hedgewitch brewing tea, talking to plants and chilling with spirits in a Dutch forest. 🌿🌑

Occult-Centered Clinical Herbalist and Shadow Enthusiast shaking it up because I'm accidentally so stereotypical that the "proper" ones get mad lol
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The image is a knight pointing at a chimera. It's misty, dark, vargo-vibes. Highly detailed with the knights armour shining against torchlight. The lion head of the chimera is starting towards the knights intricately tooled helmet. The text reads: "Me on my journey to the underworld: 'Can I pet that dog?'"
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Had the first light #snow of the season last night here in the Netherlands 🖤🤍
#Winter2025 #Yule2025
A light snow on an old plank of wood with two little kitty pawprints. He changed his mind going out right afterwards as I was shutting the door after feeding the crow army haha
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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How do you look giant at some points and soooooooo tiny at others? How do cat physics work? #CatSky
A black cat curled up on some pillows. He looks so small sometimes but he's massive lol
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This is very true actually. 🤣💯
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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We have matching pillows! 😍🖤

And Ronan is adorable haha
A shaggy grey blanket of a burnt orange couch against a wine red wall tassed with a black and white palmistry pillow and deathmoth throw blanket
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It's dark. But this supermoon is so bright it's casting dark shadows 😆🖤

That's only moonlight lol

#WitchSky
The full moon peaking through the clouds. But it looks like the sun lol
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Happy birthday to this now 9-year-old! Thank you for all the maniacal laughs, unending chaos, and true compassion over the years 🖤🖤🖤 Also why are you so old lol 😤🤣
A 9 year old kid. Sitting on a fallen tree branch in the forest. Their face is covered by a full head of chaos curls down to their waist. They have rain boots on (it is not raining) and a jacket. And a woven basket carrying their outer pants because they got covered in stickers because of crawling through grasses lol
November 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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A larger brown mushroom. It's slimy Some bright orange mushrooms Tiny mushrooms growing on a pinecone
November 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Mushroom Walk!
#WitchSky #Mushrooms #Nature #Autumn #Naturewalk
A puffy orange mushroom on a fallen spruce log Some polypores on a fallen log with orange leaves Some small brown mushrooms amidst pine cones A mushroom being eaten by another fungus. It looks like electric hair standing on end lol
November 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I'm in the process of making an uncomfortable Lenormand Style deck. It grabs the classic deck and turns them all into shadows. It's dark, weird, kinda makes your skin crawl. You won't like it. They all are herbs.
This is the first sketch of 1. The Rider - Sea Holly. Impulsive movement to avoid depth
A very rough sketch of a sea holly sprig. Very exaggerated spines and the leaves kinda bust forth dramatically. You get the feeling it doesn't even know where it's going, it's just GOING as far/fast as it can to avoid depth.
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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@lmcguirek.bsky.social because I know you love my office pictures lol 🖤

#WitchSky
Two old shelves, pretty damaged, one by fire, covered in crystals, potions, and old apothecary bottles. Two pendulums gabs on a stick. There is also a frame with a two headed flying fox skeleton on top of one covered in moss because I love bats ❤️ they are on a burgundy wall
October 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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This is so funny 🤣 especially because of his namesake 🤣❤️

Mine specifically needs to sit/lay on my hat all the time 🙃
A black cat with yellow green eyes laying on a wool pointed black hat with a burgundy wall and some throw pillow around where the hat is sitting.
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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But it's so much better in the corner lol
A very messy corner of a dark burgundy walled room. Orange couch nestled up to an old secretary desk. Dark green old curtains and a window sill with a pan statue, pine and ivy branches, a small copper cauldron, on the sill. The desk is covered with a Tiffany style lamp, a crystal ball covered in a silk cloth, cards, lots of books and a note pad. A chair covered with a southwestern blanket is a bit haphazardly thrown over it. My witch hat is sitting on the couch, also a bit haphazardly.
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Took a trip into the city today (I say city. It is a tiny town lol) and I wanted to show you all what "could be". This photo was taken just on the side of the road. At first glance, it's boring lol But this is the "grass" you find here. It isn't. It's a mix of flowers, yarrow, native weeds #WitchSky
A close up photo of the "grass" in a divider lane here in the Netherlands. There is no grass. It's yarrow, clover, nettles, calendula... in the spring you'll see the poppy and daffodils... there are just wild here. They don't plant grass. Wild weeds and bee-friendly flowers.
October 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Isn't that always the way 😭😭 I was so lucky. I found some in Germany that were kinda the style but are so comfy. I call them my walking shoes hahaha I need to fix the toes though. I wear them through the forest lol
A pair of old style black lace up ankle boots worn on the toes. They are sitting on a (very) old Turkish rug on a wooden staircase.
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Selfie drop time because it's been a whiiiiiiiilllllllle
A very pale (thanks porphyria lol) portrait of a woman with a bunch of brown hair piled on top of the head with a black shirt. She's wearing black lipstick.
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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So handsome 🖤

#CatSky #WitchSky
A black cat with silky, medium length fur, sitting on a wood floor in front of a window, tail curved around. His eyes are the green of a voodoo lily stem.
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Calluna vulgaris at the dunes 💜 Heather is just beautiful this time of year. #GardenSky #ForestWalk #Nature
Little stalks of heather flowers close up with blurred dunes in the background.
September 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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It's been forever since I've sketched a cat. I didn't have an eraser though so the ear is a bit off lol Finch app is giving me homework to sketch something "out of joy" everyday.

Do any of you use Finch? 😅🖤🐱 #catsky #FinchCommunity #sketches #artsky
A very rough sketch of a tortoise shell kitten with black and orange stripes and a white underbelly. It is curled up on a blanket in the center of a white page.
September 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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@tracyrayauthor.bsky.social Tracy! This book is BEAUTIFUL 😍 I'm so excited to dive in. (Apparently Shoki is too. Maybe I'll read them to him 🤣🖤)
A red hardcover book with Gothic boarders and florishes and a skull illustration. Title: 13 Short Horror Stories for Bedtime By Tracy Ray. You can see my black cat Shoki at the table like he's waiting for dinner lol
September 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Some #forestwalk #photos from this evening 🖤🌿 #mushrooms #nature
Amanitas! Those red mushrooms with the white spots. There was a circle next to the hawthorn tree among beautiful moss and brambles. Tiny brown mushrooms in a clump... about 50 of them. A meadow where the rabbits usually hang out. It's surrounded by bramble, beech, birch, and hawthorn trees. You can see the sand in the middle because so much of the Netherlands is sand.
September 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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So I have a small purse that I take everywhere with me. It's black leather and it's got those credit card pockets in the side on the interior? They hold the seeds I find on my walks. 🤣 I got chicory seeds in one, hollyhock seeds in another, then primrose seeds in the next 🤣🖤 #WitchSky
A hand holding open a card-shaped flap in a black Fossil square cross-body purse with grey interior. The flap opens to show chicory seeds.
September 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 🖤 in a big silent film buff but this will forever be my favorite
A still of the 1920s silent film. The architecture alone is stunning. Very odd angles of a man standing at the top of a wall zigzaging through the frame.
September 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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I have my grandfather's old... thingy-thingies lol
A type of iron old scissor-ish charcoal pliers? I have no idea what they are. A spring holds them shut and long handles close to open the grip end. Very simple tool of three pieces total. They are very worn. It's holding a charcoal disks above a lot candle sitting on a very messy old walnut desk full of stuff... cards, chestnuts, candles, a cloth covering a crystal ball.
September 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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It's in the air! This was the post above yours 🤣
A post right above talking about how weather forecasting was prohibited by the witchcraft act by The Guardian.
September 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM