Getting past TikTok love witch aesthetics into the meat of Venusian glamour, beauty, & love magic?

[uralmaenad]

I’ve been a practicing polytheist for a fairly long time. 15ish years now, but who’s counting? I’ve been an occultist (practicing and armchair, at various points of my life) for about 10 years. I value both the academic rigour and intuitive nature that is required to have an effective polytheistic and occult practice. I’ve worshipped Venus and conducted Venusian planetary magic with great success in the past, so I have no idea why I’m having the mental blocks that I am.

I’m a happily married woman in my 20s following two separate currents of paganism kept apart from each other - one is my ancestral practice, and the other is heavily dependent on an amalgamation of Mediterranean and Near Eastern polytheism with my own explorations in magic/mysticism (which is the one I’m obviously talking about right now). I have this mental blockage that I seem to have difficulty in getting over when it comes to doing anything related to beauty, glamour magic, love, sweetenings, etc. I just instantly feel like I’m some TikTok “witch” doing things for the aesthetics of witchcraft with no substance behind them. I think that while this is partially warranted in this day and age, it’s also unfairly judgemental of me. Traditionally feminine, softer goals for magic are equally valid.

I’d love to partake in the above mentioned magic in addition to my worship of Venus(-Aphrodite) but these blocks are undoubtedly affecting my will and therefore, the potency of the work. I find that planetary magic helps bypass this if I put a significant amount of forethought into it (sometimes having to wait weeks to find the most auspicious time) but I don’t want to limit myself. My goals for this would be enhancing my own beauty (alongside mundane means), magnetism, and bringing in even more sweetness into my life.

Am I being unreasonable and almost elitist to a degree? Should I take these aesthetic witches a bit more seriously (since the many I see online do seem to be very beautiful)? Do you have any preferred methods of getting over mental blocks? Any resources for beauty magic to suggest to a grump like me? I think I may be too jaded for my age lol!

 

[Morell]

It's not about TikTok only I think.

Beauty can be integrated in magic quite fine. Actually it can improve it as it helps with putting your heart into it. Some of the stuff I use, is self-made and it gives me more of self-respect when I make for myself not only useful but cool and beautiful stuff to work with. Creating beauty along with making magic is helpful. I see no reason why it should be connected with feminity, though.

When I use pictures, I seek for artistic pieces that I enjoy. I have picture of Loki I used for concentration and it is so easy to concentrate on something that can catch your interest for long time, exploring and admiring the art piece. Became well enchanted and was easy to work with.