I learned a saying in grad school that is now one of my guiding precepts: "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."

@poppyseeds1844

6 ай бұрын

But who really takes that seriously? lol My big thing was stopping the early research phase of a project. Could not stop myself.

Just gonna pretend we’re already besties because every time you say something new about yourself no matter how random it is it’s like “IM THE SAME WAY!!!” 😂 People know not to speak to me when I first wake up. Living vicariously through you for visiting these beautiful places and landscapes. Where I live it’s just flat and wet and hot. 🙈

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha I'm so glad I'm not the only goblin in the morning! I'm just straight up mean if people talk to me 😂 Come visit Washington and get out of the flat hot for a while!

Oh, I love seeing you all pick around the river looking for sticks and rocks and plants. “Look at this big rock!” I’ve never seen so many people together who are just like me 😂❤

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

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I remember saying “slow down, we want to hear what you have to say” and now I can say I’m very proud of you as well! The apprehensive and probably scared newbie to YT has found her rhythm and niche - and we all are loving it! 🧙‍♀️

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️ I appreciate people telling me to slow down and take up space because I had a hard time believing anyone wanted to hear my thoughts. For that, thank you so much!

What a fantastic road trip! I went to Leavenworth in 1994 when it was surrounded by forest fires! I sat in a gazebo on the edge of town and watched burning pine cones rolling down the hillside towards us while huge Chinook helicopters battled the fires! It's changed a bit since then ;) So happy for you guys to have each other. I moved to the southern Oregon coast a year and a half ago and would love to meet some like-minded folks to do similar things with! As always, thanks for sharing, love 😘

I'd love to see a video of you rock hounding! My 9 year old son has just recently become interested in rocks and crystals and has been excavating some from the field near his school. He is really enjoying hunting for stones which makes me so happy as we now have a shared interest! I actually told him just last night how in America it is called Rock Hounding. Great vlog ~ thanks for sharing your adventures ~ much love from England ♡

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Aww I love that your son is getting into rocks and crystals. That is so fun!! I didn't even realize that "rock hounding" isn't a common term, how funny 😂 Much love to you as well!

Loved this! At the end of each coven meeting, we always take out the different China cups from my tea cabinet for tea and dessert. Seeing you and your cov members read tea leaves and use different China cups was giving me all the comfy familiar vibes of our group. Great may day stuff!

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Your coven meetings sound magical! ❤️❤️

Your coven is just the sort I wish I could join you all seem so grounded in your craft and share so much like sisters it's so wonderful to see! Thank you for bringing us along I'd love a trip like this how wonderful xx

Everyone looks so lovely in their outfits!! I'm living for the dark green with the black horns ensemble! This looks like such a fun trip! I'm glad you all had a great time! 💜🖤🥀 Happy Beltane!

I actually have not watched very many vlogs (my KZread is often times listen to while other activities are happening) but this was really enjoyable and relatable as my tiny coven and I create similar experiences. Really interesting about the Airbnb! The drag brunch production I work with performs in Wenatchee monthly, and it's good to have a heads up, if anyone sensitive to spirits. Thank you, as always, for sharing, I benefit so much from your channel ❤

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this! How cool that you're local as well!!! 👏👏❤️

Absoulutly stunning! view!! Love the photo shoot and you looked amazing - the tiara for the horned one looked magical. Glad you had a weekend to do what you wanted to do and spend times with friends. Thank you for the vlog it looked like so much fun (keeping real is the way it should be :) )

I loooove your vlogs! Please make more 🥰 All kinds of vlogs will be very much appreciated ❤️

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you liked the video! That makes my heart happy. Thank you! 🖤🖤🖤

I've always been a Rockhound though amongst the guys termed "Rock-lickers": To see their Colors when Whet ~ when I was your age being younger, we could take the battery out of the Transistor Radio then lay the wet Tongue across the terminal posts to get a tangy taste treat.

Oh my goodness, scenery is so gorgeous. Some of my favorite things, road trips and hauntings lol. Great video, I love it!! 😊❤

This was beautiful to watch, I loved all of the gorgeous scenery and the little things you did with things from nature. You all looked lovely too. Thank you for sharing 🪷🕯️🗝️🤍

I loved this vlog! I enjoyed seeing you and your coven mates have fun foraging and just appreciating mother nature in all her glory. I have been in Montana for almost a year now and I am sooo ready to start foraging and spending time in nature! I think we all relate when it comes to less than perfection and that is the beauty in it all. Nothing is ment to be perfect and sometimes raw and pure humble moments are the most beautiful ones. Ps, I loved the costumes during your photo session! Super adorbs. Again, I loved this vlog. It made my day and motivated me to get out today and enjoy this beautiful weather.

Soooooooooooooooo jealous of your Beltane coven retreat!!!! xoxoxo BTW....you are stunning!

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, that is so kind! 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Love trilliums, waffle cones... and that gorgeous fairy in pink looks like my niece!

My entire youtube channel became the rebellion against perfectionism 😂. Love the vlogs!

The 'little fuzzies' are called willow kittens (Weidenkätchen) in German 🥰

Awesome vlog! I’ve never been to the Pacific NW, but I’m pretty sure a Twitter friend of mine who lives out there posted photos of Leavenworth awhile back, & I never forgot it because it looked like the coolest town! Also, that tree fort you found looks a little like the type of tree structure Bigfoot’s been known to make (although it’s smaller). And as for the spirit, I don’t think he meant any harm, but that he cared deeply about the cabin & may have been unsettled that people he didn’t know were staying there. Based on what you said, it sounded to me like he wanted to be acknowledged, & to know that the cabin was being taken care of & respected (so I think you had the right attitude in dealing with him!).

Thank you for taking us along with you! Thank you for being candid and genuine. Sending you love and appreciation 💙✨️

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Sending you love, my friend! ❤️

Love the vlog style! Your coven retreat looks AMAZING. So much fun! And I LOVE your face sparkle with your dress up costume!

That is the most beautiful lake I've ever seen. New bucket list place. ❤❤ Thank you for sharing some of your private life with us. The metaphysicsl shop is the Bomb! ❤❤❤❤❤

Puppy!!! This was a fun video, and I appreciate you letting us tag along on your Beltane weekend!

This was so lovely. And what a beautiful place. I totally get not sharing everything. But I personally don't trust the Hollywood kind of people because no one's life is a glossy magazine and I can't relate to that. I like it real. Doesnt have to be depress/ed/ing, of course, but it's got to be natural from your heart. That vibe carries and that's (my interest in witchcraft aside) is why I love watching your videos. And I always enjoy outdoors stuff because due to my disability, I don't get to do much of that anymore these days, so it's wonderful to experience some of it second hand in this way, when it's so personal and enthusiastic, not like a travel program. 🤣 I love the personal touch. ❤

I really enjoyed this vlog. This has been my favorite of yours so far. ❤️ Thank you so much for sharing your witchy trip ✨️

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

I really enjoyed your vlog!!! I'm also at the stage of my life that I really want to show my true self and step out of my fear of judgment and my unrealistic demand for perfection from myself. And how you do it now, so open and sincere, gives me strength and faith. Thank you so much! 💖🙏 Have you been able to help the spirit of the man who built the house?

I am back !! So ,missed you. Road Trip love it ! such great landscape and the shops! How fun you witches All blessed with the Maypole . Blessed Be wonderful beautiful ladies

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you lovely! ❤️❤️❤️

This was so fun! I have many fond memories of Leavenworth trips, but it looks like I need to visit the Wenatchee area too! It's awesome to see other washington witches, as I am a solitary witch in the Olympia area 😀 Really appreciate your raw content!

That was fun! Yes, more vlogging! Happy Beltane!

Thanks for taking me along! Lol...LOVED IT!!

Absolutely loving your vlogs❤ the more natural the better 👍 thank you to you & your coven mates for sharing your trip with us 😊

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

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well, you didn't see Bigfoot, but you did live with a Ghost!!! -awesome! -what a great time; your Coven is lucky to have your photography and video skills to document this getaway. you really did a fantastic job with this. -peace to you and your coven 🪐

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Haha! I have waited my whole life to see Bigfoot. And thanks! I don't feel that my photography skills are particularly great, but I'll take that! 😆

Thank you for sharing this trip with us. It looks like you had a grand time even with the confused spirit in the air b&b. One of the sticks that you showed would have made a kick ass staff.

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha we always need more staffs! And thank you!

I love watching the changes happen with you and your channel. I love you.

Watching this reminded me of me as a kid running around the woods with my friends. If this is what being in a coven is like maybe I need to find one lol.I think running around Appalachia with other practitioners with be really entertaining lol.

I loved this. You guys were just a couple hour drive away from me. 🌲 Thank you for sharing with us! 🩶

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Well hello, fellow Washingtonian!

Loved this! ❤❤❤

I loved this vlog and thanks for reminding everyone life is magical not perfect❤❤

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

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that was fun to watch, thanks for sharing

This was so fun! Thank you for sharing! I'm definitely feeling inspired, and am gonna try to get out into the wilderness more.

That was a great vlog. Thanks for sharing

I loved this vlog!! I'd love to see more.

I would love to see you rock hound. I love crystals but have no idea how to spot them in their raw state 🧡💛💚

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

I'll add it to the list! 😊

I've recently started to do some ancestral work and inspired by you, asked one if my ancestors, some Germanic chief, to help protect my property. He's really rough around the edges, battle-hardened for sure and he doesn't laugh, which is sad, but he's fiercely protective and I so love him for that. Thought if him when you talked about the guy in the house. 🤣❤

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

I am so glad you were able to connect to your ancestors. How powerful!! Also, a Germanic chief is the PERFECT ancestor to protect your space. Genius!

@TirzaSchaefer

Жыл бұрын

@@IvyTheOccultist thank you, I thought so, too. He's faced tougher adversaries in his life, so he's perfect. ❤

OH MY GODS!!!!!! I LOVE that lodge!!!! I'm guessing you felt the horned God around while there. That cake looked SOOO good!! If I were you I would have Ka cawed to get the covenmates attention 😂🤣Those crustals look GORGEOUS!!!!! I feel sorry for that guys spirit. You better believe I would have brought an offering for Poseidon and the lake spirit. I would have also meditated by the lake. OOOOO lOOOOve stick hunting!!!!! I go rock hounding...in my yard sometimes. I love that you didn't let perfectionism get in the way of the naturalness of the vlogs. I don't like vlogs but I do mostly enjoy vlogs by witches and you're my favorite with vlogs, not too many, mostly on the sabbats. Plus your vibes 👌 I'm SO glad that you had fun!!!!

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, that means a lot! These vlogs are super fun to put together. I'm glad you like the vibes 😆

Wow I love it, you just like me in nature. I felt the energy. Am so happy you enjoy your road trip.

Loved this so much!! :) would also love a rock-hounding video

Such a wholesome video! Thanks for sharing and looked like a beautiful getaway

Oh I really hope you do a video on rock hounding. 😍 & Love the vlog! 🩶

I enjoy your vlogs keep ‘em coming 😅

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Haha thank you!!

I loved loved this vlog enjoyed u sharing in this way keep doing them ❤❤❤

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙏

Just watching while you're on your break. Keeping that logarithmic monster fed. Hope you're having a great break!

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much!! (Having a fabulous time and I appreciate that!)

I Loved this vlog! Such a beautiful place and looks like overall yall had a great time.

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

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This vlog was wonderful to watch and I very much enjoyed it! I hope you will do more in the future.

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! It was so fun, I think I'll try to do more!

I enjoyed watching this so much. You should definitely vlog more often if the urge strikes. It was awesome seeing your adventure with your covenmates and the fun Beltane activities in such a beautiful setting. And ghost story time was a nice touch too. I like that you all tried to make contact with the spirit while showing respect for his space. Thanks for sharing.

This is my first time watching one of your blogs and oh my god i need to go back and see the others. Please do more from time to time!

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Oh thank you, I'm so glad you found it entertaining! I think my autumn witch vlog is probably the best one but it's not the season for that so nevermind 😂 I'll definitely be doing more of these from time to time!

As soon as you started filming the driving I said "yup, that's the Pacific Northwest". Home sweet home, haha

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha waving at you, fellow PNW'er!

What a great vlog ❤ love your candidness, the scenery, the foraging and all of you looked magical in your fairy witchy attire. I might soon jump on the bandwagon of vlogs lol. It’s a brave thing to do but necessary I feel and on different levels. Blessings to you ❤

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

YES get on the vlog train!! (I think you have already and I need to catch up!)

@aradiaarcanum

Жыл бұрын

I will now with more activity picking up for the season. I want to share some vampy nights ✨ But you do an amazing job ❤️❤️❤️

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

@@aradiaarcanum YESSS to the vampy nights. I love that. And thank you!! I forget to comment when I watch your videos but they're always fabulous!

I enjoyed this Vlog very much. Thank you for sharing some more of you and your experiences❤we care to watch cause …we learn from you , you are super relatable , brilliant and 😎 cool . More please

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Aww thank you so much. I appreciate this! 🙏

Love your authenticity, no makeup, real and genuine... Keep it up 💜

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

Ah!!! You saw the trilliums! Do you have any near where you live? Ugh, they're my favorite flower! It's so cool to me that they only have three petals!

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

I don't have any next to my home but there were a TON of trilliums at the Airbnb! They're so pretty ❤️

Words cannot fathom the excitement I have seeing this and that new face in your coven. ❤ Amazing.

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Right???? Her new face brings me so much joy!!

@balBROni

Жыл бұрын

@@IvyTheOccultist YES! and you guys killed that photo shoot and theme! Where can I order my 2024 calendar??

All of you look so lovely

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏❤️

Crystals!!❤I want lots of them!!!!!😍😍😍 A regular day for a witch😅the place is hunted😂😂😂😂❤ Tnx for sharing dear🙏🥰

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Haha you know it!!

The story of the ghost is so sad 😢

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

I know 😭 I wish we could have helped him better!

That looks like a really good time Washington always looks peaceful! By the way: cool tat, it matches your name! 🤘🍎🐍

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

Oh hey, thank you!!! The tat has been unfinished for like 5 years now and I really need to get the rest of it done 😂 I appreciate that!

@Shadowman9348

Жыл бұрын

@@IvyTheOccultist Oh snap, 5 years?! Nice!!🤘🍎🐍

You know there's witchiness involved when you see the caption, "Looking for sticks" and you know why.

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

😂💯

One of your friends giving us all the finger was startling.

@TheWitchOfWonderlust

Жыл бұрын

I want to be on the parts of the internet you’re on, if that’s what you deeming as startling.

@MissAngeliqueDeVil

Жыл бұрын

I actually thought that was hilarious but that is my kind of sense of humor. I understand not everyone may feel that way ❤

@marksiezure3285

Жыл бұрын

@@TheWitchOfWonderlust I was being facetious.

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you clarified because I had no idea how to receive this comment 😂 I was like oh boy... If that's startling, you really won't like the rest of my content!

Hi Ivy, I’ve been wondering about joining a coven and I don’t know where to start or how to begin on doing that, so I was wondering if you had any advice on that as you have such a beautiful and eclectic coven, that I so wish to find a coven like that ☺️

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

I have a video that discusses covens, red flags, green flags, my story, how to find or create your own, so feel free to check that out if you want. But honestly, Facebook groups are great! Try finding a witchy Facebook group for your particular region. There's almost always people looking to create covens or looking for new members 😊

@Thespiritualsorceress

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊 will definitely check that out

6:42 what's the name of this song? I need it in my life💚

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

"A Year Ago" by NEFFEX 😊

@EE-jm3hw

Жыл бұрын

@@IvyTheOccultist Thank you 😊

5:36 Is this a Lilith costume ❓

@IvyTheOccultist

Жыл бұрын

My friend was Lilith and I was the female version of the Horned God 😆

What a wonderful video! Thanks Ivy