Can you put pictures in a spell jar?

[mark]

So I’ve struggled with an eating disorder and horrific self hatred since I was about 13. I remember being 14 and looking at myself and thinking I was completely repulsive. My friend recently found a selfie I took on her phone to screw with her when I was a freshman and I looked cute, like completely okay and kind of pretty. That girl in the selfie didn’t deserve the hate I gave her so I want to put a printed copy of that selfie (along with a more recent picture of myself) in a self love spell jar. It kind of symbolizes how because past me deserves love, present me does too. I’m a baby witch so I just want to make sure it’s okay first.

My mom has been making really really mean comments about my weight and I need a little extra self love

Discussion

[kallisti_gold]

Generally speaking, if you can’t find a solid reason why it would be bad, then go for it. I don’t see you list a single reason why you think this wouldn’t work, so go for it.

[2earshigh]

Hey! I had something similar happen to me recently where I came across old pictures of myself during my worst traumas. I got some of these pictures of myself printed and intuitively did what seemed right to ME. I’m basically a bw and didn’t research before doing this simply because intuitively I knew it was something that I NEEDED to do for myself.

I took these pictures of myself and sat at my altar holding them in front of my face and essentially talked to the person in the photo. I did this with several photos. I cried here and there. Acknowledged the worth and strength that these people in the photos had that was never told to them during those times. Intuitively I gathered things for open jar spells that I felt would work. Sugar, bandaids, flowers, and crystals. I took flowers that I had offered to my deity previously, wrote on the bandaids words of strength, put the photos in the jars, and sprinkled sugar on top. I hugged these jars. I still have these jars at my altar. I hug them time to time.

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