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Reblog if you’re an adult in witchcraft. (20+)

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Phone wallpapers // Gods and modern issues

The other day I got a worried person asking “why I bring politics into this” and why I am “not going to give an apology” to them because I don’t tolerate racism, xenophobia or misogyny. It was… the clumsiest attempt at emotional manipulation I’ve yet faced. I really hope that Nazis and their friends learn to read some day, because I think I do have it written down on this blog in several places that hey, fuck off.

These are from me to you, use as phone backgrounds if you want to! Click on them on my blog or reblog them to your own (I would appreciate it if you use any!) to get the full-size pictures.

1 TYR - 2 SKADI

3 ODIN - 4 FREYJA

5 LOKI - 6 IDUN

Little descriptions under the cut.

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More on the “Lisa” Amazon scandal, from the Wild Hunt. This article gives a much fuller picture of the situation…

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rbing witchy things is such a dangerous game because a fair few of them are terfs and usually you dont realize it until you go on their blogs and see posts about how they get their magic from their wombs.

if you're an inclusive witch blog like or rb this so I can check you out

and if you're a terf remember to choke on your wassail

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You know what's fucked up?

Sarah Lawless is STILL suffering from warning people in our community and naming names.

She still gets hate and death threat emails daily. She still has to deal with multiple abusers who hurt her and her family and she still has to deal with false allegations against her and her business.

She's pulled back A LOT on her online presence because she needs to protect her family.

I think that if you've ever used any of Sarah's resources or information or if you think her actions in trying to make the community a safer place you should consider supporting her.

Her website:

https://banefolk.com/

Her Facebook:

https://m.facebook.com/banefolkbotanicals/

Her Instagram:

@ banefolk

Her Twitter:

@ forestwitch

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““The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.””

— - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (via katiesclassicbooks)

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“Spirits and gods were woven into the fabric of ancient life not because of a lack of scientific knowledge, but because our ancestors lived in the larger world; one not designed by humanity. It was a bristling place, it was Nature entire, with all its merciless peril and untamed wonderment. The shelter that our ancestors forged from the living real was far thinner than the bubble within which modern humanity moves. What’s more, the ancients comprehended this far more readily than modern folk do. The fierce, unveiled wilderness was just outside the door of those houses of wattle and daub. Night truly fell in those fire-lit villages. Darkness meant something to our ancestors. Today we have lost this connection because we are quite literally addicted to light. We have washed out all developed areas with constant artificial illumination. Darkness is now often little more than an ambient backdrop to our nocturnal activities.”

— Richard Gavin - The Moribund Portal: Spectral Resonance and the Numen of the Gallows

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you wear an ancestor's face. you look like a woman you'll never meet. in that mirror, there's thousands of you. and in the bath, when you look down, she looks back, shaking and deforming in the ripples as she lies beneath the surface.

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Tumblr, Native Hawaiians need your help!

So the gist of it is the construction of the 30 meter telescope on top of Mauna Kea is starting. Its peak is 4,207.3 m above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaii. Which is why it is deemed the perfect place for the telescope. The only thing is, Mauna Kea is sacred land, our ancestors never built on top of Mauna Kea and for good reason. Sacred land is to never be messed with. It's a burial ground for native Hawaiians' most revered ancestors, and believed to be a peak created by the gods as a place from which humans can ascend to heaven. A lot has been taken away from native Hawaiians and there is already telescopes built on Mauna Kea we do not need anymore desecration of our land. Please help me and my people by signing this petition. Sharing it will help our cause a lot. Follow @protectmaunakea

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You know what's fucked up?

Sarah Lawless is STILL suffering from warning people in our community and naming names.

She still gets hate and death threat emails daily. She still has to deal with multiple abusers who hurt her and her family and she still has to deal with false allegations against her and her business.

She's pulled back A LOT on her online presence because she needs to protect her family.

I think that if you've ever used any of Sarah's resources or information or if you think her actions in trying to make the community a safer place you should consider supporting her.

Her website:

https://banefolk.com/

Her Facebook:

https://m.facebook.com/banefolkbotanicals/

Her Instagram:

@ banefolk

Her Twitter:

@ forestwitch

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Hey Goblins, uh

Did you know, that you can make an AWESOME journal for your adventures ALL ON YOUR OWN from a cereal box and paper/scraps that you likely have at home/can get from friends or family/you may find around your environment?

They’re called Junk Journals and they’re my entire life.

Im gonna do my best to walk you through how to make one! First, get you a mini cereal box! I use boxes from those cool multipacks of cereal that you can find at Walmart!

And then cut it out so it looks like this! (I already had one cut, so I’m gonna use that)

That “nutrition facts” side is gone become your spine!

Next, find some paper to use to decorate your cover! I was lucky enough to be gifted a bunch of scrapbooking paper, so I’m gonna use that, but you can also use newspaper, paper from books/magazines, junk mail, napkins, paper towels (excellent texture), etc!

Go ahead and glue that paper to your box (to cover the cereal logo) and cut it out! It’ll look like this;

Next you need to find your pages! Again these can be anything! Junk mail, envelopes, receipts, food wrappers, magazine/book pages, scrapbook paper, computer paper, construction paper, ANYTHING. Just grab a whole bunch!

You’re gonna want to fold them in half and cut them to the size of one of the covers of your box, and layer other pages inside of it to make your signatures, like this!

Each signature should be about 7-10 pages. You don’t want them too thick, otherwise the inner pages start sticking out when folded in half. You’re gonna have a LOT of these signatures, as you wanna fill the area in the spine as best as possible. For this one I’m using 7 page signatures. Here’s a pic to show just how much paper you’ll need

Each of these signatures are 7 pages, 6 signatures have only filled about half of the spine, so I’ll need probably 6 more.

Next you gotta figure out how you want them in your journal. Personally, I like to sew them into the spine, but you can also keep them in the spine with rubber bands, so you can have removable pages! (Be weary that rubber bands may break over time! So you may want to always keep extra bands near it to replace in case one snaps. This is why I prefer sewing them in) I find it best to look up on YouTube how to sew in signatures, just because having someone walk you through it where you can see what they’re doing is easiest. If you can’t access YouTube, there’s plenty of text tutorials on how to sew in signatures online, or you can message me! I’m not gonna go too into detail, but here’s the jist;

Okay so I’m a forgetful gob and I hecken forgot to take pictures as I was going along kahshshshsh

But essentially, I sewed in the pattern similar to the one I drew. The dots are where the needle goes all the way through to the back. I also like to use rubber band as an extra mode of support but you can do one or the other. I also like both cuz I can tuck stuff in em between the pages. Since I didn’t take more pictures; I’d really recommend looking up a how-to on YouTube or w/e if my badly drawn diagram isn’t clear enough (heh sorry about that)

Next, I glue fabric to the spine. It spruces it up quite a lot and holds the rubber bands in place, plus it give more support to the spine since there’s gonna be a lot of strain on it.

Only 10 photos per post, so I gotta post this and reblog it with the rest.

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Canadian politics are an existential threat to human civilisation. This sounds like a shitpost, but it’s not.

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“Worldwide, small gods tend to be for small people, and small things. They are overwhelmingly part of the belief systems of the poorer, or at least more ordinary, members of society, and tend not to feature in those of the rich and powerful, or even, to a great extent, the urbanized, except as objects of study in the culture of other people. They also tend to have little or no relevance to the mainstream concerns of religion: with the fate of the soul, the place of humanity in the cosmos, or issues of obedience to divine law or the keeping of the general balance of nature. They are mixed up instead with the accidents and joys of daily life, which can be momentous enough for individuals - if, for example, a goblin blights your household, a puck leads you into a hole in which you break your leg, or a fairy purloins your baby - but not for society as a whole. Even more than saints, they are often accessible, and humble, enough to make productive relationships with them practicable for ordinary folk, or at least to make the aversion of hostile relationships relatively easy. All this provides another major reason for their near ubiquity and stubborn tendency to persist. They are local, accessible and relatively tractable, as far as generally disempowered humans are concerned.”

— Ronald Hutton, “Afterword” in Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: “Small Gods” at the Margins of Christendom (2018)

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MAILING ADDRESS 

Town of Tusayan 

P.O. Box 709 | 845 Mustang Drive

Tusayan, AZ 86023 PHONE [phone] 

EMAIL

Mayor Craig Sanderson 

[email protected] 

Vice-Mayor Becky Wirth 

[email protected]

Councilor | Brady Harris 

[email protected]

 Councilor  |  Al Montoya 

[email protected] 

Councilor  |  Robb Baldosky 

[email protected] 

if you don’t have time to write an email, here’s a pre-written letter: https://pastebin.com/Cc3YBWYA 

just copy, add your name, and send the email to a town member!

Please do! Corporations are the biggest criminals of climate change, environmental damage and pollution. Capitalism is rooted in destruction. 

#pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan #neopagan #neopaganism #earth #mother earth #gaia

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A World of Magick in the Mondern Mundane World

The magick I will be talking about isn’t the magick we call upon in ritual, it isn’t the magick we think of when as we summon up our energy and our intentions as we carry out our Crafts. The magick I will be discussing is far more primitive, far more old, and has been greatly left behind in the modern world. It is the type of magick that skeptics and modern witches/pagan alike dismiss, underestimate and undervalue. This magick is about perception, and I challenge you to bring it back. I have read many tales of folklore and myth. I’ve read many books about the ancient pagan people and their traditions from both anthropologists and re-constructionists alike. I listened in on history classes as they discuss the world prior to Christianity. Often times, in many books and many classes I will hear statements like, “These people didn’t understand the chemical process of alcohol at the time so they called it magic,” or “They didn’t have the science yet to understand fire, the process of dyeing, cooking, the chemical process of creating pottery, so on and so forth so they called it magic.” I couldn’t help but think to myself why these things and these discoveries are any less magick because we understand them better. I think this process is similar to the power of naming. “Once a child learns a bird is called a bird the child will never see the bird again.” Once you name something it is no longer a being of mystery and magick but just another thing. When a child first sees the bird it is taken aback by wonder, a little thing soaring through the air, singing songs, with patterns of different colors, some bright and some earth. They are fascinated. And then they grow up and that very same creature that captivated them is now just another thing. Now that they know it’s just a bird, they will never see the bird again. Similarly, because we now have science we understand the world better than our ancestors but the world becomes less beautiful. It is now just cooking. Yeah, yeah. We all do it. It’s just a fire. It’s just photosynthesis. Yeah, yeah. Where did our wonder go? Where did our amazement go, our fascination? It a bird any less amazing because we call it a bird? Is cooking any less amazing because we know how it works? Are the stars any less stunning because we know they are just rocks floating in space? Just because we have named them and understood them, does it make these things any less magickal? So I challenge you to see magick in the things we understand. I challenge you to see magick in everyday mundane activities. How washing machines transform dirty clothes to clean ones, how we can just turn on the light at night with a flip of a switch as if we have a sun in every room, how we can communicate with people from all over the world with the internet and have a plethora of information at our fingertips, how we can travel great distances very quickly, there is magick in all of this. The magick is the awe we feel when we really think about these things. If we shift our perception and perceive simple everyday things as magick, then doesn’t the world become a far more amazing place to be? Doesn’t these mundane things come to life? Don’t we appreciate the world more? So I challenge you to see magick in the things we understand. I challenge you to see magick in the mundane. I challenge you to see magick in a post-scientific society. Science is the physical process of something but magick is the spiritual process. They are but two sides of the same coin. Science is understanding the process, magick it seeing the soul in the process. And I challenge you see the spirit and the soul of everything you encounter. Let yourself be taken aback by awe, let the world fill you with wonder.

#pagan #paganism #wicca #wiccan #druid #druidry #druidism #neopagan #neopaganism #wicca pagan #pagan wicca #witch #witchy #witchcraft #the craft #magick #Magickal #celtic pagan #celtic paganism #norse pagan #norse paganism #the old religion #witchblr

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