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Dionysus - Greek God of Wine and Festivity Statue by Yalu&Freedom

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🌻 Dua Hathor, Bringer of Joy and Bearer of Prosperity! 🌻

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I think, as a woman of color, I'm always going to have a complicated relationship with Western spirituality.

Even though I call myself a witch and identify as a Pagan.

It's the nature of the beast, I suppose.

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A pair of rose quartz cockatoos with serpentine, carnelian, and rubellite accents, mounted on a watermelon tourmaline-in-matrix base - Peter Mueller

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Aunt Mae is going to hear about Colonialism and Intersectionality this Holiday

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Egyptian red Aswan granite Horus falcon, Ptolemaic period, 305 - 30 B.C.

Sanding with the wings crossed over the tail feathers, the lower half and base restored in the 19th or early 20th Century.

Height: 19 ¾ in.

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Ashtavakra Gita 

 ’‘You are pure consciousness, the substance of the universe.The universe exists within you. Don’t be small-minded.’

https://www.godbrahmanistheoceanofloveandconsciousnessdivinityis.com/2022/11/ashtavakra-gita_20.html

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e-offering for Hekate, #043

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I am a witch. I have always been a witch. I've put in effort to have a book of knowledge at my disposal for when a spell or added oomph is needed. But my practice has fallen to the side because I cannot keep a routine to save my life.

My tarot cards call me out when I look to them for guidance. My pendulums take a while to warm back up to me or refuse to give me any response regardless of what I do or how I frame the question. My crystals could use a cleansing - hell, I'm sure my plants would love to keep some safe while also getting an added oomph.

My beliefs have changed - yet still remain in the Pagan umbrella - as life around me has changed. Things that weren't as important to me before had to take more precedence. While things feel somewhat stagnant, life is moving quickly.

Some things have never changed:

I have always viewed myself as a witch. I wholeheartedly believe that I am a witch. I have spent years practicing and forging my way. I've read so many books and I keep a collection of notes, as if I am back in high school, so that I may pass the books onto someone else who needs them. Everything I need is at my fingertips.

I continue to do the little things. Added kick to my morning coffee to keep my energies going; steeping my favorite tea with the intentions of helping me feel a certain way; and I'm probably going to carry some stones on me today to promote physical health because my right knee has been really bothering me for the past couple of days...; using intentions and correspondences when choosing ingredients for certain recipes to enhance both flavor of the dish and our daily lives. I could go on.

I have felt the affects of burnout in most aspects of life: work, emotions, mental, body. My craft is a "craft". I have my "manuals" for when I need to look back on them. But sometimes my main focus will be on survival of this wicked and wonderful world we live in.

Always coming back to it is the key.

I am a witch. I have always been a witch. I will always be a witch.

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Land art spell or offering for art witches who want to work with the land spirits 🍁🍂

(Land art by Jon Foreman)

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e-offering for Aphrodite, #062

Happy (Belated) Imbolc!