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Simina Grigoriu Returns to We Are The Brave with ‘The Ceremonialist’ EP

Simina Grigoriu returns to the release radar once again with her sophomore EP for Alan Fitzpatrick’s esteemed We Are The Brave imprint. Her latest two-tracker, ‘The Ceremonialist’, is another masterclass in high-octane techno and follows her debut ‘Mental Warfare’ EP for the label back in June 2023. As the title references, Grigoriu’s latest studio endeavour is an aural tribute to her profound…

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[fruityyamenrunner]

gordon white, noted wizard, podcaster, and "ceremonialist" is saying in this video how he can't play -- when he tries to play he gets small times voices in his head telling him to stop fucking about and study for an exam instead

#pritchcraft

[twisted-tales-told]

I know like nothing about witchcraft stuff, but uh what are like the basics? What do you believe, celebrate, worship that kind of stuff

This is such a nice question!!

This will be a long post but I’m not putting it below a cut because I am lazy

So I’m a folk practitioner, which basically means I work with nature and do a lot more mundane things than a lot of other witchcraft/pagan practitioners (ceremonialists, wiccans etc). Folk practitioners through history have been mostly peasants & lower class people as they didn’t have access to rich spices and objects, they had the herbs growing in their yard and what was at the local market.

I am also what is called an “animist” which means I believe basically everything has a spirit. I think everything has energy and we as people can interact with that energy. I don’t know if youve seen doctor who but it’s kinda like this scene

We can interact with that energy & move it around & stuff!

Im not a big fan of the word aura for this reason because it implies only humans have this energy, when really it’s everything. Thats why witchcraft practitioners use tools! They carry energy we don’t, and we can ask them to help us.

I’ve had insane experiences working with herbs that I can’t describe any other way. Like holding lavender can calm my panic attacks immediately, and how I can feel that some of my favourite trees are happy to see me too when I visit them.

As for the basics, I always advise those wanting to begin to practice any sort of spiritual practice/discipline is to get to know the energy of their home. This will be the easiest thing to start! Does your house feel different with all the windows open? If you light incense or practices any “cleansing” method (sending away energy—can be done after having annoying company, a fight with a loved one, or anytime really) does it feel as though it’s easier to breathe in the space?

I also read tarot, which is my day job and what I hope to continue doing on the side throughout any other careers I hold. Tarot cards are complicated, their history is quite interesting but for now I’ll explain it as a method of communicating with spirits, your unconscious mind, and any other energies around you.

I also feel the need to explain the word energy here, because a lot of people don’t understand what I mean when I say I work with energy. To me, it means the same thing as calling myself a gardener. Plants grow everywhere in nature, but MY garden is something I’ve cultivated and built using tools and seeds to grow what I want. Working with energy feels like this to me.

I work with the energy of my morning coffee or tea to set my intentions for the day—the spices are the “garden” and I am the gardener. The spices all do different things, and I am cultivating them the way I want.

I also do some deity work (I won’t lie I have been lacking recently, as life has gotten very insane and I have not had the time to cultivate the same offerings I would normally want to do) and this is normally with the Irish goddess Brigid. She’s the goddess of poetry, healing, and blacksmithing. She’s quite a lovely deity to work with, but any sort of deity work is not for beginners, and I advise waiting at least a year into your practice as to adjust to the feelings of interacting with different day to day energies (plants, people, spirits etc.) first.

Okay this has been super long and as you can see I love talking about my practice so feel free everyone to send follow up questions

#ariks a Witch #Love Letters #witchcraft #folk magic #paganism #pagen

[ao3feed-xicheng]

Kintsugi

by polkadotstingray Now that Wei Ying was getting married, Jiang Cheng once again found himself in the role of being the older brother and also the ceremonialist, arranging the details of their wedding with a sometimes grumpy Lan Qiren. In one of the meetings, Lan Qiren is unable to attend for health reasons and his eldest nephew takes over. The problem is that Lan Xichen and Jiang Cheng find themselves in a series of disagreements that end up leaving one with a terrible impression of the other, and this situation only gets worse every time they meet. Or, alternatively, two protective older brothers clash, have disagreements and eventually come to truly understand one another. Words: 6635, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, M/M Characters: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Lán Qǐrén, Jiāng Yànlí, Niè Míngjué, Niè Huáisāng Relationships: Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Older Sibling Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Protective Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Younger Sibling Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Good Sibling Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Abusive Parents, Bad Parent Jiāng Fēngmián, Bad Parent Yú Zǐyuān, Family Feels, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Enemies to Lovers, Protective Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín Needs a Hug, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín Gets a Hug, Hurt/Comfort, Threats of Violence, Corporal Punishment, Not explict tho, really shitty jiang parents here, Eventual Romance, Misunderstandings, Meet-Ugly, Swearing, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Not Beta Read, Sexual Tension via https://ift.tt/VIfk0jG

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Ideal gay marriage:

Everything with antique costumes and decorations and at the end the ceremonialist (dressed as a historian) says:

"Now I declare you roommates"

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[shamandrummer]

"A Journey Into Shamanism" Book Sale

I am now offering a 50% discount on my ebook Riding Spirit Horse: A Journey Into Shamanism. The ebook sale price is $2.99. Offer good through July 31st, 2023. In this spiritual memoir, I recount my journey into shamanic practice. The narrative of my story moves from my first ecstatic experience as a youth at a church revival to my mystical shamanic awakening in the wilderness, transformational pilgrimages to sacred places, working with indigenous wisdom keepers, to the experiences that prompted my writing, particularly my trance experiences "riding the drum" or Spirit Horse. Studying with Native elders and shamans, I discovered my shamanic gifts as a drummer, storyteller and ceremonialist.

A journey into shamanism is a pilgrimage of the soul. My journey has taken me down many spiritual paths. As a youth growing up, I embraced the teachings of Christ; I later studied and practiced the teachings of Taoism and Buddhism, all of which have their roots in shamanic practices from the earliest tribal communities. Shared core principles and truths weave a common thread through all spiritual traditions. This golden thread runs through the lives and the teachings of all the great prophets, seers and sages in the world's history.

Ultimately, all contemplative spiritual practice leads to the evolution of conscious awareness and union with the divine in the present moment. The perennial wisdom traditions teach us that the "here and now" is eternal, unchanging and omnipresent; it should be the primary focus of our life. When we are not present in the moment, we become a victim of time. Our mind is pulled into the past or the future or both. The present moment is all we ever have. The eternal now is the fundamental ceremony of life. When we bring ourselves fully into the present moment, our life becomes a spiritual practice and an opportunity to ride in beauty on the windhorse of authentic presence! I invite you to read Riding Spirit Horse: A Journey into Shamanism.

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[nyxshadowhawk]

Hi! I was reading your explanation on the real life alchemy references in FMA and thought you might be able to answer a question that I’ve had for a long time. Do you think the incorporation of the Star of David in FMA is intentional? I know much of alchemy has roots in Kabbalah, and can involve Jewish culture, such as the alchemy circle you posted that had Hebrew around the circle. However, many animes, especially those that reference western supernatural concepts, tend to use Jewish and Christian symbolism more for aesthetic than a full understanding of the culture. But based on your analysis, do you think this was a more intentional choice? As a Jewish person with some surface knowledge of alchemy (and curiosity about Kabbalah—though I’ve never looked too closely into it because my mom insists “that’s the stuff that drives people crazy”) I’m very interested in any insight you might have!

Kabbalah is definitely one of my weaker points in the occult sphere, so I'm not sure I'm the right person to answer this. Everything I know about Kabbalah is pretty surface-level. To my knowledge, alchemy and Kabbalah are separate things that got entwined together overtime -- Hermeticism is an entire tradition of Western esotericism that includes both alchemy and Qabalah (with a Q). The real magic circle is not alchemical -- it's from a different tradition entirely (Solomonic magic). I'm not a ceremonialist or a Kabbalist so I couldn't tell you how much of Solomonic magic is genuinely Jewish in origin and how much is appropriative. In the case of FMA specifically, I think that Arakawa's use of the Tree of Life on Ed's Gate was deliberate. With all of the other well-placed symbolism, it probably is meant to be more than window-dressing. I don't know that, though.

I'm not Jewish, but I am an occultist and a mystic, so I feel safe in telling you that Kabbalah does not drive people crazy. Mysticism throws God right in your face, and that's not something that everyone can handle. (Think of the scene where Ed and Izumi are trying to explain what meeting Truth is like to Al, who doesn't remember it.) It can change your entire perception of life, the universe, and everything. The line between mysticism and insanity can appear, and sometimes be, quite thin. (I've written more about that here, here, and here.) Don't let that scare you away! Look into it, and learn from experts if you're interested.

#fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood #fmab #fma #occultism #occult #hermeticism #kabbalah #mysticism

[grimoireofanovicewitch]

Book Review

For my next book review I will be covering "Protection & Reversal Magick: A Witch's Defense Manual" by Jason Miller. This book is another good beginner book specifically because most people get scared that something bad's going to happen to them when starting out any kind of magical practice.

The biggest selling point of the book is that it covers some of your more traditional folk practices two more ceremonial magic and everything in between. Jason Miller even mentions this by saying

"These different traditions of magick each emphasize different points, and what works as a defense against one may not work as a defense against another. Someone who relied solely on the Golden Dawn’s Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram or the OTO’s Star Ruby may find his defenses breached easily by someone laying Goofer Dust in his shoes. Similarly, someone who relies too heavily on Red Brick Dust and amulets may find himself vulnerable to the attacks of Goetic demons summoned by the ceremonialist."

And because of this, I would recommend this to anyone who kind of wants to get a feel of what both ceremonial and folk practices look like.

Now I'm going to move on to the only issues I had with the book. Just so people know what they're getting into before they spend money. A lot of the rituals are based on the goddess hecate. I don't work with her so I have had to alter them. That is something that can be easily done so it's not a major issue for me

Another thing is that it doesn't cover everything. For example I'm a fan of protective crystals on my window seals and door frames because those are super easy to conceal and explain away. Due to current living situation, I'm still very much in the broom closet. So I'm a big fan of anything that is inconspicuous and I can hide in plain sight. So even though I enjoyed this book, I don't use a lot of his techniques.

Even with those two issues aside, I would recommend this book. You're just not going to find another book that goes into such a wide variety of protection magic techniques. Because of that, anyone who reads this book should have a good foundation to start adding protection magic into their magical practice.

#witchcraft #witch #protection magic #beginner witch #book review #reversal magic #protection and reversal magick #folk magic #ceremonial magick #Jason Miller #witchy #witchcraft resources

[starzpsychics]

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Beatport Secret Weapons 2024: Techno (P/D)

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2024-03-13 GENRES: Techno (Peak Time / Driving) Tracklist : 1. JAVIIS - Therapy(Original Mix) 2. Pig&Dan - Drift To The Center(Original Mix) 3. Luis M, Greenwolve - Cosmorph(Akari System Remix) 4. Phoenix Movement - Rhodope(Original Mix) 5. Chocolate Puma - Voidwalker(Extended Mix) 6. Werner B., Earl Grau - Blizzard(Original Mix) 7. TiM TASTE - Decide(Original Mix) 8. Dandi & Ugo, Enrique Calvetty - Bambole(Eddie Mess Remix) 9. Techmo - Lights Out(Kos:mo Remix) 10. Cenk Basaran - Energy(Original Mix) 11. dscnnct - Observe(Original Mix) 12. Simina Grigoriu - The Ceremonialist(Original Mix) 13. RooneyNasr, HNGT - Stereo Love(Extended Mix) 14. Lautaro Gabioud - Never Alone(Original Mix) 15. OHM (LB) - Space Hornet(Original Mix) 16. Monococ, Miron (RU) - Mordor(Original Mix) 17. Pablo Say - Everybody Is in the Place(Original Mix) 18. DSTRTD SGNL - Recognize(The Electronic Advance & DJ Nasty Deluxe Remix) 19. Read the full article

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Beatport Secret Weapons 2024: Techno (P/D)

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2024-03-13 GENRES: Techno (Peak Time / Driving) Tracklist : 1. JAVIIS - Therapy(Original Mix) 2. Pig&Dan - Drift To The Center(Original Mix) 3. Luis M, Greenwolve - Cosmorph(Akari System Remix) 4. Phoenix Movement - Rhodope(Original Mix) 5. Chocolate Puma - Voidwalker(Extended Mix) 6. Werner B., Earl Grau - Blizzard(Original Mix) 7. TiM TASTE - Decide(Original Mix) 8. Dandi & Ugo, Enrique Calvetty - Bambole(Eddie Mess Remix) 9. Techmo - Lights Out(Kos:mo Remix) 10. Cenk Basaran - Energy(Original Mix) 11. dscnnct - Observe(Original Mix) 12. Simina Grigoriu - The Ceremonialist(Original Mix) 13. RooneyNasr, HNGT - Stereo Love(Extended Mix) 14. Lautaro Gabioud - Never Alone(Original Mix) 15. OHM (LB) - Space Hornet(Original Mix) 16. Monococ, Miron (RU) - Mordor(Original Mix) 17. Pablo Say - Everybody Is in the Place(Original Mix) 18. DSTRTD SGNL - Recognize(The Electronic Advance & DJ Nasty Deluxe Remix) 19. Read the full article

[mergist]

Already in the 1960s, Mothway and Coyoteway accoridng to its Evil side were extinct. The ten Frenzy-witchcraftway singers we identified in the western Navajo reservation have all died, and there has been no one to take their places. A complete nine-night perofrmance of Mountainway has not been performed in the area for over fifteen years and soon it too may become moribund. Henderson [1982] has shown how rapidly the number of ceremonialists has delcined in the area. Today, the majority of singers know the less dangerous sings, especially Blessingway. Navajo religion will not die but will collapse in on itself. Blessingway, combined with a few songs from one of the exorcistic sings, will become the typical 'traditional' cure.

Frenzy Witchcraft and Moth Madness: Navajo Seizure Disorders, pg 169

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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe is a poetry editor at the Worcester Review, and her poems have appeared in Columbia Journal, West Trade Review, Mom Egg Review, Catalyst, Mason Street Review and other magazines and anthologies. Karen has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She has been a coffee-cart clerk, a babysitter, a journalist and editor, a caterer, a funeral ceremonialist, a professional fundraiser, and an assistant vice president at two universities. She celebrates the healing power of forgiveness in relationships.

PRAISE FOR Prayer Can Be Anything by Karen Elizabeth Sharp

It’s said poems are prayers. These poems are mile markers in a life that finds faith in poetry.

–Richard Blanco, Presidential Inaugural Poet, author of How to Love a Country

Karen Elizabeth Sharpe’s poetry collection, Prayer Can Be Anything, gorgeously shakes the reader into one “dream-soaked awakening” after another. The natural world, world of bright- flashing birds and frozen-over wood frogs, world of fields “lit with daisies” is brought to vivid life by Sharpe’s deft, inventive use of language and her sure hand with imagery. But the world of this book is also shadowed with violence and loss as the speaker performs the difficult task of commemorating an imperfect and early-dead father and of coming to terms with the wounds that painfully shaped her own life. At once aching elegy and forthright reckoning, Prayer Can Be Anything is proof of the exponential power in the telling of one woman’s truth.

–Francesca Bell, author of Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems by Max Sessner, What Small Sound and Bright Stain

Reading this book is like being served an incredible new wine—something complex and many layered, something heady and transporting. With each sip, I want more. I love the language of these poems, the dark inner music, the ache in the details, the unwritten hope that somehow shines through. There’s a nakedness here that tugs at our own naked hearts. These poems demand we read them with as much courage and vulnerability as it took to write them. I celebrate Karen Elizabeth Sharpe’s authenticity and talent. This collection is a triumph of the heart—no matter how battered, a paean to resilience, a testament to honesty, a prayer for real love.

–Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of All the Honey and Hush

Karen Elizabeth Sharpe confronts grief and addiction in this collection that “hammers a hole big as a fist in my heart.” Prayer Can Be Anything gives voice before the “voice went bankrupt.” As a teen who lost her father and is rendered “weird as a broken moon,” Sharpe confronts hunger in all its “Devil’s cruel food cruel” forms: assault, addiction, grief. Sharpe recounts the journey from the family of origin to the family through marriage, “chewing the way an addict/follows a familiar route of loneliness.” I was consistently amazed by Sharpe’s bravery and her mastery of words. When I read, “I songed her silent wantings. . .I liquored the drink of her heat. . . ,” I was hooked. As a person in recovery, I will return to Karen Elizabeth Sharpe’s Prayer Can Be Anything again and again for its truth and its beauty, for “the golden sunlight forgiving and going on forever. . . .”

–Jennifer Martelli, author of The Queen of Queens and All Things Are Born to Change Their Shapes

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Big Congratulations to Ella @ellaringrose & Agusia for completing Level 2 Cacao Ceremonialist Training course with @archcacao and doing such a beautiful work with connecting to, and sharing Mama Cacao with their friends, family and even a wider audience.🙏🌟💞 🌟 Thank you for everything you do for your own and your community's wellbeing. 🌟 Thank you for honoring and sharing cacao and for holding such a beautiful, supporting space. ❤️ We are loved. 🧡 We are safe. 💛 We are held. Sisterhood is rising.💃 Thank you Mama Cacao for your magical healing energy. 🙏🤎🌟 What a wonderful, inspiring, fulfilling day. Our hearts and souls are open and fulfilled with love. Staying with the feeling, embracing the experience. We are lucky. We are healing. We are transforming. 💞💞💞 Andi #heartopenning #Cacao #cocoa #chocolate #superfood #coffeesubstitute #sisterhood #weareloved #training #trainingcourse #experience (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cps5E2ksW7i/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Farm, Festival, Flow. River Valley Yoga Festival!

Farm, Festival, Flow. River Valley Yoga Festival!

Get excited, yoga friends. River Valley Yoga Festival is just a few weeks away! Join me and a host of other yoga instructors, cacao ceremonialists, bike tour guides, and more for this weekend (September 23-25)! Located in Stillwater – the birthplace of Minnesota – River Valley Yoga Festival is the first big festival of its type in the state of Minnesota. This 3-day, outdoor event features…

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399 Embodied Practices for Soul Care with Mara Branscombe

Mara Branscombe is a mother, writer, yogi, artist, teacher, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spiritual coach. She is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind–body practices, and earth-based rituals into her life and work, and she has been leading community ceremony since 2000. An adventurous spirit, Mara has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, trekked across the Himalayas, studied yoga in India, planted trees in Canada’s north, lived off the grid in a remote cabin in the woods, worked as a Waldorf (Steiner School) teacher, and then found her passion for dance and choreography. All the while yoga, meditation, mysticism and ritual have been at the heart of Mara’s journey. Her trainings in the Incan Shaman lineage and the Pagan tradition have greatly inspired her life’s work of earth-based, ceremonial, intentional, and heart-centered living and loving. Mara currently lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband and two daughters. http://www.marabranscombe.com/

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