#firstworldwitchproblems

[pathwinder]

Long Time, No Talk

Well, like the title of the blog says, I’m on a winding path. My exploration with deities is always fun, but for a while, I may be talking about contact with spirits, especially lost loved ones. My Nonnie is on my mind a LOT right now, & I feel like she’s trying to talk to me. It’s all comforting, which helps, because I feel like I’m starting to shake apart at the edges.  So let’s see... Deity work: Loki winds me up to help me keep up with my new young friends (Stay in school kids, being 32 & in class with a bunch of 18 year olds is kicking my ass). Inari is making sure that I have new opportunities almost daily, to the point where I’m actually trying to reprioritize what I want out of life. Moving to Japan may be leaving the picture...but making a bigger impact for marginalized children here in the states looks like it will be happening.  Persephone & Hades are teaching me beautiful lessons in communication & connections. It’s making my upcoming visit to my partner very exciting. Hekate is cracking the whip metaphorically (METAPHORICALLY MA’AM), & telling me to get my shit together so I can get started on Shadow Work (Loki keeps agreeing, which makes me nervous). Real life stuff that is impacting spiritual work: University. I’m a multifaith ambassador for the school, on top of finishing up the first semester here. Finals. I did not miss this part. I had a field placement for the last 3 months...& it broke my heart to leave the kids. There was a lot of tension but I made some deep relationships & I pray to every child-protecting deity to watch over my kidlets...because that is a rough school to be in, & junior high isn’t easy on anyone. Papa. I’m my grandfather’s live-in caregiver. He has dementia, macular degeneration, degenerative disk disease, & is constantly in pain from a knee injury he waited too long to try to fix. We lost my Nonnie in August, & we are really struggling with missing her right now. My mother is not helping, but that’s its own nightmare post. My physical health. I am HPV+. 99% of people can clear that virus from their system no sweat. I am unfortunately unable to, & will have it for the rest of my life. It is attacking my immune system. It is also causing me to show as pre-cancerous on pap smears & colposcopies (cervical biopsies) every 3 months. I’m being tested for other immunodeficiency diseases as well. I am being proactive to deal with the pain in my body (I kinda snapped out & realized that not everyone hurts 24/7), so I am now seeing an orthopedic dr who gave me cortisone shots in my knees (FUCKING MAGIC, it’s like memory foam in my kneecaps), & in 6 weeks I will get them in my shoulders as well. He has given me a meal plan to start working with (more a list of foods that I should eat more of, & what I should eat less of, which works for me!), & strength training exercises to protect the joints. To top off that particular cake, my mouth is in worse trouble than ever, & my face hurts so much that I can only eat soft foods. Work/Finances. Uhhh yeah. 3 jobs, still can’t pay my bills. So I’ll likely be starting to offer oracle card readings, & ritual wording for spells for donations. I need $25k for dental work, $3k to get my credit card debt down to nothing, & honestly, just $5k in the bank would be nice so I could stress less.

[ivythewitch]

This is probably a silly pet peeve, but I hate it so much when people in Facebook groups, subreddits or discord servers start their question with the greeting along the lines of "hello coven!"

Like...

No.

Those spaces aren't covens, not even close.

I get that not everyone has access to an in person coven, but there are ways to make digital spaces that operate like a coven, and a public Facebook group is not the place.

This is totally a firstworldwitchproblem, but like, it really irks me that there are people who believe that those places are what a coven is like.

It's so much more than that, so very much more.

[americanwitch13]

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[gemma30185]

And to keep myself humble, a less impressive picture in which @bettyweasley brings the smoulder and I, apparently, ate a lemon... #ReturnOfTheFestiveGherkin #AngieAndEnglishRideAgain #FirstWorldWitchProblems

[unnatural-twenty]

Do you ever just get so frustrated you cause a thunderstorm?