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'Cause people tend to not get the memo: People acting strangely in public is not a danger to you. Pacing, talking to themselves or something you can't see, laughing to themselves, stimming, twitching, ticcing, making "weird" noises--it doesn't fucking matter. They're not your personal freak show, they're not broken, they're not a murderer and they're definitely not going to be fucking helped by you calling the authorities or anyone else on em. These actions alone are not indicative of danger to you, as a random person on the street. Shut the fuck up and move on, leave disabled people alone.

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youre monogamous? oh… it’s ethical, right? ethical monogamy? okay good for you! i mean pretty much every monogamous couple i’ve met didn’t work out but maybe you guys will beat the odds! haha. so is it a sex thing? you guys have sex with- just each other? huh. how does that work? i could never do monogamy, i’m too jealous, i’d worry my partner would leave me for someone else instead of dating us both… how do you deal with the jealousy? is it hard? like, how hard? extremely? do you think you’ll break up? i mean in the long run these things rarely work out,

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Magical morning in the marsh

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Eugenicist and bioessentialist beliefs about magic

Like New Age, modern witchcraft developed at a time period when eugenics and so-called race science were highly popular ideas - and consequentially, some of these ideas influenced people’s beliefs about magic. These beliefs also influenced modern conspiracy theories about the occult, which in turn influenced perceptions of magic in general. Here’s some of these beliefs:

People are either born with magical gifts, or they’ll never have them at all.

People born with magical gifts are meant to be spiritual leaders and guide the world into a new age.

There are special bloodlines whose members are more capable of performing magic than others.

People who can perform magic are able to do so only because they have special ancestry.

Some racial groups are more capable of performing magic than others.

Some bloodlines or racial groups are more capable of performing certain kinds of magic than others (EG, so-called “light magic” or “dark magic”).

The traditions of your genetic ancestors will always come to you easily and intuitively, with little to no study required. (And if they don’t, you aren’t a “true witch.”)

Modern witchcraft was also hit by the gender essentialism stick, and claims that come from this line of thinking include:

Magic requires or at least massively benefits from some performance or symbolic representation of heterosexuality or heteronormativity; other forms of magic will be inherently weaker.

Literally all magic is a recreation of heterosexual reproduction.

The womb is a woman’s most potent source of magic.

There are only two important deities: the god and the goddess.

All goddesses represent the divine mother archetype, all gods represent the divine father archetype.

Feminine energies are soft and nurturing, masculine entities are aggressive and bold.

Masculine energies are too strong in the world, and are the reason for imperialism, violence, etc. The imbalance can be corrected by focusing on feminine energies.

So yeah, always watch out for claims like this because they don’t come from a good place.

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Tarot Propaganda that I’m not falling for

Tarot is all divine feminine practice

Tarot and Charkas

Policing a reader’s way of shuffling

Declaring a deck that is not RWS style or structure the same as “not being tarot”

AI Tarot decks

Gatekeeping tarot

You must be psychic to read tarot

Tarot is just used for fortune telling

“You must use the full deck”

Tarot is the bottom line answer and using it to make important decisions in your life and believing the future what tarot says is what cannot be avoided.

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Creating a spirit womb

A "spirit womb" is what I call a tool I use to bring spirits into this world. With the aid of this empowered bowl or pot you can give life to new beings, allowing them to be born into vessels in our realm.

The bowl/pot should be about the size of a human head, or big enough to hold a small/medium doll. Smaller spirit wombs can be useful as well for birthing spirit seals, which can be put into spirit vessels, instead of whole vessels.

Making a spirit womb:

To prepare your chosen object wash it out with consecrated water, cleansing it of all it's pasts uses. Dry it out, and then fill the vessel with incense smoke and let it dissipate. Cover the vessel with a black cloth and let the object rest untouched for about a day.

After at least a day as passed, bring out the vessel during a time when the sun is not shining or in a space where daylight can't reach. Bring the vessel to a cemetery, or bring cemetery dirt to the vessel. Fill the bottom with about an inch of dirt, then allow incense/tobacco smoke to fill the vessel too. Declare that this vessel strip all things put into it of their past, allowing them to be cleansed and born anew. Recover the pot with the black cloth, and let it sit for at least 1 night.

When at least 1 night has passed, empty the dirt inside the pot and save it. Now take the vessel to a place where plants grow in abundance, such as the woods, a farm, gardens, etc in the daylight. Gather dirt from this land, giving offerings to it's spirit as you do, and fill the pot once again with about an inch of dirt. This time adding a sprinkle of water, then raising the open vessel towards the sun, declaring that this vessel allow all things placed inside it to grow new life inside it, and be born from it with might and vigor. Allow the vessel to sit in the sunlight (either in this spot, or in a window) until it sets.

When the sun has set the vessel you've prepared is ready to be put to use. Take it to where you work your magic, and empty out the content into the same container the the cemetery dirt that once filled it. Allowing them to mix, with your right hand mix the soils further with a clockwise motion. As you do feel the power in the dirt coil and rise like a serpent, traveling up your arm and into you. Take the same hand, and now place it over the vessel palm down, saying a prayer to the land calling on it's gestational and fertile forces. Begin putting the combined dirt into the pot with your right hand. Stop when you feel satisfied or a sense of pressure on/around your hand. Leave this dirt base in the pot, and save this extra dirt should you need to replenish it.

Raise up your vessel, declare it a "womb of spirit", where any spirit you wish may be brought forth through. Sit with the your newly created tool, feed it offerings of bread, honey, and wine. Burn and candles and incense in it's honor. Allow it to give you it's name and teach you how to use and adorn it if you so wish.

Utilizing the spirit womb:

Once your spirit womb has been created/consecrated you may begin the process of birthing new spirits. To do so, make or acquire a vessel for this spirit being born. It can be pouch filled with herbs/stone, a statue, doll, or simply a spirit's seal. Whatever the spirit's vessel it to be place it inside the womb. If the object can't be sealed inside the bowl/pot then cover it with a black cloth. Ask the womb to lend it's fire to this spirit, allowing them to grow in/through the pot. Feed the spirit womb offerings of water, fire, bread, and wine so it has the force to lend the growth of this spirit.

This spirit will tell you when it's ready to born, often through dreams or divination. Frequently spirits need about 3 days to gestate, sometimes 9. Spirits that are fully formed in the Other and simply being put into a vessel may only need 1.

When the spirit is born into their new vessel they must be baptized with holy water, given their name, and their fire so they may carry out any desired work. When baptizing the spirit anoint their head with water in the shape of a cross, then anoint the vessel with oil (if using a doll, this should be done of their hands, feet, and eyes). When this is complete, hold the vessel over the womb declaring them born and wrap them in a while cloth like a new born. Clean up the vessel, let it rest for a night, and then in the morning you may begin putting the spirit to work.

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~I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself, and knows it is divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine, is mine, All light of art or nature; - to my song Victory and praise in its own right belong.~ Hymn of Apollo by Percy Bysshe Shelley Apollo Citharoedus from the Palazzo Altemps.

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If there's one piece of advice I can give, it's to deconstruct your practice regularly.

How much of it is actually useful, how much of it applies to your spirits or cosmology?

Who or what do you neglect regularly? What areas need more attention, more focus? What flames need to be tended?

Is there anything that no longer serves a purpose? Can anything be simplified to greater effect? How much time do you devote to strengthening your core skills and foundations?

It's about cutting away the dead pieces, so that there is room for new growth to flourish.

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This!!!

Eclectic paganism is beautiful but I see a LOT of people, especially newer pagans, be so disrespectful to both the Gods and religious practices by (and I was guilty of this too!!) treating them like Pokémon cards all under one religion of 'paganism.' Pagan is an extremely broad term, and every 'pagan' religion has its own culture, set of beliefs, rules, ways of worship, etc.

Alternatively,

THE CISHET WHITE MAN "RAAAH VIKINGS!" NORSE PAGANS who at best entirely misunderstand norse paganism & mythology and at worst actively use those misrepresentations to push white supremacy. It drives me crazy.

Reminder that even if a religion is open, it can still be appropriated and bastardised.

You can't just cherry pick and choose titles, practices, deities from different practices/religions you think sound cool to use however you like without any understanding or respect towards the cultural/historical/religious context.

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Reminder that even if a religion is open, it can still be appropriated and bastardised.

You can't just cherry pick and choose titles, practices, deities from different practices/religions you think sound cool to use however you like without any understanding or respect towards the cultural/historical/religious context.

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May Day is as beautiful ever. Hail the Vanir ❤️

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Happy Beltane!!!