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From one small blossom to a flower of life shawl 💚🌼✨️

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Lowkey I wanna open my discord to more artsy and witchy humanist Jews but also I wanna protect the current sanctity of my existing community cause like I actually know them and what they stand for

Idk it seems fun to add new people but I've been in lots of discords that went dead long before mine that were made at the same time and I think it's bc there was just too many strangers that join at once and it feels less cozy and I think it makes people shy

It does that for me when I'm a new member at least

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goyim will always say “well just don’t be outwardly jewish and you won’t have to worry about antisemitism” as if that’s not the point. as if white supremacy doesn’t want jews to, at BEST, assimilate into whiteness and abandon our jewishness. i would rather die a jew than live as a gentile. i will keep dressing as my ancestors did, learning hebrew and yiddish to learn my ancestral tongues, and live my life as jewish as possible. i am jewish. i am a child of judea. and i won’t assimilate

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The Spirit of Revolution isn't something you ‘tap into’ —even if it seems that way, because there it isn't something to tap into at all; there's no external thing one must immerse one's self in called ‘Revolution.’ Revolution springs from you, it is you, and you give it form. It burst forth from your heart, your gut, your brain; it manifests through your hands, your actions, and your thoughts; it is you in the most beautiful sense of the word.

There's no potion to drink, no regalia to don, no well to bathe in.

There's no muse to invoke, no patron, no dictum.

It's you, it's all of you.

An Anarchist in an interwoven and interlocking web of oppressive logics can't ever be but an Anarchist. But the defiance stands against this.

Revolution is mundane, it is built of all the little actions of love, of care, of intimacy, of beauty and serenity that is friendship. These little actions are ripples but they create waves.

There's no order to friendship. One can't inculcate love, one can't force another to harmony. We find these things in our passions, we have them —embody them— or they don't exist.

It isn't beautiful because there's value or a set of virtues ‘out there’, but rather because we make it so. Because we forge it so.

And we forge it in every caress of the cheek, in every embrace between lovers and friends. We forge this relation in every iteration of relations we assert our love independently of dictums, traditions, and external impositions.

Now, it stands that we can't at all times assert our mundanity, our passions, or love; in total, our selves, our individualities.

So we defend this, and, in turn, defend ourselves as ourselves. Because only in being ourselves can we continually evolve ourselves and not be stuck in the mire of stagnation. Only like this can we grow with our friends; our neighbors, with our trees, flora and fauna, gaining the ability to appreciate them as they are instead of mourn what they were. Is an acorn any less beautiful than an oak? Is it not simply beautiful differently?

We are not misers of dead things, or worse, of stagnancy.

Every breath is a celebration of our ability to assert ourselves, in this way we are free. And every breath shared with a loved one absolutely invaluable.

So we defend this, realizing this.

Perhaps with small token gestures at first, but, again, an acorn is only beautiful differently.

But an acorn needs space, shade, water, and fertile ground. So do we, and as a miracle of evolution have we hands and brain to craft it so, together, finding ourselves, our passions, with others in the only meaningful manner possible, free from obligation to others.

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I literally need recommendations for part-time jobs that let you keep shabbat. Pleaaaase. My job is in a questionable spot and I may not be there much longer

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tesla stock crash

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🪄reblog to cast🪄

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Sukkah Decoration. ink and watercolor on paper by Israel David Luzzatto, c. 1775. this decoration utlizes Hebrew micrography to depict an astrolabe.

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This is an awesome addition! Most people genuinely aren't empaths and most of us who experience these things have a lot to work through, myself included. I was in therapy for about 9 years before I made this post, and, even though I never fully thought of myself as an empath, it also didn't click that the reason I related to so many of the signs were from things I'd gone through. In some ways we can heal and still have some if these traits, but healing allows us to have an open conversation with ourselves about reality, about boundaries, about whether or not we're seeing things as they are or how our symptoms want us to see things.

Are you an empath?

This is a short list of some of the most common traits among empaths, to help those who are curious about if they might be one, and for those who know someone who is. Enjoy, and if I missed any let me know and I’ll correct the list! (Also I posted this on the witches and pagans amino if it sounds familiar)

1. Empaths cannot stand interpersonal conflicts and will always strive to fix the issues between people.

2. Empaths are always hyper aware of their physical environment, and will naturally be aware of all five senses.

3. Empaths are caring and nurturing by Nature.

4. People often come to empaths without realizing that they are an empath with their problems.

5. Crowded places often drain an empath of their energy or overwhelm them.

6. Empaths are always very good listeners and remember what they are told.

7. Witnessing cruelty or mindless violence will greatly upset an empath far more than it would the average person.

8. Solitude refreshes an empath and they revel in it, it’s necessary for them to have solitude in order to recharge.

9. Empaths often suffer from physical and mental fatigue.

10. An empath will have numerous mood swings or emotional states during a single day.

11. Empaths absorb other people’s emotional energy like sponges and then take them on as their own. They feel them as though the emotions originated from within them instead of coming from someone else.

12. When someone close to an empath is sick the empath will feel it in the form of physical pain and aches.

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The Pleiades

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images by Kira Cyan

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Not the g slur in the tarot posts again 😒 will we ever be free

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Gemini ♊️

February ‘25 Predictions…

Apply to your sun, moon, rising & Venus.

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There's a reason you can't stop crying, and that's because the Jewish people are one family. When your brothers and sisters are hurting, you're hurting as well.

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I actually do think that doing magic takes a lot of work and is kinda hard and there aren't very many good shortcuts, and many modern shortcuts actually just amount to leaving out steps, which means you either have to be powerful enough to brute-force it or it fizzles.

Look, I know some people are just much better at magic and witchcraft; anything they do works with little effort, and the lengths some of us have to go to accomplish magic seems bizarre to them. Those people are cool and I wish I was like them but I'm not.

But I also think some of the truth of how to work effective sorcery gets paved over by these "witchcraft has no rules, do anything you want" support posts.

Because A) that is not true, I believe that witchcraft has lots and lots of rules (it's just that nobody else can tell you what they are), and B) I think do anything you want is taken to mean anything you do should work, which is also not true.

I feel like I always see advice given that you don't need to do things (like use physical tools, or cast circles, or whatever). But I never see anyone explaining the techniques and paths of power that are supposed to replace them.

Let's just imagine for a moment that clear quartz really is a universal substitute. Discordians would say that it totally is. So does that mean all you have to do to sub out clear quartz is to just put it on the altar and do the ritual as if it's something else?

Or do you have to do something more?

Do you have to consecrate the stone as being something other than what it is? Do you have to ritually birth it into a new life and baptize it like a baby? Do you have to spend weeks or months honing your technique of focus and beliefs so that you can mentally shift from consensus reality to a personal reality where there is literally no difference between clear quartz and sodalite?

Do you have to raise energies of sodalite and imprint them into the quartz crystal, perhaps working over it for an extended period of time? Do you have to use energy work to tie the clear quartz into Ideal Sodalite so that it becomes like an avatar?

No, you don't have to use physical tools if you don't want to. But that shouldn't be taken to imply that tools are useless or can be replaced in a way that matters by just visualizing that you have them.

A witch spends six months propitiating a tree, ingratiating themselves with the land, offerings and acts of fealty to the tree, a week-long branch harvesting ritual, blood offerings at midnight on a holy day, then another year curing the wood and crafting a wand. Big effort, right?

And you don't need to do that. But if you want that power, what are you going to do instead?

Same with circle-casting. Same with magic on the full moon. No, you don't have to wait until the full moon. You don't have to wait until the moon is in Libra. But there's a really good reason people do those things. So if you want those effects, what actions can replace those effects?

You literally could not do the spell while the full moon is in Libra. That's fine. But then what will bridge the gap? Will you have to raise more energy somewhere else? Include a new aspect? Modify the spell for the moon you can work with?

"You don't have to follow the moon phase for magic" doesn't mean the moon phase is irrelevant and some witches just like to inconvenience themselves for no reason. But it does mean that you can probably adapt your working to overcome the moon being in the inopportune phase.

Every time I talk about how much time, energy, and effort magic can be I feel like someone always replies, "well, it's just not that hard for me! I do what I want with what I have when I need it and it always just works, with very little effort."

Which I think is very great for them, but I also don't think that most people can get results with such low effort.

So anyway my entire point is that I think sometimes the reason people struggle with getting witchcraft to work is because they are operating off of out-of-context soundbites that make it sound like you can just completely cut out some of these foundational concepts of witchcraft.

Maybe you don't have to accomplish those steps in traditional ways. Maybe you don't need all of those steps for every spell you're doing.

But if you've just cut out swaths of steps only because you heard someone say you don't need them (not because of your own experiments working with magic and determining what works best for you), then is there enough left to constitute a functional system of magic?