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oh halp, the micro dose does not feel micro and there are two hors left

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There need to be spaces for women to heal and learn not just about themselves but about the land that is under us. Women need self-sustainable skills and the ability to trust the decisions they make. 

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I work as a Community Manager at a senior apartment complex and it is incredibly sweet how I have been adopted by 122 grandma’s and grandpa’s. They bring me sweets and drinks, a lady came in yesterday to ask us to put a hummingbird feeder up and left me an apple and a clementine, I guess as a trade? I have a headache today and so have been operating with my light off which has prompted every resident to ask if there’s a problem with the building. When they find out its just my broken brain they fall over themselves to take care of me. 

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A reframe from a spirit that’s helping me out today: 

If you go to a burger joint and try to order a pizza, no matter how much you want a pizza, it ain’t gonna happen. 

If you go to a person (or several) who’ve never been empathetic, reasonably selfless, or a good listener, and ask for them to empathize, consider you, and listen - no matter how much you want it, it’s not going to happen. 

Railing about how they won’t give you the love and affection you want is about as silly as trying to get a pizza from a burger joint. 

And if you’ve got no pizza joints nearby, you gotta learn to make your own if you want it that bad. Might not be the same thing but thems the breaks. 

If you can’t get empathy and love from those around you, you gotta get really good at giving it to yourself. Might not feel the same but thems the breaks. 

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Becoming Good With Magic: Step 1

Most people practice magic for a while before they even start to care about really developing a solid understanding of it. That's fine. But when you decide you really want to be good at it, you need to understand.

Start by asking yourself:

What is magic? Define it.

How does magic work? Figure out where you think magic comes from, what you have to do to use it, and the role of tools.

What can magic do and not do? You need to know both.

These are the first fundamental questions that you need for mastery.

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the path of trying to find the balance between your personal life, work, obligations, personal relationships, healthy outlets, and then a dutiful worshiper is hard for a reason. 

The ancient Greeks had not to worry about as much nonsense as we do. Their society was designed around worship. Do not worry or punish yourself over not being able to celebrate every single festival, or every single moon cycle or even have the mental capability to give a full chested prayer every day. 

the world we are in is not designed for the beauty we are trying to recapture, but our faith and resilience in that, still finding time to whisper the gods name in joy and sorrow and pleading, that is enough to stand the time. And the Gods know it too.

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Temple of Apollo at Ardea. Solstice in winter. Lighting the Sacred Fire on the Temple Altar, by  Associazione Tradizionale Pietas

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A gardeners prayer

I should be preparing for the chaos that will ensue,

Spring has sprung, there’s so much that is new.

I should be working or at least pretending to,

Yet still I sit here with only thoughts of you.

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I will

Go outside, 

Since you demand it so.

And while I stroll I see women being who they are bravely.

You cannot shame us,

Tame us,

Or push us to the shadows.

You can seek to change the meaning of the word woman,

But you will never be able to change the fact that I was born one.

You can seek to dismantle our spaces

But you will never be able to change my desire to build on.

Won’t you join me outside?

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Come off of anon and ask your question.

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Mother May I

Spend my years in your embrace.

Live a life filled with chase.

Build for women a sacred place.

Be the one to open gates.

For you are the spark of my desire.

And my feet go where you require.

Forever I will carry your fire.

It is true I cannot deny Her.

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Proud to be a same sex attracted woman, free in her own skin and spreading love for women ❤️

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Goddess

The world has changed much since women first perceived of your presence.

 And yet, when I look up at the moon as my foremothers did I feel reverence.

From spark to the flame,

Your rites we will reclaim. 

Inanna, Athena, Hekate, Cerridwen.   

Goddess, Mother, please take us in.

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Okanogan or Ferry county unless other women would want to go in on land together and get something in Whatcom or something like that. 

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My wife and I are looking for land now with the goal to purchase in a year but not more than 2. There will be room for other women to come and live as well as space to raise animals and grow our own food. So I wasn’t fully joking...

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somewhere a group of weird little girls is accidentally practicing a ritual that got forgotten 3000 years ago. brings me peace 

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Alright ladies, who wants to come live on some land in Washington so I can get stuff done?