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It'd be the perfect excuse for me to finally learn how to weave on a real loom! Or how to use that electric tufting gun... you have yourself a deal, Chicken!

Now all I need to do is find a decently sized house. Surely it will be super affordable and easy to do, though, so I'm not too worried

I need at minimum one whole large room for shrines and altars.

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I need at minimum one whole large room for shrines and altars.

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"always trust your intuition"

my unmedicated intuition tells me to start new projects and my medicated intuition tells me lunch is always an option

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I'm reading this book and it says "the more you imagine yourself innately and effortlessly magickal, the less effective you become." what do u think about this idea? Definitely agree but I do love hearing everyone's thoughts on stuff I find interesting lol

??? You mean if I believe I’m good at doing magic and its pretty easy for me, if I see myself effortlessly doing magic and I internalize that, the universe will punish me for my hubris and take away my powers??

Sorry the thought police are not real, I do not have to ***perform humility*** inside of my own mind to be an effective witch!!!!

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Aron Wiesenfeld - “The Old Bridge”

watercolour on paper, 2016

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Bear In Snow, 1940 (colour woodblock print) by Takeuchi Seiho

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You can just let the Wiccan god and goddess be their own god and goddess. It's really ok to not turn them into other pre existing deities.

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Small consistencies go a long way. Do not disregard your simple practice for an inefficient one.

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Sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone and read that book that's more than a decade or even century old to learn more about magic and witchery.

You have to interact with literature and media that isn't within your own echo chamber.

You need regular confrontations with opinions and ideas outside your own bubble otherwise you. will. not. grow.

You must be able to read things critically, knowing that picking up a book and reading it does not equal you believing every word.

Learn about how others view the world, learn how people's beliefs work, learn how to intake information without assuming that every bit of information is on a binary of "good" or "bad" information.

This is the witchy version of me telling you, lovingly, to go touch grass.

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rhiannon | arawn | mallt-y-nos a cŵn annwn | pwyll

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i don't know how i'm going to pay my rent this month. people like to offer me chipper little hints - no coffee! how about less eggs? - while i survive off 20 dollars a week. as if saving 20 dollars will somehow manifest the 2000 i need. little bits of yourself and your life get cut up this way; redistributed into financial offerings.

poverty just feels like - the spill happened. why are we quibbling about the best way to keep water inside a glass when the glass is already empty. no amount of scraping at the floor will peel up what i have lost. it's just - gone.

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"Having fairy art in your house will invite the Fae in" is literally just the neopagan version of "playing Pokemon will give demons permission to torment you."

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Finding a small, cheap ivy plant on the day I dedicate to Gwyn feels like he's winking at me

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happy beltane & may day! 🌿

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[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.

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Today is Calan Mai. I spent yesterday making butter cookies with lemon curd to welcome some fresh spring energy into the home and its residents, and today I've been tidying my room and sacred space.

April was an insane month, full of paperwork and absolutely life-shifting news. In all the grief and the confusion, I've held onto thoughts of spring. Endings and beginnings, the clearing of space in a garden bed to make room for new growth. This is, without a doubt, the closing of several doors. But it is also the opening of new ones. I can only hope these new paths forward are prosperous and meaningful.

May spring bring us fertile land to plant ourselves in, and may the seeds we sow be fruitful.

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Me, any time I have the slightest bit of a bad day:

a new tarot deck would fix this