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I just found out about the yapok/water opossum and look at this absolute creature

Absolutely skrunkled. Truly a wretched beast. I will cherish it

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fuck it maybe it's time to be a frog

I have to say that getting a wizard fursona was the best witchcommunity decision I ever made. Not only are there the obvious magical implications (feel free to wildly speculate) but on a regular basis people will simply send me curated chicken content which I never would have laid eyes upon otherwise. You too can have this power. Avatar + Part of your name, that's all it takes. Doesn't even have to be your blog name.

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jbird, it's honestly such a crime that I get to read your posts for free. i should be fasting and climbing up a mountain and getting lost in a cave about it. and if i had to, i would, but it's truly the sign of a blessed life but i do not have to. yea verily i cackled so heartily i hurt mine abdominals. thank you.

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so is it that everyone who's gone through maryaj lwa is delusional, or is it that as usual, everyone from a different cultural context isn't even invited to play?

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honey jar, petition paper treating book titles / numbers like they're names, and on the Oshun altar for me, but that's very for me. I don't think you can necessarily entirely separate the idea of good reviews and good sales, so I would still have some gold colored objects or some coins around to tie the whole thing together.

(i don't thiiiink I would do it mercurial, but insofar as I do planetary anything I basically only ever do Venusian or solar. Unless I'm doing Saturn, which works for me like I recall the sun works for you--that is, very not very best friend core, very not normal style.)

So idk, more for you--cute jar (maybe rose colored if possible), sugar/sweetener (maybe also pink if possible?), book identifiers, but also some coins or dollar bills in there, tea light on top. My short cut for both sweetening and money spells is pumpkin spice powder, so maybe some of that on the tea light, sigil in a heart shape somewhere, boom, good to go.

I mean, it's kind of a love spell, right? Venusian.

As it turns out, "ebook sales" spell is not the same thing as "leave raving 5-star reviews" spell.

How would y'all go about a spell for positive reviews? Something mercurial I imagine?

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I stopped caring a long time ago "how" spells worked (because this is a universal statement not a specific statement) and started caring a lot about understanding their paradigms and how they were built to work.

I started caring about how people thought about spellwork and magic and what makes something of that qualification. Then I started thinking about the building of spellwork.

I'm gesturing a lot between these sentences so you know my communication is limited.

It's not about finding the ultimate truth (tm), but rather collectively understanding humans and others rationale for spells.

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you will of course report back with the results, yes? pretty please? so we can argue about it further?

Tonight is the "round robin" where people share the projects they are working on. I'm going to ask a bunch of academics and folk magic people from a variety of practices if a traffic circle is a crossroad.

Gotta bring that Tumblr chaos goblin energy into the real world.

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I feel like half of witchblr doesn't actually believe in magic sometimes

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A Very Simple Mercury Road Opener For Mercury Day

Mercury entered its home sign of Gemini at 3:00 this morning (EDT) so a quick little spell today would be a sweet little road opener:

1 yellow or orange candle (if you use color magic, do what you want obvs)

olive oil

powdered lemongrass, vervain, or chickory

coffee or chickory coffee as an offering

Make a cup of coffee and offer it to Mercury in a way that is consistent with your practice

carve the astrological symbol for Mercury or the symbol for the intelligence of Mercury onto your candle

Anoint with a small amount of olive oil and roll the candle in the powdered herbs (alternatively, place your herbs around the candle) - remember fire safety here! small amounts and very finely powdered is best if they are going on your candle

Invite Mercury into your space and speak aloud (yes, this is important here - Mercury rules speech) your desire to have a clear path in front of you

Light your candle and perform your magic as you would for your practice.

This practice can be done any time that Mercury stations (either forward or retrograde) or when Mercury enters a new sign, but is especially effective when Mercury enters its home signs of Gemini and Virgo, when Mercury enters YOUR Mercury sign, or when Mercury enters a new sign on a Wednesday.

The hour of Mercury will enhance this spell. So will the Orphic Hymn of Mercury. You could also further enhance this spell by burning the candle over the magic square for Mercury if you so wish.

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right, I also got caught up in overthinking it but once I double checked who posted it, I figured it was probably meant as a useful organization question--like if you were making an index for a book, or properly labelling a data base, or yeah, putting spells in boxes. So it's a practical magic question, right? I think? Not what organization is exhaustive, but what level of categorization is USEFUL, or useful enough. And that is ultimately what I personally think magic is about: what works, or works well enough.

otherwise you can also go the other way and argue that really there's mostly just augmenting and reducing. emboobening and unboobening, if you will. but would this be useful in organizational terms? not too much, probably.

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hard magic systems in fiction always make me a little jealous tbh cuz its so clear cut and systemetized. Over here we're just like "it's definitely ghosts. Or the elements. Or the planets. Or demons. Or meritocracy. Or psychology. Or dna. Or Gods. Or Spirits. Or trauma. Or fae. I know a guy that does it with pokemon cards actually. Seems to still work, more or less, for that one. Know a girl that hits a crossroads and splits open a live snake right down the belly once a year. And then an enby that doesnt really seem to need shit. Idk man. Idk. You got a cigarette?"

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Rabbit Rabbit

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"my money spells don't work!"

Have you considered putting Money into a poppet and treating him to a luxury spa day. Maybe he's very stressed out with his own concerns at this time.

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Ooh.... I do like some whimsical bottles...

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i actually do keep one wrapped in silk and in a special open face, but that's a ceremonial designation. I don't think it actually does anything besides making me go "ohhh FANCY." I probably should enchant the wrap but like. It has a cool skull print on it so what if I want to wear it one day instead?

Okay witchblr, I have a question. My mom and I are having a discussion and want outside opinions.

Do you cover/wrap your tarot decks?

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it need not be fancy, it need only work.

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Three of Swords and Queen of Wands reversed

You're looking at the still-beating heart with the blades through it, and realizing that you may have become an evil witch-queen after all.