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I was on the bus suddenly possessed with an idea so terrible that I had to get it out. And I knew, in my heart of hearts, someone already had. So, here.

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90′s girl in the Big City lifestyle

Favorite cafe three blocks away. You and your friends just all hang out there de facto after work and on the weekends.

No “plans” - just whatever comes up that day.

“What a creep.”

Laying on your belly on the bed, kicking your legs in the air, and writing in your journal

Chewing bubblegum

Radio going while you cook

Thrift shop clothes

Popping your favorite CD in and dancing in your pajamas

Breakfast at a diner alone, reading a dogeared book on feminist philosophy

The Internet is so craazy cool, like woah

Flipping off traffic

Little backpack at all time

That boot/socks/tights/shorts/crop top look

Hair half up

Either you’re vegetarian or you pack away ribs like an animal

“WOAH”

Embracing knitting as a subversive act of defiance against the patriarchy and The Man

Chatting on the phone in the kitchen, eating toast, ignoring the other person and reading a newspaper

Flipping through channels “Nothing’s on. Let’s go see a show.”

Music festivals

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ME

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melancholic but beautiful

empty perfume bottles, unripe peaches, stars, attic windows, ancient ruins, worn-out heels from the 1920s, unread books, dead languages, empty museum halls, abandoned castles, pomegranate stains

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Rain relaxes me

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Dreaming of Spring: from The Concise British Flora in Color, 1965 by W. Keble Martin

riverwindphotography, Januarhy, 2019

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Alright everyone here is a masterpost of my cats facial expressions… enjoy

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Bee Magick - Save the Bees

This post is dedicated to the bees, make sure you do your part to save the bees! 

Facts to increase your love for bees:

They have personalities.

They can recognize human faces.

Their honey contains all the substances needed to sustain life.

Eating Honey can make you smarter.

Honeybees can only sting once.

They beat their wings up to 200 times per second.

Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.

Bees don’t sleep.

All worker bees are female.

Ways to attract bees:

Plant flowers that attract bees.

Build a bee houses.

Place bee waterers and bee baths around your garden.

Do not use pesticides or herbicides of any kind.

Plants that attract bees:

Bee balm

Lavender

Crocus

Snow Drop

Wildflowers/Any native species

Catmint

Borage

Anise hyssop

Heliotrope

Sunflower

Oregano

Yarrow

Coneflower

Black eyed susan

Asters

Goldenrod

Foxglove

Marigold

Pansies

Sweet peas

Nasturtiums

Bee folklore:

It is unlucky to kill bees.

Believed to have the knowledge of the future and all secrets. 

If a bee lands on your hand, it suggests money is on it’s way.

If a bee lands on someones head, they will become successful in life. 

If a bee flies into a home, it means either good luck or a stranger is on their way. If you kill the bee it means the stranger will be bringing bad news.

Seeing a single bee will bring luck.

Bees buzzing around a child’s head foretells a happy, successful life.

Bee mythology:

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs used the bee as their royalty symbol. They believed honey bees were born from the tears of the sun God, Ra. To the Egyptians, bees represented resurrection and protected against evil spirits. 

Druids believed that bees represented the sun, the Goddess, celebration, and community.

The Greeks thought that a babies whose lips where touched by a bee would become a great poet or a great speaker. In ancient Greece it was also thought that they symbolized industry, hard work, messengers of the dead, and obedience. Honey was often used as an offering to their Gods. They also believed bees were the surviving souls of the priestesses who served the Goddess Aphrodite. 

They have been seen as a symbol of sacredness and could be associated with the Great Mother or Divine feminine. The Mother can be symbolized as the queen bee. 

In Celtic mythology honey bees had great wisdom and thought to be messengers between worlds. Honey was sacred and used in rituals.

In some cultures they can be associated with purity, health, and wealth. Some also believed bees were a symbol of the human soul.

The druids believed that bees symbolized the sun, the goddess, celebration, and community.

Deities associated with bees and honey:

Aphrodite

Ra

Vishnu

Pan

Vishnu

Cybele

Mellona

Melissa (Melisae)

Neith

Apollo

Artemis

Freya

Thor

Demeter

Bees in Magick:

Bees are closely associated with the fae and their presence in gardens which indicates blessings of fae. Encourage the bees, by putting up bee houses, hives, planting bee-friendly plants and waterers and not using pesticides. Thus, encouraging the blessings from the fae, while harming bees can anger them and cause them to seek revenge. 

The symbol of a bee can be used to seal a spell with sweetness for one who appreciates good will and a sting for one who takes it for granted or doesn’t keep his end of the bargain. 

Honey stirred into your tea can ‘sweeten’ your day. 

Honey is used often in magick to sweeten a situation.

Anointing your lips with honey will make your words sound sweeter. 

Bees in your dreams:

May be a good omen.

Bees in your dreams may be telling you to take a look at your social networks. They may be pointing toward a desire for more harmonious and functional relationships, or celebrating the ones you already have.

A visit from a bee in a dream may also be notifying you that a friend or family member needs to speak with you. You will know as this person will also pop into your mind somehow. It means call them or perhaps, that you will hear from them soon.

Dreaming of a beehive usually relates to the home and family or your business and coworkers. A happy, buzzing hive means a happy, buzzing home. It may foretell incoming abundance, and fruitful times ahead. If the bees are swarming around the hive, rather than working in it, proceed with caution. There is a lack of harmony that is interfering with productivity.

A swarm of bees may indicate that you feel that a group of people upon whose cooperation you rely is becoming chaotic and out of control. Perhaps the need to balance your own interactions with your different business and social groups for your own sanity.

Beehives bring to mind abundance and prosperity: bees seem to work hard and are rewarded by flowing stores of honey. An empty beehive, then, represents the opposite: lost opportunity and financial misfortune.

A beehive can also represent a home. The fullness or emptiness of the beehive may indicate unconscious feelings about family life, marriage, children, or the house itself. Honey may represent your property or belongings.

A beehive on fire or burned bees are often interpreted depending on your emotional and physical condition. Burned bees may mean you are overcoming fear and want to take control of life and anger, are you’re progressing through life with more confidence without any fear of obstacles. Burned beehives can also mean you have lost something precious, like money, a relationship, or some valuable information that you’ve forgotten or ignored.

If a bee or a swarm of bees is chasing you in dream, it may mean there is some unsettled business or a memory that haunts you. Make sure you let it go from your mind or deal with it in order to avoid these bees.

If you dream about getting a bee sting then something may be bothering you, or you have a persistent annoyance in your life. Concerns about your relationship, career, finance, or some unknown issue is bugging your subconscious mind. Find out what it is and sort it out.

Magickal uses for Honey:

Can be used in binding spells to symbolically stick things together.

Used for offerings to fae and deities.

Can sweeten a person or a situation.

 Honey is sacred to Aphrodite.

Can be used in spells corresponding to purification, health, love, happiness, spirituality, wisdom, good fortune, fertility, 

Use certain types of honey that corresponded with your spell.

Bathe in warm water and honey to attract love.

A dish filled with honey can attract angels and beneficial spirits.

Do your part to save the bees they are an important part of our life and in our magick practices. 

May the moon light your path!

==Moonlight Academy==

Sources: witchipedia.com, kitchenwitchuk.blogspot.ca, exemplore.com

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A city where necromancy is legal and actually a part of every day society. So long as you follow a specific set of laws to make it seem a bit more ethical, you’re allowed to use it to do anything from helping you in a fight, to helping you run your business. In fact, there are entire shops or restaurants where the staff are undead. Laws to handle the undead could be things like:

• The corpses used cannot have flesh on them for sanitary reasons, especially in the case of businesses. Those who raise undead who are more than just bone will face a fine dependent on their situation.

• Similar to how people can donate their bodies to science, or donate their organs to those in need, people can choose to donate their bodies to necromancers before their death.

• If it is unknown if a person wished for their body to be donated after death, and they have been dead for 150+ years, you’re allowed to raise them. If next of kin is still alive, you must get permission from them first.

• You must take care of the undead in your charge. Keep them clean and unbroken. If one of them starts to get too much wear and tear, you are required by law to respectfully lay them back down to rest. Failure to do this will get you a hefty fine.

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Ok guys, here is how NOT to speak to a tarot reader (or anybody)

Why This Is Not Okay (On a Tarot Level):

Tarot readers are people. We are not your magic dispensers and we don’t work on demand.

Reading tarot (especially those of us who attempt energy channelling) takes up a lot of energy. I get tons and tons of request for free readings that you guys dont see and the times I have opened it up for free the request poured in too much to handle.

Even if someone is offering free readings, dont heckle them! Show some respect. If you genuinly believe this person is going to delve into your fate and advise you on paths then you better be nice to them.

Do you guys have any idea how much readings normally cost? $30-45 USD, thats just for a simple little spread and maybe some chat time. In cities some charge more like $60-200! Compared to that my average price is $5-10… I’m not wringing you for money here.

Why This Is Not Okay (On a Personal Level):

I feel I made it pretty clear that I was a professional tarot reader in my first message and not just practicing for free. Its okay if youre new and accidentally request a free reading without knowing- but once I tell you…well now you know.

Asking beyond that is coercive behavior which is incredibly toxic. Asking until someone says yes is not concent to engage in anything.

This is emotional manipulation. Learn to recognize it because I see it all the time and its becoming normalized. So much so that people who aren’t intentionally manipulative have begun doing it because it gets results. Intentionally or not its baiting someone to do something they wouldn’t normally do.

Either way I can tell you right now that this person is not ready to find their soul mate, or even be in any kind of relationship. They have so much self-work to do first before they drag somebody down with them.

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Are Owlbear babies Chicks, or Cubs? Neither. They’re called Chubs.

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“I love cats! I’m on a diet!”

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some of you have never wandered out into the woods at night to make a sacrifice to an old god and honestly it shows

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