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« If you choose to work magic, you become active in the spirit world. This sounds like a no-brainer, but it’s a concept with ramifications that I don’t see mentioned often. (...) As we work in particular types or forms of magic, we become a bit like that which we work with. (...) We gain particular skills or talents through familiarity, through regular exposure. This is the nature of contagion (...). As we experience particular things, they stick to us and shape us. We then in time reflect them back into the world. In other words, if you spend a lot of time with door-keeper spirits, you become in at least a small sense a door-keeper spirit. At least enough to be recognized as such at times. I’ve heard this idea, usually in the negative sense, where people become « tainted » by exposure to some types of spirits or places. But perhaps a better word is « colored ». (...) This is a good reason to both spend time surrounded by the things you would like to be « colored » by, and in cleansing and clearing work to remove those things you’d rather not carry with you. I believe this to be true. While there are many options of « Others » that one can choose to spend time and energy with, it makes sense to me to choose very, very wisely. (...) On a related note, it is important to remember : you are what you do. You come in time to reflect your repeated actions. »

[Aidan Wachter, « At The Crossroads : A Brief Note On Roles », in. Six Ways. Approaches & Entries For Practical Magic]

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Tarot Readings

2 card - Free

3 card - $1.00 USD

Specific spreads - $3.00

Drawing until I get the question fully answered - $5.00

Send me a direct message and ask your question.

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ASBESTOS IS BEING USED IN REIKI/CRYSTAL HEALING - PSA MASTER POST

Worryingly Asbetos is being made into homepoathic wands and reki stones. Most worryingly claiming to cure CANCER, which Asbestos causes.

Being sold to many people under the intentions of “bring a bonding action between one and the subject of one’s desires“ and claiming that it’s the “etheric blueprint to correct imbalances and blockages that could manifest as physical disease and to heal cellular memory, one of the best stones for rousing the kundalini energies“  Chrysotile a type of Asbestos is quickly becoming one of the most requested minerals in reiki and crystal healing.  And it’s not the only type of Asbestos being sold as a healing crystal.

Above is Richterite, it’s known to be as dangerous as any of the other Asbestos in the six categories and is being sold to people promising ironic cures for liver, pancreas, kidney or breast cancer.

Above is Tigers Eye, everyone knows it looks cool but it is also Asbestos and although polished Health Protection Agency in the U.K., claim these are still dangerous. 

While some types of asbestos may be more hazardous than others, all are dangerous. Leading health agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the EPA and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classify all types of asbestos as cancer-causing substances.

The following are all a type of asbestos: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, winchite, suglite, richterite, actinolite and anthophyllite.

All the identified forms of asbestos can cause asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, laryngeal cancer and other serious diseases and will not cure any form of cancer. Some agencies, such as the Health Protection Agency in the U.K., claim amphibole varieties of asbestos are the most dangerous forms. The EPA has abandoned projects aiming to identify which asbestos fiber types are the most toxic, citing the overall regulation of asbestos and asbestiform minerals as a more pressing priority.

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Quality time spent with your deities isn’t always outbursts of emotional devotion and raw tears. Sometimes it’s sitting quietly together and letting Their presence calm your worried soul.

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Did i ever tell y'all the story of how one year my family picked up a hitchhiker in the middle of nowhere (like you do) and just..drove him to my grandma’s house for thanksgiving and he stayed with us for the whole weekend and my grandmere was So concerned that like…he wasn’t getting enough food she made a whole extra pie and pierogies just for him, ofc some to take on the way back. And he just ate with us like the 12+ ppl that consist of my family and dave who we picked up from the road. Now this man had. Nothing on him except his clothes and wallet like no backpack…nothing. so she also gave him some of my grandpa’s clothes and it was a little awkward but he was nice and funny and at the end of the weekend we offered to take him back or anywhere he needed to go (mind you we drove him like…7 hours away from where we picked him up) and he was just like…“nah just drop me off where you found me” and so we did and i never saw or heard from him again and thats how im pretty sure i met an immortal

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Sorry, what is an alphabet of desire and how is it used?

An alphabet of desire is the personalized magical alphabet of a witch or sorcerer. Each letter represents a sensation and is tied to a sense memory. The letters are used by the witch or sorcerer to *spell* out their desire. The *named* desire is *drawn* into existence. It is especially useful for artistic magic. You can put your personal letters on tools, charms and divination sets. Your alphabet can be used to make sigils. The alphabet of desire will reveal to the witch or sorcerer more uses as they work with it more. It can become a form of dream language too. For the most straightforward and simple information on Alphabets of desire check out Liber Null by Peter Carroll (available in paperback). Otherwise you are venturing into the challenging stuff: Frater UD’s Practical Sigil Magic, Andrew Chumbley’s Azoetia, Kenneth Grant’s various articles and excerpts re the alphabet of desire to be found via google and original works by Austin Osman Spare. When I read difficult books it can take me ages to understand, but I dig that process.

But really it’s simply the ongoing tradition of witches and sorcerers making personal alphabets and symbols that transcend mere code for regular letters A-Z and instead identify the spirit of things.

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“I cannot tell a lie,” the fae said, offering her beautiful, pale hand. “Come with me.” 

“Will you swear I will come to no harm?” the mortal asked. 

The fae smiled, a touch of wickedness in her eyes. “I literally guarantee that no harm will come to you.” 

(Imagine modern fairies being excited about the change in the meaning of the word literally)

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The Fair Folk: “I can’t believe this. Twenty years I’ve cleaned your house and you DARE to try to REPAY me with GIFTS. This is such an insult. Fuck you, you insolent humans. I’m leaving here and never returning because you have insulted me so deeply.”

Also the Fair Folk: “Remember that one time you pulled a thorn out of a cat’s foot? That was me. To show my gratitude, here is a house made of solid gold, a life-debt, my daughter’s hand in marriage, and a promise that all your children will be gorgeous and successful at all that they do. I can also throw in a blow job if you want. I hope this is enough. I don’t want to seem ungrateful.”

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Who wants to hear my new conspiracy theory about lawyers

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Bad occult spirit identification tip

Names are powerful in the spirit world. Having a spirit’s name is very useful when attempting to work with it. If you don’t know a spirit’s name but you need to address it, you can instead use the invocation: “YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!”

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UPG Analogy (kinda?)

Quick analogy time about god abuse stuff:

I’m either immune to poison ivy, or extremely resilient to the stuff in the oil that causes a reaction. I can (and have) crawled through the stuff and ended up none the worse while a person who walked in the same places as me ended up having a severe reaction.

Now obviously I know this reaction really happened, but let’s say I didn’t. Let’s say I just heard about it online.

Would I be within my rights to say that people aren’t really allergic to poison ivy? Or that it’s their fault for trying to take a pleasant walk in the woods? (Ok, I guess they could be more careful about identifying it but just stay with me for a moment).

Probably all those whiners are just faking for attention!

I know this is untrue, and don’t say this, because my experience isn’t the end-all, be-all of possibilities out there.

Pagans in general talk a lot about love and light and gods know the hate I’ve seen piled on monotheistic religions for their rigid structures and followers.

But are we really any better when anyone who thinks or experiences things that are a deviation from the norm are swiftly told to shut up? That they’re impious? Bad devotees?

I know we can do better. Let’s.

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Potions, Brews and Concoctions

Infusions : An infusion is something steeped in a liquid. Either water, oil, juice or wine. Generally used for drinking or bathing yourself or other objects.

Potion : A potion is basically an enchanted infusion, used for the same things infusions are used for. An object can be put into this during brewing to add to it and then removed before drinking. E.g crystals and stones (obviously make sure they are non-toxic and clean before adding them.

Brew : A brew is a potion that is solely meant for consumption.

Elixir : An elixir is meant to give health and vitality. Different from an infusion as with elixirs powders and extracts are dissolved into and alcohol or water base and sweetened with honey or mashed fruits. As with everything these can be enchanted

Oil : An oil is made by extracting natural oils from plants. Essential oils are the pure extraction with nothing added to dilute it. An oil infusion is when you steep herbs in the oils and when you blend the oils and add a base oil it is known as an oil blend.

Powder : A powder (this one is very obvious) is when herbs, spices and minerals are ground together and enchanted.

Sachet : A sachet is a small fabric bag filled with herbs and fragrant objects.

Bath : this specific bath requires an infusion or sachet to be added. For magical or meditative purposes.

Ointment : An ointment is a salve made with enchanted herbs and others, rubbed on for effect. 

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Why is water such an important offering to the dead?

This is my take on it - other mods like theheadlesshashasheen may also want   to chime in, so this is by no means what I’d call a definitive answer.First, let’s look at the Orphic/Totenpass angle:

1 You will find in the house of Hades, on the right side, a spring,2 and standing by it a white cypress. 3 Do not even approach this spring! 4 Ahead you will find from the Lake of Memory, 5 cold water pouring forth; there are guards before it. 6 They will ask you by what necessity you have come. 7 You, tell them the whole entire truth. 8 Say, “I am a child of Earth and starry Sky. 9 My name is ‘Starry.’ I (masculine) am parched with thirst. But grant me 10 to drink from the spring.”

- Tablet found at Pharsalos, Thessaly circa 350-300 BCE, Graf/Johnston trans.

This is not the only mention of the dead being parched in these tablets, which seem to stretch for several centuries, even into the early Common Era, and further back. It seems as if the dead are driven to drink by thirst, which either gets them rebirth if they drink one source, or heroic status, from the lake of  Memory.So that’s the Greek angle. But it also, given that ” Witchcraft’ is where the western grimoire tradition reacts with the local biosphere.” as gordonwhite says on Runesoup, and most historical witches and Cunning Folk used the Bible as sacred text and magical manual, there’s also this:

19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’

25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’

30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’” - Luke 16:19-31, emphasis mine

Note that this is the exception in Christian uses of Hades as the abode of the dead, or intermediate state prior to resurrection. It’s the one reference we have to it as a place of torment and fire. Mostly, Hades is applied to Sheol (the grave/underworld) in the Old Testament, rather than Gehenna which is the fiery place of punishment for the wicked.That said, the passage above seems to imply that there’s a sort of compartmentalising of the underworld - perhaps similar to  the Hades/Tartarus split. The idea that there might be multiple post-mortem fates is, after all, very old.There is somethiong to be said for the idea that the cool water not only soothes the dead, but actually nourishes and/or helps them remember their Primordial nature. Some traditions suggest that ‘hot’ spirits are more concerned wit ‘worldly’ work than ‘cooler ones’ - one’s mileage with that idea may vary, but it’s certainly the case that cool water seems well received.We might also consider that in certain traditions, humanity comes from the sea, whether that sea be the ancestral dwelling of the dead or a path to  a mythic homeland such as Guinee - or even the notion of the ambient dead/dreaming sea of theKalunga. Norse myth says that the gods found the trees that they made into humans as driftwood on a beach, washed up from the sea, as well as the Nornir, givers of destiny and wyrd, being gathered around a well - one of three in the cosmology.Finally, we might want to look at the etymology of sea, soul and lake:

sea (n.) Old English sæ “sheet of water, sea, lake, pool,” from Proto-Germanic *saiwaz (cognates: Old Saxon seo, Old Frisian se, Middle Dutch see, Swedish sjö), of unknown origin, outside connections “wholly doubtful” [Buck]. Meaning “large quantity” (of anything) is from c.1200. Meaning “dark area of the moon’s surface” is attested from 1660s (see mare (n.2)). Germanic languages also use the general Indo-European word (represented by English mere (n.)), but have no firm distinction between “sea” and “lake,” either by size, by inland or open, or by salt vs. fresh. This may reflect the Baltic geography where the languages are thought to have originated. The two words are used more or less interchangeably in Germanic, and exist in opposite senses (such as Gothic saiws “lake,” marei “sea;” but Dutch zee “sea,” meer “lake”). Compare also Old Norse sær “sea,” but Danish sø, usually “lake” but “sea” in phrases. German See is “sea” (fem.) or “lake” (masc.). The single Old English word sæ glosses Latin mare, aequor, pontus, pelagus, and marmor.

soul (n.1) “A substantial entity believed to be that in each person which lives, feels, thinks and wills” [Century Dictionary], Old English sawol “spiritual and emotional part of a person, animate existence; life, living being,” from Proto-Germanic *saiwalo (cognates: Old Saxon seola, Old Norse sala, Old Frisian sele, Middle Dutch siele, Dutch ziel, Old High German seula, German Seele, Gothic saiwala), of uncertain origin. Sometimes said to mean originally “coming from or belonging to the sea,” because that was supposed to be the stopping place of the soul before birth or after death [Barnhart]; if so, it would be from Proto-Germanic *saiwaz (see sea). Klein explains this as “from the lake,” as a dwelling-place of souls in ancient northern Europe.

lake (n.1) “body of water,” early 12c., from Old French lack and directly from Latin lacus “pond, lake,” also “basin, tank,” related to lacuna “hole, pit,” from PIE *laku- (cognates: Greek lakkos “pit, tank, pond,” Old Church Slavonic loky “pool, puddle, cistern,” Old Irish loch “lake, pond”). The common notion is “basin.” There was a Germanic form of the word, which yielded cognate Old Norse lögr “sea flood, water,” Old English lacu “stream,” lagu “sea flood, water,” leccan “to moisten” (see leak (v.)). In Middle English, lake, as a descendant of the Old English word, also could mean “stream; river gully; ditch; marsh; grave; pit of hell,” and this might have influenced the form of the borrowed word.

Add to this that water itself is a fantastically liminal substance - witches and other spirits are sometimes said not to be able to cross running water, and also that sacrifices were sometimes made to wells, marshes, rivers and the sea so they could be carried to the realm of the gods, and I think you’ve got some hints as to why water is so important to the dead. By giving them water, we are giving them refreshment, we draw them into the field of memory, strengthen them and deepen our connection to them and the wider kosmos.

- VI

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Vaping is all 4 elements

💦 water in that vape cloud

🔥 fire in that electric heat

🍃 earth in that tobacco original product extract

💨 air in dat inhale bitch

You a master of The Elements

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When you get that random urge to research your gods, listen to it. You may feel like you’re well versed in the mythos (and maybe you are) but there’s always something to learn and, more often than not, that feeling is the gods wanting you to find out some new bit of info or look at a different perspective. What I love about the gods is their fluidity and how much they can change in your eyes.

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a witch’s palm.

the mystic cross.

“x” shaped cross located between the head and heart lines. indicates that spirituality, witch’s intuition, and acknowledgement of power or ability were understood at a very young age.

the psychic cross. “x” shaped cross located beneath:

the index finger: blessings from jupiter/zeus. wisdom, and a great capacity for knowledge. often destined to teach or impart. 

the middle finger: blessings from saturn/cronus. intuition, and a great capacity for visceral power. often has natural ability working in dreams and meditations.

the ring finger: blessings from sun/apollo. attraction, and a great ability to naturally draw in your needs and desires. often powerful with enchantments. 

the little finger: blessings from mercury/hermes. instinct, and a great natural ability for practice. often adopts new methods with ease and natural talent.

the psychic triangle. triangular shape located beneath the ring finger. indicates that in this life, or another, you have chosen to suppress your abilities. they are likely powerful, but potentially caused harm- intentionally, or not. (this does not mean they are unreachable, it more likely encourages you to work very consciously.)

the healer’s mark. a series of parallel lines located beneath the little finger. indicates powerful healing abilities; the more lines, the greater the gift. 

the traveller’s mark. a series of parallel lines located beneath the mount of the moon. indicates that there is an innate talent and drive in travelling both the physical and the astral planes. a natural ability for astral projection; the more lines, the greater the gift.

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Vaping is all 4 elements

💦 water in that vape cloud

🔥 fire in that electric heat

🍃 earth in that tobacco original product extract

💨 air in dat inhale bitch

You a master of The Elements