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☀️ Happy solstice, everyone! ☀️

The endless rain and unseasonably cool weather have broken for the occasion where I live and we actually have a beautiful, sunny, warm Litha to spend outdoors. Thank you, mother nature!

I did not get up before the sun.. Oh well. Sleep is important. Next year? Yep. Always that. 😄

Being an ADHD witch, I did not plan anything for today... (Oops.) It's okay if you didn't either!

I think what I'll do is a tarot/rune reading; clean the house quickly (lol good one, nova); and hang out outside all day with my best and oldest friend, doing yard work, tending plants, spotting critters, and generally enjoying the glory of the sun. Bloody marys in hand, I think. Perhaps we'll also have a bonfire as and after the sun sets. Yessss, sounds lovely indeed. 🤗

Happy Litha / solstice to you all! My your day be filled with abundance, and joy. 💜

(P.S. As a little solstice bonus surprise, it looks like I hit 100 followers today! What?! How exciting! Thank you!)

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Negative self-talk (whether spoken or thought) is literally:

directing harmful energy toward yourself.

putting energy into a version of yourself and your life that you hate.

intentionally or unintentionally wishing yourself harm.

Negative self-talk is literally hexing yourself.

Be kind to you.

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Well, that's that.

I'm moving my altar space to the "greenhouse".

(Aka my enclosed front porch.)

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This spring has awakened a whole new side of me. I've suddenly become obsessed with sprouting, raising, tending, harvesting, and learning everything I can about plants. I've begun identifying and researching every bit of flora as well as fauna that I come across. My desire for this knowledge is thoroughly unyielding, and I love it. My front porch is filled with hundreds of herb, tree, and flower seedlings that will soon be in the earth, and I want to spend every minute with them.

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Don't forget violets!

Common Blue Violet

All-over-gorgeous green and purple ground cover. Sweet, tasty, and deceptively tenacious. More vitamin C than most vegetables!

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The lawn of my quarter-acre yard is now about 70% violets, creeping charlie (aka ground ivy), dandelion, white clover, and wild strawberry. Hoping for 100% in the next couple of years by just continuing to let them be and randomly pulling out the grass around them. Fuck grass. Wildflower weed lawns for life!

This is a weed appreciation post

Dandelions

Yellow and happy. Super strong and resilient. Everyone hates them and they don’t care. Makes a good “kick” in garden salads. 

White Clover

Small and gentle. Always has 50 friends around them. Little dots of white and pink. Looks like a Faerie would turn it into a dress

Pigweed

BIG BOI. When I was little I used to think they looked like pot. So green and strong and taller than me.

Creeping Charlies

Bees love them! Blue! Happy! Gets absolutely everywhere! I’ve never loved something so annoying! Just look at them

Burdock

SCARY BOI. Her mom thinks she’s going through a phase. But it’s NOT a phase.

St John’s Wart

So pretty! And yellow! It reminds me of Daffodils! Old doctors would use it as a medicine because it was the old times! 

Dandelions (Again)

MAGIC AND GRANTS WISHES. PUFF. HAPPY POM POMS. LOOKS LIKE BURDOCK AFTER HER EMO PHASE

There will be more. I love weeds

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This should almost be mandatory for adults, at least four times a week.

Go play outside right now.

image how much better if everyone, adults, teens, younger kids, all got recess. like if everyone got 45 minutes to an hour to just play around outside, do fun things, be “childish” and things

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🤔 I see what you did there. 😄

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There will be so. much. TEA.

🤗

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Muahahaha... It is time thyme!

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That which I tend thrives.

- My mantra this spring

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What a great idea for the front door!

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I just want to tend my plants, drink tea, and knit things.

- Me, not wanting to work

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Here's to spring! Cheers. 🌿 💜

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why yes i am a walrus, thank you for asking

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So many new green friends! 🤗

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So, I used to smoke cigarettes (quit four years ago today, woo!), and I used be signed up for coupons from my preferred cigarette brand. After quitting, I changed my account to say I'd quit and to stop sending coupons, and they complied.

Randomly, however, they sent me something for my birthday this year. But it wasn't a coupon, or just a card, there wasn't an ad, or anything even mentioning smoking whatsoever...

They sent me basil seeds, a "sprout pouch", soil pellets, and instructions. 🤗

I thought this was just the cutest thing!

Now I've got 24 little sprouts of free basil, waiting to be transplanted, cared for, and made into lots and lots of pesto, bunny food, and cocktails. Yay!