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Help if you can👍🏼⭐️💓

I need your help. Yes all I do is ask for help but my shop is my ONLY source of income right now because the kohls store here is the worst I’ve ever experience and they keep lying and making excuses about putting me on the schedule (calling hr AGAIN monday morning.) It’s stressing me out cause I got shit to deal with, shit to pay, food to buy, trying to support myself in the middle of my family having a divorce. Anyway I’m not asking for free help. If 30 of my 37k+ followers were to buy one thing from my shop I’d sell it all and have some sort of income to last me a few weeks. I don’t know what else to do so I’m relying on my shop for survival right now. i hate to sound like a broken record and asking for help but I seriously though appreciate the support and the love and the help you guys show me.

Help by purchasing something from my shop 

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it isn’t selfish to focus on yourself. it’s perfectly okay and you deserve it.

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Iridescent Chalcopyrite over Calcite - Edong Mining District, Daye, Hubei, China

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has anyone else’s life been really off lately or is it just me

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modern witches: 

we somehow found our love for the occult and decided we wanted to dive in head first, and then didn’t realize where to start

“is this a good one?” we say as we skim through the tiny metaphysical section at our local bookstore, and walk out with a mishmash of titles from various authors, all with conflicting opinions 

we jot down notes in old school notebooks because that leather grimoire we found online was too expensive

we ditched the books we read over and over again and turned to the internet, hungry for hidden knowledge

we all stumbled upon spellsofmagic.com and tried to do the unthinkable before realizing that it wasn’t working and got discouraged

we realized that *gasp* you can write your own spells, but how? 

we spent hours compiling correspondences for every herb and spice in our kitchen pantry, and dug through boxes to find our old crystal or seashell collection from when we were kids thinking “i could probably use these for… something”

we spent too much money on candles and incense before realizing we could get them cheaper online

we practiced drawing sigils and symbols to make them perfect before crumpling up the paper and starting all over

we learned to go outside and look at the moon to see what phase it was in and how we could possibly use that to our advantage 

“what cardinal direction was for fire again? south?” we went back to the drawing board, digging through our notes to find the section in which we wrote down the information before giving up and doing a quick google search instead

we set up wiccan altars because we didn’t know that there was anything else out there at first

we learned about intent, and made sure that we were careful to stir our tea or coffee in one direction or the other to set the mood for the day

we would squint at bottles of body wash in the shower to find the ingredients and quickly figure out how to use them for magick: “jasmine and lavender? i think that’s good for peace or something”

we say little incantations when we cook dinner, or pour food for our pets - “bunny, you are happy and healthy. enjoy!”

every witch has gone through their own version of uncertainty and unknowing when they first started practicing. everyone’s path is different, and the situations leading up to our current state, made us the witches we are today. your path is yours, and yours alone. don’t let anyone take that from you.

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Leave Yourself Alone

‘The paradox of our practice is that the most effective way of transformation is to leave ourselves alone. The more we let everything be just what it is, the more we relax into an open, attentive awareness of one moment after another.‘

- Barry Magid, Five Practices to Change Your Mind.

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Traffic (2000)

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We will always have worries, and there will always be uncertainty. That’s just life. If we want to live our fullest lives, we can’t wait until we are no longer afraid, until the path is clear and easy. We have to learn to take action despite our fears, or we will forever remain where we are. When we learn to make peace with the things we can’t control and decide to give our all regardless, that’s when we start to become our very best selves. To be comfortable in ourselves despite the discomfort of growth and change is to have mastered the art of living. 

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Dave  @davehoph

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Glamorous car candids of Priscilla Presley, c. 1960s

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Don't fall in love with the idea of being with someone. If they don't vibe with you, vibe with someone else.

- Expherience

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Elf statue at Mirkwood’s entrance