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I told my bf I need minimum as much care as a goldfish. Check in once per day and like an hour of upkeep every week.

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“In other words, Man will risk his biological life to satisfy his non-biological Desire. And Hegel says that the being that is incapable of putting its life in danger in order to attain ends that are not immediately vital – i.e. the being that cannot risk its life in a Fight for Recognition, in a fight for pure prestige – is not a truly human being.”

— Introduction to Hegel // Kojeve (via grandpasessions)

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Silly Putty implies the existence of serious putty.

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MY TA SHOT SOMEONE IN THE FOOT AND THE PROFESSOR WAS SO FUCKING QUICK LMAOOO

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I haven’t cried like this is a long time😢. Nigeria is burning.

Today, 10/20/2020 the Nigerian government sent the military to kill unarmed innocent civilians, a bloody massacre.

Every single drop of innocent Nigerian blood spilled will judge Buhari, Sanwo-Olu and Tinubu. They will never know peace. The blood of the innocent will curse them. They will suffer severely before they die.

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UPS drivers have infinitely more sex appeal than FedEx drivers

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im loving this article written by som mycologists who accidentally got high as fuck on fly agaric

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Need to save this. Also though, I’ve thought for ages that thinking of ‘self’ as only one human person is inaccurate and limiting. The borders of the body are a little bit arbitrary to me because one person alone is as hypothetical a situation as a nervous system walking about by itself. As individuals we are one system in a body of our family or community, our ecosystem, and whatever physics of spirit anyone might propose. We can study that individual self in isolation for I guess research purposes, but to consider it outside of the body it resides in makes its function moot and just I guess feels like an essential misunderstanding.

my grandma embroidered little flowers on her clothes like i do and she taught me how to cook asparagus so it actually tasted good and she wrote about grief so simply that i could make sense of it when i was a child that had just lost a grandfather and sometimes i wonder how much of me is made of her and how much of me is my uncle and how much is my best friend and how much is my little sister. i wonder how much of them is me.

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Wooo I’m 40

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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(The art of harvesting and preparing Taif rose (’attar [traditional perfumes] and rose oils) in Taif, Saudi Arabia.) [*Do not remove the source link above.]

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Here’s some intuitive magic that’s got me happy.

It’s Mahonia cordial. Or it will be in a month. I’ve been assembling plant allies.

I get a feeling, I reach out... it’s been lovely. And this full moon (which I was only just aware of before I got curious where the moon was in all this), I got the feeling what I needed to do.

It’s got mahonia berries (blanched & crushed), quite a bit of lovage that got bent and was not looking so good, the rose sugar I made from the flowers my laser boyfriend gave me from his garden, and then a few hours later I realized I had impulse bought lavender and fennel seeds in the last few weeks and they probably need to go in too, just a bit.

My impression is that this is a broken heart potion that is especially focused on reinforcement of a sense of security that comes with healthy boundaries. I’ve had synchro relating to boundaries since I had this project in mind. I got divorced in the last year so I think it’s needed and timely. And then it’s topped off with alcohol. I shake it each morning and whenever I feel like it, and I think I’ll open it up and strain it in a month. At that point I’ll do what I feel but I anticipate a few drops daily on my tongue or a squirt in my morning seltzer. Honestly I credit my guides, including my lovage plant for this one and rather than keeping an intent in mind, I try to bring to mind my relationship with and the vibe of the ingredients and let them focus the potential. Makes me think maybe my lovage plant is approaching the point of being a real familiar.

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Could you please reblog this if you are a witch who isn’t Wiccan?

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hello! i've been trying to research magic, but unfortunately most books i find are specific wicca, which i'm not interested in. do you have any book reccomendations that arent wicca centric? thank you! i love your blog :^)

Oh heckin yes I do My amazon wishlist is literally like six pages long… ALL BOOKS

WARNING: This Is Going To Be Extremely Long!

First though I want to note that while I 100% understand your feelings about the Wicca stuff (being a very NOT Wiccan Witch), not all books that are Wicca leaning are bad! I’ve gotten loads of useful information from books that tended to be a little new agey. That’s where being objective comes in! With ANY book, you should take it with a grain of salt, and some with a whole shaker. But it’s up to you to pay attention to misinformation and conflation, and to know how to do research to prove or disprove that something in a book you read is true or not. Does that make sense?? 

Anywho, a couple of books that are still kind of “Wicca-y” but great:

Grimoire of the Green Witch

The Goodly Spellbook (This one is an INCREDIBLY AWESOME REFERENCE)

The Modern Guide To Witchcraft (Written By Skye Alexander who seems to mass produce books, so need some good fact checking here)

The Modern Witchcraft SpellBook (Written By Skye Alexander who seems to mass produce books, so need some good fact checking here)

The Witches Broom (LOTS OF SALT but good basic history)

The Witches Athame (LOTS OF SALT but good basic history)

The Witches Mirror (LOTS OF SALT but good basic history)

Cottage Witchery (This author is pretty good about keeping away but there’s still some slips)

Practical Protection Magick (This author is pretty good about keeping away but there’s still some slips)

The Big Book of Practical Spells (Written by Judika Illes, who did the Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells; it’s a good book, but there’s too much Cultural appropriation for my taste. Tread Lightly, and bring that shaker I was talking about)

Those are all books from my personal collection that I would recommend! Now as for the Non-Wicca Books, Let’s dive in! Not all of these have I read or owned, and they are in no particular order. You’ll notice most of them relate to “Traditional Witchcraft” or West Country, because that is where my practice is focused. 

The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices 

The High Magic of Talismans and Amulets: Tradition and Craft

Cornish Charms and Cures

To Fly by Night: An anthology of Hedgewitchery

Treading the Mill: Practical Craft Working in Modern Traditional Witchcraft

Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History

The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages

Grimorium Verum

The Devil’s Dozen: Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One

The Witching Herbs: 13 Essential Plants and Herbs for Your Magical Garden

Defences Against the Witches’ Craft - Anti-cursing Charms from English Folk Magick, Traditional Witchcraft and the Grimoire Traditions

Nummits and Crummits: Devonshire Customs, Characteristics, and Folk-lore

Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions

The Art of Black Mirror Scrying

Enchantment: The Witches’ Art of Manipulation by Gesture, Gaze and Glamour

CHILDREN OF CAIN: A Study of Modern Traditional Witchcraft.

The Pillars of Tubal Cain

Witch’s Workbook

The Left Hand: The Cabal Grimoire of Walking in Darkness

Profane Seals: A Compendium of Vile Sigil Magick - Volume I

Eye of the Oracle: The Cabal Grimoire of Psychic Magick

The Book of Smokeless Fire

Azoetia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft

Between the Living & the Dead: A Perspective on Witches & Seers in the Early Modern Age

The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The Horn of Evenwood: A Grimoire of Sorcerous Operations, Charms, and Devices of Witchery

The Cunning Man’s Handbook: The Practice of English Folk Magic, 1550-1900

Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath

The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook of Elizabethan Magic

The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet (PB)

Witchcraft: A Handbook of Magic Spells and Potions

Cecil Williamsons Book of Witchcraft: A Grimoire of the Museum of Witchcraft

Under the Witching Tree: A Folk Grimoire of Tree Lore and Practicum

Veneficium: Magic, Witchcraft and the Poison Path

Witchcraft For Tomorrow

Pharmako Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path

The Witches’ Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic

The Visions of Isobel Gowdie

The Taper That Lights The Way: Robert Cochrane’s Letters Revealed) 

The Call of The Horned Piper

A Deed Without a Name

Heritage Witchcraft (This one is kind of useless unless you’re taking his Classes)

Letters from the Devil’s Forest: An Anthology of Writings on Traditional Witchcraft, Spiritual Ecology and Provenance Traditionalism

The Devil’s Plantation: East Anglian Lore, Witchcraft & Folk-Magic

Liber Nox: A Traditional Witch’s Gramarye

Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism

Traditional Witches’ Formulary and Potion-making Guide: Recipes for Magical Oils, Powders and Other Potions

The Black Toad

Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways

PHEW!

That was a lot! Okay anon I hope this gives you a good starting place! 

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THE VVITCH: A New-England Folktale, 2015 dir. Robert Eggers Witches Sabbath, 1789 / Witches Flight, 1798 by Francisco de Goya

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PRAYER TO PAN

I pray to you almighty Pan God, whose form, is beast & man Oh father of the ancient way You’ve called to me, & I obey Come, with cloven hooves approaching Till, I feel your presence near then join me in this circle To be honored & revered.

IO PAN!

Chthonic satyr lord of Spring Old guardian of forest groves Friend to Dionysus The one who roams the mountains Seducer of shepherds & nymphs The god of witches Keeper of flocks Companion to all that is wild COME!

IO PAN!

He who haunts the woodlands Feral god of all of Nature Roaring one Reveler of pleasure Erotic god of rampant lust One who plays the tune of old The deity of dance Hedonistic wild hunter COME!

IO PAN!

My god, the gifted prophet! My lord, the Strong Protector! My father, the Fierce Avenger! Ancient horned god of Arcadia I call to you tonight! I petition you! Be with me until the night is through! COME!

Prayer by - © Sin Madison