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while i was away a 300 dollar autopay bill overdrafted my account and my bank just charged me overdraft fees for a week straight without telling me. then my rent payment bounced. and i got this eviction notice today. i'm 1700 in the hole so i would say i'm not having a good time right now

this is just where i'm at as of writing. my bank is going to charge even more overdraft fees soon & theres also going to be late fees on my other bills this month

my next paycheck is later this week but it's going to be ~400. idk the horrors are neverending. i am doing my best but anything at all helps

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companies make billions from you thinking you're ugly btw. only ugly thing is their bottom line. log out of tiktok right now.

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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Do you want to be politically pure in theory or help your neighbor. Is it fruitless to help your neighbor because there's no Perfect Pure way to do it ?

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Ok now do NYT columnists

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Work with moon cycles but don't forget that witchcraft can be just as effective by daylight as well! Nature provides us with many opportunities to work with its tides and cycles; use and explore as many of these opportunities as you can. There are no "right" or "wrong" ways - but I would argue that there are more effective or less effective ways to do things based on your local landscape, natural resources, personal taste, traditions, culture, and disposition. You are the witch, and you are in charge of your own magic and power, so have fun and get your hands dirty making and doing magic.

A Witch's Ally: Building a Magical Relationship with Animal Familiars and Companions (page 158) by Dodie Graham McKay

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So based on what I've read so far for primers on chaos magic, I recommend starting with Condensed Chaos: An Introduction To Chaos Magic by Phil Hine, THEN getting the updated and revised and expanded editions of Liber Null and Psychonaut and also Liber Kaos by Peter J Carroll.

Caveats for Condensed Chaos:

misuse of "shaman" and similar terms (none of what is brought up relates to Tungusic peoples)

written by a neurotypical white English bisexual cisgender man, and boy howdy is the neurotypical part obvious in several areas

inconsistent capitalization for concepts, and also inconsistent comma usage

definitely a product of its time and not decolonized, which is a larger problem in chaos magic as a whole

Recommended Audience for Condensed Chaos:

pop culture mages/pagans

those interested in servitors, sigils, or chaos magic more broadly

technology mages

those who want to explore Jungian psychology in magic

As for Peter J Carroll's works... Basically the same as the above, yet also way more difficult to read if you're not used to old grimoire-esque language and writing styles.

I'd still genuinely recommend all three of these, just with the reminder to raise an eyebrow at some of the claims made.

The books I still have to read on chaos magic that I currently own are Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation Through The Ovayki Current by Andrieh Vitimus; Creating Magickal Entities: A Complete Guide to Entity Creation by David Michael Cunningham, Taylor Ellwood, and T Amanda R Wagener; and Magickal Servitors: Create Your Own Spirits To Attract Pleasure, Power and Prosperity by Damon Brand.

Plenty of reading left for me to do on this subject.

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a reminder that the trees you grew up with have not forgotten you and the way your feet padded along the ground.

the breeze that sweeps through the foliage once swept through your hair and between your fingers.

the moon has not forgotten you, in fact she still watches over you during the night.

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Black Bottle Hex

Obtain a dark bottle; clay, glass or ceramic will do. Also obtain a selection of thorns, nine pins, vinegar, and a candle.

Insert the thorns first. Then heat each pin over the candle's flame and name them for your enemy (and their co-conspirators, if any). Drop into the bottle. Fill with vinegar and cap tightly.

"Witch's bottle, thorn and pin

blast their home, their kith and kin

swirl in enmity and strife;

cursed be their house and life."

Bury the bottle, upside down, where they will be sure to walk past or over it.

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When I say "connect with nature" I don't just mean the aesthetic forests with deer and beautiful flowers.

I mean the weeds growing through concrete, the fungus that grows on the rotten shed, the nettles that always seem to return and the scary, spindly cellar spider in the corner of the bathroom.

Nature is not always pretty or magical - the pigeons and seagulls you swat at are nature too, the wasps and flies that hover by your meals are animals too, store-bought strawberries and the leaves that fall from your neighbour's tree are not all that different from the Giant Sequoias and it's seeds.

If you want to connect and understand nature, I mean *really* connect to it, in it's entirety, you have to seek out and learn about the ugly, scary and mundane things as well. You don't have to like it, just don't forget that it's there.

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Why is it whenever you bring up things like fatphobia or not wearing makeup or not shaving or anything else that society hates when people are or do, you ALWAYS have people talking about how they've had it hard bc they're skinny or they wear makeup to be empowered or they shave for themselves

Like why are you so uncomfortable to be put in a category of social acceptance? Why are you so uncomfortable being pegged as someone who conforms to conventional beauty standards? You're coming to people who get genuinely harassed and negatively effected by things like being fat or not wearing makeup or being hairy and telling us all that being thin and wearing makeup and shaving are all actually subversive and brave. And it's not? You're doing What is Expected of You. And if you stopped, many, many people - strangers even - would feel compelled to at the very least point it out derisively, and at the worst straight up deny you medical care or harass you in the street.

Tbh it doesn't matter if you're doing makeup for you. That's not how everyone else views that. They see makeup as expected. People who don't have lost job opportunities. People who don't have their abilities questioned because without makeup they "look unkempt". The only makeup that pushes the envelope is Indigenous makeup styles and things like intense goth makeup or "birthday makeup".

Shaving is expected! You are supposed to be near-hairless. Anyone who reads as femme is expected to be hairless. If you want to be femme, you have to shave. You can get harassed for being hairy in the wrong spaces. Being hairy can read as being unkempt or dirty by conventional society. A lot of racism plays into this.

Being fat in a world that constantly wants you to lose weight can straight up kill you! People don't get hired for being fat. People get harassment constantly for being fat. Fat queer and poc have some of the hardest times being fat in the world we are in. Bodies reduced to jokes by society. Living in a world quite literally not built for you in the slightest. Mocked constantly by strangers and left to languish in chronic illness until its too late to fix because a doctor would rather see you lose weight before ever trying to help you.

Being skinny, shaving, wearing makeup, are all expected of you and are often treated with praise and uplifted as desirable. So why do those people have to come onto every single post about people who fall outside social convention to talk about how they uniquely have it worse or just as bad for looking exactly how they're expected to.

This website can't even handle this shit. It's no wonder so many are struggling with not being intersexist as hell. We're stuck on Baby's First "Not Everything is About You"

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i hope whoever actually shot that CEO is having a good day.

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As a witch, you don't have to do any shadow work, at all, ever, if that's just not your thing. Anybody who insists you must do shadow work in order to be a witch either doesn't understand what shadow work actually is and where it comes from or is trying to sell something.

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In preparation for the Ides of March, please take one (1) knife.

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i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up