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"How can I be a witch/pagan without falling for conspiracy theories/New Age cult stuff?" starter kit

Posts & Articles

Check your conspiracy theory. Does any of it sound like this?

Check your conspiracy theory part two: double, double, boil and trouble.

QAnon is an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, experts say

Some antisemitic dogwhistles to watch out for

Eugenicist and bioessentialist beliefs about magic

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

The New Age concept of ascension - what is it?

A quick intro to starseeds

Starseeds: Nazis in Space?

Reminder that the lizard alien conspiracy theory is antisemitism

The Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis is Racist and Harmful

The Truth About Atlantis

Why the Nazis were obsessed with finding the lost city of Atlantis

The Nazis' love affair with the occult

Occultism in Nazism

Red flag names in cult survivor resources/groups (all of them are far right conspiracy theorists/grifters)

The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse ‘memories’ is still causing damage today

Why Satanic Panic never really ended

Dangerous Therapy: The Story of Patricia Burgus and Multiple Personality Disorder

Remember a Previous Life? Maybe You Have a Bad Memory

A Case of Reincarnation - Reexamined

Crash and Burn: James Leininger Story Debunked

Debunking Myths About Easter/Ostara

Just How Pagan is Christmas, Really?

The Origins of the Christmas Tree

No, Santa Claus Is Not Inspired By Odin

Why Did The Patriarchal Greeks And Romans Worship Such Powerful Goddesses?

No, Athena Didn't Turn Medusa Into A Monster To Protect Her

Who Was the First God?

Were Ancient Civilizations Conservative Or Liberal?

How Misogyny, Homophobia, and Antisemitism Influence Transphobia

Podcasts & Videos

BS-Free Witchcraft

Angela's Symposium

ESOTERICA

ReligionForBreakfast

Weird Reads With Emily Louise

It's Probably (not!) Aliens

Conspirituality

Miniminuteman

Behind The Bastards

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Starting my time off with my first bit of tarot study! This week I've been thinking Queen of Cups and what this card means to me, with some help from my Alleyman's Tarot.

This journal companion to Yoshi Yoshitani's Tarot of the Divine is just lovely. I was a bit scared to start writing in it at first but pretty happy with how this very simple page turned out ☺️

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Happy Imbolc

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With Imbolc around the corner, I'm trying my hand at celebrating sabbats again.

I thought I'd get something special to put me in the seasonal vibes, and I found this marzipan rooibos tea from Raven Mystic on Etsy.

It tastes amazing and even has tiny sprinkles to represent the snow 😭 truth be told this may not last me until the sabbat itself 👀

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Question for the fellow nerdy witches out there; do you keep any kinds of crystals with your dice? Maybe store them with sigils?

Mine rolled absolutely abysmally during my last session (again) and I'm considering magical solutions 😂 must be better than dice jail, right?

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Me getting up in the morning like 

Hittin’ the keyboard like

Friends comin’ online like

DID YOu SEE tHE THINGg MY GOD

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A lucky capybara has given you a blessing! ✨ May it last the whole year and more!

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Overheard in a Garden, Oliver Herford

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It's NOT a New Years resolution. We've talked about this.

But since I am starting a new planner, I have blocked off a little section for three things: Consume, Create, Maintain. And each day, I want to have at least one thing in each box.

Consume can be: Watch movie. Scroll social media. Look at pretty art. Play video game. Read book. Listen to music. Listen to podcast. Drink a latte. Have a candy. Brew some of the fancy tea. Etc.

Create can be: Draw, paint, doodle. Crochet. Write a long blog post. Write in my journal. Put stickers in my journal. Work on a jigsaw puzzle. Make some food that involves more than opening a box. Have an in-depth chat about our D&D characters with friend. Arrange trinkets on a shelf to be aesthetically pleasing. Create a playlist. Etc.

Maintain can be: Text friend and ask what's new. Write a letter to grandma. Call sister. Dust off the bookshelf. Put away that half finished craft project. Brush the cat, or clip his nails. Change the sheets. Go grocery shopping. Use a sheet mask. Use that leave-in conditioner. Throw out that dried-up nail polish. Etc.

Because y'all know that otherwise my ADHD ass will pick ONE of those categories and do it ALL DAY until I collapse.

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This made actually made me laugh out loud

a concerning amount of witchblr will be like "um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus" and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish

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Can it be? Is it she?

I'm back, witches.

Yeah, I took a loooong hiatus from my practice, because truth be told, I lost my spark. But then, I got my hands on this book:

And honestly I cannot recommend this enough. I feel empowered to try again to make a practice that works for me and that I am comfortable and confident in.

Blessed be, folks.

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A video so you can get the idea of how I made those marzipan chocolate pine cones! The chocolate part is just a batch of regular brownies - I just reduced the sugar a bit and added some almond meal. Then you just crumble it up shape it to make your pinecone base to stick the chocolate cereal into! You don’t have to put marzipan in the middle, but I love it 🥰

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I sit on my little skeptic throne of witchcraft and enjoy it all because either magic is real and I’m very in tune with myself and the world around me, or it’s not and I become a master of meditation and good mental attitude and I get a fuck ton of shiny little trinkets and nicknacks that bring me immense joy there is no losing here

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Recipe can be found here.