#Rhyd Wildermuth

[thejaymo]

Day One | Weeknotes

After using it for a year I thought I'd write about Day One App, as it's some of best money I've ever spent on software.

[sangennaro]

"There’s really only three types of writing that we do in modern civilization. The first is the basic one we do everyday: writing notes on paper, texting to friends, writing reports for work, and all the other mundane things we write, conveying meaning and information to others or back to ourselves. The second is what we can call “sacred” writing, meaning that it’s how we attempt to convey something more than mere information or signal. This is a much rarer kind of writing, because the sacred is also a much rarer kind of thing. This kind of writing doesn’t just include poetry and “great” prose, but also the love note you write to your wife, the handwritten letter to a distant friend, or what a law clerk types out when you are crafting your final will. It’s writing with importance (from Latin im-portare, something you “carry in”), rather than a scrawled set of signals. The third bit is the newest sort, “content.” It’s what fills the space between a title and the end of the page, something to keep your attention moving in the direction the “content creator” would like it to move. It’s there to get you to click on something, or to click past it. You can see it best with recipe pages on the internet, paragraph after paragraph of writing you’re not even expected to read. It’s also all the “filler” articles in newspapers and the text on cheap shopping fliers, not actually meant to be read by anyone."

--Rhyd Wildermuth, here

[alephskoteinos]

Fuck Repeater Books and Fuck Rhyd Wildermuth (again)

I fucking hate Repeater Books

If you read that Substack article, you find that Rhyd begins with a diatribe about his bafflement at dating someone with neopronouns, and then he talks about right-wing fascists like Matt Walsh and LibsOfTikTok as basically documenting them as "excesses" of "the left".

Are you seriously telling me that nobody at Repeater Books, a respected publisher of left-wing radical literature, bothered to ask Rhyd any questions about his comments about neopronouns or especially the way he talks about Matt Walsh or LibsOfTikTok? Is this what I'm supposed to understand is the case?

By the way, I just love being lectured about ideas that don't connect to the masses or so-called "everyday reality" by a guy who claims to be a Druid and somehow refers to himself as an Autonomist Marxist, who also moved to France to live in the Ardennes and is now almost literally physically disconnected from everyday American life!

Also, note the way he talks about fiction, realism, reality, and "good fiction" or "coherent fiction", in the context of the fact that he hates neopronouns.

I must say I have to appreciate the fact that he cites the concept of Jungian archetypes only a little later on, because at that point it grants me the suspicion that Jungian psychoanalysis, and its later developments in atheistic appreciations of religion and especially neopaganism, might have been mistakes. Makes me think of Austin Osman Spare's phrase, "Fraud and Junk", directed against Freud and Jung and perhaps by extension the whole modern tradition of psychoanalysis. Might want to think about that also when considering the "psychological" model of magic.

The Substack article ends in part with a description of Rhyd's new book as "A clear and engaging history of how left radicalism went wrong and how it can become what it must be again." I seriously wouldn't promote it as anything of the kind. And it just tells me if this text gains purchase to any sizeable extent of the contemporary "Left", then it will prove that the "Left" as it exists today is simply a joke, so hopelessly caught in discursive and intellectual games in pursuit of some correct and totalised anti-capitalist doctrine, and perfecting the discourse that might allow them to win power by so sufficiently critiquing capitalism, that they are willing to accept reactionary discourses of identity that are literally allied with right-wing fascism, even in ostensibly radical of spaces, and throw marginalised people under the bus for the sake of having a "serious conservation". Fuck all of that!

Oh and I suppose I'd best include a rundown of Rhyd Wildermuth's support for bigotry of many kinds:

[man-i-just-really-like-plants]

Occult Authors to Avoid

🦋 Silver Raven Wolf Racist, misinformation, conflation of Wicca & Witchcraft, monotheistic prejudice, perpetuation of the Burning Times, dictatorship over practices.

🦋 Raymond Buckland Misinformation, massive contributor to the misconceptions of the threefold law & burning times, sexualization and fetishization of religious practice, misconceptions on Neo-Wicca

🦋 Arin Murphy-Hiscock Silver Raven Wolf’s student, has lots of the same ideas as her

🦋 Ann Moura Racist, conflation of Wicca & Witchcraft, misinformation on Wicca's origins

🦋 Aleister Crowley Bigoted, racist, antisemitic, appropriation, misogynist, gender bias

🦋 Catherine Yronwode Incites violence, appropriation, racism, harassment

🦋 Christian Day Rape threats, harassment, curse threats, self proclaimed warlock

🦋 Diana Paxson Ableist, racist

🦋 EA Koetting [Matthew Joseph Lawrence] Appropriation, drug abuse, self deification

🦋 Edward P. Butler Hindutva supporter (Hindu alt nationalism), supports Galina Krasskova, claims for harassment

🦋 Frosts [Gavin Frost, Yvonne Frost] Pedophilic writing, misinformation and claim to creation of Wicca

🦋 Galina Krasskova - Etsy [wyrdcuriosities] Classist, racist, openly supports alt right & fascist movements, Nazi apologist, monotheistic prejudice (namely Islamophobia)

🦋 Gordon White [Rune Soup] Appropriation, misinformation, Covid denial, anti Covid vax, race critical theosophy and polygenism

🦋 Jasmuheen [Ellen Greve] Breatharianism, contributed to community deaths (1990s)

🦋 Kenaz Filan Appropriation, racism, transphobia, white supremacy, adheres to alt right ideologies, harassment

🦋 Kenny Klein Pedophile, convicted for possession of child porn

🦋 Helena Blavatsky [Helena Petrovna Hahn, Hélène] Pseudo-science, political conspiracies, appropriation, contributor to modern alien political conspiracies that exist across the US today

🦋 Lisa Lister TERF ideologies, medical misinformation, cultural appropriation

🦋 Maulana Karenga [Ronald McKinley Everett] Advocate for human torture/torturer, rapist

🦋 Peter Grey Playing down bigoted presence, defending fascists, transphobes, and white supremacists

🦋 Raven Kaldera Misinformation, appropriation, fascism, transmisogyny, ableism, racism, cissexism

🦋 Rhyd Wildermuth [Gods & Radicals Press] Defends fascist authors, transphobic, misogynistic, supports Hindutva & Edward Butler; requested by server members

🦋 Robin Artisson Destructive and racist behavior

🦋 S. Connolly Conflates mental health w/ spirituality, appropriation (Lilith, chakras), depiction of witches as an oppressed group

🦋 Skye Alexander Appropriation, racism, misinformation, rede-thumping

🦋 Stephen E. Flowers [Edred Thorsson, Darban-i-Den] Nazi, white supremacist, racist

🦋 Tamara L. Siuda [Mambo Chita Tann] Appropriation, possible transcendent belief setup & infallible charismatic leadership/dictatorship (personality cult)

🦋 Terence McKenna Appropriation, pseudoscience, contributor to misrepresentation of shamanism (collective practice)

🦋 Tsirk Susej [Chad Ian Miller] Misinformation, appropriation, radicalism, conspiracy, affiliation with the Church of Satan & O9A, self proclaimed Antichrist, religious extremism

🦋 Varg Vikernes [Louis Cachet], twitter [WargarW, GandalftheWhi19], YouTube [ThuleanPerspective] Murderer, arsonist, contributor to the Norsk Hedensk Front (nazi-occult group)

🦋 William R. Wraithe, Twitter [william_wraithe] Harassment & threats, repeated curse threats, self proclaimed ‘savior’

🦋 Anastasia Greywolf Misinformation, appropriation

🦋 Asenath Mason Appropriation, misinformation

🦋 Christopher Penczak Victim blaming, curse shaming, appropriation, misinformation

🦋 Danielle Dionne White author & eclectic spiritualist using rootworking and hoodoo for monetary gain

🦋 Dante Abiel Appropriation, fetishization of ATRs, misinformation

🦋 DJ Conway Misinformation, fetishization of Celtic myth, appropriation

🦋 Doreen Virtue Large contributions to chakras, crystal pseudosciences, and harmful stereotypes for starseeds in spirituality

🦋 EA Wallis Budge Misinformation, poor translation

🦋 Edain McCoy Misinformation, perpetuation of harmful Irish stereotypes, pseudo historical writing. Creator of ‘Witta’. McCoy is the creator of the infamous ‘Irish Potato Goddess’

🦋 Gabriela Herstik Misinformation, historical fallacies, appropriation

🦋 Michael W. Ford Appropriation, misinformation

🦋 Scott Cunningham Broad misinformation, appropriation, conflation of Wicca & Witchcraft

🦋 Semra Haksever Appropriation of Hoodoo, use of smudging, chakras, spirit animals; requested by server members

🦋 Starr Casas Appropriation, white woman writing about Hoodoo, Rootworking, and Voodoo

[spiralhouseshop]

Big restock of Gods and Radicals books at The Spiral House Shop!

A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer

All That is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guild to Marxism by Rhyd Wildermuth

Being Pagan: A Guide to Re-Enchant Your Life by Rhyd Windermuth

Five Principles of Green Witchcraft by Asa West

Pagan Anarchism by Christopher Scott Thompson

Solidarity Networks & Emergency Survival: A Practical Guide For Surviving The Collapse Of Empire With Others

In The Midnight Hour: Finding Power in Difficult Emotions by Anthony Rella

[lazywitchling]

Jes' Collection of Witch Books

I said I would make this list, so here I am, making this list.

These are all the Witchy (and witchy-adjacent) books I own and/or have read. It's a long list, so it's going under a cut!

Key of Symbols:

📗 Read

📖 Reading

📚 Not Yet Read

Books that I own

📗 Rebel Witch by Kelly-Ann Maddox (Review)

📗 A Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft by Fire Lyte

📗 Spellcrafting by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

📗 The House Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock (Review)

📗 Witchery by Juliet Diaz (Review)

📚 A Witch's Guide to Spellcraft by Althea Sebastiani

📚 All That is Sacred is Profaned by Rhyd Wildermuth (edit: nevermind, he's a transphobe now)

📚 Reclaiming Ourselves by Emma Kathryn

📚 In the Midnight Hour by Anthony Rella

📗 Weave the Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff (Review)

📚 Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways by Gemma Gary

📗 Grovedaughter Witchery by Bree NicGarran (@breelandwalker)

📗 The Sisters Grimmoire by Bree NicGarran (@breelandwalker)

📚 Witchcraft by Anastasia Greywolf or Tamsin Chamberlin (don't buy this one: here's why)

Books I read from the Library

📗 The Modern Witchcraft Spell Book by Skye Alexander (don't buy this one: here's why)

📗 Backwoods Witchcraft by Jake Richards

Zines and Pamphlets

📗 A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer

📗 Brainscan 33: DIY Witchery by Alex Wrekk (@upthewitchypunx)

📗 Brainscan 34: A Dabbler's Week of DIY Witchery by Alex Wrekk (@upthewitchypunx)

📗 Everyday Magic #1

📗 Everyday Magic #2

📗 Exploding the Tangerine by Clint Marsh & Oliver Bly

📗 Five Principles of Green Witchcraft by Asa West

📗 Hex Your Ex

📗 The Witchy Zinester's Pocket Book of Spells

📚 Twin Peaks Tarot Spreads

📚 Sow Sprout Grow Tarot Spreads

Charity Bundle E-Books

These all came as a bundle, so the quality will vary as it does with any bargain grab-bag. I'm not linking these unless I've read (or am reading) them because it takes a long time, and I have no idea if they're good or absolute shit. If you want to learn about these, you know how the internet works.

📚 City Magick by Christopher Penczak

📗 Consorting with Spirits by Jason Miller

📚 Herbal Magick by Gerina Dunwich

📚 Hex Twisting by Diana Rajchel

📚 Italian Folk Magic by Mary-Grace Fahrun

📚 Love Magic by Lilith Dorsey

📚 Magic When You Need It by Judika Illes

📚 Magickal Astrology by Skye Alexander

📚 Personal Magic by Marion Weinstein

📚 Plant Witchery by Juliet Diaz

📚 Positive Magic by Marion Weinstein

📗 Queering Your Craft by Cassandra Snow (Review)

📚 Reading the Runes by Kim Farnell

📚 Spellcrafting by Gerina Dunwich

📚 The Big Book of Tarot by Joan Bunning

📚 The Study of Witchcraft by Deborah Lipp

📚 The Witch's Eight Paths of Power by Lady Sable Aradia

📚 The Witch's Guide to Wands by Gypsey Elaine Teague

📚 True Magic by Draja Mickaharic

📚 Water Witchcraft by Annwyn Avalon

📚 Wicca Made Easy by Phyllis Curott

📚 Wishcraft by Sakura Fox

📚 Witch, Please by Victoria Maxwell

📚 Witchcraft Activism by David Salisbury

📚 Year of the Witch by Temperance Alden

[memoriaedamnatio]

Hieros Elaionas

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Anti-monotheism

Multiple staff members fall into the trap of anti-monotheism. Aside from alienating members in and out of the community, anti-monotheism often leads to folkism -- more on this in a bit.

Promoting known fascist content

Staff promote fascist academic Edward P. Butler. Note that there was an extremely public, community-wide reckoning of Butler's fascist sympathies in December 2021. This month (December 2022), a staff member recommended Butler's page on the Hindu fascist website that came into question in 2021. Hieros Elaionas is promoting fascists and their work a full calendar year after his exposure.

RSS Feed has a blogger with folkish tendencies

The RSS feed features a blogger, Kaye Boesme, who has shared folkish opinions and retweeted Rhyd Wildermuth's article defending the above fascist Butler. Rhyd Wildermuth has very publicly defended fascists and publicly spewed transphobic rhetoric for at least a year. Boesme posted a screenshot from a folkist website and pinned it.

This article from Wildermuth's Substack is very explicitly and specifically about the exposure of Butler's fascism (and Wildermuth's defense of it).

[hellenic-reconstructionism]

Hey there, just saw your reblogged post about Hieros Elaionas. I've been in that server for a few years and have nothing but positive things to say. They are kind, fair, and one of the most history and fact based polytheism servers I've ever been on. You're allowed to disagree with a philosophical position like monotheism in life, you're allowed to think polytheism doesn't make sense, none of that makes you "folkish". As for posting known fascist content, I have seen plenty of content removed by mods that leans that direction but people miss things.

Just wanted to give my two cents, if you're going to reblog a little slam post might as well post this too. Nothing's black and white, that's a great server and I don't think a Tumblr post will truly bother anyone there other then the hard working mods who are doing their best to create a safe place to discuss Hellenic Polytheism in depth.

Hope you have a good new year!

I don't think being anti-monotheist makes you folkish per se, but I do think it's a gateway to folkism, from my experience with more out-and-out folkists (in Heathenry, Hellenic paganism, Slavic paganism, etc.).

I appreciate your two cents, but I am not the poster of that post and cannot in good conscience endorse any server where moderators actively promote fascist content. That is never okay, considering how loud and public the stuff around Butler was, to the extent that he talked about it (and Rhyd Wildermuth, a literal transphobe who platformed a fascist, who is named in the post). I do not trust "they didn't know" at this point considering how big of a deal it was, and considering I've seen the mods on Twitter in pagan spaces. I'm sorry you're invested in this community, but there's no way they don't know.

By doing this, they are putting their members in danger -- either of interaction with fascists and folkists, or in danger of radicalization into these groups.

[thejaymo]

Slowly Starting To Happen | Weeknotes

I know I’ve spent the summer annoyed about the state of social media. But I’ve spent most of it largely off it. Mainly due to it being blocked. I’m not really reading or consuming it at all. I log in, post something, reply to DM’s and notifications and log out. The news is also blocked. What’s slowly starting to happen, as I spend more and more time in smaller communities instead. Is that I’m…

[gods-and-radicals]

EMPIRES CRUMBLE 6: Egregores

EMPIRES CRUMBLE 6: Egregores

What’s an Egregore? What’s an egregore got to do with America? And what really happened to the dude who made KONY2012? In the sixth episode Alley Valkyrie and Rhyd Wildermuth discuss how the ingredients of the ritual that manifested American make it impossible to change, and discuss how an egregoric understanding can inform resistance and magic against the State.

You can listen to the episode on…

[alephskoteinos]

Be very wary of ideologues trying to dictate to you who your enemies are, especially if one of those ideologues is Rhyd Wildermuth.

[lazywitchling]

jsyk rhyd wildermuth is a transphobe now :-(

GODDAMMIT.

Ugggghhhhhh thanks for telling me

(transphobia talk under the cut)

I just went hunting for evidence and yeah, boy, those are some rancid takes. >.< Like, it took a hot minute of scrolling 'cause I didn't find any DIRECT posts that were like 'ew trans people are gross' in what I think of as the 'classic' transphobia, but then a little bit of looking and what I found was 'well ACTUALLY the transphobes do have a point, and the woke left is being so mean to them :(".

Which is. Y'know. Not better.

Rhys. Honey. Baby. "How are we going to destroy capitalism if there's all these pronouns :(" is not the epic pwn you think it is.

(Article referenced is here)

[spiralhouseshop]

I haven't posted a shop update in awhile! Here's what's new at Portland Button Works and The Spiral House Shop for July 2022!

Wild Witchcraft: Folk Herbalism, Garden Magic, and Foraging for Spells, Rituals, and Remedies by Rebecca Beyer

Dream Divination Plants in Northern European Tradition by Corinne Boyer

The Witch At The Forest Edge: Thirteen Keys to Modern Traditional Witchcraft by Christine Grace

Witchcraft Cocktails: 70 Seasonal Drinks Infused with Magic & Ritual by Julia Halina Hadas

Magick Works: Stories of Occultism in Theory and Practice by Julian Vayne

The Beginner's Guide to the Occult: Understanding the History, Key Concepts, and Practices of the Supernatural by Deborah Lipp

The Book of Grimoires: The Secret Grammar of Magic by Claude Lecouteux

The Ancestral Power of Amulets, Talismans, and Mascots by Nigel Pennick

Grimoire Silvanus Zine Issue 6

Being Pagan: A Guide to Re-Enchant Your Life by Rhyd Wildermuth

A Witch's Guide to Spellcraft by Althea Sabastiani

Wise Dogs Tarot by MJ Cullinane

Rabbit Rabbit (on the first of the month for luck) button

Pronoun buttons (He/Him & They/Them, They/Them, She/Her, He/Him, My Pronouns are ...., She/Her & They/Them)

#CatBoss Jackie button

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October 22 - If the Broom Fits Season of The Witch Market

[upthewitchypunx]

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Making Magic by Briana Saussy

Magical Power for Beginners- How to Raise & Send Energy for Spells That Work by Deborah Lipp

Weave The Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Some creative books to help build your witch craft practice:

Spellcrafting- Strengthen the Power of your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

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Anthologies: Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels, Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community, Shades of Ritual: Minority Voices in Practice

Magical Resistance: Witchcraft Activism by David Salisbury, Magic for the Resistance by Michael Hughes, Revolutionary Witchcraft by Sarah Lyons

Witches and Feminist Perspectives: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, Witches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English , Witches Sluts Feminists by Kristen J. Sollee

Pagan Anti-Capitalism: Pagan Anarchism True to the Earth: Pagain Political Thology by Kadmus, All That is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Ryhd Wildermuth, A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer

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Circling the Star by Anthony Rella

All That Is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Rhyd Wildermuth

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Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways by Gemma Gary

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Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft by Keldon

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Besom Stand and Sword A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft the Six-Fold Path the Hidden Landscape by Christopher Orapello & Tara Love Maguire

Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South by Aaron Oberon

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[protoslacker]

At what point do all the ideas humans have about what is just and righteous stop and life itself takes over? And when do we finally choose to nurture, shelter, and grow the life around us rather than destroy everything at hand for someone else’s imagining?

Rhyd Wildermuth in his Subtack From The Forest of Arduinna. Human Shields and Imagined Communities

At what point do we just live?

I came to this essay by way of a thoughtful post by Dave Pollard: Our Unique Human Capacity for Hatred.

The Amnesty Internatioal report referenced by Wildermouth is Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians.