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I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

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sunsets after 7pm now !!!!!!!!!!! we made it guys !!!!!!!!!!!!

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To those of you who worship obscure divinities: there are no rule that bind you except your own. Go worship that obscure deity. Go invent that festival from scratch. Go make that offering even if it’s unusual. Go write that prayer even if you’re the only one who gets it. Go play around with your freedom as a practitioner and explore! Even in a spiritual context, creativity is a gift.

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Chilli + lemon = owch

You can write down as many correspondences as you want, memorize entire lists from someone else's blog or book or whatever, but none of it will matter if you do not understand those correspondences. It's so critically important to ask "Why?"

Why is spirit purple? Why is love red? Why is chamomile calm? Why is quartz "all purpose"? Why does cinnamon speed up a spell?

Why, why, why?

What do you actually believe? And why?

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kinda sick of all those posts that are like "my ancestors were surviving starvation and the plague meanwhile i get nervous ordering food at restaurants". as if jauffrey the woodworker didn't fumble his conversation with the fine maiden running the fruit stand and then tripped on a pebble as he left in a hurry

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It's about ✩balance✩ <- turning my reading time to land and nature based witchcraft to get back into my comfort zone after Planetary stuff

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Doing Magic is Like Owning a Dog

Lightworkers are people who have only ever owned small dogs. They never really disciplined or trained those dogs, because they didn’t have to. What harm can a small dog really do? That’s an irresponsible attitude and it’s unfair to the dog, but it’s extremely common. Most “love and light” magical practitioners act the same way. They have very little discipline or control, and think their intentions outweigh their impacts.

Baneful practitioners are like guard dog owners. A Doberman, Malinois, Mastiff, Pit Bull, or German Sheppard doesn’t just come perfectly well behaved. If one of these breeds attacks somebody, they can do some extreme damage. Because of how they were bred, they have predispositions towards ‘dangerous’ personality traits that have to be mitigated. They require training, discipline, and stimulation. In order to properly provide that, the dog owner also has to be trained and disciplined. Baneful magic is the same.

Most magical practitioners are lightworkers, even if they don’t call themselves that. It’s usually out of fear, misguided morals, or a desire to feel superior. Most magical practitioners try baneful magic for the first time when they're popping off out of anger, fear, or pain with no regards to the consequences of their actions. They operate within the principles they’re familiar with, and they fuck it up, then blame the magic.

Think of it like this: Someone who has had badly behaved Chihuahuas their entire life decides to get a working-line Malinois on a whim. They consider themselves an experienced dog owner, so why not. The bring home the Malinois and treat it the same way they treated their Chihuahua. Now their neighbor’s kid has half its fucking face bitten off and the owner is blaming the dog for something that could have been entirely prevented had they been a responsible dog owner. Instead of taking accountability, they conclude that there is something wrong with the entire breed, and support “mean” dog breeds being banned and put down.

Just like you can’t say “a dog is a dog” or “an engineer is an engineer,” neither can you say “magic is magic.” A Great Pyrenees can’t be treated like a Greyhound; a software engineer can’t do nuclear engineering; baneful magic cannot be performed as impulsively as “light” magic. If you act on impulse and it blows back up in your face or hurts someone, you are the one at fault – not the magic.

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I’m gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain

If this is a prison I’m willing to bite my own chain

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That feeling when you finally make a breakthrough and have the perfect method worked put for the spell you've been puzzling over for over a month but you can't share how clever it is for Reasons

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i genuinely hope that boop day inspires everyone to interact more with other tumblr users. because it’s clearly way more fun this way!! even once the boop button is gone, there’s still asks, tag and ask games, comments, dms, fuck it let’s bring back blog rates i don’t care. part of the reason that tumblr is dying is that its way less social than it used to be. let’s fix that!!

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Gods represent duality. Following any deity means embracing this duality both with them and within yourself. Think of each aspect of a god and their domain as beautiful, even things we often fear.

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ideas for tumblr staff

dont remove the boop button

stop banning trans women for no reason

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a comic/zine about coyotes

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Trans day of visibility is gonna be over here in like ten minutes so uh- I dressed up today

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Beginner witchcraft used to be causing milk to spoil. Striking the neighbors livestock with misshapen young. Ruining the marriage of an honest man. Making upstanding ladies of the church into fallen women. Yall just making suncatchers and shit. Sleepaway camp ass mfkrs. YOURE GROWN. RUIN SOMETHING.