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Discovering myself and my path in subtle ways // 30 // transgender / X / they pronouns // nature, witchy things, signal boosts, thoughts, personal // Mobile user //Living and Learning on occupied native territory; Molalla, Chinook, Clatskanie, Cowlitz, Kalapuya, Tillamook land TERFS & SUPREMACISTS FUCK OFF
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I've seen several sites mention this, it's real.
Do not make the MISTAKE of thinking you need to put your side forward. The Guardian is transphobic as fuck, and will twist your words. DO NOT ENGAGE.
By the way, this is in the aftermath of the Cass Report, and the goal will be to make Trans DIY something that needs to be regulated or stamped out. DO NOT ENGAGE.
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Mount Rainier National Park, Washington by Jojo
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you cant ever let yourself forget what it felt like to be 15. how adults treated you. being treated without a shred of respect because people think youre too young to have thoughts and feelings of your own. the lack of autonomy. you cant ever forget that because if you do you might become the kind of adult who treats kids like theyre not people
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Witchy ISO: magickal and medicinal uses for plants/herbs/flowers/trees specifically of plants that are indigenous to North America. Ideally, I'd love a collection of information about plants from all over the continent or at least the US, but I'll take Midwest/Lakota if they're region-dependent.
I genuinely have tried searching but I don't know how to find what I'm looking for if it even exists. I know how to use Google, but I have difficulty remembering the terms that get used as keywords and then I stump Google repeatedly.
A book I can keep with me in case digital files get lost sounds great. But I'll happily take someone's list they've put together in a Google doc or social media post. I'm not picky at this point if it's all in one place and easily understandable. I only know one of two things.
I am NOT looking to appropriate native American cultural practices. I am learning about Scandinavian and more eclectic witchcraft, and I am hoping to incorporate plants that are local to me into my craft as substitutions for many of the European plants mentioned in original stuff.
I definitely want to go back out foraging and try connecting with the local community. I would just love a starting point of information. TIA!
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Mount Adams, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, USA by Lee Rentz
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it's also realizing that these movies existed because adults felt like those ants. They wanted to organize and do something and they felt like they couldn't so they made those movies for us. So that the next generation of workers would understand their fate and power and be motivated to change our reality.
I'm an anticapitalist because some people at Pixar a long time ago put all of their faith and hope into teaching kids, that we deserved better. And that one day we'd be big enough to fight for it.
I've grown.
And I'm ready to punch some crickets in the face.
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There are actually a lot of rules to magic.
Like yes, there's no rules, but if your takeaway from that is that there's literally no rules, then I think you missed the larger conversation about the specific ways in which there are no rules.
What "there's no rules" means is that there is not one universal set of rules that applies to every practitioner.
It means that nobody gets to act as an authority on what the rules are for everyone else.
It means that if you show up on somebody else's post saying "the first rule of witchcraft is that you must only use magic for good" you will probably (and deservedly) be told to fuck off.
What "there's no rules" does NOT mean is that there are literally no rules. There are SO many rules. People just work within their own set of rules.
Some rules come with the territory of working within a specific tradition.
Some rules are set by entities that practitioners work with, and might be quite specific to each individual.
Some rules are like laws of physics. They define the mechanisms by which magic works within a paradigm, and what the limits are on what it can do. A magical practice consisting of "I can do literally anything," is typically a practice that hasn't had a lot of genuine thought put into it. I have yet to meet anybody who can literally turn invisible or fly.
Some rules are more like a personal code of ethics.
So, when you burst into someone else's post to announce that there are no rules, you might not be told to fuck off quite as quickly as if you turned up to impose your personal rules on other people, but you are essentially signaling that you do not understand the concept of rules within a magical practice.
Disclaimer: some people are going to be obnoxious and make their own posts about how everyone else should be following their rules, and while it might be tempting to correct them, in my experience these people tend to get 0 notes, and you're more likely to give them the exposure they desire by starting a flame war. When they find that followers don't come flocking to them, they eventually get bored and give up.
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I wondered why green is so associated with hope and then I remembered being 8 and seeing a little plant sprout after a few days of waiting and. Yeah. I get it now.
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On Witchcraft as a spirituality
Sometimes people hit me up like "I need verification, but practicing spells is so tedious, and I need validation" and I am here to tell you that
In my personal opinion you know that
You're never going to finish crochet projects unless you love making stitches.
Letting the yarn slip over your fingers and the hook goes over under over under, stitch stitch stitch, turning chain,
That is the part you've got to love, I think, because the problem is if you only love the amigurumi, or the bag, or the blanket, you're never going to get there,
because crocheting isn't having a blanket.
Crocheting is making a blanket.
"I just need to see my spells manifesting before I can have proof, I need that validation" is bullshit
because you can cast a spell that goes off so incredibly well and then you look around and all you can say is "well that just means the situation was already going to go fine and I never needed to cast, there's no way I could have accomplished that"
and all the while there's this little bit of hollowness and stress and frustration, like you're looking for the thing but the thing never presents itself,
so now the question is still there and it just switches from "I need validation," to "I need faith"
and this is exactly like finishing the amigurumi and looking at its soft squishy face and setting it aside and saying "I need a bag"
but in all the cases, you know, the answer is just about stitches.
Do you need a bag? Or do you need the quiet, repetitive, counting, soothing, structure, activity, progress, and then, by total coincidence, after a while a bag appears?
I think this way often about witchcraft as a spirituality. My blog is mostly practical sorcery based. And when you approach witchcraft from that perspective I think it's pretty much, "I need a result."
But witchcraft isn't having a result.
Witchcraft is making a result.
and I think for those of us who use witchcraft as a spirituality, as a damp and safe terracotta pot within which we can unfurl our roots into the rich soil of the underworld,
It is the joy of the process itself which waters the soils - not the end result.
When you engage in your practice - the literal, physical, mental, and emotional actions you engage in, the ways you've ritualized your behaviors, the series of behaviors you engage in which allow you to interface with your path -
Do those parts, in and of themselves, serve you?
So anyway love your results but fuck results at the same time, if the actual moment-to-moment doesn't serve you, if being there doing the actions in and of itself doesn't bring you something,
perhaps there are adjustments to be done.
It could even be time to switch to a new fiber art altogether.
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reminder to (if you can!) braid your hair today; the Rising Hearts organisation have asked for everybody who can braid their hair to do so today for Cole Brings Plenty. a young native American man who was found murdered with his hair cut in a hate crime. on their Instagram, Rising Hearts stated:
On Monday, April 8th, wear your braids. Show your braids. Indigenous or not, wear a braid, wear 2 braids, wear many. We wear braids as a community for Cole Brings Plenty and his family. For all indigenous peoples with braids. For the many, past and present, whose braids were cut and attacked. If you don't have hair to braid, share others posts or this post on Monday. Tag @rising_hearts #BraidsForCole
Our hair is sacred. Braids are sacred. Connects us to our ancestors, to community, to ceremony.
Cole Brings Plenty, 27, Lakota, actor (Yellowstone spinoff 1923, and more), family member, and student, was taken from Unči Maka 🌍 too soon. An indigenous relative was taken.
Join Rising Hearts on Monday as we honor Cole's life by braiding our hair in his memory, for all the sacred hair and braids in our communities. Lay some tobacco down. Send up your prayers.
We send our love and support to the Brings Plenty family and his communities. This is a tragic and heartbreaking loss. Justice for Cole. 🤎🪶
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