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The moment you decide is when you're engaged. Decide to do a rite or summon a spirit you're engaged in the work. You decide to do a spell you're engaged with the spell. By this I mean really decide. We all know the difference between I think I'm going to and I am.

My spirituality is not your marketplace

Can't stand gender/sex-essentialism and black-and-white thinking regarding gender in witch and spiritual spaces

Recognizing the roles of sex/gender/duality on society and the human experience is fine, but don't just repackage the same cages of patriarchy and try to sell it to me as liberation

This Six of Cups is from the Shadowscapes tarot deck, btw

Scene in the Forest with Deers, by Hermann Corrodi (1844-1905)

#Art #painting #illustration

Six of Cups: a child has set up a tea party with her stuffed animals and fey beings on the edge of a stream filled with golden fish. The woods around them are moody and blue, but the trees closest to the party are lit with golden lanterna. Mushrooms sprout up on the periphery.

Have you reached out to your inner child lately? Have you checked in with your inspirations and sense of play? Have you granted yourself grace for being human and having limitations? Have you become the person you needed when you were vulnerable? Are your unhealed wounds trapping you in the past?

Evening reflection: Did you notice one small synchronicity today?

Magick lives in little moments. 🌙

#witchsky

If your consciousness continues after you die would that be a run-on sentience?

Also, if you consider Ace-Two-Three to be thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, the Three of Swords is the combination of the perfecting clarity of the Ace of Swords cutting away at the guarded and self-imposed stagnation of Two of Swords, leaving the hurt but grounded Three of Swords

Specifically, I associate the Three of Swords with breaking your own heart when the world doesn't go the way you want. It's a card of disillusionment, when the romantic ideal in your head (or heart) is shattered.

Of course this is painful, but dispelling your illusions can be a powerful tool

I've always associated the court of swords with my mental health journey: anxiety, overthinking, expectations disconnected from reality, trauma, etc.
And, looking back on that journey, I can see the places where I needed to have my heart broken a bit in order to grow and mature.

The 3 of Swords - three swords pierce a non-anatomical heart against a stormy background

I've been thinking about the Three of Swords lately. It's so iconic, and, even if you don't know tarot, you can read the meaning of heartbreak in its imagery.

But I've also been considering my personal take on the nuances of the card, including its potential benefits...

As a librarian, I second this message. Heck, I am also a user of my local public library, and I have checked out stuff I may not end up reading, watching, etc. for any number of reasons. Hey life happens, no shame. We are happy for the numbers.

I'm not one to give energy/power to others' weird or negative behavior, but a patron at work gave me a leather pouch full of rocks and a picture of a dead baby
And a family member is having a baby in a couple days
So I'm doing an🥚cleanse just to be safe and to help get this out of my head

🧿

With the Annabelle doll in the news, I feel it needs to be said:

A lot of popularized ghost hunting
is trauma tourism
and maybe we should
reflect on why that appeals so much

Also, the local metaphysical stores have stopped stocking books, because "everyone just goes to the library."
Well, that doesn't mean much if all the books are stolen!

The library lets you photocopy books, and you can also always take pictures with your phone if you want to keep a spell or something. It's also a chance to write it down in your own grimoire.

What I'm saying is there are better options

It's so frustrating that my library has to restrict access to witchcraft-related books because patrons keep stealing them. I understand wanting witchy books for your own private collection, but, by stealing them from the library, you're denying access to the whole local community

Maybe! Maybe just holding them while going about your day could help.
Also if that part of your dream is less clear than other parts, they might have actually been multiple separate dreams that your brain combined in your memory. I would take that into consideration when interpreting it, too.

Aw dang. It would've been cool if you could find or make cards based on your dream.
But maybe the individual cards weren't as important as the concept of tarot in general was.

Do you remember what the cards looked like?

Oh, those were two separate thoughts. Richards might have written about dumb suppers, but I'm not sure where.

If you're wanting to stick to Appalachian practices, have you looked into dumb suppers?
Jake Richards' "Backwoods Witchcraft" also has a chapter on ancestor veneration

A case of Mountain Dew, Mothman, and a plate of pepperoni rolls. Text: West Virginia Day is tomorrow, so don't forget to set out some pepperoni rolls and Mountain Dew for Mothman.

I just checked this out at my library! Good timing

A comic panel with a close-up of an elderly woman winking and saying, "After all, the best way to respond to anyone who doesn't want you to be a witch is to become a very, very good one."

from "The Hidden Witch" by Molly Ostertag

Men need to do more mutual aid work. Send tweet.

Initiating my bff cause she accidentally flung herself headfirst into Shadow work without even knowing what that was
Proud of her instincts and intuition with it all tho

My subconscious has been trying desperately to tell me something lately, but I've not had the time to set aside and explore it 😓
Full moons always have my emotions and thoughts in overdrive

This is a reminder to myself to set aside some time to mediate and check-in on my own mental well-being more

YouTube video by Angela's Symposium How We Lost the Truth: Baudrillard, Jung, and the Crisis of Reality

Why does truth no longer seem to matter?

👉 youtu.be/zcc9y1YgtMY

#Baudrillard #jung #posttruth #truth