Alina Ashcroft

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

hops!!

“…the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.”

Anne Sexton

it’s time

for pear preserves

🍐🍐🍐

and mushroom strings

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and autumn things

🍂🍁🪾🎃🍁🍂

The moon

🍁🎃🍥

The Green Man peers out of an evergreen tree to wish you well at the end of the season. (Green Man plaque from Spellfiregifts.com)

A green glass Moon and Stars antique “fairy lamp” glowing with candle light. In front is a colorful dragon basking in the glow.

Green 💚

need

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Art Nouveau evening purse — Lacloche Frs., ca. 1905 leather, gold, banded agate-eyes within a ruby surround and diamond-set beak
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smoky crystal quartz ball

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ah beautiful, thanks for sharing

“Belief needs reality as a partner, not a victim… So, can we meme things into existence? Yes – but not effortlessly, not permanently, and not always in the way intended.”

many such cases

i took a posting break because i got really into rocks. crystals, minerals, worry stones, stone henges — i just fucking love rocks. stones. they were here long before us and will be here long after us.

getting way too into increasingly nice, artisan beeswax candles

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I'm also naturally skeptical or doubtful. I am drawn to models that allow for belief as a temporary, at-need state. I like the idea of "enthusiasm" in its Greek roots - being filled by god(dess) in concert with the English sense of the word. The ability to suspend skepticism comes with inspiration.

ooh lovely

i’ve accumulated so many worry stones i could make a little hedgerow of them

this was a great thread, thanks

oh my god this is so embarrassing.

and yes, Sauron was defeated by two little guys slipping in under his nose, but those two little guys could not have succeeded without friendship and armies. Sam’s little box of salt uplifted their spirits; Aragorn’s sword defended their backs.

we need salt and the sword. bring whichever you have

they look like teeth

doesn’t matter, retvrn

the gods need us. we mortals, the first to fade. for everything we do echoes through eternity

in times like these, it is comforting to look at the water, the rocks, and the trees, and remember that the world, alive in all of its totality, has been here long before us and will go on long after us.

oh ok. wikipedia’s got it. “The Utroba Cave, also known as Womb Cave, is a prehistoric cave sanctuary…”

and it has a light phallus?? pretty cool

Umm does someone want to say it

there is nothing like eating raspberries from the summer in february. freezers are a miracle

i am actually spending so much on beeswax candles help

but will an ancient goddess whose priestesses were literally called bees really deign to entertain your prayers over paraffin

gtfo

what if we kissed in the bramble thicket