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Frankly, it's fucking exhausting to hold a job in a government funded agency meant to help people when, every day, you're literally waiting to hear if you're about to be shut down.

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Merseburger Spells

The Merseburg Spells or Incantations are two magic spells found in a Latin Sacramentarium and are written in Carolingian minuskel. The manuscript originates from the Abbey of Fulda, Germany and are dated around 800-900 AD, but only rediscovered in 1841.

The spells do not show any sign of Christian influence and are the only written proof of Germanic mythology in Old High German.

The first spell tells of prisoners of war which are freed by the Idisi. An unknown kind of god-like figures, possibly a Germanic version of Valkyries.

The second spell is a healing incantation. Wotan rides through the woods with Balder, until Balders horse named Phol gets hurt. Wotan, Friia (Freya), her sister Volla and Sinthgund and her sister Sunna sing to the horse; let your wounds be cured.

There are other version of the second spell known, but in different rhyming couplets and turned into a Christian motive.

English and Dutch speakers may identify most of the words without knowing the lyrics first.

Merseburger Domstiftbibliothek, codex 136, f85r

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Me, talking to my idiot cat child: Get in loser, we're going to bake brie and pear tarts this weekend.

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Yeah I posted that last thing and then the power went out in the house 😂

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Knowing yourself is the most important thing you can do when you work with spirits. Knowing exactly how your body feels in a natural, contemplative state; taking careful inventory of yourself and making notes on it. Sitting with yourself and becoming acclimated to how and what you feel takes time and patience, but is crucial for honing your perception of spirit.

Spirit interactions elicit physical responses. Knowing how to differentiate, knowing what is you - a typical bodily response - and what is not organic to you - influence of a spirit - is what develops your discernment and therefore, your relationships with the spirits.

Spirits can make themselves known in a subtle manner - like a small chill, or a tingling in your fingertips. They can also make themselves known in much more obvious way - involuntary responses such as spasms, bodily temperature changes, and emotional responses. When you can't separate out what response is just you versus what is your body's response to spirit, you'll miss the subtler nuances of the exchange.

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Not the tasteful candle! 😂 How dare you

my coven banished me for knocking over the tasteful candle and getting wax in the grimoire

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"I SAW A GOAT WHAT DOES IT MEAN" unless it materialized out of the shadows in your bedroom, bleated in a language you strangely understood, and dissappeared with no transition effects it's probably just like... a goat. Perhaps give it a nice goat snack?

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Offering

by Ursula K. Le Guin

I made a poem going to sleep last night, woke in sunlight, it was clean forgotten.

If it was any good, gods of the great darkness where sleep goes and farther death goes, you not named, then as true offering accept it.

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Update: He's fine. I put on Moana, he got trashed on catnip, watched the movie, and all is well in Catlandia once more.

Me, talking to my cat: Listen, we don't need to destroy property just because we are having a little man tantrum. I didn't raise you to be a J6er. You're going to be okay, I promise.

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Me, talking to my cat: Listen, we don't need to destroy property just because we are having a little man tantrum. I didn't raise you to be a J6er. You're going to be okay, I promise.

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Bee Mandala - Gwyllm Llwydd

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“If they’re here—all females in a winter hive—they’re clustered together inside (an oak tree), queen at the heart of their sisterhood. The fine, transparent wings they beat hard in summer’s heat—a constant buzzing fan to keep the hive from cooking—they hold, now, folded and still. The tiny muscles to which those wings are attached shiver. One honey bee shivering her flight muscles does not make much heat. But twenty thousand, huddled together, shivering, can keep the queen and the colony’s honey supply at their core at a tropical ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit, even as blizzard winds, inches away, flail the trunk.”

–Gayle Boss, "All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings", p. 14

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Yeah, I don't want to hurt

There's so much in this world

To make me bleed

Stay with me

You're all I see

Did I say that I need you?

Did I say that I want you?

Oh, if I didn't, I'm a fool, you see

No one knows this more than me

As I come clean

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Me, when I finally track down that incredibly hard to locate occult pdf:

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😂😂😂

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From our stacks: ‘The Rune of St. Patrick’ Headpiece by John Duncan from The Wind in the Pines. A Celtic Miscellany. Edinburgh & London: T. N. Foulis Ltd., 1922. 

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Same boat, my friend, same boat. I do think those of us coming from that kind of past gives us a slight advantage for spotting the behavior/warning signs, but yeah, it still takes a lot of work to keep from falling into the easy traps. And it's so easy to get discouraged and want to isolate, too.

*raises hans* I'm one of those people in the wild that don't know about the Frosts, sound familiar a bit but I don't know anything about them, info dump? If wouldn't mind

Aaaaah! It's okay, I gotchu ❤️

Back in 1972, Yvonne and Gavin Frost published their book, The Witch's Bible (or "A Good Witch's Bible") which encourages and provides sexual initiation rituals that are meant to be performed with minors (for the sake of how disturbing that is, I'm not going into details, but it is Very, Very Bad).

So the Frosts later rewrote the book after people read it and found it disturbing. But if you do an immediate search for it, there are a lot of hits about Gavin dying and how everyone was oh-so-sad to lose a craft elder; you actually have to dig and get specific to find the controversy around the book. And for me, that's one of the biggest issues we have - we, as a community, have a sordid history of not calling this kind of crap out and instead, we just kind of gloss over it because they're "elders".