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by Taun Stewart

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check out the grain on this piece of driftwood

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Dartmoor National Park UK

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25 Labyrinths Designs

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Take Notes on Spirit Encounters Like Stag

I think I've mentioned before that I studied witchcraft and folklore academically in college, but I don't know if I've ever made much of a deal out of the fact that I did so as part of a major in Cultural Anthropology. I learned a lot about different magical practices in those specific classes and I still use much of what I learned, but what I learned back then that I use the most didn't come from one of the magic classes, it came from the prep class for the original anthropological research I had to do for my thesis. In that class I was taught how to conduct anthropological interviews and how to take notes on those conversations. Over the years I have developed those anthropological interview notes into a template that I use for every encounter I have with an incorporeal entity. This template is very simple: 4 broad categories that I sort my thoughts into and some examples of what kind of notes I put into each category. I use this format to take notes on all of my spirit work encounters, regardless of the type of spirit - one page of my binder per encounter, and then I can keep all of the pages for a particular entity together in chronilogical order.

Impressions: Initial notes on an encounter.

How did the entity present themselves?

How did they look/ sound/ make me feel in the moment

What did they say/ how did they communicate

Reflections: How do I feel about the encounter after the fact

How does the encounter sit with me now that I’ve had some distance?

How do I feel about how the entity treated me/interacted with me?

Emerging Questions: Questions I have based on this encounter

Was there anything from the encounter that I feel might have been symbolic/metaphorical?

Do I have any follow up questions about the actual conversation/message? Ie: was anything unclear to me, do I need to clarify anything?

Are there questions/trains of thought that I need to go research or divine on further?

Future Actions: What do I think I need to do next?

Did the entity give an “action item”/ something they want or expect me to do? If so, list them here.

Is there something I want to do before I communicate with this entity? If so I also list them in here.

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i'm looking up stuff on Paracelsus and the tria prima, and i've come across the phrase "mercury represents volatility and stability". what does it mean for something to be both volatile and stable? (or am i just reading from a garbage source?)

It sounds like you're using a pretty direct translation. In paracelcian physics, Sophic Mercury is the component of a physical object that changes. It is what allows a substance to change between volatility and stability. You know mercury; it is a shifting form.

Sophic Sulfur is a substances capacity for change. It's the "fuel" within an object that drives it to change. It is the "burnability" of wood and the "fizzability" of baking soda.

Sophic Salt is an objects resistance to change, the dross that is incapable of change in a particular form. It is the ash and smoke given off by a reaction.

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Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

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The “need money” to “can’t I just take a peak at the underpinnings of reality?” pipeline.

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coyote in sagebrush steppe, by Matt Lavin.

found on wikimedia commons

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Extremely good paragraph from an article exploring the concept of sentience in invertebrates

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look at this incredibly haunting coyote from Ohio I saw on inaturalist

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Six of Wands.

To slow down or speed up the hands of time is a losing battle, but that doesn’t stop you from fighting. In order to be victorious, embrace each moment. Do not mourn for your past. Look fondly on those days that were filled with joy. Anticipate the magnificence of that which is to come, but do not be consumed by it, or you may overlook the beauty of the present.

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your demeanor has displeased the great boar at the center of the world