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For the witches and pagans who need to hear it, connecting with nature is supposed to be about like, actually observing nature over long periods of time, not doing stuff like hoarding endangered bird feathers and beach sand, or just meditating out in aesthetically-pleasing locations. Can you tell me exactly when your wildflowers and weeds start blooming? When do your bugs come out of hibernation? When do migratory birds come and go? How does the air feel during different times of year? If you can't do stuff like that, you aren't connecting with nature.

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I had a dream where I was in a witch's cottage and in the kitchen she had an iron rack for wooden spoons. Like this but with a pentagram in the center:

And above each hook was a little sign with things like "love", "healing", and "strength". The spoons were enchanted for those purposes and hung on their respective hooks for easy access while cooking.

And I think that's just such a cool idea.... Now to find or make a rack.

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“Beneath the rationalist rhetoric of our culture exist everyday encounters with small forms of magic.”

Chris Gosden, Magic: A History

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post: Stop framing everything in the context of Christianity. can we just stop talking about everything in the context of Christianity? can you stop using Christianity as your arguments please? can we talk about this in a way that doesn't bring up Christianity? Can we finally move on from arguing everything within the cultural reference point of Christianity?

comments: Yeah i agree, the problem is that not enough Christians read the bible. the problem is that Christianity isn't what it used to be. We can all agree that jesus was a cool guy but he shouldn't matter today. The problem is that conservatives don't actually follow what jesus said.

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Alaska, USA by Austin Fernald

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I hope bad things happen to evil people

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The very last thing I will say about it today, is that if you know you're using not-fire-safe candle holders or fire bowls, and you don't care and don't intend to stop, you can still mitigate risk.

You can still follow all the rest of the fire safety advice... not burning near fabrics, not letting things nearby get hot, minimum clearance to all walls, overhanging shelves, surfaces, and objects; having a fire extinguisher on hand, burning things on top of a deep tray of sand, never leaving flames unattended, etc...

For god's sake at have a clear plan for what to do when a fire loses containment.

It is wild to me that the people who are not using fire safe candleholders or firebowls are often also the same people that set shit on fire right next to wooden stuff and paper sigils, let fires get out of control in untempered glass containers, burn underneath shelves, leave burn rings on wooden furniture, don't have a concept of ventilation, using synthetic fabric altar cloths that will start smoking the second an incense ember falls on them, etc.

It's not like you have to say, "well I'm not buying a fire-safe candle holder so oh well, it is what it is :)"

If you know you're already doing something dangerous and you don't intend to stop there is still a spectrum of responsibility and it is your personal choice where you stand on it.

Like nobody is forcing you to tempt fate, you know?

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Me: "hey ancestors wtf should I do now"

The 4000 year old bronze age woman with my eyes who lives in my head: "eat a fruit"

Me: "thanks but I meant about" (waves at the state of everything)

Urmother: "perhaps set something on fire?"

Me: "now we're talking"

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mountain goat | c. 3000 BCE | iran

in the museum of fine arts, houston collection

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Przewalski's horse Equus ferus przewalskii

Observed by mani_raab, CC BY-NC

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succumbed to the 500-page 90s wicca book I found on the free shelf while out in town today, brought it home

I am delighted to report that it includes a Charge of the Goddess intended to be sung over a karaoke cassette recording of "The Music of the Night" from the Phantom of the Opera

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it's not a substance abuse problem if it's a sacrament, ohkay?. grannie's not "getting fucked up tweaking hard off The Flowerbed." ohkay. she's doing a spiritual sacrament. She is undertaking the Green Journey of the Cultus of The Great Plow if you even care. She is In Congress With The Spirit of The Wood. She is spirit journeying to The Green Meadow Of the Crooked Goat To Accrue Gnosis of The Viridian Sorcerous Path. She is Toxicum Adeptus alright she's not a "salvia tweaker." and she is definitely not "Shroomed off her gourd". ohkay? Stop saying shit like "grannie's always fuckin turnt off the spicerack". and "straight zooted on the morning glories again" and "microdosing the garden like she does". Kids these days. No Fucking Respect.

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succumbed to the 500-page 90s wicca book I found on the free shelf while out in town today, brought it home

I am delighted to report that it includes a Charge of the Goddess intended to be sung over a karaoke cassette recording of "The Music of the Night" from the Phantom of the Opera

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The stones of Örelid, an Iron Age burial ground with standing stones in a field of rye, Sweden, 1930