snapdragonsandwhiptails

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It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

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daily witch things

light a candle

light some incense

meditate/ground/center

cleanse the room

cleanse yourself

set up new wards or do maintenance on your current ones

refresh the shield you have around yourself

charge crystals

cleanse/charge your tarot deck/runes/pendulum/etc.

practice divination and record your interpretation

add info to your book of shadows

journal

tend to your altar

cook or make drinks with ingredients that match your intent

make spell jars and sachets

collect naturally occurring water (river, rain, lake, etc.)

forage for flowers or plants

water your own plants

self love and low effort glamours

take a walk in nature

renew your money bowl

make a charm for restful sleep

© 2024 𝚊𝚍-𝚌𝚊𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚊

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There’s a recent surge of reality shifting posts on my dash and let me be clear, keep that shit on your side of the highway. I watched “reality shifting” destroy one of my high school best friends.

She was a kind, outgoing, bubbly person who journaled about everything, sang songs a little off key, and cared for everything and everyone.

She started RS in our sophomore year. I remember her being so excited about the prospects of talking to her favorite characters from gravity falls or fort Salem, and me finding the whole thing to be a little too much.

We didn’t bring it up much after so It honestly slipped my mind for the longest, but she began noticeably changing. She no longer spoke unless spoken too, and always seemed to be looking just too far to the left. When she would speak, it was short and reserved. You couldn’t keep her focused for more than 5 minutes.

A year went by and I all but stopped hearing from her. Her attendance faltered and she failed every class our junior year. I later heard from her younger sister that she would spend almost 15 hrs a day “sleeping”. It immediately dawned on me what was happening, she was RSing her entire life away and no one except me knew what was going on. And even then, I didn’t really know. She mentioned it one time a year before but… I wish I would have paid more attention when she first told me about it because I can’t help but feel somewhat responsible for her. She was one of my best friends.

I had to tell her parents what she was doing. They took her to see a psychiatrist and she was subsequently placed in an inpatient unit so she could learn how to cope in the real world. I haven’t heard from her since.

It went from harmless dreams, to her every waking moment. It consumed her until there was barely anything left.

This may be controversial but I firmly believe reality shifting is just extreme maladaptive daydreaming/lucid dreaming and it needs to stay on the other side of the fence. It is not magic. It is harmful.

I miss you, Peanut.

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Today has been really nice :) played my switch for a while, hung out with my partner, organized my pokemon cards some, made stew… I’m happy :)

Also peep the fresh in the pop stew shot closeup

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So sorry for how inconsistent I’ve been with my activity on here. I think I need to come to terms with the fact that I don’t have the mental bandwidth to be a full time blogger while also working full time. Maybe next year when I have a shot at reducing my hours I can get more into it.

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"How can I be a witch?"

Practice witchcraft.

"No, like a proper witch!"

Uhh, get a witch hat...I guess?

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Poem for Herbs

Basil in the garden grows brings money and luck into your own Witches drink it before flight and take off swift into the night

Peppermint in the garden grows reminds the mind of what it knows Can purify, can illness heal, may bring sleep in full appeal

Lavender in the garden grows, allows energy to lay low Brings a witch to sleep and calm and protects the home from outside harm

Pepper in the garden grows little flakes that itch your nose Cast out spirits, cast out strangers, aggressively repels most dangers

Sage in the garden grows, cleansing hearth and cleansing home Repels strange spirits but take heed it does pretty much smell like weed

Bay in the garden grows a tree of leaves through wind does blow Cast your wish, let it burn through your inner power is restored anew

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Hey folks, something to keep in mind - far right indoctrination runs on a lot of pseudoscience and pseudohistory. Promoting and spreading real science and real history is incredibly important, both to help people deradicalize and to prevent people from being radicalized.

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Upcoming Events, December 2024

Nevermore Witch Market Sunday, December 1 2024, 12pm-5pm Diversity Richmond 1407 Sherwood Ave, Richmond VA (USA) Hosted by River City Witch Markets

The Witches Table Discussion Group, Williamsburg Chapter Wednesday, December 4 2024, 6pm-8pm Alewerks Taproom (Williamsburg Outlets) 5715 Richmond Rd, Williamsburg VA (USA) Hosted by The Witches Table

Krampusnacht in the Village Saturday, December 7 2024, 4pm-9pm Historic Hilton Village Warwick & Main, Newport News VA (USA) Hosted by Styx & Stones

Alewerks Yule & Krampus Market Saturday, December 21 2024, 12pm-9pm Alewerks Main Taproom 189 B Ewell Rd, Williamsburg VA (USA) Hosted by Alewerks Brewing

Yule Witch Market Sunday, December 22 2024, 12pm-5pm Diversity Richmond 1407 Sherwood Ave, Richmond VA (USA) Hosted by River City Witch Markets

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This is the coolest fucking thing I’ve seen all day I will be doing this as SOON as I’m home lmao

Swear to god im not kidding you. I found some of my old pokemon collector magazines from back in the day and found this article in one of them! I figured id share for the rest of you poke-practitioners!

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i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

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Sometimes I mindlessly shuffle until cards fall out and every once in a while, they get it just right.

I’ve been in a tumultuous state of mind recently and this reminded me that; the world will always change over, petty men will always bicker over riches and power, but the gardens are plentiful if you remember how good things can be if you let them.

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People don’t owe you their downtime! And I don’t mean this in a harsh way, but in a “quit breaking your own heart” way.

It’s so easy to see a friend “active” and reblogging on tumblr, or maybe making a status update on Facebook and feel hurt they haven’t replied to our messages.

Different things take different energy. And someone being “online” but not actively talking to you does not mean they no longer love or care about you.

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I thought that was Gypsy Rose Blanchard and my soul ascended planes for a second

Etsy, I think we need to have a little talk about your knitting tutorial suggestions

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hey let's start spreading the reminder now that you cannot safely self-manage an abortion with herbal medicine or essential oils. natural abortifacients function by poisoning you; you wait for your body to realize you're dying and reject the pregnancy in order to conserve resources, and hope that happens before the rest of your organs shut down.

i think there will be an upsurge soon of unscrupulous and/or malicious actors preying on desperate pregnant people; do not help them kill people. don't spread recipes for herbal medicines or ingestible essential oil mixtures that purport to cause a pregnancy termination.

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here’s a list of cool PDFs I have saved on my drive that I thought other people might like too:

“Cleaning Bones” by Stephen P. Nawrocki, PhD, University of Indianapolis Archeology & Forensics Laboratory

“Cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft” by Kathryn Gottlieb, University of Maine

“The Voyage of Bran (Imram Brain)” translated by Kuno Meyer

“Duanaire Fionn (The Book of the Lays of Finn)” Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge/Irish Texts Society

“Early Gaelic Dress” by Scott Barrett

“The Voyage of St. Brenden: Celtic Otherworld Tale, Christian Apologia, or Medieval Travelog?” by James E. Doan

“Is Deithbir Disi [it is appropriate (that she would behave in this way)]: Applying the Lens of Gender Parody to Medb in the Old Irish Ulster Cycle” by Diana Veronica Dominguez

“A Discussion of the Magical Attributes of the Hero in Fenian Literature, with specific reference to the tale ‘The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne’” by Oliver Gerler, University of Limerick, IE

“The Plain of Blood; a Study of the Ritual Landscape of Magh Slecht, Co. Cavan” by Kevin White

“The Iona Chronicle, the Descendants of Áedan mac Gabráin, and the ‘Principal Kindreds of Dál Riata’” by James E. Fraser

Issue of “An tÓglach” magazine, vol. IV no. 12, with a detailed article about Cumann na mBan’s efforts during the week of the Easter Rising written by Nora O'Daly

“Gaeilge Gan Stró! Beginners Level” by Éamonn Ó Dónaill

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My family keeps using this rhetoric of “it’s like the person you used to be died…” IM ALIVE IM STILL HERE ITS STILL ME PLEASE STOP KILLING AND RESURRECTING ME EVERYTIME I COME OVER

sorry i will never understand cis grief. your daughter is living her best life and going around with friends and feeling like a human being. your son doesn’t feel like he needs to crawl out of his skin anymore and can actually smile. your children are happy and no longer see their existence as the worst thing in the world. why are you grieving this lmao. grow up.