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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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Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal

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It's me, I'm don't dead open inside

Having "a lot" of followers on tumblr is funny because probably 80% of them are ghost blogs who haven't been on here in like a decade.

It's like, no no, those aren't my followers, that's a graveyard! I'm the caretaker of a thousands of tombs. I love them, but they've been dead for seven years.

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I mean, yes, I was able to obtain the asbestos amulet because all of the previous owners died slow and horrible deaths. But that says more about how powerful my asbestos amulet manifestation spell was than whether or not the asbestos amulet is cursed.

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My moots are my pack, and god help anyone who fucks with my pack.

(angry witchy noises)

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How do you feel about the stance that you shouldn't read tarot for yourself about a situation that upsets/ worries you while you're still feeling upset about it?

I think it's a solid stance.

I've been reading tarot for a really long time, and the one thing that has always remained true for my practice - and what I have seen in others - is that you can't produce an accurate reading without impartiality.

Emotions are information, and that information overrides impartiality. In my experience this is true when it comes to tarot and indeed all forms of divination.

It has been a very long-standing rule of mine that querents should never send me background information on a question. That is because the background information leads me to form a judgment, and then I can't accurately interpret it.

And this is for a third party, probably someone I've never even talked to before. And my emotions can still override impartiality.

"Can I get a relationship reading for J? We had a falling out 2 months ago when I caught him texting other girls but now I'm giving him a second chance but he's being secretive with his phone again."

Okay, well now I feel a certain way about J. And no matter what cards I pull, I am going to have this emotionally driven narrative in my head. Even when I try to push it away, it's going to cloud the reading. Those emotions are going to discolor my interpretation, even if I pull cards that are technically accurate.

Imagine how much more distracting and misleading that emotional information is when it's my life, my strong feelings, and my personal investment in the outcome of a situation.

Getting an accurate reading under those circumstances is very difficult.

In my experience, while I'm upset it is very easy to produce readings that seem to be intense, solid, and affirmative according to my own verifications - only to realize later on that I literally just made the whole thing up, and none of it was true at all.

In addition, it's a bad idea in terms of mental health. If I'm already upset and anxious about something and I pull negative cards, I'm kicking myself while I'm down.

I'm not saying a person has got to be emotionless to perform divination. But I do think that a person has to stand in their own power. (Interpret that as you will). If you can find your power in being upset, like standing in the eye of the storm, perhaps you can read accurately while actively upset about the situation. I can't, and I don't think many people can.

So it's not as if being upset on a topic "magically" ruins the card pulls, or something like that.

I just think that it ruins our place of perspective, so that we are digging in the mud looking for a path forward, when we really should be sitting on a nice throne looking down at a map.

I think it sets you up for failure, and puts you at a very high risk for feeding yourself complete nonsense that you've decided is actually true, and then making bad decisions based off of bad intel.

And, IMO it's very unhealthy to let your moods hinge on whether you pulled a good card or not. Your emotions shouldn't be dependent on whether you pull Sun or Devil. But I think that people turn to divination in these circumstances precisely because they want to feel better. It's a risky game, and it's not a good idea to get in the habit of letting tarot poke at your bruises.

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girl why the hell WEREN'T you at the devil's sacrament 👀 that's three sacraments in a row you've missed 👀 👀 👀

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Accurate.

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Genuine question here, even though it's going to sound mean: Why do people keep asking how to SHUFFLE tarot cards?

They're cards! Just shuffle those bastards! Throw them into a pile and scoot them around, do a riffle or bridge shuffle, break them into sections and huck them back and forth, do literally whatever you want.

You don't have to invent a whole new way to shuffle just because it's a ~mystical~ thing. I'm downright cruel with how I riffle shuffle my tarot decks, but they're holding up.

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Not to attack anyone, but you deserve a nice quiet 5 minute breather. To enhance the experience add 8 oz of water and stir vigorously

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Dua Djehuty!

Prayer to Djehuty

Djehuty, the great scribe, bless my hand to master the arts as you have. Master of the quill, master of words, bless my words to become willful and imaginative. O’ wise one, grant me your wisdom to make my mind as sharp as a knife, as graceful as a gazelle, as fast as the striking cobra. Mightest and wisest of the gods, bless me on this day as I call out to you.

-Raet / Akhret

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Dua Set

I'm not good at drawing on phone, but I tried to draw Sutekh and Selket.

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my kemetic purchases

book of ancient egyptian magic and divination by eleanor l. harris and earrings of the deity khepri

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Just because a spell doesn't seem to manifest exactly how you wanted doesn't mean that nothing happened.

A spell could have:

Resolved blockages or entanglements behind the scenes

Paved the way to make accomplishing your goal more likely

Patched over energetic "leaks" in adjacent areas that had to be fixed before this manifestation would work

Prevented the situation from worsening

It is possible for an effective spell to not appear to have done much at all.

This could also hypothetically mean that you really do have to cast the same spell three or four times before enough underlying issues are resolved to get you what you want.

I do not think all magic necessarily works like this.

But I do think that sometimes, witches underestimate the amount of times they need to engage with magical reality in order to affect real change in the world around them.

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Dua Set!

some devotional art for set 🖤

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Out here wishing Eotchfsther would steal my knee bones.

The rain is no longer my friend.

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(Free tarot tomorrow)