#CarRomance

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

Me and Who?

[yourlocalchaoswitch]

i burned a candle for apollo and in typical apollo fashion

he gave me dicks.

[haveyouplayedthisirlgame-poll]

Carrom is a tabletop/board game where players flic disks, attempting to knock them to the pockets at the board's corners. It has many variants.

[novaae]

Have I ever shared the HC that people just stop playing board games with Bumi because he always wins and acts like a smug bitch afterwards?

[s3plan]

from Kamratposten nr 13, 2013

[booksandwitchery]

Weird Scrying Session - Journal Excerpt

9 November, 2023 (Evening):

I've just had another go at scrying and I think it was a good learning experience, though nothing went as planned. I will attempt to elaborate.

First, I did something brave and I don't know precisely why it was brave, just that it was. I decided to use the larger candles--the cream colored votives, not the tealights. And for me, this was kind of scary because for some reason breaking out the votives (which I've never used before for my practice) means something definitive. It almost feels like I left someone else behind--I left behind a more timid version of myself, who doesn't use the votives because they are exponentially more expensive than the tealights, because bigger candles mean bigger magic, and I'm not there yet. It feels really unsafe here on the other side, in the reality that I lit the votives for magical purposes. It feels like my entire body is resisting this mode of self in relation to the world. But I lit those damned votives anyway, and now I can't go back. But I digress.

Next--I lit too many candles. Easy lesson there. One votive was all I needed for hydromancy in my black scrying bowl. Gosh, the votives are much brighter than the tealights.

Third, I'd decided to use water that I'd darkened with my fountain pen ink, or perhaps I took the ink from my mom's supply. It was being stored in a brown apothecary bottle that I'd labelled "Dragon's Breath" for decoration. Since I'd poured the water into the scrying bowl by candlelight, I couldn't really see how the ink had settled into the water. I had a preconceived idea of the way the water and ink would interact, and so I saw that the lighter shapes in the water were bits of ink reflecting in the candlelight. I saw a brown bear playing a flute, a witch conjuring a bunny rabbit--nothing that really spoke to me. After I was finished, I turned the lights on and discovered that I'd been perceiving the state of things inversely: The lighter shapes were not clumps of ink moving across the water, they were the bottom of the scrying bowl. The darker shapes were the ink particles, which had bunched up in grains that resembled potting soil. I'd been discerning negative space as the independent variable, as the moving material taking shape.

I don't know how else to say this--it is evidence of perception and its disconnect from physical reality--that so much of our lived experience is directly impacted by perception, which is often much different than what is objectively real.

So you might say that this hydromancy session was a complete flop, because I didn't see any compelling images in the water. But I will take lessons in any form the universe decides to offer up; I do not retain any prejudices there.

Lastly: I highly prefer pouring candle wax on the water for divination. I tried this after turning the lights back off as a second thought, and it works beautifully. Apparently the melted wax on water technique is called "carromancy," and technically I don't think this is a method of scrying (it does not rely on a reflective surface).

It's been an interesting night over here. Talk about finding magic in the mundane.

[violet-hearth]

Reflecting On My Craft 3 Years Later ...

Between 2019-2021 I was incredibly active among witchcraft spaces especially on tumblr as a folk practitioner. Since then I stopped posting, deleted the page and focussed focussed on my degree and activism, not being able to find the energy or space to share any other parts of myself online. I took a break from larger, less day-to-day practices, I am chronically ill with phobia disorders and high anxiety that can make my days stressful and conserving energy was important to me for a time. 

Three years later and I feel like I’ve grown so much having had this break. I’m slowly easing myself back into larger parts of my practice and connecting aspects of myself I thought could not connect with folk magic into my witchcraft. Being queer and disabled, sometimes there is a feeling of disconnect or a strong, desperate clinging onto religion and spirituality, but I’m learning that I can make a path for myself that is modern, accessible, and still connected to traditions. Folk practices and magic are traditions but they’re also living traditions, they adapt to changes in land and in times. 

A book that has helped me in bound is Queering Your Craft by Cassandra Snow. Whilst it only really touches on foundational practices, I found comfort in the way Cassandra talks about redefining and queering concepts to make them more accessible to us. They are also a disabled, gender queer activist and it’s now a book I reopen time and time again when I feel a little lost or scared. 

So, what has changed? 

I am still working a lot with plants but with a stronger tie to art and sympathetic magic 

Using magic and herbalism more for my anxiety, usually this is through just carving space to be more gentle with myself 

Hearth magic is now a focus, I am big on hospitality, kitchen magic, creating a sacred space within my home and my neighbourhood. This has taken over pretty much my whole practice, this is where the sympathetic and art magic has tied in. I love using oils and incense to set the mood and vibe of my space before a guest comes in, I use drinks and food to layer these intentions and vibes, I bring gifts to friends’ house of foods and teas and infused alcohols and body butters I make at home, I make them soup when they’re sick and sleep spell bags when they need rest 

Queering my practices, moving away from a strict ‘this is how things MUST be done’ to understanding what each ingredient is for, why it is used and finding these meanings in other household items. My nana uses vinegar for everything when cleaning, I can just add a little of my current cleaning solutions and it will do the same job for example

Divination is new to me! I used to exclusively go off the sky for working out the weather, this isn’t divination as such but some of it is superstition and some of it is probably based in science and tarot. I love tarot but I want to try something new, so have begun to study carromancy and dipping my toes into it 

Queering my craft

This is where things get a little less traditional. I’ve begun to modernise practices in a way I know will upset people. I don’t work with familial ancestors as such, but I venerate and remember cultural ancestors - in this case pioneers of queer rights, queer martyrs, I light candles on anniversaries of deaths and have a dedicated windowsill where I keep queer books and want to further honour the activists who came before me. 

I also use queer symbolism a lot more especially for love, self-love, protection, or anything specifically to do with my queerness or the queer community local to me. Lube has been interesting to work with, hanky code colour symbolism before I go clubbing, charming carabiners, embroidering my strap harness etc. Beyond the practicality of this in my life as an urban-based queer person, it’s just fun. So much art and chanting and singing and dance and fashion can be tied into urban practices that still honour community, culture and tradition. Nothing is stopping me from having both a queered protection spell and a more traditional amulet. It has given me a deeper appreciation of the multitudes we hold as people, the many communities we can be a part of and the many faces we wear throughout our day. 

What Next?

I want to use this blog just to occasionally share things, I’m probably not going to share any cultural practices since a lot of them are just ‘shit my family does that is in my dna now’, but I feel comfortable talking about the more modern practices I do, some of the recipes and basic formulas I have and created, and the occasional post about my journey into practices I am only just beginning. 

My main focus however will be on queering the home, queer hearth practices and carving out spaces for ourselves spiritually and physically. 

I cannot wait to share more x 

[moominkowa666]

get me back here rn

[cosmicrhetoric]

last night i was so sick of my skin i was like thats IT im DONE im going to the drugstore and buying what my famously clear skinned mother used in the 90s. woke up this morning to find out it made me break out 🤡

[thepoolapk22]

[inertia-m]

hat-trick while playing carrom today, this is my win of the day.

[yourlocalchaoswitch]

Fellow witches, any advice?

I lit a candle for Artemis, and when I went to go check on it, I noticed what looked like horns in the wax. Immediately I felt called to blow it out, so I did, and began inspecting the wax

In addition to the horns, I also saw a very distinct frog (I'll attach pictures of the wax). I'm stumped at what these could possibly mean together.

any ideas?

[dard-ae-disco]

Sari duniya se jeet ke main aaya hoon idhar Tere aage hi main haara kiya tune kya asar

(me when me when)

[kartlk]

A bold day

The morn was frigid, yet aglow with the lustrous rays of the sun, while the dulcet twittering of birds intertwined with the blue hues of the horizon. Seated in the communal space, my thoughts were preoccupied with the notion of creating an artwork for my Tumblr page, though it would only be witnessed by a scant two followers. An unremarkable day, with merely a hint of aesthetic musings, I began capturing the moments with my camera. Commencing with a snapshot of my guitar, snugly situated beside me on the bean bag, reminiscing memories of a bygone era, I followed it up with an image of a carrom board, reminiscent of my childhood and the fond memories of playing the game with my grandmother. Lastly, a picture of me striving to conceal myself in my shadow, as shadows always imbue a mysterious and enigmatic aura.

[sameeroak]

कॅरमकर

पुणेकर, नागपूरकर सरखे, कर जोडावे अशे अजुन एक कर निर्माण झाले आधुनिक जगत..कॅरमकर….

कॅरमकर वैहला तुम्हाला कॅरम चंगाला येतो हैची जरोरात नाही, पण घरी कॅरम असला बरं... समोरचा कडे घरी कॅरम नाही ह्याची खात्री करूंच मग त्यला आ���ला घरी कॅरम खेळायला बोलायचं…

कॅरम अधी मांडून थेऊ नाय…तो कॅरम आपल्या मित्रालाच काढावला लावणे , मग कॅरम चा सोंगाट्या, स्ट्रायकर, पावडर एका मोठय़ा दब्यात तुने काढावे …असा मोठा डबा सोमरचें फक्‍ता खाऊ साथी किव्हा लाडू साठी बघितला असतो ….

कॅरम सुरे होणाच्या आधीच समोरचा थोडा घाबर तो , १. एक पॉईंट सर …

मग कॅरम साठी बोरिक पावडर काढावी… आपल्या हाताला आणि कॅरम ला खूप चोपावी … सोमार्चला पावडर चा दाब देणे.. त्यांनी बहुत पावडर फक्त तोंडाला लावलया किव्हा चपाती बनवायला बघितली असते.. तो ओशाळत पावडर घेतो आणि हाताला थोडी लावून शिमगा करतो … २. दुसरा पॉईंट सर….

मग डब्यातून तीन चार प्रकारचे स्ट्रायकर काढावे … ते कशे वेगेळे आहेत हे समजावणे आणि समोरच्याला देणे , तो बेचारा सगळ्या स्ट्रा��कर्स ला हात लावतो आणि ओशाळून एक सिलेक्ट करतो .. ३ .तिसरा पॉईंट सर ….

कॅरम सुरु होणाच्या आधीच ३ पॉईंट सर.. आता काय पठ्या कॅरम खेळणार …

कॅरम सेट करावा आणि सामोच्याला फोडायला सांगावे , तो बिचारा आधीच अर्धा खचलेला , हात कपात कपात स्ट्रायकर ने फोडतो … ऑफकोर्स एक हे सोंगटी जात नाही.. नो प्रॉब्लेम .. गुड ब्रेक म्हून आपण खेळाया सुरू करावे ….

प्रथम चान्सस मध्ये झास्ट सोंगट्या घेऊ नये , नाहीतर समोरचा पळून जाईल …

आपल्या सोंगट्या जात नाहीत भागून, समोरच्याची हिंमत वाढते … तो जरा स्थिर हात ने एम घेतो

मग आपला हुकूम एक्का टाकणे … थंब नोट allowed

समोरच्याला हजार वोटल्स चा झटका लागतो

कैरोम नवं शिकाचा favorite शॉट म्हणजे थंब .. तो बिचारा सगळ्या सोंगट्या आपल्या कडे नेऊन थंब शॉट ने मरणाचा प्लॅन करत असतो.. तोच शॉट बॅन केला के, तो बेचारा कारचा हेडलीघाटस समोर घाबरल्या सस्य सारखा होतो - ४. चौथा पॉईंट सर

मग त्याला दोन तीन गेम्स मध्ये हरवणे .. अजून खेळणार का विचारणे , तो बिचारा शर्मशरमी बोलतो , नको बायको वाट बघत आहे….आता निघतो …

सेंड ऑफ कर्णाचा पूर्वी त्याला चहा पाणी जरूर देणे अँड नेटिक्स game लवकर खेळू म्हणावे ….

तो मित्र तुमचा घरी फुढीची चार वर्षय आला नाही तर आपला कॅरमकर होणंच जाज्वल्य अभिमान बाळगणे ..

[nehasane]

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