#the oak

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Balanța / The Oak Lucian Pintilie. 1992

Church Peștera 507136, Romania See in map

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[houndofchivalry]

pinnable post for this blog:

hi, I'm Cinnamon, they/them, genderqueer & nonbinary & butch. I'm 32 years old and a practicing witch for almost ten years now. my main is @thepaladog

I'm clergy & priestex for my temple, which in my tradition means I'm sort of a spiritual counselor for people exploring a pagan path. I'm also a big bad wolf, which is to say, otherkin to red wolves specifically; I'll often call myself a 'werewolf' due to this, and posts connected to this are tagged #the wolf. I'm also fond of knights and the concept of (non-gendered) chivalry, hence the blog title. you may see me tag things in that vein as #the knight; these are ideals that I am strongly aligned with, things that I'm trying my best to be!

I could sit on a porch and talk for days about religion and spirituality but for the sake of a bio: I believe spirituality is fluid and highly personal, with overarching higher concepts that have connected us in an animistic way for as long as humanity's records go back. closed practices are closed practices and should be respected every time. indigenous people's voices should be heard and valued at every (neo-)pagan table. we do ourselves good by living closer to the natural world around us, by being aware of our status as good neighbors to everyone we can be.

my genealogy is mostly Germanic peoples, though my family has lived in the foothills of the Appalachias for about four-hundred years, so "Appalachian" is what I consider myself to be in a regional cultural sense. as is common in that folkloric practice, I have found the most comfort in following nature (in its many aspects) as divine and most of my ritual practice is aligned with what you might call 'granny craft'.

on this blog, you will see my tags for these concepts that I hold holy to my own devotion and practice. these are sort of abstract and ever-expanding. some of them are like divinity to me, while others are more like friends and mentors. these may change but right now they are:

#the bear - life well-lived, wild nature, the nurturer & the protector, leadership, responsibility, neutral forces of balance, the importance of eating berries barefoot by the river with people you love, harshness & tenderness both being a part of being alive

#the black dog - death & grief, growth through loss, liminal spaces, the art of witchery, the silence of a 3am parking lot and the sound of a 3am forest, every crossroad both literal and metaphorical

#the rabbit - the rabbit; patience, awareness, action, caution, daring.

#the foxes - the red fox; sunlight, daytime, warmth, laughter, play, growth. the gray fox; moonlight, nighttime, cold, reality, mischief, decay.

#the frog - the element of water; emotions, memory, reflection.

#the salamander - the element of fire; passion, control, desire.

#the oak - the element of earth; balance, stability, homeland.

#the dragonfly - the element of air; creativity, expression, whimsy.

welcome, feel free to ask me questions, I don't post my own content very often but who knows, maybe one day I'll change that!

[ask-de-writer]

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK

@ofairandbeauteousone for READING

and LIKING

my poem THE OAK

[courtleymanor]

The Quickening - The Oak

from my Midsummer music playlist

For shelter and shade Has the oak tree grown The ship, the cradle The hearth, and home

Arms so strong They hold the sky Stood so long that The heart can't die

The limbs, the veins The head and the heart The earth, the roots The leaves and the bark

Tear the branch And your crops will fail Break the bough And your fleet won't sail

It cries when The black rain burns Trees die when The seas return

A dozen generations Has the oak tree grown The roots reach deep To the rocks and bones

Arms so strong They hold up the sky Stood so long that The heart can't die

The limbs, the veins The head and the heart The earth, the roots The leaves and the bark

[yamujiburo]

Boss

[All comics in order here]

[catmask]

in finnish, the '@' symbol is sometimes referred to as 'kissanhnta' [cat's tail] or 'miau', 'miau merkki' [meow marks]. in the pokemon universe, i thought it might be cute if the '@' symbol were called 'the mew' or 'mew symbol'

considering both bill and professor oak would know about mew, i imagined a conversation in which this term was coined in which professor oak tries (and finally succeeds) at sending his first email.

[expressions-of-nature]

Fontainebleau State Park, Louisiana by Lana Gramlich

[banicraft]

Pale Oak my Beloved

[wild-e-eep]

This distinctively warty lichen is Melanohalea exasperata (with several friends) on a lushly populated oak twig.

It can be tricky to find as it mostly grows high up in the tree canopy - so far I've only enountered it on branches that have recently fallen to the ground.

[deoxysacid]

proud to present what i just spent way too long on

[xxtc-96xx]

they won

[houndofchivalry]

today's mood

[ask-de-writer]

I would like to thank Delightfully

EAGER BINGE READER

@furislupus​ for READING and LIKING

My whole MASTER STORY INDEX SECTION,

He has gone into MLP Fan Fiction with

THE PRICE OF AMBER (parts 1 to 7 of 23)

and my humorous poem, THE OAK

[lazylittledragon]

dndads s1 you're so special to me

[yamujiburo]

Study Help

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