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In regards to research:

Don’t accept witchcraft books for history. Read history texts. 

Don’t accept witchcraft books for mental processes. Read psychology and biological texts. 

Don’t accept witchcraft books for mythology. Don’t accept witchcraft books for religion. Read original texts and papers written researchers credited in their fields. 

Use witchcraft books for witchcraft, and witchcraft alone. That is what they specialize in and what they are published for. If it branches out into a different subject, be suspicious and research the topic later. 

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Alabaster Crow's

Expanded Guide to Divination

(Free Download)

Contributor: @an-candy-witch

Editor: @jasper-pagan-witch

INDEX

What is Tarot?

Caring for Your Deck

How to Read Tarot

Major Arcana

Suit of Cups

Suit of Coins

Suit of Swords

Suit of Wands

What is Cartomancy?

Wheel of Fortune Keywords

Tarot, Oracle, and Wheel of Fortune Spreads

What Is Astragalomancy?

Guide to Traditional Astragalomancy

Guide to Polyhedral Astragalomancy

Six sided Die

Eight Sided Die

Ten and Twenty Sided Die

Twelve Sided Die

15. Word of Thanks

DOWNLOAD HERE

Tips are much appreciated if you can spare them, but not a necessity! Happy Reading!

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The Dirokvul - Hardcover Edition now available!

A happy day indeed. For the first time my book is now available in a physical form. For those of you who have downloaded the free digital edition of The Dirokvul from my pages, this is the same book. Now the only difference is a few special illustrations and a bit of alternative formatting. This hardcover edition is more of a collector's edition for those who wish to hold the tome in their hands.

https://www.amazon.com/Dirokvul-Ualthum/dp/B0DY6RK2L7

Thank you all again for the support over the years! I am hard at work on new art.

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did you ever think there was a reason those witches who you are the daughters of couldn't be burned? well maybe they couldn't be burned because they were in the town square saying yes archbishop i saw her dancing naked with the goatman right after she swept her porch in the wrong direction

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As a witch, you don't have to do any shadow work, at all, ever, if that's just not your thing. Anybody who insists you must do shadow work in order to be a witch either doesn't understand what shadow work actually is and where it comes from or is trying to sell something.

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hey, lonely Theistic Satanist. yeah, I'm talking to you.

come join my discord, Circle of the Fallen. we're small-ish (100ish people) but quite active, extremely chill, and very friendly and welcoming to all manner of Satanic-adjacent spiritualities (or just folks who are curious & respectful).

we'd love to have you. DM me for the invite link, okay? see you there.

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Dr. Paul Carus (German-American, 1852-1919, b. Ilsenburg, Germany, d. La Salle, IL, USA) - The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1899, published 1900.

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I love when I see someone saying "oh no tarot cards invite demons in" like yeah maybe I wanna talk to the demons have we considered that option

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Alright!

First off, most significant public domain literature that a Satanist might take interest in will be available as free audiobooks thanks to Librovox (the Internet Archive’s audiobook branch). The Bible of course, but also Paradise Lost, Dante’s Inferno, The Book of Enoch, and other classics can be found there.

Moving on to more modern books, I would recommend Song of the Dark Man by Darragh Mason, The Crooked Path by Kelden, and New World Witchery by Cory Thomas Hutcheson. These all fall more into the witchcraft/folk devil aspect of things, but they’re all excellent and have audiobooks available. I’d recommend getting a library card and checking the Libby app for them - if your library doesn’t have them in their collection, see if they give their users access to Hoopla, if they do, the last two are on there. If you have to buy them, I recommend using Libro.fm instead of Audible, the price are the same but Libro.fm gives your money to a local bookstore of your choice, and lets you actually download and keep your audiobooks.

does anyone have links about thiestic satanism for someone questioning that are like.... easy for someone mentally disabled to read? its cool if not

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Sorry for jumping in, but are audiobooks helpful? I can recommend a few.

does anyone have links about thiestic satanism for someone questioning that are like.... easy for someone mentally disabled to read? its cool if not

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this is your reminder that you are allowed to have an abnormal religious practice or craft. i've seen so many blogs worry about being palatable and accepted and i'm here to say what happens between you, your deities, and (if you practice) your witchcraft is your business alone.

you do not have to share everything with the internet, you are allowed to do things away from the public eye without talking about it. it does not make you alone. it does not strip you of the community you have.

additionally, you are so so SO allowed to practice differently from others. you are allowed to have a nonconforming practice in anything you do, not just for witchcraft or spirituality.

it's okay to make shit strange from time to time. let people question you and make incorrect assumptions about who you are. let them be wrong about you. nobody holds more value to what you do than you, and how you see your own practice.

make things weird. don't be afraid of not being accepted. it's good for you to do things your own way, however that is.

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it's a good time to remind all y'all that I've got a theistic Satanist discord I'm 1/3 of the mod team for.

we've small (50ish people as of writing in October '24) but active. we're diverse in our locations, ethnicities, backgrounds, ages (all welcome!), pantheons, and spiritualities. we have beginners who are 1 month in and people who've been in it for 20 years and who know all your favorite Satanist authors personally. but we've all got Satan in common.

we have a great resources channel, so many roles (that's my job and I'm very proud of it), channels for dreams, divination, "indulgence", being mad at Christianity, 18+, and so much more.

the mod team is Satan's librarian, a self-described "shitty wizard", and a mad scientist (yours truly).

come hang out with us. DM me for invite. we'd love to have you.

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“Radical diffusionism” is the idea that everything was invented by one culture, which then spread across the globe. This idea was very popular during the Victorian era, especially in Europe and the United States, all of whom were playing a game of “who can have the biggest globe-spanning empire.” The idea of Radical Diffusionism is, needless to say, very racist, but that is not how the Victorian era British Empire saw themselves. They were traveling to far off places, bringing culture, education, and technology to barbarous and underdeveloped lands and backwards peoples. A thought begins to emerge: What if this has happened before? What if, a long long time ago, there was an empire just like us who brought culture and technology to everyone on earth? Only to fall one day as all empires do. 

Enter Atlantis! The ancient, enlightened civilization of philosopher kings who were swallowed by the waves! Plato wrote about them, so therefore they must be real. Atlantis was a quick and easy shorthand for “The ancient culture responsible for everything cool.” What was Atlantis like? Well, it depends on the writer. Atlantis has a curious way of resembling the exact political system a given writer supports. Atlantis is a vessel, a big jar labeled “the ideal civilization” which a writer could fill with whatever they liked. 

Blavatsky filled Atlantis with two important things: Anticolonialism, and established understandings of European race science, read: She wanted to keep the concept of an Aristocracy, and Antisemitism. 

The Final Years of Mme. Helena Blavatsky, today on Patreon.

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"Easter derives from Ishtar and eggs and bunnies were totally her symbols" comes from a guy who claimed the Tower of Babel literally happened and the Greek and Roman gods were secretly based on an incestuous family that founded the city Babylon.

Hey paganblr and witchblr, can we please stop spreading Alexander Hislop's pseudohistorical slop around?

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Newbie witch tip:

Just about every kind of technique witches are actually doing can be Googled, DuckDuckGo'd, or Qwanted in like fifteen seconds. There isn't some Super Special Secret Powerful Technique we're all sitting on and not putting on our blogs for some reason.

The reason you can't find working techniques for elemental control and shapeshifting by searching these sites is because, and I emphasize, they don't exist. (Also, anyone who tells you they can teach you how to do these things is bullshitting you.)

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Annual reminder that:

Christmas trees were not "stolen" from pagans.

Christians didn't "steal" Sol Invictus.

They didn't "steal" Saturnalia, either.

Santa Claus was not based on Odin.

The trouble with claims that various elements of Christmas were "stolen" from pagans is that it vastly oversimplifies and overlooks huge amounts of history.

Furthermore, the whole thing is tied in with conspiracism, both from Christians and pagans. Christian conspiracy theorists cite it as evidence that Satan is lurking everywhere; pagan conspiracy theorists tend to incorporate it into the TERF-y belief that Christianity was part of a conspiracy to suppress the Divine Feminine. So yeah, always be a bit cautious anytime you hear somebody claiming something was "stolen" from pagans - try and find out what modern scholars have to say on the matter.

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it's a good time to remind all y'all that I've got a theistic Satanist discord I'm 1/3 of the mod team for.

we've small (50ish people as of writing in October '24) but active. we're diverse in our locations, ethnicities, backgrounds, ages (all welcome!), pantheons, and spiritualities. we have beginners who are 1 month in and people who've been in it for 20 years and who know all your favorite Satanist authors personally. but we've all got Satan in common.

we have a great resources channel, so many roles (that's my job and I'm very proud of it), channels for dreams, divination, "indulgence", being mad at Christianity, 18+, and so much more.

the mod team is Satan's librarian, a self-described "shitty wizard", and a mad scientist (yours truly).

come hang out with us. DM me for invite. we'd love to have you.