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god, GOD Freddie Mercury was such a fucking badass

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Mis amigos interesados en entrar al mundo de la manifestación consciente y yo 😁

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Para atraer riqueza hay que dejar de enfocarse en la pobreza 🤗💖✨

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How to Create Downtime Menus

As a lot of my posts are, this one was inspired by a conversation with my partner. She seemed to think some of my ideas were helpful so I thought I'd write them up and share them here.

I use a combination of these ideas to do two things - redirect myself when I get stuck doomscrolling/freezing/obsessing and redirect myself when I'm stuck on the "must be good, must be productive" hamster wheel and can't seem to stop doing chores until I'm fucking exhausted or have pushed/hurt myself. Knowing you need to stop is one thing - knowing what to do instead is another.

Not all of these will work for every person at every time. Pick one or two that seem interesting and give them a whirl.

Habit of the Month

This is a small habit I can do in about 5-10 minutes a day. These are sometimes habits that I want to audition for my lineup or just want to focus on as a way of rebooting a given area of my life. Physical habits have been things like stretching, a walk, putting on moisturizer, drinking water, making tea, etc. Emotional habits have been things like stream of consciousness journaling, bullet journaling, recording myself venting, etc. Spiritual habits have been things like meditating, altar work, reading sutras, tarot readings, etc.

If I'm stuck in a loop and I haven't done that task yet, it serves as an easy win that feels moderately meaningful to accomplish. This is easier to do than longer or less interesting tasks.

Side Quests

These are little challenges I'd like to accomplish that are 100% fun and completely optional. They are specific and can me completed within a given time frame - usually a month. They usually aren't the most meaningful to keep them more fun and so I'm not letting myself down if I don't opt to complete it.

They've been things like:

The Minor Expert Challenge - read three books in one subject

The Kanopy Critic Challenge - use up all of my Kanopy credits that month

The Regal Freegal Challenge - download all the albums/songs I can on Freegal that month

The Monthly Playlist Challenge - create a playlist of the month where each song represents something about each day of that month; like a playlist diary

The Reverse Tarot Draw Challenge - pick/list a tarot card you best think represents each day of a given month or other time period; like a tarot card diary

The 100 Words Challenge - learn 100 words in a foreign language

As you can see, I prefer things that are pretty low energy friendly so I can work on them on days I'm super tired. Just little chronic illness things.

Alphabet Lists

I use these for my cleaning routines actually but I also have been trying them with my downtime. The way it works is you list out the alphabet and choose one self care or hobby task you'd like to do for each. They don't have to start with the same letter, it just serves as an easy way to limit how many you pick and keep track of what you've done. It's satisfying to cross off the whole list.

Tasks I put on these are things like

A - paint my nails

B - crochet a charity hat

C - write 5 letters for Letters Against Isolation

D - send a letter to a friend

E - play a solo rpg

F - play a solo board game

G - complete a puzzle

etc

They're fun tasks I'm not currently doing as often as I'd like but chill enough that it doesn't matter when precisely I do them more often. I try to pick tasks that are roughly 30 minutes to an hour long though some definitely take longer. I like to complete these roughly monthly but I try to complete a whole list before I start it again. Anything I just did not feel like doing and kept skipping gets scratched out and I rewrite a new list with new item to replace those. And I start again.

Whenever I'm like ugh I don't know what to do with myself, I try to pick at least one thing on the list and give it a try for 5 minutes. If I don't like it after that I can just put it away and pick something else.

10x10

10x10 lists are a different take on a similar idea. It's a list of 10 things you'd like to do at least 10 times in a given time period. Mine tend to be on the seasonal or annual timescale but maybe you're intense and prefer a monthly one. If I don't complete them in a given time period, I just continue with it until I'm done. Better to complete it on an altered timeline than not at all.

For me these tend to be slightly bigger tasks that take a little more planning or energy. I'm not totally sure why I use them this way since you could definitely use them for smaller tasks but that's just the space they occupy for me.

So examples of what would be on my list would be things like:

Grab a hot chocolate from the coffee shop (x10)

Complete a PokemonGo event (x10)

Have a spa night and watch a movie (x10)

Do something extra nice for my partner (x10)

Try a new game (x10)

Find a geocache (x10)

etc

Filing up a little 10x10 grid is pretty satisfying. Much more so than anxietying myself into my bed for the equivalent amount of time.

Seasonal Bucket Lists

I really enjoy making these though I really struggle with the current season (Spring) given my allergies. There's this idea my partner has told me about in DBT where you try to recall positive moments to help "build a life worth living". I think seasonal bucket lists are really good at helping with this for me. I look back on the seasons I made these lists way more fondly than the ones I didn't.

They generally center on seasonal activities I don't want to miss out on. So for summer that's stuff like going for a night swim/skinny dip, getting 5-10 good cloud photos, playing a yard game (like cornhole), seeing a street concert, etc. I also try to take pictures of those (if they don't already involve them) so I can reflect on them later and enjoy the residual happiness.

Conclusion

The point of these isn't to overwhelm you with options. It's just to have enough ideas prepped that you can find something no matter your energy level or time you're working with.

Remember - rest and enjoying yourself is necessary for human health. Folks how get good rest and experience flow states more regularly tend to heal better. People who spend time on what they enjoy are often more enjoyable to be around.

It's never a waste of time to make yourself happy.

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hello, for some strange reason this month I really want to do readings.. if anyone has any questions about 1 question the price is cheap

Let me know private DM or question..

Love, EM

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The Death card is so often misunderstood.

Contrary to what media has portrayed, or people associating the death card with LITERAL DEATH, this card can actually be one of the most positive in the deck.

Drawing this card symbolizes the ending of things and relationships that no longer serve you purpose, and signifies a strong transformation occurring within you. Embrace these changes and move forward, even if they come suddenly or unexpectedly. Let go of unhealthy attachments, and pave the way for a more enlightened path. You’ve got this.

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A little witchy calendar to look forward to next year, since this one was a little bit.. cursed.

This lets you know about the full moons, new moons, wheel of the year celebrations and zodiac entrys, I hope you can use this to aid you on your practice.

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IF THIS AIN’T ME IDK WHAT IS I SWEAR 😂

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Artículos

Todos los artículos que he escrito desde que comencé éste blog. Canalizaciones y prácticas experimentadas por medio de mi misma y los demás.

Canalización: En proceso de traducción :)

Amor: https://morrpriestess.tumblr.com/post/623644406067675136/amor-y-lecturas

Cuerpo: En proceso de traducción :d

Turismo de sueños: En proceso de traducción :D

Interpretación de sueños: https://morrpriestess.tumblr.com/post/619844691385614336/interpretaci%C3%B3n-de-sue%C3%B1os

Espíritus animales: En proceso de traducción :p

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commission done for @fairfaxleasee! I’ve never painted iridescent mermaids or betta tails before, so this was fun! :) Thank you so much!

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MY BIG COMPILATION OF USEFUL WITCHY TIPS

Draw sigils on clothespins or binder clips. You can now easily clip it to an outfit before you use it, the back of a curtain, the underside of your bed, wherever.

Learn how to macrame. Seriously, it's so useful for trying crystals to things

Lightly scratch a rune or simple sigil into your lip balm for an added boost.

Wanna symbolically launch a lantern into the sky but know it'll just end up litter? Unfold a teabag and empty it of tea, stand it up, and light the bottom on fire. Look it up, it's super cool, and it'll burn up so no litter involved.

Use index cards to organize plant/crystal correspondences. Index card boxes are additionally small and easy to hide.

Get some plain label stickers, like the kind you'd stick on an envelope after writing your address on it. Boom bam, an easy way to tag something with a sigil

Homemade soap! Almost every craft fair you'll ever go to will have someone selling soap, and generally pretty cheap! I've got a goat milk and honey bar that gives me correspondences energies, and most places will sell messed up balls of soap for 2 bucks or so! All of them have correspondences and can give your shower a charge for the low price of supporting community businesses!

If you can't sew, twig and/or vine poppets are very much a thing.

Get a loose tea strainer. Make yourself tea from plants around you. Dandelions make fantastic tea (make sure the area you gather from isn't sprayed!) Imo, the most useful thing a witch can own is a loose tea strainer, it's good for any type of brew.

Envelope spells. I CANNOT stress this enough. Sigil the envelope, fill, and dispose of however you need to. Paper is biodegradable, easy to sigil and seal, and you can make your own envelopes a bajillion different ways.

Spool spells. Find an empty spool. Do your knot magic with the string you use. Use the string to bind a small sprig of each herb you use to the spool. Glue the end down. Sigil or seal the top. Tada! Cute, easy to hide spell. Pictured below is a spool spell of mine. I superglued an acorn cap and quartz chip to the top instead of sigiling, but you get the jist.

If you're any good at embroidery (or even if you're not) Norse runes are literally the easiest thing you could possibly sew onto something.

Speaking of runes, stick them on literally anything. Someone asks, say it's the Norse rune for [insert thing] and no one will question it or give a fuck. My extremely christian transphobic mom bought me, a trans man, a tiwaz patch (the rune for masculinity) because I said it was the rune for strength. She did not suspect it was a trans thing or a witchcraft thing.

Use the witches foot! It's a Lowkey symbol for witches everywhere, and easy to explain away as "just a cool pattern" because it's so simple and ridiculously hard to google if you don't know the name of it.

If you're a witch into astrology, get into the non witchy, stargazing part of astrology and let your parents know. They will consider nothing suspicious about you knowing zodiacs, constellations, and moon phases because you're just "into stargazing".

Make your grimoire a school notebook. Keep it with your school stuff. Nothing is less suspicious than a notebook in your backpack. Writing in it is just "doing homework".

Listen to Ren Faire music. Nothing feels witchier than blasting violin and bagpipes whilst a woman sings about telling men to fuck off or a dude sings about a witch cursing his whole village.

Set aside a pocket knife to do all your witch shit with. Clean it regularly. A good pocket knife can get you any plant matter you need, and can help you out when you're fucking around out in the woods

Plain rocks are useful! Look up correspondences and uses for limestone, river rocks, smooth black stones, gravel, etc. Any rock you fish out of a water source will likely have the properties of that water source!

Go to garage sales and thrift shops. LOOK THROUGH THE BOOK SECTION. Not only can you find witchy books, bu, more importantly, you can find old beat up books! Find a good reference book or two that won't be missed and cut those fuckers up! Use the pictures to decorate your grimoire. I had an old reference book for plants and now all of my plant index cards have cut out pictures on them from that book. My pages for moon phases have some sick moon watercolor pictures on them.

Travel bottles are your friend. Use them for herb and water storage- those spray bottles are SUPER useful for spritzing your room with moon/rain/ocean water.

Hang your dying herbs in a south facing window and watch your drying time go from two weeks to less than one.