to change is divine

Aese, they/them, 30. Witch, magical practitioner, diviner, spirit worker, big ol' nerd. May or may not be a moth in a pointy hat. Food, spirit work, divination, and practical magic. TAROT READINGS & CUSTOM SPELL SERVICES: Open on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/aesethewitch

[aesethewitch]

Welcome, welcome!

Hello! I'm Aese, a witch, magical practitioner, diviner, spirit worker, and big ol' nerd. I'm officially 30, and I use they/them pronouns.

You can find my original spells in the tag #my spells, my original recipes in the tag #my recipes, other posts I've written or replied to under #aese speaks, and asks I've answered under #aese answers. My ask box is always open for questions and conversation. Be kind, be mindful.

I'm a witch for hire! You can commission custom food spells, get tarot readings, and buy spell recipe cards over on my Ko-Fi page. Rules for tarot readings can be found here (Tumblr post) or here (Neocities site). If you don't see something on the commission page that suits you, or if you need to negotiate prices, send me a DM here or on Ko-Fi. If you like what I do, you can also tip me or become a monthly supporter for bonuses like commission discounts and monthly tarot readings. Supporters of all types get early and sometimes extended or even exclusive access to my work!

I've got a website over on Neocities -- check it out here to peek at more of my original fiction, see better-formatted content, and more! Leave a comment in my guestbook if you visit! If you also have a personal website where you publish anything witchcraft-related, I also run a webring called The Witching Hour Webring! Read more about it here.

I sometimes do free one-card tarot readings. Rules are the same as for paid readings and can be found here (Tumblr post) or here (Neocities site).

I stream over on Twitch with an irregular schedule. We do live tarot, video games, arts & crafts, spellwork, and more! Join our Discord for stream announcements, polls, community chatter, and events.

Another of my side projects is The Pages' Journey, a community-forward website that will (hopefully) someday be an eclectic divination resource for all skill levels. It's got a blog over @thepagesjourney for questions and announcements.

My other blogs are:

@aesesinkwell - Writing and TTRPG stuff (peep the pinned post over there for specifics and warnings - there's horror and explicit content in there)

@aeseofspades - Random reblogs and non-witchcraft posting

@accustomedtofightingasateam - Trigun brainrot blog

Mutuals can ask for my explicit kink blog

May the road be wide and straight before you.

[misanthropic-drown]

[everybodylovesthemoon]

Iconic historical stage designs for The Queen of the Night sequence from Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - the first image by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1815, the second by Simon Quaglio in 1818 (x)

[phosphorusab]

You’d think a Black Madonna saving the lives of two gay men who had been hate crimed, and then them celebrating her intervening for them by having gay sex would be something the Woke Left invented, but it’s Real and her name is Our Lady of Montevergine

[chronicallyferal]

Here’s an article with various sources that I found interesting and helped me learn more about it (this sentence sounds robotic but that’s just how I write ;_;)

Madonna of Montevergine: Patron of LGBTQ people since medieval times

The Madonna of Montevergine has been helping LGBTQ people since medieval times -- including the miraculous rescue of a male couple in Italy

[aesethewitch]

The press was a little uneven as one of the leaves got shifted at some point, but that's okay! It'll still do the trick for a bit of luck magic.

[aesethewitch]

I pressed a 4-leaf clover that's finally dry enough to use! I'm gonna carefully laminate it to preserve it and then put it in my money bowl during the refresh (:

[aesethewitch]

I didn't make enough coffee this morning for both a second cup and my usual offering... so I'm making another small batch special, because I could FEEL that tantrum brewing.

[aesethewitch]

Crisis averted 👍

[aesethewitch]

I didn't make enough coffee this morning for both a second cup and my usual offering... so I'm making another small batch special, because I could FEEL that tantrum brewing.

[hiiighpriestess913]

I’ve always drawn out my sigils for each spell or ritual that I do, and lately I’ve been finding that kinda tedious because sometimes I’ll use five or six or more in the same working.

SO I made a bunch of little stones out of air dry clay and painted a sigil on each! I also made a taglock stone for myself that I can just whip out instead of carving my name/birthdate into a candle. The colors all correspond to the sigil meanings 🎨✨

[abogwitchnamedsage]

I don't know who might need to hear this, but I wanted to share something beautiful I had the opportunity to witness.

In the chaos and uncertainty around us, there is still so much love and hope.

A few weeks ago, a local international student nervously approached me and asked if I could photograph his wedding reception. We barely know each other — so much so that the only real thing he knew about me was that a) I was a graphic designer and b) he had seen me hold a camera. And the only thing I knew about him was that he came from overseas to study engineering in the U.S.

He explained that his friend (and expected photographer) couldn't make the trip. I sympathized and told him I had a similar situation with my wedding, but then he said something that made my stomach churn.

Almost all his family and friends overseas can't make it. So can't the bride's, as she's studying abroad as well. With the warmest smile, he says while he wishes his family could be there to celebrate, he's so lucky to have great friends who are helping them put on a small reception.

I told him I had it covered and I wouldn't accept payment. Photos like this will be invaluable over time, and I wanted to pay it forward as the volunteer photographer at my own wedding did.

The wedding was this weekend. I cried during it.

His fellow engineering students became wedding planners. A church opened its doors free of charge. Families of local students caught wind of the event and handled the food, learning cultural dishes from the bride and groom's home countries. A mom group banded together to make table centerpieces. A recently married couple donated their leftover decorations. There were almost one hundred guests. Most of us didn't know each other.

It was the most beautiful wedding I've ever seen. Not just because the bride and groom were so deeply in love with one another, but because strangers saw an opportunity to be kind. In a community where hate of anything 'foreign' seems to fester, a bunch of people saw two lovebirds separated from their families, stepped in, and said, "how can we celebrate love today?"

All I saw was love. Maybe we're not as doomed as we think we are.

[headspace-hotel]

anybody else ever get stressed out thinking about all the good compostable food waste that gets simply sent to landfill

[headspace-hotel]

I've been obsessively doting upon my compost pile. When i was sick last week i would get fatigued when doing anything and lay down in midday for vague, dozing semi-naps and get consumed with dreamish, half delirious thoughts of compost. What I needed to add to it, how best to stir it, how I would distribute it...

[headspace-hotel]

i can still pinpoint the feeling of realization when the smell changed from Gross Nasty Rot to Alive, Flourishing Rot.

Alive Rot Smell is so hard to describe, but it's the realest and most visceral thing. It is what makes up 80% of the smell of a forest, and vibrates a deep part of your animal body like YES YES YES YES! I don't want to eat it exactly, but it has a deliciousness.

Decomposition has been a big theme for me this year. Rot is a further iteration of life. I think a lot about rot and muck and decay

[artmialma]

Ivan Pokidyshev (born in 1993)

[fictionalgod]

[depsidase]

[awitchnamedjuniper]

Kitchen Witchery: Peach Pudding

Two sweet treats I can eat my weight in: banana pudding and peach cobbler. This dessert combines some of my favorite things about both. It's sweet, yummy, and definitely a comfort food I could easily make on repeat.

On the witchy side of things, it's good packed with ingredients like peaches, cream, and cinnamon, which are great for enhancing workings that revolve around love, joy, and comfort.

Ingredients

2 cans sliced California Cling Peaches, drained

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups cold milk

1 package instant vanilla pudding mix

14oz can sweetened condensed milk

16oz container frozen whipped topping, thawed-reserve 1 cup for topping

1 package vanilla wafers

Directions

In a medium bowl, add the peaches, cinnamon, and vanilla. Combine and mash the peaches with a fork. Set aside.

Place milk and pudding mix in a large bowl; beat with a whisk for about 2 minutes. Whisk in condensed milk until smooth. Fold in the whipped topping.

Arrange a layer of wafers in the bottom of a casserole dish. Top with a layer of pudding mixture and then a layer of the mashed peaches; repeat layers until all ingredients are used.

Spread the 1 cup of the reserved whipped topping on top and chill pudding in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour before serving.

[Photo credit to Roman Biernacki]

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[thatdamnokie]

i love you fairy tales i love you folklore i love you myths i love you stories as old as humanity itself i love you oral traditions i love you characters carried through time on my ancestors’ tongues i love you story i’ve seen a million ways and want to see a million more i love you archetypes i love—

[bread-in-the-void]

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