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[leech-mother]

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[jul-0v0]

Hmmm Wip

Tried to maintain facial structure basic in Apollo sculptures 🤔

[mysharona1987]

[roachpatrol]

I WOULD PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOR CHOCOLATE IF IT MEANT REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF SLAVES IN THE WORLD? HOW IS THIS ANY KIND OF PROBLEM. 

[kaijutegu]

good news, you can! the company’s called Tony’s Chocolonely and their entire purpose is to make slave-free chocolate and reform the chocolate industry.

https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%27s_Chocolonely

Whole Foods carries it. If you don’t want to support an Amazon-owned company, World Market carries it. You can also buy it directly from the company. 

It’s the best chocolate I’ve ever had and it’s 100% slave free. Tony’s Chocolonely works really hard to push for transparency within the chocolate industry and actually has and is following an action plan to eliminate slavery within cocoa production. They’re good people who make good chocolate.

[rsbenedict-deactivated20181216]

A list of slavery-free chocolate companies:

Aldi

Aloha Feels Chocolate

Alma Chocolate

Alter Eco Chocolate

Amano Chocolate

Askinoise Chocolate

The Beach Chocolate Factory

Belicious

Black Mountain Chocolate

Cacaoteca

Caribeans Chocolate

Castronovo Chocolate

Charm School Chocolates

Chocolate Cartel

Chocolat Celeste

Chocolate Tree

Chocolate Troubadour

Choconat

Coco Chocolate

Compartes Chocolates

Dandelion Chocolate

Dark Forest Chocolate

Denman Island Chocolate

Divine Chocolate Co.

Eating Evolved

Eat Your Hat

El Ceibo

The Endangered Species

Equal Exchange

Fairafric

Forever Cocoa

Fresco Chocolate

Fruition Chocolate

Gayleen’s Decadence

GEPA Chocolate

Giddy Yo Yo

Grenada Chocolate Company

Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate

Guittard

Habitual Chocolate

Hagensborg Chocolates

Health by Chocolate

Hilo Shark Chocolate

HNINA Gourmet

Honest Artisan Chocolate

Hooray  Tuffles

Ithaca Fine Chocolates

L.A. Burdick Chocolates

La Iguana Chocolate

Lake Champlain Chocolates

La Siembra Cooperative

Lillie Belle Farms

Madecasse

Malagasy

Maverick Chocolate Company

Max Havelaar

Mayan Monkey

Mayordomo

Mia Chocolate

Montezuma’s Chocolates

Nayah Amazon Chocolates

Newman’s Own Organics

Purdy’s Chocolate

Omanahene Cocoa Bean Company

Ombar

OpuLux Fair Trade Chocolate

Original Hawaiian Chocolate

Parliament Chocolate

Montevérgine

Patric Chocolate

Plamil Organic Chocolate

Potomac Chocolate

Pure Lovin’ Chocolate

Rain Republic

Rapunzel Pure Organics

Ritual Chocolate

Samaritan Xocolata

Sappho Chocolates

Seed & Bean Chocolate

Shaman Chocolates

Sibú Chocolate

Solkiki Chocolate

Sweet Earth Chocolates

Sweet Impact Fudge

Sweet Riot

Sun Eaters Organics

Taza Chocolate

Terra Nostra Organic

Terroir Chocolate

TCHO

The Chocolate Wave

Theo Chocolate

The Original Chocolate Bar (Houston, TX)

Tobago Estate Chocolate

TONY’S CHOCOLONELY

Vivani Chocolate

Vosges

Wei of Chocolate

Xocolatl Chocolate

Zotter

[c-ology]

even better post about chocolate that does not use slave labor

[eb3yr]

I reblogged this not even a day ago but!!! My local shop just rearranged everything and put Tony’s Chocoloney on the shelves. It tastes SO GOOD and this post is the only reason I knew to try it.

[etheribot]

Shoutout to all the witches who live in “less than perfect” environments !!

Shoutout to all the witches with no accessible witch store.

Shoutout to all the sea witches who live miles inland.

Shoutout to all the cosmic witches who live in areas with high light pollution.

Shoutout to all the kitchen witches who live in dorms or spaces with no actual kitchen.

Shoutout to all the green witches who live in urban spaces, where the closest forgeable are the weeds that grow in the cracks of the sidewalk.

Shoutout to the all desert witches who live in lush, rainy locations.

Shoutout to all the witches who live in places where fire can’t be used.

Shoutout to all the broom closet witches who live in non-witchy households.

Shoutout to all the diaspora witches who live in lands unknown to your ancestors.

Shoutout to all the swamp witches who live in dry deserts.

[yorubaby]

Learning discernment really changed my witchcraft and spiritual practices.

When I first began interacting with witchcraft and paganism in the 2010s, I had very little discernment, and I believed everything I saw. I believed things people said on their blogs and microblogs. I believed random websites I saw. I believed people who said they had something to tell me from whoever/whatever.

I wish I had learned that I did not need to listen to everyone, and I seriously wish I had understood how to critically consume witchcraft and pagan content.

I'm thankful I eventually learned discernment and critical consumption, and I'm very thankful that I came to my own understanding in regards to faith; learning those things really helped me grow as not only a witch but also as a pagan.

[crab-milk]

A large man reclines in repose, tending to a glass of red wine and gazing off dreamily. Grapevines adorn his hair like laurels and delicately twine around his body. From his temples are bunches of grapes, not unlike the jewels that sparkled on his body like stars or the spillage of wine. He takes in a deep sigh before turning to the party, a mist of alcohol clouding his gaze. "Would you like a drink?"

[heatherwitch]

Bedridden witch: Winter edition

I tried to keep this fairly location neutral - so hopefully you find some helpful things even if you live someplace that doesn’t get snow/cold!

Create strands of pine cones to hang from your ceiling.

Collect a jar of snow so you can always have snow water nearby.

Drink things like seasonal tea, hot cocoa and apple cider (fresh pressed cider too!).

Burn pine/spruce/wintery scented candles.

Get/make a small wreath and keep it indoors!

Use ice cubes to connect to the cold.

Keep clear quartz and snowflake obsidian around.

Make paper snowflakes! Or find an app/website where you can do a digital one.

Use your heat to draw sigils on frosted windows. (If you live somewhere hot, use ice water instead!)

Put a bird feeder outside your window so you get winter visitors! (If you live somewhere warmer, you might get species just visiting for the winter!)

Use sigils that connect you to snow.

Get empty ornaments and fill them with herbs/pine needles/things that remind you of winter and hang them around.

Wear shimmery blue or white nail polish.

Use ice water to clean and cleanse your body!

Check out the winter decor section of thrift stores when you make it out of bed! Or have someone send you pictures!

Visit seasonal themed/winter aesthetic blogs.

White fairy lights!

Keep your curtains open during a full moon.

Wind chimes remind me of everything. Including! Winter. 

Get some cute little snow globes. 

Decorate with winter colors! White, blue, silver, grey, dark green, etc.

Listen to music that reminds you of winter/snow falling. Try instrumentals.

Open the window for a minute to feel the cold air (do this early in the morning if you live somewhere warm).

This cute idea for moon charged ice cubes.

Watch gifs/videos of snow, ice forming, fire crackling, etc.

Connect with any deities that are associated with winter.

Watch shows/movies that remind you of the wintertime from when you were a kid.

Watch winter/arctic documentaries.

Keep a bonsai tree/jade plant. Something that naturally keeps it’s leaves even in winter.

Other bedridden witch posts:

Bedridden witch  - Nature edition

Bedridden witch  - Worship edition

Bedridden witch - Divination edition

Bedridden witch - Stale energy edition

Bedridden witch - Elements edition

Bedridden witch - Pastel edition

Bedridden witch - Kitchen edition 

All other posts linked here

[oliviawebsite]

you have to be able to defend people who are receiving unjust treatment even if they annoy you even if you personally find them extremely annoying you still have to be able to stand up and say "well thats fucked up"

[pusheenthenerdcat]

the moral willpower required for "i hate their guts but my personal ethical standard is no xyz and i cannot set the precedent of making an exception for them" is imennse but important work

[cultkinkcoven]

He smiles too sometimes

[deepinourengines]

oh sure blame the guy whose fault it is

[vdoes]

apollon

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[apollo-32]

An even more rough very quick late night sketch. Excuse the mistakes...

[wyntercraft-deactivated20190812]

                                  Hot Choclety Milk Spell

                                 For comfort and calmness.

Ingredients: 

Your favourite hot chocolate

Your favourite mug  

Milk/Milk substitute

Peppermint

Cinnamon

Nutmeg

Vanilla 

Blankets, pillows, anything comforting

Soft music

Intent

Directions: 

Build yourself a warm nest of blankets, pillows, and the like. 

Turn on music that calms you. 

Prepare the hot chocolate like you normally would.

Add in the other ingredients and your own calming intent, stirring clockwise and putting soothing energy into it.

As you’re stirring, repeat these words:  “Calm the waves, soothe the fear, let all be comforting here” until you feel it’s ready.

When you’re done, nestle yourself into the blankets, listen to the music, and just breathe. 

[themori-witch]

I showed this to my sister and her reaction was: “Ohmygod. Meme Witches”

[asksecularwitch]

Day 20: Nest

Sometimes, a favorite activity can become spellwork, which is what I am associating this with - is that it’s something that provides such strong appeal that it becomes more magical with time. And a little enchantment.

This is, in fact, a true tumblr meme

Hot Choclety Milk | Know Your Meme

Hot Choclety Milk, an intentional misspelling of “Hot Chocolate Milk,” refers to an MS Paint cartoon illustration of a spider offering a mug

And it’s a spider.

I know that this is using nest here for pillows and blankets, right? Because after all this spell wouldn’t be on this day (It could’ve been on the milk day no?), if it didn’t include that word in the spell somewhere. But we could have leaned into the spider-ishness of this spell a bit to me, it might have been interesting. After all spiders are very much part of the home making process (at least for me, because I have an agreement so… ), so to me it makes sense to add them into that level of comfort and coziness.

I also think this is particularly useful for working with spellwork that might be a little less risky to do anything else. And yes, you could argue that the hot choco is currently a potion, I’ll accept that. But the entire spell includes other elements besides the hot choco. That’s just one of the many elements of this particular spellwork.

One little bit here - let me come to camera 3

Listen. Listen, listen. I know… I see it, you want me to provide some deep knowledge about clockwise stirring. I see it, I see that you do. Let me just say that… I stir my beverages like a hand mixer and a wile e coyote where in I could be doing side to side, diagonals, and other tricks with my spoon. Clockwise is just a method.

There’s some folks who say clockwise is how to draw down something into something else. Like a funnel. This is partial because people are still using some Wiccan based explanation of the direction of doing things / understanding / patterning for how they do their rituals (deosil / sunwise). I say Wiccan based because this does, if my research is accurate -squint-, appear in some of the Gardnerian BoS / Alexanderian BoS.

I do not have such things in my spellwork repertoire and I am sure there will be people who are offended that I pointed out that there’s a lot of spellwork patterned with these directionals because of the popularity of Wiccan spell casting templates.

So frankly, stir how you want to stir. Is what I’m saying. There’s nothing (imo) super magical about a direction you stir in unless you make it so.

I feel this would be very good for nightmares or after a particularly stressful day. There’s pieces here that could even be used to feel like reconstruction after a particularly bad news or a particularly bad confrontation that you could use to soothe and heal. Finding peace after such things is very important - and I say this as someone who frequently dwells in their pain rather than someone who drinks the hot choclety milk as part of a soothing ritual or any other soothing ritual. I can see the benefits of such a thing bringing more of that I am here, I am not in trouble, and basically putting your self literally back into the scale it should be in rather than feeling lost and upset.

So all in all, I enjoy this spell. I personally would pick a flavor and stay with it. As I said, cinnamon and peppermint are opposites on the spicy scale for me. So like if I was picking one, I’d pick that one that I needed the most.

And yes, you can have hot choco in the summer, and I will fight you on that. xD

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Jasper's Energyform Zine

Hey. I made a zine about thoughtforms, servitors, and energyforms. It's free. It's yours now. Print it out. Eat it. I don't care. Just don't pretend you wrote it when I did all of this and screamed at the formatting and paid for Canva shit to accomplish this.

Download it as a PDF here.

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Hey bitches, bastards, and backstabbers, just so you know, I have a whole masterpost of resources when it comes to energyforms, in case you're looking for more stuff after using this as a jumping off point. I update it somewhat regularly. Godspeed you glorious bastards.

[ranrandraws]

hermes experimental painting with the new procreate brushes

[its-arson-time]

type prevs url with your eyes closed in the tags

[datafags]

CRYING AND BAWLING AND LOSING IT

[windvexer]

Normally I feel the discussion between divination and health circles around the idea that divination is prone to being unhealthy (triggering psychosis, feeding delusions, losing skepticism, becoming easily influenced).

But what if the practice of divination can actually be very mentally healthy? Including activities such as:

Brain workout to find patterns in seemingly unrelated phenomena (compare/contrast exercises)

Linking patterns back to prior knowledge and testing associations

Linking prior knowledge to current events and testing associations

Practicing skepticism and the ability to perceive a pattern without believing in it or integrating it

Practice holding disparate or incongruent patterns and beliefs simultaneously without reacting to either of them

Practice in communication by translating complex concepts into an interpretation you can share as losslessly as possible with the querent.

I was just saying to a friend, the skill of divination is not compelling the right symbol to be at the top of the sortilege pile. The skill of divination is spelunking into disparate symbols and finding a thread of truth that links the past, future, and present moment to abstract beliefs - and then finding a way to communicate that thread to others.

I think maybe in its simplest iteration, divination is being able to feel for truth. And in that sense, divination should be able to increase rationality, skepticism, and mental agility. When your divination practice is built on "let's see if I can prove this wrong," you must expand beyond the edges of the shadows and leave no stone unturned to ensure you haven't missed any discounting information.

Anyway. I've been thinking a lot lately about end of life mental acuity (I'm at that age where our parents are starting to slow down), and mental atrophying due to outsourcing tasks to AI, and - I am very, very grateful that one of my main hobbies is functionally mental gymnastics. And I know how that sounds to people who think it's all bunk. I just don't think it's wrong to have a very flexible mind with very good core strength. Rigidity is not the goal.