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Xuebing Du
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Jules of Nature
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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cherry valley forever
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
occasionally subtle
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Love Begins
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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
settlers are always so enthusiastic about ''foraging'' and then you'll start talking to them about indigenous horticulture & sustainable harvesting practices and they quickly reveal that they're more interested in the aesthetic of being a Crunchy Woodland Creature than like reducing their reliance on exploitative industrial agriculture or rebuilding their local foodshed
This is not true and it is in fact neither very simple nor very plain to forage sustainably. This kind of flippant "it's such an easy hobby" attitude when it comes to harvesting is exactly *why* there are so many problems with once-abundant traditional foods being depleted. Every plant is different, has different needs, and can support a different intensity of gathering. Foraging isn't just some fun hobby, and shouldn't be treated like one. It is a method of intentionally working land to gather resources meant to sustain oneself, whether those resources be food, medicine, or something else. It requires conscious maintenance of the land you are working, and active monitoring of not just your own gathering, but the gathering of your entire community. It requires experiential, often generational knowledge. You cannot boil a resource-gathering operation down to a simple truism and expect others to be able to do it respectfully and sustainably.
CeCe Rogers on Facebook writes: "Two Black Tennessee lawmakers were physically escorted out of chambers this week while Republicans quietly held a hearing to approve gerrymandered maps that would eliminate the state's only majority-Black congressional district.
No referendum. No special election. No public vote.
Because they know what happens when voters actually get a say — just look at Virginia, where the people spoke so loudly that Republicans had to drag the courts in to override them.
This isn't new. During Reconstruction, Black Americans held more congressional seats than at any point in the prior 90 years of American history. And white supremacists spent the next several decades tearing that down, through gerrymandering, poll taxes, and voter intimidation.
150 years later, the same tools. Different suits.
The audacity of escorting Black lawmakers out of their own chambers while dismantling Black political representation, and then telling us the courts aren't political, is breathtaking. These are the same courts they're counting on to make it stick.
This is a coordinated, multi-front assault on Black Americans. And we need to say it exactly that plainly."
me hanging out with black people in the summer: “aye, yall don’t forget to put on sunscreen”
them:
@flipflibberinflippinghell
Use the Walgreens Brand which is pretty cheap and it does wonders and doesn’t leave me with a white cast. And I’m dark as hell so I hate looking ashy but not all sunscreens are made equally and it’s one of the better ones I’ve used.
Wait cocoa/shea butter and coconut oil don’t protect you from the sun we really do need sunscreen??
Yea fam. All that “we don’t need sunscreen” shit is a myth. Combine that with the fact that most dermatologists don’t know how to spot skin cancer in Black people and it’s a nasty combination.
Yeah, it’s harder for us to get it but when we do it’s deadly. I know two people who died of skin cancer, both were Black.
“While incidence of melanoma is higher in the Caucasian population, a July 2016 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed it is more deadly in people of color. African American patients were most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in its later stages than any other group in the study, and they also had the worst prognosis and the lowest overall survival rate.”
- https://www.skincancer.org/prevention/skin-cancer-and-skin-of-color
Sorry about the link, I’m on mobile. But this is from August 2016, which I know isn’t the most recent but it’s still SUPER IMPORTANT. Y’all please wear sunscreen. With Google it’s even easy to find smaller, Black-owned brands.
https://blackgirlsunscreen.com/ is Black-owned!
I cannot stress this enough:
No matter how "confident" you are in your "UPG", your experiences, your "session", meditation, or the moments by which you have "experienced" something "divine" or spiritual you absolutely must critically examine it before you subscribe to it.
Discernment is absolutely lacking for many people.
There is so much that I see that is very clearly self projection and the practitioners do not realise it. So much I see that is feedback loops. So much that I see that screams "self created". These things matter. But so does your discernment to understand what is Divine and what is maladaptive daydreaming.
Hecate/hekate
Goddess of the night, necromancy, crossroads, witchcraft, boundaries, ghosts
Offerings :
Garlic
Oak
Yew
Willow
Dandelions
Lapis lazuli
Bronze
Gold
Black candles
Silver candles
Red candles
Purple candles
Knives or daggers
Swords
Keys
Depictions of crossroads
Depictions of the moon
Depictions of hekate's wheel
Triple moons
Owl feathers
Crow feathers
Raven feathers
Dog hair
Statues of her
Statues of her sacred animals
Bones (naturally sourced)
Dark chocolate
A wand
A cauldron
A horseshoe
Devotional acts :
Be kind to dogs
Donate to a dog shelter
Invoke her when casting spells or praying
Visit a graveyard (be respectful)
Go to a crossroad
Leave offerings at crossroads
Make a playlist of songs that remind you of her
Speak to her at midnight
Hang keys around your house
Have a feast
Write poetry dedicated to her
REMINDER you don't need to do any of these things to worship a deity, these are just suggestions, remember that if you don't want to or can't do any of this that it's totally ok !!
Have people heard of falling fruit? It's a map that marks off foraging locations that are accessible on public land.
It's global and crowdsourced and points you towards FREE FRUIT. (And herbs and nuts and things.) They have an app too but the app costs $2 and you can still pull up the map on your mobile browser for free.
A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and sha
This is how I found those park cherries!
I think I've added around 100-200 spots on here since I heard about it. Even put some of my own trees on it that overhange sidewalks. What's great is not only does it help you identify the plant by telling you what to find where, what's in season, what to spot through wikipedia and usda plant links. But practically any free resource you can think of you can either find on here or put on here like, good dumpsters to scavenge (for food or otherwise), water fountains, community orchards/gardens, fishing spots, little libraries / pantries, even bike pumps.
Just for those of us who are not yanks or living in US America: this map is worldwide and is available in 11 other languages
Depictions of Lucifer in paintings
— via AcademiaAesthe1 on X/Twitter
I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
As some of you may have seen on the news, our city has been occupied by federal ICE agents for many weeks now; estimates hover around 3,000+ ICE agents. Agents have been waging a 24/7 campaign of terror against Minnesota communities, with a major emphasis on Minneapolis. They have committed mass abductions of our BIPOC and immigrant neighbors; they have subjected women and trans community members to gender-based violence; they have murdered two Minneapolis residents. They have detained children as young as 2 years old. Toddlers. They used a 5-year-old child as bait to lure his family from his home to be detained.
Whatever you think it's like in Minnesota right now from wherever you live, it's worse. It's far worse than you're imagining.
On January 7, ICE agents murdered Renee Nicole Good, 37, a queer woman, poet, mother, and wife. They shot her 4 times as she tried to drive away from them. They refused offers from observers to provide her medical care. As she lay dying, a male ICE agent called her a f-cking b-tch.
Today, on January 24, they murdered Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse. Several agents - at least 7 - beat Alex repeatedly in the head, tear gassed him, restrained him, and repeatedly shot him at point blank range. Before they murdered him, Alex had stepped in to help a woman whom the agents pushed to the ground.
If you do not live in Minnesota, Stand with Minnesota is a very helpful website filled with places to donate, mutual aid information, scripts for contacting your elected officials, calls to action, and more.
Please help us. https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
Please do not read this and turn away. Please share this with anyone and everyone you know.
And if you support ICE, unfollow me. You are not welcome on my page, ever.
A friendly word of witchy advice: just go with it.
You’re trying to contact a deity and you immediately have a random thought? just go with it. It doesn’t make sense? Whatever, write it down. Maybe it will make sense later.
Wondering if you should and get the feeling that you should? do it.
Suddenly think you shouldn’t? don’t.
Doing tarot and the card comes out sideways? It’s sideways. Interpret.
When I go for a walk and take a seat on a bench and think, gods I wish I had some shade, and the clouds conveniently come together to block out the sun, I just go with it.
Thank you :)
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. Truth will reveal itself with time.
People ask me all the time, how do you know Lucifer is speaking to you? I trust him, even when it doesn’t immediately make sense, even when it seems random.
Your first thought, yes, write it down. Your random inclination, follow it.
This doesn’t mean that everything is a sign, it means stop prohibiting yourself from receiving signs by constantly hyper analyzing everything. Let your brain and body perceive without fighting against them.
You heard a whisper in the wind? Listen.
You think you saw something in the smoke? Draw it.
Confusing nonsense that probably means nothing? Document it anyways.
Just go with it.
reject the western gaze!
mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers
a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.
after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.
we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.
here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:
Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.
this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else
as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery
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thanksgiving is a holiday based on a falsified narrative full of white guilt and the erasure of history so what are some good native organizations to donate to this coming thursday
organizations recommended by @loneghostkid
native american rights fund
heyday berkely roundhouse
news from native california magazine
national indian child welfare association
california indian legal services
the national indigenous women’s resource center
please also consider looking into funding native/tribal food sovereignty projects if you have food to donate or money to spare. friends, please add more if you know of them and have links to provide:
native american food sovereignty alliance
meskwaki food sovereignty initiative
friends of pine ridge reservation
first nations development institute
you can also buy food/gifts from indigenous sellers or donate to gofundme fundraisers made by indigenous people who need help getting groceries, paying medical bills, or paying rent. do something to help us and our communities.
try water projects too, like the navajo water project: https://www.navajowaterproject.org/
Help DigDeep bring clean, running water to hundreds of American families. Nearly 40% of Navajo don't have a tap or toilet at home. We can fi
a lot of reservations are fucked over on water by illegal oil drilling, pipelines, or other breaches, like in the navajo rez’s case: contaminated by illegal uranium mining.
I would like to put my endorsement to the Sovereign Bodies Institute, home of the database of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The database is trans-inclusive, the data protocols follow the desires of the families of MMIW, and this holiday season, they are collecting donations to buy gifts for the families, especially the children, of missing and murdered women.
I’d like to add Feeding Nunavut, the cost of living in the isolated north for Inuit is up to and sometimes over 5x the prices the rest of Canada is used to.
Hawaiian Bread French Toast
Eclipse Season
With the Fall 2025 Eclipse Season beginning I thought a post about eclipses would be relevant.
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Every year contains two (2) eclipse seasons
2025 Eclipse Seasons:
March - April
Lunar (total) - March 13-14
Solar (partial) - March 29
August - September
Lunar (total) - Sept. 7-8
Solar (partial) - Sapt. 21
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Eclipses hold a lot of energy, but the energy varies
🌖 Lunar:
chaotic, powerful energy
opportunity for revelation, breakthroughs, cleansing, release
very emotionally charged as old wounds are addressed
heightened emotions, anxiety, mood swings, more breakdowns
subconscious emotions come to the surface
reveals what needs to change/end/start and starts that change
may cause heightened intuition and visions
☀️ Solar:
unpredictable and disruptive energy
opportunity for transformation, renewal, and new intentions
brings hidden truths to light
powerful energy for manifestation, releasing old stagnant energy, embracing fresh starts and personal growth
may increase anxiety, stress
good time for self reflection and growth
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What to do and not to do: 🌖 Lunar (Sept 2025):
❌ Don't
don't manifest or set intentions
don't force decisions
don't start new projects - wait a few days
don't ignore your emotions - don't bottle it up
don't do any major spell work - chaos energy, keep it calm
don't charge crystals
✅ Do
do release negative energies and emotions
do use water for rituals and cleansing
do rest, ground, and protect
do keep a dream journal
do a full moon ritual
☀️ Solar (Sept 2025):
❌ Don't
don't do high risk spellwork
don't make large commitments or major decisions
don't do anything physically draining
✅ Do
do spells and rituals - focused on empowerment, breaking cycles, or new starts
do ritual baths and/or cleansing - self care and rest
do manifestations and setting intentions
do journaling - self reflective work or shadow work
do release old habits
Alright y'all, as promised, here it is:
Recipe of Nothing Soup
aka potion of involuntary naptime
Today we are starting with three onions, six large potatoes, four big carrots, a slice from a small cabbage, two packets of chicken noodles, 150 grams of pre-cooked shredded chicken (optional), three cupped handfuls of rice (exact measures unclear, my boyfriend measures with his heart), and oregano, pepper, salt and bouillon cubes to taste.
Chop vegetables as illustrated. Find your biggest pot, fill it with water, and put it on a heat source (stovetop, open fire, idk how you live your life. do not microwave though, I will kill you). Put all ingredients save for noodles into the pot as the water heats to a gentle boil. Add the spices and stock cubes as you see fit. Let the soup boil for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Once 10 minutes are up (15 if the root vegetables are still tough instead of well-boiled), crush up the noodles and sprinkle them into the pot. Let cook for 5 more minutes.
Enjoy, and consume responsibly: Potion of Eepy.
Re: Sabbathic Language in grimoires - Wait. WAIT. Is THAT why I got reviews complaining that the language in my books sounds too "conversational" and "like a blog"?! Because people are used to Prose For The Sake of Prose in their witchcraft texts?!
....Somewhere in my head, a teakettle has begun to whistle indignantly.
Witchcraft as a whole seems to have taken its root in Crowley's sabbatical prose and also the later forms of it in texts of traditional Witchcraft. In a sense, unless you're looking at a down and dirty craft, people expect it to have the sense and feel of what represents Witchcraft to them. It makes writing books a lot harder because you have to find the razors edge between fanciful prose and actual operative work and proper explanations for things.
Add onto that the whole specter of shadow work and content creation and you have aesthetics and symbols to play with and it ultimately feels more suitable to have the whole
"The ancient Serpent of the earth"
Rather than
"The energy reserve in the earth"
TEA KETTLE INTENSIFIES.
(Not the first time I've gotten flack for teaching mechanics over aesthetics. Joke's on the influencers, I'll stay conversational and accessible to my readers, mwahaha.)
Yeah, that definitely explains a few things. In particular, the said reviews, and also some attendees of recent workshops who seemed disappointed that my instructions on spellcraft and the construction of magical workings were fairly straightforward and did not include circle-casting or summoning or invocation.
Also, the short attention span....
-ten minutes into a two-hour workshop- "How long is this going to TAKE?" "....Do you have somewhere to be?" "No, I just figured this was going to be like a real quick presentation and you were giving it multiple times." "....No. Like it said on the event page, this is a ninety-minute presentation plus Q&A. I'm covering a lot of material and it's going to take a while." "How am I supposed to remember TWO HOURS of stuff!? That's SO MUCH!" "....Which is why I provided an outline and recommended that attendees take notes." "UGH! I don't have time for this, I want my money back." "....This is a free workshop. I'm running it on donations."
Sigh.
I find that when it comes to the witchmarket, there's often a mixture of creed and solutionism.
Creed
It's easier to sell books that correspond to a certain identity because the information is tailored. Selling a general book might be good for beginners but when a person looks for a niche or specialization, then the need for targeted books arises. Though, this isn't always the case. For example, many people want to be a green witch and so books on green witchcraft and more likely to sell. Then there's the queerification of books that cater towards a more liberational and inclusive view of witchcraft and would sell, especially with the rise of political issues and dogma. Primarily to this extent, you're selling identity.
Solutionism
This works on practicality and accessibility but also a fundamental issue of witchcraft. People want fixes to their problems and occultism, with its promises of autonomy and liberation (such as noted in the witch wound but also in blurbs) provide a seemingly structured and easy fix to the world at large. This also comes in hand with the self-help aspects of witchcraft which often overlap with self-care, embracing certain energies and self actualization.
Both work on the same premise but Creed is arguably more existential in that you're supplying a sense of personhood and identity to a person in an environment where such things are often seen as futile. So witchcraft again overlaps with therapy in that you're giving someone a name to base themselves around, whether it be green witch, queer witch, Hekatean and so on...
All of this is true. There's also the additional marketing factor, where publishers literally will not take your project on unless you already have a large social media following and a self-made platform with a certain amount of regular traffic, as well as manuscript that will appeal to the broadest possible audience....even if it's just repeating what sixteen other books on the shelf are already saying.
There's a definite aversion to taking a chance on more advanced or niche topics, and when those books ARE published, many readers complain that they're too dense or "not beginner-friendly enough" (here having the meaning of "the author will hold your hand throughout and explain everything in complete detail rather than trusting that the reader has a brain and enough curiosity to do additional research").
People are drawn to creeds or identities that match their own, but those terms are often used as buckets or marketing techniques, as you mentioned, but with little new information or deeper dives into existing concepts. Additionally, if books don't include the latest trend in the community, they're viewed as incomplete, and those that DO cater to popular trending topics are written off as outdated within a year. (See: jar spells.)
Don't even get me started on the AI witchcraft books.
From the active knowledge seeker perspective, I have to say the state of affairs with spiritual practice/witchcraft bodies of knowledge, like books, really is... mmh!
A thought I've had for a while:
There's something to be said about books being effectively forced to be "TikTok Type books" to have sales appeal, where authors find themselves not being able to "give the girls a show", so to speak, because the girls can't read for understanding or deepening gnosis
AND!
I think the current state of affairs also speaks to how people don't even really WANT TO actively hunt the gnosis down anymore, which is arguably the largest part of an active spiritual practice
Like, they'll gripe about having to attend and pay attention to a single 2 hour workshop, and also want EVERY scrap of ALL the info they'll EVER need about their practice to be in this ONE (1) single book (which they will also gripe about how long it is 😂)
Which okay, from the book buyers' perspective the finances aspect plays a role, BUT that's not how research works; never has, not even once. That's why libraries! ✨
It's like "If I don't learn all there is to know about planetary spirit invocation from one playlist of 5 videos 3 mins long each and a single 7 page ebook, I'm not gonna learn it (and then I'm gonna bitch about it)"
Ayi in closing, good luck to the beloveds who think they can FYP and '2x video speed' their way to a deepened and thoroughly developed practice
God bless, goddess bless, blessed be thine witchy wound parts, thy shadow work come and all that
(cosmos have mercy, the TRUTH of this T_T)
So much of all this. The publishing world is such a mess. Every small publisher seems to need an intro witchcraft book and something about angels? Or maybe numerology? None of it is really vetted so much as counting their number of followers. I was even "pitched" to write a book where they would give me an outline and I would fill in the rest and they would probably edit the actual human out of it. I'm not that desperate to be published. I've made zines for 30 years.
I also sell books and I carry a wide variety of witchcraft books. Once someone wanted a book on a specific topic for a friend and I had one that was a social media influencer and one more academic. The person opted for the influencer because they "didn't want to give their friend homework".
*Sigh*
I'm just over here being a dirty modern folk practitioner with a voracious curiosity, wish more people were more curious.
Holy mother of curb theory those are GOOD
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