Practical Magic for the Skeptical Practitioner

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[city-druid]

🍀 he/him 🍵 audhd 🌈 atheist 🌻

I write, post about, and reblog content about secular witchcraft and druidic practices. I do not believe in higher powers. I do believe in staying centered and mindful, connecting with nature, and experiencing a little joy and whimsy in your life.

I also rb aesthetic posts and stimboards on occasion. I take submissions and the ask box is open for anything.

[rosieandthemoon]

Finger Lakes Trail {via}

[house0fburton]

[skaldish]

I feel like more pagans and heathens need to know what "confirmation bias" is.

[skaldish]

Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for information that supports our preexisting beliefs.

People display this bias when...

They favor information that supports their views, and dismiss information that doesn't.

Or

When they interpret ambiguous information as something that supports their views (or fears, desires, suspicions, conspiracy theories, etc).

While we can't completely get rid of confirmation bias, it's important to mitigate it, especially when doing any kind of independent research. Unchecked confirmation bias can lead us to false conclusions, cloud our ability to understand something, and even risk unneccessary and/or unwanted misunderstandings with other people.

I see it happen all the time.

[theinternetarchive]

I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...

[space-queen]

WELCOME TO WITCHDEX.NET 💜

witchdex is a comprehensive, dynamic, and mobile-friendly reference for magical + witchcraft correspondences based on several years of independent research. it's a work in progress and i am constantly updating and adding information so please remember to do your own research!

currently compatible with firefox, chrome, and safari, and for entertainment purposes only - not a replacement for medical, financial, or legal advice.

dataset + code created by me - please don't steal, copy, or redistribute as your own!

CURRENT CATEGORIES

crystals, plants, fruits, planets, metals, colors, and one single mineral, which is salt lol

TIPS + TRICKS

search for whole words without punctuation - instead of "self-love" try "self love"

some of the most common terminology used for associations/traits include but are not limited to: attraction, banishing, binding, cursing, divination, dreamwork, fertility, fidelity, love, lust, manifestation, protection, psychic abilities, power, warding

keywords for items include associations that would be considered benefic to the caster, and if an item also has a baneful association, it will be listed as such underneath its keywords - the same applies for items that may be toxic

you may notice missing information in some sections as i continue to work on this page - please be patient with me! :)

if you see any misinformation, misspellings, typos, formatting errors, coding errors, duplicate entries, etc. OR have any questions, please send me a message via the contact page

please enjoy and consider buying me a coffee so i can keep doing stuff like this in my spare time. :)

my links for non-tumblr viewers: - blog - personal site - book of stars [grimoire] - witchdex - ko-fi

♡ luna // space-queen

[city-druid]

Reminder for anyone (else) taking a road trip this summer and gets carsick or who has a sensitive stomach that ginger is the GOAT when it comes to nausea. Ginger capsules, ginger ale, if you can stand the spice ginger mints or gum, all save my life when I feel sick. Hell, if you're looking for dramamine you might run into this stuff.

Literally just 500mg of ginger. And it works. In a clinically tested capacity.

Here's an NIH paper

European Review for Medical and Pharmological Sciences

And another article specific to pregnancy-related nausea

This post has been sponsored by Big Ginger /j

[nixscriptum]

on midsummer. ☼

[city-druid]

The Columbia River

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Just a kind reminder to all my northern hemisphere family that you are a mammal, and resting, saying no, eating more, prioritising fun and comfort and feeling low energy and even a bit sad are all normal natural responses to winter. Take care of yourself and your community and remember that the days are getting longer - every dawn will be a little earlier and every dusk a little later until June now. Prydeinig folks: soon the crocuses will come up, then the hawthorn will be in blossom. Hang in there.

[faggot-of-the-cosmos-deactivate]

START USING LOCAL HERBS!!

Pine can be found almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere. there are so many sub species you mess around with. Pine is an AMAZING replacement for most cleansing/ protection herbs.

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[unusual-suspects]

imants tillers

[sacredwitch]

ChatGPT isn't reliable source for witchcraft and demonolatry. I'm sorry if you will be offended by this, but it isn't. Yes, it can give you sources, but it also cannot tell the difference between correct and wrong information, and also gives you biased information because it's constructed to please you.

Go to Wikipedia and scroll down to "references" or "sources" and look them up.

Go read online books from various of websites.

Go read the physical books about the practice.

Go watch YouTube videos and vlogs about the said practices.

Go talk to witches and demonolators, many of them can give you great advices.

Heck, you can even learn something from Reddit and Quora, and they will be much better and detailed than ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is even more influenced by propaganda than a human being. Ai can never be the answer to practices that require humans to be understood and experienced.

[city-druid]

If you are a neopagan that uses generative AI the best thing you can do to honor who/what you worship is to stop using it.

[brother-burnz]

if your not writing a fictionalized version of your life so you can be immortalized as a Great Wizard, what are you even doing with your life?

[city-druid]

Studying to become a Great Wizard

[gothredy]

[marinas-grimoire]

Being a solitary practitioner is great and all, but not having a coven of like minded people readily available sucks. There’s only so much you can do with online circles and trying to sift through some of those people is tiresome. I guess there’s no easy solution.