Something about dark leafy forests hits different.
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Something about dark leafy forests hits different.
Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post
The catacombs in Palermo Italy.
list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals
cleaning or wipe your bare feet
breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone
putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head
eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground
seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view
cupping your hands into running water to wash your face
the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present
when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly
May I add?
Touching someone’s face with the back of your hand to see if they have a fever
Stopping to watch animals moving in groups (geese, fish, horses, butterflies, bees)
Helping an elderly person to walk or sit
telling stories around a fire
huddling together for warmth when it’s cold
marveling at sunlight through leaves
wonderment at the brightness of a full moon
bringing food to sick or grieving families
The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course
When I made this post I did not expect it to be an effective test of which Tumblr users actually read a post fully before reblogging, and yet
#reminding american non-voters that palestine is not the only country affected by the US#republicans are still trying to wage war against Latin America#among many other regions#you owe it to us to keep them in line
And important point from the tags
Don’t forget the last time the orange one was in office, he very nearly triggered a war with Iran in January 2020 by ordering the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.
And now the Supreme Court has taken off any restrictions of things he could do. He will make things SO MUCH WORSE.
Six Grounding Exercises
1. Tree Yourself.
Being ungrounded happens when you are out-of-balance. When energy is blocked, you are unable to access the support of the earth and the higher awareness of your spirit.
A simple grounding exercise involves the visualization of yourself as a tree. First, close your eyes. Next, visualize roots growing out from your feet. “Extend” these roots through the ground and going all the way down. Anchor them at the center of the earth.
2. Meditation.
Meditation helps bring about awareness. You notice the subtle energy changes within your body. You know if you are out-of-sync or if you have become ungrounded.
Practicing body awareness or moving meditations is helpful.
You bring your awareness into the now, rather than the past or the future.
You are aware of your physical existence even while increasing your spirituality.
If you are grounded, you are conscious of yourself and your current surroundings.
You don’t have to spend hours doing meditation. In fact, just half an hour a day is enough to expand your awareness.
3. Get Physical.
Physical activity helps to remove any accumulated toxic energy in your aura. When you shift your energy from an overloaded mental focus to a physical one, you can clear away any mental debris. Getting connected through physical activity does not necessarily mean that you must join a gym. All it means is to allow your mind a chance to take a break.
4. Nature.
Going out by the ocean or just being in nature is a wonderful way to revitalize. Working with soil or clay helps in grounding. Simply touching the earth helps. Gardening is a wonderful grounding activity as it reconnects you with nature.
5. Grounding Foods.
According to Ayurvedic Medicine, there are grounding foods that you can eat, and it suggests Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Ginger, Avocado, Mango, Papaya, Grapes, Olives, Berries, Coconuts, Figs, Melons, Green Beans, Egg Plant, or Yams.
For flavoring your food, use warming spices such as ginger, nutmeg, garlic, cinnamon, cumin, coriander, and cloves. A dash or two of fennel and/or sea salt also works.
6. Grounding Crystals.
Obsidian
Black Tourmaline
Smoky Quartz
Jet
Blue Kyanite
Simply hold the crystal in your hands, and visualize any unwanted energies flowing outward, and into the crystal itself. Occasionally, you will need to cleanse the crystal by putting it on the soil of the earth to drain and clear it of any negative charges.
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What is Spirituality?
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wait, the Golden Girls were allies irl? That's awesome!
Yeah, all 4 of them were amazing ladies who championed progressive causes throughout their lives.
Estelle Getty (Sophia): Was a huge advocate and ally during the AIDS crisis. She personally cared for her gay nephew as he was dying of AIDS and later opened up an AIDS hospice in his hometown in his honor. As of 2023, the hospice is still operational. She also just outspokenly supported the gay community in general during a time when it wasn't popular to do so.
Bea Arthur (Dorothy): Another outspoken supporter of queer rights and even left an endowment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Ali Forney Center (an organization for homeless LGBTQ+ youth in New York City).
Betty White (Rose): She was not only an LGBTQ+ icon and ally, but also an ally to the black community and an animal rights advocate. Like Estelle Getty, she was very active during the AIDS crisis trying to spread awareness. She also told off racists in the 50s when they cried about her having a black dancer on her show (she literally told them to "live with it" which is ICONIC).
Rue McClanahan (Blanche): Another outspoken LGBTQ+ supporter. She advocated for same-sex marriage in the US.
Additionally, a lot of the writers for Golden Girls were young gay men, and there are stories of how open and accepting the actresses were towards them.
speaking of which, i hope all of my mutuals know that you can go on down to the hardware store and just buy a big ol bag of dried blood
Forbidden nesquik
Hello friends! Just a quick reminder that blood meal is dried, flash frozen blood with a high nitrogen content and added iron! If ingested it can cause iron toxicity, vomiting, pancreatitis and other various gastrointestinal distress.
IT IS NOT SAFE FOR MAMMALS.
That being said, plants love it!
why in God’s name was it necessary for so many people to clarify that a dirty bag of blood from the gardening section isn’t safe to eat like what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached
RIP to other mammals but im different
“If you can’t source fresh blood to use in ritual, store bought is fine too.”
I am constantly surprised to learn what is considered advanced magic.
Where does this information even come from? Is there a list? What is happening? Where's my nap?
My hot take is that advanced witchcraft isn't always knowing all the things, but knowing where to find what you need and knowing you have the skill to bring it all together.
my cold take is that an advanced witch knows how to make black pepper into any kind of spell. I think you thought of at least two while reading that last sentence, but if you've done three in your mind you're advanced. If it's more than that, like me, you're spell Georg and get out of here *SOB*
*pointing and chanting*
Spells Georg! Spells Georg!!
two-pronged test to see if you are an Advanced Witch(tm): 1) can you find what you need and have the skill to bring it all together? 2) the thing you've found is black pepper, and that isn't a speed bump no matter what kind of spell you're working on
Please, someone drawn this as a comic flow chart.
It took me a while to get around to, but I made it... As it turns out these things are kind of hard to arrange.
#hey by the way the last time this went around I got an angry person FURIOUS that 'advancedness' was being gatekept
I mean yes, this is a shitpost. But also... both of these are such low bars as a litmus test of "advancedness". Like... can you figure out how to do the kinds of spells you need? No? Okay, maybe you're intermediate. What's wrong with that?
Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀
Claim this luck! I know you can use it right about now!
Your body is an ancestor. Your body is an altar to your ancestors. Every one of your cells holds an ancient and anarchic love story. Around 2.7 billion years ago free-living prokaryotes melted into one another to form the mitochondria and organelles of the cells that build our bodies today. All you need to do to honor your ancestors is to roll up like a pill bug, into the innate shape of safety: the fetal position. The curl of your body, then, is an altar not just to the womb that grew you, but to the retroviruses that, 200 million years ago taught mammals how to develop the protein syncytin that creates the synctrophoblast layer of the placenta. Breathe in, slowly, knowing that your breath loops you into the biome of your ecosystem. Every seven to ten years your cells will have turned over, rearticulated by your inhales and exhales, your appetites and proclivity for certain flavors. If you live in a valley, chances are the ancient glacial moraine, the fossils crushed underfoot, the spores from grandmotherly honey fungi, have all entered into and rebuilt the very molecular make up of your bones, your lungs, and even your eyes. Even your lungfuls of exhaust churn you into an ancestor altar for Mesozoic ferns pressurized into the fossil fuels. You are threaded through with fossils. Your microbiome is an ode to bacterial legacies you would not be able to trace with birth certificates and blood lineages. You are the ongoing-ness of the dead. The alembic where they are given breath again. Every decision, every idea, every poem you breathe and live is a resurrection of elements that date back to the birth of this universe itself. Today I realize that due to the miracle of metabolic recycling, it is even possible that my body, somehow, holds the cells of my great-great grandmother. Or your great-great grandmother. Or that I am built from carbon that once intimately orchestrated the flight of a hummingbird or a pterodactyl. Your body is an ecosystem of ancestors. An outcome born not of a single human thread, but a web of relations that ripples outwards into the intimate ocean of deep time.
Your Body is an Ancestor, Sophie Strand