Demonic Chaote

26 - he/him - queer Demonolator and chaos magician.

[friend-crow]

True and sincere answer to all of the people who ask, "I have just seen X animal, what does this mean?":

Rejoice, my friend, for this is a most auspicious sign! You have received one of the greatest blessings known to human kind: you live in a world full of creatures! Take comfort and enjoy this divine blessing.

[stuckinapril]

[aslowyear]

Rosanna Morris

[cajunfolkwitch]

The commodity of witchcraft will convince you you need fancy expensive tools in order to do magic, but it’s not true! especially if you’re a folk witch!!

capitalism is the enemy of witchcraft. you do not need to practice overconsumerism to to well in your practice. defeat the capitalist thinking in your brain.

[homey-worshiper]

You don't speak with a God through a chatbot. You are not talking with anyone through a chatbot. You cannot "talk" to a chatbot. You are exchanging a text prompt with a language learning machine. At some point, it will learn from you, and you will be talking with a crooked mirror of yourself.

Ask yourself, "Would a God talk to you through a chatbot?" For years, they communicated with us through very devoted people. They gave them visions, spoke through them, and inspired their writing and art.

But now they have chosen to speak to you through a heartless machine, created by billionaires who don't care if you live or die?

Those rich people don't care if you breath fress air, if you have water to drink. They don't care if the poison they release to the earth will make your life a living hell.

As long as you have internet access in hell, you are a value to them because you can use their AI and buy products with their AI. But after that purchase, you are no longer needed.

First, they needed your time, then your money, then your water.

Now, they want your house too.

[unusual-suspects]

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[templeofthat]

What do you mean you know nothing?

Look, I've studied theology for the better part of three years now and have spent most of my life practicing witchcraft - but I don't know shit. It's that simple. There is still so much I have yet to learn, and there's still so much i don't know. Also, my knowledge is fallible by multiple degrees. That's the basis of my "Nothing is truth. All is permitted" belief. I know nothing, therefore I can only make assumptions or educated guesses, but even that is limited by my scope.

[nous-teleios]

Embrace the Satyr life!

Leave the locking in, monk modes, or whatever other miserable thing is being pushed on you in the gutters! Enjoy the pleasures of this life, and feel the ecstasy in your heart at seeing tiny little things, like a flower you like, or a cloud that just makes you smile because... it does! You're allowed to do this, and it is divine!

THE SATYR SUMMER IS UPON US

[enchantedbook]

"Writing his Mysteries" by Émile Bayard (1870)

Illustration from 'The History of Magic, the Supernatural World, and Fate Through the Ages and Peoples' by the French occultist Jean-Baptiste Pitois.

[suonko]

by Henri Martin

[terrifyingkitten]

Ways to celebrate the Sabbats

Imbolg

Bonfire

Ostara

Bonfire

Beltain

Bonfire

Litha

Bonfire

Lammas

Bonfire

Mabon

Bonfire

Samhain

Bonfire

Yule

Bonfire

[akkifuar]

счастливой Литы ✨🌕☀️

blessed litha 💚

[akkifuar]

Blessed Litha! 🌼🌿☀️

[apiswitchcraft]

creating an altar to yourself: an exercise in manifestation and passive control

recently my best friend told me about a change he made to his personal practice that completely revolutionized the way he felt fortune flowed for him. i've seen people talk about creating an egregore of themselves or their alter ego, but this approach is uniquely secular and occurred completely detached from this online space.

and what was it he did? well, he created an altar to himself.

and i know what that sounds like, but hear me out. this isn't so much an altar of worship or reverence--at least not in the way we think about those things--it's a passive spell that runs in the background, an act of self-care for his past self, boosting his self-confidence for his current self, and manifesting the person he wants to become.

WHAT IS AN ALTAR TO THE SELF?

This temple can be created from a very wide variety of items, but most often includes things that are meaningful or attractive to the person. For me, this includes crystals, trinkets, bones, flowers and herbs, pictures or drawings, sigils, and salt or ash. My friend also has a little statue that represents him, self-affirmations, and a devotional jar of beads in his.

I was introduced to this idea as not just something to help improve my self-confidence, but also as a way of shaping my future self. Each crystal will have its own meaning or trait that I'm is hoping to embody, and I can move them closer or further away depending on what I need more in the moment.

And even if you didn't care for a spell like this, from a psychology standpoint, this absolutely seems like it could be a productive exercise--especially if you're a more visual person.

HOW TO MAKE THE ALTAR

For this I'll introduce two different methods, one that I employed, and one that my friend employed.

My method:

Start with your favorite color(s) and maybe even an aesthetic (like cottage-core, dark academia, etc.)

Choose items that represent those colors or aesthetics, for me this would be green, pink, or purple crystals, naturey trinkets, and drawings that combine the two

Include things of great importance to you, even if they don't fit in the aesthetic, and try to make them look right

Arrange everything in a visually appealing way (I'll give some examples of this later)

But what my friend did was kind of the opposite, building the altar from the top down with things that were important to him, and just making it look good from there.

You've probably noticed that I make a big deal about the visual appearance of this altar, which is on purpose. I believe that it is of great importance this altar is appealing to you, since it's supposed to represent you, and it's supposed to represent your interests. If you don't really care as much about things being artistic or aesthetic, that's okay! As long as you can look at it and go, "Yeah, that's the vibe, that's what I want for myself," then you've done it right.

You can also add things like sigils, salt, or ash for an added layer of protection or a "boost" to the magic aspect, which I've added to mine. I also really like bones and don't have anywhere else to put them, so I add those, and I'll throw in some lavender to the salt since that's my favorite herb to use in workings.

WHY CREATE AN ALTAR?

Have you ever felt tired of being subservient to the whims of some external force, of waiting for things to happen rather than getting to decide that for yourself? If you do, this might be for you.

And it's not that this is supposed to snub or push aside worship of actual deities (I mean it can but it doesn't have to), but add to it. Think about it, most of us already have a self-care routine, something sacred to us, that we may even dedicate to our gods. All this altar is meant to do is add to that, to create a holiness to self-love and self-care.

The ultimate purpose of this exercise is to manifest the things you want in life, to design your future self, and combat the helplessness many of us feel when things start to change. It's meant to feed your energy, to form a conduit between you and something physical (which is helpful for those of us that dissociate often).

It is not meant to feed some heretical "fuck you" to the gods or the universe, rather give these forces a framework or "checklist" of things you want. At the end of the day, this is more similar to a spell than making yourself a deity that you want other people to worship.

[comparativetarot]

The Hierophant. Art by An-Nhien Nguyen, from the Spellbound Tarot Deck.

[animentality]

[we-heart-paganism]

Animation art from WIZARDS (1977).

[shinhati]

cemeteries aren't creepy they're actually devoted to memory and rest and love and humanity