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☽⸻Introduction⸻☾

Hello! I've been thinking about making an introduction for a while now, so... here we go!

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You can call me Dice, and I use she/her pronouns. I am a 27-year-old university student, currently doing my masters in the education program.

I consider myself a witch, and I've been practicing since September 2019, for almost six years now. My practice is very home and hearth-based. I like to incorporate everyday tasks into my practice and create magical dishes in my kitchen. My rituals are very low-key. I like to work candle and glamour spells, with the occasional money bowl thrown into them. I work with tarot and one oracle deck, and I recently started to get into deity work (currently only working with King Zeus) and chaos magic.

I am not a Wiccan, although my practice found its beginning there, and I still like to celebrate the wheel of the year. It makes me feel connected to nature around me, which sometimes proves to be difficult as I am living in a small flat in the city.

When I'm not witching about I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. I'm currently trying to mix my practice with my hobby- if anyone is interested in this, feel free to shoot me a ask/dm.

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butterflypeaflowertea

trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

h4nds4ndwich

“It’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing” I’m in love

YOU hates terfs

rb if u hates terfs

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Official ‘terfs get out of my house’ Post

space-queen

happy jupiter day ⛈️

jisuto

space-queen

☿ mercury retrograde - 6.29.26 @ 26°15' cancer ♋︎

mercury stations retrograde today at 26°15' cancer in about *checks watch* 30 minutes, just ahead of this evening's full moon in capricorn.

mercury, named after the roman god of commerce and travel due to its swift orbit around the sun, takes about 88 earth days to complete said orbit. this also means that it stations retrograde more than any other planet in our solar system, about every 4 months or so. scientifically speaking, apparent retrograde motion refers to the optical illusion in which a planet appears to slow down, stop, and reverse direction from our perspective on earth. this is due to the difference in orbital speeds and earth's position relative to the other planets.

mercury acts as a messenger between worlds and liminal spaces, and governs the mind, business dealings, contracts, education, trade, duality, communication, writing, language, travel, and information processing. it is speculated that mercury is also associated with lost objects and the act of retracing your steps to find them; some say that if you lose something during mercury rx that it will reappear once it stations direct.

as with all planets, retrograde periods ask us to pause, reflect, observe, and have patience - in the case of mercury rx, you can theoretically expect to see technical glitches, malfunctioning electronics, miscommunication, travel delays, and resurfaced memories. mercury rx affects the way information travels and the way it is received or even perceived, whether that information comes via phone or mail or home delivery, perhaps. it could come from your best friend or a stranger. you never know! how you handle the information that is received is key.

even if mercury rx means nothing to you, it can at least serve as a reminder to:

maintain or update your tech

service your vehicle

revisit, repair, or discard old projects that are just taking up space

replace the batteries in the remote

block people you hate

catch up with people you don't

think before speaking

plan ahead - account for mishaps and pitfalls

spellcheck your writing

actively listen

slow down

clean your space

carefully read the fine print

ask for clarity when needed

delete unused apps and archive old conversations

clear out your email inbox

things to avoid:

starting new projects

baseless assumptions

unearthing drama or toxic relationships

making hasty decisions

impulsivity

being unprepared

accepting responsibility you cannot handle

signing contracts

big business dealings

making large purchases

moving residences

consider spells & magic for:

mental clarity and stimulation

improving memory and retention

divination and unveiling the truth

astrocartography and finding lost objects

persuasion

identifying and resolving misunderstandings

studying and advancing education

the mastery of a skill

the literary arts

protection during travel

setting boundaries

releasing outdated ideals and the things that no longer serve you

staying grounded

making the right decision

balance

correspondences:

herbs - bay leaves, dill, fennel, lavender, lemon balm, lemongrass, licorice root, peppermint, rosemary, sage, star anise, vervain

crystals - amazonite, aquamarine, blue apatite, blue kyanite, blue lace agate, clear quartz, dumortierite (blue quartz), fluorite, hematite, labradorite, moonstone, moss agate, obsidian, smoky quartz, sodalite

colors - blue, orange, turquoise, yellow; mixed colors

♡ luna / space-queen

windvexer

I apologize if this comes off as rude at all (I genuinely don't mean it that way; I'm just trying to organize my thoughts), but for me, the more I learn about magic from experienced practitioners like yourself, the less invested I am in pursuing it.

To put it in phrasing I've heard used elsewhere on Tumblr, if sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from chores, then I'm not sure that's a burden I'm willing to take on. I struggle enough trying to find the motivation to do my mundane chores; having an extra set of spiritual ones on top of that workload just doesn't sound... well, for lack of better phrasing, "worth it" to me.

Granted, I also think a big part of my feelings on this topic come from my current circumstances. Without getting too far into it, I've become kinda spiritually stagnant as of late, and whatever energies are around me right now don't particularly care for that. (I don't really look (or ask) for signs anymore, but the few I have seen all indicate a need for change/growth in my practice.)

But from my perspective, stepping away from witchcraft feels like finally finding solid ground again after years of trudging through a flooded swamp. Getting any more invested in a magical practice just feels... wrong.

Is it such a bad thing to want to "refuse the call," as it were, and choose to disengage with practicing magic altogether rather than pursue it?

Not rude at all.

The most important part first: no, it's not bad to refuse the call to magic. That's not bad at all. This old post may be of use to you. If witchcraft is something that you can sow into your life like an annual wildflower, and it's not currently/no longer serving you, then why stick with it? What would be the point of that?

(Of this, another post may be helpful for you: growth in witchcraft as shedding of snake-skin.)

"Sufficiently advanced witchcraft is chores" is a bite of a sound bite to be sure, and so I have made this longer post for you stepping it out.

Besides that long post, my other answer to your question is:

I don't think that investing in a magical path is supposed to increase your net difficulty/labor.

This was something that really got me early on. I'd hear practitioners saying how much work and struggle it all is. To which I'd say, sure - but then you have MAGICAL POWERS. You do all this so you can have magical powers which presumably you can use to make your life better.

So can't you then just use your magical powers to untangle, de-escalate, resolve, soothe, improve, and elevate your life in other ways, thus ultimately making your life much better than it was before you got into magic?

Magic is not a zero sum game, for me. I'm not in this for veneration or worship or earth spirituality. I'm in it because I want the utility. I'm here because I want the joy of deep connection with my friends when I'm tranced out and giving readings that zap their socks off. I'm here because I want to see what's behind people's eyes. I want to see how the conversation can go and know the exact words to make it go that way. I want victory, I want success. I want catastrophe and grace, not measured and mixed by a higher power and bestowed upon me but meted by me and sent outwards, downwards, forwards.

I can have all of this. But I myself can only have it one way.

I can only have it if I treat my practice as something so mundane and common that it's likened unto chores, that I put altar tending on my chore chart next to cleaning the bathroom, Saturdays are laundry and warding and wealth. Laundry is an endless chore only if you want endless clean clothes; warding is an endless chore only if you want endless protection.

It's no choice for me any more. I half run on magic now. And so I have to turn the spigot on and water myself first, or else I can never get the mundane chores finished anyway. I am not unique in this, although this is not the path of every Witch.

So if you are saying: this doesn't seem right for me right now, or maybe never again, and stepping away brings relief - then there is no argument from me, I would encourage you to find your solid ground.

But if you are saying, I see all these practitioners who seem to like the chore label, and isn't that overwhelming? isn't it a drag - then, no: for me it is energizing, liberating, fulfilling, actualizing.

And if your life is a big swamp, and you choose to sort it out with magic (there are other ways), then at first it may feel very laborious with very little reward, like the first year of building a new garden. But the returns begin to come, as long as you tend the garden. That's the trade, if you're in it for the harvest.

#i agree #it is a chore #but it’s worth it

titsay

tlirsgender

Things people hate hearing:

You are capable of harm

You have some level of power and agency

Ergo it is your responsibility to communicate your needs and boundaries

If you lie to someone about something being okay when it isn't, that is on you

Something being a trauma response doesn't exempt it from harming your relationships and the other people in them

Enabling your trauma responses will not make them go away, and it is your responsibility to work on yourself for your own wellbeing as well as the people around you

Being A Victim cannot be a pillar of your identity forever, and being victimized does not make you incapable of harming other people (see above)

You are not a mouse in a jean jacket you are an eel with a gun / adult human being who can use your words even if it's Scary

Having a personality disorder doesn't make you evil but you have got to get off of Personality Disorder Tumblr (see above, re: enabling)

tlirsgender

Deep sigh. You want me to ~be compassionate~ here's the compassionate answer: your trauma will tell you you're a helpless child forever and you need to Not Think This Way for yourself (living under the assumption you're still in danger whether you actually are or not) and everyone else who has to tiptoe around your Sensitivity. That's how you break the cycle and you can only do this by accepting responsibility for your actions. And it seems like a small semantic thing but imo step one is calling yourself a survivor instead of a victim. Self identifying with your victimhood helps No One. You lived, now get up

kikmessenger

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

kikmessenger

skips a stone over a few posts

ferrettaur

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that

countesskaos

Common courtesy among witches

Here are some key points we should all note when dealing with other witches.

Their path is not your path, don’t act like it is.

Don’t demand or feel entitled to others’ knowledge. Do your own research first before asking.

Don’t bash other witches paths. You don’t agree with what they follow? Don’t follow that path yourself.

We’ve all dealt with spells backfiring or not working, don’t sit there and make someone feel like crap because their spell didn’t work.

Don’t bash other witches because you disagree with their morals behind certain spellwork. They want to hex someone? Unless they’re hexing you, leave them to it.

Don’t bash witches who practice “dark” magic, there’s light and dark in everything. It’s all about balance.

Most of all, be helpful, courteous and friendly. We’re all going through this path together and we’re all brothers and sisters of the craft who need friends alike.