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I took this from Twitter because it's no joke. A lot of witches tend to keep these lamps so I felt it would be worth bringing up. Please be careful and safe! Nobody wants to lose a fur baby.
Even if you aren't a witch, still please keep this in mind!!!!!
Diy Scrying Ball
I’ve been waiting since last Christmas for my local Dollar Tree to stock the diy snow globes so I could put my master plan into action. The time has finally come!
Last year I created this:
Now I’m gonna step it up a notch and create this:
Lets go!
Materials:
Diy Globe kit
Sparkle glue or Sparkles and Veg Glycerin
Waterproof LED Tea lights
(not pictured)
a drill
a hot glue gun
food coloring
rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer
Bowl
something to stir with
Instructions
so you’re gonna separate the kit into all its parts and then drill a hole into the lid smaller than the bulb of the tealight.
Slowly push the bulb through the hole to open it up, then take it out, hot-glue the area around the bulb then slide it back in, once its in give it a thin layer of hot glue over where the bulb protrudes. Test that the light still works and will fit into the base without issue.
move to a sink, place the globe into a bowl and add some water and color (best to mix the food coloring in water then add to globe)
add in your alcohol, glitter and glycerin (or glitter glue), then top it off with water put back on the bottom.
That’s it!
Happy Scrying
Bagworm Moth caterpillars collect little twigs and cut them off to construct elaborate tiny log houses to live in (photos: Melvyn Yeo, Nick Bay)
I had to look this up because i thought there was no way these little faerie cabin-building caterpillars were real
Theyre magical
“I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult,’ said Granny firmly. ‘Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.’
‘But all them things exist,’ said Nanny Ogg.
‘That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ‘em.’”
- Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
I’m fairly certain Sir Pratchett was In the Know when h devised his witches.
never stop collecting little things that make you happy! rocks! buttons! feathers! flowers! sticks! bugs! bones! never stop!
how did a crow get a tumblr
It collected a phone.
honey production does hurt the bees. the honey stolen is replaced with a toxic synthetic sugar substance which isn't healthy for them. honey isn't for humans to steal, please educate yourself.
Arright, sit down, you’re about to get some knowledge dropped on you by somebody with beekeepers and meadmakers in the family.
The “toxic synthetic sugar substance” you’re referring to? Is sugar water. Literally SUGAR and WATER. There’s nothing synthetic about it. And the bees only rarely need a LITTLE bit of sugar water to help them get through, because if they’re provided with enough nectar, bees will make a shit-ton of honey. Most hives generate more honey than they can ever use.
And when a hive starts getting too full, the bees may swarm and try to go find a new place to live. Do you know what happens to a more than three-quarters of swarms that leave their hive? THEY DIE. Yup. Either they can’t find a new hive, or they run into predators, or they wind up landing somewhere that humans don’t want them and then exterminators get called.
So removing a few frames from the hive, taking out the wax and the honey, and replacing them for the bees to fill with new comb and honey and larvae is actually GOOD for the hive. The bees stay busy, they’ve got frames to fill, the queen doesn’t feel the need to go anywhere, and their human buddies can help keep them safe from natural predators and pesticides.
The mutually-beneficial relationship between humans and bees has existed for literally thousands of years. People keep hives, bees pollinate crops and make honey, people harvest the honey, the bees get extra protection and can happily buzz away keeping the plants healthy and making more sweet sugary goo.
Honeybees are an endangered species. If they die, not only does your vegan diet become completely impossible, but the entire planet is royally fucked.
And do you know who’s doing more than anybody else to keep them alive and make sure we don’t all starve?
BEEKEEPERS. And they treat those bees like their own damn children. They’re not going to feed them toxins or “steal” all their food, they want the bees to be happy and healthy and THRIVING.
Being vegan is absolutely fine, but don’t go trying to tell other people how to eat and don’t sound off on shit until YOU educate YOURSELF. Try talking to an actual beekeeper sometime. Or at the very least, read an article by a beekeeper instead of relying on someone else’s scare tactics.
@jakkubrat
Meanwhile agave nectar, often touted as the healthy eco friendly vegan alternative, has a higher level of fructose content (per weight) than high fructose corn syrup, and has been linked to a possible increase insulin resistance and heart disease.
As for eco friendly? The plant itself takes anywhere from 7 to 14 years to grow, and in order for it to be harvested (and you bet your white ass it’s not a white person doing this labor intensive procedure) the entire plant has to be killed.
That’s right, it’s a highly non sustainable resource with long term environmental ramifications for the locations it is grown in (primarily Mexico and South Africa) both in terms of economics and cultivation. But don’t worry, we’ve gotten around that by building plantations which grow only monocrops of the plant which in turn require the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides , which, are you ready for this, are killing the bees on a global scale.
But sure. Human consumption of honey is harmful. Yea, okay. Sure.
one more time folks, your vegan diet relies on bees.
if humans didn’t have this symbiotic relationship with bees, your diet in a temperate climate, new york hipsters i’m looking at you, would consist of like 90% barley and all your teeth would fall out by age 30.
nobody’s making you eat honey, but y’all need to stop talking ignorance in people’s inboxes like you’re the door-to-door missionary of food righteousness.
YES. I’m a vegan WHO EATS HONEY for a good fucking reason. Save the bees by supporting your local beekeepers! They are keeping our planet alive! When people try to tell me that you can’t be vegan and still eat honey I think they don’t understand that the bees are not being mistreated. They’re incredibly valuable and there’s no way they endure anything like the horrible conditions that farmed animals do. You can be vegan and still eat honey because it’s the ethical choice for the planet and the bees.
Ancestry.com created a “Slavery Love Story” commercial between a white man and a black woman, and removes the commercial after backlash.
They created the commercial to promote that Black Americans can also have their “Ancestry” “Traced” in America, since they can’t trace back Black people’s DNA because of Slavery, they’re implying that at least they can trace that “White blood” in you so you can participate in Ancestry com.
that’s a big yikes
Wow! No bueno…
They are using this to get your DNA….. to give to the feds. They came out publicly saying it was their MORAL OBLIGATION to give DNA to law enforcement.
also I questioned on what moral framework they were basing that morality off of and that was when I found out that ANCESTRY IS OWN AND OPERATED BY THE MORMON CHURCH
Every reblog here is basically just “Did you think you knew how shitty Ancestry.com is?
Get ready to learn their EVEN SHITTIER”
Oh it gets worse. The LDS Church is very interested in tracing DNA and ancestry because they do posthumous conversions called “baptisms for the dead”, “vicarious baptism”, or “proxy baptism”, since they believe that only those who have been baptized in the LDS Church can reach the “Kingdom of Heaven”.
Members of the LDS Church are only supposed to submit their own ancestors’ names for vicarious baptism, but there have been several incidences - that we know of - of mass posthumous baptisms, particularly of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead
WHAT
THE
FUCK
WHAT THE ACTUAL TAP DANCING FUCK
Holy
Fucking
SHIT
hello! i grew up in utah around mormons my entire life, and this is absolutely true. (in fact when my grandma died, since we aren’t technically mormon, they wanted to baptise her and seal her!)
Exmormon here! Can confirm. The church is a piece of shit and has zero respect for dead people’s religions or wishes. Fuck the morg.
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So I have an Instagram now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Beltane Tips!
* Wear lots of green
* Have a bonfire and fill it with fragrant incense, flowers, and sacred woods
* Bake tiny colorful cookies (with flowers, if you can!) and offer them to your local fae
* The veil is the thinnest this time of year - the only other time it’s this thin is during Samhain. Venerate and honor the spirits, and guard against malicious ones with salt along your windowsills or doors
* Wash your face with the morning dew to fill yourself with beauty
* Eat sexually suggestive foods or aphrodisiacs
* Dance. Dance a LOT. Turn on some drum-heavy music and let loose. Do it alone in your room at night, if you have to.
* Go talk to all your local plants and give them little offerings of water. Blessed water charged with a quartz crystal would be extra nice.
* Do a tarot reading for yourself (or have someone else do it for you). This is a wonderful time of year for divination!
* Buy flowers. Pick flowers. Wear flowers. BE FLOWERS.
* You don’t have to have sex to have a legitimate Beltane, but you can always show yourself some love if ya know what I mean *wink wink*
* This is a holiday of sensual pleasure. That doesn’t necessarily mean sex - it means really indulge your senses. Take a hot, luxurious bath. Dance until you work up a sweat. Eat foods that you love and crave. Smell the flowers, feel your bare feet in the grass, splash your face with fresh water. FEEL the world around you - the spirits are alive and active on Beltane! Engage your emotional, intuitive, sensual side and you might catch a glimpse of one or two.
* Reach out to friends you haven’t talked to in awhile. Strike up a friendly conversation. Celebrate friendship!
* Meditate with crystals that open your third-eye or specifically relate to the fairy or devic realms - chlorite phantom quartz, moss agate, rainforest jasper, green diopside, spirit quartz, azeztulite, most green crystals, prehnite, a rock you found someplace outdoors that feels charged with earth energy - you choose!
* Perform solitary spells for abundance, protection, fertility, romance, love, sex, and divination!
* Plant seeds and start a magickal garden. There are lots of plants you can grow indoors pretty easily that have magickal properties.
* Dedicate an altar to Flora, Cernunnos, Bes, Pan, Hera, etc - any deity you can think of who rules fertility, marriage, romance, and abundance!
Hope you all have a wonderful Beltane!!!
River house
Via Pinterest
Say it with me:
I deserve more than the bare minimum.
Reblog if you are NOT celebrating April Fools’ Day on your blog.
This means no pranks of any sort, just standard blogging.
This is the #blessed $164 from my tip money. Reblog to be blessed with an influx of wealth and good vibes ✨💸
I saw you have a discord server for followers of Brigid, I was interested in joining if it's still active? :)
Sure! It’s still active. Send me a pm and we can talk about getting you the link to join 😊
Christian witches: (if any are following me! Lol)
Can I ask you how you connect to God/Jesus in a witchy way? I’m fascinated by your unique path and would love to know how you balance everything out.
