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I could play with crystals for hours.

Crying can be a very powerful form of witchcraft if you use it the right way. It is strong, cleansing and costs nothing.

lannisterbaggins

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I liked the part where the possums ate fruit

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toystory-hentai

:V :| :V :| :V :P

astrodickology

Having a Fire Rising is honestly the best in my opinion, like,

The hilarity of a Sag Rising

The beauty and friendliness of a Leo Rising

The presence and confidence of a Aries Rising

Like, we really are that #bitch Squad tbh

saint-of-the-pit

A witch is, actually, a successful (in the sense of surviving) deviant. You have a cultural, ideological, social, what-not pattern which is, for that society in question, normal (and, importantly, this is understood as a synonym for natural). Most people survive because they conform to these patterns, because they behave normally. […] But then suddenly you get a deviant which survives, and since it does not draw its support from the normal pattern, […] that deviant is understood as drawing its support from “unknown,” “supernatural” sources. […] If we cannot survive without our order, how can she [the witch] survive in solitude? Hers must be indeed a very powerful order to exist so independently, without all the inter cooperation and individual compromise which we have to go through to survive. And if it is so powerful, then it could destroy us. We must try to destroy it first.

Maya Deren, “From the Notebook of Maya Deren”, c.October 1947, vol. 14: pages 21–45. (via saint-of-the-pit)

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sympatheticcempath-blog

you know what I think Aphrodite would be really down for? Tattoos.

Pastel floral tattoos all over a devotee’s body

A quote from a favorite book on another’s wrist

Huge intimidating skulls traveling down someone’s arms.

Like I think she’d be so into her devotees decorating their bodies, she’d see it as a permanent offering, something beautiful etched into your skin until the day you die, so much better than the faded paintings and broken statues designed in her image so long ago.

Just. Fuck yeah I think Aphrodite loves the idea of tattoos.

allthequeenstarot

Saw this in another post so I had to search it out. I think I need it!

1000savagecomforts

icarvus-moved

Persephone ate the seeds because on land she was a flower but over death she was a queen

the dead whispered her name with fear and admiration (l.e.h)

antehia

spring witch ·

“if you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden”

maritimegothic

i think a big thing that disconcerts adults about learning new skills is that learning as an adult means you are very aware of how bad you are at the beginning in a way children aren’t.

i picked up the saxophone when i was 11 and played until i was about 17. by the end of it i was first chair in our highest ensemble, a district honor band player, etc. but at the beginning – and this is important – i was bad. for the first year or so, i had no rhythm, i couldn’t make my tongue line up with my fingers, i was consistently sharp, etc. etc. other kids actually made fun of me for my lack of skill.

but 11 year old me didn’t care. 11 year old me practiced, but she also thought that being able to play the pink panther made her incredible (i shudder in retrospect). i mean, i was aware i wasn’t a master, but my skill level didn’t deter me from wailing out those notes in a way that i’m sure had my band director questioning his career decisions.

right now, i’m trying to pick up the guitar. it’s a very different instrument from the saxophone, and i struggle a lot with things like strumming patterns and barre chords. and sometimes i don’t want to play, because i know i’m bad at guitar. and sometimes i beat myself up when stumbling through a poor acoustic rendition of Everybody Wants to Rule the World because it’s not how i want it to sound. and it’s made even more frustrating because i can navigate the saxophone so smoothly.

but then i remember that i have to think like a kid. i might not be the best at guitar by any stretch of the imagination, but every little bit of progress is still progress. humility is a big part of learning, but if you treat a practice session like your own private concert, it becomes so much more fun, even if you’re bad like i am. when you’re first picking up a skill, whether it be an instrument, or a language, or a fine art, no one is expecting you to be the yo yo ma of that thing. forget about how little you know about the skill and think instead about how much you have to learn – that’s fun! do your best!!