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[beaft]

"And His Name Shall Be Called Something Hard to Remember", by Daniel Lavery (extract from Something That May Shock and Discredit You)

[featherchime]

So...where do house spirits come from, anyway? When a new home is built and you move in for the first time ever, how long is it before there’s a house spirit? Do they belong to the land itself, or do they manifest as a part of the building process? If it’s the former, in the case of a mobile home do you think they go with the house when it gets moved? If the latter, in our modern age where the people building the homes aren’t always the ones living in them, is there something fundamentally different about the energies that become those spirits due to the less intimate intentions behind the building? Or is it something else entirely, maybe your belief that the house is a home made manifest?

New year ramblings about something that’s been on my mind...

[witches-ofcolor]

have more reverence when talking about graveyards and resting places. You may view them as tools to enhance your craft, but that's not what they are to others. Be respectful and understanding of that.

[fernthewhimsical]

A few weeks ago they found remains of a seance in one of the graveyards in my country. The people who did the seance also taped it and put it on social media. It made national headlines. Not because people were freaked out by seances, but because this was a children's graveyard and the parents who had put their children to rest did not want them to be used in any way. They especially did not want their children used for fucking clout. These people are mourning, every day.

So graveyards are not a tool for you to use. People who lie there were and are loved. And for all the God's sake clean up your messes when you use an outdoor space.

Have respect. Leave these places better than you found it.

[kawaiigrimoire]

🎄Yule ❄️

The winter solstice is nearly here! Here are some ways to celebrate the longest night of the year ⭐️ ☀️

Food

Oranges 🍊 lemons 🍋 meat 🥩 cranberries ❣️ potatoes 🥔 nuts 🌰 chocolates 🍫 mushroom 🍄 bread 🍞 stews and soups 🥘 hot chocolate ☕️ Yule log cake 🎂 cinnamon 🪵 rosemary 🍃

Colors

Red ❤️ green 🎄 gold ⚜️ silver 🪙white ☁️ blue 💎

Altar Decorations

Mini Yule tree 🌲 mini Yule log 🪵 solar representations ☀️ dried orange slices 🍊 whole star anise ⭐️ candles 🕯snow globes ❄️ greenery from nature 🍃 cinnamon sticks

Crystals

Ametrine🔮 citrine 💛 amber 🧡carnelian ❤️ snowflake obsidian 🖤amethyst💜 diamond 💎 emerald 💚sapphire 💙

Activities

Bake a Yule log cake 🎂

Make dried orange and cinnamon garlands 🍊

Make paper snowflakes ❄️

Decorate a Yule tree 🌲

Have a bonfire and roast hotdogs and marshmallows 🔥

Write wishes on bay leafs and burn them 🍃

Do a house cleansing 🏡

Take a Yule bath 🛀

Do sabbat divination 🔮

Bury the corn husk dolls you made at lughnasad, mabon, or/and Samhain if you made them 🌽

Decorate your house with greenery and holly 🌲

Have a season feast with friends and family 🍲

Drink hot chocolate with spices that correspond with your intention stirred in ☕️

Let me know if you plan on trying any of these ideas and have an amazing Yule! 🌲 ⛄️

[karrakazz]

not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

[karrakazz]

positivity tells a sad person that there is no reason to be sad. warmth asks the sad person if they want to go get some ice cream

[ares-skittles]

Been a moment since I saw this. Glad it’s back on my dash when I needed it.

[sosuperawesome]

Jemlington on Instagram

[perenial]

chag chanukah sameach let’s get lit 🕎

[opale-scent-deactivated20220213]

[alwaysabeautifullife]

I was searching for some pretty Hanukkah gifs to schedule a post tomorrow wishing my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah and I found a fit/shape/body building site that posted this

And I thought to myself, I simply must show my Jewish followers fit Menorah Man

[roach-works]

reblog for eight days of Gains

[sevenelevenprophet]

Currently obsessed with snapdragon seed pods

Spooky little fuckers

[anenglishwitch]

please reblog if you think a man can be a witch too

[dawn1001]

Absolutely 💫

[gr33n-w1tch]

The best crystals for… Part 4 🤍

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

@lovebyluna on instagram

[normal-horoscopes]

Occultism step one:

"Nothing is fundamentally real. There is no empirical truth. Love and justice are ghosts. The only things that have ever shaped politics are blood, gold, bread, and steel."

Occultism step two: (this is the hard part)

"You can trick warlords into believing in ghosts, so it is the ethical duty of every wizard to trick them into believing in love as well."

[normal-horoscopes]

Occultism step three: (this is the REALLY hard part)

"Do everything above without starting a weird libertarian sex cult"

[will-o-the-witch]

If I can't start a weird libertarian sex cult then what's even the point smh

[will-o-the-witch]

Lilith Appropriation Bingo

I have a Kabbalah Appropriation Bingo too, but Lilith deserves her own personal card. Enjoy! Lmk if you get bingo, I want to see.  🖤  Have a wonderful day!

[normal-horoscopes]

I try to come at occult with the most scholarly and anti-woo attitude possible but advertisements might as well be curses

[normal-horoscopes]

Anthropologically speaking, magic is like religion and science; it's a way of interfacing with and understanding the world.

It can have metaphysical functions, like offering some corn to the storm god so the storm god doesn't fuck over your crop harvest.

But magic sticks around because it also serves social functions: it makes people happy to have a corn festival for the storm god. Festivals are fun, it builds community.

One of the most important forms of magic is called "transactional" magic; forming relationships and communicating with entities that are personified elements of human life. The Greek god Ares is a personification of war, by pouring out some wine for him in the hopes that you'll survive a war, you are performing an act of transactional magic.

The advertising concept of Branding often seeks to personify a corporate entity whose only goal is to sell you things. Coke isn't just coke, it's hip, it's young, it's fashionable, and by purchasing Coke, the corporation will impart those qualities upon the customer. Which is by definition an act of transactional magic.

The fundamental structure of a transactional spell is "Perform rite X, receive boon Y" so yeah! I don't like these fucking advertising wizards putting their stupid glyphs everywhere!

[littlehungrywarrior]

#the coca cola logo is a glyph of Make You Angry

[normal-horoscopes]

This is a good time to show y'all BREATHTAKING by Pepsi:

[will-o-the-witch]

So I'm a witch on this blog, but my Actual Day Job is being a marketing director and I can confirm it really does go that deep, especially with the big, big corporations. (My personal job is Just Me Trying My Best but marketers freely share information about our crafts with each other.)

The most powerful form of advertising is word of mouth/feeling a personal connection with somebody, and brands will pay top dollar to gather/crunch data and figure out exactly how they can imitate that energy. Wendy's Twitter is a great example. As off-the-cuff and sassy as they sound, I guarantee there's a social media bible that outlines EXACTLY what they can/can't say, how they speak, and a list of posts pre-written for at least the next month. It's all calculated.

I think it's funny though that their transactional magic isn't just directed at consumers. Ad platforms (google/social media/etc.) are very secretive about their algorithms and nobody knows for sure how to make it work for you (even the big guys.) People talk about it as an entity that "likes" certain things and will pass judgment on your behavior, rewarding/punishing you accordingly. You develop personal rituals you think will please it until The Algorithm changes its mind. The Algorithm is fickle and fluid. Feed The Algorithm in hopes it shall favor you. And, of course, the Big Execs who program this stuff know exactly what they're doing and want you to fear this nebulous god they've created.

[duskenpath]

In all seriousness I took a death and dying course in college for fun and that’s when I fell in love with, and began to seriously study, spontaneous or “street shrines”. These are the organic, unplanned placements of items when someone is killed, generally, and the community almost descends on a spot. I am fascinated by that interfaith, inter-spirit moment of connection fostered. What drives someone to leave the first item? Who guides them there? What do we, as humans, seek from the leaving of a memorial on a place that now hallowed? And we know it is, to some extent, even if we’re not spirit-workers. We have this human need to bear witness, no matter who we are, and over and over again it manifests as this need to build some space, some monument that says “they were here, and now they aren’t here, and we, collectively, of all faiths and walks of life, strangers to each other, will remember them”

We take comfort in, and protect to some measure, that space we create with tea-light candles and stuffed bears and flowers and it just feels like the Right Thing to Do. We rebuild these spaces when they are torn down by authority and we keep building them up and that’s beautiful

Street shrines are TRULY universal, too. They are largely non-verbal but it’s like we just KNOW what to do, like something moves inside all of us and it doesn’t fucking matter if we can’t understand anyone else standing at the site, it’s just a Knowing. It’s phenomenal 

[changingmorphologies]

One of my professors specializes in this, she wrote a book called Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture about her fieldwork in Texas.

[terrafey]

hm yeah that sure is a deer, huh.

[will-o-the-witch]

I'm happy to have learned a lot about Chronic Wasting Disease but when I originally brought up the Not Deer this was the kind of thing I was talking about lol