fuck yeah secular witchcraft

this blog is no longer active (and only for happy reasons) - if I knew you back in the day, go with love!

[inkskinned]

you deserve a more tender tomorrow.

[inkskinned]

yes, even you. reading this, agreeing without applying, hands in front of your eyes. i'll pass this on, you think, but it doesn't apply to me.

i know because i have spent the last 2 weeks trying to say out loud: "i deserve good things." i only get to "i deserve g-" and then i break out into a cold sweat. who am i to deserve anything? there are people out there suffering. there are people out there who need good things to happen. i don't deserve anything. i am just a person. a filament. if a good thing was supposed to happen to me, i hope it passes over and happens to someone more - deserving.

but just because you can endure the present does not mean it should be something so painful.

you deserve a tender tomorrow for the same reason you deserve water, food, or air. you deserve it for the effort of survival. you are surviving, aren't you? doesn't it take a toll from you, staying here?

goodness and kindness and tenderness should not be a commodity; to be doled out in quantities. you should not feel that life exists as supply-and-demand - your happiness does not come at the cost of someone else. it does not take from some gallon of global happiness. it does not promise that a stranger will have an equally-tragic reaction to tip the scales back into balance.

there is just you, deserving. you didn't have to earn it. there is no calculation of time-enjoyed versus time-spent-suffering.

trust me. you (yes, even you) deserve peace.

[the-eclecticearthling]

[hereissomething]

as above, so below

[princeghost]

t4t transmasc love is so special 

[fuckyeahyoga]

[jaxblade]

Awesome 👏🏽

[paleosteno-deactivated20191020]

I need to start doing this because I sit in a chair so much of the day. Need to start doing this in the morning and like, go for a walk or something.

[cottageaesthetic]

[happyheidi]

You’re the sun and as you shine on me; I feel free ☀️

[cottagecoredreams]

[fyeahsec-archive]

username change!

i'm gonna be more active in the community, so I thought it was time to get rid of the placeholder name

[feral-ballad]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, edited by David Rieff

[weltenwellen]

bell hooks, All About Love

[green-garden-witch]

🕯️Celebrating Winter Solstice🕯️

This is the way my partner and I have chosen to celebrate the winter solstice and the days of darkness that occur before the sun's path across the sky moves northward again on the 25th.

I thought I would share in case anyone finds this helpful in guiding their own celebration for this time of year.

🕯️In the weeks before:

-decorate a solstice tree with sun and light themed ornaments. If you wrote your intentions last year (see below) begin reflecting on these.

🕯️21st (winter solstice):

-set up altar (other posts share helpful information on how to do this, so I won't go into that here)

-place candles around home to use later that night. Use only candles for light once night falls

-hold a solstice feast and give thanks for everything good that came to you this year. If your intentions from last year manifested, give thanks for this.

🕯️22nd-23rd:

-reflect on things to let go of. Write down everything to release and let go of onto tiny scraps of paper. Continue to write down every hurt, every perceived injustice, all judgments against self or others, no matter how big or small it may seem. Put these in a jar as you write them for these two days.

🕯️24th:

-burn the yule log. One by one toss in your scraps of paper to let these things go. Visualize these dark things burning and becoming the light.

-If you have your intentions from last year (see below) reflect on what manifested, and what still remains to be done, then toss this in too to give yourself a clean slate.

-once the log finishes burning, sit down and write your intention(s) for the upcoming year on a piece of paper. Fold this paper, seal it with wax, then hang it on your solstice tree. Pack this paper away with your solstice decorations when putting them away for next year. Next solstice you can reflect on the past year's solstice intentions when unpacking decorations and setting up your tree.

[myrabbithole]

Loooove this idea!!

[pathologising]

I think another good thing I came to realize was that, in therapy, "acceptance" doesn't mean that something is okay or good. To accept a situation or emotion means to understand that any amount of wishing it didnt happen, pretending it isn't happening, or regressing into maladaptive coping mechanisms will not effectively deal with what's going on. To accept is to acknowledge, to understand what is happening or what you're feeling and cope appropriately and healthily without self-judgement.

[sunbathe]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMYxhv7Akox/

[ink-and-oceans]

“How do I heal a wound that’s still being cut? How do I outrun a knife that follows me wherever I go?”

— tara love / do i claw my way out of the grave that my spirit has died in?

[stavroginas]

He’ll burn you down like wax if you let him. You’ll think it’s love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be.

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless