Your Favorite Witchy Cowgirl

In the broom closet so please dont out me. Pretty crafty but focus mainly on spirit work. ❤ Love and light ❤

[haywitchhay]

Get to know the spirits in my keep:

*note that I generally don't put their full names out just an initial or abréviation*

Name: E

Gender: Male

Moose spirit familiar

E is very quiet but very powerful when it comes to protecting me and my land/animals. He tends to hang back whenever I go anywhere so he can watch my property. He grazes out in my open fields but still likes to join in for tv time or reading circle. He is easy for me to approach and always willing to lend me a hand with spell casting before going back to doing his own thing. There have been several times where he helped me manipulate the weather in order to keep my animals safe from lightning (as I had a traumatic experience loosing a horse I was very very close with to lightning strike). He is a reliable, low maintenance friend and the first spirit to reach out to me and join me as a companion. I love him dearly and leave him offerings quite often as he deserves it. ❤

Name: Iz

Gender: Female

Assistant Ora

Iz is (lol) a created being from her conjurers energy with the intention to assist in anything from magic to astral realm dealings. She has helped guide me through some spells and meditations but for the most part she's my friend. She helps me pick out what color nail polish I should do, she goes and rides horses with me, and just generally hangs out. My first telepathic conversation was with her and since then I've gotten better at it so I don't get headaches as much. She too is a big fan of TV time and reading circle (but c'mon who doesn't love those?). Her favorite colors are Magenta, lavender and turquoise. She has described her appearance to me as about my hight, 5 ft ish, long black hair, skin thats a few shades darker than mine( im pretty tan so like dark tan?), and she has megenta colored eyes. *im not the greatest at drawing humans or human type beings but ill do my best to do a portrait of her some day along with any other companions I have*

Name: P

Gender: Female

Purple sapphire spirit

P is the spirit manifestation of a purple sapphire. She loves everything purple lol! Im still learning about her because she's still new at this point, but i know that she doesn't like sour things. She's somewhat sassy but in an endearing bad bitch sort of way lol! She prefers to converse with methods of divination or visions the most. She fits right in with us and is learning the routine and how things work around here. E and Iz caught her up on where we are in our group book and show. I will edit this as time goes on and we experience more together. ❤

Name: F

Gender: Female

Opalescent Elf

F is a stunning being. When i first heard about her i could feel a pull. We had a visit and she really liked me and what I do. She loves the animals. Her personality is really nice, kinda flirty and somewhat sassy but never not classy. Her favorite color is baby pink. And shes very strong with telepathy.

Lots of adventures await us! ❤

Thats it for now, more to come though!

[chatsvoid]

Maybe it’s not that your best isn’t good enough. 

Maybe it’s that you keep redefining success so you never reach it.

[graveyarddirt]

It was a graveyard smash.

(Monster Mash, Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt Kickers)

[graveyarddirt]

graveyard 👏 smash 👏 vibes 👏

[genuinehumanboy]

you can only reblog this today

[salty-french-fry]

Golden rule of thumb for art kids: reblogging Bob Ross will bless you latest work

[guooey]

it’s almost halloween…… vampires…… my window will be open………..

[haywitchhay]

Please bite me ❤ i don't wanna be human anymore

[sixpenceee]

A 360° painted sphere of a street view                          

Source

[justmeagain4]

talent 🌸

🌷💫

[shencomix]

[bogleech]

wow this is actually an excellent little horror piece

[espikvlt]

if you have a mental illness you know exactly what’s behind that door

[rainydayshea]

that took a sharp left

[datcreolebitch-deactivated20230]

ok but fuck

[seven-oomen]

I’m pretty sure mine got eaten and therapy is just training the new mechanic.

[haywitchhay]

Ok but what if therapy is training the new mechanic, and the old mechanic got fucked up on accident and IS the mental health monster?

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

Dude just stop climbing mount everest. just stop it. Wtf

[argentarachnids]

Not sure if this is a shitpost but we really do need to stop climbing mount everest. It’s largely pointless and we’ve made a huge ecological impact of years from waste left behind from all exhibitions. Not to mention the economic impact on locals

[coolhiroaki]

people in the notes are trying to imply this is good, normal, natural, and not something to be discouraged, so uh… lets break this down

obvious warnings for discussions of death

pollution

there are mountains of literal shit on everest. i can only assume people forget that everest is freezing and so poop wont break down the same way as it will when youre camping (or that they dont want to carry bags of poo around). this contaminates glaciers which has began to cause damage to the water supplies of nearby local villages

similarly there are mountains of rubbish. in 2015, it was reported that yearly clean up efforts had removed 15,000kg of rubbish and 800kg of human waste from everest.

because of the high altitude, a bag of poo or rubbish becomes so heavy to carry that it would be deadly to do so.

pollution thanks to littering is a growing problem and one that is hard to fix because of the above point – “Even picking up a candy wrapper high up on the mountain is a lot of effort, because it’s totally frozen and you have to dig around it,”

tourist privilege 

to the average english speaker, “sherpa” has come to mean guide, despite the fact it is a name for an ethnic group.

300 people have died on everest and the last year without a death was 1977. 111 of those deaths are people from nepal.

sad as it is to say, for tourism and money flow to keep coming in, it looks better for native guides to die than for the tourists to die. sherpas bend over backwards trying to help those they are assigned to

sherpas are often treated incredibly poorly by those they are assigned to, despite breaking their back (and risking their lives) to try and help

sherpas often have to support inexperienced tourists (who are on everest for some fuckin reason), making the already dangerous summit even more so. some of these tourists dont even know how to tie basic safety knots.

many sherpa guides work in the industry not because they want to but because they can make 10x the average wage in nepal doing it.

many of the deaths of tourists are down to doing extreme things for an ego boost, such as climbing without oxygen. 

the corpses

should you die on everest you will likely remain there. “A dead body that normally weighs 80kg might weigh 150kg when frozen and dug out with the surrounding ice attached.” the risk to others isnt worth it, in most cases

furthermore, if you cant be found or your family cant organise rescue quickly, rescue may become impossible due to you literally becoming stuck to the mountain.

sherpas have reported how emotionally and mentally difficult finding these bodies is and plenty of them have died trying to bring people home

the difficulty in retrieving corpses means that many are left, mummified and frozen, in public view. it is common to find bodies when climbing which has proven to be difficult for many climbers

people who have climbed everest have gone out their way to say the media isnt being sensationalist about this, for once, and its as deadly and filled with corpses and rubbish as it is reported to be.

death is incredibly normalised on the mountain. a british man, famously, huddled with a corpse in a cave bid to survive. 40 climbers passed him and very few attempted to help, despite him being alive. why? most assumed he was a corpse and so didnt check. 

this normalisation is why some corpses have gained names and become markers. green boots is the most famous, but the german woman and sleeping beauty are other examples. a stretch of the climb has been called “rainbow ridge” due to the bright colours of jackets belonging to corpses that poke through the snow.

tourism

more than 4,000 have climbed everest. while thats barely any compared to the overall global population, it definitely isnt the impressive, one of a kind feat it once was.

most people actually die AFTER getting to the top, not on the way there.

2019 was the deadliest year on everest since 2006, excluding years where deaths were largely due to natural disasters.

tour companies do not screen you for experience, anyone can sign up to go up mount everest. this means incredibly inexperienced climbers have become common, causing danger to themselves and others. 

nepal also has no rules for who can climb the mountain.

until this year, the nepal government turned a blind eye to most of this. presumably, for them, the money income was worth it. 

in 2012 it was reported that overcrowding was becoming a major issue, causing many to die that year. congestion caused by inexperience was blamed. nothing was done. in 2019 we heard the same story.

2019s viral photo of the crowd climbing. people died waiting in this crowd. people stepped over the dying and dead to make it to the top. congestion caused by inexperience was blamed, once again.

people fight to take selfies at the top

theft has been reported by climbers on the mountain

the demand has meant dodgy equipment has found its way onto expeditions. climbers reported oxygen tanks leaking and exploding.

psychology

people who have been rescued have been reported saying that they wished they had died; that the disfigurements to their body and the way such has changed their lives werent worth it

people have had their families die struggle never getting a body back

climbing over dead bodies, using them as markers, and even sharing a tent with one, has proven to be difficult for some who climb

the family of the man thought to be green boots has discussed how horrid it is to them that their sons dead body is posted online.

these thoughts were echoed by the family of the woman who came to be called the sleeping beauty.

you really think all that is natural and normal? 

in what world is everest worth it

[virginiaisforhaters]

everest has become a colonialist playground. mountaineering is supposed to be about adventure, about conquering something very few people can, about athleticism and bravery. now, climbing everest is about rich people, many of whom do not belong on the mountain because they do not have the skills or experience required, paying poor local people to carry them up the mountains. if it really was about the adventure, you would go climb k2, annapurna, the mountains that arent tourist attractions (yet) . it’s not about adventure and challenge, its about bragging rights, and poor brown people are dying to drag your inexperienced asses up the mountain. 

[haywitchhay]

[blackqueerblog]

Do you know that there is a city on Earth that actually lives in a dystopian future? and it's terrifying.

Who are the Uighurs?

The Uighurs are mostly Muslims, and number about 11 million in western China’s Xinjiang region. They see themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations, and their language is similar to Turkish.

But in recent decades, there’s been a mass migration of Han Chinese (China’s ethnic majority) to Xinjiang, and the Uighurs feel their culture and livelihoods are under threat.

Nowhere in the world, not even in North Korea, is the population monitored as strictly as it is in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.  Oppression has been in place for years, but has worsened massively in recent months.

- Uighurs can no longer openly practice Islam

- Men are not allowed to wear beards. Exception only for old people

- They can no longer learn their native language at school

- They cannot move freely around the country and cannot leave it

- All mosques have been turned into shops and office centers

Beijing has also turned Xinjiang into a security state that is extreme even by China’s standards, being a police state itself. The provincial government has recruited over 90,000 police officers in the last two years alone - twice as many as it recruited in the previous seven years. 

At the same time, Beijing is equipping the far-western region with state-of-the-art surveillance technology, with cameras illuminating every street all over the region, from the capital Urumqi to the most remote mountain village. Iris scanners and WiFi sniffers are in use in stations, airports and at the ubiquitous checkpoints - tools and programs that allow data traffic from wireless networks to be monitored.

Checkpoints are installed in every district of the city. In simple terms, you can not get from one area of the city to another without passing the checkpoint and the police.

The data is then collated by an “integrated joint operations platform” that also stores further data on the populace – from consumer habits to banking activity, health status and indeed the DNA profile of every single inhabitant of Xinjiang.

Anyone with a potentially suspicious data trail can be detained. The government has built up a grid of hundreds of re-education camps. Tens of thousands of people have disappeared into them in recent months.

“Qu xuexi,” meaning to go or be sent to study, is one of the most common expressions in Xinjiang these days. It is a euphemism for having been taken away and not having been seen or heard from since. The “schools” are re-education centers in which the detainees are being forced to take courses in Chinese and patriotism, without any indictment, due process or a fair hearing.

Xinjiang, one of the most remote and backward regions in booming China, has become a real-life dystopia. It provides a glimpse of what an authoritarian regime armed with 21st century technology is capable of.

Uighurs are very intimidated and refuse to talk to the press, even if they miraculously escaped the country. 

What’s happening in China is terrible. Maybe some people finally realize that the concentration camps are the reality of our time. There are concentration camps in America too. Don’t forget that. 

source 

source

[thisaliennerd]

Glad I learned about this in school. I’m sure not many people have though, so here. It’s terrible.

[hojpojjery]

The situation with Chinese internment camps for the Uighur people is only going to become more aggressive unless they are pressured from other countries. For that to happen more people need to be informed on what’s happening, but unfortunately the nature of Chinese security makes it difficult to find a plethora of first hand sources, apparently.

If you’d rather listen to a basic outline of the problem, here’s a very well done conversation piece from Chris Hayes’s podcast, Why is This Happening.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/msnbc/why-is-this-happening/e/60217354

[shamylicious-blog]

not reblogging that much stuff besides my art but this is a MUST . And iam not a person who easily ‘hate’ things .iam always a person who gladly gives a second look on things but…

Chinese Goverment and for all those who are supporting and closing eyes…Damn You!

[haywitchhay]

Ya know, ive been in kinda a lull lately. It just feels like I don't have the mental energy for spells or for communicating with my companions. I know everyone goes through them and that its normal/ ok. But what kind of things do you do to get yourself back to practicing again?

[xicamatl-deactivated20201127]

I have to tell you about the Abuela on my street.

She is nearly 70 years old, with wonderfully brown gnarled, wrinkled hands and eyes that are creased from smiling. She hand-makes all of her own clothes and sews dolls for my little sister. Abuela is very lonely… her husband already passed and her kids live far away. She misses her grandkids. Abuela comes around our place for the company almost every other day.

So this morning, my little sister and I went to visit the Abuela to return the kindness of her vegetables with some homemade soup.

It’s a funny joke we have, that if you can make a perfect posole you are wife material. I was joking around with my friend beforehand to see if I was worthy of marriage, and my little sister thinks me failing is the best thing in life, so of course she wants to ask Abuela when we arrive.

We’re wearing masks and gloves and can’t give her the big hug like we want to, but Abuela is always happy to see us. We bring the pot of soup to her table. My little sis, the little shit that she is, immediately asks, “Abuela, is Reina ready to be a wife yet?”

And Abuela immediately shifts her entire mood. Her face literally becomes this:

Abuela’s look pierces through my heart.

“Who are you trying to impress? A man or a woman?” she asks, deadly serious. We have broached the topic of marriage. It is her domain now.

And I, Rei, gay as the fourth of July, cannot believe that either Abuela clocked me instantly or that she could possibly have a fascinating past of her own. 

I thought about lying, but my little sister was there and I don’t like to lie in front of her. So I was honest and said I was trying to impress a woman.

Without a response, Abuela carefully tries the posole. The room is silent.

“For a man, it’s good,” she says after a moment. “But, you’ll need to work harder to impress a woman.”

All I can do is politely nod. I have so many questions.

Now Abuela is tired. She wants to eat and relax in peace, so she waves us away. We make sure she’s settled, and then my sister and I go home.

I can’t believe my 70 year old Abuela said BI RIGHTS

[spookybuttons-deactivated202101]

this is the funniest fucking thing ever

not only did the grandma say bi rights but like

she had two separate scales of food judgement for men and women AT THE READY and there’s something inherently hilarious in “FOR MEN IT’S FINE, FOR WOMEN DO BETTER” 

[haywitchhay]

Lmao I love this 😂

[stay-chill-vibes]

REBLOG IF YOU ARE HELLA BORED AND WOULDN’T MIND SOME CURIOUS ANONS.

[memes-and-relatableschemes]

The way he stuffs them in his mouth 💀

[memes-and-relatableschemes]

Mood

[marcchagallthebride-deactivated]

bi/lesbian solidarity needs to be more than uwu we both like girls~ we should kiss~ bc what happens if your bi gf wants to talk abt her experiences w men, including positive ones? what if she wants to talk to you abt men she finds attractive? what if she breaks up w you and goes on to date a man? will you still view bisexuality as an inherently legitimate sexuality that's just as multifaceted & nuanced as lesbianism, or will you become bitter & complain on your tumblr dot com account abt how bi women are traitorous heartbreaking sluts who always go back to men? if you have solidarity w bi women when we're dating girls but not when we're dating or even talking abt men, you never had solidarity w us in the first place.

[possumistic]

If you see this

You were visited by the magic kitten of rest. Reblog to have a good night’s sleep.

[whalesnest]

@jockocub

[gensgrimoire]

Common Spell Items

Here’s a collection of items you can easily find outside and their correspondences/associations

Grass:  Psychic powers, protection, growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss Pine needles:  Cleansing, healing and strengthening. It also acts as a natural insect repellent Pine cones: Masculinity, fertility Maple Leaves: Feminine, moon magic, travel, learning, dealing with change, decision making, spiritual healing Pennies: Luck, wealth Dandelions: Divination, wishes, calling spirits Dandelion leaves:  Summoning spirits, healing, purification, defeating negativity Red/purple wild clover:  Fidelity, love, money, protection, the blessing of domestic animals White wild clover: Breaking curses Two leaf clover: Love, luck Three leaf clover: protection, luck Four leaf clover: Protection, psychic powers, spirit work, luck, success Oak leaf:  Truth, steadfast knowledge, protection Acorn:  Good luck, protection, wisdom, and personal power Walnut: Healing and protection

Feel free to add any more! 

[fernlights]

Clearing my mind - Tarot Spread

Before you do this spread take time to do a protection and grounding meditation, to ensure that you are in the right enery and also that your energy is protected.

Tarot spread:

1.What is my current state of mind? 2. How is my state of mind affecting me? 3.What action can I take to clear my mind?  4.What is something that I should let go of? 5. What energy should I embrace to be able to move forward?

Tarot deck used in this layout: The Wild Unknown

If you have trouble understanding this spread or your reading, please feel free to contact me in my dm’s and I will get back to you as soon as I can.