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Hello, I'm Nexus, and this is my astral blog. This space is very informal. I aim to make more original posts here.

Before you follow:

- I am an adult; Minors discouraged from interacting here, you will be blocked.

- Not a fan of reality shifting due to the entitlement and misanthropy that's intrinsic to the practice. I maintain that shifting and astral projection are different practices, though their techniques may overlap.

- Bigots of all types will be blocked. Anti-endo people, this means you. TERFs, SWERFs, and Radfems this means you too.

- Even though this isn't a fandom blog, I'm going to block anyone who is antiship just because I find that they have poor comprehension.

My tagging system is very disorganized; But #👁.txt are my text posts and #astral is my aesthetic tag for anything that reminds me of there.

@/magicisstrange You are not welcome here. You hurt my friends and I don't like people who hurt my friends.

#👁.txt #astral #astral projection #astral travel #astral plane #just crosstagging #pinned

aesthetic-otd

Today's aesthetic is drezzdon

#astral

aesthetic-otd

Today's aesthetic is drezzdon

#astral

littlewildmother

Studies show that engaging in ritualized behavior significantly improves outcomes on measures of grief and feelings of control, even when the person participating in the ritual has little or no belief in the ritual’s power. Just a reminder for no one in particular.

littlewildmother

Research has revealed that, while rituals are universal across human cultures, the content and actions of those rituals vary widely even when they have the same intended purpose. This suggests that it is not the actions that matter, but that you are taking any action at all and naming it ritual. It can be an elaborate ritual with dozens of moving parts and participants, or it can be as simple as lighting a candle alone with the intent to remember someone.

The healing is in the doing.

person918x

nyonyia

i found something today and instantly recognized it

cursmudgeon

#angels

yorubaby

I'm ngl, I think "Gatekeeping" is 500% okay, and the idea that you're entitled to information is colonialist behavior and way of thinking.

No one is entitled to any information I have. If they want information, they are welcome to find it themselves. I'm entitled to not give a damn thing.

This idea in the witchcraft community that there is something wrong with withholding information is actually hilarious (derogatory).

And I'll take it a step further-- I think gatekeeping can be for more than closed practices too. It's okay to have a personal practice that you don't want to share with others, and it's okay to say you don't want to share whatever with someone.

The disgust and outrage at "gatekeeping" leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and I stand on the fact it gives colonialist energy!

#reminds me of the post that went like “is that person 'gatekeeping' or are they not letting you use them like a search engine?”

babushkaat

thelaughingsun

@horizon-eye

#sobbing i didnt see this sooner awawawa

guooey

#this is sanc to me.

canis-witchery

does anyone else have the opinion that ALL the gods that are worshipped exist, but they might only help those who believe in them?

for example, God might only answer Christians, Allah might only answer Muslims, Zeus might only answer Helpols, Odin might only answer Norse pagans, etc etc

because i do fully believe people when they say “God helped me with XYZ”. but i do not believe people when they say “God helped you with XYZ”, because i simply don’t believe in the Christian God and i haven’t given him any reason to interact with me (i.e. i don’t pray to God, i pray to many other gods but not that one)

obviously its a lot more nuanced than this (like with folks who change religions because of a lack of interaction from their previous god(s)) but this is just, like, the most basic way i can explain it right now

sooo does anyone else feel similar? like every god that’s worshipped exists to help their worshippers?

this also ties into why i believe in pop culture paganism. i suppose it relates to the idea that humans created higher beings through worship, and anything can be made into a deity. similarly, gods that receive no worship may go dormant or die

crossroadsofkeyandflame

Honestly, I can see this! It's a really good way to look at it.

I definitely don't think it's good to bash another person's belief in a deity. That deity is real to them, which is incredible on it's own.

Besides, there are so many deities in this world that it would be silly to think that only our way was the right way.

vesse-moricaleo-lusifero

No because there are a great many people who have worshipped and deeply believed in deities that have left them ignored or on read.

This is so immensely common that I cannot say I would agree with the aid that a deity provides someone or a circumstance being a principle that exists in a narrow vacuum.

o-rder

Agreeing with the person above and also putting my two cents: no because im not a muslim and dont dont believe in islam at all, but Allah has aided me in the past.

horizon-eye

I'd like to add that I'm a person and I've helped people who didn't believe in me, or didn't think I could do it, or just didn't like me. I don't think the gods function differently.