Bugs and Coyotes

21 || coyboy and bug lover || engaged <3 || earning bachelor's in biology || mega queer || he/she/they/it/x

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[sashaforthewin]

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

[kitsuneofthemist]

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

[justacoyboy]

MOON DAY MONDAY!!!!

[ofthemanyheavens]

discussion for the cosmology nerds (like myself); By most accounts, we consider Ymir the first being. He is what all (on Midgard and possibly Asgard, or more) comes from. At what point does the Yggdrasil factor in? It is the place in which all things are connected, and there is an implication that it is Alive, given that being chewed on by dragons may or may not kill it. It is a big, universal tree, yes. But it is...a tree. So, alive? Was it thrust into being when Muspelheim and Niflheim collided (my theory). And so it is one of three beings that were created from that clash, including a most beloved Cow...

Follow up discussion: when did the Norns come to inhabit the tree? If they weave fate, were they the ones to decide the fate of Ymir? Once there were living things, they surely must have come into commission?

[justacoyboy]

i left this as a comment originally, but i'm turning it into a repost for my followers:

i am in the constant process of crafting my own myths in an effort to connect with the practice. i like the image of the tree sprouting from Ymir during the wrending of his body into creation. additionally, and i know this is not founded at all in any literary source we have, i imagine the Norns, as beings and protectors of fate itself, were among the first generation of primordial giants that Ymir birthed, and once the great tree was grown from Ymir's spilled body, they came to rest under it's branches. Both his daughters and protectors.

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

happy disability pride month to mean cripples, nasty addicts, people with down syndrome who arent nice and talk constant shit, wheelchair users that WILL run you over, autists that dont care and arent about to pretend to, people who lie to their psychiatrists, people that sit on the floor in public places with no benches, amputees that lie profusely about "what happened"; to the "noncompliant", the "drug seeking", the "mean", the "difficult" and the "undeserving", and so on and so forth, i love us all and we deserve the world actually mwah mwah

[rwdove]

Award-Winning Author R.W. Dove Releases Chilling Paranormal Thriller Ghost in the Cabin and Announces Gods and Guardians III: Fall of Togana

In Ghost in the Cabin, four college friends from New York City seek a peaceful escape at a secluded cabin in the mountains of West Virginia.

[parkchanwoohoo]

YOU'RE 5'3"? I COULD FIT YOU IN MY FUCKING POCKET?

NO YOU FUCKING CAN’T

[circus0shifter]

archives and the desire to draw with ink came into my life at the same time

so it is what it is (i have no idea what im doing)

btw in the last picture jon is indignant that martin refuses to gouge out his eyes for the sake of dismissal

[poeticnorth]

This is a pretty valid point about Heathenry in a modern context, and it could actually be applied to the umbrella of paganism as well

The Materialist Means of Godly Gifts

One issue I think Heathens don’t consider enough today is the impact our wider cultural ways of thinking have on our faith. This is especial

[thejewitches]

Every single year, without fail, we deal with the fact that the internet is obsessed with promoting the misinformation that Ostara must have been stolen from Easter.

People will argue until they’re blue in the face…But they won’t provide citations or evidence to the contrary and the reason why is simple: there isn’t any.

If you find that celebrating Ostara brings you joy: we aren’t here to rain on your parade or stop you in the slightest.

But misinformation, even misinformation that sounds cool and serves to further rhetorical goals, is still wrong and harmful.

So, after years of promising it, we’ve finally delivered: Easter isn’t stolen from Ostara.

Have questions? We’re happy to answer!

Make sure to follow our Instagram @jewitches for the ongoing discussion!

[banebite-deactivated20230414]

The Grimoire as a Tool

Here are some great ways to give your grimoire more utility in your practice beyond just being a spell book:

Gazing page for trance and meditation work

Charging sigils for crystals and tools

Altar page (especially great for those who can't have a physical altar)

Altar pages for deities, spirits, guides, etc.

Intent pages decorated with colors, objects, and symbols associated with your chosen intent

Gateway pages for journeying and lucid dreaming

Vision and dream board pages to record dreams and recall them during ritual

Binding page for all the things that need somewhere to go besides your mind (I recommend using another piece of paper or a scrap of fabric to cover this page)

Pendulum board page

Crystal grid layout page

Throwing bones page (can have a grid, cardinal directions, elemental symbols, or other such markings to aid in interpreting throws)

Divination pages (create using scribbling, automatic writing, or ink splotches to create random markings that can later be interpreted)

Mirror gazing page (can be made with a reflective sticker or by pasting in a suitably reflective surface into your book, may be overlayed with thin black fabric or lace to somewhat obscure the reflection)

Invocation page with symbols and sigils for invoking certain entities

[allbollocks-deactivated20220819]

reblog this if you’re jewish or your blog is a safe space for jewish people

in light of recent events as well as a new rise in creating nazi ocs I think this post is an important one to have on your blog if you stand behind your jewish followers or are jewish yourself.

[justacoyboy]

Jewish safe space

[manifestationsofasort]

Things to put in your book of shadows

Of course, only put in your book of shadows/grimoire what you want. If you don't want to put certain subjects in your book then that's fine. It's your book, utilize it how you want. This is just a masterlist of ideas that I've put together. Feel free to add anything else to the list that I may have missed, because there's absolutely no way I included everything.

And for the love of all the gods, if you come across a closed entity or practice, don't try to work with the entity or practice if you're not already part of that group or tradition. You can research it but don't practice it.

+ A blessing and/or protection

+ A table of contents

+ About you:

Your current path

Your personal beliefs

Your spiritual journey

Favorite crystals/herbs/animals

Natal chart

Craft name

How you got into the craft

Astrology signs

Birthday correspondences (birth tarot card, birth stone, etc)

Goals (if you have any)

Anything other relating to your personal practice

+ Safety

Fire safety

What NOT to burn

Plants and oils that can be toxic to your pets

What crystals shouldn't be in water, sunlight, etc

Things that shouldn't be put out in nature (salt, glass, etc)

Potion safety

How to incorporate blood safely

+ Core concepts:

Intention and how it works

Directing energy

Protection

Banishing

Cleansing

Charging

Shielding

Grounding and centering

Visualization

Consencration/Blessing

Warding

Enchanting

Manifestation

+ Correspondence

Personal correspondence

Crystals and rocks

Herbs and spices

Food and drink

Colors

Metals

Number

Tarot card

Elemental (fire, water, air, earth)

Trees and woods

Flowers

Days

Months

Moon phases

Zodiac

Planets

Incense

Teas

Essential oils

Directions (north, south, east, west)

Animals

Local plants, animals, etc

Dream symbology

+ Different practices

Practices that are closed to you (some examples below)

Voodoo and Hoodoo **Closed**

Santeria and Brujeria **Closed**

Shamanism and native american practices **Closed**

Wicca and wiccan paths

Satanism, both theistic and non-theistic paths

+ Different types/practices of magick

Pop culture magick

Technology magick

Chaos magick

Green witchcraft

Lunar magick

Sea witchcraft

Kitchen magick

Ceremonial magick

Hedge witchcraft

Death witchcraft

Grey witchcraft

Eclectic witchcraft

Norse witchcraft

Hellenic witchcraft

Animism

+ Deities

The deity/deities you worship

Different pantheons (the main five are Celtic, Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Norse, all open)

Deities and pantheons that are closed to you

Common offerings

Their epithets

Their mythology

Their family

Deity worship vs deity work

Prayers and how to make your own

Deity communication guide

Devotional acts

Ways to get closer to them

+ Other spiritual entities

Angels

Ancestor work

Spirit guides

The fae

Demons

Familiars

House spirits, animal spirits and plant spirits

Other various folklore entities

Spirit etiquette

Cemetery etiquette

Setting boundaries with the spirits

Communication guide and etiquette

Grounding, banishing, protection and cleansing, aka: "Spirit work safety guide"

How they appear to you

Common offerings

Circle casting

+ Divination

Tarot cards

Oracle cards

Tarot and oracle spreads

Pendulum

Numerology

Scrying

Palmistry/palm reading

Tasseography (Tea leaf reading)

Rune stones

Shufflemancy (Shuffling of a playlist)

Dice divination

Bibliomancy (Randomly picking a phrase from a book)

Carromancy (Melted wax)

Pyromancy (Reading flames)

Psychic abilities

Astrology

Aura reading

Divination via playing cards

Lenormand 

Sacred geometry

Angel numbers

+ Other types of magick

Candle magick

Crystal magick

Herbalism/herbal magick

Glamour magick

Hexing

Jinxing

Cursing

Weather magick

Astral work

Shadow work

Energy work

Sigils

Art magick

Knot magick

Crystal grids

Color grids

Music magick

Charms, talismans and amulets

+ Spellwork

What makes a spell work

Basic spell structure

What NOT to do

Disposing of spell ingredients

Revitalizing long term spells

How to cast spells

What to put in spells (See correspondence)

Spell mediums- Jar spells, spoken spells, candle spells, sigils, etc

Spell timing

Setting up a ritual

Taglocks: What they are and how to use them

+ Holidays and Esbats

Yule

Imbolc

Ostara

Beltane

Litha

Lughnasadh/Lammas

Mabon

Samhain

The 12 full moons (Esbats)

How to celebrate

Deity specific holidays

+ Altars and tools

What they are

The different types and their uses (travel altar, working altar, deity altar, ancestor altar, etc)

What you can put on your altar

What you use your altars for

Common tools in witchcraft

How to use the tools

Food and drink

Common herbs in recipes

Sabbat recipes

Moon water: What it is and how to use it

Potion bases

Tea magick

How to get your herbs

Foraging

+ Mental health and self care

Bath magick

Affirmations

Burnout prevention

Aromatherapy

Stress management

Mental health coping mechanisms

+ History of witchcraft

+ Dream records

+ How to differentiate between the magickal and the mundane

+ Calendar of celestial events (Esbats, retrogrades, etc)

+ How to dry herbs and flowers

+ What chakras actually are and how they work within Hinduism

+ History and traditional uses of reiki

+ The witches' alphabet

+ The runic alphabet

+ Common witchcraft terms

+ Common symbols in witchcraft

+ Your own witch tips

+ Good witchcraft books and authors to avoid

+ Any online resources you utilize often

[corvidae-witch-deactivated20230]

some tarot tips i've collected over the years

- when shuffling, pay attention to the cards that fall out of the deck. sometimes they have a special message for you.

- questions aren't always necessary when reading. letting the cards tell you what they need to helps to develop your intuition, and the relationship between you and your deck (or the spirit you are working with, depending on how you divine information).

- when reading with multiple cards (i.e. as a spread), try and string the cards together rather than interpreting them by their individual meanings:

recurring suits, themes, symbols, and numbers

proportions of suits and uprights vs. reversals

position of the cards (e.g. if people are present in the cards, where are they looking?)

colours of the cards (e.g. do any of the cards stand out more than the rest?)

- although each card has a core meaning, different decks with different art could emanate different "flavours" of the core meaning.

- draw a clarifying card if something confuses you, but try not to draw any more than two cards per reading.

[crazycatsiren]

Yes. You are worthy.

Now just go worship. Stop worrying so much about what gods think.

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

I just think this ad is really funny I wanna see drawings of the most decrepit mfs like this

Draw your character who's worked enough

[justacoyboy]

jasper sexton, everybody, avatar of the buried, regional grave digger

[egg-salad-0000]

The CAT archives ‼️‼️ ( from left to right: Jon, Martin, Elias, Peter, Sasha, Tim, Michael, Helen.)

[wynterwulf7]

✨Dragon Poll!🐉

What was the media that first introduced you to dragons?

Inheritance Cycle (Eragon series) (Christopher Paolini)

Flight Rising

His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire series) (Naomi Novik)

Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)

House of the Dragon

The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)

The Never-Ending Story

The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Wings of Fire series (Tui T. Sutherland)

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Voting ended onJan 25, 2023

For the purposes of this poll, “Harry Potter” does NOT COUNT as a valid answer. If it is the media that introduced dragons into your life, ignore it and please enter the next media with dragons that came into your life after HP.

IF you first heard of dragons somewhere else, please SPECIFY the name of that media IN THE NOTES. I was going to add an “Other (please specify in notes/tags)” but I have apparently run out of available answers. Also it seems I’m only able to run the poll for a week maximum, so that’s how long it’ll run. I hope to have fun with your answers :)