Just Call Me Walker

A blog for my pagan, spirit-worldly and random other 'occult' musings, as well as musings on my personal life. Basically, this has turned into a personal blog that I try to keep restricted to my personal practice, as well as a recipe book, a bit of my writings, and then my spiritual or religious life. Religious life: I work with Loki, or rather, I talk to him and sometimes get answers. More rarely I'll approach other gods, but that is rather rare and doesn't happen very often at all. I work with stones and crystals to make jewelry, charms and wards (sometimes all at once). READINGS ARE CLOSED If you'd like a free reading, be sure to note that I no longer allow readings on love life. Anything else is open. Free readings done on Sundays.You must also be sure to note which medium you'd like (tarot, runes or poker cards) as well.

[hotchkissapprentice]

Late Victorian brooch with a man in the moon cameo carved from transparent moonstone, set in white and rose gold with a border of diamonds and rubies.

[saltbleachedbones-deactivated20]

@anexpansionlikegold - Jace tagged you first, but still..

[anexpansionlikegold-deactivated]

Exactly who must I sacrifice to possess this

[soloontherocks-moving-refol-blog]

Is getting messages from a god in dreams a thing? Or is it something that should be dismissed as just a regular old dream?

In the Greek pantheon that’s actually the traditional way you’d get them.

[justcallmewalker]

UPG-wise, I’ve only received 1 message outside of a dream from my god. The other lessons and messages have been dreams.

[interstellarkloud]

me: *arms full of cthonic deities* I have no idea what you’re talking about I don’t work with death what I never do that

[soloontherocks-moving-refol-blog]

what if you always ask for dreams from your god and never get any? Is that like a clear "fuck off"

The vast majority of people who think they don’t dream actually just don’t remember dreaming. That’s a science thing, not a religion thing. IIRC not getting enough sleep can also cause it because you don’t spend enough time in the necessary phase of sleep.

[justcallmewalker]

Though, it is possible to train yourself to remember them, though it’s difficult and requires several months of consistently good sleep and waking yourself up slightly before your body naturally wakes up. 

You’ve gotta start writing what’s happening in the dream while you’re practically still asleep, so writing them down the moment you open your eyes, don’t pass go or move other than to grab the recording medium and start recording.

[hugvvarts]

Most prestigious Wizarding schools by J.K. Rowling

Hogwarts (Scotland)

Durmstrang (Bulgaria)

Beauxbatons (France)

Ilvermorny (New York, USA)

Castelobruxo (Brazil)

Uagadou (Africa)

Mahoutokoro (Japan)

[refrescorojo]

I have so many questions about this, 😠.

One school for Africa? WTF? Why would there only be one school for South America and really it would be in Portuguese and not Spanish, pffff. That North American school looks to be in Canada but OK… whatever, and does North America include Mexico? Where do us people from Central America & the Caribbean go to? or are we bunch together in the North one?

[theliteraryluggage]

Okay so I’m happy to be corrected, but doesn’t it just say that these are the most prestigious (and long-established) Wizarding Schools? I mean that doesn’t have to mean they’re the only Wizarding Schools? From what I understand, this is just like, let’s say the “Ivy League” of Wizarding Schools. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any others, more local and less well known, maybe.

If I missed any information to the contrary, let me know!

Edit: I mean

“Although Africa has a number of smaller wizarding schools (for advice on locating these, see introductory paragraph), there is only one that has stood the test of time (at least a thousand years) and achieved an enviable international reputation: Uagadou. The largest of all wizarding schools, it welcomes students from all over the enormous continent.”

[sarriane]

it’s still really telling that africa, a diverse continent that many people wrongly see as a singular country, only has one prestigious wizarding school. every other example is a COUNTRY.

[cesiousblue]

I mean, it seems like she just dropped a school down on each continent and was done with it. Honestly, I’m pretty surprised that there isn’t one in India or China.

[refrescorojo]

And yet non for Oceania, and 3 for Europe so no, I don’t think so.

I didn’t touched Asia beacuse I think it specified it is for Japan. But LOL if Hogwartz is the only special snowflake that has no international students everyone is from the UK, but we have to accept all the others are from very different countries. 😐

[seashells-and-bookshelves]

I had this exact discussion with my sister when it was released. She was flipping her shit about it and I am very hugely underwhelmed. And if we’re completely honest, a little disgusted. 

Just from a North America stand point (because that is where I’m located), first of all I hate the stylized map. Where the fuck is it located? New York? Mass? Freaking Canada? I can’t freaking tell. Second, one school for the entirety of North America?!?! She’s got to be out of her mind. Even if it’s just for the US one school is not enough. There needs to be at least one more on the West Coast and I’d even reach to say a smaller one in the mid-west for Native American witches and wizards. Not to disallow them from “traditional” magic schools but I would think based on their varied cultures and traditions, that Native American magic users would have a completely different brand of magic. 

Then at least two more for Canada (again one on each coast) with the possibility of international students so that students from Alaska wouldn’t have to be so damn far from home. Another one for Native Americans in Canada? I’m not very familiar with Canada’s population. And then another school for students from Mexico and the Caribbean. With an extensive exchange student program so that they can get to know brands of magic from around their continent. 

Why did she even release this at all? After all this time what was the need of it? It would take a hell of a lot of research to be able to do it properly. I suspect it has something to do with the new movie, but I’m really hoping I’m wrong and she really is trying to do something nice for the fans. Needs a lot more effort put into it though. 

[justcallmewalker]

There’s going to be more schools released. She’s releasing 11 in total, and this is just the first round being released, as a teaser into the  Magical Creatures movie. Additionally, we know there’s at least 1 more American school, because there was the Salem Academy of Witches. I’m sure she’ll release more for Asia, the Americas and Oceania as time goes on. 

[libraford]

I am a good person. That does not make me a nice person.

[breelandwalker]

I want this on a t-shirt. And a bumper sticker. And written across the sky.

[libraford]

Alternatively, a nice person is not necessarily a good person. 

[justcallmewalker]

I love this, and it’s something people need to remember. Everyone’s so surprised when I do something shitty (like being a sarcastic, cynical little shit or intentionally pushing someone away without regard for their feelings), especially when I ask them why they ever thought I was nice. I’m good. Not necessarily nice.

[soloontherocks-moving-refol-blog]

Do you think anxiety and depression aren't serious illnesses?

In terms of level of oppression and stigma? Or in terms of debilitating effects on life? Absolutely not, in comparison to illnesses like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or literally any personality disorder, which people have been killed or wrongfully imprisoned for having, and which can be nearly impossible to treat, and which last FOREVER, not a few months or a couple years.

Sorry, were you expecting me to let you keep on being disgusting and pretending depression is treated anywhere near the same way, say…schizophrenia is? Haha. No.

[justcallmewalker]

Well...they are, like how flu can be a serious illness for some people, especially if they can’t figure out how to get help with it, or if they refuse to. 

Are they serious like schizophrenia, BPD, or bipolar disorder? Nah, not at all. Those are serious like cancer’s serious, or black plague serious. Not flu levels of serious like anxiety and depression are.

[littleshitbird]

Hey everyone!

As I’ve mentioned a bit, I’ve been having a few issues with housing, Embers and I are in the Bay Area where rent is ridiculous, and even with multiple jobs within the past year, and now even with a decent paying job, it’s not enough. We’re now in an unsafe living situation.

The person I’m currently living with has an absolute disregard for what Embers or I need, there’s no privacy or personal space, and Embers has been put at physical risk multiple times since being here (Draino poured in my room, given unhealthy foods, left in the cold for 2 days while I was away briefly, put under immense stress, continuously being upset by three cats that have also been invading her space).

In addition to the risk put on Embers, because of past trauma and abuse with this same person, I’ve been continually retriggered in very unexpected ways, causing crippling anxiety and depression which has started to lead to minor hallucinations. All of this putting my job at risk, luckily they’re very understanding and very understaffed for the time being. Not to mention when Embers sees me stressed, her stress increases.

I’ve been fighting to keep from doing this, I’d much rather make crocheted commissions, but due to all the stress and with barely any time I have to even sleep right now, I’m asking for donations. Everything given will go to Embers being boarded at Medical Center for Birds while I look for a place, and to future rent for the brood and I.

If you can, and only if you can, please donate to my paypal at [email protected] as “friends and family” this is a very scary situation for everyone involved and we’d very much appreciate the help.

[pagansuncensored-deactivated202]

I just have one question. Have we lost sight of the reverence we should have for the netjeru? I have nothing against godspouses, godkin, or anything of that sort, but does calling it a fandom diminish the awe they should inspire in us? Also, are we really in a position to police people's thoughts, barring anything which is illegal and which can be cited in a piece of legislation. I may disagree with someone and may even find their comment in poor taste, but it's not my job to censor them.

[justcallmewalker]

They’ve been calling it a fandom for at least a year, if not two. It was originally started specifically because some of the larger names in the kemetic community wanted to take a more relaxed look at it, especially as they started pulling out the more...odd myths and doing art, and various things like that. 

So...art was created, and stories told and various things like that that were...less than entirely reverent, so “fandom” started being used in order to remind people that it doesn’t have to always be serious.

[roboticwolfdeity-deactivated201]

Soooooo

I accidentally bought two of these Welcome to Night Vale tarot decks

I’m going to do a giveaway because why not?

Requirements:

- You don’t have to be following me, but that’s always appreciated

- Please reblog only once. Likes are fine for bookmarking.

- Live in the US, only because I don’t know if I can pay for international shipping.

- I will pick a winner February 28 2016

The deck comes with its own bag. The cards pictured are mine. The others are unopened and in plastic.

They can be found at the topacto website.

[thistleweeds]

So kids, more previews from the manufacturer.

I just submitted my final payment, meaning once the money goes through in a week, they’ll ship the cards to me! All in all, I should be getting them in about 2 weeks. :)

I’ll set up a pre-order shop soon. I’m currently also in the process of moving, so no app updates for a while until things are settled. :(

About Golden Thread Tarot

Golden Thread Tarot iOS app Android app Instagram Facebook

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[nesft-deactivated20180108]

#CROW NO

Crow: CROW YES!

[notcuddles]

It’s actually impossible to measure how many fucks a corvid give because there is no device sensitive enough to register such a tiny amount.

[pardonmewhileipanic]

science/animal side of tumblr… explain to me the birb thing

[red3blog]

Tail Pulling is a behavior noted in many corvids. The practical application is to create a distraction that will allow the birb to make off with the target’s food. Imagine being in the lunch room and a large fellow has a Twinkie you covet. You can’t just take it from him because he’ll defend his Twinkie. But if you thwap him on the back of his neck and then dash around to snag the Twinkie while he investigates, you stand a decent chance of enjoying spongey goodness. This is basically that in birb form.

Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:

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[pardonmewhileipanic]

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRB KNOWLEDGE

[whitmerule]

BECAUSE IT IS FUN

[askfordoodles]

littlemissbloo:

This speaks to me on a molecular level.

birbs just wanna have fun

[huntersonthewingarchive]

Sorry to hijack a little, but to put it bluntly, corvids are also pretty BALSY. They are more than prepared to harass other huge birds of prey which could deal them a lot of damage. There’s plenty of cases of corvids ‘riding’ other birds as well. It’s often to harass the larger bird out of the area, but as @red3blog said, they quite often (in layman’s terms) enjoy fucking shit up for fun.

‘Where the hell is the seatbelt on this thing?’

I mean they deserve a medal for having such huge bird balls imo

Literally no fucks are given by corvids. Ever.

[justcallmewalker]

Anyone have recs for stand up comedians on netflix that aren’t racist or sexist? It seems as if they’re not one, they’re the other, unless they’re PoC, which there’s a stupid lack of available.

[korrigantsionnach]

John Mullaney more or less

[astrophagia]

Aziz Ansari has amazing stand-up tbh

[justcallmewalker]

The problem is that I’ve watched all of Aziz’s stuff at least twice now, but I’ll take a look at John Mullaney at some point.

[ambisun]

Update on the Tarot Deck and a Ping list! Thanks for all the reblog and notes over the weekend! I’m trying to finalize on selecting which printer to use, but i won’t be able to do it without your help!  If you are interested in purchasing or backing the crowdfunding, please fill in this short form below with your details, it will allow me to send you a direct update when the launch goes live and allow me to have a better understanding of what i need to get ready for it: http://goo.gl/forms/gZSHd0wiUa

The campaign launch may not happen in January, but we’re going to get it setup as fast as possible! Thank you all again for the support and messages! 

[justcallmewalker]

Anyone have recs for stand up comedians on netflix that aren’t racist or sexist? It seems as if they’re not one, they’re the other, unless they’re PoC, which there’s a stupid lack of available.

[eightyeighteleven]

The Where My Heart Is Spread was channeled to help a person see exactly what lies in their heart beyond the fickle, the illusions, and the fears that can sometimes be barrier to love. Maybe it’s about a person you love or crush on, a perspective about a loved one, the success of a project or passion, how an interview will go, even how to overcome a challenge if that helps you keep your nerves together. The basic point of this super-intuitive spread is all in the energy, the patterns, the signs, and what’s calling out to you.

Other spreads.

[alovethathelpsmethrive]

This looks awesome. 

[asksecularwitch]

Yes, I am of the opinion that one cannot “just use battery operated candles” whenever one wants to use a candle in a spell. Which tends to be the advice for people who live in dorms or people who live in apartments or housing that doesn’t allow it. Or for people who cannot light a candle because of other restrictions. 

For me, I’m looking at the spell techniques that can be used in candles that cannot be used in battery operated candles. Dressing may be okay, like for example, some people only dress their candles with oils. So that might be okay to have a more permanent thing. But some people dress their candles with oils so that they can burn the oil. So if you have those heatless battery candles, then there’s no point. Using a regular lamp bulb that gets hot would be better as a mechanism to “burn off the oil.” 

Likewise burning things, sometimes burning is a requirement for candle magic. No flame? No way to burn? No way to replace it then. 

Carving, some people carve directly into the candles so that the carvings will eventually be touched by flame. In the same way that burning off the oil.  The whole point is that eventually the flame comes into contact with the carved areas as part of the paradigm or the technique. No flame? No work done.

Though you might be able to “etch” into a battery candle. As I mentioned in the other post, putting a more permanent sigil/talisman/special sign into a battery candle is actually something that a burning candle cannot do if you intend on burning it or lighting it, to activate the spell. If you don’t intend to burn the candle then it’s the same right? I like the idea of having a permanent anchor which you can activate by lighting it. Of course this may draw down the battery, if you are using the light from the battery to activate it. But you’ll have to play around with it.

Also be careful with etching, I suggest sharpies or some other kind of marker instead. Don’t want to hurt yourself okay?

Wax. Sometimes wax pooling is important. There’s a lot of spells which require wax sealing. Like for instances, bottle spells. Putting a charged candle on top and burning it down so that it creates the seal on the bottle. No wax dripping? No seal. 

But if you’re just looking for illumination - which a lot of spells do actually do this. Where they call a random candle to be in the spell, but don’t actually use it for anything besides illumination, then yes, they are equivalent. Actually I would prefer to suggest battery operated candles for that kind of spells, because you could make them more permanent anchors and make them more powerful each time you use them as illumination in the spell. Ie conceptually making a talisman that becomes so layered in spellwork that it literally provides more than just light in the spell. 

Also it may be important to “blow out the candle” at the end of the spell. This doesn’t mean “turning it off” this literally means using your breath to end the candle. Because blowing it out of life. Turning it off may not use the same function or execute the same means. So your mileage may vary, you’ll have to look at it. 

I feel like this is all rather obvious because they are different. But I don’t see this conversation at length at the different ways that candles are used in spellwork. And I feel like the answers are often not thought out when it comes to whether or not battery candles can replace regular candles. 

Honestly, if you can’t use candles in spells, it might be time to look into completely other techniques. Like knot magic, energy manipulation, water magic, etc etc. You don’t need to use candles for spellwork. It’s just one technique that one can use. But yeah. I just. depending on technique that you’re going for, it may not be useful to use battery operated candles.