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Everyday Magick Tips for Spoonie Witches

Some of us witches have very low energy levels and that makes it difficult to cast complex spells or commit to long rituals. Here is a list of things you can do from the comfort of your own home to increase magick in your life!

Make showers or baths a time of cleansing. Imagine a white light coming from the faucet and filling your body. Let the water purify your body and mind.

Use a heat pad or ice pack for bodily pain. You can make your own heating pad by filling a small sack with rice and microwaving it. You can make a quick ice pack by putting some ice in a dish towel and getting it damp.

Meditate whenever you can. If you can’t get out of bed in the morning, take that time to breathe.

Keep your crystals near your bed or couch so you can reach them easily. Breathe into them for relaxation or an energy boost.

Keep a clear quartz nearby. When you feel physical or emotional pain, breathe deeply. Inhale the white light of the quartz and exhale the pain into the quartz. Let it absorb the negativity. Be sure to cleanse it regularly.

Buy electric candles. It may be too much work to tend to a real flame. Substitute your mood lighting with electricity.

Do divination in bed. Do not worry about going through a whole ritual to read your tarot or oracle deck. Just lay the cards out next to you and interpret them while sitting or laying down.

Practice mindfulness if this is something that is comfortable to you. Mindfulness is often an uncomfortable process for people with ADHD so do not worry if it is not for you. Otherwise, be aware of the food you are eating and the air you are breathing.

Practice gratitude. Give thanks to your food, your home, your deities, and the people in your life. Increase the positivity that surrounds you.

Keep a digital book of shadows. If writing is difficult for you or if it isn’t worth getting up to get paper and pens, try digital. Use your phone or computer to write all of your witchy notes in.

Monitor your energy levels. There is physical, emotional, and spiritual energy. You should take a few moments throughout the day to check in with your energy levels and recognize what you can and can’t do. Don’t push yourself past your limits.

Create energy cords. Connect your spirit to an outside energy source like the sun or a charged crystal. Use this to boost your spiritual energy.

Use grounding techniques to deal with pain or anxiety. Bring yourself to a more peaceful reality. Focus on your breathing and your connection to the earth.

"T - H - E - Y

You can get it

If you try!

THEY! THEY!"

-- my wife, the ex-cheerleader

cutegirlonline-deactivated20181

when your anxiety is constant but you do a really good job of pretending it’s not there

rottendyke

[ID: A gif from spongebob squarepants in which spongebob goes about doing his daily activities like work and playing card games acting like nothing is wrong whilst a large fish angrily follows him around punching him.

/end ID]

probablyasocialecologist

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

tell me something nice

kyraneko

if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. it’s called mycoremediation.

if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they make a great way to poison your enemies. this is called murder and it’s usually frowned upon, but they won’t see it coming and you get bragging rights afterwards about your ability to kill people with a pizza topping.

kyraneko

Sorry this was not precisely most people’s idea of “nice.” Let me add that you are a glow of comforting absurdity in an ever-more-fucked-up world.

mirage358

I love everything about mycoremediation, but also

umbrellanumber5-deactivated2021

This explains a lot about my lack of asking for help when I clearly need it

mctreeleth

Don't forget the fact that asking for help carries the risk of someone expressing mild disappointment in your inabilities, which will cause you to shut down for 5 to 7 working days.

anxietyproblem

wilwheaton

“In 2000, 31 percent of Americans thought “the use of marijuana should be made legal.” By 2010, the number was 46 percent. And in October 2020, it was 68 percent. Majorities in every age and income group now support legalization; even 48 percent of Republicans support it.”

— Marijuana decriminalization just took a big step forward in Congress

wilwheaton

“By assaulting U.S. democracy in so many ways, Trump has shone a light on its weaknesses. We should seize this moment to strengthen our institutions. That way, if another Trump-like politician (or Trump himself in four years) tries to pervert the system again, American democracy will be better equipped to withstand it.”

— Trump shows that we need to reform U.S. democracy

smoke-weed-and-hail-thor

stim toys and how to enchant them

as a spoonie, and a dude on the autistic spectrum, i often use stim toys to reassure myself when im feeling anxious. i have several of them (including plushies, lighters, stones, and a knife) but my favorites are pacifiers. why ? because they’re so easy to find, cute asf, and super cheap.

now as you can see on the pictures, i assigned each of the pacifier to a specific intent. my way of doing it was through lithotherapy, which is using the natural power of stones but you can get really creative with it !

a few examples of what you could do are :

👁‍🗨 praying to a specific god(dess) for each intent

👁‍🗨 working with herbs and nature

👁‍🗨 use smoke magic, like lightning an incense for each intent

👁‍🗨 work with the energy of the moon or the sun

i hope this post will be useful for other witches who uses stim toys, cause personally i really can see the difference

serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty

Comrade Attenborough

whitepeopletwitter

wetwareproblem

Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?

kedreeva

Here’s the link if anyone wants it!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/

Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and improves recipients’ men

kayasurin

We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life - meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.

comicgeekscomicgeek

Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.

jenniferrpovey

Past experiments have shown that UBI:

Increases high school graduation rates

Reduces:

Domestic violence

Alcoholism

Emergency room visits related to mental health

Road traffic accidents.

All while not disincentivizing employment for most groups (the exceptions being high school students, who were able to focus on their studies, and new mothers…who were using it as maternity leave!)

People, for the most part, want to work.

UBI would allow us to expand the definition of “work.” If somebody can live off of UBI, then they can devote themselves to things which we don’t currently value financially such as the arts, raising children well, etc.

And if somebody wants to stay home and play video games all day…then so be it. Not that many will.,..and of those who do most will probably find some way to make that into their “work,” whether by providing play throughs and tutorials or competing seriously.

jabberwockypie

If somebody stops working all together as soon as they get UBI and stays home to play video games, they probably desperately needed a break.

There are so many people who are struggling with mental and physical illnesses, and chronic pain, who are still breaking themselves working because they don’t have another option - because it can take years to get on disability, and it’s not enough to survive on, so people keep going as long as they possibly can.

Even if it’s not a matter of disability, as such … people get burned out?

We’re not really built to do school and work with minimal breaks to the extent that we do.

Despite what our puritanical culture says, there’s no shame in needing a break.

mr-squiggley-poufs

Ok so I've found a way to describe what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like to neurotypicals

So you know how you can't make yourself put your hand down on a hot stovetop? There's a part of your brain that stops you from doing that? That's what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like

Even if we want to do it, there's a barrier stopping us from doing it, and it's really hard to override

And why does our brain see the task as a hot stovetop? Because when neurotypicals finish a task, they get serotonin, but we don't get that satisfaction after completing a task. A neurotypical wouldn't get serotonin from putting their hand on a hot stovetop, it would just hurt. When we can't do a task, it's because our brain knows that the task will hurt (metaphorically) and wants to avoid that.

It's not that we're choosing not to do the task, it's that our brain is physically preventing us from doing it.

Neurotypicals can and should reblog but please don't add anything

(Sorry/not sorry about the random bolding, it makes it easier for us to read)

dovewithscales

Oh that’s a great example. It’s not even really a metaphor in some cases. Because this is exactly what some of our brains are doing. For one reason or another the brain thinks that the task in question is dangerous or harmful and the mechanism keeping us from doing it is a survival mechanism.