𝙃𝙀𝙇𝙇 𝙄𝙉 𝘼 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙀𝙍𝘼

ᴀɴɢᴇʟs sᴀʏ "ʙᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ᴀғʀᴀɪᴅ" ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ sʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ

[florescentlcvesickness]

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[memo-sepia]

moobloom getting voted out moodboard

[kraeevahhl]

so i found out that astrally i can change every single colour of myself except my right eye for some reason....

carameldansen blasts in the distance somewhere

[no1knowz]

[maculategiraffe]

Brew a pot of coffee, pour it into the blender, add honey, cinnamon and nutmeg (and a little bit of clove if you have it), your favorite non-dairy milk, and a couple of tablespoons of canned pumpkin. (US grocery stores have it year-round. It's in with the canned vegetables.) Blend till foam forms on top. Pour into a mug and sip.

500 times better than Starbucks pumpkin spice, plus it has nutrients, plus you don't have to wait for Starbucks to release anything, plus it's vegan,* plus you don't have to go to a coffee shop in a pandemic

*don't @ me about whether honey is vegan. Honeybees are better compensated for their labor than baristas

[hazeldomain]

Honeybees are better compensated for their labor than baristas

gdskfhdjksalfhkjladshfkjdsahfkjlads

[skunkes]

[catgirlanarchist]

[jacobaaronschroeder-deactivated]

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it Hand burnt text on silk velvet 42″ x 24″ 2016

[skepticaloccultist]

The Reality of Divinatory Addiction

I have been thinking a lot about the use of divinatory practices by aspiring magic practitioners. In particular the use of the tarot by young witches as a kind of measuring stick by which to live and love.

The history of divination as practiced by magicians goes back to the early stages of magic itself. “What does the future hold?” is a question that was asked by people as soon as those words were formed in the mouths of mankind.

Over the millennia the practice of divination has been born in the main out of various implements available to the practitioner. The casting of bones, the marks of smoke on the stones, the pattern of tea leaves in the bottom of an empty cup - these mundane elements come over time and use to have certain predisposed ideas attached to them, portents of a future to come and a past that haunts us.

With the invention of language and visual art mankind was able to create more specifically coded templates on which to predict the future. The use of magic bowls inscribed with the words of a spell was common for centuries before the common era.

Eventually by the middle ages mankind’s use of various games of chance were drawn into the practice of divination. Dice and cards being conscribed to more than lingering entertainment, they were re-envisioned with symbols more complex than their simple base 13 numbering system. Given over to a kind of complex sigilization tarot cards and their cousins were born.

Many authors have written countless words about the history of tarot, and a few have looked more deeply at its mechanistic framework. But the use of these tools holds potential dangers to the user that are seldom discussed.

I have long held the Romani belief that you can not buy your future, and so at the age of 13 I acquired my first and still primary tarot deck, a 1970s printing of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, from a shopping mall chain bookshop by means less than legal.

I still use that deck as my primary tarot deck to this day and what I have been thinking about is how the use of tarot has exploded with this current crop of occult revival.

More young witches and wizards have turned to tarot than in any previous generation, at levels reminiscent of my generation’s use of the ouija board (a form of “spirit communication” created whole-cloth by a game company designer).

Within this new crop of divinators there is a pronounced use of the tarot by means that have nothing to do with their traditional use. The practices of the majority of contemporary tarot users seem to have drifted far afield from those intended by the creators of the decks that they are using.

Having clearly decided to ignore the written manual, contemporary users seem to reply on a kind of poker-based single card draw for “yes or no” questions about mundane topics. As well there are now a generation of “tarot experts” willing to make everything they know up in order to charge you for something they can not provide.

But a sucker is born every minute and my real concern is not those who would pay a person for their future, but those real practitioners who would look continually to their future for guidance to the point of ignoring their own part in the process of that future.

What I have noticed is that young tarot users seem to ask the tarot dozens of questions a day. “Am I going to have a good day?”, “Will this carrot cake come out well?”, “Does the person I like, like me back?”, “Should I wear these shoes with that coat?” - the triviality of seeking guidance of tasks so mundane is an insult to the very nature of divination.

When we divine, acting as probes for futures that have yet to come, we reach out into the field of unknowing to act as cartographers of an undefined reality. We separate ourselves from linear time, and seek to know potentialities that are, from our own perspective of time, still merely quantum.

In many forms of divination we seek that change of perspective through a spirit intermediary, and to ask a spirit to tell us “ifs and whats” about mundane life is petty and insulting.

This 20 questions version of tarot cards makes the reasons for the shift to “single card draw” “yes or no” tarot obvious. It would take these practitioners too much time to actually do the tarot, laying out the cards in order to foresee a pattern in the future, for 20 questions a day. So the tarot becomes reduced to a magic 8 ball toy. “Does he like me? YES or NO”

The root of this need to ask the tarot for countless guidance is manifested in the uncertainty many people feel when looking at the mundane world around them. Lacking guidance on how to navigate the failing system of capitalism they turn to other means to suss out what is coming around the corner.

Lest we mistake the map for the territory it behoves would be divinators to seek not often the guidance of such council. Rarity is of utmost importance in any act of magic, no less the many forms of divination. To sully the cards with one’s mundane matters is to ask a mystic to polish one’s shoes.

More importantly we must be aware that like gambling any form of habit that pushes our emotional buttons can become addictive, no less tarot cards. For those psychologically predisposed to addiction through the shape of their personal mental landscapes tarot can become an emotional roller coaster based on the draw of the cards, even if one does them the correct way. Reliance on their promise of answers can be as addictive as gambling or drug use.

In all realms of the occult it is the rarity of the ritual practice that creates importance to us in our mind. The sacredness of it, the singularity of it, is what gives it its power and allows us to access a range of existence not mundanely available to us.

Beware the use of tarot or any form of divination for answers to questions we as magicians should otherwise be able to rationally determine. Do not ask them to make mundane decisions for you, and always keep them at enough of a distance so that they are not sullied by the world of mundane things.

Safe divinatory practices need to be discussed more among both established and fledgling practitioners of all ilks. Don’t let divination become an emotional and mental crutch on which you rely, use it sparingly to ask only the real questions about those things that matter beyond the veil.

[maculategiraffe]

Brew a pot of coffee, pour it into the blender, add honey, cinnamon and nutmeg (and a little bit of clove if you have it), your favorite non-dairy milk, and a couple of tablespoons of canned pumpkin. (US grocery stores have it year-round. It's in with the canned vegetables.) Blend till foam forms on top. Pour into a mug and sip.

500 times better than Starbucks pumpkin spice, plus it has nutrients, plus you don't have to wait for Starbucks to release anything, plus it's vegan,* plus you don't have to go to a coffee shop in a pandemic

*don't @ me about whether honey is vegan. Honeybees are better compensated for their labor than baristas

[hazeldomain]

Honeybees are better compensated for their labor than baristas

gdskfhdjksalfhkjladshfkjdsahfkjlads

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

the plot to yoi is genuinely so fucking funny like. this dude got drunk and danced with me and i was so haunted by his beauty all year that i quit my job as a world famous athlete and flew to japan. turns out he doesn't remember our first meeting and thought i was just a lunatic who showed up at his door and decided i was his boyfriend and he went along with it because im hot. we're engaged now

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

yoi from viktor's perspective: my darling my lost love.. finally we reunite and can be together! i will teach you everything i know and stay by your side and you will finally get all the love you deserve💛

yuuri's perspective: why is my celebrity crush in my house and how do i make him leave

[one-time-i-dreamt]

WHAT

[ririazul]

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

call that layin tailpipe

[thetyrannosaur]

cucked by a truck!

[divorceddadrock]

[rattle-my-stars]

[piesandswords]

checking your phone in the middle of a task

[neko-manta]

[tuberousroot]

they are friends <3

[feywild-songbird-deactivated202]

tarot crystal & herb associations

The Fool - rose, geranium, cedar - agate, aventurine

The Magician - carnation, rosemary, vanilla - agate, sunstone

The High Priestess - acacia, sandalwood, lemongrass - moonstone, rose quartz

The Empress - hazel, olive, sunflower - peridot, turquoise 

The Emperor - ginger, mugwort, laurel - ruby, sapphire

The Hierophant - lemon, sweet pea, lavender, violet - jade, topaz

The Lovers  - dragon’s blood, ginseng - agate

The Chariot - St John’s Wort, iris, lilly, dill, rosemary - amber, fluorite 

Strength  - angelica, basil, comfrey, fennel, goldenseal, pennyroyal, thyme, yarrow - cat’s eye, jasper 

The Hermit - angelica, chamomile, sage - bloodstone, peridot 

Wheel of Fortune - clover, daisy, fern, heather, iris, jasmine, lilac, peony, spearmint, violet - amethyst, opal 

Justice - dill, garlic, honeysuckle, violet - cat’s eye, jet

The Hanged Man - grape, ivy, marigold - aquamarine, tiger’s eye 

Death - blackberry, bramble, periwinkle - amber, bloodstone 

Temperance - agrimony, bergamot, catnip, clover, foxglove, hibiscus, lily of the valley, valerian - amethyst, jasper, pyrite

The Devil - bergamot, carnation, fern, mugwort, rosemary - obsidian, apache tears 

The Tower - heather, honeysuckle, morning glory, yarrow - lodestone, ruby 

The Star - angelica, grape, jasmine, lily of the valley, rose, aster, bluebell, daisy, snapdragon, valerian - quartz, turquoise

The Moon - adder’s tongue, eucalyptus, sandalwood, lotus - moonstone, selenite 

The Sun - broom, carnation, chamomile, fennel, geranium, lavender, marigold, rosemary - citrine, tiger’s eye, sunstone 

Judgement - grape, ivy, marigold, violet - hematite, malachite 

The World - rose, carnation, ivy, bay laurel - lapis lazuli, onyx 

[naturaekos]

“Quit trying to convert others or influence them to agree with you. Simply love, accept and appreciate them as they are, and you will help them, yourself, and the world in the most powerful way.”

—

[mypeculiarparadox]

Did i just get called out by my oracle cards, but like, in the nicest way possible???