Cor na Sióg in the House of M

☀️ACAB/BLM/Queer/Neurodivergent☀️ An archive for communications with my personal pantheon, Irish deities, ghosts, past life memories, spirits, and whatever else is passing through my general area that day. Topics will include: art, foraging, forests, writing, music, dancing, Irish lore, Other Crowd, birds, dogs, cooking, and much much more! Everything is fair game for reblogging unless specifically marked otherwise, but please don’t label any of my original art that’s specifically tagged as one of my companions as your own characters/companions!

[lightofthemagdalene]

An Introduction

Why hello there! I'm Ceci, but you can call me Echo or Billie or Corr or anything that speaks to you really! My pronouns are she/her/hers or they/them/theirs, and I'm an Irish-American witch who's been practicing to various degrees since I was a tiny child! My parents and extended family raised me on folklore and fairy tales, and while I wasn't raised by pagans I sure did become one pretty quickly!

I started working with An Mórrígan sometime in 2010/2011, and I haven't really ever felt the need to look elsewhere! I occasionally work with Brigid and am getting ready to start my studies on An Dagda and Cailleach in the near future! Still, most likely you'll only hear me talking about Herself as she and I have gotten pretty used to each other.

Learning and understanding lore is something that is very important to me, anything I mark as a UPG is NOT intended to be thought of as truth for all. I also make rather a point of not discussing my relationship with Herself with people, as in my philosophy most people's experiences will be rather different and you should develop your own relationship and not try to model it off of mine. I ask that you do not try to talk about your own personal relationship with Herself with me, but I am ALWAYS happy to talk lore or just general experiences and practice!

Some of my devotional practices include not lying and always (kindly) correcting misinformation whenever I can! Just a heads up, if we start chatting and you claim something Irish as "Celtic" or say a UPG that's been mass produced (i.e. the idea that An Mórrígan is a sex goddess) I am gonna correct you! I'll even provide sources if you like! Please do not interact with me or my blog if you're not ready to be challenged on appropriated beliefs. I mean any and all corrections only with the greatest love and care.

I am also becoming educated/practiced in journeying/astral travel, I practice kitchen witchery and herbalism, and I'm getting into foraging via my companion Duir who is teaching me!

Essentially I am a draoí in training (via the Irish Pagan School which you should check out) with leagues to go! Come study with me!

Now, moving on, I work with several spirits. Two of which (Addison and Amara) are pseudo-headmates, though we've balanced out a lot in recent days and I currently think of them as something more akin to what most in the pagan community call "spirits"! You'll see me post quite regularly about the two of them, and also will likely hear a good deal about my three main spirit companions Duir (a puca-adjacent creature who I have known a long long time but only recently reconnected with), Roxie (a juvenile raccoon), and Orias (a kind of reaper from another world, related to Addison and Amara).

Orias, Addison, and Amara are all part of what I will tag as my personal pantheon! They (in addition to several others) come from a very different place with very different practices! I learn from them and they learn from me, it's a great time! If you're ever curious about them PLEASE don't hesitate to ask! I love talking about them and having more info in the tags will likely help anyone else trying to figure out who the fuck The Magdalene is!

All my companions' posts are tagged with their names, so it won't be too hard to find out more on them as I get more posted, but in the meantime I'll consider this their brief little introduction.

My asks are always open! Feel free to drop in any time to ask me or my companions a question, or request an ogham reading! I also make ogham sets from sustainably sourced (read: I cut it myself from my own forest property, typically from dead,invasive, or diseased trees) and they can be commissioned from me via ask as well.

Amara will occasionally be up for offering readings! If you would like a reading from The Magdalene be prepared to send us a piece of music which represents either yourself or the issue at hand for her. Ask your questions with honesty and vulnerability and she will be as helpful as she can.

This should go without saying but: any of my companions who are unrecorded entities should be considered off limits. Me sharing them is not an invitation to involve yourself in their stories. That's not what I'm here for, if you want a matchmaker find a matchmaker. If you do feel called to by any of my companions just reach out! I'd love to talk that through with you.

Xero is fully off limits. He has specifically requested not to be shared and is not interested in any other earthly connections at this time. He's had some bad experiences since we met each other.

In addition to all that I'm a mentally ill queer NB woman with an open door policy and a lot of love in me. I hope to find some more community here as well as a place to express myself!

It's been a looooong time since I did anything on tumblr! I look forward to getting to know you!

[lightofthemagdalene]

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[spoonybird]

creature

[windowz97]

girl who sat next to me at the coffee shop had that Tortured By Computer Work look in her eye so i turned to her and was like Are u doing research? and it turns out she (white) just started working as an indigenous liaison for an ecological wellness surveying company (hired bc she worked with the local nation for a year) so i was like OMG can i share resources with you. and whipped out my 1 million notes and academic papers on ethical Indigenous-settler relations/research and Indigenous perspectives on ecological restoration. she was like omg are u sure this is basically a whole course for free and i wanted to tear my shirt off liek YES!!!! I WANT TO PROMOTE LOW BARRIER EDUCATION TO ADVANCE DECOLONIZATION AND RECONCILIATION!!!!!!!!!!! STEP IN2 MY GOOGLE DOC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[windowz97]

here's a googoodrive folder containing learnings on Experiential Learning in Ecological Restoration annnddd Research Practice in Indigenous Contexts. each course folder contains a "![Course number] Notes" document as well as PDFs of all the text-based readings that the notes draw from :-)

i plan 2 make accessible the learnings from my other classes too but i think ill only have time to do all that anonymizing & reformatting once i graduate in a few months lol

[lightofthemagdalene]

Shouting at the void.

I am not sure I belong here anymore.

Chicago?

America?

Earth?

Sentience?

Not sure about it.

I have more active and invested friendships than I’ve ever had in my life, but that doesn’t feel meaningful because I’ve lost the ability to communicate. My work is slowly driving the soul from my body, my hobbies do not enthuse me, and everything I’m doing is just treading water.

Nothing is fun or exciting. Successes are meaningless. Blah blah. Symptoms of clinical depression. I could probably handle that if it weren’t for the rapid cycle panic attacks and fatigue along with everything else. And the fucking nausea.

It feels like a cruel prank that whatever trying to get pregnant is doing to my poor body it causes morning sickness. Maybe I should take that and the state of the national economy as a sign to just not

I’m just so sure it’s not going to happen, which I know means it won’t. Fertility specialist in June on one of my lucky days so I’m just keeping going but my god.

Being fully off antidepressants and off birth control? Sucks.

All of this sucks.

And my brain is just so convinced we’re still waiting on the one friend I’ll probably never speak to again. That if she and I could just talk things out it would be alright. It’s been three fucking years, another year and it’ll have been as long as the friendship. Even if she did want to talk I’m not ever going to be able to stop being angry about what she did. Or fucking I don’t know maybe I would be.

I wish missing and hating her didn’t impact literally every aspect of my life.

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Karl Lagerfeld - Fall 1992 RTW

[lightofthemagdalene]

Bealtaine (not Beltane) is pronounced ‘Beeowl-tinna’. It does not originate the neopagan wheel of the year. It is one of the four Irish fire festivals.

If you’re celebrating it this year, regardless of your tradition, please take some time to research the roots of this holiday. Do your part to help reverse some of the damage done by the neopagan appropriation of this holiday by learning and incorporating some authentic Irish tradition into your celebrations.

Good luck with decolonizing your practice!

[lightofthemagdalene]

Bealtaine (not Beltane) is pronounced ‘Beeowl-tinna’. It does not originate the neopagan wheel of the year. It is one of the four Irish fire festivals.

If you’re celebrating it this year, regardless of your tradition, please take some time to research the roots of this holiday. Do your part to help reverse some of the damage done by the neopagan appropriation of this holiday by learning and incorporating some authentic Irish tradition into your celebrations.

Good luck with decolonizing your practice!

[lightofthemagdalene]

Imma be real “shaman” and “celts” are both huge red flags to the point imma not check that out, but thanks! I’ll let her do her.

[xanaxfarts]

Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda 'Alba')

[malglories]

i do feel somewhat ruined forever. but it’s okay we stay silly

[alexanderwales]

It's absolutely crazy that intellectual labor can wipe you out. It seems like it shouldn't be a thing, like your stores of brain juice shouldn't be able to be depleted in that way.

I feel like a wizard that's out of spell slots, and to me that's a hackish mechanical limitation put in place to try to balance the classes.

[adhdedrn]

#it's fucked and it's bad design #i should be able to write and edit for 20 hours a day #i'm just sitting there how are we even using energy #feels made up (via @softest-punk, emphasis mine)

Your brain is an incredibly energy-intensive organ. It makes up approximately 2% of your total body mass, but at rest it's using 22% of your total energy intake. The only thing that uses the same percentage of energy is all of your skeletal muscle (which is about 40% of your total body mass), with the liver (about 2.6% of your total mass) close behind at 21% (Aragon et al, 2017).

And that's how much energy it's using at rest.

That's the baseline.

So if you're doing lots of intellectual labour, your brain - which already has disproportionately huge energy demand - is going to use even more energy to keep up with the work. That's why you feel so wiped/drained/like you're out of spell slots after high intellectual demand - because your brain is an organ, and you've just done a lot of high-energy work with a high-energy organ.

Feed your brain.

[is-this-fascism]

i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.

[is-this-fascism]

grabs you by the shoulders listen. listen to my words. i understand the urge to make fanfiction about yourself and to find a reality in which you're super awesome and great and everyone who hates you is wrong and dumb. i get it. you're better than that. you can love yourself without putting other people down, dehumanizing and generalizing, and retaliating against your oppressors.

there's no NPCs. there's no aliens coming to save us. we're not the next step in human evolution. our hyperconnected nervous systems give us terrible sensory overwhelm more often than they make us geniuses. neurotypical people are sentient, conscious, aware people who are capable of understanding you. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different.

[lightofthemagdalene]

Hurry Up and Feel Good Soup

For when this has just been going on TOO LONG now and you need to FUNNEL IN NUTRIENTS but also you FEEL LIKE CRAP AND WANT FOOD TO TASTE GOOD.

Heat 2ish Tablespoons of neutral oil on high in large stock pot.

3 to 4 onions

Dice fine and add to heated pan, turn heat to medium low and stir until the sizzling settles. Add a healthy teaspoon of salt, stir and then leave while you prep the next step.

2 to 3 large sweet potatoes

2 to 4 carrots

1 large russet potato

2 to 3 knobs of fresh turmeric (2 to 3 tablespoons powder)

1 to 2 inches Ginger root knobs

Dice all before transferring to pot (to give onions time to sweat and caramelize a bit). Stir in to the onions. Add:

8 Cups of water

3 T Better than Bouillon (whatever flavor you like)

If you have broth or prefer broth, feel free to use 2 quarts instead of these (bone broth would be best here).

Prep next ingredients while the water boils.

1 or more bunches of dark greens. Chard, kale, spinach, even arugula/rocket or cabbage would work. Chopped.

Fresh herbs de-stemmed. I used an entire clamshell container of poultry blend herbs from the store amounting to three large stems each of thyme, rosemary, and sage.

Don’t do anything with your greens yet.

In addition to fresh herbs I included the following seasonings. Since this is medicinal I used large amounts of each. I know my tastes pretty well, I’d start with about half a teaspoon of each and then add more until it tastes as strong as you like! Some of these I added up to a tablespoon of. I’ll order them in amount I used from largest to smallest.

Marjoram (go ham)

Paprika

Fenugreek

Salt

Cinnamon

Coriander

Powdered curry leaves

Black pepper

1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg (go light with this)

1/4 teaspoon Hing (if you have it)

Add all your dry herbs and seasonings to the water. It’s okay if you don’t have everything, I have a crazy cabinet. Once it’s boiling stir in:

1/2 cup red, brown, black, or wild rice

1/2 cup lentils (any color tbh)

Let it boil on medium low for 25 minutes. Add greens and fresh herbs and boil for another 15 minutes. Use immersion blender to liquify. Incorporate:

3 or more T honey

2 or more T apple cider vinegar

And there you go!

If you want you can pair with crusty bread or crackers. You could top with:

Yogurt or cream

Poached egg

Goat cheese

Any kind of cheese really go off queen

Toasted pumpkin seeds

More herbs

But it’s great on its own!

[botanyshitposts]

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

I know next to nothing about botany but the phrase “feral sunflower” is hilarious to me

[cydonian-mystery]

[vimbry-moved]

nearly 30 years I've lived and I'll constantly be surprised by the moon when it's night. I just caught it really large and yellow through the trees and went "good god is that the moon"

[heaven011]