Heathen Hymns

My name is Lyric, I do witch things. Really, I ought to write a proper 'About Me' page but you may have already cleverly deduced that I am lazy. See, we already know each other so well!

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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.

Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition  (via midwintercrone)

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Hymn of the Quiet Girls

My hair is old attic - room, dusk and spider silk.

My lips are the origami fold of unsent letters.

I am a library of last words.

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For Young Women:

It is acceptable and correct to take the pomegranate in your hand and rip it down the middle with- Your fine and useful fingers

To eat the heart of the fruit whole.

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“She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl’s eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves.”

Patricia McKillip (via starsrising)

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I wish we’d been friends faster-

I am a shit companion in the first place, especially

to the one I like best. 

You’re probably the wisest out of the lot of us

and I know you feel like a shadow, but some day you’ll

step between our little public lives and

you’ll never apologize for

the truth.

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Beware the ones who love you too fast. All that is in you cannot be contained in a vowel or a vow.

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I like moonstone because

you need to love the milk white

dullness of it-

Long enough to see the fire.

It’s a hidden kiss.

The best beauty is the kind

you look for or

miss.

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I’m going through my tumblr after a long hiatus and reblogging all of my poetry. It’s a reminder to write more, and be present. 

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Before we knew how to farm, before we lived in villages, before we even knew how to make pots, we built a star temple on a hill. The simplicity of this statement belies its astounding implications. […] We did not build Göbekli Tepe in Southeastern Turkey because a surplus of stored food allowed a priestly class to emerge and tell us make-believe stories. We did not monitor the movements of the stars because it told us when to plant crops, because we weren’t planting crops.We built Göbekli Tepe because it expressed something about ourselves and our place in the universe. The temple complex restores the quest for meaning to its preeminent place atop the goals of human life. Philosophy is rescued from being a mere nighttime hobby of farmers to being the defining human trait, that which we value most. This is what the site’s discoverer, Dr Klaus Schmidt, means when he says that the cathedral predates the city. It may well have been the coming together for spiritual reasons that birthed settled cultures, rather than the other way around.

Star.Ships: A Prehistory Of The Spirits, Gordon White  (via coldalbion)

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Experimentation in magic

…as with other arenas, is a LUXURY. By this, I mean that one must have the time and available resources and/or skills to do so.

Luxuries are not bad. Far from it. Experimentation is not bad. It is in some senses necessary for expansion of knowledge.

However, experimentation as a framework or methodology only works if one is at liberty to do so. Yet, there are those without liberty who prosper, and develop without experimentation.

This is what interests me. The skills and abilities given or learnt in moments of Necessity.

The magic learnt by our ancestors, by our fellows, that occurs when there is no liberty to do so. Repeatability is all very well, but experience has shown me that conditions rarely prevail long enough for that lightning moment to occur in exactly the same way.

So then, we learn to become the lightning. Beyond form, beyond technique.

But humans often dream of liberty, of respite. It’s engrained in us. Too bad it’s a falsehood, eh?

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Crash course on fake stones/misrepresentations

Because I have been too lazy to type this all up.

Quartz:

If your quartz has teeny air bubbles it’s glass.

If it’s got a fruit name it’s dyed. End of story. (strawberry, cherry, lemon, pineapple, blueberry) yes there may be some very rare exceptions-fire quartz being dubbed strawberry- but due to the rise in fakes with that name it’s generally called fire quartz now.

Aura quartz is a regular quartz that’s been bonded with another material. (man made)

Cinnabar Infused Quartz usually reconstituted and mixed together to make a red crystal.

Green quartz can be grown in a lab and anything that forrest green color is

Turquoise:

Magnesite and howlite look very very similar to turquoise when they’ve been dyed, magnesite will have very deep cracks in it though.

No there is no white turquoise. 

You can do a uv test to see if it’s real

Amber

Often faked with Copal. They look nearly identical.

Amber will float in salt water-copal will not.

Irradiated/dyed stones:

Very vibrant colors!!

Irradiated: (they irradiate the crystals to get a deeper or more vibrant color)

deeply pigmented topaz or kunzite

dark (almost black) smokey quartz 

very deep pink or red tourmaline 

colored diamonds 

some cultured pearls 

vibrant yellow heliodor 

Dyed:

Pearls

Agate

coral

other stones may be dyed as well, generally if it looks fake..it is.

Heat treated stones: (really not a bad thing but if you’re going for natural)

Amethyst-lighten color+remove brown

Citrine-heat treated amethyst.

Aquamarine-remove green

Ruby-clearer stone 

Sapphire-clearer stone

Rainbow Cal-Silica

Nope, completely fake 100%

Literally just car paint layered with calcite and resin.

Citrine: (im so sorry)

Much of the citrine on the market is lab made.

If it’s lab made it’s usually amethyst that’s been heated until it changes color

The bottom of these stones will be white with more color at the tips.

srry

Lapis Lazuli:

High quality is vibrant blue, hard to come by, and very expensive.

Low quality howlite, jasper or sodalite is dyed blue, and passed off as lapis.

Acetone will remove the dye but damage the stone.

Obsidian:

The clear green obsidian you see all over ebay is slag glass.

Natural green obsidian has been found but it is opaque and is more gray than green.

there is red obsidian as well but again, it’s not a vibrant red and is more brick colored.

Wikipedia is not always right.

Goldstone:

it’s glass it’s legitimately just glass

Opalite:

also glass. 

real opalite exists but it’s green and not commonly found

once again, don’t believe everything on wikipedia.

Bismuth:

Doesn’t naturally form in the crystals, lab made!!!

rlly pretty though

Hematite:

Not naturally magnetic!

Magnetic hematite is 100% man made!

I’ll add more as I come across them~

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Jade:

Real jade is p. heavy! A way to tell if it is real is that it’ll be heavier than it looks.

Jade is faked with the following:

Serpentine “New Jade” or “Olive Jade”

Prehnite

Aventurine quartz

Grossular garnet “Transvaal jade”

Chrysoprase “Australian jade”

Malaysia Jade- dyed quartz that may be called by its color – Red Jade, Yellow Jade, Blue Jade

Opaque dolomite marble “Mountain Jade” (usually dyed)

Dragon vein agate: 

Quench cracked, bleached, and dyed agate and some is quench cracked, and dyed glass.

Snowflake obsidian:

Being faked with a very low grade cheap dalmatian jasper.!

Snowflake will be gray while Dalmatian should have a lighter color

Hollow galena:

A lot of pieces have been proven to have been faked through sand blasting + similar techniques (but there may be real ones I’m not 100%)

Charoite:

Chinese Charoite doesn’t exist.

If it’s called that then it’s not real, real charoite isn’t banded and is more swirly.

Moldavite:

Very very commonly faked!!

Biggest giveaway is the ‘wet’ look a faked piece has due to the molding process

White moldavite doesn’t exist!!

Sunspar:

It’s really just yellow Labradorite, which isn’t a v rare gem

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ALSO!

Andara Crystal

no such thing

massive scam

literally chunks of slag glass, worth like, .1% of what they are sold for

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Re blogging for the new year

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OK Tumblr,  i see a lot of reblogs for Bernie here but we have to make sure we’re taking actions to ensure he has a fighting chance in this arena. His opponents have the money and the media circus backing them but he has us, so let’s run it!  The primaries are elections held months before the ACTUAL presidential election that basically decide who the main candidates for each party will be, specifically, who will be listed on the ballot in the election in november. if we want Bernie to stand a chance at all he MUST be on the ballot in November. For that to become a reality we need everyone reading this to get them and their friends to vote in the Primaries! I’ve used the site www.voteforbernie.com to list the following info below so you can all see it easily enough and share it with just a click. Check your state below for the appropriate information on when and how to vote in the primaries!  Below are the registration and voting dates for all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington DC (as a separate voting date). Be sure to register! Click your state to find out how! Below is a key to reading the following information! Some states have open registration meaning it doesn’t matter which party you’re registered as, you can still vote for Bernie. *** Some states are CLOSED meaning you MUST be registered as DEMOCRAT by the date’s i’ve listed to vote for Bernie.  *~* Some states are SEMI-CLOSED meaning you must be registed as DEMOCRAT or UNDECLARED to vote for Bernie. # means you can register or switch parties the day of voting at the voting station.  NEW YORK!!! you have less than 30 days to register even tho your primaries aren’t until April. PLEASE GO REGISTER AND TELL EVERYONE ELSE! Alabama - Tuesday, March 1st (register by February 19th) Alaska - Saturday, March 26th *** # (register by January 19th)    Arizona - Tuesday, March 22nd *** (register by February 22nd) Arkansas - Tuesday, March 1st (register by January 31st) California - Tuesday, June 7th *~* (register by May 23rd) Colorado  - Tuesday, March 1st *** (register by January 1st) Connecticut - April, 26th *** (register by January 26th) Delaware - Tuesday, April 26th *** (register by April 2nd Washington, DC - Tuesday, June 14th*** (register by May 15th) Florida - Tuesday, March 15th *** (register by February 16th) Georgia - Tuesday, March 1st (February 1st) Hawaii - Saturday, March 26th *~* # (register by February 25th) Idaho - TBD (check the site early next year!)*~* Illinois - Tuesday, March 15th *~* # (register by February 16th) Indiana - Tuesday, May 3rd (register by April 4th) Iowa - Monday, February 1st *~* # (can register day of!) Kansas - Saturday, March 5th *** (register by March 5th) Kentucky - Tuesday, May 17th *** (register by April 18th) Louisiana - Saturday, March 5th *** (register by February 4th) Maine - Sunday, March 6th *** (register by February 14th) Maryland - Tuesday, April 26th *** (register by April 5th) Massachusetts - Tuesday, March 1st *~* (register by February 10th) Michigan - Tuesday, March 8th (register by February 7th) Minnesota - Tuesday, March 1st (register by February 9th)    Mississippi - Tuesday, March 8th (register by February 7th) Missouri - Tuesday, March 15th (register by February 17th) Montana - Tuesday, June 7th (register by May 8th) Nebraska - Saturday, March 5th *** (register by February 19th) Nevada - Saturday, February 20th *** (register by January 20th) New Hampshire - Tuesday, February 9th *~* # (register by January 30th) New Jersey - Tuesday, June 7th *** # (register by May 17th) New Mexico - Tuesday, June 7th *** (register by May 10th) New York - Tuesday, April 19th *** (register by October 9th 2015) North Carolina - Tuesday, March 1st *~* (register by February 5th) North Dakota TBD (check the site early next year!) Ohio - Tuesday, March 15th *~* (register by February 14th) Oklahoma - Tuesday, March 1st *~* (register by February 5th) Oregon - Tuesday, May 17th *~* (register by April 26th) Pennsylvania - Tuesday, April 26th *** (register by March 27th) Puerto Rico - Sunday, June 5th (register date TBD) Rhode Island - Tuesday, April 26th *~* (register by March 27th) South Carolina - Saturday, February 27th (register by January 28th) South Dakota - Tuesday, June 7th *~* (register by May 23rd) Tennessee - Tuesday, March 1st (register by January 31st) Texas - Tuesday, March 1st (register by January 31st) Utah - Tuesday, March 22nd *~* (register by February 21st) Vermont - Tuesday, March 1st (register by February 24th) Virginia - Tuesday, March 1st  (register by February 8th) Washington - Saturday, March 26th (register by July 6th) West Virginia - Tuesday, May 10th*~* (register by April 19th) Wisconsin - Tuesday, April 5th (register by March 16th) Wyoming - Saturday, April 9th*** (register by March 26)

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REMINDER: About half of the states allow 17 year olds to vote in the primaries if they will be 18 years of age by the actual election. Check if your state let’s you do this and you can help if it is a state that allows this!

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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “A Nice Quiet Place”  (via wordsnquotes)

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Tesla was a prophet

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Hello from the Lake of Salt

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve haunted the tumbled halls. Apparently we have chat now? That’s awesome. I hope I’m not displaying my absolute ignorance of the medium by posting something random and saying... People in the witchcraft or pagan tag, you should message me.

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The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love) Quotes (showing 1-23 of 23)“Others believe in prayer … . have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? Let it be the root of your Gospel. Oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of “not asking”; by it the female obtains much from man.” ― Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy

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When Spell Work Manifests...

It doesn’t fuck around.

Holy shit. 

I have to do that again.