A Field Of Things Long Passed

Witchcraft and religion sideblog 24 ⚰️ it/its, rot/rots

[mortismidnight]

ABOUT

Spirit/death worker

Divination

General magical tomfoolery

Still trying to figure out what path i am taking

DNI

Think that you can take practices from cultures with no regards to their origins or how closed they are

Disregard the idea of closed cultures entirely

TAGS

#drain.txt - our original posts

#[name].alt - posts from a specific alter

#[name].ent - a specific entity or type of entity i am at work with

#[name].dei - a specific deity i am at work with

ART CREDITS

[Header] [Forest Divider] [icon]

[razerbackbitch]

[frenchwitchdiary]

Meme templates X tarot

[hagoftheholler]

There are people in the witchcraft and pagan communities that really need to come to terms with the fact that pagan isn't the universal term for everything that isn't Christian (or Jewish, or Islamic). Hinduism isn't pagan. Buddhism isn't pagan. Hoodoo isn't pagan. African traditional religions aren't pagan. Many regional folk practices aren't truly pagan. The list goes on. It's more of an insult than an identity for some of these groups.

[will-o-the-witch]

Which of these would you be most willing to pay for a class on?

Bone Readings 101

A Deep Dive into Tarot's Major Arcana

Crafting New Divination Methods

Designing Your Own Spells

Spirit Work 101

Voting ended onFeb 15, 2024

Short version is I need money and I think sharing some of the practical witchcraft knowledge I've gathered over the years would be a good spoons-friendly way to make some money. I'm thinking of doing a zoom class with maybe $5-10 admission.

[fox-bright]

This meme is a MURDER ATTEMPT.

I am absolutely fucking serious. The original meme, without the big red denial, is someone's attempt to fucking kill people.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE of pennyroyal oil. Even Mother Earth News says there's no reason to use pennyroyal essential oil for ANYTHING, even topically or as a fragrance, for fuckssake! That should give you some idea about how dangerous it is!

Pennyroyal tea, plant matter in hot water, is a traditional abortifacient. It is *incredibly* dangerous, induces abortion by bringing the body close to organ failure (and frequently pushing the system right over the edge, because dosage is impossible to meter), but I would drink a gallon of it before I took a half-teaspoon of pennyroyal essential oil.

Two teaspoons, taken across 48 hours, has successfully killed someone.

Three teaspoons taken as a single dosage killed the consumer within THREE HOURS.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE! FOR PENNYROYAL OIL INTERNALLY! NONE!

The person who made this meme is PURPOSEFULLY, ACTIVELY, trying to get desperate people killed!

[hearthfire-heartfire]

i do have more than 20 years of working with herbs under my belt, plus i love herbcraft history. the most common use of pennyroyal in its native habitat is as a pesticide in whole herb form. you would include it in the hay you stuffed your mattress with, strew it about the floor in your kitchen, put it anywhere rodents might be entering your grain storage. because it kills things.

additionally, i would discourage people from using tansy, rue, thuja (the latin name for cedar species), or wormwood internally for very similar reasons.

[powerfulwizard]

Say this with me. Manifest it. Make it real. “I am not harmed by fire or explosives.” Say that outloud. Remember it. The only thing that’s stopping you is your own head. Never stop grinding.

[creature-wizard]

People who post shit like "just let people read whatever they want to read and let them make their own mistakes uwu~" in the context of posts educating people on far right rhetoric deserve to be hunted for sport. You've fucking made it clear that you're fine with people being radicalized into far right ideologies and hurting whoever they may while they're there. You know what they call people who are fine with allowing other people to become fascists? A fascist.

[creature-wizard]

"Posts critical of problems within the witchcraft community might discourage people from studying witchcraft though :( :( :("

FINE, THEN LET THEM BE DISCOURAGED FROM STUDYING WITCHCRAFT! Better to be put off studying witchcraft than to study witchcraft and become a fucking Nazi. There's a lot of cool things about witchcraft but if its existence necessitates allowing people to become fucking Nazis, if only briefly, it's not worth it.

[creature-wizard]

"Respect all paths please-" How about I teach you the Parable of the Nazi Bar.

[creature-wizard]

There was a lovely little bar down the street. It had all sorts of clients from all walks of life; there were queer people, people of color, disabled people, and everybody had a good time.

And then one day a Nazi came in. The dude had Nazi tattoos and threw up his hand with a "Heil Hitler!" like it was a jaunty "how do you do?"

Everybody looked at the bartender and said, "hey man, are you gonna do something about this guy?"

And the bartender said, "No, we must respect everyone's personal beliefs."

Well. The queer people and the people of color and disabled people, all of whom knew that the Nazi wanted nothing more than for all of them to die, stopped coming.

But the bartender got a whole new set of customers: the Nazi's friends and acquaintances who'd all heard that the bartender was friendly to Nazis.

And that's how this bar became a Nazi bar.

Some spiritual paths teach violent hostility to everyone else. If you try to "respect all paths," you will make everyone they target feel unsafe and you will drive them away, and you become a friend and ally to violent hatred, and your space becomes a space for those people, and those people alone.

[despazito]

pulling the pin on this grenade of a meme and sprinting for the nearest shelter

[maceofpentacles]

[earth-tooth]

dont support industries that are driving animals to extinction thank you!

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

Already reblogged one of these but another reminder: don’t by nautilus shells!

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

does this dude even know any spells other than cast iron skillet

[creature-wizard]

"How can I be a witch/pagan without falling for conspiracy theories/New Age cult stuff?" starter kit

Posts & Articles

Check your conspiracy theory. Does any of it sound like this?

Check your conspiracy theory part two: double, double, boil and trouble.

QAnon is an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, experts say

Some antisemitic dogwhistles to watch out for

Eugenicist and bioessentialist beliefs about magic

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

The New Age concept of ascension - what is it?

A quick intro to starseeds

Starseeds: Nazis in Space?

Reminder that the lizard alien conspiracy theory is antisemitism

The Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis is Racist and Harmful

The Truth About Atlantis

Why the Nazis were obsessed with finding the lost city of Atlantis

The Nazis' love affair with the occult

Occultism in Nazism

Red flag names in cult survivor resources/groups (all of them are far right conspiracy theorists/grifters)

The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse ‘memories’ is still causing damage today

Why Satanic Panic never really ended

Dangerous Therapy: The Story of Patricia Burgus and Multiple Personality Disorder

Remember a Previous Life? Maybe You Have a Bad Memory

A Case of Reincarnation - Reexamined

Crash and Burn: James Leininger Story Debunked

Debunking Myths About Easter/Ostara

Just How Pagan is Christmas, Really?

The Origins of the Christmas Tree

No, Santa Claus Is Not Inspired By Odin

Why Did The Patriarchal Greeks And Romans Worship Such Powerful Goddesses?

No, Athena Didn't Turn Medusa Into A Monster To Protect Her

Who Was the First God?

Were Ancient Civilizations Conservative Or Liberal?

How Misogyny, Homophobia, and Antisemitism Influence Transphobia

Podcasts & Videos

BS-Free Witchcraft

Angela's Symposium

ESOTERICA

ReligionForBreakfast

Weird Reads With Emily Louise

It's Probably (not!) Aliens

Conspirituality

Miniminuteman

Behind The Bastards

[exoflash]

a concerning amount of witchblr will be like "um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus" and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish

[mortismidnight]

Chess divination - an introduction

Before we begin a few things should be noted.

The most important here being: What works for me here may not work for you. I am my own person with my own beliefs and own perceptions of the game, how it works, and what is important to what pieces. Do not let this guide hinder you. Use it more as an introduction to the concept. Take these ideas and make them your own.

Depending on your personal inclinations you may need a physical board instead of a digital one, this is fine, some people are more tactile.

Part one: The pieces

As was said in the intro, these may have different meanings for you than me, but here are my chess meanings.

Pawn: flexibility, passing, transition

Rook: boundaries, ambition, loyalty

Bishop: planning, analysis, perfectionism, spirituality

Knight: versatility, spontaneity, surprise

Queen: Power, Dominance, The mind

King: authority, fragility, emotions/the heart

White is the in control aspects of a piece, usually played by the querent. Black is the out of control aspects of the piece, played by the reader.

Part two. Methods

Pull

Ask a Question, Pull the piece(s) from a bag, box, or other vessel.

Game

This is my personal favorite method. Play the game of chess, moving pieces intuitively, but according to the rules. When your intuition tells you to stop, stop and read the board.

Cast

a combination of pulling pieces and playing the game. Intuitively set the pieces down on the board, and then read the board.

Closing Thoughts

i understand that this is not a comprehensive guide, but a lot of the concepts in chess reading are dependent on either intuition, or knowledge of the game. This post was mainly made in the hopes of introducing this type of reading to a broader audience. If you would like to learn more, feel free to shoot me a detailed ask, i may not have the time to answer immediately, but i will get around to it when i can. If i get enough interest in a part two, i will make an attempt at either making one, or remaking this post.

[staticnoisesss]

how you can help palestine

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

‼️ help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

medical aid for palestinians

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

mohammed is a friend of ahmed (90-ghost) and is a haemophilia patient. him and his family are currently living in a tent on the streets of rafah.

help gaza’s children

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine

urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

Petitions

‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

location specific petitions

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

reach out to countries to back up south africa’s invoke genocide convention at the ICJ

‼️ international criminal court

submit evidences of israeli war crimes

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

‼️ BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

palestine diaspora network

global strike guide - join the global strike!

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST