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@pacificnorthwitch
why isn’t anyone allowed to be wrong anymore? it’s okay to be wrong. being wrong, and realizing you were wrong, is how you learn and grow.
People think that if they’re wrong about something that makes them morally Bad. Which leads to people being so afraid of getting something Wrong that they won’t even try to do something Right.
I got a few more questions about magic so I’m answering them here:
“What techniques do you use to practice moving your consciousness?”
The techniques I personally use are ones I learned through many different contexts, ranging from improv theater, to therapy, to Eastern philosophies, to witchcraft, to psychological manipulation. People tend to stumble across this stuff independently, and while they may call it different things, it all uses the same mechanic: You use your mind to move and change the ideas impacting your reality.
Worried about something in the future? Pantomime sticking that future scenario in an invisible bottle and putting it away.
Bored at work? Pretend you’re a little kid who’s pretending to do your job.
Don’t like the vibes of a place? Literally pick up a broom and brush the energy out the door.
As an acquaintance of mine once said, “If your problem is invisible snakes, your solution is to create an invisible mongoose.”
This does require allowing ourselves to do things we consider nonsensical, but it’s only by doing this that we gain the understanding of how magic works and that it works.
Take care though: Moving the consciousness first requires becoming aware of how it’s already moving in your immediate reality. This is gained through Mindfulness, which is the practice of observing your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and self without judgement or correction as you go about your life.
Not being aware of how your mind’s already moving means you might interpret any attempts at moving it as the work of another force (e.g. God, deities, the Devil, hexes or curse laid upon you, etc). Since moving the mind is also done through playing out stories, you’d also run the risk of not realizing you’re telling a story and might end up confusing it for reality (though generally speaking, expanding your awareness just allows you to become aware of the stories you’re already telling yourself).
Always remember that growing awareness goes hand-in-hand with learning the techniques.
“How do you discern if you’ve gained enough awareness to use a certain technique?”
This is very simple, actually: Techniques that evade your awareness will always sound very esoteric, abstract, and even poetic when described to you. You may understand bits and pieces of the explanation, but you won’t understand their meaning, and you definitely won’t “get” the overall picture. They’ll just seem highly mysterious and philosophical.
When people encounter techniques that evade their awareness, they tend to react in one of a few ways:
Their logical minds try to interpret the mysterious information to complete the picture. The conclusion will always be incorrect.
They’ll interpret this “air of mystery” as what makes magic “magic.”
Their brains will straight-up delete the information they can’t parse, so they only experience and absorb the information that makes sense.
They’ll have a very negative reaction and reject it entirely.
When a technique does exist within your realm of awareness, the way it works will be obvious to you. This knowledge will take the form of intuitive understanding, as opposed to logical reasoning. At the very least, the technique will make sense enough for you to try it, which means the intuition will come to you once you do.
“Why are things like blessings, enchantments, and intentions safer?”
These are safer because they don’t require access to greater awareness.
Awareness is a bit like vision. Some activities (like driving or skiing) require good vision to do safely because you need to be able to tell where you’re going. Other activities (like riding a bus or doodling) don’t. Sure, having good vision helps you do these better, but it’s not required in order to do them safely.
The same can be said about magic. Some magic requires the ability to course-correct based on immediate feedback, which can’t be done if you don’t have enough awareness of what your mind’s doing. Other magic doesn’t require this.
“Are [blessings, enchantments, and intentions] also forms of passive magic, a lower level of active magic, or something else entirely?”
I used “passive” and “active” as arbitrary designations. Really, the difference is whether you’re automating your magic (i.e. sending things into your expanded conscious for it to take care of in the background) or doing it manually (assuming control of the process and moving your conscious intentionally). These are just different modalities and don’t represent “higher” or “lower” forms of magic.
Plenty of magic actually uses a combination of automated and manual processes, the same way moving our body does. Additionally, advanced magic can and does use automated processes, and basic magic can and does use manual ones.
As a general rule of thumb: Anything that works through “casting/firing/releasing your intention into the universe” can be thought of as automated.
The #Ownvoices discourse has done a lot of harm in the queer community. Queer authors have been pressured to come out before they are ready, and people who may never have the opportunity to publicly discuss their own identity are discouraged from exploring queerness in their art. As if exploring queerness through art isn't meaningful and important no matter the public identity of the artist.
Also it is absolutely ridiculous to think that we can deem a work from a country where queerness is illegal less legitimate because the author has not chosen to publicly disclosed their identity. Authors who were forced to hide their names because of government crack downs on queer art have been questioned for not being openly #Ownvoices.
I'm passionate because I have experience with this issue. I was questioned as to whether I could write about trans people, while I had been out as genderfluid in my personal relationships for years. I just didn't think it was a strangers business. If not for pressure from outsiders, I may have had a better experience coming out on my own terms, but some of y'all ruined that for me.
#Ownvoices is useful as a marketing term for the people who want to use it, but it is not the barrier art must cross to be deemed "queer enough".
#Ownvoices is useful as a marketing term for the people who want to use it, but it is not the barrier art must cross to be deemed "queer enough".
Louder for the people in the back
AND YET!
Pope Leo is letting American bishops entirely ban trans healthcare for both minors and adults in all Catholic-owned hospitals and clinics, and stop coverage for trans healthcare through Catholic-affiliated health insurance plans!!
People are having surgeries, for which they were on waitlists for years, suddenly cancelled. Hormones no longer covered, their clinicians no longer able to prescribe them. Considering in some states Catholic-owned healthcare organizations make up to a third of the market, as it were, this is a HUGE issue.
Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawl
This has been happening since November of last year, when this vote took place, but no one is talking about it. The rehabilitation of the image of the papacy through Pope Leo is killing me, it’s still the goddamn Catholic Church. You do not gotta hand it to them.
all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again
Like to charge, reblog to cast.
take me back to 90s Halloween 🎃
Pigeons sketches because I love pigeons so very much ✏️💜
The U.S. Forest Service is shutting down research stations around the country, including centers in Portland, Seattle, and Wenatchee, Washin
When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.
Wait that’s actually really good, gonna pop this out of the tags
"Be cautious about spirits impersonating deities," I said.
"They can be tricky," I said.
WELL
What the FUCK am I supposed to do about GODS impersonating SPIRITS/MINOR FIGURES? Huh??
The first time was Loki masquerading as a character of mine, but this time it's an Irish deity...and he probably got the idea from Loki to do a similar thing.
The bit seems to be, "We're going to be exactly as we are, only we're going to let him think we're someone else so he doesn't associate us with our reputations and can get to know us in a holistic way."
The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez
From Criselda Vasquez's Instagram (3 April 2026):
Hi everyone, Thank you for taking the time to read this. On Tuesday, March 31,… Jorge V needs your support for Help Bring My Father Home
Rainforest things
Artemis II 2026, NASA - Moon and crescent Earth. Being there faaar from the humans just for a very tiny, smally while and missing the spaceship back by one tiny, smally minute, oopsy.
masculine energy this feminine energy that. well i’m out of energy
need me some of this "renewable energy" I keep hearing about
Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!
You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!
If you want it in a simple phrase:
You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.
Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!
the utter ecstasy of “is that lavENDER?” is what sells it for me
a level of appreciation for charcuterie the likes of which has never been seen before
