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Zeus and Semele when Semele looked upon Zeus’s true and divine form by Gustav Moreau 1896 absolutely terrifying and beautiful at the same time

bigandlong

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

jae-felidae

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

servantofthefates

The best tarot readers treat each card as a friend.

That’s why they never blank. How would they? They know every card’s personality by heart.

That’s why they’re not afraid of bad cards. Why would they be? Friends don’t harm friends.

That’s why they respect their decks. Because respect is a requirement in friendship.

That’s why they don’t read for people they hate. Your enemies are your friends' enemies too.

And that’s why they know tarot is not just for divination. True friends are always there for you, aren’t they?

stormbornwitch

"Let your craft be like a tree, firmly rooted in the old, but stretching into the new. Get your hands dirty, and find out what works and what doesn't work for you."

- Roger J Horne's Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land & the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner

theconstitutionisgayculture

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR WINDOWS 10 USERS

So, official support for Windows 10 ends on October 14th 2025. But Microsoft apparently lost a court case and now they have to offer an extra year of security updates--which was an option previously only available to their Business customers--to everyone. But you have to manually enroll. If you want to know how to do it, go to the link below

As the end of official support for Windows 10 approaches on October 14, 2025, many users are seeking ways to maintain their system's securit

You've got to do it before October 14th if you want the extra year. Otherwise support will end for you and you'll probably have to "upgrade" to Windows 11.

patheticperipatetic

Click on this in your Windows Update settings screen (more detailed instructions in the link above)

No extra cost! :3

imissthembutitwasntadisaster

fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

imissthembutitwasntadisaster

you bring oil for the gate and food for the dog and clean out the oven and bake bread in it and the oven will hide you and the dog will not betray you and the gate will stay open for you and close on your pursuers, to be clever is just to know that if you are good in a world made of rules, goodness will be returned to you.

tokoweka

In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness —from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis.

— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

giada-rose

Cailleach, from The Folklore Oracle

buriedpentacles

Magpie Spirit Helpers

Last night, on the hour and day of Jupiter I summoned/formed two magpie spirits to fetch wealth and opportunities for me - just as their living counterparts may do with coins and shiny trinkets.

I really focused in on my energy work and visualisation skills - imagining myself literally moulding them from beak to tail out of energy.

They have names (which I will not share), as well as a small nest of offerings (reminiscent of a money bowl) to return to, where their physical 'vessels' reside. Here, I can place specific goals/desires for them to find me if needed.

They are a fire and air based energy to help ensure quicker results and also because a number of ingredients used were active/warm and I wanted the spell components to meld smoothly. This will mean they might need recharging a bit more often, but I'm happy to take that trade-off for what they'll provide.

I have their candles lit now - last night was their creation, and now I am giving them some extra energy as they set off into the world - and I am excited to see how they fare/how this pans out as it's a little bit different from my usual workings.

Of course, I drew them.

eldritchbauble

You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. "Hedonism" is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radial rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.

eldritchbauble

I am so serious about the way people are taught to view themselves as separate from and above any other animal being the root cause of a lot of problems. You're not better than a beast.

eldritchbauble

This post has really made the rounds so I have to say - this mentality changed me overnight. I had this realization that all of the fumbling over self love I did for years just needed... this. Once I internalized that I'm just a creature, it got so much easier to take care of myself.

I've started treating myself like I would a dog that's going to chew through the house when it's bored. I walk myself. I seek activities that make my brain feel less like depressed sludge. I ask my body what it needs; I rest, I enjoy rest. I don't see it as a waste or unproductive. I see it as allowing my body to do its job of working better. I lean into appreciating my natural features. I'm a hunk of flesh. I can be ugly. I can decide that ugly is appealing. I can not care. Whatever. I started emphasizing little things that nourish my relationship(s), shelving distractions more, so I can relish the time I have with loved ones. I specifically pursue pleasure--dopamine--not just quick hits from scrolling social media but getting off my ass. Engaging. Cooking myself nice meals and making fucking art, man. Things that make my spirit feel more alive than I have for years. I ask myself what it is I want rather than only doing what I'm supposed to be doing. And it doesn't mean shirk every responsibility, it means recognizing you're one of your fucking responsibilities. It's reordering. I realized I'm going to die happy or unhappy and either way I'm just as dead in a given amount of years, and I choose to die happy and fulfilled.

Everything else can get fucked ad infinitum.

Call me a hedonist, I'm saving my own life.

dark-augustine

Holy shit

pretty-weird-witch

There are three main reasons I wouldn’t use AI in witchcraft

1. By using most AI’s, you are effectively stealing other peoples art, words and thought processes. These are things I don’t want for my craft or my karmic credit.

2. AI is using up natural resources at alarming rates. Wichtes beware: even if you are a technology or digital witch, exploiting and destroying the planet shouldn’t be things you do lightly. There are more resource efficient ways to structure your practice.

3. We all know who makes money on AI and it’s not the good guys. It’s people who destroy our plant in other ways right now. The one’s who quite literally would love to see most of us dead or financially and intellectually enslaved, which kind of brings me to a next point:

3b These are the exact people who relish in the fact that using AI literally makes us dumber, less creative and dependent on them! They weaken our spirits as we talk! There’s studies on this you are welcome to look up for yourself! If witches don’t use our own (critical) thinking skills, who will?

So both within my practice and my regular life, I don’t use AI unless I have to. As a witch, I am aware of my surroundings and the effects of my doing. I inform myself on the consequences certain tools might have before using them. I don’t follow trends lightly.

I also believe in Karma, spiritual justice or whatever you might call it. Looking back at my arguments above, I don’t think using AI will do me or you any good.

So here’s my advice instead: next time you find your (possibly already addicted) brain leading you to an AI, pause a minute, take a breath and then ask your friends or witchcraft bloggers instead. Commission an artist.

There are plenty of people out there doing art or giving out spells for free for the Gods sake. Strengthen community, strengthen your own spirit and skills.

Or use your funny billionaire funded and funding creativity extermination machine and see where it gets you - and all of us.

The discourse I’ve seen on using AI has kind of been luke-warm, so I wanted to add my thoughts. Is there nuance? There always is. That doesn’t mean it’s right, guys, come on. We live in times of war and resource extraction, but not all is lost. Don’t give up your agencies, take responsibility for your actions! Only because you don’t see an AI controlled robot giving cash to Musky Man or pushing children into Kobalt mines doesn’t mean it isn’t effectively happening!

servantofthefates

Your Sun is your heart and soul.

Your Rising is your power supply.

Your Moon is your bone structure.

Your Mercury is your native tongue.

Your Venus is your love language.

Your Mars is your weapon of choice.

Your Jupiter is your source of luck.

Your Saturn is your greatest lesson.

Your Uranus is your life purpose.

Your Neptune is your box of miracles.

Your Pluto is how you win in life.

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ferrousferrule

For those of you who dont get to see fireflies. Yes they are real and yes they are gentle

kick-a-long

Fuck. I can’t believe how much I needed to see something sweet and beautiful and needless right this very moment.

Thank you. I’ll try to get it to more people in need.

hekateanwitchcraft

Happy Mounykhia! Praise the goddess Artemis, bright-shining mistress of beasts! May She defend the sacred and grant us victory in all our struggles 🌙🦌

nightmare-from-heaven

Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.

Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.

starsdreaming

This explains so much.

Also, if you don't take the time regularly, your brain will do it for you. Usually when you're already stressed and it gets to be too much. You will zone out. And you can not control it. So regular maintenance will help

the-black-rose-witch

Keep that AI shit out of witchcraft.

hagoftheholler

Something I feel like people getting into folk magic need to understand, for many people of many backgrounds, is folk magic started as a means of survival. It was struggle magic, and it is still struggle magic.

Where I'm living now and where I'm from, people planted by the signs to ensure their crops wouldn't go bad before harvesting. People used ocean water to soothe joint and muscle pains when they got old. People studied the native plants for medicine and were mindful to only take what was needed. People did little rituals and minded their grannies' words to keep their good luck. If they didn't know how to do something (or couldn't), they went to people who did.

Learning folk magic to reconnect with ancestral traditions from before your time is valid. Learning folk magic to connect with and work with the land is valid. There are many valid reasons to take up folk magic. Still, understand that folk magic is survival, and folk magic is community.