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Nik / 18 / Live Peacefully While You Still Can, The Rage Will Find Its Place / #WitchesAgainstWhiteSupremacy #ACAB

[autisitcwizard]

Made a new patch for my bag today based on the Snaptun stone that depicts Loki! I’m still not done stitching it on but I’m really happy with how it came out.

Supplies!: When I make patches I always use a really old “Liquid paper” correction pen that my dad has had since like the 90’s, and then I clean up the design with a fine point sharpie marker. I usually just stitch with dental floss. The patch material itself is just old stretchy black denim from a pair of pants I don’t wear anymore :3!

(And yes, the patch above it is a stranger things 4 patch I made as well lol)

[killer-mistletoe]

Tbh I think of Loki as more of a nonconformist than an outcast. The thing is, though, that a lot of nonconformists are outcasts. I feel like when I read The Eddas Snorri maybe felt that Loki was somewhat of an outcast, too. But I still don’t think being an outcast or a nonconformist is a bad thing, though.

I think Nazis realized that being an outcast has negative connotations and that nonconformity is sort of taboo and used those things to convince people that Loki is evil. But I don’t think that Nazis were the first people to see Loki as an outcast.

And I think that even if Loki is an outcast among the Aesir that doesn’t mean the Aesir are evil.

I get the feeling that Ragnarok is one of those things Loki and Odin agree to never talk about because they’re best friends and love each other. But they’re both immature and petty, so it always gets brought whenever one of them gets too pissed off or does something the other hates.

[aqua-regia009]

Hüseyin Özçelik

[hiddenhearthwitch]

☕🌿Coffee Magic🌿☕

☕Flavors + Correspondences☕

Almond(milk): mental clarity + fortitude, luck, abundance, healing + good health

Amaretto: opening the mind, warding against negativity, creativity, luck

Blueberry: aids in memory + mental clarity, calmness, youth + glamour magic, restoration, aura cleansing + strengthening

Caramel: aids in changes + transformations, soothing quality to spells, good in Fae magic, increases tenacity

Chestnut: warding + protection, prosperity, longevity + increase stamina

Chocolate: self love + nurturing energy, ancestral magic, grounding, love + sexual prowess

Cinnamon: spiritual + personal power, healing, success, lust, luck, prosperity, strength

Clove: protection, actualization of desires, banishing negative + hostile forces

Coffee: inspire creativity, clear emotional + spiritual blockages, dispel nightmares, fortitude + increased stamina, encourage diligence

Coconut Milk: confidence + aid in glamour magic, strength, beauty, love

Cow milk: nurturing, fertility + prosperity, protection, abundance, aid in motherhood

Hazelnut: self-love and compassion, inspiration, creativity, wisdom + insight

Honey: happiness, offerings + Fae magic, sweetness, love, prosperity, healing, passion, spirituality

Irish Cream: dreams + intuition enhancer, prosperity, growth, aid in change

Peanut(butter): stability, aid in manifestation + intuition, attraction, energy

Pecan: spiritual purification + protection, abundance + prosperity

Peppermint: healing, purification, psychic powers + transformation, sleep, prosperity, passion

Pumpkin: wishes + dream fulfillment, protection + guarding, prosperity, magic enhancer, love

Oat(milk): tradition + ancestral work, health, stability + fortitude, beauty + youth, comfort, home magic, healing

Raspberry: invoking fertility or love, kindness + compassion, desire fulfilment, creativity, libido + sex magic

Sugar: used to amplify spells, sweetness + love, attraction, comfort, Fae magic

Soy milk: success + strength, growth, healing

Toffee: playfulness + youthfulness, friendship, easing transitions, courage + strength

Vanilla (creamer or vanilla extract): love, release of stress + anxiety, success, vitality + healing

🔮Bonus Magic Tips🔮

Pick ingredients for your coffee that align with your ambitions for the day.

It can be used as an offering to deities, spirits, ancestors, etc.(e.g. for Sif I sweeten the coffee with oat milk + honey but for Hel I leave the coffee black for an offering)

Consider the way you stir! Counterclockwise banishes and repels negativity, clockwise invites + brings energy to you.

Stain pages for you journal, spell work, or book of shadows! You can also use a strong brewed coffee and a paint brush to paint sigils onto the pages! .

See the full post + bonus recipe at the hidden hearth patreon.

References: The Herbal Alchemist’s Handbook by Karen Harrison

**Disclaimer: a lot of the nut and milk correspondences are personal + intuitive**

[othelo]

“Her tarot readings were reputed to be so accurate that several of her friends nervously refused to let her tell them their fortunes. After the family moved to Vermont in 1945, she never had fewer than six cats at a time. A friend of her elder daughter recalled a dinner when a grey cat jumped on Shirley’s shoulder and seemed to whisper in her ear, at which point she announced that the cat had told her a poem - which she then repeated. Joanne reported another light side to her witchcraft. She kept all the small kitchen tools crammed in one drawer. When she wanted one, she would slam the drawer shut, call out the desired utensil’s name, and open the drawer. According to Joanne, it would always be on top.”

— on Shirley Jackson, from Ladies Laughing: Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers by Barbara Levy (via lotstradamus)

[incorrectedda]

Freyja: You're not a woman until you get blood on all your favourite pants.

Loki: What about trans women?

Freyja: I never said it had to be your own.

[ksanzo]

"Dandelion King", circa 2021 Kaj EK Happy New Year All! As is tradition, I did a Loki Kintsugi illustration to ring in the new year! No matter how hard the previous year was, we are better for the experiences we've had and more resilient. This illustration is up for Pre-Order as a 4x6 gold foil print on black paper. :> Prints will deliver at end of March 2022 at the latest. You can grab a pre-order and a host of new stickers over at my Etsy http://www.biolumenpress.com/

[ohyeah]

Reblog this to prove your blog was made before the February 2022 tumblr resurgence

[dectech]

i am terrified about what apollo may do with this post

[normalhumanperson]

[ergiinmiddleearth]

Damn near since we apes got stoned we've been telling stories about the gods and everything. Stories build community, provide catharsis, and so many other things vital. "Fanfiction" is not a lesser form of it.

If you are working on a story about the Norse pantheon, my inboxes are open for questions/resource reqs 💖.

[tumakhunter]

No, fanfiction is not a lesser form of storytelling. I agree there. However, I don't think I can agree that the Eddas qualify as fanfiction, because in order for fanfiction of something to exist, there must first be a canon version of that thing. A single, official form of that story.

While the Eddas are obviously transcriptions of one version or another of what had originated as oral storytelling, they do not have root in any single canon version of any of those tales, simply by the very nature of the medium. Arguably, because they've been written down and kept over the centuries, they've become the canon from which other works would then be fanfiction.

[lokis-bookish-boy-deactivated20]

Freddie Mercury was Loki incarnate, and I am willing to die on this hill.

[colossalfauna-moved-deactivated]

y'all will circlejerk yourself to the mysticisms of faeries and elves in european countries for centuries and take it as fact but the second native americans ask you to respect our spirituality and culture suddenly you’re all aetheists

[colossalfauna-moved-deactivated]

non natives can, should, and will reblog this.

[chamomile-bruxawitch]

same goes for african rooted religions.

[ladykalila]

goes without saying, but also Asian and Pacific Islands’ indigenous spiritualities and religions.

[pinewhisky]

if I'm not allowed to use runes because of the scum of the earth trying to appropriate them, stop using crosses.

[roadmotel]

Danez Smith, “I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense”

[earthandseaprovideformyhearth]

The Gods Today: Loki

Next installment of reflections on the Norse Gods in the modern world inspired by @tricksterinthehedges

The easiest rule to remember when looking for Loki is that if there are children or those ostracized he’s not far behind. The hardest rule to remember when looking for Loki is that he refuses to be boxed into predictable patterns that aren’t his own making.

Loki can be found living on the streets with those abandoned, shunned, and forgotten. They’ve been lost to the world and are beginning to lose themselves. They’re all on the streets for an array of reasons, but it all comes down to being viewed as inhuman to others. They are LGBTQ+ kids kicked out of their home and disowned by family. They are the mentally and physically disabled - some born and others created from wars - that the world has determine do not offer a valuable place in society. They have been left to rot.

He scavenges alongside them, bracing the fierce uncaring of the world. He sits on street corners in the high heat of summer, fighting sunstroke and heat exhaustion. He curls up under bridges and in alleys during the low chill of winter, fighting frostbite and gnawing hunger. Sometimes he fills a truck full of food, water, clothes, and toiletries. He’s stuffed the necessities in hiking backpacks that he hands out to everyone he sees. He returns the spit and hatred sent their way. He protests for them. He fights in the government, demanding funding for shelters, demanding respect, demanding that they be seen as the victims of the society around them assigning a low value to their existence and NOT their intrinsic worth.

For young men of color, he walks the streets with them. Keeping their mind sharp and tongue quick. They shouldn’t need it, but they do. He’s seen one too many cops charge forward bull-headed, believing the man in front of him is a savage beast that poses a threat. Fire licks his skin as he once again has to help a child resort to smooth talking and keeping to the shadows to simply survive in his neighborhood from those meant to protect him.

Lawyers like to think he’s on their side. But in truth, he likes working against them. Tripping them up, throwing curveballs, testing their wit, humbling their god-complex. He knows manipulation of truth; it is his craft. But something rubs him the wrong way about humans using it to obstruct rather than elucidate. Though, he has seen Legally Blonde, and he thinks that if more were like Elle Woods and Emmett he would happily be their patron.

Loki’s a favored substitute teacher. The classroom rules that enforce organization are scrapped. Chaos reigns. More than a few teachers passing in the hall have expressed worry and skepticism about his efficiency and efficacy. He laughs and waves a hand. “Kids learn in chaos and experience.” It’s how they make sense of the world. It’s how they learn to survive, to create, to thrive. All required assignments are always done in record time, and then more is accomplished. Perhaps they spent the day dissecting the field mouse someone found a recess, but they made more connections to the inner workings of the world than they had before. Students walk away with wild tales of what they learned - in truth most of them are new ways to prank siblings, parents, and other such pesky figures of authority. Some seemingly throwaway comment he made in passing returns to them 15 years later in life and helps them make sense of the swirling storm of adulthood and the world. More than a couple of his young students have gone on to become teachers in their own right who respect the chaos and creation of the learning experience.

He’s the bane of college students’ existence, though. He exists as the one professor you want to strangle because he refuses to give you a straight answer. He pokes. He prods. He flips the question back on you. He argues any side with ease. He is fond of being deemed “The Devil’s Advocate” because it means he’s got you engaged and thinking. His students struggle to get his approval. They struggle to see his way. But that’s the thing. He doesn’t have one way to see something. He sees through, around, above, and under. He pushes you to do the same.

At the end of the day, he knows all destruction and upheavel he’s accomplished has to be done. It’s the natural order and makes way for creation. He is the raging forest and brush fires from both natural and man-made causes. Everyone happily gives him blame and credit for those, but they fail to still find him in the smoldering ashes rejuvenating the soil, letting the new generation take root in fertile soil. They fail to still find him in the raging social action that sweeps through local government to ensure protections and preventions against such devastation happening again. They see seem him in the natural disasters and fall-out, but fail to see him helping with the construction of the foundations for a new city with higher dreams as they work to overcome and build on this pain. They fail to see him in the innovation that follows.

He spends time with his daughter in children’s hospitals, watching them fight for life against their body’s self-destruction. He sees his children in them. He sees the pain and anguish and strength in the face death. He works to bring laughter and joy, however momentary it is. He doesn’t leave until he’s visited every child and brought a smile to each face.

He spends time in the prisons and jails. He volunteers to teach classes. He keeps addicts honest. Sometimes he becomes a probation officer and the odd counselor. More than once he’s gotten in trouble for questionable methods, but he gets results. He forces people to address the darkest parts of themselves. They embrace or run away. They give in or strive against. Whichever they chose, he doesn’t necessarily care either way. He just cares that they know and acknowledge it. Things still fall apart in the darkness. It’s best to shine a light on them and be aware of where the breaks and holes are. Frequently, it’s those on the outside of the bars who need this lesson more.

He wanders with those lost in the wilds, those who hiked too far or whose car broke down. He keeps them vigilant and aware of the threats surrounding them. He inspires their resourcefulness. This is new terrain. This is wild terrain. Civility won’t bring survival. He encourages the animalistic instincts to come out.

He helps people fight for what they want.

He helps acceptance of selfishness. Sometimes it’s what you need to survive. Sometimes you need it to live. Sometimes it’s just fun.

The only constant he has is with one-to-one relationships. He never presents or acts just the same to two people. But he’ll stay true to who he is to you. He’s fluid, but always who he is. The moon goes through phases but is still the moon. Elements change states of matter but still remain as their element, such as water to ice to vapor. No one has managed to catch his core self, but it settles in the center of his bones and thrums in his veins. Many have ideas. Many have found commonalities. Many believe they do, but they are too quick to judge and pick and choose and force the pieces. Sometimes you may catch a glimpse flicker in his eye; an ember of the doused fire inside.

Angrboda accepts his core, but has never quite understood it. She’s been known to turn a blind eye to the extent of his creative powers. Sigyn loves and understands his changing nature and his part of bringing rebirth through death, but every now and then a haze crosses his eyes, the corner of his lips crinkles, and a new dynamic she has never witness comes through. She has found that to understand she must know that he’ll never be stagnant.

But, when the world sleeps and monsters prowl, he takes time to be still. He watches the stars turn in the sky around him. He listens to the wind curl and embrace the world; it stops to say hi and play with his hair for a moment, offering a caress before it carries on. He feels the earth thrum underneath his soles and thinks on the future he is fated to live. He’s never cared for predictability, and if they think it will end the way they say, they clearly have never met him. He vows as the night fades to mingle with day that he will take charge of himself. That’s what he centers around.

[lokeansuz]

Small Devotional Acts to Loki

Bake spiced sweets like this bread or these cookies.

Give without expecting anything in return.

Share laughter with loved ones.

Light a candle in His honor.

Be kind to those who are outcasted.

Share a cup of chai tea.

Wear a piece of jewlery that reminds you of Him.

Watch a fiery sunset.

Be unforgivingly yourself.

Doodle.

Embrace the chaos in your life.

Spend time with those close to you.

Burn incense. 

Fight against social norms and your right to be you.

Make a playlist that makes you smile.

Draw Him.

Take time to get to know who you are.

Create meaningful sigils.

Spend time talking to Him.

Make amends with those you have hurt.

Learn to weather change.

Cook a meal He would like and share it with Him.

Listen to others.

Walk in the Summer heat.

Write to Him.

Build a fire and admire the glow of embers.

Don’t let people bring you down.

Keep going when it feels as though you can’t.

Collect small toys to keep on His altar.

Take care of yourself.

Use oils like cinnamon or clove in a diffuser.

Do anything that makes you feel free and lost in the moment.

Hoard jokes and puns that amuse you.

Smile.

Remember, there are so many ways to worship Loki. He’s a God of chaos and change. Do what makes you feel right. 

(Inspired by @heatherwitch‘s small devotional acts posts.)

[crystals-andstones]

Reblog if you're a Witch with a mental illness

I wanna see that there are others out there like me who struggle with a mental illness and also practise 🔮📿🕯

I wanna know I’m not alone and show you that you’re not alone too! 💞💜

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Norse mythology fails to convey the sense of terror that must have hung over Asgard every time Loki was gone for longer than eight months and three weeks

[langernameohnebedeutung]

#okay but imagine the betting pool#is it gonna be half undead?#horse with too many legs?#a giant fuck off snake?#who knows! ( @much-ado-about-mothing​)

Loki, holding up the newest baby Lion King-style: IT’S!!!!! A WOLF!!!”

underneath the rock: *dozens of creatures from all over Nine Realms muttering quietly, exchanging money*

[blujayonthewing]

#you fools  #wolves gestate for only 2-3 months #and horses can be pregnant for over a year! #there is no period of time that they can relax for #literally any time he’s out of their immediate supervision #he might be coming back with another harbinger of ragnarok #bundled up in nappies [X]