Antifascist Witch

25 | He/him | Secular Witch ADHD-haver with a sporadic but long-term interest in witchcraft.

[aresstan]

Hot take but you can’t learn about paganism without also learning about white supremacy and how it uses pagan religions to push hate group agendas all over the world today. If you don’t learn about the connections between the two and how it operates, your ignorance enables white supremacists to keep on doing it and using it to recruit others. People in our community who do nothing and stay silent are literally a part of the problem, there is no opting out whatsoever. Divorcing the two makes the issue repeat itself over and over and over again.

It’s not hard to include this in your research and stay aware. It’s the bare minimum.

[rednines]

[mirrix]

#probably not what op is referring to but i keep thinking about those thinkpieces that are like #'straight cis men HATE astrology because they are all obsessed with facts and logic and reason and rationality >:( #meanwhile women are intuitive and spiritual and emotional and have a better grasp on astrology <3' THIS IS TRAD SHIT. THIS IS MISOGYNISTIC #YOU'RE SAYING THE SAME SHIT CONSERVATIVE MISOGYNISTS HAVE SAID ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN FOR CENTURIES AND JUST TACKING ON 'AND WOMEN ARE GOOD'

[s6sh6]

“I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?” - Ursula K. Le Guin

[upthewitchypunx]

My friend is doing some witchcraft research, specifically on container magic (jar spells, etc.) Care to help them out by taking this survey? All answers are anonymous and you would really help them out by participating. Click the link above or scan the code below.

Please share!

[aresstan]

Hot take but you can’t learn about paganism without also learning about white supremacy and how it uses pagan religions to push hate group agendas all over the world today. If you don’t learn about the connections between the two and how it operates, your ignorance enables white supremacists to keep on doing it and using it to recruit others. People in our community who do nothing and stay silent are literally a part of the problem, there is no opting out whatsoever. Divorcing the two makes the issue repeat itself over and over and over again.

It’s not hard to include this in your research and stay aware. It’s the bare minimum.

[creature-wizard]

Whoa there, pardner! What have you done to make sure that belief or practice actually originates in ancient times and didn't come from the imagination of a repressed Victorian romantic?

[creature-wizard]

Whoa there, pardner! What have you done to make sure that belief or practice actually originates in ancient times and didn't come from the imagination of a repressed Victorian romantic?

[windvexer]

I identify mostly/first/primarily as a

Folk practitioner

Witch

Wizard

Mage

Sorcerer

Cunning person

Practitioner

Energy worker

Spirit worker

Other (add in tags!)

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

[friend-crow]

"If you're a witch then why would you do something by mundane means that you could do with a spell instead?"

Because the point is to make life easier, and sometimes the simple mundane solution is easier.

...

Except for when the point is to see what happens and/or have fun doing it, in which case SPELL SPELL SPELL!

[windvexer]

Very early on in my studies I had the pleasure(?) of being in the same group as a very experienced, middle-aged, hereditary witch. One day she went on a bit about how frustrating it was that new witches only turned to magic when times were good - as soon as push came to shove, it was mundane solutions until things got good again.

She hypothesized that perhaps new witches didn't really "believe" in magic, or only used it for fun and games and not a serious problem-solving tool.

My reply was that new witches were exactly doing their best in situations by using their most adept problem-solving tools, all of which are mundane, because those were the skills they had honed for their entire lives.

If someone has been solving X problems with mundane skills for 20 years, and they have just learned magic 6 months ago, which skillset should they turn to in times of crises - mundane, or magical? Most pragmatic people would choose the mundane, given they have 10x the amount of experience in it.

A problem can be solved by a 2-step spell or a 5-step course of mundane action, and for people who are adept at mundanity, the 5-step course of action can still be the easiest.

"If you're a witch then why would you do something by mundane means that you could do with a spell instead?"

might as well be asking

"how can you claim you're a witch if you don't have infinite patience, energy, research time, safety nets, and spoons to always use spellwork even when munanity is safer, faster and easier?"

[creature-wizard]

Believing in Atlantis isn't harmless. It's one of the first steps on the New Age to Alt Right pipeline.

[crazycatsiren]

Wait...

There are actually people out there saying Christmas trees are Wiccan.

And there are actually people out there who believe them.

Jesus Christ...

[hiswitchcraft]

Someone on tiktok recently said to me that warlock was especially used to refer to Wiccans who betrayed their coven but isn’t used in this century anymore. So I said Wicca hasn’t been around for centuries how could that be? Then someone else came in and said that “some people still do Wicca” and that it is an “ancient closed religion made around the time of the vikings.” They were definitely buying the whole Wicca is a special ancient religion thing, and there are definitely still people online peddling the idea. 

[tieras]

Dear ND magickal people. So how do you incorporate your interests in to your magic? Not just the overt "everyone knows I like XYZ so it's easy to see."

My Example: story telling is a huge part of human development and human culture. You can start a ritual with "Once upon a time, " and be INSTANTLY in the right headspace and energy space faster than calling quarters

[cryptotheism]

As tumblrs resident archmage, I'm deciding that if you want to get into witchcraft, magic, and or the occult, you must be anti-conspiracist. It is your ethical duty to cultivate a garden of conspiracy education so you can spot it in the wild and kill it as fast as possible.

Here, have the first episode of the Behind the Bastards on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the OG conspiracy theory.

[omegazoroarchive]

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[cryptotheism]

For all our talk of education and antiracism, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that this magic shit should be fun and enjoyable for everyone involved. Make some candles, chant a bit. It's fun. You should have fun. It should enrich your life.

[spiralhouseshop]

We will be vending at

Columbia-Willamette Pagan Pride September 18, 2022 10am-5PM

Oaks Amusement Park

Check out www.owow.org for more info on rituals and workshops!

[upthewitchypunx]

Do! If any of you wanna stop by and say hi, or hide in our tent because it can be overwhelming to be around so many people, or stash a bag or something under our table, we're cool with that.

[antiqueanimals]

Franz Stassen (1869-1949)

via

[ragveld]