Don't Touch That Dial

She/They. Miscellany and Mayhem.

[lunasong365]

Blessing for the Longest Night

All throughout these months as the shadows have lengthened, this blessing has been gathering itself, making ready, preparing for this night.

It has practiced walking in the dark, traveling with its eyes closed, feeling its way by memory by touch by the pull of the moon even as it wanes.

So believe me when I tell you this blessing will reach you even if you have not light enough to read it; it will find you even though you cannot see it coming.

You will know the moment of its arriving by your release of the breath you have held so long; a loosening of the clenching in your hands, of the clutch around your heart; a thinning of the darkness that had drawn itself around you.

This blessing does not mean to take the night away but it knows its hidden roads, knows the resting spots along the path, knows what it means to travel in the company of a friend.

So when this blessing comes, take its hand. Get up. Set out on the road you cannot see.

This is the night when you can trust that any direction you go, you will be walking toward the dawn.

—Jan Richardson from The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief

[stormy-night-stories]

This made me feel at peace.

[upthewitchypunx]

PBW Witch Shop & Zine Distro

The PBW Witch Shop is a curated selection of witchcraft and magic related zines, books, pin-back buttons, tarot cards and more.

We focus on traditional and folkloric witchcraft, animism, chaos magic, secular witchcraft, magical herbs and plants, queer witchcraft, tarot & Divination, witchcraft & magic in politics, history, culture, and social & racial justice,  and aspects of non-Wiccan forms of witchcraft, magic, and paganism.

Pre-Covid the Portland Button Works primarily made custom pinback button. Selling zines and books was secondary and more of a hobby for me to share things I’d like to read. Right now our business is pivoting to focus on books and zines that people can read in the comfort and safety of their own homes. Some items are from well known witchcraft and occult publisher and some are titles from small publishers with interesting items I don’t see in other shops but I’m excited to elevate.

Not everyone has income to buy books right now, we totally understand that, but I would love it if you were able to reblog this post or share Portland Button Works and PBW Witch Shop with your friends.

If you have been looking for a book about something specific, or if you think something would be a good fit for our catalog, get in touch. We can order almost any book in print, even if it isn’t witchcraft or magic related.

With that being said, here are some categories of items we carry:

Some good books to get you started studying witchcraft:

Grovedaughter Witchery by Bree NicGarran

Making Magic by Briana Saussy

Magical Power for Beginners- How to Raise & Send Energy for Spells That Work by Deborah Lipp

Weave The Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Some creative books to help build your witch craft practice:

Spellcrafting- Strengthen the Power of your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

D.I.Y. Magic -a Strange & Whimsical Guide to Creativity by Anthony Alvarado

Psychic Witch- a Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick, & Manifestation by Mat Auryn

Urban Magick by Diana Rajchel

Standing and Not Falling - a Sorcerous Primer in Thirteen Moons by Lee Morgan

Tarot Books

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Tarot for Troubled Times by Shaheen Miro & Theresa Reed

Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea

Tarot Decks

Next World Tarot (regular and pocket sized)

Science Tarot

Rider-Waite-Coleman Smith Regular sized and Mini sized

Crow Tarot

Modern Witch Tarot

Cat Tarot

Check out the tarot and divination books in our catalog and also check out tarot and divination decks in our catalog here.

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman

Chaos Protocols by Gordon White

Hands on Chaos Magic by Andrieh Vitimus 

Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter Carroll

Other books in the Chaos Magic section

Anthologies: Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels, Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community, Shades of Ritual: Minority Voices in Practice

Magical Resistance: Witchcraft Activism by David Salisbury, Magic for the Resistance by Michael Hughes, Revolutionary Witchcraft by Sarah Lyons

Witches and Feminist Perspectives: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, Witches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English , Witches Sluts Feminists by Kristen J. Sollee

Pagan Anti-Capitalism: Pagan Anarchism True to the Earth: Pagain Political Thology by Kadmus, All That is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Ryhd Wildermuth, A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer

Queer Witchcraft: Witchcraft and the Gay Counter Culture, Sapphomanteion a Lesbian Oracle, Queering the Tarot

Check out the Witchcraft Culture and History and Witchcraft Politics and Resistance sections of our website.

Green Witchcraft: The Green Witch by Arin Murray-Hiscock, Green Witchcraft by Paige Vanderbeck

Plants and Herbs: Under the Witching Tree by Corinne Boyer, Under the Bramble Arch by Corinne Boyer

The Poison Path: Veneficuim: Magic, Witchcraft and the Poison Path by Daniel Schulke, Pharmo/Gnonsis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path by Dale Pendell , Plants of the Devil by Corinne Boyer

Witchy Crafts: Pestlework: a Book of Magical Powders and Oils by Bree NicGarran, Sew Witchy by Rachel Henderson, Sigil Witchery by Lara Tempest Zakroff

Other books in our Plants, Herbs, and Magical Crafts section

Books on Atheopaganism

Godless Paganism (anthology)

Atheopaganism by Mark Green

Other Pagan Perspectives

Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality by Lasara Firefix Allen

The Wakeful World: Anismism, Mind, and the Self in Nature by Emma Restall Orr

Circling the Star by Anthony Rella

All That Is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Rhyd Wildermuth

All Other Pagan books

Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways by Gemma Gary

A Deed Without A Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft by Lee Morgan

Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft by Keldon

Backwoods Witchcraft by Jake Richards

Besom Stand and Sword A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft the Six-Fold Path the Hidden Landscape by Christopher Orapello & Tara Love Maguire

Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South by Aaron Oberon

Folk Witchcraft by

The Flame in the Cauldron by Orion Foxwood

Craft of the Untamed by Roger Horne

Check out the rest of the books in our Traditional & Folkloric Witchcraft Section

What are zines? Small independently made magazine and pamphlets filled with stories and unique ideas that you won’t find from major publishers!

Some topics you will find in zines we carry are Secular Witchcraft, the fantastic Fiddler’s Green Pamphlets and lots of zine on the places where Politics, Paganism, and Witchcraft intersect.

Check out all of our witchy zines here.

Other Stuff

witchy buttons

 magnets and hand mirrors

We carry more than just witchy books.

Here are some of the other titles we carry:

You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas

When Language Runs Dry: An Anthology for People with Chronic Pain and their Allies

What is Gender Nihilism?

Be Gay Do Crime by The Mary Nardini Gang

Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher

You Black Friend by Ben Passmore

Learning Good Consent an Anthology edited by Cindy Crabb

How To Talk To Your Cat about Gun Safety and Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism and Other Dangers that Threaten Their Nine Lives

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Honoring your Ancestors by Mallorie Vaudoise

Do-it-Your Self Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfucking Sad by Adam Gnade

Yes, I’m Flagging: Queer Flagging 101 by Archie Bongiovanni

Full online catalog of books, zines, buttons and more can be found at PortlandButtonWorks.com and the PBW Witch Shop can be found here.

All items are shipped from Portland, Oregon in plain packaging or United States Postal Service Flat Rate envelopes or boxes with the return address as Portland Button Works. We ship daily and most order come with small fun gifts of buttons or magnets.

Thank you so much for supporting your local witch!

[upthewitchypunx]

The Living Altar - an oracle and spell deck for the radical witch

Witches, Witch-hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici

Grimoire Journal by Paige Vanderbeck

Art of War by Sun Tzu

Memento Mori: A Collection of Magickal and Mythological Perspectives on Death, Dying, Mortality & Beyond

[upthewitchypunx]

A Practical Guide For Witches by Ylvadroma Marzanna Radziszewski  (This is my new go-to  recommendation for new witches)

The Herbcrafter’s Tarot

The Celestial Art: Essays on Astrological Magic (anthology)

[upthewitchypunx]

New This week! 2 September 2020

Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand for Magic, Manifestation, & Ritual by Lisa Marie Basile

54 Devil: The Art and Folklore of Fortune-telling with Playing Cards by Corey hutcheson

Five Principles of Green Witchcraft by Asa West

Murder of Crows Tarot deck

Architecture/ Astrology By Dan Graham and Jessica Russell

[upthewitchypunx]

Light Magic for Dark Times by Lisa Marie Basile

Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft by Dale Pendell

Enchantments by Mya Spalter

Slingshot 2021 Organizer in Small pocket sized and larger spiral bound

Notes: I know a lot of the Troy Books are currently out of stock because I can’t currently get them from the big book distributor. However! I’ve set up an account directly with their US distributor and should have them back in my next round of orders. I’m also out of a lot of the Three Hands Press books for the same reason and inquiring directly with them about how to remedy this.

Super stoked to FINALLY have the Modern Witch Tarot back in stock.

[traegorn]

Easy Everyday Witch Tips!

Hey y'all, I know that it’s sometimes hard to keep witchcraft in your daily life, so I thought I’d put together a helpful list of tips which can help you connect with your craft every day.

Infuse your tea with herbs with magic(k)al properties. It’s a simple way to add magic(k) to your day.

Journal about your experiences. As you reflect you may find ways you connected with your magic(k) you didn’t initially notice until you write it down it later.

Take a moment to look at the stars at night. Stargazing can help connect you to the universe.

Engage with your cat and/or dog if you have one. Animals have a natural connection to the spirit world, and engaging with your pets can improve your own connection.

Go back outside and look at those stars again. Don’t you see, they’re calling to you.

Try to make meditation part of your regular routine if you can. While it doesn’t work for everyone, it can help you feel more connected and grounded. It can also help silence the ache that has clawed at you from before the dawn of time.

Add some herbs to your food! Herbal magic(k) is not only powerful but tasty too!

Go back outside again, and focus on the inky blackness of space. Climb up to the nearest roof, open your mouth, and let loose a primal scream in a voice that you don’t recognize… that echoes deep in the parts of your soul you had long forgotten in a different life. A life that existed before the universe was born.

If you use tarot cards, bring them out! Practice makes perfect, and it can improve your connection with your cards.

Unfurl your blackened wings. Take flight and begin the dance that harkens the coming of the death bringer, Xi'HWYTH'iL. Open one of your many mouths and let the call that beckons the great beast escape your lips.

Maybe take up yoga? I heard it can be fun!

[zootycoon-archive]

want a shirt that says YOU SHOULD FEEL VISCERALLY VIOLATED BY THE UNSTOPPABLE CORPORATE ENCROACHMENTS ON YOUR ATTENTION SPAN, BY THE FACT THAT YOU STARTLE LIKE A TRAINED ANIMAL AT EVERY NOTIFICATION, BOTH OVERSTIMULATED AND BORED, LETHARGIC AND JUMPY, WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIT OF VALIDATION WITH THE SAME SICKLY EXCITEMENT AND FEAR AS A GAMBLER AT THE TABLE

[asexualgeorgecostanza-deactivat]

i want a shirt that says “monkey time” lol. and has a funny ape on it

[zootycoon-archive]

that aounds awesome i want that too

[storybookprincess]

suddenly remembered this poem as i was making breakfast this morning & frantically googled “poem remembered to buy eggs?????????” & somehow managed to find it & it utterly knocked the wind out of me just as much as when i first read it

[fillernameforblogiwontuse]

atla + matt adrian’s troubled birds

part 2

[kurisu-arch]

zuko passing by your blog, looking for his honor  guide him 

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[shanerozanov]

COVID-19 + It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

[valdotpng]

all of us right now

[keybladesoras]

Happy International Women’s Day!

[normal-horoscopes]

Normal Horoscope:

Aries: would you trust you do do that? What’s the biggest trust you would trust you to do? Start there minus 20% trust-mass and do 3 sets of 8 reps.

Taurus: Keep a notebook by your bed, even if you don’t write. Come morning it will hold some magestic dribble from your own subconscious.

Gemini: The best apples are at the top back but who has that kind of time? People making a pie. That’s who. Know when you are making a pie.

Cancer: Life is short, aim carefully. People aren’t perfect, use explosives.

Leo: Interesting people with insufferable opinions always know how to use a semicolon correctly. Grammar is for people with nothing to say.

Virgo: The star responsible for your horoscope tonight was temporarily lost in an Ikea and too tired from all the excitement that followed. Check in tomorrow when they are rested.

Libra: You are a light in the dark. Finally those home bioluminescence experiments were good for something.

Scorpio: Throw off suspicion by wiggling your eyebrows dramatically. Nobody in trouble ever pulls shit like that.

Ophiuchus: Adrenaline is truly a double edged sword. Responsible for bursts of heroic strength as well as flop sweat. Everyone knew someone like adrenaline.

Sagittarius: Support your community with large stilts. Get to it buddy you heard the stars.

Capricorn: Make an impression! Brand your likeness into the dining room table. Threaten to do it to other surfaces! Continue the conversation.

Aquarius: You love it. It’s horrific. What’s the problem?

Pisces: The position of Mars says you should consider bending backwards at the spine on the bus tomorrow, upsetting several people with your cries for help, and then revealing the whole thing to be a prank. People need a shake up.

[kisu-no-hi]

[dailylilnasx]

[stormy-night-stories]

So, I wrote this.

And I’m actually quite proud of it.

It’s the first ever F/F fanfic I’ve ever written.

And the response has been SO lovely.

It’s Harley Quinn/Reader.

And I’ve been really excited about it and wanted to share. <3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[unholy-guts]

parents be like “i know my erratic anger is terrifying and traumatizing to you but you going to your room to feel safe is making me feel like shit”

[elliewilliams]

embrace the unapologetic love of media you had in middle school before everyone decided it was cringy. go rewatch the cheesy animes that you liked. go rewatch old episodes of doctor who or supernatural or whatever. reread the hunger games or percy jackson or something. wear ultra positive graphic tees that look bad. read/make group chat fanfics of series you like. its fun and cringe is dead. enjoy shit