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Fun history facts: One of the 31 people arrested at Stonewall on June 28th 1969 was American folk singer Dave Van Ronk, who was not at the Stonewall Inn at the time and was cis & straight as far as I'm aware. He'd been eating dinner at a nearby restaurant when he noticed a riot happening, said "Well I suppose I should go see what the fuss is about," stepped outside, and immediately started throwing bricks at the cops.

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Fruit Correspondence

I love fruits especially any with citrus in it, so this is my different correspondence of fruits.

Apple; healing, fidelity, fertility, intelligence, immortality, joy, love, marriage, wisdom

Apricot; love, passion, peace, romance, strength

Banana; fertility, money, passion, prosperity, sexuality, spirituality, success, wealth

Blackberry; healing, money, prosperity, protection, sex, wealth

Blueberry; acceptance, cursing, home blessings, legal matters, luck, peace, prosperity, protection, power

Cherry; clarity, creativity, divination, happiness, love, lust, passion, psychic energy, romance

Coconut; chastity, confidence, protection, psychic abilities, purification

Cranberry; action, anti-negativity, courage, determination, healing, health, love, lust, passion, positive energy, protection

Date; abundance, fertility, fortune, friendship, good luck, happiness, healing, spirituality, protection, resurrection

Fig; abundance, divination, energy, fertility, good luck, health, love, money, peace, power, strength

Grapefruit; cleansing, confidence, cooperation, healing, inner strength, mental clarity, purification

Grape; dreams, fertility, mental powers, money, prosperity, spiritual energy, wealth

Guava; cleansing, love, romance

Huckleberry; anti-negativity, banishment, dreams, fortune, good luck, hex breaking, protection, wishes

Kiwi; happiness, health, longevity, love, romance

Lemon; contact spirits, cursing, faithfulness, fidelity, friendship, growth, happiness, health, longevity, love, psychic powers, purification

Lime; cleansing, cursing, energy, healing, health, love, peace, protection, purification, relaxation, strength

Mango; balance, harmony, love, marriage, romance, protection, sexual, spirituality

Melon; cleansing, healing, purification

Nectarine; love

Orange; beauty, divination, fortune, health, love, good luck, money, peace, purification, wealth

Papaya; banishment, cleansing, healing, hex breaking, love, protection, regeneration,

Passion Fruit; calmness, friendship, harmony, hoodoo, love, peace, relationships, sleep

Peach; exorcism, fertility, happiness, longevity, love, purity, romance, spirituality, wishes, virginity, youth

Pear; arousal, clarity, confidence, energy, enthusiasm, love, lust, passion, peace, security, sexuality, stress relief

Persimmon; changing, happiness, healing, luck, lust, sex, sexual identity, wisdom

Pineapple; chastity, creativity, fortunate, happiness, healing, luck, memory, money, prosperity, power, protection

Plum; adoration,anti-negativity, attention, healing, love, peace, protection, relaxation, respect, sex

Pomegranate; conception, divination, fertility, growth, luck, prosperity, protection, wealth, wisdom, wishes

Raspberry; courage, dreams, fertility, good luck, happiness, health, love, marriage, protection, relationships, sleep

Strawberry; fertility, fortune, friendship, happiness, love, luck, passion, romance, sensual, success

**My personal associations

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Fighting Consumerism in Magic

aka, little things to distance your craft from capitalism

Let’s all just admit that buying stuff is fun. That said, there’s a big issue of consumerism within the witchy/pagan scene. As magic work and the pagan “aesthetic” becomes more of a commodity in the mainstream, there’s a mounting attitude of needing All The Items in the highest quality (even if we’re not certain we’ll use them,) and big corporations mass-producing cheap stuff to make a buck off of a growing trend. Here’s some things you can do to help detach your practice from that and support other people in the craft:

Go outside. Check your backyard or local park for local plant life, waters, roots, etc. If your work involves things from nature at all, you can probably find a lot of your supplies… in nature. It takes a little more time, but it’s free and then you’ve gathered stuff yourself!

Make stuff. This one is pretty straightforward. There may be key items to your practice that you can make yourself instead of buying it! That said, I know sometimes spending money is inevitable so I won’t dwell too much on this… let’s talk more about shopping:

Shop mindfully. The price of a lot of items will skyrocket once it has a pentacle or other symbol engraved on it. For example, little mortars and pestles can be very pricey in witchy shops, but you could probably get a bigger one that’s actually food safe for less at a nice grocery store. Antique stores and international markets are now your new best friends.

Support small businesses! Things are cheaper on Amazon, but the extra money goes to support real people, likely other practitioners. If you can, supporting small, local, independent shopkeepers and crafters does a ton of good. It also helps build and sustain a local community.

Shop based on need. Don’t get something “just in case” (unless it’s banishing or hex breaking stuff; those are decent to have on hand.) It’s tempting to impulse-buy a ton of niche items and ingredients, but unless you have a reasonable idea what you’re going to use them for in the near future, it’ll probably just create clutter for you to deal with later.

Prioritize effectiveness over aesthetic. Ultimately your practice has to work for you, not just look good. I think making your work aesthetically pleasing to yourself can be an important part of really connecting with what you’re doing, but don’t make that desire burn a hole in your wallet and distract you from what brought you to this path in the first place. Altar envy is a real thing.

Recycle/Upcycle. Use old clothing fabric for an altar cloth. That old trinket dish makes a great offering dish. Enchant jewelry you already own. That jar of strawberry jelly you just finished off will work just fine for that spell. Things can be re-purposed and made into new things.

Analyze your offerings. Special occasion wine isn’t a special occasion if you do it every time. Not every offering needs to be a grand gesture, regular maintenance is more important generally.

Organize trades. Have any pals that also practice? See if you can help each other! You could trade different goods (that old mini cauldron you bought and never used for that abandoned tarot deck, maybe?) but also services. A protection spell for a luck charm. A reading for a reading. You help them with the laundry and they cook you a meal one day.

As always, the goal is to foster a local community of individuals doing honest work, and shedding the consumerist mindset society taught us to make us spend more money. Take up the idea that you can do magic completely on your own with what you already around you, and if you do want to spend money, see if you can do it in a way that helps the world a tiny bit. :)

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bestyouuniveristy

The universe will keep handing you the same lessons, the same relationships, the same type of love and the same type of pain until you realize that the common denominator is you. Until you are finally tired of your own patterns. Until you finally love yourself enough to raise your standards and believe you are worthy of holding them. You see the thing is, until you learn to love yourself more, you will continue to accept the love that mirrors how you truly feel about yourself. The answer to everything you desire is within you.