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Your trans body is gorgeous. Not in spite of transness. Your trans body is gorgeous. Your transness is beautiful. It doesn’t have to be ignored in order to determine your desirability.
To the trans Hellenic Polytheists or Trans Pagans who believe in gods and need to hear this right now:
Aphrodite loves you. The gods love you. You are absolutely beautiful.
This is your obligatory Hermes love post
Reblog if you really love Hermes, like if you really love Hermes.
Literally cannot ignore or I will get the shit pranked out of me.
this is worse than those fricking chain posts
you all have looped me into a horrific cycle because I know my mutuals will likely reblog this and that means I’ll have to which means you’ll have to again and
Still not risking it
I choose peace thanks
I must, over and over again… and herein lies the joke, and it is on us… laugh it up Hermes, laugh it up… I love you all the more…
My heart sings for the Bringer of Luck. <3
fuck. trapped in the got damn circle ;-;
Hermes originally posted this!!!
Race =/= religion
Race doesn’t = who you can be and if you think it does then just block me like don’t even talk to me because I want nothing to do with your existence at all...
Can you please take this bullshit out of the hoodoo tag. You literally have no clue what it is. Calling it a religion is disrespectful. Acting like people can practice it when they literally cannot is disrespectful. It is our way of connecting with spirits of our ancestors who were fucking brutalized during the slave trade and the civil rights Era.
It’s not a religion. It’s not witchcraft. It’s our way to honor and mourn our dead and you’re treating it like it’s some cookie-cutter religion. Fuck you. Really fuck you.
Our people died so that we could practice it, so that blacks had something to connect to because it was taken away from us during the slave trade, and you turn it into this? You get to be the voice and say so of who can use it?
Who can use our mourning for their witchcraft? What the hell is wrong with you?
Yet you’re all here being “progressive” talking about how wicca has no gender on your blog, but you can’t even use that same energy and activism for race?
My people died so I could practice this. And this is what you and other racist assholes turn it into?
I’m not Black, but I am Ojibwe and the fact that op tagged this as Native American infuriates me.
My people were arrested and murdered for practicing our religions. Our traditional religious practices were banned in the United States until 1978. Our grandparents and parents were torn from their homes, thrown into white Christian schools, and had their spirituality beaten out of them. Our spiritual leaders, since the moment colonizers stepped foot on these lands, have been mocked and degraded at every turn. White people stole our spiritual practices and beliefs, bastardized them, then sold them to other racist and ignorant white people to make a profit. Our communities suffer the effects of intergenerational religious trauma every moment of our lives. Actual Native people like me don’t know our own traditions because our families lost them to colonization and trauma and forced assimilation.
And you dare think you have the right to take those traditions? You think you have the right to continue colonizing our communities, our religions, our cultures? You think you have the right to pray to spirits that tried to protect our people from your ancestors? You think you have the right to practice bastardized and incomplete forms of traditions that our people bled for, died for?
Op, you are absolutely disgusting. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. You touch our traditions, and I hope you experience the full wrath of the ancestors and spirits you dare try to call on.
Have a lovely day.
eyy if you’re a polytheist / pagan / magic user / diviner and not a racist or transphobe, pls like or reblog this so i can follow u
(can my mutuals pls reblog this so it’ll spread pls and thanks)
Okay going through my asks box and just seeing this attitude of ignorance and entitlement to Hoodoo by white people and nonblack poc on tumblr and other platforms in general I just wanted to make something very clear.
It is not “gatekeeping” when black people say that white people and other nonblack POC CANNOT practice Hoodoo.
Hoodoo was made by SLAVES!
In order to practice Hoodoo you have to contact the spirits of SLAVES and AFRICAN AMERICAN ANCESTORS!
Hoodoo was built on the blood, sweat, and tears of ENSLAVED AFRICAN WOMEN AND MEN!
WHY WOULD YOU, A NONBLACK PERSON, WANT TO PRACTICE HOODOO?!?!?!?
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, WITCHES 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
whenever I see white witches on this app saying shit like “you can’t gatekeep magic it belongs to all races and cultures uwuwuwu” I know damn well they are trying to imply they can steal from any cultural practice and it’s justified under the fake impression of inclusivity completely ignoring how most of those practices are closed & sacred to the actual practioners. Alot of those white people have brainwashed y’all into thinking whenever you see the word “gatekeeping” it’s about elitism and not about wanting steal sacred practices under the disguise of being eclectic witch. Stop letting those people into practices that were created by our ancestors to survive, stop letting directly ancestors of our oppressors to steal what’s sacred to us and basterdize it. Im 100% about gatekeeping if your definition of gatekeeping means giving a free pass to white witches who steal whatever the fuck they want from whoever the fuck they want. Im filled with utter disgust when i see all these so called witchblrs disrespect our ancestors/our sacred practices/culture and get away with it just by putting eclectic witch✨ in their bio and accusing people of gatekeeping and elitism when someone mentions they have no rights to take what’s ours. Don’t let those people fool you, protect what is our’s and absolutely do not be nice about it.
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Please do! Corporations are the biggest criminals of climate change, environmental damage and pollution. Capitalism is rooted in destruction.
Deepening your relationship with a deity (in Hellenic polytheism)
Sometimes basic ritualistic or casual worship forms are no longer enough for you. You just want to do more and strenghten your connection to a god.
If that’s you, here you have some tips:
Do what you were already doing, but more. Make your rituals more regular. If you engage in casual worship activities, continue. Or you can start, if you don’t. Make your devotion a part of your everyday life.
Pray using your own words. Talk to your deity, write letters if it fits you more, or do both. Not only praise them, but tell them about yourself, your life, your feelings and reflections. Make your prayers personal.
You can engage in contemplative activities. You don’t have to become a mystic and this is in no way required to have a beautiful, deep and meaningful relationship with a god. However, this is certainly one of the things that can bring you closer to them.
Pursue more serious study. Learn about your deity not only from tumblr and theoi.com - read academic books, articles, ancient texts about them. Just remember to compare things you read with eachother and pay attention to the sources. And to not forget about actually doing things practically.
Engage in activities connected with your deity. I mean activities that become regular part of your life, not one-time devotional acts (they’re nice and also can bring you closer to the gods, but they’re not the ones I talk about). You can for example learn/practice playing a musical instrument for Apollo, or pursue shadow work for Hekate.
Pursue ethical work. Work generally on your Arete, pay extra attention to the values connected with your deity. For example, you are devoted to Zeus, so you work to be as just, generous, honest and wise as you can, and you stand for justice. You can engage in special work connected with their values, like voluntary work or social activism.
“All who were wise feared the god Apollo’s wrath, silent as sunlight, deadly as plague.”
- “Circe” by Madeline Miller
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. :)
I grew up with no access to money and was able to still do magick. There are a lot of witchy books that will have you spending a lot per spell.
You don’t need to be well off to do witchcraft. You can literally pick up a rock from the street, diy with things around the house or even focus on your own inner power. Here is a handy list for all who need it!
So while most rainbow capitalism is sticking rainbows on things and pretending to be an ally, Budweiser’s UK branch is giving credit to trans activists, and explaining pride flag colors.
Budweiser is an inclusionist 💞💞💞
What a weird and true thing to say! And I almost sounds like a joke but honestly I feel this tweet captures 90% of my feelings
And to actually credit Monica Helms and get the white stripe right? Like, if we are going to have companies at pride this is what I’d like to see. Professional looking marketing, credit to activists, research about the groups its marketing, and spreading further awareness.
I agree 100% with this. While its nice seeing corporations putting more efforts during pride than just putting a bunch of pride flags on their social media and items and calling it a day, its more important to spread awareness about how the lgbtqa community has high statistics of alcohol addiction and how alot of harm has come onto lgbtqa people because of alcohol induced health concerns. I hope this post doesn’t come off as promoting budwiser or implying that people should buy budwiser just bc they included trans and ace people bc the purpose is mainly to point out how if we are gonna see corporations using pride month to market their products towards lgbtqa people, id rather have them using their platform to actually spread ACTUAL awareness about lgbtqa identities and people and credit lgbtqa activists than slap some pride flags and tell lgbtqa people to buy their products.
And yeah i too wish any other brand than an alcohol one was doing this too
Id appreciate it if you guys reblogged this version instead bc i dont want people to interpret this post as promoting alcohol brands
Okay, hot take? Bisexual and pansexual are functionally synonyms, and the decision to ID as one or the other comes down to personal preference and interpretation, and any attempt to further separate the two is driving a wedge between two communities that should have nothing but love and solidarity for one another.
We have more in common than not, and the words for our respective identities should not be pitted against each other.
Yeah with overlapping identities like this I just go for whichever one I like the pride flag the most.
That’s so valid.
There is a distinction between pansexual and bisexual but it is a very fine line, so fine that people who fit the definition for pansexual better may ID as bisexual instead for a variety of personal reasons and vice versa. But there is a distinction and acting like they are perfect synonyms can be quite invalidating.
Bisexual - attraction to multiple genders where gender is a factor within the attraction, and can include a preference for one gender over another, or attraction that feels different when it’s directed at a specific gender.
Pansexual- attraction to people regardless of gender. Gender is not a factor, you’d expect a blanket sensation of attraction regardless of which gender it is attracted to, and no sense of intuitive gender preference (though perhaps a logical one).
Notice that neither of these definitions actually exclude transgender or non-binary people and arguing otherwise is biphobic and transphobic. But there is still a distinction - practically, the issues they face and the relationships they will end up in are the same, but emotionally and subjectively they feel different.
Me reading the first post: I totally agree 100% quit telling me that calling myself bisexual means I’m transphobic
Me reading post four: OH I never heard that distinction before. Being attracted to masculine ppl DOES feel different to me than being attracted to feminine ppl. It never occurred to me that pansexual people experienced attraction different from me in that way. Today I have learned something.
Okay, so this is a better explanation than I have seen before, and I’m really glad it crossed my dash. *throws love and support @ my bi and pan friends across the globe bc they’re all valid*
Hephaestus: What’s that?
Ares: Oh, that’s just my to-do list.
Hephaestus: This is just a post-it note with my wife’s name on it.
Aphrodite: *blushing intensely*
Ares: ;)
Ares: *marks a check by her name*
Busy witch things..
Drinking overly steeped tea from a thermos.
Spraying rose water toward the air vents in the car to sweeten the day.
Pulling a card of the day before you leave and not looking at it until a break later.
Putting sigils on sticky notes so you can transfer them wherever you need to.
Wishing small blessings upon courteous drivers (and perhaps small hexes on the less-than-courteous ones).
“Does it count if I thought about putting cinnamon in my coffee and stirring it a certain way?”
Lighting a candle for 30 seconds before bed because you just don’t have time.
Playing music that makes you feel witchy while driving.
Wearing crystal jewelry.
Mumbling enchantments to make your morning face wash extra rejuvenating.
Playing with your intuition while driving/wherever.
Putting glamour into the dash of eyeshadow or quick application of lipstick.
Taking 10 seconds in the parking lot to just breathe and be outside.
As a busy single mom witch this is literally 80% of my craft now
This Pride don’t forget your brothers and sisters fighting for their rights all over the world.
