#general standards

[thistles-whistle]

xelo doodle

[winebrightruby]

Sometimes you get involved with a spirit/power/deity just because you like them. There’s some kind of soul sympathy, you’re on the same wavelength, the vibes are good, it’s the right aesthetic, whatever. “You” in this context is me and every other practitioner, for the record. Sometimes it’s not a practical decision, and it may take years to see any practical pay-off -- and you may never see any! other than the personal pay-off of a satisfying relationship!!

You become what you work with. You’re judged by the company you keep. “Because I like them” is a perfectly good enough reason.

[undergradadventures]

As a child, I was baffled by my elders’ insistence on the importance of matching socks. I mean, it’s not as though sock-performance is affected by clashing colors, and isn’t it awfully silly to spend time coordinating something that’s just going to be shoved inside of a shoe all day?

Now, as an adult, I recognize the value of the rare and hard-won feeling that something in your life is in order.

[winebrightruby]

Before people lose their whole minds about that previous post, I am asking you politely to consider what exactly counts as “physical activity” and what kinds of assumptions you might be making about what I think “counts”. 

If you can’t assume a certain amount of good faith conversation, I’m not sure why you’re following me, tbh.

[winebrightruby]

It’s impossible to overstate how strong of a foundation a meditational practice and a good routine are. 

Meditation is an irreplaceable skill, and it makes literally every other part of a magical/spiritual practice easier.

Routine, or the habit of habit-building, or the ability to manage your life in such a way as to regularly perform certain actions, is likewise irreplaceable. No matter what the actions of your practice are, developing the self-management to repeat those actions regularly at (personally) meaningful intervals is necessary. It’s how a one-off action becomes a practice.

[winebrightruby]

wait is that post about Nat? I looked up to her so much as a teenager and baby pagan

I don't know which post this is in reference to, but I won't discuss anyone I know in public in response to an anonymous ask.

[winebrightruby]

I knew a woman once who believed that personal (magical) power is accumulated through lifetimes via reincarnation, and so is wisdom, so a person with a great deal of magical power at her disposal in this lifetime must be very wise, right, and morally good.

Naturally, she posited herself at the absolute top of this power-and-being-right-about-everything chain.

It’s actually striking how often - and how thoroughly - the occult community proves her wrong. Having innate power or being able to obtain it doesn’t make a person anything, not wise, correct, caring, responsible, trustworthy, nada. It doesn’t make a person stable and might push a person in the opposite direction tbh. 

Just sorta thinking about that this morning. That power doesn’t say anything about a person except that they have it. That claiming to have power doesn’t say anything about a person except that they claim it. (That these two actions rarely point to synonymous ends.)

[winebrightruby]

I don’t like it when posts on tunglr.com start off by lobbing f-bombs at me. I check out immediately. I don’t talk to people irl who swear at me (as opposed to swearing while speaking to me), and I don’t engage with posts on this hellsite that swear at me either. I’m okay with being delicate and sensitive and persnickety in this manner.