#just iris

[ladyiristheenchantress]

Hi!! Thank you to @jadedarcana for the tag!!! I love fun tag games and I finally have a little bit more time to myself to work :)

Last Song Listened Too

Black Rabbit - Prince Fatty (Seriously this song is absolutely incredible)

Favorite Colors

Black, Dirt brown, Cherry-Cola red, Silver, and Hazel

Currently Watching

Gachiakuta ! Its actually my first ever anime after my husband has convinced me to try it out!

Currently Reading

Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake (if you are a music nerd, its Cosmo Sheldrakes brother!), its a phenomenal non-fiction passion piece about mycology, fungi, and the science behind it! Its a fun read so far, but I'm not fully finished yet!

Current Obsession

Mycology LOL, I both study on a mycology research team, but I also have taken rainforest fungal explorations! I guess you could say Fungi is the future, Lichen or not. LOL

(If you wanted to know, this petri-dish has the yeast: Ovicillium theobromae, Sourced from a Flavoparmelia caperata Lichen!)

Currently Working On

3 entire research projects......Please just....Spare some free time? Augh.... I presented our Lichen-Associated yeast project to our university, and we are getting ready to go to a national convention with it. Then, I am working on presenting my findings during my leaf cutter ants study, and finally I am working on my final project for Physics. I am a busy biologist, that is for sure.

Last Google Search

"How long ago was photosynthesis developed in single cells" Thank you so much for the tag and I nominate @web-witch @witchothebogfolk and @vesse-moricaleo-lusifero to play as well if they so choose!

[dragin-arcoiris]

I made this for @arcosansiris ♡ :3

[ladyiristheenchantress]

🤓 Is there a tradition or type of magic you wish you could learn?

🎓 Are there any magical or sorcerous skills you're actively working on these days?

~ @ofcedarandbone (ER is just my main)

Hello hello!! Thank you so much for the ask, so far this game has been so fun!

🤓 Is there a tradition or type of magic you wish you could learn?

HONEST TO GOD ASTROLOGY AND ASTROLOGICAL MAGIC!!! HOW DO YOU WITCHES DO IT!!! I am eternally impressed at the people who successfully do astrology and follow astrological systems of magic. I literally scrape the very top of that iceberg in my knowledge, and literally it is the most confusing thing for my brain to keep up with and I'm not even sure why. I've been slowly chipping away, and it seems so rad, but sadly I just don't think I'm suited for it haha. Praise to all my astrological friends!

🎓 Are there any magical or sorcerous skills you're actively working on these days?

Honestly yes!!! I have begun work with the Mother Mycelium, or the spirit of all mycelial complexes on earth. This spirit is extremely primordial, and so far were working on internal and introspective workings, what it means to be symbiotic with earth, and bioregional applications of fungi in my practice!!! So far it has taken up a vast majority of my private life, and I am so excited to begin all the tasks she has set forward for me!!

[ladyiristheenchantress]

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[ladyiristheenchantress]

Hey guys, Lowkey needed to take a bit of a media diet to be with my family and friends for the holidays, I should be back to posting content again soon (sometime mid January), but yeah! Internet detoxes are important, I highly recommend we all take one every once in a while, I will see you all very soon :)

Love, Iris <3

[ladyiristheenchantress]

10 Days of Reflection: Day 1

Hello friends! I was really inspired by the @pathandpractice 10 days of reflection posts going around, so I figured it would be fun if I did more bloggy stuff with my blog along with informational content! While I do have a lot of projects lined up, I wont have time to work on them for at least another week. Edits have been smoothly underway with some of my older posts, so I'm excited to finish up and get started with some new content for you all. Until then!! Let the reflections begin!

Day 1 - How do you define magic? Is it energy, intention, relationship, will, or something else?

I define magic, yes as an extension of energy, but something you can channel and formulate with your will, you cultivate a relationship to it with how you perceive it. I believe magic exists within everyone and everything. However how it materializes, forms, and is utilized depends on the wielder! For my basic belief, we use this energy that we can tap into created by the universe & it is inner power that we express it/will it through our tools and efforts. I see it like tea, Its not enough to intend to make the tea. To actually do that you place your intentions to make it through energy and efforts for it to be brewed. To me, While a single huge amount of spiritual energy is wrapped through the confides of our universe, yielding it is not a universal experience! I believe in something called 'puzzle theory' that means living organisms and objects hold a piece of this spiritual energy, however can only express it within the confides of their perspective (an individual puzzle piece). So, a deer will utilize magical energy much different than a human might, same goes from person to person, ameboma to ameboma. 'is your blue, my blue, too?' We can do so much to learn and understand the piece we have, but we must remember that we cannot know the full extent of what magic is, or the picture we make with the puzzle (but that shouldn't stop us from trying).

Something else I want to mention, While that's the most basic delimitations of my perspective, I also follow aspects of Consciousness Theory, Psychological Theory, and *to an extent* Biological Theory. I tend to blend everything almost into a Syncretic Theory! Granted, all of these are cherry picked for what resonated in my system, have their own pro's and con's, so over the years I have meshed a lot of perspectives into one! I believe magic is found in our will to shape the world around us in consciousness and psychological theory, I believe each persons own body and perspective can shape biological theory, but at the end of the day for me it all comes down to energy. That was really fun! I hope to share again with you all on day 2!! Fair winds friends!

[ladyiristheenchantress]

For the witch ask game :)

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Hello!! Thank you so much for the ask!!! 🏺Which historical or mythical sorcerer do you draw the most inspiration from?

While I did answer this a little bit before, I mentioned Hypatia and the Mitochondrial Eve, but I have one more person I would love to add and that would be my great great great grandma. From what Ive been told, she was a force to be reckoned with, got shit done, and cared deeply for her home. I cant divulge too much, but people said she was quite the energetic and spiritual woman. 🧹What does the word "witch" mean to you? Honestly, to me its just a label. I think the word 'witch' has just so many fluid interpretations for me to try and pin down one would be hard to do. It would be easy for me to say 'magic user', but by most basic definition I tend to just say "A person who practices witchcraft" to keep it the most open! Make the label whatever you want it to be my friends!!

[ladyiristheenchantress]

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Hi Anon! Thank you so much for the ask! 🏺Which historical or mythical sorcerer do you draw the most inspiration from? That's a good question! For me personally, I take more inspiration from philosophers, scientists, and speakers when it comes to my craft, however I do have a few people I want to share! Hypatia of Alexandria is a large inspiration to me, she was a leader in math and philosophy and inspires me to eternally keep on learning. On the more esoteric side, I look to the Mitochondrial Eve or the first woman ancestor we traced back through the maternal mitochondrial DNA. To me, it represents my place within the world, the people who came before me, and connects me deeply to my ancestral magic. 🧙How open are you about your practice with people in your irl life? I am extremely open when I am with the right people, where I live I advocate for religious freedoms especially in pagan groups who feel silenced and afraid to speak up because of social stigma. Granted safety has to come first, I cannot lay all my cards on the table to everyone, so I tend to wait in a friendship to see the waters, but that mainly has to do with where I currently reside. 🧩What's one thing you wish that people who don't practice magic knew? I have decided to answer this question again because why not, but another thing I wish people knew would be that its ok to indulge in our wild sides every once in a while! I think more people would be open to exploring it if there was less stigma.