Gracious Hekate,
roamer of the streets,
protector of laypeople,
I pray to you.
Cast your gaze upon those in need
And guard them,
With all of your wonderous might.
Goddess of witchcraft,
I implore you,
If ever I've spoken good of your name,
To aid and watch over those
Who cannot do so themselves.
Bless them with the touch of your hand
And let your light be a guide to them.
You, Hekate, who sees the stars in the shadows,
See us now.
There’s a million and one reasons why Shinigami Eyes is a terrible extension that enables intercommunity bigotry but the best short summary I can give is “intersex and trans people who aren’t transfem talking about and naming their experiences get marked red, you can call transmascs slurs and say they should all be violently killed and be marked green, and the guidelines explicitly state that transmedicalism is ‘out of scope’ for the extension.”
If you treat someone as irredeemably bad or evil, then that's what they'll be. It's only when you start treating them like a person instead of the abstract personification of everything you hate that you'll make much progress getting along with each other.
I don't care if your headmate's done the worst shit I can imagine, traumatized you repeatedly, and laughed in your face about it. They've still got a reason for doing it. And if that reason is "they find it fun," then what's going on in their life that makes hurting other people (and being hated by them) their best option for entertainment? Sounds like they're struggling to feel good at all if hurting people for a quick fix is the only time they're happy, or like they've learned that other people deserve to suffer (and where did that belief come from?).
They think that they're pure evil and act the part? Damn, that's a lot of self hatred they've got going on. "I'm irredeemably bad" isn't really a nice way to see yourself. I wonder when they learned to see themselves that way. I wonder how they learned that "acting evil" was something they had to do. I wonder if anyone ever respected or listened to them when they were "good", how "being evil" might've protected or helped them at some point when all the "good" people were failing them.
They're pissed off constantly for "no reason" and make it everyone else's problem? Where did that anger come from in the first place? Who's helping them deal with it? No one? Being nice and punching a pillow doesn't always make a dent in that kind of anger, especially if it's decades of everyone else's "I can't feel this right now" rage. That sucks to deal with. It's not like you taught them any better coping skills while you were shoving them away for having those feelings at all, though. They're stuck trying to cope with overwhelming rage alone. Lashing out makes it feel better.
They're shredding your body and forcing you to watch? Threatening suicide? It's their body too. They're willing to shred or kill themselves just to hurt you. Doesn't sound like it's just about hurting you for shits and giggles at that point. Lack of control over their own life, trauma re-enactment, self-hatred, overwhelming emotion, terminal boredom, whatever. There's a bigger problem going on.
They're not "pure evil"; every other person in their life is actively failing to understand and support them.
Stop treating your headmates as subhuman to make yourselves feel better about them acting against your personal morals. Start asking why they're doing this shit in the first place.
spirits don't have to be your friend. the rock in your backyard doesn't have to behave like a human or be useful to you to deserve respect. there is inherent value in loving the web of spirits that surrounds us without asking what they can do for us.
I think that more people in the occult community should do outdoor sports (hear me out)
Rock climbing and mountaineering drastically shifted my perspective and understanding of the way I interact with and interpret spirits.
You can be exhausted to the point of tears, bruised, bleeding (limestone is sharp) and the mountain will be as it always has been. The rocks will not work with you, are are working with them. You asked to be there, you came to the mountian and asked to step on it, and walk with it.
Ive tried surfing, got my ass kicked by the smallest wave exerting hundres of pounds of force without any effort.
From a witchcraft perspective, we seem to recognize huge forces of nature as great and powerful when there is something obviously drastic happening, like a thunderstorm or tornado. We know that there is danger but we talk about it like reckoning rather than simply a process of nature. The storm is not angry at you, personally, it is just a storm (and all of the energy and power that comes with it is also indifferent to you).
Plants don't grow for us, anyone who's had an uncomfortable brush with poison ivy can tell you that much, they just grow and we can learn to use them and work with them, but they would grow regardless.
And this is my opinion, based on my expiriances, but interacting with nature in such a way that youre trying to accomplish a goal (like summiting a mountian or climbing a rout or rafting a river or skiing a slope etc) really helps put it into perspective that its not just the large terrifying forces of a thunderstorm that are indifferent to you, its all of it, and that is why you have to learn to work with it through that lense of choice.
You are choosing to try and work with the spirits around you, not the other way around.
Of course you dont /have/ to be an ultra marathoner or mountian biker to come to this conclusion, but I think that there's something about the direct goal oriented physicality that, when relying on the features of nature specifically, helps to put it into perspective.
(This is also a reason why I love survival stories, it really puts the indifference into perspective. I highly recommend the two podcasts National Park After Dark and Tooth and Claw for fun survival and animal attack stories)
I'm afraid I could ramble for literally forever about how outdoor sports have changed my perspective of nature spirits, especially Scandinavian trolls and huldrefolk. I think a disconnect I run into quite often in occult communities is that a lot of people want to work nature spirits, especially ones that can be quite destructive (not to say they are evil), and want to interpret them as misunderstood, completely benevolent. And I don't want the opposite, which is fear-mongering, but I think a lot of people would deeply benefit from spending time in nature, specifically in places where it's not comfortable.
I think you've touched on a major part of how outdoor sports can influence understandings of animism and nature spirits. I do climb, but am definitely much more of a caver. I love caves, but a conversation I have with friends frequently when caving is a debate about whether the cave wants us there. I think especially of a trip where I was underground for three days, mapping an especially remove part of the cave that would take at least a full day of travel to get to. I had taken a fall the day the day before due to a rock breaking beneath me, cut myself badly in a moment of no-gloves, had more bruises than I've ever seen on a person, and was shivering hard. I was told I could cry once without judgement.
My brain lapsed in judgement, and I got myself badly wedged for a minute. The realization hit me, of how far I was in the cave, how many factors were stacked against me, and how the only way I could get out would be if I got myself out. I've had similar experiences when my climbing shoes are making my feet bleed, my arms and legs are giving out on me, and I'm multiple pitches up a mountain. I don't think enough people spend time in nature where there's this sense of survival, where you there's no easy way out, no easy rescue, and your environment does not care if you live or die.
I don't think nature is evil, but I recognize it as an uncaring and indifferent force. It is actively hostile to my survival, and also necessary to it. And I think this is a perspective closer to how people centuries ago would've understood nature spirits in a way that's become foreign with our modern comforts. I genuinely believe that when you're pushed to your limits, the reality of how harsh natural environments can be is striking. I feel like I cannot put into the words the experience, but it's also the moments where I feel the most connected to the world. Those moments where my muscles burn, I feel like I can't get enough air into my lungs, and I'm fighting to stay warm enough to last the trip. There's a weird serenity that comes with the pain, a type of religion in surrendering to the aspects of nature that you cannot control.
Obviously, I don't expect everyone to go out and do some extreme outdoor sports. I recognize that ability looks different for everyone. I do, however, think there's small ways we can all recognize that nature as indifferent exists everywhere around us, the minute we shed our comforts. And nature is beautiful and full of love, but it would be wrong to stop acknowledging how wild it truly is.
Oh its almost comical how similar the situation that brought me to this realization was (although I was climbing, not caving).
It was one of my first multis when I started to want to get into big walls (still would love to when Im done with college and have the time).
I was exhausted from the approach and freezing cold on the exposed rock face. Our rope had landed in the stream below the first pitch, which wasnt dangerous but it did add weight stress and cold to an already very cold climb.
I was a few pitches in, absolutely exhausted, terrified of the heights, fighting the wind and snow, and struggling immensely with what was supposed to be an easy 5.8 crack. My knuckles were bleeding from my failed attempts at hand jamming and I was starting feel my forearms giving up, all while knowing that we were at a no bail portion of the climb, and that there was absolutely no reason for me not to be able to pull past that section, not to mention that my climbing partner had no idea I was struggling below them given we were far out of sight and unable to hear through the wind and snow.
I remember completely loosing it momentarily, I even slapped the rock face (as if it cared) and fully panicked when I realized how stupid I was to put my self in that situation as an inexperienced climber.
I'm pretty positive it was that exact moment that I realized how in-human the mountians are. They absolutely do not care that I am struggling, I came to them. Ironically it calmed me down enough to snap me out of it so I could finish the route. It gives a sort of ecstasy to have that feeling of understanding.
I think its exactly like you say, theyre not evil, theyre not good. I see this assignment of human morals to rocks or plants or animals or even whole areas pretty often, and Im definitely guilty of using words to describe spirits and interactions with them in a way that is too anthropomorphizing to be accurate. The thing is they /are/ misunderstood, but its because we try to understand them through a human lense.
And you're right, everyone's ability is different, I do not expect every witch to traverse thousands of feet of harsh and sharp rocks to be able to determine such things, but I agree whole heartedly that recognizing the very specific discomfort that comes with the choice to engage with an indifferent environment is something that can change someone's belief or perspective entirely.
Question about the multiverse theory. What do you think the connection between the universe where something is real and the author in our universe who writes a similar story? Are they inspired by the alternate universe or does their writing bring it into existence or is it a complete coincidence or something else? I assume theres a lot of differing thoughts about this so just your personal thoughts and/or the most common in the community if there is one
Have a great day :]
Oh this is always such a great question to answer.
I think it depends on the author.
I think in many cases, since the multiverse is so infinitely vast and contains literally every possible universe and every possible story that can be told, MOST authors are simply inventing a story and writing down something the coincidentally resembles the events in another universe.
However, in some cases I definitely think authors are inspired by memories of lives in previous universe they've lived through without knowing it, or being inspired by characters visiting them through soulbonds or other forms of attachment.
Journaling Prompts for Nonhumans, Therians, Otherkin, etc.
These are purposefully non-specific, make them more specific as needed.
What led you toward identifying as other than human? Is it a voluntary or involuntary expression for you? Explain why?
What about you, your personality, and mannerisms naturally feel nonhuman compared to others? Do other people notice the difference?
What do you identify as and how did you come to that conclusion? Describe your kintype(s) in detail.
How does your identity play into your everyday life? Do you make an effort to include it in your daily life?
How do you affirm your nonhumanity mentally, how do you do it physically?
Do you still feel a connection with humanity? If so, when do you most feel it? Is it a positive or negative experience?
Where would be the most ideal environment to live in where you could express your non-humanity? If you have a hearthome, describe it in detail.
What do you think society would look like if nonhumanity was a widely accepted expression of self?
If you've identified as something other than human for a long time, how has your expression of that identity changed over time?
If you've only recently begun identifying as nonhuman, how do you predict your expression of your identity will change over the years?
Do you believe individuals belonging to certain demographics (poc, neurodiverse, younger generations, etc) are more likely to identify with nonhumanity over others? Why or why not?
Does your nonhumanity influence how you interact with others? If so, how, and do you make an attempt to manage it?
Do you view yourself equal to, above, or below humans in any regard? Why?
What is the oddest thing that brings you euphoria related to your identity?
What is your most favorite item or activity that brings you euphoria?
If you had the ability to change into your kintype (or alternate nonhuman form), would you do so permanently, or would you want the ability to shift between your human and nonhuman form? Explain your choice?
If you had the choice to live entirely separate from humanity, would you take it? Where would you want to go? Is there anything you would miss about humanity?
What do you believe the origin of your nonhumanity is? Do you believe it's different for everyone?
Are you a social or solitary species? How does this affect you in your day to day life?
Do you have nonhuman friends? What are they like, how did you meet, and how does interacting with other nonhumans affect you?
If you don't have other nonhuman friends, do you want them? Why or why not? Would you want to make friends with those of a specific type?
Do you have dreams, visions, memories, etc. Of yourself in your nonhuman form? Explain them in detail?
Where is your favorite place or safe space to express your identity openly?
Do you have a den/nest/burrow etc. If so, describe its appearance in detail along with what about it makes you feel safe and comfortable.
Do you have any tips for helping alters the system previously fucked over?
We have a few headmates who definitely weren't treated right by our previous host/s. And we're working on being better at accepting eachother/improving communication but it's. Still a struggle and I really don't know how to approach certain alters at all. And I don't even know if they'd want to talk things out. (Or even if it's my place to do so? I didn't even exist when everything happened)
Doesn't entirely matter if it's "your place" to do this. Sure, it'd mean more as a gesture if the folks involved in screwing them over are the ones making amends, but it's got to start with someone. If that someone's you, then it's better than no one giving a shit at all. At least one person cares if you reach out. And if one person cares about you, then you get a shot at relearning everything stolen from you by the situation you were stuck in. Reach out. Don't overthink it.
Start trying to give a shit about their well-being and needs. Make a point of checking in through whatever communication channels you've got open with them. Ask them how they're doing. The answer is probably going to be some variation of "terrible" if they bother answering you at all. Your job's to let it be terrible, hear them out, and be at least bare-minimum levels of nice in response. Be an ally. Stick up for them. Ask what they need.
They might go off on you. They might shut up and sulk. Let them, but don't leave them or yell back. Stay and be compassionate. Be consistent about staying around and talking to them even when they hurl the nastiest shit in your direction. You can say it hurts, but don't abandon them again over it. Show them you're here for them as they are. Get to know them better, ugly feelings and all.
They've got a right to be pissed off or feel hurt after how the others treated them, and it takes a while to get that out of you. This shit probably isn't getting fixed in a day. Took me most of a year to stop telling the others that I wanted them dead. Took me at least two years to start wanting to help them. The longer they've been sidelined or hurt, the longer it's going to take to get their trust back. Don't rush it.
Your headmates might ask why you're suddenly being nice to them. They might be suspicious, angry, scared, or whatever else. It's jarring to have someone reaching out and showing some kind of kindness or respect if you're not used to that. Be honest. They'll figure it out if you're lying, and honesty's the way to get their trust- or at least enough of their respect to work with them for a better situation. Be up-front about wanting to fix things and be just as clear about why you want that. The more transparent you are, the more reasons they have to trust that you're offering what you say you're offering.
If you've got the capacity to give them something they want and it wouldn't fuck you all over, then let them have it. There's probably something they missed out on when they were being screwed over. Might be mundane, might be a big deal, still needs to be listened to if you want to rebuild some bridges. Time in control? Physical objects? An apology letter? Someone who gives a shit about their well-being? Time to process trauma? Being treated as an equal instead of a subhuman monster? Help learning skills? Totally reasonable asks.
Killing or hurting yourself? Not happening, but it says they're pissed off or in pain and need something done to let that feeling out. Figure out ways to let them express that safely and make it clear you hear them. Saying that from experience- my first ask to the others was "die." Didn't have another way to say I hated their guts for what they did to me. They answered by being consistently nice and giving me tools to express anger and pain. It worked.
If you ask and they only want something from the others, then give the others a nudge and let it be their business- say you're there if they need you, check in often to show you still care, be their ally, and let the others fix their shit. But the folks that got screwed over might be just as happy with someone else in the same system trying to fix things between you all. Won't know if you don't ask.
On 'The Opposition to Authenticity', Introspection and Expectations.
Maybe it's an unpopular opinion but not everyone's capacity for introspection is an untapped well of internality that's waiting to hoisted upward (mostly through definably meaningful activities such as meditation, long term journaling and essay writing). Despite not everyone perceives their kin (or other types) as something that has always been lying dormant that just need the right amount of deep and completely internalised self-reflection to release the "truth" of. The image of the alterhuman (namely the therian and otherkin expirence distinctively) sees the self as a lone, independent entity whose only external influences come maybe from deities or other personal spiritual guidance. The end result is an unshakable sense of authentic "true" self, maybe a hero's journey or metamorphosis (like a catapillar becoming a butterfly) could be apt comparisons.
Adding a thanks to this essay for inspiring some of this section reflecting on the concept if alterhumanity as a framework vs a form
I think it's why we get the "anti puppyposting" mindset in part. The alterhuman journey exists in opposition to what is perceived as "consumerist" or "substanceless" or "aestheticised" puppyposting, in this instance is seen as the antithesis of authenticity. It's natural that a community that wishes to stand for authentic experience and true self discovery would eskew anything that seemed to reflect "consumerism" (god forbid!). We cannot make our community seem to embrace the concepts of which we are, by definition opposed. I think with this has come the raising of certain standards of what it means to be alterhuman and what's expected in the identity of community members.
In the early days we had grilling and dismissed psychological therians and otherkin (psychological reasons are external ones, they are mentally ill! As opposed to the internality of spirituality). The fictionkin community had an even longer time struggling to accept non spiritual fictionfolk because the bar for authenticity is higher if you're a "cool fictional character" (I think this could also loop back to fear of being seen of consumerist again). Nowadays the community is largely welcoming of a variety of origins (although symbolic otherkin can sometimes get pushed under otherhearted definitions and slowly get forgotten about and clinical zoanthropes still face sanism) the community looks to find it's standards for authenticity in how an identity is expressed rather than the origin of those identites.
Moodboards, buying masks or "puppyposting" is shallow, the new inauthentic. We can't dismiss your identity but we do feel you do not pass the bar of authenticity. You should be looking for yourself in the right way, as an internal entity. You're not being enough you. But, going back to the point that not everyone experiences the untapped internal well of alterhumanity I actually think puppyposting can be useful and even introspective in a non shallow way.
I have alexithymia which means I don't always know what I'm feeling or what I want or desire. I spent some time keeping ambiguity as an identity because there wasn't much to go on. I used the term "polymorph" for some time but partly because I felt that my ambiguity could not match anything else. Sorting memories or noemata from headcanons or trains of thought were not something I could do well, and forget as/with as a differentiation term! Yes, my experience is probably something very different to someone who recieved a feeling of divine intervention holding images of their cheetah theriotype or those with clinical zoanthropy but I think there's more people than not that wrestle with the ambiguity of identity.
Because of this I actually believe in part that my sense of identity is a bit external. My experiences and internal sense of self don't exist as an independent entity, I live in a society like most people. Would I be a robot if certain connections between robots and neurodivergent had never been established? I can't tell you that, but I can tell you that it's a lot easier to understand myself considering it does.
There are also parts of my identity that I feel fall under symbolic or metaphorical otherkin (note: not otherhearted). I naturally connect with metaphor and narrative but not quite in the same way archetropes might, a role I am made for I may take on more than entirely. One of my considered fictiontypes I perceive in very much a way of becoming you're own metaphor. I am a being, a nonhuman being, whose still intertwinned with human perceptions, human viewpoints. I am observant, and many a time I am not detailing the experiences of myself but of the community along with it.
How does this link back to authenticity and puppyposting? Not everyone knows themselves readily enough to be making meaty essays, some people just want to be seen. Sometimes people who are growing to understand themselves might not feel ready for telling apart as vs like, some people might not even have the same sense of totally internal identity constructed in the same way you might. Heavy introspection (especially when done in accordance with guidelines and not freely) gets tiring and can even be harmful.
I see this "puppyposting" not as the passification or rise in shallowness across the community but as a kind of microdosing on introspection. A way to ease yourself into the bigger questions of your identity. To get a smaller understanding of what speaks to you and why it does. We expect our 'authentic' community members to be comfortable with jargon filled essays but how are you going to be able to reflect on those when you don't know much on who you are yet! (The pre-prescribed boxes also do not help but this not the focus of the essay, but I do find it that many people who are upset at "puppyposting" are ironically, still very label focused). We need to be able to give people space and comfort to sort out complicated things without judging them for supposedly making the community more shallow.
When I was first working out my robot-ness using sites such as pintrest and just looking through tags did help me understand myself better, whereas lists of questioning activities and with vs as lists just made the journey miserable. It gave me something to connect to without trying to pull apart my identity.
This might be my first more lengthy piece I've written for the community and it's not about me, but about you. I've chosen to write about community issues while using my experiences in a more demonstrative sort of way.
I think it's why people who might not otherwise have seen themselves as holotheres or physical therians may be doing so now because they want to pass the bar of authenticity, to prove they are not a "puppyposter" or "TikTok quads poster" or because they are nothing like those two so they've got to be physically therian right?
I also think the fear of inauthenticity appears with the fear of externality and external identity. People's identity seems to now be falling towards or prioritising the most internal expressions of identites. Symbolic alterhumans never really got a space in the community to begin with but I still felt as if I constantly struggled to meet the demands of authentic expression and the supposed "rise" of puppyposting (or anti-puppyposting) just made the experience harder. Essays are an expectation now that they have become innately tied to authenticity as a value the community holds and if you can't meet the expectation of self academics then you need to cling to other ways to make sure you are enough of a therian.
I'm not sure how much the authentic/artificial dichotomy can really apply to me anyway, and maybe you don't feel like it applies to you either, or maybe you've never thought about it. But I think much of the knee-jerk reactions towards "puppyposting" and similar (especially along the lines of it being consumerist and shallow innately) is putting up more barriers and creating higher standards for alterhumanism much like the grilling of old. People are left to wonder if their experiences are supposedly profound enough rather than if they get to use the word alterhumanism at all.
This is one of the first times I've attempted a longer piece. It's probably a bit scruffy, there's probably typos and such but I freely wrote this without too much planning. But it's still good to have said something even if it appears to be going against what most appear to be saying about the whole "puppyposting" phenomena.
Honestly, goddamn, nearly a decade and I still feel compelled to diminish my own identity and experiences sometimes.
I still get this instinctual shame, this fear that I'm Doing Too Much if I try to assert my identity and experiences as something serious and worthy of consideration. Like my ability of being worthy of respect is forever overshadowed by the fact that my source material is Epicly Cringe Crossover for Dumb Babies/D*sney Adults
Like, I dunno, maybe there is an Inherent Humor to be found in being fictional, but do we really gotta lean into it so much?
[ just putting a warning here since this is kinda venty/ranty and perhaps slightly aggressive?? but I don't wanna start anything I'm just frustrated and needed somewhere to put it ]
me when people assume traumagenic = REAL and CORRECT and NORMAL and endogenic = VOLUNTARY and FAKING and HARMFUL and if you're anything in between SURELY you must be supporting "the bad guys"!
Like dude no! I'm mixed origin (traumagenic + spiritual), and there are likely a lot of other endogenic origins that are ALSO involuntary! My issue is mostly with people acting like spiritual plurality is fucked up and evil because it's what I've experienced the most, but I'm sure there are others who have gone through what I have but for different reasons. Also, singlets are allowed to have beliefs and experiences regarding their origins that aren't simply "I'm a normal human and nothing else", they're allowed to say they believe they're here for a reason, but the second a collective does it it's somehow the worst thing ever? That sounds more pluralphobic than the existence of endos man I dunno..
would you mind talking a bit about your experiences with court dynamics? we'd love to hear ways it compares/contrasts to more 'pop culture' understandings thereof.
ah ! well , easiest way to answer is to copy over from dreamwidth :D
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well , court is not inborn biological thing like what some people think . by all means can be born in specific court , right , but can also leave , choose to change .
little bit more like relationship humans might have with countries - some can be very ride or die loyal and see as something inherently worth pride , some see as just place that happen to be and people that happen to know .
some do not leave because this court suit well enough , some love court and have no plans leave , others leave because of hate court , or even put in some kind of danger . some take birth court as important piece in identity , others could not care any less - especially as for some faeries , this is separate by centuries .
but also , not literally countries ? theoretically any faerie can just start up and make new court - maybe other courts not really suit needs , or take leave from one with some close friends . some faeries also not really part of courts , just solitary .
courts also do not always have connection to ... " theme " , will say to be simple - sometimes just theme , but also sometimes deeper , like object of reverence or representation . and , well , courts can share these themes ! even big courts like seelie and winter not universal ... seelie and unseelie especially , haha .
what that means is local faeries who style selves as summer court might actually be small local court - possibly direct branch from larger summer court , but possibly not .
these themes also do not necessarily connect to what all of population is , especially in bigger courts . will not always need to have personal connection with moon , or snow and ice , or daisies and sunshines to take place in given courts - even if some might question choices . and , again , not always have such theme . sometimes court is just court , faeries that choose to exist together without something " special " bind together .
so : say if some faeries split off of larger local moon court . maybe these faeries might wear connection to moon as pride still , and so become local court of full moon or gibbous moon .
or this court might take more vague connection of shadows and nighttime things , and maybe start to see faeries of caves and underground join up .
or … no theme connection at all , just choose to be together because want to be , regardless of all else .
court kossai here is court without such " theme " . kossai is word in language of home realm , but what this means is secret ! kossai all just faeries that happen to choose and like each other around here , and , sometimes that is all which court need to be . :)
singletnormativity; proposal for a definition, and some examples
What is singletnormativity?
The concept currently has no formal, concrete definition, so let us propose one:
Singletnormativity is the assumption that everyone one interacts with is a singlet, ie is the sole occupant of their body. In other words, it is treating non-plurals and their experiences as the default and not accounting for anyone who falls outside that, consciously or not.
2. What are some examples of singletnormativity?
The assumption all systems possess (or should possess) a collective identity, a collective name, collective pronouns, collective labels, etc.
The assumption of a singular, unchanging presentation of identity in polls, surveys, questionnaires, etc.
An unwillingness to consider plural interpretations and analyses of media, dismissing them by deeming them "unworthy of exploration", accusing plural systems of "making everything about themselves", etc.
The assumption that plurality is always disordered, and thus must be diagnosed and treated so that the plural system can "return" to a state of singularity.
The belief that that state of singularity is inherently desirable to and good for all, making a lack of such a desire "unnatural".
A refusal to treat any headmates in a system outside of the one perceived as "the host" as people in their own right, dismissing any opinions and preferences they might express (or attributing them to "the host"), considering them to not be real, reducing them to imaginary friends and related concepts.
This is a big 10 card spread, inspired by the humble Rowan Cross - an archaic symbol and charm of protection. The Rowan Cross has been used as amulet for many reasons, and in this instance, the inspiration lies in its protective abilities being upon you as you transition and grow in the coming year.
Where are you now?
Clarity on where you want to be.
What is the next step you must take?
What is stopping you from progressing?
What can be done to remove these obstacles and blockages?
What path will you begin to take once steps have been made?
Where will this path take you?
What do you need to let go to further your journey?
What do you need to gain?
Where will you be, or who you will be on your way to being once you have let go and gained?
*Feel free to use this spread for yourself, and if you use it for paid readings all I ask is that you credit me as the creator.
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Start with your thumbs and activate the energy channels there. Feel the transfer of energy. Spend about 2-3 minutes here.
Do this for each finger... Thumb to Pinky.
Afterwards, press your palms together and activate those energy centers. Keep them pressed together for about 1-2 minutes... Or until you feel the need to stop.
This is also a way to develop your ability to heal.
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