This is the blog of an atheist witch.

It's a work in progress so hang in there with me 'til I get situated! This blog is primarily a journal. The content is not written for anyone but myself, though you are welcome to read it and I hope it helps you on your journey.

[abiding-in-peace]

When you walk mindfully, just enjoy walking. The technique to practice is to walk and just to be exactly where you are, even if you are moving. Your true destination is the here and the now, because only in this moment and in this place is life possible. The address of all the great beings is “here and now.” The address of peace and light is also “here and now.” You know where to go. Every in-breath, every out-breath, every step you make should bring you back to that address.

Thich Nhat Hanh, in “How to Walk". (via abiding-in-peace)

[mindful-and-motivated-deactivat]

Instead of asking ourselves, ‘How can I find security and happiness?’ we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disappointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?’ This is the trick.

Pema Chodron (via cultivating-kindness)

[ivy-covered-aquarius-deactivate]

🌲Cannabis Witches🌲

🌲Clean your bong, fill it with fresh water and let it charge under the full moon! Moon water bong=peaceful puffing!🌲

[the-forest-of-the-faun]

Mirror Gazing (by Emily Balivet)

[digitalgrimnoir]

me: *asks my tarot deck an important question about my future*

deck: *shrugs* depends

[witch-of-wicca]

🔮🔮

[rurupoi]

My current plant setup!

[witcheshaven]

Magical pies ✨ by karinprieffboschek

[freyavvitch]

“This home is happy and safe.”

[vipermint]

something old, something new.

[thatatheistwitch-blog]

Comfrey tincture in moonshine day 1. Really too dark for photography but this color will be much more opaque soon so I wanted to capture this crazy lollipop color before it was gone. This came from my garden!!!

[thatatheistwitch-blog]

Cleaned house. A lovely little mindful space I made.

[culturenlifestyle]

Adorable Leaf Bags by Gabrielle Moldovanyi

Budapest-based boutique Leafling Bangs provides adorable and quirky bags and backpacks inspired by the shape of a leaf. Creative duo Garbiella Moldovanyi and her partner Adam designed the functional and beautiful bags, which comes in a range of colors and sizes.

Each piece is water-resistant and strong, which makes them an ideal accessory for the outdoors. Find their entire collection in their Etsy shop.

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[thatatheistwitch-blog]

Doge thing...

Sorry I’m putting this here so I have an easy place to pin this recipe from a random comment on the interwebs. I’m hoping I find a better one than this...

Churpi Chews Recipe

Here is how I do it. I take 2-3 gallons of skim milk. The fat in whole milk is something that seems to need to get skimmed off if you use a higher fat content milk. I boil it in a large pot stirring often because it tends to scald and burn if you don't. When it boils I add some liquid smoke about 2 teaspoons and the juice of 2 lemons. Continue to simmer and this will make the milk curdle. I remove the curdle with a sieve in the sieve to drain. When drained I drop the curdle (soft curdle) into a a piece of cheesecloth that I place in a steel form placed to give it some support resting on top of a drain basin as I pile it up. I continue to simmer and to add more lemon juice about every 15-20 minutes until no more curdle is formed, again stir very often. This process takes about an hour and a half. Next the cheese in cheescloth; I fold up the sides carefully keeping the shape of the form and then add a plate on top and heavy weights, I use one #15 canopy weight as pictured. Make sure this weight is not hampered in compressing the cheese by the sides of the mold. I leave this to compact and drain for 4-6 hours. I set up my dehydrator or use a low setting oven at around 150 degrees F. I carefully preserve the shape, unwrap and cut into bars that stay in the dehydrator for about 3 days until they are no long flexible at all and you're done. Three gallons of milk make around 15-20 bones. They are not quite as hard and long lasting as the commercial but still the dogs adore them and they last longer than anything but rawhides for active chewers. Let me know if you have any other questions. You might prefer to just buy them after all this, but still $12 in milk gets you 15 bones, that's a lot better than $100 for the bulk pack on amazon which is the cheapest I've found so far.

[dusty-purple]

I just love the myth of Persephone, i mean the real, original version of it, because it’s not like she got kidnapped, no, this bitch was la-de-da-ing in a meadow and she just happened to find an entrance to the Underworld and she was like “Imma check this out”. And she just wanders into the Underworld and discovers that hey this place ain’t too bad.

Meanwhile Hades is in the background “????? UM??? PRETTY GIRL??? WHY ARE YOU HERE?????? YOU AREN’T DEAD???” 

And Persephone (who was originally called Kore just a little fyi) just looked at him and said “I like it here. I’m staying.”

And Hades kinda just went with it, until Demeter started throwing the temper tantrum of the millenium upstairs and Zeus had to intervene because this shit was getting out of hand and its actually his job to be admistrator of justice. Which considering the shit he gets up to is kinda histerical but that’s another story there. 

And basically Persephone wasn’t a prisoner or kidnap victim at all she just really loved the Underworld and her (eventual) husband, and the Greeks feared her arguably more than her husband because Hades could be reasoned with but Persephone was the one laying the smack down on sinners, and really, who wouldn’t be at least a little scared of someone who’s name means something along the lines of “the destroyer”

Basically, Persephone is amazing and everbody needs to get on her level

i think the best part of that myth is that Zeus decided to change Kore’s name to Persephone (basically “the one who brings chaos”) only because she wanted to stay in the underworld and SHE WOULDN’T FUCKING LISTEN then Zeus, all-mighty king of the gods, kinda gives up and goes “fine, but you’re going to visit your mom” “also, I changed your name” “get rekt”

[achillvs]

Also, if I’m not mistaken, Kore means “little girl” so imagine going from that to “chaos bringer”

[parziivillains]

I mean, going from little girl to chaos bringer sounds like a p solid deal to me, sign me up.

[guerrillamamamedicine]

These days, the terms witch or witchy cover a broad spectrum of things—it might mean someone who practices witchcraft (who may or may not align with a particular pagan or neopagan religion), but then again it might not. In some ways, 2016’s version of “witchy” might seem to refer to more of an Instagrammable aesthetic choice than anything else—wearing dark lipstick and crystal pendants, growing cute kitchen herb gardens, and arranging household altars of dried flowers and animal skulls. It’s tempting to write these things off as being merely superficial affectations, but to do so would be a grave underestimation. Beneath all that glossy packaging hums the same idea that has tantalized girls for millennia: the fact that to be a witch is to be a woman with power in a world where women are often otherwise powerless. “To be a witch is to be a woman with power in a world where women are often otherwise powerless.”_ On some level, all of the contemporary trappings of witchiness tap into that desire to feel powerful. Black or dark purple lipstick might currently be in vogue, but on some level they subvert traditional feminine beauty standards and the ability to subvert or reject the status quo often confers a sense of power. To grow your own kitchen herbs and have some knowledge of herb lore are powerful in the sense that the ability to provide for yourself—even on a small scale—is a type of power. And, of course, the idea that setting out a particular arrangement of objects in a particular way with the intent of influencing real-life events is a type of power. According to Ayşe Tuzlak, who has a PhD in religion and specializes in gender and ritual in the ancient world, it was women’s inability to obtain power through established means and their subsequent attempts to access it through other channels that informed western ideas of what it meant to be a witch

The Real Reason Women Love Witches - The Establishment (via guerrillamamamedicine)

[majesticmushrooms]