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"How can I be a witch/pagan without falling for conspiracy theories/New Age cult stuff?" starter kit

Posts & Articles

Check your conspiracy theory. Does any of it sound like this?

Check your conspiracy theory part two: double, double, boil and trouble.

QAnon is an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, experts say

Some antisemitic dogwhistles to watch out for

Eugenicist and bioessentialist beliefs about magic

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

The New Age concept of ascension - what is it?

A quick intro to starseeds

Starseeds: Nazis in Space?

Reminder that the lizard alien conspiracy theory is antisemitism

The Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis is Racist and Harmful

The Truth About Atlantis

Why the Nazis were obsessed with finding the lost city of Atlantis

The Nazis' love affair with the occult

Occultism in Nazism

Red flag names in cult survivor resources/groups (all of them are far right conspiracy theorists/grifters)

The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse ‘memories’ is still causing damage today

Why Satanic Panic never really ended

Dangerous Therapy: The Story of Patricia Burgus and Multiple Personality Disorder

Remember a Previous Life? Maybe You Have a Bad Memory

A Case of Reincarnation - Reexamined

Crash and Burn: James Leininger Story Debunked

Debunking Myths About Easter/Ostara

Just How Pagan is Christmas, Really?

The Origins of the Christmas Tree

No, Santa Claus Is Not Inspired By Odin

Why Did The Patriarchal Greeks And Romans Worship Such Powerful Goddesses?

No, Athena Didn't Turn Medusa Into A Monster To Protect Her

Who Was the First God?

Were Ancient Civilizations Conservative Or Liberal?

How Misogyny, Homophobia, and Antisemitism Influence Transphobia

Podcasts & Videos

BS-Free Witchcraft

Angela's Symposium

ESOTERICA

ReligionForBreakfast

Weird Reads With Emily Louise

It's Probably (not!) Aliens

Conspirituality

Miniminuteman

Behind The Bastards

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The internet seemed curious about how I use movement to cast spells. Here is what it looks like, though I should have moved back a little bit so you can see the full movements.

(Still a bit conscious of the camera.)

What I'm doing here is creating lines with my body that mimic the lines in the sigil I based the movements on. When I'm making a sigil, sometimes a song will come to mind for me to dance to and I will use that song for the work. This informs the lines that I make in the pen and paper version.

The one I'm basing my movements off of is below:

You can see where I'm creating angles, swirls, and the isolated boxes into a 3D shape with my hands, using the shape of my palms like a calligraphic brush.

I have an internal system of gesture that I use for these kinds of pieces that's somewhat hard to explain, but there is a little bit of pantomime as well. You see it sometimes in my performed choreo, but I try to keep myself from doing too much woo on the stage unless its that kind of show.

Anyways, that's a thing!

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Hmm... thinky thoughts about spells and such.

I know that the most common rhetoric is that intent powers the spell, but I also think that it's possible to overthink and psych yourself out. Like I know that a lot of people who have told me that their first spell worked really well, followed by somewhat of a lull as they studied more.

And it's like art, I think. Like yeah, you can study for years about the theory but you can still get gunshy when it comes to putting pencil to paper. But you're a little kid and you're given paint pots and a sheet of paper and you just get to go at it with your fingers and toes and you make... something. Is it art? By technical definition, yes. Are you proud of it? Hell yeah, I made this part with my foot.

And I think... I think that my most successful spells are the ones where I didnt pay attention to the rules (such as there are rules in spellcrafting) and just kind of did my own thing, measured with my heart.

So maybe it's not intent. Maybe it's just the pure chaotic energy of someone with a spice rack and a fuck around and find out spirit.

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On the night of the 2016 election, before the results were in but we all sort of knew, I felt the presence of what is best described as an ancestor at the foot of my bed. He told me not to worry because 'we have weathered worse and we will weather worse.' And I told him that it wasn't much of a comfort to know that even worse is coming, and he didn't say anything after that.

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Maybe it's not a ferryman anymore. Sometimes you have a dream about your grandma getting in a train and that's how you know.

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