like a silver shimmering flood

mid 20s. she/her. like hell if i know what this blog is for, i only still have it because one of my posts blew up and i fallacy on my sunk costs.

[thewatercouldcover]

cosmo sweetie i dont know if you realise but that has fucking mercury in it

[girldraki]

THIS IS ASBESTOS

[exoflash]

a concerning amount of witchblr will be like "um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus" and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish

[cryptotheism]

Extremely Niche Modern Occultist Drama Tip:

Someone saying they're a "Wiccan Priestess" means nothing. Wicca does not have a formalized priest class. If you actually want to know their clout, ask what initiations they've taken.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

so i've been on this site for a hot minute and i've always operated on the idea that if you're here long enough you'll end up with at least one popular text post but uh, maybe that's not true? so, i wanna know

have you (by your own standards and definition) had a popular post?

yep

nope

despite clearly wording your question i still do not fit into a binary answer

Voting ended onOct 26, 2023

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

Favorite kind of responses to this post

people saying yes they've had a popular post and then giving a number that doesn't even break triple digits. Some real home town news anchor popularity right there. Genuinely I adore this.

No, thank god

Describing a post that I've actually seen/reblogged that makes me do the leo dicaprio pointing meme

[traegorn]

Is it true that Friday the 13th was a celebration for Freyja before the Christians started associating it with Satan?

So Friday the 13th wasn't really a thing until the 19th century, and it happened just because both Friday and 13 were considered unlucky.

So no.

Drawing Norse connections here is tenuous. There is a story involving Loki that some use to theorize as a reason that 13 might be unlucky -- but that's just a hypothesis, with no more weight than the one that suggests it's unlucky because of Judas being the 13th guest at the last supper.

Which considering how widespread the idea that the number 13 being unlucky is, the Norse origin seems even less likely. And Friday in English is named for Frigg, not Freyja. Some argue that they're the same goddess, but that's not commonly agreed on. In any case, Friday in other languages in cultures that also see Friday the 13th as unlucky have completely unrelated root words.

And frankly that's not even tackling the subject of what calendar pre-Christian Norse and Germanic tribes were using in the first place.

This is one of those "Neopagans want to feel persecuted" stories that's been around for a long time, but has less support than a a cooked spaghetti bridge.

[grox]

You may think it cruel but when a white witch pisses me off I go through her etsy listings for native bird feathers and forward it to fish and wildlife services

[gwen-stefanis-ankle-monitor]

Sweats in Salem witch descendant

[grox]

Keep sweating girl the game wardens on his way

[snaketomes-deactivated20231116]

I cannot believe I have to say this but you HAVE to learn about plants on a scientific level if you use herbs in spell crafting. It’s for SAFETY reasons. You CANNOT BURN CERTAIN HERBS and you cannot touch or consume certain herbs. You NEED to know this for every herb you use- it’s not a pick and choose thing you guys it’s SAFETY. ESPECIALLY to my chronically ill witches and practitioners like myself.

Please stop throwing herbs into a fire bc you saw some tiktok witch do it. PLEASE.

[will-o-the-witch]

Seriously. Once I saw a tiktok that with a cute little New Moon Spell™ which involved dressing a candle with HEMLOCK.

Y'know, that very witchy #aesthetic sounding plant to create the mood, which can easily kill you just from handling it with your bare hands let alone BURNING it INDOORS to release highly toxic gas into your home. Fortunately on Tumblr, people jumped onto that post and shut it down almost immediately, but someone new without a lot of plant knowledge could reasonably have just seen the spell, thought hemlock really captures the feel of witchcraft they're looking for (if they've heard its toxic, it's fine as long as they don't consume it, right? Right?) and later caused SERIOUS injury.

Thats an extreme example, but it's a real one. Know your dang plants.

[cryptotheism]

There's a correct way to engage with the occult, and it's the exact mindset and methods I use. If you're wooier than me you're an idiot and if you're more rationalist than me you're an uncultured anti-intellectual. I am the razor of occult truth join my private discord only for the wealthiest and most parasocial of my followers.

[rednines]

I think when gay people discovered Jung a new religion was born where they burn sandalwood next to some crystals and flex to each other over some lacroix about how much they go to therapy and how many queer dnd podcasts they listen to.

It’s a sexless new age enlightenment pseudopsychological therapeutic social justice language pissing contest. Who can present themselves as the most sterile poised guiltless “intuitive tarot reader”.

It’s queerness with the edges ground off, magic without blood, psychoanalysis without ugliness, art without disturbances, smoke without fire

It’s like corporate pride meets new age wicca meets self help bullshit meets fandom meets empath nonsense and let me tell you it drains the fucking life out of me

Can we please just have the Radical Faeries back? Please?

[rednines]

@balaclava-trismegistus

[thejewitches]

Every single year, without fail, we deal with the fact that the internet is obsessed with promoting the misinformation that Ostara must have been stolen from Easter.

People will argue until they’re blue in the face…But they won’t provide citations or evidence to the contrary and the reason why is simple: there isn’t any.

If you find that celebrating Ostara brings you joy: we aren’t here to rain on your parade or stop you in the slightest.

But misinformation, even misinformation that sounds cool and serves to further rhetorical goals, is still wrong and harmful.

So, after years of promising it, we’ve finally delivered: Easter isn’t stolen from Ostara.

Have questions? We’re happy to answer!

Make sure to follow our Instagram @jewitches for the ongoing discussion!

[acitymadeofsong]

Buying overpriced quartz from a New Age shop in hopes that it will ~heal~ you isn’t really all that different from giving money to a Christian televangelist faith healer for the same reasons, imo. A scam that flavors itself as feminist and countercultural is still a scam.

[acitymadeofsong]

tbh if anything the televangelist has a stronger case, in the Russel’s Teapot sense where we can’t actually prove this guy doesn’t talk directly to God. but the crystal healer people are making claims about Energies and Vibrations, which are like, physical things, which you’d be able to measure. If the crystals were actually vibrating, that would be heat!

[thinkingredwizard]

We spent the 20th century figuring out everything about minerals with Energies And Vibrations and can say with some confidence that Energies And Vibrations coming from rocks is Bad For You, Actually.

[creature-wizard]

Reminder that witch labels (EG, green witch, kitchen witch, storm witch, etc.) are an extremely recent convention. If a label works for you, that's fine - but don't feel like you have to label yourself, let alone force yourself into some kind of box.

[hagoftheholler]

Some witches will argue that Christians stole pagan traditions and holidays, that there is absolutely no way syncretism played a role in anything related to the topic... then go on to use the whitewashed concept of chakras, try to girlbossify the Jewish demon Lilith into a "Goddess", demonize Hoodoo (and by extension black folk) in the name of love & light, steal Indigenous traditions to remove them from their original context... and the list goes on...

[cryptotheism]

I don't know how to describe it, but people who have spent too much time in the post-new-age lightworker starseed crystal Jesus occult milieu have this specific way of speaking and writing.

It's not quite word salad you can still kinda see the idea they're trying to communicate but it's delivered with these very specific sort of run on sentences that makes it sound like stream of consciousness. It's like their brain hasn't been fully melted but it's just been kinda light-fried in a pan for a bit too long.

[humm-bird]

What

[cryptotheism]

People who get too into crystals talk weird in a specific way.

[minnowette-deactivated20241020]

Women will be sayin they can’t find a man and blame men…like they haven’t gotten in touch with their divine self and men can sense that, 😅😅 like as women we emit feminine energies that men pick up on unconsciously and women who dedicate themselves to working and not tending their internal hearth dampen these energies which make men lose interest in them LOL! I’ve been making my hearth nest of various crystals over the past 3 cycles and men are definitely staring at me more on the street…their masculine frequencies can pick up on mine so easily now 😂 as is my god given right !!! Divine procuring y’all

is it like that

[cryptotheism]

This is like one notch below what I'm talking about. I'm thinking more like:

"We're all just two things fundamentally speaking: energy and consciousness, but we've become disconnected from that consciousness, largely because modern life alienates us from our true pranhic selves which the Egyptians called ka stemming from a 10,000 year tradition of spiritual practices going back to the earliest hunter gatherer societies from which we've fallen. But we can recover that lost energy, that lost consciousness through careful practice, mindfulness and love.

[thewatercouldcover]

yeah can you all shut up for a minute i'm trying to see if I can wear my necklace glow bowling without it getting damaged. yeah yeah i know you're saying this will help my anxiety but right now im worried about if i can wear my necklace glow bowling without it getting damaged. YES I KNOW VIBRRATIONS OR WHATEVER I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF

[thewatercouldcover]

I am going to use this to create a pathway of energy that lets me shoot psychic beams from my asshole