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Now that you have your original blog back, will you be moving back to it? I'm giving it a follow just in case, but I don't wanna be following a dead blog if you choose to leave one
Yepp! I’ll be posting on @thewitchofthenorse mainly! I’m going to keep this blog to reblog my OG posts only so it’ll be an archive but that’s it :)
This Jamaican Lesbian Romance is available as a print HERE.
☀️ solar witch starter pack ☀️
some resources to get you started with solar witchcraft:
sun magic & the elements
little solar witch ideas
sun altar set-up
sun witch morning tips
sun crystals & how to use them
sunrise witchcraft
sunset magick
seeds of happiness spell
forever sunkissed spell
glow like the sun spell jar
cloak of the sun spell
solar witch teas
witch’s basil lemonade
sun salts
summer incantations
sun witch vibes
summer witch moodboard
solar deities:
apollo
helios
ra
alaunus
sol
the wiccan god
crystals:
citrine
pyrite
orange calcite
garnet
sunstone
carnelian
tiger’s eye
amber
goldstone
golden/honey calcite
plants to grow/use in your craft:
rosemary
basil
sunflowers
marigolds
succulents
cacti
citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, etc.)
oregano
cinnamon
ginger
ash
turmeric
corn
carrots
poppy
geranium
chamomile
good blogs that post about solar witchcraft: @healing-sun-witch @solarianwitch
and a solar witchcraft playlist. or two.
One of this spring’s commissions: Loki and Sigyn
She was the weightless bird and the clear spring, she was the secret path and the laughing shrub, she was the drunken and daring summer night. She was bold and laughed out of bounds, for she was the forest’s fair daughter –.
— Edith Södergran, from poem “Skogens ljusa dotter” (1929)
Sorry for the long hiatus, I had a hectic winter and spring. but now, with the summer weather, it seems like I’m back on track! This was commissioned by @jisabeau, thank you!
I had a fun time trying out colours and techniques I don’t use as often with my art, and I really enjoy the end result, all the textures and light.
Sigyn is holding in her hands a bunch of young spruce/fir twigs and sorrels/docks; both can be used for adding a nice tangy or acidic taste to foods, and often make me think of spring and summer.
In the early 1920s, reformers obsessed over the sexual nature of some Pueblo rituals, and attempted to control their performance.
The concern about Native women’s sexual expression covered up a deeper worry about white women’s relationships to sexuality.
Some June foklore for y’all:
“A calm June puts the farmer in tune.”
“June damp and warm does the farmer no harm.”
“Summer doesn’t start until the elder is in flower”
“Married in the month of June - life will be one long honeymoon.”
If any witches in the Akron/Cleveland area want to celebrate Midsummer/Litha together - let me know!☀️ I’ve always celebrated holidays alone but one of my biggest reasons for moving was community ~ so, I’d love to hold a celebration!
It’s Bulbasaur blooming season
Lots of variety this year!
A late bloomer!
Water-lily Bulbasaur catching up on the latest gossip at the lake
Wow, looks like thing are getting serious between hibiscus and fuchsia!
@crystalwitch-in-the-tardis I had the sudden urge to tag you in this. Have some Bulbasaur.
@mirronx probably because Bulbasaur is one of my faves! Thanks they are so cute!
The fact that the location of the world’s oldest tree has to be kept secret encapsulates everything that’s bad about humanity.
There’s a story about that, actually.
According to the smithsonianmag.com, the world’s oldest bristlecone pine was a nearly 5,000 year old tree later named Prometheus. In 1964, a man named Donald Rusk Currey decided to use an increment borer to determine its age (a process that cuts a small hole into the center of the tree trunk, and is not intended to kill the tree). Unfortunately, the borer got stuck. He and a park ranger cut the tree down to remove the equipment, and when they counted the tree rings, they realized their mistake. Oops. This incident lead to better protection of the remaining bristlecone pines.
There’s some wiggle room about what can be called “the world’s oldest living tree.” The world’s oldest living single tree is the tree that the OP is referring to. Its name is Methuselah,and it is also around 5,000 years old. Since its location is unknown, nobody knows what it looks like. But it might be this tree here:
But technically, it isn’t the oldest living tree. Let me explain.
It turns out that root systems of trees can send up genetically identical saplings (aka clones) via their root systems. Like so:
Which means the original trunk can die, but since the root system is attached to other trees which give it nutrients, it lives on. The root system can theoretically do this indefinitely. So the tree trunks could be fairly young, but the roots could be large and very, very, very old. So the oldest “tree” isn’t a small grove, it’s a logic-defying forest.
I’d like you to meet Pando.
This male quaking aspen covers 106 acres and is ancient. I’m talking an estimate of 80,000 years. The trees you can see are just “shoots” he sent up, and their average age is 130 years old. He is his own forest. If trees could talk, I’d love to hear what he had to say.
He might be dying, due to insects and drought (hmm, wonder what could have happened to cause that). A section of Pando is being studied in an attempt to find a solution. But in the meantime, we can enjoy him for his beauty.
TLDR: Yes please, protect the trees from humans!
That doesn’t say anything about humanity or even “everything that’s bad about humanity.” It says something about specific vandals. It says something about particular people who act badly and maliciously. Their own behavior speaks for them. It does not speak for humanity.
I would like to introduce you to the Glastonbury Thorn, or the Holy Thorn. The Glastonbury Thorn is an incredibly rare and bizarre type of hawthorn that flowers, startlingly, twice in the year - once just after midwinter. It’s found in Glastonbury, England, and it is a legendary tree.
Figure 1. Glastonbury, variously famed for the Festival, the Tor, the Holy Grail, maaaaaaybe being Avalon if you squint, the hippies, about six million identical vegetarian cafes and witchcraft shops, a goddess temple, and the Holy Thorn. People can’t decide if it’s all very neopagan or all very Christian, so they pretend it’s all very Special and Enlightened.
The Christmas-flowering nature and the Generally Recognized Cosmic Significance of Glastonbury (which is among other things maybe the Isle of Avalon) were quickly associated with Joseph of Arimathea, a Christian figure. The legend goes that when Joseph brought the Holy Grail to Glastonbury (which he probably didn’t) he struck his thorn staff into the ground, where it became the legendary twice-blooming tree. This probably didn’t happen, but it’s the Holy Thorn. The first written record of the Holy Thorn was apparently in the 1500s, and very proud of it they were, too.
Now, in the English Civil War, sometime between 1642–1651, the Roundheads burned down the Holy Thorn on Wearyall Hill, decrying it as regressive superstition. But people had saved cuttings and graftings of their beloved magical tree. They put it back. Because humanity. Humanity is a race of gardeners and hoarders and people who love stories and treasure and rebellion. Of course they put it back. Of course we put it back. That’s exactly the kind of fuckoff attitude that humanity has. And, you know, it’s REALLY HARD to propagate the Holy Thorn; you can’t grow it from seed; most cuttings seem to revert to normal hawthorn trees that bloom normally, once a year in the spring. It’s really tricky to capture that transient, fleeting, pointless mutation - the holiness of it. Think of the rebel gardeners in the 1650s - almost 400 years ago - ferociously and secretly and scientifically nurturing the grafts and saplings of this finicky, impossible plant. Humanity.
Holy Thorns have variously occupied Wearyall Hill since then. They all bloomed twice a year, once in midwinter.
in 2010, someone attacked the Holy Thorn on Wearyall Hill. A vandal. This person chopped all the branches off.
Oh, how people mourned. They wrapped ribbons around the tree, decorated its cage, prayed to the goddess, did weird dances, cursed the vandal on Facebook, etc. etc. It was ineffective, but showed how passionately humanity cared for the holy trees. Christians, pagans, witches, biologists, everyone was PISSED OFF.
And the vandal returned, again and again, and destroyed the new growth. The vandal killed the Holy Thorn. And just a few days ago, in May 2019, the landowner finally uprooted the dead tree on Wearyall Hill.
What would you call that? Two bursts of singular and specific evil, in more than four hundred years of recorded history? Would you call that humanity? “Oh, humanity! Ugh, how disgusting! These two tiny events in the landscape of history definitely confirm how correct I am to sneer at my own species.” Or would you see the best of humanity in every living Holy Thorn? In the ones that bloom, twice a year, in churches and schools and private gardens around Glastonbury? In the mad, impossible ones that bloom twice a year in New Zealand and Australia? Where do you center your humanity? I know where I center mine.
There are dozens of Holy Trees. Many cultures have them. I just know the Thorn myself because I watched it all go down. But there are Holy Trees everywhere.
And I am here for the Holy Trees, and the people who graft them and save them, and who roar and grieve for them, and plant them again. That’s humanity. We are the ones who name the trees. We are the ones who find out their secrets. We are the ones who make them holy.
Got my order from @heretic-knights today! The oils come wrapped in bubble wrap so they don’t break on the way. Each order comes with your choice of money powder, money rice, or money bath salts! I got the psychic oil, but he also sells money oil, blockbuster oil, crossing oil, uncrossing oil, control oil, protection oil, love oil, and tobacco oil.
Every order is $15 with shipping!
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Is your old blog back? I can follow it now!
thewitchofthenorse is back!!!!!!!
YOURE FUGGIN RIGHT THANKS BBYYYY
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A little house? Anyone there?
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Oh! Hello there!
I heard there was a call for antifascist Norse imagery. Antifa Mjolnir, anyone?
(You can also buy it on shirts & stickers here.)
Pride cacti!!!! I originally just made the ace (cactace) and aro ones, but…..then I got carried away…. They’re all gonna be stickers eventually, and the older (slightly less detailed) versions of the ace and aro ones are available already, here!
edit: they’re on society6! and the stickers are available here!!
