I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
ojovivo
Jules of Nature
shark vs the universe
Today's Document
oozey mess
Sweet Seals For You, Always
tannertan36
Mike Driver
No title available
PR's Tumblrdome
KIROKAZE
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
almost home
sheepfilms
𓃗
No title available
official daine visual archive
roma★
seen from Ukraine
seen from Bangladesh
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Iraq
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from United Arab Emirates
seen from Paraguay
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Ukraine
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Türkiye
seen from Vietnam
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
@towalkmyownpath
be busy. busy not checking messages. busy reading those books you never started or finished. busy having a good night of sleep. busy taking care of yourself and your skin. busy moving your body. busy helping your community. busy reflecting on your life and what you can improve. busy doing things aside from the capitalistic viewpoint of “productivity.” busy slowing down.
seeing a lot of responses to that "sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from chores" discussion going around that made me realize that more people might really benefit from reframing "chores = punishment" into "chores = necessary maintenance." like, it's something i've struggled with as an adult as well, but i do genuinely recommend figuring out a way to detach "chores" as a concept from something you view as this bad horrible thing you must surmount, and instead frame it as tasks that need to be done for your health and well-being. and i think then that take will seem less discouraging, if you initially took it as such.
trust me i also struggle with getting my mundane chores done and i'm still learning to keep house in my 30s. i'm a very clutter prone person and i've had to fight to incrementally incorporate a regular routine into maintaining our home but every small step of progress i make is worth it, and the same has been true for my magical practice.
also just general disclaimer that i understand folks that struggle with chronic fatigue and other disabilities will have to approach this in different ways! this is just what's helped me.
Against if/then statements in warding
Btw if there is any chance that you, dear reader, are a beginner witch who is taking this whole warding/protection business seriously and are trying to sort through an elaborate schema of protections:
It is my (perhaps lowly) opinion that you should question if you should be using If/Then statements in your wards at all, if for no other reason than taking time to examine what it is you're really trying to protect against.
[If/Then warding: "All misfortune is kept away from me, but if it's a lesson from my spirits, then it's accepted."]
The reason I'm on this is because A) on a technical level, I believe if/then statements can very easily weaken spellwork, but also B) it's just so much more difficult to properly cover those loopholes, and then you risk delaying warding for months or years while you figure out the perfect set of programming code to specify that you basically don't want needless bad shit to happen to you but you still want to be connected to the world around you and you understand hardship is a part of life sometimes.
(Or even worse, C, trying to make wards so elaborate and finicky that they're never going to work, and then believing you just can't do magic, and get stuck in a spiral of not being able to practice until you're protected but your wards clearly don't work, even though you workshopped your 50 lines of programming for dozens of hours!)
"All spirits are blocked out and unable to enter, unless they already live here and are coming back or want to travel back and forth"
If you don't want to block out all spirits then why say that? Uninvited spirits, malicious spirits, malfeasant spirits might be a better way to go.
"All misfortune is kept away from me, unless it's a lesson to help me grow, but only if it's something I can handle."
What about all needless harm is kept away? All unhelpful harm? All harm that inhibits my current goals? And a separate discussion with your spirits about when and where you will accept potentially harmful lessons?
"I am protected from all misfortune, upset, and angry customers at my job, unless being protected from that will somehow impede my work performance."
What about I'm protected from all misfortune at my job, and the harmful impacts of stressful situations?
You can still experience a stressful situation while being protected from its impacts. Just because vile energy surrounds you does not mean it must have any effect on you. You can be a part of things and have your own agency and do right by yourself, without absorbing the harm into yourself.
"I am protected unless it's against my highest good-"
I prithee, internalize that you are the master of your own fate: decide what your own good is, and take it for yourself.
11/03/19 // exactly november, everything in its place // ig
A very important reminder:
• You will get a job. • You will find love. • Things take time. • Just enjoy where you are now.
I don't care if my witchcraft receives someone else's seal of approval. I care only that my soul is fed.
Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Of Wildflowers”
[Text ID: “When I was young, I heard / So much about being / a child/woman/man of God / but then I grew up and all / I ever wanted / was to be of wildflowers, / of willow, toad, and bone. / of swallowtails, sow thistle / and cedar, of birds.”]
5 0 Y E A R S A G O
Happy Moon Landing Day! ❤️👩🚀🌛
yeahhh I lied.
one more time, HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!
aaand gooodnight.
crescent moon, jupiter and four of its moons
Happy Fucking Moon Day
saw this suddenly get a flurry of notes which means it is once again fucking moon day! Happy fucking moon day, everyone.
hello all, it's Fucking Moon Day Monday
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY
moon day is 20th July!!!
Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!
Happy moon day to all who celebrate
This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.
MOON DAY MONDAY THIS MONTH NOT A DRILL!!!!!
Nyishi. Scanned from the book L'Inde des tribus oubliées; 1993; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone
Maybe 12+ months ago I spent some time writing on how if you want to lead a magical life I think a lot of this stuff has to be framed as chores. And I did not know how serious I was.
It is chores. Sufficiently advanced witchcraft is chores.
I'm thankful for what I have
i'm on a 10 day streak for meditating every day since i asked for those app suggestions the other week 💕 i'm still very out of practice but i'm embracing the process. i tend to incorporate breath work and meditation into my bigger workings so the practice can only help the rest of my witchcraft 🌈✨ thanks for the suggestions, again! i'm still kind of trial running Insight Timer and Medito but i think i'm leaning towards Medito long term so far. (i will continue to take other suggestions, though, especially if you know of any that have firm stances against genAI--Insight Timer has middle of the road policies on it and for Medito I can't find anything concrete one way or the other)
