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You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right
"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.
I think you learn that you’re a witch in the way that you learn that you’re an artist, a baker, or a writer, etc.
One day something makes you wanna try it out. Then something clicks and you’re like “yeah, yeah this feels right.”
No one is born a witch just as no one is born an artist, a baker, or a writer.
New Agers often prey upon and exploit people with C-PTSD by convincing them that the trauma they can't place to any one specific event in this life must have been caused by trauma from a past life; EG, the destruction of Atlantis or Lemuria, or the Lyran-Draconian Wars. In some cases, New Agers spontaneously "remember" these things even without hypnosis after spending time immersing themselves in New Age media.
For many New Agers, the "memories" they supposedly recover are incredibly vivid and feel extremely real. But we know they aren't. For one thing, Atlantis was a fiction created by Plato, and the mythology of the Draconians are just antisemitic conspiracy theories with a sci-fi paint job.
Many New Agers aren't aware of the political agendas they're being manipulated into. They consider themselves pro-equality, anti-fascist, and all of that. But the fact remains that New Age mythology is intrinsically linked to far right politics, and promoting it serves far right agendas whether they realize it or not.
If you see anybody who tries to convince you that you need to undergo hypnosis to remember some secret hidden past, or that some symptom or other means you must have some secret hidden past, get the hell away from them. They are pushing dangerous pseudoscience that will harm not only you, but many others targeted by the far right.
You can write down as many correspondences as you want, memorize entire lists from someone else's blog or book or whatever, but none of it will matter if you do not understand those correspondences. It's so critically important to ask "Why?"
Why is spirit purple? Why is love red? Why is chamomile calm? Why is quartz "all purpose"? Why does cinnamon speed up a spell?
Why, why, why?
What do you actually believe? And why?
can you do past life memory work on yourself? i know i have some baggage i desperately need to look into 😅
Listen. Listen to me. You do not have baggage from a "past life." You have unaddressed traumas and unmet emotional needs in this life. Put down the mysticism and start taking inventory of all the times in your life that you can remember when you felt dismissed, invalidated, excluded, or unwanted. Take inventory of all the times when you lost access to a person, place, or object that made you feel happy or safe. Take inventory of the times when you were forced into situations that made you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, or when trying to make friends or fit in never worked out for you. I promise you, there is something in this life that's messing you up; probably something that just didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but has done you more harm than you or anyone else knows.
Also, if you haven't done so already, please consider looking into autism and/or ADHD, because trying to exist as someone with autism and/or ADHD in a world built for neurotypical people is inherently traumatizing, and is very often the reason people have trauma they cannot seem to place!
Also, if you find yourself to be unhappy for reasons you can't seem to attribute to trauma from this life, remember that you are living under capitalism, which, unless you're rich, is hostile to your well being. And then remember that we're still living through a pandemic. And climate change. And the fact that fascism is on the rise.
There are a LOT of reasons to be profoundly sad and anxious. Some of it has just become so normalized that it can be hard to give yourself permission to grieve.
Unless your spellcasting paradigm is literally "what I feel in the moment is the act of magic," you don't have to feel anything during spellwork for the spell to be successful.
For many spellcasting paradigms, this is like saying it's impossible to bake a cake unless you experience the metaphysical energies of the kitchen.
On Witchcraft as a spirituality
Sometimes people hit me up like "I need verification, but practicing spells is so tedious, and I need validation" and I am here to tell you that
In my personal opinion you know that
You're never going to finish crochet projects unless you love making stitches.
Letting the yarn slip over your fingers and the hook goes over under over under, stitch stitch stitch, turning chain,
That is the part you've got to love, I think, because the problem is if you only love the amigurumi, or the bag, or the blanket, you're never going to get there,
because crocheting isn't having a blanket.
Crocheting is making a blanket.
"I just need to see my spells manifesting before I can have proof, I need that validation" is bullshit
because you can cast a spell that goes off so incredibly well and then you look around and all you can say is "well that just means the situation was already going to go fine and I never needed to cast, there's no way I could have accomplished that"
and all the while there's this little bit of hollowness and stress and frustration, like you're looking for the thing but the thing never presents itself,
so now the question is still there and it just switches from "I need validation," to "I need faith"
and this is exactly like finishing the amigurumi and looking at its soft squishy face and setting it aside and saying "I need a bag"
but in all the cases, you know, the answer is just about stitches.
Do you need a bag? Or do you need the quiet, repetitive, counting, soothing, structure, activity, progress, and then, by total coincidence, after a while a bag appears?
I think this way often about witchcraft as a spirituality. My blog is mostly practical sorcery based. And when you approach witchcraft from that perspective I think it's pretty much, "I need a result."
But witchcraft isn't having a result.
Witchcraft is making a result.
and I think for those of us who use witchcraft as a spirituality, as a damp and safe terracotta pot within which we can unfurl our roots into the rich soil of the underworld,
It is the joy of the process itself which waters the soils - not the end result.
When you engage in your practice - the literal, physical, mental, and emotional actions you engage in, the ways you've ritualized your behaviors, the series of behaviors you engage in which allow you to interface with your path -
Do those parts, in and of themselves, serve you?
So anyway love your results but fuck results at the same time, if the actual moment-to-moment doesn't serve you, if being there doing the actions in and of itself doesn't bring you something,
perhaps there are adjustments to be done.
It could even be time to switch to a new fiber art altogether.
Priority time, folks: TikTok witches being kinda shallow with their craft is a threat to no one. TikTok witches spreading recycled Satanic Panic/NWO conspiracy theories is a threat to everyone.
I don’t have tt so idk abt this, any context?
TikTok, like any poorly-moderated social media platform that uses algorithms to boost content, is yet another transmission vector for far right conspiracy theories.
A lot of modern alternative spirituality is more deeply entwined with far right conspiracy theories than most people realize, and it's very easy to go from a harmless interest in neopagan spirituality to believing in a satanic pedo network, and pretty much everything else pushed by QAnon. (This idea that there's this underground movement of satanists whose religion requires them to abuse young children for ritual purposes has roots in blood libel and witch panic.)
The New Age movement (which is an actual spiritual movement; it's not just a bunch of people being kinda shallow about Eastern spirituality) tends to buy into the New World Order conspiracy theory, which which derives from claims pushed during the Satanic Panic by a bunch of (now extremely debunked) people who claimed they were involved somehow in this satanic cult (whether because they were straight up lying or misled by false memories unintentionally implanted by people who'd already made up their minds that the conspiracy existed). The NWO conspiracy theory is effectively just The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion gussied up to appeal to the political biases of the average 20th American conservative rather than the 19th century European conservative.
Now, somebody reading this post might be wondering, "wait, New Agers are pretty critical of Christianity and consider themselves progressive - why are they going for this?" One reason is that New Age is a very libertarian movement, and libertarians slide into fascism pretty easily. Also, a lot of New Agers simply aren't progressive whatsoever; they're just conservatives who aren't Christian. Another reason is that some people who consider themselves progressive assume that these conspiracy theories must be fundamentally true on some level, put their own spins on them, and functionally repackage this bullshit to sell to a new audience. Thus we get people thinking it's progressive to believe that Christianity was produced by an ancient global conspiracy, because unlike those mean Nazis, they aren't blaming Jews for it. They're just blaming... (checks notes) ...space lizards who just so happen to be dead ringers for every antisemitic allegation in the book.
And of course, another idea that's popular with a lot of neopagans is the Great Goddess hypothesis. The Great Goddess hypothesis is one of those ideas that came about during the Romantic period, that influenced modern witchcraft. The problem is, it's discredited as hell. There's literally no evidence of some pan-European goddess cult that only ended once patriarchy became a thing. Loads of evidence for many diverse goddesses, sure, but that's obviously not the same thing.
However, some neopagans refuse to accept this, and quickly resort to conspiracism to maintain their belief that this pan-European goddess cult was a real thing. Depending on who you ask, you'll hear that Christians, the patriarchy, or the Jews are part of this conspiracy to keep the truth of the Goddess from the masses. (Albeit, they probably won't say "Jews" outright; they'll probably use some form of antisemitic dog whistle.) This is because once somebody accepts a conspiracist explanation for one thing, it's pretty much only a matter of time before they're accepting conspiracist explanations for just about everything they have a grievance with.
I realize this is a long post, but I wasn't sure exactly what all you didn't know, so I figured I might as well get as much context in as possible. I hope it gives you what you were looking for.
(throwing out there that the Law of Attraction is just conservative meritocracy propaganda aimed at non-Christians!!)
Oh yeah. Stuff like the Law of Attraction and the Law of Assumption are 100% conservative Christian meritocracy BS repackaged for the "spiritual, not religious" crowd.
And then there's the weird emphasis on the gender binary and reproduction in many Neopagan circles. So many of these people are poisoned by paternalistic religions (in the U.S., that's typically Christianity) and never really recover. They just recapitulate some of the most toxic divisive crap, but now it's under the auspices of their interpretations of the divine.
It's why my queer self was never fully accepted into most of the groups I interacted with in my twenties, and why others who criticized the cishet white dominated mindset of the "elders" were marginalized - most of them left rather than fight the hierarchy.
It's been my experience that these types cling to the conspiracy theories and pseudohistory pretty hard, too. Like they just refuse accept that the real world is messy and complicated and hold onto a straightforward "us vs. them" narrative so they never really have to question themselves or think critically about much of anything.
the deepest roots of New-Ageism are in the same ideology (Helena Blavastky; Theosophy) that inspired the Nazis (yes the german ones in ww2) to go look for Atlantis. Don't fucking fall for it.
There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian values.
The USA is not a country founded on Judeo-Christian anything.
(Yes, I may repeat this 500 more times as we’ve apparently decided that all presidential elections must take approximately 2 years and also must take 50 years off of my life.)
This feels like something that should be obvious, but you cannot (and should not) remove spirits and entities from their original cultural or religious context. Especially if that spirit or entity is specific to only one or a very narrow group of cultures or religions.
"biblical angels" you do realise there are angels in the old testament that are literally just regular looking guys, right? you do know that the hallucinogenic incoherent descriptions are in like. two books. and the rest of the time angels are just guys. you know that, right?
and I'm not saying don't have fun with weird angels. I'm saying, either the eldritch forms are for special occasions, or the society of the angels is Many-Eyed-Many-Winged-Interlocking-Circles, Four-Faces-Six-Wings, and Mike.
Literally Raphael is just a normal person!
this is what the heavenly breakroom is like
So weird that there's a biblical angel who looks just like a water cooler
you fool. that's god.
As much as I love learning about and discussing different magical theories, I think I can firmly say that the best way to do magic is to...actually do magic. Like in Skyrim, where in order to level up a skill, you have to actually use it.
not the coquettes literally reinventing nazi phrenology on tiktok
Yeah just a heads up. If you start judging people by bodyshape in any way I'll kick you right in the teeth. Have fun describing someone's face shape as inferior when your jaw is gone
Signs you are a witch:
1. You have decided that you are a witch.
For anyone who needs to hear it, being racist does not require racist intentions. "They can't be racist because they just didn't know any better!" just... isn't how it works.
The whole race change/ethnicity change thing going on in subliminal/reality shifting/manifestation communities is racist, because it's about fetishizing and appropriating from another (often marginalized) group.
Obviously, don't dogpile children involved in this with hate, because kids generally lack the context to understand how and why these things are a problem. That said - kids do need to be educated about racism in a calm and compassionate manner, because they are still absolutely capable of perpetuating it whether they mean to or not.
New Age is such a American religion. No restrictions or defined guidelines or philosophies. just a bunch of vague nonensense defanged of anything that could make you uncomfortable
This is... not really a correct assessment.
New Age developed from Theosophy. Theosophy created by Helena Blavatsky, who was born in the Russian Empire and lived in London. Theosophy and New Age have always attracted people from many countries - the main thing they tend to have in common is that they're white.
And New Age has always had ideas that could make people uncomfortable, such as spiritual eugenics, conspiracy theories, and the whole attitude that they know your religion better than you. In fact, plenty of New Agers brag about how their ideas "challenge authority" and shake their head over how so many people "don't want to hear the truth." Hell, New Ager Teal Swan basically made "making people uncomfortable" (read: physically and psychologically abusing them) part of her brand.
I notice that you've been sending me a number of asks and making reblogs of my posts with additions that aren't always totally wrong, but are full of stuff that's definitely far from correct. I think it might be a good idea if you maybe took some time to do some deeper research before making hasty generalizations and assumptions.
If you think it's wrong or shameful for someone to have a casual relationship to magic, witchcraft, the gods, etc., you are functionally a fundamentalist. There's no difference between you and the Bible thumper who thinks everybody needs to be in constant prayer and thinking about God's will at all times.
