This is my personal blog, where I infrequently post about stuff and things. I am transgender, and a witch, and I will talk about those things probably more than anything else.
I'm trying to be more open about my witchcraft. Coming out of the Broom Closet, as it were. I'd like to share some photos of parts of my journey so far, and share a little bit about what witchcraft is to me.
More pics and discussion below the cut.
Last Yule, that is the one in 2023, I was given a black book and white gel pens. I decided to use it as my Grimoire. I intended it to be a journal and workbook for witchcraft, as I was mildly interested in the topic. For the first half of the year, I did a little bit with it, but not all that much. The book sat on my regular bookshelf until around July, 2024, when I put up a shelf that would become my altar.
This simple shelf would become my altar, more pics of which are seen below. Since July, I have filled out most of this black book, which has officially become my Grimoire, and is only a few pages away from being filled up.
It contains my interpretations of my favorite tarot spreads.
It contains records of my various spells that I have cast since starting my journey, a few of which are spell jars.
And one of which was a brand new spell I created, which I cast under the Beaver Moon. See the first image in this post, and this one:
All the while, I have been collecting spell components, reagents, fun trinkets, charms, gems, crystals, and books. Now, my altar looks like this:
That spray bottle there is moon water. I use it to spritz my terrariums throughout the house, and various other moon water needs.
I am super proud of the witchy progress I have made this year, and want to show everyone what I have accomplished. I now consider myself to be an Eclectic Witch, and I try to practice a little witchcraft every day, and am most of the time successful.
To all the Tumblr witches, let me know what you think of all of this! I'd love to discuss my journey, and will answer any questions you'd like to ask. Ask me anything!!!
A special thanks to all of those that gave advice to me throughout the year, and to all of those that post informative stuff about witchcraft on their own blogs. I have used info from a lot of various tumblr posts. Thank you so much!
(Quds) Before and after: A photo shows the destruction in the Al Rashid Street and Khalil Al Wazir Mosque west of Gaza City after three years of Israeli genocide.
I have been starved for content re: Evolved Mode in FFXIV so I have been watching speculation videos on youtube of people trying to figure out what evolved mode could be like for different jobs.
I feel like game designers have jobs for a reason. This shit is hard. It honestly feels like any speculation that goes beyond just vibes ends up being a huge mess.
Is that going to stop me from watching Evolved Mode speculation videos? Absolutely not.
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bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry
Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually
For anyone into North Asian and Central Asian folk music, there's this incredible Siberian folk-pop band called Otyken! The group is mostly women and they're from multiple indigenous groups in Siberia, with songs being sung in their range of different languages. They're so much fun and their music videos are amazing!
i'll go ahead and recommend The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red), an EDM group from First Nations Ontario that do really cool fusions of First Nations music with dubstep, moombahton, and hip hop.
I really really really appreciate people who share videos on posts like these, because almost without a doubt every time I love the music but I’ve never got the spoons to click on links and look through a bunch of music or worse google the artist I always end up too overwhelmed to start and I hate that
Haven't seen Belle Sisoski here yet so here we go: she's the current Artist of Year for BURO impact Awards. She's from Malaysia and knows how to play an insane amount of ethnic instruments and mixes them with her own voice. She does covers and her own songs, mixes ethnic instruments with Techno and shows the process. And she's also a live DJ at 19!
And one of her own:
Oh and of course there's also the HU and Bloodywood for people who like more rock and metal mixed in:
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