But what ... is it good for?

Be happiness itself.

[identitty-dickruption]

I get to be more free as an adult than I ever did as a child and I think more kids need to know that. as a high schooler part of what made my depression so bad was being told over and over again that it was the most carefree time of my life. while I was trapped in an abusive home + amongst bullies at school + in a body that wasn’t right for me. opportunities to be carefree don’t end when you turn 18. you can be more you than ever as an adult and that’s such a gift. I know ‘it can get better’ is an annoying thing to see over and over when you’re as trapped as I was back then. and I know that if you’re still a kid you deserve to be free right this second. but it can and will get better and this is not where life stops being interesting. promise

[starling-illu]

oíche shamna shona daoibh 👻🕯

[village-witch1]

“Tell me, how does one differentiate between science and magic?” “One doesn’t,” said Ru, unable to hide her exasperation. This was a topic they had covered many times in the past few days. “We lack the tools to quantify magic, but as you know, my theories point to it being rooted in physics. The movement of particles we can’t measure with our technology.” “And how,” said Hugon, his hair lifting and falling about his ears in the chill wind, “would one differentiate faith and magic? Love and science? Are they, by necessity, separate entities, mutually exclusive yet existing in harmony?” His neckcloth, usually starched and stiff, had loosened in the breeze and ruffled against his chin. “And if they were laid out before you, would you know the difference?” Ru stiffened. “That’s conceptual.”

[village-witch1]

If magic existed, she thought, then music was proof enough.

[village-witch1]

“you must understand that not all magic is occult, and not all occult matters are truly magic. There is some overlap, but often what we call the ‘occult’ is folklore or religion. I find that to get to the truth, it is easiest to delve into where these two do overlap. There, we can locate the merging of story with reality, science with the impossible, as it were. Of course, I don’t believe that magic is impossible – what many might call magic is actually science, perhaps performing or existing on a level we can’t calculate or comprehend. Our technology is far too limited to measure it. But I wouldn’t reduce the term magic to advanced science, as there is still a spiritual factor, an unknowing that we must accept as intrinsic to the practice.”

[village-witch1]

Maybe that was what drew her to the concept of magic, the peeling back of the known to reveal an unplumbed depth. So much of the world was a mystery. So much of science was obscure, an equation yet to be solved.

[village-witch1]

What is fate? What cords that run through time and space, through souls and living matter, draw us together or apart? What alchemy guides us through our lives from birth to death? Is it random? Or is it guided by an unseen force?

[village-witch1]

To Ru, there was a magic to the discovery of ancient lives. There was power in the souls that had come before. Connections were everywhere — energy flowed through every living being, the electric buzz of a nervous system, its billions of neurons firing. The beat of a heart. The clench and stretch of muscles.

From- the Destroyer, Meg Smitherson

[village-witch1]

‘Time,’ said Nimue, ‘has neither a beginning nor an end. Time is like the serpent Ouroboros, which bites its own tail with its teeth. Eternity is hidden in every moment. And eternity consists of the moments that create it. Eternity is an archipelago of moments. You may sail through that archipelago, although navigation is very difficult, and it is dangerous to get lost. It’s good to have a lighthouse whose light can guide you. It’s good to be able to hear someone calling among the fog . . .’

[whitepeopletwitter]

[athelind]

[walkingslowlytofastmusic]

The Dutch are making moves to make some changes after this outbreak

[village-witch1]

My latest painting titled "The Magic of a Midsummer Night's Tea" memorializing how I experienced the fairy realm on midsummer's night whilst drinking a cup of of blue lotus tea.

[village-witch1]

Destiny catches up with people. And not the other way around. Do you understand that? Do you understand that, Lord Regis Terzieff-Godefroy?’ ‘Better than you think, Madam Vigo.’ The vampire twiddled the wooden peg from the sausage. ‘But for me – please forgive me – destiny isn’t a scroll written on by a Great Demiurge, nor the will of heaven, nor the inevitable verdict of some providence or other, but the result of many apparently unconnected facts, events and occurrences. I would be inclined to agree with you that destiny catches up with people . . . and not just people. But the view that it can’t be the other way around doesn’t convince me. For such a view is facile fatalism, a paean praising torpor and indolence, a warm eiderdown and the beguiling warmth ofa woman’s loins. In short, life in a dream. And life, Madam Vigo, may be a dream, may also finish as a dream . . . But it’s a dream that has to be dreamed actively. Which is why, Madam Vigo, the road awaits us.’

[village-witch1]

Is the Witchcraft community overly capitalised?

Hello lovely Tumblrs who still use this platform!

I have out of the broomcloset Secular Witchcraft practioner for about 5 years. But probably for even longer if I hadn't have neglected the call for so many years. I remember making fun of the hippies in goths in high school and thinking how much of a *weirdo* those people are! I thought I was soooo much better than them because I was accepted in the normies group and they weren't.

However, I still remember **Back in my day** we had to READ so many freakin books in order to come up with a semi inkling of what type of practice we will follow. What type of witch or neo pagan if you will.

Nowadays, thru TikTok, Youtube, etc, witchy influencers have succesfully *bewitched* people into thinking they need to spend hundreds of dollars on crystals and tarot and herbs or thousands of euro on classes in order to even learn how to become a "baby witch".

Is this the future of witchcraft? Although I love having so many materials and inspiration from the internet it just all seems so overly capitialized- especially during the pandemic era when people were desperate for a connection and change.

What do y'all think? Have we over commercialised ourselves?

[hexandbalances]

[smallfrost]

MFS Research Institute Necro Dept. Proudly Presents the Naming of Sgt. Izadora L’Amara

bonus:

That sound is the collective death of the entire Necro Dept. Good thing Sgt. L’Amara can bring us back. Thank you to all the nerds who helped with this project!

Kudos to @jaedyxe​ for initiating this critical search 

[krobelus]

[killowave]

[lazy-cat-corner]

Western history loves to brag about their geniuses, philosophers, thinkers, and innovators throughout history but as far as I know, nobody talks about geniuses in non western history. Why can’t an Aztec community have their neighborhood Einstein who loved to study engineering and physics and helped build an efficient-running town?

[grim-ghastly]

Reblog is you're uncomfortable with how eurocentric our understanding of history is.

[furbearingbrick]

Numerous Egyptian murals: literally explain that stone blocks and large sculptures were transported using water

“Ancient Aliens” fuckos: