there is magic in the mundane

all things take time, be patient with yourself 🖤🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🖤 they/them

[windvexer]

I'm in a Place right now so I want to share.

I haven't been Doing This for a terribly long time (coming up on nine years), but that's long enough for some basic pattern recognition.

I would love to impress upon all you who care for input: This isn't Linear, it never will be, and you can't make it be. So stahp trying.

If you are dry land, magic and spirits come upon you and flow away like the swollen river. If you are an oak tree, your fire rises up and falls away like leaves on a tree. If you are water, you are pushed and pulled to the otherworld as if held by the moon.

It doesn't matter if your path is nature-centric. This isn't about worshiping the earth.

The tree grows taller, year by year. The roots grow deeper, year by year. But every year the leaves fall. Every year the dry comes, then the wet. Progress doesn't mean a full crown of leaves at any season. Progress doesn't mean having a high tide whenever it suits your whims.

Let it go, let it be, and learn your own seasons.

[medstudentblues]

I used to read a lot on my free time. I have lots of books which I don’t have time to read. now I spend all my time going through pathology textbooks. my goal in life lately is to have time. to have time to take long walks and to read books that I love the most. maybe in 10 years.

[fawnvelveteen]

1938

[kim-kartrashcan]

the amount of love emanating from that simple “our michael” is enough to heal all the wounds in my heart

[exai]

i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone

[vvandering-vvitch]

why is my anxiety high rn but i’m not? 🤔

[spaceexp]

The Moon and Jupiter

via reddit

[jacindaelena]

NYC by heydavina

[lennonslittlegarden]

Cottagecore but make it dark

[kermitlesbian]

i’m sorry for making your life more whimsical and serendipitous 🙄

[great-and-small]

-my cat when I yell at him for running around the house as fast as possible at 3am

[fablefire]

My grass is down to just really determined little weeds surviving out of spite.

[vvandering-vvitch]

tbh fuck grass/lawns, let the wildflowers and clover roam free 💚

[comparativetarot]

The Hermit. Art by Matt Wisner, from the Transient Light Tarot Deck.

[grayskymorning]

Ashley York

[incidentalcomics]

Ways of Being

[schmergo]

When I walk into the mall and see Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween, I feel the same way Hamlet did when his mom married his annoying uncle so shortly after his father’s death.

[rissamagica]

i ask for substitutes a lot…but when are substitutes NOT okay?

[teawitch]

This needs to be talked about more. I was in a class over Samhain give by the fantastic Matthew Venus from Spiritus Arcanum and at one point he said “Mullein is often recommended as a substitute for graveyard dirt. It isn’t. Graveyard dirt is a substitute for graveyard dirt.” Which is sometimes how I feel about the substitution advice I see online. 

Before I can determine the appropriate substitution for something in a spell, I have to know the purpose of the spell and what correspondence system the originator of the spell was following. I also need to know the purpose of the item in the spell. Then I can determine if I’m doing a simple swap out or if I might as well sit down and write a spell of my own to work with what I have. 

If I can’t determine the system used, I should either work the spell as is or not work the spell if I don’t trust the process. It’s like baking - if you substitute more flour for baking powder because they are both white, you won’t get the right result. Substitute applesauce for bananas and you don’t get banana bread, but you might get a tasty applesauce bread. 

I don’t trust the “X substitutes for any Y” substitutions. Now you can usually substitute a white candle for any color candle by sticking it in a candle holder of the appropriate color or otherwise bringing the color to the candle. (The fantastic availability of all sorts of candle colors is a more modern convenience.) But rosemary is aligned with the sun. Good for protection and prosperity. Not good at all in a spell that needs the Moon influence. Or Venus. Or well, maybe Jupiter. But otherwise, I’m going to find a plant for the influence I need. Quartz crystal is an amplifier, so good in the sense that it can amplify the spell. But I’m not going to consider it a substitute for a stone for Mercury or Venus. I’m going to go find something else that is appropriate to that work. 

Personal correspondences - I see a lot of people developing their own correspondences. This is great. I have my own list of correspondences that I know work for my personal work. But they are personal. Which means if I hand off a spell to you based on my relationships with certain plants or stone, it may not work for you because you don’t have the same relationship. 

Cultural relationships and correspondences are a strong bond. This comes into play in work like Voodoo or Hoodoo where a culture has a long formed bond with working with certain plants, herbs, ancestors, deities, etc. I don’t have that relationship so I can’t rework their work. 

[restfulraccoon]

Instagram.com/ouijaye 🖤

[magpie-macaroni]

mundane magics have to be my favourite

painting your nails with colours corresponding to intention

wearing safety pins for protection

throwing a little bit of rosemary into your bread dough

deciding your plush animals are your protection wards

wearing charmed jewellery

talking to your plants so they grow better

scribbling sigils in your notebooks and journals

there's just something about everyday life seamlessly blending in with magic that it would be a pity to further try to separate them