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Bleeding Fairy Helmets on Mount Cordeaux, 2024
Waterfall brooch by Mikimoto, 2021
Inspired by artist Hokusai’s depictions of waterfalls in his famous ukiyo-e landscapes.
18k white and rose gold with freshwater pearl, jadeite, tanzanite, emeralds, sapphires, and diamonds.
Professional courtesy. Work in progress.
ARTHUR DIEHL (1870-1929)
Untitled (Cosmic Salvation)
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oil on board, signed 'Arthur V Diehl' and dated lower left
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Golden Teacher by Skot323
The skull of Mary Magdalene in St Maximin Basilica in France.
I'm so traumatized by Christianity and I didn't even get to worship at cool shit like this.
Crows in Flight, in Snow, by Nomura Yoshikuni, late 19th century
The Bird of A Thousand Voices, installation by Boris Acket
Apollo's Chariot (1906) by Odilon Redon
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, 1859-1923
Contre les Chiens, d’après Alphonse Allais (1854-1905). Paru dans le Gil Blas illustré, 7ème année, n°27, 2 juillet 1897, crayons gras, encre de Chine et crayons de couleur sur papier crème, 27.8x22.9 cm
Préempté par le Musée d’Orsay (La Tribune de l’Art)
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Trompe l'Oeil with a Bust of Venus (1665) by Caesar van Everdingen
STFU Powder
Intent: To bind tongues, silence gossip, and get loud-mouthed jerks to SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Ingredients:
Slippery Elm
Deerstongue
Nettle
Sassafras
Bloodroot
Materials:
Mortar & Pestle (or spice grinder)
Funnel
Mesh Strainer
Collection Dish
Container
Grind each ingredient separately for several minutes to produce fine powder. Sieve the material through the mesh strainer into the collection dish; this removes the larger ungrindable pieces and gives you cleaner powdered herb. (Pro-Tip: Putting a funnel under the strainer helps reduce lost material.) Combine the component powders in the collection dish, mix well, and bottle immediately. Sprinkle where you know the target will be, particularly in meeting places where you know the target will be tempted to ramble on. Use in any spellwork meant to silence gossip, bind wagging tongues, keep secrets, discourage hateful words, and make people eat their words.
-later included in Pestlework: A Book of Magical Powders & Oils, © 2017 by Bree NicGarran
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A little something for my witches who feel the need to slap some magical duct tape over people’s hateful traps this month. If you need to source powdered herbs online, I recommend Penn Herb or Starwest Botanicals.
Pairs well with the Strawberry Gossip-Stopper Curse.
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Fighting Consumerism in Magic
aka, little things to distance your craft from capitalism
Let’s all just admit that buying stuff is fun. That said, there’s a big issue of consumerism within the witchy/pagan scene. As magic work and the pagan “aesthetic” becomes more of a commodity in the mainstream, there’s a mounting attitude of needing All The Items in the highest quality (even if we’re not certain we’ll use them,) and big corporations mass-producing cheap stuff to make a buck off of a growing trend. Here’s some things you can do to help detach your practice from that and support other people in the craft:
Go outside. Check your backyard or local park for local plant life, waters, roots, etc. If your work involves things from nature at all, you can probably find a lot of your supplies… in nature. It takes a little more time, but it’s free and then you’ve gathered stuff yourself!
Make stuff. This one is pretty straightforward. There may be key items to your practice that you can make yourself instead of buying it! That said, I know sometimes spending money is inevitable so I won’t dwell too much on this… let’s talk more about shopping:
Shop mindfully. The price of a lot of items will skyrocket once it has a pentacle or other symbol engraved on it. For example, little mortars and pestles can be very pricey in witchy shops, but you could probably get a bigger one that’s actually food safe for less at a nice grocery store. Antique stores and international markets are now your new best friends.
Support small businesses! Things are cheaper on Amazon, but the extra money goes to support real people, likely other practitioners. If you can, supporting small, local, independent shopkeepers and crafters does a ton of good. It also helps build and sustain a local community.
Shop based on need. Don’t get something “just in case” (unless it’s banishing or hex breaking stuff; those are decent to have on hand.) It’s tempting to impulse-buy a ton of niche items and ingredients, but unless you have a reasonable idea what you’re going to use them for in the near future, it’ll probably just create clutter for you to deal with later.
Prioritize effectiveness over aesthetic. Ultimately your practice has to work for you, not just look good. I think making your work aesthetically pleasing to yourself can be an important part of really connecting with what you’re doing, but don’t make that desire burn a hole in your wallet and distract you from what brought you to this path in the first place. Altar envy is a real thing.
Recycle/Upcycle. Use old clothing fabric for an altar cloth. That old trinket dish makes a great offering dish. Enchant jewelry you already own. That jar of strawberry jelly you just finished off will work just fine for that spell. Things can be re-purposed and made into new things.
Analyze your offerings. Special occasion wine isn’t a special occasion if you do it every time. Not every offering needs to be a grand gesture, regular maintenance is more important generally.
Organize trades. Have any pals that also practice? See if you can help each other! You could trade different goods (that old mini cauldron you bought and never used for that abandoned tarot deck, maybe?) but also services. A protection spell for a luck charm. A reading for a reading. You help them with the laundry and they cook you a meal one day.
As always, the goal is to foster a local community of individuals doing honest work, and shedding the consumerist mindset society taught us to make us spend more money. Take up the idea that you can do magic completely on your own with what you already around you, and if you do want to spend money, see if you can do it in a way that helps the world a tiny bit. :)
I love bringing this anti-consumerism mindset to my spiritual mindset!