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Y'all just wanna make fun of kids you think are stupid

Right

Like that's what it actually is right

Every time there's a conversation about godspousal, sacred marriage, henosis, theurgy, or any of the many many many terms used to describe loving the divine, there's always the disclaimer

"I'm not calling out the REAL practitioners who have real relationships with their deities and take it SERIOUSLY. I'm only calling out the silly little girls who think they're dating Apollo omg get off tiktok!"

But you also have absolutely no way of telling who is a serious practitioner with years of experience and who is someone role playing.

Okay, I'm gonna be 100% straight right now, there are very obviously lots of people who just roleplay with deities for the sake of fun or comfort. Some people are very frivolous with their practice and don't put the work in or have the due respect they should.

I personally don't give even the slightest inch of a shit how legitimate or professional anyone else is with their deities or practice,

There have literally always been silly people in every single subculture ever, I personally don't get much of a kick from making fun of them. Especially when I suspect they are just a dumb ass 13 year old kid.

If you think these people aren't serious... why would you take them seriously??

Legitimately, when I see some random ass child calling demon lords their besties and playing around with names, I think, oh haha that's cute.

Like cool they're having fun. They OBVIOUSLY do not know what tf they're doing but hey, they will figure it out.

You think the GODS aren't prepared to deal with silly people? You think this is the first time anyone has tried to fuck Apollon? Are you serious?

"Those silly girls summoning Lucifer have no idea!"

You're excited for that outcome. You would love for some teenage girl to be horrified, wouldn't you?

Unfortunately the very likely outcome is that the divine spirit will ignore them or meet them on their own terms. The Gods aren't going to dominate a child or take a edgy teen seriously. Why are you pretending the Gods don't know about amateurs.

People learn and grow, I didn't know jack shit about how to do things properly when I started. Had someone stunted my curiosity and love for what I was growing because it seemed wrong, I would have lost so much of my path. Magic, spirituality, faith, and most of all love, are supposed to be messy. Psychology is messy, none of these things exist in a vacuum. That's the part of the craft I love so much, it's a craft. You build it yourself, but you can only build it for yourself.

Why do you guys care so much about people you believe to be idiots? I personally think many practices are dumb as hell, why would I spend time arguing with those people about how dumb I think they are. Why does their dumb assery even affect me at all???

"Because then people won't take you/us seriously!"

If anyone refuses to take me seriously because of something other people are doing then... I probably don't care about their shallow opinion anyways?? And who is taking me seriously? Whose approval am I supposed to be winning?

"If we let people just do whatever people will think there are no rules!"

Babe people have been doing whatever they want this whole time.

If some dumb ass 15 year old loves Lucifer like a best friend and later grows into a genuine practitioner, that's awesome. And if that same dumb ass continues to be a dumb ass, I will not care. I don't really enjoy making fun of people I consider to be naive. Ignorance is bliss, let them be bliss. I personally don't care about being "taken seriously" by anyone but my Lord.

The comments are always "OMG I KNOW SOME GIRL SERIOUSLY THOUGHT LOKI LOVED HER LIKE OMG GROW UP"

Wow so funny. A lonely person found comfort in a Lord of outcasts. Let's all point and laugh!

I could write a whole paragraph here about how the Gods are always closest to the outcasts but I'm too tired. The person happily collecting stones for their divine spouse knows more about the purpose of Henosis than you ever will. We are only a couple decades free of orthodoxy babes, this is a beautiful time to be a pagan.

"THIS IS RELIGION IT'S SERIOUS ITS NOT A COPING MECHANISM!!"

Little girls who play with dolls are the priests of churches you can never enter son lay down and listen to the music of creation you're so miserable

By the way we still have that really bad white supremacy, xenophobia, queer phobic problem in the pagan community to deal with. I'm way more concerned about that mentality continuing to spread rather than the belief that you might be able to kiss a God so. Yeah. I continue to focus on the real problems rather than being distracted by frivolous infighting nyah

#nyah is right op

magpiesmagicnest

Plants or herbs for Studying

Amber - Burn as incense to increase focus and concentration. Bergamot - Burn as incense or diffuse as an essential oil to sharpen focus. Caraway - Carry to improve memory. Cinquefoil - Carry in a sachet with rosemary and peppermint to help with memory and concentration. Eyebright - When studying, hold the herb to set an intention for mental clarity and to remove mental blocks. Fern - Keep in room where studying is done to help concentration. Lilac - Burn as an incense or diffuse as an essential oil to aid concentration, mental clarity and memory retention. Periwinkle - Keep dried leaves or flowers in a sachet on your desk or around your study space to improve memory and focus. Rosemary - Wear or carry rosemary on your body to clear thinking and help improve memory. Sage (garden sage) - Associated with wisdom and decision making, burn as incense to promote clarity of mind.

Please be wary that some of these herbs may be toxic to animals or humans if ingested or handled improperly, take adequate precautions if you have children or animals in your household. Also, this is not the only way to utilize these herbs, just the way I would use them in my own practice. This is not a comprehensive list and I welcome others adding to it should they want to!

bewitched-moonlight

“You are allowed to take up space. Own who you are and what you want for yourself. Stop downplaying the things you care about, the hopes you have. Own your passions, your thoughts, your perceptions. Own your fire. Stop putting your worth in the hands of others ; stop letting them decide your value. Own saying no, saying yes. Own your mood, your feelings. Own your plans, your path, your success. Never back down for expressing yourself, from saying your name proudly. Never stop elbowing your damn way into this big world, because you belong here. You matter.”

─ Bianca Sparacino

magpiesmagicnest

Prosperity/Abundance plants and herbs

Alfalfa - Put in a small jar in a pantry/cupboard to ward off poverty and hunger. Alternatively it can be used as a floor wash or burned as an incense. Almond - Carry, wear or use as incense to attract abundance. Banana - Cook the fruit in a recipe, such as banana bread, for a positive kick of abundance and prosperity. Basil - Keep a basil leaf in your purse/wallet to attract money, can also be used in prosperity floor washes. Benzoin - Smoulder for prosperity, though do so with small amounts as benzoin can be a respiratory irritant. Use in a spell sachet, or a drop or two of benzoin oil to make a prosperity floor wash. Bergamot - Carry in a sachet to draw prosperity and luck. Chamomile - Burn or add to prosperity bags to increase money. Cinnamon - Use in sachets, add to money bowls or spell candles to draw money and prosperity. Citronella - Add a few drops of oil to a floor wash, create a cleansing spray using a few oil drops in the water, burn as an incense during a money-drawing spell. Coltsfoot - Scatter dried leaves around the perimeter of your home, use in sachets, burn as part of an incense blend to draw wealth. Ginger - Sprinkle a small amount in your wallet/purse, add fresh or dried ginger root to prosperity bowls for extra potency. Heliotrope - Add dried heliotrope to sachets, spell jars, burn as an incense or anoint spell tools using diluted heliotrope oils for increased abundance and prosperity. Juniper - Use in sachets or carry dried juniper berries for prosperity. Lily - Add dried or fresh lily to an altar space, add dried petals or bulbs to charm bags, spell jars, or abundance bowls with other prosperity-associated items to increase potency. Mint - Put a few fresh or dried mint leaves in your purse/wallet, add to spell jars or sachets, create a herbal floor wash or incorporate it into meals to attract prosperity. Nutmeg - Can be carried in your pocket or wallet as a personal talisman to attract general luck and money (accentuated by being wrapped in a green cloth), sprinkle powdered nutmeg onto a green candle, use powdered nutmeg to create a prosperity powder, or use a sprinkle of it in your meal for prosperity. Onion - Burning red onion peels and rubbing the ash on your wallet/purse, or using onions in your meals with intention also draws prosperity. Parsley - Sprinkle chopped parsley over your food with the intention of calling in abundance, hang parsley in the home to draw prosperity and luck, or carry dried parsley in a sachet or charm bag to attract money and success. Peony - Carry dried peony leaves in a sachet to attract good fortune and enhance business prospects, or add dried petals to a wealth bowl. Pine - Place pine cones and boughs on your altar space or around your home to invite positive energy and enduring money flow, use either pine cones or needles to make sachets, spells jars, money bowls for prosperity, or add a few drops of pine oil to a floor wash to remove energy that may be blocking the flow of abundance. Poppy - Sew poppy seeds (or a whole poppy seedpod) and a coin into a green or red cloth pouch on a waxing moon, which is a time associated with growth. Carry this amulet in your pocket or place it on your altar to attract financial success and abundance. Sassafras - Place a dried sassafras leaf or a small piece of the root in your wallet or purse to help "hold" onto money and encourage saving rather than spending. Add to a money bowl, spell jar or sachet for prosperity. Vertivert - Use in sachets, money bowls, spell jars, or anoint a candle with vertivert oil to draw in prosperity. Vervain - Use in sachets, money bowls, spell jars, or burn as an incense to enhance your prosperity. Wisteria - Place fresh or dried wisteria flowers on your altar or in your home, or use in sachets to attract good fortune and abundance. Wood aloe - Place a live aloe plant in the kitchen or the bathroom to invite economic fortune and abundance.

dawn-fae

happy gemini super new moon!!! may your energy stay protected and your spells have extra pow!!! ·₊˚☄·.☘︎ ݁˖˚ఌ︎.

jellyfish-are-stars

"pagan" tells me NOTHING about your beliefs by the way

its a massive umbrella including things like druidry, hinduism, buddhism, native american practices and more!

pagan is not a belief system. pagan is not a religion. you dont need to label your spirituality, pleanty of people just say theyre spiritual and thats totally fine. but please foe the love of FUCK stop saying your belief is "pagan" because that does not convey the information you think it does.

I'm experiencing hella burnout and financial loss right now so this blog is currently all replies and reblogs to hot takes lol

I'll be back with actual productive stuff later on, I just need to connect with myself a bit more for a while (no, getting mad at hot takes isn't self care but hey. do as i say not as i do or however that went)

witch-hot-takes

Chat-GPT is more reliable for doing real world research than doing a reading with Athena or whoever.

That whole meme/trend would be funny if it were true. But it just isn't.

It's kind of silly and those of you who do it should feel significantly sillier than you evidently do.

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Voting ended onJun 21

wizartoff

I assume this comes from the perspective of a non-pagan? Oftentimes when I research with the help of Athena I just do it so she can aid me in finding the right articles/resources quicker. But Athena doesn't hallucinate information like LLMs. There's right ways and wrong ways to research with deities. I assume this anon would say the same about ChatGPT, but still. The poll results speak my mind exaclty

Update: seeing the burner account in the comments claiming that working with gods is hallucinating and working with a hallucinating chatgpt is somehow better, i assume they're not very knowledgeable on how deity work...works

#witchblr #witchcraft #counter hot take i suppose!

gothredy

witch-hot-takes

Accepting the premise that there is some innate, binary, opposed metaphysical forces (something I don't particularly believe in), "masculine" and "feminine" are still human made concepts and aren't necessarily accurate descriptions of these forces.

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Voting ended onJun 3

wizartoff

i agree and feel that labeling them as masculine and feminine only oversimplifies the concepts, equating them to a binary that is not only easier to understand but also MADE by humanity.

for example, in physics they call it velocity because it's more than just speed. They call it mass because it's not just weight.

We make up words to better understand the universe all the time but we can't use already existing concepts to describe something new. you can't use gender to describe energy in a witch/spiritual community just like you can't use "substance" to describe, say, an alkaline to a community of chemists. Actually, it's even less helpful than that, because at least the word "substance" is somewhat related to the object of chemistry's study.

I'd accept "feminine/masculine energy" if it were used to help beginners better understand something out if their reach, but even then, it's gotten to a point where people assume all men are somehow tied to a dark masculine energy or all women are somehow tied to a pure feminine one. It has no basis in gender or how you were born.

I'd rather people use psychological terms like ID, ego and superego if anything to describe it (even though they don't fully fit either, as they are created to describe the relation of the self with the world, not the relation of the world with the self).

#witchblr #witchcraft #divine feminine and divine masculine are truly misunderstood and oversimplificated terms #people don't even know what they're supposed to mean anymore and I've seen too many witches use them to demonize masculinity #not even men but just the behavior or percieved behavior of being masculine #just say bad and good at this point if anything

goth-queen

hiiighpriestess913

Y’all I’m being so serious when I say this: go to the library for witchcraft reasons.

You can usually find books on witchcraft, yes, but there’s also field guides on local foraging and wildlife, cookbooks, books that teach you how to craft and DIY, books about environmental protection and stewardship, books on how to use herbs medicinally, books about other religions, cultures, and spiritual practices. My favorite local library even has a seed swapping program and fantastic resources to research your own family history!

Go to the library for witchcraft. Please. :) <3

sashayed

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

boomstab-papa

your-cosmic-creature

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

nous-teleios

Every spiritual practice should be based on these three pillars:

1.) Study- reading, listening or otherwise absorbing information about your practice, learning about theology, metaphysics, and the theory behind your path.

2.) Contemplation- internalising what you learned through study, connecting it to your experiences and letting it absorb into the way you see the world around you.

3.) Practice- taking what you contemplated on and using it to alter the reality you live in

currently having major issues with my internet connection due to some recent storms in my town so unfortunately the tarot readings will take a while. Please be patient y'all im doing my best 😅😅😅

#im staying safe and sound i just have no wifi #my cellular data is v expensive too so I've mostly just been cleaning and reading #i guess i had to cleanse my space and my altar forced me to ! lol #delete later