WORST WITCH EVER

Tarot deck updates: #indigo valkyrie tarot

[someabsolutenonsense]

Minding my own business, doing some research on The Fates, and then…

[ice-block]

Man made crystals are so cool it’s so sad everyone who likes rocks is out for blood if you post man made crystals. I love you opalite I love you lab created opal I love you bismuth I love you HTA citrine I love you goldstone

[ice-block]

Post “fake” crystals hour

[worst-witch-ever]

Are you still working on your tarot deck or is there a certain place I can purchase it?

Thank you for asking! The deck is done, currently working on the guidebook. I’ve recruited my friends to help because of my severe brain fog. It’s gotta be ready for sale in 2024, I don’t know how I could possibly drag it out for longer than that 😂 I post more frequent updates on Instagram at indigovalkyrietarot

For now I have prints available on my Etsy at

ValkyrieStone - Etsy

Shop items by ValkyrieStone.

Here’s what the finished deck and some of the guidebook pages look like!

[hexxxa-deactivated20221201]

The Love Witch, 2015

[humunanunga]

You can believe in magic, but watch out.

[humunanunga]

It's fun learning astrology until you start to make broad assumptions about real people's behavior based only on their birthday.

It's fun to speculate about alien civilization until you say early cultures weren't competent enough to build their own pyramids or until scientologists stalk you for every penny you have.

It's fun dressing symptoms in mystical language like "empath" or "indigo child" until you go through life undiagnosed, unaccomodated and feeling less and less human.

It's all fun and games until Tiktokkers tell you hallucinations are actually attunement with a higher dimension and that you should stop taking your antipsychotics.

It's fun to think about possession and changelings until mom starts trying to "save" her child's soul or dad kills his family for having "serpent genes."

It's fun to see natural formations as if they were manmade until you start believing cultists when they say flying saucers are Antarctic Nazis.

You can believe in magic. It's fun to believe in magic. Believing in magic is valuable stimulation. But watch out. Remember your reality checks. There's a lot of cults and scams and white supremacists out there who want to sell you something, and that longing for magic to believe in is how they get you.

[generationexorcist]

The Woman Behind The World’s Most Famous Tarot Deck Was Nearly Lost In History

For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.

The cards’ enigmatic symbols have become culturally ingrained in music, art and film, but the woman who inked and painted the illustrations of the most widely used set of cards today – the Rider-Waite deck from 1909, originally published by Rider & Co. – fell into obscurity, overshadowed by the man who commissioned her, Arthur Edward Waite.

Now, over 70 years after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York highlighting many underappreciated artists of early 20th-century American modernism in addition to famous names like Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Nevelson.

CNN

[alternativeulster]

more people need to know about irish mythology. it's just balls to the walls insane. if you thought greek mythology was wild let me introduce you to:

nessa and her 12 gay dads

queen medb cheating on everything and everyone, starting a war over a cow, ruining innumerable lives and then getting killed by cheese

fionn gets raised by 2 random lesbians

fionn kills a guy for stealing his girlfriend, drops the magic healing water several times on purpose

oisín goes to live in the immortal fairy land with his immortal fairy wife, misses ireland, comes back to visit, falls off his horse and fucking dies (may or may not have gotten in a fight with saint patrick before dying)

fuck them kids, they're swans now

guy accidentally gets job of "being the king's dog" at age 5, changes name to dog

[enki2]

[knitmeapainting]

[talonabraxas]

VI. The Lovers X-Files. II. The High Priestess Art by Roy Huteson-Stewart.

[sakrogoat]

John Collier - The Priestess of Delphi

[poisonappleprintshop]

Refreshing the studio! These shelves have become my mood board, housing my collection of magical treasures, antique relics, and mystifying wonders. The shelves are the first thing I see when entering my studio each day, and they never cease to feed my creativity or transport me to imaginative and magical mindsets. Over the years they have become such a recognizable part of my studio that they are now emblematic of the printshop! 🖤

Poison Apple Printshop

[16woodsequ]

[spoonie-isms]

[sleepnoises]

engaging in freak behavior (met a cat so weird and beautiful on my walk home I am going to mail its owners a little painting of it)

[sleepnoises]

basically it looked like this. note: did not say good painting. just said painting

[sleepnoises]

THE CAT'S NAME IS TSUNAMI AND THE HUMANS WILL BE HAVING THE PAINTING FRAMED

[sleepnoises]

Citations.

[punk-punk]

Our neighbour’s cat cuts through our garden and during the first lockdown I slowly got her to trust me, now she pops by every few days for cuddles and to meow at me. My dad figured out which house she belonged to and took round a drawing I did and I had to be like ‘they know I’m 24 right’

Anyway here’s Lilly i love her (the drawing was done for my tarot deck)

[anarcho-occultism]

Everyone into occultism has one of these (or more than one)

[catsbeaversandducks]

Tarot Cats 

Chonky Goods by Ping Hatta Studio

[museum-of-artifacts]

The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was burried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle

[bookshelfdreams]

I know her! She's in the Landesmuseum für Früh- und Vorgeschichte in Halle/Saale. Here's the museum's article about her on their website. They also made a video series about her (in german but with english subtitles).

One of the many interesting things about her is that she had deformities in her top vertebrae and the base of her skull that would have impacted circulation; blood supply to her brain may have been cut off when she moved her head a certain way, which could have given her very impressive episodes or fits. Of course it's not known how exactly this impacted her, but it might have included seizures, loss of consciousness, or rapid eye movements. In any case, things that would have been present from birth and look very unusual. Maybe this could be part of the explanation for her spiritual significance; she might have been viewed as being able to communicate with gods or spirits during her episodes. Of course there's no way to know that for sure. But the amount of grave goods she was buried with definitely suggest that she had a very important role in her society, and continued to be important after her death - some of the grave goods found there were a lot younger than the actual grave. Which suggests that people continued to visit her and bring her things long after her death.

She also lived in very turbulent times, right at the end of the Mesolithic, when highly mobile hunter/gatherers were slowly replaced by sedetiary farmers. She may very well have been one of the last hunter/gatherers.

[shawnfreki]

The Morning Star by Leilani Bustamante.