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/ Marigold / she • they / Wiccan / Grad Student

[ye-spirits]

About Me + Pinned Post

Hello, I'm Marigold, a scholar, and part-time magician. I like to collect occult books with my hard-earned money from my not so glamorous administrative job. I mainly practice magic alone and if I had to describe my religious beliefs, I would say "Wiccan," with a side of whatever. I am currently a grad student and my area of study is the history of women and magic. I love doing research projects in my spare time (hence why I went to grad school). My hobbies include doting on my several cats, playing Skyrim, and getting into arguments with my tarot deck.

I post pictures of occult books, ramble about my magical and historical interests, share esoteric memes, and sometimes try to share studyblr content. I often very ambitiously create posting schedules and new content ideas, but I usually lose track of my plans pretty quickly. My most consistent content is my "Witch Diary," where I share my occult interests and what I've been up to.

I hope you enjoy my blog!

- Marigold

[charnel-grounds]

Gustave Doré (1832–1883)

illustrations from Milton’s Paradise lost, c. 1866

“The Fall of Satan to the Earth” “Satan’s Despair” “Satan Overlooking Paradise” “Satan in the Garden of Eden”

[coiour-my-world]

Autumn tree at Shinjuku Gyoen National Park | Tokyo | Danny Dungo

[yorickish-deactivated20240629]

does anyone have the mythopoetic worldview gf post?

[yorickish-deactivated20240629]

nvm

[politijohn]

Source

This is pretty cool

[mbta-unofficial]

Greater Boston Tenants Union – Fighting Landlords since 2020

I’m not a member but only because we never drafted the papers. I intend to be once I move into my next apartment because we’ll be there for more than a year hopefully.

[cock-holliday]

a guide to tenants unions in the u.s. | abolition notes

a guide to tenants unions in the u.s. | abolition notes

Directory of tenant unions in the US. The list is incomplete but it has more resources as well

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[charnel-grounds]

“The Other World; Or, Glimpses of the Supernatural,” 1875

book cover art detail — source

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Fritz Schwimbeck (1889–1972) - Gedenkblatt (Memorial sheet), 1919

[bobbole]

The Devil - Stella's Tarot

(Stella Kaoruko and Takako Hoei)

[realhumanbaby]

[ye-spirits]

friends, romans, countrymen-- I got into grad school 🧐

[ye-spirits]

I just felt like the history student core images I saw weren't accurate enough. obviously my purse is a world unto itself so there's a lot more in it, and I don't usually bring my laptop around because I have a keyboard for my tablet, but this is what I feel like defines the core of studying history as a grad student

[meowmorials]

2004

[cryptotheism]

ideas arent real

🖕 FUCK IDEAS ANYWAY 🖕

[cryptotheism]

🖕🖕 AND FUCK KNOWLEDGE 🖕🖕

[ye-spirits]

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

By Frances A. Yates

[ye-spirits]

even though I crave the setting of the university library I don't live near it and all the books I need right now are at home so it makes more sense to work on my final paper here

[ye-spirits]

Witch's Study Diary | April 17, 2026

I applied to grad school this week. I'm hoping to get into a state university as that will get me access to the resources I already sort of do access but not in their entirety. My first choice is an online university within the state system and I can get a masters degree focusing on historical studies and women together (neatly combining into women's history, ta-da!) under the general label of Liberal Studies. I hope I get in. I've been working towards this for at least two years if not longer. I wanted to apply to an online program in history at one of the other state universities, but it required two letters of recommendation and I am somewhat lacking responses from my old professors for that. I was procrastinating applying anywhere because of this and I realized that I wasn't going to go at all if I didn't try with at least one of my other options.

Work on my research projects is going well. I am almost done with my self guided course on the witch trials. I have a few more readings, a few more short essays to write, and one long final paper. Today my efforts were largely focused on researching for that paper. I put together a preliminary outline for my own edification (I'm not ready at all to write) and it's helped me figure out what to look for while I'm researching my topic. It also made me feel a lot better about the whole thing. It felt like I was trying to think through molasses and I couldn't concenrate on my work because I felt so adrift in sources.

Anyways, I hope to continue working on it more this weekend, although I have a civil service exam on Sunday and dungeons and dragons later that day, so I won't get much done that day. I'm not sure I really want to take this test right now. I feel like I should but I haven't been able to study for it because I don't have access to any study material. I also have a lot on my plate right now! I'm going to think things over and ask my father for advice on the matter.

I'll probably try to get some more research done tonight, but I am reaching my limit pretty quickly so I may not be a very effective researcher for much longer. I go to bed so early now! I used to stay up into the wee hours of the morning in high school and college. I stopped doing that after college because it was bad for my health and as someone with my psychiatric condition, sleep is really important for me. I don't need to get any crazier than I already am, haha!