Hahahaha
LMAO
Not to mix (social) medias, but this ain’t a witch hunt, it’s a TERF war.
No safe quarter here for bigots.
A Time to Renew
For the first time in a long time, I performed a ritual today. It was small, relatively free form, and nothing groundbreaking, but I felt it. And it felt nice. Just something to burn away the crud of the past year and try to enter the new one fresh and clean.To ask Na Dé Ocus Andé and the ancestors to be with and guide me. I burned away what I don’t need written onto literal trash and took a drive to let it all blow away in this freakishly warm weather. Even in my part of the South, 72°F is weird on NYD.
Here’s to hoping for a wonderful, easier, happier, more joyous new year for me and y’all. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I want to be extremely explicit here- sending anon hate to anyone for any reason is shameful. Yes that includes "defending" another user. That is not how you handle any situation here. If you have a problem with someone else, you either use your fucking name, or you block them and move on. I have been on this god forsaken hellsite since 2012 and have managed to never once send anon hate. Every fight I've ever picked has been right here in the light of day with my name attached because I don't hit people who can't hit back. Every person not worth my time has just been blocked. If you're going on anon to send nastygrams, you're a coward who knows you a) shouldn't be saying what you're saying and b) knows you can't handle the consequences for being an asshole. Get it together. You're embarrassing the rest of us trying to curate our experiences like responsible members of society.
Mama Bree's Magical Powders
Finally, all my powder recipes in one place! Go nuts, witchlings.
- All-Purpose Cursing Powder
- Banishing Powder
- Clean House Powder
- “Eye of Sauron” Revelation Powder
- Heal Thy Heart Powder
- Hexbreaker Powder
- Jackpot Powder
- Lucky Day Powder
- “Outta My Way” Powder
- Peacekeeper Powder
- Persuasion Powder
- STFU Powder
- Traveler’s Luck Powder
- Truthfinder Powder
For those of you who may not be able to find herbs locally, here are some online suppliers who consistently have affordable and high-quality products.
- Ruth Roy’s Wellcat Herbs - A highly reputable seller with quality herbs, teas, incense, and botanicals. Also runs a booth every year at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. (*HIGHLY RECOMMEND*)
- Starwest Botanicals - Bulk herbs, spices, oils, and teas. Good amount of organic and Fair Trade products, as well as supplies for holistic medicine and tea-making.
- Mountain Rose Herbs - Bulk herbs, spices, and sundries. Also carries organic products and essential oils, and has link to schools that offer courses in herbalism and herbology.
- The Magickal Cat - Online shop with just about everything you could want for your craft, from herbs to books to cauldrons, and everything in between. Reliable shipping and excellent customer service.
- Bulk Apothecary - Bulk herbs, spices, and oils, in addition to materials for the home production of soap, candles, wine, and beer.
For more online resources and information on herb magic and spells, check out my website here.
The website is now defunct, but you can find all of my other recipes in Pestlework: A Book of Magical Powders & Oils. Available on Amazon or in the Willow Wings Witch Shop. 😊
Anonymous asked:
Hi there, I've seen the announcement that the Snowdonia National Park Authority are chaning to use Welsh names Eryri and Yr Wyddfa. How would those be pronounced?
This is my third attempt at posting this because Tumblr keeps eating it, so apologies if everyone is about to see three of this post (I'll delete the others if so)
We could ask the same you filthy gog
Just to confirm, since I've had a few asks about this - yes, that is the correct pronunciation of 'King Arthur'.
Also the giant's name written down is Rhita Gawr.
Anonymous asked:
So a german GC lost her case because she didn't want to be labeled a N*zi, The German state agrees that "Gender Critical" people claiming trans people weren't targeted by the N*zis is a form of holocaust denial
Good. These people often knowingly work with Nazis and that makes them as bad as them. If they don’t like that, they need to reanalyse their beliefs.
It’s also yeah ahistorical as fuck to claim trans people were not targeted by the Nazis. They literally burned every bit of progress Germany made with trans people back then, and I’m 100% certain considered trans people “homosexuals” so targeted them under that bracket.
It’s almost like we’re a community for a reason! And LGB terfs would know that if they weren’t so busy licking conservative boots in the hopes of being picked!
also worth mentioning that the man who founded the institute of sexology that the nazis targeted was a gay jewish man. nazis also had theories that jews were responsible for creating gay and trans ppl, theories that still circulate to this day. so anyone who tries to reject that part of history is absolutely partaking in holocaust denial.
when you see rhetoric about people recruiting kids into being gay or trans or uniquely preying on children- know that since the far right conspiracy brain considers jews to be at the root of social progress - the groomer insult can be read as a blood-libel offshoot.
hello, i’d like to get in touch with irish gaelic language and irish culture folks side of tumblr, can anyone help me check out who to follow?
I did not expect my internal rhythms to be so thrown off by it getting dark at 4:30pm. I think it's cause Louisiana is closer to the equator than Maine, the difference between when the sun sets in the winter and summer isn't as pronounced as it is up here. It's messing with me something fierce and I'm not sure if the effect is being felt in my circadian rhythm or in my emotional rhythms, or both
I do feel that! I’m from a city ~300 miles inside the Central Time Zone, but live about 40 miles inside the Eastern Time Zone from 18-33. Now that I’m back in my hometown, everything is so off even after a few years cause it stays light so much later when you’re just inside a time zone.
I was talking to my therapist today…
and mentioned that I was preparing to go to my grandmother’s for the first time since last Christmas, which was an absolute clusterfuck. She suggested using a technique of have a “protector” like a favorite character to rely on when you felt attacked and weren’t able to get out of the space. She said she’d just finished reading Song of Achilles and so Achilles became her protector for that gathering.
She knows I’m Pagan and suggested a god or goddess to think of in that way and before she’d even said it, I was already imagining Manannán Mac Lir and a mist. Even as just a thought exercise, that feels so comforting. So I very much plan to go about it in that way. I minimize my contact with my grandmother as much as I can, but holidays are unavoidable. I’m hoping that with the help of therapy, this technique, some prayer, and a little luck that we’ll make it through relatively unscathed.
I hate that it’s like this, but it’s out of my control and accepting that is the best thing I can do. Best of luck to everyone in a similar situation and I hope this was helpful to you as much as it was to me!
Hot take but you can’t learn about paganism without also learning about white supremacy and how it uses pagan religions to push hate group agendas all over the world today. If you don’t learn about the connections between the two and how it operates, your ignorance enables white supremacists to keep on doing it and using it to recruit others. People in our community who do nothing and stay silent are literally a part of the problem, there is no opting out whatsoever. Divorcing the two makes the issue repeat itself over and over and over again.
It’s not hard to include this in your research and stay aware. It’s the bare minimum.
Torii Gate made of speakers in Kamiyama, Tokushima. You can connect your phone to it and play anything.
This is impressive in so many ways.
why didn’t they do this in the first place ?
Are you seriously asking why, a couple thousand years ago when gates like this started being built, they didn’t make them out of modern electrical speakers?
Yeah. Makes sense to me, I guess
….okay, repeat after me.
You cannot build something in 100 CE out of something that won’t be invented until the 1950s CE.
I don’t follow your logic
don’t listen to that poster, traditional amplifier torii gates were dismantled in the Edo period on order of Tokugawa Iemitsu (1623 - 1651), a noted devotee of acoustic enka music, in order to suppress the popular visual kei movement.
I wish the distrust of expertise was more "I can see how institutional biases and structural problems have led experts to be inaccurate at times; I will be more careful in evaluating my sources" and less "I can see how institutional biases and structural problems have led experts to be inaccurate at times; I'm the expert now."
I haven’t logged in for so long that I had to redownload the app lol. I’m not sure I’ll ever be more than sporadic here again, but I also know that Twitter is dying, Facebook just makes me rage, and sometimes I don’t wanna listen to voices on TikTok. So maybe I will be back around.
I was spurred to log back in to look for a prayer I wrote a few years ago as my cousin had to help her fur baby cross over this week and it reminded me of how much I used to enjoy this space and community. I need something like that back in my life.
I understand the appeal of “vestiges of pagan thought” and the desire to see traditions you’re seeking to reconstruct or revive in your practice as having carried over through conversion and of being purely pagan in origin, trust me, I get it, I used to be one of those people…… but I am begging all of you to please read an actual history book and understand that syncretism and conversion were real things that happened and that not all of these traditions that you find beautiful, magical, holy, etc were of pagan origin. But that doesn’t make them any less beautiful, magical, or holy- and it certainly doesn’t remove them from the culture you’re focusing on. They can still inform you about the culture you’re focusing on and give you inspiration for your own practice without being purely pagan. The real actual history of things is just as fascinating and usually more fascinating than the made up “vestiges of pagan thought” history you’ve been spoon fed and you shouldn’t be afraid to look into it.
Hi I'm from eastern Texas, and getting into southern magick, is it okay if I do? And what do you recommend starting?
Thanks for the question! It can be a little tough starting out. I recommend reading about local folklore and local herbalism as a place to start. Read about (or learn directly from if possible) the indigenous peoples’ use of local plants and animals. Learn about related species and how they’re used. Spend time with the plants (and spirits) in whatever way possible.
In East Texas, I’d also recommend reading about Cajun and Acadian folks practices because they’ve heavily included the region as a whole.
I also recommend Zoe’s Neale Hurston’s work in the Journal of American Folklore, Mules and Men, and really anything she wrote whether fiction or anthropology because her fiction is so influenced by her fieldwork. Note that these are specifically on the Black Southern experience and I’m not advocating whole cloth taking of the practices found in them, but they can be really helpful in steering what you’re interested in. Also, try reading about the history of the South broadly. The South, in many ways, has far more in common with the Caribbean than much of the US, especially in our past.
I hope that’s helpful, but feel free to ask me anything else!
Y’all ever have those days where it feels like the universe closed its eyes, turned around, and pointed at you just to say, “fuck this guy in particular.” Yeah, that’s today. Ugh
Excerpt from this story from Treehugger:
An ambitious rewilding project will play a major role in restoring Scotland’s natural environment. Over thirty years, an initiative run by the charity Trees for Life will link up a huge swath of 500,000 acres, known as the Affric Highlands, as one vast nature recovery area. The initiative follows three years of consultation between Rewilding Europe, Trees for Life, and other local partners and stakeholders.
“With Scotland’s rewilding movement growing rapidly—and the Scottish Rewilding Alliance calling for Scotland to become the world’s first Rewilding Nation, with the rewilding of 30% of the country’s land and sea by 2030—Affric Highlands will take large-scale nature recovery to a new level, providing a catalyst for the local economy at the same time,” said Steve Micklewright, chief executive of Trees for Life.
A diverse group of landowners covering 25% of the project site and six organizations are already on board. Work is being undertaken to further involve local people, and practical action to connect rewilded areas is due to begin in 2023. That’s when the 10,000-acre estate at Dundreggan in Glenmoriston, where impressive restoration work of the Caledonian Forest has already been done, will become the site of the world’s first Rewilding Centre.
Richard Bunting, a spokesperson for Trees for Life, told Treehugger, “Scotland could be leading the way in rewilding, but remains one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries. Many of its habitats are in a bad way, many of its species are declining or already extinct, and its rural landscapes and coastal areas now support fewer people than they used to.
“As Scotland gears up to host the UN’s COP26 climate summit in November—with the United Nations warning that climate breakdown is code red for humanity, and experts warning that we have entered the sixth mass extinction—we urgently need big and bold initiatives like this.”
““Public events like feasts can also be used as a method of upholding the social status quo in favour of the élite strata of society. The preparation of a largescale feast is not a casual undertaking, it requires long-term planning and the intensification or augmentation of subsistence activities for the accumulation of surpluses. Although the use of surplus food in order to avoid waste is possibly one aspect of the development of feasting activity, a purely economic motivation for instituting a formal feasting event seems overly simplistic. There are a variety of socio-cultural motivations for feasting. Even if these appear outwardly to be driven by economics, for instance the redistribution of agricultural produce, there is often also a closely related (underlying or dominant) social influence. Furthermore, preparing a communal feast, especially one with a ritual element, often involves the production of unusual specialist items such as ceremonial clothing or serving-ware which create demand for skilled labour and can lead to craft specialisation and patronage, therefore involving the efforts of the whole community.””
— Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland: Material Culture, Practices, Landscape Setting and Social Context by Katherine Leonard
The odds of this working are infinitesimally small, but I'm desperate, so might as well try.
I have modded the @lokeanwelcomingcommittee for about, what, 8 years now? I have done this for free, and it will always continue to be free. But as many of you know, I also worship Manannán. And at this point, I feel like it's safe to say that I will not be in a place to provide spiritual guidance again until I get to the coast.
I have a job offer. I would have a salary that would allow me to comfortably afford a number of apartments in the area. But I can't meet the 3x the rent income restriction every single landlord I can find with available units has had. Even after calling the entire list put out by the local housing authority, and every single Craigslist listing I could commute from, nothing has been super viable.
I can't drive for medical reasons, so expanding my search range further than I already have is out.
This is everything I ever wanted. It would let me return to my spiritual life, and my spiritual work, again. But it's still so out of reach for such arbitrary reasons.
If anyone in Haverhill, MA has an available place, or knows someone with an available place, and will rent to me on a $2700/month income, please, please hit me up. Otherwise, I would appreciate a signal boost. I know my odds are tiny, but like, I have to try.
I’ve been commissioned to make an altar mat for Brigid, a goddess of smithing. Requests were earth tones with a star burst/sun center, metallics an extra bonus. Traditional piecing rather than foundation paper piecing. These are the fabrics I pulled.
I won’t necessarily be using using all.
Blue and green make the red and orange pop, I have metallics, and the two prints in the left are a maybe.
Blue has metallic dots, the dark orange has a more grunge spread of the metallic. The leafy ferns green is a batik, I also have a solid green to go with it.
For this, I would ideally using FPP because I have the exact block in mind. It does raise the price, and they requested traditional piecing. I’m gonna look up a tutorial on how to make a pineapple block using traditional piecing, but courthouse blocks are another option. Courthouse blocks don’t have the star bursting effect, but I can get a Brigid’s cross in there with some color arranging.
Time for graph paper!
For the Brigid’s cross, I’ll use a schoolhouse block combined with a square-in-square. The arrangement of colors will create the cross, SnS will allow more color play, and for this I’ll be using a minimum of four fabrics. The brackish print will be the very center, metallic red will be the arms of the cross, blue will be the triangles in the SnS to make the red, orange, and yellow pop with more balance. Hmmm..still deciding. I think I’ll need to do the layout in colors first.
This is the other pattern I’m considering. None of the applique or buttons, but add a row of Xs to make it even, and a couple borders to make it reach the requested 20x20 inch size.
Yay! @mrs-k-cottage-witch opted for foundation paper piecing!
This is half the block, and I’m making eight blocks plus a border or two in order to reach 20x20 inches.
When I hear earth tones, the first thing I think is warm, calm, old forest, potted garden, log cabin, and balance. To bring all that out, a cooler color needs to be in place. Otherwise everything just sort blends together and looks bland. This blue does it beautifully. Imagine if I used a brown or orange. Not quite so strong nor balanced, is it?
Now, back to work!
Time to trim the edges!
Small tip: take photographs of layouts before committing to the arrangement. You’ll see things in the picture you would otherwise not notice.
I couldn’t decide on what fabric to use for sashing, and the photos helped me figure it out. The same fabric as the center strips. I’m putting a 1 inch strip (finishing at half an inch) to help increase the size. It’s now 17x17 inches, which means at least two borders.
Time for borders!
Before adding more borders, I need to remove all the paper. I have about an hour of that to focus on. First, a snack, then paper removal while watching a film. After that, one border. I have about 1.25 inches left to reach the goal. I’ll use the blue for the border and then the striped fabric for the binding. The bright orange brick print will be the backing.
Top is finished! The stripe print will be the binding, and only about 0.25" will be visible when done.
I just realized I covered one of the borders!
It’s a hint of a print, not a solid green.
A somewhat meandering stitch setting on my machine, combined with an earth tones variegated thread. Straight stitch for stitch-in-the-ditch within the blocks.
The machine quilting will absolutely helpful in keeping the mat flat. Less poof effect and stiffer. Which can be ideal for mats. I used this for my own altar mat and it’s great!
Adding definition to the center of the blocks!
And Jasper is being very helpful.
I don’t let either of the cats on the fabric or projects, and everything is washed before I pack and send it. If you want something “blessed” by my cats, just ask. I’ll set it on the floor for them to love aka sleep/loaf.
Time for binding!!!
I absolutely love how this has turned out.
All done! It shrank a solid inch, which is far more than I expected. Now it’s 19x19 inches. Still gorgeous!
I still love this altar cloth! Thank you many times over for all your hard work! It was a wonderful experience commissioning you for this piece :)