I opened up an etsy shop earlier this year, but life had me incredibly busy, and I had almost no time to promote it. So, in honor of my etsy shop, I’m doing this giveaway.
The winner can pick two pendants from my shop!These are the options:
Some discreet tips for you broom-closet witches, some lavish tips for the full-fledged witch, and some of my favorite in-betweens!
Sweep with a broom (besom) regularly. To the mundane eye, you’re clearing away dust and crumbs, but any witch knows you’re really spiritually cleansing and charging your home.
Put a line of salt on your windowsill for protection.
Forage fallen sticks to tie into a pentacle with twine. Hang as a wreath on the front door.
Candles in every room. I have great luck finding totally unused candles at thrift stores around town!
Call it “aromatherapy” if you’re still a secret witch, but utilize scent as the powerful thing it is! Burn insense. Have athsma? Try essential oils and scented candles. Budgeting? You can always put herbs and teas into the wax of a melting pillar candle to release the scent (I love doing this with chamomile and lavender, it doubles as an anointing of the candle).
Bake bread. Knead it with intention, cut a sigil in the top before baking, indulge in the act of creating.
Open windows to bring in the element of air and purge your home of bad or stale energy.
Collect and display little things from nature: pinecones, stones, crystals, dried flowers, acorns, feathers (if you’re permitted). Altars don’t need to be obvious, they can just be things that make you grounded and glad.
Live. Always remember that anywhere a witch lives is magical, whether you feel it or not. Do these little things for yourself, to cherish feeling connected, but witchcraft is not about pressure or conforming.
Set the candles close together – a couple of inches apart.
Light the gray candle that represents you, saying either
mentally or vocally:
No more will you notice me
I am free
Surrounded by the mists of invisibility
Move the unlit white candle away from the gray, saying:
No longer desire me or seek connection
My rejection, though kindly, is clear
Find love and life new
The binding is through
And you shall no longer be near
Blow out the gray candle.
On night two, light the gray candle again, repeating the
first set of words. Move the unit white candle further away from yours,
repeating the second set of words.
Blow out the gray candle again.
On the third night, move the unlit white candle as far away
as possible from the gray candle, saying:
Follow your own path in joy
No longer walking along mine
Light the white candle and let it burn all the way through.
Once this is done, light the gray candle, saying:
May the mists of invisibility
Remain between us perpetually
As you follow your way and I follow mine
Extinguish the gray candle and dispose of it, and separately
rid yourself of any of the remaining wax from the white candle.
Being a witch is not all positivity and love and joyous energy all the time. You literally can’t live like that and you’re repressing your emotions if you try to force yourself to be an aesthetically pleasing pure being. Sorry, but it’s true.
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
Possible controversial statement here, but I really hesitate to believe what most people say their past lives were. Usually because their only reasoning comes down to “I’ve always loved x thing, so obviously in a past life I was x person.”
And I super hesitate to believe anyone who lives in a position of privilege now and claims that in a past life they were an oppressed person. Especially when they think that means they can somehow speak for that minority now. (i.e. a white person claiming they were Native American in a past life, so it’s okay to talk over actual Native Americans about current political and cultural issues they experience)
Of course, maybe they were. Not everyone’s an embellisher. (Though it is kind of interesting how you never hear that someone was simply just a farmer or something. Everyone did/experienced some wild shit in their past life.) Still, you know, I’ve always loved spaghetti, ever since I was a kid, I mean, it’s fucking amazing, but I also don’t think I used to be a bowl of spaghetti made by an oppressed minority in 1842. Might just be me, though. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I just wanna talk to whoever thought this was a good idea
This is probably even more shady than it seems. They raise the rates and then less people go. Low attendance numbers leads to that park getting less attention and less money. This discourages new parks and devalues current parks. Then the government can be like “lol people don’t care about nature let’s drill” Parks and libraries should be free places for people to enrich themselves, but smart sheep aren’t worth anything 🐑
^^^This. It’s why they’re also slashing park funding. According to the linked article, the current budget proposal includes:
Cutting base operating funding by $132 million, affecting at least
90 percent of parks. This includes cuts to law enforcement, health and
safety, natural and cultural resource projects, and volunteer and youth
programs.
Cutting 1,242 staff positions.
A 37 percent cut to the Historic Preservation Fund.
A drastic cut to federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, which
helps parks purchase private lands within park boundaries from willing
sellers that would otherwise be vulnerable to inappropriate commercial
or residential development.
Elimination of the National Heritage Area program, which preserves
large historic landscapes managed through innovative partnerships.
Combined with the drastic rate hike, it’s hard to see this as anything other than a ploy to force park closures.
This proposal is currently open for public comments and will be open until November 23.
Comments can be written by anyone. You don’t have to live in America.
Please write a comment saying how much you love the parks or a certain park or why you think this is a bad idea. If you don’t live in America write something about how you travel here to see the parks or how you wish that your country had a park service like America (the American government loves having its ego stroked)
Public comments are the only thing the park service is going to see. They aren’t going to see how many notes this post gets, they’re going to look at that comments page to see how many people they would tick off it they did this. So please, reblog this post but go comment, it’s the only way to let the parks service know how you feel.
PLEASE do this ^^^
PLEASE go comment!!!
Hi guys I don’t do politics much but this is vitally important. A HUGE chunk of Colorado’s economy depends on people visiting the parks, not to mention that they’re beautiful and don’t deserve this bullshit. Commenting DOES make a big difference and you don’t have to give them any personal information if you don’t want.
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