resonance-of-libra:

When it comes to shadow work, I think a lot of people miss a really big aspect of it by only seeing it as “your dark side, the stuff you don’t like.”

It’s really the stuff you don’t look at, the stuff that’s repressed – including good things! If you’ve ever said “oh, I used to draw a lot… I don’t know why I don’t anymore…” that’s a GREAT opportunity for shadow work, even if it’s not an “ugly side of yourself” thing. That inner artist, it’s a part of yourself that’s screaming out to be acknowledged, accepted and expressed! That’s such an important aspect of shadow work!

Dig into why you don’t let yourself shine. It might amaze you what comes up, and how intense it is.

monkeykiing:

So I’m doing a project on modern witches and I’m looking for some statistics. Please reblog this if you identify as LGBTQ and practice some form of witchcraft!

laziest-art:

finehoney:

finehoney:

im so ready to be in a relationship so whenever the universe is ready hmu with a keeper

i posted this yesterday then today this cute boy held my hand and now he is sending me memes

Reblog for love

datesanddamian:

thomasthetwinkengine:

blo:

psychic-sara:

Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight

BITCH I REBLOGGED THIS AT 4AM AND SOME FIT GUY FROM MY HOMETOWN SLID INTO MY DMS at 11PM LIKE GIRL HONESTLY iM

Can the miracle be that I actually fall asleep at a reasonable time

I’m starting to feel like that miracle is falling into a deep sleep and actually waking up rested. Bless this post.

thehoneybeewitch:

There’s a shop near me, owned by an older woman with deep, practical knowledge of herbal medicine.

The front portion of her shop sells cooking supplies and spices, cards, little artsy things, and local goods like soaps and crocheted blankets. But the back was, at one point, my nightmare and laughing stock all at once.

An entire section dedicated to ‘flower fairies’ and ‘light fairies’. Little glittery kits of herbs and stones, with guides so even the mundane-est person could get money, or love, or good luck, with the power of magic. The ‘fluffiest’ of fluffy witchcraft, as I used to think of it. And that’s not even counting the ‘angel spirit classes’, or the rune casting lessons by White Mother of Three, pseudonym, “Cleopatra”.

And yet…

Her classes are never rained out. Her little altar area, dedicated (as far as I could tell) to the Gods-of-Resin-Collectable-Dragons and a Barbie doll, always has fresh flowers and cookies. Her shop prospers through every local and country-wide economic disaster, and has paved the way for other similar shops to open in her area.

And she has power. When she speaks, people listen, though her voice is gentle and matter of fact. If my power, at one point, was laid out next to hers…no doubt it would appear as a small, angry spark next to an ocean of gentle light.

With that said…I guess the moral of this little story is such:

Don’t mock the gentle witches, the Fairy believers and the candle-wishers. Don’t laugh at their books, or their collections of angel statues. Their ‘healing light’ or happiness spells of sprinkles and joy.

You don’t know their power, their Powers, their Gods. Don’t be like me, and laugh up your sleeve at their songs, or their paintings of beautiful ladies holding butterflies.

Let them be. Or better yet, learn from them. Don’t make my mistakes.

Look at how much time I lost that I could have been friends with her, and could have traded secrets!

And try a little gentleness yourself.

greywash:

theconqueeror:

labambinafantasma:

If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.

On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.

Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.

But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.

What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.

Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:

https://saveyourinternet.eu

Also, sign and share this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=50668942&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial

We have just a couple of weeks to stop this complete madness, don’t let them dictating the way we enjoy our internet.

#SaveYourInternet now!

It’s funny how y’all will reblog any and all US things but when whole Europe might lose access to internet then everything is quiet.

Okay, so I’ve got some THINGS TO SAY, one of which is to roll my eyes massively at the above poster (not the OP):

If it seems as though Article 13 has sprung up out of nowhere,
blindsiding people, it’s because it quite literally has. “It wasn’t
going to be in the final draft but it was reintroduced on GDPR day [May
25th, the day GDPR went into effect],” says Cory Doctorow, who is
organizing against the proposal with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

(bolding mine) This is from an article in the Verge from two days ago, i.e., the day before the JURI vote, and overall, this law has not gotten nearly as much news coverage as it probably should. My primary news source is European (still, for a little while) and I hadn’t even heard of this law until today, i.e. after the JURI vote, so like, before you all: heartless internet people don’t reblog stuff having to do with Europe!! Maybe check how much news coverage it’s actually gotten.

Also, framing this as “when whole Europe might lose access to internet” is hugely misleading: it manages to both understate and overstate the problem. If you want a good source on what this law actually does and why it’s bad, Wired has a good breakdown. TL;DR it’s bad, it’s really really bad, not because it will make the internet go dark in Europe but because it will fundamentally change how the internet works for the entire world.

If you don’t want to click on the link, Article 13 is intended to end a “safe harbor” exemption that’s so far limited the penalties for companies that host user content, when that user content infringes on copyright; and requires all companies to build and check content against a database of copyrighted materials, like YouTube Content ID. It’s being pushed by the music industry (who—really, guys, Napster was a long time ago, you really need to get over it), but because of the way the law is written it would affect all companies that host user content, including (definitely) Tumblr and also potentially the AO3—even though transformative works are (probably) covered under fair use and are (probably) not actually illegal, because this kind of filtering frequently is overaggressive/doesn’t work correctly on either a technical or a legal level.

In other words: if you read the original post and were like: pfffft, fanfic’s not illegal: it doesn’t matter. This absolutely will catch material that’s not actually in violation of copyright, because it already does.

It is possible that companies that allow hosting of user content will just choose to blackout all of Europe, but it’s unlikely—the EU’s too big a market. What’s more unlikely is that tech companies will try to comply—which would be hugely, massively disastrous for the entire internet.

And the link tax (Article 11) is arguably even more dangerous than Article 13, because it will directly commodify links to reputable news sources, which is likely to make linking to unreputable news sources more appealing, just because they’ll probably be cheaper. Think the Guardian, WaPo, the NY Times, CNN, The Economist, the WSJ all falling off Google News results in favor of some asshole blogger, because the blogger doesn’t require a license for links. If you feel like you want to get your news from me, boy, guys, I have bad news for you.

Anyway the real point here is that because the internet is international, this law doesn’t just affect Europe, so don’t write this one off as a “European” issue—just like we’ve all been getting GDPR notices in the last few weeks as a result of an EU privacy law, we can anticipate that if this one passes, it will likewise affect all of us as well.