Witchy Wonderings

Pretty sure the only time a God is completely honest is when you personally agree on Them being so with you, or when you request a prophecy from one of the future-seeing Deities (Moros, Apollo, Jupiter). Prophecies can be twisted, unclear, but are never wrong unless the diviner misunderstood something.

Other than that, lying is a normal thing for a God to do.

Your haunted doll is not evil. She is just bored.

If anybody says you're too old to play with dolls, send your haunted doll after them.

Sometimes the gods are quiet, whispering with voices of sunbeams through the window and honey dripping onto toast. Their pleas are muted, near silent.

Sometimes the gods don't speak at all, and no matter how you try, you cannot hear them - not in sunbeams or thunder or birds singing on the rooftops.

For three months Sarambounou, 41, worked between eight- and 11-hour shifts for 80 euros per day.

Obviously, "overtime was never paid," he said ruefully. 

"I accepted because I know my situation. If you don't have papers, you do all the hard work, all the crappy jobs. You have no choice," he said as he boiled water on a stove on the floor of the tiny room he shares with four compatriots.

There's a serious problem with Gen Z not knowing how to seek resources and groups and organizations that don't exist online, and that's most of them because they're being run by people with minimal internet literacy

On the other side, there's a problem with the people who are most knowledgeable and deeply involved not knowing how to reach numbers of people using the internet

Like: okay, if the local resources existed online, where would you-the-younger-person go looking for them? Would you know where to look? Would you know how to find online indexes? I'm bringing this up because I think that the framework of social media often encourages folks to passively react to things that wind up on our feeds (rather than actively searching for it or forming interactive relationships with people), and it's really hard to figure out how to use the Internet to bring local organizations through that kind of more passive, undirected stream.

Person who has spent all their cash on rent and food still has a place to get out of the house and do something interesting.

Cool community classes and community art shows.

ESL tutoring.

what is lovelier than some lovely little buttons, all sauteed up in butter, dressed with salt and a dash of pepper?

uh. doubtful?

They crispen up real nice so it sidesteps that whole squishy texture issue that lotsa folks have with mushrooms

And I bet he loves to annoy the shit out of Artemis with it, too, being siblings and all.

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Artemis: *focused on aiming an arrow quietly at a stag in the distance*

Apollo: *rises out of the bushes next to her, kazoo in hand* *loudly plays Careless Whisper, scaring the stag away*

*This is a recipe I created myself with very little research. I plan on developing it more as time goes on but it's brand new for me. I'm not experienced in oils and would love feedback and to hear how others go about making intention oils.

Need:

Rosemary

Nettle Leaves

Canola Oil

A jar you can seal

A marker

How to:

Cleanse the items you're using and yourself first. Then start by focusing your energy so you can direct in into the herbs with your set intention. Pour the oil in and make sure to leave some room at the top. You don't want to fill it up to the brim.

Now we're going to tell the herbs what we want them to do. I charged the rosemary with protection and added that first. Next, I charged the nettle with protection and warding and added it in. I made sure to put emphasis on the nettles stinging qualities, specifically asking it to "sting" those who meant me harm. Rosemary is both purifying and protective, which will give the oil a back off vibe.

I did have some trouble focusing my energy tonight, which is why I spoke to the herbs as I added them in and made sure to talk myself through grounding. It's important that you trust yourself here.

I put the bottle on my windowsill after drawing a pentagram on the lid. (Use whatever protection symbol or sigil you'd like.) Make sure to shake it well on a regular basis. I plan on leaving it out for a full month to let the oil experience the whole moon cycle. I recommend instilling your intention again when you go to shake it. Doing this every day will give it a good kick, but there's no need to stress about it. Tend to it when you can.

I used to have real bad social anxiety, still have it a bit. Couldn't speak to people or give presentations. Now I talk to others much more easily, give workshops, run social events, got a job in customer service etc. And I did that in large part thanks to the fake it till you make it approach. Because that helped remove the barrier of "what if I fuck up" and let me put myself in situations that let me discover things weren't scary and helped me get used to doing these things and gain experience with them.

For me, faking it is almost always counterproductive, because my C-PTSD brain interprets "You just have to fake it" as "It's dangerous to be authentic for this process."

It also just occurred to me that “fake it ‘til you make it” may just be the adult way of saying “Play pretend about it!” which of course would be an effective way of adopting new behavior, because narrative play is incredibly powerful and transformative.

When magic calls you to the deep woods, it will be dangerous.

Go anyway.

Why not?

We are armored with impermanence, we fragile humans.

Go.

Go because you want to.

Because, in the end, that want creates all you are.

Go.