Adalia Greyson

This is your regularly-scheduled reminder that Hex Positive is proudly queer-owned and operated. 🏳‍🌈

Wishing you all a very happy Pride, whether you're flying your colors high or just cherishing them in your heart, and hoping that life brings you the safety, validation, community, and care to support your journey.

Sincerely and Queerly Yours,

1) Supreme Court draft opinions do not leak. Ever. It is unknown and unprecedented. It just does not happen.

2) Supreme Court clerks are generally right-out-of-law-school graduates and if whoever did this gets caught they will never be allowed to practice law. No state bar is ever going to take them. Their legal career is done for. This person risked their entire future.

Not everything is restricted in the same way.

We're not all restricted for the same reason.

Some are closed to protect their traditions from being erased.

Some are closed because the traditions just don't make sense when taken out of context.

Some are closed because they require high-level understanding the average person just won't have.

Some are tied to a specific culture or ethnicity. Others aren't.

Sometimes you just need to be initiated properly.

Sometimes you need to be part of a specific group AND be initiated.

Sometimes there is NO way to join if you're not already in it.

Sometimes being "born into it" doesn't have an easy definition.

Sometimes you need to deassimilate first. Sometimes you can jump right in.

Our boundaries, traditions, and philosophies are ALL unique.

They wouldn't be able to hoard all that wealth without the government destroying their competition with patent laws.

"You can manifest away your mental/physical illnesses if you would just try hard enough, because you get back what you put in and attract what you send out."

"You aren't cured yet because you're not manifesting hard enough/being positive enough/putting out enough good vibes."

"You don't need medications. All you need are your intention and will, and if you work at it, the universe will respond."

The Law of Attraction is the fullscreen version of this. It also plays into gatekeeping because newer witches are led to believe that their spells aren't working in grand and impossible ways because they're not TRYING hard enough, or their VIBES aren't right, or they're not doing X Magical Thing Du Jour. Y'know, rather than acknowledging that magic has limits and you have to put in the physical work to make the metaphysical work.

And it gets taught to witches under the same umbrella as the Threefold Law, because "Everything you do comes back times three" and "You attract and manifest what you think and feel, so you have to constantly police your thoughts and your energy" fit neatly into the bastardized version of karma that some sects of modern paganism like to pedal as part of the New Age package. It's usually right next to the chapter about how medicine is fake and essential oils can cure all your ills. (Also false.)

To me, it sounds remarkably like, "The entire reason things are going wrong in your life is because you're a dirty sinner and you need to REPENT."

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any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don’t have to choose what it is if they can’t make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you’re just gonna make food happen at their house.

friend having a baby? delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the kid shows up.

someone’s relative passes away? offer to make them dinner.

buddy gets laid off? ask if you can order them lunch.

pal stuck in a depressive episode? offer to drive them to fucking mcdonalds, if that’s what they want.

people in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. so if you have the ability or time or money, providing that is always, always a good move.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.