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($210 / $500 per family)

$1160 needed before tomorrow (Friday)!

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These 4 families in Gaza, totaling 36 members, are forced to rely on mutual aid for survival. The largest family needs $500 a week to survive on just $5 a day per person, and that's not including the fees to cash funds in Gaza.

Consider what you can skip each week to help these families. If 100 people saved $20 a week to donate, or if 25 people recruited 4 others each to do the same, we could meet our goal to provide essential funds for these families every week.

🥘 Cost per meal with NO meat ≈ 100 NIS

🐓 Cost of frozen chicken breast = 40 NIS / kilo

🍼 1 pack of diapers + 1 can of formula ≈ 130 NIS

💧 1 meal per day with NO meat, water, firewood for one month ≈ 4500 NIS

💰 4500 NIS = $1225

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I genuinely need people to stop blaming ancient Greek religion/the gods for ancient Greek societal conventions like infanticide, slavery, and misogyny.

Exposed infants were protected by Kourotrophos gods!

Versions of the gods exist who were liberators of enslaved persons!

Women undeniably found the most freedom in the religious sphere!

Also a reminder that the ancient Greeks also used the gods to pass laws based on their own views! Just like how modern conservative politicians use the xtian God to make people be afraid and get them in line. It was punishable by Athenian law if one did not worship the gods the way the government told them to worship them. This is one of the main things that got Socrates in trouble and ultimately killed as he tried to prove he was pious: (LINK)

Ancient laws and customs were made by ancient Greek people for ancient Greek people! And have nothing to do with modern worshippers or their beliefs!

Do you not see gods in the wildlife around you? Do you not see the divine in the ground you walk on, the air you breathe, the sun warming your skin? Do you not feel the thrumming heartbeat of all your ancestors, deep in your chest?

Do you truly see no beauty in the small, quiet places?

Hey guys! Money is tight right now, and I’m solidly too autistic to work. So I’m going to cut my divination prices in half for the next couple of months in hopes of making my life a little bit easier.

In case you don’t know, I run a divination blog over at @redclowndivination. I sell tarot readings ranging from one to five cards (with single cards always being free), as well as Blind Spindle Readings, a form of divination I’ve developed where I make designs in a dish of flour, salt, or sand with a drop spindle and interpret them.

I use the Nicoletta Ceccoli deck, which lends itself to surreal and intuitive readings with nontraditional imagery. I’ve never had any complaints, and I get especially good responses from the spindle readings.

With the price reduction, my prices are as follows:

1 card readings are obviously still free :)

2 card readings are $5 USD instead of $10 USD

3 card readings are $7.50 USD instead of $15 USD

5 card Spiritual Path readings are $10 USD instead of $20 USD

Blind Spindle Readings are $7.50 USD instead of $15 USD

Here are some links to my pages: Pricing/Spreads/Options | Guidelines | About me | How to request a reading | Disclaimer

Hello all. Very new and currently reaserching. Looking for guidance and reading materials. I will give some backround info, the reason I'm reaserching, and what I have consumed already.

Backround on me. I am an Italian American, mostly southern Italian, primarily Sicily. (As far as I know, i will be takeing an ancestory DNA test soon) My family was running from organized crime and wanted to "americanize" fast so I did not really grow up culturally scicilian. I grew up catholic. I generally consider myself an architypical theist. I am not opposed to others views and practices like some people that use a similar identity. I have been passively practicing various traditions at my leisure for a few years now. Some inspiration from Wicca, the Heathen Reconstruction Movement, and more modern eclectic writers like Mat Auryn's "Psychic Witch." With all that being said I am a casual practioner of witchcraft at best but am very much convinced of a creator diety.

Recently I have came across itallian folk traditions and found striking similarities with my family and "what we did in Sicily" as my grandpa would say. About 2 years ago there was a lot of random shitty things happening in the family. My grandpa instructed my sister to gift me a cornicello neclace because he thought this is the work of the Mal'occhio. (he pernounced it ma-luk-e-a) Ever since I've worn it everyday. After a recent death in the family I decided to research this further and came across a YouTube video by Chaotic Witch Aunt that was a kind of "beginners guide," from here is where my general research has taken off from. I noticed, in my family, a focus on saint veneration, saint punishing, Mal'occhio, and stories of my great Grandfather describing a kind of shamanism in his "pinwheel village". My guess is that my recent family partook in a type of Benidictaria. And yes I know they would not have called themselves that as far as I know everyone has been Devote catholics, even though they don't really act like devote catholics. I COULD BE WRONG OFC.

Some of the stuff I consumed so far is various blog posts and reddit threads relating to symbolism, charms, icons.., the previously mentioned YouTube video, a interview with Angela Buca from Chaotic Witch Aunt, I started reading "itallian witchcraft" by Raven Gramassi (taking it with a grain of salt), and I will occasionally crack into the 13 part paper "Spells, Saints, and Strege." By Sabina Magliocco, not much yet though.

My to read list is this right now.

Finishing Sabinas paper.

The things we do, Augustino Taumaturgo.

Aradia, Charles Leland. Stregheria, Leland.

Etruscan magic and occult remedies, Leland.

Pre prints that Angela Buca has made available.

My goal here is more so in the realm of reconstruction, history, and gathering more info. I have made the decision to experiment with saint veneration since it is somthing I have done in the past and somthing that feels natural to me. I do not want to jump into a new practice all willy nilly without the proper reaserch.

Looking for more reading materials, guidance on prioritizing the materials I already have listed, general advice to newcomers into the community, personal stories of your practice or relationship with italian folk traditions, and a reason why everyone seems to hate Gramassi haha.

Sorry this post is so long I felt it necessary to explain my intentions and where the come from. I understand that this is a diverse and nuanced community and subject to research.

Not long after I penned this piece on an Italian folk magic charm, I received an email from my great aunt. She is currently 93 and the self proclaimed “elder” of the family. My aunt Anna is stubborn, outspoken, spirited, and proud — though we may have our differences and more than half a century between us, we have always bonded over our love of history. In this email, my aunt Anna told me she read my article and was ecstatic that I was interested in our family’s southern Italian culture — specifically the magic.

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"Some people who use the label asexual are asexual due to trauma, mental health conditions, or medications/hormonal problems and they should always be welcome within the asexual community."

Haven’t tidied their altars in forever? They understand.

Don’t have the motivation to give them offerings? They get it.

You haven’t left bed for a long time? They still care about you.

Aren’t devoting time to them lately? They don’t mind

Forgot an offering? That’s alright. They forgive you.

Fucked something up? They’re not going to ditch you for your mistakes.

Decide to take a break from deity work? Totally cool, they’ll still be here for you.

I come from an animist perspective where I believe that everything that comes from nature, be it alive or not, has a soul. So for me trying to work with crystals (or any other rock for that matter) in the way that New Age thought applies it (i.e. they have to be “programmed” and “charged” like some kind of technological device) never really made sense. (Not invalidating those who do work with crystals in that way, it just doesn’t click with me.) I’ve found that communicating with the crystals as I would any other herbal or spirit ally, talking to them and building a personal relationship has had way more of a positive affect on my practice.

Also, despite what witchy consumerism may say, you don’t have to spend a whole bunch of money to use fancy cut crystals if you don’t want to. Quartz and Jasper can be found in almost any natural setting for free. I’ve also found various agates, raw amethyst, and moonstone by various natural water sources. Also depending on where you live, sand on the beach is primarily made of Quartz, meaning that sand is a crystal! (This depends on what coast you’re on. Double check locally if this applies to you!) ALSO also, regular rocks have just as much magical capacity as your fancy witch-store crystals do, and may or may not resonate more.

magical practitioner or witch,

a folk practitioner of any variety,

spirit worker

a disabled witch/practitioner

mentally ill practitioner,

a hellenic polytheist,

or a kemetic polytheist

pls like or rb this!!