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May ends with a blue moon, and we dive into June with a celebration of water witching! Associated with healing, intuition, lunar cycles, and change, water forms the cornerstone of life on our planet and an essential building block of our own bodies. Modern witchcraft utilizes water in dozens of ways, from blessing and purification to growth and healing spells to good old-fashioned all-purpose moon water. I know a few witches who will be heading to the seashore or the nearest river this summer to get their feet wet and recharge, the same way that green-thumbs like myself feel refreshed when we can get our hands into some good clean dirt.

Take a moment this month to appreciate how water shows up in your life. Familiarize yourself with a local waterway and the biome that it supports. Water is our most precious natural resource and it is forever under threat from pollution and human greed. (Yet another reason that we don’t need huge resource-sucking data centers for generative AI.)

Water Witching Pro-Tips: For easy-peasy potable moon water, place a clear jug or jar of drinking water outside under the full moon. If you have a rain barrel for collecting runoff, bless the barrel for an extra magical boost when you use the water for your garden! (Remember to put a filter over the top of your barrel to keep out bugs and refuse, and DO NOT drink raw rainwater - it requires treatment to remove pollutants before it is safe to consume.)

This Month’s Featured Items:

Wisdom, Healing, and Intuition Bottle Charms

Healing Moon Spell Jar

Moon Witch Keychain

Use code GOWITHTHEFLOW for 20% off new and featured items all month long! 

Don’t forget to check out the Upcoming Events page for my full schedule of local markets and workshops. Tune in to Hex Positive on your favorite listening app and check out the Redbubble shop for fabulous podcast merch. Watch for the merch drop later this month and join my Patreon to vote in next month’s poll!

Stay Safe and Happy Witching!

Important June Dates:

June 14 - New Moon

June 20-21 - Summer Solstice

June 29 - Strawberry Full Moon

June 29-July 23 - Mercury Retrograde

Upcoming Events:

The Witches Table Discussion Group: Williamsburg Chapter(First Wednesday of each month) Next Gathering - June 3 Upcoming Dates - July 1 Virginia Beer Company 401 2nd St, Williamsburg VA (USA) Hosted by The Witches Table (And check out the Richmond chapter too!)

First Fridays Moon Market(First Friday of each month) Next Event - June 5 Historic Hilton Village 10369 Warwick Blvd, Newport News VA (USA) Hosted by Styx & Stones

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When Spring is come to garth and field, and corn is in the blade, When blossom like a shining snow is on the orchard laid, When sun and shower upon the earth with fragrance fill the air, I’ll linger here, and will not come, because my land is fair!

When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold, When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!

When Summer warms the hanging fruit and burns the berry brown; When straw is gold, and ear is white, and harvest comes to town; When honey spills, and apple swells, though wind be in the West, I’ll linger here beneath the Sun, because my land is best!

When Winter comes, the winter wild that hill and wood shall slay; When trees shall fall and starless night devour the sunless day; When wind is in the deadly East, then in the bitter rain I’ll look for thee, and call to thee; I’ll come to thee again!

When Winter comes, and singing ends; when darkness falls at last; When broken is the barren bough, and light and labour past; I’ll look for thee, and wait for thee, until we meet again: Together we will take the road beneath the bitter rain!

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

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May ends with a blue moon, and we dive into June with a celebration of water witching! Associated with healing, intuition, lunar cycles, and change, water forms the cornerstone of life on our planet and an essential building block of our own bodies. Modern witchcraft utilizes water in dozens of ways, from blessing and purification to growth and healing spells to good old-fashioned all-purpose moon water. I know a few witches who will be heading to the seashore or the nearest river this summer to get their feet wet and recharge, the same way that green-thumbs like myself feel refreshed when we can get our hands into some good clean dirt.

Take a moment this month to appreciate how water shows up in your life. Familiarize yourself with a local waterway and the biome that it supports. Water is our most precious natural resource and it is forever under threat from pollution and human greed. (Yet another reason that we don’t need huge resource-sucking data centers for generative AI.)

Water Witching Pro-Tips: For easy-peasy potable moon water, place a clear jug or jar of drinking water outside under the full moon. If you have a rain barrel for collecting runoff, bless the barrel for an extra magical boost when you use the water for your garden! (Remember to put a filter over the top of your barrel to keep out bugs and refuse, and DO NOT drink raw rainwater - it requires treatment to remove pollutants before it is safe to consume.)

This Month’s Featured Items:

Wisdom, Healing, and Intuition Bottle Charms

Healing Moon Spell Jar

Moon Witch Keychain

Use code GOWITHTHEFLOW for 20% off new and featured items all month long! 

Don’t forget to check out the Upcoming Events page for my full schedule of local markets and workshops. Tune in to Hex Positive on your favorite listening app and check out the Redbubble shop for fabulous podcast merch. Watch for the merch drop later this month and join my Patreon to vote in next month’s poll!

Stay Safe and Happy Witching!

Important June Dates:

June 14 - New Moon

June 20-21 - Summer Solstice

June 29 - Strawberry Full Moon

June 29-July 23 - Mercury Retrograde

Upcoming Events:

The Witches Table Discussion Group: Williamsburg Chapter(First Wednesday of each month) Next Gathering - June 3 Upcoming Dates - July 1 Virginia Beer Company 401 2nd St, Williamsburg VA (USA) Hosted by The Witches Table (And check out the Richmond chapter too!)

First Fridays Moon Market(First Friday of each month) Next Event - June 5 Historic Hilton Village 10369 Warwick Blvd, Newport News VA (USA) Hosted by Styx & Stones

Me: Okay, good to know. Does this affect our break times? If so, are we still taking an hour and clocking in after the required unpaid 30min, or are we splitting off the two paid 15min breaks included with the 8hr shift we're now being paid for?

Boss: Um, do you NOT want a raise? The information was perfectly clear.

Me: ........No. No it was not. And that's not a raise. That's just reduction of our lunch break time, and it doesn't answer my question.

Boss: This is what I was talking about. Your attitude is so negative.

Me: Asking for clarification is negative?

Boss: Just read the email.

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This place will hire directors and managers left right and center, but god forbid they do something about the horrendously overworked skeleton crew dealing with daily logistics.

Which I've only been bringing to their attention every quarter for two years.