citrus witchy 🍋

Handmade quilt

a lot of you have been raised that the ideal social media structure is the influencer, in that your automatic presumption for social media success is becoming seen as an authority, presenting facts and information to your followers, and becoming needed/wanted for advice

you do not need to show up to existing communities and start a blog about your new journey and post your opinion and how-to’s as if you are an authority. 

in fact, this behavior is actively harmful, as you are often not knowledgeable enough about the community to discern common traps and bait content that is targeted at newbies who don’t know better

it’s really nice to feel wanted, but some of y’all are spreading misinformation and confusing smaller communities in general because you’ve decided your job is to be an educator about a topic that’s new to you

Oh, I am like the literal worst witch to ask on something like this -- because I'm not a materialist when it comes to correspondences. I'm not of the opinion that particular materials have inherent associations.

Now, a lot of people don't agree with me on this though -- so you might want to ask other people.

I personally believe that materials have correspondences because the witch using them in their magic give them that meaning... well, I'm more of an animist so I think we convince the materials they have that meaning, but close enough.

Now things like herbs often get correspondences because they're literal chemicals acting with physical properties, but in my experience a lot of correspondence lists (like, say, candle colors) are unsourced, unexplained things likely pulled out of someones ass thirty to forty years ago and repeated without questioning by the witches who came after.