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I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."
"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.
"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?
"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.
If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.
You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.
"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.
Remembering the time my old nb roommate who went to an LGBT law conference and was heaping the absolute biggest bitchfit texting me cause “some cis guy” was talking about trans people and trans men in particular and my roommate refused to listen to what this guy said cause “why should I listen to him” and I said “are you sure he’s cis?” And then towards the end of the presentation he said something that indicated to the crowd he was a trans man and then suddenly my roommate started to consider what had been shared.
Absolute loser behavior, but not completely unique. We’ve all gotta stop saying only x people can talk about x issues for us to listen. Too many people in the in group will have dogshit takes no one wants to challenge because “well, they are x identity.” Likewise, plenty of people on the out group actually know what they’re talking about and have something to contribute to the conversation.
Especially when it comes to sexuality and gender, you relying on someone outing themselves or you clocking them to decide whether their words have merit is shitty, because you won’t always know if they ARE the group “allowed” to talk about it. And even beyond that, I knew a fuckload about transness before I realized I was trans, it helped me REALIZE I was trans. “Listen to x voices” got sooooo warped in the discourse.
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"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls
You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts
And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway
By putting certain things underneath your pillow, you will allow those metaphysical properties to interact with your dreams and being throughout the night when you sleep upon that pillow. Here is a small list of constructs you can put underneath your pillow that will provide you with specific kna, minds states, and physical stimuli throughout the night based on what they are:
Lapis lazuli is placed under your pillow for awareness of your dreams and the vividness of those dreams.
Clear quartz to wake up with more kna after you awake from your sleep.
Bayleaf to have more prophetic dreams.
Chamomile to promote relaxation and good dreams.
Rose petals to bring love into your waking life.
Peppermint to promote relaxation and vivid dreams.
Lavender to promote calm and for you to sleep well.
Anise to prevent nightmares.
Rosemary to prevent nightmares and to bring deep sleep.
Garlic to promote good sleep.
You can put a blade of grass or a leaf underneath your pillow to promote growth and change in your waking life.
Money for wealth and prosperity in your waking life.
A Picture of someone to connect with them better.
A name of someone to connect with them better.
You can put all manner of sigils underneath your pillow to get the effect of that Sigil into your dreams and waking life.
Book of shadows and grimoire and how to make your own
Altars and altar tools
Types of spells
Psychic protection, protections spells, home and house and protection
Shadow work
Banishing
Protective herbs
Grounding, centering and meditation.
Moon phases and how they can be incorporated into spells
magickal/witches tools
Candle colour correlations/ colour correlations in witchcraft
Herbology
Crystals
Types of divination- tarot, pendulum, runes ect
Astrology
Dream interpretation
Reasons why a spell or ritual may fail
How to fix a spell if it goes wrong or ask a fellow witch for advice
The elements and how to connect to them
Understanding substituting and how to rework rituals and spells
Affirmations
Pentagram, pentacle and the goat of mendes
The laws of magick
The law of attraction
dangerous / poisonous/ toxic herbs!
Crystal care
auras/ aura reading
Folklores,superstitions and wivestales
Different deities in different cultures
Chakras
Alchemy
Seals
Familiars
Sigils and talsimans
energies/ energy work
Solitary vs coven/group witchcraft
sabbats/ esbats- if you’re interested in that.
Faeries
Lucid dreaming/astral projection
Working with spirits, angels, deities and
Steps to take to make sure you are working with certain angels and deities or spirits.
Methods for opening the third eye and other chakras
Chaos magick
Personal spirit guides
How to find your spirit guides and guardian angels
The higher self
Taglocks and magick links
Lightworkers
Symptoms of being cursed/ hex
How to remove a curse or hex/return to sender
Empaths
Symbols
Types of water(moonwater ect)
Writing your own spells
Cord or knot magick
Ritual structures
How to cleanse your space and cleansing herbs
Do not try hex ,cursing or any type of baneful magic as a beginner witch! It can backfire and go wrong if you’re not prepared! But knowing the symptoms and how to send one back can be very useful
Cleansing, Warding, and Banishing: A Witch's Most Practical Tools
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When you first begin pursuing the craft, there is such an immense amount of topics to sort through. You may ask yourself: where do I begin? My answer to you is protection. Protection is the basis for many aspects of the craft and is an essential tool to ensure not only your personal safety, but the safety of your space and others. Protection is especially important if you intend to work with deities, entities, or spirits. (Note: You do not have to work with deities, entities, or spirits if you don't wish to. Your practice is your practice, and witchcraft is not a religion.)
If you are ever feel spiritually uncomfortable (that something is "off" but you can't explain it, for example, and you have ruled out mundane causes), please start with protection. Don't panic and resort to thinking that you have been a victim of baneful magic (jinxes, hexes, curses) or think you cannot remedy this by yourself. Additionally, don't fall for scams by some witches or practitioners who ask for payment to help you with your situation. Baneful magic is a very real possibility, but always begin with smaller measures and work upwards as needed. If you are ready to begin casting spells, protection spells are recommended as they are personally-oriented and relatively simple to work with.
Overall, protection practices do not need to be complicated rituals with dozens of tools, steps, and ingredients. As long as you focus on the intent behind your action, it will work. Trust yourself!
Finally, never use a method of protection you haven't researched or does not feel right.
Its okay if you want to learn a language but only learn one word at a time. Its okay if you want to start a new hobby but suck at it first. Its okay if you want to read a book but only read one page so far. Progress is still progress, as long as you keep going and don't give up.
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Yes, what really infuriates me, is when those posts will mention ticks, then wave them off. like go 'oh these dumb people think any taller grass is a danger to neighborhood aesthetics and full of tics' as if the two are in any way equivalent, and then, cruelly and dangerously, leave it at that, as if ticks are a made up problem. or they'll use their image in their memes as a boogeyman then ignore any concerns.
My point isn't AT ALL 'lawns are better because ticks', there can be a middle ground. There are things like bug spray and ultrasonic repellent devices, neither of which are 100% effective, so the most important thing is always looking over yourself/your family, especially on your scalp, after you've been in a risky area. Lyme is stored in ticks' intestines, not their saliva, so if the tick is removed within a day or two, the risk of infection is low. I know someone who sent a tick for testing, and it came back positive for lyme, but since they removed it fast, they don't have it (had every test possible) however other tick-borne diseases like encephalitis (brain inflamation, sometimes deadly) are in their saliva and will infect you immediately, so I absolutely don't want you to think it's fine to get ticks as long as you get rid of them fast. it's better to get rid of them fast, send them for testing, and probably get on preventative antibiotics for a couple of weeks, because if caught early, lyme is treatable, even curable.
So it's all about a reasonable balance. Yes we need to restore biodiversity, but it's not without risks. is the lawn somewhere children play unsupervised every day? Somewhere you often walk barefoot? do you live in an at-risk area, or near woods with wild animals like deer who can infect ticks? then keep it to short grass. Conversely, large swathes of unused land, or tiny patches of decorative grass in the middle of a city that no one ever walks on, hiking spots where you only go with appropriate gear and bug spray, maybe even a designated spot in your backyard if you live far from wild animals, can and should be used to restore native plants as tall as you wish.
Also I would love it if people who don't have lyme actually reblogged this too lol. This is a horrendous illness, that affects every part of your body, that ruined my life and killed comrade leslie feinberg, and you need an appropriate level of fear to stay safe from it.
Also people act like autistic people would have been, like, left in the woods to die or something as kids for most of history, but as i said i’m researching islamic saints and in both islam and christianity there’s an awful lot of just, like, “Yeah that guy decided to go live in a cave by himself and wore one (1) article of clothing and sometimes he would walk around and scream randomly, it meant he was closer to god than everybody else”
I’d have to research this, but I kinda feel that, what with how much the eugenics movement pervaded everything for a huge chunk of recent history, our narrative of how disability was for much of history has gotten a little warped.
I feel like I always heard “yeah they assumed people were possessed by demons Back Then” but actually researching religious history? I’ve found a lot more of people seeing a person showing signs of (what we would call) neurodivergence or mental illness and being like “hm. yea that’s god.”
It’s also definitely like…in the US anyway fundamentalism has absolutely decimated a lot of AWARENESS of what Christianity specifically can look like.
american evangelicalism is based a lot on Belief in your religion as axiomatic Fact and at the same time a very buddy-buddy view of god where Jesus is like, your cool dad. Both of which are not very good for allowing the numinous and divine “mystery” to exist
So I think we assume people throughout history would default to “things I don’t understand are of the devil.” when very often they would instead be “things I don’t understand are of God.”
and they would see someone speak in strange sounds or move his body strangely or respond differently to the world and see something divine in it, and there are instances of this across many religions
@invisibleoctopus There’s this fascinating book about the cultural aspects of how mental illness presents called Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters that is not without its flaws, but that (among other things) discusses how schizophrenic people do significantly better in cultures where there’s a precedent/religious or spiritual explanation for people ‘hearing voices’ and such, because for one thing, they’re not treated as social outcasts for it. Those environments are better equipped to help and accommodate those people on the basis of being able to keep them integrated into a community. At least according to the Ethan Watters guy.
The thing about imagining that autistic children would have been left to die for most of history is just… it’s so lazy. And it betrays a huge failure to understand what autism looks like for autistic people and what daily life looked like in history at the same time. It’s very frustrating.
There’s this weird idea that autistics only develop special interests in this very narrow stereotypical STEM-field domain of life, also, which is total nonsense. Of course religion autistics are a thing. Judaism, too, has a lot of room for autistics: you develop very deep spheres of knowledge, about which you argue constantly, and prayer is sung and you get to move back and forth during it rhythmically.
The other thing that gets me is that it’s not just that there’s historical room to interpret weird behavior as Godly, it’s that autistic people are relatively likely to come up with unusual ideas about people and how people do and should work. If you’re talking about any theological tradition that involves contextual study and argument, you often find a very autistic sort of perspective writing the theology.
Also, just as a general data point: my stepdad, who is in his mid-70s, grew up in a rural farming community, and was never diagnosed with anything, is Obviously Autistic to anyone who knows what autism is.
He can only tolerate about 2 different fabrics against his skin.
And can only eat about 5 foods for obvious food texture reasons.
He hums softly and continually.
He never looks at people.
He has a bunch of other people-related sensitivities, like the inability to tolerate a lot of sounds and nearly all perfume smells.
He has about 3 topics of conversation, which are a) tractors, b) agriculture, and c) Rottweilers.
And you know what? He has had a nice long life of being a Rural Farmer and gets along great with other old farmer dudes who want to talk dogs-tractors-farming with him.
I mean, it’s generally understood that he is Weird, but also that he knows Really A Fucking Lot About Tractors. Which counts for everything in a rural farming community.
It goes beyond lazy into a type of downright cruelty. No matter how autistic people did or did not fit into their communities in the past, chances are someone loved them. When they were little, someone found the clothes they could tolerate and food they would eat and something they could do that matched their interests and abilities. And people married some of them and had children with them. Maybe not all of them, but some of them at least were loved.
We know this because archeology shows over and over again a great level of care and because these traits are still present - they had to get passed on somehow. And we know it because we too feel love for others, despite them constantly failing to live up to any ideal whatsoever.
Anyone who approaches other people with this attitude is only seeking to perpetuate an excuse to be cruel to them. It has nothing to do with what happened in the past and everything to do with what they hope they can get away with in the future. They discount the love that must have existed because it can’t be used against us.
All of this thread is amazing but I wanna highlight this part:
We assume people throughout history would default to “things I don’t understand are of the devil.” when very often they would instead be “things I don’t understand are of God.”
YES. That is exactly it.
This whole ‘the devil is everywhere trying to tempt you’ and ‘weird people are possessed by demons’ shit? that’s much more of a modern thing.
Fun fact: the only time in history when ‘exorcisms’ were a common practice was in the years after the movie The Exorcist came out.
In addition to the fact that most religions do not have a devil, the concept of the devil wasn’t as prominent in the history of Christianity, up until the 1400s, which is, ya know, very near the end of the Middle Ages.
Basic definitions of each method can be found under the cut! Please keep in mind:
These definitions are based on personal research.
Not all divination methods are included due to lack of information.
Some of these methods are not ethical/morally appropriate as they are historical and very outdated.
Some of these methods are from closed practices.
More information on each method can be found via the link in the source section of this post. This is where I found the infograph and not the definitions below, but they provide their own definitions and it is definitely very helpful!
Never practice a divination method you haven't researched or does not feel right. I hope you enjoy!
TW: brief mentions of animal sacrifice, gore, death, and bones
Abacomancy: a form of divination based on the interpretation of the patterns in dust, dirt, silt, sand, or the ashes of the recently deceased.
Aeromancy: divination conducted by interpreting atmospheric conditions, including lightening, cloud formations, wind patterns, and thunder.
Apantomancy: a form of divination based on articles at hand or things or living creatures that present themselves by chance.
Arithmancy: divination based on assigning numerical value to a word or phrase.
Astragalomancy: divination that uses random castings of bones or dice, especially marked with letters and numbers.
Astrology: divination based on the movements of celestial objects.
Augury: divination involving interpreting omens from the observed behavior of birds.
Automatic Writing: a form of divination that allows a person to produce written words without consciously writing.
Belomancy: divination based upon the movement of arrows. It is usually used to interpret the will of gods or spirits.
Bibliomancy: divination by randomly selecting a passage from a book, frequently a sacred text.
Botanomancy: divination through the burning of leaves, herbs, and tree branches.
Brontomancy: divination by interpreting thunder and thunderstorms.
Capnomancy: divination using smoke.
Cartomancy: divinations using cards.
Casting: Also known as charm casting, the practice of casting objects to form a system of divination, similar to runes or tarot but with objects.
Ceromancy: divination involving wax.
Chartomancy: divination by interpreting inscriptions written on paper or cards.
Chirognomy/Chiromancy/Palmistry: divination using the palm of the hand but which also includes an analysis of hand shape, fingers and fingernails.
Cledonism: form of divination based on chance encounters or remarks, such as words occasionally uttered.
Conchomancy: divination through seashells.
Dactylomancy: form of divination using rings.
Dice Divination: divination using dice.
Dobutsu Uranai: Japanese divination trend based on an animal horoscope.
Domino Divination: divination using dominos.
Dowsing: divination using a forked stick, rod, or pendulum.
Ettellia Tarot: tarot deck originating in France.
Graphology: divination by studying a person's handwriting.
G*psy Fortune-Telling Cards: an easy form of divination to learn that combines the qualities of tarot and playing cards. (Note: The term g*psy is considered a slur, please don't use it. The appropriate term is Romani.)
Haruspicy: inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry.
I Ching: a form of cleromancy applied to the I Ching. The text of the I Ching consists of sixty-four hexagrams: six-line figures of yin (broken) or yang (solid) lines, and commentaries on them.
Ifá Divination: a form of divination using wooden divination tray called an opon ifá, native to the Ifá religion of the Yoruba people of Africa.
Jiaobei/Poe: wooden divination tools originating from China, which are used in pairs and thrown to seek divide guidance in the form of a yes or no question.
Kau Cim: also known as lottery poetry, is a fortune telling practice that originated in China in which the querent requests answers from a sacred oracle lot. The practice is often performed in a Taoist or Buddhist temple in front of an altar.
Kipper Cards: form of divination card deck originating in Germany during the 19th century.
Lenormand: another form of cartomancy originating from France.
Libanomancy: divination primarily through observing and interpreting burning incense smoke, but which may include the way incense ash falls as well.
Lithomancy: divination by which the future is told using stones or the reflected light from the stones. The practice is most popular in the British Isles.
Mahjhong: a form of divination that uses Mahjong tiles to predict the future.
Mi Kayu Ura: a Japanese Shinto divination ritual using rice or bean gruel. Divination by gruel is generally used for agricultural predictions; it is presumed to predict the weather and harvests for the coming year.
Moleosophy: divination and fortune telling based upon the observation and interpretation of bodily marks — primarily those of the melanocytic nevus condition (a usually noncancerous disorder of pigment-producing skin cells commonly called birth marks or moles).
Necromancy: practice of magic involving communication with the dead – either by summoning their spirits as apparitions, visions or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination.
Nephomancy: a form of divination that involves observing an interpreting the color, shape, and position of the clouds in the sky. It can be classified under aeromancy.
Nggam: divination by interpreting the actions of spiders or crabs.
Numerology: belief in the divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events, used for divination.
O-Mikuji: random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan.
Oracle Cards: divination through an oracle deck.
Osteomancy: divination through bones.
Ouija: divination through a spirit board.
Phrenology: the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities.
Playing Cards: divination using a deck of playing cards.
Pyromancy: art of divination using fire.
Rhabdomancy: divination technique which involves the use of any rod, wand, staff, stick, arrow, or the like.
Runes: divination using runic symbols, usually set on stones.
Scapulimancy: practice of divination by use of scapulae or speal bones (shoulder blades) of sacrificed animals.
Scrying: practice of looking into a mirror, crystal ball, bowl of water, or other reflective surface in the hope of detecting significant messages or visions.
Tarot: divination using a tarot deck.
Tasseomancy: divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments.
Xylomancy: divination by analyzing pieces of wood.
We did not raise our kids to be Democrats. We raised them to respect and care for others, speak up for the marginalized, and give more than they take. It just happens that those are Democratic values.
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A collection of free-use texts on witchcraft, magic, and related topics. Shared with Dropbox
Hello, witches! Since I’m always harping on about learning your history and checking your sources, I thought I’d help folks get a head start by compiling some source material.
To that end, I’ve started a Dropbox folder with a stash of historical texts on witchcraft, magic, and related topics. Nearly everything I’ve managed to find so far is public domain (thank you Project Gutenberg), with the exception of a very thorough herbal grimoire I found online some years ago and a book of witchcraft from the 1970s that appears to be out of print.
I will be continuing in this vein with future texts that I find. Everything will be public domain or cited to the source that it came from, in PDF format. I will NOT be including PDFs of any book currently in circulation with a copyright linked to a living author or estate. The point of this folder is that everything in it should be free for sharing and open use as research materials.
Below is the initial list of titles. I tried to include as many as I could find, with a focus on some oft-cited classics. I will be adding new texts as I find them.
A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight, by David Webster (1820)
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718, by Wallace Notestein (1909)
British Goblins, Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions, by Wirt Sikes (1880)
Curiosities of Superstition, by W. H. Davenport Adams (1882)
Daemonologie, by King James I/VI (1597)
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, Edited and Selected by W. B. Yeats (1888)
Irish Witchcraft and Demonology, by St. John Drelincourt Seymour (1913)
La Sorcière, or The Witch of the Middle Ages, by Jules Michelet (1863)
Lives of the Necromancers, by William Godwin (1834)
Magic and Fetishism, by Alfred C. Haddon (1906)
Magic and Witchcraft, by Anonymous (1852)
Modern Magic, by M. Schele de Vere (1873)
Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics, by Richard Folkard (1884)
Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing, by William Walker Atkinson (1908)
The Devil in Britain and America, by John Ashton (1896)
The Discoverie of Witchcraft, by Reginald Scot (1594, 1886 reprint)
The Extremely Large Herbal Grimoire (date unknown, internet publication)
The Golden Bough : A Study of Magic and Religion, by Sir James George Frazer (1890)
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, by L.W. de Laurence (1918)
The Magic of the Horse-shoe, by Robert Means Lawrence (1898)
The Mysteries of All Nations, by James Grant (1880)
The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy, by Charles John Samuel Thompson (1897)
The Superstitions of Witchcraft, by Howard Williams (1865)
The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut by John M. Taylor (1908)
The Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches, by Increase Mather (1693, 1862 reprint)
Witch Stories, by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton (1861)
Witch, Warlock, And Magician, by W. H. Davenport Adams (1889)
Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, by John Gregorson Campbell (1902)
Witches’ Potions & Spells, ed. by Kathryn Paulsen (1971)
Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that these texts are (with few exceptions) more than a century old, and may contain depictions, references, or language that are outdated and inappropriate. The point of including these documents is to provide access to historical texts for research and reference. Inclusion in the collection does not equal unconditional agreement with or wholesale approval of the contents.
Take everything with a grain of salt and remember to do your due diligence!
Note: Further posts with additional titles in the notes.
If at any point the link stops working or the files cannot be accessed due to suspension by the Dropbox server, please make a note of the titles you’re interested in and visit Project Gutenberg or Global Grey Ebooks to download your own copy. :)
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