i can't believe Jesus just called me a dick!

Just because we're online, doesn't erase the fact that people can be and are racist still.

When BIPOC of the community are saying "This person was racist to me. This person harrassed me. This person makes the community feel unsafe for me to be apart of.", and you choose to write it off as "drama", you're part of the problem.

With that being said, I'm taking a page out of my friends book and I'm just blocking people who I know interact with racists.

Why?

Cause if you're cool with being friends with and interacting with someone WHO IS RACIST and perpetuate RACIST BEHAVIOR, then you're also fucking racist and not a safe space. :)

Do you, but do you all the way away from me.

Ohhh the number one thing I wish I could drill into the head of every aspiring occultist and magical practitioner is that CRITICAL THINKING IS YOUR FRIEND.

Study magic but keep fact-checking! If there's a claim in a book on witchcraft that should be able to be backed up by mundane sources, look for those sources. If they're not cited in the book, that's a red flag. If the sources you do find don't support the claim, that's another, bigger red flag. This is especially true with claims about history, science, medicine, psychology, anthropology, and religion.

Also, be wary of anything New Age. There's a pipeline to anti-science, eugenics, and racism there that runs directly through portions of the modern pagan and witchcraft communities and it's brightly painted with New Age buzzwords.

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. If something seems geared to appeal to your emotions, especially that which seems formulated to make you feel special or "chosen" or to fire up some kind of righteous anger or feelings of superiority, you should immediately be suspicious of it.

If a source tells you to disregard science, modern medicine, or recorded history, or tries to tell you that some people are inherently more special or magical or deserving of power than others, discard it immediately. That is a bad source.

Don't believe everything you see or hear online. Too many witches roll their eyes at their parents and grandparents believing everything they read on Facebook, then turn around and insist that everything they've seen on TikTok or Tumblr or YouTube is Absolute Truth.

" I'll go anywhere you want,

Anywhere you want me. "

I also got a suggestion to draw Hermes Psychopompos, my favorite aspect of Hermes.

So much of my practice centers around death, dying, and caring for the spirits of the dead. I can't imagine not using the actual words and instead using "d3ad" or "🎲-ing". If a topic is important, powerful, vast, etc. enough to be a central tenant of your spiritual or magical practice then it deserves to be spoken with the real words.