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crazycatsiren

You don't need to meditate as a part of your witchcraft or religious practice.

You really don't.

motherofcosmos

Sure but you won’t reach your fullest

crazycatsiren

"Fullest" what?

By all means, tell a native Chinese Buddhist all you know about meditation.

🙄

hagoftheholler

Here we go with the "this is a universal thing you must do to practice magic" bullshit again.

hekatedeipnon

Well when you put intent into your practice, it is a form of meditation. When you perform mental or physical activity with intention and presence, it is a form of meditation. Meditation is not always just sitting there with your eyes closed and clearing your mind. People meditate without realizing it all the time. People in the comments saying "I don't meditate but i...." and then they describe a form of meditation. So no it's not that you have to meditate but if you're practicing witchcraft it's quite likely you're already doing it and are just unaware of the broad range of techniques you may be utilizing. In witchcraft we make connections to the earth. Whatever way we make that connection, it is through presence focus and intent. Aka meditation. Performing a dance as a sacrifice to the gods? You're meditating on your intention of your physical activity. Same with crocheting while doing knot spells. There's no universal "rules" to meditation. It is so broad that it is just a natural part of connecting to nature. Did you make cookies today with the intent of incorporating specific energies? Thats...meditation. focus presence and intent. I honestly can't think of a craft that doesn't do this. So OP (and others) instead of being such narcissists, why don't you explain your perspective on meditation and how exactly these aren't forms of meditation and what parts of witchcraft don't include it. Educate me if I'm so wrong because this is what I really believe and if I'm wrong I'd like to understand where. Only with civil and respectful intentions from others of course.

crazycatsiren

The moment you called me and my friends "narcissists" was the moment when I lost all interests in anything else you have to say, or further engaging with you in any manner for that matter.

be-bhinn

The only narcissistic thing happening on this post is @hekatedeipnon presuming to know everything about everyone in the world’s witchcraft practice. Check yourself.

jenevaslibrary

That person took my opinion, rolled their eyes at it, askd a question abd blcoked me before i could answer, tried to use the logical fallacy called "appeal to authority" just because they're Chinese native (a lot of people are chinese natives but theyre not a collective hivemind that all agree with each other), and provided no real argument for their claim, only denouncing mine. Even though I provided insight on my opinion and opened conversation to recieve other opinions. It was extremely narcissist yet I'm still here open to others opinions. I think she refuses to address what i said because she doesn't have an argument other than "I'm an authority here because I'm Chinese native so what I say goes!" It's easy to say "you said the word narcissist, even though i had a narcissistic attitude, and this is my "out" of admitting maybe I was wrong". Otherwise I'm willing to hear a real argument!

Why respond to just block me after? To get the last word in? Why so afraid to have a conversation that might be different from what you believe

“Have we forgotten how to hunger? Witchcraft has not, standing as it does in the thin line between the diminishing wild and a civilisation devouring itself. The bones stand out on us, a rolling loping dirty fur offering a red flower for a mouth. We do not expect to be understood, or welcomed by the herd or at the hearth. We have our own company to keep, our own loves and customs. Ours is the clamped tenacity that bears down the antler crowns of kings. Our desire, a glowing stolen coal of a heart.

We must be hungry for this knowledge. The hunger that ravens and slams against the cage of bone and wind, that scents blood through the crazed labyrinth of silver birch. We must leave if we are to return rather than mock snarl behind the muzzle of our social selves, to imagine as wolf and never feel that engine of raw need that sharpens us into other worlds and ghosts across the endless tundra of exile. In essence we must become rewilded.”

Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey

#apocalyptic witchcraft #Peter grey

viciousvales

this site definitely doesn't allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.

metamorphesque

— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: Outside it is warm and blue and April.]

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PBW Witch Shop & Zine Distro

The PBW Witch Shop is a curated selection of witchcraft and magic related zines, books, pin-back buttons, tarot cards and more.

We focus on traditional and folkloric witchcraft, animism, chaos magic, secular witchcraft, magical herbs and plants, queer witchcraft, tarot & Divination, witchcraft & magic in politics, history, culture, and social & racial justice, and aspects of non-Wiccan forms of witchcraft, magic, and paganism.

Pre-Covid the Portland Button Works primarily made custom pinback button. Selling zines and books was secondary and more of a hobby for me to share things I’d like to read. Right now our business is pivoting to focus on books and zines that people can read in the comfort and safety of their own homes. Some items are from well known witchcraft and occult publisher and some are titles from small publishers with interesting items I don’t see in other shops but I’m excited to elevate.

Not everyone has income to buy books right now, we totally understand that, but I would love it if you were able to reblog this post or share Portland Button Works and PBW Witch Shop with your friends.

If you have been looking for a book about something specific, or if you think something would be a good fit for our catalog, get in touch. We can order almost any book in print, even if it isn’t witchcraft or magic related.

With that being said, here are some categories of items we carry:

Some good books to get you started studying witchcraft:

Grovedaughter Witchery by Bree NicGarran

Making Magic by Briana Saussy

Magical Power for Beginners- How to Raise & Send Energy for Spells That Work by Deborah Lipp

Weave The Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Some creative books to help build your witch craft practice:

Spellcrafting- Strengthen the Power of your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

D.I.Y. Magic -a Strange & Whimsical Guide to Creativity by Anthony Alvarado

Psychic Witch- a Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick, & Manifestation by Mat Auryn

Urban Magick by Diana Rajchel

Standing and Not Falling - a Sorcerous Primer in Thirteen Moons by Lee Morgan

Tarot Books

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Tarot for Troubled Times by Shaheen Miro & Theresa Reed

Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea

Tarot Decks

Next World Tarot (regular and pocket sized)

Science Tarot

Rider-Waite-Coleman Smith Regular sized and Mini sized

Crow Tarot

Modern Witch Tarot

Cat Tarot

Check out the tarot and divination books in our catalog and also check out tarot and divination decks in our catalog here.

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman

Chaos Protocols by Gordon White

Hands on Chaos Magic by Andrieh Vitimus

Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter Carroll

Other books in the Chaos Magic section

Anthologies: Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels, Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community, Shades of Ritual: Minority Voices in Practice

Magical Resistance: Witchcraft Activism by David Salisbury, Magic for the Resistance by Michael Hughes, Revolutionary Witchcraft by Sarah Lyons

Witches and Feminist Perspectives: Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, Witches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English , Witches Sluts Feminists by Kristen J. Sollee

Pagan Anti-Capitalism: Pagan Anarchism True to the Earth: Pagain Political Thology by Kadmus, All That is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Ryhd Wildermuth, A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer

Queer Witchcraft: Witchcraft and the Gay Counter Culture, Sapphomanteion a Lesbian Oracle, Queering the Tarot

Check out the Witchcraft Culture and History and Witchcraft Politics and Resistance sections of our website.

Green Witchcraft: The Green Witch by Arin Murray-Hiscock, Green Witchcraft by Paige Vanderbeck

Plants and Herbs: Under the Witching Tree by Corinne Boyer, Under the Bramble Arch by Corinne Boyer

The Poison Path: Veneficuim: Magic, Witchcraft and the Poison Path by Daniel Schulke, Pharmo/Gnonsis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path by Dale Pendell , Plants of the Devil by Corinne Boyer

Witchy Crafts: Pestlework: a Book of Magical Powders and Oils by Bree NicGarran, Sew Witchy by Rachel Henderson, Sigil Witchery by Lara Tempest Zakroff

Other books in our Plants, Herbs, and Magical Crafts section

Books on Atheopaganism

Godless Paganism (anthology)

Atheopaganism by Mark Green

Other Pagan Perspectives

Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality by Lasara Firefix Allen

The Wakeful World: Anismism, Mind, and the Self in Nature by Emma Restall Orr

Circling the Star by Anthony Rella

All That Is Sacred is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism by Rhyd Wildermuth

All Other Pagan books

Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways by Gemma Gary

A Deed Without A Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft by Lee Morgan

Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft by Keldon

Backwoods Witchcraft by Jake Richards

Besom Stand and Sword A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft the Six-Fold Path the Hidden Landscape by Christopher Orapello & Tara Love Maguire

Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South by Aaron Oberon

Folk Witchcraft by

The Flame in the Cauldron by Orion Foxwood

Craft of the Untamed by Roger Horne

Check out the rest of the books in our Traditional & Folkloric Witchcraft Section

What are zines? Small independently made magazine and pamphlets filled with stories and unique ideas that you won’t find from major publishers!

Some topics you will find in zines we carry are Secular Witchcraft, the fantastic Fiddler’s Green Pamphlets and lots of zine on the places where Politics, Paganism, and Witchcraft intersect.

Check out all of our witchy zines here.

Other Stuff

witchy buttons

magnets and hand mirrors

We carry more than just witchy books.

Here are some of the other titles we carry:

You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas

When Language Runs Dry: An Anthology for People with Chronic Pain and their Allies

What is Gender Nihilism?

Be Gay Do Crime by The Mary Nardini Gang

Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher

You Black Friend by Ben Passmore

Learning Good Consent an Anthology edited by Cindy Crabb

How To Talk To Your Cat about Gun Safety and Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism and Other Dangers that Threaten Their Nine Lives

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Honoring your Ancestors by Mallorie Vaudoise

Do-it-Your Self Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfucking Sad by Adam Gnade

Yes, I’m Flagging: Queer Flagging 101 by Archie Bongiovanni

Full online catalog of books, zines, buttons and more can be found at PortlandButtonWorks.com and the PBW Witch Shop can be found here.

All items are shipped from Portland, Oregon in plain packaging or United States Postal Service Flat Rate envelopes or boxes with the return address as Portland Button Works. We ship daily and most order come with small fun gifts of buttons or magnets.

Thank you so much for supporting your local witch!

witchynyx

For those in the US asking “where can I buy good witchy books?” - this looks like an answer!

For those of us elsewhere in the world, I would recommend every book I’ve read off this list, and have heard great things about a bunch of the others, so I’m totally treating this as reading list inspiration! I wonder how many of them my libraries have…

venusian-grimoire

My To Be Read just grew exponentially and I’m grateful for it

fkaho92

Sorry I know, me again. Most of money has gone to rent and my bills and I had to send money back to Mexico to my cousin with a new baby trying to find work there. Please I need an extra $20 to get groceries again for next week thank you!!

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jenevaslibrary

Do u need roommates

lailoken

Hello there! I was recently approached and directed to begin work with the Witch Father. After doing some research on the various aspects of him, have identified him as The Faerie King. While I've lightly researched the fae/goodfolk before and had some interactions with them, I'm fairly new to working in their domain. Do you have any suggested resources to look into or advice before meeting him? Thank you! Your blog has been super helpful!

I’m sorry if my answer to this has come too late. I have had a lot on my plate. I will answer as best I can, though, all the same.

As far as resources go, some of the very best will simply cover things like local ecology, regional lore, and folk wisdom. However, here are some texts covering the topic of the Gloaming Folk that I can manage to think of at the moment:

‘The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies’ by Reverend Robert Kirk

‘British Goblins’ by Wirt Sikes

‘The Encyclopedia of Fairies’ by Katherine Briggs

‘An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures’ by Katherine Briggs

‘Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry’ by W. B. Yeats

‘The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries’ by W. Y. Evans-Wentz

‘Sounds of Infinity’ by Lee Morgan

‘Elves, Wights and Trolls’ by Kveldulfr Gundarson

‘The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries’ by Thomas Keightley

‘The Gaelic Otherworld’ by John Campbell

‘The Fairies in Tradition and Literature’ by Katherine Briggs

‘The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends’ by Katherine Briggs

‘The Fairy Family: A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe’ by A. Maclaren

Based on the larger context of your question, regarding the Witch Father, it may also be worthwhile to look into some texts such as:

‘Call of the Horned Piper’ by Nigel Aldcroft Jackson

‘The Devils Dozen: Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One’ by Gemma Gary

or the ‘Witchcraft in the British Isles’ series by Michael Howard

As far as advice goes;

Be sure, be ready, and be heedful.

soracities

“How can I understand myself? Why that blind conformity at first? And afterward, the near joy of liberation? Of what matter am I made in which elements and foundations for a thousand other lives mingle but never merge? I go down every path and still none is mine. I have been sculpted into so many statues and haven’t frozen into place.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “Obsession”, Collected Stories (trans. Katrina Dodson)

#oh i love her #clarice lispector

declantlynxh

emily bronte, wuthering heights / lorde, “ribs” / user salemwitchtrials / alexander milov’s sculpture “life”, exhibited at burning man 2015 / one direction, “night changes” / fleetwood mac, “landslide” /

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heavenlyyshecomes

hey! i was wondering if u could recommend any good newsletters to subscribe to :p thanks!!

sure ! most have archives available so u can see what they usually contain before subscribing

longreads, i get the weekly newsletter that compiles 5 stories from around the web + reading lists and extras from their archive

aeon, new articles from the site + it's sister mag, also great short film / docu recs and i love the how to guides

quibbles and bits, language news and facts

liminal, don't even remember subscribing to this but literary stuff like interviews, recs and writing opportunities

book briefings, weekly curation of the best in books by the atlantic

tor, weekly sf book news, recs & highlights

carrier bag, monthly online short story recs by @mossyshadows

maeum, monthly media recs by @aegissi

collected miscellany, exactly what it says on the tin by @oldyears

and in the territory of light by yours truly 💐 monthly reading recs and other bits

i also used to subscribe to lithub, the paris review's redux and weekly, etc etc

hekatedeipnon

“Like everyone, she knew the stories of Helios’ temper when he was crossed. However gold he shines, do not forget his fire.”

Circe by Madeline Miller

#Circe #madeline miller

itshybridqueen

"I swear in the name of The Mistress that I worship with pain and bitterness as my accomplice, in the name of Hekate for whom a great temple I keep deep within my fingernails; whoever crushed my heart, whoever made it hurt, will utterly regret it! And I shall give to them shining weddings, full of sorrow, for trying to cast me out of their lands"

Medea, Euripides, 1997 at the National Theatre of Greece

the-hearth-and-the-wild

A forest knows things. They wire themselves up underground. There are brains down there, ones our own brains aren’t shaped to see. Root plasticity, solving problems and making decisions. Fungal synapses. What else do you want to call it? Link enough trees together, and a forest grows aware.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

“if you measure the length

of your ego,

it will equal

the distance between you

and your freedom…

honesty creates intimate connections

and decreases the turbulence of life

dishonesty creates distance and problems that have to be dealt with in the future

if we are

not growing,

then we are

probably hurting”

Inward by Yung Pueblo

#inward #yung pueblo

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“I have an academic industrial complex

yelling out

“Don’t eat shit”

while the tenured hands of the industry hold themselves up freely

to emphasize they are tied.”

#idk what this is from!!!#help

“The animist wakes up in the morning, and makes note of the dream she just had. She looks at the events that happened in the Dreaming, and sees that there are some potential issues at play among the spirits that dwell in and around her house. She gets up, and makes coffee. She thanks the coffee for its tasty goodness, and the water for keeping her and the rest of the world alive. She talks a bit to the cat, and thanks the dogs for watching over her and the house during the night. When the coffee is finally done, she pours two cups, one larger and one smaller. To the smaller cup, she adds cinnamon, sugar and a touch of red pepper. She also pours cold water into a small bowl, to which she adds a few pinches of dried rose petals. She takes the smaller cup of coffee into the living room and places it on the mantle in front a turtle shell and a few stones. She speaks: "Spirits and allies who aid and guard me, I give thanks to you. I ask that you bless all who dwell in this house, and all the creatures with whom I share this land. Watch over all of us, and guide us to make the best use of our intentions, time, and energy. I thank you. May there be peace between us always." The animist then takes the bowl with the water and rose petals out the front door, through the yard, and out to the gate that leads to the street. Just inside the gate, she places the bowl of water on the ground, dipping her fingers into the bowl, and traces a sign upon the gate itself. She says: "Creature of iron, of discretion and discernment, I make this offering to you. May you be ever blessed for the work that you do, and may you always stand strong against those who would do us harm. Keep out all who wish us ill and only allow those who bring love and kindness to enter this space." She checks the lock on the gate, and returns inside the house to finish her own coffee. The animist lives in a spirit-filled and spirit-infused world.”

Six ways: Approaches and Entries For Practical Magic by Aidan Wachter

I highly recommend

#witchcraft #witchblr #animism #aidan wachter #six ways

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