Juniper Divination and Witchery

Drawn as we entered Sutekh Season - the long, hot, blazing Summer of ripe figs and wild fires. I had no idea it was going to be so heavy and violent. Perhaps I should have known!

sometimes reverence for land starts very simply:

learning the names of local plants. noticing where water gathers. thanking a tree before taking from it. picking up trash. leaving a place better than you found it. sitting quietly long enough to feel the mood of the land.

animism is not always spectacle.

There’s nothing like a mega heatwave on the 250th anniversary of the United States with an imbecile fascist as president to make you feel...well, really, hopelessly doomed. And a quick scroll of any social media app will confirm that yes, a lot of us are feeling doomed.

And that sense of doom is powerful: it keeps us quiet and compliant. It maybe gets us to buy more stuff, fueling the billionaires and megacorporations that have been enabling/causing climate change, fascism, and human suffering around the world. It definitely benefits the world’s worst people and systems if we just give up, because our resistance can be world changing.

Ask yourself: who benefits when we give up? And could they be trying to convince us that leaning into doomerism is a good choice by flooding our feeds with posts from “people” who are giving up?

What happens next is dependent on all of us. 

We can listen to the voices around us that tell us to give up, that doom is uncertain. That everything is too broken to fix.

Or we acknowledge that WE get to determine what happens next. After all, the good people in this world far outnumber the bad people. And that means we have the power and leverage.

I am not giving up. EVER. And I hope you’ll be there alongside me.

As always, Clotheshorse is an anti-AI zone. This post was made by me, using Photoshop and Figma. The images are from the 1980 children's book, Busy Bear, photographed by Gerry Swart. If you know Gerry Swart IRL, please reach out to me because I am obsessed with her work. This post took three hours to put together.

i want pagans to stop overconsuming and be more sustainable for deities

i want paganism to not be expensive