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.

It's not that there are never any similarities between old practices and modern ones, but magic is continually reinvented as people's understanding of the world changes. Many ideas people have today are particular to the modern era, and would have been extremely counterintuitive someone living hundreds or thousands of years ago.

For example, a lot of people today think that spells are all about your personal energy and intention. And I don't think there's anything inherently bad in that perception. But it's not one that would've been shared by people who believed acts we might term magic were brought about by spirits you built relationships with. They understood that the power came from something outside of themselves.

Could we speculate that both practices might somehow be working by the same mechanism, regardless of the practitioner's beliefs? Sure, we could. I tend to think that most of what we consider magic works by focusing our minds toward particular goals. But that doesn't mean someone who was working with spirits (or believed they were working with spirits) in the past was actually doing psychology under a different name, and claiming such would be a complete misrepresentation of what the practitioner believed and what they intended to do.

Finally sold this guy after 2.5 years, he's getting shipped off to his forever home tomorrow

I will miss him dearly but I am so happy

You're stuck in the decision-making process and want help thinking through it from a different angle.

You need to sort out your thoughts. Divination is good for breaking out of a circular thought process and approaching it in a different way.

You want something to focus and reflect on for the coming day/month/chapter in your life.

You need a second opinion on something spiritual.

You want something to aid your planning process by suggesting steps and strategies

You want advice for how to tackle a situation.

When NOT to Consult Divination

You're fishing for a specific answer and just want something to validate you. Your bias WILL get in the way of the truth.

You want very specific details about a future that hasn't happened yet. (What will my husband be like? When will I meet him? How many kids will I have?)

You want to know what someone is thinking/feeling/hiding. Literally just communicate with them.

Easter has NOTHING to do with:

Ishtar

Ostara

Pagan holidays

A goddess called Eostre (Bede was a speculating idiot and he’s the original source for this nonsense)

Easter has EVERYTHING to do with:

The Jewish celebration of the Passover seder

The Christian celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ

Nobody stole our shit. Easter was never pagan to begin with. Rabbit was considered “fish” by the medieval Catholic Church so that people could eat it during the 40 days of Lent, and eggs laid during the Lenten fast were hardboiled for preservation and then eaten during the breaking of the fast on Easter Sunday. That’s why we have bunnies and eggs.

Stop conflating Easter with pagan holidays, and get the fuck out of here with that casual anti-semitism.