Socks

What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.

Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.

1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.

2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.

3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.

I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk ™

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Small devotional acts.

Go for a walk at night

Listen to peaceful, serene music

Keep track of the moon phases

Wear crescent moon jewelry

Spend some time around horses

Create constellation sigils

Decorate your home with flowing white fabrics and moon decorations

Sleep outside

Drink sweet herbal teas, like jasmine or chamomile

Look at a map of the moon

Wear a tiara or silver headband

Put fairy lights in a jar to mimic fireflies 

Keep crystals that remind you of her or the moon. SELENITE, Quartz, Opal, Moonstone, etc.

Wear light blues, white, silver and black

Use glow in the dark fabric paint to add the night sky to your clothes

Make moon water

Grow flowers: White rose, jasmine, orchid, lilies, etc.

Go stargazing, use a telescope or binoculars to observe the moon

Stay up late to see the moon, or wake up at dawn

Wear long, flowing clothes

Go for night drives

Think of her when observing celestial events

Burn candles or incense with scents that remind you of her

Get a moon app so you’ll always know what phase it’s in

Greet strangers with kindness

PRACTICE LOVING YOURSELF

Many, many, many other things not said here

Everyone is rightfully offended by the government offering 600$ checks. That's what disabled people are expected to live on monthly. SSI maxes out at 771$ a month for disabled people. If they get more than 2000$ in their bank account or get married, they lose their income and their insurance.

I mean stuff like:

Oversharing (ADHD)

“secretly” copying the way you talk/dress/act (common for everyone, but many neurodivergent people who are affected socially)

Forgetting to pause and ask about you (ADHD, autism, social anxiety)

Failure to convey empathy or affection in a way you understand (autism, social anxiety, many many others)

Unhappiness (Depression, also friends don’t have to perform happiness wtf)

Talk “too much” (ADHD, social anxiety, so many more)

Fussy (really?)

Refuse to open up (really??)

Talk loudly (ADHD notoriously makes volume control hard, also wtf how’s that make u a bad friend)

Just hhhhhhh

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talk to your friends !! if you feel underappreciated or overtalked!

Ingredients:

gold eyeliner

mirror

candles (white, yellow or gold)

music

Spell:

light up your candle/candles and start playing music (there are lots of playlists dedicated to Apollo on Spotify, but you could also create your own!)

holding the eyeliner between your hands, recite the following poem

God of the Sun

God of the Arts

I wish to shine

between your arms

I wish to sparkle

behind your eyes

I wish to dance

before your smiles

For this charm I pray

With a line of gold above my eyes

For under your rays I wish to lay

Between your thoughts I wish to stay

put on the eyeliner as you usually would

Wearing (ethically sourced) gold and various opal jewelry

Wearing short flowy dresses or shorts and tanks as well as the cutest ankle boots or going barefoot while looking like an ambiguous gender/fae

Wearing body glitter everywhere, changing my hair color whenever I want no matter how dark my hair as and wearing every color of color contacts

Learning a new language every year including dead ones such as Ancient Greek and Latin

Learning a new instrument every year as well

Visiting the Temple of Delphi

Becoming a master of herbs and folk remedies (not in place of modern medicine, mind you)

Drinking wine and making fresh bread as offerings to him

Having a small, non-butcher, and free-range farm with bee hives and rows of flowers and plants and fruit trees.

Hand made wands of every wood and stone

How I actually worship Apollo

Making Spotify playlists of songs I really like for Apollo to hear

Buying the cheapest moscato once a month to drink in front of my altar and while watching Masterchef

Being bilingual and just practicing my Spanish at work

Solely dying my hair various shades of red

Knowing like 10 herbal remedies from my Grandmother, but creating them for my coworkers

Writing as many fantasy stories I can since I see it as an art

Visiting orchards and farmers markets whenever possible

Wearing whatever the hell is comfortable, but with cute ankle boots

Wearing my binder whenever the hell I want

Putting every cool rock I see on his altar like a crow