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(pinned post, last updated 20.09.2025)

Some basic info: I am - An autistic trans woman - Born in Finland 1991 - A chaos magick practitioner (with all the chaotic mess of beliefs that it brings and that is impossible to explain in one post and that is always evolving) - A martial artist (with a somewhat similar philosophy to chaos magick, I have practiced a lot of different things - I'll gladly be more specific if anyone's interested, it is one of my special interests) - Politically largely an anarcho-communist and also just generally leftist extremist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist etc. and also even more generally a moral utilitarian

I keep running into politics here as well so I figured I should maybe make a list of my takes. I mainly use this blog for journaling my own occult practice but I do think it's important to also be hostile towards bigots and fascists etc. - both in your practice and in real life elsewhere. Pretty much everything has politics attached to it in one form or another, even though it's not always grand.

Feel free to comment on this post (or send an ask) if you want me to expand on something - in fact, I'd rather you ask than assume. I know the list is already entirely too long so I won't be talking about each point in that much detail.

...Also please excuse the dry visual style of this pinned post, I'm not much of an aesthetician :b

(pt.1)

Right-wingers, racists, bigots, TERFs, conservatives, LGBTQ+ phobes etc. are bad, but also centrists are usually just as bad if not worse.

Self-defense can be necessary - whether it's about defending your immediate self or someone else, or if it's defending an oppressed demographic from a political group or individual.

Present is more important than the past. If a problematic person is trying their best to improve, you don't need to coddle them but do welcome them to learn.

What a person acts on is more important than what goes on in their heads. Intentions and actual wants are also more important than the specific thoughts and instinctual desires someone has. This of course applies to intrusive thoughts but also to any problematic paraphilias that the person is not acting on (or trying to advocate for).

NERF or nothing. I am a full on feminist and any exclusivists can fuck right off. No TERFs, SWERFs or anything of the like.

Capitalism is bad and leads to fascism. While I'd love a complete revolution and while small gradual improvements might not be enough to solve it at this point, the small steps are still important to keep it from getting worse... As quickly at least. Diversity of tactics is important for success on a large scale and celebrating the small wins keeps the motivation up.

I do not believe in absolute "good" and "evil" but those are still useful terms to use. It is okay to describe a right-wing influencer as evil for example. It is also okay to describe a person as good even if they hold some problematic views.

All billionaires are evil, no exceptions. I will also extend this notion to the vast majority of people who have more than a hundred million dollars of worth, and probably most over ten million as well.

It is okay to celebrate the death of an evil person. It is okay to even hope for the death of an evil person. That doesn't mean you support the way the person died.

I do not support legal death penalty, mainly because I do not trust the judicial system to have a 100% accuracy even if they actually tried. I also do not support the for profit prison system and in a perfect world, I wouldn't support prison system in general. It would be optimal to divert as much funds from the judicial and prison system to mental health and social support systems, which would reduce the need for crime in the first place.

Police are not there to protect you, they are there to protect capitalism. It is an inherently corrupt system and it doesn't need reforming - it needs complete obliteration and building another, different, community-based system from ground up instead.

Accelerationism is stupid. If things went to complete shit right now, the people who currently have most resources would likely just end up on the top again. We need all the time to prepare we can get, and we need to keep preparing. How you prepare is up to you, but I suggest connecting to any kind of IRL community to be a part of the preparation.

(continued pt.2)

Do not dehumanize anyone, period. I have sympathy for beasts and monsters because they cannot understand - people can choose to do evil precisely because they're humans, they have agency.

When something is considered morally bad, ask yourself why? Usually there is a good reason for it, but also it is important to find the nuance of when it is bad and if there are situations where it's okay. Avoiding generalization is usually good.

Generalization can be good if it simplifies an important message you need to get across. Just be sure to weigh the consequences to the best of your ability - consider your audience and if you'd be widening or narrowing their worldview. Also be ready to receive a lot of questions and criticism if your generalized message reaches an unintended audience.

Everyone is privileged in one way or another. This obviously doesn't mean you can't criticize others on their privileged takes, but try to be aware of your own as well. Privilege doesn't make you a bad person but it is good to use that specific privilege to help others who don't have it. Abusing a privilege for your own gain on the expense of others however, is obviously bad.

Everyone buys into some stereotypes and some of them are going to be harmful. You are not immune to the effects of your upbringing and environment - what matters is that you try to be better. Being "good" is not about being morally perfect, it's about doing your best to get closer to it.

You don't owe anybody your time on the internet, and nobody owes you their time here either. Using that block button on a hair trigger is fine for any reason no matter how small, even if you just vaguely feel like it. It is not an insult to a stranger that you're not interested in the things they talk about, and there is so much content that you likely lose nothing by moving to the next spot.

(continued pt.3)

You should keep asking yourself why the thing you think is bad actually is (or is not) bad. There is no such thing as an action that is inherently bad, the thing that is good or bad about action is always the consequences of that action.

Words are actions too. What you say has consequences on what other people think and how they act in turn. Be mindful of what you say.

Accept that you do not have all the knowledge in the world. Allow yourself to be educated on the consequences of the things you say or do. Try to be mindful of the context as well.

Arguing against some bigot who you know isn't going to change their mind can still be useful if other people see the things you say. Not only can you share your perspective with the onlookers, you may bring the much needed sense of belonging for someone marginalized.

Choose your battles according to if you have energy for it and/or if you have better things to do with that energy. Taking care of yourself is also a good use for your energy because your own basic well-being always comes first - and if that's not your style, think of it like this: if you burn out, you can't help others.

Being logical doesn't mean you should dismiss or discard emotions (neither your own nor the emotions of other people). Emotions are a very real thing that can bring either joy or suffering into world, both in the first-hand experience of them and in the reactions they instill in people. Being nice to people is part of being a logical human being.

"AI" (as the term is usually used today) is useful in many things, but you should not be using it to generate art in any form. Leave creativity to actual people and use this insanely powerful tool for something actually useful like advancing medicine and other science and technology.

#politics #introduction #entirely too many takes in one post #attempted wisdom #flaws #philosophy #morality #ethics #critical thinking #stereotypes #privilege #revolution #good vs bad #logic #emotions #utilitarian #self care #fuck these tags are getting messy but I don't want to make multiple posts

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Setting realistic goals is very useful and necessary but also I think it's equally valuable to have a goal that you think is nigh-impossible to achieve - maybe something only a few people ever have achieved like setting a world record in your specific category. Maybe a challenge you know is out of reach for you specifically, even if you practiced for a full decade.

There is safety in having a goal to work towards. With a target that never fades, you will always have purpose in your life - never in your life will you have to step on nothing and feel empty for having reached it.

It may sound dumb and cliché but dare to dream of the impossible. What matters is the direction, not the the end.

#motivation #personal growth #self improvement #philosophy

Try this one out real quick while reading - relax your face one part at a time. Relax your jaw, your chin, your cheeks, lips, nose, eyes, temples, brow, forehead. Pay extra attention to your eyes, as if you felt them turning liquid and pooling in their sockets.

Do this again, paying attention to how it feels. Try to feel it a bit deeper, making the relaxation go inside your muscles and even bones instead of the surface of the area you're focusing on. Remember how this feels.

Then attempt to recreate this feeling inside your head... To relax your brain. No need to empty your mind or try to control your thoughts otherwise, just physically keep relaxing your brain. Feels nice, doesn't it? Just remember the feeling of relaxation on your face and do your best to feel the same deeper inside.

If you want to get funny with it, next try imagining the feeling of pressure in there while keeping the relaxation going - slowly building up and then slowly draining down through your neck, letting it flow and disperse into your body. You could even play with moving the pressure around your head.

I find this all to go smoother if I lightly press the tip of my tongue to the roof of my mouth (for one reason or another, I won't go into detail/speculation here).

Note: it's probably a good idea to stop playing with the pressure if you start getting a headache. Just focus on the relaxation and let it all drain downwards on final time - personally I find this to also sometimes work for headaches I have otherwise.

#relaxation #energy work #self improvement #witchcraft #chaos magick #the “magic” tags are because this is also a good way to practice directing your focus and energy

Automatic drawing...

This is such a mess. Not every drawing makes sense or is a success, and that is okay. I've been pretty dormant for a long while now but the spirits did strongly urge me to let them draw, to the point of giving me a physical jolt when I was just. Sitting there on the sofa, staring at nothing.

Though I guess I shouldn't say it's "unsuccessful" tbh, it's... De-rusting more like. Getting out the excess that's too busy to make things out of. Venting out the pressure so to speak. Not that it wouldn't make sense either, now that I'm writing it out (another good reason to journal your craft, even if you don't care about recording it)...

I did ponder this for a while and I do see things in this that are probably not at all apparent for someone else - as with every type of divination imo, it is very personal and contextual what you get out of it.

It started as a side profile of someone with an exaggerated pompadour kind of, reminiscent of some "cool delinquent" type of fellow from an older anime.

Some framing(?) is added, then a line spirals out from the middle and back into itself a few times. I idly contain the image with another squiggly line.

It reminds me of an eyeless head with mouth either idly ajar or screaming, depending on which lines you look at. The middle of the spiral functions as an eye, though not necessarily physical.

It is I - numbed blind and internally screaming. I am not exactly doing mentally well. I want to dive into the craft once more and find meaning again (as I know I will if I do it), but I'm probably going to need more than one jolt to make it into a routine again.

Thank goodness I'm hanging onto the spirit realm by interacting with Salvia on most days, even if it's sometimes just cuddling her while going to sleep.

#witchcraft #automatic drawing #divination

cultkinkcoven

Please just be weird

This is the first century in a very very long time where we can actually see the almost full scope of humanity and its longing and its depravity. Lucifer once described the internet as a sort of Hell.

The internet is our new archival system, one that lots of people have access to if you live in a "first world" country.

For a very long time, most people did not write or know how to read. Those that did were privileged and maintained an understanding of how society is or should be based on their systematic control of narrative. And even now we depend on those narratives to have any understanding of what happened.

But even those narratives are fragments, right? Unless maintained by an institution, we find them in fragments. Rituals found with only some of the text legible. Tablets that eroded, or half burned remnants from fascistic burnings. And even if we hadn't burned them, we tend to just only write down bits and pieces.

I experience this in my own craft. When I go back to read ritual reports or dream recordings, or even spells, there's always at least some context missing. You get get the full scope of an experience without recording 24/7.

So what we do have is, for the most part, highly curated and somewhat incomplete, as all writing always is.

A lot more people write now, obviously, on the internet. And for the first time ever, more people can access the divine directly, themselves, and share that experience with millions of people through this invisible signal in the sky.

The weird thing is that now we are all constantly being surveillanced, and watched. So a chronic nonchalance has taken everyone. We are afraid to be weird or difficult to explain. Because you have to explain, you are obligated. But if you explain in the wrong way, you may be shunned. That's scary, someone recently asked me something about that. How do you still find the will to post when people are nasty about it?

Sometimes (a lot of the time) I do opt to just keep things to myself. But my motivation now as I have read through studies and grimoires and diaries from centuries ago, is the desire to document it. Just document it.

There was never any rule or piece of evidence that suggested that the ancient people were not also neurodivergent, strange, impossible at times. Their accounts were usually either censored, or maintained only through love. Remembered only by the people who knew them.

My relationship with Lucifer is very highly contingent on him being Lucifer, it is defined by that. He is the Lord of paradoxes, he is a myth, a legend, a god, a demon, an angel. Contradiction is our playground.

And likewise, my personal composition is inherent to the game.

But I can't help but always be so fascinated by observing the dynamics that arise in other pagan deity-devotee relationships. I adore seeing how the strangest people experience the divine.

There is a person out there who is a cat, and they are devoted to Baset. WHAT

I want to hear what that person has to say. And many may think that person must be insane, mentally ill. Maybe they are, maybe they're highly autistic and maybe they're disabled. Maybe their situation is informed by psychology and spirituality. But man oh man do I wanna talk to them.

You're an ecstatic dancer devoted to Dionysus and you're also turn into a cheetah when possessed? What the fuck. What that's so fucking crazy. How does that work?

You work with Archangel Michael AND you're married to Leviathan?

You're married to BELIAL? I've only met him a couple of times I never even thought about him being a freak.

You're a lesbian devoted to Selene and your girlfriend is devoted to Aphrodite and your other girlfriend is devoted to Ares. They would have stoned you, but here you are.

But its hard to explain why you're a Therian without going into some shit you don't want to remember. And you don't want to explain why Hades has been with you since childhood because it's complicated.

So fucking don't. Record what you want remembered and let people in 100 years debate among themselves. When the ancient people invoked these Gods, the magic worked because they had relationships with them. The Gods did not only exist between the written lines of ritual. They were with them, accessible, watching. They didn't write down that this spell found in a family grimoire only really works so well because the witch who wrote it was in love with their daemon, and that spirit has a personal affinity for her daughters.

These shamans they recorded in the woods who say they have the spirit of a bear, of a cat, and the God they worship transforms them. We don't know how how that worked when they weren't being recorded by researchers.

You tell me you're a fairy and you are the husband of a forest spirt. That makes sense to me, and even if it doesn't, man oh man does it sound interesting.

Idk. Some of the most devoted and successful practitioners I know are also angels, demons, bunnies, and other creatures. Maybe I feel this way because I personally am autistic and understand easily the concept of having a highly specific experience.

I don't need to know everything about why you're a sex worker devoted to Asmodeus. When you post on the internet, in your diary, or whatever the fuck, I am not expecting you to act like an ancient priest. I think it is totally okay to want your space to be fun, and I think it is so important to spirituality to be weird.

"I'm an asexual deer spirit married to Artemis"

That's so cool. What. Talk about it. Write about it. Write about it on paper and etch it into stone.

We can talk about mental health and risks, we can share resources on psychosis, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, religious psychosis, cptsd and a lot more while we're at it. We can promote safety without eliminating gnosis.

BE so fucking weird. Be so difficult to explain that you are the only person who can explain you. And then only explain what you want to.

I do not believe this is some new 21st century phenomenon of stupid kids and insane people. I these are the fringes we have never read about before, and I want us to talk about it. We are not exempt from history.

I think a genderfluid cheetah with adhd is the exact kind of person Dionysus would love. I think an anxious autistic fairy who somehow ended up in a human body is the exact kind of person Hermes would love. These people don't belong ti any institution, they belong to the world. We're finally seeing it and I love what I'm seeing.

Just be weird. Everyone is so mean these days, especially to kids.

It makes sense to me that the gods are the only ones who do understand those we belittle too much to listen to.

Idk

#I don't usually reblog things but I think this perspective is important to share #100% agree #just be your honest weird yourself #also probably a good reminder for future myself when I'm reading through my past again

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"Lead your words to pass through three gates before letting them leave your mouth: is it true, is it relevant, is it kind."

...Or something like that. I don't remember where that was from but I feel like it was a thing from eastern religion or philosophy (or maybe it was just phrased like it, I don't actually know the source).

I try to go by it most of the time but it is not as simple as it seems, which is why I usually vastly prefer written word over live conversations - it gives you time to properly think through what you say so that you can do your best to get your intention across in the best way possible. Most people seem to get a bit impatient if you take too long to formulate your sentences in a direct conversation.

Is it true?

Of course you should strive to know and understand what you're talking about but in everyday conversations, it is usually enough to stick to things you believe to be true... Though if the people listening aren't expected to already know something about you, consider adding some relevant disclaimers when talking about deeper subjects like religion, philosophy, science and politics - at least when you're just airing opinions or thoughts you're not sure about.

"People expected to already know something about you" is quite complicated in its own right - if you're making a post online for example, you don't always know your audience as well as you might want to. For some people, you're always going to sound like you're 100% certain about what you're just talking about normally.

Striving for perfection in communication is a noble pursuit, but is it also okay to just make sure you're not going out your way to intentionally spread misinformation or to lie for personal gain etc.

Is it relevant?

Relevancy varies greatly depending on the type of communication, and sometimes you can just bring up a whole new topic anyway. It's not always about being relevant to the topic at hand, but more so to be relevant to any interests or looming realities to any of the people in conversation.

I find this topic to be particularly hard to grasp to be completely honest, probably in no small part thanks to being autistic. I make "mistakes" in relevancy all the time as I tend to relate things to each other kind of differently compared to the average person... Though I've found a few good circles where it's either met with curiosity or there just are a lot of like-minded people... But I digress.

I find the topic of relevancy immensely interesting but honestly not as important as the other ones on a surface level. When it comes to more serious and/or important topics though, it is wise to consider what you're saying so that you don't derail the discussion.

This is especially important in situations like when somebody is calling out certain kinds of behavior for example - ironically the closer your though is to the subject, the more you need to consider if what you're saying is actually relevant to the conversation. Some topics need to stay really quite focused to get the message properly across.

Is it kind?

Kindness is again a very complicated topic. On the surface level it is pretty straightforward - don't go out of your way to make someone feel bad...

...Except when that someone needs to be educated about a subject and you don't know how to do it in a "kind" way. In my opinion, kindness isn't about being soft-spoken and agreeable and polite - it's about trying to make things better and more fair for everyone.

It is another subject where trying to perfect your way of communication is good of course, but sometimes you need to be very direct and rough to make your point. Being kind isn't about only being kind to the person you're talking to right now, you need to also consider if what you're saying is kind to the other people your words are going to affect later on.

That being said - in everyday conversations and with fellow good-intentioned people, just being polite usually gets you surprisingly far. Not necessarily overly formal politeness mind you, just... You know, not being unnecessarily rude. In an environment where hostility is the norm (many online spaces for example), it may even catch some angry people off guard and make them more agreeable. It is easier to get your actual thoughts across comprehensibly when you're calm.

Overall, just remember there are many kinds of kindness and not all of them need to be kind directly to the person you're talking to.

#philosophy #kindness #communication

Automatic drawing

Suffering. This is what this image is spitting to me - spiritual suffering. My hands are tied, heart a jumbled mess and face oozing corruption.

My addiction is fading and I'm starting to feel my actual needs and desires again.

First shape is the large one in the middle, reminding me a bit of a fang to start with.

I turn the drawing and add another triangle stuck into the first shape - here's where it starts resembling a head on a torso. Thrusting downwards almost stabbing the paper with the pencil, aggressive lines are added like tendrils of darkness bleeding out of the head. Visually these might've seemed like hair at this point but they already felt much worse.

Turn the paper back up again, ponder for a while. A jumbled mess of a heart is added, then circles at the bottom like hands being tied to the feet.

"Go on, finish it yourself - draw in the eyes." I do, and they come out looking sorrowful. This is a symbolic self-portrait.

On one hand, I like how these drawings very directly tell a story. On the other hand, I don't like that it's my own short chapter that turned out this way... But then again, it does give perspective to what I've been going through my whole life and more importantly, how I've been going through it.

This along with the two previous ones are now a grim reminder on my wall of how I should remain alert, how I get hooked, and how that affects me. I kind of knew this would happen but I certainly wasn't aware of how different my world has been after starting the more regular practice, as it has been a very gradual improvement until this fairly violent crash back to my old habits.

I am thankful this chapter wasn't longer than this and I pray to gods and chaos that I remember this lesson the next time I start feeling like picking up a new game.

Now, to start recovering and adding back to the routine.

#witchcraft #automatic drawing #divination #self improvement #spiritual work

Automatic drawing

This one looked less coherent than many to be completely honest. I'm very low energy right now so I'll just go over it quickly and then use this as an excuse to journal a bit.

No clear feeling so I just let it go and draw random lines and thicken them, kind of. Lots of pauses between drawing.

First thought was kind of "horse" outline like the chess piece, then it reminds me of a hook. Kind of like a hook inside a card or a hook shape inside another hook shape.

Bottom right reminds me of something being shocked, or how it's sometimes represented in some art styles.

Some line around the hook's base, as if strangling it.

Now, after pondering on this for a while it's not really a secret to me what this represents. I'm right now hooked to a somewhat recently released game (Hades 2), as I'm wont to be when I find a new one I like. Hyperfocused even. (Thanks, autism and addictive personality.)

It's the first time I'm entering a period like this after I started my daily spiritual practice etc, so maybe the spirits are shocked to see this shit going down so clearly and close up.

It's not like it'd disturb my life otherwise that much (I've been through this several times over in the past), it just takes so much more willpower now to go through my routine in addition to all the other stuff I've got going. Kind of makes me appreciate the power of boredom more again.

...It'll pass eventually, usually my addiction to a specific game loosens in a few weeks. I'm not in the mood to try and shake it early tbh - maybe it's just excuses but I think a bit of a "vacation" from spirituality won't hurt my craft too much.

I re-devised a much shorter daily routine to fall back on, something closer to a relaxed 20 minutes rather than taking almost a full hour to speedrun the usual routine... It felt like a slog and my mind wasn't in it in the slightest - I think I might make it even shorter some days, IMO it's better do a little bit with some focus than spend time going through motions all drained and with poor form.

Condense it to the essentials for a while until I've recovered some motivation. Stuff like taking care of Salvia's energy, stretching my body a little, breathing in some relaxation and maintaining the shield.

#witchcraft #automatic drawing #divination #journaling #taking a break

Automatic drawing

This one wasn't particularly calling to be drawn but I felt like it's been a moment so why not make another. The technique is starting to feel a bit more refined, calm...

The drawing had a particular feeling this time around, that it's two-sided. In more ways than one maybe?

It starts out as a shape that reminds me of a crab's claw. Some sharp lines are flaring out of the bottom one and a tornado-like flurry goes out of the top one.

I bolden the claw's lines myself, just to make it more visible in general (last drawing was lighter and a bit hard to see with the lighting in the corner where the drawings are currently going in the row).

The the short lines on the top half seem like just a natural part of the claw but quickly turn into something more like eyelashes with the addition of a pupil in the middle. It's still easy to shift the perspective between the eye, and a pearl in the claw - they both feel like they belong.

A similar tornado is added to the bottom as well, and another line to the bottom claw to emphasize it.

After a bit of pondering (and honestly, just kinda feeling like there's aesthetically too much empty space), some blobs are added to the empty corners - they seem like they're reaching or getting drawn to the middle... Maybe they are indeed just pointing to the initial parts of the drawing and don't have too much significance. They did feel a bit like just visual appeasement.

As is, the drawing feels optimistic and encouraging to me. I think there's still something that's going to reveal itself about it later, but it's almost a protective feeling in a way.

When flipped upside down, the drawing feels more... Aggressive. Foreboding, though still guarding. A warning of sorts, alert and alarming. It still definitely belongs to the drawing, but it feels like I shouldn't keep it that way for now... Though with how I arrange these (in a line going around the room near the ceiling), I don't know how it would get flipped to use the other side as a warning about anything. Maybe that still has something to be revealed as well.

Here's the image flipped (and downsized quite a bit):

#automatic drawing #witchcraft #spiritual work #occultism #magick #divination

...I did some money magic and it worked. I've never really touched that avenue of witchcraft before because I was afraid it would somehow disprove the whole point of my practice - I didn't really have faith in it and for some reason it has always been one of the "big things" working as a marker of magic affecting reality... I do believe now.

I didn't attempt anything grand, instead just making a sigil and manifesting financial freedom during a trance. Up until just yesterday I was still talking to a friend, offloading about my problems with the welfare agency and how it stressed the fuck out of me any time I had to think about it.

I then last night checked my bank account and realized I have a very reasonable amount of money in there. Still below the poverty line according to some metrics, mind you, but it's the amount of money that I need to live decently (if modestly). It's all I need.

It didn't make any sense though, as I had severe problems last month that should've by all reason carried over to this month's finances - I didn't have any extra payments this month and even some of my pending requests were denied.

As I was perplexed by it and spent time wondering how was it working, I started discovering all kinds of small things in the past few months that rationally speaking make up for the amount that I have - small savings here and there, using some cash that I had saved previously and forgotten about, that kind of thing...

...Which in my mind is just the way magic works in general. It can affect your reality retroactively, even if it's just the way you see things. It doesn't change the laws of physics or go against causality, it uses them creatively to manipulate the consensus reality in ways that don't contradict what is seen as "how the world should work". It aligns your life with certain results by whatever means necessary.

This is also why magic is often unpredictable when it's not clearly defined... But also why it's harder to succeed with when it's too clearly defined. You have to find a balance between the managing the uncertainty and giving it enough width to work with.

#witchcraft #spiritual work #occultism #magick #money magic #consensus reality

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A method for warding off bad stuff and protecting your magical vibes: rainbow shielding. A mix of energy work, some affirmations/verbal commands and the idea that you have energy centers in your body going roughly along the spine that are associated with different "colors" of energy.

Use your favorite method of achieving a trance state

Excite your base energy center (perineum) in your favorite way until you can feel it "pop", directing it to expand a bright red bubble around yourself. It's easier to make it "pop" if you imagine pushing it outwards in all directions against a smaller bubble, but you could also just visualize it expanding without a pop if that seems more doable

Do the same with your navel energy center and bright orange. Let the new bubble latch onto the previous one, intermingling the colors and strengthening each other

Do the same with solar plexus center and bright yellow

Heart and green

Throat and blue

Brow and indigo

Scalp and violet

Sense the bubble with your favorite visualizing sense (see, feel, hear etc.) for a moment, memorize how it feels

Command/suggest/affirm the shield around you to: "stop all evil and undesirable coming my way, dismantle it and repurpose it into joy and whimsy into my surroundings". You can do this or a similar statement aloud or silently inside your head, whichever works for you.

Doing as a part of your daily routine, you'll make it into a semi-permanent structure to protect you from simple misfortunes and why not complicated ones as well - depending on how powerful the bubble ends up over time of course. It's been working well enough for me at least (not that I'd be under any sort of curse as far as I know). I do feel like there's a bit more "brightness" around my home in general if you know what I mean.

If you memorize how it feels when freshly made, you can then check on it every now and then and see how it's holding up. For me, it was kinda fading in a few hours after the first few times I tried this but now after I've been doing it for a month or so, it feels pretty strong even in the next morning before I refresh it.

Of course feel free to modify, take inspiration, claim as your own, dissect, repurpose, do only parts, whatever you want - I'm just sharing a thing I'm doing recently and how it feels.

#witchcraft #energy work #shielding

I've been gently cleansing and massaging Salvia's energy every day as a part of my daily routine since she first clearly appeared to me. I sit down, invite her to my lap and let my eyes close - it feels calming and relaxing, just like petting and brushing a physical cat does.

She's been moving more fluidly lately, sometimes kind of changing shape a bit even.

Today when I was taking a break from doing energy work and stretching a bit (reaching down to my toes when this happened), she hopped onto my back and curled into a circle. She began rotating, inside outwards from me - slowly at first and then faster, blurring and melding into a clear donut shape.

She was now a torus of energy, moving a bit like you'd see in those magnetic field visualizations. I straightened back upright and she stuck to my back like a hovering backpack, around the height of my solar plexus but also occasionally floating a bit up or down.

For a while she pulled my energy out and then back in from the front in a wide round arc. I wasn't sure what she was doing (still am not) but I trust her since so far she's felt like nothing but a grateful and healing presence... And it's not like it felt bad or anything.

Then she just fluidly hopped out and back onto my computer chair, loafing all relaxed and indifferent like nothing weird just happened.

#witchcraft #energy work #familiar

Any emotion can play a major part in magical workings, but in my experience the single most useful form is pure passion. It is the pure strength of emotion that is easiest to direct into any working imaginable. It is the empowering heat and the raw energy which can be easily converted into rage or love or motivation at will.

There are times in life when you are feeling undesirable emotions - these can be looked at as opportunities to gain power into your craft. Of course you shouldn't overlook your actual physical and emotional needs (allow yourself to grieve loss for example), but also you can draw from these emotions for any workings by refining the feeling towards the more abstract form of passion.

When you're angry at someone or something, let that fuel your rage! anger is highly specific and seethes - but rage is a flame, a directable force of fire. Let it coax yourself into passionately swearing to succeed out of spite if nothing else.

When you're anxious, reach inwards and find the source of that anxiety - pull it out and tell it to cooperate, turn it into alertness, turn it into pure mental energy, let it fuel you both as an adversary and as a companion reminding you of your passion. Turn the avoidance inside out and look what is in the other direction - what you're going towards instead of away from.

Turn stress into a driving force and injustice into defiance. Let grief give you purpose in the grieved thing's name. Even guilt and shame (after considering if they're justified in the first place) can give you determination to become a better version of yourself.

Fuel your passion at every turn and learn to direct it into a single purpose at any moment in your craft - seize the power of emotion!

#witchcraft #spiritual work #occultism #magick #emotions #passion #honestly you can direct it into non-magical workings just as well #power #motivation

Hello! What would be your advice to a brand new, fresh beginner? 🫶🏻

Hi! I'm assuming you mean just anything magic/witchcraft in general but in my experience, this works for pretty much anything tbh: Make a flexible daily routine with a very low minimum of doing stuff.

What I mean is for example, set your mind to read at least one page of some related book every day and to meditate for at least ten deep relaxed breaths' worth of time.

You can then keep going with the reading/meditation if you feel like it, but the low minimum is easy to fall back into on low energy days (whether or not they're common for you). The most important thing is to build a habit of doing it first; as long as you're doing at least a little bit every day, you'll keep learning/improving.

Reading is also excellent for this as you can then learn of more things to gradually add to your routine.

For the meditation example, you could just try to consciously relax your physical body as much as possible while counting every breath. When distracting thoughts come to your mind, just observe and acknowledge them, gently let them fade back into the background and re-focus back into counting your breaths.

For books: pick a related topic that interests you and search for something - "annas-archive (dot) org" is a good place for zero budget pdf's but it is also good to support the authors of any good books if you have the funds.

Occult literature is a finicky topic though - you'll need critical reading skills but you'll mostly only develop them by reading more. I'd just advise you to skip any books that start talking about grand conspiracies that are out to get you, or "us vs them" mentality in general.

Some topic/keyword suggestions for searching (kinda biased, obviously): - chaos magic (great for building your own path of practice) - magick (the spelling with an extra 'k' filters out the sleight of hand tricks but it also contains a bunch of problematic authors so proceed with caution) - meditation (especially longer books on the subject are excellent) - kundalini / qi / prana / - (I'd say "energy" in general but that'll bring up too wide an array of topics, including engineering and physics etc. There are more of these specific terms but those are what comes to mind first... The wikipedia page for "subtle body" is an excellent gateway to a whole rabbit hole of related topics)

Thanks for the ask, this was a comfy morning writing assignment - it's a very wide topic but I hope this answer is a useful starting point!

#witchcraft #spiritual work #occultism #magick #self improvement #ask #beginner witch #chaos magick #energy work #reading

Automatic drawing

I tried inviting Salvia to draw, but she didn't seem to quite understand - so I asked the spirits to channel her and draw instead. This seems a bit weird now that I think about it... Well, it worked out.

The drawing starts quite similarly to the previous one, but deviates soon enough - curving lines upwards and back down. It feels more controlled and deliberate, not much of that convulsive feeling that is often present while drawing these. I wonder if that's partially because of practicing the deliberate slow trance movement yesterday...?

It takes shape kind of like a downwards strike, claws are added. Lines on the left felt uncaring, more aloof the further they are from the immediate form of the drawing. This in my mind indicates intense focus on one specific thing only.

The claws are sharp, but the motion is soft and fluid.

I turn the paper to draw some odd shaky lines (seen on the bottom right) - they seem more energetic than physical if that makes sense? Then what maybe represents claw marks at the bottom.

When I turn the paper back upside up and ponder it for a while, the shaky lines pretty clearly look like a foot.

It heavily reminds me of martial arts - overall, maybe the message is that I need to focus more on it. It would make sense, my current MA practice on the daily routine is extremely vague, to the point of not even having any sort of minimum or structure to it. It's in the middle of all the specific mental and spiritual practices, literally just listed as "(spellwork and martial arts go here)".

...Well, there are a few practices that are partially physical in the list, namely some qi qong stuff. Still, maybe it's time to put in some further clarification into that part, add some techniques to practice, bodyweight exercises, more active stretching and such.

Might have to restructure and trim the routine overall a bit to make more sense in sequence, I've been mostly just modifying and adding thing after another to it and it's starting to get out of hand a bit. Add some of that focus.

#spiritual work #automatic drawing #self improvement

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Lately I've been practicing moving while in a deeper trance state. Typically a form of this is easier achieved when it's a more active kind of trance (like dancing or drumming for example) but doing a very relaxed meditative trance usually makes moving very hard and sluggish.

A kind of lighter trance state has been a part of my practice a long time - doing a martial arts form (which I first did as a kid for Tae Kwon Do, though at that point I didn't yet think of meditation as a part of it in the slightest). I feel like the two decades of practice in MA in general is why this feels even remotely possible for me tbh.

Personally I find that imagining a fire and/or dance feels helpful in starting the movement while meditating without distracting the process too much. Trying hard to physically move any part of your body tends to just bring you out of the deeper state.

It still feels a bit sluggish and very heavy but strangely not like it requires that much physical effort - in a way, it's like I'm still paralyzed physically but as if I'm commanding or directing my body to do certain things rather than moving it myself. Like I'd still have to break the trance to intentionally move but at the same time, my body is moving on its own.

I guess this kind of in a way feels like when you get surprised and fall back on your reflexes - your body and practice takes over your movements. It's just... More direct. It's hard to explain, a bit like I'm trying to convey two completely opposite things at once.

I should mention that part of why I'm doing this is because I tried inviting Salvia (cat spirit familiar entity thing) to possess my body while in a deep trance.

I've done something similar with a more human-shaped spirit before to help me go through the motions of keeping myself alive (eating, hygiene) when I was deeper in depression and could hardly get out of bed... This one was very different.

Salvia agreed and as soon as she entered, I sprung up from sitting on the floor up onto all fours. It was fascinating really, watching from inside as she was getting used to my body - as short as the experience was. She pounced onto my pc chair and loafed there for a moment uncomfortably (have you tried fitting both your arms and your legs underneath yourself on an office chair? Adult human bodies are not made for that lol).

I encouraged her to try standing up on two legs so she leaned my body with front feet (hands) against the wall but then got startled by something (just the experience of human body in general I'd guess) and hopped out. I kinda faceplanted on the wall at that point but managed to catch myself before completely falling on the floor - needless to say, completely out of the trance at that point.

I did today invite her into control again and this time it went a bit better - we mostly walked on fours on the floor but tried standing up on two legs a few times. I advised her to try to use the physical balance organ of my human body...

...I'm not sure if that's how it works with possession and/or if she understood but the tries were a little better. We did fall back onto all fours after each attempt though and I can't say it'd feel nice on my hands. I think Salvia got a bit frustrated after a while - she left in like... two minutes I think?

It doesn't feel like this'd take that much effort for either of us (spiritually speaking) but it does take a moment to reach that deeper trance state. I might incorporate this possession stuff into my daily routine if she's willing, right after the projection practice - after all that's when I'm already in a trance.

...Or maybe I'll keep it more an occasional thing, or a modular time slot to use between the more "regular" deep trance moving and this, depending on how both of us feel at the time... It might not be something we want to do every day. Time will tell.

Oh, and the reason this spurred me to try more of the deep moving practice in the first place is that clearly my body is able to move quite sprightly even when I'm not (so to speak). It made me wonder if this is a skill that I could develop to a higher level, so that I could practice martial arts while maintaining a deep, deep level of trance for example - and how that might affect my skill in general, both in physical and spiritual aspects...

Though to be completely honest, it's probably not something you could easily measure, especially since I'm constantly shifting the ways I practice. Maybe I'll read this back at some point when I'm in a more stable place physically speaking, maybe I'll have more ideas for testing things then.

#spiritual work #self improvement #familiar #possession #trance state #witchcraft #occult #martial arts

I have been experimenting with relaxation techniques/visualizations lately. I'll list the ones that come to my mind and then ramble on more... And/or ramble while making the list.

Physically tensing and relaxing - going through every part of the body gradually, tensing them for a short moment and then releasing. I have found that this only works for me on a surface level but it's useful in that it's super easy to do on the go. Literally as easy as just intentionally tensing up.

Breathing the tension away - mentally targeting the body part on the in-breath and imagining the tension flowing away with your out-breath. Again, only kind of works for me on the surface level, just without the benefit of being super easy to do.

Imagining the body part becoming light and floating - easier to do in rhythm with breathing as most of these are, this works a little better for me but requires kind of a lot of focus to be effective.

Imagining the part becoming heavy and sluggish - quite direct, works well. Also tends to work better on out-breath.

Visualizing your muscles hanging from the bones - this is what currently feels like the best analogy for relaxing, also very direct and literal. With this mental image, I tend to naturally go for a deep and stretching kind of hanging. On surface level it sounds very similar to the previous one but the shift in focus to hanging from the bones worked surprisingly well.

Visualizing massaging yourself with ghost (/awareness/energy) hands - I just recently tried this and it really seems almost if not more effective than the bone-hanging thing. The only downside is that it of course requires more mental focus so it's hard to do in conjunction with any other stuff that you'd normally do in a relaxed trance state. I should mention that the effectiveness of this might be largely thanks to having done a lot with ghost hands everywhere in my practice, as well as having a massager education. I've nigh-paralyzed a few arms with relaxation before while massaging them :b

Of course I do mix these according to the situation or just how I feel like at the moment... But most often it's just the bone-hanging imagery that I use recently.

There are some more things that I might try out now that I think about it - for example, I have a massage gun (or "industrial scale vibrator" as I jokingly call it) and trying to remember/induce that feeling might be worth a shot. I have done vibration-related visualizations before though and those don't really seem all that relaxing to me...

I also kind of want to experiment more with whole-body relaxation things, like visualizing whole scenarios where you float up towards the clouds or down a river for example. There's a whole category of practices that I haven't really explored in terms of just relaxation since it's mostly been more a tool than the end goal for me - it might be still worth practicing for just completeness's sake. If nothing else, it's more base visualization practice.

#energy work #trance state #relaxation #massage #visualization

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