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Smoke Bomb Cleansing

For when you absolutely need to cleanse the ever living fuck out of your spaces!!!

Materials:

Fire safe container or cauldron

Charcoal brick

Tongs (so you dont burn your fingers when you light the charcoal)

Candle for lighting

Herbal cleansing mix (mine is rose, juniper berry and branch, bay leaf, willow, cedar, and frankincense)

Banishing music

Set up your cauldron and supplies in he space to be scrubbed of oozey negative bullshit. Play your music to get you into the headspace to banish and cleanse. Light charcoal over the candle while envisioning that you're lighting any negativity on fire. Place in cauldron and top with herbal mix. Keep adding mix to charcoal brick until you are satisfied with the energy of the smoke. Envision that this smoke is permeating all areas of the room and power washing the shit out of the energies there while listening to your banishing music. (I will make a playlist for you guys at some point of what I use.) Allow yourself to stay in the room as you cleanse the space, using the energy as a focus to tell all that bullshit to fuck off out of your space.

When the cleansing in complete, give a big middle finger to the energy of the space to remind it that it is your bitch!!!

Notes:

If you are able, open windows in the space. 1- This will help you not to die of massive smoke inhalation. 2- No smoke alarms will go off. 3- Open windows are great for visualizing negative energy suckers and asshole oozy entities running as far and as fast as they can to get out the windows from your wrathful banishment.

The herbs I chose are personal to myself and my practice. I use them all in place of traditional sage and other herbs because of harvesting ethics as well as safety. For example, clove is great for cleansing, but is toxic to the three cats that live in my home. So keep utility in mind as well as safety concerns and ethics.

This process might take a while. I used about 1/2 cup of mix to make a shitton of smoke. It took me about 30 minutes to do all of it, which wasn't fully necessary, but felt right. Take your time reclaiming the power over the energy of the space.

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Same thing happened with my daughter when was 7 and Annie came out. All of a sudden she wanted to go to Broadway to try out for the lead role. We had seen the original one several times but it never occurred to her that she could be any too. One more time for the cheap seats

I don’t know why I’ve been obsessively thinking about the concept of “gaydar” 

but I have. 

Actually no it’s because a straight family member used the term like 

“oh I have really great gaydar” 

and it made me feel really gross 

and it took me like a full hour to realize why. 

When heterosexual people say that, 

it feels like they’re bragging about their ability to clock us, you know? 

like a straight person is telling me that they can spot us queers at 50 paces 

and i’m immediately going to be uncomfortable with that, 

whereas when other queer folks talk about being able to spot each other 

it’s a tool for survival. 

Like here’s the thing right? 

being able to tell is important sometimes.  

Here’s an example: 

A couple summers ago I was in a very very small town in Nova Scotia, Canada 

(like 6 buildings small) 

and I met a woman in the library who was probably a little older than my actual mother. 

She was there most days using the wifi 

because she lived across the street in an apartment without internet. 

We sat at the same table a few times and spoke briefly about life in passing 

and after a few of these not-talking-about-gay-stuff convos I was pretty sure she was a part of the lgbtq community 

and I slipped in a casual pronoun re: an ex 

and she just looked at me, 

stopped completely 

and said “oh thank fuck, I thought so.” 

and instantly started talking about her girlfriend, 

it was like this huge wave of relief washed over both of us 

because we were in a small rural town and both hovering in this really queer space and unable to talk about it. 

Anyway she was really rad and took me to the closest big town to buy me a tim hortons coffee 

because she found it reprehensible that I had been in canada for more than 3 weeks already and hadn’t ever had it. 

Almost instantly it was like 

“oh okay we have this thing in common that other people may not be cool with 

but we can actually exist and not hide shit without the fear of violence or anger”

but when it’s a straight person

they’re pretty much just letting you know that they can spot the fact that you seem “abnormal” to them 

like great 

This is a rewrite and more organized rewrite of a post I wrote 8 months ago discussing why younger witches shouldn’t take offense if an older witch refuses to teach them and is getting notes again so here y’all go, a better written post.

Dear young witches who who are 13-17 or even younger. Do not take offense if an older witch who is a legal adult won’t teach you.

They’re legally not allowed to without your parent’s/guardian’s permission because you’re a minor and this law is in most countries and states (I know it’s illegal in the United States). Reason why, it counts as religious teaching (even though witchcraft itself is not a religion but a practice) and I know it sucks but that’s how it is.

If your parent/guardian doesn’t like you doing witchcraft or you’re in the woods we cannot even teach you in secret because that can look really bad; your parent/guardian could make up lies about us and get us in trouble with the authorities because they don’t want us teaching you or us being around you if they find out. I can already hear you saying “But I could defend you!” I’m really sorry but the judge isn’t going to believe a person as young as you. It’s a sad truth but minors are rarely listened to in court, especially in cases where it is parent versus teacher.

So, again, please don’t take offense if an older witch turns down teaching you the craft. We don’t hate you but we have to keep ourselves out of trouble and not end up arrested because your parents/guardians make up a lie.

However, you can still learn the craft without a mentor, it can be difficult but it can be done. Utilize Google, (Google is a modern witch’s best friend) it can lead you to various sources to learn from without a mentor. Be your own mentor if you can’t get one or wait until you’re no longer a minor (18 years of age in most countries) to seek a mentor.

there’s not a person in this world who hasn’t embarrassed themselves or hurt someone or made a mistake. learn and grow from these things, rectify them if you can, but don’t dwell on them. we are all human; we are all imperfect.

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.