#babs blabs

I battled anorexia and bulimia and am still battling ARFID. I’m PROUD I’m fat. I’m fat in spite of the world.

Hi all! I’m Babs! (They/she/any). I’m currently 30 goin on 31. I’m a queer immigrant living in central Massachusetts. I live with my wife and our two kitties full time and my wife’s girlfriend lives with us part time until we can all get a bigger place. I’m nearly done with my Master’s in Special Education and will soon be able to call myself a full-fledged Special Education Teacher (even though I think we should be calling it Individualized Education instead but that’s a rant for another day!)

I’m AuDHD and have chronic mental and physical health issues. This means I’m very intermittent on here. If we’re mutuals I love you and if you’re following me in any capacity I apologize in advance!

I’ve been a practicing pagan/witch in some capacity since about the 7th grade and I’m very much an ecclectic/chaos type of witch. Very ‘take what works and leave the rest’ (as long as it’s mine to take in the first place!). I was born in St. John’s Newfoundland and my cultural heritage is very important to my practice.

I’m a psychic, but we all are really. It’s just about practice and time and tuning in! I consider myself a Wheel Worker, for lack of a better term. My practice and beliefs are based on the cycles of life. Life, Death, Rebirth. The seasons of the Earth and the seasons of life. The Wheel of Fortune (a future tattoo for sure). I’m a practicer of:

Tarot, Oracle cards, Pendulums, and Divination generally

Folk magic

Astrology

Herbal spell work

Energy work (In a “I have no better term for this” kind of way rather than a new-agey way)

Candle and fire magic

Elemental magic generally

Natural magic

Spirit work (and Ghost hunting as a hobby! Feel free to ask about it!)

I’m a Libra sun, Virgo Moon, Taurus rising. My chart is Venus ruled and my Venus is in Scorpio. I love looking at peoples’ charts and answering questions so hit me up!

I also love doing tarot/divination for others. I’m practicing to become a professional someday so hit me up for that too!

I never claim to be perfect and I never claim to be an authority on things (at least things I don’t have a university degree in). Feel free to call me in if I say something dumb! Feel free to ask me questions if I say something that sparks one!

So apologies if it’s hard to nail down what kind of magic my blog is about - it’s kind of about all of them as I meet them along my path!

Meet our new babies, Hammond (Left) and Duncan (right)!

They will never replace Bunny or her memory, but it is so much easier to deal with her loss with life back in the home ❤️

And their big sister Bunny, watching over them 🖤

I’ve always, ever since I was a little kid, struggled to fall asleep. What’s that? Oh a transition from wakefulness and doing things to sleepiness and just lying there perhaps???

I also struggle to get up out of bed (transition) and then get ready (transitions galore) to go out (major transition AND sensory overload).

I have trouble with things like “bed times” and “wake up times” because it is a forced transition. I have trouble working on a schedule because of this.

I have trouble at work because I work at a high school and we have a minimum of 6 blocks during the day. Thats minimum 12 transitions cuz theres one at the beginning and end of each block.

I mean it’s even the little things! When I finish a book I’m unable to read another one for like, a week or so afterward because I’d be transitioning the world in my head.

Literally everything you do is preceded by and followed by a transition. And transitions cause me significant emotional distress.

When I was a kid (I’m turning 30 this month and only got diagnosed about a year and a half ago) my parents struggled taking me anywhere. I would freak out and sob when we left the house and then, once we got to the next thing, I was fine. Then, when it was time to leave again? Freaking out, crying. It had nothing to do with the place and everything to do with the sudden and uncontrollable change.