#witchcourse

it's the same in witchcraft. you're either an expert in everything, or pretending to be, or you're a beginner. even intermediate kind of implies that you want to become an expert.

i have no problem with people making silly TikToks where they take on the persona of a certain god and use their associated traits for humor. just the same, i see no issue with making light of the stories we know of our gods. have we not reenacted myths with imagined play in the past? have we not dressed ourselves as gods and taken on the role for storytelling purposes, or even as a sacred rite? i think it’s a bit silly to think that the gods we honor wouldn’t have a sense of humor. at least, i’ve certainly never heard of someone receiving divine retribution for posting funny memes.

what’s missing in these examples, i think, is the appropriate reverence we associate with the divine, and i think it’s good to present that side more often, to show others of our kin that it’s okay to be irreverent and silly, to honor the gods with humorous tales of their “divine shenanigans,” but i think it’s also good to say, yes, it’s okay to feel inspired, even overwhelmed, by the sheer magnitude of what we’re offering to. it’s healthy to step back and take a look at how utterly small we are, and to give the gods their due respect.

tarot readers and astrology experts deserve to eat

people who use their practice for a living deserve to eat

selling your real actual labour is not a scam

I've got a slight bit of correspondences discourse on my dash so I wanted to say two things:

1. Yes! You don't need correspondences, and you can change them however much you like! Do what you like, go wild, burn it all to the ground and make it up as you go.

2. Certain paths do use correspondences, and some use ones that cant be changed. It's perfectly valid to adhere to correspondences, study them, use them, and not want to or feel comfortable changing them.

I don't think people saying 1 are insinuating 2 isn't true (at least intentionally), and yes, a lot of people are taking an extreme and unhelpful view of 2. But as with any witchy debate, it's important to not invalidate one kind of path in response to invalidation.

Personally, my practice does lean on correspondences. I can't really change many of them without deviating from my own path. And that does not have to be restrictive. It's only an issue if it does you harm--in my case, I get most of my herbs for free, make my own supplies, and get a lot else as gifts. I think correspondences actually help me to focus, and with my religion and path, they do matter.

But I can also use things outside of known correspondences, which is important.

The video of the dox threat had literally just been posted 17 hours ago.

They had actually got one of the cursers’ addresses and now they want to post it online. In case the video ‘mysteriously’ deletes itself, I have the screenshot of it but I don’t need people looking for the moon hexer’s address so they could harass/assault him for any reason, even if he had ‘cursed’ the moon, the sun or the fae.