Tea Has Leaves

A little something for when life insists on kicking your ass.

Materials

Red candle

Black peoper

Coffee grounds

Dress the candle with coffee grounds and pepper or sprinkle the two in a circle around the base of the candle.

As you light the candle, think about what's been weighing you down. Don't hide from it. Face it. Embrace it. Think about all the things you've survived before, and how you're still here.

Take a moment to focus on the flame. Feel the warmth and take comfort in it.

during my class I had mentioned that, while chaos magicians tend to use a very 'eclectic' approach to their magic, that it is vital to stay sensitive to other cultures and avoid appropriation. one of the students, an older gentleman, looked right at me and said "the gods don't care what race you are!"

~ Statuette of Venus.

Culture: Roman

Date: 1st century B.C.

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Hermes by Antoine Bonnet

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So, you know it's easy to make fun of this to be honest because we're killing someone in the last one because we know how to counterattack that spell using a 17th century Salem countercurse, which... if I recall correctly that was baking the urine into a biscuit and feeding it to the familiar of the witch (supposedly). And you know they definitely, definitely did that and no one got called to court for doing this and this is definitely NOT recorded in a specific court record of a thing they did. So yes of course, they would have definitely Salem specific counter curses. That's dripping with SARCASM.

Like there's so many counter charms now including a random reference to the LBRP. JUST THE WORDS. Can't actually let people know of this ritual because then they might reverse my killing cake decay spell.

Friends, esteemed guests, and soon to be enemies - when someone decides to say "traditionally xyz was done" and then proceeds to tell you the most OUTLANDISH bullshit without any prep work and discussion about how rituals are structure, why things are done, how not just your soul kidneys but your soul-skin is purified by bathing in water (and just water, no soup, no nada).

This is where you must, under all circumstance, ignore this bullshitter forever and ever. A lot of ritual structure has reasoning. A lot of things around purification rituals have explanations for the things they are doing. This is basically absolutely nonsense, probably mirrored off some particularly religious ritual, pulled out of context and reshaped to give it a weird glossy cover. And this is the ceremonial evocation of spirit.

YOU WANT ME STARVING before I have to shove a spirit into a magickal circle dressed in some black satin robe. You want my body to be at it's most EXTREME weakness to command and compel a spirit.

You want me.. dazed and confused looking at the salt in my hand without licking it because SALT as a RING protects me more than SALT IN MY BODY.

AND THEN you have all this bullshit and color assignments and I already said how there's nothing explaining it but then we yet AGAIN have a reference to "black magick" and how to conjure negative spirits. AND YOU EXPECT someone is the barest of living basically who has had nothing for days, to be able to manage a whole evocation and negotiation and conversation with a spirit. Listen, well meaning sacrifices can be an important part of a spirit contract. But at the same time, if you have to be at this specific state and there's like twenty spirits on the corner over there *gestures with her thumb* and you over here just having a full fucking weird ass situation. Come on.

ACT LIKE A TOTEM

WORK LIKE A CAIRN

This is what originally turned me away from Wicca (among other reasons). So many books, blogs, and other resources seem to have so much built-in misogyny that it boggles my mind.

It's part of why I hate the invention of the "Mother-Maiden-Crone" archetype so much.

No, Hekate is not MMC. She is a powerful force of sorcery and liminality. No, the Morrigan is not MMC. She is a Goddess of bloodshed, mercy, and power.

Reducing such multi-faceted entities, such influential spirits, down to the box that patriarchal systems tried to fit them in is so disrespectful.

Freya, Frigg, Aphrodite, Hekate, Athena, etc. Do many Goddesses have aspects of fertility, nurturing, parenthood? Yeah, they do, just like Zeus, Ares, and Njordr. Is that all they are? Is that even the core of what they influence? Not always.