Writer, Witch, Tarot Reader

I do not have the same free time I used to, but if anyone would be interested in a reading please feel free to DM!

Something neat: how art and storytelling figures into my practice. I'd say that's a major part of it. Not just on the folklore side, but in the veneration of more modern storytellers and looking to more recent media for inspiration (like the TV show Salem, the book Slewfoot, etc.) Art is the closest mundane act to witchery in my book.

I really like the doing and undoing thats common in my practice :) like unfastening clothes to open influence or wearing things incorrectly, its neat!

do! not! be! a doormat!

Do no harm but take no shit as they say.

"Do not harm" does not fit with the message of my post. I am fully advocating doing genuine harm to those who wrong you in any capacity. Justice does in fact require harm in some cases

Of course I see that, I've heard that sentence said in the context of not doing unnecessary harm to those who haven't done anything to us, but to not hold back on those who have. Which I thought fit with your post and I support it

"Do not harm but take no shit" just means cut people off, not harm them back. Which if you can cut someone off who is harming you somehow, that is something you should do, but that's not the same sentiment of the post

do! not! be! a doormat!

Do no harm but take no shit as they say.

"Do not harm" does not fit with the message of my post. I am fully advocating doing genuine harm to those who wrong you in any capacity. Justice does in fact require harm in some cases

What did you end up planting? 👀

Wait, I want to hear more about this calendula salve. It looks like it’s such a good consistency

That is awesome!

I think it goes unsaid that a lot of folk magic is extremely regional to small localities. I practice swedish folk magic, but there's a lot of variation within the same country (in people, climate, landscape, traditions, etc.). it's something I think a lot on, when it comes to predicting future weather/seasons depending on the whether on a certain date. would these dates still be magically relevant to divining weather away from the locality that the beliefs originated from? I'm not convinced, and I think it would take years of developing a relationship with the land you're on and becoming intimate with the patterns of the land to be able to recreate this practice elsewhere

I am with you on this. My own familial practice is diasporic with my family no longer residing in Europe. My grandmother taught me weather predictions on a day to day basis and she would always say things like "It used to be that we would look for the willow warbler to predict the rain. But here, you can look for the house finch." It stands to reason that, while it's possible to perform weather divination anywhere by paying attention, it would take a lot of time and journaling and connecting with the land to do so on a predictable and applicable basis with annual divinations just because there is mush less opportunity to interact with and test the annual patterns.

I live in the pacific northwest, near the coast. When we see seagulls coming inland, we know there's a rainstorm out on the ocean headed our direction.

my great grandma swore that if it was raining from a bright sunny sky it was going to rain at the same time the next day.

My grandma taught me that if the leaves of the trees are pale side up it means there will be a bad storm