garbage witch

Sometimes you come back from the food bank with weird stuff, and it sits in the back of your cupboard for months while you try to imagine what to do with it. This recipe happened because of a situation like that. I had a 32 oz bag of almonds, a bag of toffee baking bits, and a bag of prunes. With some other stuff I had in my cupboard, I was able to make literally the best granola I've ever had in my life. This is a great recipe even if you don't have all the ingredients. The toffee and syrup make it delicious, and every granola recipe needs rolled oats, but you can sub out most of the other stuff with equal proportions of something similar, and you'll probably get a good result. Anyway!

Here's the recipe:

3 Cups Rolled Oats

½ cup plain almonds

½ cup leftover whole grain cereal

½ cup melted butter

¾ cup pancake syrup

½ cup chopped prunes or raisins

½ cup toffee bits

big splash vanilla extract

Preheat your oven to 300 degrees. Combine everything except half the toffee and the chopped dried fruit in a big (BIG) mixing bowl. Spread the mixture evenly on a cookie sheet and bake for 45 minutes, stirring and flipping every 15 minutes to make sure it gets evenly toasty. Toss with remaining dried fruit and toffee pieces when its warm out of the oven, and store in a sealed container.

Serving Size: ⅓ cup

Recipe Costs: $9.43ish

Shopping Costs $24.13 if you bought everything from scratch from Fred Meyers. I don't recommend doing it this way, but you'd have enough to make two batches plus leftovers if you did. The price per serving in that case would be 55 cents per bowl.

Cal per serving: 282 cal

My plan last night was to meditate by the light of the moon as the eclipse was happening and see what I felt.

Well, as the eclipse began to reach the midpoint, I started to feel anxious. Like, really anxious. Panic attack after a particularly big hit anxious, but sober.

Okay, I asked for this. I let it wash over me. Then my head began to hurt. I don't really get headaches. This was a bad one. It felt like a cold iron bar was being pressed across my forehead, like a could FEEL something pressing hard against my head.

It got worse and I was worried I was somehow about to give myself my first migraine, so I curled up and laid down. And I was out. Asleep.

I woke up with a start, gasping and everything, an untold number of minutes later and the moon was gone. No red, no glow, no clouds, empty sky. I felt like I'd woken up on a different planet, I had no idea what happened, but I only had 3 seconds to think about it because my head hit the pillow again (I literally fell backwards) and I was gone.

And then I woke up at 7am (the time I need to wake up today) without having set my alarm for it.

I've been having a hard time sleeping when I'm supposed to recently. The blood moon said "well let's just get that sorted out"

i made a bean soup in my instant pot when i wasn't sure how i was gonna afford lunches for the next week, it was so cheap!

2 cups (1 lb) of 13 bean mix- ~$1.50 from the bulk section at my winco, probably around the same if you found it in a package, honestly any beans would probably do, they all get kinda samey in a soup like this.

1/2 jar pasta sauce- ~$1.25 for the entire jar

1 small diced onion- $0.50

around 6-7 cups water (i just filled my instant pot until i was worried it might overflow, your mileage may vary)

seasonings (i can't really tell you what i used because i just kinda intuitively added stuff. cumin and oregano and garlic were definitely in there, as well as a kimchi seasoning and a korean bbq seasoning so idk, whats in your cupboard?)

I've been eating on it for 3 days and so far I've had it for dinner alone once, lunch three times, and made lazy nachos with it last night to serve 2, and i still have 2 or three servings left.

granted, I had a little more than $3.25 in my bank account when I went shopping, so I was able to get crumbled bacon and greek yogurt to put on top, as well as a big bag of corn chips to have on the side, and that has much improved the whole experience, but if I was really struggling, I could live on this stuff with maybe just a bag of fritos every once in a while and some cereal and milk in the morning.

So anyway, when I do money spells, I'm not asking for a way to make money. I'm asking for the thing they tell you to never ask for. I want money to fall out of the goddamn sky. I want money to fall into my lap. Because me, my family, my friends, my neighbors, we deserve it.

💸money altar, nov 3, 2pm💸

💸makeshift money altar💸

This is just a makeshift money altar made from a vintage golden glass ashtray, a green candle, dried California Bay (fragrant, dark green leaves like money, available in my area) and Purple Deadnettle leaves (from my community garden, super abundant, both purple and green are wealth colors, I like to use deadnettle for luck since its in the mint family and for persistence since its a 'weed'), the contents of a double chai tea packet (black tea, cinnamon, ginger root, clove oil, allspice, cardamom oil) some spare change, and all the dollar bills I have to my name right now ($17). Its on a greenish laptop stand because I don't have room for a permanent altar. I'm sitting on my purple yoga mat thinking about wealth + writing this post.

I did not petition any particular spirit of abundance, but all of them. I'm a broke BROKE bitch.

the funny thing about trying to disprove astrology with science is that they succeed easily, but the only people that give a shit are people who would be personally irritated by astrology whether it was scientifically plausible or not.

these kinds of people tend to see astrology as primarily a categorization system, a way that humans are sorted into (scientifically arbitrary) moral categories. that irritates folks, because it smacks a bit of eugenics and it's fundamentally not a good idea.

but like, for spiritual people, that's really not the function astrology serves. like tarot, another spiritual tool that would not stand up to rigorous scientific testing, it's a self discovery tool. it's not a categorization tool at all!

like, yes, you can use it to say "all scorpio men are evil" if you want to. and plenty of people do. but that's not the purpose of or the most beneficial use case for the thing, and i think for most people who have incorporated astrology into their lives in a major way don't use the system to glorify and demonize their friends and family.

here's how it goes: Having a certain astrological sign gives you a certain sense of identity. For example, I'm a scorpio sun. A scorpio sun, I am told, is someone that is intrigued by the dark, the taboo, the macabre. That's true of me. When I read that about scorpios, I felt a sense that I should look into that deeper, incorporate that part of me into my personality more fully, because I liked the way the scorpio was described.

There are many Scorpios who would not like that description applied to them. They might instead appreciate the description of scorpios as alluring, mysterious, sexually attractive people. They might think about further incorporating that into their personality.

On the flipside, scorpios can be jealous. I can be jealous. Knowing that about scorpios helps me work on it within myself.