When I give my ancestors/deities offerings like flowers, herbs, or food, after I feel like they've used them I still use them myself. I eat the food, I use the herbs and flowers in magic. I like to think they become blessed items. Ik some people are very against eating/using offerings but can we normalize practice being different for everyone? My spirits are okay with me doing this, it's our way of connecting to another. I think of it like they're trees. I give trees CO2 and they give me oxygen. Our relationship is mutually beneficial, we are a system of caring for each other.

It is actually common practice in many cultures to then eat most if not all of the food offerings made to ancestors- those days often becoming like feast days in turn, because it would be a waste to do otherwise. So do not worry, you are in good stead. 🥂

It's pretty funny when conservatives get mad at me for my beliefs and tell me to go read the bible. Like sorry buddy the more I learn about God the more woke I get. May be tough for you to hear but it's the truth

“Home is where the trees look normal” is the sweetest, saddest, most nostalgic truth I’ve ever heard.

I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania; I lived in the Chicago area for six years in adulthood. Every time I came back to PA, things were not only the right color again, in terms of trees and shrubs and flowers and grasses, but seemed to me to be the right SHAPE again. Hills, curves, flowing ridges, ponds, sloping mountains. The shapes of home. Later, preparing a class on Ecopsychology, I learned about bioregionalism and sense of place, how the biomes we grow up in literally shape how we see the world. We long for those wordlessly familiar kinds of places and feel safe in them, without knowing what it really is we’re yearning for. And then there are the placeless places, like chain restaurants all decorated the same way but representing no real place, which can give the sensitive the “uncanny valley” feeling because our internal association matrices can’t do anything with what we’re perceiving. We literally cannot place them.

yknow, I think it's really beautiful to think that Love itself created the universe, created us. Love predates everything, and Love conquers everything.

Gentle reminder that not all pagans (ancient or modern) are witches (and even when they are, magic may not necessarily be the focus of their practice) — and altars aren't just workbenches for spells.

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

THIS.

Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough

Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.

educational and salty. i like it.