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Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

Trump removed food safety standards his first term and now we have recalls every few weeks

Trump cut the subsidies for the solar farms under construction so now electricity costs more

Hey you know how I said I was going to make a workbook on the kind of bullshit you need to do when someone you love dies? I actually did that.

HERE IS THE VERSION WITH LOTS OF SWEARING AT THE USELESS, SHITTY SITUATION YOU’RE IN.

HERE IS THE VERSION WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF BLACK HUMOR BUT NO CURSEWORDS.

Featuring Helpful Sections such as:

Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and how to get them

Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone

What the Everloving Fuck is Probate

Some Simple Dos and Don’ts

Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and Memorials

How to plan a non-religious death party

So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some shit

This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.

It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.

I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.

Good luck!

🌞O’ Lord Apollon, o’ god of the sun, archery, prophecy, music, the arts and poetry, let thee take this e-offering 🌞

Monthly themes of stuff to research and try and see if I want to keep them or if I want to move on.

January: spell candles. Mostly to try them out and make some different ones and types. My partner uses one for their creative space but I want to branch out.

February: altars and grimoires. Mostly bc mine needs a cleaning and organizing again after the new stuff I got over the holidays. But also seeing what works for me.

March: wards. I see them and the circles and stuff all the time. I just want to do more research and see what would work best for me.

April: sigils. I've dabbled and used them. But I want to spend time finding my own personal style and flair to them.

May: garden. Preparing and getting ready for the season. Deciding which herbs I want to focus on. Seems like a good building up from the other stuff I'll be looking into.

June: deities. Figuring out who/what this looks like for my practice. Got lots of shadow work for this one.

July: crystals. Sorting out what's my favorite and uses and how I want them used in my practice. And finally going through and getting sorted what they're used for.

August: teas. Hopefully herbs will be thriving and I can get some stuff drying and getting ready for winter.

September: tinctures and salves. One of my favorite things to make. Making sure I've got things ready for winter. Deciding which plants will come inside for the season.

October: recipes. Kitchen witchery at its finest. Going through my recipes and making sure I've got everything where I want it.

November: tarot. Probably going through my decks and seeing what I keep and seeing if I can learn meanings a bit more.

January was a success. Trying a couple deity candles.

Just a quick compilation of the posts I've made about exercises to help improve your craft. These can be used as journaling prompts, inspiration for activities, or as methods for pulling yourself out of a slump and recharging your witchy inspiration.

Witchcraft Exercise - Quantifying Your Craft

Witchcraft Exercise - Dig Through The Ditches

Witchcraft Exercise - The Book of Lessons

Witchcraft Exercise - Home Brews

Witchcraft Exercise - Witchy Inspo Journal

Witchcraft Exercise - Spring Cleaning

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Correspondences

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Your Own Runes

Witchcraft Exercise - Shakespearean Witchcraft

Witchcraft Exercise - Music To Witch By

Related Prompt - Music to Witch By

Witchcraft Exercise - Annual Review

Most of these are also available in the May 2021 bonus episode of Hex Positive (check your favorite podcatcher).

Happy Witching!

The feeling of coming home after a long day, dropping your belongings at the door in exhaustion.

Being greeted with the scent of cinnamon pastries and a warm smile.

A tight embrace and the loving hand on your head as all of your worries and stress flow away from your body.

Acceptance, support, an ear to listen to your woes, and a wise mouth to guide you. Comfort in times when needed the most.

Patience, encouragement, and appreciation for the times where you couldn’t do much, but did something anyways.

Such love and care go into the people she speaks to.

Her presence is a warm blessing in many lives, and a place that finally feels like home for so many who have none.

Her ever-burning fire warms our very hearts and souls.

Hermes 🐓 🪽 🐢

Praise to glorious Hermes. Champion of the games. Slayer of Argos. Keeper of the flocks. Sheep-tending shepherd. Ram-bearer and keen-sighted watcher.

Psychopompós, escort of departed souls. He of the gateway. Immortal guide and commander of mortals. Interpreter and translator. He of the roads.

So, we all know that some deities are much more commonly worked with and worshiped than others, and most of us have our own ideas as to why. I think there’s a multitude of reasons, including the unsavory myths surrounding them, cultural bias, and lack of pop culture fame. However, the factor I want to talk about in this post is this: a lot of the less popular deities are deities with less obvious/direct impacts on our lives. 

I’m going to go through each of the 12 Olympians (plus Hestia) and explain how I believe this impacts our view of them and how we can recognize and get closer to them in our everyday lives. I’m only doing the 12 Olympians because I am most familiar with the Hellenic pantheon and if I did every single deity in this post, it would take a million years. I might do other deities in the future if anyone is interested or I feel called to.

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Prayer does not have to belong to a traumatic Christian upbringing, nor is it a lesser practice when compared to any other ritual or spell.

There's been all kinds of stuff that's happened in my area that never hits the papers. Supposedly, someone blew up a pipe just across the border in Tomslake, BC.

And there was one sour gas well that blew right on the same road two or three kilometers from the alleged bombing site. The pipe actually blew out from sand corrosion on an elbow from fracking—they hadn't cleaned it out properly—and that thing blew for eight hours. The people in that area had to self-evacuate. Nobody came.

Even when they called 911 they didn't come. Eight hours of "jet engine" blasting of sour gas into the atmosphere. Cattle lost their fetuses, horses got sick, and one of the women who lives nearby is sick, probably for life."