Lisa Frank colored bones

Anyone who’s been stuck in bed knows how quickly that stale feeling can build up! Here’s some tips (both witchy and non) for clearing some of that unwanted energy. Thank you @tealeavesandpapertrees for requesting this post!

Open a window.

Hang wind chimes outside.

Hang a rainbow prism by your window, let the light cleanse your room.

Keep a small fan.

Flip over your blankets and pillows.

Use a Himalayan salt lamp.

Clean one area per day (can be minuscule or massive)

Let the moon wash over your room.

Burn candles, let the flame burn away any unwanted energy

Make a spritz with scented herbs or infused water.

Let the weather cleanse your room, no matter what it may be.

Manipulate the energy with your hands.

Do at least one hygienic thing per day.

Set out a bowl of water to absorb the energy, dispose accordingly.

Wash all of your bedding, place some cleansing sigils or herbs underneath your mattress.

Wash yourself, even if it’s just with a cloth.

Speak out loud (or communicate in some form) what things you would like to invite into your space.

Use a wax melter with some cheery scents.

Get a bouquet of fresh flowers.

Play music.

Burn incense, as the smoke wafts around the room let it push away any unwanted energy.

Visualize a light clearing out the energy.

Switch which side of the bed your lying on.

When it rains, imagine the rain washing away or drawing out the energy.

Laughter is the best medicine. Watch a funny or heartwarming movie that makes you feel content.

Keep a jar and write down anything you want to let go of. Destroy accordingly.

Change what clothes you’re wearing every couple of days.

Hold a crystal and imagine it sending out positive energy.

So many, many other things!

and I had to blink for like 20 seconds before answering. I said well, that depends on how you’re defining the question, because the ability to lay eggs predates chickens by quite a bit. but if you’re asking what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg, it would be the chicken because whatever minuscule mutation it is that theoretically makes us consider a chicken a chicken would be in the embryo inside a not-chicken egg. and then that chicken would grow up and lay a chicken egg. but the question is actually nonsense because there’s no clear line you can draw between ‘chicken’ and ‘not a chicken’, and species as a concept is actually more artificial than you think. I can use ‘ring species’ as an example to help illustrate that, if you want. so say a deer species lives on a u-shaped island with a giant impassable mountain in the center. because of gene flow, all the populations living beside eachother will be able to interbreed. but, because the populations on either side of the u have theoretically been separate for millions of years, they can’t interbreed. is it all one species? is it multiple species? where do you draw the line? is it based on external features? on genome? because even those break down under scrutiny. so you see, the chicken and the egg question is just nonsense. also what protein. what protein did the scientists discover in the egg.

keep in mind that the chicken/egg question is fake and bullshit and stupid enough that it makes me mad just thinking about it. but, let’s pretend the gene that defines a chicken is the ability to lay a brown egg.

a not-chicken mother lays a black not-chicken egg. inside of the black egg, the embryo has a mutation. the egg hatches. the bird grows up and lays a brown egg. voila! it’s a chicken, and it’s just laid the very first chicken egg!

to practice hedgecraft is to "ride the hedge" (straddle the fence; step half-way through the veil) or to fully cross that boundary and enter the spirit world entirely.

this visiting of the spirit world is experiential. that is, it is not the same thing as spirit communication achieved through the use of divinatory tools or channeling.

hedge witches visit the spirit world by utilizing dreams, trance states, ecstatic states, and other methods (sometimes including substance use). they experience that they themselves are in the spirit world.

hedge practices often revolve around developing spiritual relationships (especially with local spirits), performing magic by affecting the spirit worlds directly, and healing the bonds between the spirit world and the human world.

it may be seen as distinct from other similar methods of practice, including:

psychopompy (which may include a lot of veil-crossing, but specifically to work with the dead and visit afterlife realms),

the infinite astral praxis (which may include a lot of astral travel, but usually not to earthly realms and usually not to meet local spirits),

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

You’re ignoring them in favour of suggesting that their deaths were more like “wrong place wrong time” or misdirected transphobia, rather than acts of sexual assualt and torture and violence that happened to them because they were trans men, masc or non-binary.

-Born In The USA as a patriotic song

“I can’t imagine—“ SHH. You don’t need to. Ask me. Ask me what I’m noticing. Ask me what it feels like. Ask about his voice, his habits, his hands. If you are curious about death, ask. If you have questions that seem inappropriate, no they aren’t. Let’s find out together. Because I certainly have no idea what I’m doing. I had one dad and he died and that has never happened to me before and will never happen again and I’m starting to walk down the road of holding that grief for the rest of my days.

FOOD. bring them food. thinking about eating is very hard when all your energy is going towards being very sad, so remove that burden. anything that can be thrown in the oven or the microwave. make sure every meal you deliver meets the dietary restrictions for everyone in the household. this is even easier with food delivery apps, though that often takes a little coordination

JOURNAL. most people, when they lose someone important, feel either impotent and powerless or terrified that their memories will fade or change with time. a grief journal where the purpose is to record memories of the deceased hits both. for the person who is scared, call it a memory journal. for the person who feels impotent, call it a legacy journal and make it a job. collect as many memories from as many people that knew the deceased as possible so the stories of your loved one can be passed down. gift them a journal with a note on the front page explaining its purpose and then leave them to do what they will with it. often the recognition of the fear or impotence is enough and the journal goes unused, but make sure to include in your note that even if memories fade, the love won't. the love will never go anywhere.

BE ALONG FOR THE RIDE. some people want to be asked questions and want to talk and talk and talk, like lucy. some people WANT to hear that you couldn't imagine it, that it's the most harrowing thing anyone has ever gone through before. some people want to sit in silence, some people want to be held, and some people want to make jokes. if they want to go be wild, be wild. if they want to laugh and joke, laugh and joke. if they want to cry, be a companion to them through the waterworks. some people need to dwell on it, some people NEED a distraction more than anything, and some people need to sit and not move and not think at all for days and days. most people will cycle through a lot of different reactions. just don't leave and don't let them self-isolate. if they're sitting in pajamas sobbing while spooning ice cream out of the carton, sit with them while they do. if they're going to get blackout drunk, drive them to the bar and sit with them and then drive them back home after. if they're laying in bed staring at the ceiling, sit in their living room and quietly deliver water and meals at regular intervals. there is no one right thing to say and no manual, you just want to match their energy as much as you can. your job is to be along for the ride. they're on a rollercoaster and you're their coaster buddy. you stand in line together, sit together, scream together, and get off together.

and keep the ball in the box and the circle of grief in mind. comfort moves inward towards those most affected while dumping moves outward towards those least affected.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.