mumblingsofacitywitch

the enemy of my enemy is not actually my friend bro like is he cool? is he normal around black women?

like yeah we both hate the government but can i trust u even remotely around my identifiably disabled peers and friends? can we drive thru my old neighborhoods without u locking the doors?

i think those things are just as important as if we hate the same shit mayhaps even moreso

I miss when I was a fish. When I was bones. When i was ferns. Sky. Whales. bug. Peace. Occasional brutal death for the sake of the ecosystem. Easy life

Five of Wands. Six of Swords. Three of Pentacles.

You’ve had enough of what you don’t want, to know exactly what it is that you do want. Moving away from a painful situation can be difficult, but why cling to a sinking ship? Let go or be taken by the undertow.

Me: “Should I do the thing?”

Friends: “No.”

Family: “No.”

Runes: “No.”

Tarot: “No.”

Spirits: “No.”

Gods: “No.”

Ancestors: “For the love of god no.”

Me: “…I’ma do the thing.”

Loki: “That’s my boy!”

i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

To go with the general theme of this week on witchblr...

I feel like we're finally getting to the right kind of fear-mongering.

That implies that you haven't been cleansing properly and that it's actually evil spirits who are making you fixate on nazis and making you paranoid to believe that nazis are everywhere in the occult community.

Pretty sure this is one of those "mundane over magical" situations. I also posted this the week everyone had actual neo-nazis sending them anons so I don't think it's just my own lack of proper cleansing.

Yikes, noticing racism in the witch community means you haven't cleansed your space enough? What is wrong with some of yall

It's almost like this kind of thinking is literally what the meme is about 😂

If magically cleansing a space could get rid of Nazis you'd see us out here with magical vacuums and dusters decked out in dozens of sigils and such!!! 😂😂😂

A broom can cleanse your space of Nazis if you swing it hard enough.

When you’re just starting your path, it’s important to remember witchcraft is not all initiations and intricate daily schedules and concoctions. After you’ve found or rediscovered the craft, a bird is still a bird, and a bad day is still just a bad day. Unless you’re asking for specific signs or you actually crossed someone, you shouldn’t go out of your way to assign deeper meanings to every pebble or pelt in your field of sight. You may stumble; you may fall. But it is likely not at all due to an external or divine force that has noticed and singled you out. This may be a tough pill to swallow for some, but those minor slip ups, those bumbling, stumbling steps, are just part of the natural progression of things. All beginnings have their unique struggles and growing pains. I’d suggest focusing on building up a solid foundation before searching for a journey or destination. There’s no rush. There’s no cosmic destiny or balance that’s waiting for you to come into your own. Take your time and cultivate patience and discernment over all else.

A season of wish fulfillment.

I'm saying this from a place of genuine care: if you are seeing ghosts or shadows or having nightmares... and sageing, eggshells, Crystal's, and psychics arent cutting it..

Please.. please... check for things like gas leaks, water damage, vermin. I'm not saying your house isnt haunted, I'm just saying that carbon monoxide poisoning looks a LOT like being haunted.

I know that, you know that, but when it looks like supernatural things you look to supernatural solutions and you might not be thinking clearly.

I'm having a conversation with a pagan mom right now who thinks that dark forces are after her, so she's tried all the things that she knows... which apparently is not checking the hvac system for leaks.

Shes mad at me because I suggested getting an inspection because shes lived in the house for 14 years and she's always seen things like this and it's just gotten worse since she took over the house. Shes seeing entities, things are moving on their own, doors open and close on their own, people are being touched and scratched. 'Mold and gas dont do that!'

Drafty house. Uneven floors. Pressure changes.

Toxic mold syndrome can mimic depression and anxiety, cause listlessness. Guess what extreme anxiety can do. It can mess with your head. It can mess with your memory.

If you have scratches on you and you dont know where they came from, see a doctor. See a doctor. I dont know why you wont see a doctor. They can tell you if it comes from an animal. They can tell you if you're suffering from a mold allergy. They can tell you if you're experiencing side effects of gas exposure.

I wholeheartedly believe in ghosts. Absolutley not debating that ghosts and spirits and whatever you think you're seeing. I am posting this in a pagan facebook group. I 100% believe in ghosts.

I also believe in carbon monoxide.

Please check for gas leaks in your home. Please check for mold. Please check for critters. Like girl I believe you but please check these things.

Listen, this is a very specific topic to be iffy about, but for your knowledge, the Roman gods are not the Greek gods.

The Romans were big on syncretism (the combination of different forms of belief or intellectual thought) and the adoption of foreign gods. The Greek deities were known since very early periods via the Etruscan culture, which was heavily influenced by Greece since the middle of the 8th century BC because of trade routes as well as the Greek cultural potential and would come to be completely engulfed around the third century BC with the Roman-Etruscan wars, but just like you’d see the Romans claiming the Germanic tribes worshipped their own gods under different names (the Germania by Roman historian Tacitus, written around 98 AD), the same happened here, and the fusion wasn’t 100% accurate.

While in the case of Zeus and Jupiter, for example, it worked well, Venus is far more motherly and political than Aphrodite (as Mars is the Father of Rome via the myth of Romulus and Remus, Venus is Venus Genetrix, Venus the Mother, and the only time you’ll see Aphrodite being motherly is in… the Aeneid, a distinctively Roman piece), Mars is an agricultural god as well as the god of war and has way more political connotations than Ares (he was a member of the archaic Capitoline Triad), Mercury is far more linked with commerce than the more pastoral Hermes, and the list goes on. Apollo was imported directly and very early (a temple for him, the Temple of Apollo Sosianus, was erected in the city of Rome as early as 431 BC), thus keeping the name but undergoing a very distinct Romanization of his attributes and worship. Janus, Quirinus and Terminus were very important Roman gods which had no Greek equivalent.

Isis, for example, was worshipped as herself, equated with a number of deities in both the Greek and the Roman worlds and some of her methods of worship and symbolism were associated with the Virgin Mary. It’s a far more complicated scenario, babes, especially when you consider Alexander’s conquests and the expansion of Hellenistic culture as well as its contact with many other cultures.

Syncretism is way more complicated than “the Romans just stole the Greek gods and gave them different names, the uncreative fucks”. The traditional date for Rome’s foundation is 753 BC and the Western Roman Empire would last until 436 AD. That’s over a thousand years of conquest, trade and growing and shrinking territories, and none of these factors are likely to leave a religion unaltered.

Besides, the practice of religious syncretism is way older and more common than you’d expect. The Akkadians did it to Summerian deities a few thousand years before this especially after the conquest of Sargon of Akkad in 2340 BC (“Mesopotamia: the Sumerians”. Washington State University). The Greeks were doing much the same with the Roman pantheon itself (Dionysus of Halicarnassus and Plutarch use Greek names for Roman cult), with the Egyptian pantheon and with the Scythian pantheon (Herodotus in both cases, though the associations would outlive him, such as the case of Zeus/Amon).

So, no the Roman gods aren’t the plagiarized versions of the Greek gods, and I could defend this in front of a jury.

Cast spell of "lose your shit and fucking riot."

Thoughts and prayers--and let's be real here, that's what spells are-- are meaningless without action. You can't just cast hexes and then when it fails assume it's because of some other magical entity stopping you. Spells, meditation, prayers, ~vibes~, whatever the fuck you want to call it, are all about putting your intention out into the world. You still need to be the vehicle that manifests it.

Boots on the ground, witches. If you're not caring for your community beyond lighting candles and ~good vibes~ you're just a WASP with a collection of overpriced rocks.

Viking traveler’s amulet, based on the Lillbjärs picture stone. The back reads: “Unharmed Go Forth, Unharmed Return, Unharmed Back Home”, Frigga’s blessing to Odin, possibly from Vafþrúðnismál.

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Because the world is full of trouble and every little bit of help counts.

Pseudo spirituality disguised as "self care" is a marketing tactic pushed by influencer culture and it's just repackaged "wellness culture".

Selling you an easy solution to a single problem isn't fixing anything, encouraging you to buy sweatshop mined rocks and vapid books isn't actually helping you.

Witchcraft is not an exception.

The idea has ALWAYS been salvaging, foraging, remaking.

It has NEVER been about being "clean" or "whole" or "pure". It has never been about taking and buying and exploiting to "heal".