Good news, witches:
The nautical spyglass I've been waiting for finally came in the mail (after a prolonged wait) just in time for tonight's lunar eclipse. I couldn't have planned it better if I'd tried!
Also, if you think I won't be setting up shop in a remote graveyard and gazing at the eclipse through my brass spyglass, you're very, very wrong.
Picture is crusty, but the view through my spyglass was anything but
Good news, witches:
The nautical spyglass I've been waiting for finally came in the mail (after a prolonged wait) just in time for tonight's lunar eclipse. I couldn't have planned it better if I'd tried!
Also, if you think I won't be setting up shop in a remote graveyard and gazing at the eclipse through my brass spyglass, you're very, very wrong.
a saw one yellow leaf, so you know what that means: time for a new fall playlist.
While most of us are familiar with burning and burial as means by which to make physical then manifest our wills, there is another method that I employ with some frequency: writing will into water.
It's a simple process (and made more complicated, if so desired). All you need is: a basin, water, and a writing implement (a finger works perfectly fine). With the water in your chosen basin, take your instrument and write on the water's surface just as you would on paper. Employ word, symbol, or what have you, imparting your desire into the water.
To the water, you might add any number of herbs, curios or other liquids. Wine or spirits make a good medium if you would like to impart your will into the very offering itself. For something more nefarious, you could add herb and/or scrap, cover and let the admixture ferment/rot, then leave it for the sun or otherwise release it. If your mixture poses no threat to the local environment, pouring your water into a lake, stream or river is a good option. Especially if your water came from that same source. Also, being mindful of modern water treatment and waste management systems: the water we pour down the drain is collected, treated and returned to us. This method might be used to affect persons who share the same treatment facilities as we do in nigh a direct way. But then, as we know, all water is connected at the end of the day, so perhaps that layer adds very little...
Even still, imparted water can be used much more directly on both self or others: as consumable, either as drinking water or as ingredient in food/beverage. Tea is, of course, a great option what with the endless possible inclusion. But then, that's all Kitchen Witching 101, isn't it?
Personally, I like the evaporation method the most. I enjoy the symbol of it: my will being reduced to its most potent form, then taking to the air to join with the clouds and the heavens, finally returning as precipitation. I think it suits my nature. But I think returning water to its source is also a powerful image. Joining it back with the current or body now carrying your will with it.
Just as with water, you can match the instrument and basin with your desire or the specifics of your practice. Perhaps you'd like to carve a stylus out of a certain wood, or use a rusted nail, or a feather, or bone. All perfectly fine options. Perhaps you'd like to use a cauldron or a ceramic bowl or your 1990s glass, promotional Batman Forever mug featuring nipple-suit George Clooney from McDonald's. Do whatever, do you.
None of this is likely new to most of you, but just something I wanted to speak on as I leave my cup on the table out back for the sun to drink.
Love this
For drinking water I've been playing with the idea of creating small charging plates, or charging coasters if you will, to draw energy into the water for consumption.
Ooh, that's also a great idea!
While most of us are familiar with burning and burial as means by which to make physical then manifest our wills, there is another method that I employ with some frequency: writing will into water.
It's a simple process (and made more complicated, if so desired). All you need is: a basin, water, and a writing implement (a finger works perfectly fine). With the water in your chosen basin, take your instrument and write on the water's surface just as you would on paper. Employ word, symbol, or what have you, imparting your desire into the water.
To the water, you might add any number of herbs, curios or other liquids. Wine or spirits make a good medium if you would like to impart your will into the very offering itself. For something more nefarious, you could add herb and/or scrap, cover and let the admixture ferment/rot, then leave it for the sun or otherwise release it. If your mixture poses no threat to the local environment, pouring your water into a lake, stream or river is a good option. Especially if your water came from that same source. Also, being mindful of modern water treatment and waste management systems: the water we pour down the drain is collected, treated and returned to us. This method might be used to affect persons who share the same treatment facilities as we do in nigh a direct way. But then, as we know, all water is connected at the end of the day, so perhaps that layer adds very little...
Even still, imparted water can be used much more directly on both self or others: as consumable, either as drinking water or as ingredient in food/beverage. Tea is, of course, a great option what with the endless possible inclusion. But then, that's all Kitchen Witching 101, isn't it?
Personally, I like the evaporation method the most. I enjoy the symbol of it: my will being reduced to its most potent form, then taking to the air to join with the clouds and the heavens, finally returning as precipitation. I think it suits my nature. But I think returning water to its source is also a powerful image. Joining it back with the current or body now carrying your will with it.
Just as with water, you can match the instrument and basin with your desire or the specifics of your practice. Perhaps you'd like to carve a stylus out of a certain wood, or use a rusted nail, or a feather, or bone. All perfectly fine options. Perhaps you'd like to use a cauldron or a ceramic bowl or your 1990s glass, promotional Batman Forever mug featuring nipple-suit George Clooney from McDonald's. Do whatever, do you.
None of this is likely new to most of you, but just something I wanted to speak on as I leave my cup on the table out back for the sun to drink.
is this relatable content?
I can't impress on you enough how cosmopolitan my town is. We have a McDonald's. All the other nearby towns just have a singular, crusty vending machine they take their quarters to when they need something a little sharp.
This one is making my Top Songs of 2024, no question.
Photos from my roadtrip across the flat-ass middle of Illinois.
what i wouldn't give to strip down, roll around in the mud and scream with them
back to my door poetry ✨
are we not going to discuss the absolutely horrific autoplay ads on mobile that open the app store if they even think you might have looked at them or...?
did i miss it?
because they're heinous. especially when i'm trying to scroll and listen to music.
@staff try a different way, for the love of god.
