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Bells and Spells

@bells-and-spells / bells-and-spells.tumblr.com

bellsandspells.storenvy.com Custom spells and tarot spreads. Occasional free tarot readings, always have tarot readings for sale. Specialize in pop-culture based spells and spreads for mediums and the god-bothered. Experience with negative entities since childhood. Run by Maria Emil. Free tarot readings: closed.
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Hi Followers!

I’m archiving Bells and Spells and moving back to my old haunt, CallACabForMe.

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“Reverse” changelings are rarely addressed on tumblr, but it’s actually something that I discuss with others in the craft frequently offline. So I thought I would compile it into a comic for witchblr!

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Me: I feel so frustrated–it never feels like my faith is really a part of my day-to-day life.

Also me, without fail, whenever someone loses something: Bribe the house spirits; they’ll help.

Me at faire when it started to rain: THOR I WILL LITERALLY BAKE YOU SO MANY COOKIES IF YOU HOLD OFF FOR TWO MORE HOURS

Me: Spends half my time in the shower meditating on the nature of divinity

Me: Has a pile of crystals charging on top of my tablet

Me: wears a Mjolnir every day

Me: Constantly reading books/watching videos about funerary rites, death culture, and the modern American funeral industry, because deathwork is vital to my practice   

It’s the little things, dammit.

Honestly, though, this is so true. Sure, there are rituals and lore and history, whatever, but so often our relgious expression is more subtle. It’s in our jewelry. It’s us greeting the moon. It’s gettin lost in thought in divinity walkin to the train. It’s not always about the most obvious things.

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An experiment:

Reblog if, at some point in your educational life, you have gotten in trouble for reading a book that ‘wasn’t assigned to you’ or reading ahead in a book you were given in class or reading under your desk

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tbh the worst thing about being a self aware mentally ill person is that people assume that because you understand your illness you’re automatically able to actually apply your knowledge to your life and cure yourself

Do I know my brain isn’t making the most sense right now?  Yes.  Can I stop it?  No. 

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Lookin’ at you, Tumblr.

Grow up. Not everything is made to your demands, the people who make the decisions don’t care, and you’re only hurting people.

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aelfcynn

May you find exactly what you want at the thrift shop, in your price range, next time you’re there.

can’t pass up this kinda karma

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iridessence

and in your size

definitely cant pass it up now jeez

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Just because you did something wrong in the past doesn’t mean you can’t advocate against it now. It doesn’t make you a hypocrite. You just grew. Don’t let people use your past to invalidate your current mindset.

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Some ideas for bad things that are white/light:

  • lightning, very hot fire
  • snow storms, ice, frost on crops
  • some types of fungus/mold
  • corpses, ghosts, bones, a diseased person
  • clothing, skin tone, hair, etc. of a bad person
  • fur, teeth, eyes of an attacking animal/monster
  • bleached out deserts, dead trees, lifeless places
  • poison

Some ideas for good things that are black/dark:

  • rich earth/soil
  • chocolate, truffles, wine, cooked meat
  • friendly animals/pets/creatures
  • a character’s favorite vehicle, technology, coat, etc.
  • a pleasant night
  • hair, skin tone, clothing, etc. of a good person
  • undisturbed water of a lake
  • the case/container of something important
  • valued wood, furniture, art
  • velvet

Think to burn, to infect, to bleach vs. to enrich, to protect, to be of substance.

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noseforahtwo

*slams reblog like the fist of an angry god*

the politics of light and dark are everywhere in our vocabulary…psa to writers: subvert this, reveal whiteness and lightness as sometimes artificial and violent, and darkness as healing, the unknown as natural

“The truth finds more comfort in the dark”

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