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This blog is random witchery and befuddled thoughts.
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loneozner

me: *waits patiently in a line in a busy establishment with limited employees who can only work so fast

every 40+ person in the vicinity: OHHHHHHH MY GOD THIS IS RI-DIC-U-LOUS why is the space time continuum not being broken to IMMEDIATELY ACCOMODATE me, The Most Important Person In The World,

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Pagan Festivals: Walpurgisnacht

We’ve covered Beltane, and now I want to cover 

Walpurgisnacht.

Walpurgisnacht, known in English as Walpurgis Night, is the German name for the night of the 30th of April. It is the eve of the feast that celebrates Saint Walpurga. 

In Germanic folklore, Walpurgisnacht is also known as “Hexennacht” - which literally translates as “witches night” - and is the night that witches gather upon the highest peak in the Harz Mountains in central Germany. 

Walpurgisnacht is celebrated throughout Europe (Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark, Slovenia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), in locally varying forms. 

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Emoji spell for extreme good luck for the next two months

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abcoconut

Ok, but yeah. I want to work more than 15 hours a week. I genuinely love the challenge with what I do. 15 seems, oddly tiny? Where did this number come from?

This is a good response to that question, in case anyone wanted the q&a paired together. 15 would be the social average — some people might work more, some less, but that would be up to them. This is also presupposing a change in the way the economy effectively functions, in the sense that 15 hours would be the social average for necessary labor, and after that point you’d probably see tons of people participating in “unnecessary” labor out of interest. There’s an idea in socialist theory that basically says once you reach a point far enough along after capitalism you’d just start seeing a blurring of the lines between what’s defined as “work” (or as “a job”) and what’s defined as “a collective activity”, especially with regard to the arts, science, etc.

At the very least, a transition towards (eco)socialism will require a vast shortening of the workweek and a reduction in overall advertising/consumption, whether that mean a 15-hour week or a 20-hour week. The main point is that people are overworked, we can meet everyone’s needs feasibly with less hours anyway, and the over-emphasis on extraction and accumulation (which is in part fueled by a tediously long workweek) is having disastrous effects on the planet. We can both accomodate the needs of the planet AND expand the political horizons for the great majority of the population, but it will require the fundamental defeat of capitalism and the establishment of a new ecological workers’ democracy. It’s a big project, but so worth it in the long run.

The 15-hour week presupposes a change in the economy first. Obviously capitalism requires long hours for people to survive, but in terms of pure stats it’s not necessary for society to be working that much. There’s enough resources for everyone, and so much work is pointless bullshit that only exists to line the pockets of the rich. The ecosocialist project demands a new way of looking at and distributing work. Get rid of the bullshit jobs, divvy up the necessary jobs, and we’d free up people’s time immensely to engage in pursuits they actually want to do to contribute to society.

Also, food and housing and such would be guaranteed in an ecosocialist society anyway, so it goes beyond simply reorganizing work. People have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and those will never be achieved for the great majority in a capitalist society.

These were really good additions so I wanted t add them onto the cumulative post

the 40 hour workweek is not as productive as corporate/management wants us to think, and it also leave most people exhausted. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is an absurd amount of time to be working. And judging from statistics, there’s about 50% of Americans who work more than 40 hours a week…

This does not even include time spent commuting or getting ready for work.

Even though our productivity is leagues better than it has ever been, we now have less leisure time than feudal peasants! There is absolutely no reason for people to need to work 40+ hours a week just to support themselves or family.

There’s a lot of “But how will X industry function on so few hours?” And the answer that comes to my mind is that if the price we pay for no one living on the street, going hungry, or suffering from curable illnesses is that movies/video games take longer to make because no one can be coerced into working obscene hours on threat of starvation, then damn, that’s fucking cheap, and I would pay it without hesitation.

Also, on that last point: if we’re talking about projects that *actually* take that long? Yeah, most of the people who work those jobs are likely to volunteer more time at them; again, see “blurring the line between ‘a job’ and ‘a collective activity’” above.

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sapphixxx

I mean we already see people making movies, video games, music, fashion, and all the other things we love essentially for free out of the love of the medium with no expectation of profit right now. Why would we expect that art would suddenly disappear? If anything it would flourish.

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godloveyell

It WOULD flourish because people who have more free time on their hands and aren’t living in constant fear of losing their house, healthcare, etc. have greater energies that they can devote to creative pursuits. Think of all the art and innovations we are likely missing out on, because everyone’s too busy scraping like hell to survive. Countless studies have proven that stress has very real deleterious effects on logic and reasoning along with pretty much all forms of thinking associated with creativity.

I haven’t really seen a ton of math here yet, so let’s do some simple math to prove that a 15 hour work week, if anything, is an estimate in the high range of what is necessary, and not absurd in the slightest:

What we see here is that technology has increased human productivity while median compensation for that productivity has been lagging behind.

In other words, somebody (a small minority) is making a bunch of money they weren’t making before.

Since 1978 human productivity has, thanks to technology, multiplied by 2.5x.

Standard of living has (calculated from spending and accounting for inflation) NOT CHANGED.

This means that we are not living more expensively, and in some areas, particularly housing, healthcare and education, we are now actually having it WORSE than they did 50 years ago.

So let’s do the math I was missing:

If we got rid of this paradoxical group that is making so much more money, we could have the same standard of living as in 1978 while working 2.5x less!

As the typical work week in 1978 was 40 hours, that corresponds to 16 hours (16 × 2.5 = 40).

And human productivity didn’t start increasing through technology in 1978! If we accounted for farther back than that we could cut it WAY more!

On top of that we have all of the previously mentioned factors, which get a lot more complicated to calculate, but it’s not even necessary!

The IWW was campaigning for a 16 hour work week in the 1910’s for crying out loud!

You really think we can’t do any less than 15 in 2018?

Also, let’s talk about how exactly capitalism makes this not work:

In capitalism, you have an employer who needs to profit from what you do.

This means that you create a certain amount of value for them. They pay you a wage in turn.

This wage is ALWAYS lower than what your work is worth.

If it was equal or higher, your employer would lose money from hiring you!

And this surplus value that your employer takes isn’t a little. It’s a lot.

So much that cutting the work week by half – presupposing this wage-exploitation stopped existing – would be absurd; a 15 hour work week would probably be too long, not too short!

Not to forget that our education system was brought in as essentially a babysitting service. Education itself can adapt to become about authentic learning with base skills and then moving on to actual interests. The teenage brain isn’t even awake until about ten in the morning, I don’t think the adult one is at 7, which is when a lot of workplaces here start up. We’re constantly tired, getting in crashes and accidents and then still having to show up to work where we can’t be even half as productive as we would be with only a few hours a day. It’s time to change. Back your actually leftist parties, educate yourself on the policies and help us to change other peoples minds, and maybe, just maybe, we’ll be able to say that our planet is no longer dying because of us, and we are not whipping ourselves to our own extinction.

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mjalti

Men.

Don’t think for one instant we aren’t witnessing exactly what men have done to women’s accomplishments throughout history for millennia.

men literally be out here hating women ruining their lifes and their lifes’ work consciously, knowing it, enjoying it, laughing at it. they really don’t see us as humans the way they see other males.

#organized sexist harassment

Anytime someone says “oh it’s just internet trolls” I like to remind them there are actual people behind the keyboard, behind these words, behind these actions. And they live out there in the real world truly believing this shit.

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witchtips

Ways to Use Crystals

Put them around your home!

  • Place a protective stone, such as black onyx, hematite, or black obsidian, outside by your front door to prevent negative energies, including burglars, from entering your home.
  • Place a rose quartz on a table or shelf in a frequently used room, such as a living room, family room, or den, to fill your home with love and harmony.
  • Decorate with seasonal stone colors.

Put them in your car!

  • Placing a golden tiger-eye in your car will help to protect you and your car against accidents.  Place the stone in a secure place where it will not roll around or get lost.  I suggest wrapping it in wire, attaching it to a cord or chain, and then hanging it from the rearview mirror.

Bring them to work!

  • Place a quartz cluster or purple fluorite cluster next to your computer to help protect you from its electromagnetic field.
  • Place a smoky quartz on your desk or in your work space to protect yourself against the stress and frustration of your coworkers or clients.
  • Keep a rose quartz or amethyst with you.  When work is stressful, hold it in your hand or rub it with your fingers.

Bring them with you on your next vacation or business trip!

  • Carry an aquamarine or moonstone with you for protection while traveling.

Clear the air!

  • To disperse negative energy, use a black or dark stone, such as onyx, obsidian, tourmaline, jet, apache tear, smoky quartz, or hematite.  These stones, when placed about a room, home, or other area, work as environmental cleansers that purify the area and protect it from negative energies.

Fight pain!

  • Lapis, malachite, and bloodstone are good pain relievers.   Place them on the affected body part or area of the body until the pain lessens.
  • Tape a carnelian to your lower abdomen to relieve the pain of menstrual cramps.
  • For a headache, place an amethyst, amber, or turquoise stone on your forehead, or, if you have multiple stones, place them around your head.
  • In the case of a migraine, lapis has been used since the time of the ancient Egyptians, if not longer.

Get a good night’s sleep!

  • Place an azurite, amethyst, or sugilite on your forehead or under your pillow to increase your dreams.
  • A garnet or amethyst under your pillow will help you to remember your dreams.
  • A black tourmaline, smoky quartz, or amethyst will chase away any nightmares.
  • Can’t sleep?  Place a rose quartz or amethyst by your bed or under your pillow to combat insomnia.

Get in control of your emotions!

  • Moonstone, chrysocolla, aventurine, rose quartz, and blue lace agate are all stones that help to balance emotions.  You can wear them in jewelry, keep them on your person, or take a bath with them.
  • Use a rose quartz for emotional healing.
  • Aquamarine, aventurine, moonstone, rhodonite, and rose quartz are calming stones.  Lie down and place one over your heart, or bathe with them, or massage yourself with them.
  • To relieve stress, worry, fear, and anxiety, use one of the following: aventurine, black tourmaline, black onyx, lapis, sodalite, chrysocolla, rose quartz, citrine, or snowflake obsidian.  Use one as a “worry stone”.  A worry stone is a stone that you keep with you, and whenever you feel worried, stressed, or anxious, you take it out and rub it with your fingers.  You can also wear it in jewelry, bathe with it, or massage with it.  
  • For depression, use amber, smoky quartz or citrine in any of the aforementioned ways.
  • To help control anger, keep a red garnet, amethyst, snowflake obsidian, or sodalite with you.  Take it out, hold it, and rub it whenever you feel the need.

Increase your brain power!

  • Use citrine, fluorite, lapis, pyrite, or sodalite to stimulate the intellect.
  • For focusing thoughts and concentration, use citrine, hematite, lapis, black tourmaline, or fluorite.
  • To bring mental clarity, use sapphire, peridot, or gold (Imperial) topaz.
  • To increase memory, use citrine, amber, black tourmaline, hematite, or fluorite.
  • Use amethyst, bloodstone, hematite, or lapis to relieve mental stress.
  • For help with problem-solving, use green tourmaline, or citrine.
  • To help with decision-making, use azurite, fluorite, or sodalite.
  • To use any of these “thinking” stones, wear them as earrings or a pendant, or place them on your desk or workspace.

Spark your creativity!

  • Carry or wear an amazonite, azurite, carnelian, chrysocolla, or citrine to get your creativity flowing.

Improve your communication skills!

  • Sodalite, sapphire, aquamarine, blue topaz, and chrysocolla are all great stones for communication.  Use them to bring self-confidence when public speaking, to help you to speak up for yourself, to be able to explain things in an easy to understand way, to overcome shyness, to be able to speak more clearly and freely , to be able to express yourself better emotionally, and to improve your relationships by keeping communication lines open.  These stones work best when worn as a pendant that hangs close to the throat, but they can also be worn as earrings, or held, or carried in your pocket.

Strengthen your intuition!

  • To do this, hold a moonstone, chrysocolla, or amazonite to your third eye (brow).

Meditate!

  • Meditation crystals can be held, placed on the third eye, or placed before you as a visual focal point.  These crystals include: clear quartz, amethyst, celestite, apophyllite, charoite, sugilite, azurite, labradorite, and yellow calcite.
  • To get in touch with your spirituality, use amethyst or charoite.
  • To gain wisdom, use amethyst, charoite, lapis, sodalite, or sugilite.
  • To ground yourself (bring yourself back to Earth) after meditating, hold a grounding stone such as, smoky quartz, black obsidian, snowflake obsidian, black onyx, hematite, or jet.

Feel better about yourself!

  • To increase your self-confidence and feelings of self-worth, use azurite, chrysocolla, aquamarine, ruby, moonstone, or rose quartz.
  • To raise your self-esteem, use hematite or rose quartz.
  • To improve your self-image, use moonstone, rose quartz, or pink kunzite.
  • To learn to love yourself, use rose quartz, rhodochrosite, or pink kunzite.
  • All of these stones can be held, worn, or carried.

Spread the love!

Rose quartz is THE love stone.  Use it to attract love; to increase romance; to strengthen love between friends, lovers, and family members; to make a friendship blossom; to mend a broken heart; and to keep any relationship balanced, peaceful, and loving.  No matter what the situation, if it has to do with love, rose quartz is the stone that does it all.   But there are, of course, other stones of love.

 Here are just a few examples:

  • To attract love, use magnetite or a tantric twin.  A tantric twin (also called a soulmate stone) is a stone in which two crystals, such as clear quartz, amethyst, or citrine, of about the same size are joined together side by side.
  • To heal the heart, place pink agate, pink kunzite, or pink tourmaline over the heart, or wear as a pendant that hangs close to the heart.
  • To balance relationships, use peridot or rhodonite.
  • To increase or enhance loving feelings, use emerald, ruby, garnet, or diamond.

Love stones can be worn, carried, held, or bathed with.  Place them throughout a room or home to create a more loving atmosphere.  Put one next to your bed to increase romance and intimacy.

Add some spice to your sex life!

  • Use carnelian, garnet, or red tiger-eye to increase passion, sensuality, and eroticism.
  • To increase sexual energy and stamina, use carnelian, bloodstone, ruby, red garnet, or pink tourmaline.
  • Use carnelian to stimulate sexuality.
  • Use red jasper to prolong sexual pleasure.
  • Pink tourmaline will release inhibitions.
  • For lack of libido, use fluorite or red garnet.
  • Place them next to, on, or around the bed, or wear them as jewelry.

Bring abundance, prosperity, wealth, and success into your life!

  • For prosperity, place a citrine in the “wealth corner” of your home.  This is the corner to the left of and furthest away from the front door.  If this is where your bathroom is, do not put the stone in there, otherwise any wealth that you acquire will go right down the toilet!
  • Wealth comes in many forms other than money and material things.  Being surrounded by a loving family can make someone feel wealthy.  To bring wealth of any kind, wear or carry green aventurine, peridot, bloodstone, emerald, jade, or pyrite (fool’s gold).
  • Keep a green aventurine in your wallet or purse to make your money multiply.

Bring good luck!

  • Wear or carry a green aventurine or golden tiger-eye with you.
  • Bring a green aventurine with you to the casino.  Wear it in a pouch around your neck, keep it in your pocket, or hold it while you are playing.
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The signs when they're angry

Cries out of frustration: Pisces, Virgo, Capricorn, Cancer
Wants to be alone, deadly calm: Taurus, Aquarius, Scorpio, Gemini
Snaps, is blunt and/or will destroy things: Aries, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius

Cancer Sun, Taurus Moon

Me: *cries dramatically,

Husband: babe what’s wrong!? *puts hands on my arm*

Me: DON’T TOUCH ME 😭😭😭 *snots everywhere* Buuuuuuh-huhuhu!!!

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Grimoire Organization Ideas

What is a grimoire?

  • A grimoire can be defined as a book of magickal spells and invocations. (click here to read more)

What should I write my grimoire in/on?

  • A grimoire can be handwritten or typed, there is no wrong way to construct your grimoire. (i.e. my grimoire is typed in a OneNote document)

What can I put in my grimoire?

  • About the Author
  • favorites: 
  • color, magickal tools, herbs, crystals
  • tarot birth card, astrology birth chart, personal beliefs, relationship with deities or other spiritual beings
  • Basics 
  • intent
  • visualization
  • meditation
  • terminology
  • protection
  • shields & wards
  • circle casting and removing 
  • cleansing & banishing 
  • using various energies 
  • enchanting items 
  • clockwise vs. counterclockwise 
  • other how-to’s 
  • anointing items
  • dressing a candle
  • General Correspondences
  • days of the week, lunar phases, colors, incense, essential oils, elements
  • Correspondences Based On Intent 
  • protection, healing, cleansing, banishing, luck, wealth, love, emotions, mental clarity, psychic awareness, cursing, etc.
  • Altar Ideas
  • Crystals
  • crystal grid designs, crystal correspondences & folklore, gem water/crystal elixir recipes, crystal care 
  • Herbs, Spices, Plants, Flowers, & Trees
  • correspondences, edible vs. non-edible, botanicals with medicinal value, folklore, gardening 
  • Divination
  • tarot, runes, pendulum, scrying, etc.
  • spreads
  • interpretations 
  • Astrology
  • birth chart + traits, planetary correspondences, planetary hours, zodiac correspondences, moon/star/sun water
  • Sigils & Symbols
  • how to create, personal sigils, other symbols & talismans 
  • Psychic Abilities 
  • identification of personal abilities (clairvoyance, claircognizance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairambience, etc.)
  • meditation techniques to strengthen abilities 
  • personal experiences
  • Important Dates
  • sabbats, magickal anniversaries, astronomical & astrological phenomena (meteor showers, planetary alignments, etc.)
  • Recipes
  • food
  • potions (potions are edible liquids!!!)
  • beauty products
  • salt scrubs, sugar scrubs, lotions, lip balm
  • natural remedies
  • salves, ointments, balms, poultices 
  • cleaning products
  • floor washes, window cleaner, wood cleaner, etc.
  • powders
  • Witchy Arts & Crafts
  • glitter jars, witch ladders, wand-making, crystal jewelry, etc. 
  • Spells & Enchantments
  • sachets, spell jars/bottles, knot magick, candle spells, powder spells, curses (if you’re into that sorta thing)
  • Magickal Goals

Other ideas

  • Decorate your grimoire with pressed flowers, illustrations, cut-out photos, or collages
  • If you like the idea of handwriting in a book but cannot, check out this website: it allows you to download and print a template so you can write the alphabet in your own handwriting and upload it as a font
  • Stain your pages for a vintage look 
  • Make flower ink to write with 
  • Enchant your pen or keyboard before you begin constructing your grimoire for extra inspiration 
  • Spray your grimoire with perfume 
  • Add a sigil or symbol of protection to the inside cover of your grimoire 
Source: stargvsm
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