I was off Tumblr for a long time and a lot of my friends/mutuals seem to not be active recently. So if anyone's interested in magic, spirit work, energy work, witchcraft, etc and looking for a friend or mutual, hmu!

To add a bit more info here:

I'm an inclusive Christian animist in environmental science, getting back into the swing of things. I have varying degrees of experience with spirit work, energy work, magic theory, astral travel, and kitchen magic.

Currently trying to build back my "muscles" and sensitivity for this path since I took a considerable break.

Rn I'm looking into St Hildegaard von Bingen, St Brigid, connecting more with my ancestors, and I have a more local nature and land based approach to magic.

the spring/autumn season is upon us!!!

migration is in full swing!

I met the cutest little baby salamander!!!

We did not touch, just gently moved it off the path with a leaf. Many salamanders breathe through their skin, and your hand oils and bacteria can be very harmful. Watch out for those smaller than you!

i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

​hey so funny thing about this

Can only accurately reblog this addition until November 25, 2024.

this website LOVES a damn time limit

Knitting Patterns // Erica Heusser

Love him... love mr. cool...

So deer have this instinct to stand tall and walk like a king when they notice something (a predator) watching them so they look like strong opponents since predators usually target the weakest members of the herd. The baby is doing the Don't Eat Me Walk.

Predators: “How could I possibly eat someone THAT cool??”

Hooray for wasps! It's good to see some pro-wasp PR for once.

Follow the link to the Guardian to learn about the incredibly important role parasitoids play in keeping ecosystems healthy; in this case, saving the trees used by Wilkins' bunting from a fungus spread by scale insects!

Witchy Questions! - Objects

Here are a few questions to get your witchy brain juice flowing! Feel free to answer in the comments or in a reblog or use these questions in your personal witchy journal <:

This week’s topic is Objects!

🧸 What is your goal for your craft right now?

🧸 How often do you use physical objects in your craft?

🧸 Do you prefer physical or nonphysical aspects of magic? Explain your answer.

🧸 What importance do physical objects hold in your craft?

🧸 Are you happy with this level of importance or would you change it? Would you use more or less, or would you perhaps keep it the same?

🧸 What is your favorite (or a few favorites) object you use in your craft?

🧸 What object do you use most often?

🧸 What object would you like to obtain?

Answering cuz Im not good at physically writing in a journal

I want to improve and regain my sensitivity to energy and spirits, and develop deeper relationships with certain spirits and a specific deity.

I use physical objects often, in almost all work I do nowadays.

I have no preference, as I think both physical objects and non-physical aspects are important in magic. Non-physical aspects are necessary (in terms of being able to go into an altered state, etc) but physical objects can facilitate and make using magic or doing divination easier on the magic "muscles" and endurance.

See above. It is also easier ime to summon spirits of certain herbs/etc when you have a physical specimen.

I would like to be able to do a bit more without the use of physical objects as I don't always have them with me/etc but otherwise it's fine.

I enjoy divination, so my decks and casting lots are among my favorites, as well as a casting board I made. I also made some jewelry that I designed and enchanted for specific purposes that I like a lot. I think I use divination tools the most often, mostly my decks as of recently.

everyone says join your local mutual aid groups and build community, but uh, what do you do if a lot of them seem to have dissolved and the other ones don't have consistent recurring meetings.

this is real, and it's a thing that a lot of people are going to run into in the face of calls to "get involved," especially if they're people who haven't been deeply involved in their communities before. so here's what I can share:

I like tarot spreads but I often just end up not using them because the tarot ends up unfolding it's own little narrative outside the spread. The cards and their symbols talk in their own way and it can sometimes be the case that I pull out one card and it decides to play with another card (falling over it, leaning towards it or covering it).

Weirdly enough, tarot cards seem to be like the children's drawings of whatever divine force or spiritual teacher is present. What can't be described in actual language is described through pictures, connections, and relationships. A child might not be able to fully define the concept of a family with several nuances but they can draw a picture of who they consider family and that reveals a bit more.

Okay so

It's not my favorite thing when people tag content/spells/rituals/experiences as being #tradition Y when they are actually part of #tradition X.

And I get that most people are probably just using an internal sorting system and that is how they are collecting and sorting posts for themselves. Which is at worst just confusing for people trying to understand traditions, but honestly its just a personal sorting system. It is what it is.

But it isn't appropriate to get into someone's notes and start to argue that the content is actually tradition Y.

Occult bloggers aren't dead authors who published books 50 years ago and now it's time to dissect their practice with Discourse™.

Like if someone woke up a year ago and decided to start practicing something they call Techno-Animist Faerie Cunning, then it's wild to wake up this morning and go into their posts and say, "actually, this looks like folk catholicism to me! Because of how the rubber ducky is an intercessor for the printer, just as the saints are an intercessor for God :)"

You know?

I think it's decent to focus on the idea that when you see people sharing their practice online, even if they are publishing Content™, they are present-day practitioners with real lives who's labels are not automatically up for debate.

I am watching a mouse make a series of what I can only describe as Fuck Around Choices, and the Find Out is VERY excited to continue this little experiment.

I'm watching my parent's dog Arwen up at their house.

Arwen (Kelpie, 60lbs) is 15(ish?) now and while she has a high prey drive and history of successful hunts, she's also 15 and doesn't give many fucks. I also have my dogs. Charleston (Sighthound/pointer mix, 50lbs) is 10 and another proactive carnivore, but he's also JUST finished making his Perfect Couch Nest and doesn't want to get up.

...Herschel (Corgi, 40lbs and extremely tube-shaped) is 5 and has no Prey Drive, but he does have a PLAY Drive, which i found out last time I was up here and found him, having cornered a baby bunny, play-bowing and shaking his ass at it because he just had a Great Time chasing it, now it was the bunny's turn to chase HIM! Even though all three of these assholes spent all day dragging me hither and yon through the rockies, he still has the endurance of an athenian messenger and still looking for a reason to careen around the house at Mach Fuck.

A Reason has Arrived.

The reason I am allowing this to happen is that The Mouse is unlikely to come to any harm beyond some environmentally-adaptive trauma, and I am Hoping it hauls ass back to the compost bin where most of them live and tells the colony that there's a very large fucked up little man in the house, fuck that shit, let's stay out here.

I don't know if Psyops work on mice but I feel like it's worth a shot.

After a few minutes of waiting for the mouse to come out, Herschel was getting concerned (bored) and stood up all the way, little paw raised, ready to smack the fun back into this poor creature.

"Ah!" I told him.

As much crime Herschel commits, he's actually quite biddable, and stopped, little paw raised, staring at me before slowly lowering it.

"Good job!" I tell him, and he wiggles with joy. "Figure it out!"

Herschel returns his attention to the wobble, circling and sniffing it with small boofs of excitement, looking bac at me for approval eery so often, before giving the bottom of Wobble the smallest, gentlest push with his nose, which doesn't make it rock, but does scoot it along the carpet.

"Okay!" I tell him, and for the last few minutes he has been slowly scooting the mouse inside the wobble across the living room floor an inch at a time.

This has, however, made charlie actually sit up and watch, so I may need to intervene soon.

Arwen is still snore-farting.

Ok so I may have a broken ankle but not because of this, updates when I get back from the urgent care.

FUNNY STORY-

I mean my whole life is a funny story but in this particular case, it's funny because while I do not have a broken ankle, I do have a pretty severe sprain, and a new appreciation for the horrors of Wordle.

I'll get there.

Anyway, when we last left off, Herschel was doing the Canine equivalent of Playing Cars with the wobble, scooting it around the living room with his nose, which was enough to wake up both Charlie and Arwen, who were squinting at him with matching expressions of "What is the Ginger Idiot up to now?"

So I had to go back and get the Wobble so Herschel could have breakfast, and while poking around in the grass, my sister texted me.

The mice are bringing wobble balls of human to the moose...

something that my friends and I have been doing without really realizing it is sharing leftovers, or if you make too much, boxing some up and bringing it over for a friend. it saves food waste, and time cooking, and it is like having leftovers without having the same thing two days in a row. which is fucking baller. i know a lot of people with big families do this but I don’t have any family in the area so this has been a new wonderful experience

The irony of doing deforestation in a land that already has nearly no forests, only to place some giant bird-killing things there in the name of “green energy.” Don’t let me even get started about how much harmful manufacturing processes need to take place to make wind turbines.

>the trees that were cut down were a commercial crop that would have been cut down regardless

>this was over a 20 year period that they planted 272 million more trees

>That 14 million is less than 1% of the total woodland area in scotland

it’s also a myth that wind turbines strike birds more than other human activities (buildings, power lines, outdoor cats)

why do these types even use the internet anyway

Also, scottlands peat bogs are excellent at carbon sequestration, and misguided attempts at “"reforesting”“ the peat bogs back in the 80s and 90s resulted in hundreds of thousands of failed trees and destroyed the actual natural habitat of peat and heath.

Wind turbines are actually more dangerous to bats than birds, and ones that don't have red lights at the top are even safer for birds (not sure what these designs have). Outdoor cats are by far the biggest contributors to anthropogenic bird declines, followed by windows. Wind turbines are in the top 5 but a lot of that is because of poor placement planning. Bats are v important but some designs and placements are safer than others for them. As long as they are not in a major migratory flyway and the design was considered for the area they placed them (unclear to me and not necessarily considered in these projects), the wind turbines do more good than harm. The more concerning aspect of wind turbines is actually the PFAS used on them, but Europe has restrictions on their use with new turbines (at least with some PFAS).

*celebrates october by taking off my pants, squatting to the ground, and with extraordinary delicacy and precision, sensually dipping my ass into a fairy circle*

*poking my buttcheeks into the mushroom ring* FULL MOON TONITE BITCHES

*poking my buttcheeks

into the mushroom ring* FULL

MOON TONITE BITCHES

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.