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This week’s Minoan Tarot cards. This deck is my creation, made the old-fashioned way (ink on paper) and available at bookstores everywhere.

The Fool: The primal self without presumptions; oneness with the universe and trust in it. The acts of the Fool look risky or ridiculous only to those who are not also in tune. The purpose of spiritual study is to strip off the layers to reach this pure state again, to once more be fully in touch with the cosmos and your own divinity.

The Adept: The Adept has both the background and the experience to move along their chosen path, using both outward and inward tools for spiritual development. This card speaks of finding the deity within, learning all you can and following a spiritual path. The Adept is willing to do the work to advance along that path, recognizing that nothing of value comes without effort.

For those who are new to these card draws, each week I pull one card from the top of the deck and a second card from the bottom. The top-of-the-deck card (the first one, on the left) gives us some helpful hints about how to navigate our week. The bottom-of-the-deck card (the second one, on the right) is the “secret treasure” that can help us find joy in these Interesting Times.

#Minoan #Tarot #divination #pagan #witch

We should talk about Easter.

Okay, for real? Easter is a stolen holiday, ripped from older gods and goddessss, stripped of meaning, and overlaid with Yahweh's ego stoking fkery.

Want to reclaim it? Ideas:

So, Easter prob stole its name from the dawn goddesss Eostre. Maybe offer some respect to the goddess who had her name appropriated by Christianity? Or if that's not your vibe, just offer respect to her by learning who she is.

Of course, there are also HUGE hints that Easter, resurrection, all that was a malicious remix of what were once polytheistic equinox rituals. So maybe, like... read up on equinox, spring, fertility celebrations and celebrate that way.

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"What about you?"

We have hidden in the shadows for far too long. We have... appeased... our oppressors, trying our best to convince them that we're harmless. Weak. That we accept their dominance.

Fuck that. They SHOULD be scared.

I'm not a pacifistic doormat. I'm not harmless. And I'm done pretending that I am less than I am.

I'm dark magic, fury, and righteous vengeance. I'm the bad fucking karma that comes for you when you use your power to enslave, oppress, and kill. I'm the wicked bitch who makes the monsters sleep with the lights on and a weapon close.

Hellion, witch, slut and bitch.

What am I doing to celebrate Eostre, rebirth, and life?

Reclaiming my power. And reminding all of you that you can reclaim yours.

#witch #fedicoven #easter #Eostre #Christianity #magic #darkanist

(previously posted over on my blog, link in profile, but thought I'd try to stir some conversations here?)

Friends,

Witches always exist in some sort of relation with our larger communities.

Not merely the Coven, if we have one, but also the larger communities we live near or in. In life as well as in folklore this has always been so. Folklorically portrayed sometimes as a helper & sometimes as a source of harm. Add to this the fact that human beings have been community building creatures since the beginning. Historically people who were or are now referred to as Witches & Cunning-folk & Herb Wives & more, were often the ones who served as alternatives/supplements to the existing power structures of their day especially for poor & marginalized of society. Historically & increasingly recently such folks were scapegoated for the problems or fears by the existing power structures of the over-culture.

It seems to me that, much like with Journalists & Ministers, Witches too can be described as people “comforting the afflicted & afflicting the comfortable”.

After the election, across my socials I saw a lot of folks processing their deepest fears of what is to come online, either from a lack of community or, for some, as a crass form of engagement bait. At the same time I saw a number of folks, some of whom I know personally & others who I have known online for years, speaking about the need to build community, the need to weave webs of connection & communication & mutual aid. I was reminded of that Mister Rogers quote, “Look for the helpers”.

It was, instructive, to look at which Witch & Pagan accounts responded harshly or augmentatively with calls to build community & engage in mutual aid work. Some were genuinely wrestling real-time with fear & anger & frustration. There were also those, whose platforms & profits depend on getting folks in THEIR following & customer base, on isolating other folks from any larger community & keeping them in some way dependent on their authority.

That last is NOT how leaders worth following behave.

Those same folks will also often suggest the Paganism or Witchcraft aren’t political as if living in a world where other people are perfectly willing to make Pagans & Witches their scapegoats, to blame us for societal ills, to paint us as enemies of decency or morality; as if living in a world where others are making our existence a point of contention doesn’t already bring politics into our faiths or practices.

One of the core ideas in Witchcraft is that we as individuals are capable of having power, of changing the world with our words & actions & the energies we put into them. What is magic after all if not the idea that we can affect change in ourselves & the world around us with words & actions & energies & allies?

Most Pagans fall somewhere in the overlaps of the Venn Diagram of Pantheism, Panentheism, & Polytheism. As author, Wiccan elder, & generally fabulous human Deborah Lipp wrote in her contributions to Pagan Values Month (June for those who are interested such a project) two of the values inherent to most of Paganism are Pluralism & Immanence. Values which place Pagans & Witches at odds with authoritarian power structures which seek to limit what is good to an ever narrower definition of right behavior & obedience.

Which goes a long way towards explaining why some folks are so bent out of shape by us AND why we need to be involved in our communities socially, culturally, artistically, & yes politically.

Peace,
Pax / Geoffrey

#Witch #Pagan

Hiya! My name is Syd (he/they), and I'm a witch who is building my own eclectic witchcraft practice grounded in animism and a connection to nature--especially the changing of the seasons and the constantly turning cycles of life and death and decay. I love reading, tarot, and spending time with the trees and the spirits. I also love watching movies (old horror movies and musicals most of all), playing video and card games of all kinds, and making arts and crafts (cross stitch and crochet in particular.)

I am hoping to make friends with fellow witches and nature lovers, learn more about how other people connect with nature and magic in their lives, and share a bit about my own practice too. My current projects include designing a tarot journalling workshop to share with others, working out my personal understandings of the spirits of the seasons, creating tarot spreads based around the Major Arcana, and befriending the local vultures. Nice to meet you!

#introduction #witch #witchcraft #tarot #druidry #animism #magic #nature

Another good video by Kelly-Ann Maddox:
Stop sanitising #witchcraft

In this 30 min video, Kelly-Ann talks about why witchcraft is political and has always been a tool by the oppressed, why "love and light" and toxic positivity are not the answer. She also talks about hexes and curses, morals and ethics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=day0sQtDPg8

#witchythings #witches #witch #banefulmagic #magick

Happy Friday 13th, witches! May you see a black cat crossing your way, it will bring you luck. 🐈‍⬛

That's it, that's my post.

#witch #friday13 #blackcat #witchcraft

For this International Women's day, I'd like to say, "Hex the Patriarchy!"
Because so many problems women and other non cis male people have, are deeply rooted in patriarchic structures and systems. And the patriarchy is also bad for cis men, actually.

(If you don't believe me, take a look at your favourite search engine and type in "why patriarchy is bad for men too" or a similar question).

#womensday #feminism #witch #witchcraft #HexThePatriarchy #women #men #patriarchy