Go follow me at @gracie@ni.hil.ist bc I'm not here any more
I still make inks & read tarot, I still make sigils & medicines. I still have my rituals and superstitions and practices and private acts, and all that is intentional. But the more I think about it, the more I come to realize that "intention" is much more nuanced than we've come to understand it. Confidence, like when I was young and talking to yellow jackets, is closer to the heart of it than "I will ***."
If you're a witch, you're usually pretty good at something. It's not just rituals and spells. Your herbs are a little stronger, or your divination is a little more insightful, whatever. It's like a narrow-focused luck charm. Mine, being a life-long mechanic and repairperson, is that when I fix things they get fixed faster, or things work for me that don't work for other people, or even the problem just disappears the moment I walk up to it or put my fingers on it.
When I was a kid, I used to hang out with yellow jackets at school. I'd let them crawl all over my hands & I knew I was safe. It was self-strengthening, and the safer I felt, the safer we both wereβme and the yellow jackets. It's a weird kind of confidence, that sometimes gets called magic, but it's easy as the sunrise for a child to do.
One of my favorite quotes: βIf psychoanalysis is the late 19th Century secular Judaismβs way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th Centuryβs way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that Iβm impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?β David Rakoff, Christmas Freud.
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I just like plants and fungus and moss and lichen ok? I think the human/nonhuman line isn't real, I live in a little glen, & winter is my favorite season. gemini://gemlog.blue/users/saturn/ for witchy stuff
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