When attempting to sense the energy of a crystal, hold it in your left hand while meditating. This is especially helpful for those less sensitive to subtle energies. The left side of the body brings energy/information in more strongly in most people.(source)
It doesn’t matter what religion you follow, you shouldn’t blindly believe it. Allow for doubt and allow yourself to demand proof of something. Allow yourself to question your core beliefs.
Doubt is how you come face to face with divinity and it tells you, “This is real. You wanted a sign-here it is.”
I’ve been noticing a trend going around our community that is not sitting well with me. I am calling it the “This-Isn’t-Magic Effect”. (I cannot tag them directly)
The admin of this blog start off by trolling out beloved community. Trying to fill our space with hatred and bigotry. Not long after becoming very well known, they began creating informational posts. However, in these posts, they describe their methods of doing things as a solid fact- which within its self is demeaning to other practices and cultures.
The sort of practice that this admin has is similar to chaos-magic, Occultism, Mysticism, Kabbalah, etc. These practices within themselves are very male-centric. They seem more left brain than right. More confrontational than accepting. Within these practices, I’ve noticed that all things must be labeled by their terms or not at all. I know that isn’t the intent behind a lot of these practices. I hope that if you follow these traditions that you remain open and kind. Teach, but do not condemn what you do not agree with or understand. Magic isn’t owned by any one person, practice, culture, race, sexuality, or gender. It is something that is shared between all of us. It is ours. Even if you don’t agree with someone’s “glittery spell jar”, doesn’t make it any less effective for the caster. However, you condemning it taints our community with bile and disgusting energy that I will not tolerate.
If you feel targeted by this post, please understand I am not trying to insult you, but rather I am trying to reach out to you. I want you to be able to express your magic, without stepping on the toes of others. You are magic and so are we.
Please reblog this post if you are tired of craft-shaming. If you are tired of people claiming their ideas of magic to be fact. Do not treat them with the same energy they spill so endlessly at our feet, instead let us stand together to help them clean this shit up.
Y’all got different things that go bump in the night over here. Like bears and moose and shit. If I was a fairy that got immigrated over here in mass flittings I’d stay in the other realm too. Fucking moose. Jesus Christ, have you seen those things up close? Fuck that.
Y’all have terrifying endless corn plane there too… So… I think you are even.
I’ve never experienced claustrophobia and agoraphobia simultaneously until we had to drive through 400 miles of endless corn occasionally interjected by great swaths of nothingness.
The fae realm might be the believable terror of things back home with our forests and iron age burial mounds jutting above ground but the US has it’s own eldritch terrifying charms.
“400 miles of endless corn occasionally interjected by great swaths of nothingness”
Aww. Joy. You describe my home turf so beautifully.
not wrong. everyones house here is just made of corn stalks and corn ears for the roof. some people even dye the corn for prettier colors, but the usual house is regular corn.
True every house here looks like this
If you’re rich,
also instead of having house trees or plants we have corn trees in our houses
Very True and you also must grow corn in your garden even if you simply grow a few stalks in a container on your patio, On Principle.
And my fellow Brits thought I was kidding.
The Midwest is not representative of the rest of us. On the east coast, we, too, fear endless corn fields
Endless? What are you talking about
Look there are CLEARLY at least 4 trees in the field in the distance.
If there are fairies in the us, it think Thier range is probably limited to the few very dense old-growth forests we have out in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest. After walking up on a black bear sow in the middle of the night, I agree with joy that a lot of European creepies couldn’t cut it is the native animals and preexisting creepy things.
Hell, britian’s an island, maybe all your fairies and monsters have undergone adaptive dwarfism, like the Crete elephant.
there are a lot of stories about The Folk living in places settled by Irish and Scottish immigrants. Virginia, North & South Carolina, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania are places you’ll find stories of The Good People coming over with their humans and deciding it was a good enough place to stay.
if you’re an active follower of mine, i do recognize your username and/or icon. i smile when i see it in my activity. i get excited when you add funny tags to things. i get really happy when you reblog my op posts. so thank you, i appreciate you massively.
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