Packing Sucks! This Is All.

I had a dream where I was in a witch's cottage and in the kitchen she had an iron rack for wooden spoons. Like this but with a pentagram in the center:

And above each hook was a little sign with things like "love", "healing", and "strength". The spoons were enchanted for those purposes and hung on their respective hooks for easy access while cooking.

And I think that's just such a cool idea.... Now to find or make a rack.

Worldy Witchcraft Ideas

Take care of your mother.

🌱 Green Witch: volunteering at community gardens, planting trees, recycling garbage into pots

🐚 Sea Witch: trash pickups, guiding sea turtles, raising awareness for over fishing

☀ Solar Witch: turning off the lights during the day and letting the sun in, supporting solar energy, growing sunflowers and leaving their seeds for birds

☕ Kitchen Witch: cooking vegan/plant based meals, buying local ingredients, remembering reusable grocery bags and travel mugs

🎐 Hedge Witch: cleaning up trash in graveyards, growing plants that attract spirits, making your own candles from leftover wax and clementine caps

⚡ Strom Witch: using rainwater for plants, appreciating electricity keeping it off during the day and admiring it at night, supporting wind power

🌆 Urban Witch: guerilla gardening, walking/biking instead of driving (or carpool), supporting eco friendly buisnesses

🌙 Lunar Witch: recycling to make decor for a nocturnal garden (ft. moonflowers and silvery things), leaving out bird baths that make reflective pools at night, turning the lights off at night to let her shine

🔮 Crystal Witch: collecting your own stones & tumbling them at home, advocating against damaging mining projects

🌸 Fae Witch: starting a butterfly garden, leaving out bee rest stops, building bird houses from recyled goods

I know I’m leaving out some stuff so feel free to add on with your own ideas, tips, types, and how to’s!

~ That Witch

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Okay now that I got the bitchiness out of my system a bit, let's see if I can write a bit on """"rules"""" of witchcraft as I would like to see them.

Stop bitching about other people's practices and focus on your own. If you spent a lot of time worrying or raging about how other people practice, how will you ever grow your own? Focus on yourself and your own power and let other people do their thing.

Other people's practices are inspiration, not goals. On the flip side, if there is someone who you look up to, or someone's practice you love seeing, take it as inspiration for your own, but don't look it at as a goal to achieve. Firstly, what people share online is not the whole of their practice, and secondly you're not them and their path is not yours.

Be curious. Why are people harping on "black and white magic"? Why are Starseeds bad, but Alienkin and Starkin are fine? Why is cultural appropriation such a bad thing? (If you answered "because racism" on all three of these, have a cookie!) And not just curiosity about these concepts, but also about correspondences (Why are red roses a symbol for love?) or ingredients you have in your home (will this basil work as well as rosemary for this spell?) or other paths and techniques, or spirits, or -- you get the point. Once you know the "why" you can use your own discernment. Does this work for me? Do I agree with the why? Etc. etc.

Be respectful -. To other people, to other practices and cultures, to spirits and deities. Find out their customs and cultures if you can, and act accordingly. Did you know that not saying "thank you" to the Fair Folk is only a custom in Irish and Scottish folk tales? Yeah, exactly.

-But don't be terrified. You're a witch/wizard/warlock/unicorn/whatever dammit! Act like one! Witchcraft is about empowerment, so be fucking empowered! An anarchy saying is "no gods, no kings, no masters". As a polytheist witch who works with the Fair Folk for me it's more "lots of Gods, some Kings, no masters!" I meet them with respect, but on equal footing. I experiment because if I screw up, well, I'll have learned something, and I've learned a lot about getting myself out of weird stuff.

Have fun. For fuck's sake, your practice is supposed to bring you joy. If it doesn't bring you joy or make you feel fizzy with inspiration and energy, try something else. If you need to, toss the whole thing out and start over. Trust me, it helps.

I HATE this insistence that we have a moral obligation to worsen our health for the "greater good!!"

"Don't ignore politics-"

STOP. STOP IT. If that's what it takes for you to survive, do it.

There's a reason in the mental hospital they block the news channels! It fucks people up! People find the world so damaged, future so hopeless, and situations so overwhelming they literally kill themselves!

Yes, yes, the activism guilt-tripping is supposed to be for those who simply don't care, but the disabled people who do care are the ones who wind up feeling guilty!

"It's a privilege to be able to ignore politics-"

No, it's a privilege to be able to pay attention to politics without having to be literally hospitalized.

Do. What. It. Takes. To. Survive.

"I need ALL of you to start paying attention-"

Wrong. You need all of us who are ABLE to start paying attention.

Do what it takes to survive.

They are asking you to join in a 70-mile hike up a mountain, where in order to win, as many people as possible must reach the top as quickly as possible! But you are in excruciating pain and have no legs! There is no accessible way up the mountain! In trying to climb the mountain, you will cause yourself irreparable harm and likely death! You feel bad, you're letting everyone down, you can't keep up, you're about to fall, but your friend is saying "hey, I get it, sometimes my legs get super sore, but you have to keep climbing! It's our duty! Keep going! The only way to save everyone is if we do this together!"

They DON'T get it. Even if they say "well I know so-and-so who also has no legs and he just uses his arm-strength and he's at the top already, what if I carry you for a few steps until you have your strength back?" You're not him! He's clearly aquired tools and strengthened muscles you have not, and might never be able to! Only YOU know what you can handle. Do not fall to your death because you feel guilty!

Survive.

Survive.

Sometimes, the biggest act of resistance is surviving.

Harry Potter is fucking unsalvageable at this point and it doesn't matter how much you seperate yourself from the artist/author when the author's bigotry and transmisogyny heavily overshadows anything in that mediocre book.

at this point it signifies that you are complicit in the genocide of trans people, especially trans women and that you don't care that Rowling is profiting off of HP while pushing for the removal of our existence.

love our trans sisters, especially trans sisters of color, more than this fuck ass book.

From my experience as a Catholic in my younger years, it greatly depends on your religion or spiritual practice. For example, my household did the "give up something for Lent" and "no meat on Fridays". Grandma Betty who was older and didn't do much extra activities only ate one meal a day, and her cheat days was every other Sunday she would have a small piece of Coffee Cake after our whole family had a two hour prayer session of praying the Rosary and praying to all the saints. This was also the time, she would donate money to her favorite causes and charities, and if she could she donate extra. So, in a way, fasting from technology would count.

what are some substitutions for fasting? My current job/lifestyle doesn't allow for me to just go without meals. Are there alternatives when rituals call for it? Could something like a technology fast be equivalent?

I don't have enough knowledge to provide an answer to this.

𖤓 𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚏𝚘𝚛 @kansas-sun-witch 𖤓

Once you become a certain age, it is your responsibility to unlearn behaviors that hinder your growth as a person.

Uhhhhhhhh that seems bad

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