hazelthorsdottir

deerhoofandrabbitsfoot

A dark, hooded figure: As one good gift deserves another, this, O Lord of Witches, do we give to you - a live sacrifice!

* throws a potted geranium in a bonfire *

Entire coven: Huzzah!

hazelthorsdottir

noonymoon:
“ i’ve created something today which i’d like to share with you ♡
to do this craft you will need either a kitchen with stove and a pot of water, or maybe a cauldron works as well. afterwards it is recommended to have a warm heater nearby....

hazelthorsdottir

How to find your own energy centers/points

When I first started delving into witchcraft, many of the books and websites I read used the chakra system. Not knowing that these were all a whitewashed version of a highly variable system that is part of closed practices, I adhered to that practice for a while. When I found out the history and relevant cultural limitations of this practice, I put it aside. But I didn’t know what to replace it with, so I decided to find a highly personalized energy center system. Here, I’ll share my process with you.

Note: I’m not judging anyone for using chakras, I think the majority of new pagans (at least white new pagans) have probably used them at some point. However, I found cleansing my personal energy points much more effective than when I was trying to cleanse a “standardized” system that was not specific to me. The first time I did it, I was honestly kind of dizzy, but in a good way. It was powerful.

Here’s the process:

Meditate for a few minutes, focusing on your breath and trying to relax as much as you can.

Next, think about what part of your body is affected when you feel strong emotions. This is probably a center of energy for you. For me, I tend to feel difficult emotions like dread, fear, and anxiety in my solar plexus/stomach area, and things like happiness, love, and excitement in my chest, so I identified both as an energy center.

What about where you feel your pulse when your heart is pounding? Is it in your chest? Your neck? Your temples? For me, I am chronically ill and at the doctor often, so I felt the most connection here to my wrists, where nurses take my pulse. For you it may be different!

Where do you feel you process your thoughts most? Are you a “head” thinker or a “heart” thinker? This is probably going to be your head in most cases, but see if a particular part of your head feels more relevant. Do you do a lot of instinctual or intuitive thinking? Maybe this would come from the back of your head, where the more instinctual parts of the brain are.

Once you start identifying significant points in your body, try to really feel them. See if they feel different than the rest of your body now that you’ve recognized their significance. If you aren’t sensitive to energy, they may not feel different and that’s okay, you’ll just have to experiment with cleansing exercises to see what works and what doesn’t.

Extend your awareness of your body outside of the centers you have identified. Does anything else “feel” significant? For me, my spine at the base of my neck, where my neck meets my shoulders felt like one of these points, even though my analysis didn’t have a real reason why it would be important. Trust this instinct.

I have six energy points in my body, center of my head, center of my chest, my solar plexus, the base of my neck, and each wrist. You might have more or less, it’s really individual. Perhaps if you spend a lot of time on your feet for a job you love, or travel a lot, then maybe your feet would be energy points for you!

Try cleansing these points with your preferred method. Personally, I visualize a moonbeam reaching down to me and helping me cleanse each point individually, until my whole body is “glowing” with moonlight. But that’s just my method that works best for me!

Good luck finding your own energy system! I hope this personalized method is more helpful to you than taking someone else’s word for where your energy lies in your body!

your-girlfriend

snailbreak

this changes fucking everything

Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say

The complaint claims Breonna Taylor got wrapped up in a case that was less about a drug house and more about speeding up the city's developm

The Courier-Journal

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snailbreak

Greg Fischer murdered Breonna Taylor. Gentrification murdered Breonna Taylor. Police murdered Breonna Taylor. And none of them have been arrested.

one-time-i-dreamt

shamemp3

ICE made a decision to order all international students whose universities are online to leave the country or risk facing immigration consequences and getting deported which essentially means that students will have to decide between leaving the US or risk their health. many countries don’t even have their borders open and some people may not even have places to go so please sign this petition which requests that international students get the option to finish their degrees and remain in the USA

sammyblep

this is an official whitehouse.gov petition - americans, PLEASE sign this and don't let our country's obsession with deportation ruin even more lives

snakeybones

megatraven

what’s a knight’s favorite breakfast?

oathmeal

sca-nerd

omg

pvivax

shalomamme

Specifically being a black girl from texas juneteenth means a lot to me!

Happy Juneteenth 🤎✊🏽

dnd-apothecary

turing-tested

there’s nothing purer or better than how much kids enjoy being picked up and then hurled at soft surfaces

turing-tested

anyone who’s ever been around kids for ay meaningful amount of time should know exactly how much kids long to be hefted up and then just fuckin tossed! it’s so good! they’re so excited to get fucking tossed around like a sack of potatoes it’s so pure

abigboysblog

Why do kids love it so much? Like I remember when I was a kid at diving practice during the summer, the best part was when one if the coaches would toss you into the deep end. And in gymnastics coaches would toss us into the foam pit. Do kids just have a evolutionary urge to die?

deanwinchesterisadorable

https://themilitarywifeandmom.com/why-kids-wont-listen/

“Vestibular sense provides information about where the body is in relation to its surroundings. This is the sense that helps you understand balance, and it connects with all the other senses.

When the vestibular system does not develop properly all other senses will struggle to function properly. Without a strong vestibular sense, kids will have no choice but to fidget, get frustrated, experience more falls and aggression, get too close to people when talking, and struggle with focusing and listening. Because they literally cannot help it.”

“Here are a few ways to support your child’s vestibular sense:

Spinning in circles.
Using a Merry-Go-Round.
Rolling down a hill.
Spinning on a swing.
Going upside down.
Climbing trees.
Rocking.
Jumping rope.
Summersaults or cartwheels.
Using monkey bars.
Skating.
Going backwards.
Swimming.
Dancing.
Wheel-barrel walks.”

Yeeting kids, spinning them, flipping them upside down, tossing them in the air, and otherwise disrupting their balance temporarily, is Important For Their Development, specifically for their vestibular sense.

Kids love this because they NEED it.

severalowls

In other words: Don’t forget to calibrate your child’s GPS!

roseyturtles

YEET THE CHILD FOR THEIR HEALTH

hjartaohamast-svohljott

Hi! Paediatric Occupational Therapist here who yeets children into pillows for a living. It’s actually more than the vestibular system! It’s also giving them proprioception, which is the feeling of your joints and muscles / where your body is in space!

We all seek proprioceptive input, leaning against walls, pushing against the steering wheel when driving, giving your body a squeeze to wake yourself up, the list goes on! When we ‘crash’ kids into soft things like pillows or beds, we’re waking their bodies up AND calming their bodies down! In other words, getting them into this super nice zone of “just right” regulation.

When I see a child who is bouncing off the walls and can’t seem to stand still for more than a few seconds? I start wrestling with them, crashing them into pillows, giving their body the right amount of input they need to feel good and organised. And suddenly, this kid is able to sit and play attentively or do their handwriting practice. It’s amazing! If you want to know more about why the vestibular and proprioceptive systems are awesome at making your body feel good, google those two words (and sensory processing) and read through some occupational therapy websites!

Side note: As adults, does your body ever feel jittering/jiggly/wiggly/like it needs to move or calm down but you just can’t figure out why? That’s your sensory system saying Hey! I need to feel differently in order to function better! Here’s what you can do:

Jump up and down (vestibular and proprioception)
Give yourself big squeezes (proprioception)
Place your hands on a wall and do push ups (proprioception)
Do cartwheels (vestibular and proprioception)
Get someone to give you the biggest bear hug for at least 10 seconds (proprioception and social connection, also proven to help regulate your sensory system into just right zone!)
Get a drink of water and drink it through a straw OR blow bubbles into the water (way more fun!) (oral motor input and respiration)
Have a shower or a bath (tactile)
Stretch and do exercise (vestibular and proprioception)
Eat something crunchy or chewy (like chips or gum) (oral motor input)
Listen to some music that suits your mood (auditory)
etc etc etc! I’m sure you already have a strategy that your body has figured out works for you. I personally like to chew gum when I feel like i need to eat something but I’m not actually hungry and just need that chewing sensation in my jaw.

Long story short, everyone has a sensory system and we all use regulation strategies like the ones listed above to help make our body feel better. So if you ever see someone (especially kids!) fidgeting and having a hard time focusing, maybe suggest something from the list above!

ms-demeanor

Are you telling me that push ups are the cure for ADHD leg bounce?

sassafrassrex

Push-ups have always been the cure for the ADHD leg bounce but for some reason no one wants to hear it.

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firewithinthewitch

To say I’m in love with my new tarot deck is an understatement 😍

@pastellewitchcraft made a spread for new decks that I can’t wait to try out when I get home from work later tonight!

The tiny guide book is adorable too 🥺

Here are some of my favorite designs from this deck- I think the chariot and the fool are my absolute favorites!

I definitely recommend this deck if it’s one you’ve had your eyes on before 💖

jesidres

Don’t Trust Tee-Turtle (or Ramy): How I learned to be paranoid about contests, art thieves, and ‘good’ companies.

So if you’ve ever been to a major comic/anime/gaming convention, and wandered through the dealer’s room, you probably have stumbled up a t-shirt/prints table called Tee Turtle. Some of the shirts might look cute, or funny, or even a little familiar.

You might also have seen Tee Turtle’s designs here on tumblr- listed either under the company name or the name of the owner- A guy who goes by Ramy/Ramyb. Again, the art might be cute, might be funny, but if you’ve spent any time browsing DeviantArt or Shirt!Woot, the design will probably be disturbingly familiar.

That’s probably because they are.

Ramy, and his partner/‘ex-girlfriend’ (more on her in a minute) have a long list of bad behavior to their name, but the one that has been dogging them the longest is their tendency to copy other artists and sell their copies as their own original ideas/designs. Sadly, outside of Artist Alleys and some Shirt!Woot regulars, this information isn’t widely know.

Ramy has had a tendency of getting himself in trouble- 'forgetting’ he was inspired by another artist’s work (or outright claim he’s never seen it, despite the original artists remembering he favorited the original piece), claiming an oddly specific design is simply 'generic’, and recycling his own (and others) ideas over and over again, and strange cases of voting inflation. When caught red handed over stealing designs, he’ll try and insult the original artists or just hide evidence to pretend it never happened. That’s not to say he doesn’t stop selling those shirts- numerous people have spotted those same shirts at their booths as 'convention exclusives’.

His partner/'ex-girlfriend’, Sylvia Shi, is also notorious about these sort of things, and she’s the main reason I know all this. Although I’d been around when the pair had used fake names and family members to get a record 14 tables at Otakon 2008 (despite a limit of 2 tables per artist), and had heard she’d copied from other artists, it hadn’t really affected me.

Fast forward to 2010, when Button Me Up! had brought me back to working in Artists Alley. A friend, a fellow Artist Alley regular, pinged me through dA, saying she was worried. Sylvia had been at the convention she had been working, and bought some of her most popular cat items. A few weeks later, someone notified her that Sylvia had submitted the design, slightly redrawn, to Shirt!Woot’s weekly derby and won. Several thousand shirts had been sold, netting Sylvia quite a lot of money.

My friend and her husband immediately contacted Woot!, offering to send them proof of the prior knowledge and copy. They heard nothing, and Woot continued to sell the shirt. Finally, they contacted a lawyer to try and get Woot to remove it. Only then did Woot take the shirt down, and agree to pay my friend the money Sylvia would have made.

And Sylvia? Well, Woot would never acknowledge the theft, and let the matter be swept under the rug. Sylvia made a new account, and continued to enter contests for a while. My friend noted that while this was going on, Sylvia and Ramy were selling the t-shirt at their booths, and claiming my friend had copied THEM, and sent people to harass her in the Artist Alley. Only when it became clear that my friend was talking to a lawyer did they stop- and suddenly claimed they were no longer dating or working together… despite evidence to the contrary, including her designs being submitted to Woot… under his account, as well as they both selling art that the other has claimed they’ve drawn at some point.

I’m posting this as a warning both to artists who post here on Tumblr and potential buyers: Beware Tee Turtle, Ramy and Sylvia. They prey on buyer’s apathy and artists’ sharing their work. Don’t let it happen to you.

And if anyone wonders, this is why people demand you credit people for their art. Because they know this happens far too often.

tee turtle Ramy Sylvia Shi RamyB art theft t-shirts woot!

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

How to find your own energy centers/points

YEET THE CHILD FOR THEIR HEALTH

Don’t Trust Tee-Turtle (or Ramy): How I learned to be paranoid about contests, art thieves, and ‘good’ companies.