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Lost thing

You keep trying to love a lost thing. How can you love something you can't find?

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I want to know all of you <3 

I am starting this list a a mass resource post for other POC witches

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that’s me. I’m an eclectic and fairly solitary witch. My focuses and talents are mostly: Divination, spirit work, kitchen/plant craft. I also tend to write spells in haiku or poem form. I am learning more about sigils.

<I don’t want to add anyone on here who doesn’t volunteer, so reblog & add yourself if you would like {a brief description would be nice}>

#witch of color

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Lovely. 

Get to Know Your Deck Spread

Here’s a lovely spread for all of you out there who are new to tarot, recently received a new deck, struggle with bonding with your deck(s) and/or are having issues getting clear or understanding readings. Sometimes decks have personalities to them, they have their own likes, dislikes, alignments and even preferred ‘work’ to go into. They also often require bonding to get the most accurate smooth readings. I have explained before the differences in my decks and what they like to answer, and I know of others who struggle bonding or understanding who their decks are. This spread should be of help!

1. How is your deck feeling today? Are they in a good mood ready to work? Or are they just having an off bad day? I have found decks, like people, can have moody bad days. These days their readings may be harsher than usual or even not even slightly logical. Its good to see what mood your deck is in before using it for readings, especially readings for others (and especially if they are paying for them). This may also affect the questions they will wish to answer.

2. What element does your deck align with? All decks are different and some may align themselves with specific elements. Is your deck fire, water, earth, air, spirit or a combination of them? This may affect the manner which they read. Air decks may be more interested in giving creative advice and focus on individuality, free-spirited natures, the arts, and even love. Water decks tend to focus on emotions and seeking gentle fixes. Fire decks tend to be the most assertive, they are competitive, encouraging, brave, passionate but also tend to support the idea of feuds. Fire decks, also from my experience, tend to be very blunt about things. Earth aligned decks tend to be a bit calmer, they focus on bonds with people such as family and friendships. They also focus on careers, prosperity and money matters. Spirit decks, tend to like to do more of the ‘divine’. They focus on self-enlightenment, self discovery and communicating with supernatural forces, guides, and deities.

3. What Questions does your deck enjoy answering? Does your deck enjoy answering questions about love? Friends and family? Do they enjoy giving personal advice? Do they like money matters and career focuses. This could determine what questions they may be the most accurate and ones they will give the best advice on.

4. What Questions does your deck least like to answer? These are the questions they may not have the most accurate advice on. Such as my Rider deck greatly dislikes romance questions so I never use him for them because he will always just advice break-ups no matter the situation.

5. What is your deck’s current feelings towards you? Does your deck feel close to you? Is it a strong professional business bond? Or is it more like a friendship? Do they feel distant from you? Like you ignore them? Do they not understand you or feel like you are a stranger? Do you intimidate them?

6. How can you improve your relationship? How does your deck feel like you two can do to help build your relationship? Practice more or perhaps make spreads.

7. A Negative trait. Pretty self explanatory, this is a negative quality about your deck that it feels you have a right to know about. Take note that this is a negative trait in the mind and views of your deck, its something it feels is negative.

8. A Positive trait. Again, pretty self explanatory, this is a trait that your deck feels is a positive trait it has. Again, this is a trait seen as positive in its mind.

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It all makes sense now. 

11 habits of highly creative people

It’s my birthday so I will indulge in reposting this old favorite nonsense

#creatives

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Love this

The Signs as Beautiful Words In English

Aries: Mellifluous (adj.) - a sound that is sweet and smooth, pleasing to hear 

Taurus: Ineffable (adj.) - too great to be expressed in words 

Gemini: Sonorous (adj.) - an imposingly deep and full sound 

Cancer: Serendipity (n.) - the chance occurrence of events in a beneficial way 

Leo: Limerence (n.) - the state of being infatuated with another person 

Virgo: Ethereal (adj.) - extremely delicate, light, not of this world 

Libra: Petrichor (n.) - the pleasant, earthy smell after rain 

Scorpio: Iridescent (adj.) - producing a display of rainbowlike colours 

Sagittarius: Denouement (n.) - the resolution of a narrative 

Capricorn: Vellichor (n.) - the strange wistfulness of used bookshops 

Aquarius: Eloquence (n.) - the art of using language in an apt, fluent way 

Pisces: Sonder (n.) - the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own 

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You can never hide from yourself

It’s funny how I’m only ever motivated to write when I’m sad and feeling inconsolably sorry for myself. [Canarcis - catharsis brought on by narcissistic motivations] Moving on.  When I was 14, i had my heart broken by the crush of my life who just so happened to be my first kiss and first love. I was quickly swept up by the his goofy side kick who had been waiting for the day he could wipe away my tears and be the prince charming I was waiting for, and he was waiting to be.  I wasn’t attracted to him.  But I agreed to be his girlfriend because he liked me so much I new I’d never have to worry about not being good enough for him. What an awful way to begin a puppy love romance. I wielded my power so recklessly and threw princess fits to get what I wanted, manipulated him to do what I wanted, and basically did whatever I wanted whenever I wanted with little regard for his feelings. After four years  I was thoroughly exhausted from taking from him, so I dropped him like a bad habit and lost my virginity to a new guy that had bigger muscles who could grow a mustache.  Don’t worry [insert karma here]. Fast forward to 2008 and I’m head over heels in love with a woman that is a compulsive liar and cheater. I’m giving her all I have and continue to get very little in return... with the exception of some passionate fucking and drunken wild nights.

I’m not attracted to her. 

But I agree to be her girlfriend because she makes me work so hard to feel valuable; constantly referencing her long list of beautiful exes and showing me pictures. Never telling me I’m beautiful but always remembering to tell me why I’m not as perfect as I think I am. 

She continues to lie and cheat, and I continue to lay my heart on the train tracks for her to run over...over and over and over again.  Break up [insert deep depression here]

Let’s hop to 2010 when I’m the very mature age of... 21. I’m LOST in this woman who is magic on legs. I’m enamored... hypnotized... I can see nothing or no else but her. She makes me feel so strong and beautiful... she tells me everything the lair and cheat would never say to me. And I feel valuable again for the first time in years... because she said I was.  I’m addicted to her.  I want commitment and I become very clingy and suffocating. She leaves me for someone more emotionally stable and MARRIES her.  [insert deeper depression here]

Let’s move on to 2012 shall we? I’m still in love with magic on legs, but in an effort to remove toxic energies from her life, she has chosen not to communicate with me. I meet the most beautiful woman I have ever seen on an online dating website. She’s a sight to behold, but some of her fundamental beliefs and values are not in alignment with my own.  I realize we really aren’t compatible... but I don’t stop seeing her.  I’m now the tender age of 23 and we are officially in a relationship. We are still not compatible, but this siren has somehow perfected the lethal formula of making me feel unwanted for JUST long enough to make me want to leave her, before she tells me I’m pretty and she loves me. As you can imagine we play this emotional cat and mouse game for years before I’m completely drained and  the game is no longer distraction enough for me to ignore that we are NOT good for each other. By this time the tables have turned; now she’s pining after me wanting to be good enough and although she’s PERFECT in my eyes, I’m not in love with her. I know if I truly love her I have to let her go. So I do.  I still love her.  Here I am today... 27 years old... constantly checking my phone to see if he has texted me back as I type this entry.  What have we learned?  I’ve learned that there are two things all my relationships have in common: my fear of being alone and my dependance on my partner’s validation to feel worthy. If I really unpack all the drama and all the pain, I find that the only thing holding me back from healthy fulfilling love is ME. I discover that my self loathing is not a deep dark secret kept buried in deepest corners of my inner most thoughts... it’s actually loud and has a foul odor the permeates from beneath my carefully done hair and perfectly winged liner. Its funk can be smelled through my stylish clothing, dazzling wit and charm. No one has been able to love me in the ways I desire to be loved because I haven’t been able to love or even like MYSELF in those ways. And my partners have sensed this... not only can they sense this, but also they have no choice but to reflect that energy back to me and be my very own self fulfilling prophecy. 

So I write this, I reminding you as well as myself to go deeper within. Don’t be afraid to be selfish in the most literal meaning of the word. Know yourself, love yourself, be a good lover to yourself. Once you master YOU, everything else just falls into place.  If he/she doesn’t text back, it’s not because you’re ugly and he’s out of your league.

It’s just because.

Let it go so you won’t be looking at your phone and miss the one who WILL text you back when he/she is walking into the café where you’re having your favorite chai latte.  Much love,  Eva

#love #rejection #selflove #growth #heartache

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Creativity-Enhancing Sachet Spell

Ingredients:

A Sachet to hold your ingredients.

Cinnamon, for psychic ability.

Clear quartz, to strengthen energies.

Mint, for a clear mind

Nutmeg, for creativity

Instructions: Collect your materials and put them in a sachet. Keep it near you when you are using your creativity.

For ghostiecasts! I’m sorry this took so long.

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When you speak, do you ever wonder how much of what you said was an original thought, or just a regurgitation of something you've heard someone "wiser" or "smarter" say before?

#authencity #thoughts

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I think I found my red wedding dress. 

ALFAZAIRY Couture Fall/Winter 2016

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At the Bawdy Shop presents: Baltimore Horror Story - Performing the Offering 

#burlesque #black performers #twerk #baltimore #eva mystique #ccbc #chocolate city burlesque

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Gorgeous

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Pakati of the three sisters: Oshun, Yemaya and Oya

Long ago in a tribe lived three sisters:Yemaya, Oshun and Oya, who, though very poor, they were happy. Yemaya was the eldest and kept her two sisters by fishing in the sea. Oya was the smallest and Oshun took care of her while she fished in the river and collected stones, which they sold. Very great was the love between the three sisters. 

One day the tribe was invaded by enemy troops. Oshun could not hear the screams of Oya nor heard Yemaya, which was far from the coast. Thus, the enemies took as captive Oya. Oshun when she discovered the loss of her beloved sister, suffering from melancholy began slowly consumed. However, she managed to know what they asked enemies to rescue Oya and slowly began to keep copper coins, until she had enough money to rescue Oya. 

The tribal chief, who was madly in love with Oshun. knew they were in great poverty and doubled the price of rescue while negotiations were done. Oshun knelt, cried and pleaded, but the boss asked her virginity in exchange for the freedom of her sister. For the love she professed for Oya, Oshun agreed.

When he returned to the house with Oya, they told Yemaya all that had happened. and the older sister in recognition of the generous gesture  of Oshun and so that Oya may never forget the sacrifice of his sister, adorned her head and arms of this copper coin.

While Oya was captive, Olofin distributed among the people of his tribe worldly goods : Yemaya made absolute mistress of the seas, Oshun, rivers; Oggún, metals, and so on. Long ago a tribe living in three sisters:

Yemaya, Oshun and Oya, who, though very poor, they were happy. Yemaya was the eldest and her two sisters kept fishing in the sea.

Was the smallest Oya and Oshun took care while doing this also fished in the river and collected stones, which they sold.

Very great was the love between the three sisters.

One day the tribe was invaded by enemy troops. Oshun could not hear the screams of Oya, which tied for not doing his usual antics lost as he was submerged in the river, nor heard Yemaya, which was far from the coast. Thus, the enemies took as captive Oya.

Oshun when he discovered the loss of his beloved sister, suffering from melancholy began slowly consumed. However, he managed to know what they asked enemies to rescue Oya and slowly began to keep copper coins, until he had enough money to rescue Oya. The tribal chief, who was madly in love with Oshun poverty and knew this, doubled the price of rescue while negotiations were done. Oshun knelt, cried and pleaded, but the boss asked her virginity in exchange for the freedom of her sister. For the love he professed for Oya, Oshun agreed. When he returned to the house with Oya, Yemaya told him all, and the older sister generous gesture in recognition of Oshun and Oya to never forget the sacrifice of his sister, adorned head and arms of this copper coin .

While Oya was captive Olofin worldly goods were distributed among the people of his tribe: Yemaya made absolute mistress of the seas, Oshun, rivers; Oggún, metals, and so on. But as Oya was not present, she did not receive anything. Oshun implored her father not omit his earthly representation. Olofin, realizing the fairness of the request and noted that there was only one place without leader: the cemetery. Oya gladly accepted, and thus became mistress of the graveyard. 

Oya uses copper tools to show their eternal gratitude to the sacrifice of Oshun and eats the riverbank, in memory of her childhood.

Maferefun Oshun, Maferefun Yemaya, Maferefun Oya! Ache!

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“They love our bodies but not us.” This morning in San Francisco, black women blocked an intersection in the Financial District in protest of unarmed black women killed by police. “Black women’s bodies have always been commodified. Today 10 black women reclaim power and victory…… This is a war cry. A declaration. Enough is enough.” - photo and words from The BlackOut Collective

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THIS A SUMMER REMINDER TO YOU FUCK BOYS; IT’S HOT AS A MUG OUTSIDE. AND IF SOMEBODY WITH BIG BREASTS OUT HERE IN A TANK TOP EXPOSING THEY CLEAVAGE THEY AINT THERE FOR YOU. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU. THEY DIDN’T SPECIFICALLY COME OUT THE HOUSE LIKE THAT TO IMPRESS YOU. IT’S 98 DEGREES IN THE SHADE AND MF IT’S HOT AS HELL. THANK YOU FOR READING.

Tell em again please!

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0evAcZiA8g)

Gypsy Dantés dancing to Nick Jonas - Numb

#gogodancer #nick jonas #numb #dance #hiphop #improv

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#blackburlesque #chocolatecityburlesque #dance #DC #honeygroove