#reclaiming witch

[samwisethewitch]

On Lughnasa (August 1st), 2023, under a full moon in Aquarius, my partner and I got married in a handfasting ceremony.

We designed this ceremony from scratch ourselves, incorporating elements from our own faiths. My personal practice is a mix of Heathenry and Reclaiming (and, ngl, is heavily influenced by Wicca) and my now-husband is Roman pagan. We also both have Irish American heritage that is important to our families, which is why we chose to incorporate historic Irish elements.

And our boyfriend was our officiant!

#the great handfasting project #handfasting #wedding #pagan wedding #heathenry #heathen #inclusive heathenry #reclaiming #reclaiming witch #irish polytheism #irish paganism #religio romana #roman paganism #roman polytheism #polyamory #queer #queer wedding #mine #personal

[pastadoughie]

top ten most scary things ever #1 tumblr user pastadoughie without typos or grammatical errors

I'm not scary.

#thats just my “tired of this shit” voice but in text form #art #my art #mspaint #biblically accurate rowen #ask #asks #fyterx #honestly this is probably the most accurate of the sketches of me #i look extremely tired always #doesnt capture how homophobic i look tho #ive gone 2 far into looking like a cis guy that i look homophobic now #like in real life #i look like i would call you a faggot #witch i would #but like im gay its ok i can reclaim

[nerdie-faerie]

I'm once again thinking about the missed opportunities to have Klaus and Kol bond more. Part of Klaus' whole motivation as a vampire is to get his werewolf part back and to finally be stronger than Mikael (sort of, I'm simplifying) both of which can be obtained by breaking his curse. But Kol? Kol is the only other original that can relate to having a fundamental part of themself ripped away from them. Klaus might not have known he was a werewolf until he killed, but he likely still had a connection he couldn't explain, as evident by him going to watch the wolves transform. And something he'd never been able to explain was now gone. He might only be able to realise the connection afterwards through its absence.

Kol though. Kol had grown up with magic, a connection to nature and the world around him in a way the rest of his siblings supposedly didn't have. And then he gets turned. And not only has his baby brother died, his father has just murdered him and the rest of his siblings after forcing them to drink human blood, which he'll later learn. Now, not only does he have to deal with the grief of Henrik's death and also his own but also the loss of his magic. A loss that's likely only worsened by Kol being a self-proclaimed child prodigy.

Kol is pretty much the only one who could understand what Klaus is going through with the binding of his wolf. We know Kol searched for ways to get his magic back/carry on practicing magic in the same way that Klaus was looking for ways to break his curse. While Klaus likely could still feel his wolf there despite being bound, Kol has no access to his magic anymore. I just think they should've been able to bond or connect over their shared loss of an intrinsic aspect of their selves at the hands of their parents

#TVD #The Mikaelsons #Kol Mikaelson #Klaus Mikaelson #briefly back on my the originals shouldve gotten to be a family goddammit and as someone from a big family im personally offended bs #i did right a lil snippet about them bonding over this that i havent posted yet for the joml verse but still think its an unexplored concep #need more witch!kol acknowledgement honestly. just need more content of my boy #anyway. klaus having a fascination with the moon and kol telling him about celestial events and how it affects his magic when theyre boys #klaus losing that connection to the moon feeling lost & extra tempermental feeling his wolf claw at its binds and vowing to break his curse #kol determined to get his magic back at any cost relating to that devasting loss and promising to help him find a loophole for his curse #kol who becomes extra reckless and determined when he learns that theres a way to break klaus' curse so maybe he can get his magic back too #that knowledge and recklessness combined with his loss of magic driving him to become the volatile vampire that we see #that leads to him being daggered repeatedly but that first time breaks something in that bond between him & klaus that never fully recovers #it makes him bitter and resentful only fueling his reckless behaviour particularly when there seems to be no leads on reclaiming his magic #that he becomes distant from his siblings in the process especially with finn still daggered but that distance only cements the idea #to his siblings that hes a danger and cant be trusted that he needs to be daggered if theyre to stay safe from mikael #the loss of his magic leading to his spiral as a vampire and him being ostracised by his family > actual tvdu kol canon #klaus being trapped in a room staring at the corpse of his little brother knowing he never repaired that relationship with him #and now he never can so he refuses to look away as penance and a reminder of his failings to his little brother #*edit: one of the reblogs on this post is the author of big bad wolf and honestly she does an amazing job at portraying the mikaelsons #as actual siblings if you havent read it its one of my favourites for characterisations but we need more 😭 i want it to be the norm

[beezyland]

The urge to write a cheesy made-for-tv holiday movie/winter sports wolfwren au is so strong….

Shin Hati, a phenom brought up in the world of competitive alpine skiing, seeks out Baylan Skoll, her first coach and estranged adopted father, to train for the biggest race of her career. She never expected to find him in a small mountain resort town obsessed with Christmas. She expected Sabine Wren, an annoying member of Mountain Rescue, lifelong snowboard enthusiast and supreme distraction even less.

Sabine Wren could have gone to the Olympics, but mysteriously quit her training, causing a rift between her and her family of Olympic gold medalists. She’s made peace with what could have been and learned to enjoy winter sports for the fun and freedom, living an exciting life with a community she loves. Then this arrogant, single-minded skier just shows up and prods at old wounds during what should be the happiest time of the year!

They have a lot to learn from each other on and off the slopes, if they don’t kill each other first.

#wolfwren #sabine wren #shin hati #shin rolls up ready to reclaim her former glory aaand sees baylan in a santa costume being nice to kids??? #participating in community events instead of training??? witch magic #jedi ski mandalorians snowboard for the banter

[nias-keca]

SULETTA MERCURY

#wahoo transparency gimmick always wanted to try that #the little sister that's a giant robot is.. me.. ?? ? #what if my wife sees me for what i REALLY am???? <- you fool you silly racoon you're suletta mercury. #g-witch #the witch from mercury #suletta mercury #miorine rembran #sulemio #i think eri and lfrith swapped bodies which means suletta is LF-03.... WELL.. evicting these from my head while it's still plausible. #or if there wasnt anything in lfrith in the first place (eri @ lfrith it's free body) then suletta wouldve started off as a blank state eri #also on the boat that thinks mio's gonna get a fun eye and/or uploaded to The Cloud. #also also on the boat that thinks eri's going to reclaim her body for suletta's benefit.. #ok goodnight!

[retro-friki]

Probably other people had pointed this out already, but I think that the version of the opening that was shown in episode 1 of G-Witch gives us a hint of what's going to happen at the end. After all, said opening video spelled out that Ericht and Suletta were 2 different characters.

Nearly at the end of the video we see a happy Eri sitting on Aerial's shoulder before vanishing.

The next cut is Suletta walking away from Aerial.

I think that Suletta will be fine at the end and she'll be able to find her own path. Probably Eri will sacrifice herself in the process.

#gundam the witch from mercury #g witch #suletta mercury #ericht samaya #gundam aerial #posting this before next episode proves me wrong #or right? #yeah I don't think that Aerial's gonna make it #if we also take The Tempest into account #maybe Prospera will attempt a last minute redemption? #btw I really like the imagery of the Gundam being reclaimed by nature

[bijoumikhawal]

NGL I think if you're writing RGU analysis and you call Utena's gender nonconformity sexist you may not be writing good RGU analysis

#cipher talk #RGU #Girl has long pink hair and wears lipstick and she's too butch for you #The problem in RGU isn't masculinity its patriarchy. The problem with Utena trying to be a prince isn't because she's not acting like a gir #(The show is rather direct in this by having Touga degrade Utena to the point where she dresses 'like a girl' and is obviously depressed #While doing so and once she's reclaimed her self worth by kicking his ass dressing masculinely again #And by having Akio comment on how 'girlish' Utena looks after he rapes her) #Her masculinity does not imply other girls are lesser #The problem is that being a prince REQUIRES you to deny agency to others and requires the creation of a villain and a victim for you to #Perform the act of being a prince. In this case a witch and a princess. This is system is still bad when the genders change but in its form #Is a vehicle of patriarchy #The prince is not masculinity itself. It is toxic masculinity/patriarchal masculinity #How ugly RGU would be if Utena's failure to save both Anthy and herself was because of her masculinity! #And not because when confronted by her rapist she tried to claim the language of abuse and power to distance herself from being a victim! #Subsequently casting the girl she loves- another victim- into an objectified role as a tool for Utena to reclaim a sense of power #In the moment of confrontation with the man who abused them both they both slide into toxic but familiar behaviors #Which have little to do with Utena's masculinity or Anthy's femininity and everything to do with abuse

[justseveralowls]

A message from your friendly neighborhood Appalachian Latina:

Okay so today being the day that it is and me being the person I am I heave decided to talk about Appalachian heritage and culture vs what a bunch crappy people have tried to make it. This is all my experience not universal also some will be funny and totally fine to laugh at.

Im starting on the more serious note here because I feel these things really need to be addresed and as a Appalachian woman of color I often have felt that people dont think that both parts of this identity are compatible.

Things that are not Appalachian:

- Being racist

-being xneophobic

-Being homophobic or transphobic

-Flying a confederate flag (most of Appalachia was border states if not fighting for the Union side)

-Drinking shitty beer

- Licking the boots of cops and corporations

- being against higher education

- being an anti vaxxer

- glorifying the coal industry and the lives it has cost and is still costing

- hatred towards indeginous people

-Supporting a toxic or abusive family dynamic

-denying woman human rights

- shaming poor people

-Intentionally making your truck stupidly loud

-Union busting, and being against care and support for the disabled and elderly

-Poaching (Appalachian people value our resources and nature) WE hunt to eat not just to kill or destroy

Moving onto some lighter stuff, now these are some of things I love about being Appalachian and part of this culture and community.

Things that are actually Appalachian:

-Running from cops (seriously its like a whole ass thing)

-Fighting for Unions and Workers rights (The actual origin of Redneck, that term is not for racist fuck heads, it originated from red bandanas worn for Pro-union rights

-Being completely and terrifyingly unphased by coyotes

-Making your liquor

-Ignoring the screaming in the woods because that aint your problem

-Folk magic and traditions and superstitions rooted in Paganism and some indigenous magic

-Being part of the underground railroad (The appalachians made a ton of safe houses and protections pre and post civil war for people fleeing the south)

-Hunting to control Deer population and for food

-Knowledge of homesteading, useful herbs, and homeopathic remedies

-Strong sense of community and family

-Ignoring whatever is moving in the corn feild because you arent a white guy in a horror movie

-Women forming safe houses from abusive husbands or from other types of danger

-Valuing and appreciating the land and the connection we have with it

-Fist fighting God in a coal mine

-Weird ass folk tales and cryptids (see MothMan)

-Not letting your commuity go hungry

-caring for the old sick and vulnerable not out of pity but out of compassion and respect

-Fighting for your rights and the rights of others

-Resilience and strength in times of adversity

-Knowing at least on person who’s grandmother was some kind of witch with psychic abilities

-Knowing when the woods is silent something is wrong

-Screaming back at screech owls to assert dominance

-verbal history

-vibrant stories and music

These are my experiences as an Appalachian woman of color who loves both parts of her heritage and desperate wants to discourage the narrative that Appalachian people are rude prejudiced and uneducted. We are a resilient and loving people, we are full of stories traditions and a melting together of the new and old worlds. We are people with a murky history, yes, but we are full of acceptance love and strength.

To all my fellow Appalachians who hear these mixed narratives, know that we are the authors of our story. TO all my fellow people of color know that this mountainous region is not built exclusively on hate. Know that you belong, that your cultures are valid and that progress is not about rejecting your culture but about adaption to embrace new perspectives and beginning new stories

#appalachia #appalachain mountains #appalachian #appalachian witch #appalacian poc #liberal appalachian #appalachian history #mine #latina and proud #latina appalachian #indeginouslivesmatter #indigenous appalachian #progress #reclaiming the narrative

[youryanderex]

Yanwitch / Yandewitch

A term for yandere witches, witch yanderes, obsessive witches or yanderes obsessed with witchcraft

Exclusive to witches and witchcraft practitioners

Tagging @delightfulweepingwillows

Sorry for lack of ids

#actually obsessive #actually yandere #obsessive yandere #yandere blog #yandere terms #yandere titles #actual yandere #yandere #yandere flag #yandere flags #yandere coining #sparrow makes #yandere community #yandere witch #witch yandere #yanwitch #yandewitch #yandere reclaimed

[sororalice]

Homily: On The Blessedness of Letting Go

Written 3-10-24.

Dearly Beloved,

Happy New Moon in Pisces!

As we move through this New Moon, I feel moved to talk about endings.

Often in the spiritual life we move towards things. We build relationships with the Divine (as the One or the Many), we “invoke often”, we “enflame ourselves with prayer”, and we look forward to and work towards our next ordeals and initiations. But all too seldom do we discuss the other half of the equation: purgation. Banishing. Letting go. Saying goodbye.

It’s obvious why. Beginning new things and embracing new experiences often feels good. Purgation, banishing, letting go, and saying goodbye often feels bad. Sometimes we are forced into moments of purgation, moments where we are forced to confront some part of ourselves and our lives that no longer fits, that is causing unnecessary pain, or that is downright harmful to ourselves and possibly others, and these moments often hurt badly.

As pagans, we embrace a naturalized theology. We look to nature for our knowledge of the supernatural and to the physical for our knowledge of the metaphysical. So what does nature teach us about purgation? Nature teaches us that every cycle of growth and life must in turn have a cycle of decay and death. In some traditions of magick, this period of decay and death is talked about in terms of the “Dying God” or “IAO” formula, and associated with the dark side of the year (Fall and Winter) where half of the Earth lays cold and fallow. In particular, the Reclaiming Tradition states beautifully in their “Principles of Unity” that “we see the Goddess as immanent in the earth’s cycles of birth, growth, death, decay and regeneration”, emphasizing that the Divine is immanent (present, with us) in this pattern of birth, life, death, and rebirth we participate in as parts of nature.

Many traditions also note that a similar pattern takes place in the spiritual life of the initiate, where periods of learning and becoming something new are broken up by periods of letting go of the things that no longer serve us. Often these periods of self-examination and letting go are deeply unpleasant, and the experience is sometimes talked about in terms of St. John of the Cross’s “Dark Night of the Soul” (a book I highly recommend to anyone pursuing the spiritual life).

Because of the pain and remorse often associated with these periods of purgation, sometimes we may want to avoid them. “Just let me hold onto this one thing!”, we pray. Sometimes we try to negotiate with the Divine, swearing that if we can just hold onto this one person, this one idea, this one behavior, that we will do everything else asked of us. And sometimes, despite the fact that we know we must let go, we put it off much longer than we should, causing harm to ourselves and others as the waters in our life that should be flowing clean and strong are held stagnant and become putrid.

So let us pray instead to know when to let go. Let us hold ourselves accountable, examining our beliefs, our relationships, and our lives each and every night, each and every New Moon, each and every Winter. Let us examine ourselves and our lives and purge the old ideas, behaviors, and relationships that have come to their natural end.

Happy New Moon.

In love,

Soror Alice

#pagan #paganism #spiritual #spirituality #mystical #mysticism #religion #ceremonial magic #pagan witch #witch #witchcraft #reclaiming #new moon #theology #homily #magic #magick #occult #occultism

[gaylos-lobos]

It’s about how Philip was dead from the start and how Caleb helped killing him.

#how Caleb helped raising him into the role of witch hunter helping gravesfield butcher him into the role of Philip Wittebane #how it lead to him killing Caleb for betraying everything he thought him. ingrained in him. how he does the same to the grimwalkers. #how he forces them into a mold just like gravesfield and Caleb did to him. how Caleb lead him to gravesfield and how he lead him to isles. #how Caleb trying to reclaim his personhood lead to Philip burying his deeper and deeper how their new beginning doomed them from the start. #how they were never able to escape gravesfields abuse. how gravesfield tried to do the same to Luz (but thats a different post) #toh #philip wittebane #emperor belos #caleb wittebane #meta tag

[samwisethewitch]

We're starting a queer, ecofeminist, pagan study group!

The members of the Anarchist Pagans and Witches Discord server are starting a study group!

The current plan is for this to be an online group with either a Facebook page or a Discord server for ongoing discussions and check-ins, as well as regular video calls to discuss the reading and work through practical exercises together as a group.

This is going to be an 18+ group, and is not associated with any specific pagan tradition, although I identify with Reclaiming and will probably be basing our community guidelines on the Reclaiming Principles of Unity. Other traditions represented in our group include Druidry, Heathenry, Wicca, and of course eclectic pagans!

You can fill out our interest form here.

#study group #pagan #paganism #witchblr #queer #ecofeminism #reclaiming #druidry #inclusive heathenry #wicca #queer pagan #queer witch #queer witchcraft #witch books #pagan books #book club

[angelwater-tea]

#overgrown #reclaimed #ai art #fantasy art #swamp #swampcore #ferns #fairy house #house on stilts #witch house #goblincore

[crabcrabcrabmeat]

rewatching zeta will fix me

#shrimpteresting to me how g witch's horrific politics and dissapointing yuri industrial complex stem from the same root #a shiny facade but ultimately never challenging the status quo #ig thats why prospera's character doesnt work as is #suletta's personal arc (and ericht's if she had one) is supposed to be reclaiming personal agency n standing up against child abuse #but the message of the series is ultimately 'you're not evil if you're trying to improve' so any realistic moral complexity cant be present #and a char without antiheroism is an angel without wings! #gwitch also made the mistake of having commonalities w CCA without any political legs to stand on (heh) #specifically the idea of 'turning children into weapons' wrt to quess (metaphorically) and ericht (literally) #because CCA is using intercharacter drama as the medium for political statement its free to do intense earnest shit #like criticising militaries and their recruitment by comparing it to CSA--a real thing that exists beyond fictional cockpits #its intense but not unwarranted as its relevant to military and political power irl--it'd be inaccurate to NOT address it #whereas prospera's warcrimes are cartoonish death star shit with no direct real world equivalents (unless we invent idk evil bluetooth) #since actual abuse (or ericht having traits lol) undermines bandai namcos ability to merchandise their (doubly!) objectified characters #anyways i think its acceptable for gay women to not kiss ONLY if they fight to the death in space. its equality. its emma and reccoa. #abs blabs

[kassette--woodswich--esquire]

I deleted my Reddit account, and I'm thinking Twitter is next. It's melancholy, I used to look forward to reddit and it's just become. Eh. The shine faded and I realized if I really wanted to I could access it without an account. It is both sad and a weight off my shoulders. I'm going to try and follow my artists on Twitter elsewhere. I'm going to axe that. I'll probably keep Tumblr and maybe tik tok but I'm thinking of signing out for a bit. I'd like to separate from social media. Try and go back to the time where the internet was both special to me and not as much in my life. On the same note, I plan on logging out of my email apps and deleting those. I'd like to not be available 24/7. Shit, maybe I'll look at getting a flip phone after my smartphone finally dies. If they still make em. Being available 24/7 is exhausting, being online 24/7, especially as a crutch for stress and mental health issues...I think it's slowly draining me. Slowly killing me. I'll stay aware of the world abroad. But on my terms. Without social media. Tumblr...doesn't quite count. As social media. It remained close to it's original blogginess, and most of my dash is quality silliness and art. With the occasional burning of conservative viewpoints. Somehow that's still better than Twitter.

#ramble #social media #detox #social media detox #reclaiming what's left of my sanity #flip phone #reject internet #become woods witch #rant

[cavorta]

Book Review

Starhawk and M. Macha NightMare: »The Pagan Book of Living and Dying«

Some parts of this book may be rather outdated today, but all in all it is still a treasure trove in my eyes. I wish I had known this book already some years ago.

In the introduction, the authors write that their ideas for rituals, meditations, prayers, poems, chants etc. are not carved in stone and they invite the reader to adapt these as they see fit for the personal situation.

The book is structured like an anthology, with several different contributors and some more parts have been written by either Starhawk or M. Macha NightMare. The book starts with some general information about pagan beliefs (for instance about the afterlife), pagan rituals, the Reclaiming witchcraft tradition and more, also with regards to the cycles of nature which teach us, among many other things, the cycles of life and death.

The book then tackles a lot of different topics around death, for instance death due to terminal illnesss (with the example of AIDS which was still mostly a terminal illness in den 1990ies), the death of children, violent and sudden deaths, death in the service to other people, death of choice, suicide because of depression, abortion, the topic of donating organs and more.

In a few of the contributions, there is a focus on parts of the Wiccan rede. Topics like Karma and reincarnation are also discussed.

Many of the personal accounts, for instance »For Those Whose Loved Ones Suffered Violent Death« by Marta Benavides from El Salvador, were quite moving and made my cry.

The last chapters are about the grieving process and ideas about how to handle this and remembering the dead in a community. There is also an interesting part about the Tarot and death/dying and about practical work which is best to be done (like writing a will). The laws about that may have changed by now or be very different in your region.

In the end, there is an extensive appendix section with further reading and more, which is almost 30 pages long. In it there is an Example of a Living Will Declaration and an Example of a Health Care Proxy/Durable Power of Attorney. (Both may be outdated by now or not be applicable, depending on where you live and the current laws there.)

The last chapters are about the grieving process and ideas about how to handle this and remembering the dead in a community. There is also an interesting part about the Tarot and death/dying and about practical work which is best to be done (like writing a will). The laws about that may have changed by now or be very different in your region.

In the end, there is an extensive appendix section with further reading and more, which is almost 30 pages long. In it there is an Example of a Living Will Declaration and an Example of a Health Care Proxy/Durable Power of Attorney. (Both may be outdated by now or not be applicable, depending on where you live and the current laws there.)

Conclusion: While some parts of the book are outdated, it’s still a recommendable book. And I am definitely going to read it again, or at least parts of it, when someone I know (family, friends, …) dies and I need some pagan, spiritual ideas about how to deal with grief and more.

#book reviews #pagan books #the pagan book of living and dying #paganism #pagan #pagans of tumblr #reclaiming #starhawk #witch blogger #blogger witch