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Earth feels it, the burning and bombing

Pulsating and reverberating

a horrifying WOW! signal

conducted and diffused

the trees shudder, the birdsong is requiem, our dreams are strange

can I gather the world in my arms and mother it

can I descend in a burning chariot and visit these men with righteous mother's rage

in my sleep I wander strange hallways

shadows and doors, red and black

I crouch and groan, I am crowned

I will not absorb it I will not

because no. genocide

does not happen for a reason

I will not be soothed by lies

You cannot make this part of the glorious cosmic ballet

this is a rip in the fabric, an aberration, an atrocity

WOW! WOW! WOW!

trauma lives in our genes and visits our grandchildren

we repeat it again and again

we hand it off to one another in a sick, endless relay

genocide pulsates through dirt, through spacetime

there is no disconnecting

can I hold Rafah to my breast and nurse it

can I devour these wicked kings whole

can I become a wall of flame that none may penetrate

surely some revelation is at hand

hold your babies, drink wine, plant flowers

move your slow thighs across the desert

destruction is also birth

what will emerge

from this cradle of ashes

what rough beast will rise from these ruins

take the baton and run

visit flame upon the enemy?

I will be its mother.

you will be its mother.

#shadow work #free palestine #free gaza #generational trauma #poets of tumblr #indie poet #woman poet #poetry

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#shadow self #shadow work #antiracism

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Looking for active witch blogs that post:

🕯 Altars

☠ Baneful Magic (curses, hexes, jinxes, etc.)

💸 Budget / Poverty / Struggle / DIY / Upcycling Witchcraft

📖 Magical Books (pics of grimoire pages, flip-throughs, book recs/reviews, etc.)

💲 Money, Business, & Prosperity Witchcraft

💀 Necromancy, Death Witchcraft, and/or Cthonic/Death Deities (also funerary stuff, medical examination, etc., love that stuff)

🌿 Practical & Responsible Herbalism (gardening, cultivating, harvesting, foraging, herbal remedies, recipes, salves, ointments, etc. but no anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-allopathy shit)

📝 Sigils (free to use, preferably)

👻 Spirit Work (esp. animal spirits, dryads, egregores, genus loci, gorgons, & mermaids)

🥄 Spoon-Conscious Witchcraft (for those who are disabled, exhaust easy, etc.)

✨ Things relating to: Santa Muerte, Artemis, Serket/Selqet

🦴 Vulture Culture (responsible)

Reblog or send me an ask if you think your blog might suit my taste. Disclaimer: not Wiccan, not Pagan, not Heathen; just a witch who's curse-positive, eclectic, & agnostic.

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SHADOW WORK & RACISM

(Note: I am a white person and this advice is mostly directed at other white people. This is an incredibly complex topic, and the process will be different for different people.)

Here in the US, we are wrestling with the racism we have relegated to the shadow. The crouching, heaving demon of slavery, colonialism, and genocide is too hideous to face.

Collectively, we see active denial of this American racial shadow self in book banning, in the Lost Cause narrative of the Civil War, in the continued lack of restorative policies (reparations, land back, etc), in the survival of perpetually racist systems.

Individually, this rejection of the shadow can take the form of "color-blindness," defensiveness around racial issues, "I have black friends," performative activism, white saviorism, gaslighting….

The rejected racial shadow can become overt racism, passive identification with racist ideologies, or sometimes a vague, indefinable satisfaction when a candidate or comedian says something awful.

Until the shadow is faced and accepted, it directs our choices. The more completely it is denied, the more powerful it grows. Healing comes through illumination, through turning towards the shadow.

Facing your own racial shadow can be very uncomfortable. Remember, many conflicting things can be true at once. Abandon binary thinking and allow things to be complex and messy.

IDEAS FOR SHADOW WORK AROUND RACE AND RACISM

Explore your ancestral connection to colonialism, slavery, and genocide as part of a genealogy or family history project.

Actively learn unvarnished history. Allow what is to be. If you're uncomfortable, you're doing it right.

Engage with racial justice in your community. Donate, volunteer, teach, learn, show up.

SHADOW WORK & RACE JOURNAL PROMPTS

Think of a time you felt defensive or uncomfortable about race. What was the trigger? What were you avoiding?

Are there racist or racially insensitive things you used to believe but no longer ascribe to? What does it feel like to sit with that version of yourself?

What is a racial stereotype you hold? Be honest. It's ok. Everyone holds stereotypes about groups– it's a kind of mental shortcut. The important part is catching yourself and interrogating those stereotypes. Do that now.

#shadow work #witchy #carl jung #shadow self #collective unconscious #witchcraft #journal prompts #antiracism

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#shadow work #pema chodron

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It's been a hell of a month. The past two weeks have been especially challenging. The additional stress has caused a flare of chronic illness symptoms. I'm keeping it as mellow as possible.

Sometimes my self worth is eroded by these challenging times. When this happens, I tell myself, "I take care of these animals. I took in all these strays. One thing I do that's definitely, incontrovertibly good and worthy, is I give a good home to these animals. If I doubt myself in every way, if I fail in every respect, still here is a service I do every day."

And I give myself credit for that. I allow myself to know I am doing good, good enough, and allow the warmth of that. And the critical voice, the mean one I call Brenda, will say "you are irresponsible for having so many pets and your rug needs vacuumed and you could do better about the litter boxes."

And I say "Sit down, Brenda. I own this good thing. It is pure and it is mine."

And the pets love on me, and I know I am important and good.

Tomorrow, February 1, is Imbolc. This is the midway point between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox. We anticipate the return of the sun. The days grow longer. The seeds notice.

I will be cradling that one incontrovertibly good thing I am doing right, and hoping that bright little flame grows.

🔥🔥

#imbolc #shadow work #tarotreader #tarot #tarotbylibby #witchcraft #self compassion #inner critic #chrinic pain #journal #women writers #animal lover #rescue pets

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#clarissa pinkola estes #shadow work #witchy #tarotreader #wolves #women who run with the wolves

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#shadow work #friedrich nietzsche #philosophy #orange cat #witch cat

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for years I wondered what made her that way, loved her anyway, and now I understand. at least, I have a story I tell myself, something that makes it make sense.

I didn't know that understanding is not the same as forgiving maybe it could have been if the wrongs hadn't kept piling up if the sour sour sour chuff of her harvest were not quite so sour

in the shadow of the forest I unfolded, unfolded, and on and on, and there, finally, was the granite hunk of contempt that had been passed like an heirloom. mother-daughter-mother-daughter

mother mother daughter daughter. if there is contempt in the water, in the double helix in the carbohydrates and proteins and knitted into the blankets and spread on bread. then contempt is home.

#contemporary poetry #women poets #epigenetics #trauma recovery #shadow work

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Morticia vibes for this week’s shadow work class.

#morticia addams #witchy #tarotreader #shadow work

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#tarotreader #witchy #tarot #tarotbylibby #shadow work #learning tarot #witchcraft

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#tarotreader #shadow self #shadow work #journal #journal prompts #beginner witch #meditation

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Lots on my plate

#vintage plates #kitchendecor #self portrait

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#poets of tumblr #poetry #indie poets #tarotreader

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#tarotreader #shadow work

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IYKYK

Yes on Ohio Issue 1 & 2🌳 I went to vote with my mom and grandma. 3 generations voting for repro rights! I wanted to get a 3 generation voting pic, but my grandma was pretty busy telling my mom what to do and it seemed rude to interrupt.

Touched up my color and loving it. Enjoying memes about blue haired girls being psycho. 😎

✌️✌️✌️

#ohio #ohiovotes #ohioissue1 #yeson1 #yeson2 #star trek #worf #data star trek #star trek tng #blue hair #tarotreader #worf son of mogh #reproductive rights #legalize it #reproductive justice

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New Class announcement!

Memento Mori: Understanding the Death Card

If you aren’t ready to let the Halloween season go, you’re not alone. The veil remains thin. We are still in the Harvest season, when the old dies away and the new begins to incubate. This is the season to consider the Death card. Join me for a dive into the origins, symbols, and meanings of this powerful agent of change. We will consider misconceptions, meanings and interpretations. There will be some mysticism, some art history, some occult history, and a little dash of the macabre. I can’t wait to see you there!

Monday, November 27, 2023, 6PM EST

Cost: $20

(Note: If you have previously attended a death card class with me, there will be a decent amount of overlap, but some new material as well 💀 )

#tarotreader #shadow work #death card #tarot class #tarot #death positive #transformation #learn tarot #occult #memento mori #samhain #wheel of the year #alchemy #solve et coagula #witchcraft #learning tarot #danse macabre #macabre #grim reaper