witchery

of missed days and coffee

oh dear, what a pity that today was a complete write-off, it being Lughnasadh. I sadly spent the entire day in bed, except for a very brief window early in the morning, due to pain and illness. hardly celebratory, but I don’t doubt that the Gods I worship would understand — time is a slippery thing anyway, is it not? I had nothing concretely planned, for this very reason. I will honour the occasion this evening with a small candle ritual, I think. I won’t promise I’ll do any more than that, as judging by how bad the pain levels are this morning, it seems 50/50 as to whether I’ll get around to it at all, but such is life with chronic illness. it’s vile, and I hate it, but I cannot change it.

not unless some severe government reforms take place, mind you, and I shan’t hold my breath waiting for those, or I daresay I’d be in even more pain than I already am. (“one solution, revolution…” is looking more and more likely as time goes by…)

may those in the northern hemisphere have a most blessed Imbolc, and my fellow southern hemisphereans, I hope you had a blessed Lughnasadh. (*^_^*)

it is because I missed the day that I have very little to note down of any real interest — I washed my hair last night, at 2pm or thereabouts, does that count? heartbreakingly, that’s almost as fascinating as I ever get, lately…

toil and trouble, all right.

I’m going there, because I’m pissed off.

my religion is not your something!core aesthetic fake-ass BS.

burning a candle and buying a crystal does not make you a witch. dressing in black does not make you a witch.
people put years and years of study, comparison, and UPG into their practice. you do not get to waltz in and whine about gatekeeping just because you want to wear a black shawl.

this isn’t gatekeeping. you can dress “like a witch” (…I’m currently in an oversize Sailor Moon tee and embroidered lounge pants…how do witches dress again?), you can go gothy and fun with your aesthetic. that’s fine; a look is a look. you can certainly learn about crystals and candle magic, and even perform it every now and then.

but do not call yourself a witch if you’re just doing it for clout or the look of it. you don’t get to do that anymore than I’m allowed to call myself a Muslima if I decide to wear a hijab.
absolutely do. not. co-opt. witchy. spaces. if you are not a witch, or a sincere seeker.
this is people’s religion, spirituality, sincerely held belief. not a tiktok trend.
(also, there are witches out there who don’t own a single crystal and have never done a candle spell in their lives. I know, gasp. it’s like this…isn’t a trend to follow, or something?!)

a male witch isn’t a “warlock”, a warlock is an oathbreaker. a male witch is, gasp, a witch.

Harry Potter has n o t h i n g to do with real witchcraft. I do not care what you think your Hogwarts house is if we are supposedly discussing the craft. N O T H I N G.
(also, stop supporting openly bigoted TERFs already. it’s so passe.)

why don’t you trendoids go co-opt Christianity or something, make nuntok the next Thing. just gtfo of spaces for actual devotees of a spirituality that regularly gets shit and has false information about it passed around in the mainstream to this day.
(you do not know shit about real witchcraft just because you watched an episode of Riverdale. end of.)

you’re all surface no feeling.
with all my heart, please fuck off.

we set the stars to dancing in the night sky

I’m going to post this entry and then I’m not going to look at a single other line of code until at least 11am tomorrow morning — I’ve been HTMLing away all day! 😀 I’ve been working on my Secret Santa’s gift, and on these two! I’m especially happy about those two, because I adopted them from someone I was sure didn’t like me (or found me petty at the very least), and I was sure they’d tell me what I could do with myself. But I was worried about nothing! There’s no bad blood between us, they’re a lovely person from what I’ve seen, and I’m actually kind of embarrassed as how anxious I was sending off the initial emails, now ^^;; Haha, paranoid Rin is eternally paranoid, but all’s well that end’s well! I’ll take very good care of the listings for as long as I have them ♥

A load of witchy goodness, mostly journal-related, came in the mail today~ Including candles! Gasp. There’s a first for me. I’ve never been much into candle magick (despite being a witch since I was 17…), maybe a stray spell here or there, but the candle has never been one of my preferred magickal tools. I have forty coloured candles in my goodies chest, now, mostly for Colourwork reasons (I’ll elaborate more on that either later, or on a purposefully witchy blog I’ll set up at some point). We’ll see how it all goes, but I’m hopeful it’ll be fulfilling.

It’s been a difficult day painwise (physio visit was NOT an immediate help with that, let me tell you, but I suppose stuff has to get more painful before it can get better), and it was disgustingly hot without warning (thanks for nothing, BOM!), but I’m happy all the same. It’s been a productive day and I hope the rest of the evening will be relaxing. Back to it after eleven tomorrow, like I said! But until then, I think I’ll just laze about in front of the telly and crochet. ♥