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And it’s the Solstice already. I’ll have to trek to the booze shop or supermarket to get something to offer to the Asynjur tonight. Mead’d be favourite of course but for some reason…. I just don’t feel like that this year. Maybe something creamy? Something sweet?

And I feel stupid… I was all… creamy is more a winter thing, and then I went… WELL DUH!!!

Don’t mind me, I’ll be in my corner. XD

Anyways… Bailey’s Irish Creme is always yumm!!

Reblog if no matter if you have 50,000 or 50 followers, you appreciate every single one. Reblog if you appreciate the messages you get, whether it’s 100 or 1. Reblog if a little smile comes across your face everytime you see a new follower or message. Reblog if even though most of us aren’t tumblr famous, we appreciate the little things.

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I don’t think you all realize how much I love you

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Depression messes you up. On a cellular level.

rosalindrobertson:

You have heard me go on at length about how you need to baby your whole body during depression…

It turns out there is a reason why it’s more than just Feeling Sad. A landmark study from the University of Michigan has shown that the body clock of a depressed person is, well, completely ratfucked. And this might explain why you want to eat icing out of a can, why getting out of bed is such an exhausting prospect, why you’re up with the hamsters all night…

…and why it’s just more than Choosing To Be Happy.

Depression fucks with you on an absolutely cellular level.

Just look at this diagram.

So, forgive me, Happy Folks, but teasing that bit of yarn apart is going to take some time and some serious recovery tactics.

Stay strong, my fellow fruitbats.

I think I might have made a mistake. (Personal post for once!)

dianesdreams:

Well, I say a mistake, but I don’t know that this was really my fault, except that I should have voiced my concerns earlier.  I’ve always been a solitary Pagan, at least up until the last year.  I got involved with a group that felt really good to me last spring, but it has morphed and changed to lose some of the personalities who were initially involved, and to include some new people who were given pretty high positions without any explicit approval by the group members.  The group’s style has changed very drastically, and it is alienating me from my own practice in a lot of ways.  I feel like there are some unhealthy folks in my circle, and it is getting harder to overlook the differences in our beliefs (they believe in hard polytheism, required regular rituals, active use of spells/magick, etc. and other things that just don’t jive with me), as well as the differences in our personalities.  I feel like I need to run away, but I feel responsible to the group and to the people in it who I do care about.  I sort of feel like the lone sane voice, and i’m really not sure what to do.  *sigh*

If it’s no longer working for you, you owe it not only to yourself, but the group to step back. If there are others that feel the same way - maybe it’s possible you can start your own group, but it’s not healthy for any of you to have to deal with that sort of energy that is potentially working at cross-purposes. In most cases If you are feeling it, then odds are others are feeling it too. So maybe have sit down and see if there is any way to work it out, but if not it may be time to move on. 

It’s definitely hard though, especially when you have a lot invested in it. But you deserve to have a practice (and a group) that meshes with you, if you are having to compromise too much of what you believe in, that’s not good. 

cannibalcoalition:

sephiraallen:

spiritscraft:

cannibalcoalition:

spiritscraft:

cannibalcoalition:

Okay, so here is Loro’s contribution on the discussion of Ogham:

“Lee’s CR friend here - I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using more modern sources for your spirituality, but I /do/ think there’s a problem with not sourcing materials that you share with others. The problem I have with this graphic is that it presents this information as historical data, rather than a work of theophany. It’s just as dishonest as not crediting the artist on a viral image.

I fall in the camp of disagreeing with the way Robert Graves used the Ogham for astrology, not outright rejecting the idea. It seems like he picked and chose which Ogham he was going to use to work with the Greek astrological system, instead of building on the Ogham itself. It seems to me that it would be better to divide the sky into twenty 18° sections — and then leaving the feda in the correct order, and not dropping inconvenient ones from the list.”
-Loro

I don’t see the word historical anywhere on the graph nor a synonym for historical.

Awaiting Loro’s rebuttal.

So far the only thing that has made sense is that Robert Grave’s deserves to be cited on this graph as a source.

Well… not only that though. I think the point that they are trying to make, is that it needs to be sourced in a way that mentions that what is represented in the graph is a combination of a variety of things, and not something that is “this is the way ‘Ancient Celts’ practiced…”

New stuff can be fine, but it’s good for people to know how such things have come about. If nothing else than to have a better understanding of what it is we are practicing. :)

I feel it should be mentioned at this juncture that there was no source whatsoever on the image, and it did not claim that it was an ancient practice. Although, I am of the opinion that people will see “Ogham” and think “Ancient.”

Exactly!!

spiritscraft:

cannibalcoalition:

spiritscraft:

cannibalcoalition:

Okay, so here is Loro’s contribution on the discussion of Ogham:

“Lee’s CR friend here - I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using more modern sources for your spirituality, but I /do/ think there’s a problem with not sourcing materials that you share with others. The problem I have with this graphic is that it presents this information as historical data, rather than a work of theophany. It’s just as dishonest as not crediting the artist on a viral image.

I fall in the camp of disagreeing with the way Robert Graves used the Ogham for astrology, not outright rejecting the idea. It seems like he picked and chose which Ogham he was going to use to work with the Greek astrological system, instead of building on the Ogham itself. It seems to me that it would be better to divide the sky into twenty 18° sections — and then leaving the feda in the correct order, and not dropping inconvenient ones from the list.”
-Loro

I don’t see the word historical anywhere on the graph nor a synonym for historical.

Awaiting Loro’s rebuttal.

So far the only thing that has made sense is that Robert Grave’s deserves to be cited on this graph as a source.

Well… not only that though. I think the point that they are trying to make, is that it needs to be sourced in a way that mentions that what is represented in the graph is a combination of a variety of things, and not something that is “this is the way ‘Ancient Celts’ practiced…”

New stuff can be fine, but it’s good for people to know how such things have come about. If nothing else than to have a better understanding of what it is we are practicing. :)

STEPHEN KING'€™S 20 QUOTES ON WRITING

1. “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

2. “Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”

3. “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

4. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

5. “In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring,’ the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

6. “Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.”

7. “So okay – there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You’ve blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. ”

8. “When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “One word at a time,” and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That’s all. One stone at a time. But I’ve read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”

9. “Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”

10. “You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”

11. “if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”

12. “Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.”

13. “Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”

14. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”

15.  “I’m a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don’t read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”

16. “if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”

17. “kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings”

18. “I have spent a good many years since–too many, I think–being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”

19. “I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they “don’t have time to read.” This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn’t have time to buy any rope or pitons.”

20. “The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

There are those who wonder if the whole of history is now
valuable only as a politically correct lesson in the stupidity and
cruelty of monarchs, aristocrats, industrialists and generals.
Stern, loveless voices tell us that history as we know it is an
irrelevance, with its obsession with dead white men, or with
Judaeo-Christianity, or classical antiquity, or the West, or
enlightenment, or wars, dynasties and treaties…
History, then, as one long, grovelling apology or act of selfabasement and self-laceration. A history in which historians have
to stand on one side of an argument or another, for, in between,
they are nothing but dry-as-dust statisticians. Or we see
historians as creepy hindsight critics who can, in the safety of
their studies, point out to Alexander the Great and Napoleon
where they went wrong and how they would have done it better.
There’s no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in
a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that
history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing,
fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life…
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another
realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.
History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to
be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we
dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not
abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.
Stephen Fry, 2006 (via thepiedsniper)

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nagayeva:

Do we really have to take this?

A friend of mine was moving from her apartment. She asked me to look after some of her things. I agreed and not too long after she asked if her daughter Frances can come pick it up. I agreed and she came over with her boyfriend, who was also the father of her baby. I helped them carry the stuff down to the car, and during the whole visit exchanged possibly 10 words. 

Next day I received these texts. I had to created a fiancee I didn’t really have in order for him to stop.

I never told my friend what her daughter’s boyfriend did. Now they are expecting a second child, so as you all see, there was no break up. 

So Do we women really have to take this kind of attitude?

Do we have to invent things and people in order to be left alone.

I don’t want to have my titties banged.

I am not an easy lay.

I don’t deserve this.

Why do I go from being called “cute” “smart” and “pretty” in the beginning of the conversation, to “fatty” “bitch” and “ugly” in the end?

Reblog if you are against sexual harassment. want to. 

for the guys who don’t understand why I don’t just tell a guy no. Its because there is no “no”. 

This is so disturbing to read - it’s so disgusting that a woman’s “no” is not respected as a simple no. It goes to show how little equality there really is. It also reminds me of Matthew 5:37 and James 5:12 where it is said “let your yes be yes and your no be no” meaning that we speak truthfully and that we [anyone, not just women here] needn’t add embellishment to why we have said yes or no. 

I crossed out the “if you’re against sexual harassment” not because I’m not against it but because I am against instructions like that meant to make you feel bad if you don’t reblog. 

The fuck. Sometimes I don’t get what goes through people’s heads. 

I’d have told my friend about it though (so she could have told her daughter) - because just because the couple was getting ready to have another baby is NOT a good reason for them to stay together. 

We lament that people treat us like this, but by staying silent, we allow it to continue. No matter how many notes this gets - there’s still possibly a woman datting/married to this guy, and they now have kids that will likely grow up to be the same (or by proxy be taught that it’s ok to be treated like that). All because no one told this woman that her boyfriend is an utter piece of shit, that she should have run far away from. 

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