Given the lack of tutorials on how to make herb bundles for smoke cleansing, offerings, and magic, I decided to experimentally make a few of my own.
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I must apologize that things have been so quiet around here lately, and even quieter over at The Balancing Path on Patheos Pagan. Part of that is due to the tasks involved in moving The Balancing Path to this site, but there are many reasons for lack of posts, including my health.
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On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 I was once again a guest of CTCW Otherworldly, this time talking about ghost cats and reincarnation! I started off retelling the tale of how I encountered an entire litter of ghost kittens when we rescued a tiny lost kitten that was threatened by a tomcat, and how one of those ghost cats later decided to reincarnate as a cat I adopted in the physical world. After that we ambled into talking about the nature of cat souls, my personal take on familiars as fellow witches, and some of my theories on the nature of reincarnation and spiritual evolution. At the end of the video, one of the viewers talked about some of her experiences communicating with the ghosts of animals, including a beloved little rat named Lola, who is a psychopomp that has guided many other animals to the other side.
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Anger is an incredibly powerful emotion, and at the same time an incredibly tricky emotion to wield in healthy ways. It is a volatile fuel that is usually unsustainable and will burn you if you try to hold it for too long, but when given healthy space, that same volatile fuel will naturally burn itself out and can facilitate the most amazing transformations.
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I was recently a guest on Mistery’s Mystical Cupboard discussing animism, what it is, reincarnation, nature vs nurture, cultural appropriation, and more.
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This is the story of what happened to me with an entire litter of ghost cats, their living sibling, closure after death, and the joys of reincarnation.
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I am not saying cats are perfect (although cats are perfect). However, they have ways of dealing with the things they encounter in life that are different from how most humans are inclined to handle things. We can learn a lot by observing how different dynamics, actions, and attitudes affect the outcomes of circumstances not so different from our own.
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Animism is a natural human impulse, as odd as that might seem in the context of greater Western culture. If you have ever cussed out an electronic device or a curb you tripped over, thanked your car for making it there in time, or mourned the loss of a beloved item, you engaged with those things in an animistic way. Animism means understanding that everything has a soul, from you and me to every animal, plant, object, and place. It is a cosmological perspective on the nature of reality that is compatible with most cultures, traditions, and paths, and an important feature of the philosophies and cosmologies of a great many religions, both historic and modern.
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I was the guest on CTCW Otherworldly on speaking ill of the dead. If you missed the live broadcast, you can watch it here.
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It is possible to use magic to nudge the odds when rolling dice, but they are useful for so much more than that! From spellcrafting to divination (called astragalomancy), dice are a fun and useful tool to keep in your witch’s kit. After all, unconventional magical tools are just as valid as typical or traditional ones.
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