Curating, unfriending, blocking, and banning in online spaces creates peace and has magical application for both social justice and personal wellbeing.
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Shadow work is profoundly important. If you do not understand what lives in your shadow, you are never going to fully understand yourself, or why you do and believe all the things you do.
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It is common to see acceptance and tolerance treated as synonyms, but this creates a false equivalency that distorts the core meanings of both words.
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If you find yourself thrown off your foundation and hanging by your foot, instead of immediately struggling to get down, relax and take the time to see what that new point of view can reveal to you. It might just help you figure out how to land on a path that will lead to a future you truly want.
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“Closed” traditions, cultural appropriation, race, ethnicity, who does or does not have the right to engage in certain traditions or practices, and how those issues all play into each other, is an incredibly complex topic. Long as this article is, I feel it only barely begins to scratch the surface, but that surface needs to be scratched.
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When hurtful and exclusionary words come from authorities in pagan, pword, and magical circles, that diminishes our communities and supports an unwelcoming atmosphere for marginalized people. It can be hard to know how to avoid such harm, so here are some tips on why, when, and how to use gender neutral language.
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An older looking woman looked up from stirring the cauldron to give me a warm and welcoming smile, while she cheerfully informed me that it was about time I came by for a visit. There wasn’t any real rush, and she understood why it had taken so long for me to come visit, but she had something she needed to give me.
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I have frequently seen people state that they hate meditation and it doesn’t work for them, and then proudly declare that they are proficient in some sort of shielding, grounding, centering practice. Different meditation techniques are designed for different goals, and work differently for different kinds of people. What works for someone else may not work for you, and what works for you may not work for them.
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COVID-19 has dealt the entire world an unbalancing upset. Even in cases where this pandemic doesn’t strike to the very hearts of our daily lives, we are still seeing dramatic effects on our lives and the lives of those we care about. Here are some suggestions to help you find your balance.
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Ostara through Beltane in pagan circles tends to include a deluge of fertility themes. This time of year also usually includes a dominating emphasis on male-female sexual pairing, especially cis binary sexual pairing, yet they are far from the only kind of pairing or fertility that exists.
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