I do not feel much like celebrating Samhain this year, but there is a great deal to observe, and there are still Samhain Blessings to give.
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How the events of our lives shape reality is a complicated mess of interrelations, cause & effect, random chance, personal choices, & metaphysical impetus.
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These are my personal reasons for not formally venerating my ancestors, and some things I have done instead to root my practice and connect with death.
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This sigil is designed to help manage migraines by supporting care efforts, providing relief from symptoms, and reducing the frequency of future migraines.
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On a handful of occasions I have found myself in a situation when I needed to work with the dead. This ghost story is a recounting of one such occasion.
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Claiming unconditional ownership of your own body has profound positive implications for mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and magical wellbeing.
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May we be blessed with mass voting and the preservation of democracy in the USA, so that we may have the opportunity to build a new foundation for equality with an awareness of the fragility and mutability of both our democracy and our society.
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Banishing is used across all forms of magic. Banishing means to make something go away, to put it in the past, and remove it from the present and likely future. It is a loss that is welcome or needed. Most changes, especially deliberate changes, involve some kind of loss or banishment. This can be big things and it can be little things.
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From craft names to deadnames, nicknames to married names, usernames to aliases, there are innumerable reasons that most people have multiple names they currently use or have previously used to identify themselves. Despite what bureaucratic systems would have us believe, names, even magical names, are mutable and can change over time as our circumstances change and we, ourselves, change. Most of those names have deeper meaning than the specific letters spelled out on our birth certificates or driver’s licenses.
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The equinoxes are a balance of day and night and a duality of spring and fall, as every equinox is both an Ostara and a Mabon, one waxing and one waning.
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