SELF VALIDATION

lil song thing

I love all handmade stuff, but before I started knitting, I always wondered why folks poured so much time and energy into making stuff that looks exacly like what youd buy at a store.

It very quickly hit me: store- bought stuff SUCKS. Handmade stuff RULES.

The kinds of stitches used, the thickness/ quality of yarn, even the dimensions of the item itself are just so shitty and cheap on mass- produced clothing. Once you know what youre looking at, you can see that its made to be worn and disposed of within a year. But that handmade brown sweater? That sucker weighs 3x what a store bought sweater weighs. Its softer, it has better stretch and even with messier seams, its STRONGER. It can survive a trathalon, a hop over a barbed- wire fence, and a minor nuclear explosion.

So hats off to all of the more stubtle fiberworks artists out there, your bulletproof crafts are magnificent.

You’re right, it’s not all men, Ravi fucking Singh would NEVER

Deity Work

DISCLAIMER

If you are prone to hallucinations, psychosis, or anything similar please make sure you are stable before trying to do deity work, or maybe reconsider doing it at all.

Deities will not and should not ask you to do harm. They will not ask you to hurt yourself, they will not ask you to hurt others. If you are experiencing this type of interaction with a deity please consult a medical or psychological professional as it may be an underlying illness.

If this has been ruled out then please cut contact with whatever is telling you to do negative things as it may not be a deity, and if it is, it is not one worth working with.

Onto the post

(photo credit: Andrew Seaman)

Deity work, as well as most spiritual and witchy things, is a very personal and individual practice. So anything I talk about here are suggestions and common ways I have seen deity work be done, as well as my own experiences sprinkled in.

There is no one way to work with deities, but hopefully this post will help you find a starting place so that you can move forward on your own and learn, experience, and grow with deity work as an individual.

What is Deity Work?

Essentially deity work is exactly what it sounds like, you are working with deities. It is the act of initiating and then cultivating a relationship with a deity.

Why say "Deity" and Not “God” or “Goddess”?

This is for a few reasons, at least in my mind; One, not every deity is a male or female therefore the gendered terms of God and Goddess don’t apply to them. Two, because some deities don’t fit into the transcendent idea of gods and goddesses. In many cultures the deities are more like spirits or elements, so calling them by god or goddess.

How Do You Do It?

That’s a loaded question, actually! There are so many ways you can practice working with a deity. First let’s talk about the difference between deity worship and deity work.

Deity Worship

You worship the deity, give them offerings, praise them, pray to them, but you don’t really expect responses or feedback from them. This is a great option for those who are hesitant to work directly with a deity.

Deity Work

Working with a deity is different because of the dynamic between you and your chosen deity. There is a lot more getting to know each other and relationship building involved in this. This involves speaking with the deity, which can mean speaking through ways of divination, like tarot, pendulums, runes, etc., or you can try and speak with them through meditation.

Working with Deities

First let me say that you do not need to choose one or even a few deities to work with. You can be like my sibling (and many other witches) and work with deities in a casual way.

This means that you do not work with specific deities, you work with whatever deity you need help or support from with whatever magic you’re doing.

You can also follow a specific deity (or a few specific deities) and still causally interact with other deities. Very rarely will you find a deity that bans you from speaking with other spirits and gods and such. If you do find that your deity doesn’t want you speaking to any others, ask them why. Maybe you’re not ready to speak to this other deity you had in mind, or maybe you need to set some boundaries with the deity you’re speaking to.

Regardless, always, always do research on a deity before working with them. This whole blog is about researching witchcraft and magic and asking you to do so as well. Research is key in any path in life that you decide to take. So please make sure you look into a deity before working with them.

How to tell if a Deity is Reaching Out

Honestly, if you ask yourself this, you’ll find the answer pretty quickly. Do you feel like a deity is reaching out to you? If so, then maybe they are! Of course, some of us have anxiety or imposter syndrome and think that there is no way a deity could be reaching out to us; I say this from experience.

Often the deities won’t show themselves to you right away, not many are that blunt (some are though!) but they will still try to show themself to you through other means.

If you think a deity is reaching out to you, or if you’re not sure, here are a few ways you can try to discern if it’s a deity or not.

Synchronicity, are there a lot of instances where you are faced with the same symbol or sign? Does it happen to the point of it being far too uncanny to be a coincidence?

Dreams, are you often having dreams about the same signs, animals, or objects?

Divination, are you pulling the same cards or tossing the same runes all the time?

If you said yes to any of these, check to see if it correlates to a deity.

It may also be a sign or omen from another source, if that’s the case then don’t be disheartened, it’s still something you need to know, so pay attention!

The best way that I have personally found to see if I am being contacted is to ask a form of divination in which I am the strongest at. In my case I am really connected to my tarot cards, so I will ask them. There are deity identification and communication spreads that you can find online, but be sure a deity is what you’re talking to before doing these so that things don’t get muddled.

If you want to be really sure you can try asking them to send you a specific sign. I usually ask for something uncommon but not difficult.

Example: you could ask to be sent a yellow heart three times or maybe a picture of a purple snake randomly.

How to Reach Out to a Deity

It’s ok if a deity isn’t reaching out to you and sending you signs, this could be because you hadn’t opened yourself up to the opportunity yet.

If you would like to work with a certain deity it is okay to reach out to them first. Do research on them, ask other people who work with that deity about them, see what they like, and maybe start with worship.

If you feel like you have started feeling a stronger connection, see if they are willing to work with you. You can do this by asking forms of divination like tarot cards, runes, or focused meditation; or you could ask for a specific sign as mentioned earlier.

Example: If you’re willing to work with me, please send me a (insert chosen sign here).

Contracts

You don’t need to make a contract with a deity if you don’t want to. Honestly, I don’t know of many witches that actually make a formal contract with any deity or spirit or anything of the like.

With that being said, if you would like to make a contract of some sort with the deity you interact with then please feel free to do so.

Regardless of if you do a contract or not, I suggest you let the prospective deity know of your boundaries and ask them about theirs. This goes with any relationship, really.

Altars

You don’t have to have an altar for any specific deity, or even have one at all. If you have the space, however, and you feel moved to create one then go ahead! Decorate this space with things that you have found that the deity likes, maybe they like fire so you put matches and candles on it. Perhaps they like water so you put a shell or stone you found in a river on the altar, and so on.

If you’re curious as to what I put on my altars, here are a few ideas:

Cup, bowl, or other container for liquid offerings

Candle

Incense holder

Herbs and rocks associated with the deity

Artwork you’ve created for the deity

Offerings

There are many types of offerings that you could do

Herbs, rocks, and other things from nature (make sure it’s ok to take these items if you’re gathering them from nature!)

Beverages, especially alcoholic beverages for some deities (Lugh seems to like Cider in my experience and The Morrigan like red wine)

Food

Artwork, even better if you made it yourself!

Sing or play a song that reminds you of them

Devotional act, what you do here really depends on what deity you’re devoting the act to.

Honestly if you can, ask the deity what they would like to be offered. The two I follow don’t really like receiving a lot of physical gifts, they prefer to see me get stuff done and better myself.

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This is a pretty basic deity work post, so if you have anything to add please do so. If you have any questions please feel free to ask me!

i hate male entitlement, i hate male violence, i hate male aggression, i hate male weaponised incompetence, i hate male binary thinking, i hate male militarised thinking, i hate male arrogance, i hate male possessiveness, i hate male behaviour, i hate males but above all i hate the fact that i have to interact with males regularly, even when i make every attempt not to.

REPROGRAM or TRAIN YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS FOR THE VOID !

Hey everyone! I hope u all are doing well <3 This is going to be a simple , short and yet very effective method on how u can reprogram your subconscious to enter the void state

Ok...so I know this is going to sound a little weird but throughout the day say what you're doing as u do it

For example : You pick up your water bottle SAY "I picked up my water bottle " ( you can say it in your head too but if you're alone do it out loud )

This way when u will do it as you try to enter , your mind will be like " Oh yeahh they've doing this all day , it's fr " and you'll enter the void instantly since your mind is already used to it

Good Luck Loviees ! ♡

ok wait wait wait wait wait

we all hate on master fu for choosing literal children, right

but what if they HAVE to be children.

think about it. Ladybug's power is creation. She basically runs off love. She's crazy, and unorganized, and the fact that she feels so much for everything is what makes her the perfect creation holder. She falls in love way too easily. She makes crazy plans. Her and her friends think they can save the world with a hijacked commercial, and they DO it. Because they believe they can. You can't tell me an adult would be able to pull off any of the crazy plans the Miracugang pulls off. (Honestly Miraculous Ladybug reawakened my inner child cuz I used to be just like Marinette and she's literally the reason I picked up sewing again but that's another rant for another time)

And then there's Adrien. His power is destruction. Freedom. (Go read drowning (in plain sight) by buggachat there's a whole character study on Plagg in there and it's beautiful.) Anyways. Imagine if Fu had waited another year or two, not to mention until Adrien was an adult with a 'fully functioning brain'. You can't tell me Adrien could've held out that long. He wouldn't have been chosen for the Chat miraculous, because he wouldn't have been trying to run away. He would have either been broken, or his father would have used his amok to force him into complete obedience by then. But in Origins, it's close enough to his mother's death that he still remembers her. He's still feeling. He's still rebelling. And then Plagg gives him the strength to keep doing that, and the outlet (as Chat Noir) to express himself so he doesn't lose himself.

And then there's the Lucky Charms. The plans that they come up with are frankly frickin bonkers. I mean, Rena's first mission (if I remember correctly) involved Chat Noir jumping off a roof on a unicycle. I honestly think Ladybug's lessened amount of life experience helps in those situations, because I'm only a couple years older than her and I would have never thought up any of those ideas. My brain is too fixed by the system at this point to think that much out of the box, although I'm working on fixing that. I can't imagine my mom, for example, coming up with any of that stuff, let alone finding a random pair of earrings and putting them on in the first place. Literally no one else would do that except for a super trusting teenager who's also into fashion. Not to mention the fact that they

TL;DR: The emotional capacity and limited life experience of the superheroes in ML are the only reason they even consented to being superheroes in the first place, and although I don't like it, Fu was working god mode when he picked them. Basically, you have to have the vision to see the possibilities without putting limits on yourself (because the holder sets the limits) and it's far easier for teenagers/younger people to imagine stuff like that. Also they're such dorks.

wow that's a long tldr sorry about that

I think the historical treatment of left handed people is objectively the funniest form of bigotry mankind has ever displayed

Im so fucking tired of women being made fun of or hated in social media. Like, a woman could post a simple video just exaggerating a little something (example: a video of a woman in a bar or wtv saying “no one talks about how annoying is to get an ugly glass instead of a fancy one w ur drink”) and EVERY SINGLE comment is like “this is such a non issue” “and the world kept spinning” “this pmo” “stfu”… like, SHE KNOWS. She obviously knows it’s not a big issue, but its just a simple post oh my god 😒. God forbid a woman make a silly post about something she dislikes or wtv.

(Btw that example I gave is a real video I found on instagram)

Nazis will never be welcome in paganism. They have no space in our communities, we will have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to nazis. You have no right to the cultures, gods and religions you hijack to spread your disgusting ideologies. You will find no refuge or comraderie amongst pagans.

Reblog to let nazis know they’re not welcome here.