What Native people say about the use of sage: you can use sage, but you cannot smudge as nothing you are doing (waving sage around) is actually smudging. Smudging is a ceremony and you are, we promise, not smudging. Please buy sage from either us, or someone who sources the sage from us. White sage may not be considered endangered by the US government but corperate sourcing is making it difficult for us to source sage for our own religious purposes. Let alone to sell it.
What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.
Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.
1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.
2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.
3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.
I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk ™
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Talk to trees or animals/Connect with nature and/or animals as if they were your friends🌿🐾
Use leaves to make "potions" and magical concoctions🍵
Make wishes with candles and/or above mentioned potions🕯
Pretend that your food or drink was a magic potion of power or whatever you had wished for, lol 🥘🧃
Pretend to be a witch, goddess, powerful being, forest/water nymph, mermaid, or some celestial/"mythical" being🧚♀️🧜🏻♀️🧞♂️🧝🏽♂️
Try to see if you could control the weather with your emotions ⛈
Try to move things with your mind or read other peoples 🧠
Talk to the sun, moons, stars, etc. ⭐🌙☀️
Write spells, chants, or incantations in your notebook or on paper (or napkins, lol) 📜
Notice things you have spent time thinking about seem to happen the way you thought it would or wished it would (maybe sometimes how you wished it wouldnt have turn out *unconsciously manifesting the negative*) 💭
Experience dream deja vu and/or dream messages 🛌
Believed in ghosts and spirits or had some sort of supernatural experience(s) 👻
Collected Rocks, seashells, twigs, etc🐚
Looked for or was more frequently drawn to supernatural/mystical/mythical based books 🔮
Had memories that you couldnt explain or were too young to have and/or had *visions that were true or came true 👁
There are plenty more examples, these are just a few that I could think of on the spot 🤓, please reblog or comment with your own 😬🦋🧿🔮🌙🍃
“You still crave lemonade, but the taste doesn’t satisfy you as much as it used to. You still crave summer, but sometimes you mean summer, five years ago.”
— Alida Nugent
from here
to the moon
and back
Consider:
You're journey begins and ends here
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place."
-Emily Dickinson
Don’t even get me started on Hallowe’en
Always in witchcraft there is going to be a spell or ritual that asks you to set your intentions in order to reach the goal desired. We always hear “set your intentions”, but we never get to hear how to set your intentions. Here, I’m going to give you a step by step guide on how to set your intentions for rituals, spells and anything else that requires your focus.
1. Write down your primary ideas for what you want your intention to be about
Example: I want to be rich, I want to be able to buy things without worry of money, I want to have more tangible assets
2. Analyze your ideas for common themes. What is the main goal you are trying to reach?
Example: Money, Abundance, Wealth
3. Use the themes found to identify your intention. Always be as precise as possible.
Example: I will have an abundance of money, I will have excess cash to live comfortably
4. Write your intention on a specific piece of paper with as few words as possible, but be very specific.
These simple steps will allow you to understand how to set your intentions in an exact manner which will strengthen any spell or ritual you plan on doing. I hope this helped. Thank you for reading!
Happy October Meow! 🍁🎃🍂
honestly the human brain is so small that you *will* forget how much beauty there is out there to experience unless you leave your house every three days. ik its fucked up but i promise its true