dragonlady7

i've read, i sort of nod along and then don't do anything they say, ah well, about the author, witchcraft, sort of

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If you legit wanna get into witchcraft I volunteer my knowledge/services, my mom taught me as a kid & then I got real into chaos magic & the theory behind magical systems so I went full dumbass academic about it.

I do, is the thing. I like, really do. I’ve bought and read several books, and noodled through a number of websites, and have been poking around this for literally years, but any kind of genuine starting place continually eludes me. It feels like I’m just… pretending, like I can’t actually get at any kind of genuine reflection or knowledge, it’s just pretending and I’m not really interested. But it has really, honestly, truly been years, maybe decades, of me being interested and bouncing off, and obviously it’s got to be some kind of legit interest if I keep coming back to it, so how do I approach it in a way that doesn’t just feel like I’m pretending?

Anyway I am always interested in other perspectives, I wish I could stop being so goddamned self-conscious about it and just do it, which is what everyone keeps telling me but like, I can’t just do anything, I have ADHD and there are usually six to ten invisible steps that come first that normal people don’t even fucking notice and so can’t advise me on how to surmount, and this is a pretty clear case of that.

Farmkid is super-interested in “casting spells” and I thought it would be fun to come up with some super-basic stuff that’d be harmless but sort of fun/useful to do with her– basic like, blessings or cleansings or protections or even just plain meditations, using the herbs from the garden she’s so good at identifying, and just like, pairing them with some real basic ‘ritual’ stuff and a firmly-worded intention or two, wouldn’t that be fun? I know for her a lot of it is just childish games mixed with My Little Pony magic, but how neat would it be, since her family can’t squeeze in much time for church, if she could get a basic lil animistic/nature-focused spiritualism in with the playtime, but I just don’t know enough and am too self-conscious to try. Sister is sort of vaguely atheist/spiritual and loves the idea of having deliberate semi-ritual interactions with places/thoughts around the farm, there’s even a spot she and I have both separately noted would be a perfect spot for a little shrine or contemplation spot– it’s a hollow in a hillside along a trail, and the former owners left old pallets and tires piled there, but if it were cleared and maybe an altar or a sculpture or a place to sit and contemplate were put there, it’d be just perfect as a site to contemplate things– but, again, self-conscious and don’t know where to start.