Today I celebrate 2 years on HRT, and share one of my favorite parts of transition: fashion! Outfits from over the last week.

I’m in the process of cleaning out my grandparents’ house with the plan to buy it from my parents. I’m trying to figure out what to do about the energy of the house. My mom finds it draining. I just think it feels empty.

Today I invited a friend and my mom over to make wreaths and bring joy and laughter into the home.

If anyone has other suggestions on how to bring this home back to life, I’m open to ideas!

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Ever since I was a child I’ve had a crippling fear in my own mortality. I wake up with night terrors screaming and try to avoid all topics of time and space. I was raised atheist and no amount of spirituality exploration or therapy has led me away from my severe anxiety and feeling of impending doom. As I’ve gotten older I’ve started to explore spirituality more in the form of witchcraft. The panic attacks are a lot less frequent, but just as severe when they do happen. I’ve learned how to disassociate to make it through, but it’s an ever looming presence and the fixes feel so temporary.

I guess I’d love to hear all of your thoughts on afterlife to see if something resonates with me. I would love to be convinced that I’m wrong about returning to nothingness. I keep being told that I won’t have to worry when it happens. That either I won’t know or that I was nothing before so it’ll be fine. BUT it’s not. In the moment I spiral so bad my chest gets tight and I can’t breathe. I can only cry and wait for the it to pass. I don’t want to keep living in fear.

I have access to a wonderful old building and I've signed up 14 witchy vendors for what should be a ton of fun.

Hello my fellow witches! My daughter (6F) loves YouTube videos where people create wild things, do big things, or do fun trips. Such as CrunchLab, Hangtime, Dantic, unspeakable, Etc. we watch them together. None of them have females that are involved with the actual activity. They have their wives and children sitting prettily to the side, but not any in the chaos with them. This morning she noticed and commented that they are all boys.

I found an old thread on here that had female YouTubers, but most of them were content above her current level. Do you know of any female content creators that do things like a giant bubble bath with 500 bath bombs, build a roller coaster, compare water slides, make the biggest elephant toothpaste etc.

Thank you so much!

*edit to add: also open to queer and POC creators. Mostly not white middle aged men.

After oh so many trials and errors, I finally have my hat pattern down. I just finished the hat base and then made the tie, leaves and pumpkins last night. I wore it out and about today and I am so in love. I don’t think I have ever been this happy with anything I have ever made. I had to sport my witch ducky earrings that I found at Spirit and the shirt my mom got me from Torrid.

I bought this from a local artist over the weekend. It’s rainbow fluorite. I’ve been having a really rough time lately with a lot of different things on my mind, so I thought it might be good to have something to promote clarity. I also love the banding representing growth and transformation. Also as a personal thing for me, I absolutely adore that a few of the bands towards the centre resemble the trans flag 🏳️‍⚧️

The artist is called Hedgewise House (formerly The Emporium Next Doorium) and she is both incredibly talented and incredibly lovely.

Who’s ready? Are you dressing up? Are you feeling seen, excited, part of a community?
Discuss! Show me your outfits, my daughter and I have been waiting ages! Please don’t suck or be cringe!! Pleaaaaaase!!

hi all🩷 i am proud to be able to show off my first ever alter🥲 i’m so happy with how this came out and i can’t wait to see where this journey leads me!! i haven’t given any food offerings yet but plan to throw in some chocolate soon!!

I’ve always wanted to try meditation, and I always found it really really hard. Recently, I’ve come to realise that one reason for that could be because I have ADHD, and it makes it very difficult for me to concentrate.

My mental health has been very poor lately; if I’m being honest, the worst it’s been since I was a teenager, and I’m scared. I’m trying to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. I’d like to try meditation again.

One thing I’ve done is bought a palm stone. Aside from it being fluorite and hopefully encouraging clarity and intuition, I’ve found that having something to hold and squeeze in my hand can help me concentrate.

Would anyone who’s maybe been in a similar position be able to offer any suggestions?

New to Reddit and looking for my people! Hi! Im Chrissy, a 42 year old transwoman living in rural indiana so online community is becoming increasingly important to stay sane. I’m very interested in witchcraft and tarot and make art of all kinds.

Hi everyone,

I accepted an inherited energetic mantle from an elder out of respect. In my culture's tradition, this is a binding duty rather than a choice. Suppressing it creates intense internal pressure, and local beliefs state that refusing it forces the burden onto the next generation with greater intensity.

I know Western magic and occultism prioritize personal free will, so I want to hear your perspectives. I am not looking for basic cleansing spells or simple rituals.

I want to know if it is possible from an occult or traditional perspective to forge a formal spiritual agreement or pact to safely freeze or alter this duty without passing it down. I also want to know how other traditions manage an ancestral mantle when the practitioner refuses the role but the force still demands an outlet.

Looking forward to insights from experienced lineage workers and traditional practitioners. Thanks. 💜

I know it's something that's been discussed to death but I've never really seen a good alternative term be pitched. Spirit animal is obviously not okay to use as a non indigenous person but most of the other terms I've seen pitched are either also cultural terms from traditions I have no connection to (I'm not Scandinavian and fylgja has pretty distinct connotations so like it also feels inappropriate) or borderline dismissive stuff like fursona or *gag* patronus. I just don't really know what to call the kind of intense spiritual connection and resonance with a certain animal I have.

Courtesy of u/lanaflowerz

There are 476 million indigenous peoples around the world, constituting 6.2 percent of the global population and, according to different sources, representing more than 19% of the extreme poor (ILO, 2019) of the world.

Half of this population are women (approximately 240 million). Even though indigenous peoples represent 19 percent of the global poor population (ILO, 2019), it is important to highlight that indigenous peoples and indigenous women are not vulnerable populations per se. For thousands of years, indigenous women have played a fundamental role in preserving their livelihoods, languages, culture, cosmogony and territory. However, the systemic lack of recognition of their rights, in particular indigenous peoples’ right to self-identification and their collective rights, places them in situations of increased discrimination, vulnerability, poverty, conflict and food insecurity.

(https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/bf34694b-d8e1-469c-946d-739dd3269e28)

Indigenous women experience high rates of maternal mortality, obstetric violence and adolescent pregnancy, compounded by discrimination and limited access to essential services.

Less than a quarter of Indigenous women are in paid employment, compared to just over half of non-Indigenous women.

(https://www.un.org/en/observances/indigenous-women-day)

If you're interested in learning how the UN Human Rights Office defends and promotes Indigenous Peoples Rights, a free online training is available to you in English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

The e-learning tool is divided into two modules:

1. Understanding and applying the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

2. Promoting and defending the rights of indigenous peoples – find your way in cooperating with the United Nations human rights protection system

(https://www.ohchr.org/en/indigenous-peoples/e-learning-tool-rights-indigenous-peoples)

Link here: https://elearning.ohchr.org/login/index.php

(Disclaimer: I don't have any stake in the UN training tool; just found it while looking this up and thought it was pretty neat! Activists especially might appreciate it)

Want to consume Indigenous people media but not sure where to start? Cultural Survival Quarterly is a journal dedicated to Indigenous women. They also recommend several podcasts here (https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/7-things-do-international-indigenous-womens-day). And they host festivals ( https://www.bazaar.culturalsurvival.org/)

Personal recs : North of the North, Inuit comedy TV show with an Indigenous cast & Les Filles de Illighadad, tuareg band with a woman guitarist.

I’m going home for a few days next week, and was thinking while I’m there I might try to pick up a new tarot deck pouch and maybe just generally have a browse.

I’m struggling to find good witchy shops at home, though. There’s Solstice in Holywood which is an old favourite of my mum’s, but other than that I can’t find much.

There’s a place called Mystiques which looks kinda cool but use AI an insane amount; when I looked them up online, they did not take kindly to a review criticising them for it. Other than that, I can’t really see any at all.

Would anyone have any suggestions?

You can see all of my stickers, new & old here on my website <:)

I decided to keep the 10 for $10 sale going because why not! Stickers are meant to get out in the world!

Hope you're all doing well and staying cool - it's been HOT where I am lol

These will be joining my shop later this evening.

Malachite for transformation & protection, Labradorite for intuition & seeing beyond the surface. Both woven in antiqued copper wire.

My 2 partners and I have lived together for 7 years now and as relationships have changed, we’ve decided that it’s time to reconfigure who is in what bedroom. We’re all on board, but it’s a big transition and I feel like there should be some ritual to mark the occasion.

Anyone else done something similar? I’m feeling like at least an energy cleansing and setting intentions at least? Thoughts?

Thanks!