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mercurialwoods.bsky.social
Faoladh
@mercurialwoods.bsky.social
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caretaker, shapeshifter, eternal hope punk. autistic, animist, anarchist. maker of many things.

here for the witches, queers, and assorted revolutionaries. don't worry about how it's pronounced, i can't hear you anyway.
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#witchmadness Day 12: Favorite book for new witches?

Gotta be New World Witchery by Cory Thomas Hutcheson. Truly a TROVE of information that provides excellently researched, foundational knowledge resource that gives North American witches space to grow and build a modern practice.
Cover of book "New World Witchery: A TROVE of North American Folk Magic" by Cory Thomas Hutcheson @newworldwitchery.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Found this #bumblebee in the house while I was doing some spring cleaning. Tried placing her on the daffodils, but she wasn't a fan, the hyacinth on the other hand...
March 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Celebrating the arrival of post-6pm sunsets in the #PNW with dance, the Moon, and a hummingbird. #witchsky #witchmadness
New growth of an apple tree sticks up against a blue sky with wispy clouds. An Anna's hummingbird perches on the very top of one branch. A half moon hovers above.
March 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Man, some of my neighbors are loud. #corvidsky #crow
March 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Good morning, #witchsky! #witchmadness Day 3: sharing a simple daily ritual.

I have a backyard flock, so an early task of the day is to let them out of the coop. I've ritualized this task by taking it as an opportunity to greet each day, offer gratitude, and ground myself in the land.
Sunrise over a tall bush. Light blue-gray sky with salmon pink clouds.
March 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Day 2 -Share a simple herbal spell or charm.

Calm the Fuck Down herbal spell:

Put chamomile in mug, add boiling water. While steeping/cooling, breath the steam and tell chamomile about the problem. When cool, drink. Take in the rebalance, calm, and collectedness of chamomile. #witchmadness
A black kettle, a pint mason jar 3/4 full of dried chamomile flowers, the metal lid of the jar is upturned with more chamomile in it. A metal tea straining straw with a green silicone tip. A mug with a lion, sunflowers, and oranges on the outside and an orange interior glaze. Everything sits on a heavily scratched butcher block counter.
March 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Day 2 #witchmadness - Your first magical tool and how you used it!

This seems to be the most common topic I'm seeing posted today, and happily will share mine! The Morgan-Greer Tarot (Check the Alt text for full story) #witchsky #tarotsky
Morgan Greer Tarot in a tin displayed. Top of tin is purple and shows Queen of Wands card, next to the tin cover is the bottom of the tin (green with white text) holding cards sort of fanned out to display the back (blue with white stars of various shapes) as well as the front of the 10 of Cups (two hands clasped together around a goblet, from which a rainbow is rising. Nine more goblets float in the sky a above a pastoral landscape). In 2009 I picked up my first copy of this tarot. At the time, it became an important tool in what I would later understand was Ancestral communication. A few years of life happened and that deck disappeared from my life. In 2019 I decided I needed to return to tarot, and THIS deck was my first purchase. It arrived on my birthday. With many, many more decks having entered my collection since then, Morgan-Greer remains my ride or die and tarot/cartomancy is still a foundation of my practices.
March 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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What up, #witchsky! I'm not entirely sure what's going on with #witchmadness but I wanna see what books had the greatest influence on your craft so far? I managed to narrow it down to top 5 (and too many honorable mentions to count)
Stack of 5 books, top to bottom: - The Cosmic Serpent, Jeremy Narby - Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer - Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, Scott Cunningham - Weave the Liminal, Laura Tempest Zackroff - The Spiral Dance, Starhawk
March 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Box cover for Wild Chorus Oracle, features yellow gingko leaves on a blue background with a black crow cawing.
March 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Outside enjoying the sun, hanging out with the flock, doing some cloud gazing when a neighbor came by. #pnw #eagle
February 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Quick salt scrub whipped up for a shower ritual later. Pink salt, coconut oil, snake shed, and rosemary. #witchsky #glamorwitch #venusday
Top view of a wide mouth jar on a heavily-scratched butcher block counter. The jar is filled with pink Himalayan salt, rosemary, and snake shed blended and mixed with coconut oil. A wooden spoon, featuring a wood burned pentacle in the bowl, is next to the jar.
February 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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New Moon, new deck: The Prismatic Tarot by Kesley Showalter #tarotsky
Display of the Prismatic Tarot on a wood grain background. Upper left is the deck box, which has a black border, the title at the top, and features the image of the 2 of Cups (in this deck, a red lion is seen behind two black chalices. The chalices are held by the hands of two people we do not see, one is clasping their chalice in both hands, the other is holding theirs in one hand while gesturing or reaching for the other. There is a caduceus on the forehead of the lion.) To the center of the photo there is the back of the cards on display (solid black with two white concentric circles in the center). Middle right of the photo is the Ace of Pentacles (shows a hand and forearm stretching up from the bottom edge, the hand is shades of blue, green, and yellow, and is clenching a pink/gold/green pentacle. The background of this card is black with large pink roses).
February 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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"Oracle" of the Week is a Major Arcana deck- Mindscapes: A Tarot Panorama by John A. Rice
Photo shows the Mindscapes tarot, a 22 card Majors only deck featuring original landscape oil paintings by creator John A. Rice. Shows is the book, partially covered by a white cloth in order to also display the backs of the cards - which are fanned out and depict a scene of a ship on the sea. The deck box is off to the right of the photo and features the same artwork as the back of the deck and the book cover.
February 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Today seems like a good day to start this book. Hail, Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart, may all be blessed with your fierce grace on this day of Love. #witchsky #venusday #inanna
Cover of book "The Way of the Ishtarite: Am Inclusive Guide for Worship of Inanna-Ishtar, Queen of Heaven and Earth" by Siri Nin (@sirinin.bsky, book available at Lulu.com). Cover is white with black text and depicts and Eight-Pointed Star flanked by 2 Reed-Ring Posts. The star and posts are all colored in such a way as to create direct connection to the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride flag (adopted 2021, created by Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK).
February 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Luna's Bear. It's so cute but so direct. #tarotsky
Cover of box of Luna's Bear Tarot, which features The Fool card depicting a yellow stuffed teddy bear wearing boots and a black bow with yellow polka-dots, carrying travel bundle on a stick over one shoulder. The bear is standing on the edge of a cliff while a white, stuffed dog barks at its heels, and the sun shines in the upper right corner.
February 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Odin's Day blessings from the neighbor #crows. #corvidsky
A spruce tree lines the left side. 1 crow perches atop a utility pole near the right side of the photo. 2 crows sit on the line between the tree and the pole, 1 crow sits on the line to the right of the pole. The sky is clear and blue, in the distance are a variety of trees with houses peeking through.
February 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Oracle deck of the week: Botanical Beasts by Jessica Feinberg #tarotsky #oracle #cartomancy #witchsky #occultsky #pagansky
Oracle deck, largely green colored, from RareDragons.shop
February 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Oracle deck for the week: Sailor Moon Oracle from Trickzen (on etsy)
Small oracle deck sits on a wood shelf. The deck is face down, purple, pink, and blue and a Sailor Moon symbol show on the back. A light blue glitter box with a Sailor Moon Crystal sticker is propped behind.
February 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Blessed Brigid
Goddess and Saint
Today and all days
We commit ourselves
To the sin of empathy
#witchsky #brigid #imbolc
Shallow bronze bowl holds water, daffodil petals, willow buds, and evergreen boughs, as well as a white, floating candle, which is lit. Behind the bowl is a stick of incense. The background of the photo is dark.
February 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A habitat stewardship program I'm involved in put some plants in the ground this morning. These strawberries grew into each other's pots, so they got planted around the same tree. Can't break up the family. #pnw
Five small wild strawberry plants sit in separate square black plastic pots. They've grown red runner vines into each other's pots.
January 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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#cat content
Two cats sitting side by side. On the right, a smaller tuxedo cat, on the left a larger black cat. They both look over the photographer at the birds out the window.
January 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Shining Iris, rainbow-plumed messenger of the heavens,
bring strength to the truth-tellers and justice-makers,
bring peace and protection to the prismatic of the earth

#witchsky #queerwitch
Black cauldron is propping up a tarot card: Strength, illustrated by Stanley Morrison, from the Pride Tarot. Next to the card is a tall white 7-day candle. On the outside is the text "Be Gay, Do Crimes" and several stickers - Sailor Moon (the guardian of love and justice), rainbow sparkles, and a brightly colored square sticker depicting several children waving at a giant eyeball hovering in the sky under a rainbow. Incense smoke appears in the air, the candle is lit.
January 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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New Moon means new daily deck: The Black Ink Tarot by Evvie Marin #witchsky #tarotsky
Display of the Black Ink Tarot. Shown is front of box, back of cards, guidebook, and Fool card.
January 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Wake & Bake smoke scrying - what do you see? #witchsky #weedsky
Smoke in a shaft of light, coming through a window. Smoke in a shaft of light, coming through a window. Smoke in a shaft of light, coming through a window. Smoke in a shaft of light, coming through a window.
January 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Oracle deck this week: Universal Folk Oracle by Anita Inverarity
January 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM