The Past Cannot Be Changed. The Future Is Yet In Your Power.- Unknown

“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” - Unknown

“Remember why you became a polytheist. Perhaps you prayed and Someone unexpected answered. Perhaps a Goddess tapped you on the shoulder and said “you’re mine.” Perhaps you realized that the world is better explained by many Gods of limited power and scope than by one all-powerful God and you decided that following Them was the best way to order your life. It’s hard to be spiritual when your roof is leaking. If your current situation has dampened your enthusiasm for the Gods, Their virtues, and Their work, it’s understandable. And usually, They understand too – They tend to have a longer and wider perspective than we do. But whatever your reason for becoming a polytheist, it was valid then and it’s still valid now.”

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John Beckett

“Polytheism in Difficult Times“

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The wild is an integral part of who we are as children. Without pausing to consider what or where or how, we gather herbs and flowers, old apples and rose hips, shiny pebbles and dead spiders, poems, tears and raindrops, putting each treasured thing into the cauldron of our souls. We stir our bucket of mud as if it were, every one, a bucket of chocolate cake to be mixed for the baking. Little witches, hag children, we dance our wildness, not afraid of not knowing.

Emma Restall Orr (via peonyandbee)

Fog in Morning by StargazerLZ

Sage Bundle Giveaway!

I had a crazy bumper crop of sage in the garden this year and so I’m giving away dried sage bundles, ideal for burning and smoke cleansing if that’s what you’re in to.

Just follow me here on orlathewitch and reblog this post and I’ll announce 3 winners in a week. Each winner gets three bundles of safe shipped anywhere reasonable in the world.

The Struggle of Optimistic Solarpunk Blogging

I follow about 500 blogs - all so I could see optimistic, solarpunk stuff to repost from. I’ve also unfollowed about 500 these last couple years because their reblogs turned negative, off topic, toxic, they stop posting, or etc. Few of my posts are rb’d from my feed. Most posts on The Carbon Coast have to be sought out - searched for proactively. I have to dig deep to find optimism about society and our planet’s environment, even when everyone I’m following seemed to crave that and only that, at one point. I just wanted to highlight the constant struggle to find “optimistic sustainable earth content”… it doesn’t just show up on my doorstep. You have to fight to allow yourself to deserve optimism, faith in yourself and society, and the changes needed to make our planet not literally die. That’s the one thing I’ve learned from this. We all have to literally fight and struggle to maintain the idea that the world will get better and the people deserve that instead of hatred and destruction and self-loathing like a majority of us are currently clinging to. Remember that solarpunk is destined to never grow because it believes in sustainability and abundance, and our society thinks that’s about as appetizing as brussels sprouts. They’d rather drink the caffeinated, sugary, toxic rush of dystopian thinking, and I *don’t* just mean in literature and movies and games. Most people secretly crave the horrors and the drama of the tumultuous and diseased planet & socities we’re all currently exposed to. Don’t let their sick obsession with suffering tarnish your inner child-like dream of a better world built on sustainable energy as well as sustainable relationships. The planet can regrow, the people can regrow. Let what will wither, wither. Plant new seeds. Don’t water dead plants. Fight to grow the new, weed out the invaders of your optimistic garden. Yank them right out of the dirt and toss them to compost. This is our future, goddammit. Our future to cultivate, not theirs to hedonistically masturbate into annihilation with perverse fantasies of negativity and destruction. Choose life, growth, positivity, optimism, and faith.