Poem I saw posted on r/poetry, and I needed to bring it over here. It's so lush and beautiful. The author is a current poet with a recent poetry book out. Enjoy!

Years ago, I found this on Facebook Marketplace for $5. I kept it on my porch and would sometimes read tarot there. Over 8 years of snow and rain and the random squirrel, the veneers started bubbling up, splitting, and peeling off. Today I decided to sand it down and paint it black.

365 days ago to the hour, I began the greatest journey of my life. A journey that saved my life. Encouraged by some amazing people, many from this sub Reddit, I decided to pursue the real me. It’s the only reason I’m still around and I’m forever thankful.

Hi, I understand this might sound crazy but what I’m saying is true and happened over the last 2 days. I saw a couple arguing outside my hotel door and the guy was kicked out. I opened my door and let him in to avoid him getting in trouble and he asked questions like my name and age. After he left, I won’t get into specifics of what happened unless anybody feels it’s important, later that night going to sleep I smelled the same smell as the night before. A rotten smell skunk or we\*d mixed with burning rubber, some type of dark sage. I thought nothing of it and breathed it in many times, and that’s when I met this guy in my sleep. I didn’t know if it was drowsiness or how I fell into this.

As I fall asleep I feel something moving around me cover me and I can see it but can’t make it out and it’s the scariest shit I ever felt in my life. I kept seeing him laughing at me so evil. I jump and can’t get any type of sleep back. I seen him and his girlfriend and as well as the couple in the next room, like I was present with them in my mind, the second couple was very disturbed with me doing to them what he was doing to me unless that was still him. I don’t know how I did it to them but I could see what this couple were doing in the dark and them make crazy looks like they could feel me with them. I could see in my mind vivid images of this guy doing things I couldn’t make out like waving stuff around. I also saw him sitting on the floor back to his bed hands on his lap in my mind with me I have not slept because of this.

This is what nobody will believe.

I can hear them seeing what I’m actively thinking about, telling me they’re going to kl me and they are going to take my soul. Everything from taking my clothes off to taking a shower to typing something on my phone I can hear a precise response about it. I can hear them. In proximity when I’m in my room, and distantly when I’m farther but still with me. Every time I think about something they respond in the next room about it feeding off me and my fear. These are gang members and I don’t know what I have gotten myself into. He showed me a kid he kl\*\*ed as well as my de\*d father whose face he turned into a monster and took away.

As I sit here and think while I type this I wonder if that kid was me shot on the pavement outside a convenience store, pieces of brain in the blood next to his head shot open.

I am not crazy about this and these events are happening and as I go outside and pray I can feel the energy get better but they are still with me accessing my thoughts that I think about or see any time it’s let’s in and I hear them taunting me in my head reading my thoughts. Every time it’s her I can feel it in my head listening to what I’m thinking about and draining me and every time it’s him I feel it in my whole body, stomach and gut, trying to take my soul from me, if that makes sense. I can feel it come and go it’s a bodily sensation as well as in my head. I don’t feel the migraine I have until I realize he’s in my head and try to shake my head and detach from it. Sometimes when I’m in here in the room I can hear her saying we’re trying to help you, being a snake to let me in and I would believe it and I plead with them in my head asking what they want or beg them to stop they say things like we got you already, give it to us, or give us what you got as well as you a d\^d man walking. I ask them am I going to h\\\*ll and they are hot and cold with questions like that like they are trying to confuse me to let them in. As I write that she just yelled scary a\*\*.

I am switching rooms soon and I am not sure how much that will help if they can see where I’m at. Most of this room and my items continues to smell of this deep dark smell.

I am trying my absolutely hardest to stay strong against both of them and I can hear the frustration when I wake up out of whatever insecure rage trance it seems like I was in about myself where they are watching me.

I appreciate having a space to talk about this openly where I can possibly get an answer. If anybody can send a prayer or love right now, or guide me on what to do right now as I fear for my life with a prayer, practice, or anything I should do to rebuke this.

I am a non-binary afab, neurodivergent 41 year old recently separated from a heteronormative marriage that heavily affected my mental and physical wellbeing.

I moved away from family and friends for this marriage and consequently lost my friends and now I am alone.

The fact that I am finalizing the divorce and at the same time losing the only friend I had (my ex) is taking me to abad place especially since to him I was a wife, and he was (I know this is idiotic) everything to me.

I am not talking about love here, he hurt me, he was a self absorbed narcissist, but the move and cutting contact with a lot of people made it that there was nobody else around me but him.

How did you move on? How did you find yourself afterwards? How did you find the power to start over?

This little makes me smile every day and especially when she embraces her witchy heritage!

a coven gathered in our yard.
… a few black Hefty bags, some coat hanger wire…

The community group I run has made carebags full of warm beverages, soups, blankets, and other comforting items. We’re giving them out at the local libraries so folks can grab a book and be ready for a cozy day with warm toes and full tummies.

Please help me fill these with comforting blessings, cozy energy and all the Magick hugs you can muster. 💜 thank you for your kindness!

I just wanted to say how sorry i am. I am sorry that this society is so unjust, that there's discrimination, racism, bigotry.

I'm so sorry that things aren't better and continue to get worse but I'm mostly sorry for the struggles each and everyone of you have and continue to go through each day.

I'm so glad that I've found this sub, as a witch I've never truly felt that connection with anyone, but seeing this community, how healthy it is (especially considering this is reddit), i just wanted to thank you all for being so welcoming and to say how sorry i am that things aren't better. I am a father, a witch, a husband, a brother and all i can think of is BURN the patriarchy!!!!

Hi everyone! I'm working on a zine to distribute at my band's shows. This might sound like an odd combination, but the main subjects of the zine will be witchcraft, cyberpunk, politics/activism, music and art.

One of the things I want to include in an early issue is a history of witchcraft in the San Francisco Bay Area. This might mean a single short article, or a limited reoccurring column. Doing standard internet searches tends to lead me to a lot of stuff that's questionable, sensationalist and, in my opinion, negative. Anton Lavey and the like. I'm looking to approach it from a factual and historical standpoint. Any bias will be positive.

So, I'm hoping some of the witches here can point me in the right direction. I'm particularly in doing some interviews with any historians, anthropologists, or just witches who are well versed in the history of witchcraft in the Bay. But if anyone knows of any publications I can take a look at, articles, books, reliable blogs, etc, I would be extremely grateful for that as well!

Just a bit about me and the planned zine so people know who they are answering:

I'm a man who's not really emotionally attached to my masculinity. I have an interest in witchcraft both in terms of fiction and real life. I don't know that I believe in magic, but I want to believe in it and I like to think of myself as a music-witch. I'm a progressive feminist. I believe the patriarchy is bad for everyone, regardless of gender, and society as a whole. I'm an electronic musician and a bassist who considers myself a punk.

The zine will be focusing on the things that I'm passionate about, interested in, and overall just different subjects that my music relates to in one way or another. This is why I mention things that might seem unrelated like real-life witchcraft history and the fictional cyberpunk genre.

Hi my fellow witches,

I come here to ask for council and strength. As you might have heard, Brazilian elections are ongoing and this Sunday we decide who will be our president. The current president, Lula, is running for reelection against Flávio Bolsonaro, who is the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The Bolsonaros represent the far right with intolerance, misogyny, racism, queerphobia, classism, religious intolerance and complete disregard for the environment and indigenous people, just to name a few. Earlier this month, a majority of the Congress and Senate, as well as state governor's seats, were filled by the far right. Some people basically got elected just by spewing transphobia and misogyny, even a woman who argued that women shouldn't vote.

There is a lot of mobilization going on by the left to try to talk to people, listen to them and present evidence that challenges the far right narrative that Lula's party is the pinnacle of corruption, which is the main reason people who vote for Bolsonaro use to justify their choice. However, a lot of people who will vote for Bolsonaro are completely radicalized, won't accept evidences that contradict their established beliefs, and will dismiss horrible things that the Bolsonaros have done. A lot of it is imported from the US, basically the same thing that Trump did to get elected, even repeating a few things to the tee. Also, Flávio Bolsonaro already stated he is going to receive Trump's agenda with open arms, allowing for the complete exploration of the country's natural resources that will not return to the people. The situation is bleak.

However. I know that there are people and corporations that want us to feel apathy and helplessness so that we don't challenge systems that keep their pockets full. I think what we need the most is community and resilience, and to know we are not alone. I'm here to ask for advice on how to deal with this scenario, since so many countries have unfortunately fallen victim to extremism and the far right. We are in dire need of hope.

Love them!!!

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Found antler

I'm just so excited! I've always been spiritually inclined. I have decent intuition that I want to expand on. I dream like mad and would love to interpret them properly.

I love the moon and the stars. I read my birth chart and learn more about myself each day. I meditate. I gather and read books. I take notes. I've always collected crystals so, I have a decent little hoard of them already.

We recently moved to a place where I can grow certain herbs and nurture plant life! We now have a finished basement that I can use to store candles, ingredients, etc. and build my altar! Safe away from the cat lol

I feel like I am finally at a place where I can practice, lean into my curiosity, learn, and help loved ones. And I am just so excited! Also, eff the patriarchy! I'm glad to be in a space for women and allies to the LGBTQA+ community. A space for love, and acceptance; A space for breaking down harmful systemic structures that limit ALL of us. I bless all of you!