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#FediCoven Q8 What’s a mundane activity that becomes unexpectedly magical or spiritually significant when done attentively?
For me, it's several routine things every day. Making and drinking my morning pot of coffee is a spell of affirmations and intentions. Showering is my ritual of cleansing and dedication. Bathing is meditation and sometimes journeying.
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#FediCoven 2026 Q7: What have seasonal changes taught you that books or teachers could not?
I've learned more from nature in general that I ever would have in school when it comes to many subjects. I allow myself to truly feel (and love) the changes during the year, throughout the seasons, and that alone has done a lot for me. Just as we as people change, Mother Earth does as well throughout the year. Change is good. It cleanses and renews.
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#FediCoven 2026 Q6: What relationship do you have with the moon and its phases, and how does that show up in your craft?
Ever since I was little, I've always felt connected to the moon. That hasn't changed, nor will it. The moon plays a big part in my practice, as I'm sure it does for many others as well. I usually work my schedule and spells around its phases.
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@floofpaldi I love when somebody hits it off with you & we start talking energies, herbs, or spiritual court. Then others join in with their experiences.
What doesn’t work for me when you bring something up that could be better & you’re greeted with apathy. I’ve left circles over this. #Pagan #Paganism #Wicca #Wiccan #Heathen #Fedicoven
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#FediCoven 2026 Q5: What helps you feel welcome in a pagan or witchy space? And what doesn't?
A true feeling of "otherness" and a lack of crosses. LOL. In all seriousness, though, just a genuine sense of self, unapologetically and authentically them, so I can get a read on the person, an idea of who they are or what they like, and we all decorate differently. That final part makes things fun.
Just be yourself.
🍂 🍄 🔮 🧿 🗡️ 🐉 🐺 🍁
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CW: gardening
The birches are better wrt aphids although the side branches haven't started growing since I cut off the tops. Presumably they need a little more time. Hopefully that's still gonna happen before autumn.
The oaks' leaves are now free of that weird white residue! Whatever it was, they've overcome it. And the leaves have grown quite a bit. I think the danger is gone for now.
Growing plants, especially plants I've collected and brought up from nearly nothing, is such a good feeling. It's a powerful feeling to be a lifegiver.
I love taking care of plants. I am surprised how much.
#plantstodon #plantiverse #gardening #fedicoven (that last one on account of the work very much having spiritual and magical meaning for me)
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CW: esoteric and witchy, body art, plurality
Setting aside my depression and self loathing for a second to try and think of less self destructive things.
I am so drawn to the imagery of birches and magpies.
Why does it matter?
My 40th birthday is coming up and I still hope to somehow be able to get a tattoo. I've even finally settled on a tattoo artist I like, which took me a while.
And I want the tattoo to reflect my spirituality and path I'm taking into witchcraft. I want it to be intensely personal, meaningfully symbolic and like... real.
Incidentally, I've heard a lot of people say they were like that with their first tattoo and then they've mellowed out and just started putting pretty pictures that they like on their skin.
But I don't feel it's gonna be me. And I low key resent the frequent implication that this desire to have a meaningful tattoo is kind of a phase. I don't think I want tattoos for the sake of having tattoos. Or ever will.
But, I digress.
I want my first tattoo to be very "me", to reflect what kind of woman and what kind of witch I aspire to be (honestly, those two things are so intertwined they might as well be the same thing). And I definitely have *some* ideas, like getting tattoos of three supernatural women that I find meaningful, that being the goddesses Marzanna and Dziewanna and the mermaid of Warsaw.
But those are not first tattoo ideas, I don't think.
So I keep looking for things that feel right, that reflect me and my magic. Especially plant motifs, because my magic is very closely connected to forests and plants. Plus, I want to honour a former headmate of mine who basically thought of itself as a plant spirit. It's a whole thing.
So I looked up many trees and herbs and what-have-you and their significance in Slavic mythology and religion and magical practice and folklore and medicine. Same with animals, to a lesser extent.
But my mind keeps going to magpies and birches. They feel right.
But the symbolism isn't there. The only meaning that somewhat fits me is magpies' affinity to shiny and beautiful things (I've actually described myself as a magpie in this context, many many times), and the general connotations of femininity for birches.
But it seems so tenuous? It's not strong symbolically.
I know I could just say I like the imagery of magpies and birches for aesthetic reasons. Which I do. They're pretty!
But I have this desire for meaning. A tattoo feels like a big deal. And I've wanted my prospective tattoos to be spiritually important for years. Really.
On the other hand... maybe this draw IS an indication that there's a spiritual pull I'm feeling. Maybe birches ARE my plants and magpies ARE my birds, spiritually.
I just don't know.
Yes, I'm a massive overthinker, sue me xD
Thoughts and comments and Boosts welcome. Maybe I need an outside perspective.