Taion the Gnome

Lino print of a Hearth with a pot on top

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Growth and empowerment lie on the other side of fear. Where it gets tricky is whether the fear is justified or if it is a fear from others pressed into you.
Being a Witch means facing fear. Sometimes you face a fear you should respect other fears are weak shadows
Makes it hard to advise

Sparrows branch riding
Juncos sway in snowy wind
Jays scream their fury

#MicroPoetry #Haiku

Ideas always feel bigger until you write them down. Some how they shrink. Then you read ideas and they seem to sprout back to life in your mind

You make blush, In a lot of ways you're braver than I as it appears as you are making a living from your Art. You're committed and I dabble.

absolutely ✨in love✨ with these little mugwort-leaf lino prints, now on my site. Only 11 available, signed, numbered and stamped. Mugwort is a very sacred plant to me & I work with it a lot

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You make such lovely prints

A full moon shrouded
What wonders do those clouds hide
Red glow horizon

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Black and white death reflection print

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Tower or Plow I have had the following ideas rattling around in my head for a bit now.

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Icon of Mary in lino print

Sometimes you need to make an icon.
Mary will always have a special place in my heart even though I am not Christian

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I have found every place to have its own spirit. A Genius Loci. All rooted in the ground they're built on and woven with whatever body of water is near. Roads, city water, electric grids and walking paths become city circulatory systems. Flora and fauna are citizens of the city waiting.

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I sit in sunlight
Watching birds flutter about
Peace in violence

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Thank you

A goofy bearded dude in a red hat and a Scooby doo shirt

My Bride made me one of those Melt Ice Hats

I blame Plato and the Gnostics of the Early Common Era for this. At least in the West. I don't know enough about the East line of thought.

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Myth is the history of the spirit world.
Myth is the history of the spirit world of where you live.
Myth is the pattern that the spirit world lives in.
These are all different and yet woven together.

I Might be alone in this but I like Mercury in Gatorade.
It's refreshing and I find truths to be unveiled

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The Spirit world is there waiting to engage with you.
Belief doesn't really matter, action does.
Gravity also doesn't need you to believe in it.
But it does help a little.

The more magic I do.
The more magic systems I look at.
The more I think there are no real rules to magic.
But there are patterns.

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Convocation was great. I learned a lot and made a lot of solid connections. Had some hunches confirmed and took part in Mastros Hekate Ritual. All around a success.
I am still really happy to be at home with my home spirits.

I don't have a book problem

Raw Fairy Tale 7 At a place in time Coyote lived in a village on a river named Pipe Herb. Coyote needed to secure a new home as his current abode was temporary. He pondered what it would take to find a new place to li...

Trying to capture some of my experiences.

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My Birde and I went on our first date 30 years ago. To celebrate we're going to Convocation.
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Our physical Bodies are our greatest asset when it comes to magic.
Take care of them.
I think it's why spirits want to interact with us.
We're bridges between Spirit and matter that they can communicate with.
I also think our bodies generate a certain type of energy found nowhere else.

Thank you

Those nailed lead rollups I had an associate who recently went through the effort to recreate those rolled up lead spells with a nail through them from ye Olden days.

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I don't think we're Obliged to help unless someone asks and No is Helpful.
I also think that even with help we're all on the path alone wandering in the forest of ideas and magic.

Imagine I said something that made you feel good. Maybe even laugh...

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Remember, every Star you see is screaming into the void and look at them shine.