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Hot Girl Shit: Tarot and Mental Health: Self Care and Swords

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My Meow-Meows! It's been a while since I've posted, and to be honest, it's not for lack of attempts.  I have embarked on several  posts.  At least 7 that I can think of...and while I started out thinking I knew where I wanted to direct the content I was writing, I lost steam fast. It's a challenge of mine. Something that pops into my head in the moment, sounds absolutely ridiculous just hours later; and so numerous unpublished drafts get canned. Stating that, I started a new job this week with a nation-wide mental health organization.  At least one of my colleagues is excited about my tarot habit (and a couple of others have expressed intrigue at my press-on nail habit), and so, my brain has been sprouting ideas about how I use tarot to help with my own mental health. At first glance, I wouldn't really think too much about it - tarot is a part of my everyday.  Sometimes I will use the cards to gain insight into a situation or circumstanc...
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I Can't Talk, I'm Doing Hot Girl Shit

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What is, "hot girl shit"? Is it Instagram?  Is it TikTok? Are those already outdated?  This is hot girl shit Comrades!  We've made it to the end of 2020! And I've been blogging for a year!  To be honest, my first post was in September '19, but I completely missed that.  Time is an arbitrary human construct, anyway, so let's celebrate. Happy congratuversary to us all!  Thank you for your readership and feedback. I'm going to go ahead and say that tarot is totally my hot girl shit, and since we're all dying  to see what kind of new improved dumpster fire 2021 is going to be, here's an overview for the year! I want to start this by saying, "THERE IS ONLY ONE CUP CARD!"  2020 was emotional enough, and this is a very good omen, as far as I'm concerned. We are seeing a lot of wands for the coming year.  This means creating.  Building.  Working.  The pentacles that I'm seeing are cautionary; telling us to be frugal with bo...
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The Longest Night

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Every once in a while, I catch wind of something that makes me laugh at my "witch-ness".  My practice is based in intuition. I sense shifts in energy before they happen. I notice things happening; but don't pay close attention to upcoming astrological events.  In fact, on the "witches calendar", the only events I remember are the solstices and equinoxes.  This year is the first where I have encountered the "longest night" (the night before the shortest day; winter solstice). This led me to announce, jokingly, that I am a shitty witch. Of course, I'm not...but I thought it was funny.  I wanted to talk a bit more about my sensing of energy shifts, though - because I am told that there is a "huge conjunction" happening.  Fun fact: this is being called the "2020 Christmas Star". A quick Refinery29  search tells me that this is actually called "the great conjunction", and it happens when ...
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Honoring My Maternal Grandmother with "Os Carolinos"

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 My maternal grandmother is something of a mystery to me. Growing up in a country on a completely separate continent means that I knew her much  less than my cousins of the same generation. Her passing in 2012 marked the end of a 93 year run Earthside, and I didn't know her as well as I should have. In spite of this fact, I still have much of  her.  Her cheekbones, her jawline, her thin lips. Her love for growing plants and flowers.  Her appreciation for Fado ; more notably Fado da Coimbra .  My mom told me her favourite song was "Samaritana", and it truly is a spectacular piece of music. Her stubborn streak and her heated responses to things that bother me...I also know that I inherit a lot of my intuition from the women of her bloodline.  I like to imagine that I inherited her spiritual tendencies, though I rejected Catholicism  ages ago.  Energy is energy; so even though I don't adhere to "sky daddy" theology, I do have faith in energy. A...
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Pro Memoria : Yet Another Chapter From the Infirmary by Typhoid Mary

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Typhoid Mary is still kicking through the Plague When I die, I promise that I will come back to visit my loved ones as a Harpy Eagle.   I was listening to Morbid Podcast (10/10 recommend) It's a strange time.  Winnipeg is under pretty firm restrictions right now, and it's disheartening to see how many people are actively resisting these measures - completely missing that the less they work with advisories, the longer the advisories will be in effect.  Like, figure it out, 10-ply. Of course it's difficult.  Clearly, it sucks.  It's the plague, not a Mediterranean holiday, Chad.  And no, I promise you that it's not the "NEW WORLD ORDER" that is performing a "GREAT RESET" on the planet.  If this is what it looks like, then the NWO really needs to review their financial practices; governments are bleeding money. But, I digress...because these are debates that I don't bother wasting my time with.   Stating that, I do want to spend valuable e...
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The Grey Swamp Hag

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I recently (last night) changed my Instagram handle. @the_grey_swamp_hag And, to keep consistent, I've updated my blog, too! Why? I no longer feel "at home" as a heccinchonkosaurus.  This body is capable of so much more than pointing at itself and saying, "Hey, see this?  See how chonky I am?" What it can do, is stare directly into your soul and whisper, "Will it be a blessing, or a curse for you, today?" I never was a good "love and light" witch.  Please understand; there is plenty of love and light in me and my practice; but there cannot only be light.  I have always been drawn to what is kept in shadow. I am a "grey" witch.  I work with both light and dark.  White and black.  Blessing and curse. The rule of three is not part of my practice; the Gardnerian Wiccans can keep that.  I don't like Gerald Gardner; but that's a whole  other conversation. For that matter, I'm not a fan of Aleister Crowley, either.  He was just...
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Tales From the Keto Kremlin - And, We Move Into Spooky Season!

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 A note: I wrote this entry over several days...so I am writing this from decidedly non-menstruating perspective. Newly recovered! Greetings!   I am reporting to you from the keto flu survival camp.  The last time I started keto, I wasn't in the middle of my forever period, so it didn't feel as devastating as this time around. This being said, the worst symptoms I experienced this time, was the brutal brain fog and fatigue...and of course, the consistent water retention.  Hormones are a helluva drug. Given the menstrual circumstances, I couldn't really tell too firmly if my weight had gone down at all, last week.  The intermittent fasting has also been a vicious challenge, because the last  thing you want to do during a 4 week period, is skip meals.  I ate breakfast for the remainder of my period, and it was beneficial.  Once my period cleared out here, I returned to fasting between 8pm and 12pm noon, the next day.  Bring on all the morn...
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