Attn: Any progressive third party. I am DESPERATE to have someone to vote for who isn’t a fucking spineless Dem. Give me socially progressive policies that push the envelope and ensure the “least”among us are cared for and I will give you my heart, time and $. I just want a party willing to FIGHT

THE GULF OF UR MOMS BUTT *high fives self*

I just deleted both Waze and Google maps from my phone and left single star reviews for both. It’s up to you, but I encourage you to do the same. That said. Any good alternatives out there? #gulfofMEXICO

My almost finished Athame. It feels wildly powerful. Final step is etching sigils and charging under the full moon. I am so thankful to have had this opportunity today. #witchsjy

How it started vs. how it’s going.

Making my athame today. Fire, air, earth and eventually a quench. Putting myself inti this thing. Every strike an intention. #witchsky

For what it’s worth journalism is meant to uncover the truths that make the powerful uncomfortable when revealed. This new WaPo mission is fucking bullshit. Sad to see the fourth estate die under the weight of bloated oligarchs.

My first David Lynch film was Wild at Heart. I was in middle school and it hit me like a sledge hammer. Everything about it was frightening and shocking and irresistibly cool. I fell deeply in love with that movie and it has echoed through my life. I have been hooked on his work ever since.

I can’t deal with Lynch’s death. This one hurts so much. His work taught me about art when I was still very very young. And his heart is woven deeply into my experience of the world. We didn’t get enough. youtu.be/JKGlWR7gV4s?...

The last time I practiced witchcraft I was in my 20s. Finding time for ritual was easy. A full moon Monday night was not a problem. Now, as a married adult with two kids, it’s harder. I lit a candle, gave an offering and incense, said thank you. It was brief. But it was all I had. #witchsky

“That our job always and forever was to refuse Apocalypse in all its forms and work cheerfully against it” - Leif Enger, from the book I Cheerfully Refuse.

Finishing out 2024 with one more deadlift PR. 255lbs x 7. 💪🔥 #gymlife (Repost because posting after a dealift means really bad spelling.)

Today my deck gave me The World. I love it when this stuff happens: The end of the fool’s journey on the last day of the year, and a promise of completion and fulfillment of endeavors to come IF you are willing to give back to the world. #tarotsky #witchsky

I’ve been working on my wand for a long time. Solstice feels like a good time to finish it. I found this root on a hike. It feels like it was made for my hand. Wands of #witchsky

Hey #witchsky! I don’t know why this confuses me, but when do ya’ll celebrate Solstice night and the return of the sun? The 20th to the morning of the 21st, or the 21st to the morning of the 22nd?

A reminder to give editors who are AP Style experts a huge amount of appreciation. It’s an ever changing and dense set of writing rules and to have them down cold is an extraordinary feat. #journalism #writersky #editorsky

Pulled The Devil out of my Tarot deck today and decided the message was to engage in shameless materialism and buy all the Christmas gifts in one fucking orgy of consumerist glee.

I can’t imagine what the media would say about how my gaming defines me. Lately I’m playing a bisexual Drow elf fighter with a brain parasite.

Franz Gruber: *Austrian *Organist, choir master, teacher *Wrote music for Silent Night in a single afternoon Hanz Gruber: *German *”terrorist,” exceptional thief, mastermind *Nearly steals $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds in a single night. Both: “Benefits of a classical education”

Forgot my lunch today so I’m soooooo saaaad that I have to go eat pho. [I’m not actually sad]

Yesterday I learned that Franz Gruber wrote Silent Night. Do not get him confused with Hans Gruber whose night at Nakatomi Plaza was anything but silent. I can’t help but feel this is another win for Die Hard is a Christmas Movie crowd.

Yesterday’s tarot study card was the self-assured and cheerful Queen of Wands. Today’s was the burdened, over-extended ten of wands. What I took from it? Put down your burden and be the queen. So the boys and I took a detour to the botanical gardens and Mama Santa’s for a pie.

I just can’t with the holidays this year. 2024 broke me. It wasn’t the election or anything in particular. It’s just that the thousand tiny cuts of late-stage capitalism finally ground my spirit down. I am forced to overextend socially and financially while also being over scheduled.

It’s wild to me that when Dickens created Scrooge, the biggest Christmas villain of all time, his protagonist still paid Cratchit enough to support a wife and SIX kids on a SINGLE INCOME. Like, we’re truly living in post-Dickensian times.

I love them so much.

Maxfield Parrish sky this morning over NEO. The cold clouds a gray-tinted blush with washed out gold edges. A pipe and coffee after clearing the drive. Quiet except for the distant washing cadence of the highway. Peaceful in the cold morning. Everything broken by black branches.

Today’s Tarot card lesson/meditation was the page of pentacles. He’s a dreamer but bribgs assyrances that sometimes dreams can be lucrative if you follow them. Great card for starting this tarot journey. The page suggests success in what I’m seeking to learn. Me and this deck are vibing. #tarotsky

Suddenly this hospital waiting room smells as if someone ordered a dozen foot long onion sandwiches with extra mustard and I want to die.

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Pantone’s color of the year is Monkey Shit Brown.

Now playing: open.spotify.com/track/1B5CGs... Stick in the Wheel is one of my favorite recent discoveries. Absolutely incredible if you dig ancient agrarian folk with modern vibes.

As a problem drinker, sober for four years, I can think of several times I offered people unreasonable bargains to get me to stop drinking. All of those offers were made while I was shit-faced, FYI. (Had I known running the pentagon was an option I woulda gone for it)

And I just want to clarify here: I don’t think the card was prophetic, per se. I drew it at, like, noon when five of wands shit had already been going down. I think it’s more that it was very much aligned with the vibes, which will make it much easier for my old brain to retain. #witchsky

I started my card-a-day tarot study. Considering the practice is meant to learn and meditate on tho cards pulled I did not pull my card with any intentions or questions. But the deck answered nevertheless. It was a 5 of wands day, ya’ll. Conflict, annoyances, battles, frustrations. Ugh. #tarotsky

I’ve been saying the world asks too much of us and gives far too little back. But it’s not the world. Not really. It’s the bullshit constructs we’ve built within it. The world wants us to live harmoniously with it. It’s consumerism and government, and social hierarchy that want to bleed us dry.

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I don’t know when I’m going to finally learn that purchase protection services are a complete and utter racket designed to place so many frustrating barriers in front of consumers that the claims made are never fulfilled? Today, I hope, is the last time I fall for it.

Now playing: open.spotify.com/album/0J1YxT... I’d forgotten about this gem of an EP until I visted Buckland’s Museum Of Witchcraft and Magick yesterday and got chatting with the owner about Burroughs. I hadn’t realized how deeply Burroughs was connected to the occult.

#tarotsky I’m listening to Joan Bunning’s Big Book of Tarot and am already excited by the introduction. Bunning makes a point that there is meaning in anything if we choose to perceive it. And I was struck by the thought that meaning has been GIVEN to me my entire life:

Today is my birthday! I’m 50 (Kick! Stretch!). I bought myself this gorgeous tarot deck. It’s been many years since I’ve had one. So I need a reminder: What are you doing to bless or charge or bond with your new deck? Hit me #witchsky #tarotsky

Some days you just gotta say: No, I don’t think I will do those gobblet squats. Happy holidays to me.

I know it might suck to march in the rain, but something about a bad weather Thanksgiving parade just makes me happy. Rain on the brass, smiles in the dim. What’s not to love?

My favorite part of the parade broadcast is the Broadway numbers. I’m a musical theater geek and this is my opportunity to see what’s new. Hell’s Kitchen looks dope. And I’ll give Death Becomes Her the benefit of the doubt. But I’m generally skeptical of movie adaptations.

Man, I love the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Live television at its finest.

Okay #witchsky and #tarotsky, I’m asking for a deck for Yule. What are you using these days? My last deck was a Thoth deck. But I’m looking for something with deeper/prettier art. What do you recommend? (Art nouveau vibes are my fav.)

Here’s to my fellow sobernauts as we raw dog another Holiday season without social lubrication or boozy buffer. We will make our own cheer. We will burn just as bright. And we will wake up free of hangovers and without shame.

Bluesky promo culture is cool, but most I see call out interests like anime and Baldur’s Gate 3. Where are my people? The ones who are into discussing the use of bodily fluids in transgressive art, Douglas Sirk’s best deer shots, and why it’s so hard to tell Gwar members from Power Rangers villains?

Anywho if there’s anyone on #witchsky witn advice for reversing my birthday curse, I’d love to hear it. I mean, sure, there is probably plenty of self-fulfilling prophecy shit happening here. But if I could guide some energy and intention to finding peace with the day of my birth, that’d be 👍

I will admit I forgot as well. BUT nobody else remembered!? I just don’t want to celebrate it anymore. I’m done. Over it. So, here’s to half a century of… whatever. [End Pity Party]