Riley the Hermit
@rileythehermit.bsky.social
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Words fall often fall short, if you wonder ask.
#Witch
#Parent
#Trans
#Poly
#Queer
Justice The scales are settling. Not as punishment. As alignment. What belongs to you is finding its way home. What doesn't may be leaving. Tell the truth. Keep your footing. Cross the threshold honestly and let the balance hold.
#TarotSky
#WitchSky
about 6 hours ago
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Queen of Cups The old mountain women called it knowing. The Gullah elders called it listening. This card says trust your deep waters. Your intuition isn't shouting. It's speaking softly from the porch, asking you to come sit a spell.
#TarotSky
#WitchSky
about 6 hours ago
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Ace of Cups A new current is finding its way to you. Love, healing, friendship, creativity, spirit. Something long held back is ready to overflow. Stop guarding the well. The heart knows when it's time to open the gate.
#Tarotsky
#WitchSky
about 6 hours ago
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I'll be honest. There are days I feel very alone. Days when the weight of all this settles in and I don't know what to do with it. If you're feeling that way too, would you reach out? We don't have to carry this by ourselves. 🖤
#QueerCommunity
#transsky
about 10 hours ago
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People see the headlines and the laws. What they don't always see is the exhaustion. The constant uncertainty. The wondering what's next. The feeling that your life has become a debate for people who will never have to live it.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
about 10 hours ago
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I want to get real for a minute. I live in Florida, where HRT and gender-affirming care can feel just out of reach. Some days it feels like being under fire for simply existing. Not because of anything I've done. Just because I'm trans.
#transsky
about 10 hours ago
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Being a poly trans lesbian means developing a crush, consulting the moon, pulling tarot cards, texting a partner, and still getting flustered when a pretty woman says hi. The queer cosmos is having entirely too much fun with me.
#Polyamory
#QueerJoy
#transsky
#TransWoman
#Lesbian
about 11 hours ago
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Being a trans lesbian is already an adventure. Somewhere between gender euphoria, pretty women, and trying to exist in public, I seem to have misplaced my ability to act normal. Not that I had much of it to begin with. 🌙✨
#TransWoman
#Lesbian
#transsky
about 11 hours ago
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Aquarius, the Blue Moon illuminates the gap between who you've been and who you're becoming. Stop waiting for permission. A truth you've carried quietly is ready for daylight. Trust the pull. Speak the thing. The future is already calling your name. 🌙✨
#BlueMoon
about 11 hours ago
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Baby, if communication alone fixed complicated relationships, half my exes would still be texting me back. 🌙💋 Sometimes the real question isn’t whether you stay. It’s whether you’re still alive in the version of yourself that stayed.
#DaBears
#SoldierField
#transsky
#QueerVoices
about 11 hours ago
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Now the city’s heartbroken. The Bears are restless. And half the Midwest is standing around saying, “Just communicate better.”
#DaBears
#SoldierField
#transsky
#QueerVoices
about 11 hours ago
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The Bears trying to leave Soldier Field feels weirdly familiar as a trans woman. Everybody keeps arguing about where the home should be. Nobody asks what happens when you spend years trying to fit inside something that stopped fitting a long time ago.
#DaBears
#SoldierField
#transsky
#QueerVoices
about 11 hours ago
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Some things have their own spirit. Their own story. Their own damn name. Anyway, if anyone wants to sit on the steps of a performing arts center and talk about ego, legacy, and bad decisions under the moonlight, my schedule is suddenly very flexible.
#KennedyCenter
#QueerVoices
#WitchSky
about 11 hours ago
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The Kennedy Center having to remove Trump’s name feels like one of those lessons they try to teach us over and over: You can put a name on something. That doesn’t mean it belongs to you. Identity, art, love, history. Same rule.
#KennedyCenter
#QueerVoices
#WitchSky
about 11 hours ago
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Meanwhile Venus is somewhere in the background whispering, “You could stay home, flirt irresponsibly, and listen to music that actually loves you back.” History repeats itself. Sometimes as tragedy. Sometimes as a group chat full of canceled performers.
#America250
#WitchSky
#QueerVoices
about 11 hours ago
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America250’s concert got canceled and honestly? That’s the most American ending possible. A bunch of people signed up for one story, found out they were in a different one, and suddenly everybody started looking for the exit.
#America250
#WitchSky
#QueerVoices
about 11 hours ago
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Aquarius season must’ve left residue in my bloodstream because today I feel dangerously feminine, emotionally magnetic, and catastrophically horny. Venus has me romanticizing eye contact, playlists, and probably bad decisions.
#WitchSky
13 days ago
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By root and tide, I open paths for my family. May every seed of chance find soil and every effort bloom. From crossroads to hearth, let ripe opportunities arrive and stay. Let no ill hand divert or diminish this flow. Doors open, potential peaks, and the harvest is held firm.
#WitchSky
about 1 month ago
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️⚧️✨ Visibility is a choice, and today we’re celebrating the community by sharing the things that make us feel seen and the art that inspires us. I’m starting a thread to boost trans voices and joy! Answer these 4 questions below (
#TDOV
so the feeds can find us!) 👇
2 months ago
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You Are Loved!
#transdayofvisibility
2 months ago
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Be Careful Who You Hate...
#transdayofvisibility
2 months ago
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Oh BTW... If you didn't know... I'm Trans...
2 months ago
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When you want all the
#piercings
... But you can't because you have a job.
4 months ago
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By flame that warms and wind that knows, Let healing rise where coldness grows. Hope be kind, and health be near, Guide each step and guard from fear. By tide, by tree, by silent grace, Let light surround and shield this space. So mote it be.
#WitchSky
5 months ago
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By incense rise and candle flame, I call my kin, From shrine to grove, From tomb to tree, Walk with me, and let me be. Feed my life with strength and grace, Hold me in your timeless place. Beloved dead, return in light. So mote it be.
#WitchSky
7 months ago
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In honor of everything we're going through. Let's take a moment to remember
#obama
and his tan suit. The real scandal of the
#whitehouse
.
#facepalm
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Barack Obama tan suit controversy - Wikipedia
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7 months ago
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By cord once torn, now gently tied, By truth once lost, no more denied Let hearts be clear, let harm release, By root and flame, restore our peace. Ashe to ash, and love increase.
#witchsky
7 months ago
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By steady flame and ocean’s breath, I call the calm, I cast out death. Let sorrow ease and spirit mend, Let fractured heart begin to bend. By root and star, by bone and sea, I call back balance. So mote it be.
#WitchSky
8 months ago
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It's Coming Out Day! I'm a Safe Space and I'm Out... Obviously
8 months ago
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You don’t owe anyone your silence or your suffering. You owe yourself a life that feels like truth. So take up space. Take up joy. Take up you. The rest of us are out here too, loud, messy, free. 🖤
#TransJoy
#GenderEuphoria
#transsky
#QueerLove
8 months ago
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Now go be the person you’ve always been trying to become. The world will catch up, or it won’t. But you’ll finally be free. 🌙
#TransPride
#GenderEuphoria
#transsky
8 months ago
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You tried to blend in, to keep everyone comfortable. But hiding isn’t noble. It’s just lonely. You don’t need permission. You need breath. You need courage. You need you.
#BeYourself
#TransPower
#transsky
8 months ago
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Don’t do that to yourself. Don’t live small. Don’t live polite. Pull the lever. Jump the track. You’ve known who you are since before you had words for it, since preschool, probably.
#TransCourage
#LiveOutLoud
#transsky
8 months ago
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People are selfish, not evil, just tangled in their own stories. If you keep waiting for them to understand, you’ll end up cast as the extra in your own damn life.
#QueerVoices
#TransVisibility
#transsky
8 months ago
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Stop looking for a note from your parents, your friends, your lovers, your gods. No one’s going to hand you a hall pass that says, “Go ahead, be who you are.”
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#transsky
#LGBTQ
8 months ago
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If you wait for permission to be yourself, sweetheart, you’ll wait forever. No one alive can give you the right to exist as you. That right is already yours. It always was.
#TransJoy
#QueerWisdom
#transsky
8 months ago
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Some of you are still waiting for permission to exist. To transition. To live out loud. To be. Here’s a reminder from the heart of the queer cosmos: No one’s coming to save you — but you. 💫
#TransPride
#QueerWisdom
#transsky
#LGBTQ
8 months ago
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Still here, still queer, still trans and thriving.
#trans
#pride
#queer
8 months ago
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Shit... I've not been raptured. Looks like we're in the party group.
#rapture
#translesbian
8 months ago
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🌈 Pride Barometer: Safe & Affirmed (full protections, dignity, thriving) Guarded (fragile gains, uneven protections) Eroding (rising hostility, legal rollbacks) Severe (major rights stripped, violence common) Crisis (persecution, survival at risk) Where are we right now?
#PrideBarometer
#LGTB
8 months ago
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Circle of breath and flame, roots deep in soil, waters whispering calm. Spirits gather, ancestors guide, balance held in hand and heart. Stones align, smoke lifts, voices weave the stillness. I stand at center, peace unfolds, the path is clear, the way is whole, the circle unbroken.
#WitchSky
9 months ago
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A1A and Sandy Beaches Right?
#Florida
9 months ago
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By shadowed moon and crossing tide, where earth and sky and fate collide, I cast the veil, I guard the gate, let harm be turned, let fear abate, by ogham, ash, and sacred flame, Provide, renew, protect in name. So Mote It Be.
#WitchSky
9 months ago
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So you're saying there's a chance...
#winning
9 months ago
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Had to remove some of my
#piercings
because of migration... Letting it heal before I give it another go! Piercings on my list:
#IndustrialChain
#NostrilChain
#Septum
#NapeDermal
Genital (Repiercing) Share your thoughts and Experiences!
9 months ago
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Feeling lost in the woods lately?
#Progressives
need a plan! Here's mine. Start your own conversation. But, be proactive and not re-active.
#Liberal
#Plan
9 months ago
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When you wake up in a Stanley Kubrick Film. But, it's not the one about sex...
10 months ago
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#SpeakOut
#SpeakUp
10 months ago
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#sober
#family
#pain
10 months ago
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Ancestors, hear our call. Let hope bloom where doubt has grown. Let peace settle like soft rain on weary hearts. Let joy rise with each breath, light and true. Let prosperity flow, abundant, gentle, and shared. So mote it be.
#WitchSky
10 months ago
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