There’s a post going around here stating that Gods and Goddesses are not correspondences for spellwork and should not be used by magical people as such. That’s all well and good. But. As an animist, I would like to also add…
PLANTS ARE NOT CORRESPONDENCES EITHER.
Plants have spirits. They have personalities. They are capable of working a magic all their own.
If you want to understand the plants you use in your craft better, grow ‘em. Find ‘em in nature. If you can’t do either because they’re not part of your local biosphere, sit down with the dried pieces of plant matter or resin or whatever and commune with them.
Talk to your plants. Tell them what you want when you work with them. If you’re growing them, talk as you water them and tend to them.
It’s one thing to be like, “oh yeah, rosemary is for protection and lavender is for love.” It’s another thing to understand why rosemary is for protection and why lavender is for love. Looking into old plant lore can help, but developing a one-on-one relationship with the plant is vital if you want to increase the quality of the plant-worker relationship.
Also, to some of the same extent, stones aren’t correspondences either. They’re their own things. And of course the same goes for animals, fungi, microbes, etc.
But these things can be used as correspondences sometimes, but it’s more like using coffee or tea or cola “for” caffiene or tobacco for nicotine. You are getting an effect that you want and you can leave it at that, but also understand that that isn’t the all there is of the critter you’re working with.
“The trans movement is easily infantilised as amounting to the whinges and navel-gazing of trendy middle-class students who have OD’d on Judith Butler. But the idea that trans equality is a kind of middle-class liberalism, a luxury unconnected to the “real” politics of class and labour, is a media myth…
To move forward, trans liberation must be recognised as a class struggle as well as a feminist and anti-racist endeavour. The time for vicious and obsessive arguments about the boundaries of identity has passed.”
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“During the trial in March in Kansas
City, Kan., Mr. Kobach argued that while there had been a relatively
small number of noncitizens in Kansas who had tried to vote, he believed
that they were only ‘the tip of the iceberg.’
“In
her ruling, Judge Robinson dismissed Mr. Kobach’s claim. ‘Instead, the
Court draws the more obvious conclusion that there is no iceberg; only
an icicle, largely created by confusion and administrative error,’ she
wrote.”
I also recommend this article from ProPublica, if you want to hear the juicy details of how Kobach and his coworkers got their asses utterly and completely handed to him by the judge in this case. Not only were they in the wrong on the level that this was a bad and unnecessary law, they didn’t even do a technically competent job of defending it.
“In her opinion, Robinson [the judge] described “a pattern and practice by Defendant
[Kobach] of flaunting disclosure and discovery rules.” As she put it,
“it is not clear to the Court whether Defendant repeatedly failed to
meet his disclosure obligations intentionally or due to his
unfamiliarity with the federal rules.”
She ordered Kobach to attend the
equivalent of after-school tutoring: six hours of extra legal education
on the rules of civil procedure or the rules of evidence (and to present
the court with a certificate of completion).“
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