Everyone's Path Is Different.

HOLY shit the amount of AI slop on pinterest has made it fucking unusable. I keep trying to fight it by hiding ever AI generated image I see but that means half (or more) of the search results get hidden and I'm left with only a handful of human-made images. Everything seems fine for me when I use it normally, but the second I go looking for inspiration for characters or a world I'm building...

I mean why? Why??? I think the most offensive ones are the ones labelled as "inspiration." There is nothing inspiring about an image created with almost no human input, no artistry, no passion - what part of that is supposed to inspire me? It is nothing but a delusion to think you're being helpful by flooding the internet with this garbage, no matter your intentions.

It's getting to a point where I'm struggling to tell what's AI and what isn't, which has not only become a massive nuisance very quickly, but has also quite frankly wounded my pride. I'm just trying to build a board of reference images and inspiration for my fantasy world, I don't want to be doing mental gymnastics with every single image I come across and that looks like what I'm after; there's lots of detail in the background, but those patterns don't line up and everything has a suspicious blur while simultaneously being very sharp, is it an artistic choice or just AI being AI?

I know it's basically unavoidable at this point, but that doesn't mean I have to accept that. I want photographs taken and art made by humans! I want architecture photos and illustrations of what that same placemight have looked like 500 years ago! I refuse to kowtow to the assholes who make the internet an unsafe place for artists like myself, who carry on despite the knowledge that our art (drawings, writing, photography, etc.) is probably being stolen and stuffed into a digital machine that demands more and more of our blood, sweat and tears just to eventually replace us.

The next time you stumble onto an AI generated image and think "hey, that's not so bad, it's kinda pretty actually," remember that that image could not have been created without a hundered pieces of stolen art and a hundered human artists left in its wake.

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Drawing done for @knowledge-from-the-abyss , Hel! Norse Goddess of the dead and daughter of Loki!

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Interesting & Useful Occult Unicode Characters

Some of these may show up as a weird square/question mark thing depending on the font used/configuration of your browser. 

𖤐 Inverted Pentagram

Stars:

★ Five-pointed Star ✶ Six-pointed Star ✷ Eight-pointed Star ✹ Twelve-pointed Star

Elements:

🜁 Air 🜂 Fire 🜃 Earth 🜄 Water

Planets:

☉ Sun ☽︎ Moon ☿ Mercury ♀ Venus ♁ Earth ♂ Mars ♃ Jupiter ♄ Saturn ♅ Uranus ♆ Neptune ♇ Pluto

Astrology:

☊ Ascending Node ☋ Descending Node ☌ conjunction ☍ opposition

Egyptian Deities:

𓀭 or 𓁰 or 𓁱 Ptah 𓀲 or 𓀴 Osiris 𓁐 Goddess 𓁚 or 𓁛 Re 𓁟 or 𓅝 Thoth 𓁠 or 𓁡 Chnum 𓁢 Anubis 𓁢 Upuat 𓁣 Seth 𓁤 Min 𓁥 Hathor 𓁦 Maat 𓁨 Hah 𓁩 Amun 𓁮 Menthu 𓁯 Tatenen 𓂕 Nehebkau 𓆫 Selkis 𓅃 Horus 𓋇 Seshat 𓋋 Neith

Alchemy:

☿ Mercury (Mind) 🜔 Salt (base matter or body) 🜍 Sulfur (Soul)

♁ Antimony 🜺 Arsenic 🜘 Bismuth = Boron ⊛ Magnesium ☽☉ Platinum 🜏 🜍 Sulfur

Runes:

ᚠ FEHU - F: Cattle ᚢ URUZ - U: Brute Strength ᚦ THURISAZ - TH: The seeing of the future ᚨ ANSUZ - A: references the ancestral god, Odin. ᚱ RAIDHO - R: Journey ᚲ KENAZ - K: Beacon or torch. ᚷ GEBO - G: Gift of Harmonic Relationships ᚹ WUNJO - W or V: Bliss and Glory ᚺ HAGALAZ - H: Destructive forces ᚾ NAUTHIZ - N: The Negatives of Human Needs ᛁ ISA - I: Ice ᛃ JERA - J or Y: The Cycle of One Year ᛇ EIHWAZ - EI: Yew Tree ᛈ PERTHRO - P: Initiation, Things Unexplained, Something Hidden ᛉ ALGIZ: Z ᛊ SOWILO - S: The Sun ᛏ TEIWAZ - T: Tyr, the sky god. ᛒ BERKANA - B: Birch-goddess ᛖ EHWAZ - E: The Sacred Horse ᛗ MANNAZ - M: The nature of Humanity ᛚ LAGUZ - L: Water - Emotions ᛜ INGWAZ - NG: Fertility ᛞ DAGAZ - D: Daylight or Dawn. ᛟ OTHALA - O: Ancestral property - Inheritance

Other Egyptian Hieroglyphs I thought were interesting:

𓂀 Eye of Horus 𓃠 Cat 𓃩 Set-animal 𓃶 Goat with collar 𓆣 Scarab 𓆸 Lotus

Keep reading

Who is Lucifer?

Lucifer is a Dark Lord and also a High Prince. He is also called Prince of Darkness. He is also considered a demon, an angel, and a fallen angel. He is also considered the first fallen angel to exist.

He is very good at helping people with shadow work, as he has faced much darkness himself. He is also very good at helping people find hidden truths, especially within themselves (yes, this is another form of shadow work, but its worth mentioning this specifically). He is also often one of the first infernals people tend to reach out to (or one of the first that tend to reach out to others). He is also incredibly good at helping people with religious trauma.

He is associated with the planet Venus, which reflects his passion and also his (sometimes) very sexual nature/energy. He is associated with the metal gold, which reflects him being royalty, as well as his transformative nature (shadow work). He is associated with the element of air, which again shows his transformative nature, and also shows that he can adapt quickly to changes.

In my own personal practice, Lucifer often shows up with long black hair, and sometimes has tattoos. Sometimes his hair is very short, but still black. He is often very well-dressed, usually wearing suits and ties. He has blue eyes, although in certain aspects I have seen them as red. Sometimes he has wings in this aspect, and sometimes I see him with fangs as well. As mentioned above, his energy can be incredibly sexual and alluring at times.

A note about Lucifer: there are some practitioners who experience him as being the husband of Lilith, however in my own personal practice, Lilith is spoused to Samael. That does not mean that both cannot be true, and there are several other demons like this, who are said to be spoused to different infernals based on sources. Also, there are some sources that say Lucifer and Satan are the same being, however, again, in my own practice, I experience them as two very different beings. I do not believe they are different aspects of the same entity, but different entities entirely.

A Crash Course on Channeling

What is Channeling?

Channeling is allowing a nonphysical entity to use your physical body, in order to accomplish something. If that sounds, vague, it’s because it is. Channeling takes many different forms and intensity levels! Depending on how it’s done, it can be a medium-difficulty task or one of the most advanced things a spirit worker can do. 

Types of Channeling

I once heard channeling described as a car ride, and in my experience that’s very accurate. The car is your body, and you’re in it with an entity. Sometimes you’re in the driver’s seat, and the entity is in the back seat giving directions. Sometimes you or the entity is in the passenger’s seat: not calling most of the shots, but able to reach over and grab the wheel if needed. Sometimes you’re in the backseat watching the entity drive, and sometimes you’re in the trunk. In practice, this can take a number of forms.

Speaking on Behalf. This is the kind of channeling people do most often. The entity isn’t controlling you, just feeding you lines which you can then relay to a third party. You’re translating their messages to something other people can comprehend. If you’ve ever answered a question for a spirit in their words, you’ve done this. 

Isolated Channeling. The entity takes control of just a part of the body, usually the hands or fingers. This is mostly used for things like automatic writing.

Assuming Form. Also known as consensual possession. The entity is in the driver’s seat, speaking and acting for themselves without your help. Some people will call this “horsing.”

Possession. While the word “possession” could technically cover all of this, within the spirit work community it’s usually reserved for channeling where the human did not consent beforehand. This doesn’t necessarily mean in a violating way- I once had a friend who got possessed just long enough for an entity to yank them out of danger; once I was taken for just a moment to convey a quick (but very direct) message to a devotee, and snapped out of it right after. 

Reasons to Channel

Everyone will have a different reason to channel but most of them fall under a few categories:

Helping Someone Else. You’re channeling on behalf of someone who can’t [easily] reach the entity themselves, in order to ease communication between the two parties. This is often seen with mediums contacting spirit guides and Ancestors.

Aid in Other Works. The entity is better suited to accomplish a certain task than you, so you let them take the lead. This is often seen with a familiar or spirit companion, someone the practitioner works with closely enough to know their strengths and trust them. 

Easier Communication Overall. Channeling is a way to get really familiar with an entity’s energy. Again, we often see this with spirit companions and is more to bond than to achieve another goal.  This would include automatic writing or letting a spirit experience things “through” you. 

Ritual Invitation. In some traditions, it’s common to invite deities to ritual events. Often, some type of channeling/possession is expected and is usually reached through ecstatic experiences. It’s taken as a sign the deity has arrived at the party, either a sign the offerings have been received or a time for the deity to convey important messages. 

Before-You-Begin Essentials

Know How To Protect Yourself. This is non-negotiable. Is your discernment tuned enough to spot an impostor or malevolent entity? Do you know how to end a session early? Do you know how to banish a spirit in an emergency? If the answer is no, then study up and return to channeling when you’re ready. 

Know Your Entity. Channeling, by nature, puts the practitioner in an intimate and vulnerable place, so you don’t want to give that access to an entity who may misuse it. If it’s your first time channeling, make sure you trust this entity with your life. 

Don’t Channel Alone. When you channel, you’re in an altered state of consciousness. Having someone grounded near you helps keep the session on track and keep you out of trouble should you need it. (Either by forcing an entity out if needed or just keeping you from climbing that tree.) 

Other Notes

It’ll Probably Take a Lot Out of You. Have something ready to ground and rehydrate yourself after a session, and make sure you don’t have anything high-demand planned after. 

Start Small. No need to jump head-first into the most advancecd and high-intensity types of channeling! Start with automatic writing or painting and get used to the feeling and work your way up.

Don’t Make It Weird. Basic etiquette still matters. Channeling is not a pass to give unsolicited messages to other practitioners, speak on behalf of their deities to them (unless they’ve specifically asked), or say hurtful things cushioned by: “What? It wasn’t me who said it.”

Messages Are Rarely “Pure.” This means everything is still filtered through you, the practitioner. Your values, morals, biases, and beliefs can inform what messages get through and how they are conveyed. Nobody wants to send out a message they disagree with, after all. This becomes less of an influencing factor with experience as one learns to hone their skill and let go more, but it’s important to always keep in mind. (If a channeling friend says a deity doesn’t accept your gender identity or something, that’s a good sign that really your “friend” doesn’t accept it.) 

Just btw I'm here too! I'm usually in chitchat and will probably offer free art if you give me an interesting idea lmao

I have an exciting announcement!

Me and a few friends of mine have created a discord server! This server is an education-based server focused around the infernal divine as well as general witchcraft and occult! We are 16+, godspouse and system friendly! We have a section for offering and receiving free divination services as well!

Join us today!

I come with a new species, this is Lumino the first of his kind :3

Does anyone know how to grow on this site and find equally crazy people or am I meant to just sit here and hope for the best? :')

A family of cheetahs sleep with the forest guard every night. When the Forest Dept. heard about it, they decided to check the veracity of the claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Just amazing.

Kitties will be kitties 🐈‍⬛