🌿 Analog witchcraft 🌿

It's decided: this summer I'll be spending less times around screens. Here's a few ideas to make your witchcraft practice more analog if you, like me, are feeling concerned about your screen time...

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🌿 Start (or keep up with) a physical grimoire - social media is a great resource to find spells and anything magic-related. However, reblogging won't give you the knowledge you deserve. Start collecting all of this information in one notebook dedicated to your practice.

🌿 Buy some books about witchcraft - most of my magical knowledge has been acquired with books. There are so many out there, so spend some time in your local library and find books related to your type of witchcraft.

🌿 Consume less, practice more - early on in my practice, I felt the need to learn as much as possible before attempting anything. If that feels like you, step outside and start with a simple spell. The rest will come soon enough.

🌿 Consider investing in tools to replace your need for a phone - if you use it to wake you up in the morning, consider buying an alarm clock. If you love taking pictures, why not trying to learn photography with a proper camera? If you need it for reading, even investing on a e-reader will be better for your eyes, etc. etc.

🌿 Practice offline divination - pull tarot cards without looking up the meaning online. Sit with your intuition. You don't need a guidebook to tell you everything.

🌿 Seek out local covens, witch meetups, or metaphysical shops - real human connection with other practitioners is something the internet can simulate but never quite replace.

The conversation between Langdon and Cassie was great.

She tells him the first year of sobriety is the hardest.

She tells him she's 9 years sober.

He's gobsmacked. Langdon didn't know McKay was an addict.

She tells him, "if you need anything, call me."

What a moment.

I deleted most of my social media apps on my phone, so now I keep checking my phone and closing it right away because it's literally boring to use it now...

I bought a whole bunch of sudoku and word search books (at Dollar Tree), a super cheap watch (8 dollars on amazon), I'm actually using my notebooks and reading my books. I was so bored yesterday, and I realized for the first how slow time was moving. I'm usually so stressed because time goes by so fast, and I have such little time to myself. I was sitting at my desk just staring blankly bored to all hell but weirdly content????

I also checked out a book and a cd at the library. Listening to music on my cheap cd player sounds so much crisper? Knowing I have to return the book soon makes me so much more motivated to actually read it. I've been going through my favorite artists' profiles on spotify and listening to all their songs instead of just listening to the same one song I like over and over again.

I'm not buying random shit from tiktoks every day. I'm not spending my whole day scrolling on my phone. I nanny for my little sister and nephew, and I'm actually spending time with them rather than letting them play on their own. I feel weirdly regulated? I used to binge eat when I was bored, but now I sit calmly without itching to chew something. I slept 8 hours (I still woke up feeling like shit lol) instead of 4.

I don't know what I'm trying to say. Maybe stop using your phones as much? I can't make anyone do anything, but I'll yap about it anyway.

I kinda wanna delete all social media from my phone and solely use it on my laptop, but also I like chatting with the people on my little rectangle (that's you, tumblr), and also I'm in the bathroom a lot and bored as fuck when I'm in there

I want a good digital camera because I love taking pics when I'm out but I don't want to constantly have my phone in hand. And I want magazine books of crossword puzzles and sudoku pages, and I need to learn to play sudoku, so I can play games without eye damage and brain damage. And without ads. And I want more books, or at least more time to visit the library and borrow books. And I want an old mp3 player so i can go on walks with music without getting distracted by my phone everytime I want to change the track.

I want to be present in reality and I want my phone to be primarily for communication, as phones were intended to be.