Blender - Mingling With Others; Stirring Up Energy

Redditor’s wife knitted a beautiful star chart shawl.

biggest betrayal is when it’s supposed to thunderstorm and it doesn’t

Sea Witchery//

(from my personal grimoire) this may be a little long, so here we goooo

Tools of the Trade// • Shark Teeth: Location, curses, glamours • Anchovies: beauty • Coral: emotions, healing, vivid dreams • Crab: protection • Fish: protection, fertility • Oyster:  fertility, love • Salt; cleansing, dispels evil • Sand: dreams, grounding, cleansing • Sardines: beauty • Seaweed: prosperity, good luck • Sea Horse: luck, love, understanding • Sponge: cleanses negative emotions • Water: dreams, cleansing, healing • Aquariums: ward away bad luck • Hag Stone: see the unseen, protection • Seaglass: change, purification

Water Types and Uses// • Sea Water: cleansing, banishing • Lake Water: secrets, divination • River Water: transformation, change • Storm Water: strength, chaos • Rain Water: creativity, inspiration • Swamp Water: patience, stagnation • Flower Vase Water: nourishing, growth

Seashell Types and Uses// • Abalone: general use • Clam: purification, love • Conch: love • Cone: protection • Cowrie: prosperity • Whelks: positive change • Limpet: courage • Scallop: travel • Sand dollar: good luck

Sea Creatures and what they mean// • Barracuda: go your own way • Bass: balance • Carp: love • Catfish: power of words • Clam: love • Coral: protection • Crab: sensitivity • Crayfish: face your fears • Eel: new journeys • Electric Eel: perception • Goldfish: peace • Jellyfish: cooperation • Moray Eel: observe • Mussel: perseverance • Octopus: intellect • Salmon: persistence • Sea Anemone: new tides • Sea Shell: feminine power • Sea Horse: chivalry • Shark: relentless • Squid: shapeshifting • Starfish: follow your own path • Stingray: stay on target • Beluga Whale: creative spirit • Dolphin: new promise • Humpback Whale: birth • Manatee: trust • Orca: creative depths • Sea Lion: imagination • Seal: dream activity • Walrus: psychic touch • Whale: inspiration

To Make Sea Water// • Sea salt • Sea Shells • Moon Water • Beach Sand

To make Ocean Powder (my take on cascarilla powder) for protection/purification// • Sea Shells • Egg Shells • Sea Salt • White Sand • Grind em up in a mortar and pestle

To make a Sea Witch’s Bath// • Sea Salt • Rosemary • Sea Shells (to set on the edge of tub) • Blue candle (to set on edge of tub)

Crystals good for Sea Witches// • Aquamarine • Blue Lace Agate • Blue Chalcedony • Larimar • Blue Aragonite • Lapis Lazuli • Azurite • Skagway Jasper • Hemimorphite • Canvasite

Plants/herbs good for Sea Witches// • Grapes • Lettuce • Jasmine • Lotus • Kelp • Cucumber • Seaweed • Chamomile • Nightshade • Hemp • Orange • Willow • Lemon • Watercress • Melons • Hops • Pansy • Skullcap • Orris Root

Mermaids// http://soothingvioletlight.tumblr.com/post/124996552227/mermaids

Selkies// http://soothingvioletlight.tumblr.com/post/125175490222/selkies

Kelpies// http://soothingvioletlight.tumblr.com/post/125211823552/kelpies

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Creamy Caribbean Coconut Flan with Caramel

This is so sweet

So before I dive into all the posts I need to gush over/respond to and hammer out some writing and generally just nerd out, I have to share this story from the daycare. 

All the boys at the daycare are hardcore into superheroes, and one little guy just adores the Avengers, especially Iron Man and the Hulk. So I love to encourage him to talk to me about this stuff. But yesterday I was telling him about how much I loved Black Widow, and he had no idea who she was! 

So I basically told him everything about her, about how strong and smart and brave she was, and how she could help turn the Hulk back into Bruce Banner, and his eyes kept growing larger and larger. 

Today at playtime, he came up to me and told me he was the Hulk, and that he wanted me to be the wizard guy. 

“The…wizard guy? Do you mean Thor, honey?” 

“No! The wizard guy! The one who helps turn the Hulk back into Bruce Banner!”  

“Oh! Oh honey, that’s Black Widow! She’s, uh, not a wizard -” 

“But she can turn the Hulk back into Bruce Banner!” 

“Well, yes, she does this special thing called the Lullaby -”

“So can you be Black Widow? And turn me into Bruce Banner when I need you to?” 

So I was Black Widow and the Hulk and I ran around fighting bad guys. 

And now he’s completely enchanted with how she uses the Widow’s Bite (“Widow’s Bike?!” “No, honey, bite”) and now is convinced he can use his own “lolly-bee” which turns me from Miss Suzanne into Black Widow, which mostly involves rubbing a dandelion across my nose and cheeks.

So, all in all, a good day =)   

Solarpunk Childhood

ParentMap

Inside the Adventure Playground Movement

The Northwest test play zones that let kids create and rule

The Atlantic

The Overprotected Kid

A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playgr

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Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous - The New York Times

National Wildlife Federation

Nature Play Spaces | National Wildlife Federation

Help transform playgrounds, schoolyards, childcare centers, museums, and zoos into spaces where kids can connect, play, and learn in nature.

Free play is critical for developing executive function, autonomy, and trauma resilience. A sustainable future will need to include ways to recenter children's need for free play.

This is immediately applicable to kids coping with the pandemic.

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

To fall asleep in a hat on a bed of peppermint sounds heavenly.

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