u/Hey-Syccamor3222

Fair day to you kin. Our brother u/lordbalto made a call for our aid, and it has been on my mind like a mountain pressing the earth. A kinfolk in need, and yet I had not the strength within me to light the torch and pass it on. But, to you my brother, I call to you now and tell you this:

I came out victorious from a long and dreadful war, and as I rejoiced in my great quest being at a finish, I dedicated the fires of the great forge to you. Back in my home, deep within the mountain stronghold, I fueled the forge to a greater flame than our halls have seen in ages. And in the revelry, the heat of the flame, the wild rejoicing, I thought of you. So here is to you my kin, in your great quest to overcome a formidable foe of Darkness, we drink this one to you.

/ud: It's gonna be okay my man. It's been hell lately, and I've worked so hard just to survive to get to this point. But I reached a beautiful resolution to so many terrible things I never thought I could overcome, and on a beautiful summer day I built a bonfire and experienced my first pain free day in years, and I thought of you. A stranger I never met in my same situation, just trying to get through and using the same outlets that helped me out. So I raised one to you and spoke a blessing over that flame. The sun finally rose on me, and in that moment I thought of my kin and hoped they'd join me in the great hall for this feast of a great day.
Hang in there man. Better days are coming, I promise. Until then, fight the good fight and sound the horn for aid should you need it.

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Hello dearies, I absolutely do not want to go into details because I have other things I want to do today than rehash what has happened, but I am so thankful for the work I've put into myself these past years that made my success today possible.

I practice witchcraft as an integral part of my life, but I'm full atheist. I have deities, rituals, prayers, etc, but at the end of the day none of it is literally true. Through my practice, constant learning and effort for improving my mental health, and the wonders of modern medicine, I am now happier than I've been in my entire life, but not at all through bypassing. I simply frame my life through my ritualized and spiritualized lenses, and I'm able to then do the real life activities that improve my life. Example: cleaning my house can be quite difficult with a chronic illness, but framing it as a game of conquering the mischievous clutter fae, it is much easier for me to accomplish since the lightened mood helps me tolerate my pain better.

That said, I wanted to share how I had an experience today that made it clear just how much I have grown as a person through practicing SASScraft.
Today, a family member returned to old abuse patterns, and although the hurt of remembering past events had me in a good cry session for about 10 minutes, I did not once fall into the victimization that was attempting to be put on me.

I have created a sigil for being a peacemaker, and it is set on Truth: the truth of what has happened, the truth of who I am and what I've done, the truth of what I believe in. So when I was verbally attacked and the old methods of flipping the script were employed in an attempt to make me do what was being demanded, I was at peace and knew who I was. I couldn't be exploited through threats, guilt, and an attempt to make me question who I am. I know who I am, and I'm a very good person who is kind to others.

And that's only one small example. I've grown so much through my craft as I have many things I've worked past, like my old tendency to fall apart if an abusive type withdrew their "love." I would always back down and give in, but not today. Today I am at peace, I stood for my values, and I asked to end the conversation instead of begging for forgiveness. And that didn't come out of nowhere. It was years of effort of cleansing baths to release the pain of love being a reward for good behavior, it was years of meditating in front of my burning cauldron as I did rituals for accepting that abuse is never justified, it was countless prayers said that were to ground me and help me think clearly so I could handle my triggers without jumping to an emotional reaction. It was all the quiet moments in nature pondering who I am, what I want, and what I want my life to be like. It was the conclusions I came to that I don't want to be treated this way, and I won't allow myself to be.

Today was a victory of being able to see clearly, of not falling apart and into unhealthy coping mechanisms, of being able to know what is true even if someone screams the opposite. I know who I am, and I've been able to explore that in grimoires, prayers to my sassdeities, times of stillness while contemplating the magic in my life. I wanted to share how proud I am of myself, but also how thankful I am to the people I've met that shared their craft and how it has helped them. Especially the folks that showed me that it's okay to be different and that people won't like you sometimes. I'm in debt to every person I've met that was an example of being able to cope with being disliked, yelled at, or mistreated.

And for anyone out there who is struggling, I hope that through dedication to truth and peace, you are able to overcome great struggles in your life, even if you previously spent decades in fear.

With Love!
Mrs. Marigold

Greetings my Brothers and Sisters of the Arcane,

Today should be a day for celebration: I have opened my business for the occult arts (henna tattooing surrounding my high fantasy designs and other artwork) and I will be greeting my first client in 3.5 hours. However, I befell a curse while in the womb of my mother, which manifested itself 2 years ago (horrible, incurable chronic illness). The Curse has come for me today in attempt to ruin me and rob me of success and happiness, and I do not know if I'm prepared for the battle before me.

Please tell me words of wisdom, spells, chants, songs, mana potions, etc that have helped you gather your strength for battle and overcome a great challenge. I had to put aside my staff in exchange for a cane and can barely walk, so ahead of me is a trial of pure endurance and strength for a 4 hour mehndi session that absolutely cannot be rescheduled (the product was already thawed out and cannot be refrozen again without ruining it, I can't afford to obtain more without payment for this session).

It is of upmost importance that I am victorious in this battle, but my current spells have been ineffectual. The Curse is too strong, lend your aid I bid thee.

I went to the catholic church today to prove my loyalty to satan by saying all the prayers backwards, kneeling backwards in the pews, and scratching my coochie instead of doing the sign of the cross. I spent the last month memorizing all of this stuff backwards!!! It was SO HARD but I Love Satan SO MUCH HE"S WORTH IT <3!!!

But when I went in, everyone was dipping their hands in a bowl of water, so i did the coochie scratch thing with it. got through the SSAM (mass backwards) and made bedroom eyes at the priest the Whole Time, and some judegmental prude came up to me to commit a micro agression and give me a "blessed sunday." She said I looked confused and explained how things are "supposed to go" (bold of her to assume I was there to worship god and not Satan) and she said something that Devestated me!!!

The bowls of water at the doors are HOLY WATER!!!! but my fingers and coochie are just fine! It didn't burn at all!!??????? I think I might not be a witch and I'm crying so hard I've thrown up 3 times. My family disowned me because they're judgemental as hell and don't accept me when I summon satan in front of my grandma with alzhiemers. it's not my fault she's so closed minded she screamed and fell breaking her hip. And I got kicked out of my appartment for burning my undies in the bathtub. I did all this for my sweet and sexy lover boy Satan. I thought he loved me!!! but if Holy Water doesn't burn me I think he might have broken up with me??? What did I do wrong????

Please please please help me out I don't know what to do. How do I make Satan take me back???? Please don't recommend any reading, just like a vibe or something.

Some low life cast Chronic Illness Flair Up on me a couple moon cycles ago. It's finally starting to fade, so I'm able to leave my hut for the first time in a while. Figured I'd head to the village to get some supplies. That bastard cast it when I was in the middle of giving my homunculus a bath, so the poor thing has been chained to the cleaning cauldron in room temperature water for quite a while now while I was doomed to rot in my bed. The smell is horrible and it's just shaking in a corner howling. I don't have the heart to give it another bath. Advice?

But anyways, I heard the local Habbyrinth Labbyrinth is having a half off sale on spurtles, anyone want me to look for a specific style while I'm there? And where is everyone buying potion grade vinegar? I don't have the energy to make my own right now, and the Silver Coin General is out.

Egg cleanses are SUper Problematic. Food waste is NO JOKE! Didn't anyone ever tell you that there are people who are starving out there???? And then you go and just throw them away!!! 😠 😠 😠 😠 How about you go give that egg instead to a homeless man???? The lack of empathy is asstounding. And you guys claim to be empaths 🙄 If you actually wanted to "cleanse" yourself, why don't you check your privilege and get rid of that first. 👀 And don't even come at me with those "bath cleanse" things. Ridickulous. Don't you know how many people don't have access to clean water and you just put your whole ass is a tub full then throw it down the drain 🚩🚩🚩🚩 And I swear to god no one say they use smudging. Do you NOT KNOW about the amount of CARBON you are just throwing into the atmothspear???? Crying and throwing up and clutching my chest I hate you if you consume anything ever

Hello all. I've been overweight my whole life. Been dealing with my chronic pain for years now. I've never been successful losing weight in my life until my recent diet plan called "Literally too weak to get up to get food in the first place" mixed with a form of intermittent fasting called "Even if I did, I'm too fucking sick to even lift a fork to my mouth." So yay, I lost 29 lbs!

But um....I still need to lose at least another 40. My chronic weakness is so bad this isn't about looks, it's about the fact I can't get out of bed a lot of the time, so if I had less weight to carry maybe I'd leave my house more than once a month.

I wouldn't say I'm an extreme comfort eater, but dieting while being in so much pain with other bullshit symptoms is getting me nowhere, because what do I have that feels good? Dont' drink, don't do drugs, can't sleep well from pain, sex has been too painful to enjoy, can barely leave my house, have hobbies but the pain makes me so depressed and I'm too sick to do a lot of them anyways. So now I'm also supposed to give up carbs or whatever? And when I can get up, I'm having to pace getting meal prepped frozen meals reheated. How am I supposed to manage eating better if I can't cook regularly and convenient healthy foods are too expensive because my medical debt is killing me? Fuck me.

What are y'all doing to manage? Even my crash diet of not being able to get up has fucking plateaued. I'm just so sick. My symptoms are all at record highs right now and the pain is trying to convince me it's unbearable. Oh, and no I'm not on anything for the pain. They put me on an antidepressant and sent me packing, so I'm just out here trying my best to get through the day coping. It takes all my mental and physical energy every day just to fucking survive existing in my body, I have no idea how to even tackle something like weight loss that I couldn't hack despite 15 years of dedicated trying before I got sick