Normally I wait until after the Last Harvest (Thanksgiving) to put up the Yule decorations. But in these darkening times (and I'm not just talking about the seasons), I just needed some light, some hope. Especially for my kids. While selecting the ornaments for the kids to excitedly hang on the tree this year, I picked those that bring us joy and fun memories. Memorial ornaments. Spiritual and magikal ones, too. In my family, the Yule Tree serves as an altar for many kinds of magiks and for honoring our Kindreds, especially our Ancestors. It serves as an altar for great love, joy, protection, community, healing, and other things. Important things needed to combat darkness. Things to feed the spirit...and spirits. Things to strengthen our resolve. Follow the Sun. Trust in Joy. Trust in Community. - Priestess Oracle Kristy "Foxlyn" Tackett © 2024 Hearth Fox Oracle

 As much as I'd love to leave Meta, I'm not going to the new social media app Blue Sky.  It's not going to be safe.  It may be safer than now, but how long until the bigots and trolls show up and ruin it, too?  How long until the big corporations start showing up and making every other post an ad? If its on the internet, it's not safe, period.  Never has been, never will be.  Even if one has a dedicated server, team or program to fight the bigots and trolls--they always find a way in and ruin it for everyone.  Its exhausting.  The devs may either sell out or quit from exhaustion and for safety. How long until Blue Sky turns into Meta or X? Or like countless other apps and forums...just disappears?  Covenspace, Witchbook, and countless other safe websites disappeared because of hateful willfully ignorant cowardly assholes. Also maybe I'm just being paranoid, but can we trust whoever created it to not just be a Fafnir Trump minion, collecting t...

 

  They want us to be divided and fight amongst ourselves.  Keeps the focus off of them. Keeps us from unifying as one to take them down. They are united in their hate and greed. We must be united in our love and hope. We can't do that if we're blaming each other  and taking our fear out on the wrong people.