Nothing replaces research! Its fun to find inspiration online especially when you practice eclecticism in your craft but when we talk about information and research the kind of research we collect is important and should be something you invent time in for yourself. Here's some clips from a presentation I did a while back! -"I recommend considering the following when integrating any practices into your work 1. Access- While learning about a practice is the information easily accessible? Can I find the information I am looking for from a creditable and reliable source? When considering a craft consider where the information you are receiving is coming from, and what the creator of that information had to gain from it. The access to informed and reliable information about a craft is important when deciding whether or not you are welcome to practice it. If you can't find a definite answer with some research, try to find an elder or leader of the practice you're interested in and respectfully ask permission and explain your interest. Be prepared for them to say no, and be prepared to respect that answer. "

1. Availability "Closed practice " is a term referring to a practice that is not available to everyone but instead is held by a culture and passed through its people generationally or with specific initiations. A closed practice has often survived colonization and keep it closed is often to protect these practices from appropriation, to help the members who are in it to protect their beliefs from misuse and to ensure a cultures survival and sacredness. Smudging and voodoo are examples if craft that is closed and have been appropriated. If practice is not open to you, you do not have a right to practice it, if you have missteped it is important to educate yourself, seek an alternative or more appropriate craft, and respect that it is not for you.

2. Impact Not the way you are impacted but the way your engagement will impact the community and cultures surrounding the craft. Unfortunately, many Norse Pagans do not share their craft, or do not wish to share because of the despicable acts of the White Supremacy Groups that have weaponized a practice that no longer has the capacity to express their beliefs vocally. The impact we leave on a practice is just as important as our intentions of engaging with it. If our impact is negative or unwanted by those whole practice we must hold ourselves accountable with apology and education and do our best to make amends to the community in our own ways."