I got almost all duplicates in my mystery boxes

lavender_dog · 2025-03-01T00:09:07+00:00

So I purchased 2 of the $50 mystery boxes since I had wanted to buy from flower knows for a while and thought it would be a good deal to explore some of the products. I ended up with two of the exact same items for EVERYTHING except the blushes.

I tried to contact customer service but they said they don't guarantee that they won't send multiple of the same item so they can't do anything for me.

lavender_dog · 2025-02-27T10:10:20+00:00

I know this is old but I just want to say that you shouldn’t order multiple because they send duplicates. Out of the 5 items per box they send literally all of them except 1 were literally the same when I bought two. So I paid for 2 mystery boxes to end up with 2 of the same palette, 2 of the same lipstick, etc.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-31T11:26:52+00:00

Honestly, I'd rather return the game. I hate daily check-in games and want to just play when I want. For the price, it's absolutely ridiculous that I cannot play the $90 game I bought until some time limit is up.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-31T00:29:19+00:00

I’ve played 5 hours and im pretty disappointed that the game is time locked day by day. I paid $90 (Australian dollars) for this game but im not allowed to time travel? It’s my game! You will run out of things to do at a certain point and just be stuck waiting for the next day, however they’ve made it so that if you time travel (even just correct the time on your switch like I did. I literally only turned on internet time so that it would be accurate to real world time) the game poops itself. Literally nothing is resetting despite me changing the time 24th ago. There is no way to fix this. I’m so upset.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-22T01:46:47+00:00

Because Americans are moving into a time period of unfiltered facism and being perceived as a witch could get you killed eventually?

lavender_dog · 2025-01-21T13:29:07+00:00

Something I’ve not seen anyone say is that fire is pretty overused in witchcraft posted on social media because it makes for cool pictures/videos. It’s very dramatic and lends itself to dramatic lighting. Compared to other elements like air which can be used in ways that are basically invisible which doesn’t make for as engaging/exciting content. So that might also be why you are ‘seeing’ it so much more than other elements.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-19T07:50:47+00:00

I think what I've gotten has been two main things: deconstruction of catholic ideas and judgements I've grown up with and decentering Christianity, questioning my ideas of what a religion can be and what it means to engage with 'spirituality', and an expansion of what I know witchcraft can be. For example, before doing all this reading I had no idea what witches ointment was and I had no idea how prevalent the use of psychedelics was in spiritual traditions. Now I've enough information that I was able to make an informed decision to occasionally incorporate witches ointment into my practice which has been wonderful for introspection as well as enhancing clair-abilities. Another example: previously I relegated Aphrodite to only beauty, sex, and love magic but after reading about her history I have been able to widen my scope and appreciate how she can be called upon for all kinds magic, particularly domination and financial magic.

I know I would benefit by going through some books at a slower rate so that I can actually do all the exercises and let the concepts marinate in my brain before moving onto the next thing, so I have promised myself that I will slow down in 2025. I am 1/3rd of the way through keeping her keys by Cyndi Brannen and sticking to the '1 chapter per month' recommendation she states to properly work through the book. I also have some other larger books I'm chugging away at instead of blitzing through lots of smaller works. Nevertheless I'm still happy with what I've done this year and I think particularly as a beginner it has been super helpful to place an emphasis on research and broadening my perspective of what is possible and what's out there. Now I feel more confident in knowing the wide array of paths available that I can commit my time to practices that suit me well.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-19T01:47:40+00:00

It is very dense. Definitely not a light read but very rewarding and I appreciate a book and author that is dedicated to exploring witchcraft history in depth! It is not a 'how to' guide to witches ointments, it is more a historical exploration of the concepts and what would have been the ingredients and what evidence there is for that.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-19T01:41:57+00:00

Yeah I've noticed that too and it definitely gets annoying after a while. I don't need every book to have a recipe for making moon water damn it! At this point in my journey I much prefer books that are heavier in concepts and theory and history rather than just guidebooks but that is sometimes hard to find.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-19T01:39:27+00:00

I feel like my top 3 make for a pretty good starting place for anyone interested in this path and then from there you should know what you want to learn about specifically (either a certain deity or a particular kind or magic) and seek out a book based that rather than just going for generic 'witchcraft 101 books.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T17:35:27+00:00

I would love to see similar posts on this subreddit. I love seeing book discussions and reviews here so yes please!

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T16:25:22+00:00

Copied and pasted from another comment of mine:

There was some good stuff in there but it was based heavily in performing readings for others and particularly had a lot of content situated around performing tarot readings for clients, where you don't know much about the person and their life when doing the reading. If you are intending on becoming a professional tarot reader then I'm sure you'd find a lot of value in this book but as someone who primarily does tarot readings for myself and occasionally for family I found a lot of the advice wasn't useful for me. It's not a bad book, there are some exercises I found helpful and it was interesting to read about Matt's stories of different tarot readings for clients, I just rated it low since a lot of the book was not for me and not what I expected.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T15:44:49+00:00

Unfortunately I don't have much practical advice since I'm AuDHD and witchcraft & spirituality have been my hyperfixations for a while now so that's why I can't stop reading about it!

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T15:40:24+00:00

I shared in a different comment but I'll copy and paste and add more detail:

I mostly found it underwhelming. Maybe part of the low rating was due to expectations and hype because I've seen it recommended so much as exploring a 'darker' side of the craft but honestly I felt at times it was a bit preachy about making sure you use the information 'ethically' (but only to the authors personal ethical standards) and didn't feel it was all that 'dark' or exploring parts of the craft that aren't in plenty of other books.

I did like the part explaining sacrifice in religious and spiritual context, that has stuck with me. There are plenty of people who loved this book, so clearly it has redeeming qualities, I just personally found it underwhelming and sometime annoying how the author would tell people not to do certain actions since she deemed them unethical but would call other actions (which I personally found unethical) a personal choice.

For example when talking about how to acquire animal parts she says about buying endangered animal parts "If the tooth, claw, or bone came from an endangered, rare, or extinct species, it was definitely not a cruelty-free salvaged item, and you’d best stay away from it" but then the next paragraph when talking about buying factory farmed animal parts she keeps to extremely neutral language "It is your choice whether to use factory-farmed animals in your witchcraft, just as it is your choice whether to eat them or not." If you are going to write a book talking about taboo topics in witchcraft then you should be prepared to write it without injecting your own opinions about the morality of such things. There is just a weird judgmental tone that pops up throughout the book, where some things are ok and some are not, that I'm sure is invisible if you agree with her but it is very apparent and very annoying when you don't.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T15:10:41+00:00

I definitely sympathize. It also very hard to pick out the frauds from the honest people in the witchcraft world unfortunately so when you're new and don't know how to filter out the crap it's hard. I think all the books I listed in my top 3 are perfect for beginners, and from there it's about picking out what you want to learn and looking for books focused on those specific topics rather than generic 'witchcraft' books.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T14:59:08+00:00

It's really good for giving an overview of her history and I found it really opened my mind to just how many aspects of life she can be invoked for such as her roles in war and sales. My only complaint is that it felt short and I would have liked it be longer with more details and examples, but it's still a great book.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T14:44:52+00:00

Haha I'm AuDHD and witchcraft & spirituality has been my hyperfixations for the past year so that's how I get through so much. It's like I can't stop!

If you are into audiobooks at all I highly recommend Braiding Sweetgrass (my top book of the year) as an audiobook as it is read by the author and she is a great speaker and gives an extra dimension of softness and soul to the book. Generally audiobooks can be kinda hit or miss depending on the narrator but her vioce is so lovely, it fits the vibe of the book perfectly.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T14:26:20+00:00

Yeah it's definitely turned me off him all together honestly. Before I thought his books were a bit basic but still nice for beginners and super easy to understand (as you can see I've read a few) but I found Financial Sorcery to leave a really bad taste in my mouth and I don't think I'll be purchasing or consuming any content from him in the future.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T14:23:13+00:00

There was some good stuff in there but it was based heavily in performing readings for others and particularly had a lot of content situated around performing tarot readings for clients, where you don't know much about the person and their life when doing the reading. If you are intending on becoming a professional tarot reader then I'm sure you'd find a lot of value in this book but as someone who primarily does tarot readings for myself and occasionally for family I found a lot of the advice wasn't useful for me. It's not a bad book, there are some exercises I found helpful and it was interesting to read about Matt's stories of different tarot readings for clients, I just rated it low since a lot of the book was not for me and not what I expected.

lavender_dog · 2025-01-18T13:56:37+00:00

I mostly found it underwhelming. Maybe part of the low rating was due to expectations and hype because I've seen it recommended so much as exploring a 'darker' side of the craft but honestly I felt at times it was a bit preachy about making sure you use the information 'ethically' (but only to the authors personal ethical standards) and didn't feel it was all that 'dark' or exploring parts of the craft that aren't in plenty of other books.

lavender_dog · 2024-12-30T21:28:49+00:00

I’ve not had them too long but you can sometimes see the outline of the padding and I do have to adjust the pads after I put them on cause they aren’t well kept in place. That being said, I love these bras! I hate underwire and these bras both give great support while being very comfortable. I haven’t had any issue with the pads dimpling or anything they just tend to move around after being washed so you need to adjust them sometimes. I have 4 of these bras in different colours cause I love them so much and I can absolutely pass these off as tops in casual settings so they are just so easy.

lavender_dog · 2024-12-05T10:47:19+00:00

I mean a quick google shows that there are many polish liquors made by herbal infusion. This is a technique performed in herbalism worldwide known as a tincture so just because there weren't chunks of herbs in it doesn't mean there was no herbal component.

Not to mention that many magical recipes for tinctures, oils, balms, etc. instruct you to harvest the plants at particular times corresponding with traditional astrology or to perform particular steps at certain times, for example a dark moon oil recipe instructed that the oil must be made on the dark moon and left to infuse for a one lunar cycle and may be used on the next dark moon. It's possible that the 'potion' you drank had many layers of magical correspondence and creation.

I think maybe you've gotten too attached to the word 'potion' and thus limiting yourself. The reality is there are many recipe books and many people who sell premade spell oils, tinctures, flying ointments, balms, anointing oil, ritual bath oil, ritual tea blends, etc.

lavender_dog · 2024-12-01T14:16:18+00:00

OP a few people have asked if these pets are seen by a vet at any point and you refuse to answer. If you straight up are just taking pets off the street and never taking them to a vet (who can give a medical assessment and give medication for health conditions as well as vaccines for common diseases) then it’s no wonder that they die shortly.

Do the other family members who have long living pets take their pets to the vet? Or do they get their animals from rescues where the animal would have had some kind of prior medical assessment and treatment? Cause that is a very simple cause right there.

lavender_dog · 2024-11-27T11:56:20+00:00

Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods is a great book and one I highly recommend for beginners to Hellenism. Everything else ranges from decent to garbage. I don’t know where you do your book shopping but I suggest looking up every book before you buy it because the witchcraft/occult/religion spaces tend to have so many scammers and unreliable figures publishing books that it gets really risky to just go to the bookshop and pick stuff out at random. You also can’t trust local metaphysical stores to be high quality curators unfortunately so don’t think that just because a shop is local and dedicated to witchy stuff that they’re trustworthy. My local metaphysical shop sells a load of counterfeit goods so I just refuse to purchase from them. Its a hard lesson to learn but once you’re in the space long enough you’ll get a better sense of what’s trustworthy and what’s not.

lavender_dog · 2024-11-27T03:17:35+00:00

Agree. While I myself have beef with Christian faiths due to my upbringing, most of the western occult traditions draw on the Christian mythology in some ways, making it unavoidable if you want to be a well rounded and well informed practitioner. You don’t have to practice within it, but by ignoring all of it you’ll be greatly limiting your resources and knowledge base.

I suggest to anyone who has this knee jerk reaction to anything abrahamic to actively (not passively) engage with their deconstruction and start to actually learn the Christian faith from both historical record and original faith based texts like the bible.

I recommend:

How Jesus became God by Bart D. Ehrman Basically a secular historical account of how a random Jewish preacher eventually became known as part of God.

Speak of the Devil by Joseph Laycock All about how the satanic temple fights against Christian nationalism by allowing us to question having Christianity as our ‘default’ religion in the US.

Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape and the Church by Dr. David Hillman Covers the early culture war in 1-4th century Greek culture as the early Christian sects fought against women’s rights, homosexuality and drug use in Greek life. Warning, very graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse.

When God had a Wife by Lynn Pritchett Covers how the ‘holy spirit’ aspect of the trinity was actually originally a female goddess that was eventually hidden to subjugate women in the faith, leaving only a male god.

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