(Part 3) Top products from r/WitchesVsPatriarchy

I haven't read this one but it's been in my amazon cart for awhile! I heard a talk by a herbalist in my community who referenced this book in talking about this exact topic -- how feudalism was an essential component of that shift. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570270597/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

A book I have read is Medical Bondage: https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Bondage-Origins-American-Gynecology/dp/0820351350

It's specifically about enslaved women in america and how white american society viewed these sisters as human capital (and human capital generators). It's not the exact topic either but super interesting.

I also recommend the podcast For The Wild by Ayana Young. She interviews a lot of awesome experts in areas of social justice, environmentalism, feminism, etc. I can't think of a podcast on this specific topic, but they talk a lot about remnants of patriarchy surviving today and issues around it.

Ok I haven't read this book personally , but it was written by a witch that I follow: Blackthorn's Botanical Magic

A link to her online shop

This is an occult blog that has a lot of esoteric info on different occult topics.

Edit: I don't have any specific gem-related websites, but I do LOVE the show Steven Universe where he saves the world with the Crystal Gems :D it's kind of my current favorite modern mythology and the personification of each gem is not insignificant when it comes to their derived meanings.

Well if there was a day to support yourself & celebrate your craft, today would be it! I would vote yes to a new deck for sure.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738746347/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Nuu2BbZXJKK88

This is a good group! If you're interested in this at all, the creator of the group also wrote a book that has more information and is a good read.

Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change by Michael M. Hughes

Oh! Sorry, I assumed your nationality. My sincere apologies. If it'll help, and I honestly don't know if it will because I'm uncertain which dialect of Spanish is used here - here is Scott Cunningham's book I mentioned above in the Spanish language.

>The Celts weren't the only ones with solar/lunar calendars.

I never suggested they were.

>The lunar cycles were just named after the chores that had to get done that season.

I'd love to hear some examples. 'Cleaning & Seedlings Season' for your spring kinda thing-?

I'm reading this book right now and while it's decent, it also jumps all over the place re: time & geography that I get things mixed up.

Just looked it up & yeah so Yule's origins are actually Germanic/Norse mythology, not ancient Celtic or Druid. But the ancient Celts & Druids (of Gaul/France & Britain) predate Norse viking mythology, so I mean anyone could make an argument that ancient Celtic paganism influenced Norse paganism centuries later, but eh. Like you said, it's not like any culture gets dibs paying attention to seasons & lunar cycles. And we know so little about the ancient Celts that even if there are some leftovers hidden inside Yule (which then got hidden inside Christianity), it's kinda a "fuck it, whatever" scenario lol

As for the song, I have no idea. It was published in England in 1780 when any/all forms of modern Paganism were still demonized. It could've been created by a totally Christian group that had no idea there was a reference to Yule & passed around for centuries before it got printed by the English.

...not sure how you took the leap that the song lyrics depicting daily gifts from December 25th to Jan 6th represent seasons. I'd guess it was just one of many instances of the romantic era springing up.

Edit: apparently if anything, Christians have suggested the song actually hides key tenants to Christianity (not Paganism) while they were persecuted (which they weren't at the time & it's totally false for that reason among others). Seems like it was just a folksy memory game song.

You may also be interested in seeking out the gnostic gospels. One claims to be from Mary and provides a direct female succession. I'm not a catholic myself, but I gained that nugget of info recently while reading The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels. She's written a couple books on the gnostic gospels that I intend to pick up next.

What do you mean by such? What are you referring to?

Staying inside the patriarchy/Matriarchy dichotomy I'd say that the social organization before the drastic change aprox. 6000 years ago was predominantly matriarchic.

But without a state apparatus to coerce people into it...

Remnants of those matriarchies can be found all over the world.

Are you familiar with Heide Göttner-Abendroth and her work?

https://www.amazon.com/Matriarchal-Societies-Studies-Indigenous-Cultures/dp/1433125129

This is where what I know about Matriarchal societies comes from.

I have no problem with either Matriarchal societies, nor patriarchal ones, for that matter, as long as they respect the freedom of the individual...

Both can't do that when they become statist (coercion hierarchies).

Fascism doesn't and neither does or can Socialism.

There’s a book about this! It’s called Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. It’s a story about two sisters that use this text. Highly recommended!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812980352/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Q.bxDbZFJJV49

Goes well with this. Yes it's a real book, and my library has a copy of it:)

I found Amazon and Barnes & Noble pre-order links for US people.

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Witch-Tarot-Lisa-Sterle/dp/1912634031

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/modern-witch-tarot-lisa-sterle/1130823630

did anybody else read Kissing the Witch like... 20 years ago? it's basically this. cinderella gets with the fairy godmother. rapunzel decides to stay with the witch (who was acting like... more than her stepmother to say the least). it kind of changed my life. i can't believe they had it in our middle school library lol


hm looking around now, i see that the lady who wrote "Room" wrote Kissing the Witch.

I found it!

Well I'll be damned.

If this is a thing you are into (I am a bodybuilder and so this is a thing I am into), I cannot recommend this book strongly enough: https://www.amazon.com/Venus-Biceps-Pictorial-History-Muscular/dp/1551523701

the witch doesn't burn in this one, Amanda Lovelace

https://www.amazon.com/witch-doesnt-burn-this-one/dp/1449489427

That may have been where she started, but she did more to spread and legitimize the eugenics movement -- including forced sterilization of the "unfit" -- than anyone, including its founder.

http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/timeline/51509dc3a4209be52300000a

https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Eugenist-Feminist-Eugenics-Speeches/dp/1587420406

They're Voyager Intuition Tarot - 21st century something something. Here is a link. Heads up, they can be kind of rude. Lol

https://www.amazon.ca/Voyager-Tarot-Intuition-Cards-Century/dp/1592333222/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2/146-9512964-2645569?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1592333222&pd_rd_r=efd7972a-9d3d-11e9-a0f4-67c6be24e7f6&pd_rd_w=0XDYz&pd_rd_wg=dDDdK&pf_rd_p=318fc841-c654-436b-9e98-a4e2694ba626&pf_rd_r=JGKYNEXF7WX31JTDANYW&psc=1&refRID=JGKYNEXF7WX31JTDANYW