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Just in time for Yule feasting, my own vintage of red-raspberry honey wine. That’s mead, or melomel to be technical. It turned out rather drier than I expected, but has a nice finish that leaves you wanting more (if I do say so myself.) I call it a success for my first attempt at home brewing.

Praise be to the All-Father. (And my respects to Loki, Fire-Bringer.) But for her beauty and her grace I have named the mead Freyja in her honor.

Though “economic freedom” is now synonymous with capital, it used to be synonymous with labor. It makes sense. Government isn’t the largest force in our lives. Corporations are. They dictate when to work, where and how. Or none of the above if you’ve been laid off. They don’t want to pay for full-time work, health care, or pensions. During their golden age, unions were seen as a step toward greater security, which was a step toward greater freedom. If you, as an individual, didn’t have to worry about bargaining for wages, retirement, or life insurance (because your labor posed actual physical risk), you were freed of that burden. In other words, economic freedom wasn’t freedom from the rule of government; it was freedom from the rule of corporations.

Capitalism by Any Other Name: Republicans are fighting to rebrand capitalism as economic opportunity but their agenda remains the same. (via ryking)

The ideas inspired by magical thinking – those used to navigate and investigate, via association – should never be treated lightly when you’re engaging them. You need to ask yourself what the consequence that you’re ignoring is. You need to stop assuming you see the world clearly; you do not. You simply see it differently. And there may be some truth in it. It’s just very rarely literal, unless we’re talking about thaumaturgy.

But magick, like magical thinking, is best when it’s subtle. It infuses the “mundane dross” of our every day reality, of the ideas we play with and spread, and just gently brightens or darkens them. Ultimately, there is a question of how much power you’re giving to certain notions. If the world has nothing but demons – and I don’t really care how you contextualize them be they grays or succubi or Men in Black – then there’s something important missing. Like, for instance, icons of love and and wonder and worship that exist alongside you, constantly. Allies that provide you with insight. Moments of bliss, lost looking at the beauty of the colors and their vibrancy in the world all around you.

Dionysian Atavism (via deepwoodsteaparty)

cartoonpolitics:

if any ‘terrorists’ had in reality inflicted even a tiny fraction of the harm on America that its own financial institutions and politicians have, then the nonsensical ‘war on terror’ might actually have had some point ..