Altered Nomad
@alterednomad.bsky.social
Psychedelic journeyer, recently awakened mystically, exploring all the realms. Poly(thiestic 😉) Self care is an act of resistance. Blocked keywords: Trump, RFK, maga.
I'm new to spirituality and the craft. My wife is so excited for me that when she learned about Sabbats and the Wheel of the Year, she decided to surprise me with a wheel of the year for Christmas.
No one has ever done anything like this for me.
No one has ever done anything like this for me.
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm new to spirituality and the craft. My wife is so excited for me that when she learned about Sabbats and the Wheel of the Year, she decided to surprise me with a wheel of the year for Christmas.
No one has ever done anything like this for me.
No one has ever done anything like this for me.
While I haven't taken them like aspirin (some psychedelics tend to give me dark journeys), they helped me by dismantling some of the mental structure that trauma built. This process is intrusive, disturbing, difficult, and was, ultimately, the path to much freedom.
Do we actually have the tools to deal with the can of worms psychedelics will likely open when taken as regularly as aspirin?
*Therapist after week of sessions with patients* What are these random clicking noises, foot steps and banging at 3 in the morning?"
*Therapist after week of sessions with patients* What are these random clicking noises, foot steps and banging at 3 in the morning?"
December 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
While I haven't taken them like aspirin (some psychedelics tend to give me dark journeys), they helped me by dismantling some of the mental structure that trauma built. This process is intrusive, disturbing, difficult, and was, ultimately, the path to much freedom.
I am at the age my father was when he developed "late onset paranoid schizophrenia." He heard voices, thought people were trying to kill him, and believed in powers that don't exist. He invented an engine that, actually could NOT run on plain water.
I'm about 90 days into my spiritual awakening.
I'm about 90 days into my spiritual awakening.
December 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I am at the age my father was when he developed "late onset paranoid schizophrenia." He heard voices, thought people were trying to kill him, and believed in powers that don't exist. He invented an engine that, actually could NOT run on plain water.
I'm about 90 days into my spiritual awakening.
I'm about 90 days into my spiritual awakening.
Convergence or divergence ... or neither.?Never was a fan of Faithfull. Proudly disbelieved in everything magical, witchy, spiritual. Have a spiritual awakening and suddenly a Faithfull song makes me wanna dance.
Always hated dancing.
Always hated dancing.
"Shall I see tonight sister, bathed in magic greet
Shall we meet on the hilltop where the two roads meet.
We will form the circle, hold our hands and chant,
Let the great one know what it is we want."
#Witchsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq3f...
Shall we meet on the hilltop where the two roads meet.
We will form the circle, hold our hands and chant,
Let the great one know what it is we want."
#Witchsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq3f...
Marianne Faithfull - Witches' Song
YouTube video by Christian Davies
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Convergence or divergence ... or neither.?Never was a fan of Faithfull. Proudly disbelieved in everything magical, witchy, spiritual. Have a spiritual awakening and suddenly a Faithfull song makes me wanna dance.
Always hated dancing.
Always hated dancing.
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Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture
I have no idea how this ended up in my feed, but it's interesting that some Christian thinkers are seeing the decline and fall of the Christian Empire.
Learning From ‘The Final Pagan Generation’
How do 21st century Christians keep it from happening to us?
www.theamericanconservative.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I have no idea how this ended up in my feed, but it's interesting that some Christian thinkers are seeing the decline and fall of the Christian Empire.
"Magickal work requires a certain amount of comfort with vulnerability. Vulnerability and intimacy are often linked, and magickal work, whether undertaken alone or in a group, is self-revelatory and intimate."
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Magickal work requires a certain amount of comfort with vulnerability. Vulnerability and intimacy are often linked, and magickal work, whether undertaken alone or in a group, is self-revelatory and intimate."
As my spiritual awakening deepens and broadens, who I am is changing. My identity is changing. It feels so very intimate, and so very scary.
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As my spiritual awakening deepens and broadens, who I am is changing. My identity is changing. It feels so very intimate, and so very scary.
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If you want, you COULD be both 🤩
#doitgirl #beapriestess #empoweredwomen
#EmpoweredLiving #empowered #Witchsky
#doitgirl #beapriestess #empoweredwomen
#EmpoweredLiving #empowered #Witchsky
December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
If you want, you COULD be both 🤩
#doitgirl #beapriestess #empoweredwomen
#EmpoweredLiving #empowered #Witchsky
#doitgirl #beapriestess #empoweredwomen
#EmpoweredLiving #empowered #Witchsky
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Magick is not the rejection of the mundane; it is the expansion of our understanding of the mundane.
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Magick is not the rejection of the mundane; it is the expansion of our understanding of the mundane.
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“The more horrifying this world becomes (as it is in these days) the more art becomes abstract.” (from his WWI diary)
Born today in 1879 artist Paul Klee
Runner at the Goal (Läufer am Ziel) 1921
Watercolor and graphite on paper, mounted on cardboard with gouache border
Born today in 1879 artist Paul Klee
Runner at the Goal (Läufer am Ziel) 1921
Watercolor and graphite on paper, mounted on cardboard with gouache border
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“The more horrifying this world becomes (as it is in these days) the more art becomes abstract.” (from his WWI diary)
Born today in 1879 artist Paul Klee
Runner at the Goal (Läufer am Ziel) 1921
Watercolor and graphite on paper, mounted on cardboard with gouache border
Born today in 1879 artist Paul Klee
Runner at the Goal (Läufer am Ziel) 1921
Watercolor and graphite on paper, mounted on cardboard with gouache border
I'm on the wrong BSKY account to be fixating on this post.
when I was doing teacher training at extremely-conservative-BYU I was explicitly taught how to do all these tricks w/posture, breath, energy etc to control my classroom & this week reels has been showing me dominatrix lessons & anyway that’s how I learned I’ve been running my class like a dominatrix
December 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm on the wrong BSKY account to be fixating on this post.
Love to Rob and MIchele Reiner, and to all who loved them.
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Love to Rob and MIchele Reiner, and to all who loved them.
One of the best horror writers ever. Haunting of Hill House and We have Always Lived in the Castle are so subtle, so quiet, and so damned horrifying.
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
In her biography, Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” & her invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius
#Booksky
In her biography, Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” & her invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius
#Booksky
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
One of the best horror writers ever. Haunting of Hill House and We have Always Lived in the Castle are so subtle, so quiet, and so damned horrifying.
Munch was so much more than "Scream." Terrified of the insanity that ran through his family, "sexually depressed," and traumatized by an early affair, his life was derailed but his art thrived. This, "Love and Pain (Vampire)" and "Ashes" show that art is often found between talent and constraint.
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Munch was so much more than "Scream." Terrified of the insanity that ran through his family, "sexually depressed," and traumatized by an early affair, his life was derailed but his art thrived. This, "Love and Pain (Vampire)" and "Ashes" show that art is often found between talent and constraint.
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sometimes chaos will happen and I’ll look back through the history to see who started the chaos and I’m sad to report it’s usually me, I am usually the source of chaos in the chat 🙁
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
sometimes chaos will happen and I’ll look back through the history to see who started the chaos and I’m sad to report it’s usually me, I am usually the source of chaos in the chat 🙁
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Hey y’all! Are you, like me, super annoyed at Apple’s iOS 26.1 update and its awful Liquid Glass crap? Are you wishing your phone could just go back to looking like it did 48 hours ago instead of being forced to adopt the phone aesthetic equivalent of a Donald Trump bathroom? Then check this thread!
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hey y’all! Are you, like me, super annoyed at Apple’s iOS 26.1 update and its awful Liquid Glass crap? Are you wishing your phone could just go back to looking like it did 48 hours ago instead of being forced to adopt the phone aesthetic equivalent of a Donald Trump bathroom? Then check this thread!
Today a very close friend told her sister about a small ritual I had done. The sister, who practices witchcraft, was very surprised that an older man would be taking up witchcraft. When I was told how surprised she was, my first thought was, "Not half as surprised as me."
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Today a very close friend told her sister about a small ritual I had done. The sister, who practices witchcraft, was very surprised that an older man would be taking up witchcraft. When I was told how surprised she was, my first thought was, "Not half as surprised as me."
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LEOPARD REFLECTION ~
Photographer Chad Cocking: "I took this photo of a young female leopard at a waterhole in Timbavati Private Game Reserve. Only after reviewing the image did I notice her staring at me in the reflection, so I rotated it and had this result."
Photographer Chad Cocking: "I took this photo of a young female leopard at a waterhole in Timbavati Private Game Reserve. Only after reviewing the image did I notice her staring at me in the reflection, so I rotated it and had this result."
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
LEOPARD REFLECTION ~
Photographer Chad Cocking: "I took this photo of a young female leopard at a waterhole in Timbavati Private Game Reserve. Only after reviewing the image did I notice her staring at me in the reflection, so I rotated it and had this result."
Photographer Chad Cocking: "I took this photo of a young female leopard at a waterhole in Timbavati Private Game Reserve. Only after reviewing the image did I notice her staring at me in the reflection, so I rotated it and had this result."
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The return of UK’s ancient stones as a place of worship www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
The return of UK’s ancient stones as a place of worship
Across the UK, some have turned to history, folklore and nature as sources of spiritual nourishment
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The return of UK’s ancient stones as a place of worship www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Some days the faith just isn't there.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Some days the faith just isn't there.
I love how "we" domesticated "them." 🤨
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I love how "we" domesticated "them." 🤨
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“It may be that the subconscious is really a committee. They may have meetings and say: What do you think we should tell him? Should we tell him that? No, he’s not ready for that.”
~ Cormac McCarthy to Oprah Winfrey, June, 2008
#Booksky
~ Cormac McCarthy to Oprah Winfrey, June, 2008
#Booksky
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“It may be that the subconscious is really a committee. They may have meetings and say: What do you think we should tell him? Should we tell him that? No, he’s not ready for that.”
~ Cormac McCarthy to Oprah Winfrey, June, 2008
#Booksky
~ Cormac McCarthy to Oprah Winfrey, June, 2008
#Booksky