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Where the idea of witches came from in Europe
https://youtu.be/y0b3sOo4WGQ?si=0MqGswBH-bhRhSUd

Live Stream of the Vodun Days Celebration 2025 https://ironwynch.com/2025/01/live-stream-of-the-vodun-days-celebration-2025/

Live stream of the Vodun Days festivities.
#Vodun #AfricanSpirituality #Benin
https://www.youtube.com/live/Cq-MBSXs79Y?si=wWtBDkoeTZWocFxk

Tasselfairy goes in on how she got ripped off and kicked out of her apartment because of Lisa Frank.
https://youtu.be/i8_H2mdI5Zc?si=Dj3y7kqK1QPKs2rJ

How to Spot a Fraudulent Spell Caster https://zindoki.com/2016/09/fraudulent-spell-caster/

Springtime Oshun Offerings 2017
https://baalat.org/2017/03/springtime-oshun-offerings-2017/
Photos from our springtime Oshun offerings in 2017:
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Oya and Ancestors Offerings 2016
https://baalat.org/2016/10/oya-and-ancestors-offerings-2016/
Photos of the special Oya and Ancestors offerings for 2016:
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Oshun and Aje Shaluga Offerings 2016
https://baalat.org/2016/08/oshun-and-aje-shaluga-offerings-2016/
Photos of our special Oshun and Aje Shaluga offerings from 2016:
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Eshu Offerings 2016
https://baalat.org/2016/06/eshu-offerings-2016/
Photos of our special yearly Eshu offerings in 2016:
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Oya and Ancestors Offerings 2014
https://baalat.org/2014/10/oya-and-ancestors-offerings-2014/
Photos of the Oya and Ancestors offerings event of 2014:
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Oshun Offerings 2014
https://baalat.org/2014/08/oshun-offerings-2014/
Photos of the Oshun offerings ceremony in 2014:
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Shango Offerings 2014
https://baalat.org/2014/08/shango-offerings-2014/
Shango offerings and wrestling in 2014:
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Yemaya Offerings 2013
https://baalat.org/2013/12/yemaya-offerings-2013/
Photos from the Yemaya Day offerings in 2013:
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Yemaya Offerings 2019
https://baalat.org/2019/12/yemaya-offerings-2019/
Photos from the Yemaya day offerings in 2019:
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Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
https://youtu.be/jCztdxwNYB0?si=6aXZ4dD0I-8JSo_O
#Orisha #Osun #Oshun

DMV VZ NORTH CAROLINA BEAT BATTLE – YouTube https://ironwynch.com/2025/01/dmv-vz-north-carolina-beat-battle-youtube/

4711 Cologne Cleansing Ritual https://zindoki.com/2025/01/4711-cologne-cleansing-ritual/

List of Orishas, Lwa, and Other African and Diaspora Deities https://zindoki.com/2025/01/list-of-orishas-lwa-and-other-african-and-diaspora-deities/

Yule and Ancestors Week 2025
https://baalat.org/2025/01/yule-and-ancestors-week-2025/
Due to some misfortunes, this season’s Yule was late but great. It was scheduled during Ancestors Week, so the spirit of combined celebration and reverence held firm. Our ile has members of many and mixed backgrounds, so in honoring our Ancestors, we hail the Nordic ones and deities too. Special…
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Oh cool. Apparently now when my blog shares to Mastodon the title and an excerpt is posted too. This is probably old news, but it's new to me, and I am grateful to the plugin developers.
Check out the new post layout: @nicole

A Selfie https://ironwynch.com/2025/01/a-selfie/

Yemaya Offerings 2024 https://baalat.org/2025/01/yemaya-offerings-2024/

Oya Offerings 2024
https://baalat.org/2024/11/oya-offerings-2024/
#Orisha #Oya #ATR #AfricanSpirituality #Spirituality

Eshu Oil Recipe and Incense and Variations
https://zindoki.com/2014/08/eshu-oil-recipe-and-variations/
#Eshu #ATR #WitchCraft

Happy solar New Year to all who observe! I also hope all who observe the African diaspora systems had a wonderful Yemaya ebbo and have a thoughtful Ancestors week.
Blessings and Ashe!

Back In The Saddle But Adjusted
https://ironwynch.com/2024/12/back-in-the-saddle-but-adjusted/
For the past year or so, I’ve been adjusting to my retirement...

Yemaya Oil and Incense
https://zindoki.com/2024/12/yemaya-oil-and-incense/
For those who may have missed them on the old sites, I've posted some Orisha oil and incense recipes on Zindoki.com

Oshun Incense and Oil Recipes https://zindoki.com/2024/12/oshun-incense-and-oil-recipes/

Hey, just letting everybody know that I'm still around. I've been going through some changes and updating my web stuff. Some sites are gone, but I think I'm running things more efficiently now.

Retiring From the Internet https://ironwynch.com/2024/07/retiring-from-the-internet/

Okay, I'm about to get suddenly really personal here, but I have to ask because this is confusing the heck out of me. I started getting treated for my PTSD, and was put on anti depressants and anti anxiety meds. It seemed to help for awhile, but after 3 months, things have become exponentially worse. It's like every bad memory I'd managed to assimilate and make peace with is coming back to the front. Is this normal?

Hey everyone 🙂 I'm alive. Most of the activity is in the center and south so far. I'm in the north in Haifa. There was a rocket hit about a block away from some of my loved ones though. Once again, we are the meat in the politicians' grinding machine.

Just because.
https://youtu.be/34CZjsEI1yU

Funny sidenote and coming up for a little air from the work cave since I'm shifting, my mom has now also reached the yarn and pegboard phase about the Jesus vs. Yeshua thing. It's hilarious!

I'm about to stream while building a wand:
https://www.twitch.tv/ferrousious
#Witch #Witches #WitchCraft #Crafting #Wand

:: coming up for air after some time in the work cave :: Crap the sun is bright! :: blinking ::

My sensitive stomach has made me like stuff like sliced bananas on corn puff cakes y'all.
#Diabetes #Ulcers #BlandFoodie #CrackerJunkie #BRATDietRegular #ILoveGrits #PorridgeCore

Today I learned that I have #kyphoscoliosis
I've been having back pain for the past couple of months for the first time in my life. Not sure, but I think the bit of sadness and grief after the whole Efe coming out as a believer in Alex Jones's Gay frogs nonsense led to an inflammatory episode. So stuff that wasn't as big a problem before developed.
Lesson: don't let anyone get deep enough to knock me off my square until after thorough vetting for potential normie weakness.

I think I've reached the red yarn pegboard phase with my family. They think I'm overreacting to the coming tsunami of crap that is on the internet horizon. They don't quite get how the algorithms make you think you're being seen but ignored by tailoring feeds in a way that you and frequent followers can find you but anyone coming from outside that circle can't.
BTW is there an aware Yeshua following or Gnostic PeerTube out there?
#YouTube #PeerTube #Algorithm #ChannelBurial #Yeshua

CRISPR sausage gets FDA green light for consumption – Big Think https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/crispr-sausage-gets-fda-green-light-for-consumption-big-think/

I participated in the system. I know what's in it. I am not going to pretend it was always beneficial for me or that everything about it is okay, or that it is possible to be 100% benevolent while doing one's best within it.

Not going to happen.

I was and in some ways still am a shill to survive. I did and still do in some ways comply because I must to survive.

But I will not enjoy it or pretend to.

And I will not consider anyone worth keeping around who says I must.

2/2

I am a witch.

At least by western standards anyway.

This side of the Atlantic, I'm considered a kindly middle aged sweet woman because I don't slap people for verbal insults. I wait at least until there's a threatening gesture.

Oh and spiritually, as of September 2022, I'm a "traditional healer".

Anyway, "nice" at least by western standards, is not something you should expect from me.

I strive to be kind. I strive to be inclusive and just. That isn't always going to mean pleasant. 1/2

Looking forward to the future. https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/looking-forward-to-the-future/

Chatbots on the verge of a nervous breakdown https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/chatbots-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown/

As some of you may already know, I am a not card carrying semi vegetarian, meaning I eat meat occasionally and use some animal products but am not like a huge carnivore. Probably like most women in their 50's with a sensitive tummy. Anyway, I tried replacing ground beef in an American style bolognese with #BlackEyedPeas
Don't.
It was horrible.
I don't know what tomatoes do to the #cowpea protein but it is nothing good.
I tried it so you don't have to. Think curds of burnt plastic.

I Got Silenced in the Google I/O Chat – Developer Keynote (Google I/O ’23) https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/developer-keynote-google-i-o-23/

‘Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty’ – Slashdot https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/stack-overflow-is-chatgpt-casualty-slashdot/

In a crisis someone's real values come out, but also in a stagnation. Someone with unfulfilled desires, stewing and milling in those inside a tank they can't escape will do things to a person's mind. Politicians know this, and this is why we are where we are today.

One could say that roots kids and the longtermer kids had a kind of uneasy alliance until the tech bubble burst of the 90's. Up until then I think as a generation, we were all on more freedom even if some weren't completely sold on socialism. We were all sure we did not want forced birth and cops in schools. But then the security that if you got a degree in something computers, you would be rich or close, went away.

As kids in the 80's, many if not most of us were made to watch those movies to scare us into staying on the program. It was pretty crazy. A lot of those kids who went through evangelical indoctrination are in government now. Worse, some who went through that an escaped went benevolent and just wanted to get folks back to their roots while others went the way of western occultism of the Blavatsky flavor, and if wealthy enough, eugenics and long termism.