20/06/2026
☆ something witchy this way comes... ☆
growing up, I never understood why witches were always given a bad rep
in films & books, they were usually the characters that I was most intrigued by, the ones I wanted to know more about
I was rarely interested in the princesses with the pretty dresses who had to wait for some prince or other to show up & rescue them
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I wanted to know more about the women who were independent & opinionated, who always seemed to live in a secluded cottage in the forest or a castle on a clifftop
the women who lived life on their own terms, who seemed to do whatever they wanted & generally ignored all societal expectations
if, as was usually the case, they were the bad guy of the narrative, I wanted to know why?
I wanted to know THEIR stories...
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I understood from quite a young age that the witches depicted in the tales of my childhood reflected something bigger, and were part of a far older tradition
and I sensed that they were already, and were always going to be, connected to my own story...
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tomorrow, june 21st, will see summer solstice for the northern hemisphere, also known as litha or midsummer
whether or not you'll be marking the festival,
sending Solstice Blessings to all
☀️💛
d x
📷: summer in the woods, from June '23
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