Ruby
Pagan, Scottish folk magic practitioner, and all round witchy woman 🌿 mental health occupational therapist 🏴
- Such a beautiful #Imbolg and full moon with my witchy bestie @selkieandhare.bsky.social Snowdrop festival, finding an ancient holy well behind the ruins of an abbey, and cheese by the fire 🔥 #witchsky #pagansky #scotland
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- May have been a bit daft today, clambering about slippery rocks in a storm to collect water from an ancient holy well, then to get rushes to make a cros Brìde for #Imbolg The pics don't capture just how wild the sea was! It isnt snow in the 3rd pic but spume from the sea!! 🌊 #witchsky #pagansky
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- Had such a lovely day at my local herbalist collective meet up 🌿 today we were studying rosemary! Participating in a wee community, learning new things, drinking healing herbal teas 🍵 feeding my whole health!
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- As if on cue this evening! Here is one poking her wee nose out of the water! I think she is waiting for the tide to go out a bit more and expose her fave resting rock 🩵 #selkie #folklore #scotland
- ~ to hold a selkie coat, is to hold a body, but never a heart ~ to the sea she will return 🌊 My new tattoo! My favourite stories were always of the selkies. I still love visiting the seals that rest on the rocks near my family home. #folklore #pagansky #witchsky #tattoo
- Holy wells and saining with water The call of oyster catchers across a still icy morning Rushes that grow fresh and green along the coast Sheep's cheese and oatcakes/bannocks
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- Although circle casting and opening isn't always necessary, this is one way that it can really help with structuring your rituals! As well as all the other benefits... #witchsky
- I went to the antique centre today and bought a big stick. Images incoming
- Making my flat a little more magical ✨ Now to just add the horseshoe above the door, and get a rowan cross made at Beltane #witchsky
- By December, I will succeed in getting my first band 6 post! By August, I will have designed and implemented a forensic rehab group based on Recovery Through Activity 🕺 By February, I will have presented a talk to my team about the Human Givens approach and how it relates to OT!
- Our visit to Dunino Den yesterday: a beautiful site with many powerful voices echoing in the rocks 🌿 we did a wee clean up because so much plastic can harm the beautiful trees and the river @selkieandhare.bsky.social #witchsky #pagansky #scotland
- That's me fully moved into my new flat ✨ been a whirlwind end of 2025 and I'm so excited to be making this my home
- Reposted by RubyIt's here: the annual round-up of my favorite folk horror media! As always, these are not strictly 2025 releases but rather the movies I watched for the first time (mostly) throughout the year. What were your favorites?
- Over halfway through my 8 week fitness program and I can't believe how much stronger and more together I feel in my body!
- Had a lovely time at the Scottish #Pagan Federation Conference 2025 yesterday - I love connecting with and learning from pagans of all paths, and it was great to be back in my birth city of Edinburgh again ✨
- Got a bit emotional this morning seeing all the autumn colours - hello home! 🍂🍁🍄
- Visited Dunino Den today after being recommended it as a great site for pagans... To find it covered in rubbish. People keep tying bits of plastic to trees as a vague gesture to clootie well traditions, but it just hurts the land. I left the den with a full bag of litter..
- It's taken 2 hours but I've managed to clean, clear, rearrange, and tidy the whole living room 😤🥱 only 4 more rooms in the flat to go!!
- I keep revisiting The Outrun (2024) - her story hit me in such a personal way and the island on which it's set was a place I visited at a pivotal moment in my life. Going to read the book soon 🌊
- Camping in Glen Etive last weekend was pure healing ⛰️ lots of swimming in Crystal clear water 🌊 #scotland #folkmagic
- Nothing like pausing on my way to work to watch two hares running in a field under the bright morning sun ☀️ it seemed like they stopped to watch me for a bit too, a wee magical moment 🥰
- Climbed up what felt like the windiest hill in the world today, surprised I wasn't blown right off the top! Worth it for the stunning views from the Tay and other Sidlaws, right to Shiehallion, Ben Mor, and the Angus Glens #scotland
- As a pagan with an atheist partner having to explain not to wash up the offerings on the altar when he asks: "so uhh.. The things in the spare room [referring to the oatcakes and drinks]... Is that like umm... Gifts?"
- Having a life admin day with council tax, hmrc dealings etc... Its really making me reflect on the accessibility of it all
- Always finish an episode of black mirror ready to delete all my apps, throw out my phone, live off-grid... And yeah I never stick to it
- Garlic bitter, gorse sweet; Springtime gifts for us to eat. Pick it, wash it, add it to stew, But just enough for me and you; For if we wish to live in peace, We must ensure that all can feast! A little springtime forage poem that the spirits helped me to write 🌱
- Coming back home for a couple days and reading in my folks beautiful garden ☀️ The period around #Beltane is my favourite time of year; I am so glad to be creating some homely magic amongst the birds, by the sea, and under the blossoming rowan #scotland #witchsky
- It is still wild garlic season! I like to forage from this den about 10 minutes from my home; where it grows so abundantly you could collect a sackful and not make a dent in the green.
- I love Highland coos so much!!!!! Cutest animal in the world I was so excited
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- The UK Supreme Court is made up of 10 men and 2 women. So congratulations "feminists" you've effectively allowed a group of men decide what it means to be a woman. Incredibly progressive, I'm sure this won't pose ANY problems for cis women as well as trans men and women /s
- Sorry I was late to work, I spent my morning trying to nurse a bee back to health 🐝
