Anyone finding themselves trending towards a biphasic sleep pattern as our routines disintegrate? I’m awake from 2am-4am most nights and I understand it that was common before the 9-5 workday became universal. #covid19Canada #covid19nfldpic.twitter.com/oZCmcmc4RO
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Replying to @KarlaHayward
Historically, women would gather at 4 a.m. for the witching hour. It was common before alarm clocks.
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Replying to @drlorileeoates
We always called 6pm the witching hour with babies because they would cry and freak out for no reason
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Replying to @KarlaHayward @drlorileeoates
I was up from 3 - 6 am last night. Also, we always called 3 am the witching hour. There's some superstition surrounding waking up at exactly 3? Someone close to you is going to pass or someone who passed is visiting you? Something along those lines. Cc:
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Those who take a pejorative view towards witches often place it at 3-4 a.m. Some sources have placed it at midnight. In A Woman's Worth
@marwilliamson places it at 4:15 a.m. "in days of old". It was considered a time when women would join in together in circles of support.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @drlorileeoates @AliciaJHopkins and
Isn’t that why it was called “the witching hour?”And the 13th day of the month was when they would gather. That’s why early Christians came up with the idea that 13 was an evil number; all those powerful women getting together like that! It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @AliciaJHopkins and
Oh yes. They have come up with all kinds of ways of manipulating us out of our power. A Woman's Worth is one of my favourite books and thank you for writing it!!!!
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And it’s more than manipulating us out of our power; it’s an unconscious desire to destroy it. We have stopped burning witches but we still haven’t routed out of Western consciousness the projection of guilt onto the powerful woman. We merely changed the consonant from “w” to “b”
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Replying to @marwilliamson @AliciaJHopkins and
Many of the occult societies I researched had women leaders and embraced gender equality. Boethius wrote about Lady Philosophy in 524 A.D. Even though we were quickly cut out of top echelons of the early Christian church, women have often been great masters of the metaphysical.
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