Cutting grass

[lumineth Realm Lord]

Does cutting grass disturb spirits?

I trim cemeteries, and have often wondered if it would be better for the dead to let the grass grow. Plus, it looks really pretty this time of year.

 

[Morell]

In my opinion, it might disturb them, if it were all of sudden, but on a palce where the grass is being cut every year again and again, they already got used to it and ignore it. It just happens often and became all too familiar scene to bother them.
Showing them respect in some form when cutting grass is still not a bad thing.

 

[borbponderer]

Lawns in general are a heinous crime against nature. But just tidying things up a bit only really results in a temporary disturbance. Just don't be too over zealous. Leave plenty of cover for the birds and the bugs, and the other spirits will thank you too.

 

[Morell]

Lawns in general are a heinous crime against nature. But just tidying things up a bit only really results in a temporary disturbance. Just don't be too over zealous. Leave plenty of cover for the birds and the bugs, and the other spirits will thank you too.

I'm hesitant to agree. Here where I live, big wild grass eating mammals are extinct, but their presence, where they live, does have an effect...

 

[borbponderer]

I'm hesitant to agree. Here where I live, big wild grass eating mammals are extinct, but their presence, where they live, does have an effect...

Grass in itself is ok, it's all the neatly manicured and chemically treated lawns I can't stand. It's a freakish obsession. Then there are the people who install fake plastic lawns...

Parts of Britain are overrun with deer and domestic sheep. No chance for the temperate rainforest to grow back in the west because every new sapling gets eaten. What we really need is the re-introduction of apex predators, but the countryside lobby would never stand for it. Even lynx are proving highly controversial. Even beavers.

 

[Morell]

Grass in itself is ok, it's all the neatly manicured and chemically treated lawns I can't stand. It's a freakish obsession. Then there are the people who install fake plastic lawns...

Parts of Britain are overrun with deer and domestic sheep. No chance for the temperate rainforest to grow back in the west because every new sapling gets eaten. What we really need is the re-introduction of apex predators, but the countryside lobby would never stand for it. Even lynx are proving highly controversial. Even beavers.

I agree. I dislike plastic grass myself. So F lazy stuff. Since every bit of land belongs to someone here, it's impossible for people to allow nature to have its way like anywhere. We have national parks that are protected, even with restricted access to protect the rare lakes... stupid since the guards of the park prevent others from bathing in them only to take a bath themselves. You can't escape humans.

 

[borbponderer]

I agree. I dislike plastic grass myself. So F lazy stuff. Since every bit of land belongs to someone here, it's impossible for people to allow nature to have its way like anywhere. We have national parks that are protected, even with restricted access to protect the rare lakes... stupid since the guards of the park prevent others from bathing in them only to take a bath themselves. You can't escape humans.

Just the thought of plastic grass makes me think murderous thoughts. And here we are in sixth mass extinction. Humans are plague honestly. And if you were to find somewhere pristine to escape to, you immediately become part of the problem just by being there. Human exceptionalism is baked into all of our most fundamental assumptions, and infects everything that we do. I get quite worked up about all this...

 

[Durward]

Just the thought of plastic grass makes me think murderous thoughts. And here we are in sixth mass extinction. Humans are plague honestly. And if you were to find somewhere pristine to escape to, you immediately become part of the problem just by being there. Human exceptionalism is baked into all of our most fundamental assumptions, and infects everything that we do. I get quite worked up about all this...

If all the crappy humans went extinct today, full ecological recovery would take 3 to 10 million years. Tell me humans aren't a frikken cancer.

 

[borbponderer]

If all the crappy humans went extinct today, full ecological recovery would take 3 to 10 million years. Tell me humans aren't a frikken cancer.

I know right? every life human represents a few decades of infantile urges and desires, yet the consequences are measured in geological time. Even in a billion years from now when it's too hot for life to exist, the memory of our crap will will remain embedded in the rock. That already started to happen, new rocks forming with plastic and ring pulls and other shit embedded in them.

 

[Amadeus]

I trim cemeteries

Interesting. Working in cemeteries. I'm really curious here, what do you feel like since you're there fairly often?
For me cemeteries give a very extreme load of necromantic energy. It happens within minutes and lasts for quite a while.

Regarding grass over there. It might be a good idea to empty the mind and see what the spirits nearby think. If you're able to tune in you might feel the answers and thoughts coming from them. Sometimes in cemeteries I felt the thoughts of them, although not much.

Perhaps some spirits might like it, others dislike.

 

[lumineth Realm Lord]

Truth be told, I don't feel the same. Maybe at night. But the fact is that, where I currently live, I have family. Including my grandfather, who's buried a few minutes away.

Extended family are very religious. And I don't think that'd change after death. I don't really do necromantic magick in any of the cemeteries around out of respect to my family.

 

[Amadeus]

I don't really do necromantic magick in any of the cemeteries

I don't do any necromantic magic either but I was quite shocked when I first experienced those effects. It had something to do with the openness caused by working with the psalms. For me it does not change much, even if there are close family members buried there the effects are always the same. There is some thick highly specific energy all over the place and I can feel it. It gives a rather strange somewhat numb state and there is a feeling similar to being a bit high on something. The energy is very intense.
The worst-case scenario was that I had the taste of soil in my mouth for days after walking there. Fortunately that did not happen again, I changed the practices around and fixed the issues.

A lot more weirdness happened over there. If I light a candle, one of those 24 or 48 hour candles, I feel incoming energy for as long as it's there. The feeling is indescribable, really bizarre. In some cases spirits came into my dreams and spoke of something. One time the keepers came, man in black and woman in white. A weird dream where we spoke about the cemetery effects.

 

[BlakeAdamson]

Now I'm going to be yelling apologies every 30 seconds whenever I mow my lawn lol

 

[lumineth Realm Lord]

I don't do any necromantic magic either but I was quite shocked when I first experienced those effects. It had something to do with the openness caused by working with the psalms. For me it does not change much, even if there are close family members buried there the effects are always the same. There is some thick highly specific energy all over the place and I can feel it. It gives a rather strange somewhat numb state and there is a feeling similar to being a bit high on something. The energy is very intense.
The worst-case scenario was that I had the taste of soil in my mouth for days after walking there. Fortunately that did not happen again, I changed the practices around and fixed the issues.

A lot more weirdness happened over there. If I light a candle, one of those 24 or 48 hour candles, I feel incoming energy for as long as it's there. The feeling is indescribable, really bizarre. In some cases spirits came into my dreams and spoke of something. One time the keepers came, man in black and woman in white. A weird dream where we spoke about the cemetery effects.

I have thought about using the grass my weed wacker collects.

I sorta consider myself a barber for the dead. So, I could say the grass is part of my payment.

 

[Digiquo]

I don't know if I'd consider the spirit/energy of the grass as synonymous with the spirit/energy of the dead residing in a cemetery. That seems like two pretty distinct facets of the location. In my mind I'd imagine the dead, if they're still aware of the surroundings of their bodies, would prefer their graves well kept rather than overgrown and neglected, depending on the personality interred there.

 

[lumineth Realm Lord]

I don't know if I'd consider the spirit/energy of the grass as synonymous with the spirit/energy of the dead residing in a cemetery. That seems like two pretty distinct facets of the location. In my mind I'd imagine the dead, if they're still aware of the surroundings of their bodies, would prefer their graves well kept rather than overgrown and neglected, depending on the personality interred there.

I don't know if I'd consider the spirit/energy of the grass as synonymous with the spirit/energy of the dead residing in a cemetery. That seems like two pretty distinct facets of the location. In my mind I'd imagine the dead, if they're still aware of the surroundings of their bodies, would prefer their graves well kept rather than overgrown and neglected, depending on the personality interred there.

I actually consider the cemetery at it's most vibrant when the grass is allowed to grow. But that's just me.

But you're right. They'd rather it be trimmed.

 

[Grayhoss]

As a Medicineworker, the grass itself doesn't really register. The spirits of the dead are out of synch with the mortal world, and its all a muddle of mist and shadows, unless they're aided into closer attunement with the right rituals.
They do notice if they're neglected and forgotten, however, and appreciate the attention and care of living caretakers.
That said, they may have lingering attachments to particular features or structures and take umbrage if they're disturbed.