Earth Daughter

Queer, Disabled Fat Positive Feminist Witch, Cosmic Animist, Ex-Mormon 30+ I make music @cunliffe-music

[cuties-in-codices]

cute sun

in an alchemical-medical manuscript ("Hausbuch des Pfarrers Valentinus aus Ottrau"), germany, 1529

source: Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek, 4° Ms. chem. 82, fol. 21r

[cheruib]

oh haven’t you heard???? things will get better and you will be okay

[pixeljade]

more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.

[rootlessly]

ocracoke, 19 may

[mxjackparker]

Sometimes homeless people will be off-putting and rude and demand more of your attention than you're comfortable giving. I promise you, if you had to deal with a fraction of what they do on a daily basis, you'd become off-putting too. Sit with your discomfort and direct your anger at the systems which made them homeless, not at the person in front of you who is struggling.

[shinhati]

cemeteries aren't creepy they're actually devoted to memory and rest and love and humanity

[body-neutral-animist-witch]

Funny I should see this post today

[social-emotional-learning]

[tenacioustaledefendor-deactivat]

I just wanna be a fairy and live in a tulip

[spacetelescopescience]

The Lion Nebula has been spotted across the open “plains” of space by the James Webb Space Telescope—just in time for World Lion Day.

Also known as NGC 2392, this planetary nebula has “roared” to life for a limited time. Astronomers estimate that the nebula will disperse in approximately 10,000 years. Fortunately, Webb was ready to capture the moment in near- and mid-infrared light.

In this composite image of the Lion Nebula, the ionized gas bubble “face” and dust shell “mane” shine brightly. The source responsible for shaping the nebula, the remains of a dying star, is seen here as the lion’s “nose.” See how Webb’s mid-infrared-only imagery highlights different aspects about the scene, including the various dust structures that compose the nebula: https://news.stsci.edu/4xw68n1

[wetheurban]

So it didn’t work out, and that’s okay. Maybe you gave it your all; maybe you feel you could’ve done more. Regardless, what’s done is done. Don't backtrack. Forgive yourself, focus on your healing, feel your emotions without distraction, and be gentle with yourself through this. You’re going to be just fine, love.

[happymiffy]

[vmkhoneyy]

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

[kosmogrl]

[ohholydyke]

See the thing about fundamentalists and trads and Christian nationalists and MAGA evangelicals and ethnocratic bigots is that they render the faith so boring.

I take no issue with the fact that they would look at me and say that I’m not a member of the faithful because their faith is radically, inherently, ontologically distinct from mine. My God is too big and too loving and too esoteric to fit neatly into the gendered understanding of an authoritarian white father disciplining his children for not perfectly falling into lockstep. My Savior is the man who told the religious leaders “Caesar can have his idolatrous blood money, but give God your heart and your faith,” challenging the notion of an earthly ruler. My apostles wrote of the throne of man being empty—there are no masters or kings or governments, there is only Jesus Christ, Basileus Basileōn, king of kings. I believe in radical oneness with God through Christ—one flesh and one body, biblical marriage with the bridegroom whose flesh and blood make up the holy Eucharist. My faith is Queer, ancestral, esoteric, anarchist, insurrectionary, anticolonial, antiracist, unorthodox, disruptive, free. When I encounter the divine, or pray to the saints, or sit in the chapel to pray, I am experiencing communion with the sublime, in every sense of the word, the same presence that made the apostles fall to their faces before the transfiguration, that shaped the world from void, that animates the deep care and rage which boil into every aspect of my being.

When conservatives tell me I am not a Christian it is only because they cannot conceive of a Christ and a faith so big, so all encompassing, so beyond anything our human minds can comprehend, and they cannot conceive being in tune with this divinity and being left senseless by the knowledge that the divine above all else is us and loves us more than we could ever comprehend, such that experiencing this love is enough to leave one fundamentally, ontologically changed down to the fiber of their being. I feel sorrow for them. I pray that Christ may reach into their hearts and open their eyes, that they may see not only the horrors that they commit but also the deep love and freedom that awaits them through abandoning their fundamentalism and their bigotry.

Or, in other words, me every time I see another conservative Christian whining about how people aren’t doing Christianity right because they don’t adhere to a super narrow and watered down version of the faith:

[rosechata]

francesmehardie

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[yourwitchmama]