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get in loser weโre gonna admire moss and mushrooms in the forest
Reminder that:
The Christianization of Europe and the witch hunts are two completely separate things.
The witch hunts took place in the early modern period, well after Europe was Christianized.
The witch hunts were driven by conspiracy theories. It's literally a predecessor of QAnon.
Many conspiracy theories of the witch hunts were repurposed antisemitic conspiracy theories. (For example, blood libel and Satan worship.)
Lots of Christians practiced folk magic. They didn't usually call themselves witches.
Witchcraft was associated with polytheistic religions by Christians. Polytheists didn't call themselves witches. Whatever they were doing, they had their own words for it.
Modern witchcraft is a modern construct. It is not a revival of a genuine pre-Christian tradition of any kind.
Modern witchcraft cannot be "colonized" because it's literally a modern creation made by white people. However, modern witches are capable of doing colonialism, such as when they promote pseudohistory about other cultures.
Hey white pagans, if you're calling the polytheistic traditions of nonwhite people "pagan" even though the practitioners don't choose to identify with this term themselves, you're doing colonialism and being racist.
An artwork created for the 24h City Dionysia event๐๐ป๐ฅ๐
i know i donโt necessarily need to explain myself but i feel compelled to say that i like tarot in the same way i like dream interpretation and flipping coins for answersโ itโs not going to tell you anything you donโt already know, itโs just an excuse to examine the patterns and symbols your brain builds and is drawn to
special shoutout to people who gift handmade things, i've got every single one on my living room bookshelf, on my bedside table, people ask me who made this and i say "my friend who spent hours creating something they think id enjoy" is there a deeper way to say you love someone, you tell me
commission for @zorruvius!
(commissions are open!)
๐ช๐ Laughter-Loving Aphrodite ๐ฆช๐
"Of Cytherea, born in Cyprus, I will sing. She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face, and lovely is the brightness that plays over it. Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea-girt Cyprus; grant me a cheerful song. And now I will remember you and another song also." -Homeric Hymn 10 to Aphrodite
"Heavenly, smiling Aphrodite, praised in many hymns, sea-born, revered goddess of generation, you like the nightlong revel and you couple lovers at night, O scheming mother of Necessity. Everything comes from you; you have yoked the world, and you control all three realms. You give birth to all, to everything in heaven, upon the fruitful earth and in the depths of the sea, O venerable companion of Bacchos. You delight in festivities, O bridelike mother of the Erotes, O Persuasion whose joy is in the bed of love, secretive, giver of grace, visible and invisible, lovely-tressed daughter of a noble father, bridal feast companion of the gods, sceptered she-wolf, beloved and man-loving giver of birth and of life, with your maddening love-charms you yoke mortals and the many races of beasts to unbridled passion. Come, O goddess born in Cyprus, whether you are on Olympos, O queen, exulting in the beauty of your face, or you wander in Syria, country of fine frankincense, or, yet, driving your golden chariot in the plain,you lord it over Egyptโs fertile river bed. Come, whether you ride your swan-drawn chariot over the seaโs billows, joying in the creatures of the deep as they dance in circles, or you delight in the company of the dark-faced nymphs on land,(as, light-footed, they frisk over the sandy beaches). Come, lady, even if you are in Cyprus that cherishes you, where fair maidens and chaste nymphs throughout the year sing of you, O blessed one, and of immortal, pure Adonis. Come, O beautiful and comely goddess; I summon you with holy words and pious soul." - Orphic Hymn to Aphroditeย
I was heavily inspired by @ombrokharis beautiful drawings of Kypris. She's still unfinished, but I wanted to post her before the file corrupts. Im planning on switching to a new drawing program soon, which will relieve the worry about that happening again. I would've loved to add more ornamentation and trinkets
if you read about any biology you can quickly lose touch with what is astonishing and miraculous vs what is mundane, from animals that steal chloroplasts to become photosynthetic, to cloning technology being old hat, to trees that didnโt biodegrade for tens of millions of years, to naturally occurring lateral gene transfer between vastly different species, to the creation of gametes from adult cells, to the ability of some cancers to induce blood vessel growth, to desert shrimp that lie dormant for years, to the sensitivity of human touch receptors, to the fact that human hardware has a latent ability to see UV but their corneas block those wavelengths, to birds that echolocate and live in caves, to human skin being covered in enzymes that destroy RNA, to individual trees becoming genetic tapestries branch by branch, to life forms that gain energy from the electron potential of metals in their environments, to plants that recognize their siblings and adjust their behavior accordingly when growing next to them, to metamorphosis
which is to say. All of it is miraculous. and all of it is mundane. biology is Chaos vs. Order locking horns forever
hermes thing i want to turn into an oil painting
May this year treat you kindly, little horse
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I think it's hilarious that hands down the worst way to learn magic is the actual rulebook. Please do not read that. It's just there for reference when something weird happens
posts that i know are about magic the gathering but i have to check to make sure op isn't just living in a way doper world than me
"you should be at the club" i should be in the woods. performing the ritual.
fog haters are weak. you are walking in a cloud and it's making everything look like a moody detective film! the veil is thin and there could be a faerie 20 metres directly ahead of you! appreciate it!!
itโs okay to mourn lives you will never get to live even if youโre grateful for the life you are living now
we are all โdifficultโ sometimes. that doesnโt make you a problem or a burden or an inconvenience. it makes you a human being with feelings.
Southern Hemisphere witch 2026 dates:
January
๐ 03 - Full Buck Moon (Cancer)
๐ซ 03-04 - Quadrantids shower
๐ 10 - Jupiter at Opposition
๐ 19- New Moon (Capricorn)
February
๐ 01 - Full Sturgeon Moon (Leo)
๐พ 01 - Lughnasadh (traditional)
๐ 17 - annular solar eclipse
๐ 17 - New Moon (Aquarius)
๐ 19 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation
โจ 26 - Mercury Retrograde Begins
March
๐ 03 - Full Harvest Moon (Virgo)
๐ 19 - New Moon (Pisces)
โจ 20 - Mercury Retrograde Ends
๐ 20-21 - Mabon / Autumn Equinox (traditional)
April
๐ 01 - Full Hunter Moon (Libra)
๐ 03 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation
๐ 17 - New Moon (Aries)
๐ซ 22-23 - Lyrids Meteor Shower
May
๐ 01 - Samhain (traditional)
๐ 01 - Full Beaver Moon (Scorpio)
๐ 06-07 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower
๐ 16 - New Moon (Taurus)
๐ 31 - Full Blue Moon (Sagittarius)
June
๐ 15 - New Moon (Gemini)
๐ 15 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation
โ๏ธ 21 - Yule / Winter Solstice (traditional)
๐ 29 - Full Cold Moon (Capricorn)
โจ 29 - Mercury Retrograde Begins
July
๐ 14 - New Moon (Cancer)
โจ 23 - Mercury Retrograde Ends
๐ซ 28-29 - Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower
๐ 29 - Full Wolf Moon (Aquarius)
August
๐ฏ๏ธ 01 - Imbolc (traditional)
๐ 02 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation
๐ 12 - New Moon (Leo)
๐ 12 - Total Solar Eclipse
๐ซ 12-13 - Perseids Meteor Shower
๐ 15 - Venus at Greatest Eastern Elongation
๐ 27-28 - Partial Full Snow Lunar Eclipse (Pisces)
September
๐ 10 - New Moon (Virgo)
๐ธ 21-22 - Ostara/Vernal/Spring Equinox (traditional)
๐ 26 - Full Worm Moon (Aries)
October
๐ 04 - Saturn at Opposition
๐ซ 07 - Draconids Meteor Shower
๐ 10 - New Moon (Libra)
๐ 12 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation
๐ซ 21-22 - Orionids Meteor Shower
โจ 24 - Mercury Retrograde Begins
๐ 26 - Full Pink Moon (Taurus)
๐ฅ 31 - Beltane (traditional)
November
๐ซ 04-5 - Taurids Meteor Shower
๐ 09 - New Moon (Scorpio)
โจ 13 - Mercury Retrograde Ends
๐ซ 17-18 - Leonids Meteor Shower
๐ 20 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation
๐ 24 - Full Super Flower Moon (Gemini)
๐ 25 - Uranus at Opposition
December
๐ 08 - New Moon (Sagittarius)
๐ซ 13-14 - Geminids Meteor Shower
โ๏ธ 21 - Litha / Summer Solstice (traditional)
๐ซ 21-22 - Ursids Meteor Shower
๐ 24 - Full Strawberry Super Moon (Cancer)