obsidian

21+ / Apollo devotee / he/him / respect existence or expect resistance Fuck off TERFs and racists. Fuck ICE.

[honeyandhestia]

May Hestia be with you on the days that feel hardest. May she comfort you and help you find comfort in your life. May she help you find the energy to do what is needed from the day. May she bring you small joys and help you create your own. May she be with you each and every day, beaming with pride and love that you keep on pushing on 🧡

(Hestia is proud of you, and so am I!)

[whoisviktoria]

Devotional Painting for Lord Apollon💛 first time trying oil paints!

[bodhi-devotee]

i love the way you captured the sunlight reflecting off the grass and trees! it’s so dreamy. and the sky is super well done too :)))

[devoted-to-the-gods]

To other helpols, do you do anything special when praying to the theoi for something particularly "large" or important? Things like major life events, court hearings, job interviews, big health procedures, etc.

[templehyacinthus]

Typically if I’m praying for something important, I treat the prayer:moment with the same importance (if I have the spoons).

I’ll take a ritual shower beforehand, choose specific clothes (for me this usually involves skirts or my ritual dress, as well as some form of head covering), and use wine as a libation instead of water.

Not that I feel like I have to do any of this - I do it because I want to, and because I feel like it reflects the spirit of Kharis. As well as one of my personal maxims (Do Ut Des; I give so that you may give).

Hope that’s helpful in some way! 🫶🏻

[devoted-to-the-gods]

This very helpful, thank you so much for this response. I know worship is different for everyone and I love the ideas you have given me. Also I appreciate you mentioning the spoons 😅. I always want to do massive grand gestures and then run out of spoons. Hardest part is knowing how many spoons I have at a given time lol.

Unrelated question, how did you come up with your personal maxim?

[devoted-to-the-gods]

To other helpols, do you do anything special when praying to the theoi for something particularly "large" or important? Things like major life events, court hearings, job interviews, big health procedures, etc.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Prayer by Marie Howe

[scribeherself]

sorry everyone I have to go sit in the sun about this for awhile.

[unicornwonderlaand]

Apollo Phoebus 🌞🪉✨

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[sugar-petals]

listening to CDs in the kitchen i always brace myself for the ad between songs but then it just keeps rolling. skipping around how i like without interruption feels heavenly. we're in such a commercial angst prison that books and CDs are luxury now 😭

protect, pass on, thrift, gift, and store physical media, it's worth it

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

[bodhi-devotee]

Phoebus Apollon, Sacred Healer and Oracle!

As the days grow longer, the sun brighter,

I think of the Far Shooter

Arrows flying like rays of light through clouds!

Presiding over the Muses

Who dance like flowers or bugs in the breeze

Lead in song by the all-seeing, the all-knowing

sitting with His lyre and and cheering!

I present an offering of flowers upon your altar, Great Apollo, as they remind me of all these sweet things;

In their brightness, I see your light and oracular talents reflected

and in their liveliness, your healing energy flows,

and as they wilt I will remember Fate, my mortality, my health, and I will know it is all in Your firm, unyielding hands! There is no better place to be!

Praise Be to Apollon!

[neddomosed]

Apollo and Artemis up in the star sky talking about something only they know

[devoted-to-the-gods]

I'm in a very Hermes time in my life rn

[apollo-32]

Apollo from Leiden, Netherlands RMO Museum. It was a great pleasure to see this statue in person today. ☀️

[theartistrans]

[devoted-to-the-gods]

My little brother's drawing of Hermes, he says he feels most connected to Hermes and I thought it was cute

he also said he gave him "big muscles" lol

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[spectralhauntings]

I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3

Explore Pet Poison Helpline®s vast knowledge on poisons by reviewing our pet poison list. Explore our top 10 poison and holiday poison lists

[littlemousling]

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog