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‌✿ 𝔑𝔬 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 ℑ 𝔡𝔬‌✿ ✿𝔈𝔩𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔓𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔰 𝔑°1 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭✿ ✿𝔄𝔩𝔰𝔬 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔞𝔰 𝔖𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔞‌✿ ✿𝔓𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔫 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔞 𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔠 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔫‌✿ ✿𝔄𝔩𝔰𝔬 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔡✿ ✿𝔴𝔴𝔴.𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔱𝔢.𝔠𝔬𝔪✿ ✿𝔉𝔞𝔟𝔲𝔩𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔉𝔢𝔟𝔣𝔢𝔪✿ ✿𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴 𝔦𝔫 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔴𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫✿

[fiendishlywitchy]

Dianic/ Feminist/Goddess reads I've completed and recommend:

Ruth Barret's Women's rites, Women's mysteries. Generally teaches you how to approach priestess work and I will get it when embarking in my priestess journey in a physical copy. Moved me to tears at some points and it may trigger some who have mother issues.

Rebirth of the Goddess, Carol Christ. Actually moved me to tears in many parts and generally talks about the birth of the Goddess movement

The Living Goddess, Marija Gimbutas. Has inspired many sketches due to the lovely collection of Goddess work it has and has deeply soothed me

Keeping her Keys, Cyndi Brannen, first introduction to Hekate and her modern movement.

Hekate, Her sacred fires, Sorita D'Este. The introduction is a splendid recap of The Goddess's history and a rough timeline of all of her recorded existence

The Witch's path by Thorn Mooney winch i made a more in depth review here: (( As a side note it's gender friendly but none the less a useful manual))

Goddess in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen: An introduction of how Goddesses may appear on a woman's life as Archetypes. Leans on Jungian Analysis. Is an interesting way of looking at your own personal development. I've read this in a rather long time ago and debated since then including or not but it is female centered and uses the Goddess and her imagery, thus I'll allow it

Dance of The Dissident daughter By Sue Monk. Like Lisa Lister's The Witch it's the memoir of a woman coming into the Goddess. Generally Powerful read if a woman needs to unravel growing up in the bowels of patriarchal thought. Does lean on annoying female-male duality that I dislike but doesn't take away from how resonant it is none the less.

A Deusa do Jardim das Hesperides By Luiza Frazão, a goddess oriented book in Portuguese focusing on the Goddess in this specific part of the world! A wonderful book detailing the tradition that The Authoress created from the celtic inspired tradition of Avalon.

Witch: Unleashed, Untamed, Unapologetic by Lisa Lister. Part Time Memoir, Part Time actual spell book, Lisa Lister's Witch is a treat to go through. It's rather casual in its tone but all the same relies a lot of feminine wisdom with an unabashed love for the female body and exclusion of men and Trans Id men from the discussion as it should. Slight male fangirling and "Patriarchy hurts man too you guyz", so be forewarned. Still an enjoyable book to pick up!

Aradia or the gospel of the witches; Written by a man but included for being a seminal work on very early Neo Pagan revival movements, such as Stregheria, And being an overall inspiration. It's easy to breeze through and the incantations are charming.

The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the religion of the earth, is about the most influential goddess reading I've seen. It posits women as the generatrixes of civilization and the link of humanity with Spirituality and downright dissects the whole gambit of male religions and ways patriarchy has allowed to reign for thousands of years. In spite of being written decades ago, much of the information is still relevant to this day and resonates deeply. I'd recommend it either reading in parsels if only getting acquainted with the goddess movement or after reading many other goddess works.

Red moon by Miranda Grey, It's a nice book that focuses on how to harness your period and how to embrace it. Her "Optimized Woman" book is a tad less accessible to me by comparison, or maybe to be skipped as a e-book copy and to be owned in a physical copy in tandem with "Red Moon". Be warned that Optimized Woman is the most self of the two, so depends on the approach you want, but both include a tracking of one's periods and mood.

Ariadne's Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic by Shekhinah Mountainwater. An underrated voice in the Goddess Movement , I'd consider an essential read along the likes of Budapest and Starhawk both as a way into Dianic practices as well as generally Goddess oriented ones. Her book has wonderful diary prompts and truly fulfils it's title as a Workbook. Took me twice as long to read and will probably take me Thrice as long to fully complete.

The Holy Book of Women's mysteries by Zsuzsanna Budapest/ Z.Budapest. A seminal work of The Goddess Movement, It's another fairly meaty book tackling everything from building a well-rounded philosophy to creating rituals.

Entering Hekate's Cave by Cyndi Brannen. Another wonderful entry into the world of Hekathean magic and her mysteries; this time with a strong focus/ Emphasis on Shadow Work.

My General Thoughts:

Hello! Head in the stars ( Call me Lia or Star) here to deliver a review on: A book i read for the book club on Witches and pagan amino.

I am in the process of reading more and definetly have more on my pile to read but this one's I have completed with most certainty and can recommend to people interested in Goddess specific things. Many of this can be found in Pdfs on Z-library if accessed through a tor browser or the brand new Anna's Archive. If curious about any books I can attempt to provide a pdf.

Coming soon: A deeper look into female spirituality @spiraldancer

~Selenita Signs out.

[fiendishlywitchy]

I only really log into this account to update my book list and follow gyns. Generally speaking, I'm disconnected from Radblr.

[fiendishlywitchy]

Still very much the case but heeey

[fiendishlywitchy]

Book list been updated. Fiendshlywitchy peace out

[fiendishlywitchy]

I only really log into this account to update my book list and follow gyns. Generally speaking, I'm disconnected from Radblr.

[fiendishlywitchy]

Still very much the case but heeey

[lynxling]

I love how people call JKR a "billionaire" acting like she's literally a demon who enslaved their family. As if she didn't get rich by just… making a good product that sells. She receives the same hatred that a man who forces his warehouse workers to piss in bottles and ignore heart attacks does. She might just be the only rich person in our time who earned her wealth. If that's not misogyny idk what is.

[lunawickedwitchofthewest]

she was a poor single mother who escaped domestic violence who wrote a wonderful book series in the aftermath of her mother’s death. she didn’t get a loan from her rich parents to create a business that hurt people, she literally just wrote a book while in poverty and gave permission for it to become a movie series

[slanchogledi]

[adding tag from previous reblog]

[trivialz]

life is great when you're a feminist who hates men rather than one who spends all her time trying to convince men that feminism is good for them

[fiendishlywitchy]

I only really log into this account to update my book list and follow gyns. Generally speaking, I'm disconnected from Radblr.

[fiendishlywitchy]

a song recommendation for when you come back: opera by valencia grace

Thanks

[drachenstochter]

Can y'all stop being stupid for 5 fucking seconds please just because ww2 ended doesn't mean antisemitism did. Genocide and mass murder does not necessitate or justify rape. There is zero reason to rape someone, ever. It serves no purpose and does nothing to liberate the oppressed. Random jewish women are not responsible for the actions of the israeli government. Israeli women are not responsible for the actions of the israeli government. As a bunch of y'all are USAmericans, I would be real fucking careful about pointing fingers at other citizens of nations who commit atrocities upon innocent people, because I know y'all have essays on essays about why the average USAmerican is not the same as the USAmerican government & military committing war crimes. Why is it different for Israeli women?

None of y'all act like the Russians raping German women en masse post-/during ww2 was ok. In fact, I've seen a number of posts over the years decrying how despicable and heinous that was. Why now are you defending the rape of Israeli women? Handwaving it as ~hypothetical,~ or saying they deserved it if it did happen? What happened to #YesAllMen? I know none of you are so stupid as to forget what men do in times of war, what their favorite part of war is. Jewish women are not acceptable targets of sexual violence, no matter where they come from.

Jewish women built so many activist causes on their backs, with their own hands in the mud, and this is how you repay them? No solidarity. No speaking up for them when antisemites rape and beat and murder them. Idgaf where they happened to have been born, and frankly, i don't care what they voted for or what atrocities they celebrate, rape is never acceptable. Rape is never excusable. Rape is not a punishment to be wielded against women—even the most sincerely evil woman in the world, whoever she is, does not and cannot deserve rape.

Antisemitism is not acceptable. Free Palestine, and take out the antisemitic trash at the same time. We can do both. Jewish women deserve better than this.

[hekatesstrophalos]

Dear fellow pagans:

Take your Greek mythology with a grain of salt.

The ancient Greek writers were horribly misogynistic, and they never missed an opportunity to make the Goddess or woman out to be evil or sneaky. Note anything by Hesiod alone. They even turned Gaia, the literal earth and mother of creation itself, into a cruel and rebellious bitch. Athena punished a rape victim and then aided her assailants for fun. Aphrodite was vain and selfish. The entire story of Persephone.

Hera. Just...Hera.

I'm not saying ignore the past, what I'm saying is if you want to work with these Goddesses, you don't have to stick to the ancient script created by men who hated them. You can, in fact, modernize and worship in how you connect personally. Religion should be about having fun.

[fiendishlywitchy]

spotted you in my notifs! <3 :) I hope you’re doing well

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Yeah I am! I decided to log in to go through my notifs and lurk lol. I'm pretty much done

[fiendishlywitchy]

Hello! I'm logging out and taking a small break from Radblr for the time being!

If ones wishes to keep in touch with me they can dm me and ask for my discord handle or email!

[blessingsofthemother]

Merry Solstice! Tonight the Sun will be born, the days will grow longer, and the Earth will stir in Her slumber. Prayers and good tidings to all, and blessed be the Goddess! Our Lady of Light, the antlered doe, Mother of the Sun Daughter, and the bringer of snow!

🕯️❄️🌟❄️☀️❄️🌟❄️🕯️

[brainstatic]

Psst, hey, Marilyn Monroe’s image as a freewheeling sexpot was a carefully constructed lie. The real Marilyn Monroe was a roiling tragedy and her life was an indictment of our society as a whole. She was orphaned after her mother had a schizophrenic breakdown, bounced around between foster homes where she was sexually abused, and married a 21-year-old at 16 to get out of being sent to an orphanage. Hugh Hefner published nude photos of her without her consent that were taken when she was 23 and desperate. She suffered severe anxiety and depression, which she coped with by drinking and using barbiturates, and was already a full-blown addict when she became famous in the mid-50s. Her career was one of exploitation, condescension and alienation, and she killed herself at 36. That Hugh Hefner, a man who was at best an unpleasant footnote in her life, felt entitled to be buried next to her is one more humiliation in a pop cultural landscape we should all be ashamed of.

[class-struggle-anarchism]

“Please don’t make me a joke… I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity..”

 - Marilyn Monroe, last taped interview, days before her death

She deserved better than this

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Can I just also say, in addition to all this, that I’m still pissed off about the fact that Joe DiMaggio swooped in and gave Marilyn a Christian funeral before her Rabbi could return from a trip overseas? ‘Cause that shit is fucked up.

So many men who claimed to be in love with her, and not one could fucking respect her wishes, even in death.

[emily84]

“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.””  — Marilyn Monroe

Also:

As one of the biggest Ella Fitzgerald fans, she literally helped desegregate her performances. Ella was not allowed to play at Mocambo because of her race.

Ella Fitzgerald: “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt… she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.” thisisnotmyfairytaleendingg (Source: dmvnessa)

ALSO:

In August 1956, Monroe began filming The Prince and the Showgirl, with Laurence Olivier staring and directing. The production was complicated by conflicts between him and Monroe. He angered her with the patronizing statement “All you have to do is be sexy” and his attempts to get her to replicate Vivien Leigh’s interpretation. She became pregnant and miscarried during the production, which heavily worsened her depression and increased her drug abuse.

A L S O , I will never forget watching a documentary about her once and, speaking about her marriage with Arthur Miller, the narrator said, verbatim: “America’s Brain had married America’s Body”. Like, literally, because he was a famous writer, he was entitled to personhood; she, being an actress, and a beautiful woman, was reduced to being “a body”. I have never been more enraged with her portrayal in the media. If you want to be dismissive of her,  literally come for you.

[amuseoffyre]

She was also chronically ill her whole life: she suffered from endometriosis with pain so debilitating that a clause was written into her contracts accounting for the days when she would not physically be able to work during her periods.

She was on courses of strong medication, had invasive surgery to try and limit the damage caused, and despite trying for a baby numerous times, suffered many miscarriages because of her condition. The miscarriages especially sent her into deep depression, since she desperately wanted to be a mother.

There is speculation that the condition may have been one of the triggers in her drug dependency as well, because when you have endo, you will take whatever you can to stop. it. hurting.

Marilyn Monroe was smart and strong as hell in a world that saw her as a sexy doll and nothing more.

[wiciclesatmidnight]

She deserves better

[fiendishlywitchy]

What is a gyn

It's a fun way I've seen Rad Women and girls referring to other girls and women usually on radblr; is pronounced the same way gynecologist and has the root word meaning " Woman"

[fiendishlywitchy]

do you know any wiccan/dianic literature that focuses on women's relationship with food/weight/body-image and in general is there any sort of wiccan/witchcraft/dianic literature that you think can help me overcome my eating disorder? i feel like the usual ''therapy'' and social media body positivity stuff just doesn't work on me. i need something like a mantra and a personal belief or even personal rituals to keep me from my eating disorder and only the rare times i adopt something akin to it does it help me not obsess over food and not have unhealthy relationship with food.

Hmm thats actually a good question Anon! Love your lady Landscape comes by Lisa Lister comes to mind as it is a book that teaches you to connect with your body in a more Holistic fashion; there is more of a focus on periods/ a side of sexuality from what I've researched about the book, but does claim to speak about how to become embodied in yourself winch seem to be mostly what you're looking for. I do know that eating disorders can cause disruptions in your menstrual period and otherwise harm that aspect of Feminine Help, so if you feel an issue in that department I'd sincerely recommend picking it up

Non Wiccan but I did see The Beauty Myth being advised frequently among rad circles as something that helped some Gyns i knew personally dispelling some myths about the worth of patriarchal beauty standards. It may be worth looking into as a way to unpack some of the societal conditioning that does no service to your condition.

I'd encourage you to look into A Goddess you'd want to tap into and embody and make your own mantra to aid you whenever your ED flairs up as well. A number of Dianic Go to Books such as Ariadne's thread, Spiral Dance and Women's Rites and Women's Mysteries can help you carve out the best solutions spiritually and magically for your condition. If you're interested in the Greek Pantheon, Goddess in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen can be of great assistance and a gateway of how The Goddesses tend to appear in our Psyche and Shape us.

The Divine Feminine Handbook Vol I by Marilyn Pabon talks explicitly about Holistic/ Intuitive eating and overcoming self doubt; during my research into books that could possibly help you this part stood out to me most.

If you're comfortable you can reach out to me any time you'd like Anon! I'm no stranger to a distorted view of my own body even if I have no ED and I sympathize with your plight sincerely.

)0(

[thestars-aremycanvas-reblogs]

this is completely… this-is-what-worked-for-me advice, but here it goes. Some of the things that I’ve focused on or that has helped me over the years:

~ Body neutrality. A body that does what it is supposed to is a good body. You are alive, yes? Your body is a good body.

~ Your mind and body are intricately linked. There is no one without the other. The fact you are alive, able to experience life in all of Her fullness, is because of your brain and your body.

~ Do you know how much your ancestors fought to have you standing where you are right now? How much they struggled to survive for their children, their children’s children, and now you? This isn’t meant to make you feel guilty, but it helped me to acknowledge that my body is a product of generations of people trying very, very hard to survuve.

~ Looking at renaissance era paintings of women! Paintings of the Muses, the Fates, Aphrodite the Goddess of beauty with her stomach rolls!

~ The Goddess is embodied by women, we are reflections of Her. She has cellulite, stomach rolls, She eats heartily and laughs loudly, smiling broadly without restraint. One thing I like to remember is that the Goddess is represented in women-form. Human-women form, not femininity-women form or beauty standards-women form. She is not docile and quiet, nor starved and meek. She is bold and big and is full of LIFE!!

~ As fiendishly said, The Beauty Myth is wonderfully eye opening and will help you understand the last point better. Learning Radical Feminism has opened my eyes to the beauty standards women are subjected to and has allowed me to say fuck no to them all. Although healing from my eating disorder has been a MUCH longer journey then stopping shaving my legs, I see it as in the same vein. Both are to do with beauty standards. Look for the lies in the things you were told. When was cellulite proclaimed a bad thing? When did this beauty standard appear? Why? Who does it benefit?

~ returning to how the Goddess is full of life, I recommend looking at the reasons women’s bodies are whatever sort of way. Why do we hold more fat then men? Where do we hold it most and why? What is cellulite? What is its purpose? Learning about all of this helps me connect with the Goddess too.

~ this recommendation isn’t Goddess focused but bear with me. My idea of the Goddess draws heavily from Dionysus and to me, She has indulgence and pleasure within Her endless domain. I am sure I am restating things but below are two excerpts from The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries.

Both stress life and celebration. I think that is a wonderful thing, myself, since being a woman tends to be about sacrifice, suffering and enduring. You aren’t here to look pretty. You’re here to live and to experience the joys of existance.

Anyways that’s my little input, feel free to ignore or interact. Thanks op for the recs! I’ll have to take a look at them myself

[fiendishlywitchy]

for eating disorder anon: asked my friend and she recommended Robin Kimmerer's "Braiding Sweetgrass" for having extremely good takes about food and body(friend and author are both indigenous)

women spiritualists should probably read that book in general lol.

Eating disorder Anon if you're still lurking there's this as well. I've heard of Braiding Sweetgrass and it's in my future reading list haha

[deadlysunlight]

The women’s community as a mystically loving band of emotional weaklings who make up to each other by our kindness and sweetness for the harshness we have to endure in the outside world is a description that exactly characterizes the female middle-class sub-culture as it’s existed in patriarchy for centuries–without changing a thing. This is not a revolutionary movement but a ghetto in which anyone seen as having achievement, money, or power is cast as a Magic Momma, whose function is to make up to everyone else for the world’s deprivation and their terror of effectiveness. This is impossible. So the requirement becomes to make others feel good all the time, an especially seductive goal in times of political reaction when activity directed outward at the (seemingly) monolithic social structure is not only frustrating but frighteningly dangerous. So honesty goes by the board, hurt feelings are put at a premium, general fear and paralysis set in, and one by one any woman who oversteps the increasingly circumscribed area of what’s permissible is trashed. Eventually, after the demons of success and effectiveness have been banished, and all the female villains who made everyone else feel miserable have left or been silenced, what happens? The group disintegrates. The Feminine Imperative has been faithfully served. The enemy has been driven from the ranks. Feminism has been destroyed.

— Power and Helplessness in the Women's Movement, Joanna Russ

[fiendishlywitchy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSeparatistLibrary/comments/160usua/joanna_russ_on_power/

The whole essay as far as I can tell