daughter of eve

Ellie ⚖️ Episcopalian 🐂 Embracing God as both a Mother and Father 🕊️ Pro-LG[B]T 💖 Purgatorial universalist ✝️ Creation spirituality 🔥 Proverbs 4:6

[bobbertlee]

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he [or she] who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883)

[fierysword]

I LOVE IT WHEN CATS HEADBUTT ME AND AGGRESSIVELY RUB THEIR NOSE AGAINST MINE

[mishkalou]

the sweet st agatha.

[orthodoxadventure]

Saint Martyr Agatha

Saint Agatha is a third-century martyr who confessed Christ during the persecution of Emperor Decius against the Christians. After refusing to become the wife of a pagan judge and choosing to remain faithful to Christ, she was tortured by having her breasts cut off.

Saint Peter appeared to her in the cell where she was imprisoned and healed her.

Saint Agatha is considered a patron saint of women with breast cancer.

[goth-queen]

[fierysword]

Me when I shower: *thinks about God*

Me when I walk: *thinks about saints*

Me when I lay in bed: *thinks about God and saints*

[fierysword]

I love that September is dedicated to the Seven Sorrows of Mary. It’s my birth month & Our Lady of Sorrows is the title of Mary I feel most connected to.

[deanwinchesterapologist]

finding a new doctor. applying for jobs. searching for apartments. messaging used car dealers. getting your health insurance to do their job. getting a pharmacy to do their job. getting the dmv to accept the documents they told you to bring. just listing things they probably make you do in hell

[bookofjudith]

mother of infinite sorrows

The Iliad, Homer, trans. Robert Fagles // The Virgin of the Lilies, William-Adolphe Bouguereau // Pieta, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

[ricordidalsottosuolo]

Michelangelo Buonarroti,  La Pietà di San Pietro (1497-1499)

[uroko]

岐阜横蔵寺 // Yokokura-ji Temple, Gifu

[notebookofquotes]

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”

— CS Lewis

[fierysword]

Virgin Martyr Marina was revered as a deliverer from misfortunes and troubles, from unrighteous judgment and lawless sentences. In the Athonite proskynitaria (descriptions of holy places) from 1701 it is said that her relics heal the afflicted, give "healing to the sick, consolation to mourners, correction and forgiveness to those who live in sins." The Holy Great Martyr Marina, who defeated the devil during her lifetime, protects us against the Enemy's slanders and defamations, she intercedes for those who are overwhelmed by the spirits of malice: the possessed and mentally ill, as well as for those who are on their deathbed, driving the demons away from them.

Lives of all saints commemorated on July 17

Information on the lives of many Orthodox Christian saints commemorated during the liturgical year with icons pertaining to that saint or fe

“Spirits of malice” can be a problematic term for mental illness, especially when paired with possession, but otherwise, I love this.

[episcopaldailyrosary]

Happy Pride Month to all my fellow queers! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

You are wonderfully loved and created by God. <3

[fierysword]

I’m not adding this to the initial post itself because it’s clearly a joke, but I would like to note that divination can also become an unhealthy compulsion and harmful to your mental health, particularly if you have OCD or PTSD.

I used to spend hours at a time interrogating tarot about my traumas, abusers, etc, asking the same questions multiple times a day. I would wake up in the middle of the night with the overwhelming urge to ask tarot more questions.

Thought this is important to note since not many people talk about this!

[softberrydoll]

me

[fierysword]

A small Pinterest collage I made of Saint Marina with music I found fitting! She was tortured after rejecting the romantic advances of a Roman official. She’s often depicted as defeating the devil.

Song: labour by Paris Paloma