Hearth and Veil

Hellenic Polytheism, Witchcraft, and General Fuckery 🍽🏺🫖 Feel free to ask any questions

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Heart and Veil - Cult of Eternal Hera - Shadow and Flamethrowers Shutdown

Hey y'all 🪷 I don't think this is going to come as a terrible surprise, given how little I have been on tumblr and how little I have been posting about witchcraft and Hellenic Polytheism. I'm going to lay this out nice and clear.

The past 18 or so months of my life have been a lot, if I'm being honest. The roots are strong, but the branches were sickly. As they have regrown, they have grown differently. I am still me, perhaps more myself than I have ever been, but the me that I am with all the external influence stripped off looks very different.

I finally understand the meaning of "The Way that can be named is not the Way."

I no longer consider myself a Hellenic Polytheist. I still worship the Greek Gods in a certain capacity, but my philosophical bent has changed directions. I will always love our Gods, and I will be grateful to (some of) the HelPol community for their place in helping me find a life I could be happy to live.

I also made the decision this past weekend to remove my veil. For six years, I have worn it with pride and devotion. I no longer feel like I need it, at least not all the time. I have finally learned to be my own veil. I'm going to find a local cancer charity and donate most of my scarves.

I have come to see in recent months that social media isn't really conducive to my happiness; at least not the way I have been using it. I'm deleting most of my social media (though I'm only deactivating IG) and will be away from it all long term. I do intend to come back to tumblr in the future, but it will be in a completely different capacity.

Some will look at this and think, "ahh, see, it's just a phase," and so fucking what? If something I devoted a fifth of my entire life to is a phase, then call me Luna. It's a woman's prerogative. But I am the Magnolia Grandiflora - strong roots, a steady trunk, swaying branches, continually replacing leaves, and long-blooming flowers. I am more than content with that.

I am permanently logging out of all of these tumblr accounts on September 30, 2024. If there was ever a question you wanted to ask, I recommend you get it in before then because once I delete my passwords I am fuck't. I don't even know which email address I used to sign up for hellsite.

Remember: I am proud of you. That little kind thing you did today that nobody noticed? The win you're too humble to brag about? The accomplishment no one else cared about? I am so fucking proud of you. So endlessly proud. You have within you the incredible capacity to be a phenomenal human being. All virtues are just something you practice, not something you are - so go out there and practice the virtues you admire most. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't, because Auntie said that you can.

Thank you all for sharing this space with me for the past few years ❤️

In the wise words of Lester Holt: Take care of yourselves and each other.

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I stopped drinking a year ago. (Way to be a millennial stereotype, Mags!) Since mid~July I have had a few drinks, but kept it to one or two at a time. This past weekend was the first time I got drunk in a year and whoooo boy, y'all I did NOT like it.

I got drunk Sunday evening and my mood was fucked until today (Tuesday). I got so melancholic it's not even funny. I hated my life, I was pretty sure everyone hated me, I got super irritable.... Like damn, no wonder I was so miserable all the time. Maybe tossing back downers isn't good for depression 🙃🤡

I'm also now pretty sure that alcohol was responsible for my IBS. I have diagnosed IBS but I didn't realize until my stomach got fucked up yesterday that I haven't really had symptoms for the past year. Got drunk once, my symptoms came back. Mysterious.

I'm starting to think maybe this shit is bad for you 😀

[guzhufuren]

Uncensored wuxia BL Meet You At The Blossom (2024)

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This is the best 🤣🥰

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Witch Pro Tip:

Make your simmer pots edible!

Use florals, herbs, and fruits mindfully to create a simmer pot that fills your home with a delicious scent, permeates the air with the energy you want, and then becomes a delightful drink at the end of the day. There's less waste and more benefit. It will also help stop you from leaving the simmer pot to rot on your stove.

My favorites:

Orange, basil, cinnamon, star anise

Lemon, lavender, and rosemary

Cranberry, orange, and clove (classic)

Mandarine, peppercorn (only a little!) or pink peppercorn, chrysanthemum

Calendula, chamomile, and mint

Lemon, ginger, star anise (great for digestion)

Orange, juniper, and rosemary

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Witchcraft is fun because I need 6 $5 bills from different people in my life, 5 crisp $1 bills, and the dirt from a bank plant.

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Tfw the merch is the spoiler

Also yes my desk doubles as an I-Spy game thank you for noticing.

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Growing up is understanding that the hobbits lived the best life, my ass would have stayed in the Shire, and Gandalf wasn't smoking tobacco.

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I'm kind of not surprised that the less time I spend on social media, the happier I am. I am surprised that that seems to go double for any witchcraft/spiritual/pagan space.

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Nearly done watching the double. Wanning they could never make me hate you. She's an evil bitch and I love her

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I literally said "Princess Wanning they could never make me hate you" during the rain scene. Is she evil? Yes. Has she earned the right to be evil? Also yes. Every man she does anything to is fair game. I support women's wrongs.

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The jingliest motherfucker in Jiangnan always trying to sneak up on his wife is so funny to me.

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Friendly reminder...

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I loved Shang Que. Funny dragons ftw 🐉

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I'm only half through but The Double is my show of the year so far because I cannot believe they invented a new kind of simp.

This man is Doing The Absolute Most to make sure the woman he likes is safe, comfortable, happy, and achieving her goals. He's risking everything for her; life, limb, Trusted Subordinate Duo, relationship with the Emperor, reputation, fortune, title, everything!

And he's doing it so that he can keep playing hard to get and pretending he doesn't like her. Oh she's just your pawn? Suuuure. Tell that to the dudes you beat up for her.

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And now Emperor-Bestie is like "ok drama queen, I'm tired of this" #wingmanactivated "I'll get you your girl."

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And then right before his act got to be too much and drove her away, he flipped the script and wants to marry her. My good sir, you have the timing of an avocado.

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Ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa

I have always loved to read, and even as an early teenager I was aware that it was a form of escapism to distract me from my life. Directly related to this was the fact that I lived a fantasy in my head. I concoct these amazing fantasy worlds, the stories, or imagine myself in the universe of something I've read, and it's basically all the time. I will do this for hours on end, every day. Sometimes I'm actually engaged with myself, as myself, but sometimes I basically disembody myself, become the omniscient narrator, and treat myself as a character.

Turns out, that's super abnormal and your brain isn't meant to do that. It's a form of dissociation.

I've also learned that it isn't normal to feel crushing sadness after finishing a book/series, not because of the plot of the story, but because you're disappointed that you will never experience anything like that.

It's also apparently not normal to get extremely, extremely upset when someone interrupts you while you're reading because you were so immersed in the story that you basically forgot you exist, and it's a really jarring and emotionally disturbing thing to have that fantasy world ripped away from you, and be brought back to reality.

Yet another abnormality is to (unconsciously) hold people to the book standard. Like getting dissatisfied with your relationship with someone because they don't do something that is literally impossible (looking at you, Hua Cheng, Simp King). So to like want an epic romance from a partner, when you live completely normal lives and there is no way for that stuff to happen.

So yeah. Some days in therapy are much less fun than others.

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I'm only half through but The Double is my show of the year so far because I cannot believe they invented a new kind of simp.

This man is Doing The Absolute Most to make sure the woman he likes is safe, comfortable, happy, and achieving her goals. He's risking everything for her; life, limb, Trusted Subordinate Duo, relationship with the Emperor, reputation, fortune, title, everything!

And he's doing it so that he can keep playing hard to get and pretending he doesn't like her. Oh she's just your pawn? Suuuure. Tell that to the dudes you beat up for her.

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And now Emperor-Bestie is like "ok drama queen, I'm tired of this" #wingmanactivated "I'll get you your girl."

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Oh no, the handmaid is planning for her future 😭 RIP girliepop

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I'm only half through but The Double is my show of the year so far because I cannot believe they invented a new kind of simp.

This man is Doing The Absolute Most to make sure the woman he likes is safe, comfortable, happy, and achieving her goals. He's risking everything for her; life, limb, Trusted Subordinate Duo, relationship with the Emperor, reputation, fortune, title, everything!

And he's doing it so that he can keep playing hard to get and pretending he doesn't like her. Oh she's just your pawn? Suuuure. Tell that to the dudes you beat up for her.