sunny days are never over at my place

mary, 21, she/her

[maria-solar]

☆ミ intro post ミ☆

i haven't had a tumblr account since i was 12, so it's a little difficult for me to catch up buttt here's the intro post ig!!

my name's mary (mariia, to be exact), i'm 21, my pronouns are she/her

i decided to start this whole blog thing to find community with the fellow helpols because in my country this is just...not a thing?? so yeah, i want to share my passion with like-minded people!

i'm a huge Απόλλων worshipper, he helped me get through so much since he reached out but i love all the gods, so everyone's welcome

this year i've got my philology degree (that's my country's way of saying 'english major' in a fancy way), so languages and literature are, basically, my whole thing

i do speak english, french and greek but my native language is none of the above

i'd love to get some questions, some new people and stuff so feel free to reach out!

p.s. i've got tesl (teaching english as a second language) brainrot so my english might be all over the place sometimes

[maria-solar]

hello you beautiful people!

i've been pretty overwhelmed by social media these last couple of months yet i find myself here again!

i've been a little on and off with my practice, honestly, but i just wanted to share my lovely story of Apollon's aid, about to do that in the next post

great to see you all thriving!

[maria-solar]

dancing in front of my Apollon's altar to thank him for sunny weather as we speak

[maria-solar]

life becomes beautiful once you start seeing it as such. life becomes worth living once you start living it, putting in effort to make it that way. sometimes you just need to go for a walk, call a friend, make a hearty meal. other times you need to bawl your eyes out until you can't breathe to wake up as a new person.

i used to be terrified of words 'life's what you make it' before i realised how freeing that actually is.

[kosmogrl]

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[maria-solar]

thank you, the cause of the blooming of all the things, the beloved one, all-shining Apollon ☀️

ast night i was crying sobbing throwing up in my prayer, BEGGING Apollon to bring some sunlight (i'm a south girlie, i need my sunlight or i WILL be whining pathetically all day). today, i randomly woke up to witness the most elegant sunrise and the weather today was oh so gentle. warm and sunny and so so comforting

[maria-solar]

Apollon's altar 🌼

soooo here's my altar dedicated to Lord Apollon! I keep it on a bookshelf because

a) gaining knowlegde is the best thing we can do to find the truth

b) it's the only place in my house where my two cats won't knock everything down in the middle of the night

on the left I keep this small statue I bought in a local shop (literally no other deity was there but HE was!!) along with the replica of Apollon's temple I visited recently, my tarot deck and a random sun card I found in my tarot book (??), as well as my diy plate for offerings (there are praying beads I made and a moonstone pendulum I use).

on the left, there's a mint box I use to store shells and crystals for Him, a candle in a diy candle holder (it's inspired by a hyacinth flower but one of my candles spilled wax all over it recently..), along the plate I use for food offerings (right now there's a piece of a honey cake and some pomegranate seeds), yellow glass for libations and a diy sun incense holder.

I also have this 'corner' dedicated to Apollon, where I keep book that I am reading currently, my greek textbook (gotta keep that brain working am i right..), my journals, a sadhu board (was a gift), and, of course, the bouquet of yellow flowers that's way to big for my 'main' altar.

it's far from perfect but it's mine and it works!

[maria-solar]

im so tired of godspousing agenda on social media

[maria-solar]

a little update on my Hekate worship journey.

first thing first, while I was preparing for divination, I've randomly found this dagger keychain that my old roommate left here like A YEAR ago

the tarot spread had almost exactly the same message I've gotten before – the breakthrough is close but before that I have to (internally) ruin everything I know before proceeding and that She wants to see me to heal and fight for what I love and believe in

wow

[maria-solar]

a couple of days ago felt a strong presence of a new deity in my life – decided to do a tarot spread. every card pointed towards Lady Hekate but I am still new to tarot, so I, pretty much, decided that I am just making stuff up.

last night saw a YouTube video with a caption like 'Hekate's message for you'. I didn't watch it but decided to ask Lady Hekate for a confirmation, a sign, that she is the one trying to reach out and not another Lunar deity.

that same night, at 5 am, my cat woke me up, and I was met by the sight of the brightest Waning Crescent I've ever seen right outside my window.

[maria-solar]

one of my favourite ways to invite Apollon's presence in my life is by watching the sun.

saw this beautiful sunset right before my band practice.

blessed.

[maria-solar]

unfortunately, I will never be able to move anywhere far from my favourite place in the world, given and blessed by all-shining son of father Zeus, far shooting Apollon, showered in sunlight 300 days a year, rich with wine and figs, surrounded by mountains and sea, abundant with fish and full of life. blessed penisula, shore of dolphines.

«Lord Phoebus, when the august goddess Leto gave birth to you, fairest of the immortals, as she clasped the palm-tree with her slender arms beside the circular lake, all Delos was filled from end to end with an ambrosial aroma, the vast earth beamed, and the deep expanse of the white-capped sea rejoiced»

[fernandamaya]

Leto 10102025 I am sooo happy with this one. I remember starting with a vastly different color palette (I wish I had saved a WiP to compare but I didn't) and being unsatisfied with the drawing until one day I was like I gotta do something so that I actually wanna work on this piece. That's to say you don't always feel compelled to work with what you initially thought you would and that it is ok to course correct! I surely do that a lot in personal pieces. Very glad I finished this and got to draw lord Apollo and lady Artemis (I'm already planning to draw her multiple times I have so many ideas) and their mother lady Leto. Idk I see this and I'm happy, I'm glad I gave myself the space to take time with this one

[maria-solar]

Apollon has been really pushing my creative out – had this untameful pull to do an hour long dancing session at literal midnight. do i regret doing that? not even a bit. do i feel energised, blessed and absolutely and utterly connected to Him? totally.

said a quiet prayer to Απόλλων Μουσηγετης (Apollon Leader of the Muses) in gratitude for this artistic pull i haven't had in months

let this be a humble reminder that our theoi may communicate with you through randomly occuring urges and thoughts, not just divination and dreams.

[maria-solar]

things i did before devoting to Lord Apollon that are suspiciously Apollo-devotee-coded:

☆ミ using music as a coping mechanism ever since i was little

☆ミ sitting in the sun for extended periods of time

☆ミ being painfully leo

☆ミ my birth card literally being the sun

☆ミ turning my pain into (not great) poetry

☆ミ had a calling to start playing bass out of nowhere and being unexpectedly good at it, too (resulted in me joining a band a month later)

☆ミ J O U R N A L I N G

☆ミ random people using 'sunshine' to adress me

☆ミ the desire to be a doctor, a poet and a musician at the same time when i was 14 (kinda worked??)

☆ミ all my friends being either musicians and/or doctors

☆ミ being a classically trained pianist but only ever enjoying playing the music I write

i guess he was there all along, i just couldn't notice

[maria-solar]

worshipped Apollo too close to the sun (pun intended) now a random thaw has set in my city

[ph4os]