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About Me

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𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔰: she/her

𝔷𝔬𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔠: sun♓️moon♓️rising♓️

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I have been studying and practicing witchcraft on and off for over 10 years. I am committing myself to learning more this year and applying it to my daily life. I have been reapplying myself since late March 2021. I had discovered Witchcraft, Paganism, and Wicca when I was 12 years old and it has captured my interest and heart since then and probably even before that. As a child I always found myself pretending to be a witch or creating potions and spells, before I even knew what any of this was I created a rain spell when I was 9 by dancing and chanting around an old tree stump. It’s funny how these things stick around your whole life, huh?

I am currently worshipping and honoring Persephone and honoring Hades. My path as an Eclectic Pagan has barely begun and as someone who has been traumatized by my Christian upbringing, then reverted to atheism, and now to Paganism. it is a very interesting process for myself.

𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔩𝔶 𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔡𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤: Persephone, Hades, Hellenic Paganism, Polytheistic Paganism, Eclectic Paganism, Energy Manipulation, Meditation Practices, Traditional Scottish Witchcraft, Tarot, Runes, Pendulums, and Warding

𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢𝔰: My Partner, Dark colors, Lady Persephone, Pomegranates, Animals, Nature, The Moon, Roller Skating, Dancing, My 3 Cats, Protection Spells, Sigils, Kitchen Witchery, Warding, Crystals, Tarot, Fortune Telling, Space, Intellectual Conversations, Quantum Theories, Multiverse Theories, Aliens

𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢𝔰: Bananas, Bigotry, My Job, Poor Planning, Indecision, Zucchini, Chai Tea, Anything Boring, Conspiracy Theorists with No Evidence, Energy Vampires, People forcing their beliefs on you.

[pagan-positivity]

May mother Hera protect our children

May mother Gaia protect our children

May mother Leto protect our children

May mother Aphrodite protect our children

May mother Nyx protect our children

May mother Demeter protect our children

May lady Hestia protect our children

May lady Hekate protect our children

May lady Artemis protect our children

May lord Apollo protect our children

May lord Apollo protect our children

May lady Hebe protect our children

May lord Ares protect our children

May Chaos protect our children

May father Zeus protect our children

May the gods keep children of gay and polyamorous families safe

May the gods keep children of interracial families safe

May the gods keep children of immigrant families safe

May the gods keep abused and neglected children safe

May the gods keep all LGBTQIA+ children safe

May the gods keep all BIPOC children safe

May the gods protect our rights during these times, our rights to our bodies and to exist as we do. Do love. To be. Khaîre to the old gods, khaîre.

[honorthegods]

Hades and Persephone Side A, red-figure amphora attributed to the Oionokles Painter, Athens, circa 470 BCE. Provenance: Italy. Collection of the Louvre Museum.  Photo © RMN-Grand Palais / Hervé Lewandowski via Art Images.

Hades and Persephone Master List of Resources

This bibliography of scholarly sources is intended to help refute many of the old, tired arguments about Hades and Persephone. You know the ones…

Alexander, Rachel. “Fallacies of Modern Interpretation.” tumblr, tumblr, 13 Dec. 2013, therkalexander.com/post/69903384941/yes-im-officially-creeping-on-you-i-just.

Alexander, Rachel. “Re: the Persephone Choosing to Go to the Underworld Thing….” tumblr, tumblr, 1 Mar. 2014, therkalexander.com/post/79306969794/hi-re-the-persephone-choosing-to-go-to-the.

Deacy, Susan. ‘From “Flowery Tales” to “Heroic Rapes”: Virginal Subjectivity in the Mythological Meadow.” Arethusa, Volume 46, Number 3, Fall 2013, pp. 395-413. Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Web. Accessed 22 April 2016. (X)    

Fairbanks, Arthur. “The Chthonic Gods of Greek Religion.” The American Journal of Philology, vol. 21, no. 3, 1900, pp. 241–259. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/287716.

Ferrari, Gloria, Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece. University of Chicago Press, 2002

Ferrari, Gloria. “What kind of rite of passage was the Ancient Greek wedding?”,  Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives.  Ed. David Dodd, Christopher A. Faraone, Routledge, 2013

Foley, Helene P., editor. The Homeric “Hymn to Demeter”: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays. Princeton University Press, 2013.

“Haides.” The Theoi Project, Aaron J. Atsma, www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Haides.html.

Kerényi,  Karl. Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter.  Princeton University Press, 1991.

Koch, Guntram. “The Walters Persephone Sarcophagus.” The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, vol. 37, 1978, pp. 74–83. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20168962.

Laiou, Angeliki E. Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies.  Dumbarton Oaks, 1998.

Lefkowitz, Mary. “Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth.” Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies. Ed. Laiou, Angeliki E. . Washington, D.C., Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1999. pp. 17-37. Google Books. Web. Accessed 21 April 2016. (X)    

Lefkowitz, Mary R. Women in Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Oakley, John H. and Rebecca H. Sinos. The Wedding in Ancient Athens. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1993. 

Nagy, Gregory. Homeric Hymn to Demeter. 2016, chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/5292.

Penglase, Charles. “The Homeric Hymn to Demeter”, Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod. Routledge, 1994. (pdf: X)

“Persephone.” The Theoi Project, Aaron J. Atsma, www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Persephone.html.

“Ploutos.” The Theoi Project, Aaron J. Atsma, www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Ploutos.html.

Sourvinou‐Inwood, C. (1978) “Persephone and Aphrodite at Locri: a model for personality definitions in Greek religion.” Journal of Hellenic Studies, 95: 101–21.

Suter, Ann. The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Thompson, James C. “Marriage in Ancient Athens.” Women in the Ancient World, July 2010, www.womenintheancientworld.com/marriageinancientathens.htm.

Additions to this list are welcome!

[honorthegods]

Additions from @coloricioso - thank you!

Alderink, L. (1982). Mythical and Cosmological Structure in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. 29. 1-16. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3269929

Avagianou, A. (1991). Sacred Marriage in the Rituals of Greek Religion European University Studies. Series XV Classics, 54. Suiza. Peter Lang.

Blondell, R. (2013). Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation. Oxford University Press.

Burkert, W. (2007). Greek religion.

Clay, J. S. (2006), The Politics of Olympus: Form and meaning in the major Homeric Hymns. Princeton University Press. (2ª. Ed)

Detienne, M. (2010). Los jardines de Adonis. Madrid, España. Ediciones Akal. (2ª ed.)

Dolors, M. (2002) Vivir en femenino. Estudios de mujeres de la antigüedad. España. Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona.

Faraone, C. (1990). Aphrodite’s ΚΕΣΤΟΣ and Apples for Atalanta: Aphrodisiacs in Early Greek Myth and Ritual. Phoenix 44 (3), 219-43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1088934

García Gual, C. (2014) Sirenas. Seducciones y metamorfosis. España. Turner Publicaciones.

Garland, R. (2001). The Greek Way of Death. Cornell University Press. (2ª ed.)

Guettel, S. (1984) Greeks Sanctions Against Sexual Assault. Classical Philology, Vol. 79, No. 2 pp. 97-113. The University of Chicago Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/269836

Jenkins, I. (1983) Is there life after marriage? A study of the abduction motif in vase paintings of the Athenian wedding ceremony. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 30, 137-145. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43646197

Lincoln, B. (1979). “The rape of Persephone: A Greek Scenario of Women’s Initiaton”. The Harvard Theological Review. 72 (3), 223-235. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1509722

Ormand, K. (1999). Exchange and the Maiden. Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy. University of Texas Press.

Pomeroy, S. (1999). Diosas, rameras, esposas y esclavas. Mujeres en la Antigüedad Clásica. Madrid, España. Ediciones Akal. (3ª ed.).

Radcliffe G.E. (2004) Myths of the Underworld Journey. Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets.  Cambridge University Press.

Rabinowitz, N. (2011) Greek Tragedy: A Rape Culture? EuGesTa 1

Redfield, J. (2003) The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy.  Princeton University Press.

Rehm, R. (1996). Marriage to Death: The conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy. Princeton University Press.

Sourvinou-Inwood, C. (1978). Persephone and Aphrodite at Locri: A Model for Personality Definitions in Greek Religion. The journal of Hellenic Studies. 98. 101-121. http://www.jstor.org/stable/630195

Sourvinou-Inwood, C. (1987). A series of erotic pursuits: images and meanings. JHS 107:131-154

Wasson, R., Hofmann A., Ruck, C. (2013). El camino a Eleusis. Una solución al enigma de los misterios. México. Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Wilson, N. (2006) The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece. Routledge.

Wright, D. (2003) The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites. Ibis Press.

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[seasonarium]

[level5goosewarning]

sorry if you’re finding out like this [updated version]

[the-honeysuckle]

Bay

bay laurel, latin name laurus nobilis!

planet: sun

element: fire

magical properties/powers: protection, healing, purification, strength and psychic powers

burning a bay leaf with a wish written on them is said to make it come true--and fun fact, bay is sacred to apollo!!

medicinal uses: used to treat skin--rashes, earaches, muscle/joint pain, etc--related issues

a bay leaf dropped in a bag of flour helps keep bugs away :) it can also be used in shampoos for common issues like dandruff, hair loss and greasy hair

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Where are my fellow kitchen witches?! I haven’t cooked in quite a while and would love some new recipe inspiration! 🥘

[le-coffee-witch]

Actual Alternatives to "So Mote It Be"

"It is as I will it. "

"As I speak it so it is. "

"This I command."

This is by my power."

"This I manifest."

"By me and the powers that be."

"Because I fucking said so."

(Feel free to add some of your own.)

[crazycatsiren]

"So it shall be."

"And so it will."

"May it be."

"As I said and so it is."

"It better the fuck be."

[ciarmay]

I personally like “consider it done.”

[windvexer]

[will-o-the-witch]

My personal favorite "And.... yeah!"

[classicslesbianopinions]

we need to stop the fandomification of greek myth. we need to

[sharkandegg]

THE FACT I HAD SOMEONE SAY THEY DIDNT BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAID THAT APOLLO NEVER ASSAULTED PERSEPHONE IN ACTUAL MYTH AND “why would lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths???”

[classicslesbianopinions]

me, sobbing: WHY WOULD LORE OLYMPUS LIE

[the-clumsywitch]

[delicatelydeceased]

Predator and prey💀🌙

Instagram -@delicatelydeceased

[queenmoriarty]

it’s a witchy life

[spiritvexer]

Polishing Up a Reading

This is how I personally do readings when I’m being fancy. I’m not saying your way is wrong.

INTRODUCE yourself. “Hi, nice to meet you! Thank you for letting me read for you today!”

DISCLAIM if you need to do this in order to feel comfortable. “Just as a reminder, this reading, as with all readings, should be taken in context of your personal experiences and with a grain of salt.”

RESTATE their question, especially if you had to slightly alter the wording to fit your method of divination. “I am reading for the question, ‘what will my love life be like next month?‘”

INTRODUCE your reading. “Today I drew for you three cards…” “Today I cast these fives stones…” etc.

NARRATE your interpretations. “The Lovers card means you will have a healthy and fruitful romantic life in the upcoming month!”

DESCRIBE what about your tools helped draw you to this interpretation. This adds an extra layer of depth to any reading. “I was especially drawn to how the Lovers are holding hands, with a dove over them.” “I noted the close proximity of the Fehu rune to the Isa rune, which…”

SUPPORT your reading with the holy trinity: Intuition, Appearance, and Book Knowledge. Allow your intuition to flow forth and unite your spread in to a coherent narrative. Read the spread as it lies before you. Research extra textbook meanings to ensure nothing is missed.

SUMMARIZE your entire spread in to a paragraph. Hit your main points, reiterate the important messages, and give your querent a bite-sized takeaway of the entire reading. I believe summarizing is important even for one card, one rune, etc., spreads.

[tarotwithjeff-deactivated201812]

This would have been really helpful when I started reading for others. And it’s a good reminder even now.

[en-theos]

I'm just fascinated with how the gods are all by themselves sides of the same coin. Apollo is medicine and plague. Demeter is harvest and famine. Athena is the order of the polis and the uncertainty of war. Dionysus creates chaos only to reinforce order once the party is over. Poseidon is the untameable sea and the liberty that seafaring permits. Artemis is a goddess of the wild yet helps young girls transition into their settled life as adult women.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Design for a man’s waistcoat, 1780, France.

[caffeinatedgoddess-deactivated2]

What I'm Reading

Over the weekend, my husband got me a copy of Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine. I've been wanting to read this one for a couple of months now, but just hadn't gotten around to it. I always hold out hopes of getting the actual book.... even though I always read everything digitally. I don't have anything against physical books. I love books! I've been a bibliophile from the age of 10 (ish - I'm now 47). But now that we're in an age where everything is available online, it's just more convenient. But I miss the feel of books from time to time, so I delude myself into thinking I'll get the physical book and rekindle a little library.... forgetting that I don't really have a dedicated space for that. Maybe someday.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to reading this because it's hard to find good information on chaos magick without investing money in a poor regurgitation of the same informative you can find online. Authors looking to make a bit of money on selling "the basics".... that are barely the basics. I want something beyond sigil making, thank you. I think I have that one down. Yes, sigils are a big part of chaos magick, but give me something more. Tell me about servitors and egregores. Tell me other ways I can get the most out of chaos magick! Chaos magick is a fairly new magick, popularized in the 1970's by Peter Carroll, so it's not like there's this wealth of knowledge spanning back centuries in it. And in truth, each Chaote's practice is very different from another, so what worked for one may not work for another, and even if it did and became a concrete system, it would, ironically, no longer be chaos magick.

When I started practicing a few years ago, I started with kitchen witchcraft. I had always been drawn to witchcraftin general, but because of my past I didn't dare pursue. After leaving that situation and spending years healing, I finally embraced it and cooking was something familiar and that I enjoyed. Very shortly after, I found sigils.... and what felt right. I consider myself an eclectic chaos witch because there are things from other systems of magick that speak to me. I love a good spell jar and candle magick has this romanticized feel to it. You can't deny the healing of herbs and crystals resonate with me. Yes to tarot and spirits and ancestors. But the foundations of chaos magick spoke to my soul. I always knew that an organized system of magick, such as Wicca wouldn't work for me. I had just spent years healing from the traumas of organized religion and rebuilding my beliefs from the ground up. I am most definitely agnostic, yet believe there is a universal power out there.... whatever it may be. And while I don't believe in dieties, I believe in the power/energy of dieties. And I have the deepest respect for every path.

So much just fit. And, after spending a couple of years finding information that barely scratches the surface, I'm ready to dive in feet first. I've looked at this-that-and-the-other and nothing feels like chaos magick. Big rituals with flowing words aren't for me. Let me work with the nuts and bolts of it. Let me figure out how it works for today, and tomorrow will have its own method.

[seafoamdesires]

The sea is my temple, Sappho my muse

May the Cyprian grant my heart sweet peace 🌊