Aphrodite Devotee

[antiquewitch-deactivated2018090]

Ways to Get Intimate with the Gods

For those special gods in your life. 

Leave space for them on your bed when you sleep

Dedicate a piece of jewelry to them and wear it all the time

When you’re emotional, write a letter to them until your hands start to hurt

Make them a cup of tea and sit down across from it and just talk

Make some time to sit in ritual in silence and just feel them

Wear their colors for them and let them know you did it for them

Orgasms are great offerings

Take care of yourself physically and pamper yourself while you talk to them and visualize them helping you (example: washing your hair, doing your nails)

Magic is made from passion, so when you need an extra kick in the spell, visualize them touching you and whispering in your ear all the passion that you need 

Eat dinner with them

Create a place where you meet in meditation 

[doe-eyed-harpy]

Zeus is so problematic. He waters our crops, administers justice, maintains order, provides refuge, demands hospitality, and overseas the household among many other, terrible things.

How dare a king of gods behave as a king and a god.

[2-shane-s]

Date someone who will date you

[methfall]

Need me a freak like that

[pinkhellenicgods]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Praying is so calming. The Gods are so calming. Feeling like I don’t have to be anyone but me, but I should strive for the best version of me, and I’m not in that alone… is so calming and freeing.

Thank you Theoi for giving me that safety.

[skinoutqueen]

When sunlight hits brown eyes >>>

[didoofcarthage]

Apollo and the Muses (and detail) by John Singer Sargent 

American, 1921

oil on canvas

MFA Boston

[benepla-deactivated20180521]

i just realized how fuckin funny me realizing i was a lesbian was….ok so i roll up to this useless  college course freshman year all pumped with self-denial, and my teacher is a dyke, and i quite literally introduce myself to this horde of people as bi / asexual (which ~is a fine thing to be i am just not that~), and everyone in the class was cool about it but i still feel weird n bad like i lied to them even though that’s honestly how i identified att? and then by the end of the class my teacher is like “ok well buy the book Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and have half of it read by next week”, in which Alison Bechdel breaks her years of apolitical and asexual lifestyle when she reads a book about lesbians and realizes shes a lesbian, & after reading the book through two times in a night and just crying my eyes out, i’m like. “oh fuck.” and i download tinder

[cherryroses-deactivated20250922]

do you ever want to be a “forest mermaid” who lives in the river by waterfalls and clear waters and sleeps in the caves of springs

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Howard Foster and Myra Clark, high school sweethearts forced to break up in the 60s due to racist social pressure. They reunited 40 years later and got married.

[violetwitchcraft-deactivated202]

Grimoire Prompts

Here’s a few ideas if you’re stuck on what you want to do!

Pendulum board

Crystal grid

Your favourite song, turned into a spell

Pressed flowers

Photographs of nature

Your handprint, with all the things that make you ‘you’ written inside

Pouch to hold incense 

Black mirror page (Using some reflective black material)

Create your own alphabet

A letter to yourself in the future or in the past

Create an altar in your grimoire

Smells of witchcraft you love

Magical moments in your life

Dream diary

Drawings of places you have seen in meditation/ astral travel

Photos of your pets

List of reasons why you are glad to be a witch

Write a letter to a deity, or if you don’t believe in deity, to an ancestor 

Colour palette tabs found from paint shops

A pie chart of significant things in your practise

Unorthodox correspondences; (examples: Socks for protection and comfort, Blue tack for creativity, doritos for enjoyment)

What would your followers leave as offerings for you if you were a deity?

Make a tarot card out of old newspaper pictures 

Write a spell using the most ridiculous objects you can think off

Create a mythical creature that would be your familiar

[existenth-blog]

[hatbutch]

rb if women

[bastille]

its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager 

[phantasmsystem]

oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.

[iainart-deactivated20200509]

Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I’d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!

[scottandhiskind]

Fun story my biology professor just told us:  When he was 23 he was married to his wife and worked two jobs to support them since she was in college: gas station attendant and construction worker.  He worked these two jobs because that was the only work he could get since he was at the reading level of a third grader.  

One night he was writing something and his wife noticed he was writing from right to left.  Since she was studying occupational therapy she realized he had a learning disability and started working with him.  He slowly began to learn to read, and at 26 got his GED and went to college.

His first year of college he took the lowest level math course he could take, 001.  Over the years he worked on learning what he needed to, ended up graduating with a biology degree.  He then went on to get his masters and PhD, graduating at the top of his class.  He is now an extremely accomplished biologist and professor.

So don’t let anyone tell you that you’re future is based on your choices as a teenager.

[geekyangie]

Seriously.  Do not believe this.  You aren’t even stuck with your choices you make in your 20s.  I didn’t start working in my current field until just after my 30th birthday.  It has nothing to do with what I went to school for in my 20s.  My husband has a political science degree, and he’s a sports journalist.

You are not tied to anything.  Go.  Be.

[roane72]

My day job did not exist when I was a teenager. And the idea of trying to be an author was a distant thing on my radar. I thought I was going to be an English teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a music teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a drama teacher.

Also in there: therapist, early childhood educator, then finally: web developer–because by then it was an actual thing that existed. I didn’t actually figure out what I “wanted to do when I grew up” until about eight years ago, when I was 36. I tried pursuing writing when I was 30, stopped, then started pursuing it seriously again when I was 40. 

There is always time to change. And don’t let anyone tell you that high school is “the best time of your life” either, because that’s bullshit too.

[elvenclub]

Reblogging for my followers. My high school teachers didn’t know what to do with me, and I failed everything but a low photography grade. I thought university wasn’t for me, and settled for marrying a mediocre man who spent all day on Warcraft. Then I went to community college. Now I’m in uni doing a double English and philosophy degree, just back from America. I am also single.

[raeseddon]

Also important: College is not the only option. Don’t let anyone try to tell you it is. If you’re not academically inclined, the trades are an option and they are a good option– if the only thing you think you’re good at is make-up do that. There are people who can live comfortably just doing make-up. We have this idea planted in our heads as teenagers (and younger) that not fitting into an academic mould of some sort means you’re failing at life and this is bullshit. There’s no reason to feel like you’re “failing at life” because you don’t like school or were never good at it. We need skilled workers in the world, and the thing they don’t tell you is all work is skilled work. If it’s work, it takes skill. Yes, this encompasses “service” jobs, it encompasses all jobs. Please don’t think that what you do, or what you have an interest in doing is of less value than something that requires a college education. This coming from the college-educated white girl who is a seamstress because it’s what I enjoy. If college isn’t going to get you where you want to go, than you don’t need to go! It’s that simple. Take whatever path you need to get to where you are happy and comfortable and fufilled. If you’re doing what you love you are sucessful.

[beanarie]

i didn’t graduate with my bachelor’s until i was 26 and life took a few turns along the way but now, at 37, i have a job that makes me genuinely happy. and it’s got nothing to do with how well i did in high school.

[foreveramedley]

This! This make me cry… I’m 23 and I really don’t know where I’m going, so reading this kinds of storys makes me feel hope!

[videodromefag]

I love all this support and inspiring stories, but what I think op was getting at was that our teachers/parents/elders ingrain this idea in us that if we fuck up in our teens, we fuck up everything. So don’t ever let adults make you feel less for needing/spending more time to achieve your goals. You’re still amazing if you get a degree at 24 or 44 or even not at all

[studypetals]

for everyone needing this as much as i do right now

[diadaoibhleaids-deactivated2022]

My dad dropped out of school at 16, spent the next 15 years being a drug addict and couchsurfing and now at 55 he’s a fairly high up manager who was recently head hunted for a six figure salary in another country, with a degree in Business he got at 47. He didn’t take the job abroad because of my mum, who dropped out of school at 17, was in a similar but less addicted position to my dad, and is currently doing a master’s in psychology aged 50 as well as being in a management job.

If I can be born to unemployed, homeless, druggie high school dropouts and then by 25 have parents who have worked their way up to management and both have bachelors degrees and one is currently on track to be top of her class in her masters, you will be fine.

Also, that “it’s never too late to start uni” schtick is true - my grandad will be a fresher again this year aged 83. It’s not his first degree but it is proof that it’s never too late to change your life and start something new, and you will definitely not be the oldest person in the class in your twenties.

[my-bokuto-san-deactivated201904]

omg i was having a crisis about this but you guys helped so much thank you

[delphiapollon-deactivated201907]

Apollo My love My lord My eternal sunshine Who shall forever brighten up my days The joy you bring me is indescribable Happiness as rich as gold You reside in the softest parts of my heart And yet you are a shield For i know that whatever i am put through Heartbreak or endless pain You are with me Helping me stand just a bit taller

(via delphiapollon)

[wilesandsmiles]

all of the lists i’ve seen of Hellenic Polytheists blogs are from several years ago, with a lot of the blogs linked gone. i know how fast things can change, blogs names change, people leave, and new people come in! 

my goal is to make an updated list that people can use to connect with other Hellenic Polytheists! 

if you’re interested in being on that list, please reblog and tag with the Deities  you worship and post for on your blog! 

i know a lot of people are very vocal about this and it isn’t always hard to find them, but i’d also like everyone to be able to consent to being on the list! 

also if you’re a resource blog, feel free to reblog as well! 

[jodiefoster]

a concept: i’m in a warm bed with lots of blankets and i have no obligations to be anywhere. i’m calm and safe and happy and you are here with me

[marmarinos]

Ancient Roman bust of Demeter from the 2nd century CE, a copy of a Greek original, which would have dated to the 4th century BCE. Marble. Currently located in the Museo Nazionale Romano.