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Pray the gods for random things. Ask the sun gods to help you dry your clothes. Ask beauty-related deities to help you find a good outfit or hairstyle. Ask the sky gods for good weather while walking or travelling.
Prayer doesnāt always have to be about big things. Prayer can be about the little things, about short-term solutions to minor problems, about petty things, about anything.
This is inspired by a comment that I got on another post, but I wish people - both pagans and the general public - would realize that so much of the horrible stuff that deities do in their myths is usually (not always, but often) explained by considering what those deities allegorically represent.
Zeus is so horny in Greek mythology because he represents the fertile rains and weather which literally impregnates the land and the lives of mortal humans. And the myths about his wrath, like when he strikes Asklepios with lightning, is just because lightning is known to do that sometimes!
Hera punishing Zeus' affairs isn't because she's petty and has too much power, but because she's a goddess of marriage, so of course she's working to uphold fidelity! Most of the time that was probably just to reflect her role as a goddess of marriage in the story and her power as the Queen of the Olympians, so it was a reflection of her domain rather than just a tale of her jealous wrath.
Hades kidnapping Persephone and taking her to the underworld makes complete sense when you view it as death kidnapping spring to the underworld in autumn, after which she returns to the world in springtime and brings new life with her mother, a goddess of nature. That's literally just how seasons work.
Aphrodite is so fickle and unpredictable in myths because that's just what love is like. Love can either be the best thing in your life, or can absolutely ruin you. She's not a vengeful goddess, love is just like that sometimes!
Sutekh/Set is a personification of necessary chaos, so his battles with Horus and Osiris, gods of rulership, makes complete sense. It represents the war between order and chaos that all civilizations contend with.
The Morrigan both curses CĆŗ Chulainn and promises The Dagda victory after he sleeps with her because she's a war goddess, and war can either end your life or grant you victory depending on how you approach it. CĆŗ Chulainn rejected The Morrigan, which could be interpreted as an act of cowardice since she represents war, and so she ends up killing him, like a fearful soldier dying in battle. Meanwhile, The Dagda embraces her by sleeping with her, which represents a brave soldier taking on war, so of course he gets granted victory instead!
Loki's more wicked myths are simply related to his role as a trickster within Norse mythology, and most tricksters across the world have some particularly gruesome myths to their name. Loki is a bit complex because his role in the pantheon is a little less clear than that of other gods, but he was obviously associated with chaos and trickery, like Sutekh, so it's not surprising that he pulls some nastier tricks here and there. Also, I would like to point out that his myths about killing Baldur and betraying the Aesir at Ragnarok actually make total sense when you factor in what Odin and the rest of the Aesir did to his kids. If Odin imprisoned two of his kids and Thor is constantly trying to kill the other one, then him killing Odin's son actually seems pretty understandable.
Paganism is an inherently earth-centric religion, and the gods we worship usually embody certain natural or societal forces, and those forces aren't always nice. So the allegorical nature of our deities is a key part of their identities, just as much as their myths or personalities are, and we need to consider what they represent when we discuss them too.
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what is a grimoire?
a grimoire can be defined as a book of magical spells and invocations; sometimes used interchangeably with "book of shadows" but you can call it whatever you want.
what should i write my grimoire in / on?
a grimoire can be handwritten or typed, there is no wrong way to construct your grimoire. (for example, my grimoire is typed in a onenote document but also stretched across many, many different notebooks and composition books)
what can i put in my grimoire?
about the author
favorites:Ā color, magical tools, herbs, crystals
tarot birth card, astrology birth chart, personal beliefs, relationship with deities or other spiritual beings
basicsĀ
intent
visualization
meditation
terminology
protection, cleansing, & banishing using various energies: shields & wards, circle casting / take down, protective amulets
enchanting itemsĀ
clockwise vs. counterclockwiseĀ
other how-toās, such as anointing items and dressing a candle
general correspondences
days of the week, lunar phases, colors, incense, essential oils, elements
correspondences based on intentĀ
protection, healing, cleansing, banishing, luck, wealth, love, emotions, mental clarity, psychic awareness, cursing, etc.
altar ideas
crystals
crystal grid designs, crystal correspondences & folklore, gem water / crystal elixir recipes, crystal careĀ
herbs, spices, plants, flowers, & trees
correspondences, edible vs. non-edible, botanicals with medicinal value, folklore, gardeningĀ
divination
tarot, runes, pendulum, scrying, etc.
spreads
interpretationsĀ
astrology
birth chart + traits, planetary correspondences, planetary hours, zodiac correspondences, moon / star / sun water
sigils & symbols
how to create, personal sigils, other symbols & talismansĀ
psychic abilitiesĀ
identification of personal abilities (clairvoyance, claircognizance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairambience, etc.)
meditation techniques to strengthen abilitiesĀ
personal experiences
important dates
sabbats, wheel of the year, magical anniversaries, astronomical & astrological phenomena (meteor showers, planetary alignments, etc.)
recipes
food
potions (potions areĀ edible and consumableĀ liquids!!!)
beauty products: salt scrubs, sugar scrubs, lotions, lip balm
natural remedies: salves, ointments, balms, poulticesĀ
cleaning products: floor washes, window cleaner, wood cleaner, etc.
powders
witchy crafts
glitter jars, witch ladders, wand-making, crystal jewelry, etc.Ā
spells & enchantments
sachets, spell jars / bottles, knot magic, candle spells, powder spells, curses, protective magic, etc.
magical goals
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Didnāt anticipate one of the bonuses of going to a drag show in a smaller more conservative town would be getting to see a bro who clearly wandered into the wrong part of the bar by mistake experience what looked to be a transcendent awakening upon seeing his first drag show.
On of the queens halfway through the show, āHoney, are you straight?ā
This man, in a strangled voice, āI donāt knowā
We love the character development
It's a shame that porn games and sim games don't have a lot of present overlap, because I feel like "horny mechsplo game where you have to actually win the fights to get to the sexy bits and it's one of those hyper-detailed 1990s era mech piloting sims that uses every single key on the keyboard" would do numbers with a very particular audience.
do it scared. do it stupid. but most importantly, do it bitching and moaning the entire time
Choose your fighter looking ahhh
It occurs to me that there are people who werenāt on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:
Itās been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
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just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"
<3 Proper way to help these lil buddies on their way <3
If youāre in the habit of helping small creatures, as I am, hereās how for snail. Prob also applicable for aquatic snails.
this is the most underrated part of rockinā and rollinā yoda
Lukeās face is what makes this.
by the way it's fine to like sexual content just for the sake of it. "we can't ban porn because other stuff will get banned" "sometimes nude art has value" "the government will classify queer people as sexual" this is all true but it's okay to just like porn. its okay to not want porn to be banned because you like it.
the best part of field trip experiments is a chance to become THE experiment yourself ;)
beastly reminder
Almost. Years ago my computer suddenly stopped working and lost everything on it. Fortunately a relatively recent backup still existed bc of my family, a recent parts switch, and dumb luck. But last year a friend of mine got hacked and lost close to everything he had done creatively in the last 17-ish years. Art. Novels in progress. Entire conlangs. DnD character Sheets. Music he had made. All gone. He never backed any of it up. Few months later I started this habit (or ritual, almost) of drawing a reminder beast any time I would make a full complete backup. In hopes that seeing these things might remind others and myself. (Another factor here is that I am an animator and some of the stuff on my computer took literal years to make. And the film university I go to urges us to take this stuff seriously, too.)
