penumbral

ladytitanium, but spookier

[yellow-cat]

elsewhere

[plasmapop]

16/11/19

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

This is a nice sign to look at. 10/10 for composition.

he looks so confident

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

don’t give me ideas

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

some design concepts

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

minor arcana concepts

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

Yes, the aces are zeros. Deal with it.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

I'm nearly done with the first draft-- I just have to figure out what the face cards should be for the swords

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

I think I should write a guidebook to go along with it.

I know nothing about tarot, so it'll just be giving the names of the symbols, giving explanations of what the symbols literally mean, and giving examples of symbolism-rich objects/substances they could apply to

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

YOU CAN NOW PURCHASE THE PRINTABLE PDF ON ITCH.IO!

Hazard Tarot by Organical Mechanical

WARNING! These cards are dangerously cool!

No guidebook yet, but hopefully I'll get around to it.

Please make me aware of any errors you encounter while printing so that I can fix them!

[shithowdy]

it's 1pm at the marsh! come on down, we've got

𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀𝒷𝒾𝓇𝒹𝓈!!!

[shadowrosesilvermoon-deactivate]

[389]

Nick Hannes

[goflowolfog]

[lavender-draw]

[themarchingbeetle]

[leedlebeetles]

Lily of the valley

[silicon65]

Gef the Talking Mongoose

[theparadigmshifts]

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

[theparadigmshifts]

"god wants women to have perfect no-makeup makeup looks and stay at home not talking back and upholding capitalism" god??? that guy who made lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes?? that guy who made salmon do whatever the fuck that is?? are you fucking crazy???

[theparadigmshifts]

most annoying replies i've gotten on this post:

um. GOD'S not REAL stupid -> did you know that rhetorically speaking you can enter into a framework held by another person or group of people in order to point out the shortcomings in their own systems of thought. also this post is about god so. you can keep scrolling

um. you can't just MAKE UP what GOD SAYS. the BIBLE is CLEAR stupid -> how clear. tell me. it was written in modern english? things written in modern english don't have more than one interpretation? or is it a series of texts spanning thousands of years and multiple religions that's moved and breathed over time? keep it alive. say what you think it's saying and leave room for someone else

um. so you're saying we should just do EVERYTHING that ANIMALS do we should KILL and MURDER and DO INCEST and EAT our BABIES -> well you have free will so i guess that's up to you but i wouldn't personally recommend any of it

least annoying replies i've gotten on this post:

animal facts <3 <3 :) <3 :) <3 :)

[madmonksandmaenads]

A few months ago at the tail end of winter I was having a terrible depressive episode. I did everything I could think of to relieve it (walk in the woods, do my daily rituals, eat food, drink water, speak with my lovely husband), none of it worked. I've also been learning about Kashmiri Shaivite Tantrism (specifically the Tantraloka). In that tradition there is a saying "Manifestation is Shiva at play". This got me thinking about if this existence is the game that God plays then he is a weird gamer. He is not a meta-chasing optimizer, he is the kind of guy playing "level 1 consumables-only" Elden Ring runs. My own struggles are part of the challenge that makes this diversity of experience interesting, the variety that keeps the game worth playing. This realization at the joyful absurdity of existence made me laugh and broke me from the depression's thrall. I am quite happy to be one of God's off-meta builds.

[benmce-art]

Fan art for Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed”

[zooophagous]

Cordial is so photogenic

[eclecticoccult]

okay so as a unit i understand we don't like the divine feminine & masculine bit. so idrk what yall are talking about at all to begin with, but if its wrong to assume that any one particular thing or attribute or color or style could be divided clearly into either masculine or feminine. then what do those actual words mean? if feminine ISN'T defined by soft and delicate, if masculinity ISN'T defined by authority and power, then what ARE the definitions of those words? i mean this fully in good faith. maybe i genuinely have had the incorrect interpretation all along. somebody take me to school on gender takes.

[witchynyx]

Feminine: Of or pertaining to the female gender.

Masculine: Of or pertaining to the male gender.

So to say that feminine = soft and delicate is to say that these traits are inherently related to women.

To say that masculine = authority and power is to say that these traits are inherently related to men.

Are/should these concepts be gender-specific? Or do we believe that women can be powerful and men can be soft?

[cultusquercus]

I don't inherently have a problem with the concept of divine masculine & feminine, I just don't understand why we'd assign narrow gender roles to them.

Divinity should be allowed an infinite range of gender expression. As should people, for that matter.

[madmonksandmaenads]

The kind of broad "Western Esoterica" definitions of "feminine" and "masculine" have little to do with gender, and a lot more to do with Chemistry.

Early alchemists didn't have a word for the polarities of how different materials interact with each other. What they did have is a long history of describing "holy marriages" so they adapted that language to their taxonomic ends. Something being "female/feminine" in an alchemical sense means that it can dissolve something within it. Something being "male/masculine" means it can "impregnante" some other material with a property. Water is feminine not because it has any relation to women, but because it can dissolve many substances. The Philosopher's Stone was supposed to be a perfectly balanced "Rebus" of these two properties which would allow it to dissolve any material and confer any property.

During the esoteric explosion of the late 19th and early 20th century this alchemical terminology was adapted into religious practice. Under groups like the Golden Dawn Death is masculine because of its ability to pierce life and deposit the mortal substance of individuation into the continuity of life. Life was female because it could dissolve the individua into its continuity. While these concepts began to re-acquire some gendered aspects, these were meant to be transcended. The Master should be a Rebus, both esoterically masculine and feminine.

Of course the New Age sanded a lot of this nuance off the topic. The idea of cosmic dichtomy, point and continuity became lost. It was replaced with a very anthropocentric concepts of gender as a divine attribute, as opposed to a metaphor to explain something else. The aspiration to achieve an androgynous "rebus" state was ignored. This has left us with words devested of their symbolic significance, being waved around as tools to enforce the gender binary they once transcended.

I still sometimes use masculine and feminine as esoteric descriptions. My answer for what masculine and feminine are in a traditional western esoteric context is:

Masculine= The force which changes by leaving an instantaneous impression upon an Other at its point of contact.

Feminine= The force which changes by dissolving an Other within it's own continuity.

Every thing that exists is both of these, to exist as a living creature you must both "pierce" and "dissolve". These are not end-points for me, but rather steps in a process and tools of transformation.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Oh wait I forgot to tie it back to Chemistry!

What was once described with gendered metaphor by Alchemists, modern Chemists now describe with electrical charges! Cations and Anions, Acids and Bases, these are conceptually downstream of Alchemists describing marriages of masculine and feminine essences.

[amphibianshaped]

[dappermouth]

Something dark, crossing over.

[godzillabreath]

dawn of the heron

[ivytea]

requiem for vanished birdsong