#dianic

[kkoffin]

Stop hating your womb and making caricatures of your female anatomy being an angry or evil thing that only wants you to be pregnant or bring you pain and start hating:

• The medical industry for ignoring women’s pain and suffering for generations, not putting the same effort into researching the female body as it does male bodies, often acting as though women are simply small men

• Men in history who mass-slaughtered female medical practitioners and midwives, calling their research into women’s health witchcraft

• Capitalism and a male-orientated workforce and education system that fails to consider and factor women’s needs into it’s demand

• Patriarchal disgust for women’s bodies and their functions

• The sexualisation and shame of female bodies to the point where young women cannot seek help for their issues from caregivers/doctors/parents without fear and embarrassment

Yes, periods are inconvenient and often painful, but before you get frustrated with your body, demonising and blaming it, realise it would not be the way it is if not for a mass-scale medical and scientific negligence of women’s issues. Your body does not hate you- patriarchy does. Aim your energy and efforts there.

[ioanadelamare]

Finally allowing myself to come to witchcraft feels so natural and grounding that I wonder why it took so long. Then I remember growing up with the aftermath of the Goddess movement and Wicca and the absolute shit those women got daring to try break away from male-dominated religions. It's like every iteration of an attempt at female spirituality has been demeaned since the beginning. I'm also thinking of the female performance and land artists of the 70's who worked parallel to these movements and were trying to conceptualise their own relationships to their body and the earth and how they were labelled as neurotic and crazy for linking the two. We never really got past that.

[merkredonn]

The womanly urge to run away and start a goddess worshipping cult.

[pixiebiz]

Hail Kwan Yin, Sovereign Maiden of Compassion.

The Holy Crone is with Thee and holds Thee in Her Mysteries.

Blessed Kwan Yin, Maiden who Hears the Cries of the World.

Most Blessed Fruit of our Sacred Mother's Womb.

Holy Kwan Yin, Maiden of Healing Herbs and Life Giving Waters.

Pour out Your Mercy upon us that we may tend to our wounds, heal our hearts, and become Whole in the Divine Light of Dea.

Awen

[theangryblackfem]

I want to make a coven of radfem witches, especially with woc. Let's make our own mini matriarchy and abide by our own laws

I want to read books and essays with other witches.

I want to do group hexes and curses on men.

I want to siphon on men's energy

I want to trap men's soul and torment them even after they pass, to avenge the women they've hurt in the living.

I want tea time with other women

I want group prayer and worship sessions

I want us to be the crazy witches who you spot in the woods acting crazy in their nudity.

[ihearhercalling]

Please like or reblog (ideally reblog so other people in your sphere can find the post) if you post content about any of the following. If you reblog, please say which, or if you just like please reply and say which! I want to be more active on this blog and need people to follow.

- Celtic polytheism (Irish, Welsh, Brythonic, Gaulic, any really)

- Celtic witchcraft and folk magic, particularly Welsh

- British folk traditions

- Druidry

- Proto Indo-European polytheism

- Venus, Aphrodite, Ishtar and Inanna worship

- Actual genuine Wicca as opposed to the random stuff that gets passed off as Wicca in mainstream book shops

- Feri tradition

- Goddess-centric paganism (Dianic tradition, Deanism, Filianism, Reclaiming, Avalonian) and female mysteries

- Arthuriana from a pagan or feminist perspective (or pagan/feminist friendly)

- Sacred sexuality and tantra

- Herbalism, particularly with herbs native to the UK

[sistermountain]

Zsuzsanna Budapest, The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries

“Dianic Genesis

In the beginning there was unknowable silence. She had an unknowable name which echoed through the universe; the power of this name, that no one shall utter, filled the universe with action.

Silence broke into its components, lights and shadows. From these lights action made form, and from the shadows, formlessness. Visible and invisible, she created a blend of the two we know today as Nature.

In this blend of form and formlessness, lights and shadows, visible and invisible, she created all the creatures, making infinite variations of herself as the birthing force, and the different form of her, where she is not so clearly visible, the birthed-in form.

She intermingled with herself, as she was never divided, and created our solar system, our mother planet, and all the creatures upon it. Among the creatures she ordained, all species will know her either through instinct or through search, but all she created will periodically return to her holiness, and then again take form inside her.

And ever since, the world has had a blend of invisible forms, female and male, and a blend of invisible forms, self-love and self-hate. The divine mixing of these creates reality, for her essence is present in all, but her forms do not conform to temporary social orders. She is the circle of rebirth; thus we celebrate the moment in our lives as an honor to her, she whose Genesis is still happening, she who has not returned to any comfortable heaven to “watch” over us or forget us.

She who still creates all reality daily, she who is visible and invisible in Nature, she whose name is secret, she who rules the Universe. The Force of Life and Death and all that is in between. She is All.”

[astreesophia]

« Whoever takes the name of the Devī, either in sleeping, going or resting or in any other condition, he is certainly freed from the bondage of the world, no doubt. O King! So worship the Mahes’varī [the Great Sovereign] with all the care that you can. »

Devī Bhāgavata 7.29.14