#queer pagan

[jaarnvidja]

norse pagan prideposting

[cultkinkcoven]

Happy Pride Month !!! Happy Venus Day!!! Happy Friday the 13th!!!! 💕🖤✴️

The patron and protector of the dolls herself: Lady Aphrodite!

This was so so much fun to paint! I’m so glad I finished it today! I hope I did her justice!

Details!

Big fan of that tummy

I love her sm omgs

[ijustneedmorecats]

Before Pride Month ends I just want to say thank you religious and spiritual Queer people for existing! You're so awesome and so so loved

Remember the world is better with you in it

(This post is inclusive of non-Abrahamic beliefs!)

[thewolfofeir]

As a queer norse pagan, all of this.

[mxmorbidmidnight]

Often the idea of divine feminine in spiritual contexts is based entirely on reducing AFAB people to their reproductive organs.

The mother, maiden crone archetype or the “life cycle” of a female revolves around reproduction and whether or not it is being done. Ones “divine feminine” and spiritual wellness is judged on reproductive factors being “in sync with your cycle” and the like.

I think it is time we move on from this. We are not defined by our ability to reproduce, witchcraft and paganism claims to be a freedom for women free from the misogyny that plagues all other faiths. Yet just like these other religions spirituality, paganism and witchcraft reduces AFAB people to breeders.

People with children are first and foremost people. Their spiritual purpose is not just child bearing and should not be forced into a lifestyle where they are treated as nothing but a mother.

A person who chooses to not have children is not “out of touch with the divine feminine” one does not need to have children to “spiritually level up”.

People who do not have sex or are perhaps on the asexual spectrum are still divine. Getting your tubes typed or going on birth control doesn’t make you of less value. Those who can have children are not any more divinely feminine then those who cannot

AFAB people who have periods and female anatomy but do not associate them with femininity should be respected. Reproductive organs do not define a person.

Trans women who cannot have periods are not any less divinely feminine. A trans woman who never got to be a maiden in the outdated, traditional sense should not be considered any less.

If the language you’re using to describe AFAB people is the same way that a dog breeder describes a breeding dog, you’re doing something wrong.

[chelledoggo]

there's too much animosity towards queer people who want to practice their faith/spirituality, both within their respective religions and within the LGBTQIA+ community.

we need to protect and lift up our queer siblings of faith.

our queer Christians.

our queer Jews.

our queer Muslims.

our queer Hindus.

our queer Buddhists.

our queer Sikhs.

our queer Baháʼís.

our queer Wiccans/Pagans.

our queer Shintos.

our queer siblings of indigenous/folk faiths.

our queer SBNR siblings.

our queer siblings of whatever religion/spiritual systems they observe.

you're all beautiful and valid and loved and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 💖

[child-of-earth-and-starry-heaven]

Why is Dionysus associated with both effeminacy and virility? I think because both are antithetical to the Greek virtues of moderation and self-discipline.

Ancient Greeks idealized a disciplined mind and body as a masculine virtue (i.e. Apollo). Being undisciplined was considered effeminate. But visible, virile masculine lust (e.g. satyrs, Pan) also represented immodesty and lack of discipline. (This is why statues are rarely well-endowed.) Dionysus, as the god of drunkenness and hedonism, embodies both extremes.

Of course, Dionysians know the secret:

Excess of self-denial is still excess.