The Sigils Of Baphomet

Hey, I'm Valraven. I am in my mid-thirties, a quasi-animistic satanist, and embrace the label warlock for a variety of reasons I'll gladly explain if people are actually interested. This blog is pretty much purely for my sigil work and the occasional metaphysical/gramarye post, so no need to worry about my personal posts or the like.

[thesigilsofbaphomet]

IF YOUR SATANISM ISN'T PRO-ABORTION, PRO-QUEER, ANTI-FASCIST, PRO-TOTAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, YOU MISSED THE FUCKING POINT.

[strawberrylemonadeswagtourney]

PLEASE HELP A DISABLED LESBIAN WHO IS GETTING KICKED OUT INTO BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES

sorry if this is all over the place, my head is still pounding from yesterday but i tried my best to be coherent. this is the worst my situation has been in a long time. my father has a history of being violent and aggressive when he’s drunk, this time he went too far. i try not to get involved with anything involving my family, but last night i heard screaming from the kitchen and it sounded bad. my siblings and i all came to see what the commotion was just in time to see him swing a frying pan at my mother’s head. 

my youngest brother disappeared and me and my other brother tried to get in between our parents to stop it because my mother was already bleeding but he fought back against both of us, i don’t know what specifically happened to my brother but his face is all bruised and swollen and i got my head slammed against the wall multiple times. my phone ended up shattered on the ground broken beyond repair and i somehow got glass in my foot that i've since removed

idk if my younger brother called the cops or if the neighbors heard what was going on but they showed up, my father told them everything was fine even though several of us were bleeding and obviously not fine. my mother refused to say anything but my siblings and i spoke up and my father is now in jail. my mother told me that i shouldn’t have said anything, i’m a horrible influence, this is my fault as the oldest, i should’ve known better, and that i have until the new year to find somewhere else to live. i have three weeks to scrounge up enough change to try and survive in below freezing temperatures and i have no fucking clue what i’m going to do. 

i’ve reached out to a couple shelters to no avail and i don’t really have IRL friends who can help me. the only thing i can think of is my grandmother or extended family, but they all live 300 miles away and my parents sold my car without my permission so i can’t drive down there myself. i don’t know what to do. i’m so scared and i have nowhere to turn and i have less than a month to figure this out.

i’m going to reach out to my grandmother/family but if all else fails, the cheapest motel in my area is $45/night. i have $13 to my name at the moment. in the next few weeks, i need to secure a place to sleep at night, as well as transportation to get out and away from here, and at least a burner phone from the store, a flip phone will absolutely do and those are like $10-$30 i think. please PLEASE help me monetarily if you can, if not, you can also help just by boosting this post so more people see it. thank you for reading

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[strawberrylemonadeswagtourney]

it’s looking like i’m going to be on my own this winter. my grandmother told me that she would be condemning herself to hell by allowing someone who had been swayed by the devil into her holy house of god. but leaving her grandchild to survive out in the freezing cold because they're gay is surely going to get her into heaven. i tried to reach out to other family members and the only person who responded was my cousin, who is also struggling to stay afloat and can’t help

all of this is because i was trying to defend my mother, just for her to turn around and kick me out. i just don’t know what to do anymore. i don’t have enough money to consistently stay at motels since the cheapest rate around me is $45/night, and that’s going to drain through what i have saved up in only a few days. i know that a branch-specific subscription to the YMCA is $47/month, which will allow me somewhere warm to be during open hours and give me access to showers and drinking water at the very least. i’m scrambling to figure out how i’m going to survive this winter, but i know i’m going to be borderline living out of the YMCA and the library at this point

please PLEASE consider sending a few bucks my way, every little bit helps so much more than words can properly explain. please spread this post around as much as you can, i have a little over a week to get my shit together before i get kicked out into the freezing cold. thank you for reading

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[strawberrylemonadeswagtourney]

i'm not going to be able to reblog this post consistently any more after tonight. all i can do is queue it up and hope for the best. thank you for supporting me in these trying times. please continue to boost this post, consider sending a few dollars my way if you can, and keep me in your thoughts this winter. i love you guys.

[strawberrylemonadeswagtourney]

update 01/16: the last few weeks have been rough – i’m trying to take it one day at a time. i spend a lot of time at the gym, the library, and local eateries just to stay warm, the midwest winter is not being kind to me. motels are too expensive to stay at consistently so i’ve been sleeping in dumpster enclosures to keep the wind off of me. i don't have enough to afford a room and it’s supposed to snow tonight, if anyone could help me out, it would mean the world to me. thank you to every one who has reached out to me, it genuinely fills me with hope to know that there are still people in my corner. please consider sending a few bucks my way, and please boost this post so it doesn't lose traction again. thank you for reading

[friend-crow]

There are actually a lot of rules to magic.

Like yes, there's no rules, but if your takeaway from that is that there's literally no rules, then I think you missed the larger conversation about the specific ways in which there are no rules.

What "there's no rules" means is that there is not one universal set of rules that applies to every practitioner.

It means that nobody gets to act as an authority on what the rules are for everyone else.

It means that if you show up on somebody else's post saying "the first rule of witchcraft is that you must only use magic for good" you will probably (and deservedly) be told to fuck off.

What "there's no rules" does NOT mean is that there are literally no rules. There are SO many rules. People just work within their own set of rules.

Some rules come with the territory of working within a specific tradition.

Some rules are set by entities that practitioners work with, and might be quite specific to each individual.

Some rules are like laws of physics. They define the mechanisms by which magic works within a paradigm, and what the limits are on what it can do. A magical practice consisting of "I can do literally anything," is typically a practice that hasn't had a lot of genuine thought put into it. I have yet to meet anybody who can literally turn invisible or fly.

Some rules are more like a personal code of ethics.

So, when you burst into someone else's post to announce that there are no rules, you might not be told to fuck off quite as quickly as if you turned up to impose your personal rules on other people, but you are essentially signaling that you do not understand the concept of rules within a magical practice.

Disclaimer: some people are going to be obnoxious and make their own posts about how everyone else should be following their rules, and while it might be tempting to correct them, in my experience these people tend to get 0 notes, and you're more likely to give them the exposure they desire by starting a flame war. When they find that followers don't come flocking to them, they eventually get bored and give up.

[milfstalin]

my friend cass got kicked out of her housing due to an insane sequence of events and a terrible roommate last month as according to this reblog chain

while xe will be staying with me from july 10th on, i would appreciate any donations for xer for groceries, medications, etc. as xe waits for xer court date in mid august to decide if xe gets to have disability money from the government or not. any amount is helpful.

c$happ @ $saccharinesunrise

[shirtsthatgohard]

[lynati]

My grandma had this sweatshirt, and let me tell you, it did not work. ...but she did make it to 103, so clearly it helped.

[radicalgraff]

Anti-cop poster spotted in Seattle

[punkrorschach]

download the poster

[queer-as-city-folk]

Because Queerness is a political label as much as a sexual or gender markee, I firmly believe there is no such thing as a queer cop or soldier, that soldier might be gay but they aren't queer

[yourfavpunchesnazis]

you punch nazis!

(requested by anonymous)

[yourfavpunchesnazis]

[tnystrk-exe]

[apocalypticvalraven]

[applejee]

100% my favourite part of the d&d movie was that holga had pit hair. i zoomed the fuck in on that. YES your female barbarian has armpit hair YES she does YES you fucking get it, yes this makes her a million times hotter. good fucking lord

[applejee]

visual for those who missed it or need something to inspire them to watch this movie

[mikkeneko]

i saw this movie and never noticed but GOOD FOR HER   GOOD FOR HER   fuck the stigma that women HAVE to have shaved armpits ffs   she was a badass bitch   it was really refreshing to have a platonic m/f pair   where the woman was the muscle and the man either had to be saved by her or watch her do the fighting   maybe take down one guy while she took down 20   and she didn't feel like 'ooooh girlboss female empowerment for the win'   her strength felt natural it was nice   fucking loved her dynamic with chris pine's character  - by @scarletbirbs

[changelingfangs]

Also, please check out her tattoos! They're clearly based on that one Scythian mummy we found!!!

(I spent the whole movie ogling them because !!!!! HISTORICALLY BASED TATTOOS!!!)

[ruffboi-mags]

(we've found multiple scythian mummies with tattoos in that style actually! I can think of four, including the one you're likely thinking of. :D)

[mochi-makes-shit]

this!! is like 40% of the reason i got stuff to try linoblock printing!!! because it makes me SO damn happy. im gonna have to get ink in the #nonbinary flag colors so i can make it extra clear what the joke is (for those that want it) but, as per usual, im extremely jazzed with my in-joke and i hope yall are too

this is going in my queue but most likely by the time it comes *out* of my queue, these patches will be up in my ko-fi shop!!

they measure apx 3x4 inches and run $8usd/ea

[birdturgular]

[anarchocuntboogaloo]

HE 👏 WENT 👏 LOOKING 👏 FOR 👏 TROUBLE 👏

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

The euros fail to consider the form: it’s not Johnny’s hubris that is the subject of the song. It’s the devil’s, who thinks his power is worth more than simple love for a craft

[aethersea]

neither americans nor the modern era have any sort of monopoly on one-upping the devil. one of the oldest european folk tales is The Smith and the Devil, in which a smith makes a deal with the devil for his soul and when the devil comes to collect, the smith tricks him into leaving him alone forever. tricking that bastard is an old and storied tradition.

[aethersea]

"average person who makes a deal with the devil is dragged to hell after 10 years" factoid actually just statistical error. average person who makes a deal with the devil uses their new hellish gifts to outwit the old bastard so they can keep both gifts and soul for the rest of their long and prosperous lives. faust, who bargained for knowledge of all things and then wasted his 10 years chasing a girl who wasn't all that into him, is an idiot and should not have become the cornerstone of modern understanding of the trope.

[feyosha]

[cryptotheism]

reading a 13th century Arthurian romance, and in it one character states that man was created to replace the 10th order of angels, who were the fallen angels under Satan. i've literally never heard this "10th order" idea anywhere else, does it have precedence somewhere?

Traditionally in Christianity there are 9 orders of angels. Though, this goes back to the notably mystical and dubious Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopegite. (Who was probably a pagan philosopher sneaking late-platonism into Christianity.) In his book "The Mystical Theology" he outlines nine ranks of angels which mirror the nine tiers of church life, from low level scribes all the way up to the papicy.

I think this medieval author is saying that the fallen angels would have been a "10th rank" had they not sided with Satan.

Although didn't the angels rebel BECAUSE God created man? I dunno I'm not an expert on Arthuria.

[thesigilsofbaphomet]

There is no canon reason for Lucifer's rebellion in Christianity. It is frequently attributed to "pride" but that's more of a motivation than an actual cause. Depending on who you talk to, people will say Lucifer wanted to take God's place, objected to Man's creation, or basically suffered a logic paradox due to conflicting orders from God. But there is no specific reason ever given in scripture (anything in scripture that people point to is actually a misinterpretation).

Personally, I like the idea that Lucifer rebelled out of love *for humanity*, but that has no more support than any other reason one might give.

[queersona]

therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.

cunt dracula:

[queersona]

[jojo pose] count dracula. [different jojo pose] nice to meet you. [jojo walk cycle] alexa, turn down the music! [the obnoxious music doesn't change volume] mr harker

[virtualgirladvance]

Cuntula

[demonprincex]

you don't "hate kids," you hate being forced into a caretaking role.

you don't "hate kids," you hate censorship passed off as family values.

you don't "hate kids," you hate the constrictiveness of the nuclear family.

you don't "hate kids," you're just not used to occupying fully age diverse spaces so you're not used to the noise or the many different kinds of needs.

you don't "hate kids," most public spaces just aren't built for kids, and so the few kids you see are always uncomfortable and distressed.

you don't "hate kids," you hate the intense social rules assigned to kids and anyone who interacts with kids.

You don't "hate kids," you hate how society reproduces its most restrictive elements and how kids are powerless to resist it.

[fuckyoubaker]

ATTENTION VAMPIRES

[prokopetz]

What we’ve gotta understand is that “the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults” and “the modern Internet is abolishing space for children” are compatible phenomena. Neither group is being favoured: the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults (i.e., because grown-up topics aren’t advertiser friendly) and the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for children (i.e., because online communities which consist principally of people who have no money are hard to sell things to). The Internet that contemporary corporate interests are trying to build isn’t a space for anyone – it’s the digital equivalent of an Ikea showroom.

[prokopetz]

Like, when I say that the greater part of contemporary social media is fundamentally hostile to human life, I’m not indulging in hyperbole or constructing an ironic metaphor. I mean that 100% literally.

[nemfrog]

Illustration from the article, “The grotesque.” Form, a quarterly of the arts. April 1916. Austin O. Spare (1886-1956), artist.

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