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borrow your boyfriend’s armor while he’s sulking at the beach
Patroclus ghost wrote this
literally
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Wow. Religious LGBTQ+ are just so wonderful.
Pagans? They’re stars
Muslims? They’re the greatest™
Christians? They’re heckin rad
Jews? They deserve ice cream and warm hugs
Sikhs? They raised my GPA and cured my asthma
Buddhists? They bless this world with their very presence
Hindus? Can’t get better than these guys
Shintoists? They’re A+++ human beings
Taoists? They’re about as wonderful as kittens
LGBTQ+ who religiously cover their heads (especially trans boys and nb ppl)? It makes me so happy knowing they exist
In conclusion, LGBTQIA+ people who are religious are great and deserving of so many good things. Be kind to them.
“On Friday, July 27, the full moon passed through the shadow of the Earth for 103 minutes. It was the longest “blood moon” lunar eclipse of the century, as the moon turned red in the shadow of the Earth for nearly two hours.”
Now we finally know what Ancient Greek music sounded like
In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: “Nobody has ever made head or tail of ancient Greek music, and nobody ever will. That way madness lies.”
Indeed, ancient Greek music has long posed a maddening enigma. Yet music was ubiquitous in classical Greece, with most of the poetry from around 750BC to 350BC – the songs of Homer, Sappho, and others – composed and performed as sung music, sometimes accompanied by dance. Literary texts provide abundant and highly specific details about the notes, scales, effects, and instruments used. The lyre was a common feature, along with the popular aulos, two double-reed pipes played simultaneously by a single performer so as to sound like two powerful oboes played in concert.
Despite this wealth of information, the sense and sound of ancient Greek music has proved incredibly elusive. Read more.
Orpheus and Eurydice - Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767–1824)
François-Pascal-Simon Gérard (1770–1837), after the drawing by,
a circa 1798 Engraving at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, California
With the second picture, for this post, we see what is proposed to be the version by François-Pascal-Simon Gérard 1770. An 1837 later drawn Pen and Ink, after the Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson original drawing, dating to 1798.
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Could you please reblog this if you are a witch who isn’t Wiccan?
Basically, “can I do witchcraft with this?” is the next question I ask myself about any new object, after “can I wear it on my head?” and “can I eat it?”
I’ve been looking into spells and sigils and such, and part of me wants to believe they work but the other part of me is stuck in the ways of “magic isn’t real and it won’t ever be real” I’m stuck
So my niece said to me very kindly “Aunt Tea, you know that a lot of people don’t believe witchcraft is real.”
And I said “Yes, but they make the best witches.”
We’re raised in cultures that place focus on belief but witchcraft isn’t about believing. It’s about doing. The best witches I’ve known haven’t necessarily been those who’ve sat around and told me, misty eyed, how they love the goddess or enthused about fairies.
No, the best have been those who pragmatically set up altars and did rituals, not because they believed, but because it worked. Sometimes they were trying to prove it wouldn’t work. That this witchcraft stuff would have no affect on reality. Except it did. So they kept doing…because it worked.
They often become very knowledgeable witches because they get caught up in research. Witchcraft becomes and experiment as they work to find the best techniques. They look into Ceremonial Magic, Hermetic Quabalah, Thelema and other systems the same way a scientist pursues research.
Sometimes I think magic works for them because it knows it has to. If it stops, then they’ll stop. And the magic wants to keep itself going.
Some of my biggest magic has been at the times in my life where I was holding my hands over my ears and screaming NOPE NOPE NOPE.
I also had an in between period of “hahah, well, it only appears to work because something something the subconscious, nothing mysterious about it a all, its just psychology!”
And then you do some kind of really externally focused spell, because, hahah, it’s not like it will WORK anyway, so–
And then things work a lot of the time and you’re like,
WELP. maybe i should just stop talking shit.
SOMEONE EXPLAINED MY BELIEF IN SPELLS EXPERIMENT IN A FRIENDLY DISCUSSIONAL WAY. AND WHY I DONT FOCUS ON BELIEF AT ALL IN MY PRACTICE. *SCREAMS*
*as an aside, thelema, ceremonial and all that dodads up there are no goes for me. Folk magic and diy magic (lil chaos magic) have been my wheelhouse
So... fidget spinner magic anyone?
So I finally gave in and got myself one of those spinning fidget things because clearly i don’t have enough stuff to fiddle with, and I’ve been sitting here twiddling it for a while and...just... so many potential magical applications, you guys, like...
Sigil charging - spin it over, or rest it on, a sigil to charge it
Cleansing - spin anti-clockwise to cleanse or “rewind” effects on objects
Simple Divining - mark one limb (or side or whatever they’re called) of the spinner and write options, numbers, or letters on a piece of paper. Rest the spinner on the paper, spin, and note where the marked part stops.
If used for anxiety, anoint the centre with lavender oil for calming, for example. Or rosemary oil if you use it to help you focus. And/or draw a sigil or rune in the centre for the same sort of thing
Endless possibilities, right? Thoughts? Additions?
Marble tombstone of a woman (seated) who died leaving her child in the care of a nurse. Athens, 425-400 BC. Now in the British Museum.
Photo Credit: Clio Ancient Art and Antiquities
05/17/2017 - I went to the Yale University Art Gallery and saw some Real Nice pots. The tiny oinochoai and the maenad beating the shit out of some satyr dude with her thyrsus are my faves.
Scholars believe miniature wine jugs, like the choes shown above, were presented to children at age three or four by their parents during the Anthesteria, and that upon this sacred occasion the children would taste their first drops of wine. This wasn’t quite as unhealthy as it sounds to modern people, because wine was typically diluted with 3 or more parts water per serving. It was such an important event in the spiritual life of a child that a miniature chous was often placed in children’s graves.
Magic Tip: Be specific in your correspondences.
I feel like one major weakness that many magic practitioners don’t realize when making correspondences is that they aren’t specific.
Yes, basil and rosemary are both good for protection. But what kind of money spells? What kind of protections?
A protection could work by hiding you, by filtering things out, by being an impenetrable wall, by dispelling negative energies. And if you were to pick from one or two of those- you could still be even more specific.
How does it become an impenetrable wall? Is it the bricks themselves, or is it the cement that holds it together?
And even then-how good is the cement? Would rosemary’s cement work better?
Don’t just stop there- consider the different forms of the material.
Is dried basil better at certain things then fresh basil? How does it act in a potion, in an oil, in a tincture?
Be specific in making your correspondences to truly find out the differences between materials. It is pointless to have a list of 50 different herbs for a purpose if you do not know the different ways they carry out that purpose, because you cannot combine them to maximize their effects.
Altar/shrine pics from May Eve a few weeks back. Can’t have as many candles in the current place, which is a shame.
Want to witch but not sure what to witch?
Try…
Paint your nails with color magic
Check on your plant babies
Tea/Coffee spells
Try a new tarot spread in a reading
Go for a walk and observe the world around you
Bath/shower spells
Go make your bed and cleanse it
Tech or emoji spells
phone cleansing
Doodle some new sigils
Pray/offer things to your deities
Clean something physically and spiritually
Baking or other kitchen witchery
Exercise for strength and flowing movement
If you’re stuck, that’s a start!