— Paulo Coelho (via minuty)

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The Fairy Queen, Bone Mother, Grandmother witch. She leads the hunt and lights the fire in our heads. She is The Great Lady of Elphame. 

A piece I did for Witches Sabbat 2018 in which I’ll be attending. It was nice to draw the lady herself. 

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My cousin, all dressed up and about to go to some club: “hey can I borrow that that pink lipstick you were wearing the other day?”

Me, sitting cross-legged on a stool, trying to inhale the smoke of burning bay leaves in front of me because I want to see if you can get high on that shit since it’s rumoured that the priestess of Delphi used to do that, but no one is sure if it really worked, you know: “it’s on my desk”

My cousin: “okay… have… fun…”

I just realized I was subconsciously trying to recreate this painting

Apollo speak to me

“Most of the people who do this are Christian. But their approach to Christianity is very animist.”

“They believed that their ability to use plants and prayers to heal the sick was a gift from the Divine.“ 

this is a really cool ethnobotany thing like…..amazing

@white pagans especially those from the south east you should be trying to keep this practice alive cause it is in very real danger of dying out instead of trying to snatch other people’s work.

Go to your roots.

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Fourth House: Your Aversion

Your 4th house ruler shows what you received excessive exposure to during childhood. As a result, you might develop an aversion to the traits of the sign on the 4th house cusp. 

The following is organized by your 4th house ruler.

Aries 4th House : emotion/thoughtless impulse; you might to be a hard, cold cap rising who is averse to loud, brash personalities

Taurus 4th House : tradition/materialism/slow movement; you might be be an aqua rising who craves freedom and revolution

Cancer 4th House : sympathy/emotional manipulation; you might be a tough, independent aries rising who refuses to be told what to do

Gemini 4th House : talking/meaningless chatter/excessive communication; you might be a pisces rising who values meaningful communication, solitude, and silence

Leo 4th House : attention/narcissism; you might be a taurus rising who prefers to blend into the background and despises bragging/braggarts [analysis of psychology below]

Virgo 4th House : criticism/judgement/boredom; gemini rising who prefers to be entertained and open-minded

Libra 4th House : compromise/emotional neglect; cancer rising who desperately tries to control environment/other people to avoid compromise

Scorpio 4th House : scrutinity/paranoia/invasion of privacy; you might be a leo rising who self-aggrandizes, prefers to keep thigns light, and hide their flaws

Sagittarius 4th House : irresponsibility; virgo rising, self-explanatory

Capricorn 4th House : expectations/isolation; libra rising, self-explanatory [analysis 2]

Aquarius 4th House : eccentric/erratic behavior; scorpio rising, prefers to adopt a stoic, mysterious persona

Pisces 4th House : delusion/self-sacrifice; sagittarius rising who tries to learn about the world at large, stay grounded in reality, and has selfiish tendencies [analysis 3]

[1] Taurus risings often have parents who smother them with attention, to the point where they feel like they’re controlled and constantly watched. Parents may also have narcistic tendencies and seek approval/fish for compliments from their children while witholding praise. Parents may be act entitled to the child’s time and attention, leaving little room for peace, solitude, and self-care. This causes the adult Taurus rising to shy away from attention-seeking (leo-like) personalities and enjoy solitude, silence, and peace. 

[2] Libra risings can have parents with harsh capricorn qualities; parents who don’t hesitate to demean their own children in the name of “pusing them further,” who withold approval and affection, who may prevent the child from spending time wirh friends, who make the child feel lonely and unworthy. As a result, Libra risings almost pathologically seek approval and acceptance to compensate for what the parents deprived them of.

[3] Sagittarius risings likely have parents who expect the child to be pliant, obedient, and self-sacrificing. The parents may ask the child to give, give, and give, until there’s nothing left. The parents themselves may be weak, selfish, and delusional, pretending to be martyrs while taking advantage of their own children. The parents might act helpless as a manipulation  tactic. As a defense, the Sagittarius detaches themselves from needy people and (”selfishly”) puts themselves first, to compensate for years of being forced to put themselves last. 

The human personality is almost entirely a cluster of defense mechanisms to cope with different types pain and toxic people.  Once you know the traits each rising sign expresses, and the sign on the 4th house cusp, it is easy to trace the behavior to the roots.

It’s an interesting read but I always read the 10th house is what the person on their own wants to develop into.  Totally true about the defense mechanism, but I am rather sure most people grow away from the 4th house by going into the sister opposite 10th house sign.  Then in the end of life when we have made it on our own we return to the 4th house to “retire.”

The 4th is kind of the “soul of the birth chart.”  Yet we are here to develop the North Node and the 10th house/4th quadrant so we can give back to life.  I think the 10th house is the beginning of understand how to give back.  That ultimately comes from putting childish ways to bed so we can mature and grow (4th to 10th.)

A consequence of being pagan in the modern world is that sometimes you just aren’t taken seriously. I’m not claiming that our religion is necessarily directly targeted by oppression, but in a Christocentric world a lot of pagans still have to keep themselves under wraps and go to worship a god they don’t believe in, and even those of us who can be open about it get treated like crackpots.

I would love to be able to say “I worship the gods of Olympus” without being treated like I’m intellectually deficient. After all, the Greeks were a primitive and superstitious people, even though secular western society has been falsely tracing its lineage to Greece for centuries.

But in trying times, when it just seems like it’s silly to burn incense to gods most people think belong in Mythology for Dummies books, its important to know that these gods were real.

Imagine being ill and being brought to the Temple of Asclepius, and sleeping there, feverish and shaking, and being told of your cure in the night.

Imagine being a bride burning a lock to Artemis before her wedding, hoping that her husband would be kind and her new family welcoming.

Imagine being a sailor near drowning praying to Poseidon and washing up on dry land, and taking a bowl to his sanctuary that tells the world how the god saved you.

The gods were real to these people. They were real to Sappho, who called Aphrodite down resplendent with a word. They were real to Homer and all the poets who begged the Muses to sing through them. They were real to the initiates at Eleusis, who went into the dark unknowing and came out knowing that even in death they would be thrice-blessed. They were real to the people who came to their sanctuaries and decorated them with pottery and marble and art, and who built some of the most spectacular buildings the world has ever seen, just to house their gifts to the gods.

It was not a matter of faith, but of knowing. The gods were real to them, and to us too, they are real now.

I’m a kemetic polytheist and this still resonates with me.

I’m a Gaelic polytheist and this brought tears to my eyes.  It’s incredibly touching and a reminder that our gods aren’t just characters in a book or figures lost t history. They are here with us, and are just as important and valid as any other. 

This also resonates with me

“You have so much potential!! i know you can do better!!”