Even if you can’t hear your deities, they hear you
Even if you can’t see your deities, they see you
Even if you can’t feel your deities, they’re there and they love you
“I want a bf” “I want a gf” okay??? I want to let go of my past no matter how hurtful the memories might be??? I want love to define me rather than break me in my feverish attempts to seek it????? I want the ever shifting opinions of other people to no longer have such a chokehold on me?????
‘hollyhocks and sunlight’ - charles courtney curran (1902)
१ ִ ࣪ ㅤׂ ── ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ─── ꒰ 𖹭 ꒱ ─── ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ──
blessed with the love sent from her
even through the tough times
for love i must endure
beauty so fair
known across the land
though she weilds a powerful hand
all of her people are held with care
‧̍̊·̊‧̥°̩̥˚̩̩̥͙°̩̥‧̥·̊‧̍̊ ♡ °̩̥˚̩̩̥͙°̩̥ ·͙*̩̩͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩̥͙·̩̩̥͙*̩̩̥͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩͙‧͙ °̩̥˚̩̩̥͙°̩̥ ♡ ‧̍̊·̊‧̥°̩̥˚̩̩̥͙°̩̥‧̥·̊‧̍̊
small, silly poem as an offering for lady aphrodite. happy venus day lovelies !!
Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus
"do i have to meditate to practice witchcraft effectively?" "do i have to use this herb to practice this spell?" "do i have to cleanse/protect/ward?" "do i need to work with a deity?" you can do whatever you want forever
the greatest form of worship is indulging in the world around you—living your life. no offering can overcome the love and serenity you find when you begin to appreciate the Theoi in our natural world
being connected with nature does not mean needing to be friends with all of it. we’re all one and we’re all family and im still gonna have beef with cousin mosquito
Your gods love you.
Even when you stumble, they love you.
Even when you upset them, they love you.
Even when you make a mistake, they love you.
It's going to be ok.
Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.
If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.
If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.
Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.
Thank you this is the first post about self love that hasn’t made me want to throw things