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February 28, 1927 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

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Frank Papé illustration for Thaïs, Anatole France, 1890

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Timo Ketola (2015)

Babalon

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relationship status: eternally devoted.

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“Lady of Babel” from “Handbook of Sacred Anatomy” by Jose Gabriel Alegria (2014).

Beauty (Sophia) and the Beast.

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“Let it be Known; today the Eternal Feminine In an incorruptible body is descending to Earth. In the unfading light of the new Goddess, Heaven has become one with the deeps.”

— Vladimir Soloviev

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Dark Feminine Energy Looks Like:

Setting boundaries

Being direct and assertive

Making yourself the 1st priority

Being bold in what you believe in

Not allowing others guilt or shame you

Embracing your sexuality

Doing shadow work

Being self centered

Having your true desires met

Doing things your way

Being the main character

Letting go of what doesn’t serve you

Saying no

Indulging in your pleasures shamelessly

Embracing all aspects of you

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by Zoltán Boros & Gabor Szikszai

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⚸ Breaker of Chains ⚸

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Among the merry fire across the land is galloping dear Mother Death on her red horse.

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Western minds have been taught to see the snake as penile, but I came to understand how it could be seen as the vagina when I kept a little milk snake (named Madame) for several years and observed how she stretched her mouth when she ate. Like the walls of the yoni in sexual intercourse or childbirth, the snake's mouth swells to giant proportions around mouse, rabbit, fish, or even (for the anaconda) whole deer. Snake in Australian mythology swallows menstruating women and is itself sometimes said to have inner pains and to be menstruating. As the collective female vagina, Snake defines and displays the metaphoric relationship between the younger sister's menstrual flow and the older sister's lochial blood.

The primal vaginal snake image extends several more steps in this complex and well-developed myth of origin. Snake lives in a particular place, a waterhole, river, lake, or other body of water. Natural bodies of water are, as I have mentioned, equated with menstrual blood, possessing the same life- and death-giving capacities. In the Australian myth, Snake emerges from the waterhole womb to consume but also to wrap protectively around the two sisters. In other myths, Snake "swallows" a woman into the water and keeps her there forever. The collective flow is both protective and dangerous: the great menstrual paradox of life and death.

-Judy Grahn, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World

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