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why limit yourself between choosing between a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? if persephone can be the goddess of spring & queen of the underworld at the same time so can you

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Sweet decay fills the space where my heart used to beat and moss crawls over my mind. I sleep a sleep of mushroom cap dreams as dirt buries me, too deep to find. 

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New goddess idea: She’s an earth goddess of the new age who’s domain is spinning and weaving, but specifically spinning and weaving gigantic structural steel cables for construction and other industrial purposes. Her skin is steel grey and hard to the touch and her hair is like long dredlocks of woven steel. She laughs at shitty architecture deigns that will fall apart if actually built and protects well-made bridges and buildings she likes. She might warn you of unforseen danger if you always wear your proper PPE.

Okay now what do I name her

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im starting a gang and we’re gonna go out and destroy every golf course. rip up all the grass and replace it with native plants and fruit trees and shit. we move at midnight be there or be a casualty of the revolution

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VIDEO FROM THE SURFACE OF A COMET

This is truly incredible.

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Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.

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This decorated mule deer headdress is one of the more unusual pieces I’ve made. Her eyes were too far apart for her to be a proper mask, so I gave her painted leather eyes. $175 plus shipping takes her home, and layaway is available, or you can purchase immediately at http://www.etsy.com/listing/487387874/real-mule-deer-headdress-with-ears-and

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#tbt #throwback ‘I am not your Savior. I am not your dream. I am Dark and Light and Dark and Light - the Fire’s flickering shadows - the Breath within the Trees. I am wild rapture, chaotic within blurred eyes. Fire on the the tips of wings, seizing life and love and luminous laughter - leaving nothing left but Time.’ ✨🖤🌙🍂 New collection release 08.18.18 at www.etsy.com/shop/ghostriverart or by clicking link in bio

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Hey! I saw in a post earlier about having a necklace for the local land... How would that differ from a necklace for a specific deity/spirit? Like, how would such thing be made? Just out of professional curiosity. Thanks for your time!

Thanks for asking! For me, there isn’t really a difference in the process, except that for Named gods I can look up historical references of commonly used colors for jewelry in that time period and if there are any colors in particular associated with that god. For instance and off the top of my head, I’ve never seen truly purple beads used in Ancient Egyptian art or jewelry (I’m not a historian, I’m just making observations based on museum photos), so I’m unlikely to bother using purple in their necklaces.

For the rest of the process, though, the steps are exactly the same: 

1) Choose beads that have a color, size, weight, and texture that feels right for whatever the necklace will be.

2) Determine the length the necklace will be. Many of mine are the right length so I can either fit it over my head and wear it as a necklace, or wrap it around my wrist a couple times as a bracelet.

3) Start beading. I don’t make a lot of really thought-out decisions here. Like a lot of my practice, if a pattern of beads is in the right spot, it will feel like it just clicks into place like a jigsaw puzzle piece. I do a lot of “telling stories” to the beads. Some of them I remember afterward, most I don’t. For example, there’s a section in my California necklace that talk about the state flower and another about fires. My Ra necklace has been remade a few times, but always contains a sun disk in there somewhere.

Here’s my necklaces for various Named gods:

And these are the ones for the Dead and the area of California that I live in:

Sorry for the awful photos, the phone camera is on it’s way out. 

Anyway, all this stuff is intuition based. What’s right for me won’t always be right for someone else. If I showed these necklaces to a hundred different polytheists, they’d have a hundred different interpretations of them, and that’s okay.

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I’m going to look into working with Hel

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Today’s Tarot of Bones daily draw is the Ace of Swords, reversed. Today is a good day to check your pace. Yesterday’s Magician was all about adaptability, but in order to adapt you need to know where you are first. So be mindful of whether you’re pushing yourself too hard, or not hard enough–or perhaps both, but in different areas of your life. Once you have that information adapt as best as you can. You might not be able to get the balance right immediately, but do the best you can with what you’ve got.

You can order the Tarot of Bones deck and book, or purchase a Tarot of Bones reading, at http://www.thetarotofbones.com/shop/ – and yes, even if you don’t have a Paypal account you CAN use the Paypal option to pay with a debit or credit card!

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Fehér isten (White God) (2014; Kornél Mundruczó)

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Allow me to introduce you all to Caitlin Doughty: The world’s most upbeat, cheerful, funny, and charismatic mortician.

Yes, you read that right.  Mortician.

Aside from her day job, she is the founder of “The Order of the Good Death”, which is an organization devoted to death acceptance and embracing human mortality, hoping to bring to western funerary practices the same reverence, celebration, and demystification of death found in other cultures.  Caitlin is also the author of two bestselling books about her work, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (2014), and From Here to Eternity; Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (2017).

On her Youtube channel, she tackles various death-related inquiries in her “Ask a Mortician” series, as well as covering other morbid topics, and occasionally chronicling her life and travels as a mortician.  Her videos are highly entertaining and informative, and presented in a casual manner suitable and accessible to all ages. Those further interested can also check out her website.

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When hurricane season hits its peak and the storms are damn near constant, sure, I’ll pour out my offerings to Thor.

But we name those storms. We personify and anthropomorphize them. We hail them as beings with their own energy and presence. Even people who claim no belief in any higher power will do this.

“Remember Andrew? He was a bastard.”

“Irma’s angry; she’s going to hit us hard.”

The strongest? We never call another storm by that name, and in the areas heaviest hit, you see a sharp, sharp decline in children bearing that moniker. Around here we know–you don’t give a kid that name, it has too much power and rage behind it. It’s ill luck.

So I offer to the storms, too. To tell them, hey–I see your power, your might, your rage. I see your majesty. Please, slow down. Please, be calm. Transform your rage into gentle showers and winds that are just strong enough for us to know it’s you. 

Be kind to us, great storms; show us your power in a way that causes the least amount of harm.

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DIY Gemstone Necklace

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sew-much-to-do: a visual collection of sewing tutorials/patterns, knitting, diy, crafts, recipes, etc.

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“Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet’s green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.”

— Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

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Forest Gods and Guardians

You ask Ullr to bless your hunt. You get one buck with an impressive rack. 

You ask Freyr to bless your hunt. You get a few fat does that fill your freezer, and a few skinny ones that wouldn’t have survived the winter. 

You ask Odin to bless your hunt. You get three chipmunks, some blurry photos of Bigfoot, and an old leatherbound hunting journal that had belonged to your grandfather, who disappeared in these same woods all those years ago …. You ask Skadi to bless your hunt. The cops never find their bodies.