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Just a reminder, next week is the Spring Equinox. In the Pagan tradition we call that Ostara. It is a time of new beginnings.

Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 8:06 PM (Pacific Time)

(And to my friends in the Southern Hemisphere it is Mabon, the Autumn/Fall Equinox. You are in our thoughts and hearts as well.)

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Thanatos, God of Death, vs. Hercules, Hero of Ancient Greek Mythology

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Statue of the goddess Aphrodite bathing in the garden of the Reggia di Caserta, Italy.

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Hades and Persephone🖤🥀🖤

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Eros and Psyche

Devotional Art

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I trow I hung on that windy Tree

nine whole days and nights,

stabbed with a spear, offered to Odin,

myself to mine own self given,

high on that Tree of which none hath heard

from what roots it rises to heaven.

- Hávamál

The Words of Odin the High One

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143. Dost know how to write, dost know how to read,

dost know how to paint, dost know how to prove,

dost know how to ask, dost know how to offer,

dost know how to send, dost know how to spend?

144. Better ask for too little than offer too much,

like the gift should be the boon;

better not to send than to overspend.

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Thus Odin graved ere the world began;

Then he rose from the deep, and came again.

-Hávamál, The Words of Odin the High One

from the Elder or Poetic Edda

(Sæmund's Edda)

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Thus spoke Odin, before the world began:

A coward believes he will ever live

if he keep him safe from strife:

but old age leaves him not long in peace

though spears may spare his life.

- Hávamál

The Words of Odin the High One

from the Elder or Poetic Edda

(Sæmund's Edda)

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quick reminder that it’s ok to say that you love reading and that reading is your passion without reading 30+ books in a year. if you connect with books and love the power of the written word, you’re bookish. you don’t need to justify your love of reading.

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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Frigg, the Norse Goddess of Matrimony and Motherhood, Protector of Women and Children, was also a powerful Volva, a practitioner of Sedir, a type of magic that allowed her to both foresee and alter the future.

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“Paganism is dead”

No man it’s just not organized and that’s the way it should be, creating a monoculture for paganism is potentially extremely dangerous to its themes of individualism and personal practices . Yeah we don’t have temples or pilgrimages but that’s because the grace of the natural world/ our deities can be found anywhere and everywhere we don’t need temples our own bodies are pagan temples. Our own flesh and bones are structures of divinity to us, we make altars in our houses and make those our blessed places. Most of paganism is heavily private of course you think it’s dead that and anytime western culture is faced with a polytheistic system it has an absolute hissy fit.