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The Floralia 🌸🏛️🌿

honouring Flora, the ancient Roman goddess of flowers and blossoming plants. 🌸🌷🌿🌱

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One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.

It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.

Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”

Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”

How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?

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cicero was cooking w/ "if the gods cannot and will not help us, if there is nothing on their side that touches are life, what reason have we to devote worship, honors and prayers to them?"

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KALENDAE MARTIAE

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KALENDAE MARTIAE

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I don’t like doing these but this halfwit of a man followed me. block @/sebastophanes, he believes he’s a part of the modern Roman Empire (fascist lite behaviour) and has actively praised the colonisation of my ancestors in mesoamerica. not to mention being mad people are praying that the fascists killing us to go away. also, anti trans language by calling himself “cis” instead of just cisgender; and the overall weird thing of calling people being justly critical of Rome’s colonial nature whiny.

death to fascists. glory to Bellona. I don’t like “call-outs” but this guy is an active threat.

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necromancy is such a serious name for something really simple. im just inviting a dude over and having a chat. not my fault theyre dead

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“Don’t inject politics into the gods”, says the person worshipping the idea and gods of the Roman/Greek/Egyptian/Etc empires. the gods are inherently political both today (satanic panic, neopagan movement, & Christian nationalism) as they were back then. they were seen as patrons of cities and politicians. we have deities who personify politics & political ideas. fork found in kitchen.

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sometimes i look through the list of roman cognomina at nova roma for ideas to put on my list of names for students to pick from for my class and i really love the way they guide their members toward picking certain names instead of others. like your ass is NOT cato. go be bald

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BY APOLLO WE GETTING THRU THIS FLARE UP. PLEASE.

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funniest shit i ever did when first starting practice after like. a week of working with mars was go "by the way. i know part of the reason you were so present in the beginning of my life was bc of my familys extensive connection to law enforcement however i hate cops and hate what they stand for and am disowning them<3 peace and love" AND JUST. CONTINUED WITH MY PRACTICE. the way i went abt it was rude as all hell but he was patient w/ me and understands

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Wrath of Apollo

(Some notes: The infinite sign shape above is Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail, historically a symbol of infinity or the cycle of life, death and rebirth. I chose to put it there because the duality of death and rebirth corresponds to Apollo as the god of light but also god of plague. The name “apollo” itself has the meaning of the “destroyer” too. Snake is also an animal related to Apollo in myths.)

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do strength training with Mars. get told very lovingly i have deep seated issues with pride and shame. I MEAN HES RIGHT . but.

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Neptuno (Melenara, Gran Canaria).

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for the love of Jupiter don’t post in Roman pagan tags if your post has nothing to do with Roman paganism. Trying to browse and seeing everything but rompol sucks, actually

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my goal for 2025 is small simple and clear: change my whole entire life

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they don't tell u this but ritual w ur friends can be so touching