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Charles Baudelaire, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; “Hymn to Beauty”

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http://www.shoploveleone.com/

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laces and silks collection by mirror palais.

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mirror palais "the nereid gown" in petal pink | from the "laces and silks" collection

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Laetitia Casta

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I don’t say things like this often, but this is a book I think everyone should read!

It has inspired me to make my first (authentic to me) altar. Women have created our own seperate space vía home altars for millennia…In pre-historical times we see evidence of this, we see it all over the world stretching back into the inky depths of time…Whether in highly patriarchal Ancient Greece making their hestia the center of their home, Mexican mothers passing their devotion to Mother Mary / Mary of Guadalupe via home altars, Hindu women creating gorgeous home altars for Durga or Kali or any of the numerous Hindu deities, whether she be a devotee of Guan Yin, or of Yoruba…Women create true religious life by blending the religious with the mundane, by creating sacred womens cultures formed around home altars, by creating power denied via patriarchal religion through home altars…It’s divine.

Quotes:

“I ventured to ask Virginia why she kept an altar at home, she simply replied that it was a “beautiful necessity.”

“…historically it has always been women who are more likely to keep or reinvigorate old practices alongside the new, which are usually a result of male-determined war, conquest, or ideological transformations.”

“the altar is…The meeting place of the sacred and the mundane, the parenthesis between the two worlds…where communication with the ineffable is possible…altars are very important tools used for facilitating the interweaving of the two worlds.”

“For a woman, keeping an altar is a distinctly personal assumption of relationship with divine Allie’s in whatever form they take for her.”

“For Wiccans, the altar is foremost a setting for the tools that are ritually used to invoke blessing and change…For many, the women’s altar is itself a sign of religious immanence by virtue of its ancient emergence from the natural world [explanation of first altars being piles of stones, etc]…Other women adopt the altar as a source of their own self-nurturance…As a mirror of self-reflection, growth, and change, the altar becomes a site where women claim and exercise an unencumbered sense of their own spiritual effectiveness.”

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italian vogue, 1994 in hidden femininity: 20th century lingerie - farid chenoune

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Strawberries and Cakes (details) — 1860 oil on canvas John F. Francis

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valentine’s day movie guide 💘

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Senta Berger in "Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova"(dir. Luigi Comencini - 1969).

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Edwige Fenech in All the colours of the dark (1972)

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Gina Lollobrigida by Sam Levin, Les Belles de Nuit, 1952