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hestiashearthfire · 8 months
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Veiling Hellenic polytheists interact! I think I’m going to start veiling for Hera/Hestia.
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nickdewolfarchive · 3 months
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boston, massachusetts 1974
young woman, tremont & park
photograph by nick dewolf https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/40495238692
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transrav · 1 year
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selfies of all of the scarves i own in varying styles and degrees of coverage! (she/they)
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sadsongsandwaltzes · 1 year
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Do any of my followers practice headcovering?
If so, what do you use? How do you style it? How often do you do it? Is it every day? Just during church? Does age or being married or single play any role in it?
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paula-of-christ · 8 months
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Veiling And Why We Should Stop "Discerning" About It.
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Now this is definitely not a "new" idea that I or others have posted about or discussed. However, it is a subject that has been on my mind for quite some time recently as I have joined new Catholic women's facebook groups and traditional circles.
There is this idea of discerning about levels of modesty - specifically about veiling - before doing it. Women come in contact with other women who practice this ancient tradition, and then the reasons for why one does so, becoming enamored with the idea of doing it themselves. But there is a pause in doing so, wondering if it is 'right' simply because they are compelled by other people's experiences with this devotion.
However, and when I started to veil but before I covered daily I was definitely guilty of this, women then try to ask God whether or not they should do it. And when no amount of discernment or prayer yield a direct answer, they turn to other women to ask if they think the individual should practice this devotion. (I am tempted to go on a tangent about discernment in general here, but will save that for another post.)
Imagine for a moment of a young man discerning whether to buy a certain car. He has thought and prayed about it, gone to adoration, prayed with relevant scripture, read other men's reasons for buying the car, he can afford the car. He feels compelled to buy the car for these reasons, the exposure he has had to it intellectually, but will not make the leap towards going to a dealership and actually buying the car. He has made all of the relevant steps towards buying it, except for actually doing so, and only because he is not sure if it is "God's Will" since he has not heard a clear sign of whether or not to buy a car.
We can take this to a more similar analogy by replacing buying the car with some other spiritual practice, such as praying a certain prayer daily, attending daily Mass, how frequently to attend the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and the like. It becomes a little absurd even with other spiritual things. How is one supposed to know what devotions to follow in one's own life, when the Magisterium has dictated that individual devotions are up to one's own senses and conscience?
Simply put, by trying to do them. Obviously you would not try all of them at once, but you won't know if you like doing a devotion until you try to do it. There is no intellectual discernment for a devotion, unless it will impact your life in a significant way (such as fasting on a certain day of the week, which would require forethought and planning around in some cases).
If, of course, the worry is from a sense of judgement from others, rather than a spiritual pull away from a certain devotion, you must ask yourself why you would be afraid of living out a devotion to Christ? Wearing a headcovering is akin to wearing other religious gear, if you do not need to discern wearing a shirt with a cross on it, then why discern whether to cover your head? The assumption being that you bought the shirt in order to wear to show as an outward sign of your faith. Similarly, a headcovering does the same, as it provides an outward sign of faith and depending on type or location, modesty as well.
I will note, veiling for Mass being different than daily modesty headcovering. While one is much more for the respect owed to the Eucharist, the other is a level of modesty. There is some level of necessary discernment with the latter, as the Christian faith has no Magisterial or Ritual rules for the headcovering of women that does not originate from the Old Testament, of which we are no longer bound due to the fulfillment of. But this discernment is not whether or not one should participate in the tradition, but what that looks like in an individuals life, since you mostly have to make your own "rules" for it.
Still, the connotation of discernment in the religious sense is necessarily to be reserved for the discernment of serious matters such as vocations.
My final thought on this is that veiling is not that serious. It does not require weeks or months of thinking about and discerning, as to start or stop veiling, will not remove or add grace to you. It is fundamentally a practice. It was made popular by wide-spread piety (or in many cases "piety"), and was cultural rather than spiritual. It is only very recently in the 19th and 20th centuries that we see the removal of regular headcoverings for women, a drop in the bucket of human civilization, and Christian history as well. If you see someone's position on veiling and so then feel compelled to do so yourself, just do it. You don't have to get anything special, especially if you have fashion scarves from the late 00's or early 2010's. If, on the off chance you get questioned, just answer honestly that you're trying it out to see if you like it. If you don't, just don't do it again. It will not harm your relationship with God to not do so, because likely you feel compelled to do so, because you already have a rightly ordered relationship with Him.
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northernslug · 2 months
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I found this dress at goodwill the other day. It comes with an added bonus that I can hook up to my feeding tube easily! I love accidental accessibility.
I miss tumblr. I miss blabbering my thoughts and sharing sweet little pictures. So I might start posting regularly again. Capturing the beautiful little things and what not. Feel free to join along.
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laces-and-pearls · 4 months
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A very interesting article. Although I must say that neither me nor my friends ever wear veils while praying at home. Only when in church. And you can go into a church without a headcovering if you go there unplanned or if you forget it. The (healthy-minded, understanding) priests never say anything bad, and they prohibit other women and men from commenting on other people's clothes and lack of veils.
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myblissfulness · 1 year
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How God makes you happy: embracing Femininity
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The truly capable woman -- who can find her? She is far beyond the price of pearls.
Proverbs 31: 10
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illustratinglaura · 29 days
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thejewitches · 2 years
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the kitties kerchief on Jewitches 
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I know this has been going on for a while now but it is pretty difficult for me to do in real life still. So that's why I keep coming back to it. Anyways, I've been looking into headcovering again and I saw that there wasn't much going on on Tumblr at the moment unfortunately so I decided to do some research myself in order to have some pictures that I could think about and maybe somewhat emulate. Maybe some of you ladies might like them too and find them helpful. 🥰💜
I'm still trying to find my style, in general I like this style (on the left), so just pinned together at the neck, but with a long flowing scarf, I think it looks elegant.
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This also looks pretty but I'd maybe wear it a little less loose.
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I also really like those styles, they're more practical. Simple and elegant and modest. 🥰
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These are also so classy and pretty, I'm just not sure yet if I could pull them off so well. 🤔
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This style also really resonates with me, I'm often wearing clothes like that too. I just admire her for how effortlessly she makes it look especially beautiful. 💗
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This one is one of those special styles that I would like to try one day, I think it looks spectacular but I guess it's a little impractical in day to day public life. 😉
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plutointerludeart · 1 year
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Happy Black History month! I am a black artist and would love if you checked out my upcoming webtoon, "fishpie"
The first ep of my webtoon comes out Sun, Feb 5 (2023).
If you are 1) a woman or nonman, 2) are christian, 3) headcover/veil, or 4) enjoy slice of life, I think you will enjoy my webtoon :)
Please share, and thank you for reading this post! I hope to see you in the comment section when the first ep is published
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je-suis-lainey · 1 year
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headscarf/ head coverings
Ive only been into pagan/ witchy stuff for a couple weeks, and i dont know if this has anything to do with it, but i keep looking at myself in the mirror with a hood on and it just feels right. i dont have any other reason like everyone else does, like protecting my energy or something, it just feels like something i need to do, it feels complete. i used to cover my hair with a blanket a lot as a kid and i dont know if i just think it looks cool or if its something i need to do. I guess im just looking for someone to tell me im not crazy, or this is a sign of a deaity reaching out or something, i just feel weird wanting to use a head covering without any specific reason. im also in between religions rn and i dont know what to do with that either.
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alatismeni-theitsa · 2 years
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Hello!
I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of modern views on hair and hair binding in Greece. I tried finding information on modern views myself but I have not found anything. I really loved your posts on modern views for veiling.
Thank You!!!
When it comes to Greek women, veiling and hairbinding and head covering is simply very old and folky fashion, and only part of our traditional clothing. In the older times covering your hair was a sign that you were married but you could also cover it (the hairbinding happened then) because you didn't want hair to get on your face while you were working in the fields or fall in the food you're preparing.
Today since uncovered hair is not considered promiscus behavior and hair is just hair for us, often Greeks wonder why other cultures or religions (or even our own clergy within its circles) can give such erotic and/or beautifying significance to women's hair to the point that covering it is a sign of modesty. (We gave hair some such significance in the olden days, like... before 1920 for most cases). Today hair is a beautiful part of a woman but just as ordinary to show as her hands and face.
I'm not sure if the head covering for women became more prominent after Muslim Turks conquered the Eastern Roman empire. But as you saw even before the Roman Empire women veiled, too, and I've seen that some Greek orthodox women covered their hair in the Byzantine empire as well.
Of course here I must mention that Greek Orthodox nuns and priests and monks are covered from head to toe in black even today. The difference is that men of the clergy must keep their hair somewhat long but tied back. In their official attire they usually wear a cap and sometimes it's long enough (when it's a mitra) to cover all their hair. But I don't think that for the men this happens because of modesty, compared to women.
Just the other day I saw a Greek Orthodox nun on the street who also covered her face, save for her eyes (first time I saw that). Before joining the clergy willingly they know what the attire is and I assume they have no problem with it. But most Greeks do find it restricting as an idea. I haven't heard of Greeks offending nuns because they were covered, though. They have offended Muslim women because of islamophobia, something that I don't subscribe to, but I'd like to present the situation in Greece regarding this type of religious covering.
Many Greeks fear that if they encourage the Islamic headcovers, Islamic culture(s) will become so prominent in the country that the overwhelming majority of Greek women, who don't veil, will be subjected to harassment by the Muslim men who will consider them immoral. Mandatory and Non mandatory Islamic headcovers have been connected in the ethnic collective mind to oppression, because of recent anti-islamic rhetoric but also because of Greeks' (and Christians in general) very recent history of oppression under the Muslim Turks and Arabs. And of course Erdogan is getting bolder every year, making Greeks more afraid of the Turkish nation (and hence their traditions, clothing, and religion which is Islam).
It's also weird to Greeks when foreign Hellenic polytheist women want to veil because of religion, because veiling for religion is also an old notion for Greek women (more so the reasons they veiled in antiquity). Even the grandmas go to church with their hair showing. Some might veil/cover but I don't remember seeing them tbh. (Maybe if they cover they are veeery old and widowed possibly).
Generally head covers can be considered symbols of slavery of the mind and body for the reasons due to how many Greeks view the Islamic nations but also because it is a very outdated practice. In the first "modern" years when Greek women past their teen years strolled around with their head uncovered they were challenging old systems of purity and sexuality. It was their own revolution, although we don't hear much about it because the most recent revolution (following the free hair) was the skirts above the knee. From the comments I've seen over the years from Greeks I could describe it as the society seeing it as "needlessly going backwards" for a Greek woman (or any woman) outside the clergy to veil for cultural or religious reasons. They just don't see the need to cover the hair just as women from some isolated African tribes don't see the need to cover their breasts. And suddenly introducing a cover can change the moral image women who don't cover have about themselves in an uncomfortable way.
The headcover, as I mentioned, used to be a symbol of a woman "belonging" to a man (only her man should see her hair long and untied) or being "mature and contained" because of her covered hair and that's considered a backwards notion today in Greece. It's also a fashion choice very associated with some rare isolated widowed grandmas so... not a good look 😅 When Greek women had to cover their hair when they entered a mosque in their travels they've told me "I felt like a grandma", to give you some examples.
Anyways, that's a second reason that the overwhelming majority of Greek women wouldn't choose to veil today. They do it only when they wear traditional clothing and then the headscarf doesn't have any negative meaning for them in this context.
Interestingly enough I think that if a Hindu woman wore a sari and her hair were covered she wouldn't be harassed, or that she would be less harassed compared to a visibly Muslim Pakistani woman. That's because of Greece's fear of nations who are mostly Islamic. Roma women in Greece also cover their hair often but it's seen as part of their ethnic attire so it's not a point of discussion. (For many Muslim women of the head cover is of course also traditional but in this case Greeks give more importance to the religious reason they wear it).
Obviously I don't think anyone should take off a traditional and/or religious headcover from anyone but I wanted to explain the thought process behind how many Greeks think about different types of headcovers.
I tried to explain things as thoroughly as possible but if I have missed or misrepresented something let me know, and add on this post if you have different experiences than mine!
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omnist-angels · 2 years
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Does anyone know where I can find some pride flag colored headcoverings? I found a couple on Pinterest, but only in rainbow, and I kinda want a nonbinary/genderfluid/or genderqueer one. Maybe I could make my own, but I don't know how to sew.
Might be going to my first pride event this year and I really want to veil if I'm going to be around so many people. I do have a couple of headscarves already if I can't find anything new, but It'd be nice to have more, and on theme.
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I normally don't endorse shopping on Sundays, but Autom has a free shipping 'sale' which ends today and I just noticed that these two veils are exponentially marked down so i thought i's share
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