#ritual tattoo

[morpheus-ravenna]

Intro post!

I am a genderfluid sorcerer, artist, Celtic polytheist spiritworker, and writer. My preferred pronouns are sí/hir (pronounced like she/her.)

I’m a dedicant of the Morrígan, with a practice rooted in animism, folk magic, and Celtic polytheism. I use the term “Celtic polytheism” carefully - Celtic is a language family and designates not a unified culture, pantheon or spiritual system, but a very broad family of cultures which share some linguistic, cultural and historical links. I use the broad term Celtic polytheist because the gods and spirits I am in relationship with include a mix of Irish, Brittonic, and Gaulish beings, and I braid together elements of practice drawn from all these origins in my practice.

I love monsters, Otherworldly creatures, haunted places and hidden lore. A lifelong polytheist, my childhood spiritual experiences were in a yogic tradition rooted in Hinduism. I found my home in European witchcraft traditions, beginning with training and initiation in the Anderson Feri tradition, and then settling into devotional Celtic polytheism and the magical arts. I co-founded and serve as a priest in the Coru Cathubodua Priesthood.

I write about tattooing, art and creativity, witchcraft and sorcery, polytheism and animism, and the intersections of all these interests. My first book, The Book of the Great Queen: The Many Faces of the Morrigan from Ancient Legends to Modern Devotions, was published 2015 through Concrescent Press. My next book, The Magic of the Otherworld: Modern Sorcery from the Wellspring of Celtic Traditions, is coming 2023 through Llewellyn.

I live in Huchiun/Lisjan Ohlone territory, aka the East Bay area of California, with my spouse Brennos, a haunted cat, and an adorable Corgi. I make my living as a tattoo artist, with a passion for ritual tattoos and design inspired by ancient art. I also create devotional artworks and sorcerous crafts in a variety of media. When I’m is not creating, I also practice medieval armored combat and am very fond of spears. I strive to bring a queer, feminist, anti-racist, and decolonizing ethos to everything I do.

I’m new to Tumblr and finding my way around. Hoping to meet and get to know folks with shared interests, fellow polytheists, artists, folklorists, and folks I can learn from.

[beautyallaroundus25]

[psykopaths]

[ninsectoid]

healed tattoo of Moder, the monster from The Ritual

[starred-demation]

Just got my Alan Wake 2 tattoo done yesterday. I absolutely love it 🤩

Concept sketches under the cut

[digitalerrabe]

SACRED QUEER RITUALS, Sept 2022

Text reads, in German: (...) Then I would be part of you (...) takes (...) free hands, so that they make a circle with the arms (...)

[ID: Illustration of three people sitting in a circle. The first Person has pink skin, yellow hair, is topless and wearing big, blue trainers. They have several scars and no body hair. They are tattooing letters onto the second persons thigh. The second Person has light brown skin, curly blue hair in a bun, is wearing a turquoise binder and no pants. They have several tattoos, among them animals, flowers and text reading "no peace until no police", "burn" and Magic. They are fat and have hair on their arms, legs and belly. They are braiding the third persons hair. The third person has dark brown skin, long, black hair in several braids and top-surgery scars on their chest. They are wearing blue jeans and shaving the first person's hair. There are plants in shades of blue around the people, a round, yellow circle behind the third person's head, a pink background, some dolphin stickers in the corner. Above the image is a text, part of which is blacked out. It reads: Dann wäre ich Teil von euch. (...) nimmt freie Hände, so, dass sie mit ihren Armen einen Kreis bilden. End ID.]

[gabrielasilent]

Oh.

[witchbabysoap]

Capricorn Full Moon Bath 🖤

[thelien-art]

Could you do Aredhel x Celegorm with the bisexual flag (for both) please?

My own two bi disasters😔

🏳️‍🌈CELEBRATE PRIDE WITH ME🏳️‍🌈 - send in a character or a ship with a pride flag and I´ll draw it

[morpheus-ravenna]

INK SACRAMENT TATTOO INTENSIVE

Tattooing is one of humanity’s oldest art forms, created by our ancestors on virtually every continent of the world. It has been a sacred art in most cultures, revered for its power to adorn and bless the body, to communicate identity and belonging, to invoke magic and protection, to stimulate healing, and to connect us with our holy powers through the living portal of our skin. Yet the tattoo experience offered in most Western commercial spaces is disconnected from much of this depth and richness.

Imagine a more sacred, connected, and supportive way to receive a tattoo, in the presence of gods and spirits, held by community and blessed with ritual and song. This is the experience that Ink Sacrament will create. In a private micro-farm homestead near the beach in central coastal California, we will gather to create a consecrated space across three nights and days, within which participants can receive a ritual tattoo, with prayer and song, ritual purification, tattooing inside a polytheist temple space, nourishing aftercare, and community connection.

REGISTRATION OPENING FEB 1.

Details on the event page: https://www.bansheearts.com/ink-sacrament

[beautyallaroundus25]

Morning Rituals☕️☕️☕️

[the-chavoi-legacy]

i love seeing other people's twi'lek inquisitors and realizing that pretty much everyone chose the same markings for their lekku (the sithy ones, we have incredible taste)

[hunxi-after-hours]

collecting some of the thoughts in The Disappearance of Rituals on performance, communication, and authenticity:

Chapter 1: "The Compulsion of Production"

"Digital communication is increasingly developing into communication without community. The neoliberal regime encourages communication without community by isolating everyone as the producer of him- or herself. Producing is derived from the Latin verb producere, meaning presenting or making visible. Like the French produire it still carries the meaning of presenting. Se produire means 'to play to the gallery'. The colloquial German expression sich produzieren probably has the same etymology. Today, we are constantly and compulsively playing to the gallery. This is especially the case, for instance, on social media: the social is coming to be completely subordinated in order to garner more attention. The compulsion of self-production leads to a crisis of community. The so-called 'community' that is today invoked everywhere is an atrophied community, perhaps even a kind of commodified and consumerized community. It lacks the symbolic power to bind people together" (13).

Chapter 2: "The Compulsion of Authenticity"

"The society of authenticity is a performance society. All members perform themselves. All produce themselves. Everyone pays homage to the cult of the self, the worship of the self in which everyone is his or her own priest" (16).

"Taylor's moral justification of authenticity ignores that subtle process, within the neoliberal regime, by which ideas of freedom and self-realization are transformed into vehicles for more efficient exploitation. The neoliberal regime exploits morality. Once it is able to present itself as freedom, domination becomes complete. Authenticity is a neoliberal form of production. You exploit yourself voluntarily in the belief that you are realizing yourself. In the cult of authenticity, the neoliberal regime appropriates the person himself and turns him into a highly efficient site of production" (18).

"With the rise of the cult of authenticity, tattoos have also become fashionable again. Within a ritual context, they symbolize the alliance between individual and community. In the nineteenth century, when tattoos were very popular, especially among the upper classes, the body was still a surface onto which yearnings and dreams were projected. Today, tattoos lack any symbolic power. All they do is point to the uniqueness of the bearer. The body is neither a ritual stage nor a surface of projection; rather, it is an advertising space. The neoliberal hell of the same is populated with tattooed clones" (20).

"The culture of authenticity goes hand in hand with the distrust of ritualized forms of interaction. Only spontaneous emotion, that is, a subjective state, is authentic. Behaviour that has been formed in some way is denigrated as inauthentic or superficial. In the society of authenticity, actions are guided internally, motivated psychologically, whereas in ritual societies actions are determined by externalized forms of interaction. Rituals make the world objective; they mediate our relation to the world. The compulsion of authenticity, by contrast, makes everything subjective, thereby intensifying narcissistic tendencies" (23).

[95nasty]

🔥⚔️🔥

[poisonedfate]

booked a tattoo appointment. haven’t got a clue what i want yet. live laugh love.

[kinodraws]

did a lil Moder tattoo yesterday from The Ritual!