#temple of poseidon

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Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion.  Photo: catrin_pl (IG)

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The Temple of Poseidon with a captivating Crescent Moon and Venus, Cape Sounion, Greece

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A photo of the full moon rising behind the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion, near Athens, Greece in early July.

"The fragmented columns of the ruined structure, dedicated to the formidable "master of the sea", glimmered amber in the amplified lunar light of the so-called "Buck Moon" – a Native American designation for a full moon that coincides with the emergence of a male deer's new antlers. The magic sparked by the quiet friction of moonlight against ancient stone ignited the imagination of British Romantic artist JMW Turner. His 1834 painting The Temple of Poseidon at Sunium (Cape Colonna), which illustrates a scene from Lord Byron's satirical epic poem Don Juan, is testimony to the timeless allure of the visionary scene."

Joseph Mallord Turner - The Temple of Poseidon at Sunium - 1834

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The Temple of Poseidon near Athens, Greece, in front of the buck supermoon

Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters

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Full Strawberry Moon behind Temple of Poseidon 

© Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters

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May 2023

Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion

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The Temple of Poseidon, 1960s

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From the Ruins of the Temple of Poseidon:

‘’ It is finally time to announce that we have entered the studio to record our new album, ten years after our latest opus ‘Psychostasia’. We have been working for quite some time now composing, recording and mixing new material.

We are documenting the process and will post some photos and videos of the development of the work. We still have a long way to go, so we cannot announce the title of the album or the release date yet; we will keep you updated though, so please stay tuned.’’ Spyros Giasafakis II

The new album will be recorded in Thessaloniki, Athens and London.

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To George Seferis in the Underworld by Seamus Heaney

[gemsofgreece]

The Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion, Attica, Greece. Photo by @giatrakos_chris [Instagram]. 

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The Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion, Attica, Greece.

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Medusa is Present.

The mysterious feminine divinity with the writhing serpentine locks and penetrating gaze has been present with me for months—perhaps even for years. 

Since landing in Greece, she’s become manifest in my wild and almost electrifying hair. Thanks to Vena’s prophetic visioning, I was somehow prepared to experience Medusa’s energy months before I arrived on Her sacred land. 

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that I’ve been searching for “home” for many years. Somehow, beyond all reason, I feel an incredible sense of peace and belonging here in Greece. Could it be that Medusa has been calling me HOME? 

Over the years I’ve learned that when a goddess beckons, it’s  best to heed her call.

So, OBVIOUSLY, I did what Medusa requested of me: a menstrual moon blood ritual near the Temple of Poseidon. To ritually rite the wrong perpetrated against her by Poseidon and Athena (according to Ovid’s account). How could I leave Greece without re-matriating her story from the clutches of a patriarchal inversion? 

Though many people are familiar with Ovid’s version of Her story, the real Medusa is sovereign, wild, and radically untamable; she is an archetypal representation of the death-regenerative energies of the Cosmic Void, the Great Mystery of Creation.

Like the Hindu Kali, this is the most terrifying and awesome of feminine energies. Because it has been feared, suppressed and demonized (aka Medusa) *most* women do not know how to touch or use this life-affirming power. 

But the truth is that EVERY WOMAN has a Medusa within her waiting to be set free. 

May this ritual be an opening for any woman to embrace her Sovereign Feminine Power. 

PS- Yes I filmed the ritual. Yes I will post it to my YouTube channel in due time. 

PPS— there are many variation on the Medusa story, though most people are likely familiar with Ovid version. Message me if you’d like to learn more about her myth! I’ve written about her in the oats and also have many good *feminist* resources! 

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This photo was taken in the Temple of Poseidon, an ancient Greek temple on Cape Sounion, Greece, dedicated to the god Poseidon!

[Ioannis Constantinou]

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Pema Chödrön said this...

“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn’t have any fresh air. There’s no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience. Doing this is setting ourselves up for failure, because sooner or later, we’re going to have an experience we can’t control: our house is going to burn down, someone we love is going to die, we’re going to find out we have cancer, a brick is going to fall out of the sky and hit us on the head, somebody’s going to spill tomato juice all over our white suit, or we’re going to arrive at our favorite restaurant and discover that no one ordered produce and seven hundred people are coming for lunch.” 

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That’s what we’re going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It’s a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs. 

To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge—that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. 

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

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FROM :  oursdesbois  -  TEMPLE OF POSEIDON in Sounion,  Greece

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