Totally, Completely Fine (2023)

Angel statue covered in ivy at the Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, USA by Karen Larsen

On the Seashore, George Elgar Hicks (1879)

“She fully aligns herself with the masculine order, but she breathes into it soul, mercy, wisdom. She is above all others, the goddess of civilization.”

— The Gods of Greece by Arianna Stassinopoulos and Roloff Beny (via seafoambeauty)

Yes I'm a feminist and yes I want women to be gentle, nurturing, kind and sensitive. Not because those are female traits but because those are human traits. In fact, I want men to be all those things too. Everyone has their own domain in life and we all contribute in different ways but those acts of love are at the core of our beings and I will never discourage those in another woman in the name of feminism

I will no longer limit myself. I free myself from the bounds of set paths and past expectations. All the Janyati are present in all that I am. My body and mind are shaped in Their image. Words cannot encompass what my soul is made of. I serve only the Goddess.

My friends and I used to do this thing where we'd dress up on a theme and go do something totally normal.

We dressed up as pirates and went bowling.

We dressed as vikings and went to the grocery store. The security guard told us we had to move our longship because it was illegally parked.

We dressed as Romans and went to Blockbuster. The staff chanted, "toga! Toga! Toga!" at us.

We dressed up all steampunk and went to the museum. Tourists kept taking our picture.

Now that it's summer I can feel myself drawn to activities that are on a higher frequency. Dance, art, music, preparing food and connecting to what's real. Also, putting effort into looking nice, something that in my pagan days I didn't consider sacred or holy because I saw it as unnatural (along with most purely human activities and instincts that we don't share with our animal counterparts). I've never felt more connected to the Divine than when I started seeing our humanity as divine. I feel nothing but love for the natural world, animals, and nature worship itself. But I realize that in doing what I thought was 'going back to the basics' and spiritually valuing only that which came directly from nature, I denied myself the one thing I wanted: a spiritual relationship with the Goddess, the gods, and other people

Ice Caves by Владимир Рябков