#Delphics

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Think as a mortal (Φρονει θνητα)

Don't forget your own mortality. It's easy to think "oh, I'm not dying anytime soon!" When in reality, you could die at any moment. This isn't to scare you, it's to remind you that life is short and precious. Make sure to do the things that make you happy; don't put them off. Tell people you love "I love you." Be kind to people. Make the most out of your life while you can, even if it's just little things. Remember, you are mortal; you won't live forever.

[delphic-oracle-cat]

While I love the whole “mungojerrie and rumpleteazer are twins” headcannon, it is infinitely funnier to me if they are just two random unrelated cats who look almost identical and decide to become partners in crime for that reason only

[my-name-is-apollo]

On the prophetic nature of the Delphic god (Apollo):

What god of heaven suffers earth’s weight, knows every secret of eternity’s course, aware of the world’s futurity, ready to reveal its presence to the nations, and endure contact with humankind? A great and mighty power, whether the utterance it produces determines fate, or whether it merely voices destiny.

- Lucan, Pharsalia (Trans. A. S. Kline)

This is actually the first time I've seen someone talking about the possibility of prophecies determining the fate, so this took me by surprise. Also the first time I've seen the knowledge of the future being a weight that Apollo has to carry, so that's very interesting too.

[take-care-with-your-glasses]

BONUS!

Sadly for Six, the website got quite trendy after Rex matched them. Causing the man to hate it even more.

There isn't one day he doesn't go out of Providence and doesn't listen about that blasted app, hating it even more!

In the case of Holiday, well...

Collab meme with my friend and co writer @delphic-warrior00 💕 Lots of work and revision to make it happen, so we would appreciate that if you like it, please let us both know by leaving a little heart! Reblogging is also appreciated. If you're going to repost it, please add the whole set of images and captions so it makes sense.

Also, this is a collab post, so please keep in mind that the love is for the both of us.

[higherentity]

[alchemisoul]

* You're not responsible for every thought that comes in and out of your head. They're not necessarily within your control, not initially anyways.

It is within your power, however, to decide which ones you want to hold on to and those you wish to discard.

You're responsible for observing thoughts that flow inward and choosing whether or not you act on them, buy into them, or take ownership of them.

#KnowThyself

#TheWolfYouFeed

#IsTheOneThatWins

[sephospaganplace]

There are so so so many ways to experience the gods.

There is no right or wrong way. There is no blunt way. Its all feeling and ephemeral.

If you've felt warmth, if you've had a dream, if you've seen a crow that stares at you for too long, if something inexplicable happens and you're lucky suddenly, if you've caught eyes with a stranger and felt like you knew each other, if the candle flickers a certain way, if one time when you're singing your voice sounds gorgeous in a way you weren't expecting, these are all the presence of a god.

God phoning is popular on witchtok but half the time what they're saying is bullshit. I've very very rarely heard a voice and every single time it was my own voice, just suffused with something, saying something I normally wouldn’t say. Or maybe I would. I've never heard a clear, distinct, audible voice. Its an invisible world we're connecting with, its a different plane. We cannot experience it the same way we experience every day life.

We'll never sit down at a coffee table across from the physical manifestation of our god, and know that its them, not until after. And even then we can never be sure. That’s the nature of it. There are no absolutes, there cannot be. That’s what makes it beautiful. That’s where belief comes in. It isn't about being good enough or worthy enough or devout enough, that doesn't exist. That isn’t what its about at all. You are worthy even if the divine doesn’t manifest in a way we've been told is the only real way, and you are connecting even if you cant see it now. My most intense spiritual experiences are never something I realize are happening in the moment, its always only after that I can see it clearly.

The gods are all around us.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

koios and phoebe are neurodivergent4neurodivergent

i put this in my fic but I’m sharing here too tee hee

Phoebe was the Weird Girl™️ in the family. She’d walk around with a snake around her shoulders (his name is Phocis btw) and skip parties to explore the world (this is how she found Delphi).

Koios would BEELINE for the door whenever he heard Phoebe Found Something™️, and as the Titan of inquiry, he would be DYING to know what it was.

They ping-pong off each other very well hehe. Phoebe will randomly ask about something and Koios with either go “INFODUMP” or “we need to figure this out NOW”

and they go on a scavenger hunt for answers :3

Nobody was surprised when they announced their engagement ♥️

[posthumous-pagan]

today's delphic maxim is: 133

do not be discontented by life.

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life is a gift, and the world is beautiful and largely good. there is divinity all around us, in the water, in the trees, in the wind. this earth is a treasure, and we get to live on it, and experience it's beauty.

I will get where I need to go, life has a path for me, and I will reach its end. praise to the theoi, and be content.

[literallyjusttoa]

SUUUNNYYYY

I was reblogging some posts of yours on my sideblog (@apollosgiftofprophecy) and!!!! found!!!!! your art of the Delphic Family!!!!!

YOU SAID YOU HAVE IDEAS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT THEM👀👀👀

ABOUT MY FAV KOIOS AND PHOEBE???? ASTERIA PERSES HECATE LELANTOS AND AURA???

I LUB THEM SO MUCH. PLEASE. PLEASE INDULGE ME. I AM BEGGING YOU. I WILL WRITE FANFICS - I HAVE WROTE FANFICS ABOUT THEM AND I HAVE MORE FANFICS ABOUT THEM

LITERALLY BEGGING YOU TO SPILL THE TEA

OK OK I DON’T KNOW IF I’M AS WELL VERSED IN THIS SIDE OF THE FAMILY AS YOU ARE BUT HERE ARE SOME OF MY LITTLE HC’S

All the cousins are besties, but Artemis is closer to Aura and Apollo is closer to Hecate. Artemis and Aura hunt together all the time, and Apollo researches magic practices a lot (God of knowledge and all that) so the two of them have fun experimenting with mystic stuff.

Asteria, Lelantos, and Leto were very close growing up, but the titanomachy put them all on different paths. They all still care for each other deeply, but scars from the past hold them back from being truly close. Recently, Asteria and Leto have been reconnecting, but Lelantos is still reluctant. 

Also because of the Titanomachy, the three siblings have various levels of strained relationships with their parents. Asteria sees her parents most favorably, and she and Leto are still regularly in contact with their mother. Leto holds a grudge against their father, and Lelantos doesn't speak with either of them. 

All of the third generation (Hecate, Aura, Apollo, Artemis) love their parents so fucking much (minus Zeus, of course) And not only that, they love each other’s parents too!! Hecate thinks Leto is the most kickass coolest aunt she could ever have! Artemis looks up to Perses like nobody's business! If Lelantos didn’t exist, Aura would ask Asteria to adopt her! And of course I have my little post-toa hc that Apollo and Lelantos become v close and wholesome and I love this family. 

Phoibe loves to brag on her kids and grandkids. Specifically, she loves to brag on the twins. See, Phoibe is not a fan of Olympus, or gods, in general. So to her, Apollo and Artemis are the only redeeming qualities of the immortal world today. So whenever something good comes out of Olympus, Phoibe is like “Well of course that was 100% because of my grandchildren. They get it all from their mother you know, nothing from that nasty child of Kronos. Oh how glorious, and you don’t see any of the godly children becoming the rulers of the sun and moon hmmm? Exactly.” 

Also according to her Apollo and Artemis are honorary titans. 

Koios hasn’t been able to interact with his grandchildren much, but he’s just as proud of them as Phoibe is, just in a … less wholesome way. Mans is certain he can convince his grandkids to retake Olympus for titan glory, which is never gonna happen. Whenever he brings it up the rest of the family just smile and nod awkwardly. 

Bonus: A little blurb about Leto I wrote about a month ago

During the titanomachy, Leto stayed on Hyperborea with her mother. She shored the defenses and kept the other titans alive. Leto had no exceptional healing or magical abilities, but she worked tirelessly and kept her heart open. She cared easily and earnestly. She fought to get her brother out of trouble with the gods after the fight ended, though she could not do the same for her parents. For years, it was just the two of them, until Leto met Zeus.

Zeus was everything Leto wanted to be. He was confident and assured, and so kind with her. They sang and danced and spoke about everything, and Leto did what she could to soothe his fears. When she get pregnant, Zeus was overjoyed. However, after the twins were born, he became colder and distant.

Leto was basically abandoned, her children taken to Olympus and her lover rebuffing any attempts at being close. She resolved to make a place for her family to return to, but they came less and less. Now Leto keeps her hearth steady, as she has for her whole life, wishing desperately that someone would stop drifting away, and come back to her. In her solitude and grief, she doesn't even realize that the earth itself will set down roots if she only asked, just as it had before.

[thunderandroses]

🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿

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Worship the Gods (Θεους σεβου)

Give the gods the respect and acknowledgment that they deserve. Worship them through your life and the things that you say and do. Give offerings to them and perform devotional acts for them. Show the gods that you haven’t forsaken them like the rest of the world has. Keep their spirits and myths alive by worshiping them

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[delphic-oracle-cat]

If someone is criticizing Cats and they use the point of “it doesn’t have a plot” I refuse to try to hear them out

[abrahamlincolnscat]

Wake up girl, new asexual euphemism just dropped

[take-care-with-your-glasses]

Reasons why Six doesn't have a mobile phone N3

(I believe is number 3)

Excited wife/Husband never seems to understand the subtle implications of the phrase 'show me!♡'

In his defense, it's not his fault. He's never faced such technology or experienced the benefits of having a wife.

Collab meme with @delphic-warrior00! ♡

Full sized: Here

[stoicbreviary]

Delphic Maxims 63 

Διαβολὴν μίσει 

Despise a slanderer 

IMAGE: Maerten de Vos, The Calumny of Apelles (c. 1580)