#Eco-spiritual living

[shamanflavio]

Andean Eco-Spiritual Philosophy

The Andean value system, intertwined with the Q’ero people’s Earth-centered beliefs, presents a unique ecospiritual philosophy. This philosophy celebrates balance and harmony, rooting itself in a profound love that flows freely from an open heart. But to truly embody this love, one must nurture a heart untouched by emotional wounds and psychological turmoil. Equally, harmony between the heart and…

[oatmilck]

some of my ‘ins’ of 2024

-wood wick or beeswax candles

-eco friendly cleaning products

-pleasure

-naturally non-caffeinated teas

-meditation & prayer

-used bookstores

-gratitude

-spending time in nature

-plastic free

-putting energy only into places and people that give good energy back

[sidewalkchemistry]

from the 'wholistic + abundant' {lifestyle} Pinterest board

[letsberealgenz]

Don’t say things you don’t mean.

Don’t make promise you can’t keep.

Be as good as your word.

[nexusofsorcery]

Earth-Centered Spirituality: Embracing Nature and Connectedness

Table of Contents Table of ContentsIntroductionRediscovering our Connection with Mother EarthMore Than Just a Spiritual PathA Journey of Personal and Planetary HealingA Warm InvitationWhat is Earth-Centered Spirituality?A Reverence for NatureVarious ExpressionsHolistic View of LifePersonal Connection and ExperienceIII. The Principles of Earth-Centered Spirituality1. Reverence for Nature2. The…

[wellnesstrueself]

Eco-Spirituality Quote

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein.

Nature speaks to the soul. 🌍💚

What’s your favorite quote about nature or spirituality? Share it in the comments! Let’s inspire each other to connect more deeply with the Earth.

[familythings]

Wellness Gardens: The Gardening Trend of 2024 That Will Transform Your Life

In a world increasingly focused on health, balance, and well-being, the concept of the Wellness Garden is emerging as one of the hottest trends in gardening for 2024. Picture a serene sanctuary where every plant and design choice not only enhances the beauty of your outdoor or indoor space but also contributes to your mental, physical, and emotional well-being. Wellness Gardens transcend being…

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Reconnecting with Nature: A Prescription for World Health Day

[somethingnubian]

Spring Equinox Energy Update: A New Astrological Year Begins

As the Spring Equinox approaches, marking the commencement of Aries season, we find ourselves on the cusp of a powerful astrological new year. This period is not just any seasonal transition; it’s a cosmic gateway to new beginnings, personal growth, and rejuvenation. The Spring Equinox, falling in the pioneering sign of Aries, brings forth an invigorating energy of renewal and initiation. It’s a…

[starsandsuch]

Your 4th House Sign And Your Ideal Living Environment 🏡

Aries 4H: living somewhere that is a good launchpad for you to do other things. Only being home for short amounts of time. A place where you can be physically active: home gym, treadmill etc. A place with a good kitchen that’s well equipped: gas oven, microwave, toaster oven, etc.

Taurus 4H: living in a place that is luxurious and comfortable. A home or apartment with amenities. A home that is well built and sturdy, it has good structural integrity. Living in a area surrounded by nature, trees, flowers. Somewhere that is relaxing. Living in countryside or suburbs. Living on a farm.

Gemini 4H: living somewhere with multiples: multiple bathrooms, bedrooms, mirrors etc. somewhere where you can participate in hobbies at home. Having a garden, game room, community room etc. living with a friend or sibling. A place with good WiFi. Living in walkable city, you live walking distance to supermarket etc.

Cancer 4H: living somewhere that is peaceful and serene. Living in a comfortable environment. It is a pleasant sensory experience: quiet, gets great sunlight, prefect size etc. A place with good amount of privacy and security. Living Oceanside, near water or the beach. Living traditionally in a suburb or archetypal home. Living with family.

Leo 4H: living in a place that is like a castle. High rise apartment condo, house in the hills. A home fit for royalty. Living in a gated community. Living in proximity to celebrities. Living like royalty: having house staff. Living in an environment that looks glamorous.

Virgo 4H: living somewhere modern and clean. Everything is new, updated and functioning well. Somewhere efficient, and well organized. Properity is well taken care of. Living somewhere that is easy to keep clean: hardwood floors, marble surfaces. House is pristine and untouched.

Libra 4H: living somewhere peaceful and aesthetically pleasing. A place with good architecture, a home that is artistic in someway. It’s neutral overall: not to big or too small. It is close to city but not to far either. Prefers to live with spouse.

Scorpio 4H: living somewhere that offers privacy and protection. Living somewhere secretive that’s not accessible to public. Private gated community, hidden hills etc. Having security codes, access codes, doorman, front desk person etc. Home that has powerful spiritual energy.

Sagittarius 4H: living in and environment that is flexible. Like a studio. Living abroad or internationally. Living amongst foreigners and immigrants. Living somewhere that gives you freedom: having a month to month lease, renting short term etc. Living in a diverse major city. Metropolitan environment. Living in a big house with alot of space.

Capricorn 4H: living somewhere that is well structured. Building that is antiquated or prestigious. Home looks like office, you have your office in your house. Living in a traditional home or apartment, nothing too unique or out of ordinary. Living near the state capital or government buildings.

Aquarius 4H: living somewhere that is good for environment. Eco conscious living. Living with friends/ having communal living space. Prefers not to live completely alone but having friends, roommates or house staff. Having unique quirks in home, like gadgets, speaker system, solar panels etc. living environment is out of the ordinary for some reason.

Pisces 4H: living somewhere that is like a sanctuary. Home has powerful spiritual energy: good numerology, energetically cleansed etc. home is in isolated place. Living in home where you feel disconnected from world around you. Home seems haunted, spooky or abandoned. Living near the beach or bodies of water. Living in foreign lands. Living somewhere that’s hard to find.

[shamanflavio]

Andean Eco-Spiritual Philosophy

The Andean value system, intertwined with the Q’ero people’s Earth-centered beliefs, presents a unique ecospiritual philosophy. This philosophy celebrates balance and harmony, rooting itself in a profound love that flows freely from an open heart. But to truly embody this love, one must nurture a heart untouched by emotional wounds and psychological turmoil. Equally, harmony between the heart and…

[the-carnation-blog]

🌱 Carnationqueer / Post-Anarqueer 🌈

Carnationqueer is a blankqueer stance based on self autonomy and consent as basis for all else. It expands upon the basics of queer anarchy.

ꕥ For:

☮ All good faith identities

➥ Including but not limited to:

★ Alterhumanity (otherkin, non-humans, alterhumans, therians, otherlinkers, copinglinkers, funlinkers, flickers, fictionfolk, constellics,...) (including "problematic" kins)

★ Age and pet regression

★ Subtilens aka "contradictory" identities (m-spec gay/lesbian, he/him lesbians,...)

★ Atypical dysphoria based identities (disconomeis, arrisomeis, intusuis, transids,...)

★ Xenogenders, neopronouns, xenoAGABs

★ All plurals (no matter the origin)

☮ Bodily autonomy (decision to recover or not, to transition or not, to get body mods, abortion,...)

☮ Consent (for all relationship, including friendships, queerplatonic relationships, romance, conabuse, age gaps, incest,... But also for things like hugs, DMs, pictures,...)

-> Children and animals cannot consent to everything, eg. sexual actions.

☮ MUDs

☮ Self diagnosis

☮ Sexual liberation (destigmatisation of kink, fetishes and paraphilias, kink at pride,...)

☮ Youth liberation (with the exception of chrono children being in sexual spaces)

☮ Religious & spiritual freedom (including "problematic" past lives)

ꕥ Against/Anti:

☮ Bigotry of all kinds

☮ Cops and military

☮ Censorship

☮ Harrassment

☮ Exclusionism

☮ Xenosatanism

☮ Psych

☮ Forced Recovery

☮ The idea that narcissistic abuse (and other pd abuse) exists: you being an ass isn't inherently because of your pd

☮ Chrono children in sexual spaces

ꕥ Inherently:

☮ Punk

☮ Agerepunk

☮ Pluralpunk / Systempunk

☮ Cripplepunk

☮ Madpunk

☮ Joypunk

☮ Radical Inclusionist

☮ Profiction

☮ Peacefic

☮ Eco-transhumanist

☮ Progressive

☮ Anarqueer

ꕥ Emoji Combo: 🏵️🌿🏮

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[sidewalkchemistry]

from the 'wholistic + abundant' {lifestyle} Pinterest board

[letsberealgenz]

It might help you to ask yourself if what you’re about to say is useful.

[smoothbrainstuff]

Tell LNS happy 1 month late birthday she was my first iterator OC

Last Night's Song is the iterator for a great lake, the largest of the land and a huge tourist spot. The lake is said to go so deep it reaches the void sea at the bottom, gathering spiritual devotees and those looking to relax alike. Due to the concern over the lakes supply being drained she was made experimentally to be more "eco-friendly", taking half the water, but only because she goes completely dormant in the night cycles. Instead of releasing water vapor which creates rain, it's instead released into the soil which has leeched the majority of nutrients out of it. Because of this most creatures around her are fully/semi aquatic

LNS herself was basically a celebrity for her population and tourists, her whole puppet chamber had glass walls so visitors could walk through and see her like an aquarium fish. She loved this connection, teaching classes that visited, performing a little, making little tunes for everyone when she wasn't too busy with work, all of it. The reflections of herself and empty halls after the mass ascension in current day make her feel so incredibly alone

Talking more under the cut

She was created around the middle of gen 2, becoming the youngest amongst United Umbrage and Golden Mentality. The three created a familial bond, GM and UU being in a relationship and both guiding LNS through her first cycles. Tension was already mounting among them but the extinction of Ancient's is what broke the camels back. Her parental figures split up when Umbrage started to express ideals of iterators getting a choice beyond taboos, which GM lashed out against. In the end LNS took Umbrage's side, which caused her to lose her relationship with GM quickly. Last Night's Song grew extremely depressed as time went on, eventually falling down a sliverist rabbit hole which only extrapolated her vulnerable mental state. She began looking for ways to break self destruction taboo and escape the cycle, starting to experiment on her own neuronfly. In this time she fell in love with Internal Tempo, finally feeling some peace around him. But it didn't stop. She went back within a few cycles, too scared to tell anyone what she was doing. And eventually it all went wrong, she grew reckless, changing the gene codes in one of her neuronfly as the time for her nightly shut down grew closer and closer. It mutated and created "cresent-neuron disease" a defect which could spread to other neurons and cause degradation to her structure and memory. And before she could contain and destroy it her puppet lost consciousness, letting the fly escape into her internal construct

LNS is currently living with this disease in secret, feeling too much shame to confess how it happened or the fact she's even in pain. She's trying to keep a happy face and be there for Internal Tempo as he also struggles, but it's getting bad enough to the point her inspectors can't hold the infected neurons back anymore. Now more than ever she wants to ascend, to escape it all, but the thought of making herself worse paralyzes her. And no one can help her, stranded out on that little island in the middle of a lake

She also has a slugcat named Bubbles (The Bubbleblower) but I didn't know where to squeeze that in

[thenightling]

Unexpected Goth music

In the 90s you had the curious dilemma of both trying to avoid the title of Goth and also being accepted in the perceived Goth community. And there was an unfortunately high number of gatekeepers. You'd get asked what your favorite Goth artist or song was and for whatever reason "That doesn't count." or "That's actually Punk." or 'That's Death Rock, not Goth." or "That's too mainstream, that's not REAL Goth." And it got very irritating. So I'm going to list some of the things I think fit under the Goth genre that many would either not consider at all or would think "don't count." Disclaimer: This list does not contain obvious bands like The Cure, Siouxsie and the banshees, or Bauhaus. Once you remove those you'd be surprised how limited the selection of "real" Goth starts to feel. ______________________ And now here are the things that have (in my own experience) been classified as not Goth despite really fitting the criteria. Aurelio Voltaire - Sometimes considered Goth folk or "Dark Cabaret" or even "Death Rock" (1988 version of The Night) Aurelio Voltaire pretty much personifies Goth music. From his Gothic Neo Victorian / pirate look to such songs as Raised by Bats, Land of the Dead, Vampire Club, and the Neil Gaiman's The Sandman inspired "Come Sweet Death." Aurelio Voltaire is so Goth that I can't help but think there are other reasons people may not want to count him such as unconscious racism. (He's Cuban and has released Spanish language tracks.) Danny Elfman - Perhaps today most well known for his movie scores, particularly the iconically Gothic Nightmare before Christmas (where he was multiple voices including Jack's singing voice), Danny Elfman used to be the front man for the band Oingo Boingo where he had such songs as Dead Man's Party, Flesh 'n blood, Weird Science, No one lives forever, and No Spill Blood. These are arguably Gothic themed but not Gothic "style." However I do feel there is some Goth leanings in his 2020 album Big Mess which was officially released as the genre Industrial Goth. The Hex Girls - This band was invented for the 1999 Scooby Doo animated movie, Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost. Representing Gothic fashion, Wiccan spiritual beliefs, and environmentalism the band was meant to be a Gothic inversion on The Spice Girls. Defined as "Eco Goth" though arguably pop their songs actually were really good including "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air" (though admittedy it should be Earth, Water, Fire, and Air), The Witch's Ghost, and Hex Girl. Inkubus Sukkubus - Considered Pagan Rock, they are definitely Goth, including the songs Sweet Morpheus and Vampire Queen (and several other vampire themed songs!) Blackmore's night - Neo Medieval folk rock band. You know... I think once you get called "Neo Medieval" you get a free pass to call yourself Goth. That's just my opinion. Including the songs Locked Within the Crystal Ball, The Darkness, and Shadow of the Moon.

Within Temptation - Symphonic Metal / Gothic Metal. One question... have you listened to them? Just listen to Angel, Stand my Ground, The Fear, or A Demon's Fate. Eden's Bridge - Progressive Celtic Folk Rock. They have two songs dedicated to Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost. I know one song isn't enough but still... Sonata Arctica - Metal but some of their biggest hits are about magic and more commonly werewolves. Cain's offering - Again, Metal, but the subject matter is decidedly Gothic. Kamelot - Power metal but they have two albums that retell Goethe's Faust parts 1 and 2 (Epica and The black Halo). In fact pretty much everything they do is of Gothic inclination. Richard Campbell - Metal but he did an entire metal opera retelling the novel Frankenstein. I think that's pretty Goth if you ask me.

Smashing Pumpkins - Considered Alternative rock. There was time where just about anything vampire related was advertised with Bullet with Butterfly Wings. And the band is named after a popular Halloween prank. The lead singer is also a professional poet.

Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare, Keepin' Halloween Alive, The Ballad of Dwight Frye (actor from classic universal monster movies), Gimme, Black Widow (With Vincent Price). He also performed in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows.

Marilyn Manson - Once Classified as industrial Goth, he was denounced by many Goths as "too mainstream" or "Not Goth enough." The man did covers of Danny Elfman's This is Halloween, David Bowie's Golden Years, Annie Lennox's Sweet Dreams, and Lost Boys' Cry Little Sister. That's pretty Goth if you ask me. My Chemical Romance (MCR) - Do I really need to elaborate wit this one? David Bowie - Mostly considered Glam Rock, Bowie has dabbled in all genres and Heart's Filthy Lesson was definitely industrial. Aurelio Voltaire did a Goth sequel to the songs Bowie wrote for Labyrinth. And Bowie's Scary Monsters and Super Creeps inspired Danny Elfman. You can't get more Goth than that (In my opinion). Even Bowie's album Hours drifts into Emo territory. Prince - At the very least he had a Goth aesthetic. I think if he wasn't black people would be quicker to realize he could fit as Goth. There's a lot of unconscious racism among some (not all) Goths. Michael Jackson - One word. Thriller. He also had The Boogeyman's Gonna Get ya with The Jackson Five, and later Ghost. But once you get Vincent Price to rap you should automatically count. The Rasmus - Rock but most of their songs are decidedly Goth and probably should count such as In the Shadows, Ghost of love, and Lucifer's Angel. Sarah McLachlan - Though considered pop let's be honest. Every Goth and person in the 90s "vampire Scene" had her Surfacing album or at least heard Building a Mystery. Before her music started playing in ASPCA commercials you heard songs like Adia on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Savage Garden - Though definitely pop they get an honorary mention for having songs inspired by Anne Rice and for naming themselves after a phrase invented by The vampire Lestat to describe the nature of the world in The Vampire Lestat novel by Anne Rice. Sting - Though not always Goth, Sting was in the Gothic horror movie The Bride and wrote a song from the perspective of Louis in Interview with the vampire called Moon over Bourbon Street. Stevie Nicks - She got an American Horror story: Coven tie-in music video and practices witchcraft. That's like hitting a Goth bullseye. Johnny Cash - Wore all black all the time and did a cover of a NIN song that is considered better than the original version, Hurt. Sir Elton John - Glam / Pop rock but he gets an honorary mention for composing the Lestat Broadway musical and having a full demo album that was never officially released and can only be found through dubious / underground sources. (Or Ebay if you were lucky in 2006...) Honorable mention to Bobby "Boris" Pickett for having the first Gothic themed song to get banned in the UK (Monster Mash) for being "Too morbid." You can't get much more Goth than that.