#Trans Apollo

[apollosothertwin]

a drawing of trans apollo i made

yes, the necklace is from artemis

[hyakinthou-naos]

A Personal Revelation & Temple Teachings

This is a post about Aön's personal practice, and a peak into our upcoming work and teachings. It's a fairly long post and we didn't want to flood everyone's feeds - so if you're interested you can click below to keep reading :)

[How this relates to The Temple can be found in Section 2]

Section 1: Personal Revelation

When I was between the ages of 13 and 15, during the period of my life when I identified as a Wiccan, I worked with and worshipped the Roman Goddess Diana. This was an extremely positive experience and I have always looked back on my work with her with fondness.

However, many years later when I began my journey into HelPol, I found myself extremely uninterested in working with Artemis. When I tried, it felt like working with a stranger instead of reuniting with an old friend - which was extremely confusing to me for a number of reasons. The main reason being that I syncretize almost all of the Roman counterparts of the Greek deities I worship into said Greek deities (there's more nuance to my syncretizations, but that's a post for another day).

I have been struggling with this for literal years at this point, when finally - finally I found something during a research session that made all the pieces fall into place.

To summarize and simplify the information I found tonight, the Goddess Diana was worshipped in Italy before Greek Polytheism was brought to Rome. She existed as a primordial nature deity associated with the Moon, nature, hunting, as well as crossroads and the underworld (something I found particularly interesting was that her cthonic aspects predate Greek influence and therefore predate Diana being conflated with Hekatê). Once I learned about Diana and not Diana-Artemis - everything made sense.

It is my firm belief that the entity/deity I was working with all those years ago was the ancient Italian goddess, Diana. Specifically the entity or avatar that predates Greek influence. Not only does this explanation just feel *incredibly correct* on it's own, it also feels correct due to my past and my connection with Italy.

My mother's family, on both sides of her family tree, are of Italian descent (mainly from Rome and Sorrento). And while I wasn't raised ethnically Italian, I was raised Roman Catholic - so our Italian heritage and lineage was something that was important and emphasized. I left the Catholic Church at the age of 13, and when I began my journey into paganism around that same time - I did incorporate a lot of my mother's lineage into my practice (primarily through ancestor veneration and ceremonial magic).

Section 2: Temple Teachings

The reason I initially fell down this research rabbit hole is because I am currently working on a large project for The Temple, and part of that involves establishing some forthcoming belief statements and teachings. In this vein, I was working on mythical alignment and interpretation surrounding the primary deities of The Temple and found myself going in circles.

I, as the Temple's Founder, had made the choice to focus much of our spiritual practice and alignment on Lord Apollo - without showing the same focus or attention to Lady Artemis. This was not in any way to disrespect Lady Artemis, but was instead to better align with the alternative revival structure that I had felt called to align The Temple with. However, this alternative revival structure involved reinterpreting the myth of Leto's birth to Apollo in some way to create a literary narrative where Apollo is born AFAB - as a symbolic and mythic exploration of Lord Apollo's transmasculinity. The details of said reinterpretation were what was having me go in circles.

However, following the personal revelation I had, I found the reinterpretation falling into place.

In the myth of their birth, Artemis is said to have been the first born - and even acted as midwife to Leto for the birth of Apollo. However, given the right lens, one could interpret this story as 'Artemis' being the child born of Leto - but that the birth of a second child, a son, at the hands of the first is an allegory or metaphor for Apollo being an AFAB child who transitioned. A child born and given an identity, only to be reborn by his own hands with the support and love of his mother.

Creating this reinterpretation, while also incorporating Ancient Diana into the Temple's Primary Pantheon, allows for Temple patrons and visitors to still have a space for Artemis to exist within ritual and temple literature. Being able to allow space for Artemis to still exist for those who want it was and is incredibly important for me in creating this alternate interpretation of myth - as Lady Artemis is so important for so many people and also extremely important to not ignore or forget.

If anyone has any follow up questions or if any of the above information was not clear please feel free to comment, shoot us an ask, or send us a DM 🕯️

[Source 1] [Source 2]

[yourenotimmunetogaylawyers]

[bl00000g]

TRANS APOLLO LETS GOOOO!!!!

i got too silly

[magic-metamato]

Decided to redraw a comic I made like 2 years ago :’)

Also, thanks for 100 followers :)

[musicofthenightphantomoftheopera]

URGENT UPDATE ON KOSA

Guys, this is getting really scary now. According to Senator Blumenthal they "rewrote the bill' (they didn't change anything actually) and the bill now has bipartisan (both democrat and republican support) with 62 co-sponsors now and could hit the senate as early as next week.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) Is a strait up fascist mass internet censorship and serveillance bill that if passed, will force you to upload your government ID online in order to verify your age and give not only the government to track everything you do on the internet, but also the pwer to censor and erase anything or anyone they deem a threat to their power all by using the vague wording of the bill to deem it "a danger to kids"

both of the co writers of the bill, Senator Blumenthal, and Senator marsha Blackburn have fully admitted that they will be using this bill to wipe out any anti-isreal content as well as (in Blackburn's own words) "eliminate transgender content"

This bill WILL be used to end modern activism as we know it.

anything related to Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan, Black Lives Matter, Stop Cop City, LGBTQIA Rights, will be censored and wiped off the face of the internet.

we are looking at Farenheit 451 and 1984 COMBINED. And I still see almost NO ONE talking about it since my initial post I made talking about it last year. Every single one of you need to interact with this post and spread the word. contact your reps. sign petitions (all of which will b linked at the end of this post) AND MAKE SOME GODDAM NOISE. This is the fate of the internet as well as the fate of modern activism and literally the entire internet.

Resources for learning about KOSA:

Petition and Call Script for contacting your senators and reps

Sign the open letter against KOSA

Stop KOSA Movement Linktree

[redbeantofu]

t shot

[spec-s]

hi *transgenders your lester*

[shamebats]

Trans adult performer Apollo Moon has tragically passed away aged 26.

Relatives of the trans masc star, known to his friends and family as Forest Harade, announced that he had been in intensive care since Wednesday (27 November). The cause of death has not been confirmed.

Moon was a prominent figure in the trans and sex-worker communities, especially notable for being a person of colour in a white-dominated industry.

Two days before he was hospitalised, Moon wrote on X: "Being trans brought me so much joy and there was nothing in this world that made me happier than sharing that experience with my community".

That same night, he wrote, "I hope all trans people are extra gentle with themselves tonight" and "I wish I could hug every trans person in the world right now and tell them I love them."

— Pink News

[your-local-squip-fanatic]

WAAAAAAAAAA

I NEEDED THIS SO BADLY FUCKING HELL-

LIKE JUST,,, man!!

I headcannon Apollo/Lester as trans- hear me out-

So you know how twins of opposite genders are usually pretty hard to find in mythology?

What if Apollo was born as female, but 1 second in he decided "ew no" and changed into the form he felt most comfortable in? In the beginning, he enjoyed taking more effeminate and androgynous forms (see old statues of him), but then maybe someone made a comment about it and he became self conscious of it and dysphoric, hence the change to performative masculinity (see book decriptions of him, his obsession with having abs, his fashion style).

But then Zeus makes him mortal. And this time around, he decides to toy with him some more.

So he assigns Apollo to an afab body, to truthly torture him mentally and to make every second of his mortality nightmarish.

At first, he tries really hard to pass, because he's terrified of the validity of his gender being questioned. And he succeeds for a while. Maintaining a low voice hurts. And he knows running around, fighting, and even sleeping in a binder 24/7 will wreck his mortal body. He doesn't care. He keeps doing it. He runs behind everyone, he struggles to breathe, he has to deal with horrid pain. But he considers it worth it. He loathes his body. He loathes the extra fat that gives him feminine curves. He wants it all to end. He desperately wishes to get his godly form back as soon as possible.

Eventually, he collapses. His ribs are badly bruised, and he can no longer pretend to be cis. As terrifed as he was of his peers' reactions, most of them don't really care. Meg calls him a dummy, punches him, and proceeds to tackle him in a hug and punch him again. Leo tries to crack a joke to lighten the mood. Calypso reminds Apollo back in their days nobody would have given a crap.

Lester tears up. Weirdly, he feels loved. He feels accepted, he feels understood for the first time in millenia.

Maybe being a mortal isn't so bad

[apollo-not-in-space]

Leo E4 :)

I miss drawing big skirts its been a tiny bit since I have drawn a big skirt <33333

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK RAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[cammiemile]

Completely inspired by this post by @acerunaway

[urbigfatdog]

APOLLO POST 🗣️🗣️🗣️

☀️🏹

[acerunaway]

HAPPY TDOV TO THE MOST TRANSGENDER LAWYER EVER MADE!!!

[demimachia-art]

i think he would have Gavinners logo shaped top surgery scars

[johnconstantinesdick]

I get the criticism of the Hunters of Artemis from a narrative perspective—it sucks that it essentially boots interesting female characters out of the story—but it always baffles me when people viciously hate Artemis for *checks notes* doing damage control.

Like. Thalia explicitly goes with Artemis to avoid the prophecy, and I definitely think that’s the reason Artemis tried so hard to get her to join—hell, you can view the hunters trying to recruit Annabeth as a way to get Thalia to join. And Bianca? You can’t convince me that Artemis didn’t guess there was something up there and react accordingly.

If Percy or Nico were even a little bit girl-adjacent you bet your ass she would be all over them to join. No one actually wants to risk the Great Prophecy happening, and Artemis is doing a hell of a lot more to stop it than anyone else.