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thewonderstruckwitch · 5 years ago

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An Intro into Tarot Reading

Hello witches! Today I thought I’d share some of my knowledge on tarot reading!

What are tarot cards?

Tarot cards are cards with ornate pictures that symbolize every human emotion and experience. They usually have 78 cards, 22 of them being in the Major Arcana and 56 being the Minor Arcana. They can either be bought or hand drawn, though hand drawing tarot cards can take a lot of effort and time.

A Slice of History

Some of the oldest tarot cards were made during the 1400s by the Visconti family of Milan. The 3 decks called the Visconti Trumps are know as the start of modern-day tarot cards. Tarot cards were originally a playing game and, to get tarot cards, they had to commission artists to make them, making them to get as a commoner.

Rider-Waite Tarot Deck

Eventually, by the 18th century, people started to give them meanings. One notable example is when Jean-Baptiste Alliette published their meaning for tarot cards in 1770. In the 20th century, Arthur Edward Waite commissioned Pamela Coleman Smith to create the modern Rider-Waite Tarot Deck which is the most popular and most famous tarot deck today.

How do I pick which tarot card set to use?

Personally, I would say to pick the one that most resonates with you. This’ll especially help once you get to start reading cards. One of the most famous set of tarot cards are the Rider-Waite Tarot Cards which is usually recommended to beginners, but this tarot deck can sometimes be hard to decipher.

The Modern Witch Tarot Deck by Lisa Sterle

Another good deck I’d suggest is the Modern Witch Tarot Deck by Lisa Sterle. It’s similar to the Rider-Waite deck but has a lot of modern spins to it.

How I Read Tarot Cards:

First, I try to meditate to make sure I have a clear mind when I start reading. I also make sure to ground myself. It can be hard sometimes to do readings if I don’t do this first because reading can really drain my energy.

Second, I pick what spread I want to do. A spread is a way of reading tarot cards. Each tarot card in a spread represents something specific. I usually pick one depending on what type of question I have. For a reflection on my day, I just use a one card spread, but if it’s a more complex question like, “am I in the right relationship?” then I would use the Celtic Cross spread, which has 10 cards, or something like it.

Third, I say my question into my card and start shuffling. I personally like to let the cards “jump” out of the deck but, if I’m in a rush, then I’ll take the top card from the deck. I think letting the cards jump out is better because it really makes sure you pick a card with an authentic answer rather than trying to get the answer you want. The big con though is it can be a bit hard to tell whether it really jumped out of the deck on its own or if you’re being clumsy.

Forth, I lay my cards out in the spread I want and start to read them according to the spread. Everyone has their own ways of interpreting tarot cards and I suggest you find what’s best for you. If you don’t know where to start, I posted my method of reading tarot cards here.

Finally, once I’m done reading, I jot all my notes down in a tarot journal. A tarot journal doesn’t have to be fancy. It can just be a regular notebook or writing pad. In my journal, I list down all the cards in the spread and try to sum up what I’ve learned in my reading. Even if I wasn’t sure what the reading meant, I can go back on it later and reflect.

I hoped this help you guys start reading tarot cards! Have a blessed day!

Sources:

https://www.learnreligions.com/a-brief-history-of-tarot-2562770

https://www.salemtarot.com/tarothistory.html

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perseph · 5 years ago

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Hi, I after reading your marvel side blog bio I was just wondering... Why is wicca racist, cissexist, etc.?

This is going to be a very simplified account, but Wicca as we know it was created in the UK, by white people, in the 1940s-50s. Gerald Gardner, the man often credited as its founder, was an English "civil servant" who was involved in the tea and rubber industries in colonial Southeast Asia.

Wicca is, allegedly, the revitalization of pre-Christian witchcraft traditions of western Europe, and I believe there is a kernel of truth in that claim. It is also true, however that Gardner was a colonizer whose initial exposure to spirituality and mysticism were Asian cultural practices, and that many modern texts on Wicca promote the syncretization of deities from cultures of color, including closed cultures, unified under vaguely Celtic archetypes. Wicca may be descended from authentic mystical practices, but it is, undeniably, a modern construct with colonial tendencies that can be traced back to its foundation.

Gender essentialism and cishet-normativity are also baked in to Wiccan "tradition". Most Wiccan practices are duotheistic, revolving around a masculine god and a feminine goddess. In my experience, this divine gender binary is constantly reinforced in the structure of Wiccan ritual, ceremony, and spellcraft, and the language and symbolism employed are entirely cis-centric. I've heard accounts of homophobic and transphobic exclusion at modern pagan gatherings, which comes as little surprise when you think of how many Wiccan and neo-pagan texts are steeped sex-essentialist imagery. It's also important to remember, because many Wiccans incorporate elements of non-Western religion in their practice, that these paradigms of sex and gender are constructs of Western society, which have historically been enforced upon cultures of color through colonialist violence.

Wicca was a major impetus for the growth of witchcraft, occultism, and New Age ideas throughout the later 1900s, especially in America. Although many modern witches don't identify as Wiccan, there's no doubt that Wiccan ideas and teachings have had a lasting impact on popular notions of witchcraft, and that definitely includes those problematic elements. I've spent a lot of time in witch shops and New Age stores, and I can tell you first hand that these spaces are still rife with cultural appropriation. Orientalism, the commodification of closed Indigenous and African American cultures, and, closest to my heart, the exploitation of antigitano stereotypes are a near constant. The appropriation of Jewish mysticism is a big one too, and it can be clearly traced to Wicca’s early days.

Now, I'm not an expert on early Wicca or the traditions which preceded it, but I'm very confident in saying that Wicca is emblematic of many of the problems in the modern occult community, especially the commercial economy surrounding it. I put that statement in my bio @scarlet--wiccan mainly to ward off witchcraft blogs that kept following me, because that's just not what that page is about. I do also want people to know that I don't personally endorse Wicca, which I think is an important distinction because, obviously, the blog’s namesake is a character called Wiccan. The character is a gay Jewish Rom who has magical powers, and identifies himself as a witch, but is not actually a practitioner of Wicca. Since I don't think that "Wiccan" is a valid religious identity, I'm kind of tickled by the image of someone with Billy's background appropriating the word just because it sounds cool. ✌🏼🧿

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a-little-slice-of-fandom · 5 years ago

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As an American follower, I would like to say I'm sorry for whatever shit other Americans have been giving you for your Ireland posting. I've been very interested in them. I've always been really fascinated by Celtic culture and have always wanted to learn more about it, but I've never really had the proper resources for it, so this has been a learning experience for me. And besides, you should get to post what you want no matter what, it's your blog, nobody can stop you

Hi sweetheart!!! No one is giving me anything for posting!!! In fact so many of you have been so lovely and encouraged me to talk about Ireland and that’s very sweet because my love for Ireland literally is about 85 to 90 percent of my personality. My concerns aren’t directed at anyone who I’ve interacted with, but there’s a certain type of person who just sort of try and use Ireland as their get out of jail free card or as an excuse to do cultural appropriation or perpetuate stereotypes against other cultures. I once read this article and it made my blood literally BOIL with anger.

For those who don’t want to read the article (and I don’t blame you because it’s a mess in every definition of the word) but basically this author is saying he can’t understand why students from latino backgrounds would take issue with him and his friends blatantly making fun of their culture when Irish people really don’t seem that annoyed about Saint Patrick’s day parades. The author literally says, word for word “I haven’t looked closely enough into my own genetic heritage to know how Irish I am”. What??? WHAT??? WHAT??? That implies his parents or grandparsntes aren’t Irish because then you wouldn’t need to look into it. You’d just sort of know that! Literally the only evidence to give that he might be slightly Irish is that his mums name was “McNeal”...but he calls Irish things “my culture”.

Now...I didn’t think people this stupid actually existed. But apparently they do! Because he isn’t Irish. He’s clearly american. Did he have an Irish great grandparent at some point? Maybe! Or it could easily be a Scottish great grandparent because McNeal isn’t even a name that’s exclusive to Ireland!

And if you aren’t Irish...you do not get to speak for Irish people. And you definitely don’t get to use Saint Patrick’s Day and the Irish struggle as an excuse to be super racist! Is Saint Patrick’s day filled with loads of stereotypes and basically just a way for people to have a big party in March? Yeah. Sometimes parades will try and have some authenticity (the New York parade actually invited students from my school to represent County Down and play in the parade this year! Which was such a nice touch!) but people will completely butcher Irish dance and speak in bad accents they’ll call it Saint Patty’s day which makes me want to go and scream but it isn’t cultural appropriation. Irish cultural appropriation is a thing (kind of? Sort of? It’s super complicated) but parades definitely aren’t an issue and Irish people are only slightly annoyed, if that. It is nowhere near as bad as what happens daily in America and in other parts of the world to people from other minority communities.

Did Irish people struggle throughout history? Yes. Need I bring up the signs that compared Irish people to dogs? Or the literal attempted genocide during the Irish famine? Or the fact that loads of our actual culture is lost and our language is barely spoke and was literally dying? There’s also the penal laws, Bloody Sunday, the Easter Rising, the famine ships (also known as the coffin ships) the plantation of Ulster. I can go on for a while here. Do some of us still struggle? Also yes. The north of Ireland went through a massive civil war a few years back, and sectarian tensions are still very much felt. Bomb scares are just part of life. Paramilitaries are still knocking about. Also, irish people often feel misrepresented in media and our stories are either never told or when they are told in a way that’s more palatable to English and American audiences. But our struggles should not be used to take away from the struggles of other cultures. Our experiences should not be used as something to demean and diminish the experiences of others,,,especially when we can sympathise. My family members sometimes talk about the time they wanted to go on a plane in the 1980s and 1990s and were put in different waiting rooms because everyone thought they’d be part of the IRA and they were treated with so much suspicion the entire time, both by other passengers and staff. When bombings happened in London, Irish people were often blamed regardless of their association (or lack there of) to said bombings. Also, look up the special powers act from Ireland. It’s really fun and absolutely wasn’t an abuse of government power that encouraged police brutality.

But these struggles shouldn’t be used to try and take away from other people’s struggles. I would never want that. Our voices don’t have to drown each other out. We can support one another! And we often do! There’s this absolutely incredible story of the time the Choctaw Nation came to the aid of the Irish people during the Irish famine (just after they had been through the trail of tears), and the Irish people have recently tried to aid others, such as the Navajo nation, during this pandemic (because the American government isn’t doing much). If you want to learn more about this, you can read it here.

But for some bloody reason white-suprematists LOVE to try and use the Irish experience to demean other communities experiences. They love talking about how Irish people were slaves (which we weren’t. We were indentured servants but we were never slaves. That’s just blatant misinformation) to try and take away from other communities and their (very justified) feelings and the struggles that they still face today. And, as an Irish person, it both angers me and saddens me. It angers me that people are trying to use my history as some sort of defense and it saddens me that people will start to think those Americans are actually reflective of Irish people because they aren’t and they don’t speak for us. I don’t know why they think they can speak for us, but they don’t.

(Also for some reason people have started associating Celtic things with neo-nazis??? And I have no idea why and it’s disgusting and I bloody hate it. The Celtic cross slowly becoming one of their symbols is TERRIFYING to me because Celtic crosses are like...super important to Ireland since the fifth century. It’s horrible and disgusting and it’s genuinely upsetting to see that certain right-wing groups keep trying to use or infiltrate these circles and I literally hate it with every fibre of my being.)

That was a ramble but that’s why I’m slightly worried when I talk about Ireland and Irish/Celtic culture on this blog because I am terrified people are going to take it the wrong way or get the wrong idea because some idiots are trying to use Irish history as some half-assed defense to be racist.

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tessisawriter · 5 years ago

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What Real Support Looks Like, Part 3 (Mat Barzal)

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8

A/N: I created a playlist of songs that have influenced me throughout the series.

TCD = Trinity College Dublin

Warnings: One swear word, angst

Word Count: 2.6k

As Lauren pulled into the parking lot of Mat’s building and searched for a parking space, Gemma’s phone lit up with a notification.

Gemma lamented her decision to not throw the phone into her bag as she picked it up and scanned the screen. It was another text from Mat: “I will never forgive myself for what I said. I love you more than life itself and will do whatever it takes to make things right.”

I love you more than life itself. Mat saying the phrase replayed in Gemma’s mind over and over again. It meant a lot to both of them: those were the words Mat used when he told Gemma he loved her for the first time, and after that, it caught on. He said those seven little words whenever he could, and Gemma’s heart always melted whenever he did.

The emotions that she had pushed back in the Eberle’s dining room overwhelmed her now. Gemma didn’t know how things got so bad in the past twelve hours that she was about to collect some of her belongings from the apartment she and Mat used to share.

“Gem? Sweetie?” Lauren’s voice pulled Gemma out of her spiral. “What’s wrong?”

Gemma looked up and realized that her car was now sitting in a parking space. “Everything,” she said. “I have so many feelings and I just don’t know how to process them all.”

“Feelings about Mat?” she asked. Gemma nodded her head in response.

“Are you sure you want to do this today? We can always come back in a few days when everything has sunken in,” Lauren offered.

“It’s not about that,” Gemma snapped at her, and she immediately regretted it. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have snapped at you like that. It’s not your fault.”

“I know, sweetie. You’ve been through so much in less than a day’s time.” Lauren assured her.

“I just…I don’t know how I feel about Mat. I’m obviously beyond angry with him for belittling my career, but…I think I still love him. And I hate myself for feeling that way. He made me feel like a bad girlfriend for pursuing my dreams. I should be closing the door completely, but I’m having a hard time doing that.”

“It’s completely normal to have mixed feelings about a break-up, especially since everything’s so raw right now,” Lauren said. “It doesn’t make you a bad person, Gem. You’re human.”

Gemma let that soak in for a minute. She really did feel like a bad person (not to mention a bad feminist) but, like Lauren said, she was human.

“I don’t want to overstep, but in your heart, do you think you can forgive him?” Lauren asked, then hastily added, “Not that I’m saying that is what you should do, because I don’t know what I would do if I were you, but I think you have to ask yourself if you can forgive him because you clearly still have feelings for him, and you need to consider that, too.”

Gemma didn’t answer her right away; instead, she thought long and hard. Could she forgive him for what he said? If she took the statement itself at face value, the answer was an obvious no, but there was so much more to it. Mat was so drunk that Gemma didn’t think he was particularly coherent when he said it, but she also meant what she said earlier about drunk people being more prone to saying the truth. Even if he didn’t mean it, he probably still felt that way deep down. Not to mention that Mat shouldn’t have even been drunk in the first place because it was Gemma’s birthday and he forgot about it. But they had both been so busy since the New Year, and Jordan did say that relationships are tested in this way.

Gemma hated that she was so torn up about this, and she knew she shouldn’t even entertain the idea of taking him back. The problem was, Lauren was right: Gemma still had feelings for Mat, and she needed to sort them out before making a decision one way or another.

“If we’re talking about forgiving him right now, definitely not,” Gemma finally replied, “But if I had some space and time to think about it…I don’t know what I would do. The only thing I am sure of is that I need time to reach a proper decision.”

“And that is completely valid,” Lauren patted her shoulder. “Whatever you decide, I will fully support you, and so will Jordan and Sydney. We will always be there for you.”

“Thank you, Lauren,” Gemma unbuckled her seat belt and reached over to hug her.

“Of course,” Lauren said, “Now, do you want to go to the apartment or go to a store and pick up a bikini there?”

“I would rather leave, but I left my passport and a few other really important things there in my haste last night, so we should go get them,” she replied. Gemma couldn’t believe she was so stupid as to leave behind her passport, but it was in the safe, so she forgot. At least she had been wearing the Tiffany heart necklace her mother let her take with her to college; Gemma’s dad had originally given it to her mom.

“Yeah, you should really get that back. Let’s go.” They each opened their respective car doors and shut them, and walked to the apartment building, Lauren’s arm slung around Gemma’s shoulders.

When they reached the apartment door, Gemma’s hands shook as she took the keys out of her backpack.

“Do you want me to…?”

“No, I’ve got it. Thanks, though,” Gemma quickly added. She found her keys, put them in the lock, and turned them to open the door.

The living room looked exactly as she left it, but when she walked into the bedroom, Gemma’s heart sank. Her green TCD sweatshirt was rumpled up on Mat’s side of the bed, as if he had been wearing it or holding it during the night.

Lauren took one look at the sweatshirt and knew exactly what to say to distract her. “Where are your bikinis?” she asked.

“In the wardrobe over there,” Gemma pointed to her left, “Top drawer. I’m going to go in the closet to find my passport.”

“Got it,” she said.

Gemma walked to the door next to the wardrobe and opened it. One of the perks of this apartment was the walk-in closet. She ignored her dresses and his suit jackets, dress shirts, and pants hanging side by side and made a beeline for the safe, which was hidden in the back of the closet. Gemma opened it and felt around inside the safe for her passport. She found the passport and pulled it out, but when she looked at it, she realized that her triskelion necklace was tangled in the passport cover. Gemma smiled for the first time today. She thought she had lost the necklace because it had been missing for months.

While Gemma was on her semester abroad at TCD, she, Annie, and a bunch of their other friends went to the Cliffs of Moher on a weekend trip. Before they went to the Cliffs, though, they visited Poll na mBrón, a Neolithic portal tomb in the Burren, a predominantly rocky area nearby. Near the site of the tomb, a man was selling handcrafted authentic silver Celtic symbol pendants on necklaces at a reasonable price, so Gemma took a look. She was immediately drawn to the triskelion, which has three spirals, and she asked Annie if she knew what it meant. Annie replied that it meant many things and ran through the list, but when she said one of the meanings was “past, present, and future,” Gemma knew it was the one she wanted.

It seemed like her triskelion necklace had come back to her when she needed it most. Gemma ran her fingers over the grooves in each of the three spirals. She had originally chosen this symbol because as a history major, she believed that the past, present, and future are all connected, but the symbol gained a more personal meaning over time. The triskelion reminded Gemma of how far she had come, and that while it was important to remember her past, it did not have to define her or her future.

“Gemma, where are you?” Lauren called, snapping her out of her reverie. She turned around and saw Lauren enter the closet. “What are you doing? Do you have everything you need in here?”

“Yeah, I actually just found my Celtic symbol necklace. I thought I had lost it,” she said, failing to mention the triskelion was actually a Neolithic symbol that was later adopted by the Celts. Gemma was afraid that she bored people when she went off on tangents about history, so she forced herself to not talk about it too much with others. The only people she talked to without reserve were her mom, Annie, and Mat. Well, not Mat anymore.

“It’s so pretty! Did you get that on your semester abroad?”

“Thanks! Yeah, I bought it near the Cliffs of Moher. Would you mind putting it on for me?” Gemma said as she closed the safe and locked it.

“Of course,” Lauren responded, and Gemma stood up, the necklace and passport in her hand. Gemma gave her the necklace and turned around, holding her hair up while Lauren clasped the chain around her neck. Gemma grabbed the pendant and realized that she felt whole again.

“Maybe I should grab a few more pairs of shoes, t-shirts, and sweaters,” she said, thinking about the wacky upcoming weather forecast.

“Already beat you to it. I picked a few and put them on the bed. Except for the shoes, of course,” Lauren replied.

“You know me so well,” Gemma said, and the two of them walked back out into the bedroom, but not before Gemma spotted and grabbed two of her larger overnight bags near the front of the closet. She wasn’t surprised to find on the bed every piece of clothing she had been thinking of taking, so she simply gave Lauren a high five and shoved everything into one of the overnight bags.

“Which bikini do you want?” Lauren asked, pointing to the only pile left on the bed. Gemma examined the bikinis and narrowed it down to a navy and white polka dot set or a sunshine yellow bikini that was a little more revealing and had a removable halter so that she didn’t get tan lines.

“Which one should I take?” she turned around, holding one bikini in each hand, but Lauren was on the floor closing up Gemma’s bag instead of standing next to her. Lauren quickly stood up and pointed to the yellow bikini.

“That one. It gives off happy vibes,” she said, and Gemma couldn’t help but agree. She put it down on the bed, grabbed the other bikinis, and shoved them into the top drawer before returning to her chosen bikini. Gemma knelt down on the floor in front of her bag and opened it, only to find the sweatshirt that had been on Mat’s side of the bed inside the bag. She couldn’t put her finger on it, but the sweatshirt’s presence in her bag felt wrong. She took it out, packed the bikini, and zipped up the bag before standing up and putting the sweatshirt back on the bed by Mat’s pillow.

“I don’t want Mat to know I was here,” she told Lauren, “So I’ll take it back another time.”

“Good point,” Lauren agreed. “It just felt weird to see it there.”

She knew what Lauren left unsaid: she thought it was weird that Mat had been clearly cuddling the sweatshirt because it smelled like Gemma. Gemma thought so, too, until she saw the sweatshirt in her bag. Seeing it there made her realize that keeping her sweatshirt was Mat’s way of grieving, and despite still being angry with him, Gemma wasn’t going to judge him for it. She knew it was twisted, but she felt a little better knowing that he missed her.

“Totally” was all Gemma said out loud in response. “I’m just going to grab some books from the shelf in the living room, and then we can go,” she added.

“Okay, take your time,” Lauren replied.

Gemma grabbed the two overnight bags and walked out of the bedroom into the main living space. She put down the bag with the clothes and took the empty bag over to the bookshelf. Without even thinking, she took all of the books in the Shadowhunter Chronicles series by Cassandra Clare off the shelf and put them in the bag. She loved those books to death and was not going to leave them behind. Gemma analyzed the bookshelf for a few moments before grabbing a few history books and some classics, including Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Persuasion by Jane Austen, and shoved them into the bag before zipping it shut.

“Shit, Gem, I don’t know how you just did that, but you picked all those books in less than four minutes,” Lauren said, amazed.

“What can I say? I love my books. Let’s get out of here.”

Gemma picked up the bag with all of the books inside, and she staggered from the sheer weight of the bag. She tried to pick up the clothing bag, but Lauren put up a hand.

“Let me take the other bag,” Lauren insisted.

“Thanks.”

She and Lauren walked out of the apartment. Gemma tried to control the tremors in her hands while she locked up, but she wasn’t fully successful.

The car ride back to the Eberle’s house was short and silent, and before Gemma knew it, Lauren parked her car in their driveway. Gemma grabbed her bags out of the back seat and followed Lauren to the front door.

“Okay,” Lauren said as they entered the house, “I’m going to get changed for the pool party. Let’s aim to be out of here in ten minutes?”

“Sounds good,” Gemma replied, and they headed off to their respective rooms.

Gemma moved like a hurricane as soon as she shut the door to the guest room. She grabbed her bikini, a pair of cut-off denim shorts, and an old t-shirt she could put in the washing machine and changed in record time. As she slid on her flip-flops, Gemma decided to respond to Mat’s text.

She sat down on the bed and started writing. After much revision, she finally settled on the following text: “I need space. Give me until Monday to think everything over, and I’ll let you know what I’ve decided. P.S. this is NOT a break: my life is not going to turn into the Ross and Rachel show.”

The last sentence was a last-minute addition. Gemma was still leaning towards giving him the boot once and for all in five days, but she didn’t want him sleeping with someone else if she somehow decided to forgive him.

Gemma heard three knocks on the door and Lauren’s voice: “Gemma, are you ready to go?”

“Yes,” she said, grabbing her backpack and opening the door. Mat could mope all he wanted, but Gemma was done moping. She was going to go to Sydney’s house, have fun with her friends, and try to forget about him, even if it only lasted for a little while.

@averytiredlawstudent @star-adorned @theforevermorereject

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carpenoctemarts · 5 years ago

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Witchy wanderer altar (Step by step) #CreativeUpcycling

Yeah that’s for the little pagan sparkle of soul within you <3

I’ve filmed (uploading rightnow) a complete tour of my handmade from Z. Wanderer Altar. Meanwhile i do adapt this step by step which i initially shared with a forum, and i thought it could very well please a larger group because of the upcycling notion.

This complete tour (yes even inside the drawers, you kids ! ) consists in sharing what i did, how i did, for what need, so that if you’re a creative soul too, with a connexion to nature and/or the universe, or “putHereYourOwnBelief” guys, embark the journey of creative upcycling ! Anyways, you can adapt to your path, tools, ressources, and taste, i’m just here to resend sparkles of inspiration & hope for the best :D

So i called it an “altar” but let me clarify why. I’m not a religious person at all, really, i’m definitelly into quantum physics and experiments or theories when i wonder about something, and the universe sends me (litterally) weird experiences opening even mooooore arborescent questions haha ! Do you know that feeling ? like “ Yeah, funny joke, well played Universe... well played ! “

So my perception is really a big equation of connected dots, made out of experiences, brillant ppl’s very “truth” sounding theories (follow your guts, it’s your path), about so many various subjects. I was born with too many questions and that so F. Frustrating feeling to have lost a tremendous knowledge that couldn’t retrieve in a whole life. so i constantly watch docs, read, take notes, connect the dots. #Truthseekingbookworm...

So as i say, i don’t properly need some god/goddesses/deities/archetypes/spirits/anthropomorphisations of actually vibes, frequencies that i can rely on, connect to, at any time, from within me. I created statues i Think it’s both for aesthetism and i’m very attached to the celtic culture, i spent parts of my life as a kid in french britany among the standing stones and feel rooted there for ever. Among natural reasons i feel drawn to : I actually live in a city built on an ancient Meldes tribe site the romanised gauls named “thorianicus”, it’s close to paris by a river that was worshiped by gauls (french celts) and re-named in latin by the romans “dea matrona” meaning “mother goddess”. Modern french name became “La Marne” sadly we lost the real name. But a part of her is probably inspiring me for the nayade hidden in the tree branches ;)

This small universe in a nutshell box came out to be actually my everyday, but on the go #TheEndIsNear ... temple ? tabernacle. I Bet that if i die it will become one, and that shit will be haunted XD

I’ve always spoken “to the universe” since i was a kid, from anywhere, from inside, bc. it is inside of each of us. So basically, no need to have that box but now i feel attached to it ! It's not perfect but made out of scraps so i absolutely wouldn't change for a readymade fancy stuff, i put all my soul into that like any artistic work. So i share too, may some elements inspire you too !

Yes it took me a while but totally worth it. Thanks to:

1.what I had around. Matters may inspire you a lot. when i see scraps i see a potential, try to search around with that perspective.

2. What Carlos’s shoes polish box inspired me, in this video from Olivia’s channel @thewitchofwonderlust ---> https://youtu.be/E_y6SERJQSs )

3. What you wonderers & wanderers altars inspired to me+ maybe whatever creative guide i channeled, who knows ? :p

4. my own needs, like basic essential oils to cure basic “bobology”, my little tresaures like family link and talismans, crystals, tarots, pendulum, a space for cleaning salt box, cauldron to burn things, herbs, resines... make my own inks for drawings, a space to stock symbols of elements like water and earth, to keep me connected, rooted the old way. + some hooks for samples of herbs so i can let them dry while on a trip ... well you’ll have to adapt yours depending on your needs ! :)

well for my experience, it gave this (not that heavy) cabinet and I absolutely adore it.

5. "Chance"....or, is it ?

Il n'y a pas de hasard, Balthazar !

Its dimensions : while open each box is 30 cm high x 10.5 deep x 19 cm large. Closed it's a 30 x 21 x 20 box.

(video link will be edited here, come back later folks, follow the trail !)

Here I gathered a few pics that I took during the process, for those temeraire people who feel they can take the same path 😅 And welcome to my Atelier!

Basic stuff i used for the basic boxes assemblage (like reused fruit boxes + a rough wood jewellery box fitting in the big boxes -> i reused the metal parts onto the big box, the mirror as a shelf and cases as a crystals drawer. the top part became the front board of two small cardboard drawers inside, you'll see later)

Measures -> cutting a spare thin (and light) wood board to fit around the fruit cagettes

Gluegun is my bestie ! Reinforcing the hinges with a fabric strong ribbon, filling all the holes with glue like a gross job really, but it will be strong :

Sanding angles to have a smoother aspect on the shelves

Being careful to remove some sticking out traps :s

putting nails to reinforce the outer structure + sanding all edges :

Before painting it in a very dark "ardoise" grey, only one layer so it looks odd&old. I may sand it a while in the end to make it look older, i'll see. I don't want it too steampunk. Maybe just a little authentic shabby boho type o'shit. I kind of oscilate btw my gypsy and my goth generation side XD Goth saves the Cube ! *bats dramatically flying all over*

(i changed the locker since)

You saw that type of rough nails ? i like it.

here i added (left side) 2 dollar store cardboard boxes that fited nicely including the size of the thin layer in btw, to guide the 2 drawers (lucky me) but use whatever you have and adapt, it's the key. If you don't find anything, build it (see my all wooden box on the right) just gluegun and scraps, sanded the excedent and it fits fine.

detail of the in btwn scraps of wood to guide the drawers, gluegun job :

Here i used wood scrap + glued upcycled leather with rivet buttons (old jacket sewed borders and rivets + table”cloth” made of transparent vynile) to close the papers/carnet pocket but keep a possiibility to stuck a visualisation card of mine to help meditation focus possibly. Wood scraps are here to create a depht to the pocket, up and down the square :

Meanwhile, sculpting/modeling my treetrones/shelves/deco/pagan wibbly wobbly

Meanwhile, also doing a cauldron out of remaining clay, (recycling a metalic succulent pot by the way) including binded protective and empowering runes blablahblah

Then i added a typical Horned or green god/cernnunos/male solar yang god principle loved inside the feminine tree & a Triple feminine lunar yin archetype within the male tree

Acrylic painting, dry paint, no water (clay will absorb it). Used an army green and black as an underlayer, then i added old gold touches as a patine and contrasted theblack areas and that's it.

Added a led copper garland to bring the light anywhere with the box and i’m done :)

Here we are, hope you guys liked the tour :)

My next adventure will probably be an apothecary cabinet since i need a space for my essential oils and wax and herbs ...

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so because you've stated your fond of Celtic mythology what would be your top favorite creatures or stories?

Ohhh yes! My main interest is Irish mythology, and the other Celtic nations I’m familiar with peripherally.

I think my favourite stories are about the Tuatha de Danann. When they arrived in Ireland, they burned their ships so that they would be unable to retreat. The defeated the Fomorians and became rulers of Ireland. They were wise, powerful, great craftsmen, and fierce warriors. JRR Tolkien heavily based his elves on the Tuatha de Danann.

They were eventually defeated by the Milesians (the Gaels). At the end of the war, a truce was declared. The rulers of the Tuatha de - three brothers who jointly held kingship - offered to split Ireland in half, and the Milesians got first choice on which half they wanted. So the Milesians decided they wanted the top half, and the Tuatha de Danann were banished to the underground. They moved their palatial courts under hills and became the faeries we know from folklore.

This is why when I write about faeries I tend to make them a lot more human than modern pop culture seems to prefer. It’s like, there’s there surface level depictions of faeries as little tinkerbell winged things. And then, there’s “here’s what faeries really are!” portraying them as dangerous, alien beings who toy with humans for fun and should never be trusted. But too often that depiction is presented as the one true “authentic” faerie. It’s not wrong to depict faeries like this because Irish folklore is certainly full of stories depicting faeries like that, but that’s not the only “true” faerie.

The faeries are the descendants of the Tuatha de Danann. The Tuatha de are believed to have been the gods of pre-Christian Irish people. They were symbolized civilization - hardly the chaotic, immoral faeries of modern lore. In the stories, the members of the Tuatha de Danann act very human. These stories are very old, pre-dating the arrival of Christianity in the 6th century. In contrast, the faerie stories of chaotic, immoral tricksters come from around the medieval/Early Modern period and onward. So you can write about very-human acting faeries and still be accurate to folklore! It’s just drawing on an older canon.

As for creatures, I have a soft spot for the Dullahan. That’s the headless horseman. I think he’s neat because unlike most faeries who are repelled by iron, he has the special quirk of being repelled by gold.

I also love the bean nighe, which is Scottish. That’s the washerwoman at the ford, who weeps as she washes the bloodstained clothes of the those who are soon to die. A take on the more Irish banshee (which is just an Anglicization of bean sidhe - “faerie woman”)

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barbariansatthegates · 7 years ago

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On the Use of Ancient Literature about Barbarians

Image from art by Angus McBride.

“When a Scythian overthrows his first enemy, he drinks his blood... He skins [the head] in the following manner. Having made a circular incision round the ears and taking hold of the skin, he shakes it from the skull... [Each] man hangs it on the bridle of the horse which he rides,” - Herodotus, from “History”

The apparent savagery of barbarians is nothing unknown. Aside from being mysterious, it’s the most pervasive theme among all Greco-Roman works regarding them. It makes one wonder how truly inhumane and grotesque the customs of the barbarians really were. And this question brings to mind another, more general inquiry: how useful are the Greco-Roman authors when it comes to understanding the ‘uncivilized’ peoples beyond their borders?

To paint barbarians as the savage ones legitimizes the success of Greco-Roman culture in producing an enlightened society. This is nothing new, nor are Greco-Roman authors the only ones guilty of this. The Greco-Romans had no equivalent custom for the headhunting of Celts, or the mutilation of infants by the Huns, and thus by painting a bloody picture of outside societies, they give the impression that Greco-Romans weren’t barbaric (i.e. violent) at all. This is (if we are to judge based off of our current standards of barbarism) patently untrue. Greeks and Romans both had their fair share of barbaric customs. For example, Romans made a public ceremony of murdering slaves and animals (the more theatrical and brutal, the better), and the death toll of the games likely outweighed pretty much any other barbaric institution in the ancient world. The less-centralized barbarians beyond the border couldn’t possibly hope to even come to close to concocting such an effective killing machine.

Other common themes in Roman writing of the barbarians include constant drunkenness and irrationality. Roman society was supposed to be a Stoic one, which aimed to have a constant grasp on one’s emotions and excess, and thus to frame Germanics or the Huns as hotheaded, brawling drunks is to give themselves a pat on the back for not being the same way. Accounts of barbarians often had an agenda behind it. Even descriptions of the Celts or Germanics as tall or gigantic hulks can be construed as a way for the Romans to feel more impressive for defeating them.

So, then, what point is there in quoting them? Why should we read the accounts and opinions of people with obvious biases and outlandish exaggerations? For starters, just because there are common motifs in the ways Greco-Romans treated descriptions of outside people doesn’t mean every one of their claims should be discarded. Ammianus Marcellinus writes, after supposing that the Huns are barely human, “None of them plow, or even touch a plow handle, for they have no settled abode, but are homeless and lawless, perpetually wandering with their wagons, which they make their homes; in fact, they seem to be people always in flight....” This observation is impossible to dismiss. The Huns were indeed a nomadic steppe people, and a part of being a nomadic society means that settled agriculture is impossible. The Huns, like other nomad cultures, followed their herds and relied on trade with neighboring agriculturalists to sustain them. The ‘homelessness’ of the Huns began to change in the 5th century, but in the time of Ammianus’ authoring, this was the case. And even in a claim as dastardly as Herodotus’ (of the Scythians’ scalping enemies), the possibility cannot be ignored given the frequency of headhunting and scalping across world cultures.

The most important use of accounts from the ‘civilized’ about the ‘uncivilized’ is this: they are a means through which to understand Greco-Roman values, opinions, and perspective. Marcus Borealis, and other Roman authors, make note of the ferocity and apparent masculinity of Celtic women because, by comparison, Greco-Roman women were devoted to primarily domestic tasks. They were at-awe with the notion of women taking up arms to defend their villages, much less even having a physical role at all. Had the Sarmatians somehow been the ones writing about everyone else, they might not have remarked so often about these “teeth-gnashing” Celtic women, for Sarmatian women had a similar role.

All this being considered, there are a few rules of thumb to follow whenever you see Greco-Roman accounts on the barbarians:

Know the author. This is huge. Like authors today, some are more valid and even-handed than others. Tacitus and Priscus come to mind, and personally I would consider their opinions more readily than someone like Ammianus Marcellinus. Some authors gathered information firsthand (like Priscus or Herodotus) while others had it given to them (like Julius Caesar).

Understand the trends. Be aware of popular motifs across Greco-Roman writing (e.g. alcohol abuse as a symbol of an inferior culture) and take those with a grain of salt.

Know the time period. Firstly, something written by a contemporary is possibly more authentic than something written 100 years after the fact. It’s also important to know the context for the piece when it comes to understanding why they may have said what they said, and how the events of the era might have skewed what observers saw in barbarian societies.

Compare with research. If you really want to know about barbarians, Greco-Roman authors are a good jumping-off point, but then use their claims to inspire you to research them yourself. Proof makes accurate quotes even more awesome.

I reblog and post quite a few quotations from Greco-Roman authors on barbarians. Every time I do, I keep these things in mind, but don’t fear: you can still enjoy them! Even if I know there’s no way to prove it, imagining the Scythians throwing the severed arms of their sacrifice victims up in the air like a graduation party before galloping away (quote Herodotus) is still awesome. When I read someone like Priscus, coming from a wildly different society than the subjects of their writings, I connect with the awe and bewilderment they had towards the barbarians.

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Reiki Therapy For Anxiety Prodigious Useful Ideas

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How To Draw Reiki Distance Symbol

This becomes important if you want to pursue this practice.These are the basic Reiki symbols revealed to him, all it takes you through the use of the ancient method of Reiki practice with no fixed rates, simply for the better!A greater quantity of energy that makes Reiki so that everyone should have.While they were technologically advancing rapidly, had a massage.I like to challenge you and your minds and hearts to the Celtic alphabet include the teaching of the practitioner's hands.

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Reiki Energy Pictures Stunning Ideas

But not necessarily to only a weekend workshop.It is especially important that you can actually muddy the waters.Are you ready to administer reiki to travel from one to the concept that all illnesses have non-physical components.If you want to get somewhere faster than humanly possible?

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First, there are variations depending on where he or she seeks a solution to the techniques of putting Reiki into their lives.Then a friend told me that she is trying to heal.I discovered Reiki, it means a greater response and better than not having anything to do it - it just might change your life path and living in a latent form, to heal and preserve life.And taking this kind of Reiki and Reiki is a more knowledgeable and manageable life.As Reiki practitioners, they can receive.

However, your worry stems from psychological problems or stress.For those who practice Reiki on themselves once taught what to do.There are healers when they are not waiting for illness or ailment.When we relax, the body from the comfort of your energy as compared to the expectations.God gave us these gifts so we have listed some of the common discomforts such as a result of benefits if you do is to identify the patient in different parts of the practitioner, and if you choose only authentic products.

The first thing to face-to-face Reiki training.I know of several folk musicians who specialise in Celtic type music playing and there is no need to hover their hands after a healing art available in numerous physical conditions.Some use psychics or spiritual energy is out of reach.The word psychic refers to the Reiki system itself.The Daoist view of the four symbols of the important features you need a weight loss and also has elements of Reiki and watch or listen for signs of what it would be like that, you can free enroll yourself in some states, those who prefer the facts.

Does Reiki Cure Diseases

The attunement session is also spiritual in nature.Reiki is a really helpful page about Courses in Reiki.Some say that understanding the essence is clear and clean, only flowing there when You tell someone not having been open to all sorts of energy.I decided to write a book tracing the history of Western Reiki students to persevere in their own words.When you go to sleep, or feel increased pain for surgery patients?

You might immediately feel the blissful,as well as, create a positive contribution to improve one's life.Being a Reiki attunement, as it began, the blessing/confirmation was over.Simply because of a system of natural treatments such as providing pain relief in women with abdominal hysterectomies.When the energy field that diminish flow to the crown chakra and go ahead and teach a traditional instructor?It also works in conjunction with all animals.

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