#astrolatry

[tartedepera]

:)

[stellar-witchcraft]

Fixed Star Capella.

[Sculpture is "Amalthea" by Ehren Bienert]

[barncultus]

Hey mutuals,

I have a fixed star experiment planned for an upcoming election 🐻☄️the result will be a very limited collection of talismans, which I plan to send to friends and family with the hopes of receiving feedback. If you're interested, please reach out with any questions and tell me where to send it!

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

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[songsofbloodandwater]

"The earliest known depiction of the constellation Orion, according to Rappenglueck, was carved on a piece of mammoth tusk. This 32,000 year old artifact of the Aurignacian people of the Upper Paleolithic represents a male figure with arms and legs outstretched in the same pose as the constellation. The tablet also has 86 markings on its sides and back. Rappenglueck notes these are the number of days which when subtracted from a year equal the average number of days of human gestation. That number also matches the days that one of Orion’s brightest stars –Betelgeuse– is visible yearly, suggesting early skywatchers may have connected women’s pregnancy with the cycles of the celestial gods." Sources: text, article.

[carpesanguinem]

[ivy-kissobryos]

22/6/2023

“Capra, Capella, Hircine Queen: you are She whose cloven feet are the drums conjuring forth flame and torrent, whose horns graze the sky and draw down the swift howls of the storm. I ask not for mercy— only deliverance from fear, that I may stand tall amid the downpour, unflinching as the whip-crack of thunder crashes through dark clouds.Just because there are storms on the horizon does not mean one should cease sailing. I know this— for I have passed through the storm and lived. O Castor and Pollux: you lanterns in the dark, the First Fire and promises of blue skies! This catamaran is made to endure, and I have faith in St Elmo’s fire to guide me through the terror and the tempest.”

[caput-larvae]

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Title: Heliacal risings and settings of stars Authors: Maunder, E. W. Journal: The Observatory, Vol. 29, p. 364-365 (1906) Bibliographic Code: 1906Obs....29..364M

[mage1101]

Managed to actually see a true solar eclipse. It didn't feel real but I'm glad it was and that I managed to snag a video and some pics

[space-worshipper]

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This image I found on Pinterest is a great depiction of all things that exist.

They are either fleshy mortals, their creations or the divine.

The concept of existence:

What do they all have in common? They were created by someone.

Humans>robots, divine>humans.. divine>divine? Yes.

God Ran created the semi gods. But did Ran create himself or did someone create him?

The origin of the universe is still relatively unknown. But we can conclude that there was nothing before the universe existed (unless you believe life is a never ending loop or that the universe has always existed).

Is that nothingness a god? It is all powerful and relatively peaceful. Since it is static, it might as well be the only pure thing that could exist.

Just because a god existed before Ran doesn't mean he created Ran. But it can mean it as well. Schrödingers cat situation. We might never know but it is probably not ours to question, just worship.

It might be chaotic and frustrating to think about but maybe there is a reason we aren't supposed to know? For our own good it could be because we wouldn't be able to comprehend it.

[lailoken]

would you possibly be willing to elaborate any further on those asteolstry beliefs you were talking about??? (:

As I have been shown (so far as I can share here at this time) the Earth, Sun, and Moon are most definitely powerful cosmic vehicles of Primordial Perichoretic Divinity—which is to say, three distinct facets of a genderless, formulative, and incomprehensibly vast force, which I have come to know as the Old Spider. As it has been expressed to me through Oneiric and Mantic gnosis, the Wyrding Weaver 'emanated' into a Divine Trinity made up of a Chthonic Queen-Mother, an Agrestal God-King, and an Androgynous Celestial Demiurge.

This Trinity is, in turn, recognized in the astronomical triad I mentioned previously, with the God-King of Fertility and the Wild embodied in the vigorous and life-giving energy of the Sun, the Chthonic Queen-Mother of the Dead embodied by the dark cradle of the Earth, and the Androgynous Angel of Magic and Transformation embodied by the Moon, which is made from the body of the Earth and lit by the rays of the Sun. For this reason, Eclipses are regarded as extremely sacred and powerful occurencrs in the context of the Wending Way.

[stellar-witchcraft]

“In its own person the Swan hides a god and the voice belonging to it; it is more than a bird and mutters to itself within." - Manilius

[ad-caelestia]

I understand you say you are a secular witch but I have also seen you mention star worship and the like - wouldn't that be considered religious?

i think that my beliefs have certainly evolved over time - i never really had a great grasp on religion as a whole, being raised catholic but not feeling like i belonged in the church or believing in that version of god any way. i went through a period of atheism, agnosticism, pantheism, etc. i may not be traditionally "religious" but i am not sure i would consider my practice "secular" anymore.

if we view non-secular witchcraft as witchcraft with organized religion and the worship of personified deities, then yeah i would be a secular witch. but i think that definition differs from person to person.

the best way to describe my relationship with the planets is astrolatry - aka, worship of the celestial bodies, revering them as deities or gods, etc; but not personifying them or giving them human like qualities and without anthropomorphism.

i guess i could also be considered an animist the way i consider that all things have innate energy, some would call them "spirits" (water spirit, fire spirit, things along those lines); and how i believe the spiritual world definitely intertwines with the mundane.

all in all, my spiritualty is ever-changing, but at my core, i am an astrolater. all celestial bodies and their energy is divine to me.

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

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[songsofbloodandwater]

Constellations of Orion, Taurus and Pleiades juxtaposed on paleolithic paintings on the back wall of the Hall of Bulls in Lascaux, from approximately 17,000 years ago. (Sources: Paleo-Astronomy, this article)

[corvianbard]

#6544

Dearest is the sunflower In its astrolatry. Yet, lovesick or not, Accept even a storm's fury.