#astrolatry

[tartedepera]

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[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

“In the dark times, will there also be singing?”: An Introduction to the Twin Stars of Castor and Pollux – Upon the Altar

A Rite of Seating Starlight: on Fixed Star Castor and Linseed – Upon the Altar

Hope Within A Shell-Heart: The Creation of a Castor-Inspired Hope-Charm – Upon the Altar

These where wonderful reads, I love the way she writes and explains the stars using both myth/lore and pop culture. Highly recommend her blog. She has some very interesting publications too.

[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!

[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

[cosmic-weav3r]

hello and welcome! My name is lupus, and this is my spiritual blog.

a little bit about me ⚘️

ᡣ𐭩 I'm 22 and use any pronouns. I'm a butch lesbian and happily married.

ᡣ𐭩 I'm an animist and astrolater

ᡣ𐭩 I focus mainly on death witchcraft and cosmic witchcraft

ᡣ𐭩 I am currently in school for mortuary science.

ᡣ𐭩 I love horror movies, collecting dolls, and playing video games!

I'm hoping to post more of my journey here and such! It's nice to meet you all. My dms and asks are open if anyone ever wants to chat 🦋

[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]

One time I tried to astral project (I'm not sure if I believe in it) and it didn't work out as expected.

Instead of doing that I got to a point where I quickly started feeling tingly and anticipated then I jolted upwards literally. I think I was too scared so I went to sleep.

Something was probably trying to push my soul back in there.

It was an interesting thing cause it could have been me just dreaming about falling or something because usually when I jolt up in my sleep or do a sharp movement it's because I'm half dreaming about walking or falling. But I don't remember falling asleep, I was just laying there.

But.. you never know /lh

[corvianbard]

#6544

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

[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]

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS NEW BOOKS BOOKS NEW BOOKS

[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)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

a list of "beautiful" words from A to Z

to try to include in your next poem/story

Astrolatry - worship of the heavenly bodies

Bloodwite - a penalty for murder; a broil or riot in which blood is spilled

Corrigendum - an error in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with its correction on a separate sheet

Diamondiferous - containing diamonds

Epizoic - living upon the body of an animal

Funebrial - funereal

Gracile - slender, slight; graceful

Heartsome - giving spirit or vigor; animating, enlivening

Intimity - intimate privacy

Jocose - given to joking; merry

Klendusity - disease-escaping ability

Lilaceous - of or resembling the color lilac

Mebos - a confection of salted and sugared dried apricots

Notaeum - the upper surface of a bird's body

Ownhood - the condition in which one holds oneself or one's own in isolation; egoism, selfhood

Perioeci - those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other

Quasar - a region at the center of a galaxy that produces an extremely large amount of radiation

Rhipidate - fan-shaped

Scrapiana - miscellaneous literary scraps

Telergy - a hypothetical action of one person's thought and desire upon the brain of another person by the transmission of some unknown form of energy

Uraeus - a representation of the sacred asp (Naja haje) appearing in ancient Egyptian art and especially on the headdress of rulers and serving as a symbol of sovereignty

Virose - having or suggestive of a poisonous quality

Wandflower - a plant or flower of the genus Sparaxis; especially: a showy often cultivated plant (S. tricolor) with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers

Xystus - a long and open portico used especially by ancient Greeks or Romans for athletic exercises in wintry or stormy weather; a walk lined with trees

Yosenabe - a soup consisting especially of seafood and vegetables cooked in a broth

Zeppole - a doughnut made from cream puff dough

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

More: Lists of Beautiful Words ⚜ Word Lists

[ivy-kissobryos]

28.1.2023