No image could capture you,O Ouranic Aphrodite, great queen —we must fragment our view to even glimpse a shadow.How could material capture a beautyunseen and summited beyond thought,you who basks in dripping light? What image could render youwithin the chasm-like Hestiaof yourself, completely hidden?Your chariot's immense power?That blazing-bright morning stardancing through its phases,or the tender, … Continue reading For Aphrodite Ourania
Tag: modern polytheism
What Can We Learn From the Goddess Necklace Trend?
When looking up the title of a book from 2000 that seems to be from a deceased author (hence nowhere online, and likely a soon-to-be-victim of what we call in library science "orphaned works"), my eyes were assaulted with advertising. This is unsurprising, as Google's search engine is primarily an advertising machine that just so … Continue reading What Can We Learn From the Goddess Necklace Trend?
Worship and the Punishment Mindset
Recently, while checking to make sure that my scheduled posts were working properly on the account that spews out (slightly modified for length in some cases) passages from The Soul's Inner Statues with a few sleek quotations from (mostly) Platonists, I saw a TweetDeck notification that someone had quote-tweeted one of the tweets, which comes … Continue reading Worship and the Punishment Mindset
The Path to the Summit
I wish to communicate something exciting that has its origins in a conversation with a few people about the Platonic Theology (in which I learned that @barefootwisdom has memorized a lot of Proclus' hymns) and the way that the soul experiences ascent. After that conversation, I went back to the commentary and translations of Proclus' … Continue reading The Path to the Summit
I’ve Started Editing THE SOUL’S INNER STATUES
As a heads up to anyone who might be heading to my link to The Soul's Inner Statues, I am in the process of updating it, and I am pushing changes to GitHub as they happen. If you're curious about where things stand, feel free to head over to the GitHub repository. Here's a link … Continue reading I’ve Started Editing THE SOUL’S INNER STATUES
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: A Review
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry (Jack Kornfield) was published in 2000, the year I turned 13. I ordered the book in January 2021 on Alibris from ThriftBooks, fully intending to read it at some point when I wasn't reading Platonic commentaries. That never happened — until now. Here is the description on Goodreads (note: I'm … Continue reading After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: A Review
Olive Branches for Athene
Yesterday, about half an hour after sunset, a package arrived with the olive branches I had ordered to put on the shrine for Athene. I pulled them from the box, slashed into the tough stems, and put them in a vase with water. The vase filled with olive branches. Regarding my current main icon of … Continue reading Olive Branches for Athene
Printable Lunar Calendar Sheets
A while ago, I shared a printable lunar calendar that I personally use (with some changes since then!) to organize myself every lunar month. I would like to share new printables, primarily because the old one was being downloaded by many, many people, and it made me a bit anxious that people would think some … Continue reading Printable Lunar Calendar Sheets
My (Preliminary) Review of Nolan’s A YEAR OF PAGAN PRAYER
This morning while doing solstice offerings, I opened up Barbara Nolan's A Year of Pagan Prayer: A Sourcebook of Poems, Hymns, and Invocations from Four Thousand Years of Pagan History, turned to December, and found a beautiful prayer for Sunna sandwiched between a traditional Welsh folk song and a Wassail poem from the early 17th … Continue reading My (Preliminary) Review of Nolan’s A YEAR OF PAGAN PRAYER
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