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i was raised christian and was anyone ever going to tell me that when judas betrayed jesus he kissed him on the fucking mouth or was i just expected to find that out myself when i googled judas during a college religious studies class
where are you on the angel hierarchy quiz
made this for fun cuz i have a lot of angel knowledge! if you like it then pls rb with what you get!
(ID: eight images with pastel rainbow backgrounds, there are black curved lines bordering each corner and black text in the center of every image; the text reads 1) “transgender and pro-choice”, 2) “include trans people in your abortion rights advocacy”, 3) “pro-choice and childfree without apology”, 4) “bodily autonomy is a human right”, 5) “this isn’t gods will you’re just an asshole”, 6) “not subject to the rules of your religion”, 7) “my body my life my future my choice”, 8) “forced pregnancy is torture”.)
I’m kind of numb over the supreme court draft that got leaked. This is not a surprise. Like a lot of other folks, I’ve been expecting for months that we’d seen Roe overturned this June.
I’ve been angry and scared about it for some time, but I did expect this would happen during my life time. I grew up around the “pray to end abortion” crowd. In spite of my largely unchurched childhood, I was raised culturally Christian and educated in the bible belt. Damned near everyone I grew up around treated the end of legal abortion as a future goal and outcome. “God will win”, they said. “Our bodies belong to God and not ourselves”, they said.
I’ve questioned a lot of things, but I never was anti-choice. The idea of being pregnant always disgusted me, and the thought of having no choice in the matter always scared me. And how could I justify forcing on others what I reject for myself?
I don’t have any answers. But I am afraid that this is just the beginning of what we will see. I believe firmly that the gay marriage ruling will be the next target. I’m afraid of what will happen with trans health care rights. And religious freedom (real religious freedom, not Christian privilege). I’m worried for myself and for everyone else.
The religious argument that people can’t possibly be trans because God cannot make mistakes has always been a weird one to me, because who’s to say God didn’t intend on making somebody trans?
My dad put it best; for some reason or another, God sometimes decides to give his children specific experiences, and being trans is an experience. He doesn’t make mistakes, so being trans isn’t a mistake. What is a mistake is forcing his children to think they are a mistake.
And I swear, swear it to the God above
That no one else compares to the way I love
Hello Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, Hello Kitty
[Don’t eat humans. Some people are saying humans are in fact the kittens of god.]
[If you actually seek someone who would die for you, admit to all your sins.]
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my fascination with church tattoos runs deep, probably because i was raised as an orthodox and anything pertaining to that imagery just pleases me, and i will definitely get something like this one day. not on the same grand scale though
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i finally finished the big quiz i was working on jesus christ
where are you in the angelic hierarchy?
it will give you a second quiz link in your answer, which will then give you your full result. there’s nine results overall ❤️ please take it this took me hours.
I got first sphere throne angel
That works out since they are the wheels with all the eyes and I love them
Hey so it’s already well into ramadan but I just want to say:
If you are an LGBT muslim, you are not a sin. Allah (swt) does not hate you and is full of love and kindness
You deserve to be happy this ramadan and you are absolutely a true muslim.
Ramadan Mubarak to all my great sisters, brothers and siblings of islam.
non-muslims can reblog this, I’m absolutely tired of feeling like a sin this ramadan even though I know it’s absolutely not true.
morgana as an entity, or morgan of the faye, is linked heavily to the goddess matrona of celtic mythology, and also to a goddess specifically known for the ulster cycle as of her involvement in la morte de arthur, written in 1470. while i will have a much, much longer headcanon dealing with her link to matrona, especially being that the same deity was linked to be a protector of modron, or mordred…. i specifically wanted to talk about her similarities with the another goddess of irish mythology known as the morrigan. the goddess is more of a primordial force than a ‘god’ by conventional means, and is known more by her moniker ‘the phantom queen’. while she is linked heavily to the outcome of battle and bloody war, rather than being wholly associated with the actual fighting of a battle, she has more to do with the fate of those in and after a clash and the gruesome deaths that follow. but instead of acting as a means to transport someone to the afterlife, they were simply a symbol of death on the battlefield to some lesser extend.
A huge part of the Tuatha de Danann, the Morrigan was also known to have been made up of three distinct goddesses known mostly today as the maiden, the mother and the crone. All of which have a link to Morgana in one of the many stages of her life and to goddesses such as Ceredwen,
The morrigan would often appear in the form of a black crow, which happens to be morgana’s symbolic familiar, and upon seeing one on the battlefield it was believed to mean that death would befall that person imminently. this aspect of the morrigan made her popular for worship by those going into battle. interestingly, in most forms of media that portray morgana, this also links to her being used as an instrument of war, offering her services to the queens and kings of the north in exchange for shelter and safety, or for troops to fight of camelot and the rest of growing mercia.
but the morrigan also has in-depth protective qualities that enable her to protect her people. namely those who were worshipers of these ancestral gods and practitioners of magic, which also directly aligns with morgana’s personal interests. morgana le faye was a symbol to most practitioners of witchcraft and druidism of this time as a pariah that fought against the Anglicization of what would become albion. remember that at the time of her life (presumed to be around the timeperiods of 400-600 ad, respectively) it was when the heavy Catholicisation of what is now great britain, had begun. uther pendragon, and later the knights of the round, had pushed those that they had deemed uncivilized (magic-users) into areas in and north/west of lothian, gaelic and pictish lands.
BECAUSE OF THIS, TOO, morgana can be seen as a protector of those who were like her, especially if we bring popular canon such as bbc’s merlin into view, which i take some inspiration from in terms of magic being ‘outlawed’ at the time through penalty of death. fighting against the oppression of pagan ritualistic practitioners all over briton, as well as the druids of the dal riata alike, she was turned into a martyr of sorts and later demonizedto the point of gaining a status of ‘evil’ … while the kings who had oppressed or slaughtered these people (particularly the druids, like uther pendragon or his son in historic canon, not in the case of bbc) were instead built of as heroes to the people of albion for ridding them of the ‘evil’ pagans that had previously (as termed by uther) ‘infested’ their lands. propoganda against them surmounted and the britons and anglo-saxons continued their territory war, until separately the battle of camlann occured [ where king arthur had lead his knights of the round table into a war that would have claimed most of the northern territory in the name of camelot against the anglo-saxons, which had currently belonged to several albic tribes including that which belonged at the time to his nephew, gwaine of loth. ]
almost ironically, this battle is what enabled the bernicians to take even more land for themselves, creating the kingdom of deira (which, in my canon is what pushed morgana even further north of lothian, into the lands of the gaels). the reason i bring up this battle is because the morrigan is famous for taking part in the battle against the fomorians. the morrigan did naught at first but speak in chant, which caused the fomorians to scatter in fear until they fell into the seas.
another story she is involved in is that of Cú Chulainn, who threatens the morrigan when she releases his cattle back into the wild, only to realize who he has angered and explain his misdeed. when the morrigan prophecies ill-tidings for him on behalf of his threat, he tells her that she has no power over him. as we would expect, Cú Chulainn is given numerous chances to mend the relationship with the morrigan and botches it every time, eventually leading him to his inevitable death with the morrigan, as a crow, standing atop his dead body as a means to confirm his death. interestingly, morgana was also present at the battle of camlann, which i mentioned earlier, when both her nephew and her half-brother (mordred and king arthur) were slain by a single blow from one another’s enchanted blades.
so why bring up the morrigan at all? in my canon/headcanon, morgana didn’t just receive simple ‘fae’ powers from becoming the high priestess of avalon. i believe she drank from the proverbial spring itself when there was nothing more to learn from merlin and nimue and was granted similar powers to the three major goddesses, including the ability to dictate fate - albeit with a price she was not ready to pay. morgana in general is almost always seen as both a victimandchooserof fate, so i felt this was a very nice way to tie these figures together.
Be angry about the use of white sage. Be angry about the racism. Be angry about capitalism. Be furious. But don’t be angry about new witches finding the craft. If someone finds this community through that awful kit just welcome them with love and begin to educate them.
let me say just a few things ooc– as a hedge/kitchen witch. yes, be furious that this is (and has been for a while now under other venues) happening; yes, be furious that the increased harvesting of white sage is having a real effect on first nations rituals; do all of that, but more than anything be concerned. if you hear that someone owns one of these kits, see that they’re educated and given every appropriate resource available. encourage them to return that kit and go about exploring witchcraft in a safe, healthy way by talking to older, more experienced practitioners (find a circle, even. we’re everywhere and we have meetings just like weekly knitting circles and book clubs do).
please be aware that witchcraft is notthe same as wiccanism, neopaganism, or satanism.witchesare not wiccans(wicca is a religion which started as a cult in the 1950′s, originated by gerald gardner and aleister crowley). witchery is nota religion (it can go hand in hand with religions of any type or even with no religion at all); rather, it is a form of spirituality and practical manipulation of the surrounding environment (energy can be included).
be sure those whom you have the chance to educate understand not only this, but they’re made aware handling items infused with energy (magic, high frequency vibrating atoms, however you choose to describe it) can have drastic, dire consequences if done from a place of ignorance. i bought a rose quartz crystal in a department store once and the energy it had absorbed (rose quartz absorbs negative energy, even if it dispenses it out at a much lesser frequency) was so strong, it almost burned a scar my chest until i cleansed it twice and even then it was still difficult to handle.items of power, like the ones in this ‘witch kit’ house energy and have already been handled by numerous hands with many different intentions (conscious or unconscious) before coming to their buyer.
it’s the same as taking home an ouija board and messing around with it– channels can be opened for anything interested. what’s attracted generally isn’t bad persay, but the possibility is always there. be aware. know methods of cleansing and protection. gobble up books and ask questions. dust your windowsills with rosemary, burn greensage from safe and protected sources, work with whatever friendly deities or energies you choose, but be aware.
this isn’t a cute aesthetic, it isn’t trendy, it isn’t pretend, and it’s not a game.
i’m not angry, because of consumerism; i’m angry, because someone could get hurt.
please feel free to reblog. the more ‘on trend’ this phenomenon becomes, the more important it is that people are educated to the fullest extent.
