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Alabama Tornadoes
As some of you may know North Alabama has been hit hard by tornadoes last Wednesday. Currently there is no power getting to residents, and having enough water is also a problem.
I come from Huntsville, AL; so, most of my information is from there. Due to having decided to go father than a day's drive to college and having a co-op, I was not in Alabama at the time nor am I able to go home any time soon.
You know, I never really understood people who are from some place where a disaster happened. Sure, I understood them being upset because of their family and friends, but I never really understood that they were also upset because of where it happened. Now I do.
It's not just about who was affected by it, but where it happened. The place I grew up . . . it feels like a that place is a person and an arm or a leg was cut off. A person that I love and care about but didn't really know it. All my family is ok, and my close friends are ok. I just don't know about anyone else.
We knew a large tornado was suppose to come through some time soon, but that doesn't really help much. I also know that i should be feeling ok and able to suck it up. None of my family or friends got hurt so why do I feel like I just lost someone close to me? My area didn't even get the worst damage from the system. I just don't understand.
I come from Huntsville, AL; so, most of my information is from there. Due to having decided to go father than a day's drive to college and having a co-op, I was not in Alabama at the time nor am I able to go home any time soon.
You know, I never really understood people who are from some place where a disaster happened. Sure, I understood them being upset because of their family and friends, but I never really understood that they were also upset because of where it happened. Now I do.
It's not just about who was affected by it, but where it happened. The place I grew up . . . it feels like a that place is a person and an arm or a leg was cut off. A person that I love and care about but didn't really know it. All my family is ok, and my close friends are ok. I just don't know about anyone else.
We knew a large tornado was suppose to come through some time soon, but that doesn't really help much. I also know that i should be feeling ok and able to suck it up. None of my family or friends got hurt so why do I feel like I just lost someone close to me? My area didn't even get the worst damage from the system. I just don't understand.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13184-Alabama-Tornadoes&goto=newpost
jodypham: Accidentally on purpose. This is gorgeous Jody!
Accidentally on purpose.
This is gorgeous Jody!
Offerings
What offers do you use ?
I came along that incense,tobacco,blood and water are mostly used for offerings.
If i am correct some entities might be specific and can demand for dedication of time and effort is that right?
Blood, how do you proceed with this offering in a ritual ?
What is blood used for; empowerment ? dedication ?
I came along an idea, of using blood on each points of pentagram as an empowerment to the elements and spirits dedicated to each point while performing L.B.R.P
I came along that incense,tobacco,blood and water are mostly used for offerings.
If i am correct some entities might be specific and can demand for dedication of time and effort is that right?
Blood, how do you proceed with this offering in a ritual ?
What is blood used for; empowerment ? dedication ?
I came along an idea, of using blood on each points of pentagram as an empowerment to the elements and spirits dedicated to each point while performing L.B.R.P
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13183-Offerings&goto=newpost
"I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink…"
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- S. E. Smith, “Get Your Anti-Femininity out of my Feminism” (via squintyoureyes)
I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink are not punished for it, either. We can certainly talk about the social pressures surrounding gender roles, and the concerns that people have when they see girls and young women who appear to be forced into performances of femininity by the society around them, but let’s stop acting like they have no agency and free will. Let’s stop acting like women who choose to be feminine are somehow colluders, betraying the movement, bamboozled into thinking that they want to be feminine. Let’s stop denying women their own autonomy by telling them that their expressions of femininity are bad and wrong.
Antifemininity is misogynist. What you are saying when you engage in this type of rhetoric is that you think things traditionally associated with women are wrong. Which is misogynist. By telling feminine women that they don’t belong in the feminist movement, you are reinforcing the idea that to be feminine and a woman is wrong, that women who want to be taken seriously need to be more masculine, because most people view gender presentation in binary ways. This rewards the ‘one of the boys’ type rhetoric I encounter all over the place from self-avowed feminists who seem to think that bashing on women is a good way to prove how serious they are when it comes to caring about women and bringing men into the feminist movement.
”- S. E. Smith, “Get Your Anti-Femininity out of my Feminism” (via squintyoureyes)
Supergods, Grant Morrison’s Book on Super Heroes, Gets a Cover
Grant Morrison’s Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human, which is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, now has a cover. Its release date is July 19, 2011.
(via Nerdreactor)
"Do you think that your 16 year old daughter hasn’t masturbated already? Like, do you really think…"
“Do you think that your 16 year old daughter hasn’t masturbated already? Like, do you really think there’s anything in that scene that this chick hasn’t already tried when the lights go out at night, or in the bathroom, or in the tub, or with the shower head or something like that? I’m telling you, man, I’m not teaching this broad anything new. If I were to create a rating system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top, and assault against women. Because it’s so insanely overused and insulting how much it’s overused in movies as a plot device, a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive, yet that shit skates.”
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Kevin Smith (director) on the ridiculousness of movies about sex receiving NC-17 ratings while extremely violent movies get by with R ratings (via phillip-gallagher)
-I will never pay to see another Kevin Smith movie ever again but goddamn do I love this.
(via blackmagickopera)
Re Examining what I have Traditionally viewed as Morality…
Okay. Here is a little model that I am proposing as the one that might be working in My Universe. If No Thing were to be taken as a given, for example, as in the case of complete Anarchy, no two or more people would be capable of forming a Co Operative Effort. If no two or more people were capable of a Co Operative Effort, The Human Race would perish. I am Assuming that I Desire Co Operation with others as a selfish tool to a greater means. The Reality may be that I am in Truth Built with my own Moral Compass. To Avoid Getting Hurt through my apparent need to dislike or like certain events, I must then designate these events as out of my control in large Part. This Leaves the Apparent task of Discerning Exactly where my Sphere of control Ends, Or Begins. Given that I am lacking in the actual Knowledge of my origin, Where can I find the Part that is Built in? To Avoid this slippery slope, I would propose for my self a plan of action that involved consciously giving way to those people who happen to have plans dissimilar from mine. Good News, Gay People: when I am in charge, you get to be married.And any person or group of fully consenting people can feel free to do what they please without feeling any Judgement Coming from me; who is clearly inexperienced in making decisions about how to run the Universe. So , Good Luck To all. I hope that all of you with all of your differing views are still here again, and again, and again.
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(via http://www.solestruck.com/zuriick-ivan-mens-raven/index.html#) $84.95
These have a purple sole! I like them a lot.
First Pentacle of the Moon ??
I'd like to get some clarification here... hopefully someone familiar with the pentacles from the Greater Key of Solomon can clear this up...
In regard to the first moon pentacle, it is said : "serve to call forth and invoke the Spirits of the Moon; and further serveth to open doors, in whatever way they may be fastened." . My insticts tell me that the "doors" referred to here could be figural, as opposed to being actual physical doors like we encounter everyday - and that it could mean that it would remove blockages of any kind (physical, psychological, etc...).
Thoughts or experiences with this pentacle ?
Thanks !
Michael
In regard to the first moon pentacle, it is said : "serve to call forth and invoke the Spirits of the Moon; and further serveth to open doors, in whatever way they may be fastened." . My insticts tell me that the "doors" referred to here could be figural, as opposed to being actual physical doors like we encounter everyday - and that it could mean that it would remove blockages of any kind (physical, psychological, etc...).
Thoughts or experiences with this pentacle ?
Thanks !
Michael
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13181-First-Pentacle-of-the-Moon&goto=newpost
Spring is the season when I celebrate the warmer weather and…
Spring is the season when I celebrate the warmer weather and sunshine with a new wallet. It’s a nice and generally cheaper way to update the way my wardrobe feels. I may be wearing much of the same clothing from the fall and winter to the supermarket, but the wallet I pull out of my bag to make my purchases is new! (via Wallets for Gothic People | The Morbid Fashion)
Soooo… it worked!
Does anyone remember the March 19th Supermoon ritual I posted? Well... apparently it was a success. Gorgo Mormo (seems to have) graced me with her presence, under the name "Yeah, I got it." Confusion, offered like shade in a desert when it is needed, unrest between other (usually nosey) people and even ornery astral guests to pester those who wish ill towards me; but also turbulence that makes me "mighty interesting" to people with "different ideas."
Rather than be spooked by what I should take for granted+a more lively "twist," this is encouraging. Uplifting, so to speak :squee:
Rather than be spooked by what I should take for granted+a more lively "twist," this is encouraging. Uplifting, so to speak :squee:
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13180-Soooo...-it-worked!&goto=newpost
A Merry Beltane
From Wildhunt
“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.” -_ Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) Tonight and tomorrow (in the northern hemisphere*) are the traditional dates for many of the major spring/summer festivals in modern Paganism. Beltane, Bealtaine, May [...]
Would you like to know more?
“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.” -_ Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) Tonight and tomorrow (in the northern hemisphere*) are the traditional dates for many of the major spring/summer festivals in modern Paganism. Beltane, Bealtaine, May [...]
Would you like to know more?
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13179-A-Merry-Beltane&goto=newpost
Kali Worship
How do I worship and call upon her for protection safely?
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13178-Kali-Worship&goto=newpost
Group Project A personal request for the Occult Corpus Magi
My best friend's dad was just diagnosed with prostate cancer. I'm going to do a sigil for him, but sense cancer is a serious thing, I thought I'd ask the magicians, witches, shamans, druids, etc, here to do a magical working for him as well.
His name is Carl Sundberg.
Here is a photo of him:
Thanks to all who take the time to do a healing spell for him.
-ChaosTech
His name is Carl Sundberg.
Here is a photo of him:
Thanks to all who take the time to do a healing spell for him.
-ChaosTech
April Showers – Life Still Images – Ready To Wear
April Showers - Life Still Images - Ready To Wear