Month: May 2012

sparrowqueen:

Athena Meditation:
(adpated from original source, click through for original)

I call on you, Athena, to help me to realize that my goals are attainable and that I can realize my visions.

Goddess, guide me to build the right boundaries so I can relinquish any excessive reliance on others.

Goddess of wisdom, remind me that I can release all indecisiveness and move on with my life.
Help me to be like you, Athena, sure of my own adequacy and unafraid of failure.

Great Goddess, help me fulfil my promise by developing my natural talents.

Lend me your inner strength and ability to fight back, Athena, so that I can become more independent and self-reliant.

Athena, remind me to be more productive and responsible in all that I do today.

Thank you, Athena, for helping me to let go of my fears and become courageous like you.

Athena, help me give full attention to the moment I am in so that I do not miss valuable opportunities that come my way.

Great Goddess, remind me that my value does not depend solely on my accomplishments.

Athena, let me be like you, always expanding my mind and continuing to learn.

Athena, make me aware of the importance of taking responsibility for those who look up to me.

Thank you, goddess Athena, for sharing your happiness in working for the good of others.

Athena, I affirm that, like you, I am fair and honest with all around me.

Athena, as the goddess of wisdom, help me to take charge and meet challenges straight on.

Athena, remind me today that, like you, I am caring and have a good heart.

Athena, share your ability to speak honestly and in a straightforward manner with me.

Grant me your willingness to empower, support and protect those you care about, Athena.

Goddess of Crafts, help me adorn my home and my workplace with beautiful objects lovingly crafted by the artisan’s hands.

Athena, show me how to release the limits I impose on myself and to get all the enjoyment I can out of life.

Help me to be like you, Athena, sure of my own adequacy and unafraid of failure.

Great Goddess, help me fulfil my promise by developing my natural talents.

Thank you, Athena, for helping me to let go of my fears and become courageous like you.

Athena, help me give full attention to the moment I am in so that I do not miss valuable opportunities that come my way.

Goddess, help me to restore some order in my environment and to keep it peaceful and harmonious today.

Athena, lend me your ability to display competence without being arrogant or inconsiderate.

Great Goddess, help me to remember to breathe deeply and to relax my shoulders when I am under too much stress.

Athena, teach me to see new situations as welcome challenges that I can manage with success.

slanted-edges:

loki’s monsters / by audrey koch [slanted-edges]

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Just want to note:  even though the most common versions of the tale say that Hel (the Goddess of Decay and Death), Fenrir (the wolf), and Jormungandr (the serpent) were children of the union of Loki and a giantess, I’ve found at least one scholarly essay that asserts that they were in fact mothered by Loki while he was in a female form. 

My own interpretation of Loki is that [he’s] impossible to define sex-/gender-wise.  Sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes combinations of the two, and always changing.  I mean, okay yes, I’m predisposed to like gender-queer characters, but my interpretation of Loki’s gender also goes along with how I view [him] as a deity:  [he’s] fire, ever-destroying and ever-creating, and self-sustaining.

bezoardic:

THROWN WORLDS

Mat(t)er: meet-meat-meant-met(a)-

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murde(ring) under grim(e)
       [mirage / merge]

SWORD/WORDS “LORD” (WORTH)
 WORM WORN

           [WR&NG]

bythegods:

Selkie

Way up north, sitting by the sea, looking at seals all day, who could honestly say they haven’t had at least one romantic thought about those little water-dwelling blubber-bags? The story of the Selkie is the story of that love that dare not speak its name (basically).

In the folk tales of Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands the Selkie pops up from time to time; maintaining the form of a seal while in the water, the Selkies can come ashore, shed their skin, and take the form of a beautiful human. Nearly every story involving a Selkie is a romantic tragedy of some sort, whether it’s that of a beautiful lady Selkie tricking a sad farmer boy into the water to smash him up on rocks, or a guy with nothing better to do stealing the shed sealskin of a Selkie maiden and forcing her to marry him, the tales generally aren’t “feel-good.”

The males of the supernatural species spend most of time seeking out women who are angry or dissatisfied with their husbands and seducing them; their homewrecking abilities are unquestioned.

The leading theory on where the Selkies come from, regardless of what they do, is that they are the bizarre reincarnation of restless drowned souls.