Clytie by Lord Frederick Leighton.
This is one of Lord Leighton’s finest works about one of my favorite myths. Clytie, forever in love with Apollo. Just…beautiful.
Month: March 2013
Agrippa von Nettesheim (16th century) considered letters and symbols to have a real, living celestial correspondence, so they could therefore be used to manipulate the higher powers of the celestial forms they represented. This table shows his magical numerology for the rays of the Sun, and the magical symbols that might be derived. Thirty years later, John Dee further developed these ideas in his Monas Hieroglyphica (1564).
Image from:
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (ca. 1486-1535 A.D.)
De occulta philosophia libri tres / Three Books of Occult Philosophy
1651 Edition, Harvard University Library
P240-241
So, I once mentioned the 9” wooden cock that lives happily on my Dionysus shrine (cuz He totally invented dildos, by the way…also, cuz fertility and stuff or whatever), and someone boggled as to why I hadn’t photobombed you guys yet with a photoset of my beautiful Dionysian dick!
Well…ask and you shall, eventually, receive!
P.S. Yes, the pearls were necessary. You know why.
You have a beautiful cock.
At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. … Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.
Carl Jung (via pseudobollocks)
So, I mentioned my very loose Anthesteria ritual here on the blog, so I figured I’d load some pictures of the current setup.
Dionysus took the centre place again, with His mask, phallus, grapes and plenty of flowers. I finally filled my Crystal Skull Vodka bottle with flowers as my icon for the Beloved Dead, and I poured out libations of cool water in the centre bowl for Them as well.
As I’d mentioned, my old workplace bought me some amazing gifts for Employee Appreciation Day, and so they’re all here on the altar:
- A Bottle of organic red wine
- 2 ‘Hail Dionysus’ notebooks by Elise Mesnard
- A Dionysus soap (featuring a dancing Dionysus) by Conjured Cardea
- 3 magpie feathers
- (Apparently there is one more item on its way to me, too!)
The carnations and daisies smell amazing on the altar, and the wine was excellent (and shared with Big D, Hekate, and Aphrodite). And, some personally selected cookies from a local bakery were also included in this offering.
I keep meaning to simplify my altar space, but let’s face it….it’s never going to happen.