Hello! I saw your tarot post and was wondering what an 'oracle card' was.
Hello! An oracle card us a card from an oracle deck as opposed to from a tarot deck. There are many different know of oracle decks, and many are listed on the Aeclectic Tarot site, so you might think about looking through some there. :)
do you take tarot requests?
Sometimes, although I rarely take them on Anon. What’s up?
Felt the urge to cover as I headed out the door. Had an infinity scarf on. Ended up with this.
This post covers the first three days of this festival, the cleaning parts. Next post will go over our "claiming" of our home and then the night we spent in the living room and likely the feast after the end of Hekate's Deipnon.
So, I'd planned to keep a notebook of all my thoughts and impressions from this festival. I didn't do that very well. I do, however, have the first several days written down. This is going to be a short series of posts that include what the plans were for the festival and then how those days worked out.Spouse and I were able to celebrate this as a multi-day festival as we both got 9 days off for Chinese New Year. Taiwan mandates at least 5 days for the new year holiday, and both of our works gave us a few extra days to have the long "weekend" stretch from Saturday to the Sunday of the next week.
Going to sit down tomorrow (probably) and type together the day-to-day that was our festival during Chinese New Year. I’ll stick it up soon. If I can keep things short enough, I’ll even post it all as a single post. :)
@whoreofabaddon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just got the call from work. I don't have classes today because students have fallen ill. I'm off for the next 10 days! Exagnisi commences!! There'll be fireworks in the park tonight, and I won't even have to put them off myself!
Building on what I said about getting to be somewhere that celebrates alongside me, here's a little coffee mascot all dressed up as a lion, ready for New Year!
Note that dates refer to this year. This is a lunar celebration.
Almost time! Almost time! Chinese New Year is coming!!
The other day, someone I’ve been emailing a bit with reminded me that I have such a wonderful experience happening right now. I get to live in a country that runs on a lunar cycle. When I leave offerings and do rituals for the new moon, I get to see others around me doing the same (albeit different offerings). When the full moon rises, things come to life here. I’m preparing for a festival that will be 5 days long, and I don’t have to ask for vacation. I automatically get those days (at the new moon) off from work because it’s a national holiday. The world around me is abuzz with excitement and happiness building to the local holiday that is the height of the year here. It’s amazing, and I feel so incredibly blessed.
On top of all of this, I live in a place where the majority religion (and it’s a HUGE majority) is polytheistic. I get to walk past temples every day that are alive with people and life. Inside those temples are statues and representations of local deities and spirits. People pray and leaving offerings and incense to those deities, spirits, and their own ancestors.
This place is magical. Thank you so much to all the Powers That Be that brought me here, most especially to Dionysos and Hermes for their hands in my life and at my back ever pushing me forward!
By Maysoon Masalha , Abu Dhabi’s airport art hub 👌
holy … .WHOA.
Beautiful.
Wow…just wow!
Not quite on my normal topics, but had to share these. They’re just so beautiful!
Snood hair day!
Getting ready for Hellenic Chinese New Year (Exegesis! It has a name!). Spouse and I cleaned the shrine we’ve been using for a year and upgraded it from a three shelf table to two side-by-side bookshelves. It’s lovely and puts Hestia’s lamp at eye level (we’re short). Thought I’d share.
I keep feeling like something’s missing here for me. I want a prayer or invocation or something. You know, something short and to the point but powerful and such. So, question!
Anyone say anything particular when you’re making khernips?
@winebrightruby and @falanx, thanks both for your thoughts. This was something I’d seen before. Trying to find a square between my practice and Spouse’s so everything can be somewhat streamlined in our religious worlds. I’ll let people know if we come up with something other than a basic imperative (”xerniptosai” as you both suggested) or something else.
Also, if anyone else has thoughts, I’d still love to hear them! :)
I keep feeling like something’s missing here for me. I want a prayer or invocation or something. You know, something short and to the point but powerful and such. So, question!
Anyone say anything particular when you’re making khernips?
I love cooking and I’m pretty great at it when following recipes. The problem with this growing up though, was my Mother is a Dragon in the kitchen and doesn’t play well with others and she doesn’t go be recipe or direct measurements. So I gave up on learning to cook for a long time (a few things here and there, more with my Dad than her). I’ve slowly started picking things up over the past year or so and Mother is better about sharing the kitchen and we’re working on getting some of her ‘recipes’ down on paper for me, but it’s still a rare thing for me to go in the kitchen and just cook.
I’ve been eating a lot of quick-prep meals lately because of everyone’s schedule and was settling in to do the same tonight. It’s depressing, to be honest, eating mediocre food alone almost every night. I see why so many single folk eat out a lot, sitting by yourself with dinner is sad and lonely. But tonight I felt the uncontrollable urge to go cook. It was as if Hestia was dragging me by the ear into the kitchen and telling me to actually cook myself a homemade meal.
I didn’t have the ingredients for anything I had recipes for and I was increasingly discouraged (and strongly eyeing the Stouffer’s lasagna in the freezer) until I opened the cabinet one last time and saw a jar of pesto and a box of noodles. Sure, I could throw some noodles in a pot and stir in pesto and call it a meal but there was that tugging again.
So for the first time in my life, I experimented in the kitchen. I mixed spices, I mixed sauces, I grumbled and prayed, until I had found a flavor I liked. So I sauteed some chicken, boiled some noodles, prayed some more, put my sauce together and by the Gods it was good.
More importantly? It didn’t taste lonely.
tl;dr Hestia made me take care of myself and I made my first successfully experimental dinner by myself
FUCK YES. YOU GO!
This is wonderful! So beautiful!!
Veiled runner means lots of headbands and bandannas! Also, 10k new personal best!
