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i mean she waaaasss described as a prophetess but i also like picturing her as a diviner🤣🤣🤣🤣

Eros intermediates between wisdom and ignorance, which is the whole point of love. sometimes youre smart, sometimes youre dumb, rational and irrational, mortal and immortal (love is always resurrected btw)

an intermediate of the gods

Diotima (Symposium) explains where divinity comes from (Eros). She herself is a diviner, in passage 201d, she is described as having been able to warn the Athenians about a coming plague.

the sacrifice at one end of the scale, and the cost for it on the other. also giving merchant, this object for this amount of value

Diotima describes Eros as: "commands and requitals in exchange for sacrifices from the other" aka requires compensation in exchange for a sacrifice, veryyyyyy Saturn in Libra exaltation

agree agree very good point

anybody have any ritual recommendations for the full moon?! or no ritual?! asking for a friend!! (a friend from class, i haven’t done much in the realm of rituals, so plssssss feel free to share thoughts) <3

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wait also how the 9th/God has sight to all of them woooow

you’re seeing what i’m seeing🤣🤣🤣

I am very much loving Love being next to Toil highlighting the forever opposition of Faith and Grief. Just captured the whole human experience right there XD

Grief and Faith sit side to side like it's a pew, and funny cuz both have sight to the 9th, God, by sextile and square

embodiment to love is a sextile...being present is where love and pleasure r, the square from embodiment to toil...it suckksss to be in your body when you do chores or other very human things, like wiping your butt lololol, the body needs taking care of and that's toilsome

the trine between I am, God, and Love luuvvv

another interesting thing: grief/faith are up there with God in the upper half of the sky, and below the horizon, in the terrestrial world, is where we create and live and love and toil

my take on the rejoicing houses!! it's very interesting to see it visualized this way. grief and faith sit together, and then transition into the self (the 1h) in zodiacal motion. god up there (in the 9H), you down here on earth (embodiment, in the 3H). a very aristotelian way of seeing the chart

soooooooo goood

yessssss so well said!! one of the first things you learn in the picatrix is that words are spells - and amazing point re genocide

Yes! This is evident in spells and witchcraft as well and why the oppressors fight so hard to gaslight people calling out racism, misogynoir and gen*cide. There is power in naming things. There's a plot about this in Angel Season 4. They have to learn the name of the villain to destroy her.

quoting myself(lol) from my most recent blog: "In the Bible, God said “Let there be light,” and there was light. In the Quran, God says “Be!” and it is. In scripture, creation appears in accordance to commandments, to words. Without speech, we wouldn’t be able to associate what is, from what isn’t."

when bell hooks said that having a definition for a word allows you to create a foundation on which you can build reality, if you can name it, then it exists, if there are no words for it, then it doesn't- why mercury rejoices in the 1H.

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yesssss literally the next point i was about to makeeeee

there is a consistency though, just look at nature! there is a beautiful consistency to divinity, yes. truth does exist (as a form), but is not the same to everyone due to context, circumstance, identity, station, race, sex, etc. the divine will always be there, but not in the same way to everyone

someone tried to challenge me yesterday by saying "divine truth is consistent" (re: to me saying astrology is divine, and them saying, if it is, then why aren't everyones interpretations the same?) when books like the bible are literally the most contradictory set of texts ever

i swear everyone is in vancouver when im not in vancouver anymore lmfaooooo

literally downloaded it asap

i think people should stare into the mirror more often tbh

sun/venus is the ability to see yourself from an another's perspective, and knowing how you come off to people. people who look into mirrors contemplate themselves, which yes, some would call vain, but what is more enduring than the relationship one has with themselves?