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The Seven Sorrows of Mary by Robin Isely

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Your body is an ancestor. Your body is an altar to your ancestors. Every one of your cells holds an ancient and anarchic love story. Around 2.7 billion years ago free-living prokaryotes melted into one another to form the mitochondria and organelles of the cells that build our bodies today. All you need to do to honor your ancestors is to roll up like a pill bug, into the innate shape of safety: the fetal position. The curl of your body, then, is an altar not just to the womb that grew you, but to the retroviruses that, 200 million years ago taught mammals how to develop the protein syncytin that creates the synctrophoblast layer of the placenta. Breathe in, slowly, knowing that your breath loops you into the biome of your ecosystem. Every seven to ten years your cells will have turned over, rearticulated by your inhales and exhales, your appetites and proclivity for certain flavors. If you live in a valley, chances are the ancient glacial moraine, the fossils crushed underfoot, the spores from grandmotherly honey fungi, have all entered into and rebuilt the very molecular make up of your bones, your lungs, and even your eyes. Even your lungfuls of exhaust churn you into an ancestor altar for Mesozoic ferns pressurized into the fossil fuels. You are threaded through with fossils. Your microbiome is an ode to bacterial legacies you would not be able to trace with birth certificates and blood lineages. You are the ongoing-ness of the dead. The alembic where they are given breath again. Every decision, every idea, every poem you breathe and live is a resurrection of elements that date back to the birth of this universe itself. Today I realize that due to the miracle of metabolic recycling, it is even possible that my body, somehow, holds the cells of my great-great grandmother. Or your great-great grandmother. Or that I am built from carbon that once intimately orchestrated the flight of a hummingbird or a pterodactyl. Your body is an ecosystem of ancestors. An outcome born not of a single human thread, but a web of relations that ripples outwards into the intimate ocean of deep time.

Your Body is an Ancestor, Sophie Strand

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Some men are incredible. I was walking through the city with my partner, on the side of where I was walking were two young men parking their bikes. One of the men stared at me, he shouted to his friend: "When I see something like that, I wonder why I got married."

I had to puke with a boosted ego.

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Mary has her own folk mythology, unrelated to the mainstream Christian myth – there are hundreds of Mary legends speaking of her causing the Sun to dance, raising people from the dead, curing the sick, helping in need. In legends, Mary travels in the boats without the oars, hovers in the air over the seas, lives in forests, walks on the surface of the lake waters leaving a permanent luminous ‘path of the Mother of God’, visits villages to wash her face in a well, takes a seat on the tree branches and on the barn beams; she is helping, punishing, and always requesting to build churches in her name.

… The legends about Mary illustrate that like these [pagan] goddesses, Mary is a force in people’s lives, a representation of an archetype, the Goddess of the essence of nature. While the other goddesses are no longer present in the current patriarchal religions, Mary is.

- Rasa Luzyute

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“Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.”

~ Barbra Streisand.

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[everything is fake]

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I pray in words. I pray in poems. I want to learn to pray through breathing, through dreams and sleeplessness, through love and renunciation.

Anna Kamienska, In That Great River: A Notebook

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It never will be.

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Monica Bellucci in I mitici (1994)

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A ritual is a reminder that YOU are alive and connected, that YOU are surrounded by beauty and love at every turn. 

Daily rituals are: • the way to infuse all of life’s little moments with magic and meaning • taking time to be yourself and to honor yourself. • a chance to take a deep breath and relax into YOU.

- PaganGarden

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Seduce yourself and you'll be magnetic.

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the power you’re looking for exists inside of you