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I do believe that out of all the Astroportraits I’ve created that these are the only Tauruses I’ve brought forth, both from a long time ago when I first started doing these, hand drawn in pencil. (I online offer painted versions.)

In my Astroportraits I combine multiple zodiacs from around the world representing each individual part of a birthdate (day, month, and year)

See the larger Astroportrait gallery for more examples of this divinatory art here

#astroportrait #zodiac #portraiture #astrology witch #divination #traditional art #custom art #taurus #graphite #traditional drawing #birth chart #astrology readings #art for other people #weird stuff #mashup

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Code PJ420 for 20% off (for next 4 weeks)

#high priestess #tarot #esoteric art #420culture #bong hits #stoner goddess #stoner gf #do what thou wilt #love is the law #cannabis

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Medusa, the OG stonergirl 👁️🪨 Almost all of us are familiar with her legendary petrifying gaze. It is mentioned in the earliest records of Medusa and her monstrous gorgon family. What is also mentioned in ancient texts by 500 BC is that unlike her immortal family, Medusa was mortal as well as remarkably beautiful. The origin story of how she got her defensive power comes much later from the Roman poet Ovid during the turn of the common era. Yep, dude lived through the turnover from BC to now times. Ovid wrote that Neptune found Medusa in a temple to Minerva, goddess of war and intellect, and forced himself upon her. When Minerva found out, Neptune blamed Medusa for coming on to him. Because Medusa was a gorgon and not a fellow god like her uncle Neptune, Minerva chooses to punish Medusa by giving her a gorgon figure like her sisters, with snakes for hair. 🐍 As a result of the betrayal, Medusa’s gaze turns men to stone. Relatable to sexual assault survivors, Medusa has become a symbol of righteous rage for many feminists. We can understand Ovid’s version as a critique on power when we look at history and realize that he was in resistance to political corruption in ancient Rome.

Obviously, and sadly, this critique’s relevance to society both predated Ovid’s time and has followed into modernity. Ovid’s myth shaping also demonstrates how storytelling and art can shape historical and mythological memory in society, how concepts of divinity and the personas projected upon these divine forces in the form of gods are forged from human imagination in order to make sense of not just the workings of nature but of relationships within civilization.

An an artist I have taken my own liberties with the Medusa myth in self portraiture. Playing with the “stoning” powers of Medusa’s gaze, I’ve drawn a “stoner” tattoo on her wrist as she burns one down. This is also in acknowledgment to the Ovidian origin story in which Medusa is explained as an assault survivor with a nod to how cannabis has been a clinically proven medicine for PTSD in association to such experiences and yet remains often vilified similarly to Medusa.

https://misspjsuperior.etsy.com/listing/1588503886

#420girl #stonergirl #medusa #cannacommunity #legalize it #blaze it #ptsd recovery #stress relief #plant medicine #420culture #queer artwork

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Howdy

I’m PJ Superior: hillbilly witch and esoteric feminist artist from the Smoky Mountains, same homeland as Dolly Parton. After several years on the American West Coast, I now reside in the Netherlands.

I may add more details to this bio post later.

I am currently working as a PMU and tattoo artist with Magic PJ’s in Utrecht. I went through my apprenticeship in Los Angeles years ago.

While in LA, I made most of my bread and butter as a tarot reader for private parties and public events. I learned to read regular playing cards intuitively as a kid before I even knew the word “tarot”. Once I left home, from the remote hollers of the East Tennessee hills, I began studying tarot and enriching my intuition through real historical knowledge including Kabbalist planetary numerology. I had years of experience before I found myself out west. I have taught these insights to hundreds of others mainly through my zine style Coloring Guide to Tarot.

As a visual artist, I am most “known” for my vulvarobed goddesses, especially Maria, created in 2013.

My custom Astroportraits are one of my most popular art services and I hope to offer them as tattoos in the future too.

Access my art portfolios, grimoire, PMU blog, and shop at pjsuperior.com

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my attempt to give persephone a digital offering

#goddess vibes #inspiration

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Oh, Hermaphroditus, a Holy One.

1. Hermaphroditus statue from Imperial Rome, around 70-100 AD, at "Lady Lever Art Gallery" in Europe England 2. Hermaphroditus statue from Imperial Rome in the 2nd century AD, at "Louvre" in Paris, Europe France

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Goddess tapestries are discontinued. T shirts now available at misspjsuperior.etsy.com

They call her “Vag!na Mary” even tho “Vulva Mary” would be more anatomically appropriate.

But for the past ten years I’ve called her Maria Rosa, ever since she came out of me in my first year in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (aka LA). Today I walk with Her upon my body through Dutch gothic cathedral gardens on some various errands. So much has happened in these expanses of time and distance between here and now and there and then across the incredible gamut of tragedies and miracles alike.

The divine (sometimes seemingly absurd) mysteries like that of Maria have saw me through the whole way. I’ve survived vibrantly after having writhed on the thresholds of ruin, poverty, chronic illness, post traumatic stress. Despite it all there is also joy, friendship, beauty, and as much good luck as bad, strengthened by cunning and bravery. Many changes. The only constant is change.

After all this time and new creations I still got Maria tapestries etc for others too but how may you lay claim? Be bold enough to holler at me to get what I got. Don’t be afraid to let me know what you desire. 🌹

#holy mother of god #goddess #folk catholicism #vulva art #queer artwork #weird shirt #soft goth

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In western mythos, we are mostly familiar when a feminine moon and masculine Sun. In certain traditions around the world, especially in folklore concerning solar eclipses, the sun is instead feminine and the moon is masculine:

In Norse mythology, the solar goddess Sol and lunar god Mani are sister and brother.

In Tahitian myth, the Sun goddess and mother of rice, Padi, and the dark moon (each moon phase has varying names) are lovers who are said to be getting ‘lost in the moment’ when they create a solar eclipse.

Inuit lore has told of the Sun goddess Malina being chased across the sky by her brother, the moon god Igaluk. Occasionally he catches up with her for a brief reunion and everything goes dark.

In the indigenous Euahlayi stories from Australia, the Sun is a woman, Yhi, and the moon as a man, Bahloo. Yhi falls in love with Bahloo and chases him across the sky. Yhi tells the spirits that hold up the sky that if they let Bahloo escape then she will plunge the world into darkness. So during a total solar eclipse, medicine men traditionally chant to connect with the spirits of the sky to allow the moon, Bahloo, to continue to enchant and Yhi in this celestial chase.

I made this illustration adapted from my tattoo flash for Magic PJ’s PMU & Tattoo to share this with you.

#mythology and folklore #solar eclipse #sun goddess #traditional tattoo #celestial #whimsicore #astro art #world mythology #folklore #alchemical symbolism

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Maria “Vulva Mary” shirt by PJ Superior, up to 3X for you, classic earthen brown or pale pink. 🤎🌹

Got a hilarious Easter story:

Funny (but not on a haha kind of way) how in the Gospel story, the resurrected Jesus first appeared to women and gave them the story to pass on directly but it turned out to be men who took over the cult and then turned that very gospel story of Jesus into a male dominated empirical power that goes on to do unto others what was done to Jesus, all in his name. “Hilarious”!

Why does a professed pagan witch care about Jesus at all? (I have been asked.) Well hell, he has been used as the excuse to persecute my kind for centuries and I don’t just mean witches either but queers, folk healers, autistics, feminists, I mean the list goes on and fuckin on. Basically all these ways of existing were/are “witch craft” in opposition to the patriarchal church’s indomitable rule. Are we not to care about our own histories and trials and triumphs lest we be “so superior” and “self righteous” as to appreciate knowledge of our very selves?

Instead of leaving all traces of the Christianity I was raised on in the rural American south behind me in the proverbial dust, I instead see how the original story has been corrupted for pol gain and so along with exploring and honoring obscured “dead” (arguable) deities of the past and of spiritualities marginalized in the west, Jesus f-ing Christ is absolutely included in those categories in my mind too since the popular fandom version is what rules in even atheists’ minds rather than the actual canon Jesus in the source material of the Bible.

#goddess art #holy mother of god #queer artist #folk catholicism #virgin mary #mother goddess #pagan witch #vulva art #biblical femininity #queer spirituality #reclamation #gnosticism

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Echidna Statue, Sacro Bosco

#inspiration

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l attended the drag n draw live drawing session for the first time at De Nijverheid last night and it was zo vet!

As the fellow patrons bustled with their papers and conversed, the event kicked off with a loud "YEEHAW" on a mic as the hosting queen approached the stage.

It was probably the worst "yee haw" I had ever heard in my entire life but I loved it and honestly the bar is high to me being a certifiable hillbilly country gal from the hills of East Tennessee

I was delighted and the continuing theme of space western felt so tailored for my country/western queer artist self! I also do just love when people who already have their own native accents when speaking English try my accent on top of it too.

#live drawing #pastel #quick sketch #space cowgirl #yeehaw #nude pose #traditional art

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#good friday #crucifix #pastel goth #gnosticism #black sabbath #religious kink #jesus freak

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Ostara vs Easter: A Different Place in Time

Around this time every year someone asks me, “Why is Easter on a different date every year?” I feel honored to be known as the kind of nerd to go to. This is how Easter is calculated: it is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. 🌕 

Easter, being a lunar based holiday, changes its dates on the solar based Gregorian calendar but the pagan holiday known as Ostara is associated with the Spring equinox happening annually on March 21st except for leap years when it occurs on March 20th.

Easter is said to be a Christianization of the pagan holiday of Ostara, an ancient Northern European goddess of spring. There is only very scant evidence of Ostara in historical text sources. The sole ancient citation comes from a single sentence written by colonizing British clergy historian Bede in the 8th century who documented what little of folk customs he could find out from wary locals whose traditions, passed down orally, were being eradicated. 

It was The Brothers Grimm, famous fairy tale historians, who wrote broader theories of Bede’s brief mention of Ostara, popularizing her/it as “the real Easter” in the early 19th century.

In striving to reconnect with ancient pagan roots long suppressed, syncretism of Ostara with various seasonal goddesses of different mythologies is popular among pagans today. Such as Persephone of the Greek pantheon and Freya of the Norse. This practice seems rather full circle if you consider Mary to be a goddess figure (accepting Christianity as mythos) also syncretized with the season via Easter. In turn, reverence including imagery of the Virgin Mary has preserved ancient pagan/indigenous practices as much as forces of power attempted to use her to obscure those same practices. In this spirit I share this post with my iconic Maria Rosa art. I’m also pleased to let you know that altar sized vulva goddess prints are back, now at misspjsuperior.etsy.com

This is an edited version of a longer piece of writing with more historical details that you can access by supporting my Star Gazer level on Patreon. If you find these kinds of musings of mind especially interesting or educational, they get sent directly to you via email as a Star Gazer

#goddess art #holy mother of god #folk catholicism #virgin mary #queer artist #esoteric knowledge #pagan goddesses #wheel of the year #neo pagan #persephone #freya #fairy tales #ancient origins #ostara #easter #pagan holidays

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March 18th, Sheelah’s Day, is theorized to be the original indigenous holiday that St. Patrick’s Day was made to obscure. St. Patrick’s Day has become very successful at this. Historians agree on very little about the ancient origins of Sheelah’s Day, celebrated only in certain communities of the Irish diaspora in Canada and Australia for centuries now, suppressed upon the Isle of Erin. What most folklorists can agree on and trace is that the whiskey drinking and shamrocks associated with St. Patrick’s Day were most certainly originally part of Sheelah’s Day rituals. Where the common three leaf clover ☘️ is emphasized to represent the Catholic holy trinity in St. Patrick’s Day today, the significance of three leaves is debated on its meaning in Sheelah’s Day. Four leaf clovers being lucky seem to be tied to Sheelah’s Day celebrations. 🍀 But who is Sheelah? She herself has been obscured in oppression. Often denied simply because of modern prudence, by far the most likely answer to Sheelah’s identity is the notorious Sheela Na Gig. Although these sorts of statuaries are found throughout all pre Roman Britain architecture and elsewhere across ancient European ruins, this Irish Gaelic name has been assigned to these figures in association with a goddess whose own origin story has been effectively lost. She is known distinctively, and almost exclusively, by a huge exaggerated Vulva that she pulls up into the rest of her body. Because of the placements of these figures in architecture it is apparent that these sculptural Sheela Na Gigs were both wards and blessings. I realize how my own Vulva goddesses art are effectively modern Sheela Na Gigs.

Slides:

1. Photo featured on Wikipedia article for “Sheela Na Gig” (12th century, on the church at Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England)

2. Photo collage of Vulva robed goddess art by PJ Superior

3. Four leaf clover 🍀

4. Photo I took of a badly weathered Sheela Na Gig during my honeymoon on the Isle of Iona, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 2019

5. Photo of the plaque at the abbey ruins describing the Sheela Na Gig

6. Photo of myself standing in those same ruins

#sheela na gig #st patricks day #four leaf clover #pagan goddesses #irish diaspora #Sheela’s day #ancient origins #ancient ruins #scottish islands #travel #goddess art #weird history

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Tattoos are a form of self expression. Many find experiencing the tattooing process to be meditative although painful. This practice of relaxing into the pain is one reason why many find tattoos cathartic in choosing them as memorial pieces, helping to process the associated grief with the love and loss commentated in such a tattoo.

In this spirit I have designed a tattoo fundraiser to benefit survivors of ongoing genocide in Gaza in one of the few ways I can offer my skills to help gather what aid I can with the help of others. I am inspired by @wearthepeace which has been successful with their clothing campaign and who also share lots of on-the-ground sources to support independently as well. A tattoo is much more permanent and pricey than a t shirt and I can’t serve as many people with this in-person offering but I believe in the possibility of this opportunity. The three watermelon designs range from inconspicuous to blatant to suit personal taste while the tattooing process itself allows the opportunity to meditatively process the emotional pain, of the feeling of powerless in witnessing the suffering of this crisis, through the catharsis of the physical pain involved in receiving the ink with this expression of solidarity.

As similarly declared by self immolating US army protester Aaron Bushnell, the pain (in this case of a tattoo) is nothing compared to the pain of the Palestinian people, of all people on the front lines of colonizing violence. We can only help however we can from where we are. I hope this will be some small way to connect with people in that spirit.

I have chosen three incredible causes to support:

Ibrahim for Gaza:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/gazaaidnow

Sol Band (from Gaza):

Reporter Hossam Shbat

1/3 (100) of each tattoo will be donated among these funds. Designs are priced normally so that donations come from my profit. What I keep helps cover materials, studio rent, and taxes. Deposit required. See link or DM @magic.pj.ink to book. 🍉

#watermelon #tattoo fundraiser #utrecht #palestinian aid

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🪷 Guan Yin is “the one who sees all sounds in the world”, perceiving and honoring all human lamentation and celebration. She is also a Trans goddess. How?

Previously known as the male bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara or Padmapani from India, once reverence of this Buddhist “lotus bearer” settled in China, he transformed into a sort of Goddess of Mercy, the ever-compassionate Guan Yin we know of today who is also widely revered in Korea and Japan as well, often known by her name “Kannon” in many temples. So that makes Guan Yin not only an honestly international Goddess, but a Trans Goddess as well.

In the name of Guan Yin, divinity of ultimate compassion, blessed International Day Trans of Visibility to all Trans folks- even those not yet safe to be visible. 🏳️‍⚧️

More vulvarobed goddesses available for the bold to bear on their bodies (t shirts) at MissPJsuperior.etsy.com

Altar prints returning there soon too.

Thank you for your support of independent queer femme artists! 🙏

#international women's day #guan yin #trans goddess #bodhisattva #queer spirituality #yoni art #queer pagan #kwan yin #pagan goddesses #feminist history #compassion #intersex #buddhism #transformation #transfem

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I recently realized a lot of my writings with my divine feminine visions are very seasonal. Many goddesses are seasonal, and even if not they have their own holy days marking seasons afterall. Makes me think of Kali in particular whose name comes from the Sanskrit root word “kal” which means time 🌞  काल  🌚 along with denotations of death, as integral to the nature of time.

It is unpopularly theorized that the word “calendar” itself has its etymological root in Kali reverence by the Romani people who were found throughout the ancient Roman empire. The word for calendar shares the root sound “kal” throughout over a dozen European languages until this day. According to formal acedemically recognized etymology “calendar” comes from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (account book), from kalendae (the first day of the month), from calo (to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon). 🌚 Those who know of the ancient tradition of monthly Romani rituals which called aloud to Kali every new moon (associated with Her blood flow) theorize along with these definitions that Kali is where we get “calendar” in a kind of ancient cultural appropriation.

All European language etymology studies tend to lead back to Latin even in instances professed to be only a vague theory, further obscuring from history countless native languages of the “barbarians” conquered by ancient Roman colonization. The history of how subsequent European cultures since Romanization have oppressed Romani peoples as “Gypsies” up to today is inherited from Roman culture. Why wouldn’t these systems actively repress the truth of any such influences? So with that in mind I think why not Kalinder? 

PS! ”rom” is a Romani word for “man” and so the similarities of Roman and Romani are not etymologically linked as some have assumed, mistakenly believing that Romani means “from Rome” in the way that the derogatory term Gypsy meant “from Egypt”. The Romani have their roots in India.

Menstrual inspired Kali Ma art (and t shirts) by PJ Superior

#menstrual cycle #kali puja #holy mother of god #Jai kali ma #goddess art #pagan things #new moon #goddess devotion #esoteric #goddess kali #pagan stuff #hindu goddess #dark mother #menstrual art #yoni art