#healing ritual

[midnightmoonflowr]

POV it's a full moon in September and you're a witch having a ritual with your coven

#witchy #witchblr #tarot #witches #witchcraft #witchcore #healing ritual #ritual #magick #full moon #feral

[devoted-to-the-gods]

Apollo Incense Blend

4 parts Frankincense

2 parts Myrrh

2 parts of Cinnamon

1 part Bay

Burn during divination, or healing rituals, or when honoring Apollo

#Apollo #Apollo devotee #Apollo deity #Incense #Incense blend #divination #healing magick #healing ritual #Apollo worship #obsidian posts

[kunthug]

melancocky & such...

i've been thinking a lot about the recent season of random acts of flyness and unsurprisingly spent more time thinking about how the episodes articulate sentient wounds; wounds sacral, psychological, physical and ancestral. it’s a little daunting there’s all these to attend to in the course of also surviving and being present. in episode 2, it names a wound persona born of the character najja, and describes sentient wounds as:

“ the story of the pain that lives in your body, and feeds on the stories you tell it. the pain being often lies dormant, until triggered by a story it can feed on. it’s goal ? to survive and convince you that they- the pain-are you.”

& in my experience, the pain, wound or lack once sentient is indeed you. it isn’t all of you, but it is you. here’s how i see it: a personal pain from just living is surviving many serious things i shouldn’t have survived alone. blessed with a sacred gift of deep knowing, or by sheer determination, i’d been working the maths to try solve the big gnawing knotty things in my body. i realized this is something that i couldn’t do alone, but despite my best attempts, what i need for that wound to seal or even be poured into seems to be delayed and denied for so many reasons that i, as whatever i is, can say okay well at least i tried, but the wounds do not care. a curse of being born from where i came is at once been so gifted as seeing things as they really are, but this way of seeing is very costly. deep knowing makes living incredibly difficult for me.

it’s an uneven double edged sword that makes me wish i could be more blissfully unaware. i don’t even know if it is me particularly or that the wounds seem to take up some of my nature automatically in being impatient and incredibly high mantainance, this high maintenance being it better be so fucking good, whatever salve, or i don’t want it. it feels like an exaggeration saying high maintenance when all it really wants is a lot of time spent with others and a lot of physical intimacy that feels impossible(or lackluster) under capitalism. but again, the wounds don’t know this. so i’m spending the extra energy i don’t have trying to acknowledge the wound in a way or find the language to let it know that i see it and pacify it still all on my own. in my case this lack of community or space to be able to show them continue to impact the severity of the wound and by implication me. in my experience, my wounds are not dormant things that need stories to be triggered, i’m actively seeing it manifest itself daily even on somewhere as vapid as instagram 💀 which is why i’m grateful for the articulation of sentient wounds because the wounds r bloody alive.

i don’t know the extent of control we have with our wounds, but i find it very important roaf2 has named it sentient because i’m seeing how it changes me. najja as one of her sentient wounds, celine, in the couple’s therapy scene talks about how celine protects najja, as well as other qualities that makes it impossible for najja to hate celine. i don’t hate my wounds, infact i tend to take a nurturing role with it and let it misbehave and get nasty and not feel a hey don’t do that role with it. i enjoy some of the changes this wound is bringing, i sure do need to get cockier, i sure do need to remember how loud it demands, how it recoils at lowly offerings, how it spits on plastic, i sure need to be more proud of myself 4 surviving the things—it says i am a formidable bitch because it is.

& as for the less desirable changes like xxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxx, we’ll see about that in the letting go portion of the healing rituals. for now i let it rage. 🌺

#random acts of flyness #wounds #healing ritual

[kizzer55555]

DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter. 

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge. 

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game. 

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely). 

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

#DPxDC #dcxdp #Danny makes a card game to save the world. #Technically he worded the ritual so that they had to ‘beat’ him as those are the most powerful barriers and most reliable. #keys can just get lost or stolen (like the one to Pariah’s Coffin) #A riddle would be useless once someone figured out the answer. Like how no one takes the sphynx seriously anymore. #(Sorry Tuck. But it’s true). #And there is NO WAY Danny is just leaving a hole open for anyone to pass through. No thank you! #So…beating him. But it’s not like Danny wanted to fight so…he edited the ritual a TINY bit. Card games are good. Much less painful too. #Danny Tucker and Sam made the most complicated card game they could imagine. #It’s based on their strategies for fighting ghosts. Capturing them in thermoses. And MUCH based on a on field battle strategy. #It often requires spontaneous thinking on the spot. So Danny? In his ELEMNT. It doubles as practice for his actual ghost battles too. #They had SO much fun making this. #Sam added an entire series of plant cards that act as traps and healing ointments and duds that just take up the field. #Tucker added legitimate hyroglyphics combined with Latin as well as English and ghost speak. #Yes. You actually have to speak that language to play. With proper pronunciation. (Amity Parker’s think the three are talking gibberish.) #I headcanon Sam and Tucker are fluent in Ghost. #Constantine WILL figure this game out SO HELP HIM! #Some of the cards also have combinations related to constellations either in name or placement on the board. #By the way the board is based on a Hexagonal summoning circle with Rhunes along the edges #And the placement of the cards on the board and on what rhune MATTERS. #Also the cards move disintegrate and have certain abilities. Think of Harry Potter Wizard Chess. #But they are normal when Danny plays at school. This is just for ✨effect✨ Against invaders. #Danny faces multiple opponents. He also halts alien invasions. #While Danny COULD stop crime on earth he’s not sure how to fight a normal human and hold back so he sticks to ghosts. #The Justice league are going crazy trying to figure out who this entity is and after deep research are convinced this is some sort of #Ancient being who has protected earth for millenia. They have paintings on ruins and everything. #Danny is not aware they think this. #Raven starts praying to Danny as if he is a god and wrangles the other Teen Titans into doing so as well. Danny is still unaware of this. #Danny is not a King or an ancient. Just a very VERY strong ghost.

[notchainedtotrauma]

The Buffalo shooting occurred in a food desert. That was the main groceries store and it’ll be closed for quite some time. So here is one concrete thing we can do to help and that’s donating to the link below:

Buffalo Community Fridges

There’s a Twitter thread breaking it down

#PSA #Buffalo shooting #on the rituals of foodmaking #care is the sweetest touch #healing work

[saturdaysky]

you lose sight of it, somehow, when you consort with gods: how fragile mortals are, and how precious.

[gale of waterdeep & my pc, mayhew of nowhere in particular]

#mayhew is a gnome warlock/wizard who makes bad choices #mild act 1 goblin camp spoilers in tags that follow: #the fight was bc Mayhew hubris'd his way into Dror Ragzlin's mind but failed to hubris his way out #for some reason dror and all 99 of his favorite friends got mad about that #Shadowheart got HORRIBLY murdered in the spider pit. Mayhew got ensnared in vines while in an acid pool and taking arrows (lol) #i ran out of healing potions #gale and lae'zel survived to flee with the bodies of their friends #play on tactician guys it makes your games deliciously dramatic #anyway the rituals between mayhew and gale are intricate #mayhew #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #sky does bg3 #my art #referenced a pose from pexels -- they're a great site check em out #galehew

[herbalfaerie]

I don't wanna "heal" my inner child, I wanna "give her a big sword."

#inner peace #inner child #she has a lot of rage #witchcore #green witch #mother earth #witchcraft #witchy #dark grunge #hail satan #shadow work #deep healing #healing #hippie #dark cottagecore #forestcore #cottagecore #hail thyself #ritual #protection ritual #eeeeeeek

[harmoonix]

When you realize your moon sign and phase also indicates rituals and beneficial things to heal yourself on the day your moon returns in the same sign (especially nurturing rituals be like)

Yas go girl give me that harmony rituals already -

#astrology #astro observations #birth chart #astro notes #astrology observations #placements #astro community #moon sign #moon sign return #moon signs #moon #ritual #beneficial rituals #healing process #healing

[pastel-charm-14]

gentle reminder

start your day right

journal or meditate for a couple minutes

eat a healthy breakfast

#self care reminder #note to self #good morning #early morning #self care #self healing #self improvement #self help #self love #morning routine #morning rituals #mindfulliving #dream life #positivevibes #that girl #it girl #pink pilates princess #clean girl #vanilla girl #cute #pastel charmer ✨

[cleric4vampire]

There's something in this life left to live or, giving these two fools a soft moment because they deserve it. not gonna lie, I got a bit emotional when making this. I wrote something from Astarion's perspective to go along with it:

Once upon a time we pressed against an unyielding tree trunk, just like this. Once upon a time we hid ourselves in the obscuring night. Now, the moonlight paints your smile bright and boundless. We were not unwilling back then, though an ocean laid between us. I pressed my body atop yours and went somewhere else. How could I have known that you would follow me there? You were the one who was supposed to be under my thumb. I was the trickster moved by your silver song. You were the cradle that held me safe when all I wanted was to fall into the abyss. You were the gentle voice that beckoned, Open your eyes. See what could be if you loosened that white-knuckled grip you keep on your fear. Sometimes I find myself slipping into the old movements — a flutter of lashes, a dangerous smile — and then I remember. I remember that you were with me at my darkest and ugliest and most utterly heartbroken, and still you told me, It is an honor to witness you. It is a privilege to be by your side. And I let that ancient rhythm fall away. I was free to walk off that tired path, and now, everything is new. How will life surprise me when I allow myself to participate? I was struck with wonder to know that there are people in this world like you. Could you have ever guessed we would end up here, back when we were strangers on the hillside? I didn't have the strength to imagine it. Now, I find myself thinking: Where will we end up tomorrow? What wonders will we behold? There will be such love and such joy, and such hardship to balance it. But for the first time, I feel I am courageous enough to face it, because I am not alone anymore. I will be with you here, beneath this moonlight, beneath this canopy. And afterwards, I hope you will imagine with me all the life we have left to live.

#astarion x aune #my art #astarion x tav #tavstarion #bg3 fanart #oc: aune #astarion #bg3 tav #bg3 #the setting for those who care: this is post-game. these days aune mostly works as a ''solitary agent'' of eilistraee but she still needs #to check in with the church every once and a while. mission debriefings; rituals to run; that sort of thing. astarion tags along this time #of course aune just struts into the camp/settlement like hey yall long time no see. here's my vampire lover. everybody say hey astarion #as always they don't really know what to make of aune and her antics so they're just like “...okay...” #but astarion keeps to himself during the day on account of the sun. UNTIL night descends of course. which works out fine because #eilistraeeans really come alive during the night anyway. unfortunately for them aune and astarion are insufferable #constantly pawing at each other & being cloyingly sweet with one another. #flirting. teasing. talking and laughing loudly. eating each other's faces. just the worst. that's what's happening here 😌 #also aune is not a spawn but she purposefully doesn't heal the bite marks despite being a cleric — PURELY to antagonize any priestesses #who might not approve. ''cmon and say something to my face :)'' #also aune stays wearing tied up sheets of cloth lol listen. in her defense eilistraeeans are in varying states of undress at all times sooo

[blueiskewl]

These Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals

Discovered in a dig at a thermal spring in Tuscany, Italy, the well-preserved items offer a glimpse into medical practices from the Etruscan and Roman eras.

An exhibition that opened Friday at Rome’s Quirinal Palace could be described as a classic rags-to-riches story.

Just ten months ago, many of the bronze statues now on show there — artfully spotlighted and captioned — were submerged in layers of thick mud in what had been a sacred pool of thermo-mineral water roughly halfway between Florence and Rome.

Their rediscovery last fall during an ongoing archaeological excavation in a field just below the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni made headlines around the world, propelling the bronzes — via a stint in Italy’s main restoration institute — to the rare honor of being exhibited at the presidential palace.

“It’s an extraordinary discovery,” Luigi La Rocca, the culture ministry official responsible for archaeology, fine arts and landscape, told reporters at the palace on Thursday, praising the variety of the bronzes, their quality and their high degree of conservation.

The artifacts — mostly dating from the second century B.C. to the first century A.D. — were votive offerings collected in the sacred pool of the so-called Bagno Grande, or “large bath,” part of a sanctuary that was in use in various forms for more than 700 years.

Lightning struck the building around the first century A.D., and following the Etruscan tradition of burying objects struck by lightning in a sacred place, the statues and other artifacts were concealed under a layer of terra-cotta tiles along with a bronze thunderbolt, a ritual called “fulgur conditum.”

Successive votive offerings, mostly bronze coins and plants, were deposited until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century A.D. Then, the sanctuary was dismantled, and its offerings were buried once again, which contributed to their remarkable conservation.

The dig that uncovered them began in 2019, but it was only in 2020 that the first artifacts — inscriptions, altars and small bronzes — began to emerge. Last year, the archaeologists dug further down into the sacred pool.

“We thought there could be something here, but nothing like what we found,” said Emanuele Mariotti, the director of the excavation, on a recent hot afternoon as he surveyed the site. “It was like a time capsule waiting to be opened,” he added.

The finds offer insights on ancient medical practices. The waters were considered curative by “Etruscans, Romans, Christians and Pagans,” Mariotti said. “This was a place of healing, meeting of cultures and medical knowledge.”

Many of the bronzes had inscriptions from the territory of Perugia, about 70 kilometers northeast of San Casciano, a considerable distance to travel more than 2,000 years ago. This shows “how complex and nuanced” cultural interaction was at the time, added Jacopo Tabolli, the scientific director of the dig and co-curator of the Quirinal show.

“Gods changed, but the water remained the same,” he added.

Some of the bronzes are still being restored, but many made it to the Quirinal for the exhibition. In one room, bronzes of arms, feet, ears and other body parts are on display, reflecting the various ailments that were treated at the thermal baths.

“These are unique,” Mariotti said, stopping in front of two bronze plaques showing what he said was a “very accurate” depiction of internal organs. Similar terra-cotta examples existed, he said, but bronze versions were hitherto unknown.

Other statues represented gods and goddesses, but also men, women and small children, wrapped in swaddling cloths. Some were sickly and in need of healing. Others appeared to have benefited from the cures.

The thermal springs are still used today for their therapeutic properties, both in the public baths near the archaeological site and at a private resort.

For San Casciano dei Bagni, a picturesque hilltop town, the ancient finds will hopefully bring new economic prospects, especially after the opening of a new museum in the city center.

Earlier this week, at a property deed transfer in Rome attended by various authorities, the culture ministry formally bought a palazzo in San Casciano dei Bagni from local clerics to house the museum (list price 670,000 euros, around $730,000) and Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, pledged to contribute “additional resources.”

Massimo Osanna, the director of Italy’s state museums said Thursday that he hoped one section of the museum would be ready next year. “I’m an optimist,” he said.

“It’s going to be a tremendous opportunity,” said Agnese Carletti, the town’s mayor. Following on from previous administrations, Carletti’s council championed and funded the local archaeological excavations that led to the finds, offering room and board to archaeology students participating in the summer digs.

A new excavation begins next week, and Tabolli said that it would concentrate on expanding the archaeological site to better understand the context around the sacred pool. “We’ve reconstructed the structure of the sanctuary, but there is still much more to know about the overall site which must have been monumental,” he said.

Osanna said that more surprises could be in store. “We don’t know what else the sanctuary has to offer,” he said.

By Elisabetta Povoledo.

#These Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals #Etruscan And Roman Treasure Trove Unearthed In San Casciano dei Bagni #bronze #bronze statues #bronze sculpture #roman coins #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #roman history #roman empire #etruscan history #etruscan art #roman art #ancient art #long reads

[furiousgoldfish]

I finished reading "Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse" by Alison Miller, and it was filled with incredibly useful information for those who struggle with a dissociative identity disorder. It was also filled with descriptions of some of the most extreme and atrocious kinds of abuse, so to anyone wanting to read it, there's a trigger warning for cult abuse, rituals, childhood sexual abuse, satanic rituals, child trafficking, child murder, brainwashing, mind control, and every form of religion used against the mind of a child.

I was reading this book to figure out if I had gone thru any kind of abuse of the sort, and I didn't, one of my abusers was utilizing religion against me and had done enough of brainwashing to construct several brainwashed and controlled parts, who were still under the influence, but that was it. The book is extremely clear and it will not confuse you about what happened to you, it tells you the intention behind every type of abuse, and often, how to resolve the results. The books also notes that the word 'alter' is triggering to those who went thru ritual abuse and developed a dissociative identity disorder, for similarity with the word 'altar', which is used in rituals, so they prefer to use the terms 'insiders' and 'parts', which I found to enjoy as well.

One of the repeating points in the first half of the book was on insiders who pretend to be something else, for instance, insiders who pretend to be your abusers, pretend to be demons, pretend to be gods or powerful entities, who believe it's their job to hurt you, or to control you, who are made to bring out consequences if you attempt to act against your abusers. I had something like that in my head, but I had refused to believed it was an insider, because it looked just like a case of 'internalized abusive voice', and I had fought against it viciously and focused on shutting that voice down and keeping it scared, often via imagined torture if it was making me feel anxious. Reading about these other scary entities, who would, when asked, admit to just being an insider pretending, I became curious enough to engage with the abusive voice and ask it, 'are you just an alter pretending'? The voice laughed at me and admitted to being found out, and then promptly stopped pretending and showed themselves as a child part. It took me several weeks to admit to myself that this was real, because it was mortifying. I had fallen for the trick, and even tortured a child part for doing their assigned job – this part now believed their only function was to be tortured. I feel responsible for that. But there was no way for me to know. Insiders are good at keeping up a pretense.

You can sometimes recognize that an entity in your head that is scaring you, claiming to be able to control you or triggering you on purpose, or pretending to be evil, demonic, terrifying, animalistic, powerful, magical, godly, is actually a child part, just because they often act the version of that thing that a child would believe is real. If your entity is often repeating the same lines, only knows 1 way of behaviour and has predictive responses, believes to be your abuser or something similar to it, doesn't follow any real-life logic and seems to belong to another world that a child would think is accurate, then it's likely a child part, for some reason programmed or brainwashed to believe they're what they're pretending to be. I should note that when children think of these scary entities, they're often very creative, and put their whole heart in it, so it's going to be an entity that is engaging, feels powerful, doesn't back down easily. Parts who pretend to be evil or demonic will sometimes cling to what they think they are very dearly and will not allow themselves to think of themselves as humans or children, this is for their own emotional protection. All they had in their childhood was being tough. They cannot let that go.

Another incredibly useful information I got from the book was on how to process trauma if you are a multiple. I had never seen instructions on how to do this before, and I'm going to share them in another post that should be posted right after this one, and I'll put a link to it here.

#did #osdd #system #multiple #alison miller #cult abuse #ritual abuse #mind control #becoming yourself #trauma recovery #trauma healing #alters #trauma information

[whitherwanderer]

. : r i t u a l i s t : .

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshot #[ unedited ] #[ reshade ] #[ ooc ] #i had one rule for these screenshots: if it's well lit then it's wrong #anyway sometimes i miss guild wars #the ritualist vibe was so good #when the eastern dance came out i was like 'oh this looks like the GW ritualist dance' #and then when i saw the ala mhigan casting/healing headgear i was like 'oh this looks like a GW ritualist hood' #and ever since then i've been thinking about it #i like to think the early gyr abanian tribes had some funky religious practices #ritual dancing and spirit calling and maybe a little bit of commanding the spirits of the departed to do your bidding as a treat #even though the equivalent of cantha in GW would probably be doma #ANYWAY if Sif had an urn that a GW rit could summon it would be called 'Fiery Was Sifhalla' #did you know the name sifhalla is also a GW reference? #now you do

[thepoemeater-blog]

The Yearner

I stacked three pillows, made sure my head was heavy with bills, wine, yesterday’s deadline, and I slept hard, tight as cement on my left arm. The needles came. At dawn, I dragged it like a salmon from under my body. A part of me is dead. Now I can shake my own hand, meet myself again for the first time. How my fingers feel to one another, strangers, for a tingling moment, I am another. Promise? This time will be different.

Rachel Long

#poetry #poem #rachel long #longing #the yearner #sleep #ritual #the body #morning #spell #healing #return to yourself

[thequeenofallwitches]

I’m back. Our ancestors are our PROTECTIONS 💖

#ancestors #ritual #spiritism #sanse #magick #freemasonry #esoteric #rosicrucian #occult #ancestor magic #ancestor veneration #ancestor ritual #ancestor ceremony #spiritist #mediumship #kardec mediumship #Wicca #ancestor healing #magickal #sacred healing #ancestral veneration #ancestral work #ancestral magic

[qutumnalwitch]

i wonder if i could make a skincare routine witchy or like ritualistic i’m sure i could but it’s like i know jack shit about skincare or even were witchcraft could bleed into other parts of my life because i think that’s one of the reasons i don’t keep up with it, because it isn’t super present and i need to constantly go out of my way to connect with witchcraft

#witchblr #witchcraft #ecletic witch #witches of tumblr #grimoire #ritual #skincare #health #self healing #hippysoul #hippy #healingjourney