Pick precarious flowers outside the cemetery gates, and place them in vases that have been touched only by dust. Honour the dead as you would want your loved ones to be remembered. Roam with reverence spilling through your fingers as you brush them across fragmented headstones…
Athena blessed her with the ability to protect herself and men beheaded her for it.
That’s actually a really intetesting intpretation of it I hadn’t thought of. Most people seem to think Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for defiling her temple, but thinking that she did so to protect her from being abused again is interesting and I like it!
Athena’s hands were tied. Yes, she was a powerful Goddess, but she was very much a woman in a “boys club”, and the true offending party (don’t think for a moment that Athena blamed Medusa for being raped in the temple, Athena knows better) held all the cards. There was nothing that Athena could do to punish the true criminal, and she was expected to punish Medusa by everyone else. What’s a Goddess to do when she cannot punish those who need to be punished and is expected to punish not only the truly innocent party, but her most beloved follower? Use that incredible brain power she had to protect Medusa at all costs, and of course the men would see it as punishment, to be have her beauty stripped from her and sent to live in the shadows. Medusa should have been KILLED for supposedly defiling the temple, whether she truly did or not, but she was given the gift of life, and the ability to protect herself and her daughters (who she bore thanks to Poseidon). This is why Medusa’s image was used to signify woman’s shelters and safe houses.
Medusa means “guardian; protectress”, and she was.
Your Sun is about yourself.
Your Moon is your heart.
Your Rising is how you look.
Your Mercury is the way you think.
Your Venus is how you love.
Your Mars is how you deal with life.
Your Jupiter is your luck.
Your Saturn is how you discipline yourself and your responsibilities.
Your Uranus is how unique you are.
Your Neptune is your imagination.
Your Pluto is your transformation.
Your Chiron is how you heal.
Your Ceres is how you take care of yourself.
Your Pallas is your relationships.
Your Juno is beauty and Influences.
Your Vesta is your potential and your organization.
Your North Node is how you develop in your current life.
Your South Node is how you developed in your past life.
Your Midheaven is your career, how others view you.
Your Lilith is your hidden emotions.
anger and wrath are qualities we primarily attribute to signs like aries and scorpio, i dont think we give these signs enough credit for managing it like they do because ive seen more actively demonstrated rage coming from mostly cancer and libra energies (sometimes sagittarius esp moon?) this inflamed sensation is threatening and unideal, it seems harder for them to recognise and control the heat of anger and sometimes they end up burning everybody around them on the other hand, fury and frustration at the world is a feeling aries and scorpio have always known, a baseline of anger at being born into a world of destruction. many of these people learn how to turn this into motivation and aspiration
You are most likely not getting “bad” or “sick” again these pangs are revisiting as they pass through you lon their way out the door, you have served your time (but do always trust your instinct)
♌️♒️♍️♓️♑️ lots of intense sky traffic right now s remember a retrograding planet is just taking the same path twice and recrossong familiar territory. When mars is retrograde we may be returning to the ground where our battles took place to observe the destruction, reflect on the lessons, and take the responsibility required to repair the damage
my ultimate life hack? i like, never wear makeup except for occasions where i want to feel overly hot/professional. this way, people who see me everyday won’t be shocked when i don’t wear makeup, they will instead be shocked at how much hotter i can become. how much potential i don’t unlock for no reason other than laziness
I am weak to the words my mind throws at me… Failure Fraud Incapable Worthless I am vulnerable to the stings and cuts they make And I bleed And I cry And I am broken But He is there when the shadows devour me whole He holds me close and whispers words of His own You’re trying your best You are good at what you do You are able You are worthy You are loved and important And I cry But for a different reason I believe Him I am broken, but I am mending I fall, but I rise again I am damaged, but the scars tell my story And He is a part of that story And I will be okay again eventually
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