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my body is a holy thing.
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THE GODDESS DESTROYS JUST AS THE GODDESS REDEEMS.

Another day sharing sacred texts — we need to bring back lamenting.

“Inanna’s suffering, disrobing, humiliation, flagellation and death, the stations of her descent, her “crucifixion” on the underworld peg, and her resurrection, all prefigure Christ’s passıon and represent perhaps the first known archetypal ımage of the dying divinity whose sacrifice redeems the waste-land earth. Not for humankind’s sins did Inanna sacrifice herself, but for earth’s need for life and renewal. She is con-cerned more with life than with good and evil. Nonetheless her descent and return provide a model for our own psycho-logical-spiritual journeys.

And unlike Christ’s story, where the destructive acts perpe-trated on the savior were the product of mere human malice and fear-and thus capable of establishing a pattern of human revenge and scapegoating-in the Sumerian poem they are shown to have a transpersonal source. The goddess destroys, just as the goddess may redeem.”
#DescenttotheGoddess #initiationforWomen #sylviabrintonperera by @theprpriestess

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🧿 we make magic on our own. by @theprpriestess

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13 days ago

Just vibes by @theprpriestess

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September has come and something deep within my soul, that I whispered to and longed to hear all summer long, has finally heard my prayer, and settled. by @theprpriestess

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"The most destructive cultural conditions for a woman to be born into and to live under are those that insist on obedience without consultation with ones soul, those with no loving forgiveness rituals, those that force a woman to choose between soul and society, those where compassion for others is walled off my economic tiers or caste systems, where the body is seen as something needing to be 'cleaned' or as a shrine to be regulated by fiat, where the new, the unusual, or the different engenders no delight, and where curiosity and creativity are punished and denigrated instead of rewarded, or rewarded only if one is not a woman, where painful acts are perpetrated on the body and called holy, or whenever a woman is punished unjustly, as Alice Miller puts it succinctly, 'for her own good', where the soul is not recognized as being in its own right." by @theprpriestess

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If you have attempted to fit whatever mold and failed to do so, you are probably lucky. You may be an exile of some sort, but you have sheltered your soul. There is an odd phenomenon that occurs when one keeps trying to fit and fails. Even though the outcast is driven away, she is at the same time driven right into the arms of her psychic and true kin, whether these be a course of study, an art
form, or a group of people. It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires. It is never a mistake to search for what one requires. Never.

There is something useful in all this torque and tension. Something in the duckling is being tempered, being made strong by this exile. While this situation is not one we would wish on anyone for any reason, its effect is similar to pure natural carbon under pressure producing diamonds—it leads eventually to a profound magnitude and clarity of psyche.
There is an aspect of alchemy, wherein the base substance of lead is pounded about and beaten down. While exile is not a thing to desire for the fun of it, there is an unexpected gain from it; the gifts of exile are many. It takes out weakness by the pounding. It removes whininess, enables acute insight, heightens intuition, grants the power of keen observation and perspective that the
"insider" can never achieve.

Even though there are negative aspects to it, the wild psyche can endure exile. It makes us yearn that much more to free our own true nature and causes us to long for a culture to match. Even this yearning, this longing makes a person go on. It makes a woman go on looking, and if she cannot find the culture that encourages her, then she usually decides to construct it herself.

And that is good, for if she builds it, others who have been looking for a long time will mysteriously arrive one day enthusiastically proclaiming that they have been looking for this all along. by @theprpriestess

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38 and feelin’ great (late bday post)

1 Alfred Steiglitz, Georgia O Keefe’s hands and Horse Skull, 1932
2 Follow the Buhner protocol when you’ve lost your mind to TBD then find it again then lose it again
3 hard me by @theprpriestess

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3 months ago

Writing about chronic illness and the not-so-happy-ending.

New piece up on my substack, link in bio. by @theprpriestess

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3 months ago

14 years sober. 🌱
14 years of me, myself, coffee, and God. 🤞 by @theprpriestess

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Me n my girls, we go hard. 🤞🌀❤️‍🔥
@aprilwozny + June bug + mother Mary. by @theprpriestess

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4 months ago

Eight years ago today I met up with some dude in a leather jacket at jimmy’s coffee on Portland. He was sweet and funny and a good listener and kinda hot. He was also quite reserved and wanted to know more about my goddess worship (reader: this may have been hook, line, and sinker).

Since then we’ve navigated so many different phases of life, and I don’t just mean the “things” like a house, a car, a kid. We’ve healed inner children, we’ve held space for death and grief, we’re raising a resilient and beautiful girl, we ride the waves of chronic illness, we cheerlead each others wildest dreams, and invest deeply in each others creative spirit. We laugh, we joke, we doomscroll, we dream. We’ve planted gardens and cut ties. We’ve moved on, we’ve laughed, we’ve fought.

He’s not just a husband, he’s a life partner. A soul mate. He is a place I can rest deeply in. A person I could not be more grateful for. A spirit that has shaped my life and I consider myself lucky for it.

Happy first-date-aversary babe. @biggsagt by @theprpriestess

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6 months ago

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when I googled magic, yours was the first name to appear. by @theprpriestess

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