Diary of an Eclipse Witch

you do not have to share everything with the internet, you are allowed to do things away from the public eye without talking about it. it does not make you alone. it does not strip you of the community you have.

additionally, you are so so SO allowed to practice differently from others. you are allowed to have a nonconforming practice in anything you do, not just for witchcraft or spirituality.

it's okay to make shit strange from time to time. let people question you and make incorrect assumptions about who you are. let them be wrong about you. nobody holds more value to what you do than you, and how you see your own practice.

Artwork: Josephine Wall

Mother Hekáte, on the Eve of the New Moon, we prepare Your Deipnon.

Queen of the Crossroads, as darkness draws near we sweep away all negativity and welcome the positive.

We devote ourselves to You, Goddess of the Darkness, and prepare offerings for Your favor.

As we say it, You will make it so!

Apollon, the hum of a singer's vocal cords.

Apollon, is the stroke of a paint brush.

Apollon is every drawing of Apollon.

For he is every song, every dance.

He is the act of me swallowing my nightly medication. He is the health I have.

Apollon is love but he is also pain.

He is the sickness and embarrassment.

A failed art carrer, depression, mania, a wrong diagnosis.

He is all art and health.

Without the bad I would eventually forget how beautiful the good can feel,

the following are the 22 major arcana tarot cards and their associated hellenic deities. they are each sorted into two sections: gods associated with the literal interpretation of the card (for example, when the death card actually indicates death), and gods associated with the meaning of the card. I did not include the reversed meanings because there are several ways to interpret reversed cards, and therefore associations should be made on a case by case basis.

0 - THE FOOL

the card: Apollo, Hermes

the meaning: Hermes, Dionysus

I - THE MAGICIAN

the card: Hekate, Circe

the meaning: Hekate, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes