sirens in the beat of your heart

When performing a Celtic Cross, there are three cards that can reveal when the event will happen: the advice, the outcome, and the card at the bottom of the deck. While your intuition will tell you which is most likely, it is best to acknowledge all three possibilities.

THE MAJOR ARCANA

The Fool – Whenever you are ready

The Magician – It has already begun

The High Priestess – You know exactly when

The Empress – During harvest season

The Emperor – It is almost done

The Hierophant – It is finished

The Lovers – As soon as you make the choice

The Chariot – In just a few moments

Strength – The minute you accept it

The Hermit – Only after you meditate on it

The Wheel of Fortune – During your first or next Saturn return

Justice – When you least expect it

The Hanged Man – When the circumstances change

Death – Whenever it is ready

Temperance – After the storm

The Devil – It is happening right now

The Tower – Soon, unexpectedly and suddenly

The Star – The more you believe, the sooner it will happen

The Moon – It cannot be determined at the moment

The Sun – In the summer or by sunrise

Judgement – Soon and inevitably

The World – In divine timing

THE MINOR ARCANA

THE SUIT OF WANDS

Ace of Wands – One day

Two of Wands – Two days

Three of Wands – Three days

Four of Wands – Four days

Five of Wands – Five days

Six of Wands – Six days

Seven of Wands – Seven days

Eight of Wands – Eight days

Nine of Wands – Nine days

Ten of Wands – Ten days

Page of Wands – As we speak

Knight of Wands – End of November to most of December

Queen of Wands – End of March to most of April

King of Wands – End of July to most of August

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Library Sounds

Royal Library

Hogwarts Classroom

Book Cafe 

Summer kitchen

Howl’s Moving Castle : Howl’s Room

Cozy coffee shop on a rainy night

Relaxing Sounds of Cafe in Japan

Witchy Coffee Shop

Cozy Italian cafe 

Spaceship Room

Van, vibing across space

Seaside Art Room

Potion Shop

Hobbit Hole

Victorian era

221B Baker Street 

Hogwarts Express

I understand it isn't your job to teach mythology and history on Tumblr dot com, so if this isn't something you're comfortable with or even want to do that's completely fine and I get it. I hope you have a wonderful day!!

Okay first of all. I love you, thanks for being so kind and open minded in the ask. 

As far as I know there isn't a good modern book about the mythos going around, at least in English, most of the things I know are verbal traditions that my grandparents have passed down to me, and the thing with verbal traditions is that differ from household to household, so there isn't really a correct version. But since I am a huge mythology nerd too, I can suggest reading the ancient Greeks. Which… I admit, can be boring at times. Or this just may be the thousands of hours I have spent analysing them at school taking. 

I think I am gonna list some good ancient books talking about mythos in the first half, and then some plays, because they are more interesting than just old men ramblings, but also have dodekatheism as a main theme.

(Pseudo-) Apollodorus'  Bibliotheca: He literally wrote this for the purpose to be used as a school textbook, so he keeps things 'simple'. It consists of 3 books:

The link will automatically lead you to a site with the first book, but it has a helpful table of contents that can lead you to any myth you want, written in any of the 3 volumes. 

Hesiod's Theogony:  An epic poet like Homer, so it's basically The God's family tree but make it ✨✨fancy✨✨:

Homer's Epics: You knew this was coming. If you haven't read them before but know the story, you might think that "Hey… this is only the middle part" but no friend, Homer decided to start both those Epics by the later middle of the story as you know it, He sometimes use the good ol' method of "The hero narrates what happened in the beginning of the story at some point", emphasis on sometimes. And in the Iliad's case: simply not write the ending. So yeah, those sure are something. Anyway here's the Iliad and the Odyssey:

And for plays, I will try to include actual performance too bc, well its more fun than reading. Don't expect any professional actors though. (also disclaimer, the plays will not be 100% according to the source material ofc) I will also avoid the trilogies and dilogies, because.. Who has time for that? 

Alcestis by Euripides: It's the acting of a version of the myth of Alcestis, who gave her life in exchange for her husbands. 

(kudos to actress that plays Thanatos on this one for being amazing and the actor of Herakles for turning serious lines into joke lines, love it) 

Oedipus Rex by Sophoclis : the original mothefucker. Its based around the myth of well, Oedipus, who is haunted by a prophecy that says he will kill his father and marry his mother. It is as weird as it sounds. 

Helen by Euripides: okay I leave this for last because its not exactly mythos as much as fanfiction. Basically the Helen that Agamemnon got from Troy was nothing but an early version of an anime body pillow made by Hera. The real Helen is in Egypt and Agamemnon randomly ends up there and learns the truth. So the two lovebirds try to escape the crazy king of Egypt that wants to marry Helen.

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And, as a Jewish person, I know that 6 million very well could be murdered. This is not another Shoah, but it very well could become another. As a Jewish person, I feel we must say “never again.”

Never again.

“Never again” does not mean “this event was so uniquely horrible, it could never happen again.” It means “this event was horrible, but not unique. We have to make sure it never happens again.”

Never again.

The Uyghur death count isn’t 6 million, that is misinformation. But “never again” means we have to make sure it doesn’t become 6 million.

If you are not Jewish or Romani, do not draw comparisons to the Holocaust. All that provides is shock value and misinformation. What you can do is support Uyghur Muslims.

The link to the original post doesn’t work—here are other sources:

Source from The Silhouette

Source from Business Insider

Source from Middle East Forum

Source from India Blooms

Source #1 from Jewish News

Source #2 from Jewish News

Groups to donate to:

Charity Right’s Food for Uyghurs

Uyghur Human Rights Project

Petitions to sign:

Petition 1

Petition 2

If you have more relevant resources, please share them. Petitions are likely meaningless in contrast to the Chinese government.

But I also think we do a great disservice to the women of the ancient world by not remembering how this story, in that form, mirrored their very real pain. I’ve been thinking recently about how we can tell that women participated in the formation of their culture’s folklore because women’s trauma is embedded in it. (In Greek terms, the stories of Leto and Alcmene very clearly come out of women’s traumatic experiences with childbirth, and there are elements of women’s traumatic experiences of sexual assault embedded in, for example, the stories of Daphne or Callisto or Artemis and Actaeon) And the story of Persephone comes out of women’s experiences of being permanently separated from their mothers and daughters at marriage. (See also this post from @gardenvarietycrime.​)

For an ancient woman sending her daughter off to be married, knowing that she will see her only rarely and that the odds of death in childbirth were high, Persephone meant something. For an ancient girl leaving her mother and her entire world for a man she may never have met knowing the same, Persephone meant something. I do think a lot of the conflation of death and marriage in the ancient world comes out of this: that a girl is dead to her mother and her family whether she leaves them to go to a husband’s house or the house of Hades. Maybe it’s a consolation to know that someone else has done this before you, to know that a goddess once lost her daughter and a goddess once lost her mother the same way you are losing yours. And that they survived it.

Arranged marriage where the daughter had to go miles away from her family (and would be lucky to see them once a year!) only started to stop at our grandparents time. Many of our grandparents are in arranged mariagges.

The taking of Pershephone is a myth about the strong bond of a mother and her daughter, and how she took power in her hands. And I am thankful to my mother and grandmothers for teaching it to me.

And this myth still affects today’s women!

It’s the custom in Greece to name your children after your parents. First children take the father’s parents name, and the second son and second daughter can be named after the mother’s parents.

But when my mother gave birth to me, the first daughet, she chose to name me after her mother because, and I quote: “I re-read an old mythology book when I was pregnant with you, and I remembered the myth of Demeter and Pershephone. And I thought that I didn’t have to sit do what the men want, because you are my daughet, and I want to honor my mother first.”