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Deck: Dark Goddess Tarot
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Wed Dec 30 09:34:15 EST 2020
Today's Card
V Hierophant ~ Cybele (Upright)
Anatolian Mountain Mother
Transcend boundaries through community.
Cybele (pronounced sib-ill-ee, with the accent on the first syllable), also called Magna Mater, is the goddess of the primal and always primary earth. The great Mount Ararat, the heart of the land called Phrygia, Anatolia, or Turkey, appears behind her. She is seated on a throne and crowned by the city, by the civilization she makes possible. Adoring lions, the strongest and most imposing of animals of the earth, crouch beside her, dedicating to her all of their passion and power.
As do her ardent priests. The goddess is worshipped in orgiastic, cathartic ceremonies. Accompanied by frenzied drums and clashing cymbals, at the climax of the rite her priests slash their arms with knives to bleed for her. New initiates castrate themselves. Their shocking act emulates that of Attis, Cybele’s beloved. He is a beautiful young shepherd who promises the goddess his devotion, then dallies with a tree nymph and breaks his sacred vow. The goddess’s anger as well as his own remorse drive him mad. Clutching a jagged stone, he cuts away the source of his offense and bleeds to death beneath a pine tree, violets springing up from his spilled blood. Through the sacrifice of his manhood, Attis attains godhood, the individual becomes eternal. He becomes the god of vegetation, the traditional child and lover of the Earth Mother who is cut every year to feed his people and resurrected by blood and rapture every spring.
Cybele’s worship lives across countries and through centuries, carried westward with wild processions and stirring music by ecstatic followers into ancient Greece and Rome. There she is embraced by people looking for mystery in their religion and transcendence in their everyday lives. Cybele proves her power to the officials of Rome in 204 BCE. To address the nation’s troubles, an oracle reveals the goddess must be formally welcomed into the city. An expedition is sent to Phrygia. They bring back a small black stone imbued with her presence and install it with reverence in the temple of Victory. In that year, the harvest exceeds all previous in abundance. In the next, the invader Hannibal is finally driven from Italy’s shores.
When Cybele appears:
Use pine in your aromatics to elevate and deepen your awareness. Go to a mountain and feel how it reaches from the depths to the stars, how it is immensely grounded and incredibly spiritual at the same time.
Within a group you can do more than you can alone, even if you work alone as in a writing or exercise class. The group dynamic creates energy that makes you go further and push harder. Gather together to reach for more.
Look for ways to go beyond the mundane in your everyday tasks. Add meaning through ritual, story, or symbol. Add power and pleasure through scent and music. Nurture a sacred space within yourself during the performance of your duties. Imagine what living at a meta-level might look like, where the boundaries of physicality are recognized but outshone.
Create a space or create an event. Plant a garden visible to passersby. Have a party including all of your friends, whether they know each other or not. Invite your neighbors. Call a circle of like-minded souls to celebrate the seasons. Furnish an opportunity for yourself and others to find community and communion.
Dedicate yourself to providing a service to others. Dedicate yourself to the service of a greater power, whether to a deity, a cause, or the Earth herself.
Presented by Dark Goddess Tarot app from The Fool's Dog.
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Wed Dec 30 09:34:15 EST 2020
Today's Card
V Hierophant ~ Cybele (Upright)
Anatolian Mountain Mother
Transcend boundaries through community.
Cybele (pronounced sib-ill-ee, with the accent on the first syllable), also called Magna Mater, is the goddess of the primal and always primary earth. The great Mount Ararat, the heart of the land called Phrygia, Anatolia, or Turkey, appears behind her. She is seated on a throne and crowned by the city, by the civilization she makes possible. Adoring lions, the strongest and most imposing of animals of the earth, crouch beside her, dedicating to her all of their passion and power.
As do her ardent priests. The goddess is worshipped in orgiastic, cathartic ceremonies. Accompanied by frenzied drums and clashing cymbals, at the climax of the rite her priests slash their arms with knives to bleed for her. New initiates castrate themselves. Their shocking act emulates that of Attis, Cybele’s beloved. He is a beautiful young shepherd who promises the goddess his devotion, then dallies with a tree nymph and breaks his sacred vow. The goddess’s anger as well as his own remorse drive him mad. Clutching a jagged stone, he cuts away the source of his offense and bleeds to death beneath a pine tree, violets springing up from his spilled blood. Through the sacrifice of his manhood, Attis attains godhood, the individual becomes eternal. He becomes the god of vegetation, the traditional child and lover of the Earth Mother who is cut every year to feed his people and resurrected by blood and rapture every spring.
Cybele’s worship lives across countries and through centuries, carried westward with wild processions and stirring music by ecstatic followers into ancient Greece and Rome. There she is embraced by people looking for mystery in their religion and transcendence in their everyday lives. Cybele proves her power to the officials of Rome in 204 BCE. To address the nation’s troubles, an oracle reveals the goddess must be formally welcomed into the city. An expedition is sent to Phrygia. They bring back a small black stone imbued with her presence and install it with reverence in the temple of Victory. In that year, the harvest exceeds all previous in abundance. In the next, the invader Hannibal is finally driven from Italy’s shores.
When Cybele appears:
Use pine in your aromatics to elevate and deepen your awareness. Go to a mountain and feel how it reaches from the depths to the stars, how it is immensely grounded and incredibly spiritual at the same time.
Within a group you can do more than you can alone, even if you work alone as in a writing or exercise class. The group dynamic creates energy that makes you go further and push harder. Gather together to reach for more.
Look for ways to go beyond the mundane in your everyday tasks. Add meaning through ritual, story, or symbol. Add power and pleasure through scent and music. Nurture a sacred space within yourself during the performance of your duties. Imagine what living at a meta-level might look like, where the boundaries of physicality are recognized but outshone.
Create a space or create an event. Plant a garden visible to passersby. Have a party including all of your friends, whether they know each other or not. Invite your neighbors. Call a circle of like-minded souls to celebrate the seasons. Furnish an opportunity for yourself and others to find community and communion.
Dedicate yourself to providing a service to others. Dedicate yourself to the service of a greater power, whether to a deity, a cause, or the Earth herself.
Presented by Dark Goddess Tarot app from The Fool's Dog.
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Hello to Facebook,
This is Max, writing from Telegram. I know I've been sent messages from people via Facebook; however, my Facebook apps, email, and most other platforms are almost completely inaccessible to me until circumstances of hardship can fully resolve.
If you and I were in a private conversation, I'd be particularly grateful if you could join Telegram to continue it, as Telegram is likely my only means of private conversation with others for the foreseeable future.
Telegram messenger is our network disability aid and my communications aid for severe neurological conditions.
It is only because of the disability aid network we have built that this message can reach Facebook when I cannot put it there myself.
If you've sent me a Facebook message, please send me a Telegram message: https://t.me/maxmorris ❤️
If you have not sent me a Facebook message, please send me a Telegram message: https://t.me/maxmorris 😊
For those of you who can't access Telegram, please ask people you know to join Telegram in order to help connect all of us who are severely disabled between Facebook and Telegram; please widely share the posts published at fb.me/IntuitivePublicRadio; and please copy, paste, and share this message you're reading now to more public platforms.
To all who may assist: We are in immediate need of Facebook-Telegram volunteers to help aid communications and resourcing for many severely disabled core organizers across our community networks.
I miss you all a lot and would like for you to contact me at https://t.me/maxmorris.
Follow my personal channel at https://t.me/s/maxmoradio on the web.
Visit this attached chat in Telegram messenger to find me and more others: https://t.me/joinchat/RUPFq5G_TLpbrjpb
(There are instructions to help you install Telegram at each of those links.)
Here's more information for Telegram volunteers:
https://t.me/MaxMoRadio/2651
https://docs.google.com/document/d/131e0G9nEMtg8RGvZw8EzWL2y8fb4wyX_WWvdaFlwNxM
Thank you so much to all who recognize the necessity for immediate emergency response and daily community action.
Relevant hashtags include #disabilityinclusion, #inclusivecommunications, #ada, #ada30, #ada30leadon, #warriorsaid, #humanitarianart; please suggest more of your favorite hashtags to spread the word most swiftly when you copy, paste, and repost this text.
Please share widely publicly.
Ask people to help us.
Thank you.
—-Max Megan Elizabeth Morris
https://t.me/maxmorris 🍀
https://t.me/s/MaxMoRadio/2684 🙏🏼🕊️✨
This is Max, writing from Telegram. I know I've been sent messages from people via Facebook; however, my Facebook apps, email, and most other platforms are almost completely inaccessible to me until circumstances of hardship can fully resolve.
If you and I were in a private conversation, I'd be particularly grateful if you could join Telegram to continue it, as Telegram is likely my only means of private conversation with others for the foreseeable future.
Telegram messenger is our network disability aid and my communications aid for severe neurological conditions.
It is only because of the disability aid network we have built that this message can reach Facebook when I cannot put it there myself.
If you've sent me a Facebook message, please send me a Telegram message: https://t.me/maxmorris ❤️
If you have not sent me a Facebook message, please send me a Telegram message: https://t.me/maxmorris 😊
For those of you who can't access Telegram, please ask people you know to join Telegram in order to help connect all of us who are severely disabled between Facebook and Telegram; please widely share the posts published at fb.me/IntuitivePublicRadio; and please copy, paste, and share this message you're reading now to more public platforms.
To all who may assist: We are in immediate need of Facebook-Telegram volunteers to help aid communications and resourcing for many severely disabled core organizers across our community networks.
I miss you all a lot and would like for you to contact me at https://t.me/maxmorris.
Follow my personal channel at https://t.me/s/maxmoradio on the web.
Visit this attached chat in Telegram messenger to find me and more others: https://t.me/joinchat/RUPFq5G_TLpbrjpb
(There are instructions to help you install Telegram at each of those links.)
Here's more information for Telegram volunteers:
https://t.me/MaxMoRadio/2651
https://docs.google.com/document/d/131e0G9nEMtg8RGvZw8EzWL2y8fb4wyX_WWvdaFlwNxM
Thank you so much to all who recognize the necessity for immediate emergency response and daily community action.
Relevant hashtags include #disabilityinclusion, #inclusivecommunications, #ada, #ada30, #ada30leadon, #warriorsaid, #humanitarianart; please suggest more of your favorite hashtags to spread the word most swiftly when you copy, paste, and repost this text.
Please share widely publicly.
Ask people to help us.
Thank you.
—-Max Megan Elizabeth Morris
https://t.me/maxmorris 🍀
https://t.me/s/MaxMoRadio/2684 🙏🏼🕊️✨
Image by @zpenterprizes & @maxmoradio. Telegram is my disability aid. Please use it <3
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