riversoftheheart
hi I'm Zefiro, you can find all about me here↷⋯ more about the blog on the pinned post
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And you should, as the core of it all, let go of expectations for your Deities. Let go of what you’ve consumed from the books, let go of authorities, let go of explanations, let go of the neatness - and embrace chaos. Embrace the wilderness which is in itself God, call a name and wait for an answer. What voice sounds like home?
Gods will come multifaceted, iridescent, impalpable. Gods will break rules and expand where a mind burdened by expectations can’t follow. A chimera of a myriad faces might not want to always show only one side. Gods will change. Gods will surprise.
If the nature is untamed, so are its Deities. The wilderness has many names for each of them, a prism to choose a side of. Feeling over explaining, embracing over conforming, preparing over expecting.
The moment of chopping wood and carrying water is the moment of happiness. We do not need to wait for these chores to be done to be happy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, dated 23 December 1881
i don't really interact much with paganblr, but I am 1000% certain of this: if you use an ai art generator to make so-called devotional art out of computer slop--- a computer which cannot think, cannot feel, certainly cannot worship--- furthermore slop which poisons and pollutes the very Earth that all pagans should hold dear--- if you use an ai art generator for devotional art, you are actually insulting the gods, the Earth, and all the ancestors
in short: pick up a fucking pencil and draw stuff yourself, the meanest and sloppiest stick figure surrounded by cartoon flowers is superior to any garbage that a machine spits out
This is a page from Urban Homesteading (2011) by Blume and Kaplan, but the concept of bioregionalism is a valuable and necessary practice for more than just environmentalism.
'[L]andscape' is not something to be viewed and appraised from a distance, as if it were a panel in a frieze or a canvas in a frame. It is not the passive object of our gaze, but rather a volatile participant - a fellow subject which arches and bristles at us, bristles into us. Landscape is still often understood as a noun connoting fixity, scenery, an immobile painterly decorum. I prefer to think of the word as a noun containing a hidden verb: landscape scapes, it is dynamic and commotion causing, it sculpts and shapes us not only over the courses of our lives but also instant by instant, incident by incident.
Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways
The Goddess of Nature Fountain (Artemis of Ephesus) by Gillis van den Vliete in the garden of Villa d'Este in Tivol, Italy. Photo by Daniel Bordeleau (2017), courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
BTW, the belief that you have to leave where you are and go somewhere in order to connect with nature is part of the problem. You can literally connect with nature anywhere; yes, even in an urban environment. You have birds, bugs, plants, weather, seasons, etc. A lot of people need to stop thinking of nature as something out there and start recognizing that it's something that's already right here.
☀️┆welcome to my blog!
this is where I share my journey in finding my path and building my faith 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
At the moment I'm still taking my first steps, researching and exploring.
I do believe in some sort of Mother God that created the universe, but I don't think I can call myself a monotheist, as I believe that other Deites exist in some way, just not on Her same level.
