Malleus

napalousa, 1 month ago to food

So @ahermitforhire told me about his relatives in years past having coke and corn nuts. So I thought I’d give it a whirl. Honestly, I really like it! #food

Mockingbird sitting on back of chair watching me drink with a ‘what the f you doing?” look on its face.

gallowswitch, 1 month ago to random

Time to bring back #FollowFriday! Join our cozy coven of awesome people and spread the love. 🌟💫

@meeowth, @Writch, @Crazypedia, @mayorbeetles, @x00001, @catdad, @crowbriarhexe, @napalousa, @Malleus

Crazypedia, 1 month ago to random

Still got weird full moon energy.

Don't pick fights you don't need to.

Rusty, 1 month ago to chicago

Huh, the new Bears proposal for a stadium is... wildly different than I expected :otter_peek:​ I really like what the renders did with the old Soldier Field columns (and frankly, the UFO they landed inside of it was always a massively ugly waste of money). I feel mostly ambivalent on the proposal I think, provided taxpayers aren't on the hook for it.

If this proposal actually happens, civic leaders from the south side really should lobby hard for the CTA to revisit the Gold Line proposal to take part of the existing Metra electric right-of-way and turn it into a rapid transit corridor. If the city really wants to revitalize the lakefront and drive tourism, they should focus on increasing access between the lakefront parks (the stupid bean/Millennium Park, Grant Park, etc), the Museum Campus (the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Planetarium, Soldier Field), McCormick Place, and Jackson Park (the Museum of Science and Industry and the new Barack Obama Presidential Library). Plus the Gold Line could be used to bring a valuable link for south lake shore communities between the Loop all the way down to South Chicago. :vg_puro_shrug:​ Seems like a win/win to me.

Side note: Also, boost the Green Line back to Jackson Park like it used to be :neofox_what:​ It'd make for a great transfer point for people between the Gold Line and the Green Line.

Links below if you're curious what the hell I'm talking about:
Axios: Chicago Bears dream big with lakefront stadium proposal
Axios: First look: Renderings of the Chicago Bears' proposed lakefront stadium
Active Transportation Alliance: More rail service needed along south lakefront

#Chicago #Illinois #ChicagoBears #Bears #SoldierField #CityPlanning #Trains #Transit #TransitFuture #GoldLine #GreenLine #JacksonPark #RapidTransit #CTA #Metra

Malleus, 1 month ago to random

@SpiritBearDreaming I finished The Wizard of Earthsea. Thanks for the recommendation. The writing was awesome even if the themes were familiar. I realize she was a groundbreaking in the fantasy genre. I'm looking forward to trying some of her sci-fi. :aDipsy:

figstick, 1 month ago to random

I started two new jobs this week, and I'm so out of practice being around people. I think I come off as aloof and absent-minded.

Malleus, 1 month ago to random

Hi witches.live people! Welcome!

18+ AimeeMaroux, 1 month ago to antiquidons

This is not an ancient intaglio but a #neoclassical work that shows Kronos holding up the severed genitals of his father Ouranos, blood raining to the ground. #PhallusThursday is not always sexy 🫣

@antiquidons @phistorians

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to random

why is the vibe at home depot so hostile

quietcatatelier, 1 month ago to tarot

When I tell you all that I have been in love with the Egyptian Art Nouveau Tarot for almost a year now, I need you all to know this is not an exaggeration. This particular #tarot deck was included in a witchy subscription box almost a year ago, something I only learned when I watched an unboxing of this particular thing on YouTube, and I fell in love with the art immediately.

It never felt like quite the right time to own the deck, though, so I kept putting it off.

But then I realized if I kept waiting for the "right" time, I was likely never going to do it, and since I was still in love with the deck all these months later, I decided I could let myself have something new as a treat.

So I bought it.

I am beyond happy right now.

Two cards are shown. The card on the left depicts a woman wearing a reddish-brown kaftan about to step off the edge of a rocky cliff. Behind her is a pale sphinx cat wearing a little jade scarab on it's collar. The card borders are white, although dividing the white from the rest of the image is an elaborate, almost swirled border in yellow. The top and bottom of the border has a spot free where the number 0 is displayed. The card on the right displays the backs of the cards: two scarabs (mostly green, with it's wings in shades of green, blue, yellow, and orange) with wings splayed. Both are lifting a sun disc above their heads.

wgseligman, 1 month ago to random

I guess I should write an introduction post: I'm Bill. I'm a refugee from witches.live, which appears to have "gone dark". So it goes.

Hobbies include learning Klingon, playing BG3, and petting cats.

Malleus, 1 month ago to random

How does The Absolute, or the One, fit into the Alchemical schema? I woke up at 4 am asking myself this question. Here is the goddess' answer from my meditation:

Alchemy can be said to mean transformation. The Absolute, or in Kemetic terms, Kheper the new rising sun, is the opposite principle. It is the self-created and unchanging. But it is also more. It is a “push” towards transformation.
Where does this push come from? And how is it and the static aspect of Kheper symbolized in the alchemical process?

For a transformation to be conceived there must be an unchanging base for it to stand upon otherwise it can't be distinguished as a change. It would then be flux within flux and therefore invisible and unknowable.
The Absolute then is the necessary background condition of transformation. The symbol for this necessary condition in Alchemy is the retort or crucible.

The container is the Condition under which the transformation takes place. It is the unchanging venue where the dynamic action unfolds.
The retort is often stylized as a globe, skull or other “roundness” (like the Kheper beetle) to emphasize the static unchanging property.

As I mentioned, it is not just the enclosing necessary Condition that represents The Absolute, but Kheper's push, the impulse that precedes transformation.

The impulse is symbolized by a geometric line or angle. The dung beetle pushes his dung ball solar disc in a given direction. These lines of force combined are emblematic of abstract structure. The structure is, of course, the shape of the alchemical vessel.

So we have the shape and the containment properties of the vessel taken together as symbolizing Kheper or The Absolute.
To join the two aspects into one is the symbolic paradox of “squaring the circle”.

In my own practice the precisely angular crystal is incorporated into the cylindrical resonating chamber of my divining apparatus.

Praise #Hathor and the Eyes of Ra!

Have a great weekend!

#alchemy
#CrystalAlchemy
#kemet
#goddess

culturednyc, 1 month ago to random

If you don’t know Little Feat, I kind of envy you. This isn’t their most famous tune, but it’s a favorite.

Lowell George is famous for his slide guitar, but he’s got some pretty great lyrics too.

https://youtu.be/nSnmUjJCsfY

Malleus, 1 month ago to surrealism

Did Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo know each other? They both lived (at times) in Mexico City. I would have loved to party with those babes.

#surrealism
#surrealistart
#babes

magmora, 1 month ago to random

Hi folks, new to this instance, but not new to the Mastodon community. Hoping this place and serve as my home moving forward. :)

SpiritBearDreaming, 2 months ago to random

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teagarden, 2 months ago to paganism

Menhit-Nebetuu the Divine Eye.
She is a large, primordial deity. Her consort is Khnum/Khnum-Ra. She has connections to the fields, plants, stars, and time. She is a combination of two goddesses, Menhit and Nebetuu. Just like Hethert and Sekhmet, these two are a angry and pacified combination.

#pagan #paganism #polytheism #polytheist #egyptiangods #kemetic #kemeticism #netjer #netjeru #liongod

Longplay_Games, 2 months ago to random

8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 8 hours free time, weekends off.

I feel that too few people appreciate how many fought and how many were murdered by the rich before the schedule we take for granted was finally won.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes

#UnionStrong

bmacDonald94, 2 months ago to random

“Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension.”
– Christopher Hitchens

aunfire, 2 months ago to random

Finally have a dentist appointment next month! So happy. Why is it so hard to find a dentist with openings?

Cat_LeFey, 2 months ago to random

Oh my gods, this snow storm is insane! Worst we've had in 8 years; power line down in the tree out front, an aspen fallen in the drive, and two spruce on the shed in the back.
Not to mention 18 inches and counting of heavy, slushy snow to shovel.

So yeah, I'm not gonna be online much today. Wishing you all safety and comfort :pentagram: