The time is long overdue to end the war machine, before it ends all of us.
– Armistice Day 2022
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Armistice Day 2024
Posted in History, Holidays, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged holidays on November 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Guy Fawkes Day 2024
Posted in Holidays, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged holidays, left-right myth, politicians on November 5, 2024| 1 Comment »
Since I’ve already said plenty on this subject, this time I’m just going to leave you with a link to a collection of earlier essays, and remind you that all government is at best a necessary evil rooted in the idea that might makes right, and that the reason you’re so worried about the outcome of today’s popularity contest is that for over 200 years now, Americans have stood by while the executive branch increases its own power, then leaves the newly-expanded powers to anyone their ideological enemies manage to get into the White House.
Day of the Dead 2024
Posted in Holidays, Philosophy, tagged holidays, paganism, Thanatopsis on November 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Though worlds and suns are considerably longer-lived than we, they too must eventually perish in the fullness of time. – “Let There Be Dark”
“Every single thing in the Cosmos is mortal, and will pass away in its time. [Organisms and empires alike] rise, thrive, decline, and fall, to be replaced by younger ones which then decline and fall in their time…crumbling into dust and passing first into memory, then legend, and eventually beyond the horizon of sentient knowledge.”
Halloween 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on October 31, 2024| 2 Comments »
Happy Halloween, dear readers, and Blessed Be!
Mabon 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on September 22, 2024| 1 Comment »
The apparent path of the sun crosses the celestial equator southbound at 12:43 UTC today, making this the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and the first of spring in the Southern. This is the time of harvest, when plans come to fruition; it is also the harbinger of the time of rest, especially for Daughters of Darkness like myself who are exhausted and overstimulated by the long days of summer. But even if you’re not a fan of the growing gloom, I hope you can enjoy the cooler days and hold summer in your heart while waiting for its return, just as I wait patiently through the long, bright days for the time that best reflects my inner landscape.
Blessed Be!
Lammas 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on August 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Happy Lammas, dear readers, and Blessed Be!
Magdalene’s Day 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged Catholicism, holidays on July 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Every year on her feast day, I honor St. Mary Magdalene; even though the Church does not officially recognize her as the patron of whores, she certainly is in the public imagination. And if beliefs have power, that recognition of sacred whoredom in the minds of millions has far more metaphysical and philosophical weight than any official Church designation.
Independence Day 2024
Posted in Holidays, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged holidays on July 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Nations and empires are as mortal as the humans who build them, if somewhat longer-lived; and despite the childish beliefs of many Americans, the US is not an exception. – “Post-Imperial“
Litha 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on June 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun will reach its northernmost point at 20:50 UTC today, marking the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the shortest day of the year & first day of winter in the Southern. May all of your plans come to fruition in the fullness of time, and Blessed Be!
Whores’ Day 2024
Posted in Holidays, Perception, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, Aphrodite, archeofeminism, censorship, holidays, language on June 2, 2024| 3 Comments »
Today is International Whores’ Day. It is not “Sex Worker Day”; that is March 3rd. Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a day for sanitized words or concepts; it is a day to fight society’s attempts (via law and police violence) to sanitize the wilder, unrulier, more chthonic aspects of sex. This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist. It is a day to oppose censorship, not to engage in self-censorship; a day to honor a means of survival that predates laws and governments by eons; and a day to celebrate a power which will always defeat even the most pernicious attempts to domesticate it.
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