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azurelunatic) wrote2016-05-02 03:54 am
azurelunatic) wrote2016-05-02 03:54 am
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Assorted items from Reverend Lunatic:
* You do not do a smol summon to all the trickster gods you can dig up sigils for simultaneously and go "HAAAYYYY I'M A SEEKER" for similar reasons to why you do not post publicly to facebook, twitter, and 4chan simultaneously going "HAAAYYYY PARTY AT MY PLACE HERE'S THE ADDRESS" while @-ing a few choice contacts. That is how you get more infosec d00ds than you know what to do with on your lawn and hacking your launderizer; similarly, you don't necessarily want a certain redhead and a certain fan of well-targeted fruit to take up camp in your pineal gland without that you thought things through very, very carefully beforehand.
* I can, in fact, still use coffee as a divination aid.
* Does anyone know a deity or two who might be associated with shit sandwiches and/or lemonade? No, seriously. The deity who is your boon companion when you go "Well, this is certainly a shit sandwich that I have here!" and/or also the entity for "Welp, these are some lemons; I guess it's time to find a big pot and some sugar." Asking for a friend.
* Tumblr is great for creating new mythology. However, anything that tumblr says are true historical fax, double-check that with other sources.
* 90s web design is not an immediate disqualification for a pagan informational website. Presence of information which can be easily debunked via actually qualified historical sources, however...
* Libraries are a thing.
* Divination can be super helpful at some things, but when you're doing it for yourself, you're going to get a lot of internal noise from what you're wanting to happen. Thus, divination is a reasonable way to explore what you personally in fact actually want...
* For fuck's sake, do not get a tattoo on your actual body honoring Bacchus without thinking things through super carefully.
or, in other words...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Don%27t_We_Get_Drunk
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/deadkennedys/toodrunktofuck.html
* I can, in fact, still use coffee as a divination aid.
* Does anyone know a deity or two who might be associated with shit sandwiches and/or lemonade? No, seriously. The deity who is your boon companion when you go "Well, this is certainly a shit sandwich that I have here!" and/or also the entity for "Welp, these are some lemons; I guess it's time to find a big pot and some sugar." Asking for a friend.
* Tumblr is great for creating new mythology. However, anything that tumblr says are true historical fax, double-check that with other sources.
* 90s web design is not an immediate disqualification for a pagan informational website. Presence of information which can be easily debunked via actually qualified historical sources, however...
* Libraries are a thing.
* Divination can be super helpful at some things, but when you're doing it for yourself, you're going to get a lot of internal noise from what you're wanting to happen. Thus, divination is a reasonable way to explore what you personally in fact actually want...
* For fuck's sake, do not get a tattoo on your actual body honoring Bacchus without thinking things through super carefully.
or, in other words...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Don%27t_We_Get_Drunk
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/deadkennedys/toodrunktofuck.html
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Also I would not advise honoring any deity with a tattoo on your actual body unless you were really super duper 210% sure you can uphold that devotion, well, permanently. (This strikes me as something of a modern equivalent to joining their temple as a bit more than just the average worshiper.)
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Someone I know is setting out on an Adventure, and has been getting some advice of ... mixed utility, shall we say.
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i tend to think of ganesha as a particularly kind god of shit sandwiches and lemonade buckets. i'm not well versed enough in his theology or followers to determine if his worship is actually part of an open pantheon or not, but he is the remover of obstacles... or sometimes the placer thereof, if he thinks you need the heavy lifting practise. tread with extreme caution to not be a dick, though, if worship of indian subcontinental deities is not a Thing in culture of origin.
also worth checking out are the brer rabbit stories as a semi-modern mythos and a particularly south-eastern americana trickster who is a++ at making shit look like gold & vice versa
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I mean it's not, actually, that I am unfond of many of them. They're family, as it were! But, you know. They're family. Of the sort where you know all their worst habits and are quite certain that living with them will end in someone's death.
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In much the same way, ouija board = Omegle or Chatroulette. Possibly literally, actually -- I would not be at all surprised if there are supernatural entities showing people their spectral nutsacks on Omegle.
similarly, you don't necessarily want a certain redhead and a certain fan of well-targeted fruit to take up camp in your pineal gland without that you thought things through very, very carefully beforehand.
ahahahahahahahaYES.
(I hear the fruit fan also enjoys hot dogs.)
Divination can be super helpful at some things, but when you're doing it for yourself, you're going to get a lot of internal noise from what you're wanting to happen. Thus, divination is a reasonable way to explore what you personally in fact actually want...
Corollary: a lot of Myers-Briggs/Enneagram/etc detractors claim that these are too subjective and no more reliable than the zodiac or Harry Potter houses. Even if this is true (I think the MBTI gets more hate than it deserves), there is still value in knowing which traits from a broad list a person identifies with or feels describes them best, especially the people who identify very hard with those descriptions (or, alternatively, can't place themselves within them at all.)
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I'm just seeing it now.
Rules violation: indecent exposure.
Reason for violation: possession by trickster spirit.
Remediation: written apology, confirmed exorcism with local registry, user has sent in receipts for 12 months of service on household warding, charmed dongle for modem, and the cheapest possible certified tinfoil hat.
Recommendation: reinstate with standard warning about summoning shit, special warning about cheaping out on personal protection, this guy should probably be going for something he takes off less often unless he's planning to sleep in that hat
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* Person is looking for a deity to open negotiations with, related to an upcoming Life Milestone
* No, the suggestion from a third party to invite all the tricksters to your Life Milestone Ceremony is ... probably not good.
* Here are some tools for evaluating the resources that you find
* The same third party responsible for the mass-invite trickster idea is the same person who suggested the tattoo honoring Bacchus
* Your reservations about this person's ideas are entirely justified
Friend is sensible. Now, the third party... I may need, at some point, to meet the third party.
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(Ipe. That third party is...something.)
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(I have heard enough about the third party to establish that the third party *means* well, but may be somewhat ...
... you know the effect where a Very Helpful Geek reads up on a thing on wikipedia and becomes an Instant Expert?)
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(Oh, yes. Since I have to do that on occasion for work, I get it. When I start believing it is when the cluebats should come out.)
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O HAY GODS HAAAAAY. I didn't see that. I'ma just sit here and drink my tea and pretend nobody is ....whatever adjective they'd have to be in order to suggest that as a productive option. It might be fascinating to watch happen to someone you didn't like, though. From a distance. Through the Hubble telescope.
*ponders* depending on cultural comfort with root work, High John de Conqueror might be their man for the job. Can rec a really concise online pamphlet to working with him that's good for starting out. He's a bit less likely to pull some of the shit that ol' flamehead is famous for (I'm fond of him, and he's usually welcome to come over for drinks, but otoh i trust him to be him, y'know?)
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