let us all agree to enter 2019 with a clear mind, start the year strong, conquer our fears, and accomplish our goals who’s with me
I CLAIM THAT SHIT
You’re going to receive GOOD NEWS this week.
AMEN
Can’t afford not to reblog this. Hope it works for all of us!
I hope next year is incredible journey of growth and learning for everyone. I hope we all find our way to wherever we need to be in life, filling it with people who treat us the way we deserve. I hope we get to fill 2019 with a bit more love and respect for ourselves and the world and get to be a version of ourselves that make the current you proud. I hope and look towards the next year with positivity and plans to not wait for it to be the best year of my life yet but MAKE it the best year yet. 2019, I’m coming for you.
Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belonging to a man - a woman who was ‘one-in-herself’. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chastity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus - they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chastity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. —Monica Sjoo
i’ve had a realization and i’m sure it’s been done before but-
millennial depression:
vs
gen z depression:
that weird group of teens who were born 1999-2003 all experienced millennial depression around age 12 and then currently experience gen z depression
