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astranemus · 1 year

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Let us give masculinity back its flowering wand of reciprocal relationship with the natural world. Let us call Dionysus to the gates of our cities and homes. A man who can dance with plants and honor beasts, a man who can be a woman and an androgen and an animal, is more than a gender. He is a celebration. A hive of humming bees. A secret network of fungus ready to erupt as the air moistens. A murmuration of birds. A cluster of grapes. A throng of singing women. A magician.

Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine

#quote #Sophie Strand #The Flowering Wand #masculinity #Dionysus #reciprocity #embodiment #ecology

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lowcountry-gothic · 1 year

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Masculinity is lunar. Gender is lunar. Sexuality is lunar. Landscape is lunar. Bodies, liquid in a flesh silhouette, are tides of lunacy, constantly shifting their internal shorelines. To be lunar means to change—to be full and ripe one night, and tired and reclusive another.

Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, p. 30

#quotes #sophie strand #the flowering wand #masculinity #gender #sexuality #embodiment #change

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thedansemacabres · 2 months

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the flowering wand is turning out to be genuinely one of the worst pagan books I’ve read. everything from antisemitism, racism, to bad history—saying deeply disproven things about “mother goddesses” and sky gods.

I think the worst thing so far is that it’s pretty much just the author’s diary. For a book about masculinity, there’s little to nothing about what masculinity is or how to fix it. No, she’s just into saying bullshit about Judaism, paganism, etc and using the pain of indigenous people as props for her poorly written points.

#I knew it’d be bad but not THIS bad #the flowering wand #don’t buy this book.#dragonis.txt #pagan #paganism

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theeditorandnarratorcollaborate · 6 months

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BookTuber Tuesday - Mythweaving today with Sophie Strand

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#Author interview #booktube #Mythologist #Nordic Animism #Sophie Strand #The Flowering Wand #youtube

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insufficient-earth-skills · 11 months

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About to read Sophie Strand's The Flowering Wand and I'm looking forward to these two chapters:

#brought to you by thoughts and realizations of why Tolkien chose to have Frodo's GARDENER of all thing be his closest companion #may or may not have shed some tears over it #sophie strand #cosmogyny #the flowering wand

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postalpundit · 1 year

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What we name, we often feel we own. What we name, we feel we understand well enough to name. And when we believe we have arrived at understanding, we stop asking questions. We close ourselves off from surprise.

The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine by Sofie Strand

#The Flowering Wand #Sofie Strand #Naming #Understanding #Philosophy #Sacredness

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tragiccomedyenthusiast · 17 days

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little magician and his silly little tricks

#that one trick where the flowers come out of the wand or something #kinitopet #kinito the axolotl

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carmeltheslimy · 9 months

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green and blue basin collection

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berrybitty · 1 year

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flower + bamboo wands - animal crossing: new horizons

#acnh #animal crossing icons #animal crossing wands #flowers

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janedoe297-art · 2 years

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planning some acofaf fanart-- whats a good tarot card for k.p.hob??

(EDIT added some sketches so people see this akdfhbaksd)

#I'd say something from the sword suite but im not sure #cups feels like a rue thing #binx definetly wands #andhera swords?#many thoughts. i dont really want to use a major arcana but if something fits really well i might #knickolas pnackolas hob #captain kp hob #kp hob #a court of fey and flowers #dimension 20 #acofaf spoilers

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astranemus · 1 year

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The best thing for anthropocentric dread, for individual anguish, for heartbreak, for illness, is interrupting your individuality. When you cannot walk, cannot move, cannot leave your bed you do not need to find a tree or landscape or butterfly to be. You can be a mote of dust. A potato bug vaulting across the room. The ten fungal spores that scintillate in each one of your inhalations. The anarchic bacterial legacy that melted into your very molecular makeup. The yellowjacket tapping his armored body against the closed window. Sometimes the answer is not to problematize your wounding, but to slip through it like a doorway into otherness. Other minds. Other types of anguish. Other animals and insects going extinct. Birds singing out courtship songs to mates that will never arrive.

Sophie Strand, The Birth of The Flowering Wand

#quote #Sophie Strand #The Birth of The Flowering Wand #The Flowering Wand #identity #selfhood #ecology #ecological self #Otherness

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lowcountry-gothic · 1 year

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Just as fungi originally taught plants how to root into the soil, so myths teach us how to root into relation with our ecological and social ecosystems. They narrativize a deep understanding of our connection to more-than-human time scales.

Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, p. 4

#quotes #sophie strand #the flowering wand #fungi #plants #ecology #society #mythology #myth

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ourstaturestouchtheskies · 1 month

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