MONDAY HEART MAGICK Failure is a greater teacher than success. —Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves This essay isn't even about failing. It's about what you can do next. #heartmagick #rejection #clarissapinkolaestes #itsokay
Irisanya Moon
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Author & Teacher 📚Moon Books & Llewellyn Author 🏛️Hecate, The Muses and Pantheon: The Greeks are out NOW www.irisanyamoon.com irisanya.substack.com bio.site/irisanyamoon
For next week's Heart Magick substack: Rejection. It happens. And you're not a failure. #rejection #failure #heartmagick
MONDAY HEART MAGICK I sing to Pallas Athena, dread guardian of the city. Warfare is the province of Athena and Ares: sacked cities, battle cries, and wars; she guards people setting out and returning home. Hail Goddess! Grant us prosperity and luck. Homeric Hymn 11 to Athena, trans Diana J. Rayor
Self Devotion - Day 31 (LAST DAY...for now) Whatever you like/love I return to myself. This confusing, wild-hearted, soft-bellied self. This creative, kind self. This open rose, mightily thorned self. Return, return. I am grateful to return to her #selfdevotion #whatwouldaphroditedo
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Self Devotion - Day 30 Journal I journal every morning and night. AM Gratitude - at least 3 things Make Today Great - at least 3 ways I can support myself Affirmation(s) - This varies, PM Successes - things that went well Learnings - what I learned that day (pic of my current journal)
SELF DEVOTION: Week Five 29. Reflection time 30. Journal 31. Whatever you like/love What would Aphrodite do? #selfdevotion #whatwouldaphroditedo #lifeisalovespell
Self Devotion - Day 28 Gratitude to others As I sit on campus, I think about how many people helped get me here. And I am grateful. There are too many to name, but I see each one of you in my mind whenever I have a moment to take it all in. (and cats.) #selfdevotion #whatwouldaphroditedo
SUNDAY/MONDAY HEART MAGICK What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats Today, we continue to hear about Circe, as well as about harder themes that Greek mythology introduces to the modern reader. [Content warnings]
I got published again...this time, in my school's student newspaper, Semper Floreat. Link to a digital copy (I'm on page 45). buff.ly/vdAYmJc #perimenopause #comingofrage #semperfloreat
Coming up on Sunday/Monday: There is more to Circe's story, with insights and observations from feminist scholars. I also share a bit about r*pe culture in Greek mythology, so content warnings abound. #circe #greekmythology
Self Devotion - Day 22 Leave a love note Dearest one, May growing grant continued softness, & stronger knowing, & a wiser heart, & more (seemingly) ridiculous dreams, & unstoppable laughter, & wild adventures, & devotion, & love, ever more love. #selfdevotion #whatwouldaphroditedo #loveletter
MONDAY HEART MAGICK Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered & was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, & where he went, & who he met, the pain he suffered on the sea Homer, The Odyssey, trans. by Emily Wilson Today's essay is about the Odyssey, choices, and home
Want to dive a little deeper into Greek mythology? I wrote a book for that. PANTHEON: THE GREEKS 200+ pages of gods, heroes, history, myth, ritual, analysis, and more. buff.ly/0OfdJC6 #greekmythology #pantheon #greekmyths
SELF DEVOTION: Week Four 1. Leave a love note 2. Invoke Aphrodite 3. Invoke myself 4. Invoke possibility 5. Gratitude to self 6. Gratitude to Aphrodite 7. Gratitude to others What would Aphrodite do? #selfdevotion #whatwouldaphroditedo #lifeisalovespell @irisanya.moon | www.irisanyamoon.com
Self Devotion - Day 19 Ask Aphrodite for help I asked Her for guidance. I asked Her for the truth. I received it. I'm now trying to hold it, and myself as I receive what I asked for. #selfdevotion #whatwouldaphroditedo #aphrodite #help
Let's talk about Circe, one of my favourite parts of the movie. And there are pieces missing, which is understandable. But I want to share them if you don't know them already. Unsurprisingly, I have a lot to say about 'The Odyssey,' and here is one of the pieces I have been compelled to write...
On Monday's Heart Magick substack, I start to talk about The Odyssey... I have much to say, but I'll start here. #odyssey #choice #battle #heartmagick
MONDAY HEART MAGICK "Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences. Let me someday see who I am.” —Sylvia Plath This week's lyric essay asks for reflection without promising a clear vision. #heartmagick #reflection #mirror #sylviaplathquote
Self Devotion - Day 13 What I needed to hear It's not about your needs. We just don't have the capacity to meet them. You aren't doing anything wrong. It's not about you. You don't have to try so hard to prove you deserve more. You are still loved, lovable & worthy even if we can't show it to you.
SELF DEVOTION: Week Three And this challenge/not-a-challenge continues. What have you noticed? 1. Find flowers 2. Soothe my skin 3. Tense and relax 4. Notice love 5. Ask Aphrodite for help 6. Ask a friend for help 7. Create What would Aphrodite do? #selfdevotion #whatwouldaphroditedo
Coming in late 2026... PANTHEON - an exploration of Greek mythology with Irisanya Moon We'll begin with the stories that continue to captivate, as evidenced by movies like 'The Return' and 'The Odyssey.' Stay tuned...I'll have a signup list and more details to share soon. #greekmythology
On next week's Heart Magick substack, I offer thoughts about seeing ourselves as we are -- if that's possible. (Sign up - it's free - to get a weekly dose of heart-focused writing.) #heartmagick #reflection #mirror
Hecate waits for us at the crossroads, torches in each hand. The goddess of land, sea, and sky is wise and wondrous, terrifying and holy. Triple-faced Hecate does not tell us the way; she shows us what can happen when we step into our power. READ MORE: buff.ly/iRed68C #hecate #hekate #crossroads
Hecate, Goddess of Magick and Witchcraft by Irisanya Moon
Hecate waits for us at the crossroads, torches in each hand. The goddess of land, sea, and sky is wise and wondrous, terrifying and holy. Triple-faced Hecate does not tell us the way; she shows us …
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SELF DEVOTION: WEEK TWO This is an invitation to join me in self devotion practices for 31 days. 8. Write a poem 9. Thank Aphrodite/the divine 10. Rest in the darkness 11. Find the growing light 12. Move 13. What I needed to hear 14. What I need to hear now What would Aphrodite do? #selfdevotion
MONDAY HEART MAGICK [W]e are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be...Otherwise they turn up unannounced & surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night & demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends Joan Didion
