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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 18h

Wings so translucent are more aesthetic than appendage, but they work well enough in an emergency. And at night in the forest, emergencies do happen. The ears are her greatest asset. Overheard: everything

Character, or Personaje, a painting by Remedios Varo, shows a creature with transparent bat wings and a cat/mouse face floating on spindly legs through a forest at night.

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Feb 5

reported for misinformation

monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Jan 17

monk is hibernating
will return soon

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Feb 26

"We are bonded with the ancestors as life to death, light to shadow. The choice is not whether or not to be in relationship with them but whether or not those relationships will be conscious and reciprocal"

—Daniel Foor, "Ancestral Medicine"

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Dec 13

fool on a cliffs edge
elixir of memory
fuels flight into void

scawry senseless fool @senselessfool.bsky.social · Dec 13

we'll ever live on
in the bountiful etchings
of our captured skies

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Dec 13

vast twilight sky covered in a blanket of cloud that looks like corduroy. Sliver of black hill at bottom

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Dec 13

Reading them and writing them.

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Dec 12

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Dec 13

the archangel Michael prayer started out as an exorcism

a protection against attacks from hell

use it
motherofmercychapter.com/Prayers/LeoX...

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, o prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 31

petition to St. Michael

Black text in a cursive font. It reads: Saint Michael watch over me and protect me from all harm. Saint Michael watch over me and protect me from all harm. Saint Michael watch over me and protect me from all harm. Saint Michael watch over me and protect me from all harm.

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godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · Dec 12

namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa
namo guanshiyin pusa

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Dec 12

gratitude to lizzo from the monastic contingent

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Oct 5

Francis of Assisi saw every living creature as a mirror of divinity

Ask yourself: How can I be of service to others today?

Painting of Saint Francis, depicted in the dark robes with flowers, giving the Eucharist to a donkey or a black goat

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · Dec 12

THE NEXT FOUR YEARS
WILL BE CHALLENGING:

"Be the reason why
the lights flicker when
you enter a room."

It's time for our collective
power to manifest in a way
that protects our children
and our environment.

Here's just one example :-)}

A sepia-toned photo of a witch seated in a misty woods by a stream, their pointed hat and dark hair obscuring their face, accompanied by the text: "Be the reason why the lights flicker when you enter a room."

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 11

A flower garden can be a monastery

Colorful flowers in sunlight. The sky is blue. The flowers are red, pink, and violet. There are dense green leaves

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 15

your world is speaking to you

listen

Yellow slip of laminated cardboard on the sidewalk in strong sunlight. “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real, or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and maybe come.” —Ursula K Le Guin

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 19

unseen forces in a bush

Flyer on the ground under a bush pokes out enough so that UNSEEN FORCES in yellow on black on top of an indeterminate yellow shape is visible to passersby who are paying attention

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Dec 3

also a major transphobe, who has blocked a lot of trans and women journalists. not all journalists are friends, or trustworthy, and many are good old fashioned misogynists

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 28

Chelidonia was a recluse who made her home in a cave in Subiaco, Italy. Little is known about the life of this Benedictine, who lived until 1152

Illustration of Benedictine hermitess Chelidonia. There is a plant that resembles dandelion in the middle of the drawing that has gold flowers like stars. Two smaller figures are in either corner of the frame -- the one on the right is labeled in medieval script: Chelidonia. By Unknown author - Medicina antiqua (Wiener Fassung), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50269651

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 30

go your own way

Joan of Arc, or Jean d'Arc, by Albert Lynch featured in the Figaro Illustre magazine. 1903. The colors are pastel. Joan looks weary but strong. She's in full armor but her hair, brown, is free. She's surrounded by white blooms and is holding a flag. A castle is in the distance

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Nov 29

Nuns at Lourdes
David Moore, c. 1959

two nuns in a gift shop. One is looking through the view finder of a toy camera

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Nov 24

life goes on -- and we never got used to living without you

Freddie Mercury died on November 24, 1991, before AIDS was treatable

his four octaves echo with operatic glamor

into eternity

Queen - I Want To Break Free (Official Video)

YouTube video by Queen Official

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · Nov 19

This is a hell mouth I embroidered and gave as a birthday gift to a very dear friend in May of 2020. It is based on an imagine from Hours of Catherine of Cleves, in Latin - MS M 945 fol-168v, detail held at The Morgan in NYC.

Embroidery on cream colored fabric in a 9” display hoop: medieval hell mouth that looks like a scary green muppet with bat wings for jaws, and sharp white fangs, inside this outer mouth is another mouth wreathed on red flames this second mouth frames to human figures and a hand reaching up from below one of the figures wears a mitre (pope hat).

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 8

Olga of Kyiv
aka That Bitch

when the people who murdered her husband wanted her to marry their leader, she said ‘sounds great’

then buried them alive

Elegant depiction of Olga, now a Catholic saint, then, before AD 1000, a woman whose husband was murdered, who acted ruthlessly and violently to protect herself and her people. In this artwork, there are faint, slender, flowering trees in the background. Yoga is fair skinned, has beautiful eyes, and a strong nose, a crown, something of a halo, a cloak, and elaborate robes with patterns and gold accents. She’s holding a large cross

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 7

a tree can be a monastery

willow tree, bare branches. The area around the base of the tree is dark — fertile soil

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · Aug 6

clare of assisi was the first woman to write a monk's handbook

known, that is

we work under cover of tree and gloom

depiction of Saint Clare of Assisi from a fresco (c. 1320) by Simone Martini. Long-faced somber woman with olive skin and modest robes and an intricate sort of halo. Clare looks away

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