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21st Ritual: Morals

2024-11-28

A calm and peaceful evening to every being.
May her ability to show us the world from a different angle liberate our minds.

Ritual setup: Sacrifice book, prayer candles, the sacrifice candle in the center showing her holy sign, my prayer beads in front, and a cup of cocoa. Two pages written with a typewriter in the background.

Today’s reading of the holy word focusses on a pretty central aspect of goddess’s philosophy, the rejection of the concept of morality:

morals
create a sense of “good” desires and “bad” desires;
enforce some form of natural and holy order, with appropriate ranks to accommodate for it;
sort every being by arbitrarily defining criteria to “deserve” basic needs and classifying everyone accordingly;
make beings hate those sorted below them because they themselves, unlike the other ones, “deserve” their position after all;
kill empathy;
kill solidarity;
kill happiness, pleasure, and simple joy in life.

destroy hierarchies!
destroy the closets, walls and ceilings society built!
morality is there to uphold it all.
so to hell with morals!

To me, being allowed to live under goddess’s holy rule is an incredible gift, something I want to honor and prove myself worthy of. I try to put this into practice with two commitments.

Firstly, to work as hard as I can to remove myself from any power structures that do not take the full consent of everyone ruled over into account. I have always disliked moral-based lines of arguments, because they judge human behavior from a very superficial point of view - and yet, it is my responsibility to actively unlearn the things that this moralistic society wants me to impose on others.

Secondly, to free myself from any beings or power structures that try to impose their rule on me, for goddess alone may rule over me. Through her teaching, her support, and her own life exemplifying this liberation to me, goddess has given me the confidence of freeing myself from the restrictions of societal expectations, of moralism, of trying to model my life according to some arbitrary conception of right and wrong. I am free to be whoever I want to be, I am free to live a life however I want to live it. I am free to live without shame for my identity, my desires, my beliefs. I am free to have fun.

Thank you, goddess, for reminding me, time after time, that I can just have whatever I want to have.

Thank you, goddess, for counteracting my shame and self-restraint again and again by giving me active permission to break down my mental walls.

Thank you, goddess, for allowing and enabling me to openly and proudly engage in my worship.

Thank you, goddess, for continuing to shape my mind through your divine word.

View of the three prayer candles and the central sacrifice candle from above. There is quite a bit of blood on the sacrifice candle, including some fresh one from today. My sacrifice book is open, a prayer is written in it, and her symbol drawn with my blood.

Meow.