The Greek Gods Broke Every Rule ~And Were Worshipped For It.

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The Greek Gods Were Guilty of Everything We’re Told to Resist…

They raged.
They took.
They worshipped beauty and burned boundaries.
They sinned, gloriously, and the world wrote poems in their name.

They broke every rule ~ and were worshipped for it.

They were shameless. Hungry. Divine.

They didn’t suppress their sins ~ they crowned themselves with them. And their myths have outlived empires.

They weren’t saints. They were divine because they embodied the full, messy, glorious spectrum of desire, power, and excess.

Tomorrow, we do the same.

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I’ve always been intrigued at the mischievousness of the Greek gods, of how they were not exemplifying this image of ‘goodness’, or purity of thought or actions. In fact, you could say that they were messy, imperfect and full of all the qualities of sinfulness that us, modern day human creatures, have been torturing ourselves with when it comes to living rightly. With some kind of moral virtue, or ‘niceness’.

As far as I’m concerned, I delight in the Greek gods for their bonkers shenanigans of right ole raucously naughty behaviours. Indeed, they perfectly exemplify the 7 deadly sins ~ not as warnings, but as reminders that even the divine aren’t meant to be small.

That we can have ridiculous fun whilst we’re crafting a living.

That a spiritually inclined life, one of right service, conscious awareness and deep care and connection for one another, does not have to exclude the ‘crazier’ aspects of our humanity.

As I say, if it’s good enough for the gods, then hey, it’s more than good enough for us mere mortals! Right?!

How did the Grrek gods show us that our ‘sins’ are simply part of our whole(holy)ness?

1. Pride (Hubris) ~ Athena is the goddess of wisdom, war, and strategy, and was brilliant and prideful. She turned Arachne into a spider for daring to out-weave her ~ a punishment rooted in divine pride and refusal to be outdone.

2. Greed ~ When Hades abducted Persephone and claimed her as queen of the underworld, it wasn’t just love, it was ravenous hunger. For power. For beauty. For control. He didn’t just want a queen. He wanted her. Light and shadow, innocence and fire.

3. Lust ~ Zeus is the king of the gods; infamous for his insatiable desire. He took lovers in the form of swans, bulls, golden rain. His lust was boundless, unrepentant, and immortalised in myth. He took what he desired, in any shape he pleased.

4. Envy ~ Hera, the goddess of marriage, was consumed with envy over Zeus’s lovers and illegitimate children. Her wrath fell hard on mortals and gods alike. Her punishments mythic. Jealousy made her immortal.

5. Gluttony ~ Dionysus is the delicious God of wine, ecstasy, rapture and ritual madness. Dionysus embodied gluttony not just of food and drink, but of experience. His ceremonies blurred the line between pleasure and chaos. He gorged on life, swallowed pleasure whole, and became a god of ecstasy.

6. Wrath ~ Ares is the God of war. Bloodthirsty, impulsive, and often outwitted, Ares didn’t fight for justice. he fought for the thrill. His rage was legendary, messy, and deeply human. Wrath was his pleasure. He didn’t fight for peace; he fought because war thrilled him. His fury was sacred.

7. Sloth ~ Hypnos is the god of sleep. Hypnos lulled gods and mortals alike into dreams and forgetfulness. His sin wasn’t laziness, it was surrender. Stillness. Seduction by silence. The world dissolved under his touch. He reminds us that even doing nothing can be divine.

The gods were not moral. They were mythic.

They didn't follow rules, they showed us how powerful it is to live large, fall hard, and rise again.

Maybe your sins are just your power in disguise.

Consider this your invitation to indulge:

To write your sins. Out loud. On fire. Without apology.

This is a ritual.
It’s a kink.
It’s your myth, rewritten.

This is where shame becomes seduction.

This is where your voice becomes holy.

You bring the sin. I’ll bring the altar.

We’ll worship with ink and fire.

Writing As A Confessional: The Seven Deadly Sins

Bold. Erotic. Freeing. You ready to sin darling?