(Trigger Warning: Catholicism) Before I talk about the rosary, here's an explanation for those who are surprised, annoyed, or even triggered to see so much Catholicism in a blog that is purportedly about magic and tattoos: Peruvian Our Lady of the Rosary painting seen at the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas A rosary tattoo and a rose bouquet on a bride Catholicism is like a giant amoeba. It bubbled out of the deep cultural exchange that occurred in Hellenic Alexandria, slurpin

One particularly decadent Roman emperor allegedly arranged for a such a torrent of roses to be dropped from a false ceiling onto his guests that some of them smothered to death under it

It was this plant’s exceptional creative power to put roots down, proliferate, and thrive that allowed it to naturalize all throughout the waistband of the earth.