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I made french fries at home for the first time tonight. Of course other times I would bake fries for myself, and I love doing that, but today I really wanted to try a new skill. Finished with roasted red pepper aioli.
Just felt like playing with the photos to a ridiculous extent because the originals were such crap and I was too hungry. The aioli ended up a nice gentle orange color.
Some magical properties of star ingredients in this dish:
Potatoes | grounding, abundance, healing
Red Bell Pepper | warding, love, healing, protection
Garlic | protection, healing, warding
Olive Oil | healing, peace, protection
Eggs | creativity, cleansing, psychic power, rebirth
Magical correspondences found through @witchkitch although these recipes weren't used for any spell. I just love looking these things up so the food I make is a bit more special and personal than just a recipe I'm following after finding it somewhere, usually online.
House Cleansings & Blessings
practical and simple ways to cleanse and bless your home 🌿
🌿 burn cedar sticks or cedar incense. cedar helps drive away negative influences, energies, and spirits. really good herb to work with when moving into a new space. helps with protection on all levels.
🌿 sprinkle a blend of salt, sage, and mint on the floors to soak up all the negative energies on the ground and vacuum up when you feel it has picked everything up. clean out all that salt from your vaccuun and dispose of it in the trash outside (not in nature)
🌿 diffuse lavender oil. lavender oil is very protective and helps bring serenity and peace into a space.
🌿 manifest abundance and prosperity by meditating with citrine and placing it in your home. place a clear quartz next to it to amplify abundant energies
🌿 make a crystal gird out of selenite, black tourmaline and white jade. these crystals will create a barrier of protection around your house and they will cleanse the hell out of it.
🌿 place pieces of selenite in windowsills, this will purify energy coming in and out of the house. immediately raises the vibration of the room
🌿 when burned, palo santo releases a cleansing smoke filled with healing energies. great for filling spaces with good health and fortune
🌿 ask your spirits/deities to cleanse, protect, and bless your space and leave them offerings when you are done
🌿 sandalwood incense raises vibrations, cleanses, offers psychic protection, and helps to open up psychic awareness
🌿 amethyst is not only a enhances the intuition and increases calm energies, it is also very protective and will shield you from psychic attacks
🌿 work with the elements for protection, meditation and visualization works well
🌿 visualize an impenetrable bubble of protection surrounding your home protecting you from all lower energies
🌿 visualize a waterfall pouring into your space washing away all stagnant and negative energy leaving your space with abundant and healthy energy
🌿 put mint leaves all around your house, in your windowsills, in your shoes, jewelry boxes, altar, etc. to protect you from evil intentions. also good for protecting your home from misfortune
🌿 wind chimes will warn you when a negative spirit is around, there sound will also help drive them off your property
🌿 cinnamon is extremely protective, i love dressing candles with ground cinnamon for cleansing and protection
🌿 burning dragon’s blood incense will create a wall of fire protecting you and your space, also a really good incense for clearing bad spirits
🌿 sleep with a lavender sachet underneath your pillow to protect you from psychic vampires
🌿 labradorite protects you and your home from demons
🌿 placing a vase of flowers in a room will lift the energy and invite positive energy in. use different flowers for attracting different things example sunflowers for happiness, roses for love, marigolds for success and creativity, etc.
Intuitive Prompts for Ostara. Inspired by The Major Arcana. (2018)
Ostara marks the Spring Equinox. This is a time of equilibrium. That of light and darkness. Neither frigid winter nor harsh summer, but a time of fertility and growth. Forward thinking and childlike wonder. It is with this spirit that I present this challenge:
Begin on the 11th of March, the day of enlightenment. Draw one card each day, and focus your intuition on how it relates to the daily prompt. Use this time to free yourself of all that has held back your progress. Approach all things with gentle eyes and a caring heart. Let your overall focus be on self growth, transformation, and problem solving through forward thinking.
The first week is designed to help you gain a better understanding of your inner self. Your past, who you are, where you come from, and what makes you the person you currently are.
The second week is designed to help you gain clarity and focus, with regard to your virtues. By gaining a greater understanding of your strengths, you will be able to face your challenges more easily.
The third week is designed to help you see your obstacles for what they truly are, overcome and move past them.
On the final day, April 1st, Easter Sunday, you will complete the challenge. May growth and prosperity be yours.
I encourage you to share your experience through posts with the hashtag, #intuitiveostara. Please use tarot, oracle or whatever divination tools you feel drawn to. I will post daily prompts as encouragement. Please feel free to contact me if you feel you need further guidance. Blessed be your journey.
0 - Openness. 1 - Choice. 2 - Manifest. 3 - Creation. 4 - Guidance. 5 - Tradition. 6 - Eternity.
7 - Success. 8 - Peace. 9 - Wisdom. 10 - Purity. 11 - Balance. 12 - Awareness. 13 - Transformation.
14 - Providence. 15 - Temptation. 16 - Confession. 17 - Release. 18 - Truth. 19 - Reconcile. 20 - Growth.
21 - Completion.
Watching an Ugg-clad army pour into snowy London streets 💠🌨💙 (at West Hampstead)
Russian fairy tales :
Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and the Seven Bogatyrs (1951)
The Scarlet Flower (1952)
The Snow Maiden (1952)
Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka (1953)
The Magic Bird (1953)
The Twelve Months (1956)
The Snow Queen (1957)
Vasilisa the Beautiful (1977)
домашняя работа - chores/domestic work
Review/Oбзор
подметать/подмести - (v) to sweep пылить - (v) to dust; to raise dust, fill the air with dust мусор - (n) trash, garbage; (slang) cop, police более - (adv) more помощь - (n) help, aid приходиться/прийтись + inf. - (v) to have to
New Words/Hовые Cлова
вот так штука - what a mess пылесос - (n) vacuum cleaner трава - (n) grass; weeds; (slang) pot, marijuana пыльный - (adj) dusty
Full Moon in Virgo
Date: March 1st - March 2nd, 2018 Rulers: Mercury, Earth, Mutable Affects: issues with anxiety, digestive issues, self-evaluation, and the nervous system, insomnia, urges to be productive, cynicism, changes in health, education, or career, food related issues What It’s Good For: recovering, taking care of yourself, improving your health, working hard, manifesting goals relating to health, work, and school, stability, focus, personal achievements, planning, completing tasks, getting a boost of energy and productivity Crystals: obsidian, onyx, aventurine, citrine, peridot, fossils, jasper, clear quartz Herbs: mint, lavender, lily, dill Incense / Oils: peppermint, spearmint, lavender, lemon Colors: green, yellow, gold, brown, blue
“namque alid ex alio clarescet, nec tibi caeca nox iter eripiet quin ultima naturai pervideas: ita res accendent lumina rebus.”
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Lucretius
For one will grow illuminated out of another, and blind
night will not seize the path from you, keeping you from seeing the
greatest of nature: in this way, one thing kindles light for another.
I get so caught up with imagining how I want to be that it’s incredibly hard to just be real.
I really want to stop but it’s hard to discern daydream-versions from realistic portraits of myself in the world. In imagining I find empowerment, and it’s hard to bring that energy of contentment and hopeful stability into daily life. When I envision the potential alternatives to the current moment, I feel something more potent than what’s actually happening. But it all blurs together so that even when I vow to be less concerned with the future, I’m still committing the behaviour I wish to eradicate. I’m still dreaming of an impending future that’s different from now as an avenue for change.
Maybe I should value this characteristic more highly, but at the moment I’d like reality to reflect the energy of what I’d like it to be. It’s just getting kinda draining, and I need some replenishment.
Who needs the brew when you’ve got this view? ______ Grateful for the sun, outdoor strolls through busy markets, and graffiti-enthusiast pals this weekend 😊 (at London Fields)
The first time since July 2015 that I’ve had a (mostly) complete ponytail 💁🏻♀️💃🏻 (at Pure Gym Highgate)
Addressing the Crisis of Ascendants
In response to my issues with self-identifying my ascendant sign, or accepting what the calculators tell me, I have decided that the bottom-up approach is most suited to my situation. That means that I’ll change my current approach to astrological learning, which has been admittedly self-focused, and learn about all the signs from as flexible a perspective as possible.
Instead of learning about approximately 22 items (the twelve houses and ten celestial bodies), I’ll ambitiously aim to learn 120+ items. I hope that this approach will make the archetypes and lessons of each sign more apparent, and will help me break down which aspects of my personality draw from each sign. In order to understand which influences come from Pisces, I need to know what is specifically Piscean compared to the other mutable signs, water signs, etc.
So with that, on this third day of the sun in Pisces, I am deciding to commit myself somewhat to the deliberate study of astrology. Not just for myself, but for an unknown greater purpose that I hope will emerge with time.
I am really hoping that I can gain confidence in who I am through this route, acceptance about my specific interests, and ultimately use the tools of astrology to strengthen areas of my life where I feel weakness and maybe scale back on those regions of over-emphasis.
Specifically, I hope that I can take some of the voice I’m developing on this blog--which has been recently inspired by astrology--and share it more widely with friends and family on other social media platforms. Therein I hope to become a more candid and genuine person with all those interested in observing my life, and by doing so overcome the insecurities and fears of criticism that have so far held me back.
My Ascendant Identity Crisis: A Summary
Introduction
In 2009/10 I began learning about astrology through a classmate who has since (and recently) begun an Instagram account dedicated to quippy and well-designed posts on the topic. Proud of her Aquarius sun sign, she quickly determined by sun sign, deemed it quite appropriate, and inquired after my birth time to calculate the ascendant:
AQUARIUS. This was the result from the first website she used to calculate the sign, as a look of joy and agreement crossed her face. She began a lively report on about the virtues of Aquarius. Meanwhile, responding quite fittingly to the Virgo personality type, I consulted another online calculator to verify the first finding:
PISCES. My classmate faltered, she brow furrowed, and she blurted “hmmm...” before shaking her head once, the rest of her body ceasing its suspension and returning to its energetic and bouncy motion, albeit more restrained. She looked over my shoulder at the list of traits this calculator suggested fit the Pisces ascendant and I could almost hear the gears grinding in her head before she decided that, sure, it fit me.
Pisces seemed to prevail after numerous confirmations from other online sources (though I found this process irritating because many distinctive websites use the same astrological generator for their free natal charts). And more or less in the years since then I have accepted myself as a Virgo sun-Pisces ascendant and attributed the sense of unsettlement that began in the quirk of my classmate’s brow to the oppositional relationship between these signs. I supposed that the Virgo in me rationalises those behaviours which seem Piscean to the outsider.
Background
Now, with the sun just having been in Aquarius and 8/9 years out from my first self-education in astrology, the initial crisis has returned. Am I really a Pisces ascendant? Or maybe there’s something wrong with those calculators?
Here are a couple sources of error which confound my acceptance of the results:
the calculators don’t specify whether they account for daylight savings time--if not I would need to enter my birth time an hour earlier to account for this, which makes me solidly Aquarian
maybe my birth time was recorded wrong--if I had been born 15 minutes before the recorded time then I would be an Aquarius
following the rule of the ascendant changing every two hours from sunrise/6 AM would classify me as an Aquarius (in both cases, as sunrise was 6:42 AM on my birth date)--however if this rule is adapted to a 5 AM starting point to deal with DST then I’m a Pisces as the calculators show
I just don’t identify with Pisces all that much...and to me that’s so much a part of the psychology/sociology of astrology is identification; when I learned that Jupiter would be the planetary ruler of my chart based on the Pisces ascendant some things clicked into place, but that action seemed to jostle some other items out of place!
Currently
I tried to attack this thicket with a couple of approaches which I will identify as the methodical (objective) and the intuitive (subjective), respectively. For the methodical approach, I shared some descriptions of the two different ascendant signs with several individuals who are either friends or family and asked them to report to what extent they thought the description suited me. In the brief surveys I administered I kept the names of the signs hidden from the participants. Though I admit my sample size was hardly representative, the result heavily favoured the Aquarius description.
The intuitive approach consisted of my comparing two natal charts: the one I have accepted for years and the nearest Aquarius ascendant chart. I identified which houses and planetary house placements changed between the charts and found descriptions for the two options via a trusted source who focuses especially on positions of planets amongst the signs and houses. While I couldn’t try to make this approach “double-blind” or some variation of participant ignorance to ensure efficacy, I attempted to be as pure of consciousness as possible. I tried to be completely honest with myself.
In this, too, I felt the Aquarian chart resonated so much more. Most of the options elicited a strong reaction or identification within, and in one I experienced some minor ambivalence. So it seems that both myself and others actually pick up on this Aquarian energy more strongly! I mean, I’m a sociology graduate student and I have a bachelor’s degree in anthropology--how much more stereotypically Aquarian (and Virgoan) could you get?!
But when I attempted the ‘purest’ form of determination, hand-calculating the ascendant, things went awry. First of all, it’s quite impossible to do this on your own with the meagre online guides for the calculation of local sidereal time, etc., and then I completely hit a roadblock because I didn’t have access to a book on the 20th-century American ephemeris. That option having been stamped out, I looked to the astronomical software Stellarium, which allows the user to input the date, time and location they wish and then to observe the position of the stars at that moment. This was like a nail in the coffin of the Aquarian ascendant: Aquarius was fully visible at the eastern horizon at the moment of my birth, and just one star from Pisces had broken through.
Looking Ahead
I’ve gotten in touch with my previous classmate who seems to have only deepened her knowledge of astrology since high school. She and I are going to chat a bit about this crisis. I’m planning to use some tarot cards and a handy-dandy pendulum to see if that sheds some metaphysical light on the situation.
Hopefully, I can reach a place free from this tension. I suppose I believe this tension is coming for a reason. Beyond the symbols and accoutrements of astrological identity-making, there’s a deeper sense of unsettlement which I can accept as mine: the search for the person to be. The Aquarian/Pisces crisis has made me aware of the degree to which I assign significance to archetypes and roles, and the corresponding need for conviction in that position. I want to strive to fulfil a role, but I cannot accept it if I am not convicted of it.
I’m beginning to realise that my personal form of genuine living is at once so far out of my hands but also right there! But the conflict between (a) acknowledging that I am living genuinely and (b) the desire to uplift this lifestyle to the position of the exceptional OBSCURES my true identity from myself. So until I can resolve this somewhat superficial issue, I am going to focus on channelling a self-empowered “I’m already awesome” attitude through the things that I do every day. The person I want to be is fictional. What’s real is discovering the parts of that fiction that already exist for myself, and others, to enjoy.
DEBI THOMAS
Debi, the best African American figure skater in the history of the sport, World Champion in 1986, became the first African-American to win an Olympic medal at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. #BlackHistoryMonth #Day9 #WinterOlympics
My valentine hates having his picture taking but I’m not above the occasional selfie 💋 I hope everyone out there can find joy in knowing that the month February is named after the whips used in a bizarre Roman fertility ritual—Februarii. The event may or may not have anything to do with the historical establishment of Valentine’s day, but our material evidence points to lots of phallic symbolism and some of the best sex jokes the world has ever known👉🏻👌🏻
1st house: Who comes most naturally out from me
4th house: The innermost temperament shaped by the glimpse of the world seen in childhood
7th house: Invalidated personal qualities projected onto other people in order to gain recognition
10th house: The person we envision ourselves to be in the future