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the fool[aztec][biblical]

Humans are essentially social; they need the company of others in order to become genuine human beings. Humans are born “faceless” (i.e. incomplete or with undeveloped powers of judgment) and need other humans for the education and discipline needed for acquiring a “face”, becoming balanced, and becoming fully human. Developing proper “face and heart” is only possible through the opportunities provided by well-ordered social living. Unstable, foolish, and diseased, the loner slips constantly upon the path of life. raramuri will often silently withdraw into cornfeilds, hide inside houses, and refuse to speak if addressed by a non raramuri [because of the history of abuses by chabochis]

Proverbs 18:1 – A man who isolates himself seeks his own desires; he rages against all wise judgment. Say to such a person, “Look, it is not good for you to be alone (Genesis 2:18),” and he will rage. How dare anyone give him advice! Every proud loner needs to come to his senses, seek human companionship, and learn to listen to advice. It is not good for man, or woman, to be alone.

Xipe Totec is rebirth. Just as spring symbolizes a new cycle of life, Xipe Totec sheds his old, dead skin— much like a snake—and offers it to sustain life. This also represents the Aztec idea that death is necessary to sustain life or to create new life. Xochitl symbolizes things that speak truth to the heart. [feelings expressed without saying outloud] tecpatl, meaning 'stone' knife', is the day in the aztec calendar associated with the god chalchiuhihtotolin is the god of plagues and diseases. he is a symbol of powerful sorcery, able to shafeshift into animal form. Tecpatl is associated with ordeal, trial and tribulation.

chalchiuhihtotolin is the god of disease and plague. Chalchihuihtotolin, the Jewelled Fowl, Tezcatlipoca's nahual. Chalchihuihtotolin is a symbol of powerful sorcery. Tezcatlipoca can tempt humans into self-destruction, but when he takes his turkey form he can also cleanse them of contamination, absolve them of guilt, and overcome their fate.

#mytarot

random-brushstrokes

Hector Ayala - Witches gathering (1969)

#painting

book linkshttps://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/aztefacts/aztec-pleasure-gardens

PDF | On Dec 16, 2006, CECELIA F. KLEIN published Woven Heaven, Tangled Earth A Weaver's Paradigm of the Mesoamerican Cosmos | Find, read an

This fascinating, richly illustrated book explores basic Precolumbian beliefs about the soul among ancient Mesoamerican peoples. It focuses

https://www.amazon.com/Cuecueyos-Knowledge-Centers-Journey-through/dp/1089381395 Cuecueyos: The Aztec Knowledge of Energy Centers, the Journey through Love

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Diccionario del idioma tarahumara al espa

Vocabulario relacionado a la vestimenta en la hermosa lengua indígena TARAHUMARA. Conservemos esta lengua originaria aprendiendo frases y pa

file:///C:/Users/obvia/Downloads/Tarahumar%20(Adaptaci%C3%B3n%20del%20M%C3%A9todo%20Assimil)%20by%20Llaguno%20Jos%C3%A9%20A.%20(z-lib.org).pdf

https://lucina00.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/tarahumara.pdf

https://issuu.com/culturasetnicas.sc/docs/libro_un_d_a_con_mis_abuelos_biling_e_v10

https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/75/32/52/75325241013070358386972589243638401821/tar_diccionario.pdf

http://www.questconnect.org/tara_dictionary.htm#cuerpo

https://issuu.com/web-uach/docs/diccionario_y_gramatica_tarahumares

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How to channel healing energy, step by step

Energy, or chi, is produced by living cells. It pools around those cells, and affects the cells bathed in it.

Healthy cells produce healthy chi. Inflamed cells produce inflamed chi. If your knee is inflamed, that inflamed chi pools in your knee. Bathing in that inflamed chi isn’t good for the cells of your knee. In contrast, if an inflamed chi is surrounded by just the right chi, it can promote health and healing. Clients report decreased pain, increased mobility, and more.

This post covers how to channel that healing chi to yourself and others.

Reach your energy source

For example if you need to heal a knee, place your hands on either side of their knee. Engage your mind as in step 2, reach for your energy source, then think, “Send the broad healing energy to the tissue between my hands.” For most of the sentence, you can focus on the energy source, but for “my hands,” focus on your hands. Pause a minute to feel the healing energy flow.

Did your hands fully enclose all the tissue that needs healing energy? Probably not. I often have students set up energy to a knee, but miss the kneecap or hamstrings (because that tissue wasn’t between their hands).

4. Think about making a box. You probably placed your hands to the left and right of the knee. Now place your hands on the front and back (kneecap and hamstrings), and send the healing energy again. Then place your hands above and below the knee, and send the healing energy again. Now that you’ve got healing energy flowing to all the tissue, tell the ethereal software, “Make the energy stable and ongoing.” (Using the same approach as asking for healing energy in step 2 .) Spend a minute feeling this energy flowing.

#energy

Closing Your Energy Pores

This post will teach you to open and close your energy boundary. It lets you control how much energy you’re getting from the people around you, whether you want less energy from a crowd or more energy from someone you love.

Finding your Energy Boundary

Before you can open or close your energy boundary, you first need to feel your energy boundary. (Or at least visualize it.)

Start by feeling the energy your energy inside your body. Notice how it is fully, solidly yours.

Now feel the portion of your energy that extends outside your body. It’s still your energy, but less solid, more malleable.

Try to feel the boundary between the two, at your skin (or just outside it), where your energy emanates from your body. This is also where other energy enters your body.

Within that boundary are openings that energy flows through. We’re going to be opening and closing these “energetic pores.”

You may be able to feel these different parts of your energy body and your energy pores. If so, use that feeling to do these exercises. If not, visualize the energy inside your body, the energy outside it, and the pores it flows through. Remember, visualization is a conversation between yourself and your unconscious to engage your energy, so trust your intuition on how many pores to visualize, where they are on your body, and what they look like.

Fighting Overwhelm: Closing Your Energy

Go to one pore (by feel or visualization) and think about squeezing down on it, like you would squeeze down on a fist. Notice how that feels.

Find a second pore. Squeeze down on it, too, so the energy can’t flow through it. Take a moment to feel it close.

Move to a third pore. Squeeze down on it, too.

Now that you’ve closed three of them, think about squeezing down on all your energy pores everywhere on your body.

This is your fully closed state. If you’re at a party and feeling overwhelmed, try closing your energy like this. (It won’t help with the music or social side, but it can help to block the chi.) You can also use this if you’re downtown and don’t want to pick up the energy of everyone around you. Take a moment to notice how it feels to have your energy closed.

Feeling Your Loved Ones: Opening Your Energy

Next, let’s open your energy. Return to that first pore (by feel or visualization) and think about opening it all the way up, so energy can easily flow through it. Notice how that feels.

Go to the second pore. Open it all the way, too, so the energy can easily enter and leave your body. Take a moment to feel it open.

Move to the third pore. Open it, too.

As before, now that you’ve opened three of them, think about opening all your energy pores everywhere on your body.

This is your fully open state. If you’re with a partner and want to feel their energy, try opening like this. And if you want to be as receptive as possible with energy games, try opening like this, too. But I wouldn’t recommend opening like this while you’re walking around the mall.

Take a moment to notice how it feels to have your energy fully open.

My Default State: Half-Open Energy

There’s a third state: Half-open. Go to that first pore and think about squeezing down on it halfway, like holding someone’s hand and giving it a gentle squeeze. Notice how that feels.

Go to the second pore. Squeeze it halfway closed, too, so the energy can still enter and leave your body, but with some resistance. Take a moment to feel it.

Move to the third pore. Close it halfway, too.

As before, now that you’ve half-closed three of them, think about gently squeezing down on all your energy pores everywhere on your body.

This is my default state: Open to energy, but not fully open. Allowing a bit of energy to enter or leave my body, but only a bit. Take a moment to notice how it feels to have your energy half-open.

Intentionally Choosing Your Boundary

Decide how open you want your energy boundary to be right now, and use the skills you learned in this post to open or close it.

As you go through your day, think about your energy boundary. Is it open, half-open, or closed? What energy is around you, and do you want to feel that energy? Do you want more or less of it? Experiment with all three states, and decide which is best for you in different circumstances.

#energy

Preventing Energy Headaches

It’s not too much energy that causes an energy headache.

Rather, the problem is having poorly aligned energy.

Your body has a preferred energy signature — a type of energy that it naturally produces.

When you practice with energy, you will build energy in a variety of signatures. For example, beginners learn to use calming energy. More advanced students learn other types of energy, and even learn to develop their own energy signatures.

Some of these signatures will be poorly aligned to your body’s preferred energy.

Having too much of that poorly aligned energy in your body for too long can produce an energy headache. This is especially true of poorly aligned energy in your head.

The inverse is true also: Having a large quantity of well aligned energy makes me feel more awake and alert.

The limitations of grounding

When we ground, we are expelling any excess energy, including any excess of poorly matched energy.

This has a few limitations:

After expelling the excess of poorly aligned energy, our energy body needs to reset. This will happen slowly over time as our cells produce new chi, but it would happen a lot faster if we drove that reset. I’ll show you how below.

If the energy in our body is especially poorly aligned, even a small amount can cause problems. In other words, there doesn’t need to be an excess of it to cause problems. In this case, grounding will reduce the problems, but not actually prevent them.

The technique in this post solves both of those problems.

Preventing energy headaches by resetting your energy

Our goal isn’t just to expel the energy. It’s to reset the signature of our energy to our body’s preferred energy signature, or one that works with it.

Here’s how to do that:

Expel any excess energy you have. Visualize the energy leaving your body. (This is grounding.)

Build energy in your normal energy signature. Just use your default energy visualization. Think of this energy like clean water that you’re going to use to rinse everything out.

Spread this energy throughout your body, and especially up to your head.

Hold this energy in your body until you start to feel better. Let it move your energy body toward a signature that’s healthy for you. This is often a matter of seconds, but may take a few minutes if the unhealthy energy has sat in your body for a long time.

Expel the energy, both the old energy and the new energy you just built. Don’t worry about expelling every last drop, but push most of it out. If you are used to working with energy pores, open your pores when you expel.

Here’s how this technique solves the two problems we outlined above:

The fresh energy will fill our energy body, quickly bringing it back to a healthy state. Any remaining poorly aligned energy will mix with the fresh energy and become dilute. We may be left with a tiny amount, but far less, meaning a far smaller impact, and that it’s faster for our body to finish the reset.

#energy

How To: Create Energy Visualizations

Creating Energy Visualizations

Most people have one dominant sense, usually tactile, visual, or auditory.

Tactile people tend to do best by imagining how energy feels to them.

Visual people tend to do best by imagining a visual representation of that feeling.

Auditory people tend to do best by imagining a sound that represents that feeling.

These are all the types of senses I'll be talking about when I say "visualization."

I like to focus on the water element, so I'll be using this to create my energy visualization. I'd feel energy as water flowing through me giving a fresh/cold feeling as it flows.

Remember, what works for me might not work for you. Here are some examples for inspiration:

Tingling as static electricity hopping over your skin

Pressure as a mist pressing against your body

Heat as a red glow inside your body

Then think of a sound that might go with your visual. Does the static electricity crackle? Does the red glow hum? Or is your energy silent? Again, do whatever feels most natural to you.

Building Energy

To build energy, visualize the energy in your body. Most people do this by first visualizing one sense (tactile, visual, or auditory), then adding the second, then the third. If you know your dominant sense, start with that one. If not, just pick any sense.

Some people visualize the energy coming up from the earth, or down from the sky. Some visualize breathing it in from the air around them. Some visualize it emerging from within their body. Some experience it building in waves, while others experience it smoothly building. There’s no one right way to do it.

Some people associate different meanings with those different sources and sensations — you can do that if you want, but you don’t have to. Your energy visualization communicates your intent to your unconscious mind. Visualize the energy coming from wherever feels most natural to you. You can always revise it later.

Take a minute now to visualize energy building in your chest and stomach. Imagine the feelings of energy in your body, and the images and sounds you selected in the previous section. The visualization can be first-person, imagining the energy in and around you, or it can be third-person, as though you were looking at yourself. Take a few breaths to notice how it feels.

Moving energy

To move energy in your body, visualize the energy moving to the new location. Imagine the images, sensations, and sounds moving to the new location. Focus on where the energy is going, not where it used to be.

Try it. Visualize some of the energy moving from your chest up to your head. Take a few breaths to move it, then another few to notice how it feels.

If it feels like a rush or headache, you have too much energy in your head. If that happens, use your visualization to move some of the energy out of your head and back into your chest.

Once you’ve felt the energy in your head, move it back down into your chest, then into your shoulders, slowly down your arms, and into your hands. Pause and notice how that feels.

Place your hands on your legs, and visualize the energy moving from your hands into your legs and back up to your torso, making a loop. (If you’re new to energy, it may take some practice to create and maintain this loop.)

Releasing the energy

When you’re done with energy, you can release it. Releasing energy is optional, some people only like to release energy when they have excess energy build up and it starts making your head hurt or they feel off, whatever may be the case.

To release energy, use the same visualization you used to build the energy, just in reverse: Visualize the energy going down into the earth (often called “grounding”), up into the sky, fading inside your body, or otherwise leaving. Whatever feels most natural to you.

You’ll know you’re done when the feeling of energy in your body subsides. If you’re not sure, just trust your intuition. This is an optional step, so if you don’t completely release the energy, that’s OK.

Very rarely, releasing the energy won’t be enough, and you still won’t feel quite right. For those situations, here’s a more powerful way to reset your energy:

Build some new energy using the visualization you created earlier.

Move the new energy through your body, including your head, to flush the old energy out.

Release the energy from every part of your body.

This will flush out the old energy and return your energy to its normal state.

#energy

The Ocean and Healing

“The ocean can not only heal cuts with salt, but it has the ability to trigger a psychological state of calm and contentment. It can literally wash away the pain.”

Physical Health Benefits of the Ocean

– Boosts Immunity

Ocean water assists in strengthening the body’s cellular immunity in remarkable ways. The number of red blood cells increases between 5 to 20 percent after a swim in the sea and the number of white blood cells increases even more. Seawater is fantastic for people with a weakened immune system, anemia, and high blood sugar levels. Ocean water strengthens the body against viruses, low defenses, bacteria and pathogens. Seawater is actually used in modern medicine on a large scale. The water from the ocean and our blood plasma are 98% identical. Our blood has an extra molecule of iron whereas seawater has an extra molecule of magnesium, and apart from this, all the molecules are identical. When immersed in warm seawater the body absorbs the minerals it needs through the skin. Marine-based medications have been developed to treat various issues, spanning from chronic pain to tumors.

– Improves Skin, Inflammation & Infection

Salt is naturally antibacterial and therefore time in the ocean immediately helps to heal any scrapes, cuts, sores or skin irritations. Salt water also contains a wide array of different vitamins and minerals which allow wounds to heal at a faster pace and reduce the swelling and redness associated with acne or other skin blemishes. The mineral salts in the water also team up with the healthy benefits of the sun to regenerate your skin from the outside in. As a result, ulcers, lupus and psoriasis are some of the skin diseases that can be easily assisted or cured with sea water. Salt water itself is detoxifying and helps pull impurities from the body and skin which inhibits bacterial growth and skin infections.

– Improves Sleep

The most common factors that inhibit sleep- stress, physical energy, pain, anxiety, hormonal imbalances and depression- are all addressed by time in the ocean. The ocean also helps normalize blood pressure which naturally assists with deep sleep. The ocean’s waves produce negative ions which accelerate our bodies ability to absorb oxygen and balance levels of serotonin; a chemical produced by the body that is related to mood and stress. Aside from the ocean itself, time in the sunshine, fresh air, movement and nature are all factors that help us to align with our natural circadian rhythms and ease into a restful slumber.

– Assists Pain Management

-Ocean water can be a great natural medication for bone and muscle pain, arthritis, circulatory, and post-surgery issues. Researchers have recently discovered that the salt in the ocean helps reduce inflammation of the joints and the pain that occurs with arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The positive uplifting effects of being in the ocean have also been shown to elevate mood, balance the mind, and lessen the severity of pain in the body.

– The Best Dose of Magnesium

Every single cell in the human body requires adequate magnesium to function or it will perish. The ocean is one of the greatest sources of magnesium and it is often better to get magnesium transdermally (through the skin) than via tablet form. Magnesium is also better absorbed alongside Vitamin D, which is also in abundance at the beach via the natural sunlight. Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the human body and is critical for muscle function, blood coagulation, and nutrient metabolism, among other things. Even being in ocean water for short periods of time allows your skin to absorb what it needs for good health.

Emotional Health Benefits of the Ocean

– Ocean Meditation and the ‘Blue Mind’

Wallace J. Nichols, a marine biologist, has done extensive research on the oceans unique ability to induce a state of what he calls the “Blue Mind” in human beings. Blue Mind is a mildly meditative state characterized by calmness, peacefulness, unity, and a sense of general happiness and satisfaction with life in the moment. Nichols states that our brains are hardwired to react positively to water and that being near it can calm and connect us, increase innovation and insight, and heal us on a deep level. The ocean gently lures and seduces us into a mildly meditative state of calm focus and awareness. When we are by the water, our brains are held in a state of what Nichols calls a “soft fascination;” the brain is relaxed but focused. This unique state of mindfulness has been proven to have a number of benefits from lowering stress levels, to offering relief from mild anxiety, pain and depression, improving mental clarity and focus, and improving sleep quality.

– Grounding

Grounding refers to the idea that our bodies are meant to come into contact with the Earth in its natural state on a regular basis. Positive electrons in the form of free radicals can build up in our bodies and direct contact with the Earth, which is a negative charge, balances this out. Our bodies and cells have electrical energy, and with the high prevalence of electromagnetic waves, Wi-Fi and mobile phones, it becomes easy to have a high amount of positive electrons build up in our bodies. As human beings, we are designed to spend time outdoors, and again, this has changed significantly over the last several decades. We tend to spend a great deal of time indoors and in shoes, rarely getting out into nature barefoot. While the modern world exposes us to unhealthy free radicals which erodes our body’s natural energy, when we are by the sea, we feel energised and relaxed at the same time as our body delights in its natural environment.

– Disconnect to Reconnect

In our everyday lives, we are constantly bombarded with sensory stimuli, whether from our devices, busy homes and offices, or hectic city streets. Our brains require downtime, yet we rarely get enough of it. Being around water gives the brain and the senses a rest from overstimulation. The ocean simplifies sounds, offering a white noise that literally drowns out other noise and distractions. Visual stimuli is also softened and lessened, offering an unfettered horizon that is free from the flashing distracting bombardment of visual stimuli that we are so acquainted with. The ocean offers us a delightful cognitive break because there’s simply less information to process. Our brains don’t shut down, they keep working, but in a different way that is more focused on simple awareness, creativity and spaciousness.

– Compassion, Oneness & Connectivity

Nichols also explains how the ocean places us in a very unique state of ‘awe.’ The emotion of awe invokes feelings of a connection to something beyond oneself, a sense of the vastness of the world and how we relate to it all. When we experience that feeling of awe, we feel a deeper sense of connection to ourselves, the world around us, and those we share the moment with. It shifts us from a place of ‘me,’ to a place of ‘we.’ It’s no coincidence that many of life’s most romantic moments take place by the water, and that we hold important ceremonies by water. Both in life and in death, we gather by the water in community whenever we can. This special feeling of connectivity that comes from the ocean has been scientifically proven to temper the ego, make us more compassionate, increase our sense of gratitude and make us more generous human beings.

– Lowers Stress & Anxiety

As human beings, we are naturally drawn to the water because it makes us feel calmer and more at ease. For anyone who suffers from stress or anxiety, the ocean water offers a strong sense of tranquility and balance that can assist with both depression and anxiety. Studies have found that the sound pattern of waves and their harmonic frequency is in fact one of the most relaxing sounds that we can listen to. The sound can even mimic the sensation of being in the womb and listening to your mother’s heartbeat. While noises such as traffic and construction noise intensify the stress hormone cortisol, the calming sound of the ocean works the opposite way to decrease cortisol levels and have a positive effect on our overall health. Even listening to audio meditations of the waves, or looking at images of the sea have shown to induce a more relaxed state of being.

– Creative Sparks

In our always-busy, screen-saturated lives, we don’t give our minds much of a chance to rest and wander freely. But when we do, the mind switches into a different mode of engagement. This place of spaciousness in the mind is associated with daydreaming, imagination, memories, insight, awakenings and introspection. This mode of thought is extremely important for creativity, and when we turn off the active side of our brains for a moment, we often find that we suddenly come up with the insights and ideas that eluded us while we desperately racking our brains for the solution a moment earlier. Rather than switching off, the ocean invites the brain to enjoy a more restful state, and from here, you’re able to make those new or unusual connections. In the case of the ocean, switching off literally helps to switch us back on again.

#water element #healing

thevirginwitch

Depression Support Jar Spell

If you/a loved one are in a slump and need a little extra push getting out of it, this spell is for you!

materials:

jar

lemon (for happiness, purification, beauty and longevity) and/or orange peel (for confidence and creativity)

rose quartz, for love, inner beauty and empathy

black tourmaline, for absorbing negative energies

black tea, for courage and stimulation

cinnamon, for purification and strengthening love

clove, for attracting prosperity and love

elderberry, for healing and banishing negative thoughts/energies

mustard seed, to promote courage, faith, and endurance

pink/Himalayan salt, for purification, cleansing and self-love

catnip, for love, happiness and beauty

a rosebud, for love and beauty

black and pink candle (optional)

taglock, if you’re doing the spell for a loved one (hair, nail clippings, a photograph, or simply a piece of paper with their name written on it)

in my experience, when you’re doing the spell to support a loved one, it works best if the person (1) knows that you’re doing the spell, and (2) is receptive to the help. if they aren’t willing to accept the help, or don’t know that you’re doing the spell, the spell will be much less effective.

Please note that this jar spell is not a substitute for real medical advice/attention. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, or thoughts of harming yourself/others, please seek professional help by calling the National Suicide Prevention Hotline (800-273-8255, English and Spanish available), making an appointment with a therapist, or checking yourself into the closest emergency room.

instructions:

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Poisonous Herbs

I’ve seen quite a few post going around about potentially toxic or harmful herbs so I just wanted to make a list for me and other witches to use.

**I am not an expert so please before you use any herb/plant do your own research please!

Arnica; poisonous in large amounts which can cause serve gastroenteritis, fever, nausea, dizziness, abnormal pulse rate, diarrhea, skin reactions, and internal bleeding of the digestive tract.

Azalea; poisonous and causes nausea, vomiting, depression, difficulties breathing, coma, and it is rarely lethal.

Balm of Gilead; can cause skin irritation, serve stomach upset, and pregnant/breastfeeding woman should avoid.

Belladonna; very deadly poisonous causes blurred vision, staggering, loss of balance, dry mouth and throat, headache, rash, constipation, confusion, hallucination, and convulsions. Careful when handling because it can be adsorbed through skin.

Bleeding Heart; may be poisonous in large amounts which cause convulsion and other nervous symptoms.

Blue Flag; nausea, vomiting, irritation of the mouth, throat, digestive tract, skin, headaches, watery eyes.

Bryony; all parts of are poisonous and can cause death, lethal if consumed.

Buttercup; irritant juices may severely damage the digestive system.

Calamus; toxic in large dosages and causes hallucinations, nausea, and vomiting.

Calabar Bean; extremely toxic which can cause excessive sweating and saliva, reduced pupil size, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, irregular heartbeat, blood pressure changes, confusion, seizures, coma, muscle weakness, paralysis, serve breathing problems, and death.

Camphor; serve allergic reaction which include rashes, hives, itching, difficulties breathing, tightness in chest, swelling of the mouth, eyes, face, lips, or tongue.

Castor Oil Plant; poisonous and causes burning sensation in mouth and throat, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea. In the next several days dehydration, drop in blood pressure, and decrease in urine. Unless treated death can be within 3-5 days.

Celandine; nausea, dizziness, fatigue, fever, and liver damage.

Christmas Rose; causes burning of the mouth, eyes, throat, oral ulceration, gastroenteritis, and vomiting blood.

Cowbane; poisonous and can attack the central nervous system which can induce seizures.

Daffodil; can cause nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and can be but usually not fatal.

Daphne; poisonous, causes burns to the mouth and the digestive tract then followed by a coma. Can be fatal.

Dog’s Mercury; poisoning will appear in the next few hours which includes vomiting, pain, gastric and kidney inflammation, sometimes inflammation of the jaw and cheeks, and drowsiness.

Elderberry; poisonous and causes nausea and digestive upset.

Elephant Ear; all parts are poisonous and causes irritation of the mouth and tongue, can be fatal.

Ergot; can be fatal and can also cause nausea, vomiting, muscle pain or weakness, numbness, itching, vision problems, convulsion, confusion, spams, and unconsciousness.

Gelsemium; extremely poisonous even in small amounts very toxic and can cause headaches, vision problems, difficulties swallowing, dizziness, muscle problems, seizures, breathing problems, and slowing of the heart.

Golden Chain; serve poisoning which causes excitement, staggering, convulsions, and coma. This can be lethal.

Foxglove; large amounts can cause irregular heartbeat, digest upset, mental confusion, and can be fatal.

Hellebore; likely unsafe if ingested or applied to skin which can cause irritation of the mouth and throat lining and also slow down the heartbeat. Large dosages cause vomiting, diarrhea, difficulties swallowing, nerve problems, blindness, convulsions, paralysis, difficulties breathing and death.

Hemlock; stomach pains, vomiting, and progressive paralysis of the central nervous system.

Henbane; cause dilated pupils, hallucinations, increased heart rate, convulsions, vomiting, hypertension, and ataxia.

Holly; berries can be deadly and the leaves can cause nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach and intestinal problems.

Honeysuckle; can cause allergic reactions which include rashes.

Horse balm; gastrointestinal irritation, nausea, dizziness, and painful urination.

Hyacinth; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and can be fatal.

Ilex; serve allergic reactions which include rash, hives, itching, difficulties breathing, redness, burning, swelling of the mouth, eyes, face, lips, or tongue.

Iris; serve digest upset.

Ivy; poisonous, causes stomach pains, labored breathing, and possible coma.

Jewelweed; dangerous when consumed in large amounts.

Jerusalem Cherry; nausea and vomiting and occasionally fatal especially to children

Jimsonweed; do not inhale or consume, can cause many toxic effects like dry mouth, extreme thirst, vision problem, nausea, vomiting, constipation, fast heart rate, hallucinations, high temperatures, seizures, confusion, loss of conciseness, breathing problems, and death.

Laburnum; intense sleepiness, vomiting, excitement, staggering, convulsive movements, frothing at the mouth, unequally dilated pupils, coma and death.

Larkspur; digestive upset, nervous excitement, depression, and can be fatal.

Laurel; poisoning produces anorexia, profuse salivation, depression, uncoordination, vomiting, watering of the eyes, difficulties breathing, weakness, cardiac distress, convulsion, coma, and eventually death.

Lily of the Valley; irregular heartbeat and pulse accompanied by digest upset and mental confusion.

Lobelia; potentially toxic which can cause vomiting, it also can interfere with medication.

Jack-In-The-Pulpit; produces allergic reactions and causes skin, mouth, throat irritation, swelling, burning, difficulties breathing, and stomach upset.

Kava Kava; can cause liver problems, nausea, rapid heartbeat, vomiting, drowsiness, numbness around mouth, hallucinations, kidney effects, shortness of breath, and disorientation.

Mandrake; poisonous which can cause blurred vision, dryness of the mouth, difficulties urinating, headaches, vomiting, rapid heart rate, and hallucinations.

Mayapple; diarrhea and serve digestive upset.

Mistletoe; poisonous and causes gastrointestinal discomfort, diarrhea, weak/slow pulse, seizures, and it is rarely lethal to humans.

Morning Glory; toxic and causes diarrhea, gastrointestinal upset, disorientation, ataxia, anorexia, and hallucinations.

Mugwort; use in a well ventilated area and with the right dosage, too much can be lethal.

Nightshade; fatal and intense digestive disturbance and nervous symptoms.

Oak; poisonous in large amounts and gradually affects the kidneys.

Oleander; extremely poisonous can cause heart effects, serve digest upset and even death.

Pennyroyal; can cause serve liver and kidney damage and also stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, burning of the throat, fever, confusion, restlessness, dizziness, high blood pressure, abortions, and brain damage.

Periwinkle; contains poisonous chemicals and should no be ingested can cause nausea, vomiting, hearing loss, hair loss, dizziness, bleeding, nerve problems, seizures, liver damage, low blood sugar, and even death.

Pleurisy Root; can cause serve heart problems, nausea, vomiting, and skin rashes.

Poinsettia; skin rashes, serve eye irritation, and irritation or burns to the mouth, throat, stomach, and intestinal lining.

Pokeweed; all parts are poisonous and when handling use gloves because some chemicals can pass through skin and affect the blood and it also causes nausea, vomiting, cramping, stomach pain, diarrhea, low blood pressure, difficulty controlling urine, and thirst.

Rhubarb; fatal and large amounts can cause convulsions, coma, and a rapid death.

Snakeroot; can be fatal, cause nausea and vomiting.

Spurge; unsafe and has chemicals that cause cancer, other effects include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, burning of the mouth, dilated pupils, dizziness, painful bowel movements, near unconsciousness, irregular heartbeat, rashes, reddening, itching, burning, and blisters.

St John’s Wort; can be poisonous and cause fatigue, dizziness, confusion, and dry mouth.

Skullcap; pregnant women should not use it can cause a miscarriage

Thorn Apple; abnormal thirst, distorted sight, delirium, incoherence and can be fatal.

Uva Ursi; can cause skin discoloration, headaches, tinnitus, dizziness, muscle twitching, tremors, convulsion, seizures, nausea, vomiting, irritation to the skin and eyes.

Wahoo; poisonous and potentially deadly, symptoms include serve upset stomach, bloody diarrhea, fever, shortness of breath, unconsciousness, spams and coma.

Wisteria; mild to serve digestive upset, many children have been poisoned by this plant.

Wolfsbane; also know as Aconite, disables nerves, lowers blood pressure, and can stop the heart. Avoid skin contact.

Wormwood; can cause diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, insomnia, restlessness, vertigo, and seizures.

Yellow Jasmine; poisonous and cause nausea and vomiting.

Yew; fatal, death is usually sudden without any warning symptoms.

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orriculum

🌊 Sea Grounding 🌊

a quick guide on grounding with the sea or ocean for you beach bums

sea grounding:

🌊 prepare yourself with appropriate sunblock measures!

🌊 (to the best of your ability) stand barefooted on the beach where the waves can reach and recede from you

🌊 visualize:

every wave over your feet pulls you closer to the center of the earth, burying you.

you are becoming part of the earth.

push your old energies out, let the sand exfoliate them from you

the water that washes over you brings new, fresh energy. it soaks into you with the cold and the wet

🌊 when you are ready, step away from the water gently. you are not severing the ties harshly, only letting them fall away, the way the tide releases you

Posture Yoga Poses

15-20 sec , repeat at least 5 times.

*Make sure feet are together and not seperated* hold your breath for six seconds then bring your head and neck bad to the ground and repeat at least 6 times.

This is four step pose. repeat the process in the same order but in reverse to get out of the position. Repeat this process 5 times.

#yoga poses

windvexer

Energy Work 101: Basic Shielding

"Shielding" is an energy work technique that puts a protective sphere of energy around you. This technique is basic at its core, but can be continually evolved and upgraded to become very advanced and powerful indeed.

Concepts & Theory

Most all shields are spherical or egg-shaped.

Shields are often sized to be an outstretched arm's length away from your body, plus a foot (30cm) or so extra all around. You can make them any size you like. Because they are made of energy, the bigger they are, the more energy they take.

Shields fade away. Depending on how stable they are when you make them, they may fade within hours or days.

Shields can and will affect your mood and how people perceive you.

It is a good idea to practice dismantling/undoing shields as often as you practice creating them.

While the most basic shield is a bubble of white light, they can be endlessly modified.

You can have more than one shield at once. They can be stacked concentrically. Think about which shields you want to be closer to you and which you want on the outside next to others.

One of the most useful ways to modify a shield is to specifically choose what kinds of energies you want to bet let in, and what kinds you want to keep out.

The basic technique used for energy shielding can also be used for other techniques such as glamours, energy cleansing, object charging, and some forms self-care. Because of this, shielding is a good place to start practicing practical energy work.

Shielding is a cousin of aura-imprinting. The technique I am talking about here puts a bubble of energy on the outside of your aura. Aura-imprinting/strengthening techniques refer to changing your aura itself.

Methods of Shield-Raising

There are as many methods to accomplish shielding as there are people. Here are a couple:

1. Make one hand into a fist and place it over your heart. Place your other palm on top of it. Gently push down on your chest to create pressure - not so much that it hurts. Imagine, feel, believe, or know that within your chest is a wellspring of energy. This energy pools around your fist as you create pressure there. When you are ready, move your fist away from your body (experiment with both fast and slow motions). Imagine, feel, believe, or know that an energy sphere grows from that place in your chest and expands until it surrounds you. It stops expanding about a foot away from your outstretched arms.

2. Breathe in. As you breathe in, consider that you are pulling pure energy out of the air and into your body. Hold your breath for a beat and decide that when you exhale, that pure energy is going to start forming a sphere around your body. As you exhale, imagine, feel, believe, intend, or know that this energy flows around you to start forming an energy shell. Continue breathing in and out with intent until you can easily imagine, feel, or believe that the shell has become solid and complete.

3. Consider a pop-culture method that a character uses to shield themselves. Steven Universe can do that rose quartz thing, for example. Or, imagine Captain Picard of Star Trek saying, "shields up!" and the Enterprise being surrounded by powerful protective energy. Copying a pop-culture technique can be extremely effective for shielding. Put your intent towards causing real power to flow, and let culture be your guide.

4. Consider that your body is permanently connected to your environment and there is always free energy exchange passing between you and the world around you. This process is automatic, but like your breath, you have the ability to take control of this process if you so choose. Feel the parts of you making contact with the world below (your feet, or bottoms of your legs if you are sitting). Decide, intend, choose, or will that the energy passing into your body at those points will instead rise up and surround you in a shield. You may need to actively stay with this process and continually will it to occur; with practice you may need to only check in every now and then.

A Method of Shield-Dissolving

1. Consider that you have placed energy around yourself which exists there whether or not you can feel it. Decide, intend, choose, or will that this energy breaks up and dissolves. You get to choose what to do with the energy. Options include:

Drawing it back into yourself

Pushing it down into the earth

Releasing it into the air around you

Would you like to do a fun experiment? Release the energy into the air around you in a closed room with no open doors or windows :)

Consider drawing energy back into yourself until you feel your storage containers are full, then pushing the rest of it downwards and into the earth.

Basic Shield Programming

For practice in raising and putting down energy, the form or shape your shield takes doesn't really matter. If you need to know what form it will take in order to complete the exercise, the most basic shield is considered to be a smooth bubble of white light; you can choose to practice with any form you like.

Programming a shield basically means to choose its effects. Common effects include limiting emotional intake from others, and blocking out environmental energy.

Form should follow function. If you want an energy shield to totally completely block out 100 of environmental energies, its form may take an opaque, solid black orb. If you want the shield to limit some energies but not others, it may take the form of a chain-link fence, be semi-opaque, or be like vines with gaps-inbetween them.

Experimenting with what forms work best for you is worthwhile. You do not necessarily need to choose a specific form: simply putting willpower behind your intent will also suffice.

Two Methods of Programming

I recommend trying the first technique for initially creating the shield, and the second technique for making adjustments once it exists.

1. Choose the intent of your shield before you even begin making it. As you begin gathering power, hold your intent in the forefront of your mind. Understand, believe, or know that the shield will not be created in general, but that it will be created within the specifications of your intent, like pancake batter poured into a cookie cutter mold. Hold your intent at the forefront of your mind while energy is gathered and released into the shield. (This is what you're doing automatically if you choose a pop culture technique with specific shield purpose and form)

2. Create a general/basic shield in any way you prefer. Observe, believe, feel, understand, or know that this basic shield is under your control and will respond to your intent. Select an intent. Pour your intent into the existing shield. This may be done through the vehicle of the breath, hand symbols, eye gazes, chanting, or any desired method. Observe, believe, feel, understand, or know that the shield responds to your will like a pond rippling when a rock is thrown in. Maintain your focus until you sense the work is complete, or until you're tired or bored.

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Glass Slippers - Thoughts On Creating a Personal Divination Deck

When I was a kid, I was enamored with magical girls - Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, Magic Knight Rayearth, Kiki's Delivery Service… I could go on. However, Cardcaptor Sakura is the show that eventually led me to tarot, and through that, witchcraft. The Clow Cards were the very first form of divination that I ever owned (twice in fact - I bought a bootleg deck off of eBay in 2012, but had to leave it behind due to going off to finish school at a religious college. The second, an official vintage deck, I purchased in 2018). I have yet to find another oracle deck with the same balance of diverse and yet simple representations that allow for a lot of flexibility and depth in readings.

However, the further I get into my journey into the craft, as I have experimented with other forms of divination, and have recognized and honed my abilities in sensing energies, other forms of divination, and astral work, most decks I own have lost their shine. I have purchased decks with the hopes that they would have the same feel, but none have really lived up to what I want. Tarot is too constrained, most oracle decks contain too much positive without enough or even any negative (all good decks should be balanced in this respect, in my opinion), and almost all feel energetically empty to me.

I feel like the essence and energy of divination tools often gets overlooked or not even considered when it comes to the modern witchcraft community. People talk about cleansing their tools, but do those tools really need it? Why would we chase out what gives them life?

But, in the same vein, why would we allow anyone else to program the energy of a tool except for ourselves? Maybe Nature, should your tool be a natural object, but other people? And this is why I cannot resonate with decks created by others, even if they claim in product descriptions to have done XYZ to impress energy into a deck (whether they actually managed to do so is a discussion for another day). How could their tools possibly speak clearly to me? Their energy is not my energy. Their experiences are not my experiences. Their spirit allies are not my spirit allies. Their journey is not my journey. Their craft is not my craft.

And so, I have come to my current project, inspired by the Clow Cards.

My goal is to create a deck of cards, where each card acts as a physical seat for each of my ally spirits and synthetic spirits I create myself for certain tasks. This deck will then be able to be many things for me - a spellcasting tool, a divination tool, a devotional tool, and a sort of energy index I can use as a quick reference.

This means that this deck will be personal to me, my journey, and my specific experiences. Now that I think about it, the current Clear Card arc of Cardcaptor Sakura has Sakura doing exactly this with all of the new cards, except her cards/spirits are created by accident. I have to put much purpose and intent in each card to create them. And some will require asking ally spirits to use the card as a seat, rather than forcing them to ("capturing" them).

Artists often use language like "giving birth" to their works. But I think that takes on a much more visceral meaning when speaking of creating places for spirits to inhabit. These may just be cards, but each one is also a body for them in a way, and therefore great care must be taken to get things just right for each spirit, just as the human body creates just the right new body for a new person to inhabit. And in this same vein, each card will be "birthed" for each new spirit who takes an interest in having a card seat created for them (I am not arrogant enough to assume all spirits I meet and have a relationship with will want to have one).

It's not going to be easy, but I think it might be one of the most rewarding projects I take on in my craft, and one that will be ever changing and evolving. And now, I challenge everyone who reads this to evaluate your relationships with your tools and see if, like me, you have spent too long trying to make the glass slipper of another fit on your own foot.

- Hagging Out, Feb. 2022 -

Animal Totem

Even if other Spirit Animals will accompany you on your path, it is still their choice to do so. However, they rarely become Animal Totems, meaning they stay for a season, not a lifetime. The reason why they choose you, vary from protecting, and guiding you, through a period of time, to helping you excel in some difficult tasks. Spirit Animal’s energy may aid you differently, depending on the issues that you have on your hands.

You can harvest the energy of a certain Animal Spirit, but you can’t choose them to be by your side, or help you, whenever you want to.

You can find your Animal Totem through meditation – You will have to start your meditation with the intention that you will meet your Animal Totem. You have to focus on your desire, while you allow all other unrelated thoughts to flow. It may happen that during your meditation, you see the animal, or you smell something, or you hear something. If none of this happens, do not get discouraged, sometimes it takes a couple of tries to dive deep into the trance state where you can receive these messages.

Also, keep in mind, that your answers may not come during mediation, but in your dreams, as well as by pure synchronicities – For example, you may start seeing more cats than usual, or suddenly be surrounded by owls’ photos, or information. You may also feel curiosity peak up for a certain animal out of the blue. You should follow your intuition.

You may work with an Animal Spirit of your choice by calling forth the physical, mental, energetical, and spiritual force of that animal. However, this doesn’t mean that they will become your Animal Totem. They may help you, but they want stay with you as your Animal Totem.

#animal totems/guides #meditation

Chambered nautilus

With each revolution completing a cycle of evolution, the Golden Mean Spiral is symbolic of life’s unfolding mysteries. The continuous curves of the spirals, which are feminine in nature, and the ratios between each of the chambers reveal the intimate relationship between the harmonics of nature and Sacred Geometry.

The nautilus can never stay in the same chamber because it continues to get bigger; it must build ever larger and larger chambers until the end of its life. And the spiral suggests that it can grow forever - there is never a design for a final chamber.

Similarly, we also must never stop growing, learning, and expanding, for to stay in the same place would lead to a kind of spiritual death.

Because of its elegant and alluring shape, the nautilus is a symbol of perfection and beauty.

The nautilus is also a symbol of strength because it can also withstand very high pressures in the ocean. It is thought that the shell can dive up to 2,600 feet or 800 meters before its shell will implode.

Meditation on the Spirals of the Nautilus

If you are fortunate enough to have a cross section of a Nautilus shell, hold it in your hands. If you don't have the actual shell, a picture of a cross-section of the shell will be an acceptable substitute.

Quiet your thoughts and for a moment, just concentrate on the beginning point of the spiral deep within the shell. With your eyes open, follow the spiral around and around as it climbs higher and higher, like a staircase, opening into larger and larger chambers.

Close your eyes and visualize that central point again and imagine yourself, very small, at the beginning of the spiral. Just as you followed the spiral around and around like a staircase, imagine yourself climbing those stairs, spiraling around and around, climbing higher and higher and moving up and out through the chambers, each chamber being a larger replica of the one before.

Go slowly and allow yourself to experience the turns of the spiral and how it gets wider and wider at each turn. In your mind's eye look down into the spiral and view the center once again to see how far you have gone.

The spiral staircase can go anywhere you want it to go, or you can stop in any one of the chambers to receive the knowledge and wisdom of that chamber. Remember that the Nautilus has been replicating itself for 500 million years and carries in it's chambers the memories and knowledge of times past.

When you feel that you have experienced the upward turning of the spiral, look back once again to the center to see how far you have climbed. T

hen relax your mind and rest for a time within the spiral's energy. Open your eyes and be sure to write down any experiences or any knowledge you have received from the Nautilus.

Nautilus Characteristics

They are scavengers & opportunistic predators

Nautilus' wisdom includes: running fast away from danger, use a decoy screen to protect itself from the enemies, smartness, and get over the difficulties. These are the characters that teach us a lot in this world.

We learn to move rapidly away from danger in life. Those who have Nautilus as an animal totem has the power to be ready to move rapidly in case of any danger. Our lives are very important and we should therefore try as much as possible to be safe. We should move very fast in our lives in order to achieve.

They are opportunistic predators and this teaches us that we should grab every opportunity that comes our way. Those who have Nautilus as their power animal tend to be very opportunistic.

Another symbol of this totem is the proper use of screens to evade enemies. We need to avoid the enemies as much as possible. We should get a barrier that can strongly separate us from our enemies. This should prevent them from knowing our motives that they can use against us at any time.

Another area that we need to learn from this animal is to destroy the negative barriers. There are some negative things that happen in our lives and we need to identify them and avoid going back to them. We should learn from our past and not let our past destroy our bright future. When we dwell so much on the past, we tend to be very adamant in realizing our bright future.

People should also learn to coexist with one another in order to maintain good understanding is the key message of this spiritual guide.

Nautilus shows up as a spirit guide when

You need intellectual help.

You need to destroy negative barriers.

You need to evade the enemies.

You are in danger.

You need to move fast away from danger.

Call on Nautilus as a spirit guide when

You have enemies.

You have negative barriers to avoid.

You need some wisdom.

You need some intelligence.

You need to evade the enemies.

check these two videos for the significance of the number 108 and its relevance to the chambered nautilus

https://youtu.be/P4LQBC0arik

https://youtu.be/yDbPhL2Ajxo

#animal totems/guides #meditation #marine animals symbolism #sacred geometry

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