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capricorn - the queen who rules without a king 

capricorn expresses a natural regality and style of command that emulates the priestesses she has been in lifetimes before this. she can see hidden gold and great possibilities radiating from within people, and she aims to lead a life with a story that inspires others to rise beyond their history and chase their dreams. most of the capricorn’s desire to prove her worth and place in the world is rather the need to prove to herself that she is enough, because she can remember herself as being too big or too small or something at the wrong time. the capricorn life can be spent in the intensive labour of hard work and sacrifice, success, objectives, promotions, and pay rises. it can result of growing to associate love and affection with certain conditions, demands, and expectations. so the capricorn internalises and devotes this energy into something meaningful that she cannot be abandoned by like her profession, passion, art, or talent. she is determined to prove the past and the people in it  wrong. and for all these shadows inside capricorn there is one thing she refuses to do. she will never sell herself short because she knows she is worth more than what most can afford. she will never self-destruct again in those desperate attempts to prove that she is enough for their love. she makes a promise to her inner child that life will get better, she makes a pledge to her inner warrior that she is bigger than any storm to be weathered, she makes a vow to her inner elder that she will remember, and she calls upon her inner priestess to fight these battles with her majestic grace, from her wisdom she emerges and to it she will return

C

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Inner Psychics

• ♅ Uranus: Cerebrospinal fluid poured from the Aquarius jug helixes up the spine to saturate the pineal gland

• ♆ Neptune: The Kingdom of Souls, where the body becomes a cosmic flute eternally playing the seven vowels of nature

• ♇ Pluto: The wise counsel emanating through images, desires, and feelings that rise from an unknown place deep inside

[astrolocherry]

Saturn in Fire Houses - 1st, 5th, 9th:

Shame and Suppression

Saturn in the 1st: Growing and evolving beyond what defines the ‘self’ and the dimensions that have tightly structured and limited expressing the natural forces that flow through this aperture. the self-expectation is to develop and become the person that they can be proud of investing in and holding onto life for

Saturn in the 5th: The pressure to transmute creative resources and inspiration into material form that will stand the test of time and provide evidence that they existed at all. But they are rarely afforded internal praise or satisfaction for these productions, and they are not permitted to use the escape of the wounded inner child to hide behind, the audience is waiting in the shadows

Saturn in the 9th: The pressure to make the necessary inner growth to finally be ‘good enough’ for god, or in other words to exist on earth and have a reason for birth. The simultaneous demand is to gratify and establish the mind, often in academic pursuits that are challenging and beyond their comfort zone

[sonderastrology]

Astrology Culture - Venus Signs

Aries Venus:

🌹Upfront and bold about feelings - not afraid to “shoot their shot”

🌹Aries Venuses are huge support systems; even if they don’t understand, they will still be there for you and listen

🌹High energy beings physically and/or mentally - people who can’t stay still for too long, always onto the next topic or lover

🌹Probably work out a lot and/or naturally strong and defined

🌹A sense of style to die for and a sense of humor to match

🌹Impulsive and feisty lil bitches 

🌹Intense eyes and sexy eye contact

🌹Outgoing and bubbly for the most part, this placement find it easy to socialize

Taurus Venus:

🌱Fall for physically beautiful people

🌱Controlling.,.,!

🌱Fear of abandonment x12

🌱BUT, these people are so loyal, supportive, reliable (like Leo Venus but less fiery and more down to earth)

🌱When taurus venus is single, they’re flirtatious and love to socialize/party/go out

🌱When taurus venus is in a relationship, they would much rather stick to dinner dates and hang out at home

🌱Will fight you if you mess with their friends and esp their family

🌱Ask these people for restaurant recommendations!!! they know what’s up when it comes to good food 

🌱These people know their worth so don’t try fucking them over or treating them like shit!

Gemini Venus:

🦋Friendzones everyone but hates being friendzoned

🦋They don’t flirt with everyone; they’re just hot and like to talk 

🦋Shows off infront of a crowd

🦋Gemini Venuses get bored fasssst 

🦋When these people are in a relationship, its usually for long periods of time

🦋Hard to pin these people down

🦋Many hobbies that they’re actually great at

🦋Good at being friends with benefits

Cancer Venus:

🦀CEO of “I’m baby” 

🦀This placement lovesss makeup/fashion, overall loves looking good

🦀They love the good things in life like Taurus and fall for the physically beautiful ones

🦀You get hurt cause you care way too much

🦀Will go out for amdrive just to blare sad music and calls it therapy

🦀I’ve noticed cancer venus has a hard time with love :((( poor babies

🦀Moody crab

🦀Gives level headed advice to people but does psycho shit themselves

Leo Venus:

YAASS MS. LEO VENUS! WORK!

☀️Ride or die type

☀️Jealous and possessive in relationships

☀️Leo venus are actually more homebodies, but when they go out, they’re the life of the party

☀️Attract people naturally

☀️Distinctive feature; hair, dimples, beautiful eyes, freckles, big smile, something!

☀️When they dress up, they go all out- queens

☀️So naturally beautiful 

☀️Put a lot of time into themselves and hobbies

Virgo Venus: 

🐢Their shy and seem emotionless around their crushes but they’re freaking out on the inside

🐢Hard time communicating emotions, more into acts of service

🐢Freaks! in! the! Sheets!

🐢Neat and clean 

🐢Their style is simple and elegant, probably loves jewelry

🐢Don’t forget anything but they forgive easily because theyre understanding

🐢It hurts them to leave people, but it hurts the people being left a million times more - it takes a lot of hurt for a Virgo to leave someone

🐢Calendars, agendas, to do lists

Libra Venus:

🎀These people are hot asf, something about them is just ooufff

🎀Flirts via texting, snapchat, twitter dm, tinder- all of them

🎀Gigglers

🎀Hi Gossip! How are ya? :)

🎀Their style is trendy, cute, and eye catching!

🎀Definitely artistic asfff

🎀You have to be interesting, confident, and different to get a libra venus to love you

🎀These people are really kind and sweet - sometimes it comes off as fake but they just HATE rude people

🎀Most aesthiecally pleasing instagram accounts

Scorpio venus:

🧿They will stare at you

🧿Will make the first move if you’re taking too long

🧿Get addicted to people and things easily

🧿Love love music

🧿Loners 

🧿Scorpio Venuses will keep your darkest secrets safe and will always be there for you no matter what!

🧿Ride or die

🧿Tendency to stalk and obsess over their exes social media pages 

Sagittarius Venus:

☄️Late bloomers 

☄️Never really grow up, but they’re fun asf and always looking to do something fun

☄️Goes on vacation to DO THINGS- hike, skydive, tour museums, etc … not a resorty type

☄️Music taste to die for, best at playlist making

☄️SOOOO funny 

☄️Reckless and do crazy things for attention

☄️Skater vibe

☄️Luck at extremes- very unlucky then very very lucky 

Capricorn Venus:

🪐Daddy issues of some kind

🪐Won’t say I love you first and won’t say it for awhile

🪐Work and money oriented

🪐Acts of service typa love like virgo venus

🪐Low sex drive but when they’re up for it, they’re freakkkkyyyy

🪐Likes to dress in dark colors; cranberry, army green, navy blue

🪐Mysterious and hard to know fully

🪐Will have the same crush for years and years

Aquarius Venus:

💎Falls inlove with their best friends

💎Probably hates spending time with their loved one’s family

💎Difficult relationship with parents, they like to rebell and be independent

💎Knows so much about every thing, and loves learning about things

💎 “I think they’re copying me”

💎Can be mean/cold but don’t realize it

💎Anxietyyyy from a young age esp socially

💎Very very smart but most of the time not academically - they hate structured environments

Pisces Venus:

👣Sleeps with the same stuffed animal they’ve had since they were born

👣Has pets and connects with animals deeply

👣They aren’t stupid, they’re just dissociating! 

👣Forgets what they’re saying in the middle of a sentence

👣Highly attuned beings, psychic powers

👣They fall in and out of love 5 times a day

👣Gives people the benefit of the doubt, always

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”

— Albert Einstein (1924)

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The life cycle of a star

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Retrograde motion of Mars in the night sky of the Earth.

Image Credit: Tunc Tezel

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Full Moon in Gemini Affirmations: 12/12/19

🌕 I am able to fully speak my truth.

🌕 I am able to communicate clearly, comfortably, and confidently.

🌕 I can clearly see the path that leads to my highest and greatest good.

🌕 I am a compassionate listener.

🌕 I cultivate healthy, happy, and harmonious relationships.

🌕 I have the power to shape my reality.

🌕 I have the wisdom to evaluate the effects of my actions.

🌕 I have the strength to move on from people and situations that upset me.

🌕 I love every part of me, especially the parts that are still healing.

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[that-millennial-chick]

Worst Traits About the Signs

Aries: Aggression

Taurus: Laziness

Gemini: Insensitivity

Cancer: Moodiness

Leo: Arrogance

Virgo: Pickiness

Libra: Dullness

Scorpio: Vengefulness

Sagittarius: Naivety

Capricorn: Stubbornness

Aquarius: Criticism

Pisces: Hypocrisy

[sosuperawesome]

Solar System Embroidery Art

Ophelie Trichereau on Etsy

See our #Etsy or #Embroidery tags

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Let’s talk about the elements!

I’ve written a lot about the seven classical planets and celestial/cosmic witchcraft. I think it’s time to bring things a bit more down to earth, though!

This is a new two-part series! It will focus on the natural elements as understood by the Western Magical Tradition.

In today’s article, I’ll be explaining a bit about the history of these concepts and how I see them. I hope you find this interesting and informative!

Thinking About the Elements

Elements are one of the first concepts I learned when beginning a journey into witchcraft. 

But! How do we view the elements as concepts? Lets consider how they relate to us and the whole universe. Here’s my views!

Some believe the elements are simply words for natural phenomena. In other words, Fire is fire - the burning of a campfire or candle, or another flame. Water would always be something like a stream, the ocean or other liquid. I don’t see it this way. They’re far more complex than that!

The four elements stem the observations of ancient philosophers. These thinkers guessed that these substances were the building blocks of physical reality. Of course, they were wrong! In reality, atoms comprise matter. Matter and energy, then, make up the physical universe. 

We could associate four classical elements with the four states of matter. These are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. They’d correspond to earth, water, air, and fire in turn. This is a very simplified view, though!

These concepts were fundamental to the ancients. A wealth of lore has developed around them. They have grown into complex metaphors for aspects of the human condition. The physical manifestations of the elements have become potent symbols. 

They represent various mental and emotional phenomena. Symbols are important in witchcraft. The way I see it, all tools of the Craft are symbols used to connect with larger forces that work within the universe.

The elements themselves, and their attributions, are in fact, somewhat arbitrary. This means that each of us will have a different idea of what each element represents!

There’s nothing wrong with this, though. The point is to use them as symbols. What they symbolize to you is your own business!

Qualifying the Elements

In the Western Magical Tradition, there are four core (classical) elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.  

Some traditions do posit a fifth element called the quintessence, also known as Spirit or Aether. This fifth element stands apart from the other four, as it doesn’t behave in the same way.  

I’ll be focusing on these four, not on the quintessence. Spirit as an element is a very large topic best suited for its own series of articles.

Alchemical thinkers have placed these four into categories. . They’re quite useful for understanding the system. 

Each element is either “hot” or “cold,” as well as either “dry,” or “wet.”

This doesn’t describe the physical qualities of the phenomena in question. Rather, these terms are metaphors. They refer to the roles taken by the concepts each element embodies.

Hot and Cold Elements

Hot elements are active in human existence. 

They stand for concepts that penetrate and alter the world around them. An outdated way of putting this would be to describe them as “masculine.” This comes from historical stereotypes about gender. I tend to use the term “active” to describe hot elements. That’s Fire and Air.

Cold elements are passive and receptive. 

They represent concepts from which we draw nourishment. They are the structure or substance that forms our mental landscape. The hot elements tend to be the essence or organizing principle. 

Cold elements are often stereotyped as “feminine.“  They are Water and Earth, both of which play a nourishing role in human existence.

Wet and Dry Elements

Dryness as a concept within the Western Magical Tradition refers to a fixed state. In other words, the dry elements are things that don’t often change. These elements are full of stability. 

The key feature of a dry element is lack of intense motion. We can depend on the stable parts of our existence, represented by these elements.

The dry elements are Fire and Earth. It may seem strange to call fire stable, but it is a reliable source of warmth to us. It represents a constant feature of human life.

When we speak of wet elements, we mean the two elements that aren’t fixed. In other words, elements that flow ,change and transform. It is the concepts associated with these elements that drive the changes. They are reliable, but only insofar as change, itself, is something to rely on! 

The wet elements are Air and Water. Both are natural features that shift and flow through our lives. The inclusion of Air as a wet element shows that these are metaphorical, not literal terms.

Much more could be said about how people have described the elements throughout time. The above image shows the alchemical view of how the elements can combine to create secondary principles. 

As you might guess, “fixed” and “volatile” here stand for what we’ve been calling “passive” and “active.” If you want to know more about these further topics, I recommend Robert Bartlett’s book, True Alchemy. 

The entire concept of the elements is a metaphor, though. It’s a metaphor that can work for you. It can help with your Craft, and help you connect with the universe. I’ll be posting the next article tomorrow! In that, I’ll be discussing each element in detail.

[makkleyn]

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🕊 mutable dominant culture

(mutable signs: pisces, sagittarius, gemini, virgo)

changes their style/fashion sense frequently

absorbing (stealing? lol) friends and people they admire’s ways of speaking and mannerisms

frequent (often drastic) opinion changes

tendency to not take sides in arguments (especially gem & pisces ; they have amazing abilities to see all sides therefore bounce between sides so often it’s easier to not argue at all)

hard to tie down, specifically in the areas of their mutable houses (check this post) and planets (ie: mutable mercurys change opinions, school majors, ways of speaking, etc a lot // mutable venus change partners and romantic interests frequently)

hard to read, hard to understand

oversharers yet no one really knows who they are at the same time

often very social & know a lot of people/have a lot of friends, yet feel so alone and misunderstood inside

can meet them one day and not recognize them the next (personality or appearance wise, or both - this is how frequently and intensely they tend to warp themselves)

constantly evolving and changing who they are and what they want

……which often leaves them feeling confused, stressed, unsure about life and their future, and their wants/needs

often struggles to understand what they really DO need (especially mutable moons)

tendency to have a different personality for their different friends, environments, etc

mutable risings, mercurys and suns tend to reflect and mirror people’s personalities back onto themselves and hide their true personalities (especially pisces & gemini - sag & virgo have more of a preference for authenticity)

often have (esp mutable mercury + venus + moon) a very broad music taste; might listen to someone/something from every genre, tend to not have a specific music taste

same goes for taste in things like aesthetics, fashion, movies, etc

(*!personal observation!*) mutable venus and/or moons tend to care the least about people’s appearances when dating - more interested in the personality and especially intellectual traits of a person

comes off as very open and welcoming to everyone, tendency to make others always feel comfortable and included in their presence

they never stop talking ever (esp mutable moon + mercury + rising)

very bad for extreme overthinking (especially virgo + gem energy, moon or mercury)

a desire - no - a need to be social (especially mutable moon and mercury)

feeling trapped in a constant state of confusion and self doubt (who am i? what do i want? who do i need? etc)

decision making is nearly impossible (esp mutable mars, mercury, moon)

lives off adventure and trying new things

likely has huge interest (and almost an inner need for) in travelling 

likely interested in learning new/other languages (especially pisces/sag energy)

struggles to follow-through with things and commit to things

can be very flightly, flaky ; ghost-like personalities

either replies back to you in 1 second or 1 year good luck (esp sag/gem mercury and mars)

loves and encourages change in their lives; usually thrives in new and unusual environments (this will mostly apply to gem/sag, a little bit to pisces, not as much virgo energy)

those with mutable moons and/or mutable 4th house probably moved around a lot especially during childhood

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gemini, sagittarius, pisces and aquarius culture is seemingly fitting in with everyone and everything yet feeling completely isolated and out-of-place at the exact same time

[losstinspace]

thought i’d share some playlists for the sabbats, find them especially useful when i happen to be busy on those days and can’t do much else.

[astrolocherry]

virgos can find it quite challenging to unwind and release the tension from their body. they can burn themselves trying and telling themselves to ‘relax,’ then berating themselves for not doing ‘relaxing’ correctly. over time they have conditioned habits to direct, contain and hide their nervous energy. as natural multitaskers they compartmentalise parts of the mind into the hands and let thoughts enquire and answer through their fingers. they are potentially fanatic and difficult to engage when something important is approaching, so never mind the ‘altruistic’ and ‘servicing’ virgo in this case. if there is something like an essay or deadline due later today or four weeks time, they want to finish it and begin editing and perfecting. even if their keyboard and incessant self-chatter keeps everybody else awake al night, virgo has a job to be done and it’s through such rituals and practices that virgo becomes ‘selfish,’ because something so discomforting like writing a paper or completing an assignment before due date  is one of their sole and transparent acts of self-care.

virgo is a healer’s sign. hermes was the god of mercury and the carrier of the sacred caduceus, a symbol appearing in modern day as an emblem of nurses. but none of this is any good to Virgo if they are not given the time, space, and respect to practice their own self-care, and self-heal. they need quiet from the chaos and problems of other people so they can actually hear themselves think - this is also something they are simultaneously fearful of. they have never been able to find the exact place on their body or mind where the bandage should go. this is also the way that humanity receives the complete scope of the spirit’s service through virgo. when virgos are being ‘self-centred’ enough to self-care, then everybody benefits from the potential wisdom, guidance, and counsel that the mother goddess in this sign longs to return back to you

[astrolocherry]

astrology is so easy to fall in love with,  because when you let reveal itself, it shows you how intricately life was designed…how every moment has been delicately stitched in divine time pieces of yourself that you once thought were broken or wrong,   that was just a different melody of a cosmic song you had never heard before