sandhyalalune

A Diasporic,Third Gendered, Arachnid Dream Cycle.

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Sacred Geometry. Sacred Geometry is the blueprint of Creation and the genesis of all form. It is an ancient science that explores and explains the energy patterns that create and unify all things and reveals the precise way that the energy of Creation organizes itself. On every scale, every natural pattern of growth or movement conforms inevitably to one or more geometric shapes. As you enter the world of Sacred Geometry you begin to see as never before the wonderfully patterned beauty of Creation. The molecules of our DNA, the cornea of our eye, snow flakes, pine cones, flower petals, diamond crystals, the branching of trees, a nautilus shell, the star we spin around, the galaxy we spiral within, the air we breathe, and all life forms as we know them emerge out of timeless geometric codes. Viewing and contemplating these codes allow us to gaze directly at the lines on the face of deep wisdom and offers up a glimpse into the inner workings of the Universal Mind and the Universe itself. The ancients believed that the experience of Sacred Geometry was essential to the education of the soul. They knew that these patterns and codes were symbolic of our own inner realm and the subtle structure of awareness. To them the “sacred” had particular significance involving consciousness and the profound mystery of awareness, the ultimate sacred wonder. Sacred Geometry takes on another whole level of significance when grounded in the experience of self-awareness.

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Pedro de Medina - Sun and the Moon with Months of the Year and Signs of the Zodiac, “Compendium of Cosmography”, 1545.

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Leonardo da Vinci - Flower of Life. The Flower of Life is a geometrical shape composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles arranged in a flower like pattern with six fold symmetry like a hexagon. The perfect form, proportion and harmony of the Flower of Life has been known to philosophers, architects and artist around the world. Pagans consider it to be sacred geometry containing ancient religious value depicting the fundamental forms of space and time. In the pagan sense, it is believed to contain a type of Akashic Record of basic information of all living things and is the visual expression of the connections of life that run through all sentient beings. The most common form of the Flower of Life is hexagonal pattern (where the center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter), made up of 19 complete circles and 36 partial circular arcs, enclosed by a large circle. Components of the Flower of Life have been part of the work of alchemists. Metatron’s Cube is a symbol derived from the Flower of Life which was used as a containment circle or creation circle.  Leonardo da Vinci studied the Flower of Life’s form and its mathematical properties. He drew the Flower of Life itself, as well as various components such as the Seed of Life. He drew geometric figures representing shapes such as the platonic solids, a sphere, a torus, etc., and also used the golden ratio of phi in his artwork; all of which may be derived from the Flower of Life design.

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ACACIA: Burned with sandelwood to stimulate the psychic powers.

AFRICAN VIOLET: Burned for protection and to promote spirituality within the home.

ALLSPICE: Burned to attract both good luck and money.

ALOES: Burned to attract good fortune, love, spiritual vibrations, and strength.

ALTHEA: Burned for protection and to stimulate the psychic powers.

AMBER:  Burned for love, comfort, happiness and healing

AMBERGRIS: Burn for dreams and aphrodisiac

ANGELICA: Burn for protection, harmony, integration, insight and understanding, stability and meditation

ANISE SEEDS: Burned as a meditation and emotional balance incense.

BASIL: Burned to exorcise and protect against evil entities such as demons and unfriendly ghosts, and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, and wealth. This is also an excellent incense to use when preformiong love divinations.  Also burn for concentration, assertiveness, decisiveness, trust, integrity, enthusiasm, mental clarity, cheerfulness, confidence and courage

BAY: Burned to facilitate the psychic powers, and to induce prophectic dream-visions.

BAYBERRY: Burned mainly to attract money and also burned for protection, happiness and control

BENZOIN: Burned for purification, astral projection, clears negative energy, emotional balance, eases sadness, depression, weariness, grief, anger, anxiety and to attract prosperity.

BERGAMOT: Burn for money, prosperity, uplifting of spirits, joy, protection, concentration, alertness, confidence, balance, strength, courage, motivation and assertiveness

BISTORT: Burned often with frankinsense as a powerful incense to aid divination.

BRACKEN: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain.

CARDAMOM: Burn for mental clarity, concentration, confidence, courage, enthusiasm and motivation

CARNATION: Burn for protection, strength, healing, love and lust 

CEDAR: Burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract love, prevent nightmares, and heal various ailments, including head colds.

CEDARWOOD: Burn for healing, purification, protection, money, balance, grounding, clarity, insight and wisdom

CHAMOMILE: Burn for harmony, peace, calm, spiritual and inner peace

CINNAMON: Burned for protection and to attract money, wealth, prosperity, business success, stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, and aid in healing.  Also burned for stimulation, strength and lust 

CITRON: Bunred in rituals to aid healing and also to stregthen the psychic powers.

CITRONELLA: Burn for cleansing, warding off, healing and exorcism

CLOVE: Burned to dispel negativity, purify sacred and magickal spaces, attract money, and stop or prevent the spread of gossip. Also burn for pain relief, intellectual stimulation, business success, wealth, prosperity, divination, exorcism, protection, eases fears, improves memory and focus

COCONUT: Burned for protection.

COPAL: Burned for purification, uplifting spirits, protection, exorcism, spirituality and to atract love.

CYPRESS: Burn for strength, comfort, healing, eases anxiety, stress, self-assurance, confidence, physical vitality, willpower and concentration

DAMIANA: Burned to facilitate psychic visions.

DITTANY OF CRETE: Burned to conjure spirits and to aid in divination, astral projection, especially when mixed with equal parts of benzoin, sandelwood, and vanilla. 

DRAGONS BLOOD: Burned to dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural entities, courage, purification, attract love, and restore male potency. Many Witches also burn dragon’s blood for protection when spell casting and invoking. When added to other incenses, dragon’s blood makes their magickal powers all the stronger.

ELECAMPANE: Burned to strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying abilities-divination by gazing.

EUCALYPTUS: Burn for healing, purification and protection 

FERN: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. Also used to exorcise evil supernatural entities.

FRANKINCENSE: Burned to dispel negativity, spirituality, purify magickal spaces, consecration, protect against evil, exorcism, aid meditation, astral strength, induce psychic visions, courage, protection, attract good luck, and honor Pagan deities.

FUMITORY: Burned to exorcise demons, poltergeists, and evil supernatural entities.

GALANGAL: Burned to break the curses cast by sorcerers.

GARDENIA: Burn for peace, love and healing

GINGER: Burn for wealth, lust, love and magical power

GINSENG ROOT: Burned to keep wicked spirits at bay, and for protection against all forms of evil.

GOTU KOLA: Burned to aid meditation.

HEATHER: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, and to magickally produce rain.

HIBISCUS FLOWERS: Burned to attract love, lust and also for divination.

HONEYSUCKLE: Burn to attract money, happiness, friendship and healing

HOREHOUND: Burned as an offertory incense to the ancient Egyptian god Horus.

HYACINTH: Burn for happiness and protection

JASMINE: Burned to attract love and money, and also to induce dreams of a prophectic nature, purification, wisdom and astral projection 

JUNIPER: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and also to break curses, exorcism and hexes cast by evil sorcerers. It is also burned for calming, protection and healing.

LAVENDER: Burned to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love-especially of a man. Also burned for cleansing, healing, happiness and relaxation 

LEMON: Burn for healing, love and purification 

LEMONGRASS: Burn for mental clarity

LILAC: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract harmony into ones life.

LOTUS: Burn to elevate mood, protection, spirituality, healing and meditation

MACE: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers.

MASTIC: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and intensify sexual desires. The magickal powers of other incenses are greatly increased when a bit of mastic is added.

MESQUITE: The magickal powers of all healing incenses are greatly increased when mesquite is added.

MINT: Burned to increase sexual desire, exorcise evil supernatural entities, conjure beneficial spirits, and attract money. Mint incense also possesses strong healing vibrationsand protective powers.

MUSK: Burn for aphrodisiac, prosperity, courage

MYRRH: Burned (often with frankincense) for purification, consecration, healing, exorcism, and banishing evil. Myrrh is also aids meditation rituals, and was commonly burned on alters in ancient Egypt as an offering to deities Isis and Ra.

NUTMEG: Burned to aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract prosperity.

OAKMOSS: Burned for money and attraction

ORANGE: Burned for divination, love, luck and money

PATCHOULI: Burned to attract money, love, growth, mastery, sensuality and also to promote fertility.

PEPPERMINT: Burned for energy, mental stimulant, exorcism and healing

PINE: Burned for purification, and to banish negativeenergies, exorcise evil supernatural entities, and attract money, as well as to break hexes and return them to their senders. Also burned for grounding, strength, cleansing and healing

POPPY SEEDS: Burned to promote female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money.

ROSE: Burned to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, house blessing, fertility, healing and attract love. Rose incense is used in all forms of love enchantment and possesses the strongest love vibration of any magickal incense.

ROSE GERANIUM:  Burned for courage and protection

ROSEMARY: Burned to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness, dispel depression, attract fairyfolk, and promote restful sleep and pleasant dreams.

RUE: Burned to help restore health.

SAGE: Burned for protection against all forms of evil. It is also burned to purify sacred spaces and ritual tools. Plus it is great for promoting wisdom, clarity, attract money, and aid in the healing the body, mind, and soul.  

SAGEBRUSH: Burned to aid healing, and to banish negative energies and evil supernatural entities.

SANDALWOOD: Burned to exorcise demons and evil ghosts, conjure beneficial spirits, and promote spiritual awareness. Sandalwood incense is also used by many Witches for protection, astral projection, healing rituals and in wish-magick.

SOLOMONS SEAL: Burned mainly as an offertory incense to ancient Pagan deities.

STAR ANISE SEEDS: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers.

STRAWBERRY: Burned to attract love and for luck.

SWEETGRASS: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits prior to spellcasting.

SWEET PEA:  Burned for friendship, love and courage

THYME: Burned for the purification of magickal spaces prior to rituals, to aid in healing, and to attract good health.

VANILLA: Burned to attract love, increase sexual desire, and improve the powers of the mind.

VERVAIN: Burned to exorcise evil supernatural entities.

VETIVERT: Burned to break curses, exorcism, for protection against black magick and thieves, money, peace and love.

VIOLET:  Burn for wisdom, luck, love, protection and healing

WILLOW: Burned to avert evil, attract love, and promote healing. It is also used by many Witches as an offertory incense for Pagan lunar deities.

WISTERIA: Burned for protection against all forms of evil.

WORMWOOD: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. When mixed with sandalwood and burned at night in a cemetery, wormwood is said to be able to conjure spirits from their graves.

YARROW:  Burned to arrow courage, exorcism

YLANG-YLANG: Burned for love, harmony and euphoria

P.s. I took the photo of my collection.

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important reference post

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Creativity embodied in Alchemical Processes encoded by the forms of Zodiacal Signs. The alchemical magnum opus was sometimes expressed as a series of chemical operations. In cases where these numbered twelve, each could be assigned one of the Zodiac signs as a form of cryptography. The following example can be found in Pernety’s 1758 “Mytho-Hermetic Dictionary”:

Calcination (Aries) Congelation (Taurus) Fixation (Gemini) Dissolution (Cancer) Digestion (Leo) Distillation (Virgo) Sublimation (Libra) Separation (Scorpio) Incineration (Sagittarius) Fermentation (Capricorn) Multiplication (Aquarius) Projection (Pisces)

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Russell Lee: Radiator cap, Laurel, Mississippi, 1938

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Hair-dressing as a Work of Art [Igbo]

Charcoal dust and palm oil are freely used, but should necessity arise the structure must be cut away entirely, as it cannot be “undone”.

Among the Ibos of Nigeria [Public Domain], G. T. Basden, early 20th century.

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Female mask from Lughulu masquerade of Ugwueke village, Alayi, Isu-Item Igbo culture. Photo: G. I. Jones.

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A boy with chalk patterns on his body, Umuahia, Eastern Nigeria, ca. 1925. Shot by Emily Godfrey.

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To all my nonbinary babes

Stay confusing. Make people earn their understanding of you.

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Renée Cox, Yo Mama’s Pieta, 1996

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Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via ughmoriarty)

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Of the Nail, the Thorn, and the Cross

Iron Nail Cross

Cross of Samael

Oak Nowl

Metalwork, sculpture, and carving attributed to Daniel Schulke

“The Thorn is both punitive & binding, the Holy Nail of the Greenwood executing the grim sentence of Crucifixion at once harnessing the forces of binding & torment.”

— Daniel Schulke, Viridarium Umbris : The Pleasure Garden of Shadow

The cross has been defined by Schulke as “the supreme magical formula of incarnation-sacrifice-apotheosis arising from the fixation of spirit into the four ways of matter.”

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Nwanyi Oma [beautiful women] mask, boys initiation, Elugu, Nkporo-Igbo culture, 1930s. Photo: G. I. Jones.

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By @kh2rac

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White Hoodoo

‘Are you saying I’m not Hoodoo because I’m white? There are lots of white Hoodoo practicioners.That’s pretty racist.’ Aw, sweetie, no. It’s not your race, necessarily; I know there are white rootworkers, it’s your goddamn behaviour. You don’t get to strut around calling yourself ‘Hoodoo’ because your practice has a few additional phrases and groovy oils you plucked out of it like a 15 year-old buying her first Dreamcatcher from a stall at Beautiful Days whilst ignoring the rest of the entire living tradition. You don’t get to call yourself Hoodoo when you only focus on white Catholic syncretism because it’s more comforting and familiar than the Black powers you ‘don’t feel so drawn to,’ and dear God I wish that wasn’t an actual quote. You don’t get to call yourself Hoodoo and then shit all over POC in the comments because acknowledging their voices, their agency and their pain makes you really uncomfortable.

I am more likely to pull a whole, screaming Mandrake root right out of my ass than you are to have any meaningful relationship with the spirits and deities of people you are consistently actively trying to silence.

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#you can work with roots herbs and spirits and not dig your colonist hands into hoodoo though - @ofcloudsandstars  please preach the truth yas

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An Okorosie or Okoroshi masquerade depicting a close up of two beautiful characters. The one on the right is called Onyejuwe.

G. I. Jones, 1930s