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hey my name is ezekiel and im a witch currently working with apollo, helios, and archangel michael. please see my about page for more info. he/him pronouns.

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Incense Meanings

African Violet - Protection and to promote spirituality within the home. Amber - Love comfort, happiness and healing. Ambergris - Dreams, aphrodisiac Angelica - Protection, harmony, integration, insight, understanding, stability and meditation. Anise - Emotional balance. Apple Blossom - Happiness, love and friendship. Basil - Concentration, assertiveness, decisiveness, trust, integrity, enthusiasm, mental clarity, cheerfulness, confidence, courage to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, and wealth. Bay - Facilitation of psychic powers, and to induce prophetic dream visions. Bayberry - Protection, prosperity, happiness, control and to attract money. Benzoin - Astral projection, purification, clears negative energy, emotional balance, eases sadness, depression, weariness, grief, anger and anxiety. Bergamot - Money, prosperity, uplifting of spirits, joy, protection, concentration, alertness, confidence, balance, strength, courage, motivation and assertiveness Blue Berry- To keep unwanted influences away from your home and property. Cardamom - Mental clarity, concentration, confidence, courage, enthusiasm and motivation. Carnation - Protection, strength, healing, love and lust, traditionally used for healing. Cedar - Burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract love, prevent nightmares, healing, purification, protection, money, balance, grounding, clarity, insight and wisdom. Chamomile - Harmony, peace, calm, spiritual, and inner peace. Cherry - To attract and stimulate love. Cinnamon - Stimulation, wealth, prosperity, business success, strength, lust, healing, to attract money, stimulate and strengthen the psychic powers and to aid in healing. To gain wealth and success. Citron - Burned in rituals to aid healing and also to strengthen psychic powers. Citronella - Cleansing, warding off, healing. Clove - Pain relief, intellectual stimulation, business success, wealth, prosperity, divination, exorcism, protection, eases fears, improves memory and focus. Coconut - Protection and purification. Copal - Love, purification, uplifting spirits, protection, spirituality, and to attract love. Cypress - Strength, comfort, healing, eases anxiety and stress, self-assurance, confidence, physical vitality, willpower and concentration. Damiana - Facilitation of psychic visions. Dittany of Crete - Astral projection and divination. Dragon’s Blood - Protection, purification, courage, dispel negativity, attract love, enhance psychic awareness. Elecampane - Strengthens the clairvoyant powers and scrying abilities. Eucalyptus - Healing, purification and protection. Frankincense - Spirituality, astral strength, protection, consecration courage, dispel negativity, aid to meditation, induce psychic visions and attract good luck. Frangipani - Brightens your home with friendship and love. Gardenia - Peace, love and healing. Ginger - Wealth, lust and love. Hibiscus - Divination, love and lust to attract love. Honeysuckle - Money, happiness, friendship, healing, for good health, luck, and psychic power. Hyacinth - Happiness and protection. Jasmine - Love, money, dreams, purification, wisdom, skills, astral projection, to attract love and money, for luck in general, especially in matters relating to love. Juniper - Calming, protection, healing, to increase psychic powers and to break the curses and hexes cast by evil. Lavender - Cleansing, healing, love, happiness, relaxation, to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love. Lemon - Healing, love and purification. Lemongrass - Mental clarity. Lilac - Soothing, increase psychic powers and to attract harmony into one’s life. Lotus - Elevates mood, protection, spirituality, healing, meditation for inner peace and outer harmony, to aid in meditation and open the mind’s eye. Mace - Stimulates or increases psychic powers. Mint - Increases sexual desire and attractsmoney. Musk - Aphrodisiac, prosperity, courage, creates a sensual atmosphre. For courage and vitality, or to heighten sensual passion. Myrrh - Spirituality, meditation, healing and consecration. An ancient incense for protection, healing, purification and spirituality. Nutmeg - Aids meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers and attract prosperity. Oakmoss - Attracts money. Orange - Divination, love, luck, money. Patchouli - Money, growth, love, mastery, sensuality to attract money and love, and also to promote fertility. Passionflower - Peace of mind, this sweet scent will soothe troubles and aid in sleep. Peppermint - Energy, mental stimulant, healing. Pine - Grounding, strength, cleansing, healing and to attract money. Poppy Seed - Promotes female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money. Rose - Love, house blessing, fertility, healing to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, and attract love to return calm energies to the home. Rose Geranium - Courage and protection. Rosemary - Remembrance, memory, energy, healing to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness, dispel depression. Rue - Burned to help restore health. Sage - Wisdom, clarity and purification. Sandalwood - Spirituality, healing, protection, astral projection to heal and protect, also for purification. Strawberry - Love, luck and friendship. Sweet Pea - Friendship, love and courage. Tangerine - A solar aroma used to attract prosperity. Vanilla - Lust, mental alterness, stimulate amorous appetites and enhance memory. Vetivert - Money, peace and love. Violet - Wisdom, luck, love, protection and healing. Yarrow - Courage. Ylang-Ylang - Love, harmony and euphoria.

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Hearst Castle is a thing of beauty, this here is one of the amazing pools on the premises, the Roman Pool. I shot this with my canon camera then processed in LR4

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Escalier d’Apollon - Château de Compiègne

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Invocation to Helios

Son of Hyperion, you race across the sky driven by fire-winged stallions, Brother of Dawn and Moon, your flashing eyes are seen from afar All-seeing, all-hearing watcher, you witness the most solemn oaths of mortals and punish those who dishonor their word. Dazzling god who can blind men or restore sight lost, Ruler of the year coursing through the zodiac’s houses, Rescuer of Hephaestos from Phlegra’s battlefield, Diurnal light, you shine upon the earth, giving life to all beings.

Today we mark the longest day, when your flight across the heavens is slowest, when your time spent in the land of eternal darkness, beyond the rising and setting sun is shortest; As you are all seeing, so you see us gathered.

Shining Titan, brilliant god of freedom, saviour, child of sight and clear blue sky, You are always above.

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How To: Get Out of a Magical Slump

This post is brought to you by my own current magical slump that I’m going to be working at pulling myself out of. So let’s all go at this together. Please feel free to add whatever ideas you have when you reblog! :)

- find a challenge online to do something everyday. Whether it’s witchy, tarot, religious, whatever you feel like. Add a reminder on your phone to show up every day, or leave post its on places you’ll see. 

- find some songs that make you feel ethereal and add them into your current music playlist. Then they’ll show up at random and help swing your mindset to magic. 

- wear an item that makes you feel powerful, like that pentacle or tree of life that’s been sitting on your dresser for a while. 

- take a walk somewhere with a lot of nature. If it’s somewhere wild like the woods, bring a plant guide and a bag, forage a bit. Then you can dry them out and expand your magical components. 

- Never forget about kitchen witchcraft, even if you’re not a kitchen witch. We all eat, and many of us cook to some degree. Even if you just look up the magical correspondences of hummus and peanut butter. Tape the list to the jar, then you’ll be reminded every time you grab a snack.

 - Have a movie night for yourself with a selection of movies/TV shows featuring a (somewhat)more realistic version of magic. Try Practical Magic, Mists of Avalon, The Craft, The Secret Circle, etc

-  Throw a drawstring bag of your favourite crystals in the jeans you always wear

- light incense for absolutely no reason. Scented candles, diffusers, and essential oil burners work great too

- Try to meditate once a day. Set a time if you can. Even if it’s just 15, 10 or even 5 minutes. 

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Pillars of Hellenismos

Kharis ~ Creating beautiful relationships with the Theoi

Metriotes ~ everything in moderation

Sophia ~ pursuit of wisdom and understanding

Eusebeia ~ Being reverent, and worshiping the Theoi dutifully

Ethike Arete ~ Pursuing the best version of oneself

Sophrosune ~ Self-control by thinking deeply

Xenia ~ Hospitality, and being a thoughtful guest

Hagneia ~ Avoiding miasma and miasmic situations

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So I just wanted to inform people that if you go to the temple to Apollo at Delphi where the oracle at Delphi was situated there are cats, like everywhere and they are so placid I spent most of my time there with a kitten in my arms, Greece is honestly a great place for cats and if anybody is going the or near there and likes cats you should really go, not only is it a beautiful historical place it’s also full of cute fluffy balls of fun

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This made me very happy.

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The Judgment of Paris, ca. 1781

Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807)

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The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, c. 1826

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Delphi Oracle, Greece

In ancient Greece, Delphi was considered the center of the known world, the place where heaven and earth met. In Mythology, Delphi was the meeting place of two eagles, released by Zeus and sent in opposite directions. Where they met indicated the center of the earth. 

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Latona (Greek: Leto) and Her children, Apollo and Diana, by William Henry Rinehart.

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Apollo Attended by Nymphs (ca. 1667-75) by François Girardon

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Jean-Bruno Gassies (1786–1832) - Castor and Pollux rescuing Helen (1817)    

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Pythagoreans Celebrate Sunrise by Fyodor Bronnikov

1869

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Apollo - Academy of Athens, Greece

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Apollo Belvedere & Diana of Versailles.