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@stellarcunning
what is dead may never die ꩜
hi all, my name is lizzie! im a folk magician and astrolater from england.
im interested in: stellar witchcraft, astrology and its magic, english cunningfolk-ways and bioregional animism.
you can also find me on insta @ littlenedjem
An Astrological (Mini-)Glossary: Thingies
Luminaries: the Sun and the Moon. Sometimes also called “the lights.” We can get an excellent “bare bones” idea of a person based on their Sun and Moon, and the interrelationship between them. And, looking at the luminaries’ cycle in the progressed chart is kind of a “TL;DR” or “Cliff’s Notes” version of your whole life.
The one astrological transit-type thing I always try to be aware of, on a daily basis, is what the Sun and Moon are doing at any given moment - in a way, it is a kind of “what time of the month is it.”
Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and Mars. These placements show how we’re unique individuals. For example: two of my sisters, my daughter, and I are all Geminis - with our birthdays on June 4, 6, 9, and 11 - but none of us share completely identical inner planet placements.
Asteroids: thingies orbiting (for the most part) between Mars and Jupiter. The four main ones (which I call “Lady Asteroids”) are Ceres, Pallas Athene, Juno, and Vesta. To me they’re all very community-oriented, providing us with clues/ways to navigate the immediate tribal and familial circumstances. I feel sometimes that we need to work hard on these, to become better at doing the next bunch of thingies….
Outer Planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Can be further subdivided into:
Social Planets: Jupiter and Saturn. All the people in your high school class (and perhaps a year before or after) share these sign placements with you.
Transcendental Planets: Uranus and Neptune. These show up more as generational influences: Uranus spends seven years in one sign, and Neptune spends 14 years in one sign.
Centaurs: various thingies orbiting between various outer planets. They act as bridges or ambassadors between those two planets. Sort of helping us navigate between our own culture (Jupiter and Saturn) and other cultures (Uranus and Neptune). The most famous Centaur is Chiron.
Trans-Neptunian Objects: thingies orbiting beyond Neptune’s orbit. Pluto is in this category, as is Eris. There are scads of these, too.
We don’t have to know every last placement for every last asteroid, Centaur, or TNO. It’s useful but not required. As an example, to have one of them closely conjunct an important point can help refine a delineation.
Similarly, a strategically-placed thingie can take part in an aspect pattern, like the way my Centaur Pholus turns a mere t-square into a grand cross. It isn’t conjunct anything, but it’s closely square my Venus and Ascendant, and opposite my Ceres.
Your Pluto or Eris, also, may not be very well-integrated or active in your birth chart, but one of the other TNOs (Haumea? Makemake?) may be pushing all the buttons.
A cool thing about the asteroids is that there are so damned many of them, they ran out of mythological names and started to have to use names of actual people, places, and even bands (#8749 Beatles). One fun rabbit hole is to look up your name, and the names of people close to you, to see where they fall in your chart. My son’s name is conjunct my MC, my daughter’s name is conjunct my Ascendant, and my own name is conjunct my Part of Fortune.
"A self-bored stone is a stone that has a hole through it, worn out by water, from one part of its composition being of a softer nature than the general mass. These stones are much esteemed by the vulgar and the valued on account of their having the supposed virtue of curing those persons who are subject to the disease of the night-mare or incubus. They are taken and hung up by a small cord, in the bed curtain, or top (if it is a wooden bed) above, or as near to the person as possible. They are of use also in the cure of sprains or bruises, in the same manner as the adder-stone, namely by rubbing the joint, etc. affected. It is a popular belief that the fairies always had one of these stones of a large size laid upon the entrance of their subterranean abodes. This, they said kept them at an equal distance from christened men and the Devil and deterred the witches from taking their possessions. This kind of middle region the fairies always seem to have taken notice of, and if they had an person whom they had stolen in their company, who had been christened, if they were riding, he had a right to ride nearest the town or village."
-Old Rites, Ceremonies, And Customs of the Southern Counties of Scotland, Thomas Wilkie.
But first they must catch you
Ahhh I'm so proud of this piece!! :D
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the god of dirt
The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things; I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, crow voice, frog voice; now he said, and now,
and never once mentioned forever.
— Mary Oliver, from “One or Two Things” in The God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of God by Thomas Wingate Mann · 2004 (via Alive on All Channels)
The Water Mermaid (Rusalka) by Mykhailo Derehus. Illustration for Lesya Ukrainka's play "Forest Song", 1977. Paper, etching. Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine. “Forest Song” is based on folktales and songs Ukrainka gathered in 1893.
We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula Le Guin
Anonymous Bolognese Painter, c. 1450–1475
Saints Pierced by Thorns (Polyptych fragment)
Tempera and gold leaf on panel
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy
A highly unique late-Gothic artwork depicting holy figures serene amid physical torment. Their blood flows down into a carpet of red roses, symbolically transforming an execution into a triumph of faith.
Ancient Roman Mosiacs
It’s you vs. you.
Not you vs. her. Not you vs. him.
You are on a different path than everybody else. So your pace will be different from theirs.
Forget paths — who’s to say that your destination is even the same in the first place?
That’s why comparing yourself to others doesn’t make any sense.
Don’t worry about who’s shining more brightly than you.
Worry only if you’re not shining more brightly than your past self.
As long as you’re a better version of you today than you were yesterday… well, darling, you’re winning.
“Witches, like saints, are solitary stars that shine with a light of their own; they depend on nothing and no one, which is why they have no fear and plunge blindly into the abyss with the assurance that instead of crashing to earth, they will fly back out. They can change into birds and see the world from above, or worms to see it from within, they can inhabit other dimensions and travel to other galaxies, they are navigators on an infinite ocean of consciousness and cognition.”
— Isabel Allende (via zoryavolchitsa)
if it wasn't clear, i love my trans brothers and sisters, siblings, elders, blessed trans dead, genderqueer spirits and ancestors.
fuck terfs and trans rights rights forever and always.
you are fifteen thousand generations removed from stone tools
to be clear you are fifteen thousand generations removed from the invention of stone tools. not from the end of stone tools. modern humans are still using stone tools.
Flawless tags, @baddywronglegs
I thought you meant we were descendents -of- stone tools
your father was a handaxe and your mother smelt of microliths
Greek Hellenistic Gold Ring With Pegasus Ca. 400 BC.
Pegasus is a winged horse in Greek mythology, usually depicted as a white stallion. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa. Pegasus was the brother of Chrysaor, both born from Medusa's blood when their mother was decapitated by Perseus. Greco-Roman poets wrote about his ascent to heaven after his birth and his obeisance to Zeus, who instructed him to bring lightning and thunder from Olympus.
Pegasus is the creator of Hippocrene, the fountain on Mount Helicon. He was captured by the Greek hero Bellerophon, near the fountain Peirene, with the help of Athena and Poseidon. Pegasus allowed Bellerophon to ride him in order to defeat the monster Chimera, which led to many more exploits. Bellerophon later fell from Pegasus's back while trying to reach Mount Olympus. Both Pegasus and Bellerophon were said to have died at the hands of Zeus for trying to reach Olympus. Other tales have Zeus bring Pegasus to Olympus to carry his thunderbolts.
Long honored as a constellation, Pegasus is a subject of very rich iconography, especially through ancient Greek pottery as well as paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance.
“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it, too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night
