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•⋩ Making my first pentagram

I made a pentagram for my altar during the New moon in the beginning of this July and I thought I’d share the process with you. I went completely on intuition on this one, not following any spell or rulebook but I’m really happy with how it turned out!

So first I needed some wood and I decided on Rowan/Mountain Ash. I found a beautiful tree near the lake and I asked to take some of it’s branches for my pentagram. When I asked I got this big wind in my back coming from the lake and the sun peered through the treetops right at us. Needless to say I took that as a strong yes. (I went back three times after to leave offerings and to thank it. This is not neccessary but it felt nice to do.)

When I sat down to begin my ritual I had:

Rowan wood - Divination, healing, protection from evil, peace, creativity, success, change & transformation.

Blueberries - Tranquility, peace, protection and prosperity.

Heather - Protection, rain and luck.

Red clover - Lust, hex breaking, prosperity, purification, love, luck, protection, success, fidelity and comfort.

Lemon - Purification, protection and health.

Sea water - Cleansing, purification, banishment, inner peace, relaxation.

Sandalwood incense - Clairvoyance, divination, good luck, meditation, protection, success

 and cotton string. As you may have noticed there’s a theme in the correspondences: Protection, prosperity, purification and luck; which is exactly what I wanted for this. Red clover was a nice addition with the comfort, lust, love and fidelity as my altar is next to me and my partner’s bed so all these “ingredients” works together just perfectly for this.

Okay, so here’s what I did:

1.To begin I cast a circle, lit some sandalwood incense and took three deep breaths.

2. I used a mortar and pestle to mash up the blueberries making a nice paste.

3. I then cut off as much cotton string as I’d need to bind the pentagram and mixed it with the blueberries in the mortar to dye it a natural reddish purple.

4. I poured seawater in a glassbowl and added the lemon to cleanse the string and then I left it out to dry in the sun.

5. I took the string and bound the wood into a pentagram while focusing on my intent. I tied off every “point” with three knots.

6. Alternating between the two I bound heather and red clover onto two of the branches, again tying it off with three knots.

7. Now I know not everyone will be comfortable with this but I finished by pricking my finger with a clean needle and touching the pentagram gently thus binding it to me.

8. I brought it back and forth over the incense smoke, took a deep breath and opened the circle.

Now this is not a How to make a pentagram, I am way too inexperienced to be making any of those. This is just how I did it and it was something I felt I wanted to share. Maybe someone can find some inspiration for their own or maybe for something completely different! Anyway I am very happy with how it went and turned out and once my altar isn’t such a mess I’ll make sure to take a photo of how it looks in place.

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Finally interviewed my deck and this is what came out.

I’m really happy with the results as I am in some sort of metamorphosis right now and this spread points a great deal to that (Hello Tower, my old stalker card friend ) and fortunately it seems this deck will help me through it. Also the fact that the first four are Major arcana cards makes me feel that it's a rather powerful deck.

Introduce yourself.

What are your strength as a deck?

What are your limit as a deck?

What can I learn from you?

What is the best way to work with you?

What will be the outcome of our relationship?

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Hey. So this me. Unedited and unstable (The full moon did a spectacular number on me, haha). New to the commumity and don’t really know anyone. Let’s talk?

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•⋩ Bujo set-up for September

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Let your fingers dance over her skin

Trace and explore the map hidden

Find the holes where there once was wings

See the beauty she didn't

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•⋩ Dark Moon

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•⋩ My favourite place

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•⋩ I am so angry, all the time. Is this some Mars retrograde fuckery or am I losing my damn mind? Anyone else having their emotions going haywire?