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realityanddelusion · 4 months
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Gate of Travel Concept art by Juan Miguel López Barea for Blasphemous(2019) vs Mano Poderosa (The All-Powerful Hand), or Las Cinco Personas (The Five Persons), 19th century. Oil on metal (possibly tin-plated iron)
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theblissfulstars · 3 days
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The Spirits do not judge you unfairly for your humanity. Your queerness is sacred and divine, your disability is a piece of your holy puzzle and your body is a blessing no matter how it may come.
The Ancestors have lived it, the trees, the hills, the mountains, the sea and the saints have seen it.
The Spirits do not judge you unfairly for your humanity. Imperfection is wholly and entirely perfect.
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bookwormbluee · 5 months
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Kadınlar ilgi gördüğünde sevildiğine inanıyor. Kadın için ne kadar ilgi, o kadar sevgi...
Bizi kandırmak çok kolay.
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magicaguajiro · 5 months
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Swamp Witch Travels: Finding Sacred Space
Myakka River and Paynes Creek State Parks
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As I dive deeper into my practice of bioregional animism, I look to parks for sacred space and places to connect with spirits of all kinds. In Florida we live in cities divided by nature preserves and swamps, and we are also incredibly blessed to have an amazing State Parks system. These parks offer us peaks into ecology and history of the Land that reveal to us some of Its Mysteries. Here are a few things I’ve learned as a Folk Witch.
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Make an offering when entering. For ancestral reasons, I use tobacco. Use what you're guided to. Introduce yourself, your intentions, etc. Also, pick up trash and be respectful. Don't wander in places you don't know, or take things you don't have knowledge on. It’s usually best to practice Leave No Trace but when have Witches been known to follow rules… Do as ye will. But always ask and give something in return.
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There are different spirits!
Trees, plants, rivers, hills and even entire forests and parks can have their own spirits. At parks like Myakka and Payne’s Creek, there are platforms you can climb for an aerial view of the park. This is a great place to connect with the Genus Loci of a place! (For more on Genus Loci, I recommend Folk Witchcraft by Roger J Horne) Some spirits will want to talk to you, some won’t. Respect their choices and don’t expect anyone to talk for free.
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Protection is Key!
Protection is important for witches and animists. Many spirits and natural places are dangerous, for example some Rivers are known for drowning and can be seen as having a harsh and dangerous spirit. When protecting myself day to day I wear spiritual jewelry from my Cuban traditions. Shark and gator teeth serve as great protection from water spirits and in general. My spiral shell ring is protective and I often use it in ritual. Bodies of water are also great places to bless things and hold rituals of cleansing and power! Not only spiritual protection, but physical protection is needed as well. In these swamps, we have gators, sharks, panthers, bobcats, bears, snakes, PEOPLE and even more things that would gladly expedite your role in the food chain. I’m not saying be afraid of animals, rather have respect and recognize you are in their domain. Carry bear spray, don’t wander too far off known trails, and be careful of other people.
I once heard a saying, the Swamp knows everything about death, and doesn’t consider it a tragedy.
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Enjoy the Scenery, and Learn!
Take it all in and take your time! If you need to escape heat and mosquitos check out the visitor centers and gift shops! I justify spending a bit too much here on considering it an offering to the Land. Try talking to the people who work here or making friends! This is a great way to learn Folklore and secret places to explore.
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On Remembering Ancestors of the Land
In working with the Land, you must honor the Ancestors of the Land. These are the spirits of all the people who lived on the Land before you. For me, this begins with my Ancestors and the other Indigenous groups of the area. In Florida, the tribes who remain today are the Seminole and Mikasuki. We should look to Indigenous tribes for wisdom on how to approach and respect the Land, but that doesn’t mean read online about it and go appropriate it. It means go and actually talk to real life people. You can and certainly should also honor other people, including any folk saints or historical figures who may serve as tutelary spirits or otherwise.
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And always remember to say Fuck the Colonizers!
Happy Witching Friends, May the Dry Season bring us all Renewal!
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magumsilvarum · 3 months
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Spirits and their common uses and misconceptions
So today I wanted to talk about a few spirits which, not much is so far known of through literary writing, but more so through celestial knowledge. (each spirit will have its own section)
The Pythoness - many Christian and Judea religions view the pythoness spirit as a demon like spirit that is meant to steer one away from Gods path and imbue one with negative thoughts such as death and sickness through the mind, yet I've personally found and many civilizations prior and after that the story is not as such. In yogic practices there is a certain breathe and practice of the kundalini. Kundalini is the term for "a spiritual energy or life force located at the base of the spine", conceptualized as a coiled-up serpent. The practice of Kundalini yoga is supposed to arouse the sleeping Kundalini Shakti from its coiled base through the 6 chakras, and penetrate the 7th chakra, or crown. This allows for an open pathway as a connection to God, elevated spirits and the spirits of the afterlife, our ancestral spirits, within celestial planes. In buddhism giant serpents were seen as protectors of the dharma, the truth that liberates us, standing strong against any attack. Many psychics, seers, mediums, witches and tarot card readers tend to have a spirit who knows one of two things about divination, prophecy and esoteric knowledge, but the pythoness spirit is looked at more like the all seeing eye or the eye of ra and horus. In greek mythology Leto the great she-wolf was cursed to never give birth upon the land as Hera set her out to be cursed by her daughter and for Gaia to not allow her to give birth to her two children. Through Zeus' interference Leto was able to give birth to both Artemis and Apollo. Later Apollo went to go slay a Snake that had threatened Leto and therefore gained the ability to turn into a snake himself. He declared the island previously known as Pythos to be Delphi and as the God of prophecy later became a hub for those seeking answers from great oracles once a year, known as Pythias. These women were great prophets and witches alike that danced with fire and tamed snakes to dance along with them protecting the island from attacks and monsterous threats as to pay respect to Apollo. These were women and men of wild nature who allows there instincts to guide them through the understanding of the great divine. One with nature they became medicine workers, prophets, seers, musicians, dancers, pyromancers, snake charmers, witches and mages and dream weavers.
These great spirits are revered as a highly elevated court in spiritualist practices, sometimes just perceived as the spirits of tarot decks or oracular objects they are forgotten as being far too complex to be seen as just that. Through the force of light they bring great aid to those they are on spiritual journey's with, they rid of hexes, curses and spiritual illnesses. They guide through prophetic dreams, clairvoyancy, clairsentience, clairaudience and mediumship. They are capable of conjuring powerful spirits and the spirits of the dead (necromancy), as well as a straight line communication to God, gods and goddesses. They move through the celestial tides of the universe and bring forth great health, wealth, abundance, freedom and spiritual knowledge to those they favor. They are quite benevolent spirits who help bring in death or the spirit of change for the better and to rid old stubborn ways of the past. They are great teachers of dark and light magic. They aid in learning and music as well. Helping those with charisma and the ability to enchant and/or charm enemies and others alike. They have such affinity towards chocolates, gold, silver, wine, fire, candles, light, mirrors, divination tools, water, flowers and floral scents, perfumes, snakes and music. There number is 7 and their flower is the rose, particularly the white rose, but other colors are fine as well. They also enjoy sunflowers, as they venerated Apollo, and the Anise star. Their colors are Red, burgundy, gold, emerald green, white, silver, purple, and brown. Yet each is different and might prefer a royal blue for all we know each spirit is different to another so getting to know ones spiritual court is quite important. Stones like diamond, ruby, jade, emerald, citrine, labradorite and amethyst can be given to such spirit as well as Selenite and Amber each representing Artemis and Apollo. These spirits can sometimes be confused with a better known spirit Santa Martha la Dominadora. You may even have both within your spiritual court, but they two hold many similarities.
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Prayer to the Pythoness
O Blessed Pythoness, I invoke your humble yet wild nature into my life, I give you thanks for the visions told and untold and for the sight to see my path clearly. May your connection to God and all living things be great and full of love and respect. May your tides of wisdom bring peace to the land and bestow upon me and my loved ones a blessed hand. Lady of the fire, imbue me with your holy flames may they burn away all evil done unto me by others or by my own hand. May your light charm those who seek no good into doing acts of kindness and greatness and may your soothing voice bring sweetness and riches to the land and seas. You the one who tamed the dragon and serpent to your gracious hand. Tame my enemies and bring good fortune to those in need. Help the world against devastation and may your great cobra bring forth the promise land. Lady of the land and sea, conjure your celestial winds to protect me and bring good news from the heavenly lands. Through the eye of the one who can see I plea to you humbly and in need. As it is. So mote it be. Amen
Say this prayer with Psalm 91 3x and Psalm 4 3x under the flame of a white(or yellow) light end with a Glory be. It will help receive divine messages through divination or prophetic dreams and help transmute negative energy and protect against evil eye.
Oracion a La Pitonisa
O Bendita Pitonisa, Yo invoco tu humilde y salvaje espiritu de naturaleza entre mi vida, te doy las gracias por los visiones contado y no contado y por la vista para ver mi camino claramente. Que tu conexión a Dios y a todas criaturas vivas sea lleno de gran amor y respeto. Que las olas de sabiduria traen paz a toda la tierra y otogar a mi y mis seres queridos tu mano bendicida. Mujer de los fuegos, envuelvame con tus llamas benditas que me liberan de cualquier maldad sea enviado por enemigos o que han nacido de mi propia mano. Que tu luz encandile a los que no buscan el bien y les transformas hacer actos de carino y grandeza y que tu voz encantadora trae dulcisimiento y riquezas a la tierra y los mares. Tu que haz vencido el serpiente y el dragon con tu mano graciosa. Ayuda al mundo contra la devastación y que tu tierra prometida sea traido por tu gran cobra. Mujer de la tierra y mar, protejame con los vientos celestiales y que traen buena noticias del cielo. A través del ojo del que puede ver te suplico humildemente y de necesidad. Como es. Asi sera. AMEN
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aruanda · 7 months
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gravalicious · 10 months
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“Figure 3.7. Photographic portrait of Hortensia Ferrer, ca. 1912. (By permission of Ángela Calvo Puig, La Habana, Cuba.)”
Source: Kristine Juncker - Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: popular expressions of cultural inheritance in Espiritismo and Santeria (2014: 82)
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notasfilosoficas · 8 months
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“Lo que pienses lo serás. Lo que sientes los atraerás. Lo que imagines lo crearás”
Helena Blavatsky
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Helena Blavatsky, también conocida como Madame Blavatsky, fue una escritora, ocultista y teósofa rusa nacida en Yekaterinoslav en agosto de 1831. Fue una de las fundadoras de la “Sociedad Teosófica” y contribuyó a la difusión de la llamada “Teosofía”.
Fue hija de un coronel de origen alemán, establecido en Rusia y de una hija de una de una familia de la nobleza rusa que trabajó como novelista. Por parte de su madre fue nieta de la princesa Helena Dolgorúkov, botánica y escritora.
Debido a la prematura muerte de su madre, Helena creció bajos los cuidados de sus abuelos, los Fadéef en Saratov en una vieja e inmensa mansión, en donde su abuelo se desempe��aba como gobernador.
Helena tenía talento como pianista, y según testimonios de algunos contemporáneos, poseía ciertos poderes psíquicos o sobrenaturales, y desde muy temprana edad se mostró interesada en el esoterismo, libros que leía de la biblioteca de su bisabuelo quien se había iniciado en la masonería a finales del siglo XVIII.
Helena sostenía y demostraba que tenía la capacidad psíquica para comunicarse con los moradores de los mundos sutiles e invisibles, y con los seres que para nosotros están muertos.
A la edad de 17 años se casó con NIkífor Vasiíevich Blavatsky de 40 años, en una provincia de Armenia. Helena aceptó casarse para poder ganar independencia, y aunque según ella, nunca se consumó la unión, tras 3 meses de infeliz matrimonio, escapó por las montañas montando a caballo para ir a la casa de su abuelo en Tiflis, capital de Georgia.
Según se cuenta, Helena realizó una serie de viajes por diversos países, como Egipto, Turquía y Grecia entre otros tantos. En algunos de estos viajes, estuvo acompañada por el explorador y naturista estadounidense Albert Rawson, miembro de la masonería e interesado en el ocultismo.
En 1851, se dice que tuvo su primer encuentro con un hombre del cual había tenido diferentes sueños de la infancia, y que se convertiría en su maestro de nombre Rajput Mahatma.
Ese mismo año, Blavatsky viajó a Canadá, y varias partes de los Estados Unidos, México, Sudamérica, e intentó posteriormente ingresar al Tibet sin éxito, antes de regresar a Inglaterra.
En 1855, logró entrar al Tibet en donde pasaría por un periodo de entrenamiento bajo la dirección de su maestro y de 1860 a 1865 vivió en el Cáucaso, en donde pasó por experiencias de crisis de tipo sobrenatural, los cuales, según ella, la posibilitaría a la adquisición de un dominio completo de sus energías psíquicas.
En 1871, tras multiples viajes y experiencias psíquicas por Chipre y Grecia, y tras salvarse en un naufragio cuando se encaminaba a Egipto, intentó en El Cairo fundar la que llamaría “Sociedad Espírita”, con poco éxito pues se vió rodeada de charlatanes y ególatras que harían fracasar esta sociedad, por lo que en 1873, su maestro le dió instrucciones de proseguir hacia París y más adelante Nueva York.
Es en Nueva York en el año 1875 que Blavatsky funda con el coronel Henry Olcott, y el abogado irlandés William Quan Judge, la denominada “Sociedad Teosófica” con la participación de 16 teósofos, según actas elaboradas por el propio William Judge.
En septiembre de 1875, Blavatsky publica su primera gran obra titulada “Isis sin velo”, libro que habla de la historia y el desarrollo de las ciencias ocultas, la naturaleza y el origen de la magia, las raíces del cristianismo y según ella, los fallos de la teología cristiana. 
En 1878, Blavatsky y Olcott trasladaron la sede de la Sociedad Teosófica a la India en donde conocieron al editor del periódico oficial del gobierno de la India, Alfred Sinnet, iniciando juntos en 1879 la publicación de la revista “The Theosophist”, siendo Blavatsky la editora responsable, con lo cual la sociedad teosófica se arraigó profundamente en América y Londres.
La denuncia de varios seguidores del fraude que se ocultaba en las prácticas de la Sociedad, llevó a la fundadora a abandonar la India en 1885 para establecerse en Londres.
En 1888 Blavatsky publica su obra “La doctrina secreta”, seis tomos en los que trata de explicar la evolución cósmica, planetaria y humana, la cual incluye mas de 2000 citas con indicaciones de paginas y autores. En esta obra están también explicados los símbolos básicos contenidos en las grandes religiones y mitologías del mundo.
El surgimiento del espiritismo y el ocultismo, estuvo muy ligado a una crisis que se sucedió en el pensamiento contemporáneo del cristianismo, causada por la antipatía de los cristianos liberales a la idea de la condenación eterna, la cual era opuesta e incompatible con la noción de un Dios amoroso.
Por otra parte, en lo relacionado a la ciencia, la geología había demostrado que la datación del mundo era mucho mas antigua que las enseñanzas de la Biblia, haciendo del espiritismo una nueva forma de contactar con lo espiritual, lejos de las viejas ortodoxias.
Helena Blavatsky murió en Londres en 1891 de gripe a los 59 años de edad. Su cuerpo fue incinerado y parte de sus cenizas fueron depositadas en Europa, Estados Unidos y en la sede de la Sociedad Teosófica. 
A la muerte de Blavatsky y de Henry Steel Olcott, la Sociedad Teosófica fue entregada a su secretaria Annie Besant, quien ya había logrado con sus audacias crear un importante cisma entre los miembros de la Sociedad, obligando a William Quin Judge abandonar la sociedad y ser perseguido por los seguidores de Besant.
Tras su muerte, la teosofía vivió varias crisis y cismas, y su influencia se extendió a lugares oscuros como el Tercer Reich, donde muchos altos cargos del partido se declararon seguidores de esa doctrina.
Fuentes: Wikipedia, biografiasyvidas.com, elconfidencial.com, elespanol.com, ecured.cu
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espiritismo · 7 months
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maledicência
Existem pessoas que se aproximam de nós com o espírito da maledicência; querem saber da nossa vida, não para nos auxiliar, mas para tornarem públicas as nossas feridas… 2 Devemos tomar cuidado com esses nossos irmãos que adquiriram uma estranha viciação: querem crescer às custas da indigência alheia…”
Chico Xavier
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powderedspells · 2 years
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✨🔮There's So Many Spell Materials Right in Your Kitchen 💐🍓
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🍓You don’t need to immediately jump right up to your local botanica, spiritual shop, or even digital marketplace in order to find ingredients for your spells. A lot of the time, if you’re not able to go outside to forage, you can open up your own pantry and find PLENTY of items for whatever kind of spell work you’re doing. Protection, love, money, cursing….you can find ingredients for anything you want to do in your spice cabinets, in your fridge, in your pantry!
🌷Things like cinnamon and coffee can be used to add speed or quickness in your work.
🌷Cinnamon is also great for protective work because of it's firey hot nature as well. You can use the whole bark or the powder in different ways. Do what works for you and what your spirits or traditions or ancestors suggest.
🌷Cinnamon is ALSO good for money work too! I fucking love cinnamon. It goes SO good with other things like allspice and nutmeg too for money.
🌷 Coffee in general is an ingredient I like to use in my m
🌷 Lemongrass used in tea can be very helpful for calming anxiety. Lemongrass can also be used for cleansings and breaking blocks.
🌷Cornstarch can be used as a base for all of your spiritual powders if you wish!
🌷Cloves are good for domination.
🌷Black pepper is protective, and is very useful in reversals/return to sender work.
🌷Flor de Jamaica/Hibiscus flower is really good for love/beauty work, especially passionate ones. It has a lot of vitamin c as well!
🌷Mint is so good for money work! I love sweet mint the most for this. It’s also good to drink as a tea for when you’re having stomach problems like tummy aches and gas. It’s very easy to grow fresh as well, and can be found for pretty cheap at grocery stores (pssst….if you have SNAP/EBT, you can find mint plants/hierba dulce in supermarkets and they’re SNAP eligible!)
🌷 Apples have also been associated with things like beauty and love, depending on who you’re talking to. The seeds would be very useful in love but alternatively dominating work, depending on what you’re going for. Just be careful!
🌷Onion & garlic skins can always be used for cleansing and protection (garlic for this) purposes in your space and home too
🌷Eggs can be used for offerings (but as always, double check that whoever will accept them!). they can also be used for cleansings as well, and are also used for protection.
🌷Dont forget the egg shells are useful for protection too! And you can use the eggshells as well to create calcium water for your plants, or crushed up so slugs cannot access your plants.
🌷White rum is so good for cleaning as well, so is white vinegar, but for the vinegar I personally think it's especially important to do something to bring sweetness and good things back into your space
🌷 You can literally use any of your kitchen oils to make your own conjure oils -- it doesn't matter if it's vegetable or jojoba or canola or soy or olive (although I PERSONALLY prefer to use olive as base for my money oils & work, as well as my protective work)
🌷Oregano is also good for money, for protection, for situations with court and the law
🌷Orange peels are great for happiness and money! They're also cleansing, so they're great for floor washes. You can boil them if you want to for washes and for a nice scent to the home. You can dry them to use in happiness or money powders or mixes (you can keep the peels whole or turn the dried peels into powder with a mortar and pestle, food processor, or by hand)
🌷 Lemon and limes can be used as strong spiritual cleansers too. I like to boil them and use the water for washes. They can also be used for other workings, especially when you need people to leave you alone and get away from you. You can prep them the same way you would do the orange peels!
🌷 Oats are good for your skin, especially if you have irritation, but are also really good offerings and has been associated with wealth as well.
Make sure at the end of the day you’re talking to your spirits, your ancestors, your intuition, and listen to what they tell you! They’ll always give you the best results, it’s never good to just do whatever the books tell you.
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culturalukumi333 · 11 months
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🌿ORACIÓN PARA TOMAR CUALQUIER HIERBA DE LA NATURALEZA🌿 Ozain te saludo con respeto, solicito tú permiso para tomar parte de tú legado, es para (sanar, tomar, limpiar etc.) Esta hierba (nombre de la planta) en cambio te dejo este derecho (ofrenda) como gratitud de recibir la medicina. Gracias, gracias, gracias padre *Esta oración básicamente pidiendo permiso a conciencia, cualquier persona lo puede realizar #ozain #orishas #eshu #eleggua #oggún #oshun #Yemayá #obatala #shango #oyá #espiritismo #palomonte #Ifá #puebla #loscabos #mexico #chiapas #tlaxcala #guadalajara #españa #chile #perú #estadosunidosdenorteamerica #miami #diloggun https://www.instagram.com/p/CrkBAvgtElu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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theblissfulstars · 11 months
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Full Moon Eclipse May 5th, 1:34pm
On May 5th 1:34 p.m. Eastern standard Time we are having a full moon eclipse and the zodiac sign of Scorpio. Eclipses are all about endings, changes and transformation, taking place in the sign of Scorpio these qualities are exacerbated and made even more pronounced. Will the full moon eclipse, this denotes the ending of emotional situations, changes of location and times of moving past things that no longer serve you.
With this particular full moon there are major themes of spiritual awareness, epiphany and Revelation. With the moon being opposite The sun and Uranus conjunction, sudden and dramatic insights and unexpected information are being given to the collective on a mass scale. This is only made more abundantly clear by a loose opposition to Mercury retrograde in Taurus. This moon is all about secrets being revealed through spiritual means, as well as secrets surrounding spiritual and religious organizations, institutions and people. The T-Square configuration between Pluto, Jupiter and Mars with Jupiter being the focus centers spiritual institutions, academia and teachers as a center point for major destructive transformation.The gurus and teachers that we have are not always trustworthy, this moon seeks to reveal that.
With Mars being opposite Pluto there is a bubbling up of tension from the subconscious and unconscious mind, things that we have kept buried already being revealed by Pluto retrograde are only being exaggerated and emphasized by the opposition of Mars. There may be volcanic activity on or surrounding this eclipse particularly in the ocean. Which could be a metaphor for emotions emerging from deep below our awareness, but I mean it literally as well.
With the moon conjunct psyche in retrograde motion, there is an element of whimsy, fantasy and magic to this eclipse. A deep curiosity that permeates the spirit is driving us to go deep with our emotions this full moon eclipse and get to the bottom of why we feel the way we feel. We're going to need all the help in the world figuring out what we value with Neptune hard square Venus increasing that feeling of fantasy but creating confusion around what we truly want and desire emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.
What we value, money and the environment play a major role in this eclipse. Concepts of beauty and wealth are going to be majorly visited in a big way this eclipse and questioned deeply. Especially in the realm of geopolitics and religion, we are going to be deeply inquiring as to the values of why we truly hold dear these institutions.
Being artistic, creating beauty and expressing yourself are deeply important for this full moon and are going to be integral to getting through it and tapped.
This full moon is going to cause conflict in internal bodies and groups such as corporations, governments, etc. However this is a major restructuring and actually has hopeful undertones. This eclipse has a very healing energy and is attempting to reorder, systematize and repair damage that has been done over the past few years.
With Juno on the MC and Venus in the 10th house, we are collectively aspiring towards partnership, romance and relationships. Even if no one's saying it we're definitely feeling the love bug. Don't be shy! Shoot your shot, it's Mercury retrograde until the 14th of May, setting the foundation for a beautiful connection now. This does not mean go back and text your ex, it means get over your ex and get on the apps or ask friends if they know anyone.
With Venus in the 10th house in Gemini and Saturn quintile Uranus, this speaks to economic instability that leads the way to monetary gain and success for the collective. This requires communication, social media and people power for it to happen. They're going to be major changes to workers' rights from this moon a positive direction.
Overall this mood is very purgative, healing and spiritual. A beautiful close to an eclipse season
Themes
Healing
Catharsis
Religious institutions
Economy
Secrets being revealed
Workers rights
Art
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bookwormbluee · 5 months
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Karşındakinin gözlerinde kendini görebilmektir Aşk.
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magicaguajiro · 2 months
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Resources for Cuban and Caribbean Folk Magic 🇨🇺
Disclaimer: Cubans are not a monolith so when we say ‘Cuban Folk Magic’ its like saying ‘American Folk Magic’ in the sense that it is a BROAD term that includes multiple different cultural threads and traditions. Start by researching your ancestors and where they were from as a jumping off point.
Also, many of these resources are not Cuban themselves, but they either share the same practices or are academic or general sources. I have made it clear when a source isn’t Cuban. For this reason, I have expanded it to be the Cuban AND Caribbean Folk Magic List.
The List
General:
Irka Mateo - Taino - Insta 🇩🇴
Religion.Ancestral.Taino - Insta 🇵🇷
Sancista Brujo Luis - Espiritismo/Taino-Youtube | Blog 🇵🇷
OkaniLuna - Brujería/Taino - Youtube🇩🇴
Juliet Diaz - Brujería/Taino/Author - Instagram 🇨🇺
Sancista 7 Espadas - Espiritismo - Insta 🇵🇷
Odofemi - Regla de Ocha - Tumblr 🇺🇸
Eve the Medium - ATR/Espiritismo - Youtube 🇩🇴
Yeyeo Botanica - ATR/Espiritismo- youtube 🇺🇸
Botanica Candles & More - Great Podcast!! - youtube 🇨🇺 🇺🇸
Connecting w/ Guides and Goals by Adunola - youtube 🇺🇸
San Lazaro - Wikipedia - Novena - Yeyeo Botanica
Caridad del Cobre - Wikipedia
Orisha and Palo Herbs Directory- Website
Ewe (Herbs) Photo Guide - Website
Pueblo Originario Taino Section - Website
Books:
Taino Library* - Amazing resource for books of all kinds, many books about Taino, Cuban and Caribbean Spiritualities, Folklores and Songs! Multiple books on Cuban Myths and Folktales! Highly recommend - Website 🇵🇷
Espiritismo by Hector Silva🇩🇴
A Year in White by C Lynn Carr
The Modern Art of Brujería by Lou Florez(VERY BASIC just as a general introduction to what alot of modern Folk Practices look like)
American Brujeria by J. Allen Cross 🇲🇽🇺🇸
El Monte by Lydia Carbera 🇨🇺
Movies:
Cecilia (1982) - Youtube
Las Profecias de Amanda - Youtube
This list will grow as I find more resources that are reliable enough to share. If you have recommendations or would like to be added, please reach out.
Luz y Progreso 🕯️
(I also have included a Research Guide below the Cut!)
Guide to researching based on your ancestry:
If your family has African roots, you can seek Ocha/Lukumi, Palo, Arara, Cuban Vodou and other African Traditional Religions and Practices. Please approach elders within these respective practices to further your connection to them, rather than using books to create a practice for yourself. These are ancient, community based and are lifelong commitments, not just trendy powerful spells for you to get what you want.
If your family has indigenous roots, research Taino spirituality and modern practices , but also know that there were other tribes in the western and centeral parts of Cuba, with their own languages and traditions you can still learn about like the Guanahatabey. You may also consider joining a Yukayeke, but this isn’t required. Reconnecting and decolonizing is a separate and important topic that is not inherently witchcraft or folk magick-y… HOWEVER, researching and informing yourself with these practices can help you to see their influence within modern folk practices.
If your family has Asian roots, research the buddhist cults and folk practices throughout Cuba! Believe it or not, we also have people of Middle Eastern descent in Cuba who brought with them their own Hindu and Arabic Folk Traditions, which can be found throughout Cuba and the Caribbean as a whole.
If your family has Spanish roots, research some open practices like Espiritismo and Folk Catholicism! Look into the Patron Saints of Cuba, La Virgen de La Caridad del Cobre and San Lazaro. These also tie in to many of the other cultures who were forced to adopt certain elements to ensure survival of their traditions! You can also look into Brujería. Much like modern witchcraft, modern brujería has been commodified to hell and back, but there is still some great knowledge and power to be found there.
The fact of the matter is, that most of us can fit ourselves into two or more of these categories, and this crossover is where Folk Magic is often born. Its also important to note, in alot of these traditions you shouldn’t learn or share certain things at certain times, so some sources who share too much about Ocha and other ATRs should be avoided. Also, I can’t stress how important it is to talk to your family! Ask them about folklore or legends and stories! Also research history and folkore of the specific areas in Cuba your family is from. A-lot of folk magic is incorporated into stories.
Bendiciones, good luck on your Journey!🦎🐊
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