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mrigashira nakshatra:

the fifth constellation— (23°20 to 6°40) taurus-gemini.

symbol: deer head 🦌

animal: female serpent

ruler: mars

these individuals seem to always be on the ‘chase’ or journey to seek what life has to offer them. the way they think is profound in a way because they are never really satisfied with the knowledge they accumulate in this present moment, making them used to the act of getting the answers that they both need and want.

the mind here is inclined in thinking of bigger and better solutions, ideas, etc. the search never ends with this nak. these people don’t really have a clue as to what it’s like to be in a fixated/stable situation or relationship. they have a tendency of thinking that the people around them have a motive against them.

mrigashira’s absolutely love being in the limelight, especially in front of cameras. they crave the attention. things such as multitasking, communication, curiosity and artistic ability are more emphasized here. they have the ability to learn different things in a very quick way, but just don’t want to go through the process.

these are the types of people that tend to ask the most complex questions known to man. they truly desire to know the reasoning behind their existence. the ones who consistently ask “why..?” to everything they were taught or told about their reality.

mrigashira are connected with themes of stalking and infatuation. (mentioned this on my tiktok, which includes more detail..) will ask you every question in the book upon first meeting—have a tendency to pry themselves into other lives. they want to be around people and learn how their mind functions. if you think about it, the more connections you have with people, the more knowledge and or resources one can gain within their life which can really benefit a person. for shorter terms, they are extremely clever with the type of people they associate themselves with, usually individuals that can get them ‘higher’.

the curiousness is everlasting. those with this nak prominent in their chart like the idea of jumping into tasks that require days worth of learning about and just do it without really knowing the accurate way of performing whatever it is they want to do. just like how deer run out in the middle of the road unexpectedly.

a visual representation of what this nakshatra is energy wise:

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☕🌿Coffee Magic🌿☕

☕Flavors + Correspondences☕

Almond(milk): mental clarity + fortitude, luck, abundance, healing + good health

Amaretto: opening the mind, warding against negativity, creativity, luck

Blueberry: aids in memory + mental clarity, calmness, youth + glamour magic, restoration, aura cleansing + strengthening

Caramel: aids in changes + transformations, soothing quality to spells, good in Fae magic, increases tenacity

Chestnut: warding + protection, prosperity, longevity + increase stamina

Chocolate: self love + nurturing energy, ancestral magic, grounding, love + sexual prowess

Cinnamon: spiritual + personal power, healing, success, lust, luck, prosperity, strength

Clove: protection, actualization of desires, banishing negative + hostile forces

Coffee: inspire creativity, clear emotional + spiritual blockages, dispel nightmares, fortitude + increased stamina, encourage diligence

Coconut Milk: confidence + aid in glamour magic, strength, beauty, love

Cow milk: nurturing, fertility + prosperity, protection, abundance, aid in motherhood

Hazelnut: self-love and compassion, inspiration, creativity, wisdom + insight

Honey: happiness, offerings + Fae magic, sweetness, love, prosperity, healing, passion, spirituality

Irish Cream: dreams + intuition enhancer, prosperity, growth, aid in change

Peanut(butter): stability, aid in manifestation + intuition, attraction, energy

Pecan: spiritual purification + protection, abundance + prosperity

Peppermint: healing, purification, psychic powers + transformation, sleep, prosperity, passion

Pumpkin: wishes + dream fulfillment, protection + guarding, prosperity, magic enhancer, love

Oat(milk): tradition + ancestral work, health, stability + fortitude, beauty + youth, comfort, home magic, healing

Raspberry: invoking fertility or love, kindness + compassion, desire fulfilment, creativity, libido + sex magic

Sugar: used to amplify spells, sweetness + love, attraction, comfort, Fae magic

Soy milk: success + strength, growth, healing

Toffee: playfulness + youthfulness, friendship, easing transitions, courage + strength

Vanilla (creamer or vanilla extract): love, release of stress + anxiety, success, vitality + healing

🔮Bonus Magic Tips🔮

Pick ingredients for your coffee that align with your ambitions for the day.

It can be used as an offering to deities, spirits, ancestors, etc.(e.g. for Sif I sweeten the coffee with oat milk + honey but for Hel I leave the coffee black for an offering)

Consider the way you stir! Counterclockwise banishes and repels negativity, clockwise invites + brings energy to you.

Stain pages for you journal, spell work, or book of shadows! You can also use a strong brewed coffee and a paint brush to paint sigils onto the pages! .

See the full post + bonus recipe at the hidden hearth patreon.

References: The Herbal Alchemist’s Handbook by Karen Harrison

**Disclaimer: a lot of the nut and milk correspondences are personal + intuitive**

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Alexandre Dubois-Drahonet: detail of Female nude, back view (1831)

ASTEROIDS RELATED TO ATTRACTIVENESS

ASC - MC, sun, moon, venus, mars or jupiter conjunction, trine and sextile (0-1orb)

Aglaja (47) — Splendor

Alkmene (82) — Faithfulness, Intelligence

Aphrodite (1388) — Sexual Attractiveness

Bella (695) — Beautiful Woman

Candy (3015) — Candy Girl

Casanova (7328) — Charm

Chariklo (10199) — Sensitive

Charis (627) — Charisma

Eva (164) — Femininity

Fay (4820) — Ethereal Beauty

Flora (8) — Ethereal, Fairy Beauty

Freia (76) — Beauty, Fertility

Glo (3267) — Shine and Glow

Hera (103) — Sexual Attractiveness

Kallisto (204) — The Most Beautiful

Kleopatra (216) — Strength, Authority

Lilith (1181) — The Dark Side of Sexuality

Lotis (429) — Pure Beauty

Medusa (149) — Enviable Beauty

Nadherna (5089) — Gorgeous

Nefertiti (3199) — Graceful

Narcissus (37117) — Vanity and Attractivenes

Nymphe (875) — Ageless, Natural Beauty

Peitho (118) — The Goddess of Persuasion

Persephone (399) — Queen of the Underworld

Psyche (16) — Enviable Beauty

Ptah (5011) — Magical Beauty

Queen (5457) — Elegant, Strength, Powerful

Salome (562) — Seductive, Fatal Beauty

Sappho (80) — Bisexual Energy

Sassi (7500) — Sassy Girl

Sirene (1009) — Dangerous, Femme Fatale

Shigemi (7597) — Luxuriant Beauty

Zerlina (531) — Leading Energy

How to find the asteroids in your birth chart:

visit Astro.com >> Extended Chart Selection >> Additional Objects >> Manuel Entry >> type the asteroid number

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Scandalous (M) | 04

PARTS: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04

Summary: When you meet Taehyung in a bar one night, you don’t expect to fall for him. He was different, tattoos inked along his arms and a bright smile on his face. He was the opposite of everything you were; he was free – or so you thought.

Genre/Warnings: Socialite!AU, Badboy!Taehyung. Angst + Smut; Fluff, filth, more fluff, more filth, with a dash of angst. Enjoy xx.

Words: 12k.

A/N: I’m trash. That is all.

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🜄 Water Witch Guide 🜄

Requested by the lovely @thildia, who wanted more elements to accompany my Fire Witch post. I hope it’s as good as that one :)

Water Correspondences

🌊 Represents: Emotions, Absorption, Subconscious, Purification, Eternal Movement, Wisdom, The Soul and the Emotional Aspects of Love and Fertility

🌊 Colors: Blue, Turquoise, Green, Grey, Indigo, Black and Silver

🌊 Gender: Feminine

🌊 Direction: West

🌊 Energy: Receptive

🌊 Pentagram Placement: Upper Right

🌊 Day: Friday

🌊 Time: Twilight / Dusk

🌊 Moon Phase: Waning

🌊 Chakra: Sacral Chakra

🌊 Life Cycle: Old Age

🌊 Season: Autumn

🌊 Zodiac Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

🌊 Tarot Suit: Cups

🌊 Major Arcana: The High Priestess, The Hanged Man, Death, The Moon

🌊 Senses: Taste

🌊 Incense: Jasmine, Sea-scented, Aloe, Apple, Chamomile, Cherry

🌊 Stones: Aquamarine, Amethyst, Blue Tourmaline, Pearl, Coral, Blue Topaz, Fluorite, Beryl, Lapis Lazuli, Opal and Sodalite

🌊 Metals: Mercury, Silver, Copper, Platinum

🌊 Plants: Ferns, Lotus, Mosses, Bushes, Water Lilies, Gardenia, Apple, Apricot, Birch, Cherry, Elder, Elm, Rose, Willow, Chamomile, Jasmine, Lemon, Lilac, Passion Flower, Rose, Seaweed and Thyme (research plants, herbs and trees before burning, ingesting or using on skin for some are toxic and even lethal)

🌊 Animals: Water Snakes, Dolphins, Fish, Cat, Frog, Turtle, Swan, Crab, Sea Mammals, Sea Birds and Otters

🌊 Mythical Creatures and Spirits: Dragons,Undines, Nymphs, Mermaids, Water Fairies, and Spirits that inhabit bodies of Water

🌊 Instruments: Anything Resonant, Harmonica, Cymbals, Gongs, a Flute made from reed or willow bark

🌊 Ritual Tools: Cups, Cauldrons, Goblets, Mirrors, Sea Shells, Ocean Water, Moon Water, Rain Water, Seaweed, Hag Stones, Chalice, Various magical types of water (Moon Water, River water, etc.), Ammonites, Bowls, Combs, Crab shells and claws, Driftwood, Fishing Nets, Pearls, Sand dollars, Sea Glass, Seaweed, Shark teeth, Starfish

🌊 The Body: Tears, Saliva, Perspiration, Bladder, Brain, Spinal Cord, Bones, Teeth, Hair, Inner Ear, Anus, Reproductive System and Bodily Fluids

🌊 Water-related Magic: Mirror Divinations, Magnet Work, Love Magic, Lucid Dreaming, Cleansing, Protection Spells, Bath Spells, Dilution, Washing, Sprinkling, Preparing Cold Herbal Infusions

Types of Water and their Ritual Uses

🌊 Black Water: Unsafe to consume due to various minerals found in it. Use for banishment, shadow work, honoring winter or the dark half of the year, hexes, curses, death magic, and any other “dark” or nocturnal magic

🌊 Brackish Water: A mix of salt and freshwater, usually found where rivers meet the sea. Use for hedge riding, astral travel, spirit work and other liminal magic. Can also be used to substitute both fresh and saltwater.

🌊 Dew: Use for healing and beauty spells, fairy magic and health magic (especially involving eyesight). Especially powerful when collected on Beltane.

🌊 Floral Water: Made when combining water with different herbs and flowers. Correspondences can vary depending on the herbs or flowers used, as well as the type of water.

🌊 Fog / Mist: Use for liminal magic, hedge riding, astral travel, divination, spirit work, death work, creativity, balance and partnership spells. Especially powerful when collected near dawn or dusk.

🌊 Fountain Water: Use for healing, cleansing, purification, wishing and prosperity spells.

🌊 Hail: Use for curses and storm magic.

🌊 Holy Water: Use for cleansing, purification, exorcisms and banishments.

🌊 Ice: Use to undo binding spells, transformation, balance and creativity magic.

🌊 Lake / Pond Water: Use for scrying, as a portal to the otherworld, in healing spells, cleansing, purification, self reflection, peace, relaxation and revitalizing spells.

🌊 Marsh Water: Use for hexes and curses, to stagnate a situation, to keep a secret, or for ancestral or death work.

🌊 Moon Water: Water that has been charged under the moon. Correspondences can vary depending on what moon phase it was charged under, but it can usually be used for healing magic, prosperity spells and even curses or hexes.

🌊 Mud: Use for grounding, burying objects and cleansing.

🌊 Rain Water: Rainwater takes on the properties of the storm you got it from. Sun showers are used for solar magic, nourishment and healing. Dreary rain is used for resting, rejuvenation, protection, shadow work and invisibility. And stormwater is used for more aggressive spells like curses and hexes.

🌊 River Water: Use in spells for speeding things up, cleansing and purifying both yourself and objects, and banishment spells.

🌊 Sea Water: Use for cleansing, protection, healing, charming, banishment and as a representative of ocean spirits and gods.

🌊 Snow: Use for transformation, balance and calming spells.

🌊 Waterfall: Use to remove obstacles, purify, cleanse and bring movement to a spell or your life. Often used in beauty spells or birth rites and rituals.

🌊 Well Water: Use for healing, purification, astral travel, hedge riding, connecting with the Otherworld, wishing spells, intuition, scrying and removing curses.

Deities for Water Witches

🌊 Aphrodite

Culture: Greek

God/Goddess of: Love, Beauty, Sex, Fertility

Offerings: Wine, Roses, Seashells, Maraschino Cherry Cookies, Chocolate, Pearls, Cherries, Honey, Baked Goods (sweets), Things that make you feel beautiful, Anything Heart-shaped, Self-Love, Compliments, Glitter, Honey Cakes, Apples, Flower Crowns, Olive Oil

🌊 Poseidon

Culture: Greek

God/Goddess of: The Sea, Waters, Horses, Earthquakes

Offerings: Ocean Water, Honey, Olive Oil, White Wine poured into water, Seaweed, Wild Celery, Seafood, Conch Shells, Tridents, Cloaks

🌊 Manannan Mac Lir

Culture: Celtic

God/Goddess of: The Sea, Protector of the Otherworld (where the Fairies and Tuathe de Dannan live)

Offerings: Cat Tails, Local Plants, Drawings, Ale, Blackberries, Yellow Flowers, A bundle of Rushes, Apples, Apple blossoms, Oatmeal, Grain, Pork, Seafood, Items from the beach

🌊 Mokosh

Culture: Slavic

God/Goddess of: Life-giving, Women, Women’s work, Destiny, Moisture, Fertility, Fate, Harvest, Sexuality, Children, Childbirth, Home, Weaving

Offerings: Personal Needlework, Wool and Flax, Bread, Salt, Grains, Oilseeds, Dairy, Eggs (especially Pisanki), Berries, Groats, Porridge, Honey, Milk, A lock of your hair, Local seasonal crops

🌊 Veles

Culture: Slavic

God/Goddess of: The Underworld, Water, Earth, Magic, Music, Trickery, Cattle, Wealth, Snakes, Bears, Wolves

Offerings: Wine, Wheat, Chicken, Chicken Hearts, Cooked Corn, Basil, Barley, Wheat, Bread, Mistletoe, Mead, Music

🌊 Danu

Culture: Celtic

God/Goddess of: Earth-Mother, Fertility, Wisdom, Wind and Water

Offerings: Wine, Mead, Ale, Freshwater, Watering plants

🌊 Ægir

Culture: Norse

God/Goddess of: Personification of the Sea, Brewing Ale

Offerings: Objects related to the Sea, Old Coins, Mead and Ale (though specify that this ale is nowhere as good as his)

🌊 Freyr

Culture: Norse

God/Goddess of: Peace, Fertility, Rain, Sunshine, Kingship, Prosperity, Harvest

Offerings: Honey, Grains, Gold, Phallic Things, Antlers (ethically-sourced), Pork, Venison, Apples, Bread, Barley, Nuts and Seeds

🌊 Njord

Culture: Norse

God/Goddess of: The Sea, Seafaring, Wind, Fishing, Wealth, Crops

Offerings: Gold, Beads, Seashells, Seafood, Pork, Dark Beer, Gin, Vodka, Spices, Tobacco, Fishing Gear

🌊 Rán

Culture: Norse

God/Goddess of: The Sea

Offerings: Give condolences to those who have drowned, Swimming, Clean up the ocean as much as you can, Seafood, Gold, Coins, Seashells, Sea rocks, Flowers, Sand, Sea water, Mead

🌊 Susanoo

Culture: Japanese

God/Goddess of: The Sea, Storms

Offerings: Rainwater, Chocolate, Crackers, Sea Salt, Noodles and Ramen, Rain scented Candles, Sea water, Fish and Sushi

🌊 Benzaiten

Culture: Japanese

God/Goddess of: Dragon Goddess of Water, Literature, Music, Wealth, Femininity, Fertility, Dance, Love

Offerings: Money, Water, Rice, Sake, Gemstones, Music and other creative arts, Raw eggs, Yellow flowers, Blessed Water, Bath rituals, Seashells

🌊 Osiris

Culture: Egyptian

God/Goddess of: The Underworld, Fertility, Agriculture, Resurrection, The Dead, Life, Water

Offerings: White cloth bandages, Art, Anything death-related, Live plants, Pumpernickel Bread, Dark Beer, Wine, Brandy, Seeds, Oatmeal-raisin Cookies, Dark Chocolate (orange flavored)

Common Signs of a Water Witch

🌊 You’re very gentle, smart, competent, intelligent, blunt, quick-witted and have a good memory

🌊 You’re a natural swimmer

🌊 You’ve always felt particularly drawn to water

🌊 You have a slow metabolism

🌊 You suffer from: Isolation, Absentmindedness, Detachment, Maladaptive Daydreaming, Fear, Rigid Joints, Weak Knees, Back pain, Dryness, Frequent or Infrequent Urination

Ways to bond with Water

🌊 Spend more time in or around water

🌊 Do a bath ritual

🌊 Get a mini waterfall or fountain for your living space

🌊 Get a essential oil diffuser

🌊 Keep plants that grow in water

🌊 Open windows when it rains

🌊 Take walks in rainy (but not stormy) weather

🌊 Set up a bird fountain

🌊 Drink more water

🌊 Use water in spells more often

🌊 Watch videos and documentaries about marine/aquatic life

🌊 Take a boat trip

🌊 Listen to rain or water ambiance

🌊 Keep jars of water from your favorite places

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Haints Of Hoodoo: The Black Ghosts Of The Gullah Geechee

The Gullah Geechee people believed that the color haint blue mimicked blue water and blue sky which tricked evil spirits.

Haints Of Hoodoo: The Black Ghosts Of The Gullah Geechee

In the south, particularly on the coastal shores of Georgia and South Carolina, there are houses painted with an odd shade of blue. But the color is just as much for protection as it is for décor.

Source: The Washington Post / Getty

One eerie evening in St. Louis a young Black woman was driving home after a long double shift. While on the interstate the woman looked out of her peripheral to see a very tall man in a top hat dressed in a black 1800s style suit. His face had no visible features except a long beard that stretched down past his chest. The young woman turned her head to look at the shadowy man directly, but he was gone. She would spend the rest of her drive home shaken by the man’s ghostly presence. After a few minutes of convincing herself that her mind was playing tricks on her, the woman finally pulled into her neighborhood. Relieved that she had lost her ghostly stalker, the woman took one last peek down her street, and there he was.

MORE: The Antebellum Tale Of Black Slave Girl Molly And The Haunting Of Sorrel-Weed House

The mysterious man was back, but this time he wasn’t there to just observe. Terrified, the woman quickly pulled into her driveway, sprinting up the stairs to her front door. When she entered her home a sudden urge to vomit swept over her body. When she turned to close the door behind her there he was, standing at the bottom of the stairs staring into the woman’s soul. Scared out of her mind, the woman let out a frightened yelp before slamming the door and checking the locks. After her ghostly encounter, the woman engaged in every superstition known to man. She switched the porch light off and on seven times, sprinkled salt at her doorway, hung a blue stained glass wind chime from her porch, and prayed herself to sleep. But her haunting experience wasn’t over.

The man would later return in her dreams, pulling her into the darkness of his cloak, wrapping her up until she was awakened from her slumber after feeling suffocated. The next morning when the woman turned on the news she learned there was a fatal accident on the same highway where she first saw the shadowy man.  

She was being haunted by a haint; a shape-shifting, witch-like evil spirit capable of stealing your energy, suffocating, or even drowning you.

Sadly, Black history has all the ingredients for fascinating ghost stories. Pain, trauma, mysteries, restless souls, and black folklore.

What are haints?

In the south, particularly on the coastal shores of Georgia and South Carolina, there are houses painted with an odd shade of blue. But the color is just as much for protection as it is for décor. 

Haint blue is a collection of pale shades of blue-green that are traditionally used to paint porch ceilings in the southern United States to protect homes from ghosts and evil spirits. The folklore can be traced back to Hoodoo spiritual practices and the Gullah Geechee people. 

The Gullah Geechee are the descendants of West and Central Africans who were enslaved and bought to the lower Atlantic states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia to work on the coastal rice, Sea Island cotton, and indigo plantations.

Their expertise in farming and agriculture made them invaluable to slave masters in the south. Their expertise also came in other forms. The Gullah Geechee have strong spiritual beliefs and developed the necessary skills to ward off evil spirits called haints or boo hags. 

Also known as rootwork, conjuring, or Lowcountry voodoo, the spiritual practice of warding off evil spirits was the main way the Gullah people protected themselves and their families from these menacing ghosts. One of the most popular hoodoo practices is to carry a mojo or a small bag of herbs wrapped by a traditional root worker. Boo hags were spirits known for stealing a person’s skin, then wearing it to blend in among the living during the day. After it depletes the human of all its energy, the boo hag will shed its stolen skin and go hunting for another victim. At night the boo hag would get rid of its stolen skin after it depletes the human of all their energy.

Roger Pinckney, the author of “Got My Mojo Workin, A Voodoo Memoir,” tells History.comof a few important tactics used to ward off boo hags.

“Hags are only active at night. They have an obsessive-compulsive disorder that compels them to count. A strainer on a doorknob or a broom cross the doorway, rice or sesame seed (benne seed) thrown on the floor. The hag will stop and count, over and over ’till day-clean run em.’ Salt on the floor helps as it dehydrates the shed skin and makes it impossible for the boo hag to put it back on.”

The plat-eye is another form of a haint, only way more dangerous than a boo hag. Plat-eye haints are shape-shifting spirits that can take on any form to entice you into their clutches. Not only are they dangerous, but very hard to get rid of. 

“Nothing much you can do about the plat-eye,” said Pinckney. “If you have committed some gross spiritual offense, all you can do is try to make it right. Some (people) carry whiskey. If a plat-eye gets after you, pour a little on the ground and run like hell. The plat-eye will likely stop to lick it up.”

The color ‘haint blue’

But According to Pinckney the most powerful defense of haints, boo hags, and plat-eyes is the color blue; haint blue from the indigo plant to be exact. 

The Gullah Geechee were master farmers and their knowledge of cultivating indigo plants was far superior when compared to white plantation owners. The Geechee people were enslaved and forced to work the indigo fields which by the mid-18th century became one of America’s most valuable exports. The Geechee people were able to create a new color by mixing the dregs, or leftover remnants, in a pit with lime, milk, and other pigments until they formed a shade of robin’s egg blue paint that would become known as ‘haint blue.’

The Geechee believed that the color mimicked blue water and blue sky which tricked the spirits. Haints can not cross water or travel the skies, therefore painting a porch, window, or door ‘haint blue’ meant spirits couldn’t make their way into your home.

As Black Americans spread throughout the country after slavery, so did some of their traditions. Haint Blue has become so popular a color, it is now mixed by Sherwin-Williams, one of the most known paint companies in the world.

The next time you are in an old southern home and you see the color haint blue painted anywhere on the exterior, there is a good chance that spirits are lurking about. But have no fear because the blue is there to protect you.

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