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🌊 Types of Mermaids 🌊

please be respectful of cultural boundaries when working with mermaids from various cultures and traditions, and be mindful not to intrude.

🌊 Rusalkas - slavic in origin, disturbed spirits of the “unclean dead”, ghosts of women who died violent deaths, with a penchant for drowning young men. they live only in rivers and lakes, and are known to have green hair like aquatic plants, only appearing in the night. 

🌊 Melusina - a mermaid that walks among humans, but returns to their two-tailed form during baths and when they bathe their children. often a water spirit of a nearby lake or river. french origin. 

🌊 Siren - greek mythology. servants and companions of persephone, whom searched for her when she was abducted. they are known to sometimes have the body of a bird, and for their song, which lured sailors to their doom. cannibalism implied folklore. have the power of prophecy. 

🌊 Merrow - irish mermaid. known to have green hair and webbed fingers. particular noted love of music and their red cap, which when stolen, they will live with the thief until they find it, and then return to the water, leaving even a whole family behind. 

🌊 Ben-varrey - from the isle of man, known to bless those that are kind to them with prosperity, gifts, and even the location of treasure. 

🌊 Aicaya -  Caribbean mermaid, humans who become mermaids when they are shunned from their community and go to live in the sea. 

🌊 Amabie - japanese merpeople, with birdlike torsos and three legs and scales. they are gifted with prophecy, usually foretelling abundant harvests or epidemics 

🌊 Ningyo - “human faced fish” known to have golden scales, that brings bad weather and misfortune when caught, but when their flesh is eaten the consumer is granted youth and beauty, even agelessness. 

🌊 Finman / Finwife - magical shapeshifters that disguise themselves as sea creatures or plants to lure humans, unlike most mermaids they kidnap people from the shores to be their spouses or servants. they have a greed for jewelry and coins, particularly silver, and prefer humans over other finfolk. 

🌊 Sirena Chilota - considered the more friendly mermaids, caring for all fish life and rescuing drowned sailors to restore life to them. known for their human-like beauty and youth, according to legend they are the child of a human and a “king of seas”, tears are a powerful substance. from chilote mythology. 

🌊 Cecealia - sometimes known as “sea witches”, they are half human and half octopus. origins in native american and japanese mythology. 

🌊 Sirena / Siyokoy - the philippine version of mermaid and merman respectively. also called “magindara”, they are known to protect the waters from raiders, and protect the boy moon from sea monsters. Siyokoys can sometimes have legs however, covered with scales and webbed feet

🌊 Sea Mither - scottish/orcadian mythology, a spirit that personifies the sea during spring and summer, battles along scottish isles using storms to bring the summer about. a mother figure to all aquatic life. 

🌊 Ceasg - a fresh-water mermaid, specifically half-salmon, said to grant three wishes if captured. sometimes called maighdean na tuinne (maid of the wave) or maighdean mhara (maid of the sea). scottish. 

🌊 Selkie - though somewhat different from the typical mermaid, as they are not cold-blooded, have the body of a seal in the water and are human on land. in legends their skins are often stolen and they are kept by fishermen as spouses, or become lovers to fishermen’s wives who shed tears into the sea.  

Full Moon in Gemini

Date: November 22nd - November 23rd (Full Moon phase begins 9:30pm central time)

Rulers: Mercury. Air, Mutable

Body Parts: Lungs, Arms, Shoulders, Brain

Affects: emphasis on communication, learning, travel, thinking, and planning, anxiety, racing thoughts, mental energy, changes in plans or events, mood swings, feeling more social, humorous, and expressive, unexpected news, creativity / sudden surge of ideas, insomnia, social media drama / increased social media activity, issues with technology and transportation

What It’s Good For: replacing technological devices, divination, writing, meeting new people, expressing new ideas in your profession, changing / improving your daily routine, learning something new, solving issues relating to communication, learning, and travel, spending time with friends, writing down your thoughts, ideas, and dreams (any sort of mental message you get during this time is important), altering your social media presence, organizing / cleansing your mental and physical space, meditation

Crystals: howlite, jade, celestite, clear quartz, crazy lace agate, aquamarine, apatite, lodestone, selenite 

Herbs: mint, fennel, parsley, lavender, dill

Incense / Oils: peppermint, spearmint, sandalwood, lemongrass

Colors: yellow, light green, blue, white, silver

Jupiter and the Law of Attraction

Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that Jupiter being in someone’s 1st house or having Jupiter rule their rising is sometimes described to be a placement that can “bring luck wherever the individual goes”.

Let’s look at Sagittarius and Pisces (Jupiterian beings) separately to evaluate this.

Sagittarius is often pinpointed as an optimist. The Law of Attraction states that you attract what you think. Therefore, an optimistic Sagittarius will only attract good things to their life, appearing “lucky” to the outside world. In addition, many great philosophers (Philosophy is a Jupiterian subject) followed this law and believed in it.

Pisces, on the other hand, attracts fortune through fantasy. A Sagittarius will simply expect or hope for the best while a Pisces will fantasize about what they wish would happen/be happening. This channel of thought enforces the Law of Attraction and gives a Piscean what they desire. This ease of manifestation is also why Pisces may easily bring their own self-undoing. Pisceans are known to soak up emotions that are around them. Once this gets into their head and messes up their thoughts, then undesirable events happen; this chain of events falls within the Law of Attraction.

Of course, at the end of the day, Pisceans are still under the care of Neptune: a guide who will release Pisces to the clouds without a tie to bring them back to reality. This could be the difference in how Pisces and Sagittarius experience luck. Sagittarius is very grounded and eager to learn as well as initiate action while Pisces is busy dancing in the clouds.

Venus and Neptune

Venus and Neptune are quite similar in more than a few ways, but they are also vastly different. Likely the first thing you think of when correlating these two planets is love. They both dictate love in certain ways. But the kind of love they influence is entirely different. Venus is how you act in love and the kind of casual dating you like. It’s when you’ve loved someone for maybe a year or a few, but Neptune? Neptune is long lasting, unconditional love. I almost want to say that it is true love. Now, I don’t want to put it as Venusian love is more trivial than Neptunian love, but it is more common than Neptunian love. You know you are feeling Neptunian love when you know you can’t possibly fall out of it. Of course, Neptunian love may sometimes be worse, it can make you co-dependent or not really see your partner for all they truly are and all their flaws. 

Another thing you may think of when correlating these two is art. Though the difference between these two planet’s influence when it comes to art is more clear than when it comes to love. Venusian influence over art is that of what kinds of art you find beautiful, what art attracts you. But Neptunian influence over art is the kind of art you create, your imagination, it’s what you use art for. To put it simply, Venusian art is the kind you like experiencing while Neptunian art is art of your own creation. 

Then, what people might graze over when it comes to these two is desire. Venusian desire is the kind of desire as to things you want or experiences you want. Things you are passionate about that you desperately need to have. But Neptunian desire is the kind of “perfect world” you want. It is your idealized version of everything. You may find that achieving something of Venusian desire has much more of a short-term gratification than achieving something of Neptunian desire. 

Finally there is the correlation between these two planets and kindness. Venusian kindness isn’t really pure genuine kindness. It is one of charm, a natural charisma. But that’s all it is, a personality trait. Neptunian kindness on the other hand is one of self-sacrifice for the betterment of someone else. It is going out of one’s way to help another. It is giving their all to show genuine kindness from the bottom of their heart. While both are pleasant to experience and very true, Neptunian kindness seems to be a more evolved version of Venusian kindness. Although of course Neptunian kindness could end negatively with a martyr-complex.

Having any aspects between these two planets (especially major aspects) can make it so the the lines between these different types are blurred. For example aspects between Venus and Neptune could result in someone idealizing their partner and may up constantly daydreaming about them when they should be focusing on other things, even if they have only been dating for a relatively short amount of time. They’d also likely show a very Neptunian kind of kindness around their partner. It could also make for a person who has good artistic tastes and is very in-touch with their own aesthetic. They’d likely either be described as sweet or charming, but also a bit delusional. They may have unrealistic expectations for their life and may incorrectly feel as if getting those Venusian desires will be equivalent to those Neptunian desires.

Emotional Temperament

Moon in Aries: Sacrificial, young hearted, imaginative, reactive, self prophetic, fearless, quick tempered, innocent, abandoned, alone

Moon in Taurus: Faithful, relapses into self indulgence, lazy, concerned but refusing to self sacrifice, overtly loyal, maternal and welcoming, disarming, fretful

Moon in Gemini: lacks concentration, unsympathetic but genial, emotionally reactive, nerves, travels, secretive about emotions, undramatic

Moon in Cancer: Restless, fearsome, psychic, unstable, intuitive, despondent, martyred, delivering, rich emotional world

Moon in Leo: dramatised, fears of the inner child exaggerated, very coloured in impulse, self shame associated with lack of appreciation, faithful, subject to elusion

Moon in Virgo: Irritable, over conscious of environment, easily triggered, helpful, intuitive, responsive to distress, anxious and consumed with worry, pedantic

Moon in Libra: Impressionable and sympathetic, morale and concerned but detached and self contained, temperamental, evasive, passive aggressive, emotionally unstable especially regarding the day's interaction with people

Moon in Scorpio: Contained but secretly uncontrolled, unsympathetic but empathetic, suspicious and paranoid, splitting, passionate and then empty, debilitating and destructive highs and lows

Moon in Sagittarius: Escapist, psychic, speculative, detached but generous, tender hearted and noble hearted, shows tremendous loyalty to animals

Moon in Capricorn: Self sacrificial, often altruistic and kindly, Dry, distanced but concerned, consumed with material worry, emotionally conscious to the extreme, suspicious

Moon in Aquarius: Active emotional life is inhibited by over reactive intellectualism, can generate a coldness about the individual that hides regenerative warmth, excitable, over analyses emotion to extreme

Moon in Pisces: Cannot resist environmental stimulus, the impressionable, lack of boundaries, psychic, devoted, melancholy, withdrawing, sacrificial, emotional hemophiliac -C.

“Your intuition is a navigation device.”

— (via kushandwizdom)

Sun and the moon, what is conscious verses what is subconscious. The sun serves the ego and the moon serves your emotional response. Your emotional response is tied to the subconscious and all throughout the day whatever we see or experience sits in our subconscious. The ego is what’s on the surface. The moon is extremely important, and it’s needs are imperative to navigating your souls purpose. So you need to nourish your moon, you need to comfort it, you have to be aware of what it needs. The moon is also your guide, as it’s the transition from your south node to your north node. 🌿