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• 🍯 Honey Magick 🍯 •

Honey

Honey is a natural substance created by bees within their hives. The hive consists of primarily female bees, which will leave the hive to collect nectar from flowers and then return to transform this nectar into sugary honey for later consumption.

Humans have been collecting honey since 8000 BC, and it has been utilized by nearly every culture across the globe for food, healing, and spiritual purposes.

Honey is universally considered a talisman of prosperity, beauty, health, and sweetness, and it can be utilized in all of these types of witchcraft.

Prosperity

Honey is a representation of abundance: its primary use in nature is as a stored source of food to be used in times of hardship, both for bees and for humans. It is also created from the nectar of flowers, imbuing it with the energies of the Sun and springtime. As such, it can be added to spells for wealth, abundance, fertility, or prosperity in order to amplify the effects and create surplus in your life.

Beauty

Sympathetic Magick states that an object’s physical qualities are reminiscent of its spiritual properties. Honey is golden, pleasing to the eye, and sweet. On its own or added to face masks, it can cleanse, nourish, and moisturize the skin. It can also be added to beauty or glamour spells in order to add a sweet glow to your energy.

Healing

Honey has been used to treat wounds since the time of the Ancient Egyptians. Its viscosity and moisture creates a moist seal around a wound. It also contains natural antibacterial properties, providing a stable and sterile environment for wounds to heal in. Metaphysically, honey can be added to protection spells or wards in order to create an environment of positivity and sterility, and can also be added to healing spells in order to strengthen the recovery process.

Sweetness

Honey is appealing to humans and animals because, above all else, it is sweet. One of honey’s most ancient uses - utilized in magical practices ranging from Egyptian to Greek to Voudoo - is to add ‘sweetness’ to a spell.

It can be added to glamour magick to make the illusion more easily accepted. It can be added to curses in order to make the energy seem harmless when entering the target’s life. It can be added to money spells or job spells in order to ‘sweeten the deal’. It can be added to love or sex spells in order to sweeten a relationship or conjure an appealing partner. In general, it can be added to any spell to make the effects more pleasant and inviting.

Offering

Honey’s final use is especially helpful to witches who work with nature spirits, fairies, the Dead, or deities. Honey contains a very pleasing, warm, Sun-type energy, and therefore it is extremely enticing to spirits. Since the time of the Ancient Egyptians, honey has been used as an offering that symbolizes the utmost love, care, and respect.

Honey can be drizzled onto a candle and burned. It can be drizzled into a body of water or directly onto the earth. Most commonly, it can be drizzled into an offering bowl (or on top of an offering meal) and left outside, in a graveyard, or on an altar. Because it is excellent at preserving itself, offerings of honey can be left somewhere for prolonged periods of time without worry of it spoiling, which is extremely helpful to forgetful witches (like me) or witches with long-term altars.

So, all in all, honey is maybe one of the most underrated magical ingredients, and I hope this post got some of you hip to honey magick.

Happy Witching 🕉

honestly like real talk like real actual ““discourse”“

the problem with trying to define who is and isn’t lgbt+ is like….that’s…not….really how it works…..

like we don’t have membership. there’s no test to take. no one has a roster of people with gay credentials. and even if there were, the people demanding this stuff aren’t part of any High Council with the power to banish people. if someone says they’re lgbt+ the traditional way of dealing with it is just…believing them and not bothering to comb through every action they’ve taken to prove anything. and labels are so deeply personal and the possibility of mislabeling yourself is always on the table, so it’s really just like. if you feel an affinity for the community then sure. you’re probably right, at the very least you’re questioning now. so what up enjoy your stay.

Baby witch here

Can someone explain how you burn an herb? If something calls for mugwort, how do I burn it? Do I need it to be in oil form?

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if Aries were

an Earth sign instead they would be a Capricorn - forges a presence, setting high challenges for themselves and follows the compass of aspiration, aims to embody the highest version of themselves and live up to their name - and this is the ultimate victory 

an Air sign instead they would be Gemini - quick, swift, sharp, and mischievous in mind, every day is an opportunity to learn and this occurs at rapid speed

a Water sign instead they would be Cancer - a child left at home in the dark, defensive and unsure of where the battle is taking place - within or outside 

if Taurus were

a Fire sign instead they would be a Leo - luxuriate me, relish in me, adore me, and keep me safe on the throne of devotion 

an Air sign instead they would be Libra - lover of love, creator and maintainer of beauty, compassionate and genuine, strongly appreciates the presence of the people in life 

a Water sign instead they would be Cancer - at home in the comfort of the things and people they love, security conscious and maternally protective, stubborn and immovable 

if Gemini were

a Fire sign instead they would be an Aries - personality of possibility, impulsive action to satiate curiosity, wages a war using words as the sharpest weapon, fountain of eternal youth

an Earth sign instead they would be Virgo - slay with wit and a slicing intelligence you don’t expect   

a Water sign instead they would be Pisces - dual, chameleon, the trickster full of riddles, absent minded intelligence

if Cancer were

a Fire sign instead they would be a Leo - queen of whatever dwelling they are present, demonstrative to receive the needed emotional response, protective of the vulnerable, inexplicably resilient  

an Earth sign instead they would be a Taurus - maternal, nourishing, security minded mother, in touch with physical body, hungry moods

an Air sign instead they would be Libra - the dreamer of dreams, the romantic artist, compassionate and dependable, also dependant on being needed 

if Leo were

an Earth sign instead they would be a Capricorn - constructing a future fit for royalty and conquering the obstacles, battling the Prince of Darkness within, making an impression in the world 

an Air sign instead they would be a Libra - enamoured by romance, giver and receiver of love, tell me the good things about myself so i know who i am

a Water sign instead they would be Cancer - protective guardian, an emotional theatre production to receive desired response, resilient and remarkable in the face of high challenge - especially when involving the safety and wellbeing of others

if Virgo were

a Fire sign instead they would be a Sagittarius - critique and harsh appraisal are not from a self-righteous and callous position but the ‘truth’ to ‘help you’ 

an Air sign instead they would be an Aquarius - some strange and interesting things happen inside that brain box head

a Water sign instead they would be a Scorpio - have you ever seen a Virgo murder you with words of knives, deep and private intellectual investigator, hidden

if Libra were

a Fire sign instead they would be a Sagittarius - either constructs, maintains, or is above the law, interested in connecting with diverse people and soaking into new cultures and ways of life

an Earth sign instead they would be a Taurus - seeking the ultimate luxury of sharing the finest fruits and wines of life, their best selves and resources with the ones they love the most 

a Water sign instead they would be a Scorpio - absolving into an ego and selfless state in the intimacy of complete surrender and vulnerability to forge a true, soul centred relationship, but they could also be a Pisces, they could be either   

if Scorpio were

a Fire sign instead they would be a Sagittarius - perish everything but truth, solo-prophetic journey in search of answers to the questions that continuously burn inside the mind 

an Earth sign instead they would be a Capricorn - the focused discipline and unrelenting desire to succeed, disciplined and intensive desire for self-development and capacity to master inner demons and sickness

an Air sign instead they would be an Aquarius - the mysteriously complex and private mastermind that follows seduction of the unknown and vanishes from the conscious world completely

if Sagittarius were

an Earth sign instead they would be a Taurus - enjoying all of the fine fruits and on the material paradise, finding the secret sanctuaries and melodies in mother earth, in touch with natural timing and the rhythm of earth/natural creativity, stubborn  

an Air sign instead they would be an Aquarius - the sky high crystal clear view of universal truth, relentless speculation and desire to satiate curiosity through experience and filtering personal philosophy, self-righteous 

a Water sign instead they would be a Cancer - voyaging through wherever they are lead and inside and outside of themselves for the place that feels like a home and feeling the extreme of every emotion, also a Scorpio, both - the truth seeking heroine of the heavens 

if Capricorn were

a Fire sign instead they would be a Leo - recognising the value of their presence and purpose confronting every obstacle to reach their aspiration, going into secret combat with the darkness, the Queen 

an Air sign instead they would be a Libra - using astute judgement, discrimination, and intellect to charm, outwit and outplay and negotiate their way to the top

a Water sign instead they would be a Scorpio - relentless solo focus on self-development and personal growth to be at one with their inner power and leave a mark in the world that reflects the highest version of themselves

if Aquarius were

a Fire sign instead they would be a Sagittarius - seeking to merge intuition, speculation, and wonder with rationality, experience, philosophy

an Earth sign instead they would be a Taurus - a wreath of daisies around the head of the one with her free spirit flower child, searching for a nirvana to call home in the paradise of mother earth. Also Virgo in the private investigation into the inner realms of eternal wisdom, the spirit of the Great Mother and eternal library of collective knowledge  

a Water sign instead they would be a Scorpio - limitless genius and single focus minded in the pursuit of absolute truth, private and mysterious, impossible to read, intuitive 

if Pisces were

a Fire sign instead they would be a Sagittarius - searching through every dream, daze, and material detail to return to the place of universal intimacy they vaguely remember, but it feels like home    

an Earth sign instead they would be a Taurus - maternal intuition that responds to everybody in presence, romantic idealist and inspirer, creator, and lover of beauty 

an Air sign instead they would be a Gemini - limitless cosmic substances, spirits, and Gods flow freely through the physical interface and play with the personality creating multiplicity, contradiction and confusion, riddles infiltrated with intuition and wisdom disguised as nonsense

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Goals...

Another page from my grimoire, this time speaking about the planets and their meanings🌧

“what time is it” you ask, i pull out my 2.7 metric ton granite sundial and immediately crush both of your feet, I loudly announce “it is cloudy”

If Brand Names Were Anime Characters

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Solar System 10 Things: Two Years of Juno at Jupiter

Our Juno mission arrived at the King of Planets in July 2016. The intrepid robotic explorer has been revealing Jupiter’s secrets ever since. 

Here are 10 historic Juno mission highlights:

1. Arrival at a Colossus

After an odyssey of almost five years and 1.7 billion miles (2.7 billion kilometers), our Juno spacecraft fired its main engine to enter orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Juno, with its suite of nine science instruments, was the first spacecraft to orbit the giant planet since the Galileo mission in the 1990s. It would be the first mission to make repeated excursions close to the cloud tops, deep inside the planet’s powerful radiation belts.

2. Science, Meet Art

Juno carries a color camera called JunoCam. In a remarkable first for a deep space mission, the Juno team reached out to the general public not only to help plan which pictures JunoCam would take, but also to process and enhance the resulting visual data. The results include some of the most beautiful images in the history of space exploration.

3. A Whole New Jupiter

It didn’t take long for Juno—and the science teams who hungrily consumed the data it sent home—to turn theories about how Jupiter works inside out. Among the early findings: Jupiter’s poles are covered in Earth-sized swirling storms that are densely clustered and rubbing together. Jupiter’s iconic belts and zones were surprising, with the belt near the equator penetrating far beneath the clouds, and the belts and zones at other latitudes seeming to evolve to other structures below the surface.

4. The Ultimate Classroom

The Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) project, a collaboration among NASA, JPL and the Lewis Center for Educational Research, lets students do real science with a large radio telescope. GAVRT data includes Jupiter observations relevant to Juno, and Juno scientists collaborate with the students and their teachers.

5. Spotting the Spot

Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth. The storm has been monitored since 1830 and has possibly existed for more than 350 years. In modern times, the Great Red Spot has appeared to be shrinking. In July 2017, Juno passed directly over the spot, and JunoCam images revealed a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval.

“For hundreds of years scientists have been observing, wondering and theorizing about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “Now we have the best pictures ever of this iconic storm. It will take us some time to analyze all the data from not only JunoCam, but Juno’s eight science instruments, to shed some new light on the past, present and future of the Great Red Spot.”

6. Beauty Runs Deep

Data collected by the Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds. The solar system’s most famous storm appears to have roots that penetrate about 200 miles (300 kilometers) into the planet’s atmosphere.

7. Powerful Auroras, Powerful Mysteries

Scientists on the Juno mission observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful auroras – only not in ways the researchers expected. Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard Juno, scientists observed signatures of powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter’s magnetic field, that accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies up to 400,000 electron volts. This is 10 to 30 times higher than the largest such auroral potentials observed at Earth. 

Jupiter has the most powerful auroras in the solar system, so the team was not surprised that electric potentials play a role in their generation. What puzzled the researchers is that despite the magnitudes of these potentials at Jupiter, they are observed only sometimes and are not the source of the most intense auroras, as they are at Earth.

8. Heat from Within

Juno scientists shared a 3D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet’s polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth (video above). Juno mission scientists took data collected by the spacecraft’s Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument and generated a 3D fly-around of the Jovian world’s north pole. 

Imaging in the infrared part of the spectrum, JIRAM captures light emerging from deep inside Jupiter equally well, night or day. The instrument probes the weather layer down to 30 to 45 miles (50 to 70 kilometers) below Jupiter’s cloud tops.

9. A Highly Charged Atmosphere

Powerful bolts of lightning light up Jupiter’s clouds. In some ways its lightning is just like what we’re used to on Earth. In other ways,it’s very different. For example, most of Earth’s lightning strikes near the equator; on Jupiter, it’s mostly around the poles.

10. Extra Innings

In June, we approved an update to Juno’s science operations until July 2021. This provides for an additional 41 months in orbit around. Juno is in 53-day orbits rather than 14-day orbits as initially planned because of a concern about valves on the spacecraft’s fuel system. This longer orbit means that it will take more time to collect the needed science data, but an independent panel of experts confirmed that Juno is on track to achieve its science objectives and is already returning spectacular results. The spacecraft and all its instruments are healthy and operating nominally. ​

Read the full web version of this week’s ‘Solar System: 10 Things to Know’ article HERE. 

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You can worship a deity without being devoted to that deity. You can make offerings without making oaths. It is okay. Please do not stress yourselves out because you want to make a thank-you offering but don’t want to make a lifelong commitment. Why would you need to swear oaths to say thank you? It is totally okay to just make conversation without involving vows and stuff.

I’ve seen a lot of people being silly about DnD talking about fucking your way into and out of bad situations but, if you look in the monster manual I think there’s strong support for the idea that half-orcs as a species are constantly horny

Orcs are constantly fucking and that’s why they have so many different types of half-orc offspring.  So if your character has orc blood it actually makes sense