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in your post about solar, telluric, lunar current post you mention a potential fourth current "stellar" Can you tell me more what you're referencing there? I know the first three center on the AODA teaching and theory, but don't know anywhere people might be expanding that to stellar,

Sure. Recite the orphic hymns to the deities of the planets on their day for a few weeks, something like this: (Thomas Taylor translation's first line cited below)

Selene on Monday ("Hear, goddess-queen, diffusing silver light..."

Mars on Tuesday (Magnanimous, commanding, boisterous Mars...")

Mercury on Wednesday ("Hermes, draw near and to my prayer incline..."

Jupiter/Zeus on Thursday ("Jove, much honored, Jove supremely great...")

Venus on Friday ("Heavenly, illustrious, laughter-loving queen...")

Saturn on Saturday ("Ethereal father, mighty titan, hear...")

Sun on Sunday ("Hear, golden titan, whose eternal eye...")

There's clearly a current there, and one that's relatively easy to tap into, but slow to build. It's also not Solar, not Telluric, and not Lunar. calling it "Stellar" or "celestial" is closer to what it is.

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Sew / Embroider - Gonk

A Gonk is a name for a kind of stuffed toy ball suitable for a child under three years of age, sewn out of panels of felt and stuffed with wool roving in pre-modern days, or polyfil today. Usually they’re composed of twelve five-sided panels of fabric (sometimes with lining fabric sewn to the inside, sometimes not). They’re sometimes embroidered with decorative themes… and sometimes not. The…

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Taurus III Suń: Prayer Beads

The Sun enters the third decan of Taurus, which Austin Coppock called The Prayer Beads, on Saturday 10 May 2025 at 5:59 am EDT. He remains there for ten days, eight hours, and fifty-six minutes until the Sun’s ingress to Gemini on 20 May 2025. The Tarot enthusiasts among the Golden Dawn’s early adherents believed that it was the Seven of Pentacles which was associated with this decan — a card…

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Obscure Spell Components

A small collection of things you don't see every day in magick. I can definitely add more to this list and may in the future, I am open to suggestions.

Coffin Nails

• Traditionally made of protective iron

• Anoint front doors for home protection

• Carry in pocket or bag for protection from tricks, bad luck, and harm

• Binding magick; hammer through a name paper to specify a target

Wasps

• Improves accuracy of magick (ensures curses "hit where it hurts")

• Can be used in a petition to end pregnancy

• Hang near a door to cause loss, discord, and constant troubles for who lives there

Black Feathers

• Seeing one is a sign from the ancestors

• Used in workings to cast out malevolent forces

• Burn a message and sweep into the air with a black feather to get an answer soon

• Protects from nightmares

• Can be used to fan away negative energy and unwanted visitors

Lucky Hand Root

• Great for drawing money, often added to mojo bags

• Can be used with a name paper to draw a specific lover

• Boosts charisma, power, and self-discipline

• Ideal for manifestation and drawing magick

Ashes

• Carry in red cloth to bolster your courage

• Scatter around a purple candle for healing

• Bury spell ashes to seal a spell

• Carve a name into hardwood and burn to ash for a targeted curse component

• Must always be instructed in the working

• Versitile; can do everything from road openings and protection to destruction and chaos

Charcoal

• Used to make black salt and ink for grimoires

• Use in bath magick to cleanse yourself of negative energy

• Used in spells related to protection, warding, banishing, unity, and purification

• Can be used to add "fuel" to a working

Peach Pits

• Are often carved

• Worn to protect one's life, safety, and health

• Wards against negative energy

• Magickal aspects include longevity, protection, love, and vitality

Chalk

• Used for its power to claim, anchor, and control

• Write your target's name on an out bound train/boat/truck to make them go far away

• Write your name on the bottom of a lover's shoes to keep them coming back

• Trace your hand on a property to claim it for a time

Spiderwebs

• Capture a spiderweb on black cloth and hang over your door to catch a thief

• To keep someone away hang their name in a spiderweb and ask the spider to bind them

• Roll target's hair in a spiderweb and sprinkle with grave dirt. Bury in their yard to hex them.

• Roll a red/pink candle in webs to capture the heart of an attractive lover

• Used in magick for opportunity, obtaining, binding, and ensnarement

Coffee

• Used in poppets to inflict insomnia

• Makes a spell work faster

• To get a message from someone rub their name with coffee and attach to a mailbox

• Spinkle in purse, wallet, or cash box to bring money

• Said to improve a man's varility and stamina

Shoes

• Put sigils in the soles of your shoes

• Pair of shoes: health, protection, wealth, fertility, travel, banishing, fidelity, home, marriage/couples

• Right shoe: will, success, dominance, banishing, skill mind

• Left shoe: destiny, accidents, come to me, protection, love

• Cleanse with Florida Water for protection

• Put target's name in your right shoe to dominate, left to draw them, both to bewitch and control

• Dirt from the yard in a loved one's left shoe will keep them coming home

• Put hot foot powder directly in someone's right shoe *wink wink*

Lock & Key

• The lock is symbolic of blocking, stopping, protection, keeping people/energies out while keys represent access and entry

• Lock and key together offer protection and guarding/sealing with the option of unlocking, unbinding, freeing work and energy

• Utilized in magick for safeguarding treasures, information and secrets, opening doorways to other realms, dream work, "unlocking" psychic abilities, and in love magick (unlocking someone's heart)

Magnolia

• Brings luck, power, and success to women

• Hang over a door/window to bring luck to a home

• Place under couple's mattress for a happy relationship

• Used in sex magick rituals for fidelity and devotion

• Add to a bath to attract honor ans recognition

• Hexing, cursing, and banishing men

• Possess ancient wisdom and the power to bring peace, abundance, self-reliance, growth, and feminine love

Chocolate

• Corresponds to wealth, lust, passion, and bliss

• Add to any spell to speed up results and add power

• A spirit offered chocolate is more likely to grant a wish

• Rub on hands before spirit work; draws good spirits, good luck, and faster results

• Sprinkle chocolate in someone's shoes before they go to work and they'll make more money

• Chewing chocolate and hot peppers increases gambling luck

Chicken Feet

• A powerful protection charm/talisman, hang in home or car

• Can be used to rid negatives, clear crossed conditions, stop bad thoughts, guards against hexes and spiritual attacks

• Often painted and/or decorated with beads, bones, feathers, shells, or bones

• "Feed" with protection oil

Sulphur

• Also called brimstone

• In alchemy sulphur is one of the 3 elements that make up the Philosopher's Stone (sulphur: love/soul, mercury: mind/spirit, salt: will/body)

• Used as an offering, especially for demonic and chthonic spirits

• Used by root doctors for enemy tricks

• Excellent component for use in baneful magick, crossing/uncrossing, banishing, protection, beauty, and love

• Used in fire magick

Sunflower

• Add to ritual baths to increase joy and lift sorrow

• Can be used in spells to strengthen friendships or find new friends

• Burn sunflower petals to reveal the truth

• Used in ointments and oils to see/work with the Fae

• Feed someone sunflower seeds to increase their loyalty

• Also associated with success, nobility, partnership, charisma, luck, and integrity

Milk

• A hot bath with milk and eggshells stirred in counterclockwise will uncross you

• Favorite offering of the Fae, keeps them happy so they are less inclined to play tricks/move your stuff

• Drinking milk from a black cow protects you from enemies

• If you find a black cat at your door make a wish and offer them milk. If they drink the milk your wish will be granted

Orchids

• Symbolize feminine energy, sexuality, feminine power and control

• Used in lesbian love spells

• To gain power over a man bury his name at the base of an orchid, he will become docile and obedient

• Helps women take up positions of leadership, be doted on by men, and be respected as living goddesses

Mercury Dimes

• To win at games of chance wear a Mercury dime on your left wrist/ankle

• Powerful money drawing and success charm

• A Mercury dime in your shoe protects you from crossing powders

• If one turns black, someone tried to curse you

• Place at the bottom of a sugar bowl to draw money to your home

Bread

• Burnt bread ash sprinkled in someone's path will cause them poverty

• Bake a couple's names in a loaf of bread to make their love grow deep and strong

• Wonderful offering to spirits and deities

Vinegar

• Sours, erodes, repells, cleans, removes, punishes, and deters

• Used as a base in sour jars and as a component in spells to cause bitterness, suffering, negative associations, anxiety, and conflict

• Can help clear up addictions and habits

Railroad Spikes

• Place one in the 4 corners of your home for protection

• Can be used to "nail/anchor" something in place

• Often used in making war water

• Used in workings to prevent/stop eviction

• Symbolizes strength, power, safety, good luck, defense, and protection

Snake Skin

• Reverse hexes, jinxes, and curses

• Curse component; works well when added to goofer dust

• Carried for protection and good luck

• Also represents change, transformation, and new beginnings

• Can be given as an offering to serpentine deities (Lilith, Medusa, Loki, etc.)

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Taurus II Sun: the Lingam Yoni

The Sun enters Taurus II on 29 April 2025 at 10:16 pm EDT. In western Massachusetts, where I live, this puts the Sun in the sixth house, in the masculine/latent quadrant and in a night house in a night-ruled sign, in a night-ruled chart. It suggests some uncomfortable days ahead in the ten days, seven hours, and 43 minutes that the Sun will take to pass through this decan, which includes May Day…

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part of the reason i love how bell hooks talks about masculinity is that she shows real compassion towards men suffering from the effects of toxic masculinity. she was conscious of how we need to unlearn the ways we talk about men + masculinity just as much as we need to unlearn the same for women + femininity. so many times ill see someone talking about toxic masculinity like (hyperbolizing here but only slightly) "these FUCKING STUPID BABY BITCHES won't MAN UP and go to a therapist!!!" and like. i get the anger. but you see feminists recreating patriarchal manhood by only promoting good behaviors through patriarchal frameworks. any use of the term "real men" is bad because it reifies the idea that manhood is a special title you must earn, and it is something possible to fail and fake. & as important as it is to promote sexual equality + the pleasure of non-cis-men, lots of people are essentially still working with the idea that men need sexual prowess to have worth but just shifting it slightly so there is more emphasis on women's pleasure. but I want cis men to think about their partners' pleasure because they care about their partners, not because they need to check a box in order to keep their man card. and don't get me started on small dick jokes– and the absolutely pitiful excuse people will use that "well, I don't believe it, but misogynistic men get upset when I say it, so it's okay!"

basically bell hooks is so fucking right. in order to create loving men we need to love men, simply for being alive, whether or not they are performing. as much as we need to actively unlearn misogyny (and we do), it's equally vital we unlearn patriarchal ways of seeing manhood. we can't just assume that taking a feminist perspective automatically means there is no work to be done there.

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Taurus I Sun: The Plough

The Charistes, or “charities”, were the deities that the Hellenes of Alexandria ascribed to the first ten degrees of Taurus. The Sun will spend the next ten days here, in the decan that Austin Coppock called The Plough — entering on 19 April 2025 at 3:56 pm EDT, and remaining here ten days, six hours, and 20 minutes until 29 April 2025 at 10:19 pm EDT. T. Susan Chang called this decan Sacred…

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The Quilt by Gerard Donelan 1988

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From 10-20 March 2025, the Sun is in Pisces III: Hope & Memory: How do our aspirations and our history urge us to act in an unprecedented future?

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Ronald Hutton changes his mind on Witch-Cult Hypothesis: Many Medieval Witches were, indeed, Pagan!

In "Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe", Ronald Hutton shocks his readers with a new theory that overturns what he has claimed in the past!

If in his celebrated "The Triumph of the Moon" he categorically denied any connection between Medieval Witches and Paganism, he now dramatically changes his mind!

Hutton now acknowledges that Pagan cults have existed in the Middle Ages, but with a resounding twist: these cults would not have survived from antiquity, but would have been created *ex novo* precisely in Medieval times!

Instead of being direct heirs of pre-Christian religions, these Medieval cults would have retained a profoundly Pagan nature, even though they arose during a period dominated by Christianity.

Hutton thus challenges the old paradigm, arguing that these new cults, while not ancient, were much closer to Pagan spirituality in form and substance than anything Christian.

They were an independent system, expressing a Pagan approach to the sacred, unrelated to the dominant Christian traditions.

With this new book, Hutton not only breaks new ground in research on the Middle Ages, but challenges the idea that Pagan cults must necessarily be legacies of the distant past. Even in a Christianized age, there would have been room for the emergence of radically Pagan beliefs that had been overshadowed for centuries.

This new perspective sheds light on a Middle Ages far more complex and richer in alternative spiritualities than previously thought!

"Looking closely at four main figures—Mother Earth, the Fairy Queen, the Mistress of the Night, and the Old Woman of Gaelic tradition—Hutton challenges decades of debate around the female figures who have long been thought versions of pre-Christian goddesses. He makes the compelling case that these goddess figures found in the European imagination did not descend from the pre-Christian ancient world, yet have nothing Christian about them."

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Aquarius I Sun: Mark of Exile

Dike, the goddess of the marketplace's standard measures, rules the ten days of Aquarius I, January 19 to 29. How do you measure up? Where is your thumb on the scale? How are your relationships with others being defined by unwritten contracts?

Austin Coppock called the first decan of Aquarius Mark of Exile, and the Sun will enter the Mark at 3:00 pm EST on 19 January 2025. It will travel through this decan, degree by degree, until 29 January 2025 at 10:59 am EST, making nine days, nineteen hours and fifty-nine minutes. T. Susan Chang called this decan Winners and Losers, from its associations with the 5 of Swords in Tarot. The…

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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The three-ring binder is the apex of book technology, by the way. All the advantages of a codex, plus you can add, remove, and reorder pages at will - pages which you can furthermore protect from damage in transparent sleeves, and store commentaries, notes, and other paratextual addenda behind them without obscuring the primary content. Truly the queen of codices. Reblog if you love the three-ring binder.