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March 2024 witch guide

Full moon: March 25th

New moon: March 10th

Sabbats: Ostara-March 19th

March Worm Moon

Known as: Crow Moon, Eagle Moon, Goose Moon, Hrethmonath, Lenting moon, Lentzinmanoth, Moon of Snowblind, Moon of Winds, Plow Moon, Sap Moon, Seed Moon, Sore Eyes Moon, Storm Moon, Sugar Moon & Wind Strong Moon

Element: Water

Zodiac: Pisces & Aries

Nature spirits: Air & water spirits & Mer-people

Deities: Artemis, Astarte, Athena, Cybele, Isis, Luna & Minerva

Animals: Boar, cougar & hedgehog

Birds: Sea crow & sea eagle

Trees: Alder, dogwood & honeysuckle

Herbs: Apple blossom, broom, high John root, Irish moss, pennyroyal, wood betony & yellow dock

Flowers: Daffodil, jonquil & violet

Scents: Apple blossom & honeysuckle

Stones: Aquamarine, bloodstone, jasper, opal &topaz

Colors: Pale-green, red, violet, yellow & white

Energy: Balance, beginnings, dream work, energy breaking into the open, exploring, fertility, inner development, karma, prosperity, spirituality, success & truth seeking

For many years, it was thought that the name "Worm Moon" referred to the earthworms that appear as the soil warms in spring. This invites robins and other birds to feed—a true sign of spring.

However, more research revealed another explanation. In the 1760s, Captain Jonathan Carver visited the Naudowessie (Dakota) and other Native American tribes and wrote that the name Worm Moon refers to a different sort of “worm”—beetle larvae—which begin to emerge from the thawing bark of trees and other winter hideouts at this time.

March’s full Moon often plays a role in religion, specifically in Christianity, this Moon is known as the Lenten Moon if it is the last full Moon of the winter season (i.e., if it occurs before the spring equinox) or as the Paschal Full Moon if it is the first full Moon of spring (i.e., if it occurs after the spring equinox).

Ostara

Known as: Alban Eiler, Lady Day & Spring/Vernal equinox

Season: Spring

Symbols: 8-spoked wheel, butterflies, chicks, decorated baskets, eggs, feathers, jellybeans, lambs, rabbits, seeds, shamrocks, spring flowers & sunwheels

Colors: Green, indigo, light blue, pastels, pink, red & yellow

Oils/Incense: African violet, florals, ginger, jasmine, lotus, magnolia, rose, sage & strawberry

Animals: Cormorant, hare, hawk, rabbit, sheep, sparrow & swallow

Mythical: Dragon & Unicorn

Stones: Amethyst, aquamarine, bloodstone, moonstone, red jasper & rose quartz

Food: Dairy foods, eggs(hard boiled), fruits, honey, honey cakes, leafy greens, vegetables, pine nuts, pumpkin, sunflower seeds, sprouts & waffles

Herbs/Plants: Acorn, cinquefoil, dogwood, ginger, Irish moss, olive, strawberry & woodruff

Flowers: Celandine, crocus, daffodil, dandelion, Easter lily, jasmine gorse, honeysuckle, hyssop, iris, jonquil, linden, narcissus, peony, snowdrop, tansy & violet

Goddesses: Aphrodite, Ariadne, Artemis, Athena, Coatlicue, Cybele,Demeter, Diana, Eos, Eostre, Flora, Gaia, Hera, Idunn, Iris, Ishtar, Juno, Minerva, Persephone, Venus & Vesta

Gods: Adonis, Attis, Celi, Cernunnos, Coel, Dagda, Dalon ap Landu, Dumuzi, Green Man, Lord of the Greenwood, Mithras, Odin, Osiris, Ovis & Pan

Issues, Intentions & Powers: Agriculture, balance, beauty, fertility, growth, life, love & rebirth/renewal

Spellwork: Air magick, fertility, new beginnings & water magick

Activities:

• Go on a hike/walk & look for signs of spring

• Add Ostara symbols to decorate your altar space

• Plant vegetable &/or flower seedlings

• Decorate eggs with bright colors

• Set your intentions for the weeks/months ahead

• Start a new class or hobby

• Create eggshell candles

• Make plans & new routines for the future

• Participate in rituals & ceremonies that connect you with energy & the life force of nature

• Have a feast with your friends &/family with sprouts & leafy greens

• Bake hot cross buns or lavender/lemon flavored treats

• Clean & de-clutter your home

• Try a re-birthing/ renewing ritual

• Bring fresh flowers or plants into into the home

• Host a spring & floral themed tea party

• Make egg based food dishes & desserts

This holiday marks the Spring Equinox, which happens before March 19-22. It is the second of three spring celebrations (the midpoint between Imbolc and Beltane) during which light & darkness are again in balance, with light on the rise. It is a time of new beginnings & of life emerging further from the grips of winter.

There is much debate regarding the origins of Ostara due to the lack of primary sources about this sabbat. One theory is the name of Ostara came from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre. Another theory is that Eostre is more of a localized goddess in Kent County, England. Despite the questions of her origins, Eostre is associated with modern-day Pagan traditions of Ostara.

There is no evidence that the ancient Greeks or Romans celebrated Ostara, although they did celebrate their own spring festivals, such as the Roman festival of Floralia & the Greek festival of Anthesteria. It was a time to honor the returning sun, fertility & rebirth.

Related festivals:

• Nowruz- March 19th

Nowruz marks the first day of spring & renewal of nature. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox. It is also celebrated as the beginning of the new year by people all around the world for over 3,000 years in the Balkans, the Black Sea Basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East & other regions.

It promotes values of peace & solidarity between generations & within families as well as reconciliation & neighbourliness. Nowruz plays a significant role in strengthening the ties among peoples based on mutual respect & the ideals of peace and good neighbourliness.

Traditional customs of Nowruz include fire & water, ritual dances, gift exchanges, reciting poetry, symbolic objects & more; these customs differ between the diverse peoples & countries that celebrate the festival.

• Holi- March 25th

Holi is a popular & significant Hindu festival celebrated as the The festival of colors, Love &Spring. It commemorates eternal and divine love of the deities Radha & Krishna. Additionally, the day signifies the triumph of good over evil, as it celebratess the victory of Vishnu as Narasimha over Hiranyakashipu. Holi originated & is predominantly celebrated in the Indian subcontinent, but has also spread to other regions of Asia & parts of the Western world through the Indian diaspora.

Holi also celebrates the arrival of Spring in India, the end of winter & the blossoming of love. It is also an invocation for a good spring harvest season. It lasts for a night & a day, starting on the evening of the Purnima (full moon day) falling on the Hindu calendar month of Phalguna, which falls around the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar.

• Easter- March 31st

also called Pascha or Resurrection Sunday is a Christian festival & cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus Christ, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, & penance.

Easter traditions vary across the Christian world & include sunrise services or late-night vigils, exclamations & exchanges of��Paschal greetings, flowering the cross & the decoration and the communal breaking of Easter eggs (a symbol of the empty tomb) among many others. The Easter lily is a symbol of the resurrection in Western Christianity traditionally decorates the chancel area of churches on this day & for the rest of Eastertide. Additional customs that have become associated with Easter & are observed by both Christians & some non-Christians include Easter parades, communal dancing, the Easter Bunny & egg hunting.

Other Celebrations:

• Festival of Luna- March 31st

Is a feast day honoring the Goddess Luna who is seen as the divine embodiment of the Moon.

The Temple of Luna was a temple on the Aventine Hill in Rome, dedicated to Luna, the moon goddess. Its dedication was celebrated on March 31st, thus the celebration.

According to Tacitus, it was built by king Servius Tullius. However, the first confirmed reference to a temple to Luna dates to 182 BC & refers to one of its doors being knocked off its posts by a miraculous blast of air & shot into the back of the Temple of Ceres. That account probably places the temple at the north end of the hill, just above porta Trigemina. The temple was struck by lightning around the time of the death of Cinna, as was the temple of Ceres. After the destruction of Corinth, Lucius Mummius Achaicus dedicated some of his spoils from the city to this temple. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD & not rebuilt.

Sources:

Farmersalmanac .com

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kines

Wikipedia

A Witch's Book of Correspondences by Viktorija Briggs

Encyclopedia britannica

Llewellyn 2024 magical almanac Practical magic for everyday living

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the-chronicle-of-holy-days · 2 months

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Day 6

Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli Adumbratio Kabbalae Aegyptiorum sub figurâ VII

1. My God, how I love Thee!

2. With the vehement appetite of a beast I hunt Thee through the Universe.

3. Thou art standing as it were upon a pinnacle at the edge of some fortified city. I am a white bird, and perch upon Thee.

4. Thou art My Lover: I see Thee as a nymph with her white limbs stretched by the spring.

5. She lies upon the moss; there is none other but she:

6. Art Thou not Pan?

7. I am He. Speak not, O my God! Let the work be accomplished in silence.

8. Let my cry of pain be crystallized into a little white fawn to run away into the forest!

9. Thou art a centaur, O my God, from the violet-blossoms that crown Thee to the hoofs of the horse.

10. Thou art harder than tempered steel; there is no diamond beside Thee.

11. Did I not yield this body and soul?

12. I woo thee with a dagger drawn across my throat.

13. Let the spout of blood quench Thy blood-thirst, O my God!

14. Thou art a little white rabbit in the burrow Night.

15. I am greater than the fox and the hole.

16. Give me Thy kisses, O Lord God!

17. The lightning came and licked up the little flock of sheep.

18. There is a tongue and a flame; I see that trident walking over the sea.

19. A phœnix hath it for its head; below are two prongs. They spear the wicked.

20. I will spear Thee, O Thou little grey god, unless Thou beware!

21. From the grey to the gold; from the gold to that which is beyond the gold of Ophir.

22. My God! but I love Thee!

23. Why hast Thou whispered so ambiguous things? Wast Thou afraid, O goat-hoofed One, O horned One, O pillar of lightning?

24. From the lightning fall pearls; from the pearls black specks of nothing.

25. I based all on one, one on naught.

26. Afloat in the æther, O my God, my God!

27. O Thou great hooded sun of glory, cut off these eyelids!

28. Nature shall die out; she hideth me, closing mine eyelids with fear, she hideth me from My destruction, O Thou open eye.

29. O ever-weeping One!

30. Not Isis my mother, nor Osiris my self; but the incestuous Horus given over to Typhon, so may I be!

31. There thought; and thought is evil.

32. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! it is enough.

33. Fall not into death, O my soul! Think that death is the bed into which you are falling!

34. O how I love Thee, O my God! Especially is there a vehement parallel light from infinity, vilely diffracted in the haze of this mind.

35. I love Thee.

I love Thee.

36. Thou art a beautiful thing whiter than a woman in the column of this vibration.

37. I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above.

38. But it is death, and the flame of the pyre.

39. Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my soul! Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light.

40. When Thou shall know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in Thy great N. O. X.

41. What shalt Thou be, my God, when I have ceased to love Thee?

42. A worm, a nothing, a niddering knave!

43. But Oh! I love Thee.

44. I have thrown a million flowers from the basket of the Beyond at Thy feet, I have anointed Thee and Thy Staff with oil and blood and kisses.

45. I have kindled Thy marble into life — ay! into death.

46. I have been smitten with the reek of Thy mouth, that drinketh never wine but life.

47. How the dew of the Universe whitens the lips!

48. Ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother Supernal, begone!

49. I Am She that should come, the Virgin of all men.

50. I am a boy before Thee, O Thou satyr God.

51. Thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure — Now! Now! Now!

52. Io Pan! Io Pan! I love Thee. I love Thee.

53. O my God, spare me!

54. Now!

It is done! Death.

55. I cried aloud the word — and it was a mighty spell to bind the Invisible, an enchantment to unbind the bound; yea, to unbind the bound

Years favorite is in bold

Wow this is a doozy lol why all the tower cards remind me of the finale of the Magnus Archives

Artwork source https://www.deviantart.com/decepticoniancybra/art/The-Tower-Tarot-Card-871366781

#thelema #thelemic holy season #argentum astrum #holy days #silver star #tarot #current 93

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omg-snakes · 2 years

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My balloon-animal girls currently in Nestbox Jail™ and preparing to make sneggs.

From top left, Isis is almost finished with her clutch but she has two lumps still in there, probably slugs. I dotted her back with a marker so that I could monitor the progress of the lumps and they are moving, just slowly. Snikki is very swollen but still interested in food. She just had her pre-lay shed yesterday. Pumpkin Spice is doing her best impression of a German long sausage. She's been nesting a little and refusing meals. Finally, Rosepink is at the very bottom of that tub full of sphagnum moss and I'm not inclined to dig for her. She's spicy under the best conditions and I'm not about to go aggravating her while she's this gravid.

#snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #corn snake #corn snakes #Sneggwatch 2022 #gravid snakes #snow corn snake #hypo corn snake #amel corn snake #invisible corn snake

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triciamfoster · 1 year

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Correspondences: Water

As noted in The Spiral Dance by Starhawk

WATER

Direction: West

Rules: Emotions, feelings, love, courage, daring, sorrow, the ocean, the tides, lakes, pools, streams, and rivers, springs and wells, intuition, the unconscious mind, the womb, generation, fertility

Time: Twilight

Season: Autumn

Colors: Blue, bluegreen, green, gray, indigo, black Signs of the

Zodiac: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Tool: Cup

Spirits: Undines, ruled by their King Niksa

Angel: Raphael

Name of the West Wind: Zephyrus

Sense: Taste

Jewel: Aquamarine

Incense: Myrrh

Plants: Ferns, lotus, mosses, rushes, seaweeds, water lilies, and all water plants

Tree: Willow

Animals: Dolphins and porpoises, dragons as serpents, fish, seals and sea mammals, water-dwelling snakes, all water creatures and sea birds

Goddesses: Arhrodite, Isis, Mari, Mariamne, Tiamat, Yemaya

Gods: Dylan, Ea, Llyr, Manannan, Neptune, Osiris, Poseidon

#witchcraft #paganism #neo pagan #witchblr #baby witch #feminist witch #witchcraft 101

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jackfrostbitten-writes · 2 years

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Mythography

Pearl watched silently from the rafters of Sausage's cathedral as Bdubs fiddled with some redstone.

Bdubs's mossy coat had been "prettyified" with Stress's help to look like glowstone. Bunches of pale, bioluminescent mushrooms were growing out from it--pulsing and shifting like a giant yellow heart. He even had the deepslate sword Keralis had forged for him on his back, glittering with enchantments.

"Y'know, you would make for a pretty decent god," Pearl snickered.

Bdubs yelped in surprise, nearly falling off the ledge.

"You scared me!" He huffed, "I could'a fallen off!"

Pearl rolled her eyes, "You're a living moss ball, Dubs, you could fall from a skyscraper and be fine."

Bdubs stuck out his tongue and returned to his redstone.

Pearl chuckled, climbing over to where Bdubs was working.

"I don't wanna be a real god," Bdubs said as he laid out another line of redstone, "Keralis, Stress, and them all have it pretty rough, dontcha' think?"

Bdubs turned and gave Pearl a pointed look.

Pearl sighed, sitting cross-legged beside him, "It wasn't my choice to be cursed or be a god. That's just what time has turned me into."

Bdubs was quiet for a moment. He sat back on his heels, looking over his work before turning to Pearl.

"What's it like?"

Pearl chuckled, letting her legs dangle over the edge of the rafters, "Depends."

"On what?"

"On what you represent."

Bdubs hummed, "Like Keralis? He's everything evil, isn't he?"

Pearl was silent.

"Czernobog was worshipped out of fear. People would lay out food at their tables to keep misfortune away. They thought he was the one that rotted their crops and caused people to become ill.

"Xiuhtecuhtli was known as the "creator of all life". Priests spent their entire lives ensuring that his sacred fire was tended to, and he was given festivals at the hottest and coldest times of year.

"Isis and Demeter were regarded as some of the most important of their pantheons. Isis was the goddess of childbirth, and the only one to ever know Ra's true name and the power that came with it. Demeter ensured that nature remained stable and that crops grew in the spring and summer."

Pearl paused, "...I guess I kinda took a bit of Stress's thunder. I'm a god of the moon and the harvest."

Bdubs shrugged with a grin, "I think she'll appreciate the help, especially with the new version of Vault Hunters coming out."

It was silent in the cathedral for a while. The crickets chirped outside as the sun fell behind the mountains. Pearl shivered as the moon began to come up, casting a glow of quartz and shadow over the world.

Bdubs shivered, too, but not for the same reason. His eyes lit up like miniature flashlights to help him see in the dark. Pearl knew he was itching to pull his bed out of his inventory and sleep the night away.

"There's some that I think are at least related to the divine. I know Evil X and X have primordial blood in them, Doc killed Dinnerbone, Mumbo's always had a weird thing with bats..."

Bdubs knew some that sure as hell weren't related to the divine. Beef was a shape-stealing alien and Etho was a demon that preyed on nightmares. He was pretty sure Impulse had some demonic connection, but didn't know for sure.

But Pearl didn't know that, so Bdubs stayed silent.

"We're all kinda weird," Bdubs said.

Pearl smiled, "You've got that right."

#mcyt #hermitblr #hermitcraft #pearlescentmoon #bdouble0 #bdoubleo tag

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oapostle · 10 months

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Gentleness of her voice, as soft the trees swayed and the moss that dangled down off the branches in the calm breeze, drew the hunter back in from his venturing thoughts. Laving in the peacefulness that Isis’ presence and property brought him. A safe space in a world of nightmares. Giles watches the woman as she approaches him. Step by step, she came into clearer focus. Features sunkissed and lovely as the sunset. Lovelier, dare he say making such a comparison. Scarred brow arches at her words.

“You startin’ to dream of fish like your mamma said, sunshine?” He inquires curiously with a small, toothy smile. It’s a statement he isn’t quick to catch onto. Woman’s body, mind and spirit… always knows what? He mulls over those words. On a heeled boot the hunter turns to face the woman. Sight flickering over her, perhaps searching for a physical difference of some sort. Yet, he sees nothing. Though he would be lying to say if something didn’t feel different. That faint aura about her shining brighter than usual. Quiet hum rumbles in the man’s throat, “I ain’t so certain I follow, darlin’. You know me, a fool of a man when it comes to a lady’s riddle.”

@creolejesus con't

#creolejesus #I MOVED IT BC THE OLD EDITOR #would not let me edit

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isy-ferrante · 9 months

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Diaries of a Brazilian Mess

by Isy Ferrante

August 18th

I can’t sleep.

I keep looking at geometric patterns on my blanket that match perfectly with the moss green curtains, which in turn matches the dome of the lamp that is on the top of the desk, the same desk where I caressless threw my backpack, before I lay down under the blanket with geometric patterns.

It’s my first night at Enzo’s guest room.

Not that I’ve never slept here before. Enzo’s guest room had always been my preferred place to spend the night when I was way too drunk to go home by myself. But it was different when I had my own place to go back to.

I was still in the hospital bed when Enzo offered me his guest room and didn’t offer me a chance to say no to it.

I hated him. Who he is to assume I couldn’t make my own decisions? To decide that I had lost all control over my life? I would had send him and his fucking burgeois three room apartment to somewhere worse than hell, if only I wasn’t too tired to fool myself into believe that I was still able to pay my rent without my former job.

And just like that, I had no option but low my head, and instead, send my own apartment to hell and move into Enzo’s guest room.

It’s not a guest room anymore, he said to me, now, it’s your room. That doesn’t felt right at all, yet, something in the way he said soothed me. Drowning in my own frustrations I forgot Enzo is a good friend. The best one I have.

I also forgot that Renato has just left him. Renato was the one who chose all the curtains in the apartment. Now Enzo is alone. Enzo gave perfectly good reasons for Renato to leave, yet, Enzo can’t stand being alone.

So Enzo took me by the hand and brought me to his guest room. And here I am, living in the guest room of someone who not only believes he can protect me from myself, but also believes I fill a gap shaped nothing like me.

I dread that there might come a day when, broken-hearted, he’ll realize he was wrong.

I can’t sleep.

#writeblr #diary #writing #creative writing #roommates #diariesofabrazilianmess #self care #writing community #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #writers and poets #lgbtqia #brazil #brazilian artists #friendship #love #getting better #coping #mental health

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spyraleyes · 1 year

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Happy Ostara! Ostara, a day of equal day and night. Also known as the Vernal Equinox, is all about celebrating our mother Gaia. It is a time of rebirth and renewal as nature starts to wake up, from her winter slumber. Celebrate by spring cleaning, planting a garden, creating a faerie garden, making a flower crown, walking in nature, birdwatching or decorating a spring alter. Rune: Berkano Tarot Card: The Empress, The Sun Herbs/Oils: Clover, cedar, geranium, patchouli, chamomile, lemon, lime, honeysuckle, lilac, mint, narcissus, pansy, ylang ylang, lavender, patchouli, Crystals: Moonstone, Green Moss Agate, Clear Quartz, Chiastolite, Chrysocolla, Rose Quartz, Amethyst, Bloodstone, Carnelian, bumblebee Jasper, Septarian, Green Aventurine, Sunstone Deities: Fertility/nature gods and goddesses. Gaia, Asat (Isis), Eostre, Aphrodite, Persephone, Nefertum, Asar (Osiris), Min, Pan Animals: ducks, rabbits, deer, lambs, hare, butterflies Colors: Think pastels! Spells/rituals: rebirth, fertility, balance, growth, cleansing, goals, manifestation, abundance and increasing power. Affirmations: "I cleanse all that doesn't serve my higher self" "I am growing every day" "Anything worth having takes time" "I create my own life" "All is love" Other symbols: Eggs, flowers, babies, greens https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDwh17JxMB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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divinexxchaos · 1 year

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Name a song for each letter of your username:

D - Devastated by Joey Bada$$ (& Dazed and Confused by Ruel)

I - Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls (& Isis by Joyner Lucas)

V - Valerie by Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse (& Vienna by Billy Joel)

I - I Miss The Misery by Halestorm (& II’ll Be Good by Jaymes Young)

N - No Role Modelz by J. Cole (& Nobody’s Home by Avril Lavigne)

E - Easy by the Commodores (& Everything by Buckcherry)

X - X Gon’ Give it to Ya by DMX (& Xanny by Billie Eilish)

X - XO by Eden (& XO by Beyonce)

C - Concert for Aliens by MGK (& Consequences by Camila Cabello)

H - Hate Myself by NF (& Heaven Falls / Fall on Me by Surfaces)

A - Asleep by The Smiths (& Addicted by Saving Abel)

O - Ophelia by The Lumineers (& Old School Turntables by Matt DiMona)

S - Sober by Demi Lovato (& Slip by Elliot Moss) (& Surf by Mac Miller)

(I know it said only one song but music is literally my passion and I couldn’t help but do two songs okay. TBH I could have done a whole ass themed playlist for each letter OR a representation of my URL for each genre of music So this is really me exsercising self control)

I also couldn’t do a music thing and not include a NIckelback song (plus the video is SO sweet) !!!! SO...

I’d Come For You by Nickelback

I’d also never forgive myself for not sharing the following song with you all

Peanut Butter Waffles by Ryan Caraveo

Tagged by: @erncst

Tagging: @ssvperboy @wingsandahalo @entityforged @fullofhcart @troublesomemix @almcstgolden @alxnetxgether @blueletterss @tragedyfollows @blumhouses @strawbcrryskyys & anyone else who wants to do it!

(p.s. none of u saw me tag myself but a different blog bc I wanna do this again)

#&&*dash games #&&*munshit // ooc #I HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH THIS #SO MUCH #HAVE FUN FRIENDS #I CHOSE THE BESTEST SONGS

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thursdaythetwelfth · 4 days

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Chimera

A shadow herself across the brine matte of trenchant faces descends

Amid the humid debris, before the shale alms, shivering,

Leaving the crawl space or light severed valley, spiraling herself by the armchairs,

bypassing the emptied streets, whispering,

Daughter bubble cascade produced by folding of ruptured thin linens.

A bridge rocks herself from pumice to knee, beyond the sails ducked beneath her eaves

Abruptly pausing, with a wooden spoon between her teeth,

What day is this? Or what may arise behind the curtain

Where whose portière upon skene dines;

Accepting severance blithely, undulating spheres in her drawing room,

Of rewards, the kind who tells the wind to do,

Of proffer or adulation, a disappearing film to stain.

Om mani padme om, singing

Blindly vast upon the dune turns the oleaginous Kingdom

Of borrowed shells,

Of anxious, dewy pails, rain-leavened and care-worn

There, the champignons of pendulous rappine, a Cosmogonic bloom

In perfidy of youth,

Indeed a pale, but sigilant tide cast out in dry winter (12 o’clock)

To sea of bedeviled or perforated faces, somnolent (Dante’s guest)

Song of innocence, or of deviance (chimes the bell)

Fustian moss poured through a sieve, at dusk these silver halides

Fell, glozened eyes behind them, spume and spindrift

Hailing ash from each to each, windows mutter

All fall down, or ever as we decide (she, an Optimist, declines)

An Isis procession of trains winding about her when she lingers in her gowns

Forestalling the open gutters, retreating

Her opalescent curves returned by coastal plain’s alluvium, dressing,

On wooden elbows, perigee obscurely feint, cross-cut with sighs

Delivered of her shadow’s music, just grazing the inchoate with a promontory veil of skin,

She slides,

Tops and Downs

the stairwell, arriving to the blacktop moon engulfing the banister,

And here, c’est damage, so revolving away like a sick snail, shuttering out the light,

Shuffling all the portaments against the night, replete with a round or tremulous voice,

She stays, she lies to rest to dream the dream that cannot be afforded by her impresario.

#my poetry #ai artwork from original prompt

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unladyboss · 2 months

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TEN OTHER TIMES RICHIE JERIMOVICH MADE YOU TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT HIM (HAWT)

Don't think about his personality.

Matter of fact think about Ebon Moss Bachrach's personality

1. OUT ON A DATE

2. INDULGING A NASTY HABIT

3. Doing whatever this is

4. GETTING SERIOUS WITH THE SPECTRALS

5. LAUGHING

6. HOTTER THAN MIKEY

7. MAKING THAT FACE

8. LEAVING A DATE DEJECTED

9. TELLING EVERYONE WHAT TO DO

10. TRANSFORMATION INTO ANUBIS

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greenwitchcrafts · 6 months

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December 2023 witch guide

Full moon: December 26th

New moon: December 12th

Sabbats: Yule December 21st-January 1st

December Cold Moon

Known as: Drift Clearing Moon, Frost Exploding Tree Moon, Moon of the Popping Trees, Hoar Frost Moon, Snow Moon, Winter, Aerra Geola, Maker Moon, Heilagmanoth, Long Night's Moon, Oak Moon, Wintermonat, Moon of the Long Night, Little Spirit Moon, Wolf Moon & When the Deer Shed Their Antlers Moon

Element: Fire

Zodiac: Sagittarius & Capricorn

Nature spirits: Snow, Storm, & Winter Tree faeries

Deities: Athena, Fates, Hades, Hathor, Hecate, Ixchel, Minerva, Neith, Norns, Osiris & Persephone

Animals: Bear, deer, horse & mouse

Birds: Robin, rook & snowy owl

Trees: Fir, Holly & Pine

Herbs: Bay, cedar, chamomile, cinnamon, English ivy, evergreen, fir, frankincense, holly, mistletoe, myrrh, pine & sage

Flowers: Christmas catus, holly & poinsettia

Scents: Cedar, cinnamon, frankincense, ginger, lilac, myrrh, nutmeg, patchouli, pine, rose geranium, rosemary, saffron, violet & wintergreen

Stones: Bloodstone, blue topaz, cat's eye, garnet, jacinth, obsidian, peridot, turquoise, zircon, ruby & serpentine

Colors: Black, blood red, gold, green, red, silver, black & white

Energy: Alchemy, darkness, endurance, death & re-birth, higher education, publications, reaching out to others, religion, spiritual paths, travel & truth

Today, December’s full Moon is most commonly known as the Cold Moon—a Mohawk name that conveys the frigid conditions of this time of year, when cold weather truly begins to grip us.

This full Moon has also been called the Long Night Moon (Mohican), as it rises during the “longest” nights of the year, near the December winter solstice. This name is doubly fitting because December’s full Moon shines above the horizon for a more extended period than most full Moons.

In Europe, ancient pagans called the December full Moon the “Moon Before Yule,” in honor of the Yuletide festival celebrating the return of the sun heralded by winter solstice.

Yule

Also known as: Alban, Arthan & Winter Solstice

Season: Winter

Symbols: Baskets of clove studded fruit, Christmas catus, decorated evergreen trees, evergreen boughs, gifts, gold pillar candles, hung mistletoe, poinsettias, wreaths & Yule logs/small Yule log with three candles

Colors: Gold, green, orange, red, silver, white &yellow

Oils/incense: Bayberry, cedar, cinnamon, frankincense. Myrrh & pine

Animals: Bear, boar, deer (stag), pig, squirrel & tiger

Birds: Eagle, goose, kingfisher, lapwing, owl robin & wren

Stones: Bloodstone, garnet, ruby, alexandrite, blue topaz, cat's eye, citrine, clear quartz, diamond, emerald, green tourmaline, jet, kunzite & pearl

Foods: Caraway cakes, cookies, eggnog, fruits, ginger tea, nuts, pork, spiced cider, turkey, wassail & lamb's wool (ale, sugar, nutmeg & roasted apples)

Herbs/plants: Bay, bayberry, birch, blessed thistle, cedar, chestnut, cinnamon, evergreens, fir, frankincense, ginger, holly, ivy, juniper, mistletoe, moss, myrrh, oak, pine, rosemary, sage, valerian & yellow cedar

Flowers: Chamomile, poinsettia & yarrow

Goddesses: Alcyone, Aphrodite, Ameratasu, Bona Dea, Brighid, Cailleach Bheur, Demeter, Diana, Fortuna, Frau Holle, Frau Perchta, Frigga, Gaia, Hel, Great Mother, Idunn, Isis, Ishtar, Kolyada, La Befana, Maat & Tiamat

Gods: Apollo, Attis, Balder, Bragi, Dionysus, Divine Child, Green Man, Helios, Holly King, Horned one, Horus, Janus, Lord of Misrule, Lugh, Mabon, Marduk, Mithras, Odin, Ra, Saturn & Surya

Issues Intentions & Powers: Darkness, divination, light, messages/omens, purification, rebirth/renewal & transformation

Spellwork: Earth magick, happiness, harmony, love & peace

Activities:

• Set up & decorate a Yule altar

• Clean, organize & cleanse before decorating your home

• Make witch's balls to hang on your tree (protective & pretty!)

• Decorate & bless & Yule tree

• Stay awake until dawn to observe the cycles of nature

• Give gifts tomyour family & friends

• Donate your time or helpful items to charity

• Go caroling

• Hang mistletoe in your doorways

• Make Wassail

• Prepare a Yule Log

• Host a Yule feast

• Craft your own decorative wreath

• Decorate your house with Yule colored candles

• Welcome the Sun

• Go on nature walks & leave offerings to nature

• Meditate & reflect on the passing year

“Yule” comes from Old English geol, which shares a history with the equivalent word from Old Norse, jól. Both these words referred to a midwinter festival centered around the winter solstice, which traditionally marked the halfway point of the winter season. After the solstice—the shortest day of the year—the days again begin to grow longer, so it’s thought that Yule was a celebration of the re-appearance of the Sun &the fertile land’s rebirth.

The celebration of Yule is one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world. Ancient people were hunters & spent most of their time outdoors. The seasons & weather played a significant part in their lives. The customs and traditions associated with it vary widely.

Scholars have connected the original celebrations of Yule to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the heathen Anglo-Saxon Mōdraniht ("Mothers' Night")

Some believe it marks the rebirth of the Sun (the God) from the Earth (the Goddess) & the cold days of winter will soon begin to wane. The Goddess is seen in her virgin Maiden aspect

In towns and cities throughout Sweden during the Christmas season, large goats are constructed out of straw. It is thought that the tradition originated in ancient times, perhaps as a tribute to the god Thor, who was said to ride in a chariot pulled by goats. In Sweden the goat came to be associated with the Christmas celebration, and the Yule goat is now considered by many to be a companion or counterpart to Santa Claus.

Related festivals:

Christmas- An annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ as the son of God, primarily observed on December 25th

Hanukkah- A Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem & subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE.

Hanukkah is observed for eight nights & days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. The festival is observed by lighting the candles of a candelabrum with nine branches, commonly called a menorah or hanukkiah.

Kwanzaa- An annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1st, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West & Southeast Africa. Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966.

A Kwanzaa ceremony may include drumming and musical selections, libations, a reading of the African Pledge & the Principles of Blackness, reflection on the Pan-African colors, a discussion of the African principle of the day or a chapter in African history, a candle-lighting ritual, artistic performance & finally, a feast of faith (Karamu Ya Imani).

Saturnalia-

is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December of the Julian calendar & later expanded with festivities through to 23 December. The holiday was celebrated with a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn, in the Roman Forum & a public banquet, followed by private gift-giving, continual partying & a carnival atmosphere that overturned Roman social norms: gambling was permitted & masters provided table service for their slaves as it was seen as a time of liberty for both slaves and freedmen alike.

A common custom was the election of a "King of the Saturnalia", who gave orders to people, which were followed & presided over the merrymaking. The gifts exchanged were usually gag gifts or small figurines made of wax or pottery known as sigillaria. The poet Catullus called it "the best of days".

Other celebrations:

Feast of Epona-

Eponalia is the feast day of Gaulish Goddess Epona, the Divine Mare & in the time of the Roman Empire it was celebrated on December 18th.

Epona is known to be one of a very few Gaulish deities whose names were spread to the rest of the Roman Empire. This seems to have happened because Roman cavalry units stationed in Gaul followed Her & adopted her as their Patroness. This may have started because many of the cavalry troops were conscripted from Gaul as they were superb horsemen. From Gaul the Romans took Epona with them including to Rome where She was given her own feast day on the 18 December. They worshipped her as Epona Augusta or Epona Regina & invoked her on behalf of the Emperor. She even had a shrine in the barracks of the Imperial Bodyguard.

Hunting of the Wren-

A traditional custom carried out on the Isle of Man on the 26 December, St. Stephen's Day. It consists of groups of people going around villages and towns singing and dancing a traditional song and dance around a decorated wren pole.

The earliest and most common folklore story accounting for the origin of hunt the wren tells of a fairy/enchantress/witch whose beauty lures the men of the Isle of Man to harm, for which she is chased and is changed into the form of a wren. It is therefore in punishment for her actions that the wren is hunted on St. Stephen's Day

Sources:

Farmersalmanac.com

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kines

A Witch's Book of Correspondences by Viktorija Briggs

Llewellyn's 2023 magical almanac: practical magic for everyday living

Wikipedia

Encyclopedia Britannica

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