Macrocosmic Musings

1. start with the purpose of the chart

each divisional chart isolates one domain. don’t mix them.

d9 → marriage, partnerships, dharma, long-term life quality

d10 → career, public reputation, authority

d7 → children, fertility, lineage

d4 → property, residence, where you “belong”

d3 → siblings, effort, self-expression

d60 → karmic residue, past-life factors (only if birth time is exact)

the purpose tells you which houses to prioritise inside that varga.

2. check the varga lagna

this is the “ascendant” of the divisional chart.

questions to ask:

which sign is rising?

is the lagna afflicted or supported?

who is the varga lagnesha (lord of the rising sign)?

is the lagnesha strong (own sign/exalted/friendly) or weak (debilitated/combust/enemy sign)?

is it joined/aspected by benefics or malefics?

this determines the baseline strength of that entire life domain.

strong lagna + strong lagnesha = could show stable results afflicted lagna or weak lagnesha = could show some struggle, delay, inconsistency

3. evaluate the house + house lord relevant to the varga

example:

d9 → look at 7th house + 7th lord

d10 → look at 10th house + 10th lord

d7 → look at 5th house + 5th lord

d4 → look at 4th house + 4th lord

d3 → look at 3rd house + 3rd lord

questions to ask:

what sign is the house in?

who owns it?

is the house receiving benefic or malefic influence?

is the house lord strong, weak, exalted, retrograde, combust, hemmed, supported?

house strength = capacity lord strength = execution

4. check the natural karaka planets

depending on the chart:

venus (relationship quality, marriage)

jupiter (children, wisdom)

mercury (skills, work, communication)

sun (authority, recognition)

moon (emotional environment)

mars (effort, protection, conflicts)

evaluate them inside the varga: sign, dignity, aspects, conjunctions.

karaka tells you the experience and tone, not just the outcome.

5. compare d1 ↔ the divisional chart

varga cannot contradict d1. it only refines it.

the rule:

both positive → manifestation is strong and stable

d1 positive, varga weak → delayed or inconsistent

d1 weak, varga strong → limited results; some gains but not full

both weak → very low likelihood of that area flourishing without major effort/transits

this is the biggest mistake beginners make: reading vargas without anchoring in d1.

6. use dashas to time results

a divisional chart becomes active during dashas of:

the varga lagnesha

the domain lord (7th lord for d9, 10th lord for d10…)

the natural karaka

planets occupying key houses in the varga

events materialize when dashas and transits hit the same houses/lords across d1 + varga.

example:

marriage when 7th lord dasha overlaps with d9 activation

job change when 10th lord dasha overlaps with d10 triggers

timing is never read from transits alone.

7. only read the varga if birth time is reasonably accurate

d9, d10, d7 are fairly stable. d60, d20, d45, etc. shift very fast so only trust them if birth time is confirmed. wrong birth time = wrong lagna = wrong interpretation.

8. the snapshot summary

identify purpose → read lagna/lagnesha → evaluate the domain house + lord → assess karakas → compare with d1 → apply dashas → time with transits.

THE LOVE LINE in the destiny matrix chart

Karmic Influence

The left position in your love line

Your karmic influence love line number will tell you about the karmic lessons you must learn in your love life and the karma you must heal. It can also tell about the people you have your most karmic relationships with. This position is essential for helping you to break negative cycles from your past lives that may have created emotional struggles

↳ Example: 15 here could indicate being drawn to toxicity in relationships because you enjoy the thrill. You must learn to break free from this desire. You could also have toxic tendencies yourself that need to be worked on

Your Romantic Desire

The center position in your love line

The romantic desire position shows what qualities you crave in a relationship and what you deeply value in a partner. It can also show what you’re most physically attracted to when first meeting people

↳ Example: 3 here could indicate you desire a partner that’s feminine and nurturing. These people also often fall for people that are good looking since this is a beauty number

Your Future

The right position in your love line

The future romance position gives insight about your spouse and the energies that shape you romantically. It can be used to predict the type of experiences you’ll have in your future relationships and tells things you may need to work on in order to attract the right partner

↳ Example: 21 here can indicate marrying someone that’s from a foreign country or a different race than you

© novy2sirius all rights reserved | destiny matrix source

Check your fucking ego.

Hello! Finally sharing this write up I've been using to make sigils and rituals for a while. It contains a couple outlines for rituals as well as the underlying philosophy.

Here's an excerpt from the first page:

"The Brain is a Pattern Extractor

The brain’s entire job is to take raw sensory data which is noisy, ambiguous, and incomplete and find regularities in it. Those regularities are almost always spatial and temporal patterns: edges, symmetries, frequencies, periodicities. The visual cortex literally contains neurons tuned to edges, angles, movement, and frequency bands, not to “objects” in the abstract. This is why form constants (spirals, lattices, tunnels, radiating lines) show up during altered states; they're essentially the “alphabet” of the visual cortex. So the brain already thinks in these shapes at a pre-conscious level. (Hubel & Wiesel (1960s studies)

Reality’s Raw Data Is Patterned.

Light, sound, pressure, fields, chemical concentrations, they all propagate as waves, gradients, and interference patterns. Many natural processes minimize energy or maximize efficiency, leading to spirals, hexagons, shells, trees, and fractals. The deep structure of the physical world is geometric and rhythmic, not random blobs. Thus the “alphabet” of nature and the “alphabet” of the brain overlap. Our nervous systems evolved within this patterned environment. It would be inefficient for the brain to invent a totally alien code for perception, it’s much more adaptive to use the same underlying geometry as the input data. Over millions of years, neurons that were better at detecting natural symmetries, recurrences, and ratios led to more successful survival and reproduction. The result is a visual cortex that essentially speaks the same dialect as reality itself: waves, edges, flows, symmetries.

In normal vision, your higher-level brain regions immediately interpret those patterns into objects and scenes, so you don’t notice the underlying geometric “code.” Under psychedelics, migraines, sensory deprivation, or altered states, the interpretation layer quiets, and you see the raw processing language. This is not a hallucination in the sense of being “fake”, it’s a reveal of the neural alphabet. (Klüver, 1966)

If the universe encodes information and energy in forms, ratios, and waves, then the brain, as an evolved receiver/decoder, would naturally mirror that code internally. In a poetic but also literal sense, the brain could be said to “speak” the same language as reality, because it had to in order to make sense of it. The brain’s subconscious “language” of edges, frequencies, symmetries, and form constants is the closest possible match to the universe’s raw patterns without higher level interpretation layered on top."

This is also the method I use for making sigils. A sigil meant to draw in uses a vortex, honeycombs for stability, star bursts for directed energy, and so on. It is also quite beneficial to incorporate numerology into this. If I wish to direct my energy in a way that promotes success, materiality, or financial gain, I may have 8 rays extend from my centre, or create 8 stars.

This combined with color, elementary, and planetary correspondences, creates a layered, "multidimensional" attractor of specific energy that directly corresponds to the brain's most primal subconscious language.

I personally have been experimenting a lot with spirographs and other shapes in my sigils. There is a near limitless potential to this application, especially when we incorporate things like sound frequencies, motion, and the use of different planetary metals or circuitry.

Concepting Shiva 🔱

Forgot a couple details and I’m going to change/ altar his jewelry and clothing a bit but for a first time drawing him… i’m pretty satisfied. I think Shiva is so cool.

EDIT: Alt/updated version!

The first 8 pages of Achilles and Patroclus, written by James T. Washburn & illustrated by Chess Amadé Albaneze, a new queer graphic novel currently in production based on Homer's The Iliad.

Achilles and Patroclus was originally a play by James T. Washburn of @magpieartistsensemble, but Chess first encountered it as an opera in the Seattle Creation Lab of 2020-21. "I was in love with the text," they said. "The music too, but there was this intimate vulnerability between these characters that survived when blown up to a grand scale. It's hard to write like that. I was in love with the poetry of it all."

When James of Magpie sought to bring the text to visual life in the form of a graphic novel, he noted that "Magpie received a lot of artist applications for Achilles and Patroclus, but once we saw Chess's, there was no question in anyone's mind. Their work is visceral yet elegant - the perfect balance for a story where violence and tenderness intertwine."

Read Part 2 here.

You don't have to be friendly or get along with other worshippers of your deities. In fact, you can hate those people, while still acknowledging that they worship the same deity as you and that deity won't hate you for that. And also that whatever those people do, good or bad, doesn't reflect the deity themselves.

I've met a plenty of Poseidon worshippers, for example, who If i were to meet them irl, i would clutch my hypothetical purse because so many of them were not the best people. And that's an understatement because I'd be genuinely scared to see such person in front of me.

And that doesn't indicate anything about Poseidon himself, or me and his relationship...

It doesn't make you insecure to not like someone. Trust me.

Block and move on. If IRL, walk away and move on.

[Alt Title Text: A Slightly Deeper Ask Game for Practitioners of Folk Magic, Traditional Magic, and Spirit Work]

A @hagstoneandtoadsbone ask game for those who practice centers on folk magic, traditional magic/traditional witchcraft, folklore, cunning practice, and spirit work. Reblog to participate and invite your followers to send you a keyword to ask you questions. Don't forget to send and ask to the person you're reblogging from to keep it going.

Nettle: What are your plant allies, and how did you form your relationship with them?

Lantern: What was a spirit encounter that profoundly impacted your practice or worldview?

Fur: What forms/shapes do your familiars take, and how do they make themselves known to you?

Grove: Where is your favorite place to work with the land and why?

Formula: What would the “recipe” for your practice look like? (Tradition, intuition, land work, ancestor work, scholarship, etc.)

Fog: What relationship do you keep with the spirits of the dead and how do you maintain it?

Hearth: What folklore, regional practice, or historical tradition most shaped your craft?

Iron: What is a magical no-no you personally refuse to break?

Vessel: What physical object in your toolset feels truly inhabited by spirit?

Cobweb: What is something about witchcraft/magic that you had to unlearn the hard way?

Salt: What is your most-used ingredient, tool, or materia, and why?

Owl: What is an omen you received that turned out to be insanely accurate?

Ember: What is a spell, rite, or working you wish you could go back and relive?

Tallow: What offering has gotten the strongest response from spirits?

Heirloom: What part of your practice feels inherited, even if nobody taught it to you directly?

Black Cat: What are some boundaries that exist between you and your familiars or spirits?

Thread: What do you see as the thread that ties all the pieces of your your practice together philosophically or spiritually?

Offering: What aspect of your practice demands the most sacrifice from you?

Stone: What landscape feels the most spiritually charged to you? Forests, rivers, graveyards, crossroads, deserts, coastlines?

Ballad: What is a text, myth, ballad, or folktale feels spiritually “true” to you?

Ward: What protections do you maintain even when you aren’t actively practicing?

Foundation: What core foundations does your practice stand on? (Animism, reciprocity, devotion, rebellion, healing, sorcery, etc.)

Hearthkeeping: What mundane chore or act secretly feels magical to you?

Serpent: What spirit, deity, saint, or force do you approach with the most caution?

Storm: What natural phenomenon feels most spiritually significant to you? Fog, thunder, tides, drought, wildfire, etc.?

Petition: What role does prayer, petition, or devotion play in your work?

Crossroads: Does your practice belong to a specific place, or has it adapted wherever you go?

Transformation: What part of your practice has changed the most over time?

Mask: What misconceptions about traditional witchcraft or folk magic frustrate you the most?

Broom: What does your hearth mean to your practice?

Blood: What price do you believe magic demands, if any?

Hush: What is a ritual or practice you only do in secrecy?