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This blog traces links between mythical and cultural symbols. Tarot and female aesthetics are equal intuitive storytelling tools taken from two separate realms; one of the sublime and the other earthly. Here I write on how spiritual practices and routine impacts a woman’s self-presentation. Essentially, uncovering how she first perceives herself, and by which then, teaches the world how to see her.

Dark muse: siren 🧜🏻‍♀️🐚🌊

Alexandra Leclerc at Australia Grand Prix 2026

The possibility felt in private. The ideal formed while alone. Not every visible thing is beautiful. Sometimes it’s the quiet one who carries the most beauty.

How does inner power become visible ?

“I see your soul”

The self-authored life

At the edge of loneliness

静と艶 (sei to tsuya)

The Tokyo effect

Madison Beer’s locket album

The locket necklace as a metaphor for the memories and feelings which are carefully stored and carried close to heart, in silent hoping.

Onychomancy lot. 3

The popular red nail theory will tell you that red means passion and love. So women paint their nails red believing it’ll invite the greatest romance of their lives. What people forgot to mention is the gravitas a deep red color exude. How aside from the unceasing compliments and promises of love, it is a color for the warrior. The color enhances your determination. Your will to live. It is also a color for someone on a mission.

Deep reds - your maroons, red wines and brick reds convey warmth, strength and maturity that distinguish them from the brightness of pure red hues. Preference for subtler hues hints at someone striving for a silent yet lasting impact over the loud demand from brighter reds.

Manicures like this are robust, sophisticated, and elegant, increasing the prestige of anything touched. In history, It was also a color preferred by Cleopatra and Queen Nefertiti of Egypt - two figures who are remembered as being both beautiful and strategic rulers. The half moon manicure shows someone who’s livelihood most likely requires creativity and/or sensuality.

It is deeply empowering for a woman to wear this color. She challenges anyone who dares to stand between her and her kingdom. Knowing that if she wants to be surrounded by people of strength , she needs to first discover this within herself.

I don’t see romance in this specific combo (half moon + deep red) as I feel this color would be intimidating than inviting. If there are any, I definitely see them only attracting the most warrior-masculine energies. It does points to aggression in the negative sense, especially with deeper hues like mine. The woman who wears it stands in her power and dares you to come closer. Nails of this hue assess the worth of what it encounters. With the lunula open from its half moon design, it may increase fortitude for women currently undergoing spiritual warfares of any kind 🧿

This manicure is not merely seductive , it signals emotional lethality. She is able to use her strong connection with intuition and primal survival instinct to attain anything she so desires and fight back when she must.

Olivia Wilde in her brunette goddess years 🎱⭐️

The magic of manifesting desires and dreams via your fingertips! I’m analyzing my newest set as an example on how I read intention and energy in manicures

The Million Dollar Baby Nails 🪬💸💅🏻

The intention was simply feminine glam. The resulted energy is Lilith. Specifically, her presence in my 10th house. My nail set express the necessity of inner power and secret wisdom from within to navigate this realm of experience.

I wanted a set that conveys high maintenance. One that is supportive in upholding my standards. The square shaped tip - resembling earth element, experience abundance via a detached and luxurious energy. The stiletto arch - most watery and Yin in shape express femininity and intuition. Since the black square tips acts as a safe container, it reveals what I find valuable and like to protect. Silver glitter enhance Yin glamour and the accented nail base emphasize that this energy should be experience tangibly.

What’s interesting about the design is how they contradict the intention to protect. This is something I didn’t realize until now. The stiletto sharp arches pierce through its container, echoing the mythic phrase of “piercing through the High Priestess veil” . What was once a clear boundary is now peeled open. Now, there is something impure and forbidden about them👄 If the priestess is a keeper of ancient wisdom, these nails insinuate that the wearer holds the key to opulence and feminine glamour. The nude base (a shade closes to my natural flush) reveals that this knowledge rests deep within her skin. It’s less chaste, more scandalous and expensive. It has its own kind of power.

With Lilith siting at the most visible point in a woman’s natal chart marks her immense personal power as both villainous and admirable to others. Some astrologers like to describe Lilith in the 10th house or Lilith closely aspecting MC as the ultimate ‘sugar baby’ placement. Lilith’s desire for power finds support in the house that values reputation, honour, esteem, fame, wealth. She’s attracted to her standing at the top and with this placement, she excels at reaching it through domination and control over her public image. She emits a strong essence that often deters from the norm. And while this first repel others, as she begin releasing shame and guilt around her sexual and authentic expression, she’ll actually begin to magnetize desires and people to her with ease.

This new set feels like an initiation into integrating more of Lilith’s wild energy: honoring the instinctual, the pleasant and sexual. Finding an outlet to channel this source of energy into empowerment and self mastery. The high priestess archetype brings guidance to Lilith’s raw and visible sexuality. In the path towards prosperity , I can trust in the guidance of my inner wisdom. That it’s safe to keep my secrets and remain secure in my own mystery.

This set feels like a call to self-validation. To recognize the value that lies in the strength and beauty of my spirit. There’s no need for others watchful eyes to bestow worth on my name or work. This is exactly the mindset I like to honour right now. Trust that I deserve the blessings I have and will continue to experience.

Almond / Oval

The IT Girl

Everybody wants to be her or be with her.

Air encompass all things. Oxygen is essential for our lungs to function, for us to breathe. In our current digital age, the media has become as ubiquitous as air itself. The round shape of almond / oval nails express this all encompassing nature of air and so, the women who wears round nails naturally position themselves at the center of our cultural landscape. They could be socialites, style icons, or media influencers. Whatever form she takes, the masses will know her name.

Ruling over communications, these women are attuned to etiquette, media, pop culture, and history. Rounded nails are symbolic of her status as queen in her respective society. Women who are intellectual, social, diplomatic, and open-minded adore this shape. Short round nails are timeless and evokes wealth. Longer almond nails adds a seductive touch - very fitting for those aiming to impact other people’s energies more. Adaptable, witty, and effortlessly charming, she is one to follow.

In tarot, she is best represented by The World. An embodiment of global impact and worldwide aristocratic status.

Square

The Boss Babe

For now, let’s call her Cleopatra, shining like diamonds in a rocky world.

The suit of pentacles in tarot stands in for the material world , the realm of slow and frozen energy. It makes a lot of sense that in older traditions, this suit is also known as the suit of diamonds. Square tips evokes endurance and permanence, concepts required to mold such precious minerals. These traits are embodied by women who wears square tips. She understands that anything of worth takes patience. Her ability to accumulate wealth on earth is a reflection of her alignment with high values cultivated over time.

Women who are working towards abundance in their material reality can rely on square shaped nails to ground them as they perfect their own unique craft. Literally embody luxury and prosperity by wearing them long or pay respects to the earth beneath you, by tending to your soil quietly with shorter iterations.

In tarot, she is the embodiment of the Queen of Pentacles influenced by the Nine of Pentacles.

Coffin / Ballerina Nails

The Femme Fatale

Passion and sexuality radiates from every pore of her body.

In onychomancy coffin tips correspond to fire. Fire is the instinctual urge and natural force to give life or destroys it. The femme fatale at heart, resembles fire. Fire draws people in with its light and warmth. The femme fatale is known to lure people who are lost (“in the dark”) or alone (“cold”), literally or emotionally. Her self-expression easily stimulates desire, creativity, and will through the libido.

Women who are confident, self-assured and creative will find this shape appealing. Those who are looking to call in these traits may be drawn to them as well. She is a giver of inspiration by acting on her impulses. Generous with her energy, women who wears coffin shaped nails are also natural born performers and bound to enjoy her role as a tantalizing force.

In tarot, she is best represented as a combination between The Devil and Queen of Wands.

Stilleto / long Almonds

The Enchantress

She carry the secrets of the universe within her very being.

The intimidatingly sharp stiletto nails embodies water. An ever changing, ever elusive and highly malleable element which made up 70% of earth and our bodies. The enchantress casts a spell upon those who crosses her path by embodying this enigmatic element. She possesses the allure of hidden depths and the whispers of adventure that lies beyond.

However, it is often clear that women who wears such precarious design prioritize her connection with the divine. This made her presence elusive and smoky as she becomes very receptive to psychic powers and messages. Water is also the unconscious. There aren’t many who dared to reach such depths.

Women who are looking to strengthen their intuition, magnetize desires via the mystical, or wish to retain their mystery may like the stiletto energy. I also find that the stiletto is great for opening up your heart centre and working deeper with your emotions.

In tarot, she is best represented by The High Priestess and The Moon.

A new beauty routine I’ve recently invested in is getting my nails done at a salon.

I haven’t seen a lot of people discuss the esoteric significance of doing your nails more intentionally. Onychomancy is a divination tool that explains how a person’s nails signify energies that one intends to attract more of in their life. Essentially, the shape, health condition of a person’s nails as well as how it’s colored and/or designed carries messages from each person’s psyche and divine source(s). Once i’ve learned of this magick, doing my nails have helped me to become more aware of the energies that i need to embody more and which for me to release.

I thought it’ll be cool to analyze the inspiration behind my new set and discover what it is that i’m trying to manifest with them. 🎀🤍

This is what my new set looks like !

At first glance it’s pretty apparent that i’m going for a wintery snow vibe overall. Perfect for the colder January - early February days. Aesthetically, i was most inspired by:

clean, crisp, winter days when the branches turn to icicles.

The look of glaciers and ice during sunny mornings which in some shade turns everything white to a gorgeous translucent blue.

The waif-like elegance of figure skaters. Especially, the way a body could be disciplined to move, bend, and twirl on harsh and frozen surface.

The icy and delicate femininity of an “ice princess” appearance.

The catch however, is in my choice of coffin tips which is where onychomancy reveals the true inspiration and intention behind it.

🧊Grace Kelly in Rear Window (1954)

“She’s not cold. She’s a volcano covered in snow”

This quote from Alfred Hitchcock summed up the energetic essence of my nails. When Hitchcock was asked about his distinctly cool, blonde female leads, he disagreed with the consensus that she was merely icy and sterile or submissive. Instead, underneath the cool mask burns simmering passion and emotional complexity. Despite the calming or icy effect of the designs (depending on how you perceive them), coffin shaped nails according to onychomancy, corresponds to fire. I’m personally aiming to activate my tropical chart’s water houses 4,8, and 12, aka houses of things hidden and the subconscious. These houses in my chart are ruled by the fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius).

This set is less about manifesting an outcome and more focused on embodying a persona. In the book Hitchcock/Truffaut, Grace Kelly recurring presence on his films was described as a paradox between the inner fire and the cold surface: “she is sensitive, disciplined, and very sexy”. Such duality makes Grace and other women sharing similar roles on screen a compelling and mysterious force of art.

🪞Kim Novak in Vertigo (1958)

So my current nails shows rather than tells about the wearer. In a book of Onychomancy, it states how glass tips are like windows. A purely transparent set express full candor yet if it is embellished, the wearer may enjoy a bit of poetic license in its revelation. This is for someone who says “please look. but don’t touch”. I like how the book also states the support glass tips provide for setting boundaries and discernment which is something i’m trying to incorporate in the otherwise explosive self-expression of my inner truth. When I do express my emotions outward, I’m reminded that not everyone deserves to know this side of me. Color wise, my set can be placed in the light blue category. Based on color psychology this shade of blue symbolise patience, peace, and calmness. I view this color as Saturnian in nature. Because boundaries + coolness vibrates with Saturn.

A person whose fire elements is in her hidden houses posess a lot of passion and energy within a calm surface. There’s a tendency to hide this side of myself out of shame. I was made to feel that this authentic side of me was too much even frightening, thus not meant to be seen. I think my set wants me to feel safe expressing more of my fiery creative side by being assured that I’ll naturally remain “cool-headed” while doing so. I’m encourage by the intensity of my emotions and expressing my passions unapologetically without the fear of losing my mind. The addition of a 3D snowflake heart on my mars fingers (thumbnails) represents heart-centered willpower. Even if she’s a little cold, she’s not without life.

I find the women of Hitchcock thrillers act as invitations to explore the hidden inhibitions of his protagonist. If they aren’t capable of maintaining a healthy sense of mind, they’d lost it in the pursuit of her mysterious secret inner world. I think her independence, range, poise, and determination is something I like to embody more of recently💋.

*I don’t claim invention or expertise of onychomancy. For more depth on the subject you can check @/occult nails and @/taibunnii on Twitter.