Mythandriel

I’m only covering Egyptian, Roman, and Greek Gods and Goddesses here, so if you have more to add, feel free!

0. The Fool➡️Uranus

Egyptian: Harpakhered, Bes, Shu

Roman: Pan, Silvanus, Aeolus

Greek: Pan, Aeolas, Zeus

1. The Magician➡️Mercury

Egyptian: Ptah, Thoth

Roman: Mercury

Greek: Hermes

2. High Priestess➡️Moon

Egyptian: Isis (as priestess), Khonsu

Roman: Ceres, Luna, Diana

Greek: Demeter, Selene, Artemis, Hecate

3. The Empress➡️Venus

Egyptian: Mut, Isis (as mother), Hathor

Roman: Juno, Venus

Greek: Hera, Aphrodite

4. The Emperor➡️Aries

Egyptian: Amon, Horus, Khnum 

Roman: Jupiter, Mars, Minerva

Greek: Zeus, Aries, Athena

5. The Hierophant➡️Taurus

Egyptian: Osiris, Serapis

Roman: Liber Pater

Greek: Dionysos Zagreus

6. The Lovers➡️Gemini

Egyptian: Isis & Osiris, The Merti

Roman: Venus & Mars, Janus

Greek: Eros & Psyche, Aphrodite & Ares, Castor & Pollux

7. The Chariot➡️Cancer

Egyptian: Khepera

Roman: Apollo

Greek: Apollo

8. Strength➡️ Leo

Egyptian: Sekhet, Bast

Roman: Hercules, Vesta

Greek: Heracles, Hestia

9. The Hermit➡️Virgo

Egyptian: Atum

Roman: Saturn, Vesta, Proserpina

Greek: Cronos, Persephone, Astraea

10. The Wheel➡️Jupiter

Egyptian: Amoun

Roman: Jupiter, Fortuna

Greek: Zeus, Tyche

11. Justice➡️Libra

Egyptian: Maat

Roman: Minerva

Greek: Themis, Athena

12. Hanged Man➡️Neptune

Egyptian: Osiris, Nu, Tefnut, Mut 

Roman: Liber Pater, Neptune

Greek: Adonis, Poseidon, Dionysus

13. Death➡️Scorpio

Egyptian: Anubis, Nephthys

Roman: Pluto, Mars

Greek: Thanatos, Ares, Hades

14. Temperance➡️Sagittarius

Egyptian: Neith

Roman: Diana

Greek: Artemis, Chiron, Iris, Hermaphroditus

15. The Devil➡️Capricorn

Egyptian: Set, Apep, Min

Roman: Faunus, Bacchus

Greek: Priapus, Pan

16. The Tower➡️Mars

Egyptian: Horus, Montu

Roman: Mars

Greek: Ares

17. The Star➡️Aquarius

Egyptian: Sothis, Hor Wer

Roman: Juventas, Juno, Venus

Greek: Hebe, Ganymede, Astraea, Aphrodite

18. The Moon➡️Pisces

Egyptian: Khonsu, Anubis

Roman: Luna, Diana, Neptune

Greek: Selene, Artemis, Hecate, Poseidon

19. The Sun➡️Sun

Egyptian: Ra

Roman: Sol, Apollo

Greek: Helios, Apollo

20. Judgment➡️Pluto

Egyptian: Neith, Neter, Heka, Osiris, Aten

Roman: Vulcan

Greek: Hephaestus

21. The World➡️Saturn

Egyptian: Ptah, Geb

Roman: Saturn, Tellus, Ceres

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Flowers:

Flower symbolism

History of plant symbolism and a list

13 lesser known flowers and their negative symbols

All about floriography

A good list of flower meanings and a place where you can buy them too

Lots of informative articles about flowers

Herbalism/herbs:

A long and detailed list of magical and medical uses of many plants

Herbalism courses and workshops

Metaphysical uses and meanings of 500 plants

A giant list of over 400 medicinal herbs

One of the first websites I went to for herbalism. Informative and short

Fun theories about how herbalism works

Herb correspondence list with links to articles about certain ones

Spell crafting tips, meanings, and a place to buy herbs and things

A pdf book about herbalism

Another long correspondence list

31 very common herbs and their associations

List of herbs and links to lore

“Herbal and Magical Medicine” ebook

“Mother Nature’s Herbal: a Complete Guide" 

Crystals:

A list of healing crystals

An encyclopedia essentially where I think you can buy crystals as well

A brief description of the impact of color on properties

Tons of information. Pretty neat site

Religion and books:

Theoi texts library

A ton of legends, myths, and folklore from all over the world

A large selection of books pertaining to mythology and ancient religions

The poetic Edda online as an e-book

Goodreads always has tons of fun and informative books

Social media:

A list of 75 witch blogs from 2020

One of my favorite podcasts

My Twitter (shameless self plug)

Fae:

A small introduction to fae

More fae stuff

A list of fae and their origins Use a popup blocker

Fae in Norse mythology

Divination:

Some dream symbols

A ton of different methods of divination along with descriptions

More in depth descriptions of some divination methods

Spells:

A favorite potion for growth and change

A list of spell types 

Misc.:

How to use witchcraft to help mourn

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Practical Magic The Movie and Why We Still Love It by Carolyn Turgeon

I first saw Practical Magic in a Los Angeles movie theater in 1998. I was a stressed-out, overworked graduate student at UCLA, and the movie was pure bliss, transporting me to a lovelier world where magic was commonplace and as simple as a spoon stirring tea by itself, a breath lighting a candle, a bowl full of petals scattering into the wind to bring true love. I wanted to live in that film and not my one-room studio apartment in this lonely new city.

Watching the film is like sinking into a warm, scented bath. Who wouldn’t want to live in such a lush, magic-tinged world, with two irreverent, fabulous, parasol-carrying aunts who serve chocolate cake for breakfast and have dance parties at midnight and who also happen to be powerful, kickass witches? And who doesn’t want that fiery blood-bonded sisterhood, that place you can always come home to after forging your way out into the world (even if it’s Los Angeles you’ve fled to)? I feel like part of me did live in that film—and has ever since.

I didn’t realize how un-alone I was in this affection until I first posted an image of the house in the film on Faerie Magazine’s Facebook page: that gorgeous white Victorian with  the wraparound porch, white picket fence, and blooming, wild gardens; that indoor conservatory filled to the brim with plants and one thick, crumbling spellbook. So many other women loved it too! The house, the film, the book, that homespun, everyday magic that’s of this world, or could be if you believed that “being normal is not necessarily a virtue.” I wasn’t the only one who wanted to live in that world and its celebration of glamorous, extraordinary outcasts.

All that intense adoration for the film made me curious. I spoke with the movie’s producer, Denise di Novi, who plucked up Alice Hoffman’s glimmering novel when it was still in galley form, about the movie’s nearly cult status. (She also produced dozens of great movies, including one of my other all-time favorites, Edward Scissorhands.) “Practical Magic wasn’t a huge hit when it came out,” di Novi says, “but it seems to have stood the test of time. Today I have ten-year-olds tell me it’s their favorite movie!”

Why did she select the book? Di Novi has loved witches  since she was a little girl, when there “weren’t a lot of powerful female figures for girls and women to look up to.” Witches, she says, “were exciting, with their powers and magic, and the book presented them in a believable, practical way.” She especially responded to Hoffman’s magic realism, the way that the book made magic out of the ordinary day-to-day work women do and take for granted—cooking, gardening, healing with herbs—and made the witches such charismatic and lovable figures, when historically they had “suffered for being independent women living outside of traditional boundaries.”

What a wonderful (witchy) power, to take a beloved novel and bring it to life onscreen! Hoffman herself visited the Warner Bros. set in Los Angeles, where all the house interiors were built (the house exteriors were all shot on one of the San Juan Islands, in Washington), and told me that “walking into that kitchen I felt like I was walking into my own book.” It was the dream kitchen, she says: “oldfashioned, beautiful, big enough to hold a ton of people.” Hoffman believes that there are two reasons (besides that dream house) the movie is still so loved: “First, women are fascinated with the icon of the witch and the sisterhood she represents. Second, the fantastic actresses in the film, and the sisterhood and friendship they portrayed. You don’t often see female relationships so central to a film.”

As it happens, the film not only featured that starry quartet of actresses—Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Sandra Bullock (who was also a producer), and Nicole Kidman—but also boasted a female producer (di Novi), line producer, and screenwriter, not to mention a bevy of child actresses, two of whom (Camilla Belle and Evan Rachel Wood) grew up to be stars in their own right. All the girls and women loved the subject matter—how could they not?—and bonded on the set, di Novi says, almost forming a kind of coven of their own. To this day, they’ve remained in touch. In fact, Hoffman is still close friends with di Novi and is the one who put me in touch with her. I love the thought of these little covens forming as women circle together to create magic, no matter where or when these gatherings take place—and no matter what dreams they bring to light for the rest of us.

Article from 2017 Autumn Practical Magic Issue #40  Order

Embracing Nature with Marketa Novak BY CAROLYN TURGEON

When Czech photographer Marketa Novak heard that we were devoting an entire issue to Art Nouveau, she staged our sumptuous, golden cover photo as an homage to her countryman—and favorite artist—Alphonse Mucha. She even painted the golden moon in the background herself (recycling a print of one of her elven queen photos), surrounded it with baby’s breath, and hung it in the small home just outside Prague that she shares with her parents. “I wanted to achieve the look of one of Mucha’s posters,” she says, “and I don’t have an atelier of my own!” Read more and see more photos on enchantedlivingmagazine.com

Lunar Magic section of my grimoire 🌒🌕🌘