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I've been thinking of making an updated, transparent version of my original Pride Protection Sigil for a while now, so I figured Pride Month was a perfect moment for it! I remade the shapes I could in photoshop, copied the thorny vines from the original, and then made a bunch of different community ones (see more under the cut).

I've designed this sigil as a protection for the entire rainbow community. You can print it out or redraw it yourself. Place a candle over it, use it as a base of a crystal grid, place it on your altar and meditate, make it the centre of a (digital) moodboard, whatever feels right for you.

The centre of the sigil is the Progress Pride flag, symbolizing our community (you can redraw the sigil and place a different flag inside, if you wish to focus on a specific part of the community). Around it is a black circle (protection, community) which is made by five stickfigures holding hands (people, community). Around them is a square (protection) and then a ring of intertwined briar branches with the thorns pointing outwards (again, protection). On the right side I also snuck the rune Thurisaz (briar, protection) into the ring of briar branches. The pentacle in the centre stands for magic as well as, surprise, protection. Customize this for whatever you need, the pentacle is optional, place more stickfigures, change the flag, whatever makes it work for you.

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on may 31st, we have a full moon in sagittarius [♐︎] which is both a micromoon and a calendrical blue moon - "calendrical" being defined as "the second full moon to take place within a single calendar month." this event only occurs once every ~30 months or so!

"once in a blue moon," most recently in our history, is defined as "very rare" and that's the definition we will utilize for this post.

did you know that the phrase "once in a blue moon" did not originally mean "rare?" in fact, that definition has only been popular within the last 25 years according to this article at skyandtelescope - the author does a deep dive on the various definitions of "blue moon" throughout the years. check it out.

commonly, the elusive blue moon is associated with wishes, manifestation, dreams, divination, illumination, achievement, and focus as well as reflection, reinvention, and reminiscence. micromoons further support the correlation between this lunation and pinpoint focus. personally, i feel that blue moons can also correspond with abundance and excess considering their presence as an extra full moon in a month's time.

magical ideas:

wear blue colored clothing or jewelry

burn blue candles

spells for wishes or dreams

spells for "once in a blue moon" or rare opportunities

spells for renewal or for situations where dedication and focus are required

spells for gain or for removing what is overly or unnecessarily excessive

spells for spiritual enlightenment or to illuminate the truth and unveil secrets

dreamwork, divination, and exercises to improve intuition

meditation

blue moon altar:

a celestial themed or blue altar cloth

star maps

the moon's magic square or kamea / lunar sigils

lunar imagery including the moon tarot card

pearls, seashells, beach sand, ocean imagery

blue / deep purple flowers (lavender, lotus, blue water lily, indigo, etc.)

other lunar herbs such as mugwort, jasmine, anise, and lemon balm

crystals such as labradorite, selenite, iolite, black moonstone, dumortierite, blue quartz, blue aventurine, sodalite, blue lace agate, azurite, kyanite, etc.

libations of butterfly pea flower tea, moon milk, honey, blueberry wine / mead, other blue colored beverages, etc.

food offerings of blueberries, melon, cucumber, mooncakes, crescent rolls, etc.

considerations:

what might you need to revisit and reevaluate? relationships, career choices, maybe even that old project you put down and never saw again?

what are some things in your life that deserve a "second chance?"

have you been given any second chances recently? how did you respond?

what do you have too much of? what can you afford to let go?

what would you like to manifest in the time between this blue moon and the next one in a few years?

have you been given any "rare" opportunities lately?

what secrets need to be unveiled? how can you illuminate the truth?

what are you overly focused on right now? is it conducive to your wellbeing or interests?

where have you lost focus and what can you do to get it back?

the moon micromoon magic

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

because I've been slightly obssessed with the topic lately, and frankly it's fascinating. or maybe I'm a huge nerd that thinks fun with math is a good time. esoteric math!

...fuck it. I'm gonna do it.

so a magic square is a fun thing that happens in math where you have a table with an equal number of rows and columns, and in that table each row, column, and corner to corner diagonal, adds up to the same sum. that sum is called the 'magic constant'. the number of rows/columns is the Order of the square.

some squares are extra fancy, and may have other subsets that add to the same sum; say a four by four square in which every subset of four squares adds to the same sum. (check out the Chautisa Yantra, it's great.)

our ancestors looked at this sort of fun with math and thought something like "this is so neat, it must be meaningful." or maybe that it's such an interesting pattern it must be derived from a higher power. and thus, magic.

each magic square has a minimum value for its magic constant, and if you try to build a square with a lower constant, you have to use fractions instead of whole numbers, or even negative numbers.

when folks get started messing with making talismans, for some reason, they start with the Saturn square. I get it, it's easy. the Saturn square has three rows and three colums, uses all numbers 1 through 9, and has a constant value of 15. it's cute, and simple, and graphing out your sigil on it is easy.

see? that's the Saturn Square. Order 3, Constant 15 (and if you add up all the digits, it adds up to 45).

but that's just getting started!

by the time of the writing of the Picatrix, and Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1500's) magic squares up to Order 9 were known, and had been assigned to planetary and luminary bodies. (luminaries are the sun and moon.)

because the modern planets cannot be seen without a telescope, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (a planet in my heart!) don't have magic squares assigned to them.

with the rise of machine computing, we have found higher order magic squares, including up to Order 260 or more. which is good, because the idea of doing that much math makes me kinda want to whimper.

Jupiter, Order 4, constant 34

Mars, Order 5, Constant 65

Sun, Order 6, Constant 111

Venus, Order 7, Constant 175

Mercury, Order 8, Constant 260

Moon, Order 9, Constant 369

while most instructions for making a sigil will tell you to assign a number value to your letters, add 'em up, and keep adding until you get a single digit, that's really only super useful for the Saturn square, where none of the digits in it are higher than 9.

if you're using a different square, you don't have to reduce your numbers to single digits, though you do need to be aware of what the upper limit for the value of individual points in your square are. how do you figure that out? take your Order and square it.

an Order 4 square has an upper value of 16. an Order 7 square tops out at 49. and so on!

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I'm currently experimenting to attempt to figure out what higher order squares should be associated with Uranus and Neptune (Pluto's not a priority right at this moment for me, I figure it'll be obvious once I assign those first two.)

you've doubtless noticed that all the squares from 3 to 9 have been assigned to something, without skipping one and leaving it unassigned! logically, this means Order 10, 11, and 12 squares can be assigned to Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. the problem is: those lower order squares aren't assigned to the planets in order. so we can't just say "oh, Order 10 goes with Uranus, cause it's next in line".

want to join me in experimentation? here's an Order 10 square, constant 505:

might be Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. dunno!

it's clearly time to FA and FO.

Hey loves, I don’t want to make this post suuuper long so imagine me blowing a welcome kiss to all of you and let’s get started…

The generic practice of reading fire is called pyromancy. 

We can break a candle reading session down to 3 main parts:

Observation (flame watching)

Gathering & understanding (decoding fire’s messages)

Final question & Goodbye (ask if there’s anything else you should know before leaving, thank and salute fire/salamanders)

During the observation phase, watch for:

Length of the flame 1-2 min to know WHEN-the timing = PAST

Shape of the flame 2-3 min to know WHAT-the actual matter = PRESENT

Direction & behavior of the flame 3-4 min to know HOW-the true nature of it = hints at the FUTURE (see where the fire is pointing to know what type of matter it is; concentrate on the opposite direction telling you how to counteract to solve or banish whatever it might be; it also indicates what elemental energy is strongly supporting/protecting you in taking action as well as in related spellwork)

Presence/Absence of Smoke 2-3 min to understand the SOURCE of your awareness 

*Keep a compass handy!

Salamanders/fire will try to communicate with you as soon as you light the fire/candle so pay attention from the very beginning. Fire energy is impulsive, blunt, active, carefree and wild.  This type of divination detects negativity like WOW because it easily speaks the brutally honest truth regardless of how you feel or what’s happening. It brings up issues that we refuse to deal with. Again, it’s pure blunt energy. Because of its wild nature, fire will also charge us with optimism and explosive determination to overcome problems and bad news: typically after pyromancy we feel motivated and “ready to go”.

Length

Long-extra long: something has been bothering you for a very long time now (trust your intuition, probably for years) which you never actively faced; you’ve been quiet for too long; unsolved problems from the past are challenging your patience; relevant stuff that had to be cleared much earlier

Medium: Something that has been lurking in the back of your mind for 1-3 months, a plan or an idea that could change/shake your life but is not currently a priority to you; it might be something you heard from another person or a vague thought

Short: something intense that happened within the last couple days, a very recent thing is bothering you and has almost caught you by surprise; unexpected news from day to day, a new sudden event that physically or emotionally shook you

Shape 

Double: Two things that were generated consequentially or have a common link, two entities/people united by a common theme

Super-thin line: Something you felt or suspected but never had proof of evidence about, a subtle suspicion, a doubt, an insinuation; a sneaky or secretive individual

Regular: Something/someone that you accept and is part of your routine, your own mindset, something very close and not disturbing; a solid milestone in your daily life

Round: One thing in particular that constantly “fills you up”, makes you feel complete, full, exploding or either extremely delighted; a person who represses/suppresses you, someone ghosting you on purpose just to humble you or to make you feel lesser

Behavior

Steady: things are happening in the background, far from the “public eye” and without you even realizing; you - and people around you- are calm, clueless, peaceful and the surroundings seem safe; good vibes are in the air but definitely keep your eyes open and intuition awake

Shaky, wiggly: things are visibly happening before your eyes, making you confused, uneasy or giving you mood swings; anxiety; you are able to feel bad vibes around you: take control of the situation and protect yourself Weak, petite & almost extinguished: matter/person X is now annihilating you before the eyes of everybody, but still no one defends you; seek help in others, protect yourself and take action to win this ripe, suffered battle

Directions

EAST: AIR - communication, mindset, mental/spoken/written things, logical reasoning, ideas, plans, spring, morning, sunrise, masculine… WEST: WATER - emotions, unconscious, gut feelings, passivity, illogical reasoning, intangibility, blue, flow, moisture, fall, sunset, feminine… SOUTH: FIRE - action, guidance, strength, activity, blood, warmth, creativity, masculine, red, impulse, summer, noon… NORTH: EARTH - stability, firmness, art, finance, grounding, material things, tangibility, stillness, death, birth, winter, midnight, green… (+ ALL YOUR PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE about the elements and how they can be interpreted, what meanings they have in our lives and their specific correspondences) 

Smoke

Absence: you are the source of awareness: your body and soul have sent you signals about matter X and you had an inner awakening which led you to this reading 

Presence: someone else enlightened you with their words and made you fully aware of matter X; something popped up as an obvious proof that you weren’t expecting to find: this has awakened your inquisitive mind and led it to this reading. 

- is an idiom for being overworked or attempting to do too much with too little time, and is related to the term "burnout."

magically speaking, literally burning a candle at both ends can be an effective method to:

accelerate a process or manifest quick results

end delays and stagnation

represent duality and balance

represent past, present, and/or future

represent compromise

represent speed, time, or urgency

use as a timer

use as a catalyst

force an outcome or decision

add double the energy

but can also be used malefically to:

waste a target's time

delay gratification or progress

rush something along or cause premature results

cause career or scholastic burnout

physically exhaust a target and induce fatigue

*consider that even though a candle burning at both ends may add double the power to a working, it also burns twice as fast.

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turn your shower into a magickal experience with this guide!!

shower magick is a relaxing, fun way to practice witchcraft, and a great thing for any witch to add to their daily routine. it’s also very private, so its perfect for witches still in the broom closet. here are some ways you can incorporate magick into your showering routine:

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visualization

while you’re standing in the shower, visualize negative energy washing off of you and being sucked down the drain. set your intention for the day and feel your vibration raise!

atmosphere

if you want your shower to become a sacred space, you have to treat it like one! put candles or crystals around the room, or use bath bombs or shower jellies to spice up the experience.

mindfulness

mindfulness meditation is a wonderful skill for any witch to learn, and the shower is a great time to practice. take a deep breath and become aware of what you’re experiencing—the feeling of the water against your skin, the sound of splashing water, etc. set aside your worries about the past or future and settle into the moment. 

glamours

glamour magick is one of my favorite things, and i’ll probably write more posts about it in the future. basically, glamour spells allow you to shift the way you perceive yourself, and thus also the way others perceive you, and they often involve beauty or self-care rituals. i like to cast a glamour spell while shampooing, by setting my intention and then whispering an incantation while massaging the shampoo into my scalp.

using witchy products

you can find many witchy beauty and skincare products to use during shower-time at online spiritual boutiques or etsy shops. using these can help make your shower feel more special and magickal.

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This week has been rough, and I have been going through it™️

So, this Friday isn't for big glamours and elaborate rituals. It's a low energy end to a hectic week, and my magic will reflect that.

This is a way to remember that Venus is at work in the smaller acts of self care and love.

Light a candle that feels right to you. For me today, that is definitely a yellow one, with the hope that the joy and sunshine of it cuts through the haze.

Take these moments to breathe and look after yourself.

Apply your favorite lotion, wear your favorite perfume. Prepare a nice hot cup of tea. You can drop your performances and just let go.

A little prayer/blessing for this-

"Let softness return to me, where this week has worn me thin.

I come back to myself gently, without shame.

I release the weight of what I carry, so that I may breathe.

May comfort find me easily."

Do magic that helps you to do more magic.

Do magic that gets you motivated to do all of the other magic you've been meaning to do.

Do magic that gives you that extra burst of energy and ability to ignore your pain for long enough to do magic more often.

Do magic that creates a shortcut into doing other magic.

Do magic to find yourself a mentor if that's what you're into.

Do magic to help you learn that language that's going to allow you to be able to translate first hand source texts.