𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Foxy Brown in 1999 :･ﾟ✧

Essence Magazine | August ‘99 :･ﾟ✧

Common Herbs and Their Properties

(Mainly taken from: https://coven.thethriftywitch.com/pages/magickal-uses-of-herbs.)

Angelica: Mainly used in protection rituals, protects against negative energies and attracts positive energies. Can be used to remove curses, hexes.

Anise Seeds: Stimulates psychic abilities and wards off evil eyes.

Basil: A good protection herb. Can be used in rituals for protection, exorcism and love.

Bay Laurel: Mainly protection and purification. Stimulates psychic abilities and promotes success. Protects against baneful magick. Writing wishes and burning the leaf is a good manifestation technique.

Black Pepper: Promotes courage and helps banishing negative vibrations.

Catnip: Provides protection in sleep. Enhances beauty and can be used in love magick.

Cedar Wood: Promotes confidence and strength. Can be used in protection and purification rituals.

Chamomile: Reduces stress. Can be used in love and healing rituals.

Chili: Mainly used for hex breaking. Promotes love and fidelity.

Cinnamon: Mainly used for luck and prosperity. A good herb for protection as well.

Clove: Mainly used for exorcism. Also promotes love, money, and protection.

Coffee: Used for grounding. Dispels nightmares.

Daisy: Promotes love, luck, and innocence.

Damiana: Mainly used in love rituals. Can be used to increase psychic abilities.

Frankincense: Mainly used for cleansing and purification. Can be burned for protection and meditation.

Garlic: Mainly used for protection and exorcism. Can also be used for healing and purification.

Ginger: Promotes sensuality, sexuality and personal confidence.

Lavender: Mainly used for love, protection, healing, sleep, purification, and peace. Promotes healing from depression.

Mint: Promotes energy, communication and vitality.

Mistletoe: Used for fertility, creativity and protection from negative spells.

Onion: Used for prosperity, stability, endurance, and protection.

Oregano: Promotes joy, strength and vitality.

Rose: Magickal uses include divine love, close friendships, domestic peace.

Rosemary: Carried and used in healing poppets for good health, used in love spells, burned as incense for purification and removing negativity.

Sage (Keep in mind that white sage is endangered and closed): Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss. Carried to improve mental ability and bring wisdom.

St. John’s Wort: Protects against all forms of black witchcraft. Used for banishing, protection & blessing.

Star Anise: Burned as incense to increase psychic awareness & abilities.

Sugar: Used in love spells and sex magick.

Thyme: Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others. Burn or hang in the home for banishing and purification.

Tobacco: Promotes peace, confidence, and personal strength. Also used for banishing.

Yarrow: Uses include healing, handfasting & weddings, and divination.

How to Listen to Your Intuition

The intuition is a calm inner knowing you just feel within your heart, mind, body, and soul. It's pretty different for everyone on where it is actually felt. It could literally be a feeling in your heart, a voice in your mind, a feeling in your stomach, or chills down your spine, but every atom in your body will know the difference between intuitive instincts aside from the ego or fear that blocks the intuition. Majority of the time we allow our self-doubt, fear, or other people make us second-guess ourselves. So, it makes it almost impossible to actually hear or feel our intuition and how can we hear or trust how we feel deep down if we second-guess ourselves? Only you will know. There can be good feelings and bad feelings. We'll get into how you can begin to understand and hear when your intuition is speaking to you, but before we do, don't forget to heart this post, re-blog, and follow!! It is greatly appreciated <3

So, first things first, get to know yourself better!! How you can do this is by spending some time alone and developing a form of meditation. It can be any activity that helps you calm your mind and put your energy in a place where you're grounded and centered within yourself. Not everyone does this and still they can hear and listen to their intuition. That's because they trust their instincts and some people have better judgement and discernment than others, which is completely okay!!

When you spend time alone, you're able to hear your thoughts better and feel emotions more clearly, than if you were constantly surrounded by people or environments where you aren't able to have peace and quiet. Now, it doesn't always have to be you spending time alone in order to listen to your intuition. With practice, you will just instinctively start to do it all the time. When you do have the time to yourself try to feel your emotions more and observe your thoughts. When you are able to discern between your thoughts and feelings, you start to become more self-aware. What I mean by this is, when you think of something you literally feel the thought in your mind. But when you feel an emotion, you feel it in your heart. That's difference between intellect and emotion or sympathy and empathy. It may sound complicated, but you will understand when you actually learn to do it. It takes practice and its different for everyone like I said. Maybe the way you learn how to do it, will be different than the way someone else is telling you or how someone else learned. But intellect is something you know based off common sense, wisdom, and intelligence. It's what you know. Meanwhile, emotion is the feeling we get whether it be scared, happy, excited, shocked, calm, etc.

My point is discernment is something you have to have in order to know when your intuition is speaking to you. Because without it, you will not understand what your intuition feels like. Let's say someone is giving you a weird feeling because of how they're behaving or something just doesn't seem right and apart of you feels confused like you're second guessing yourself, overthinking, anxious, fearful, all that stuff. 95% of the time you're actually right and you don't always need evidence or proof in order to have an intuitive feeling about something and remember all that glitters isn't gold and looks can be deceiving. Sometimes you will get physical proof or see exactly what you intuitively felt, especially if you ignored your intuition. Now if you think you just can't trust someone or something feels off because you're scared of trusting, intimacy, or taking risks, whatever it may be, that's probably just your own fear. If someone is literally making you feel like you can't trust them, then you shouldn't. But if they've actually done nothing wrong and you have trauma related to the negative feelings you're getting, make sure you are discerning between whether it's a projection of your own experiences or your actual intuition warning you of something because it could be either or. Fear is loud and intuition is quiet. Fear is more like a screaming, nagging, annoying feeling. Intuition can be uncomfortable when it's a warning because the truth is hard to accept mentally sometimes, but it can come as a calm, still, and more of a quiet voice, feeling, or knowing. When I say voice, I mean your inner conscious that voice in your head that kind of isn't your own but is at the same time. It keeps you alert and aware of everything like it pushes you to stay on guard and mindful instead of emotional and trusting and you may constantly question or think about everything. Or when it's a feeling, it's like you just can't explain it, or the reality shows something different than how you feel, but you just can't shake the feeling, that's intuition. Or it could be that sinking feeling in the middle or pit of your stomach. When it's a knowing, it's like you don't know how you know, but you just know and sometimes your feelings don't add up to what you know, but your mind is seeing something you can't really feel. Sometimes feelings are deceiving so we might feel one way and our subconscious knows something we don't. Sometimes we also get dreams of what we've been suspecting or chills and those are also spiritual/intuitive senses.

When it comes to making decisions, our intuition will pretty much do the same thing and feel the same way. When we get good intuitive nudges it's more of a good feeling though, rather than an uncomfortable one. It'll still come as a voice, knowing, feeling, dreams or chills, like I said. As an example, let's say you want to make the choice to move away and there's a sense of peace and excitement, maybe even warmth in your heart. That can be a yes from your intuition. Or you feel like it's safe to open up and love someone, even if your mind is facing doubts from past experiences, trust how you feel deep down. If you feel like it is safe to love, then it more than likely is. Only if you have good judgement though, because impulses aren't always the best to act on. We all have our doubts at times, but as long as you don't allow it to sabotage your happiness that's all that matters. It's not that hard to listen to your intuition, it's just a skill you learn to develop. It takes time, experience, failure, and patience. It takes time to learn yourself, master your thoughts, and process emotions. Intuition comes easily for some and harder for others. Everyone is different.

If you believe in chakras, meditation with silence or frequencies can help you strengthen your intuition and gain more self-awareness because you learn to be present with yourself and block out outside noise. Also, crystals can help with tapping into your intuition because they hold energy and vibrate at certain frequencies that your body can align with. Your body contains energy just as crystals do and even you vibrate at a specific frequency spiritually speaking. Those are some things I've tried, and it has helped me greatly. I also been through enough situations where I felt a certain way and trusted it or didn't trust it and I learned from my experiences because of it. It's also very important to remember that we should never let another person make us doubt ourselves, but we are not always right. Sometimes we are wrong and other times we aren't. Your intuition isn't going to catch every single thing, but it can help you in so many ways.

I really hope this was able to help some of you and I wish you the best of love and abundance!! Take care and if you ever have any questions feel free to dm me!!

…𝑖'𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛..~

𝒟𝒜ℛ𝒦 𝒮ℐ𝒟ℰ 𝒪ℱ 𝒟ℰ𝒱𝒜 𝒩𝒜𝒦𝒮ℋ𝒜𝒯ℛ𝒜𝒮? 𝒫𝓉.2

Heyyy, if u saw the first post I made about Kaikeyi and deva nakshatras—this is the part I did about Judas yet chose to not include as I believed it not as strong of an argument for what I was trying to convey. Anyway, here it is:

Mind you, Judas, who was a disciple of Christ, eventually betrayed him, and that led to the event of the Crucifixion and so on. This event, for known reasons, was also a very spiritual event that, in a way, needed to happen.

“In all, these two figures, who have by the way been “demonized” in many instances in today’s world, were also catalyzed and played key roles in major spiritual tasks executed in this world according to scriptures.”

Now stay with me as I move into Judas’s case:

2 - 𝒥𝓊𝒹𝒶𝓈

So Judas, the ‘betrayer,’ although I was not able to find helpful historically-specific things that would help determine a birth time or nakshatras, I was reminded of this:

(Maybe tap on the images to view in more depth)—

Essentially, I was reminded of a theory that the disciples had correlations to the astrological signs. I for one found this both interesting and very much possibly containing some truth to it, as references to the Zodiac are “esoterically” all throughout the Bible.

Anyway, considering the above, Judas (prior to being replaced by another disciple) was associated with without debate (considering some of the disciples were assigned signs interchangeably in the above images) the sign of Pisces.

So I figured looking into the nakshatras that Pisces rules. These nakshatras are Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada, and Revati.

Now, just as Kaikeyi, given her typical portrayal, was given another “retelling” or insight for her situation, Judas too has one of his own.

Though slightly less personal, shorter, and more ancient than Kaikeyi’s.

What I speak of is the Gospel of Judas, where Christ is conveyed speaking with Judas on a rather “higher-esteem” or “enlightened” take concerning his role in the things he was to do, giving another perspective to Judas’s being. Sort of similar to Patel and Kaikeyii (ALTHOUGH the Gospel of Judas is a scripture of sorts and the book Kaikeyii is fictional—again—don’t come for meee).

So, back to nakshatras, I have to admit, I could not easily see how Judas might have fit under a Deva nakshatra of Pisces. Rather, I think he would have embodied Purva Bhadrapada as a sun sign and Ashlesha as a moon sign. Which both are admittedly rakshasa in nature. Some of Ashlesha’s symbols are a serpent and male cat (I also saw somewhere that Ashlesha can mean “the embracer” or “a tight embrace,” which also reminded me of how Judas embraced Christ and kissed him before “betraying” him 👀).

Not to mention, the animal of Purva Bhadrapada is a male lion, and Judas’ name in its initial form would have been “Judas” or something of the sort. This goes back to the biblical tribe of Judah, which carries heavy lion connotations (Christ being the “Lion of Judah” or “Lion of God,” “God’s praise”), all of which essentially tie thematically to lions and even the Leo zodiac sign. This lion symbolism seems to resonate well with Judas’ role and the larger themes surrounding him.

Plus, Purva Bhadrapada has Jupiter as its ruler (which relates to Christ, being a teacher or guru) and has symbols of the sword, the two front legs of a funeral cot, and a man with two faces. These themes too seemed to stick out to me in relation to Judas’s life, role, and how he related to Christ—

So in a nutshell, although I couldn’t necessarily find supporting evidence of Judas inherently being of deva nakshatras (I mean, cuz he like ancient-), for what I did “figure out,” I found it interesting that he was so closely associated with divine presences such as Christ (who I personally believe represents or coincides with Revati of Pisces). Judas is the rakshasa representation of Pisces whereas Christ, who was his supposed master, is the deva or divine representation of Pisces.

Either way, Judas was demonized—even though taking things from the point of view of divine guidance, perspective, and control, his role technically should not have been condemned. Especially taking into account Isaiah 45:7, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”

Anyway, his case seems to be less of a strong argument for what I’m trying to prove, nevertheless, my “point,” if you will, from my initial post still remains.

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