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What in the stars is a birth chart?

If you’ve been on social media the past few years, then you know the topic of birth charts has sky-rocketed in popularity. I’m sure you’ve been asked once or twice what your birth chart is, but what on Earth does it mean? Your birth chart, also known as a natal chart, is a guide on your personality, strengths and weaknesses, opportunities for growth, and the best timing for important moves. 

Your birth chart consists of 12 different signs and houses. Your birth chart is based on the date, time and location of your birth. It tells where the planets alignments were when you were born. These all play a part in who you are. Your basic zodiac sign is your Sun sign, this is purely based off what day you were born. When someone asks your zodiac sign you most likely default to this one. You have 11 other zodiac signs that give insight on you as a person. 

Each one of these 12 signs in your birth chart have their own meanings. They are:

Sun: Yourself, your main personality traits

Moon: Your heart

Rising: How you look and appear to others

Mercury: The way you think 

Venus: How you love 

Mars: How you deal with life and problems

Jupiter: You luck

Saturn: The way you discipline yourself and your responsibilities 

Uranus: How unique you are

Neptune: Your imagination

Pluto: Your transformation in life

Chiron: How you feel 

North Node: The way you develop in your current life 

As I stated before, knowing your date, time and location of your birth is very important, this allows for your birth chart to be more accurate and allowing you to see more about you. 

I will further discuss the 12 houses in another post. These also play a big part in your chart. Most people can discover basic information just from the 12 signs, but looking into the houses will give a bit more insight. 

These are many websites you can use to find out your birth chart, I find the most accurate site is here. If you are unsure of your birth time, you can check your birth certificate or you can contact your state's Bureau of Vital Statistics. You may also use 12 noon as the time, but you may not receive the most accurate results. 

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Today's herb of the day is Star Anise!

Gender: Masculine

Planet: Jupiter

Element: Air

Magickal uses:

Drink as an infusion with tea or burn as an incense before divination to boost psychic abilities and awareness. Place on your altar to increase the power generated from it, add to a bath with bay leaves for purification, place in a dream pillow to prevent nightmares, carry with you to bring luck in love, health and money matters. Carry in a satchet to ward off the evil eye, hang an anise seed head from your bedpost to restore lost youth, use as an offering to entice spirits to aid in magical operations and anise leaves or anise seeds used in a potpourri will protect a room from evil spirits and intentions. Good for money, luck, protection, psychic power, dream, love, purification, power and purification workings.

Other uses:

Star anise has been used in Asian and Eurasian cooking for many, many years. This age-old spice is not only known as a culinary expert, but is also famous for its medicinal properties like being used to improve heart health, steady blood sugar, ward off bacteria and fungi, aid in sleeping and help fight the flu.

In foods and beverages, star anise is considered a culinary spice; both the seed and oil are used as flavoring.

In manufacturing, the oil is used as a fragrance in soaps, cosmetics, perfumes, and toothpaste, and to mask undesirable odors in drug products.

Deities:

Quan Yin

The afternoon began with wild collecting for my besom.

After soaking the bristles to make it easier to tie them in a bundle, it was time to assemble them.

Plastic ties made the job relatively easy. I then wound wire in between the gaps beside the ties, tucking the ends of the wire into the bundle. Then I cut the ties carefully away so as not to cut the bristles. Finally, I wet some twine and tied that around the bundle, evenly spaced. I found a branch already cut and whittled at the ends in the woods by the river, it was as if someone had played around and fashioned a sort of spear with it and then just left it there!  It made for the perfect handle for my besom. Jammed that handle in the middle of the bundle hard, and that sucker isn’t going anywhere!

I put blue ribbon over the wire to make it look pretty (I think my Goddess likes blue, as it comes up a lot in different things lately) also, dammit, if I am going to own a besom, it is going to look pretty because I deserve it! Cost of my besom? $4.00 for plastic ties and ribbon from the dollar store, that’s it! And of course, the time that it took to gather the bundle from the wild, and search for a handle, all in all it took roughly 2 hours. Not too shabby, if I say so myself. 

Now I just have to cleanse the besom (with some sandalwood incense) and ask the God and Goddess to bless it. 

I feel it’s relevant for Wiccans and Witches to know you CAN make your own broom at home with just a few things collected from nature. No, you don’t have to be very good at putting craft projects together, and this honestly was very easy to assemble.

It really bothers me when I hear of others involved in the craft who have literally spent a couple hundred bucks easy on a besom/broom they bought online. Unless you WANT to spend that money because it saves time, etc., fine. But otherwise, I feel you are being taken advantage of because no one has told you the steps to make your own.

You will need:

Twigs, straw, whatever for the bristles

Long plastic ties

A small hand saw, or as in my case I used a bread knife to cut the grassy-like straw

Craft wire

Scissors or garden clippers to cut straw/twigs

Branch for the handle

Blade to whittle point in the branch

Twine

Ribbon

If you have ANY questions, please message me. It must be mentioned, this was the first broom I’ve ever put together, so if I can do it, you can too.

~Blessed be.

Decolonize Witchcraft and Spirituality!

That means:

Respect closed practices! Either go through the proper channels to be initiated or leave them alone!

Respect indigenous and diasporic cultural traditions! Many of these cultures were nearly wiped out by colonization. Respect the boundaries of what you can and can’t practice as an outsider.

Purchase crystals from reputable sources! Some crystals are mined unethically and through minimally-paid or slave labor.

Stop supporting shops and authors who appropriate from closed cultures! It should be obvious, but don’t buy dreamcatchers from a non-Native person and avoid metaphysical authors who perpetuate racist stereotypes about marginalized religions and magical traditions.

Listen to and prioritize witches of color/practitioners of color in dialogues about racism, cultural appropriation, and exotification in the magical communities.

Examine your own craft and see if you are unintentionally appropriating any cultures

Educate yourself on practices outside of your own so you don’t unintentionally invalidate or appropriation marginalized religions and spiritual practices.

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The Four Elements & Their Associations

In Witchcraft, working with the elements is a vital part of the craft. So many spells involve at least one of the elements. It’s important to know why we used them and what they mean. There’s also other ways to incorporate each element without actually having that element handy, cause it’s not always easy to catch some air in a bottle if you know what I mean. 

Air 

Colors: Blue, silver, white, grey

Symbols: Circle, bird, bell, sylph, flute, chimes, and clouds

Tools: Wand, rod, and staff

Plants: Almond, broom, clover, eyebright, lavender, pine

Stone: Amethyst, sapphire, citrine, azurite 

Places: Sky, mountaintops, tree tops, bluffs, airplanes

Zodiac: Aquarius, Gemini, Libra 

Time: Spring, dawn

Direction: East

Archangel: Raphael 

Process: Thinking, reading, speaking, praying, singing

Fire

Colors: Red, red-orange, amber

Symbols: Triangle, lightening, flame, salamander 

Tools: Sword, dagger, fire pot, double-handed axe 

Plants: Basil, dragons blood, ginger, tobacco

Stones: Ruby, garnet, diamond, bloodstone, flint, sunstone

Places: Volcanoes, ovens, fireplaces, deserts

Zodiac: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Archangel: Michael 

Time: Summer, noon

Direction: South  

Process: Passion, anger, quick, active, energy, power

Water

Colors: Green, turquoise, blue

Symbols: Crescent, shells, boats, ship’s wheel, anchor, cup

Tools: Vessel, grail, chalice,  cauldron 

Plants: Aloe, cucumber, lily, lotus, willow

Stones: Aquamarine, moonstone, mother-of-pearl

Places: Oceans, rivers, lakes, ponds, beaches, waterfalls

Zodiac: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces 

Archangel: Gabriel

Time: Autumn, sunset

Direction: West

Process: Love, nurture, sensitivity, psychic ability, healing

Earth

Colors: Green, brown

Symbols: Square, cornucopia, spindle, scythe, salt

Tools: Shield, pentacle, flail, horn

Plants: Alfalfa, cotton, oats, patchouli, vertiver, wheat

Stones: Moss agate, jasper, malachite, peridot, tourmaline

Places: Caves, forests, fields, gardens, canyons

Zodiac: Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo

Archangel: Ariel 

Time: Winter, midnight

Direction: North

Process: Grounded, practical, organized, steady, responsible

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