Know Your Stars to Chart Your Course

People walk through life doing as they are told, going through pointless motions that serve no greater purpose for their soul, and die a 1,000 times by castrating themselves to a life of suffering. And people wonder why everyone breaks down in their mid-years and do something drastic to make up for all of the years they wasted.

No life is born without a purpose; no soul has nothing to offer in the greater scheme of this universe.

The first lie they tell you is to “do as you are told,” by forcing you to do various tasks that mean nothing, go to school to be brainwashed into memorizing things that don’t truly serve you after your done, go to a college and get surrounded in debt for 30 plus years, go to a 9 to 5 job that makes you want to throw yourself out of a window, get into a relationship with someone who is “good enough,” and have children you don’t really want which crosses out 25 plus years from your life. 

You are taught to jump through hoop after hoop, and with no prize.

You are bred to be mindless, and go through the motions thinking it is okay.

You are conditioned to think life has no meaning, things just happen, and karma is the golden rule.

Lies upon lies we all swallow, allowing the toxicity to fester in our gut and spread.

But where do we start?

Where do we look to find our life purpose, to set the spark within us, and move with purpose?

That, is thankfully simple.

This is truth the ancients of olden times knew, that ae ancestors charted relentlessly, that led us all home in the darkest of night:

The stars.

The stars have bewitched and enchanted humanity for centuries and even longer since then. The stars are the magickal points of correspondence, a gateway to the knowledge of ourselves and the very course of action we need to achieve our personal happiness.

Now, I am not referencing horoscopes. Primarily because I believe horoscopes are false in their analysis; there is no possible way to know how your day will turn out because every action you take, thought you think, and vibration you make changes the course of many things. You actively change your own future, and nothing is ever set in stone. You are the master, no one else, especially a little horoscope.

But, a Birth Chart is essential to figuring out the map of you and the best routes for you to take to achieve fulfillment within this life rotation.

To know your stars and their placements, reveals to you how your react to influences, people, society, and how you tick on the inside at any given moment. To know how you love and want to be loved, how you handle money, and what your deepest desires are in your life. 

Imagine, having all this information and using it to achieve? Instead of sticking you head in the sand and suffering till you’re in a coffin?

Looking at my own birth chart gave me great insight into myself, and I used it to help me chart my life. It helped me avoid certain people, bring in others, learn what areas I would excel in, and has made me fully aware of myself as a whole. No longer walking blind and feeling unconnected to myself.

The planets in a birth chart represent different aspects and hold different meanings. Each planet has a special correspondence that relates to the time of your birth, the location, the date, and the time of your arrival here in the physical plane.

Here is a break down:

• ·         Sun: “I am”

The sun represents your ego, the passion, and essentially how you express yourself outwards. The sun is of masculine energy, so it is forward moving and bold. Your sun sign is what people around you pick up because it is your identity.

• ·         Moon: “I feel”

The moon is of the feminine, and it is receptive, intuitive, and connected to the emotions. So, it is fitting that the moon shows how your thoughts are, how your react emotionally to events, how you fair sharing your deepest thoughts or emotions with another, and your essential reactions. Additionally, the moon, just as the tarot card, represents things that are hidden and under the surface. All of those emotions you try to hide because you think they are “ugly” or “inappropriate” is covered by the moon too.

• ·         Mercury: “I think”

This is the planet of communication, travel, and imagination. This shows how you communicate with others, your thinking patterns, the best ways you learn and retain knowledge, and all those wonderful things you find interest in. Additionally, if you were born with a Mercury Retrograde, you are a thinker by heart, strongly intuitive, and think before you speak.

• ·         Venus: “I love”

This is the sensual planet of love and relationships. This will show you the type of person you are romantically attracted to, how you show affection to another, what you desire in a mate, and also how your other relationships are. It also shows how your react to receiving.

• ·         Mars: “I act”

Mars is all about your motivation, the amount of initiative you have, what drives you, and what you desire to achieve in this life cycle. Mars is the opposite of Venus, and is all masculine dealing with what you would go to war for and the risks you are willing to take. This planet exposes what gets you angry, and how you handle your own rage. Though Venus deals with sensual pleasure, Mars deals with your sexual stamina and appetites, what turns you on sexually, and what you like to give in the wave of sex. If you were born with Mars in Retrograde, you direct all of your energy on self and avoid any forms of confrontation.

• ·         Jupiter: “I grow”

Jupiter is the planet of money, wealth, the attraction of positive things, and all things abundance. This planet also tells you your personal philosophy on life, what pulls you attention in learning and how you can benefit from that knowledge. Jupiter shows how generous you are with your material goods concerning others, what you do on a large scale, and your personal search for truth. If Jupiter was in Retrograde for you, you are very philosophical and keep your thoughts to yourself to not shake others.

• ·         Saturn: “I achieve”

Saturn is all about your life lessons in this rotation, your feelings of insecurity, the boundaries you keep, getting what you desire, and deals with your career. If Saturn was in Retrograde for you, you have a strong sense of responsibility concerning your own success and failures.

• ·         Uranus: “I evolve”

This planet expresses what makes you special, what makes you stand out, and what is unique to you. Uranus talks about unexpected opportunities for you, and events that occur in an instant. All things “ah ha” moment.

• ·         Neptune: “I dream”

Neptune deals with inspiration, and where you can be easily deceived. Imagination and illusion collide with this planet. Blind spots and addictions come into play here too. If Neptune was in Retrograde, you have a habit of slipping out of reality to play in imagination land.

• ·         Pluto: “I empower”

Pluto discusses where you feel powerlessness and the areas where you want to take charge in your life. Getting rid of the old and making room for the big events in your life swirl in this planet. If Pluto was in Retrograde, then your inner beliefs will switch up with time.

These are the planets and their influences in your life areas.

You could do as our ancestors, and plot down every minute and coordinate of the planets due on your birth chart. The process of making your own birth chart by hand is very labor intensive, time consuming, but very fulfilling. However, we don’t live in the techno age for nothing, and I believe our ancestors would count themselves a tad jealous with the wave of information so easily at our disposal. So why not use it? (but feel free to do it by hand, it is fun!)

This is a great website I used to figure out my birth chart:

http://astro.cafeastrology.com/natal.php

And this is a wonderful app I use called “Celeste” by Astrolabe:

https://appsto.re/us/Xqmnz.i

Remember, be as accurate as possible with the time of your birth and location, otherwise your stars won’t be correct. Ask your mom if you got to, or snatch your birth certificate for specifics.

Know your stars, to know yourself.

Know your stars, to chart your course.

The master is nothing without a map to guide them.

Erytheia Medea©

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Grimoires: From One To Many

There always seems to be a basic formula to the witch archetype portrayed by the Mundanes (or the normal, average, everyday person). A woman who is grotesque physically, accompanied by her black cat, pointed hat on head, broomstick, bubbling green ooze filled cauldron, and a giant book with the title of one form of the other “spell book,”.

It’s a cliché stereotype of us witches, but there are some truths there.

The spell book, or more realistically called in the witchcraft community a Grimoire, book of mirrors, book of shadows, etc., is a staple that is necessary to help organize, focus, and aid the witch in their workings. I equate it to an all knowing utility knife due to its’ multiple forms, designs, and endless array of information enclosed.

The dictionary sums up a Grimoire as “a book of magic spells and invocations,”. This is a pretty weak offering of something that I find to be such a giant staple in my practice.

Yet, if I were to think of it more, isn’t that what every new witch (no shade) or Mundane thinks it is?

This couldn’t be further from the truth.

A Grimoire, in my observations and experience, is the holy grail of all that is knowledge on the journey of the craft. The all collector, the written testament of you and your unfolding, and the beacon for you to ground if you ever get confused or drawn off the trail. This sacred book is fortified with invocations, evocations, spells, oils, brews, symbolism, Sabbats information and procedures, thoughts, dreams and interpretations, divination spreads or tips, herb magick, and essentially fragments of your energy and soul.

Why the energy? Why the soul?

Think.

If you are an artist, and you are painting, sketching, toiling hours if not days all on one piece of canvas, would you not say this piece of art has a bit of your soul in it? When we focus on an object, pour our emotions (whether it be fear, happiness, or sorrow), push the essence of our time into it, and make our own brand of specialized art in it, we give traces of our energy signature and our spiritual essence in it. That object is an extension of us, and therefore it is energetically tied to you.

That’s the reason one feels extreme betrayal when another reads their diary, when a spouse becomes irate or heat broken when they lose their wedding ring, or when a person has a visceral reaction to their hair being cut.

It’s all about an exchange of energy and a cultivation of time.

This all applies to the Grimoire and the many folds it has.

Yet, again, new witches on the path and others believe they should only have one very huge and very expensive book made from the finest quality, stitched by the holy fingers of a monk who has fasted for 3 days and has spoken ancient hymns. 

Of course I’m joking, but some believe this to be true.

Truth is, your Grimoire doesn’t have to be expensive or giant, mostly because you don’t need to spend a lot of money for your craft tools and aids.

Your Grimoire can be a book from the Dollar Store or even one you crafted yourself with your bare hands.

What matters when choosing a Grimoire to work with, it is essentially to again focus on time and energy. You can transform a $1 book into a work of art that is connected to you through the time you devote to it. Not only that, sleeping with your Grimoire helps forming a connection too.

Additionally, to be frank, you will not have one Grimoire, but several.

To be a witch is to always be in a process of learning and mastery, and with that you will probably have more than 3 books you will be working on at a time. Your first book will not look the same as your second, or even be used in the same way as the third. And these sacred books of yours will come in different looks: a dream journal for dissecting and interpreting your nightly dreams, a regular journal to release your daily emotions and thoughts, a tarot book to chart your growth in the art, a book of art to help you purge and give form to your inner struggles, and many more.

The more I journaled, decorated, and added to my Grimoire, the more connected I felt to my book. Also, the more I wrote inside of my journal, the more in love with it I became. I even added my menstrual blood and hair to my Grimoire to form a stronger connection.

Placing your devotion into your book ascends it to higher levels no of the Mundane world, and invokes an air of magick when you bring it out in ritual or to add to it. Not only that, it helps that it can aid you through your ceremonies or spell work. 

However, before adding to your book, remember to sort out all the information you tend to add to it. I have a habit of bookmarking, favoriting, and emailing certain spells or correspondence to myself so I can add it to my book, but when it gets time to add, I’m all a miss because I don’t have all the information gathered already. 

Remember, this is all for you.

The Grimoire is a testament to you, about you, and for you. No one else. 

You can add whatever you like, whenever you like.

It is a special gift to yourself and you deity (if you work with one or follow one).

And, it don’t gotta be fancy or a gargantuan one.

Enjoy your Grimoire.

Erytheia Medea©

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The Media: Killer Of Goddess/God

Everyone in the world is afraid.

Afraid to leave their homes, afraid to travel, afraid to try something new, afraid to talk to different people, and the list can go on for hours if not months at a time.

Fear; it is all an overwhelming pulse that keeps one stuck in place and ultimately stuck in time as we in the 3^rd dimension understand it.

Your fear is what keeps you going to your 9 to 5 job that you hate but go to anyway because you “have to”, it is the reason you stay in a relationship with a terrible person because “you don’t know if anyone else will have you”, and it is the prime culprit you put up with family members that are toxic for you because “family is all you got,”.

 

Fear is defined in the dictionary as “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid”.

Again, it is defined as a “distressing emotion aroused by impending danger,”.

Impending. Danger.

Let’s take for example the response from the media with the winning of Donald Trump in the Presidential Election.

Every news station discussed the chaos that would occur, the newspapers talked of World War 3, YouTube channels that discussed news talked about how healthcare is going to be hard to get, whispers of women no longer going to be able to receive care, and the response went on and on.

I recalled how I felt, swallowing every bit of news that popped up in my face, binged on my twitter notifications, and listening to the concerned reactions of the people around me.

I felt so outrageously afraid, I cried, I felt my mind pressed down by the weight of impending danger.

The media says it, the public takes it.

The media spins it, the public believes it.

The media speaks the verse, and the public takes it as the new gospel of some holy book.

Yet, why is it that no one seems to question why.

Why that, when you sit down and watch the news there’s 1,000 terrible, violent, and hateful stories to report, and only 1 that is slightly positive?

That we all move in new ways every day to escape that new danger the anchor on the television told you about.

Why?

Because those who are in “power” (which I put in quotes because it is a false power that the majority of people in those world submit to without fight or question) have a vested interest in you being frozen in fear. For you to always constantly think the worst, move with caution, and not move in the direction you desire because “anything can happen” (in fearful tone of course).

Women even say “good-bye” to other women by saying “Get home safe”. AKA, “don’t get killed, raped, assaulted, or any of the other hazards possible”. Even though the fear of assault and the like is very real for women in a negatively inverted patriarchy, it is very disturbing to hear a form of good-bye, good night, or see you later be turned into a fearful loaded phrase such as “get home safe.”

The media is a talking puppet designed for you to attract bane to yourself by flooding your thoughts with all of the horror that occurs “out in the world”. They lower your frequency or vibration, which is directly tied to your higher self, or the God/Goddess part of yourself that is essentially the primordial force from which all of the physical reality is manifested here on the 3^rd dimension. You see, when we are aligned with our higher self, we are in a constant flow of joy, happiness, content, positive thoughts, gratitude, receiving, and an almost elevated or lifted air. This is your natural state, if of course you are aligned and following your higher or God self. Your God/Goddess aspect knows all it knows what is best for you, the right choices you should make for yourself, has all the answers, knows the sacred truths that have governed this Earth since it’s conception and beyond, your life purpose in this rotation (or reincarnation cycle), and essentially every positive thing that is tailored specific just for you. 

Are you following the lines I am speaking?

Now do you see?

Why would those in power EVER want you to achieve a state of fulfillment, create your own reality, and ultimately live your heaven now minus the death?

They “keep you in your place” by using fear mongering and pain porn to overwhelm your thoughts with negative vibrations that directly knock you out of alignment with your higher self and create a distinct resistance to living fully. Don’t get me wrong, to be human is to have a wide range of emotions, and it is essential for us to be present in those emotions, but, the trick here, is to experience it and move on.

Not to linger, not to revisit it every day, and certainly not to have our entire lives governed by it.

Not only that, when you think of those horrific things the news tells you, and repeat it over and over like a broken mantra, you attract it forward into your reality. Worry about healthcare to the point of sleepless nights? Ultimately, you will have a health scare. Think constantly about being robbed, it will eventually happen.

Your mind is a cosmic machine, and if you keep swallowing what the media says, it will ultimately come to your front door. 

Let’s take my mother for example.

She, due to health issues, stays in the house and watches television a lot. She loves watching the news, and combine this with the fact she cannot leave the house, she is essentially a broken machine filled with worse case scenarios, fear of violence, and essentially a person who inadvertently “tries” manifests bad on everyone in my family. Whenever don’t answer my phone, she automatically thinks something terrible happened, she freaks out when I forget to lock 1 of the 2 locks on the back door because she doesn’t want the “killer” to get her even though it is 2 in the afternoon and she lives in a boring quiet suburb, and when she does get the chance to leave the house she often complains “people suck” and the whole world is “fucked up”.

My mother and many people in this world are so caught up in the veil of fear that they don’t really see what is going on. They are distracted so much that they don’t see what they truly should be focusing on, stuck standing still, giving all of their energy to a false god, and not following their higher self to achieve heaven now on the physical plane.

Watch the news and listen to the media, lower your personal vibration to the point of sickness and chaos.

I used to constantly be a news person, always up to date, and debating the current state of affairs. My major was Journalism, so I was expected to always know what is going on at every minute of the day in the world. . But, I noticed after all those years, I was burnt out. I was irritable, didn’t trust anyone around me, automatically went to a negative and harsh place with everything, and felt like humanity as a whole was fucked beyond comprehension.

Then I switched off the TV (for news stations anyway), unfollowed news stations on Twitter, stopped allowing the notifications, and unsubscribed to political pundits on YouTube.

Want to know what happened?

The world is still turning.

The world is still functioning as it always has.

I haven’t missed anything really important, because the people around me would mention it.

And, I felt and still feel relieved.

I don’t have my mind swimming in the thoughts of others, my energy is reserved to myself, my time is my time, and my outlook has increased in positivity (and I’m not talking about that fake positivity that brushes everything to the side or paints the chaos in a bright pretty color), and I’m focused on all that would please the Goddess that pulses underneath this human shell of mine.

Just to think, and to bring it into perspective.

 

Fear and Love are the two highest forms of energy that the human world can ever know.

You feed the machine of false power in this world by giving them fear and living in a constant state of fear.

How many times has everyone “predicted” the end of the world? I believe maybe 3 times so far since my life time…but the world is still standing and working as always.

Those in power at this moment have too much to lose with the world being destroyed or any other catastrophe, and having you preoccupied with fear stops you from stepping into your God/Goddess hood and actively creating the reality you want. AKA taking away the power of those who are in power at the moment, and no longer kneeling to anyone due to the foolish concept of “haves and the haves not”.

Stop fearing the future because it has yet to be shaped by your hands,

Settle and resolve the past to be content now,

And live here in the present time for that is all that matters.

Turn off your damn tv.

Erytheia Medea©

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