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Shadows And Light: Healing With The Half-Blood Thunder Lunar Eclipse In Capricorn

Astrology by Lisa Stardust

The second and last eclipse of the summer is upon us, unleashing and unlocking the past. The lunar eclipse, which occurs July 16th, serves to reconcile the intense Capricorn New Moon from January of 2018. We are wrapping up the story that started in 2018 now. In 2018, the focus of our journey was to implement practicality in matters relating to self-love, finances, and relationships. Now, we are learning to let go of monetary and emotionally constraints that hold us back from living our best lives—without guilt and fear.

Evocative and transformational Pluto, who is retrograde in Capricorn, will align with the Moon and heat up the celestial energy. Neptune, who is also retrograde in tender Pisces, will add confusion and illusions to our sentiments. These two planets will make us question our own thoughts, as they aim to push our fears to the surface of our consciousness. The fixed star Terebellum will be activated, bringing deceptions we’ve felt about ourselves to light, making us come to terms with our former insecurities. The cosmic Hell Point (the midpoint between Saturn and Pluto) is in orb for this luminary, which means that our darkest sentiments will come to light. Embracing the shadow self will be a core theme during the lunar eclipse, as we are celestially tasked to accept the sides of ourselves that we may not understand and that we have kept under wraps for some time. This means we are exposing our own bad habits and exploring our irrational impulses. Learning to expel the mind of shame and judgement we may feel will prove challenging. But, by accessing our repressed subconscious feelings and thoughts, we will be able to let go of shame and fear to move forward into our most evolved state of mind, which is self acceptance. 

This eclipse is all about forgiveness. Not to others—but, to ourselves. We all have a shadow self that we hide from the outside world, where we place our inner insecurities. We have to face off and let go of the outdated views we have for ourselves. This is the optimal cosmic time to heal, if we embrace our wounds and live our truth. What we will come to find through Pluto’s close connection with the Moon, is that we can change our own story. We can mend the wounds felt deep within our subconscious. Our repressed memories can see the light of day and shine—if we desire to grow. We need to put more self-love in our hearts. Loving all parts of ourselves, including our shadow selves, will transform our lives. Reconciling the past will start the process of healing, which will serve as a catalyst for growth. 

Under this eclipse, the only ritual is to honor our shadow selves. Writing down our fears and insecurities on paper and deep journaling will help us reconcile our subconscious fears. Looking at ourselves in a mirror and honoring ALL parts of ourselves—the good, the bad, and the ugly—is necessary. Mediating on healing the heart will also be beneficial during this luminary. All of these techniques will help us evolve and grow into the person of our dreams with a heart full of unconditional love for ourselves. 

*The lunar eclipse occurs July 16th at 2:38PM PST and 5:38PM EST.

Protection & Warding ⚔

A guide on protecting yourself and your home. 

Note: this is a long post! 

Personal Protection

Home & Hearth Protection

Protective Symbols & Items

Crystals

Botanicals

Metals

Lunar Phases

Planets

Days of the Week

Please stay safe everyone… I’ve had a couple of run-ins with some really negative energies before. Though some spirits are so nice and sweet and amazing, some are playing with you. This goes for humans and everything in general.

🔥🔥Firey Wall of Protection Oil🔥🔥 . . This is a little how to I’m sharing with you!! I made this pretty puppy on my own, and let me tell you this is POTENT!! I made it myself and can contest this shits awesome. Here’s how to make it! You’ll need: - jar - black salt - whole chilie peppers - cayenne powder - paprika - Palo Santo stick - cloves - cinnamon sticks - cinnamon powder - ginger powder - red pepper seeds - sea salt/pink Himalayan sea salt - bay leaves - oil (be it olive, cooking, almond, what have you) - black candle - sandlewood incense . Light your incense, make sure you’re grounded, and your mind is focused for the task at hand. Please know this will take up a lot of your energy. Make your base with black salt and all powdered ingredients. It’s important that this have a strong foundation with hella protection properties so nothing can find a way through the barrier. Follow your gut and add each ingredient according to your intuition. As you add each item, really focus on this oils intent. You want it strong, powerful, Firey, and most importantly impenetrable. You want to make sure all your loopholes are tied, that there’s no room for error. Once everything is added, go ahead and pour your oil in, saying an incantation of your choice. As you do, say out loud exactly what you want this oil to do. Charge it, give it a job, leaving out no detail. Tell it what it protects you and your family from. Hold it, charge it, kiss it–until it feels right. Afterwards, set the jar in front of the black candle and light it, letting the spell charge and burn. DO NOT let the candle burn out, and DO NOT burn it out early. Let it go down and out all on it’s own. Now here’s where your gut comes in. When the spell is over, I sat my bottle on my windowsill and let it charge in the sunlight for 30 consecutive days. You can write a sigil underneath it to add an additional charge, but the suns energy gives it the burn you want. You don’t have to do it for 30 days, but for me and this oil, it’s not as effective if it’s charged in the sun for less. Once the 30 days are up, use it at your own will. Pour it in a small vial and wear it as a necklace (that’s what I did.) Anoint your doorways, windows, threshold, doorstep, friends, your car, yourself, anything. It’s potent and powerful!!

DIY LAVENDER WANDS!!!!

These are super fun to make and they smell friggggin awesome and look super cute. awesome for rituals and for decoration and for smelling awesome, could be a cool gift, could sell em’ or just whack this tutorial straight in your grimoire for later use, you name it kiddie winks. IMA TEACH U 

1) PICK YO SELF SOME LAVENDER! if you don’t have lavender in your garden, you need to get some. but in the mean time, head over to your local botanical gardens or a park area or a shop or your friends place, anywhere where you can get yourself some freshly picked lavender. Begin with an uneven number of stalks, the bigger the bundle the bigger your wand.

2) GETCHO SELF SOME CUTE ASS PURPLE RIBBBON, and tie it just below the flowers. 

3) THEN UR GONNA WANNA fold the stalks down evenly over the flower head bundle.

4) WEAVE YO’ RIBBON over and under each stalk, around and around, until you have enclosed the entire flower head.

5) TIE OFF YO RIBBON at the bottom.

6) GIVE YO FINISHED WAND a roll between your palms to release that wonderful lavender fragrance1111111!!!!

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT!! A COOL ASS FUNKY SMELLIN STICK-O-LAVANDAAAAAAHHHH

STAY WITHCY!!!

- @indigo-amethyst

we popping the BIGGEST bottles when Caesar becomes emperor tomorrow

Can you imagine the heat?? Badass af

How could you forget all the cool heavy metal ladies!? The metal scene of Botswana is NOT just a boys club

Anyone know any of the names of these individual’s groups? I love metal music and I’m always looking for new bands to listen to.

Wrust is my fave. Overthrust, Gunsmoke, and Demon are also good. 

PS in Botswana metal heads are called Marok, and lady metalheads call themselves Queens and give themselves badass nicknames like Phoenix Death Serpent.

YESSS

2017: dumb bitch

2018: sad bitch

2019: bad bitch

LET’S GO

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.

Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.

Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.

Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.

I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.

Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.

But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

Thank you thank you thank you bless this post ohmygod thank you

*me in a mirror*: 9/10 *me in a selfie*: 6.3/10 *me in a pic someone else takes*: -2/10 *me*: ??????????

This just seemed appropriate today.

oh please please PLEASE let Tumblr flag this post

FUCK YES WE DID IT FOLKS

Mods are asleep, post deserts

So fucking cute.

the bear just agrees to start jumping with him like “alright yeah let’s do that”

Animals are awesome

This was exactly what I expected and more