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Ancient Greek & Roman Knot Magic - Part. 1

Some quotes from "Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds : a sourcebook" by Daniel Ogden

Decided to break down this post into multiple ones because the quotes are too damn long.

Writing these research down on my blog because I'm interested in the mechanism/logic behind these things.

Tongue binding :

"See! An old woman of many years sits among the girls. She will perform the rites of Tacita, "the Silent One", although she scarecely keeps silent herself. With three of her fingers she places three pieces of incense under a threashold, exploiting the secret run a mouse has made for itself. The she binds enchanted threads together with dark lead and turns seven black beans over in her mouth. She roasts on a fire the sewn-up fish head, which she has sealed with pitch and pierced with a bronze needle. She also drips wine over it. She drinks the leftovers of the wine with her companions, but she herself drinks the greater part. As she leaves she proclaims "We have bound the tongues of our enemies and hostile mouths." With that the old woman goes off drunk. Fasti, Ovid

(will add the link later, expect the next one sometime tomorrow)

Part 2 - To bring back a lover

Part 3 - More love magic (two quotes)

Part 4 - Amulets (three quotes)

When you're marrying or giving it a thought, check your s/o Moon sign's nakshatra 'Gana'

'Gana' means Clan. Gana matching is very important for a long term commitment or relationships

In Vedic astrology, there are 3 ganas:

Dev gana(divine, godly category)

Manisha/Manushya gana (human, earthly category)

Rakshasa gana (devil category, sort of tamasika)

If any of these are not compatible, its known as 'Gana Dosha'. But one exception is if your sign lord are good /mutual, or if the ppl involved have same Navamsha, this Dosha won't be taken into account.

Dev gana people have good intuition, their spiritual manifestation works faster than the latter two. They won't hesitate to help people. Stubborn. Don't change thier views or themselves easily. Can be prideful.

Manushya gana people are human like, they are people who are obedient to the elders and are ethical. May not help others but are mixed.

Rakshasa gana people are dominating/bossy (in a good way tho) they have a good direction of things and are impulsive too. Go getters. Can easily read energies. Cruel and selfish at times.

Side note: In Hindu epics, even the demons (called 'daityas', 'danav', 'asur' or 'Rakshas') possessed as much powers as the gods and demi-gods. (Or even more, but it depends on the penance)

So here's the thing, compatibility between these are important:

1) Dev gana combos

Dev Gana + Manushya gana= good 👍but the dev gana would be dominating. Unity is nice, lesser conflicts. Harmonious relationship. (5pts are rewarded)

Dev Gana + Dev gana= Very good understanding between both. Unity🎀. Perfect for marriage or any relationship (6pts are rewarded for this combo)

Dev Gana + Rakshasa gana= not compatible. Since the clans are total opposite, there maybe fights, adjustments are only valid till a limit. Don't get along well due to the polarity in their thoughts.

2) Manushya Gana combos.

Manushya + Manushya= again, same thinking, good unity between partners.

Manushya + Rakshasa= this is where the bad news comes, humans can't rule over devils, so this thing is a problem in the relation. The Manushya gana person gets dominated by the Rakshasa gana. The cruelty of the Rakshas gana person starts showing up. Lots of power play (if the other placements in the chart state otherwise). (Idk if true but, my grandma used to believe that in this combo, either of the partner lives, and mostly it is the least dominant party which is taken away, lol) (0pts for this combo)

💙 Dev Gana nakshatras: Ashwini, Mrisgshirsha, Punarvasu, Pushya, Hasta, Swati, Anuradha, Shravana, Revati.

❤️ Rakshasa Gana nakshatras: Krittika, Ashlesha, Magha, Chitra, Vishakha, Jyeshtha, Moola, Dhanista, Satabhisha

🧡 Manushya Gana nakshatras: Bharani, Rohini, Ardra, Purvaphalguni, Uttaraphalguni, Purvashada, Uttarashada, Purvabhadrapada, Uttarabhadrapada.

In conclusion, i would say, please don't base your opinion solely on this Gana of Nakshatras, other things in the d9 chart and the natal horoscopes are important and are being taken into account, this thing is just a part of it.

That's all for today, i hope you enjoyed this post ✨🖤

his smile is so beautiful

A Whiff of Waffle Cone

- Imaginary Authors -

It’s comfortably sweet and warm. The first note that hits you in a sharp cinnamon that then fades into a nostalgic vanilla syrup.

Review ↯

Longevity: I found myself smelling it all day long

Sillage: Radiates fairly well; someone sitting next to you would be able to smell it

Overall: For me this is far too sweet for an everyday scent but is still lovely, will be wearing again. It’s not for everyone but I would recommend.

Hey im wondering what signs or aspects would make one more susceptible to feeling certain emotions when listening to music?

In general, I believe anyone/any sign can feel triggered [positively or negatively] by music. It is, after all, the ‘great communicator’. However, in regard to “emotion” hitting the hardest, you’re going to want to look for...

1. Water Dominant Charts

Water doms are susceptible to feeling many emotions in general. When music which is ruled by Neptune gets thrown in the mix people with...

Pisces Suns

Pisces moons

Pisces Mercury

Pisces Venus

Pisces Mars

Pisces Jupiter

Neptune in the 1st

Neptune in the 2nd

Neptune in the 4th

Neptune in the 3rd

Neptune in the 8th

Neptune in the 12

Scorpio Suns

Scorpio moons

Scorpio Mercurys

Scorpio Mars’

Scorpio Jupiters

Scorpio Risings

Pluto in the 1st

Pluto in the 2nd

Pluto in the 3rd

Plut in the 4th

Pluto in the 8th

Pluto  in the 9th

Pluto in the 12th

Cancerian Suns

Cancer Moon

Cancer Mercury’s

Cancer Venus’

Cancer Mars’

Cancer Jupiter’s

Cancer Rising

Moon in the 2nd [Tauean house rules the ‘throat’]

Moon in the 3rd [rules communication]

Moon in the 4th [water house]

Moon in the 8th

Moon in the 9th

Moon in the 12th

[look for flowing and hard aspects between all of these placements]

2. Taurean/Venus Placements

Since Taurus rules creativity and artistry, people with strong placements here will often have a very solid and earthly attachment to music. Taurus also rules the second house that rules the “voice/throat”.  This includes Conjunctions, trines, sextiles.

Taurus Sun

Taurus Moon

Taurus Mercury

Taurus Venus

Taurus Jupiter

Taurus Rising

Taurus 2nd house

Taurus 3rd House

Taurus 12th House

Venus in the 1st

Venus in the 2nd

Venus in the 4th

Venus in the 3rd

Venus in the 8th

Venus in the 12th

3. Mercury Placements

Mercury Rules communication and people with dominant Mercury, which rules by the mind happen to be very gifted with music. Remember, I’ve mentioned before that music is a science. Why? Because it can be measured. Emotion is felt in the belly but the chemicals that trigger what we feel start in the brain first. The brain is ruled by Mercury most immediately since Mercury rules the “lower mind”. Look for:

Mercury in the 1st

Mercury in the 2nd

Mercury in the 3rd

Mercury in the 4th

Mercury in the 7th

Mercury in the 8th

Mercury in the 9th

Mercury in the 12th

Virgo placements strongly in any of these houses as well as Gemini Placements.

4. Jupiter

Jupiter rules the higher mind and philosophy. Music takes almost all of us there. Jupiter is a very psychic planet and music/sound travels on wavelengths that blend with higher forms of thought and thinking. This is exactly why meditation is usually paired with music and why they’re usually based at about 4-7 Hz theta waves. Look for natives with:

Jupiter in the 1st

Jupiter in the 2nd

Jupiter in the 3rd

Jupiter in the 4th

Jupiter in the 8th

Jupiter in the 9th

Jupiter in the 12th

Sag placements in any of these houses conjuncting, trining, or sextiling [hard placements like squares and opps are also to be considered.] Jupiter as the most elevated may also be susceptible as well.

If that 12th house placements doesn’t describe me idk what does🤷🏽‍♀️

Astro observations Part I

✰ Capricorn Risings don’t always have a resting bitch face. A lot of the time they can come across as bubbly and extroverted. However, if you find yourself on the bad side you will understand where their reputation for having a RBF comes from. 

✰ Cancer Mars are ABSOLUTELY the definition of passive aggressive energy. It gets real whenever a few cancer mars are friends and their fights end up circling around the elephant in the room with no one willing to acknowledge the root of the problem. 

✰ Venus in the 7th house: Everyone I know who has this placement is literally. always. in. a. relationship! Even if they don’t like the other person they are always in and out of relationships. They tend to also be rather dependent on their lovers or friends. If I didn’t love them so much it would be annoying. 

✰ Planets/Stelliums in the 8th house Look, I know the 8th house rules occult matters, death and sex but that’s not all they think about! It doesn’t mean they all love BDSM, think about sex 24/7 or anything like that. In my observations (and having Sun/Mercury in the 8th house) it just means they prefer discussing dark and deep subjects. They don’t care for superficiality, they want to know what you really feel deep down, what your darkest fears and secrets are. Whether or not they share theirs is a different story but they usually prefer deep subjects over superficial ones. 

✰Capricorn Moons don’t always come off as closed off or cold. They may even come off as warm and inviting but the walls closest to their heart is always up. Those are the walls that take a lifetime to bring down. I once knew a Capricorn moon who did not allow her husband to sleep with her because she did not want the emotional closeness but as her friend you only saw her warmth and light. 

✰ Venus Square Moon people really do have a tough time falling in love or being in love. I don’t think it is hopeless (or at least I hope not bc I have this aspect too). But of the people I have seen struggling to get into a relationship or keep one, almost all of them had Venus Square Moon, sometimes Venus Square Pluto etc. 

✰ 12th House Placements just really need time to themselves to recharge. Bonus points if either listening or playing music is involved (Neptunian energy is strong here). They are also quite intuitive and can sense when things are right or wrong. They are generally not one to voice said feelings though and fades away into the background rather than confront someone. Can also be loud and outgoing when they want, but will also hold other things very close to their chest. 

✰ Libra Venus can be a flirt but they rarely mean it. They aren’t TRYING to flirt, they just forget that their general behavior is construed as flirting. I’ve met a few Venus in Libras (including me, hi!) who are commitment phobes and hate staying in relationships because they know it’s not right. I also know Venus in Libras who LOVE dating and always have a significant other so I guess it just depends on other aspects. But seriously, we aren’t ALWAYS flirting, and even so a lot of times we are just friendly and we don’t mean it. 

Coconut Oil

This is my first fic and I’m posting it for @eriknutinthispoosy since she been going through some things with her Tumblr and my post notifications for her haven’t been working but this is for you boo💛💜

Also for my helpful beta readers @almightyreads and @coilycai 💞

(I do not own this picture, found it on Google and loved it.)

*Slightly very smutty → turned into aftercare and then maybe just some poor writing towards the end, idk Im just really tired. Enjoy…*

“C’mon, babygirl, let’s get you into that tub.” Erik’s calm voice makes its way to y/n’s ears. Everything she heard and felt seemed hazy, distant. She was so worn out that she could almost fall asleep.

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Her body had been used for Erik’s twisted enjoyment. She had been through silk tying her to the bed, candle wax, ice cubes and a Magic Wand vibrator strapped to her thigh to bring her to climax after climax. And as she laid out on the smooth black silk sheets of their shared bed, Erik had been stroking his thick cock, enjoying the wrecked noises that came from y/n’s strained throat. Her moans and cries turning him on to a different level that usually came out when they had their sessions. Normal, slightly kinky, slightly vanilla sex was always great with y/n, but there was just something about breaking y/n to nothing but a disheveled mass of weak sounds and a shaking body that turned Erik into a horny ass beast.

Finally, after hearing her grunt her way through her fifth orgasam, Erik got up to turn the vibrator down to a low buzz. “You good, Princess? What color you at?” Eriks gruff, lust filled voice asked while he came down to lay on the bed next to her.

“Re-red, Daddy.” y/n was barely able to speak, eyes barely open. She felt Erik turn the vibrator completely off, unraveling the silk bind around her thigh then moving to remove her silk ties from her wrists and ankles, planting light kisses on her raw flesh.

“You did so good for me babygirl, so good.” Erik praised moving back up to stroke her jaw while y/n felt her body hum with warmth as she started to come down from all her built up highs. If she had to describe how she felt, she would say that she was floating outside her body and up towards heaven, but could still feel every single brush on her skin. She was on cloud nine and at rock bottom at the same time. She was broken, but in the most perfect way imaginable when it comes to being with Erik.

“Imma go start a nice bath for you and I’ll call Tessa over, aight?” Erik stated and all y/n could do was hum in agreement.

Tessa was a good friend of both y/n and Erik, but she knew Erik longer. They knew each other from their time in the black ops team before Erik went off and almost died in Wakanda then later met y/n after his recovery. One night Erik and y/n were eating dinner in their living room when she brought up possibly bringing someone else, specifical female, into the bedroom. “Oh what, I aint enough for you?” Erik asked acting like he was upset.

“No, nigga, you more than enough for me, but I just wanna know what it would be like to have both at the same time.” y/n had her share of female lovers in college, but always wondered how it would go if she indulged in her appreciation of the female body with Erik, which she explained to him. After this conversation, Erik messaged Tessa, who was all game, and planned with y/n on a day to follow through with the act. To say that the experience was just short of actual heaven would be a justifiable way to remember what happened that night, and ever since then, Tessa would be called upon when they needed, like tonight.

While y/n was dazedly soaking in the warm lavender scented epsom salt bath slowly sipping up the gatorade Erik had gotten her, Erik went to let in Tessa. As she walked into the bathroom, she was talking to Erik, asking what they had done tonight. Erik told her about all the occurrences of the night and how spaced out y/n had become. Tessa make her was to the edge of the bathtub and smoothed back y/n’s curls and she happily leaned into Tessa’s touch.

Tessa was a tall, dark skinned woman who reminded y/n of Erik in how confident and slightly dominant she acted in bed but Tessa always had better aftercare compared to Erik, hence her being called over. Erik could tell that he wouldn’t be able to just cuddle this high away.

“How about we get you cleaned up a bit, rub you down with some coconut oil and while you get some rest, me and E will whip you somethin’ nice, sweets?” Tessa said, followed by a kiss to y/n’s forehead and a look up at Erik, who looked at them both with stirn but soft eyes.

“That would be nice,T.” y/n replied with a meek smile. With help from both strong bodies, y/n made her way out the tub on sore legs and was towel dried and led to the bed. She had noticed that the sheets were changed to a deep purple silk and the room had been cleaned up from all toys and objects recently used to cause her current blissed out state. She noted that Erik must have done this after getting her into the tub.

She was laid on the bed, stomach to sheets with a pillow under her hips. Erik on her right, Tessa her left, as both started to massage the coconut oil into the buzzing nerves of her skin. “How you feelin babygirl?” Erik asked, making sure that his princess was comfortable.

“I’m feelin amazin, Daddy. Everythin feels so gooood.” y/n’s response made Erik and Tessa give soft chuckles at just how spaced out she really was. Usually y/n would keep her answers short, but now she was slurring her words slightly since she got her voice back. ‘She really must be out of it’ both caretakers thought.

Soon enough, y/n had fallen asleep during the massage, leading to Erik and Tessa to wrap her up in a warm blanket to snuggle up into while they go cook her favorite food. It was a Nigerian dish Erik had learned to cook while living in Houston for some time while T’Challa was relocating some of the outreach centers. That is were Erik had met y/n, at a traditional Nigerian restaurant, where she worked, and they had clicked immediately. She had taught him how to make it how she learned from her mother figure at the restaurant. It was a beef stew with a side of okra. Y/n went crazy whenever she had it and Erik knew she would love it.

After a few hours of cooking, Tessa woke y/n up while Erik plated up their food. “C’mon Sweets, we made your favorite.” Tessa said with a warm smile as she gently awoke the other woman from her peaceful slumber. With a groan of annoyance, y/n got out of bed and put on one of Erik’s sweaters and some underwear and walked with T to the dining area near the kitchen. “Thanks Daddy.” y/n said, hugging Erik from behind, resting her head between his shoulder blades as he poured them water.”No problem Princess. You know Daddy always here to please.” Erik said with a smile on his face.

As all three of them ate, y/n looked at both her caretakers and was grateful to have these two in her life. Erik was her rock, keeping her grounded to enjoy earthly pleasures, while Tessa was her helium, setting her free to explore a heavenly side of ecstasy. Having such strong and loving features in her life really allowed her to be her best self and experience what she hadn’t been able to do before.  She was truly living through nirvana.

A/N: I know this sucked ass, it’s whatever, I just needed to get the original idea out and then my mind just went with it and carried it off to crap land. Sorry to waste your time and brain cells, but yea, feedback is very much appreciated, I’m off to go to sleep.

Astrology observations 💘💘💘

Credit to my blog: @astroismypassion

💘💘💘 Uranus/Aquarius in the 3rd house always has empty battery. They might urgently need their phone and realize it’s on 8% battery.

💘💘💘 Moon in the 4th and Moon in the 5th house have really long memory. They might remember something that happened to them 20 years ago up to details since they were emotionally impacted. Trauma is particulary challenging for these guys, because of how vivid their memories are still. So they block those memories and pretend like it’s not even there.

💘💘💘 If you have Moon in the 2nd house, you had an overly protective mother or highly sensitive. Also pay attention to what you eat! You might have food allergies. It’s just very important for you to notice how you feel when you eat certain things. Also, hydrate, drink water before you have a presentation! Moon=liquids, 2nd house=your throat

💘💘💘 Natives with Moon in the 8th house have mother that had a tough life, grew up in a dysfunctional family, thought that was over, just to get involved with an abusive partner. Her pain really goes in cycles.

💘💘💘 Moon in the 4th house is basically an archivist! They remember somethings too many things people did or said to them, so other might get easily annoyed, especially in personal relations.

💘💘💘 If you have Moon in the 7th house or Cancer over the 7th house you might have a moody spouse! You attract people that are even more moody than you are. This person might ignore you for days sometimes.

💘💘💘 Moon in the 5th house native is “the forever child”. They might decide to not have children, because they find it too demanding for them.

💘💘💘 Also, Moon in the 5th house might change their lover often in an impactful manner (especially on emotional level) and more so if they have Venus Pluto aspect. They also change their decisions very suddenly in their love life.

💘💘💘 Aries Moons and even Moon in the 1st house natives might often hide their feelings out of thinking that “some people just don’t deserve to know how upset they make me feel”. They are protective of their feelings like that. Or don’t want to be emotionally expressive with people that they dislike.

💘💘💘 Mars in the 9th house means troubles with father. But you also feel he has larger than life persona or that he is constantly on the go.

💘💘💘 11th house is the house of the eldest sibling!

💘💘💘 Be careful of backstabbing coworkers if you have Mars in the 12th house (that might also talk behind your back, because they are jealous). You also wake up often during the night or have nightmares. You also find meditation very challenging!

💘💘💘 If you have Mars in the 4th house, you might have grew up on a huge ass estate. With a big house or just a lot of land around the house.

💘💘💘 When you have Saturn in the 4th house you might change residence, move into your new house/apartment and there are already problems. You might be constantly moving or be on the go.

💘💘💘 4th house in Vedic astrology rules cars. So if you have Mars in the 4th house you might have troubles with cars (such as it got stolen) or you might decide against having a car alltogether!

💘💘💘 The sellspeople are definitely Mercury in the 3rd house and Mercury in the 5th house people! You guys can sell anything.

💘💘💘 Saturn in the 2nd house shows you had troubles in your childhood. Or you felt that what you had to say it wasn’t important. Or you were “shhuh”ed a lot.

Credit to my blog: @astroismypassion