Minor Arcana

     Minor Arcana Cards
                                                                                                                                                                  

      Wands/Rods/Spears
 

Element: Fire
Astrological Signs:  Aries, Leo and Sagittarius
Purpose: Action, Creativity, Growth and Doing
Domain: Inner Spirit
Associations: Will, Desire,Career and Work
Sexual Connection: Attraction and Passion
Anatomical Importance: Digestion, Hunger and Sleep
Season: Spring

                                                            

      Cups
 

Element: Water
Astrological Signs: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces
Purpose: Feelings,Spiritual experiences and Intuitiveness
Domain: Emotions
Associations: Senses,Emotions and Matters of the heart
Sexual Connections: Sensuality
Anatomical Importance: Semen, Blood, Fat, Urine and Mucus
Season: Summer
                  
       Swords
 

Element: Air
Astrological Signs: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius
Purpose: Thinking, Knowledge and Intellect
Domain: Mind
Associations: Thoughts, Ideas and Intellectual pursuits
Sexual Connections: Seduction
Anatomical Importance: Circulation, Lymph, Endocrine and Nervous Systems
Season: Winter

                                                 

      Pentacles/Shields/Discs
 

Element: Earth
Astrological Signs: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn
Purpose: Touching, Grounding, The Body, Physical experiences and Practical skills
Domain: Body
Associations: Material concerns, Physical realities and Financial
Sexual Connection: Copulation
Anatomical Importance: Bone, Flesh, Skin, and Hair
Season: Autumn

                                              

      Numbered Cards in the Minor Arcana
 

Aces     New beginnings, Raw energy, Intuition, Fresh ideas and new growth
Twos     Balance, Duality, Manifestation and Relationship between two people, events or objects
Threes     Growth, Creation, Perspective and Exploration of ideas or energy
Fours     Stability, Material world, Logic, Order and Foundation
Fives     Struggles, Strife, Challenges and Disappointments
Sixes     Peace, Balance, Values and Equilibrium
Sevens     Fate, Choice, Intuition and Decision making
Eights     Power, Success and Control
Nines     Attainment, Mastery,and  Wisdom
Tens     Perfection, End of cycle and Rebirth

                                         

Do Not Wax Your Hoo-Ha!!

Lmao.. Saw this on FB so I had to share with you all.. If you do not laugh your not human!!

My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: ‘Maybe I should get the waxing kit from the medicine cabinet. So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom.
It was one of those ‘cold wax’ kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off. No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I’m not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!) So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together.

Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. (‘Cold wax,’ yeah…right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. It works!

OK, so it wasn’t the best feeling, but it wasn’t too bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire. With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet..

Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip). I inhale deeply and brace myself…. RRRRIIIPPP!!!!

I’m blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!….. OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!! Vision returning, I notice that I’ve only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP! Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and spotted. I think I may pass out…. I must stay conscious…. I must stay conscious. Do I hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe…. OK, back to normal.

I want to see my trophy – a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There’s no hair on it. Where is the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX???
Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip… it’s not! I touch.. I am touching wax. I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake … remember my foot is still propped upon the toilet? So I put my foot down.

Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut! I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself ‘Please don’t let me get the urge to poop.. My head may pop off!’ What can I do to melt the wax?

Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I’ll run the hottest water I can stand in the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right ???
*WRONG!!!!!!!*

I get in the tub – the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment – I sit. Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub….. in scalding hot water.
Which, by the way, does not melt cold wax. So, now I’m stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It’s a very good conversation starter.

‘So, my butt and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!’ There is a slight pause. She doesn’t know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, ‘Are we talking cheeks or hoo-ha?’ She’s laughing out loud by now … I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box.

YEAH!!!!! Right!! I should be the joke of someone else’s night. While we go through various solutions, I resort to trying to scrape the wax off with a razor . Nothing feels better than to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!!

By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I’m pretty sure I’m going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event. My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace…..the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point?

I rub some on and OH MY GOD!!! The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It’s sooo painful, but I really don’t care. IT WORKS!!

I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair….THE HAIR IS STILL THERE…….ALL OF IT!

So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I’m numb by now. Nothing hurts. I could have amputated my own leg at this point.

Next week I’m going to try hair color……how bad can that turn out??? NEVER WAX YOUR HOO-HA

Binding and Spell for Binding

Current moon  waning crescent, 33% of full.

During waning moons you want to do spells that will banish or remove something or someone. Remember to never cast in anger. One way  I protect myself  is by always saying somewhere in there "Harm none" Yes we are human and believe me I totally understand how hard it is to not lash out at the person causing me harm. But I also do not like things coming back three fold on me!

I have someone (unfortunately) in my life because of family blood, that I would love to curse. With that said One I would never do it because of the law of three, lucky for them. Number two because Karma is already taking care of her for me, lucky for me!  They use magic and being a witch as a way to try and manipulate those around them.  I called them out one day and she laughed while telling me that she does not go around worrying about Karma. For if she did she would be worrying about every little thing. Hmmm sorry but I think you don't have to worry about causing Karma if your following the rede Harm None in the first place! Another thing she does is this, she has other people cast spells for her instead of doing them herself. Why? Because she thinks if they do the spells that nothing will happen to her. LOL she honestly believes that!! It amazes me that she really thinks Karma is only going after the caster and not her.

Truthfully I have bound a few people away from me, meaning I bound their actions and to keep them from causing me harm. I would never bind someone too me or even recommend someone doing this. Binding someone so they will cease harming you is fine under the harm none rule unless your actively asking for them to be harmed.  By the way when I finally bound them it was only after years of constant threats and harm. Why did I wait so long, because I do nothing in haste when it comes to magic! I wanted to wait until I knew it was not going to stop any other way!

I took a basic freeze spell and added to it. To make magic work best is to put some of yourself into the spell.So I reword spells to make them mine and to fit what I need. It has been over a year and the spell is still as strong as the day I did it.  Every now and again, I light a candle to energize the spell. I state what the purpose is for me lighting the candle. Then sprinkle the candle with sage for protection and basil to send the negativity away from me. I only do this on a waning moon.


Basic Freeze Spell: Do this on a waning moon.
Red ink pen (if for love)
Black ink pen (for all other)
Two small slips of paper
One plastic pill bottle (empty) Do not use glass because it could explode in the freezer!
One bottle of sealed drinking water
Freezer
One one piece of paper write your name, on the other write their name.  Place the paper in the pill bottle. Add the bottled water. Here is where you need to state your intentions and why your doing this!  I say something like By the water of the god and goddess, I purify and protect myself from your harm.  Then seal up the bottle. Place in the freezer (very back).  Say something like I have frozen you and your ill will towards me. You will cease to cause me any more harm. Leave in the freezer.
 
That is the basic spell. Yes you do have to leave it in the freezer indefinitely. Now what I have started doing is wait 7 days and bury it. I know I know the environment. BUT do you want this in your freezer forever and when you move you have to get dry ice lol.  Believe me I did, thought after 6 months what could be the harm.. LOL one of the biggest mistakes I ever made was just throwing it away. I was barraged daily with 300 plus emails, my fb and myspace accounts were attacked. You name it the bitch did it!! So I did my own spell and used the concept of the freezer spell and expanded it to include burying! So far like I said it has been over a year and nothing!!
 
To do the burying part:  Do this at night. Wait 7 days and go to the woods or even in the far area of your property if woods are not available. As you bury the pill bottle, Say By the light of the moon and goddess. I bury you so you can harm none. You are well and truly done. Do your closing spell (if you have one) and walk away! DO NOT look back. Move forward!
 
If you think it will all just cease your mistaken. You have to give it time to work and to dispel any harm that was already started when the spell was cast, but it does work!

Send someone away!

This is a charm to send someone away from you.  However you have to do it with love and caring because we do nothing which will cause harm! I have used this many times and it has worked each time. Sometimes it takes a bit but it does work.

Say 3  times. 

(Their Name) I wish you peace, love and all the prosperity this life has to offer. Now go away and stay away. Now and forever. Repeat as you feel is needed.

Works even better if  it is a waning moon when you do this.  I have also tailored it to my own personal needs.

Happy Mother's Day

Have a beautiful mother's day filled with love and happiness!

My Thoughts on Tarot

       I have owned quite a few tarot decks in my time, but truthfully I have only really loved two of them. One is Legend: The Arthurian Tarot by Anna-Marie Ferguson and the other is The Ancient Egyptian Tarot by Clive Barrett. From the moment I set eyes on them, they spoke to me, fit into my hands like they had always been there and they felt like old faithful friends. I believe tarot decks choose their owners much like wands do. When you have the right deck you can feel it from the first card to the last.

  

   Most of my decks were beautiful, but did not feel right when I held them, they would not shuffle in a fluid motion, nor would the readings turn out properly. This was even after many times of cleansing the cards. So there they would sit, untouched and unloved. I finally gave them to a friend of a friend who cherishes them and says they work perfectly for her. I am so happy they have found their rightful owner.

    I never understood until these two decks, when a reader would say my cards speak to me. Well now I do, because mine do that with me. Yes you should know the definitions of your cards, however you should not lock yourself into thinking this is the only way of interpreting the cards. You should get an instinct or feeling about your cards. Take the Tower card for example. People tend to fear this card in a reading because they see it as trouble is coming. But it may not mean that in certain cases it could mean that you have weathered past storms and this lead you down the path you need to go. It could be telling you that the person is emotionally upset and not letting people know about it. You need to look past the traditional card definitions and learn to trust your instinct with your cards.

  

    In a reading, remember what the question was pertaining to, where the card showed up in the spread and what cards are surrounding them. I had a reading where I asked about a past lover and they were reading the 2 of cups as a new relationship and none of the other cards in the spread had anything to do with a new person but rather a past one. But the reader insisted that it was a new person throughout the rest of the reading. Which brings me to another point, don’t put what you think a person should do in your reading for them. Even If you really have their best interests at heart don’t project your feelings and opinions on their reading. What it all comes down too in the end is this, you have told them what they need to know and it is their free will that decides what to do with the information you have provided.

Burn Times of Candles

Doing candle magic and not sure on the burn times of candles.. Well here you go. Remember this is just an average.

Votive - standard 2oz. 15 hours

Votive - 3oz. 23 hours

Votive - 5 oz. 25-30 hours

1.5oz. Jar 12 hours

4oz. Jar 30 hours

5oz Jar 35 - 40 hours

10oz. Jar 60 - 80 hours

16oz Jar 100 - 120 hours

22oz. Jar 150 - 160 hours

26oz Jar 170 - 190 hours

Tea Lights 4 - 6 hours

Tart/Melts 8 hours

12" Taper Candle 11 hours

8" Taper Candle 7 hours