A guardian, she offers protection to those who seek it, especially victims of domestic violence. Intense force for justice and female empowerment.
How to tell if Medusa is contacting you
Dreaming of Medusa
seeing the goddess herself or some of her symbols in your dreams
artistic representations of Medusa begin to appear around her
If you are recovering from domestic violence
is not a requirement for working with Medusa
you may feel more in control of your mental and emotional spheres
Snakes approaching you
injured or in need of other care
Feeling obliged to take action in their own defence
Situations in which to call Medusa
you need strength to challenge your enemies
face your fears
bewitch your abusers
She is a sea goddess, so her domain includes all magic related to water, witches of the sea and storms, seafaring and the like.
Devotional acts to Medusa
Connect with Medusa's element, water
Dedicate space on your altar to Medusa
Create any artwork about Medusa or buy an artwork and place it on your altar
Read about Medusa
Fighting for women's rights
Divination mainly by pendulum
Offerings to Medusa
shells
corals
snake stones
representations of snakes
petrified wood
beach biscuit
starfish
beach sand
silver
snakeskin that has been replaced naturally
aquamarine (crystal)
malachite
moonstone
pearl
sea water
sea salt
fresh water incense
seafood
wine
Medusa Symbols
Snakes
Silver and green colours
Eyes
Aegis: a representation of Medusa that decorates Athena's shield
Gorgon Eyes
Herbs associated with Medusa
sage
nettle
mandrake
artemisia
lavender
hawthorn
Crystals associated with Medusa
serpentine
black obsidian
amethyst
blood jasper
labradorite
Steno, the one who oppresses
Euryale, the distant
Zisa, Goddess of the Harvest
Associated by the Romans with the Egyptian goddess Isis, Zisa is the Germanic goddess of the harvest, fertility, motherhood and the Mother Creator of life on Earth.
Symbols associated with Zisa
pine cone
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the Teiwaz rune
destination matrix
Chang'O/Chang'E, Goddess of the Moon
Origin: China
Symbols associated with Chang'e
moon
hare
cow
bee
frog
Plants associated with Chang'e
lotus flower
Lotus root
Flavours associated with Chang'e
roses
vanilla
musk
Colours associated with Chang'e
white
grey
light blue
baby pink
pastel colours
silver
Crystals and metals associated with Chang'e
silver
moonstone
pearl
amethyst
aquamarine
Haumea, Mother Earth
Origin: Polynesia, Hawaii
Today marks the start of the Aloha Festival, a week-long celebration of local traditions and history complemented by dances, parades and sports competitions.
Guardian goddess of the island of Hawaii, goddess of the Earth, fertility, birth, rebirth, physical nourishment and the protection of traditions to preserve them from extinction.
Twin sons of Iansã and Xangô, created by Oxum who named them Taiwo and Kehinde. Their domains are birth, childhood and play, associated with everything that begins and is born.
Remember that twins should always receive equivalent, equal offerings
Offerings to Ibeji
honey
fruit
paçoca
lollipop
gummy candy
jujube
cakes
chocolate
mary jane
guarana
kuru
fruit juice
soft drinks
Colours associated with Ibeji
blue
pink
green
Symbols associated with Ibeji
twin dolls
two little gourds
toys
Plants associated with Ibeji
jasmine
apple
rosemary
pink
Metal associated with Ibeji
tin
Salute to Ibeji
Omi Beijada!
Omiibeji, Bejéeró!
Source: Yearbook of the Great Mother, Mirella Faur, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13)
It's very difficult to love someone as much as I realise I love A. today.
Suddenly, at 10 p.m., I felt in my soul a gigantic anxiety and an absurd need to check on A's well-being:
? How is he feeling at the moment? Result: Hexagram 6 - Conflict
This print run worried me too much, so I started with the cards. I drew a lot of cards, but a lot. If I summarise the interpretations, I had a fight with his mother about going out after the ballet (he may have been scolded for being late to go to his grandmother's house, which was actually my fault).
As for what Gypsy Magdalene suggests I do to help you wake up...
The Letter + The Woman + The Heart + The Ring + The Birds
As I understand it, I'm supposed to communicate with him vocally, because I'm the one he's in a romantic relationship with. Which implies place. But he's a busy person, and tomorrow he works...
In the end, what can't you do for love?
I meditated at 11.30 p.m. asking for guidance so that I could help the one who has my heart in this life (to make sure it didn't fall on T.).
And to my surprise... the person who came to talk to me was Bel. Belenus, God of the Sun, Fire, companion of the Goddess. His presence is both comforting and terrifying, given the power he undoubtedly has in his existence.
The Fire Lord told me to lose my fear, let the Sun purify my anxiety and call A. at 1pm under the light of the rising sun, because that's the peak of His power. He said that A. is in need of someone to bring the Sun to lighten the oppressive darkness that surrounds him at the moment, and that I'm the only one who cares enough about him to do it.
I asked Iansã and Aphrodite to soothe the pain of the one I love. They both frowned and told me that their domains (the storm, the winds, love, the tide) are neither afraid nor ask for permission, and advised me to call, as it was the consolidation of my concern for the one who occupies my mind uninterruptedly.
I have to swallow my fear and anxiety and hope that everything works out. I hope it does. So be it, and so it shall be.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not generalising or saying what other witches/esotericists experience with their faiths. I ALWAYS refer ONLY to my beliefs and experiences.
Even if I stop to think for a few minutes or more, I can't remember exactly how I decided that I needed a more concrete and forward-looking spirituality - and I usually remember everything.
Growing up, I always knew that I had some kind of spiritual affinity, considering that I've seen spirits here and there throughout my life - but my mum had never told me anything that confirmed this until I, in 2014, remembered something that happened when I was three years old. She then told me that I'd had other experiences, even if I didn't remember them, and I understood that as my reality.
I had never decided to call myself a medium; the stereotypes are so grotesque and society is so hypocritical that it judges anyone who can see the spiritual world that any religion preaches exists. In November 2022, I decided to start exploring my mediumship.
I believe that in December 2022 or January 2023, I spoke to my mother and considered following Candomblé or Umbanda when I considered my black, gypsy and indigenous ancestry: it's not because I haven't felt the pain of my ancestors who were unfortunately raped for their blood that I won't honour them. I was afraid of being accused of cultural appropriation when I started looking for this ancestry, and I began to think about which other religions would fit in with my deep-rooted spiritual precepts - ever since I can remember, I have firmly believed that the Earth has its own life and consciousness, and that it balances itself, because everything is like that, negative and positive energy, masculine and feminine energy, for example. When I mentioned these concepts to my psychologist, she suggested I look into Wicca.
I didn't really know anything about Wiccans, I just knew that the followers of this precept called themselves witches. I began to identify strongly with the reverence for the elements, but some part of me was still missing - I never went in for spiritualisation because I don't like limiting dogmas. I'm like any Sagittarius - a good adventure always cheers me up, especially if I follow my spontaneity and am not afraid to be original, or strange, I've been called both.
After a few months of trying to fit in with the Wicca tenets of various traditions, I still felt unsatisfied. So I began to create my own journey, choosing topics of study related to any and all spiritual/esoteric fields in which I expressed an interest. When I discovered the existence of a witches' circle next to my psychologist's office, I was afraid - while I missed being able to express the traditions and share the rituals with others of the same faith, I knew that the great fusion of different cultures and spiritualities that I had brought together and created as my own path under the torches of Hecate would not be accepted by many people.
I took out more and more oracles, trying to understand if the Goddess was satisfied with my great concoction, and everything led me to realise that she was. Recognising this, I was suddenly able to meditate and my spells worked more and more, because now I was being myself, my mind laid bare before the Great Mother.
If you think that being a witch could be the path for you, I want you to think about what your journey will be like, without lists of compulsory knowledge drawn up by others or limitations imposed on the spiritual world by those who don't experience it the way you do. Am I a witch? Yes. All women are witches - the first witches date back to kitchen witchcraft, making stews and nourishing their families with food lovingly prepared in a cauldron by the fire. Everyone has a bit of doctor and madman... we could also say that everyone has a bit of doctor and witch.
How me It was my decision to become a witch. I started out at home, alone, without even my mother's help or any participation in my rituals or my faith. She has always given me the freedom to follow whatever spirituality I wanted ever since I learnt that I have a mediumistic predisposition, but I never felt the need to explore this path until 2022, and walking through ancient pagan beliefs was what I chose for myself, whose rituals I performed alone but not without my mother's financial, emotional and spiritual support - when I questioned my faith and thought I was doing everything contrary to how religions are normally followed. It's not traditional at all, and I've read in several places that it would even be wrong. But, as I see it, why would the Goddess refuse devotion from a witch seeking a path to better living and better honouring pagan ancestors just because she wasn't coming down the pre-established path? Pre-established by whom, exactly?
Through this question, we arrive at the same question about God. Does God exist? But it's logical. With many faces, in many pantheons. Zeus, God, Olodumarê, Osiris, Odin and so on. God exists, but what doesn't exist are the limitations imposed by the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations that claim to know how God thinks, acts, what He considers right, wrong, etc. Once this is understood, we move on to the realisation that God is different for each person; he expresses himself in different ways; he acts in different ways, more visibly for some and less clearly for others. Everyone has their own truth above that imposed by religious leaders.
I guarantee that the God and Goddess will not expel you or punish you for following their own precepts and rites, because your faith is true and just as important to the deities and entities as the combined faith of any organisation or collective rite. The collective unconscious is one, and you have access to the energies of that egregore in the same way that someone living the commandments to the letter does.
I call myself a witch because I am, because it's what defines me as a spiritual person and as a person who is faithfully devoted to paganism and especially to the Triple Goddess - a devotion that I now know has lasted throughout all my past lives, especially the last Celtic one. One of the Wiccan principles that I incorporated into my practice was the Wiccan version of the Hippocratic Oath that doctors chant at their graduation: I swore never to harm anyone on my own initiative, nor to help in any spiritual ritual that involved harming a loved one, whether on this physical plane or not, and I have done so. If someone attacks me, I don't take revenge; I don't attack back. I know that the Goddess protects me and that such an attack will be retaliated with Her strength and power as She sees fit and as She wills.
The Almanac is more succinct and focused on the reverence of the Goddess and the God regardless of their faces, incorporating all of them in their titles of Goddess and God, without specific names; it also indicates the phase of the moon, the day of the week, the time when the moon's position goes out of course and when it returns, the colours of the candles for daily prayer and the definition of incense for your moment of devotion.
Drawing a magic circle through the elements and invoking an Earth Goddess, an Air Goddess, a Fire Goddess and a Water Goddess for each element, each at their appropriate cardinal point (Earth to the north, Air to the east, Fire to the south, Water to the west, although the shamanic traditions have differentiations) is something I learnt to do while studying Wicca, However, today I know from my spiritual master who follows a path as original as mine, mainly through Umbanda in her work with the Gypsies, that the way I draw the circle is something she's been doing for forty years, and not something exclusive to Wiccanism. So even the most basic thing, like a circle of protection, crosses many beliefs - and you can throw everything into a blender and decide what you're going to strain out to determine your spiritual/religious essence.
The faith of each one of us begins within us and can find similarities in the beliefs of others, perhaps as participation in a collective cult such as Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Evangelism, Umbanda, Candomblé and thousands of other devotions around the world; However, you may not find a mirror in anything you find when you desperately search for spiritual foundations that can help you distribute and better bear the weight on your shoulders caused by the experiences of past lives, this life and everything that must be worked on spiritually through the profession of your faith when you begin to follow the signs seen in the stained glass windows of your sacred space. Stained glass windows are found in temples, but they are also found in ourselves - we can all choose to see the world through coloured glass, showing us the world as it is perceived through each colour.
Considering that each colour of a stained glass window is a different religion and form of devotion, everyone sees the same thing, but each with their own point of view and experience - no one has the power or should be able to break your inner stained glass window. If you do, know that there's no breaking that coloured crystal that guides your faith to your spirituality.
It will always be there for you, although sometimes the light is dim and distant; with light and spiritual enlightenment as your goal, no matter how long it takes, you will reach it, and bear in mind that you may be the first and only one to forge your own paths, and that doesn't make them any less correct or any more right than the others already forged before your quest for self-knowledge and for reasons greater than those explained by scientific rationality, without any spiritual intervention.
I hope that my stories and experiences can help you to understand your faith and to accept its originality and belief as it is, without measuring it by rulers already pre-established by other dogmas, if that's what you want.
In the name of the elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, of Lady Artemis, Lady of the Moon; Lady Athena, Lady of Wisdom and Strategy; Lady Persephone, Lady of Spring and Flowers, Queen of the Underworld; Lady Yemanja, Lady of the Oceans; in the name of these, I close the circle I opened around myself to write this text.
It's very sad that I can't share my spiritual evolutions with my mum. She has always been my role model as a spiritual person, an oracle maker, an esotericist in general. And I, like a huge idiot, continued to develop my spirituality.
K. and my teacher had already warned me that my mum would try to demean me on a material, sentimental and spiritual level.
But how do I hold my damn tongue that can't shut up? Sometimes I wish my Cancer would overpower my Gemini and the exact opposite happens.
My shoulders warmed with energy as I meditated and Isis allowed me to channel Your presence. And I thought it would be nice to tell my mum about it, because I don't know how to shut up. Isis told me that my mum isn't going to change, and that when I need a mother, I should turn to the Great Mother - she didn't say if it was to pray to her or if any face of the Goddess works for that. Isis also told me to light a silver candle under the moon when my faith wavers.
I'm dying to continue writing my meditation, but I'm sure I opened portals while I was writing, because I got hot all over. Then I stopped.
I think I should write here too. I was
May I be protected in the name of Earth, Air, Fire, Water and the Goddess who rules all that exists. May it be so and it shall be so.