The Transformative Power of Love: Healing, Uplifting, and Establishing Strong Connections

Reuben Shead
Love is a powerful force that has the ability to heal, uplift, and establish strong connections in relationships, whether it be within a family or in one's love life. It is through love that individuals can find solace and strength to overcome challenges and mend broken bonds. In the realm of family relationships, love acts as a balm that soothes wounds and fosters forgiveness. It encourages open communication, empathy, and understanding, allowing family members to grow and thrive together. Similarly, in romantic relationships, love provides the foundation for growth and intimacy. It teaches individuals to be vulnerable, to trust, and to support one another. Love empowers individuals to rise above past hurts and establish healthier connections, built on mutual respect and shared values. It encourages partners to communicate their needs, to be compassionate, and to prioritize each other's happiness. Ultimately, love has the power to heal, inspire, and transform, allowing individuals to rise up and establish deep and meaningful connections in all areas of their lives.

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Magickal & Medicinal Benefits of Calendula

Sonia Shead
Some of the magickal properties of calendula are cleansings, detoxification, happiness, healing, legal matters, prophetic dreams, protection, & psychic powers.

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The Orisha Oshun

Reuben Shead

Oshun, Spirit of Sweet Water, is the embodiment of love and romance, wealth, beauty, abundance, and magical knowledge. Oshun has dominion over things that flow: water, honey, love, money, mother’s milk, and so forth.

Her power extends over various parts of the human anatomy, particularly the reproductive organs. Oshun is petitioned for personal fertility and to heal reproductive disorders. She fulfills devotees’ wishes, providing wealth, employment, love, beauty, and protection. Oshun is a powerful witch and an expert at divination.

Oshun may be Yemaya's daughter or sister. They are extremely compatible and are venerated together. Oshun and Oya do not get along. Although one devotee may venerate both of these powerful, beautiful, warrior Orishas, keep some space, time, and distance between them. Do not bring them close together unless you wish to see sparks fly. Oshun has been married to Orunmila, Chango, and Enrile and has had love affairs with Ochossi, Ogun, and Elegba.

Oshun is the youngest, sweetest, and smallest orisha, but she may be the toughest:

• When Ogun was depressed and sulking in the forest, who was the only orisha capable of lifting his spirits and bringing him back to civilization? Oshun.

• When the orishas needed to get in touch with the remote Supreme Creator, who was the only orisha capable of flying to Heaven? Oshun in her guise as a vulture.

A spirit of incredible generosity, Oshun is very slow to anger. However, once angered she is reputedly the most dangerous of all orishas and extremely difficult to appease. If you make her a promise and do not keep it, expect her to take back whatever she has given.

If you petition Oshun for children, then eating pumpkins and yellow squash in any form, including the seeds is taboo for you. Many devotees refrain from these foods, anyway, just from respect, even if nothing is asked of her.

 She most commonly manifests as a breathtakingly beautiful woman, usually dressed in yellow or gold. She may manifest as a mermaid. She wears five brass bracelets and may carry or wear a mirror at her belt, the better to be able to stop and admire herself whenever she wishes. Oshun is manifest in honey and in cinnamon.

 Colors: yellow, gold, and orange

Favorite animals: River fish, especially catfish; crickets; leopards; crocodiles

 Parrots, peacocks, vultures

 

Plants and herbs: Lantana, marigolds, rosemary, pumpkins, and yellow squash

Oshun is traditionally associated with brass and copper but she now claims dominion over gold, too, as it is perceived as more valuable and prestigious.

Number: 5

 

Planet: Moon, Venus

Day: Friday

Area: The bedroom and near fresh, flowing water such as rivers, streams, and waterfalls. She likes the kitchen and is a master chef. Offerings, spells, and supplications are most effective if performed in these places. For maximum effect, perform rituals or petitions for Oshun near a river or stream under a full moon.

 

Offerings:

Anything having to do with feminine beauty: makeup, mirrors, brushes, perfume, and so forth. She accepts flowers, and fans made from peacock feathers or yellow sandalwood. She drinks chamomile tea. Her favourite cooked dish is spinach with shrimp. Her very favourite offering is honey. You must taste any honey that you offer Oshun, each and every time you offer it, not just upon opening the jar. An attempt was once made to poison her through an offering of honey. All offerings of untasted honey will be rejected, and you may be looked upon with suspicion. Oshun likes yellow and orange fruits and vegetables.

Peel a beautiful orange for Oshun. Slice or divide it into five portions. Drizzle it with cinnamon honey or first drizzle with honey and then sprinkle with ground cinnamon. Remember: taste the honey! Serve to Oshun.

 

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The Power Of Lapis Lazuli!!

Reuben Shead

The Sumerians believed that the spirit of their gods lived within the stone, while the ancient Egyptians saw it as a symbol of the night sky. Since the earliest of times, lapis lazuli has been associated with strength and courage, royalty and wisdom, intellect and truth.

Because of its connection to cosmic/heaven energies, lapis lazuli is also believed to provide protection and shield the wearer from negative influences. The water element color of the stone helps purify lower energies from one's body and align it with higher, healthier vibrations.

Element: Water

Planet: Venus

Chakra: 3rd Eye | Throat

Energy: Receptive

Zodiac: Sagittarius | Taurus

 

 

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