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“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”  ~ Claude Monet

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“To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth …”

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Thomas Wolfe

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Her thoughts drifted with the slow current around her... , Darrel Rhea, 2023

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Water Sign (Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces) emotions mix a powerful potion, the dual forces of being creative and being destructive collaborate. Water is baptismal, a ritualistic catharsis. They are tranquil, yet beneath the surface it can be ravaged, disturbed, and desperately unmeasured. Pearlescent and virulent, there is certainly a fortitude and ability to confront terror. There's always an element of mystery, they evoke the strongest reactions in other's. In returning to the primordial chaos, they transport us with them into the labyrinth - the collective unconscious.

Water Sign blood is rich in memories and treasured and treasured memories belonging to their ancestry. The thickest blood can be found in these waters, at the deepest depths in hot and erotic spiritual storms, the generative alchemical essence. In finding themselves they discover the higher purpose of giving life back to those who have lost it

-Cherry

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When the Cancer permits you to be close enough to actually know her, it's like being let in on a marvellous secret. She exudes liquid lunar essence in a substance. There is depth and the dark side of the Moon, and there is a luminary that lights up your little world. She is the personification of healing baths, transporting art, matriarchal legacies, and unattainable Feminine ideals. Hardened by what she has so far seen, yet tough in ability to maintain the love in her heart. There's honour in being born that isn't centred on pride or personal purpose, but rather about living in private honour. There is a strong vulnerability and a willingness to surrender that is surprisingly unapologetic about who she really is. Ultimately accepting of all that you are because self-acceptance was a major challenge and lesson for the Cancer. She has moods like weather patterns with clear days and stormy nights, queen tides and tears to cry. And she is at her best when she is at her worst. Take it all or leave it, because absence can mark this presence once she's part of your life. Just as you have never known a sky without a moon - she forms a void when she leaves that can't be filled in. I love my Cancer daughter.

written by Cherry

art by Kurtis Rykovich

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Fire as a Healing Element

Fire has the ability to cauterize wounds, being able to stop excessive damage or blood loss as well as disinfecting the wound by burning off bacteria that cannot survive the heat. In this capacity, fire can be used for spiritual, mental, emotional and physical damage control in order to prepare the self for healing.

Fire brings light and awareness, in this same method - one can use the candle to first cauterize the spiritual wound and then allowing the awareness to be shifted by the light to the point in which the wound sits.

The fires of the digestive tract transform and break down food into its base parts, nutrients, fats, salts and the like. Fire has the capacity to break down lesser qualities and aid in the creation of benefic properties, or at least raw energy from the prior which one can use to construct new and better habits.

Fire is a dynamic element, consistently moving upward and causing shifts. The air element is affected by the convection currents. It can be used in meditations to analyze thoughts, the intellect and mind (air qualities) and cause shifts in them, especially in moving to higher states as hot air moves upwards.

There is a second, more psychological basis with it. Fire is an entrancing element, anyone who has ever found themselves staring will attest to this. The usage of fire in rituals to soothe mind but also to aid in the induction of trance states is also a good idea.

The Fire of the Sun can both cause harm and benefit, in this way, one can learn to harness the inner fire in a balanced way. The Sun in imbalance can lead to egoism but can also lead to a charitable and virtuous nature. Fire and the Inner Sun can thus be used to bestow personal pride and confidence but tempered with humility and charity.

In South Africa, we do grass burning to prepare for the new growth in the spring. The dry grass is set alight but it also helps in causing germination in seeds which require high temperatures to sprout. In the same way, fire can be used to put one through a process of purification and personal "destruction" and cause good virtues to come from the adversity that follows.

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Shiga's underwater torii gate , Japan. Photography by Ryogo Urata

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it’s called a riverbed for a reason. lie down in it

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Webb captures the Rings of Giant Planets

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Planet Saturn, observed by Voyager 1 on this day in 1980.

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I have a beautiful, protective, invisible force field around me like a giant pearl

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Maximilian Lenz (Austrian, 1860 - 1948)

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The Mask of the Moon The internal child playing dress-ups

Moon in Aries: The girl who breathes fire when she is angry self starting and solo active with a need for quiet recognition and oversight. it doesn’t feel real and substantial unless somebody is there watching on. friendly rivalry quickly blows out of proportion, and they will do anything not to lose. they get so angry and frustrated at everybody and including themselves that they just give up and stop moving 

Moon in Taurus: The girl who buys good feelings. moon in taurus comfort cooks, comfort cleans, and comfort eats. they have an innate sense of maturity and competence when providing for other people. these people can automatically assume a parenting-like, or guardian role with children, dependants, and animals without prior experience or exposure. they have a natural mother’s touch  

Moon in Gemini: The girl who never gets boring a mood change is a personality change. stressors are managed on an hourly basis, the person cannot predict their mood or response to events. they know stress management techniques, but in true gemini style, this know-how can be purely intellect. they can have absolutely no idea how to use or apply this knowledge to their own emotional and subjective self and experience, it’s very hard for Gemini when they have to feel it and not think it. 

Moon in Cancer: The girl who can speak to wolves can experience quite extreme energetic highs and lows throughout the day, the baseline is rarely still. they can become almost hyper active and suddenly collapse into a listless and hopeless state. these people take a long time to wake up in the morning, the sunlight is off frequency so they can wake up full of allergies, bloated, or hungry

Moon in Leo: The girl who is searching for the divine mother figure she craves there are multiple cracks in this facade and the dramatic outburst can be a noisy and chaotic distraction from what is really going on inside this person. these people are not as fond of fame as sun leos. but they need to shine beneath the spotlight of a lover’s eyes, an intimate show. they just want to be special to somebody, royalty in someone’s eyes. they don’t belong on the stage they belong in someone’s heart  

Moon in Virgo: The girl who keeps too many secrets just as there is a perfect environment and product, there is a perfectly sculpted emotional demonstration. these people have a hard time crying in front of others, they can be self-contemptuous and tell themselves they are ugly and unwanted when they cry. there can be a slow response to emotional stimulus because the individual has trained themselves to prepare the correct response. it can certainly stifle their natural joy and creativity, and people miss hearing their laughter 

Moon in Libra: The girl whose emotions turn her into Alice these people can be private binge eaters, secretly consuming sugary and sweet products. they have erratic fluid levels so bloating and bladder problems are common. single life can generate mass identification with flaws and complexes, like the only traits they can see in themselves are the personal faults that caused them to be alone. libra is tricky in the moon, because both of these energies are never as they seem

Moon in Scorpio: The girl who feels more at home in hell there is no other option but to get what they want. these people will go through extreme conditions to have their emotional needs met. this is because their will, desire, and emotional potency is so commanding and devouring that it can almost feel like they are going to die if this emotional need is not met 

Moon in Sagittarius: The girl that travels far and wide so she can leave suitcases of her emotions behind these people detest drama, hysteria, and demanding partners. but on a good day, they can throw fuel into the conflict flame and re-generate the chaos that is so frustrating for them. in the heat of the moment, they can shoot burning arrows straight from the tongue. they can say a lot of things that they regret, and they can also be convinced that hearing their truth will help you

Moon in Capricorn: The girl that never let herself cry hard work begins at the moment of first breath for lunar capricorn. developing emotional intelligence and maturity is equally as vital to the greater ambition as education, profession, and family. these people do a lot of internal-work in privately. they often have journals and artistic hobbies they never told you about. following a tough working day, they get home and pretend everything is fine and normal. then they disappear and hide in their office or bed, put their weary head inside their big hands and wonder just how they are going to manage this time  

Moon in Aquarius: The girl who doesn’t believe her own feelings emotions have a mini fireworks display with moon in aquarius. that means they can experience the sudden cacophony of loud noise, chaos, excitement, fear, awe, and beauty followed by an eerie, empty silence that blows through them. in these moments they wonder if they are defected and abnormal 

Moon in Pisces: The girl that felt too much there is rarely a rhyme or reason for mood changes and uncontrollable sobs, sleepiness, and intense frustration toward people around her. you may catch a glimpse of how much you are annoying them but they are too polite to say anything. a lunar pisces ‘mood’ is better described as a powerful consolidation of around 5 or 6 emotional states that have become caught in the pisces feeling currant 

-C.

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