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Sacred Mirrors Vol. 13 — Mother Shipton: The Prophetess of the Threshold
🌑 The Crone Who Spoke in Riddles In the sixteenth-century market town of Knaresborough, a crooked-nosed woman was said to have been born in a cave, amid lightning and laughter. She would later be called Mother Shipton—born Ursula Southeil—England’s most… Continue reading
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🌊 Thirsty for Truth Thursdays
“Emotional Electrolytes: Rehydrating the Soul After a Cosmic Hangover” Ever wake up spiritually parched?Not dehydrated from lack of water — I mean the kind of dryness that hits after a week of “I’m fine” mantras and too many downloads from… Continue reading
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🌹 Distilling Radiance: The Alchemy of Rose Water
There’s something ancient about steeping petals in water. It’s the same impulse that led priestesses to perfume temples, healers to cleanse wounds, and poets to soothe their grief.Rose water has always been more than fragrance — it’s devotion, bottled. 🧪… Continue reading
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🔥 A Council of Gods Within, Vol. V
Mars: The Flame That Remembers Its Wound “There is a difference between destruction and clarity — both can burn, but only one reveals what remains sacred beneath the ash.” Mars is the sound of your own pulse when something true… Continue reading
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Shadow Work: The Unpaid Internship You Never Applied For
Sacred Snark Sunday · Vol. X There’s shadow work, and then there’s the unpaid internship of the soul — the one you never applied for but somehow got stuck in anyway. Congratulations, you’ve been “hired” as your own intern. The… Continue reading
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Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen
Historical Mirrors, Vol. 11 🌿 Introduction History often remembers its prophets too late. Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), a Swedish painter, mystic, and seeker, created vast bodies of work that no one in her time could understand. While the art world… Continue reading
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🌌 The Star’s Lantern
Oracle & Lantern, Vol. X The night after collapse is the hardest to breathe. Dust still clings to the ribs, memory smolders, and silence feels too sharp to endure. And yet — if you lift your gaze — one light… Continue reading
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Saturn, Shadow, and the Language of Synchronicity
Saturn at the Table 🕯️ If the horoscope is a council of gods, then Saturn sits among them as the most uncompromising elder. Cloaked in time, wielding the weight of limits, Saturn is both shadow and teacher. Jung’s psychology saw… Continue reading
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Mary Magdalene — The Exiled Gnosis
Historical Mirrors, Vol. XIII The Opening Thread There are figures who never leave history quietly. They slip between scripture and shadow, between the altar and the marketplace, carrying the tension of what the world would rather silence. Mary Magdalene has… Continue reading
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Jung, the I Ching, and the Archetypes That Speak Across Worlds
🌌 East Meets Depth When Richard Wilhelm first laid eyes on the I Ching in China, he did not see an exotic puzzle or a foreign curiosity. He saw a living oracle — a voice as ancient as the mountains,… Continue reading
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