Spirituality & Magic
A beginners guide to identifying and caring for crystals
Strictly mineralogy: identify stones by hardness, cleavage, habit and streak, spot common lookalikes and fakes, and clean and store each type without…
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Tarot as symbolism and deck history, the lunar and seasonal calendar, and crystals as mineralogy and ethical sourcing — cultural, never medical, advice.
Spirituality & Magic
The tarot court cards as character and symbol
The sixteen court cards read as an iconographic system: Page, Knight, Queen and King across the four suits, and how Pamela Colman…
Moon Rituals
Ogham, the medieval Irish alphabet — and the modern Celtic tree-calendar myth
Ogham is a real 4th-6th-century Irish script studied in genuine medieval treatises. The Celtic tree calendar and birth-tree horoscope are Robert Graves…
Moon Rituals
Beltane and Lughnasadh as observance: attested custom and modern additions
The two summer fire-festivals, layered honestly: an early-attested Beltane fire custom and the old Lughnasadh harvest assembly, with the modern additions flagged.
Moon Rituals
The moon by the calendar: phases, names, and seasonal observance
The astronomy of the phases on a 29.5-day cycle, where the full-moon names really come from (largely 1930s US almanacs), and marking…
Spirituality & Magic
A short history of tarot: from Marseille to Rider–Waite–Smith to Thoth
The documented history: a 15th-century Italian card game reinterpreted as occult wisdom in 1781, then remade as the Rider-Waite-Smith and Thoth decks.…
Spirituality & Magic
The Minor Arcana as symbolism: the four suits and the pips
The 56 Minor Arcana cards as iconography: the four suits, their elements, and how Pamela Colman Smith's 1909 scenic pips remade tarot.…
Moon Rituals
The Wheel of the Year, honestly dated
The eight festivals, honestly dated: the four fire-festival names are medieval, but the eightfold wheel and Ostara, Litha and Mabon are 20th-century…
Spirituality & Magic
Crystals as mineralogy: what they are, where they come from, and the ethics of the trade
What crystals are as minerals, how amethyst and quartz form, where they come from, and the labour and environmental ethics of the…
Spirituality & Magic
The Major Arcana as symbolism: a card-by-card guide
The 22 Major Arcana as iconography and history, from Visconti-Sforza to Rider-Waite-Smith, and what each card has traditionally symbolised. Not fortune-telling.