Candles: Elements & Planets

Candles are good divination aids, spells, or any other magick work.

Planetary Candles

These can be used for rituals, ceremonies, or create planetary vibrations needed for power in your spell work. These can also be used when working with planetary spirits.

What spell work is best suitable for what planets? 

What colours are associated with the planets? Note** these are my personal associations. 

What scents?

Note** You can dress the candles with planetary oils, or draw/carve planetary symbols onto them. You may also choose to add herbs, glitter, or crystals on top but be wary of not burning them. 

Elemental Candles

What spell work is best for what element?

What colours are associated with the elements? Note** these are my personal associations.

What scents?

Note** You can dress the candles with elemental oils, or draw/carve elemental symbols onto them. You may also choose to add herbs, glitter, or crystals on top but be wary of not burning them. 

Planets & Intent 🌌

A quick guide on which planets to utilize in magick based on intent.

compiled from my personal grimoire & based on my own associations 

Planetwatcher.com is a great website if you want to check the planets and what theyre doin btw

the sun sign is something that we develop – its our ego, our sense of coherent identity, our chosen self, our plans. you can repress your sun sign, or not have the room to express it. some people might not ever get the chance to develop their sun. but the very raw beginnings of those qualities will be there.

i guess that’s why you can often see the ‘flaws’ of people’s sun signs, especially younger people. developing your sun is the work of a lifetime. it is the key to processing the rest of your chart: dealing with the wounds and impulses of the moon, the mental plane of mercury, the aggression and assertion of mars, the unregulated cravings of venus. it brings each planet to light, allowing us to be able to consciously see how they fit into our wider self. how we act on that self-knowledge depends on the way our sun works with our ascendant.

aspects to the sun bring other planets closer to our integral ego, giving it other needs, often coming in the form of circumstances and people before we realise that our life journey might be more complex. we might carry intergenerational wounds, people in our families or communities who could not express their sense of self in the past. particularly if you have parents whose creative urges were repressed, or who did not have self-autonomy. the circumstances that restricted them could come to you again in the form of a saturn-sun aspect. neptune-sun suggests creative wounds, or the self sacrificed for something ‘higher’, like religion or a greater cause. uranus-sun indicates sudden trauma, instability, and political movement blocking self-expression. pluto-sun comes from deeper traumas, complex histories, power structures, sabotage and manipulation getting in the way of the self shining. once unearthed and processed, all of these aspects become part of the sun’s light. the harsh aspects automatically draw away from the sun, taking energy to work through, but as they are understood for what they are and smoothed over, they inform your sense of self as process. a gemini sun is not automatically everything a gemini can be. especially with harsh aspects. but a gemini sun with harsh aspects can become a strong gemini sun with time, one that understands the need for growth and process. 

i feel like it takes getting to know the undeveloped sun, accepting it fully for what it is, before we can build on it. each of a sign’s ‘flaws’ corresponds to its strengths. part of developing your sun sign is choosing yourself as your sun sign. i choose to be a capricorn, and in that, i choose to be ambitious and occasionally cold and reserved, but also quietly strong and persevering, and i choose the history that led to that. healthy sun sign identification gives you a sense of autonomy and freedom, allowing you to step back from what is going on inside you and figure out what you truly want from life.

What part of yourself you will destroy in order to start all over again

Pluto in 1st: Yourself and you will create a new you to the point people won’t recognize you.

Pluto in 2nd: Yourself worth; you will keep question whether you set the right value for your or for the definition of money to you. 

Pluto in 3rd: Your way thinking; will keep destroying the way of speaking in order to create another form of speech that is more powerful and deep. also might end relationships with your siblings because they cause you trouble.

Pluto in 4th: You will destroy the meaning of family and create your own meaning of family, you also might have disputes with your family a lot.  

Pluto in 5th: You will destroy your happiness so you can keep finding another form of it and also every time your passion about something ends you delete everything about that something you were passionate about and find something new.  

Pluto in 6th: Your diet if you have one and will look for another but the destruction will be related to your work. you will be so perfectionist and passionate about it to the point of destruction and this will affect your health thus making your re overthink your work method.

Pluto in 7th: Your relationships with your partners; as you will make sure to end it before they do cause you always think either that you are too intense for them or they will find some sort of flaw in you that will make them leave you. also problems with intimacy. 

Pluto in 8th: You will destroy the depth of yourself in order to create another one, everything you do and or make has to have meaning. you demand even deep relationships from others and just like Pluto in 7th you also may have problems related to intimacy as you do not open up easily. 

Pluto in 9th: Your will destroy your belief system and will create another one and every time you think you finally found the perfect or ideal belief you will discover that there some flaws in it and will recreate it again. you need to understand that there’s no such think as an ultimate beliefs, all beliefs have flaws and maybe you should accept that. also when you travel you travel for a goal in mind, not for the fun of it.  

Pluto in 10th: You destroy your public image and produce it in a different way that will keep people waiting for what you will do next. also you will destroy your relationship with an authority (father) or all of the authorities. will always have a deep set of enmity towards that father because you believe that you should rule the home not him. 

Pluto in 11th: You will destroy your friendships and will be dropping them so easily as if they meant nothing to you. The minute they start to behave or say stuff you do not like you end this relationship silently and move on and try to find another set of group that shares your same view and ideas. ruthlessly idealistic.  

Pluto in 12: You will destroy your own subconscious through the terrible dreams that you see, they usually start nice but end in terror. Your subconscious won’t let you sleep easily and at times you will try to escape sleeping so you won’t have to see those dreams. can be super psychic but usually this talent comes with a price.  

The House that the Sun resides in is where you infuse a part of your ego, your identity, where your personal light will shine.

The House of the Moon inspires intuition, but will wax and wane like the Moon. It also gives you an emotional connection to this area.

In the House that Mercury resides in, you will feel curious, inquisitive and want to dive into it intellectually.

The House that Venus resides in will inspire creativity, inter-relational development and possibly romance.

The House of Mars inspires a pioneering spirit, ambition, but also conflict and at times, rage.

The House that Jupiter resides in is one of knowledge, expansion, Luck, enrichment, but also excess and at times, recklessness.

The House of Saturn can bring frustration, stunting, strict lessons, but one day, an area of expertise and enlightenment. 

The House that Uranus resides in brings rebellion, individual ways of doing things, sudden disruptions, awakening and instability.

The House of Neptune brings longing, the break down of barriers, illusion and disillusion. 

And Lastly, the house of Pluto brings the shattering of the ego, pain, power dynamics, destruction, death and rebirth.

the moon: the quintessential mother figure, a swelling stomach shaped like the moon, cradling a baby, a lamp in your eyes guiding you into her arms, darling come home she whispers

jupiter: bellowing laughter emanating from the biggest mansion in the land, inside an overweight man eating an icecream cake for breakfast, he is dressed in every colour of the rainbow, philanthropic and generous, the more of his endless money he gives to others the more jovial he becomes

mercury: androgynous twins, handsome and young, mischievous and wicked quick, playing tricks, vanishing, and lighter than air. they were there in a moment and gone in the next, but you can hear the chatter in the ether

neptune: a siren of the sea, a mermaid rising from the ocean singing her sweet song, follow me child into my extraordinary world, come dear child i will give you everything you ever wanted… and you find her among the mist, everything is not what it seems…

saturn: an old wizard holding an hourglass in a library of knowledge and books. he strokes his long beard as he considers and contemplates, he is draped in a robe of glory, his cottage resting on the tallest mountaintop

venus: the deepest spell of beauty you see reflected in the face of others

- Isabel Hickey (via homo-deus-est)

🌟 💫 ✨ my notes

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the 8th house concerns itself with invisible mystique… sometimes people with uranus in the 8th house can have a prophetic knowledge of when death will occur, and pluto in the 8th is inherently bonded with their own immortality, the infinite continuation of their spirit, the continuation of light  they are sort of karmic lords. neptune in the 8th mysteries surround the dead and their seamless voyages from consciousness to obliteration, as if they imitate a death like state saturn in the 8th house seems to have spiritual debts to pay in the material world. the dream state here can be quite profound, however terrifying. jupiter in the 8th is drawn to the lustre of spirituality, the symbolism of religion, they seem to celebrate the idea of death in the way they revere the gift of life  mars in the 8th house is on a crusade through invisible battlefields. this is psychic power. venus in the 8th evokes them mysteries of love, the continuation of bonds once the spirit has crossed over, til death do us part. and moon in the 8th house wanes into a spiritual sensitivity that is rich with ancestral guardianship, passed love ones speak through them, and those who stood before them. mercury in the 8th plan and do everything in secret. everything about them is a mystery. they communicate with unseen forces, mostly unwillingly. sun in the 8th turns inward, using solar light to illuminate 8th house shadow, to turn a lantern on the eternal source that resides deep inside 

-c.

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Malefic Planets

Pluto destroys until there is nothing left, until you have to rebuild everything from the broken foundations upwards, moving you on completely in your journey in this life. It is ego shattering.

Neptune dissolves, taunts and taints, pointing you in misleading directions until you don’t know left from right. It breaks down the barriers between you and everything else, idealises. 

Uranus disrupts at the drop of a hat, liberates you from confines, but also rebels for the sake of rebelling, leaving you to wonder what will be left is its chaotic wake. 

Saturn creates dissatisfaction, feelings of being unworthy or let down in an area of life, where things progress slowly and often with much hard work and difficulty. Through this, we end up being teachers in this area of life, our talents reaching heights of wisdom with time, we master it.

Mars (Often considered a lesser malefic) represents brute force, recklessness, a pioneering spirit that often runs into conflict in the area containing it. Competitiveness and the ability to self-direct also come from Mars, a healthier aggression. 

Domicile, Exalted, Detrimental, and Fall Placements

A domicile placement is the strongest planetary placement. It feels at home and is able to fully play out it’s role.

An exalted placement is the second strongest planetary placement. It feels like a guest in a home. It doesn’t fully play out it’s role, but the effect is positive. 

A detrimental placement is a stressful planetary placement. It feels stressed and there is much tension built up. It has a negative or non-existent effect.

A fall placement is the weakest planetary placement. It feels weak, and the planet looses it’s influence.

A peregrine placement is a neutral planetary placement. In this case, these placement’s aspects are more influential.

*some people interpret these placements differently, I will include the ones that are less common in parentheses.*

⊙ sun: feels at home in Leo where their ego is energized, feels like a guest in Aries where their confidence and bravery is energized, feels stressed in Aquarius where they energize other’s egos and never their own, feels weak in Libra where their sense of individuality comes from others

peregrine: taurus, gemini, cancer, virgo, scorpio, sagittarius, capricorn, pisces

☽ moon: feels at home in Cancer where their emotions are recognized, feels like a guest in Taurus where their loyalty to other’s is recognized, feels stressed in Capricorn where they don’t recognize their own emotions, feels weak in Scorpio where their emotions are hidden

peregrine: aries, gemini, leo, virgo, libra, sagittarius, aquarius, pisces

☿ mercury: feels at home in Gemini and Virgo where their communication and cognition is energized, feels like a guest in Virgo where they get too caught up in being perfect to share their ideas, feels stressed in Sagittarius and Pisces where they’re escapist, feels weak in Pisces where they spend most of their time in a fantasy

peregrine: aries, taurus, cancer, leo, libra, scorpio, capricorn, aquarius

♀ venus: feels at home in Taurus and Libra where they can easily charm and love, feels like a guest in Pisces where they are romantic, but codependent, feels stressed in Scorpio and Aries where they feel too passionate towards things, feels weak in Virgo where they lack romantic feelings

peregrine: gemini, cancer, leo, sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius

♂ mars: feels at home in Aries (or Scorpio)  where their supply of vitality is unlimited, feels like a guest in Capricorn where they are mature and determined, feels stressed in Libra (or Taurus) where they are too polite, feels weak in Cancer where they show almost no agression

peregrine: gemini, leo, virgo, sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, (taurus, scorpio)

♃ jupiter: feels at home in Sagittarius (or Pisces) where their escapism is energized, feels like a guest in Cancer where their psychic abilities are keen, feels stressed in Gemini (or Virgo) where they are unimaginative, feels weak in Capricorn where they are too realistic

peregrine: aries, taurus, leo, libra, scorpio, aquarius, (virgo, pisces)

♄ saturn: feels at home in Capricorn (or Aquarius) where their seriousness is energized, feels like a guest in Libra where they are able to create justice, feels stressed in Cancer (or Leo) where they care about people more than work, feels weak in Aries where they’re too reckless

peregrine: taurus, gemini, virgo, scorpio, sagittarius, pisces, (leo, aquarius)

♅ uranus: feels at home in Aquarius where their rebellious nature is energized, feels like a guest in Scorpio where their eccentricity is encouraged, feels stressed in Leo where they focus on themselves more than others, feels weak in Taurus where they’re too stubborn to change their views

peregrine: aries, gemini, cancer, virgo, libra, sagittarius, capricorn, pisces

♆ neptune: feels at home in Pisces where their illusiveness is energized, feels like a guest in Leo (or Cancer) where they’re able to help others, feels stressed in Virgo (or Capricorn) where they dislike being mentally away from their physical environment, feels weak in Aquarius where their creativity can’t be applied in the real world

peregrine: aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, libra, scorpio, sagittarius, capricorn

♇ pluto: feels at home in Scorpio where they can feel transformable, feels like a guest in Aries (or Pisces) where they can feel powerful and confident, feels stressed in Taurus where they don’t transform well, feels weak in Libra (or Virgo) where they don’t conform to society’s wishes

peregrine: gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, pisces