It was one of those super large in-law family gatherings, the reason for which is lost in the mists of time. We were at a large venue, an empty church, I believe, because I remember the “stage” area and then the large rows of seating. Everyone was exuberant, all smiling, and congratulatory, the little groups of family expanding to embrace the bigger picture, the full family line, the legacy...
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Thursday, January 1, 2026
Hating Megan Markle Has Become Big Business
Yes, it has become big business, and there are people who are making a lot of money and supporting themselves by deliberately promoting hate for this one individual. I can't imagine living like this, being one little woman who is vilified on a daily basis, much to the satisfaction of the people who are earning money from this endeavor.
How it's become a "business":
Media Monetization:
Clickbait and Engagement:
Industry of Hate:
Reasons for the intense focus:
Cultural Clash:
Racism & Misogyny:
Subverting Norms:
Polarizing Figure:
The Result:
A constant cycle of intense media coverage, public debate, and online trolling that keeps Meghan Markle in the spotlight, whether positive or negative, creating a self-sustaining industry of attention.
The nature of the criticism is often described as obsessive, covering everything from her body language and outfits to her business decisions and the names of her children. Factors cited as underlying the disproportionate scrutiny include:
- Race and misogyny
- Her status as an American actress entering a very traditional British institution
- Perceived hypocrisy regarding privacy and public life
- General dislike of celebrity culture and wealth
And I don’t mean one or two videos. I’m talking about years’ worth of content—video after video, thumbnail after thumbnail, where Meghan is the subject. Every sigh she lets out, every outfit she wears, every word she speaks is dissected with this creepy, obsessive energy. It’s disturbing. It’s not normal.
Black Lives Matter ~ London/Facebook
Friday, December 26, 2025
The Magick of Water in Witchcraft
Water magic uses water's fluidity for emotions, healing, purification, and intuition by incorporating it into daily routines like charging water, performing cleansing baths, scrying, or using specific sources like rain or ocean water for intentions like love, protection, or removing negativity, often charging it under the moon, the sun, or with crystals.
Methods & Intentions
Healing & Emotion: Drink moon-charged water with rose quartz for love, amethyst for intuition. Use well water for healing and ritual baths with herbs for specific intentions.
Intuition & Scrying: Place a bowl of water (perhaps with egg white) by your bed for dreams or use it for divination to see hidden truths.
Ancestral Work: Offer a glass of water to ancestors as a gateway for communication and wisdom.
Manifestation: Charge water under the moon, adding to it specific crystals for specific intentions. You can then drink the water, use it in baths, or water your herbs and magickal plants for added potency.
Different Water for Different Intentions
Ocean/Sea Water: Powerful for cleansing and protection due to salt content.
Rain Water: For renewal, cleansing, and emotional release.
Well Water: Sacred for healing, intuition, and connecting to the Otherworld.
Steam/Mist: For dispersing energy or creating illusions.
Starting Simple
Dream Water: Place a bowl of water beside your bed to enhance dreams and memory.
Crystal-Charged Water: Add a crystal (check for water-safe ones!) to water for a specific intention and drink or use in rituals.
Charging Water
Lunar Charging (Moon Water): Place spring or rainwater in a clear container outside overnight during a full or new moon, setting intentions as you place and retrieve it before sunrise. This is believed to capture lunar energy.Methods for Charging Water:
Solar Charging (Sun Water): Leave water in a clear container in direct sunlight to absorb solar energy, similar to moon water but for solar purposes.
Crystal Charging: Place a crystal (like rose quartz for love) near or in a water container, focusing your energy on the crystal and water together.
Intentional Infusion: Hold a glass of water, focus your mind, and mentally or verbally state your intention, such as: "I infuse this water with the energy of protection".
Herbs & Salts: Add natural elements, salt or herbs, to the water while charging it to enhance its properties for specific magical effects.
How to prepare a cleansing bath
Cleanse the Room: Ensure your bathroom is tidy and peaceful.Prepare Your Space & Mind:
Set the Mood: Light candles, use an oil diffuser with lavender or frankincense, and play soothing music.
Gather Items: Have your bathrobe, water, and any chosen additions (salts, herbs, crystals) ready.
Define Intention: Decide what you want to release -- anxiety, negativity, grudges etc., or do you want to welcome something -- peace, clarity, good health etc.
Prepare the Bath:
Water Temperature: Fill the tub with warm, not scalding, water to open pores without overheating.
Add Ingredients: Mix in Epsom salts, sea salt, or a few drops of essential oils (rosemary, chamomile, rose). You can add herbs like mugwort and lavender, or rose petals can be added in a sachet.
Enter the Water: Step in and focus on your breath, letting go of tension.The Ritual Soak:
Meditate & Visualize: Allow thoughts to flow without judgment, visualizing negativity leaving your body.
Stay Hydrated: Sip water or herbal tea.
Soak Time: Aim for 20-30 minutes, allowing the water and ingredients to work.
After the Bath:
Scrying water is a form of divination (hydromancy), where a person gazes into a bowl of still water, often by candlelight, to receive insights, visions, or glimpses of the future, tapping into the unconscious mind through a meditative state. It involves focusing on the water's surface, looking for patterns, symbols, or images that mentally, helping to answer questions or gain spiritual guidance. Practitioners use dark bowls, sometimes with added herbs or salt, to create a more reflective surface, a technique used for centuries by seers, including Nostradamus.Scrying
How to Scry with Water:
Key Elements:
Rainwater is considered a potent and versatile tool in magic due to its natural direct connection to the sky and its strong associations with cleansing, renewal, growth, and emotional release. Its energy can vary depending on the nature of the storm from which it was collected.Using rain water for magic
Uses in Magic:
Empowering Spells and Rituals: You can use it as an all-purpose ingredient in spells, adding it to a cauldron with herbs and oils to give your work an energetic boost.
Anointing and Blessing: Anoint candles, crystals, or other items with rainwater to bless or empower them for their intended purpose.
Manifestation: By tapping into the flow of rain, you can manifest abundance, love, or success by setting intentions while collecting or using the water.
Enhancing Psychic Ability: Keeping a bottle of rainwater nearby or using it in a spray can help enhance psychic awareness during readings or meditations.
Baths and Body Cleansing: Add it to a bath for a spiritual cleansing, or stand in the rain and visualize stress and blockages being washed away.
Types of Rainwater:
The type of storm influences the water's properties and potential uses: Gentle Rain/Sunny Rain: Ideal for peace, joy, healing, and general cleansing.
Storm/Thunderstorm Water: Possesses powerful, quick energy for protection, strength, intense transformation, breaking hexes, or dispelling psychic attacks.
Rainbow Rain: Collected during a rainbow, this water is associated with luck, healing, and charm work.
How to Collect and Store:
Safety Note: While some may use this collected water for teas or cooking, generally it is best to avoid consuming collected rainwater without proper filtration and boiling, as it can pick up pollutants and bacteria.
Healing Bath Recipes
for the Body, Mind, and Soul
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Armchair Psychology ~ The Dark Triad
Narcissism (grandiosity, entitlement)
Machiavellianism (manipulation, cunning)
Psychopathy (lack of empathy, impulsivity, antisocial behavior).
The Three Traits
Narcissism:Characterized by inflated self-esteem, entitlement, a need for admiration, and superficial charm, but also a fragile ego.
Machiavellianism:A manipulative and exploitative mindset, cynical view of others, and focus on self-interest, using others as tools.
Psychopathy:
Manipulation & Deception:
Self-Centeredness:
Lack of Empathy:
Exploitative Relationships:
Arrogance & Grandiosity:
They are associated with a higher risk of criminal behavior and poor relationship outcomes.
The Additional Trait
Sadism:
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Making Crystal Remedies & Tinctures
Making Crystal Remedies:
Direct Method
After you’ve decided what crystal or stone you need for a particular magickal endeavor, you will cleanse and charge it.
You can cleanse this stone by passing it through incense smoke (perhaps sandalwood), or by holding it beneath running water.
You will charge this stone with specific magickal intentions and purpose by seating yourself in a quiet spot, holding the stone in both hands, grounding and centering, and then gathering your thoughts, which you will send to the stone from your sub-conscious mind by way of your hands, thus imbuing this stone with your intentions.
Select a nice glass bottle or jar for the amount of remedy that you wish to make, add the water, preferably bottled spring water, to this container, unless you have chosen to use another liquid for your magick.
You can then choose to do several things to charge this tincture:
You can allow this bottle to sit beneath the moonlight for several hours to energize (or the sunlight).
You can consecrate this bottle of remedy to the four elements.
You can leave it sit upon your altar to charge.
Aries: garnet, bloodstone
Taurus: jade, emerald
Gemini: agate, aventurine
Cancer: moonstone, sapphire
Leo: amber, topaz
Virgo: blue lace agate, sapphire
Libra: lapis lazuli, turquoise
Scorpio: spinel, quartz
Sagittarius: amethyst, blue topaz
Capricorn: apache tear, onyx
Aquarius: aquamarine, jet
Pisces: blue topaz, aquamarine
To Align: clear quartz crystal, amber
To Cleanse: herkimer diamond, smokey quartz, green jasper, bloodstone
To Energize: quartz
To Remove Negative Energy: apache tear, obsidian
Crown Chakra: amethyst
Third eye Chakra: sodalite
Throat Chakra: blue lace agate
Heart Chakra: pink rose quartz
Solar Plexus: citrine
Sacral Chakra: carnelian
Root Chakra: garnet
All seven charkas: alexandrite
Earth: green moss agate, brown jasper
Air: amber, yellow topaz
Fire: garnet, carnelian
Water: aquamarine, blue topaz
To Banish: onyx, jet, obsidian
To Facilitate Contact: pearl, green onyx, mother-of-pearl, selenite
Sun: amber, carnelian, tiger’s-eye, diamond, zircon
Moon: moonstone, chalcedony, sapphire, selenite, aquamarine
Mercury: agate, mottled jasper, ruby, red tourmaline, pumice
Venus: jade, green jasper, kunzite, lapis lazuli, coral
Earth: brown jasper, green agate
Mars: bloodstone, garnet, onyx, red tourmaline, flint
Jupiter: amethyst, fluorite, aventurine, charoite, green moss agate
Saturn: hematite, jet, onyx, obsidian, apache tear
Sealing a Curse
Intoxicating Love
1) a glass of this wine
2) another drink of their choice with three drops of this tincture added to it
Draw the Line
a pinch of black pepper
a pinch of sea salt
a stone of moss agate or obsidian
Protection for Your Child
before a trip or vacation
if they are having problems at school
if they’ve been threatened or seem prone to illness
or any other unique number of reasons where you feel their safety is compromised
Personal effects from your child-- baby teeth, a snip of their hair, or fingernail clippings are excellent.
Add a stone of selenite or moonstone.
Add a pinch of flax seeds, rosemary, and sage.
Uncrossing Tincture
a stone of clear quartz crystal
a good pinch of sea salt
Cut the Tongue
a pinch of slippery elm
a stone you’ve found on your property
a razorblade
I’m the Boss
a pinch of nutmeg
a dash of Commanding Oil
a stone of red jasper
one of your spouse’s pubic hairs
your saliva…spit in the bottle
a dash of Commanding Oil
a pinch of salt
a stone of apache tear
a personal effect from the target, or a name paper
your saliva…spit in the bottle
This tincture can be sprinkled in the target’s space, or poured upon the soil of their property, touched to their body or clothing, or sprinkled over their photo. If all else fails, be a good employee and fetch your boss a cup of coffee.Money Drawing
one of each coin-- a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
a stone of pyrite and aventurine
a pinch of silver or gold glitter
a single leaf of mint
a pair of dice
Note: If this remedy is not going to be used within a relatively short period of time, you should add to it brandy, vodka, or cider vinegar to preserve it: two-thirds preservative to one-third tincture.
This also makes a ‘mother’, a batch of remedy that can be used to create new batches. Never allow the ‘mother’ batch to run dry. Keep feeding it as necessary.
Indirect Method
Occasionally a stone will have properties about it that may be poisonous, such as malachite, and you can’t make a tincture destined for human consumption with this stone using the direct method.
To make a tincture using the indirect method you will need two bowls, one small enough to sit within the other. Place the crystal or stone in the smaller bowl and sit this bowl inside the larger dish. Add your spring water to the large bowl; and these bowls should be of an appropriate size as to allow the water in the large bowl to rise above the crystal or stone contained in the small bowl.
Everything else will be done just as you would with the direct method: allow these bowls to be charged in the moonlight or sunlight, add this water to your jar, along with a preservative, and you’re all set. This tincture will be safe to use, should you consume it, and it is just as magickally charged as the tinctures made with the direct method.
When in doubt about a crystal or stone, be safe and use the indirect method if you plan on consuming the tincture.
Matching Crystal Energies to Intentions:
Addictions (to cure): amethyst
Astral Projection (to aid): calcite, clear quartz crystal, kunzite
Astrological Tinctures:
The Aura:
The Chakras/to align:
Curses (removing): tiger’s-eye
Elemental Tinctures:
Entities:
Goddess Magick: moonstone, mother-of-pearl, coral, pearl
Grounding: smokey quartz
Healing: blue lace agate, green stones-- jade, agate
Hexing: black stones-- onyx, jet, black jade, obsidian
Life’s Transitions (coping): lilac kunzite, amethyst
Love Spells: pink stones-- quartz, rhodochrosite
Money Spells: green stones-- aventurine, green moss agate
Planetary Tinctures:
Personal Acceptance/Emotional Healing: pink rose quartz, blue lace agate
Psychic Awareness (to enhance): amethyst, moonstone
Sex Spells: red stones-- ruby, garnet, red tourmaline
Spirit Contact (to promote): lilac kunzite, holy stones, geodes
Truth (to reveal): obsidian, mottled jasper
Unusual Tinctures
After your curse has been carried out, the deed is done, and the candle wax and other remnants are buried in the earth in some secret reclusive spot; it’s time to seal this sucker-- really nail it to the wall.
Your tincture will consist of a bottle of your own urine to which you’ve added a stone of jet or black onyx and a pinch of belladonna or cayenne pepper. Allow this brew to sit in the sun for several hours, absorbing the heat and energy, perking and festering.
You will take this concoction to the location where the spell remnants are resting, and you will pour this tincture over the ground upon the burial spot. I swear, you’ll almost hear your target howl.
To make a tincture for a love spell, you’re going to use wine-- I don’t care what brand it is or how expensive it is, but it must be red wine. To your wine tincture you will add a stone of pink rose quartz, a rose petal, and a drop of your menstrual blood. You’ll energize this magickal tincture with the energy of the moon.
On the day of your choosing, which must be during the waxing moon phase, you
will serve your target:
or
*Note-- The spell above was written for a female occult practitioner. If you are a male practitioner, substitute the drop of menstrual blood with a drop of your semen.
If you are in conflict with a person or particular people, you can use the following tincture to seal the thresholds of your home, preventing them from entering.
To a bottle of spring water add:
If you’re feeling really wild and magickal and you want to be very precise about who you are targeting, you could add a very tiny strip of paper with their name written on it.
Use this tincture to asperge (sprinkle) the thresholds of your doorways. This will basically have the same effect as brick dust, but without the mess.
This is a tincture you can use to anoint your child when you feel they might need a little extra protection:
This tincture could also be used just as a precaution by anointing them once a week, or on the full moon, as part of your magickal routine.
To a bottle of spring water add:
Allow this tincture to cure beneath a full moon, imbuing it with the energy of the Mother Goddess.
You’re going to use a few drops of this tincture in your bath water to clear away the heebie-jeebies that have either been drawn to you through the cosmos like a dirty magnet, or have been thrown your way by negative nasty people who need a good swift magickal kick in the butt.
Sometimes negative energy acts like a magnet and once we get a good dose of it our way, it seems to take on a life of its own, building and growing in intensity. It takes some deliberate action on our part to clean ourselves up, so to speak. You’ll do this by lighting a white candle, running yourself a good hot bath, and adding a generous dash of this tincture to your bath water.
To create this cleansing tincture, you will add to a bottle of spring water:
Some people just never know when to shut up, maintain silence, and whip that weapon of a tongue back into their big fat mouths. This little tincture will give them a hand with that.
To a bottle of white vinegar, or your own urine, add:
Use this magickal little tincture to asperge (sprinkle) over an image of your target, or over a paper with their name largely and boldly written upon it, if you can’t get your hot little hands on their photo. But quite frankly, in this internet world, it’s pretty easy to get hold of someone’s image. (I’m cackling now.)
Who doesn’t want to be in control?... admit it.
If your marriage is becoming more like a battle of wills instead of a lovers’ paradise, this is the tincture you need. It will put you right back where you want to be…at the top.
I’ve also included a tincture to be used in the workplace, particularly to target your boss, someone who may have way more control than you are comfortable with. Use this tincture to put things back into proper perspective.
For a spouse:
To a bottle of red wine add…
Anoint the target directly with this little tincture when the opportunity presents itself, just a touch of the finger to their forearm or back, wherever. It can be done very discreetly so that they won’t even know. You can also dab some on their clothes, sprinkle some over their photo or add a single drop to whatever they are drinking.
For your boss:
To a bottle of spring water add…
You’ll use this tincture to sprinkle your wallet or purse; the threshold of your business, magickally drawing money from customers coming into your shop; your altar set up for money spells, or on a dish of coins you leave sitting near your front door.
Sprinkle this magickal mixture on lottery tickets, good luck charms, or upon your own hands if you’re going out to gamble.
Wherever you want to draw wealth, prosperity, money, you’ll use this tincture with magickal assurance of success and prosperity.
To a bottle of spring water add:
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