HELP YOUR SOULMATE FIND YOU!

By applying specific laws of the Universe and the Laws of Attraction your soulmate will find you.

This workshop is about the Kabbalistic view of relationships and what makes them work (or not work).

There are spiritual rules of engagement that you can easily apply to create a more fulfilling life and attain true wedded bliss.

It's time to try a new approach.

This workshop applies to you if you are seeking your soulmate or are currently in a relationship and would like to improve the spiritual connection with your partner.

The power is in your hands!
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I am looking to do this workshop in Second Life and in real. If you are interested in taking this workshop, please let me know. Also, if you have a few friends (4 or more) that would like to take this with you in real and you'd like to host it at your place and you're not too far from me (south bend/mishawaka IN area), let me know and we can work something out!

        

I got a phone call very early this morning from a woman in another part of the USA from where I live. She had gotten my phone number from searching for information on a plant she wanted to get to use to smudge her home.

I was still sleepy because this call woke me up and I wasn't sure at all what this woman was wanting to know or to request of me, but I listened carefully as she spoke. What she had to say is something I've heard from others and I recognized the frustration in her voice. I'll share with you the gist of the conversation.

This woman had received spiritual guidance from someone that is also a close friend and was instructed on how to remove someone from her life which happened to be a boyfriend that her friend didn't think was good for her. While this may or may not be the case of a wrong relationship for her, and perhaps her friend knows things that I, of course, wouldn't know or have seen myself, I was not going to offer advice on this issue.

Instead, what I heard was the woman's panic over trying to find the specific items her friend has insisted she get to accomplish this. Things like a white sage smudging stick which were beyond this woman's financial capabilities to purchase at this time and she was frustrated over  having to get this and was asking me if I knew if regular culinary sage would work in its place.

This is what I told her and this is what i want to share with all of you.

Back in the day, way back, people used herbs, essential oils, etc, that were native to where they lived. If it didn't grow there, they didn't use it... they used what they could pluck or pick from their own back yard or the neighboring woods or fields. Herbs, plants, etc, have a multitude of attributes and magickal intentions and many of them overlap. If one isn't readily available to you, do not fret over it -- find something that you have in your house to use to accomplish what you want. I'm sure you already have something there you can use.

Another reason for her call was this woman wasn't ready to do something to remove this man from her life for certain reasons and this is perfectly right for her to do what is comfortable for her. On the other hand, she wanted to improve her living conditions and was looking into details of making like an herb bag but she didn't have the gold or silver thread it said she had to use and wanted to know what she should do.

Earlier in the conversation she had told me  how she loves to mix lavendar and honey in her bath water and that it really uplifts her spirits and makes her feel so good. I reminded her that honey is the bees purpose in their life. That is the crowning glory of their existence and it is sweet and oh, so good! I suggested that the next time she takes a bath using this that she imagine she is the bee and that she, too, will achieve her own crowning glory and fulfil her purpose in life and have all that is sweet and good. I also suggested other ways she could use this mixture.

It is in the intent behind what you do.... more than what you actually use.

You don't even need to use anything at all... 'props' are for our human brains to relate to. But the true power is of the mind, the intent, the creative visualization.

        

This is an easy to make traditional combination to enhance your meditation sessions. Combine 2-3 drops of each of these oils and then add them to your aromatherapy lamp or in the melted wax section of a lighted 'unscented' candle.

2-3 drops cypress essential oil
2-3 drops juniper essential oil
2-3 drops frankincense essential oil
2-3 drops sandalwood essential oil
2-3 drops cedarwood essential oil


Remember to use only true essential oils. Fragrance oils do not provide any aromatherapy benefit. Handle essential oils with care and do not apply directly to skin nor use them near children and/or pets.

        

The Dark of the Moon is the night before the New Moon, when the moon cannot be seen at all. The sign of the Dark Moon is always the opposite of the Full Moon. The Dark Moon is always the same astrological sign as the Sun, meaning, if the Sun is in Libra then the Dark Moon will be in Libra also and the Full Moon will be in the opposite sign of Aries.

The Dark Moon
rises at sunrise
and sets at sunset.

Dark of the Moon Rituals are used for banishment and for working magick against attackers, to bring justice to bear in a very negative situation, binding a situation from doing more harm, and for understanding your own anger and passion.

        

RITUAL ROBE COLORS AND THEIR MEANINGS

BLUE:
Calms and soothes. A healing color that also promotes happiness and joyous emotions; peace and tranquility; aids in meditation as it connects to intellect and mind. Lack of the blue in the spectrum can cause irritation and nervousness. Too much can can be depressing, as the expression "Feeling Blue" indicates. Lapis or royal blues however, would usually make a good robe. Jupiter

GREEN:
Increases creativity. Green is the Herbalist color in most hues; connects to Nature, growth (of all kinds) and gardening; fertility and prosperity; luck; money; bringer of love; an emotional soother and balancer. Lack of green can contribute to mental lethargy and clichéd thinking. Green is the most prevalent color in the spectrum and difficult to 'overdose' with. Venus

ORANGE:
A gentler color than red; connects to personal strength, authority, and power, stimulating and encourages in all these aspects; being lucky; being attractive. It attracts the characteristics wanted from other tools, spells and rituals. It is similar to yellow light and is a healing color.

PURPLE:
Purple is the Magician color if such can be said; traditionally connected to mysticism and spirituality; purification; devotion to all things intuitive and spiritual. Saturn

RED:
Increases energy; mentally and sexually stimulating. Lack of the red in the spectrum can be depressing. Always connected to blood, birth and death; sex and sexual love, passion and lust, physical energy and strength, courage and enthusiasm are emotions of this color as are, arguments and hatred. Good in health, vigor and vitality; as well as Defensive Magick. Too much red can lead to restlessness, irritability and anger. Mars

TURQUOISE:
Calming, but without the sedating effect of some pure blues. Turquoise can provide a euphoric influence and is a good color for spiritual work.

YELLOW:
Generally a stimulating color. The color of change; mental awareness and confidence; movement and energy; connects to clairvoyance, divination, as well as, wisdom and learning; also communication. Lack of yellow light is depressing. Some yellow-light deficiencies can be counteracted by using a heat-lamp. Mercury

BLACK:
The wearer is the maker of their destiny. Black is a very good conductor of energy, helps absorb natural energy to increase the power of their thought forms. Black is all colors into one. It can also absorb and neutralize negative energies; thus good for breaking hexes, exorcisms, banishing, bindings, and other defensive Magicking exercises. A protective shield.

GOLD:
Gold is a color of change, connects to attraction, persuasion, charm and confidence. Sun

WHITE:
Refers to structure in creation. White is the complete absence of color and silver is the combination of black and white. White is out-flowing or reflecting of energies. White can be as protective as black; promotes peace, tranquility, purity and purification; truth; aides and enhance psychism. Moon

SILVER or GREY:
Silver is a good color in connection with Goddess or Lunar Magicking exercises... it is also one of the *best* shades to use about you if you are into Meditative Silence exercises. Breaks stalemates and helps you make up your mind; neutralizes when need be.

BROWN:
Earth Magicking and Shamanism. Emotionally and Magickally stabilizes. Halts uncertainty, insecurity, and timidity. Veterinarian, and other animal connected fields. Invigorating health works where the patient is severely ill and needs less invigoration than Red.

        

The Witch Hunts:
The End of Magic and Miracles
1450-1750 C.E.
by Helen Ellerbe
from The Dark Side of Christian History


The Reformation did not convert the people of Europe to orthodox Christianity through preaching and catechisms alone. It was the 300 year period of witch-hunting from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, what R.H. Robbins called "the shocking nightmare, the foulest crime and deepest shame of western civilization," that ensured the European abandonment of the belief in magic. The Church created the elaborate concept of devil worship and then, used the persecution of it to wipe out dissent, subordinate the individual to authoritarian control, and openly denigrate women.

The witch hunts were an eruption of orthodox Christianity's vilification of women, "the weaker vessel," in St. Paul's words. The second century St. Clement of Alexandria wrote: "Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman." The Church father Tertullian explained why women deserve their status as despised and inferior human beings:

And do you not know you are an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too. You are the devil 's gateway: you are the unsealer of that tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law: you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God 's image, man. On account of your desert -- that is, death -- even the Son of God had to die.

Others expressed the view more bluntly. The sixth century Christian philosopher, Boethius, wrote in The Consolation of Philosophy, "Woman is a temple built upon a sewer." Bishops at the sixth century Council of Macon voted as to whether women had souls. In the tenth century Odo of Cluny declared, "To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure..." The thirteenth century St. Thomas Aquinas suggested that God had made a mistake in creating woman: "nothing [deficient] or defective should have been produced in the first establishment of things; so woman ought not to have been produced then." And Lutherans at Wittenberg debated whether women were really human beings at all. Orthodox Christians held women responsible for all sin. As the Bible's Apocrypha states, "Of woman came the beginning of sin/ And thanks to her, we all must die."

Women are often understood to be impediments to spirituality in a context where God reigns strictly from heaven and demands a renunciation of physical pleasure. As I Corinthians 7:1 states, "It is a good thing for a man to have nothing to do with a woman." The Inquisitors who wrote the Malleus Maleficarum, "The Hammer of the Witches," explained that women are more likely to become witches than men:

'Because the female sex is more concerned with things of the flesh than men;' because being formed from a man's rib, they are 'only imperfect animals' and 'crooked' whereas man belongs to a privileged sex from whose midst Christ emerged.

King James I estimated that the ratio of women to men who "succumbed" to witchcraft was twenty to one. Of those formally persecuted for witchcraft, between 80 to 90 percent were women.

Christians found fault with women on all sorts of counts. An historian notes that thirteenth century preachers

...denounced women on the one hand for ... the 'lascivious and carnal provocation' of their garments, and on the other hand for being over-industrious, too occupied with children and housekeeping, too earthbound to give due thought to divine things.

According to a Dominican of the same period, woman is "the confusion of man, an insatiable beast, a continuous anxiety, an incessant warfare, a daily ruin, a house of tempest ... a hindrance to devotion."

As reformational fervor spread, the feminine aspect of Christianity in the worship of Mary became suspect. Throughout the Middle Ages, Mary's powers were believed to effectively curtail those of the devil. But Protestants entirely dismissed reverence for Mary while reformed Catholics diminished her importance. Devotion to Mary often became indicative of evil. In the Canary islands, Aldonca de Vargas was reported to the Inquisition after she smiled at hearing mention of the Virgin Mary. Inquisitors distorted an image of the Virgin Mary into a device of torture, covering the front side of a statue of Mary with sharp knives and nails. Levers would move the arms of the statue crushing the victim against the knives and nails.

The witch hunts also demonstrated great fear of female sexuality. The book that served as the manual for understanding and persecuting witchcraft, the Malleus Maleficarum, describes how witches were known to "collect male organs in great numbers, as many as twenty or thirty members together, and put them in a bird's nest..." The manual recounts a story of a man who, having lost his penis, went to a witch to have it restored:

She told the afflicted man to climb a certain tree, and that he might take which he liked out of a nest in which there were several members. And when he tried to take a big one, the witch said: You must not take that one; adding, because it belonged to a parish priest.

A man in 1621 lamented, "of women's unnatural, unsatiable lust ... what country, what village doth not complain."

While most of what became known as witchcraft was invented by Christians, certain elements of witchcraft did represent an older pagan tradition. Witchcraft was linked and even considered to be synonymous with "divination," which means not only the art of foretelling the future, but also the discovery of knowledge by the aid of supernatural power. It suggests that there is such power available -- something orthodox Christians insisted could only be the power of the devil, for God was no longer to be involved with the physical world.

The word "witch" comes from the old English wicce and wicca, meaning the male and female participants in the ancient pagan tradition which holds masculine, feminine and earthly aspects of God in great reverence. Rather than a God which stood above the world, removed from ordinary life, divinity in the Wiccan tradition was understood to imbue both heaven and earth. This tradition also recalled a period when human society functioned without hierarchy -- either matriarchal or patriarchal -- and without gender, racial or strict class rankings. It was a tradition that affirmed the potential for humanity to live without domination and fear, something orthodox Christians maintain is impossible.

The early Church had tried to eradicate the vestiges of this older non-hierarchical tradition by denying the existence of witches or magic outside of the Church. The Canon Episcopi, a Church law which first appeared in 906, decreed that belief in witchcraft was heretical. After describing pagan rituals which involved women demonstrating extraordinary powers, it declared:

Far an innumerable multitude, deceived by this false opinion, believe this to be true and, so believing, wander from the right faith and are involved in the error of the pagans when they think that there is anything of divinity or power except the one God.

Nevertheless, the belief in magic was still so prevalent in the fourteenth century that the Council of Chartres ordered anathema to be pronounced against sorcerers each Sunday in every church.

It took the Church a long time to persuade society that women were inclined toward evil witchcraft and devil-worship. Reversing its policy of denying the existence of witches, in the thirteenth century the Church began depicting the witch as a slave of the devil. No longer was she or he to be associated with an older pagan tradition. No longer was the witch to be thought of as benevolent healer, teacher, wise woman, or one who accessed divine power. She was now to be an evil satanic agent. The Church began authorizing frightening portrayals of the devil in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Images of a witch riding a broom first appeared in 1280. Thirteenth century art also depicted the devil's pact in which demons would steal children and in which parents themselves would deliver their children to the devil. The Church now portrayed witches with the same images so frequently used to characterize heretics: "...a small clandestine society engaged in anti-human practices, including infanticide, incest, cannibalism, bestiality and orgiastic sex..."

The Church developed the concept of devil-worship as an astoundingly simplistic reversal of Christian rites and practices. Whereas God imposed divine law, the devil demanded adherence to a pact. Where Christians showed reverence to God by kneeling, witches paid homage to the devil by standing on their heads. The sacraments in the Catholic Church became excrements in the devil's church. Communion was parodied by the Black Mass. Christian prayers could be used to work evil by being recited backwards. The eucharist bread or host was imitated in the devil's service by a turnip. The baptismal "character" or stigmata of the mysteries was parodied by the devil's mark impressed upon the witch's body by the claw of the devil's left hand. Whereas saints had the gift of tears, witches were said to be incapable of shedding tears. Devil worship was a simple parody of Christianity. Indeed, the very concept of the devil was exclusive to monotheism and had no importance within the pagan, Wiccan tradition.

The Church also projected its own hierarchical framework onto this new evil witchcraft. The devil's church was to be organized such that its dignitaries could climb the ranks to the position of bishop, just like in the Catholic Church. Julio Caro Baroja explains:

...the Devil causes churches and altars to appear with music ... and devils decked out as saints. The dignitaries reach rank of bishop, and sub-deacons, deacons and priests serve Mass. Candles and incense are used for the service and water is sprinkled from a thurifer. There is an offertory, a sermon, a blessing over the equivalents of bread and wine ... So that nothing should be missing there are even false martyrs in the organization.

Again, such hierarchy was entirely a projection of the Church that bore no resemblance to ancient paganism. By recognizing both masculine and feminine faces of God and by understanding God to be infused throughout the physical world, the Wiccan tradition had no need for strict hierarchical rankings.

Pope John XXII formalized the persecution of witchcraft in 1320 when he authorized the Inquisition to prosecute sorcery. Thereafter papal bulls and declarations grew increasingly vehement in their condemnation of witchcraft and of all those who "made a pact with hell." In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII issued the bull Summis desiderantes authorizing two inquisitors, Kramer and Sprenger, to systematize the persecution of witches. Two years later their manual, Malleus Maleficarum, was published with 14 editions following between 1487-1520 and at least 16 editions between 1574-1669. A papal bull in 1488 called upon the nations of Europe to rescue the Church of Christ which was "imperiled by the arts of Satan." The papacy and the Inquisition had successfully transformed the witch from a phenomenon whose existence the Church had previously rigorously denied into a phenomenon that was deemed very real, very frightening, the antithesis of Christianity, and absolutely deserving of persecution.

It was now heresy not to believe in the existence of witches.

As the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum noted, "A belief that there are such things as witches is so essential a part of Catholic faith that obstinately to maintain the opposite opinion savors of heresy." Passages in the Bible such as "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" were cited to justify the persecution of witches. Both Calvin and Knox believed that to deny witchcraft was to deny the authority of the Bible. The eighteenth century founder of Methodism, John Wesley, declared to those skeptical of witchcraft, "The giving up of witchcraft is in effect the giving up of the Bible." And an eminent English lawyer wrote, "To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence of Witchcraft and Sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed Word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament."

The persecution of witchcraft enabled the Church to prolong the profitability of the Inquisition. The Inquisition had left regions so economically destitute that the inquisitor Eymeric complained, "In our days there are no more rich heretics ... it is a pity that so salutary an institution as ours should be so uncertain of its future." By adding witchcraft to the crimes it persecuted, however, the Inquisition exposed a whole new group of people from whom to collect money. It took every advantage of this opportunity. The author Barbara Walker notes:

Victims were charged for the very ropes that bound them and the wood that burned them. Each procedure of torture carried its fee. After the execution of a wealthy witch, officials usually treated themselves to a banquet at the expense of the victim's estate.

In 1592 Father Cornelius Loos wrote:

Wretched creatures are compelled by the severity of the torture to confess things they have never done ... and so by the cruel butchery innocent lives are taken; and, by a new alchemy, gold and silver are coined from human blood.

In many parts of Europe trials for witchcraft began exactly as the trials for other types of heresy stopped.

The process of formally persecuting witches followed harshest inquisitional procedure. Once accused of witchcraft, it was virtually impossible to escape conviction. After cross-examination, the victim's body was examined for the witch's mark. The historian Walter Nigg described the process:

...she was stripped naked and the executioner shaved off all her body hair in order to seek in the hidden places of the body the sign which the devil imprinted on his cohorts. Warts, freckles, and birthmarks were considered certain tokens of amorous relations with Satan.

Should a woman show no sign of a witch's mark, guilt could still be established by methods such as sticking needles in the accused's eyes. In such a case, guilt was confirmed if the inquisitor could find an insensitive spot during the process.

Confession was then extracted by the hideous methods of torture already developed during earlier phases of the Inquisition. "Loathe they are to confess without torture," wrote King James I in his Daemonologie. A physician serving in witch prisons spoke of women driven half mad:

...by frequent torture ... kept in prolonged squalor and darkness of their dungeons ... and constantly dragged out to undergo atrocious torment until they would gladly exchange at any moment this most bitter existence for death, are willing to confess whatever crimes are suggested to them rather than to be thrust back into their hideous dungeon amid ever recurring torture.

Unless the witch died during torture, she was taken to the stake. Since many of the burnings took place in public squares, inquisitors prevented the victims from talking to the crowds by using wooden gags or cutting their tongue out. Unlike a heretic or a Jew who would usually be burnt alive only after they had relapsed into their heresy or Judaism, a witch would be burnt upon the first conviction.

Sexual mutilation of accused witches was not uncommon. With the orthodox understanding that divinity had little or nothing to do with the physical world, sexual desire was perceived to be ungodly. When the men persecuting the accused witches found themselves sexually aroused, they assumed that such desire emanated, not from themselves, but from the woman. They attacked breasts and genitals with pincers, pliers and red-hot irons. Some rules condoned sexual abuse by allowing men deemed "zealous Catholics" to visit female prisoners in solitary confinement while never allowing female visitors. The people of Toulouse were so convinced that the inquisitor Foulques de Saint-George arraigned women for no other reason than to sexually abuse them that they took the dangerous and unusual step of gathering evidence against him.

The horror of the witch hunts knew no bounds. The Church had never treated the children of persecuted parents with compassion, but its treatment of witches' children was particularly brutal. Children were liable to be prosecuted and tortured for witchcraft: girls, once they were nine and a half, and boys, once they were ten and a half. Younger children were tortured in order to elicit testimony that could be used against their parents. Even the testimony of two-year-old children was considered valid in cases of witchcraft though such testimony was never admissible in other types of trials. A famous French magistrate was known to have regretted his leniency when, instead of having young children accused of witchcraft burned, he had only sentenced them to be flogged while they watched their parents burn.

Witches were held accountable for nearly every problem. Any threat to social uniformity, any questioning of authority, and any act of rebellion could now be attributed to and prosecuted as witchcraft. Not surprisingly, areas of political turmoil and religious strife experienced the most intense witch hunts. Witch-hunting tended to be much more severe in Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland and Scotland than in more homogeneously Catholic countries such as Italy and Spain. Witch-hunters declared that "Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft." In 1661 Scottish royalists proclaimed that "Rebellion is the mother of witchcraft." And in England the Puritan William Perkins called the witch "The most notorious traytor and rebell that can be..."

The Reformation played a critical role in convincing people to blame witches for their problems. Protestants and reformed Catholics taught that any magic was sinful since it indicated a belief in divine assistance in the physical world. The only supernatural energy in the physical world was to be of the devil. Without magic to counter evil or misfortune, people were left with no form of protection other than to kill the devil's agent, the witch. Particularly in Protestant countries, where protective rituals such as crossing oneself, sprinkling holy water or calling on saints or guardian angels were no longer allowed, people felt defenseless. As Shakespeare's character, Prospero, says in The Tempest:

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
which is most faint...

It was most often the sermons of both Catholic and Protestant preachers that would instigate a witch hunt. The terrible Basque witch hunt of 1610 began after Fray Domingo de Sardo came to preach about witchcraft. "There were neither witches nor bewitched until they were talked and written about," remarked a contemporary named Salazar. The witch hunts in Salem, Massachusetts, were similarly preceded by the fearful sermons and preaching of Samuel Parris in 1692.

The climate of fear created by churchmen of the Reformation led to countless deaths of accused witches quite independently of inquisitional courts or procedure. For example, in England where there were no inquisitional courts and where witch-hunting offered little or no financial reward, many women were killed for witchcraft by mobs. Instead of following any judicial procedure, these mobs used methods to ascertain guilt of witchcraft such as "swimming a witch," where a woman would be bound and thrown into water to see if she floated. The water, as the medium of baptism, would either reject her and prove her guilty of witchcraft, or the woman would sink and be proven innocent, albeit also dead from drowning.

As people adopted the new belief that the world was the terrifying realm of the devil, they blamed witches for every misfortune. Since the devil created all the ills of the world, his agents -- witches -- could be blamed for them. Witches were thought by some to have as much if not more power than Christ: they could raise the dead, turn water into wine or milk, control the weather and know the past and future. Witches were held accountable for everything from a failed business venture to a poor emotional state. A Scottish woman, for instance, was accused of witchcraft and burned to death because she was seen stroking a cat at the same time as a nearby batch of beer turned sour. Witches now took the role of scapegoats that had been held by Jews. Any personal misfortune, bad harvest, famine, or plague was seen as their fault.

The social turmoil created by the Reformation intensified witch-hunting. The Reformation diminished the important role of community and placed a greater demand for personal moral perfection. As the communal tradition of mutual help broke down and the manorial system which had provided more generously for widows disappeared, many people were left in need of charity. The guilt one felt after refusing to help a needy person could be easily transferred onto that needy person by accusing her of witchcraft. A contemporary writer named Thomas Ady described a likely situation resulting from a failure to perform some hitherto customary social obligation:

Presently [a householder] cryeth out of some poor innocent neighbour that he or she hath bewitched him. For, saith he, such an old man or woman came lately to my door and desired some relief and I denied it, and God forgive me, my heart did rise against her ... and presently my child, my wife, myself my horse, my cow, my sheep, my sow, my hog, my dog, my cat, or somewhat, was thus and thus handled in such a strange manner, as I dare swear she is a witch, or else how should these things be?

The most common victims of witchcraft accusations were those women who resembled the image of the Crone. As the embodiment of mature feminine power, the old wise woman threatens a structure which acknowledges only force and domination as avenues of power. The Church never tolerated the image of the Crone, even in the first centuries when it assimilated the prevalent images of maiden and mother in the figure of Mary. Although any woman who attracted attention was likely to be suspected of witchcraft, either on account of her beauty or because of a noticeable oddness or deformity, the most common victim was the old woman. Poor, older women tended to be the first accused even where witch hunts were driven by inquisitional procedure that profited by targeting wealthier individuals.

Old, wise healing women were particular targets for witch-hunters. "At this day," wrote Reginald Scot in 1584, "it is indifferent to say in the English tongue, 'she is a witch' or 'she is a wise woman.'" Common people of pre-reformational Europe relied upon wise women and men for the treatment of illness rather than upon churchmen, monks or physicians. Robert Burton wrote in 1621:

Sorcerers are too common; cunning men, wizards and white witches, as they call them, in every village, which, if they be sought unto, will help almost all infirmities of body and mind.

By combining their knowledge of medicinal herbs with an entreaty for divine assistance, these healers provided both more affordable and most often more effective medicine than was available elsewhere. Churchmen of the Reformation objected to the magical nature of this sort of healing, to the preference people had for it over the healing that the Church or Church-licensed physicians offered, and to the power that it gave women.

Until the terror of the witch hunts, most people did not understand why successful healers should be considered evil. "Men rather uphold them," wrote John Stearne, "and say why should any man be questioned for doing good." As a Bridgettine monk of the early sixteenth century recounted of "the simple people", "I have heard them say full often myself ... 'Sir, we mean well and do believe well and we think it a good and charitable deed to heal a sick person or a sick beast.'" And in 1555 Joan Tyrry asserted that "her doings in healing of man and beast, by the power of God taught to her by the ... fairies, be both godly and good..."

Indeed, the very invocations used by wise women sound quite Christian. For example, a 1610 poem recited when picking the herb vervain, also known as St. Johnswort, reads,

Hallowed be thou Vervain, as thou growest on the ground
For in the mount of Calvary there thou was first found
Thou healest our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and staunchest his bleeding wound
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost
I take thee from the ground.

But in the eyes of orthodox Christians, such healing empowered people to determine the course of their lives instead of submitting helplessly to the will of God. According to churchmen, health should come from God, not from the efforts of human beings. Bishop Hall said, "we that have no power to bid must pray..." Ecclesiastical courts made the customers of witches publicly confess to being "heartily sorry for seeking man's help, and refusing the help of God..." An Elizabethan preacher explained that any healing "is not done by conjuration or divination, as Popish priests profess and practice, but by entreating the Lord humbly in fasting and prayer..." And according to Calvin, no medicine could change the course of events which had already been determined by the Almighty.

Preachers and Church-licensed male physicians tried to fill the function of healer. Yet, their ministrations were often considered ineffective compared to those of a wise woman. The keeper of the Cantebury gaol admitted to freeing an imprisoned wise woman in 1570 because "the witch did more good by her physic than Mr. Pudall and Mr. Wood, being preachers of God's word..." A character in the 1593 Dialogue concerning Witches said of a local wise woman that, "she doeth more good in one year than all these scripture men will do so long as they live..."

Even the Church-licensed male physicians, who relied upon purgings, bleedings, fumigations, leeches, lancets, and toxic chemicals such as mercury, were little match for an experienced wise woman's knowledge of herbs. As the well-known physician, Paracelsus, asked, "...does not the old nurse very often beat the doctor?" Even Francis Bacon, who demonstrated very little respect for women, thought that "empirics and old women" were "more happy many times in their cures than learned physicians..."

Physicians often attributed their own incompetence to witchcraft. As Thomas Ady wrote:

The reason is ignorantiae pallium maleficium et incantatio -- a cloak for a physician's ignorance. When he cannot find the nature of the disease, he saith the party is bewitched.

When an illness could not be understood, even the highest body of England, the Royal College of Physicians of London, was known to accept the explanation of witchcraft.

Not surprisingly, churchmen portrayed the healing woman as the most evil of all witches. William Perkins declared, "The most horrible and detestable monster ... is the good witch." The Church included in its definition of witchcraft anyone with knowledge of herbs for "those who used herbs for cures did so only through a pact with the Devil, either explicit or implicit." Medicine had long been associated with herbs and magic. The Greek and Latin words for medicine, "pharmakeia" and "veneficium," meant both "magic" and "drugs." Mere possession of herbal oils or ointments became grounds for accusation of witchcraft.

A person's healing ability easily led to conviction of witchcraft. In 1590 a woman in North Berwick was suspected of witchcraft because she was curing "all such as were troubled or grieved with any kind of sickness or infirmity." The ailing archbishop of St. Andrews called upon Alison Peirsoun of Byrehill and then, after she had successfully cured him, not only refused to pay her but had her arrested for witchcraft and burned to death. Simply treating unhealthy children by washing them was cause for convicting a Scottish woman of witchcraft.

Witch-hunters also targeted midwives. Orthodox Christians believed the act of giving birth defiled both mother and child. In order to be readmitted to the Church, the mother should be purified through the custom of "churching," which consisted of a quarantine period of forty days if her baby was a boy and eighty days if her baby was a girl, during which both she and her baby were considered heathen. Some thought that a woman who died during this period should be refused a Christian burial. Until the Reformation, midwives were deemed necessary to take care of what was regarded as the nasty business of giving birth, a dishonorable profession best left in the hands of women. But with the Reformation came an increased awareness of the power of midwives. Midwives were now suspected of possessing the skill to abort a fetus, to educate women about techniques of birth control, and to mitigate a woman's labor pains.

A midwife's likely knowledge of herbs to relieve labor pains was seen as a direct affront to the divinely ordained pain of childbirth. In the eyes of churchmen, God's sentence upon Eve should apply to all women. As stated in Genesis:

Unto the woman [God] said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

To relieve labor pains, as Scottish clergymen put it, would be "vitiating the primal curse of woman..." The introduction of chloroform to help a woman through the pain of labor brought forth the same opposition. According to a New England minister:

Chloroform is a decoy of Satan, apparently offering itself to bless women; but in the end it will harden society and rob God of the deep earnest cries which arise, in time of trouble, for help.

Martin Luther wrote, "If [women] become tired or even die, that does not matter. Let them die in childbirth -- that is why they are there." It is hardly surprising that women who not only possessed medicinal knowledge but who used that knowledge to comfort and care for other women would become prime suspects of witchcraft.

How many lives were lost during the centuries of witch-hunting will never be known. Some members of the clergy proudly reported the number of witches they condemned, such as the bishop of Würtzburg who claimed 1900 lives in five years, or the Lutheran prelate Benedict Carpzov who claimed to have sentenced 20,000 devil worshippers. But the vast majority of records have been lost and it is doubtful that such documents would have recorded those killed outside of the courts.

Contemporary accounts hint at the extent of the holocaust. Barbara Walker writes that "the chronicler of Treves reported that in the year 1586, the entire female population of two villages was wiped out by the inquisitors, except for only two women left alive." Around 1600 a man wrote:

Germany is almost entirely occupied with building fires for the witches ... Switzerland has been compelled to wipe out many of her villages on their account. Travelers in Lorraine may see thousands and thousands of the stakes to which witches are bound.

While the formal persecution of witches raged from about 1450 to 1750, sporadic killing of women on the account of suspected witchcraft has continued into recent times. In 1928 a family of Hungarian peasants was acquitted of beating an old woman to death whom they claimed was a witch. The court based its decision on the ground that the family had acted out of "irresistible compulsion." In 1976 a poor spinster, Elizabeth Hahn, was suspected of witchcraft and of keeping familiars, or devil's agents, in the form of dogs. The neighbors in her small German village ostracized her, threw rocks at her, and threatened to beat her to death before burning her house, badly burning her and killing her animals. A year later in France, an old man was killed for ostensible sorcery. And in 1981, a mob in Mexico stoned a woman to death for her apparent witchcraft which they believed had incited the attack upon Pope John Paul II.

Witch hunts were neither small in scope nor implemented by a few aberrant individuals; the persecution of witches was the official policy of both the Catholic and Protestant Churches. The Church invented the crime of witchcraft, established the process by which to prosecute it, and then insisted that witches be prosecuted. After much of society had rejected witchcraft as a delusion, some of the last to insist upon the validity of witchcraft were among the clergy. Under the pretext of first heresy and then witchcraft, anyone could be disposed of who questioned authority or the Christian view of the world.

Witch-hunting secured the conversion of Europe to orthodox Christianity. Through the terror of the witch hunts, reformational Christians convinced common people to believe that a singular male God reigned from above, that he was separate from the earth, that magic was evil, that there was a powerful devil, and that women were most likely to be his agents. As a by-product of the witch hunts, the field of medicine transferred to exclusively male hands and the Western herbal tradition was largely destroyed. The vast numbers of people brutalized and killed, as well as the impact upon the common perception of God, make the witch hunts one of the darkest chapters of human history.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/ellerbe1.htm

        

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DIVINATION, MAGIC & OCCULTIC ACTIVITY IN THE BIBLE

OCCULTIC TECHNIQUES IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES:
There are a number of instances in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) where respected biblical leaders were involved with various black magic, divination and occultic activities as a normal part of their daily activities -- apparently without any condemnations from God:

In Genesis 44:5, Joseph's household manager refers to a silver drinking cup "...in which my lord drinketh and whereby indeed he devineth". Later, Joseph accuses his brothers of stealing the cup, saying "that such a man as I can certainly divine [the identity of the thieves]". These passages show that Joseph engaged in scrying. This is an ancient occultic method of divination in which a cup or other vessel is filled with water and gazed into. This technique of foretelling the future was used by Nostradamus and is still used today.

Numbers 5:12-31 describes a ritual of black magic that the Priest would perform on a woman if her husband suspected that she he had committed adultery. Verse 17 says: "Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.." She and her husband would go, with an offering of barley meal, to the tabernacle. The priest would make a magical drink consisting of holy water and sweepings from the tabernacle floor. He would have the woman drink the water while he recited a curse on her. The curse would state that her abdomen would swell and her thigh waste away if she had committed adultery. Otherwise, the curse would have no effect. If she were pregnant at this time, the curse would certainly induce an abortion. Yet nobody seems to have been concerned about the fate of any embryo or fetus that was present. There was no similar magical test that a woman could require her husband to take if she suspected him of adultery.

The Urim and Thummim were two objects mentioned in Numbers 27:21 and 1 Samuel 28:6 of the Hebrew Scriptures. They were apparently devices (perhaps in the form of flat stones) that the high priest consulted to determine the will of God. They might have worked something like a pair of dice.

Elisha was on his way to Bethel. Some small boys came out of the city and made fun of him because of his lack of hair; they called him "baldy". In a violent display of the power of black magic, Elisha cursed the children in the name of God. Two bears, apparently prompted by God, came out of the forest and tore 42 of the boys to shreds. The implication is that the children were all murdered. See 2 Kings 2:23-24.

Lots -- pieces of wood or stone with markings -- were used to determine the will of God. They were similar to dice. See: Numbers 26:55; Proverbs 16:33 Proverbs 18:18.

Daniel, the prophet, was employed for many years in Babylon as the chief occultist to the king. He was supervisor "of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans and soothsayers". See Daniel 5:11.


OCCULTIC TECHNIQUES IN THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES:

St. Paul engaged in evil sorcery as described in Acts 13:6-12. (Sorcery is here used in the same way as Exodus 22:18: a person saying magical words or performing magical rituals in order to harm or kill another person). During his journey to Cyprus, St. Paul met Bar-Jesus, who was an attendant of the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus. He had a conflict with cursed Bar-Jesus, saying:

"You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? Now the hand of the Lord is against you. You are going to be blind, and for a time you will be unable to see the light of the sun. (NIV)

Bar-Jesus heard the curse and immediately was blinded.

St. Peter also engaged in evil sorcery, as described in Acts 5:9. After he determined that Sapphira had lied to him, he cursed her, saying
"How is it that ye have agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out. (ASV)

She collapsed and died immediately.


BIBLICAL CONDEMATION OF THE OCCULT

There are many Biblical passages that described some prohibited types of occultic activity by the ancient Israelites. These include Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 19:26-26; 19:31; 20:6; Deuteronomy 18:10-11; Isaiah 8:19 and Malachai 3:5. Of these, Deuteronomy 18 is perhaps the most important. They forbade the Israelites from engaging in human sacrifice and in eight specific practices which some have been regarded as occultic. The King James translation is:

"There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Various other translations of the Bible use the following terms or phrases here: augur, black magic, calls up the dead, charm, consults with spirits, fortune teller, interpret omens, look for omens, magician, medium, sorcerer, soothsayer, spiritist, weaves or casts spells, witchcraft, and wizard.

Clearly, translators have had a great deal of difficulty selecting unique English words or short phrases to match the 8 original Hebrew words:

- yid'oni - Making contact with spirits (not of God).
- sho'el 'ov - Making contact with the dead .
- qosem q'samim - Foretelling the future by using lots or a similar system.
- m'onen - Predicting the future by interpreting signs in nature.
- m'nachesh - Enchanting (perhaps related to nachash, a snake).
- chover chavar - Casting spells by magical knot tying.
- m'khaseph - evil sorcery; using spoken spells to harm other people.
- doresh 'el hametim - "One who asks the dead", probably via another method than sho'el 'ov

The reference to passing children through the fire has historically been interpreted as the ritual killing of the first born child in each family. Tribes surrounding the Israelites were believed to engage in this practice. In reality, it probably refers to a painful coming-of-age challenge that children had to endure. They would pass through the fire and (hopefully) emerge without much injury. In other traditions, they would run between two fires. This phrase has caused many people to believe that Pagans in ancient times engaged in child sacrifice. This appears to be the source of the belief among some Christians that modern day Pagans do the same thing. While we do not know what ancient Pagans did, we can be certain that modern-day Pagans do not murder children. This phrase (and many similar ones throughout the Bible) has probably contributed greatly to the public's widely held fear of Ritual Abuse and Satanic Ritual Abuse.

Interpreting Deuteronomy 18 in terms of modern-day practice, it is apparent that the following are prohibited:

- yid'oni - The New Age practice of channeling in which a person attempts to contact a spirit in order to gain knowledge.
- sho'el 'ov - Spiritualism, in which a medium contacts the dead.
- qosem q'samim - Casting stones or sticks and predicting the future by their position (e.g. I Ching, and perhaps runes, or Tarot cards).
- m'onen - Foretelling the future by looking for signs in nature (e.g. predicting the harshness of a winter by looking at moss on trees, or fur thickness on animals in the wild, or whether the groundhog sees his shadow on FEB-2.)
- m'nachesh - Snake charming.
- chover chavar - Casting (presumably evil) spells while tying knots.
- m'khaseph - Reciting evil spoken spells to injure others .
- doresh 'el hametim - Any other method of contacting the dead .

Other currently used methods of foretelling the future, such as tea cup reading, astrology, palm reading, tarot cards, runes etc. are not mentioned. It is thus not obvious whether they are forbidden (as in snake charming) or whether they are acceptable to God (as in scrying). A Membership in the Masonic Order (or similar fraternal/spiritual organization) is not banned. Wicca (Witchcraft), which does not allow its followers to engage in black magic or manipulative spells, is not prohibited either. Black magic rituals, are occasionally performed by Satanists as revenge to injury done to them by others; they would be condemned by this passage.

The Biblical passages appear to apply to persons who are directly engaged in the various practices (e.g. mediums, channelers, astrologers, etc.); they do not seem to refer to people who simply observe the activity.

The Greek word "pharmakos" which appears in Galatians 5:20 refers to poisoners. It was mis-translated as witchcraft in the King James Version. Since no modern-day Pagan, Neopagan or occultic activity engages in killing people by poison, the verse does not refer in any way to Wicca, other Neopagans or Occultists.

Source:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/divin_bibl.htm

        

MAGICKAL AND MYSTICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD

ALMOND: improve your business, develop clairvoyance, assist in divination, increase money, bring prosperity, develop wisdom.

APPLE: promote healing, increase immortality, attract love, increase perpetual youth, bring prosperity.

ASH: improve health, bring prosperity, personal protection, increase Visualization Magick, strengthen Sea Magick.

APRICOT: bring love.

ASPEN: personal protection.

AVOCADO: bring beauty & love, to increase lust.

BANANA: increase fertility & increasing lust.

BEECH: strengthen Wish Magick.

BIRCH: exorcism, increase fertility, new beginnings, personal protection, for purification.

BUCKTHORN: exorcism.

CHERRY: divination.

CEDAR: increase courage, promote healing, improve longevity, bring prosperity & wealth, personal protection, purification.

COCONUT: promote chastity, improve healing, personal protection, promote purity.

CYPRESS: past life re-memories, increase longevity, personal protection.

DOGWOOD: personal protection, improve Wish Magick.

ELDER: exorcism, increase fidelity, improve healing, bring prosperity, personal protection, peaceful sleep, snake repellant, bring wealth.

ELM: personal protection.

EUCALYPTUS: support healing.

FIG: improve divination, increase energy, increase fertility, improve health, increase strength.

HAWTHORNE: support chastity, increase cleansing, increase fertility, support a hand fasting, improve happiness, bring love, personal protection.

HAZEL: improve divination, increase fertility, support a hand fasting, improve luck, personal protection, bring about a reconciliation.

HEMLOCK: POISON!

HICKORY: assist with legalalities.

JUNIPER: improve health, exorcism, personal protection, snake repellant.

LEMON: support chastity, improve divination, support friendship, improve healing, support neutrality.

LILAC: exorcism, bring about harmony, personal protection.

LIME: support chastity, improve divination, increase healing, support neutrality.

LINDEN: increase immortality, bring love everlasting, improve luck, personal protection, bring a peaceful sleep.

MAGNOLIA: increase fidelity.

MAPLE: improve divination, increase longevity, bring love.

MULBERRY: improve divination, increase knowledge, improve wisdom, strengthen the 'Will'.

MYRRH: improve healing, personal protection, strengthen spirituality.

MYRTLE: increase fertility, bring about harmony, bring love & peace, increase money & wealth, promote youth.

OAK: increase fertility & increasing lust, improve health & healing, increase longevity, improve luck, bring money, bring prosperity, personal protection, increase strength, bring wealth.

OLIVE: increase fertility, improve fidelity, bring fruitfulness, support a hand fasting, increase harmony, improve healing, bring money, promote peace, personal protection, improve personal security, increase sexuality.

ORANGE: improve divination, support a hand fasting, bring love, increase luck.

PALM: increase fertility, increase strength, increase sexuality.

PEACH: fertility, exorcism, divination, longevity, love, wisdom.

PEAR: bring love.

PECAN: secure employment, either getting or keeping.

PINE: exorcism, increase fertility, improve health & healing, personal protection, increase prosperity & wealth, bring about a purification.

PINEAPPLE: increase chastity, bring luck.

PLUM: improve healing, bring love.

POMEGRANATE: improve divination, increase fertility.

ROWAN: personal protection, increase psychic abilities, increase strength, bring success.

WALNUT: improve healing & health, increase infertility, improve mental abilities, personal protection, improve Wish Magick.

WILLOW: support birthing, bring enchantments, improve healing, bring love, strengthen love spells, personal protection, support wishing & Wish Magick.

WITCH HAZEL: increase chastity, to decrease lust, personal protection.

YEW: POISON! raising spirits.

        

MAGI ASTROLOGYS TEN PRINCIPLES
TO HELP ANYONE FIND TRUE LOVE
AND AVOID HEARTBREAK

Copyright © 2004 by The Magi Associates, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. 

February 9, 2004

Ever since women and men have been looking for true love, they have looked at each other and wondered:

• Will I marry this person, or someone else?
• Will a serious relationship with this person end up in heartbreak for me?
• Am I in love with this person or is the attraction I feel merely sexual?

We believe the answers have always been in the stars and Magi Astrology is the best way to understand what the stars can tell us.  In March of 1999, we published our third book to explain how to use Magi Astrology to help us find happiness in love.  For those of you who have not read our book, here now are a few simple Magi Astrology Principles derived from our book that help you to better know how to handle any relationship and ultimately find the one who is meant for you:

Magi Principle One About Love: You are most likely to meet your true love during a time when you are having at least one Cinderella Transit.

Magi Principle Two About Love: The more Cinderella Transits you are having at a particular time, the more likely it is that you will meet your true love at that time.

Magi Principle Three About Love: If you meet someone for the first time while you are having a Heartbreak Transit, it is likely any relationship with this new person will end up inflicting a heartbreak on you.  This is true even if you are also having any Cinderella Transit(s) at the time.

Magi Principle Four About Love: Unless two lovers form at least one Romantic Super Linkage, there is only a small chance the two persons would actually ever marry.  This is true no matter how much they think they are in love.  

[In our opinion, this is the most valuable discovery in all of astrology.  There is something mystically amazing about a Romantic Super Linkage.  It is not just an astrological sign but it seems to have the ability to create the circumstances that are necessary for two persons to actually get married.  For example, when couples form a Romantic Super Linkage, it is less likely that another person will come along to break the couple up.  On the other hand, if a couple do not form a Romantic Super Linkage, there almost always seems to be something that prevents a marriage from occurring.  Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are a good example of this  they do not form a Romantic Super Linkage.]   

Magi Principle Five About Love: If two persons form a Heartbreak Clash, there is a high probability that their relationship will result in heartbreak.  But heartbreak is not inevitable for the couple  the couple can avoid heartbreak if they marry on a day that is astrologically highly favorable for both of them, in which case their marriage can be both happy and lifelong.  (God smiles on lovers and gave us the Gift of Marriage to help us overcome Heartbreak Clashes  a great Marriage Chart blesses us in many other ways, such as good health and financial security, wonderful children, etc.)

[In most cases, a Heartbreak Clash has two phases: the Illusion Phase and the Disillusionment Phase.  During the Illusion Phase, a Heartbreak Clash between two persons creates strong attraction and the illusion of being in love  the two persons do not see each others faults.  During the Disillusionment Phase of a Heartbreak Clash, the two persons see each others faults, which normally results in resentment, falling out of love and heartbreak.  The Illusion Phase can last for years, even decades.  The Disillusionment Phase lasts the rest of the couples lives.  The only way to avoid the Disillusionment Phase of a Heartbreak Clash is to marry on a very good astrological day.]   

Magi Principle Six About Love: A Sexual Linkage is not a sign of love; but Sexual Linkages create the illusion of love, especially when two persons are young.  When two persons form a Sexual Linkage, they have to be especially careful in order to not mistake lust for love.  

[Sexual Linkages are signs of great attraction; such attraction can be so intense that many couples mistake it for love, especially if they are young.  The more Sexual Linkages that a couple form, the greater the attraction and the more intense the illusion of being in love.  Therefore, if two persons think they are in love and they form one or more Sexual Linkages, they have to be especially careful in order to avoid mistaking lust for love.  Sexual Linkages are not astrological signs of love; Romantic Super Linkages are.]

Magi Principle Seven About Love: Similarity does not mean compatibility.  Linkages are signs of true compatibility between two souls.  The more Linkages any couple forms, the more compatible they are.

[When two persons have a SIMILARITY of personality traits, it does NOT mean the two are TRULY compatible.  There is great truth and wisdom to the old adage Opposites attract.  Two persons who are vastly different can still form fabulous linkages and therefore fall in love, and be eternally compatible.  God designed the world to be this way so that there is someone perfect for each and every one of us.]

Magi Principle Eight About Love: Incompatibility is not the result of two persons being different.  Clashes are the true signs of incompatibility and stress between two souls.  The more Clashes any two persons form, the more incompatible they are and the more stress their relationship will have.

Magi Principle Nine About Love: When two persons form more Clashes than Linkages, the two souls are not compatible and are not likely to fall in love, and stay in love.  

Magi Principle Ten About Love: No matter how much two persons love each other, and no matter how well their two astrological charts match up, if the two persons get married on a horrible astrological day, their marriage would still be tumultuous and stressful, and probably result in heartbreak. Happiness can be attained by getting married on a perfect astrological day, if the date is properly selected utilizing Magi Astrology.

Editors' Note: 

The Principles of Magi Astrology work together and are to be used as a whole. It is unwise to use only some of the Principles and ignore others - to do so can result in heartbreak.

[Do not ignore any of the above Principles when analyzing a relationship. It is unwise to apply only the Principles that give you the answers you may want. The Magi Principles must ALL be utilized and none can be left out when analyzing any relationship. For example, if you are in love with someone that forms a Romantic Super Linkage with you, but you met the person while you were having a Heartbreak Transit, you would be highly tempted to ignore Principle Three, but you must include it. Please do not cherry pick the Principles you wish to apply; the Principles work together as a unit. Similarly, just because you meet someone new while you are having several Cinderella Transits, it does not mean the new person is your true love. In order for the new person to possibly be the one meant for you, the person would also have to fulfill the other Principles of Magi Astrology about love, such as forming a Romantic Super Linkage with you, and forming more Linkages than Clashes, etc.]

Since the launch of this website in March of 1999, we have utilized the above Ten Magi Principles to explain virtually all of the biggest headlines in celebrity love affairs. No other form of astrology has a website that has even attempted to do this (we assume because other forms of astrology are not able to do this and they do not consistently work). If you have been disappointed by traditional and popular astrology in the past, we urge you to learn and use the above ten Magi Principles in your own life. You can do so with confidence that the Magi Principles will work better than any other form of astrology and can help you to attain happiness in love.

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