Divination is one my favorite things to learn about and study! There are so many methods and each one is so interesting.
Some questions require all the available tools. On the plus side, I think I’m ready to make the big decision I’ve been dreading for the past week....
Created a new form of Astromancy using dice, a flat piece of pyrite, and a semicircle of hematite. You toss dice and the pyrite and hematite...
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“Aye. Mermaids. Sea ghouls, devil fish, dreadful in hunger for flesh of man. Mermaid waters, that be our path. Cling to your soul as mermaids be given to take the rest, to the bone.”
This reminds me of the Dark side of us Pisces girls. We can be quite vengeful and manipulative when we get angry. When you cross us (especially when we’re in love and devoted) we’re taking your ass down.
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” Realm of the Mermaids “ … Stained Glass installation at Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, San Francisco … Photographer: Thomas Hawk
The Fisherman and the Syren by Frederic-Lord Leighton, 1858
One of my favourite paintings…
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” Kadal Kanni “ … South Asian Mermaid by Wolfberry Studio (Copyright 2011)
See more of this Artist’s work here: http://wolfberrystudio.blogspot.com/
Frida Kahlo mer-angel!
Yemaya the Orisha of the 7 Seas, Motherhood and Childbirth of the Yoruba Religion
Mami’s Sisters in the African Atlantic
Africans taken to Haiti aboard slave ships brought with them strong traditions of fish-tailed and water-related spirits, which were incorporated into Vodou, a complex and sophisticated religion honoring spiritual entities known as lwa. Water enters the Haitian Vodou cosmology in many ways. Marine spirits like the mermaid Lasirèn symbolize the lwa of the water.
Meanwhile, every February 2nd along the northeast coast of Brazil, descendants of enslaved Africans, as well as many others, turn their eyes and thoughts toward the watery horizon and pray to the “Queen of the Sea,” “Mother Water,” the “Mother of Fish,” Yemanja, seeking her love, support, protection, and guidance.
“Who is Mami Wata? She is Mother Water, Mother of Fishes, goddess of oceans, rivers and pools, with sources in West and Central Africa and tributaries throughout the African Americas, from Bahia to Brooklyn. Usually shown as a half-woman, half-fish, she slips with ease between incompatible elements: water and air, tradition and modernity, this life and the next.”— Holland Cotter
Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas,” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, celebrates a goddess and her ripples, 2009