Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Mercury Retrograde

Mercury Retrograde

Mercury Retrograde is a moment of complete rest to the mind needs (and requested) to rearrange, rethink, rebuild and re-associate with their environment, it is time to make a "RESET" of our day. If we manage to recognize and also understand these periods as different parts of a completely natural process, as it is the dream, waking and rest, through this we can get great personal advantages and benefits to every aspect of our lives. Every four months, Mercury takes the inevitable decision to park and put backward for several weeks. These cycles corresponding to Mercury Retrograde attune us and we suggest reflection in which aspect of our life we ​​must focus on that moment. It is time to reconsider ideas, projects in the short and long term partnerships, relationships, goals and lifestyles, that is precisely the purpose of Mercury Retrograde.

A period of Mercury in the process of retrogradation, is the time to catch up and running with everything around us, complete unfinished projects, address those pending communications, pay our debts, cancel plans, appointments and meetings ... and more, perhaps this is the moment less suitable for further action and be "take up arms and attack!" is not the time to carry out a plan, but if it is to plan everything when Mercury hara, again be direct.

It is convenient retrograde Mercury (the ruling planet of communications), to deal with the time we invest in improving our own quality of life, and clarity of our communications, you should try to take deep awareness of how healthy is related to others, evaluate what we bring to our relationships and provide further, real attention.

Retrograde Planets

"Retrograde planets not only cause the individual to return to yesterday, the previous month and last year, but also induce a regression to past lives whose memories, strongly influence the present incarnation. These memories refer to events or specific individuals that in another life were important enough to follow now influencing the person. "

Martin Schulman Karmic Astrology: Retrograde Planets and reincarnation.

Blessed you... 

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Hey Lover! It's Time to Dance under the Moon!

Hey Lover! It's Time to Dance under the Moon!

Keep calm and dance under the full moon


We are facing a cosmic event to nourish us with good energy, it's liberating light and a lot of creativity to develop new ideas. This definitely PROMISES! And much!.

This next Thursday, August 18, in the early morning hours, we will illuminate the sky Full Moon in Aquarius, Sun heating in the astrological sign of Leo, it will look face to face with her sweet silvery lover (the Moon), located in the most liberal and optimistic of all sign, the sign of Aquarius, both located at 25 ° 53'. The Waterboy with his hand anfora channeled all their energy in the blessed moon, and we send in best reflected vibrations.

Some are calling this peculiar situation "eclipse" because the Sun, Earth and Moon will almost be in perfect alignment, however, will not be visible from any point on Earth. Although, basically, it is almost an eclipse, but can not become one.



Full Moon in Aquarius comes to us with the same good vibe that has always characterized, we are together to discover this lunation a huge amount of secrets and new opportunities, it is time to act, stop thinking so much and bringing ideas to the action, beyond concepts on paper, it is time to use force and shine, it's time conducive to travel, learn, socialize, meet and vibrate very cool.

Do not ignore or leave aside the noble King of heaven, Uranus, the ruling planet of Aquarius, and logically this magical lunation has a positive effect on the Moon and Sun equally, "these Aquarians always have an extra strength up his sleeve!", the first King of God and heaven, that which comes to us to impose order, and sometimes also some emotional chaos!, brings the power of decision, everything that is unpredictable and unexpected, the blows of good fortune (and also unlucky), breaking the conventional balance and routines.


The king of heaven has come dressed in silver to remove from our path all that is useless, and in the process enlightens us with little eccentricity, embraces the Aquarian who is close to you, who will probably give you their best advice in the coming days.

This Moon comes with Earth trine between Venus and Pluto, which favors the chemistry between couples, and economic issues. If you are about to throw the tackle, or borrow, now it is the time

Do not miss all the excitement offered by this magical lunation.



Next Book, due.... 201?

Next Book, due.... 201?


New phase begins! Awake until 5 in the morning to watch the sunrise as I write, I have officially resumed my next book, which I started several months ago but put on hold while I engaged in other projects, now as my wonderful editor working on my next book, and on the other hand I have two other books in the process of illustration, I am taking full advantage of my free time to write a great work, keeping my same line of work, but you will see that they'll love, I am grateful for all the support you I give and so I'm not worried nighter writing, editing and constantly improving every line, I do it because my good that you appreciate and deserve that and much more.

Blessings and light to all.


Sunday, August 14, 2016

The Sorcerer's Bottle

The Sorcerer's Bottle


The sorcerer's bottle or spell jar is an occidental form of magic that has kept relevant for more than 500 years. Today there are many versions of this formula that consists in reproducing a spell inside of a jar an bury it to avoid it to be destroyed or weakened. It is Regrettable, but this form of magic and sorcery is often used in black magic to cause harm and illness, but if you know how to use it, it can be pretty helpful.

Witches who are dedicated to spreading the evil tend to fill liquor bottles with needles, pins, animal blood, hair the person they wish to bewitch, curse the spell and bury it in a soil that has not been consecrated as an offering to their demons and kill their enemies promoting illness and disease to cause death. On the other hand those who are dedicated to doing good have our own much improved version, combining the principles of traditional witchcraft with elements of modern white magic to achieve diverse results, either for our own welfare or that of others.

To make a bottle of spells to protect you from all evil and all sorts of curses, fill a bottle of preferably dark glass with two or three personal items. You can include in the mix some hair and nail clippings and the following herbs, dried root marjoram, fennel, honeysuckle, narcissus, rue and star anise. Finally, fill the bottle to the top with equal parts water and white wine.



Once the bottle has been filled close it properly and light a white candle. Anoint the bottle top to bottom with essential oil of marjoram or honeysuckle and completely seal the nozzle with hot wax of the same candle. To finish it, tie a cord or ribbon white around the neck of the bottle and bury it, preferably in a private garden or a nearby park.

We also have the spell bottle for love, following the above procedure but this time is mandatory to use a bottle of wine. Add your personal items as well as equal parts of vanilla, cinnamon, verbena, vetiver, orchid, jasmine and lavender. Light a strawberry or roses scented candle and use the wax of it to seal the bottle, tie a red ribbon or cord around and bury the spell with a pink quartz and a white rose.

There is a variation of the above formula, spell bottle for love done at the beginning of a month. A glass or crystal bottle filled with fresh flowers orange, apple seeds, redbud leaves, rose petals five tulip bulbs, a picture of you and the loved one another and both hair cuts. Fill the bottle to the top with oil olive or orange essential oil, cover completely the bottle with a red cloth and tie it with blue ribbon. Bury the bottle in a flower garden or deep into the shore of a river.

If you wish to perform a sorcerer's which consecrates a site against all types of spells and curses, you must bury during a new moon night a bottle you have pre-filled with dry parts of birch, cedar, dill, verbena, bay and aconite. Seal the bottle with a cork that has drawn the mystical symbol of the pentagram and wax from a purple candle.

Another method is the spell bottle to attract good luck. In this case we use a green glass bottle filled with clover, nutmeg and dried shells orange. Light a yellow candle to bless and seal the bottle. Tie the bottle with ribbon of gold or green color. I suggest in this case make a braid with green ribbon, gold ribbon and white ribbon to give more power to the spell.



And finally, the bottle to override the power of a warlock or witch. Fill a bottle of the darkest color you can get with hair or nail clippings of the warlock, needles, pepper, rock salt, garlic, juniper, dill and parsley. Fill the bottle to the top with soil from a consecrated land and close it. Light a candle violet and a black one, symbolizing the transmutation and power to overturn all kinds of negative work.

Proceed to seal the bottle completely with wax of both candles and tie with a black ribbon. Bury the bottle the deepest possible and from the next full moon all spells and curses cast by the sorcerer lost power.

Today smaller versions of these sorcerer bottles are sold on the market, already prepared and ready for use. Particularly I don't trust them, so I do not suggest buying them when it is not known if they were truly prepared by an expert or just a trader. Ideally make your won bottles or entrust them to a specialist in the subject matter well mastered.

Elhoim Leafar



Tradition in Modern Times

Tradition in Modern Times


It is very nice to see how traditions have slowly retaken the faith of humanity and even today we live in a society overloaded with information, social networks and thousands of electronic products and unnecessary applications covering most of our time, still the old traditions have been retained and have recently begun to gain more strength as community role.

It is true that the world is currently saturated with technological advances, many of them useful and others simply a vile scam from the corporate world to get the money from your pockets. Still, this ensures that many people seek more within themselves than they can find in a digital store, and it is there where the old traditions, steadfast, and vibrant as in the early centuries.


Image by: Annie Spratt


Honoring the old traditions not only satisfies you emotionally and spiritually, also gives you the opportunity to find your ancestors, sharing with them and honor them as they worshiped their deities and customs when they were part of this world of living things.

Traditions allow us to honor the past and all those who came into the world before us, but they must be taken with an honest respect and should be practiced at heart. Traditions are often colorful and cheerful festivities, others are quite often sad and nostalgic, but all in turn are a way to celebrate life changes, joy and humanity in different ways.

If you study the traditions of your people and your family and you carry out, you're rediscovering with your roots and your ancestors, but... When you study traditions of other peoples and countries in one way or another you become part of them, and you go to reacquaint yourself with the world.


Elhoim Leafar

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

The Witch's Book of Power by Devin Hunter

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Sunday, August 7, 2016

Magick Facts ♒️ August Magic & Full Moon In Aquarius 2016

Magick Facts

August Magic & Full Moon In Aquarius 2016 ♒️



The August full moon is the eighth lunar month of the year, August, is named after Augustus, roman politician that was jealous of the fact that 21 years before Julio Cesar gave his name to a month. Augustus decided to do the same, naming his month the very next. It initially had 29 days and it was adjusted to have 31 days (as July) by removing days from other months.

In Ireland August is called Lúnasa. The pagan festival of Lughnasadh is celebrated this month in tribute to the Celtic god Lugh, a god who exercised multiple functions simultaneously and belonged to a number of cemeteries in various villages. Even today the feast of or Lughnasadh or Lammas or Lunasa is celebrated on August 1st, in which bonfires are lit and music is played for the dogs. 

The August full moon has special magic power to grant wishes, spells and rituals to consolidate a project and magic associated with fire and water. During this month we shape charms that fit our deepest longings and dreams, and the making of amulets and talismans to take care of loved ones. The August full moon it is also known as the barley moon, the corn moon, the sturgeon moon, the red full moon, the green corn moon or the dog moon.
  • The traditional lunar gems are usually peridot or olivine.
  • The flower lunar is the marigold flower.
  • The animal totem of this month is the dog or sturgeon.
  • The colors for this month are white, dark red and indigo.
  • The most appropriate stones or gems to bless are the onyx, peridot, and amethyst.
  • The plants more powerful this month are rue, carnations and gardenias.


Full Moon In Aquarius ♒️



When the moon is in the air signs like Gemini, Libra & Aquarius, is the ideal moment to create magic that involves the element of Air, Climate and Thoughts, the air signs give us power to cast change, mental and spiritual transformation spells.

The Moon in Aquarius, there's no better time for climate-related spells that this Moon. The Celts believed that the moon in Aquarium has the power to bring rain in times of drought, the rain that falls this Moon's evening is usually quite special. She is the right moon to get us out of a jam or a complicated situation. We craft amulets to strengthen the courage and return hope to a beloved one.

Elhoim Leafar



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Saturday, August 6, 2016

The Many Meanings of the Rio 2016 Olympic Flame


The Many Meanings of the Rio 2016 Olympic Flame


Yesterday August 5, we witnessed an amazing Opening Ceremony of the Olympics and, as usual, the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron was the highlight of the evening, but there is more to it than just a nice torch with a wind-powered sculpture. This post will explain the multiple meanings the Olympic Cauldron and Flame have acquired through the years until Rio 2016. We will start with the traditional symbols of modern day Olympic flame and then we will jump to the new ones adopted by Rio 2016.

Side view of the 2016 Olympic Cauldron. Getty Images


An Allegory to the Origin of Civilization


The Olympic Cauldron is one of the core symbols of the Modern Olympic Games, along with the Olympic Flag, the Olympic Rings and the Olympic Anthem, but it certainly is the only one of these that actually has something to do with the Ancient Olympic Games in Old Greece.

As many know, the Olympic Cauldron holds the Olympic Flame, a fire that every four years travels the world from ancient Olympia to the Olympic stadium in the host city, but why do we go into all that trouble? It all has to do with the Greek Mythology. The Olympic Flame was originally lit in the arena, together with the Temple of Zeus and the Temple of Hera in Olympia. All of these lightnings were made by Virgin Priestesses using the fire from the everlasting flame in the Temple of Hestia. Hestia was the Goddess Protector of family, architecture, homey warmth and the cooking. After the sacred fire was handled to humans by Prometheus, the flame had to be kept. For this work the Virgin Priestesses of Hestia were raised from early childhood and were considered ones of the most important priestesses in all of Greece. 

As mentioned above, the “Sacred Flame” has an important mythological meaning. In Greek Mythology, the fire was given to men by the Titan Prometheus. He had stone a flame from Zeus himself on Mount Olympus. When humankind got the fire, the first civilization could flourish, hence the fire represents the beginning of Greek civilization and hence, for them, all civilizations. That is why an everlasting flame was kept on the temple of the Goddess Hestia. It was said that that flame was lit from that original fire brought by the titan Prometheus himself, who stole it from Zeus, the king of the Gods and gave it to men. According to the myth, the fire was what fueled the growth of civilization, progress, arts and technology. Even in modern cities like New York, Prometheus' fire is represented as the fuel for progress.

Golden Statue of Prometheus in New York.



The Olympic Games themselves were a fuel of development, art and culture. They were held in honor of the God Zeus and were the most important religious ritual of Ancient Greece and a heavily cultural festival. The Temple of Zeus in Olympia was crowned with the majestic Statue of Zeus, one of the 7 Wonders of the World. The games also attracted poets, sculptors, painters and architects, making it also one of the most powerful cultural engines of ancient Greece. Recall the statue of the Olympic discus thrower, for example.

Discobolus in National Roman Museum Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. Roman copy of a greek sculpture made at the Olympic Games. Photo from Wikipedia (Livioandronico2013)


A Symbol of Peace


Ever from the beginning, the Ancient Olympic Games symbolized a truce in ancient Greece. All the wars, riots and even crimes were held on pause for the duration of the Games, so the Greeks started relating the burning of the Olympic Flame with peaceful times. Everyone in Greece knew they could roam free the country and be safe as long as the Olympic Flame were burning on Olympia.

When the Modern Olympics were reinvented by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1894, his dream was always to associate the games with peace and the hope for a better future. It was not until 1928, on the Amsterdam Olympics, that the perfect symbol for that message was found. These marked the first games to reinvent the Olympic Flame.


A symbol of Human Endeavor

The Olympic flame burning in Athens at 1928 was lit by an electric company employee, not very ceremonial. History had to wait to one of its darkest times for the flame to take another meaning. I am referring to Nazi Germany. 

The games of Berlin in 1936 were held by a Nazi Germany in a failed attempt to prove to the World the “superiority" of Germany. Hitler himself preceded the games and he ordered to not held back on spectacle. These were the first games to be televised and broadcasted worldwide. The travel of the torch from ancient Greece to modern day Germany was included to “signify” their link to the Greek culture. This message never came across and was quickly debunked. The Olympics were then cancelled twice due to World Wars I and II until London 1948. This time around the Torch was also lit in Olympia and traveled to London, but now the relay of the torch was received with joy and was given the meaning of how Humanity can accomplish great things when working together instead of fighting each other, a message that fit like a glove to an Europe vastly destroyed by war. Ever since, the “passing of the torch” from one athlete to the next and the different ways the torch has traveled through the years has become a celebration of how humanity has come together and is capable of achieving greatness and travelling distances. The olympic games have from then on succeeded in moving he torch each time on larger distances and through more innovative ways to transport. the have included: On foot, on horse ride, on cars, ships, traditional canoes, airplanes, underwater, in a flaming arrow, through radio waves and lasers across the ocean. These accomplishments of carrying the flame has been highly televised and celebrated by all mankind on the months leading to the Olympics.


Travel of the Olympic Flame to the Sidney 2000 Olympics underwater. Getty Images

These are the traditional symbolisms of the Olympic Torch, now going back to the new symbolisms being adopted by the Olympic Flame from Rio 2016 and why it is one of the most important ones.

A Symbol of Love and Tolerance


Rio 2016 marks the first year that one of the many "Passing the Torch" moments has been marked by a same-sex kiss between two men, symbolizing tolerance, respect and love. Even in past games, the passing of the torch has always been a symbol of friendship between different races and different types of people but this is the first time the LGBT community is being represented right in the front page, specially in an industry recognized as highly homophobic, as it is the sports industry, and essentially after the Sochi Olympics were famous for being "homophobic Games" due to the fact that even showing a rainbow flag guaranteed a straight-to-prison card to athletes and spectators alike. This act of passing the torch through a gay kiss is the Olympic Games telling us "We are not Sochi, we celebate love".


A same-sex kiss between two men marks the passing of the torch on its way to the Rio 2016 Olympics. Photo by Pedro Veríssimo.


A symbol of the Sun


All those trouble that has been taken to move the torch from Greece to the Olympic Stadium has a very important reason. As was explained above, the original flame came from the “Sacred Fire” but with the decay of Greek Civilization, that original flame is long extinct. The new games keep the spirit of that tradition with a twist. Every Olympic year, 12 new “Virgins of Hestia” reunite in the ruins of the Temple of Hestia in Olympia and light the first Olympic Flame of the games by concentrating sun rays in a mirror. Hence, the Olympic Torch comes not from a lighter or a spark, but by the Rays of The Sun, as a gift from Apollo himself. The ceremony is obviously less flamboyant than the Opening Ceremony, but it is rich in mythology. The Sun is the fuel that allows life on Earth and without it nothing could survive. The Solar Deities have been always important in human history, not only in Greece. (Remember Ra in Ancient Egypt or the Horned Sun God in modern Wicca.) The use of the Sun to light the Olympic Flame and the posterior travel of it is a metaphor of how we can use the natural resources and transform them into something much better but only if we work together. The organizers of Rio 2016 made the message even more important by shaping the Olympic Cauldron into a magnificent sculpture representing the Sun, a message that is more evident when you see the location of the torch in the Stadium is right above the model of the city that has been used throughout the whole ceremony, as telling you it is the Sun above Rio.



Virgins of Hestia Lighting the Olympic Flame from rays of the Sun in the Temple of Hestia. Euronews.



A Symbol of Sustainable Power Source


Rio 2016 is strong in its environmentalist message, but the Olympic Cauldron is even stronger on it. As the years go by, the Olympic Torch has become significantly larger and the flame has become also larger with every game. If not, try to remember the ridiculously tall cauldrons of Athens 2004 and Sochi 2012 games. London’s cauldron was composed of 204 different moving “petals” each one with its own connection to a natural gas source. Then Rio came and proposed what appears to be the smallest cauldron in the history of modern Olympic Games. On first glance when watching the ceremony, people started to get angry or disappointed until it was raised to its final position at the center of a Kinetic Structure that, s was said above, signifies the Sun.

The genius of this design is that by being the smallest Olympic Cauldron, it is also the greenest one, it uses the least amount of natural gas in modern history. You don’t need a big massive torch to give an amazing spectacle, and the mirrors in the rays of the kinetic sculpture even turned the Olympic Flame into a light spectacle that flooded the whole stadium like no other Olympic Flame has ever done. This movement of the sculpture is also green as it uses Wind Energy, not electricity. This cauldron proves that we can reduce the use of fossil fuels, we can use Wind and Solar energy and still have the most amazing olympic cauldron of all time, and that is also a Symbol of Hope for the future of Humanity.



Rio 2016 official facebook page.