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August 2026

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August 2026

Spiritual Bypassing: 9 Signs and What Helps

Spiritual bypassing is using spiritual ideas to get around unfinished emotional work rather than through it. Nine specific signs, the difference between letting go and pushing down, the...

Ida Falk · Green Witchcraft August 10, 2026 14 min read
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August 2026

The 7 Chakras Explained: Meanings and Origins

All seven chakras, their themes, elements and seed sounds — and the tally the series ended on: of seven centres, exactly one keeps the colour its 1577 source...

Selene Marlow · Astrology August 10, 2026 14 min read
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August 2026

Aura Colors: Meanings and How to See One

What the aura colors are traditionally taken to mean, where the seven-layer model actually came from, how to practise the soft gaze — and the three well-documented visual...

Ida Falk · Green Witchcraft August 10, 2026 12 min read
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August 2026

How to Hold a Cacao Ceremony at Home

A cacao ceremony is a strong cup of unsweetened cacao inside a deliberate structure. The measurements, the sequence, what each step is actually doing, who should skip it,...

Ravenna Blackthorn · Practical August 10, 2026 12 min read
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August 2026

What Is Ceremonial Cacao? Cocoa vs. Chocolate

Ceremonial cacao is the whole bean ground to a paste — nothing removed, nothing added. What that means in the cup, how it differs from cocoa powder and...

Liv Amara Sonnborn · Tarot & Oracle August 10, 2026 11 min read
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August 2026

Bri Luna and The Hoodwitch: The Witch Who Made the Aesthetic Part of the Practice

A sourced profile of The Hoodwitch founder: how the site started, her book, glamour magic, and what her work changed in the modern witchcraft scene.

Ravenna Blackthorn · Practical August 10, 2026 10 min read
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August 2026

How to Open Your Third Eye: Signs and Safe Practice

Where the third eye idea comes from, what the pineal gland actually does, which practices are worth your time — and the part almost nobody writes about: intensive...

Ravenna Blackthorn · Practical August 10, 2026 11 min read
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Astronomy

Pleiadian, Arcturian, Sirian: Starseed Types

All six starseed lines side by side — the traits ascribed to each, the named book the strand came from, and what is actually up there. Three of...

Liv Amara Sonnborn · Tarot & Oracle August 10, 2026 10 min read
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August 2026

Starseed Signs: Where the Idea Came From

The signs people list, the chain of American books the idea was actually assembled from between 1976 and 2011, and the plainer explanations that fit each sign just...

Selene Marlow · Astrology August 10, 2026 10 min read
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August 2026

Cord Cutting Ritual: How to Do It and Why It Works

Cord cutting, energetic cords, cutting ties: where the idea came from, a ritual in seven steps — and the psychological finding that explains why it works even though...

Ida Falk · Green Witchcraft August 10, 2026 13 min read
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August 2026

Am I an Empath, or Just Highly Sensitive?

Where the term highly sensitive person came from, the four traits it rests on, what the research supports — and the question most articles skip: is this a...

Ida Falk · Green Witchcraft August 10, 2026 12 min read
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Anti-Scam

How to Spot a Fake Spell Caster: 12 Red Flags Before You Pay Anyone

Guaranteed results, gift-card payments, sudden curse diagnoses: learn the 12 red flags of fraudulent spell casters and what honest, documented ritual work looks like instead.

Leif Daniel Schmidt · Shadow Work & Consciousness August 10, 2026 13 min read