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September 2026

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Round cotton zafu meditation cushion beside a lit pillar candle and a green wool blanket on a dark surface
Buying Guide

How to Choose a Meditation Cushion: Zafu or Bolster

Zafu, bolster, pranayama cushion or bench - and the one test question that decides the height. Fills compared, four steps to sitting well, and the honest limits of...

Liv Amara Sonnborn · Tarot & Oracle September 22, 2026 6 min read
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Occult & Hidden Knowledge

Saturn's Decagon: What Hubble Found at the South Pole

NASA and ESA announced a ten-sided wave around Saturn's south pole on September 2, 2026. What was measured, why the best model said it could not exist, and...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 22, 2026 18 min read
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Aura

How to Cleanse Your Aura: 7 Methods Compared, and How to Choose

Seven ways to cleanse your aura — salt, smoke, selenite, shower, sound, breath and egg — compared by time, cost and situation, with an honest note on what...

Temple of Desire September 22, 2026 17 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Taoist Sexuality: Jing, Qi and the Microcosmic Orbit

Quick answer Taoist sexual practice treats sexual energy — jing — as a form of life force to be cultivated rather than suppressed or spent without attention. The...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 22, 2026 11 min read
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Animal Symbolism

Blackbird Symbolism and Spiritual Meaning, Explained

Quick answer In North America, blackbird almost always means an icterid — a red-winged blackbird, a common grackle, a Brewer’s blackbird. The bird in the old stories is...

Liv Amara Sonnborn · Tarot & Oracle September 22, 2026 15 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Vipassana: Inside the 10-Day Silent Course

What Vipassana is, the hour-by-hour ten-day course, why it costs nothing, how to attend one in the US, and who should talk to a doctor before applying.

Liv Amara Sonnborn · Tarot & Oracle September 22, 2026 12 min read
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Practical Magic & Rituals

Court Case Ritual: What It Can Do and What It Cannot

A court date ritual that is honest about its limits: timing, the seven steps, the American court case tradition, and what you can actually carry into a courthouse.

Ravenna Blackthorn · Practical September 22, 2026 11 min read
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Meditation & Practice

Osho and Rajneeshpuram: The Teaching and the Crimes

Who Osho was, what the active meditations are and how to try one safely, and what happened at Rajneeshpuram and The Dalles in 1984, according to court record.

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 22, 2026 11 min read
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Astrology & Zodiac

Chiron in Astrology: The Wound, the Sign, the Return

What Chiron is astronomically, where the wounded healer reading came from, what each sign and house is held to mean, and why the Chiron return lands near 50.

Selene Marlow · Astrology September 22, 2026 12 min read
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Folklore & Origins

Mandrake Root: The Gallows Legend and the Real Plant

What the mandrake really is, where the screaming root and gallows legend came from, why American mandrake is a different plant, and why it stays on the shelf.

Ida Falk · Green Witchcraft September 22, 2026 14 min read
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Angels

Archangel Symbols and Sigils: Meanings and Uses

A sword, a lily, a staff with a fish, a flame over an open book. Archangels arrive in Western art carrying objects, and those objects are not decoration...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 22, 2026 10 min read
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Buying Guide

Moonstone vs Rainbow Moonstone: Difference and Care

It is one of the most common mix-ups in the crystal trade, and it sits in almost every product description: that rainbow moonstone is a particularly beautiful grade...

Mara Solveig Nachtigall · Crystals & Stones September 22, 2026 9 min read