Aura Quartz: How It's Made, Types and How to Spot It
Aura quartz glows like a rainbow on an oil slick, yet it is ordinary rock crystal with a breath of gold or titanium on its skin. How the...
Sweat Lodge Ceremony: History, Meaning and Safety
Darkness, glowing stones, steam and prayer: where the sweat lodge comes from, how a ceremony unfolds, and why respect and safety are not negotiable.
Galdr: Norse Rune Chanting, Vegvisir and Helm of Awe
Runes were not only carved but sung. What the Eddas reveal about galdr, why the favorite "Viking runes" come from the nineteenth century, and how to practice rune...
Eleusinian Mysteries: What We Know and the Kykeon
For a thousand years, thousands walked to Eleusis each autumn, fasted, drank a barley drink and saw something they were sworn never to reveal. What we know, and...
Rick Strassman's DMT Study: What It Actually Found
Several of the volunteers would later reach for the same comparison: a freight train. Before the injection had even finished, something rolled through body and head. Within ninety...
Faust's Höllenzwang: The Grimoires Faust Never Wrote
Some books are louder than their contents. The Höllenzwang is one of them. For centuries, across the German-speaking world, it was treated as the most dangerous book there...
Archangel Ariel: Meaning, Signs and Nature Prayer
Archangel Ariel is the angel figure called on today as the guardian of nature, animals and the earth. The name means "lion of God." Here you can read...
505 Angel Number and 5:05 Meaning: Change at Dawn
5:05 is the mirror hour of change at the edge of the day: two fives, the number of change, with an open zero between them. Here you can...
Itchy Nose Meaning: Superstitions, Left and Right
If your nose itches, you are about to get company, hear news, get into an argument, or be kissed. Hardly any body omen has as many meanings as...
Pet Loss Ritual: How to Say Goodbye to Your Pet
Losing an animal often leaves you standing between two worlds. In one, the loss feels like losing a member of the family. In the other, people ask after...
Seraphinite Meaning: Origin, Care and How to Spot It
Few stones look so much like their name. Silvery feathers on deep green, as if someone had laid wings into the rock. Here is where seraphinite comes from,...
Pietersite Meaning: The Storm Stone and How to Spot It
Some stones look like weather seen from above. Pietersite is one of them: blue-gray streaks, golden bands of fiber, and between them broken edges that look as if...