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How to Manifest: 5 Steps, Mistakes and What Works

A beginner guide to manifesting: where the law of attraction comes from, a five-step method, affirmations, the most common mistakes and what research on visualization and goals actually shows.

Selene Marlow September 29, 2026

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Epidote Meaning, Properties and Care

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Burning Cedar: Meaning, How to Do It and Safety

Ida Falk · Green Witchcraft September 29, 2026 11 min read
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Jasper Stone Meaning, Types, Properties and Care

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Spiritual Awakening: Signs, Stages and How to Cope

Leif Daniel Schmidt · Shadow Work & Consciousness September 29, 2026 14 min read
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Goose Bone Weather Prediction: How to Read the Bone for Winter

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Hag Riding: The Old Hag Folklore Behind Sleep Paralysis

Liv Amara Sonnborn September 29, 2026 11 min read

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Online Spell Casters: What Etsy, Fiverr and Instagram Allow, and How to Vet One

Leif Daniel Schmidt · Shadow Work & Consciousness September 29, 2026 17 min read
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Lughnasadh: How to Celebrate the First Harvest, and When It Falls

Temple of Desire September 29, 2026 19 min read
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Candle in the Window Meaning: Welcome, Remembrance and the Irish Christmas Light

Liv Amara Sonnborn September 29, 2026 10 min read
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Draconid Meteor Shower 2026: Best Time to Watch

Selene Marlow · Astrology September 29, 2026 10 min read

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Camphor Incense: Meaning, Uses and Safety

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Mastic Resin Incense: Chios Tears and How to Burn Them

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Jasper Stone Meaning, Types, Properties and Care

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Aquamarine Meaning, Properties and Care

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Azurite Meaning, Properties and Care: The Painters' Blue

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Jet Stone Meaning: Whitby Jet and How to Spot Real Jet

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Kirlian Photography: Can It Really Capture Your Aura?

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Numerology & Angel Numbers

818 Angel Number: Meaning for Money, Love & Twin Flame

818 holds the 1 of beginnings between two 8s of consequence. What it means for money, work, love and twin flames, the math behind it, and why Los...

Cassian Roth · Numerology September 29, 2026 12 min read
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717 Angel Number: Meaning in Love, Twin Flame & Path

717 joins the 7 of inner wisdom with the 1 of beginnings. What it means in love, for twin flames and for your direction, the math behind it,...

Cassian Roth · Numerology September 29, 2026 12 min read
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2233 Angel Number Meaning: 22:33 Double Master Number

22:33 puts the master numbers 22 and 33 side by side. What 2233 means in love, for twin flames and for your calling, the math behind it, and...

Cassian Roth · Numerology September 29, 2026 14 min read
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2332 Angel Number Meaning: 23:32 Mirror Hour & Love

What the last mirror hour of the day, 23:32, and the number 2332 mean in love, for twin flames and at work, the math behind the palindrome, and...

Cassian Roth · Numerology September 29, 2026 14 min read
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2211 Angel Number Meaning: 22:11, Twin Flame & Love

What 2211 and the time 22:11 mean for twin flames, in love and at work, where the master numbers 11 and 22 come from, and why you keep...

Cassian Roth · Numerology September 29, 2026 15 min read
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Baba Vanga

Baba Vanga: The Blind Seer and the Prophecies She Never Made

Every winter brings new "Baba Vanga predictions" — yet the blind Bulgarian seer never wrote a prophecy down. What is documented about her life, how a communist state...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 29, 2026 9 min read
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NASA's October Sky Guide Goes Spooky: Algol the "Demon Star" and the Witch Head Nebula (Published September 28)

On September 28, NASA's Night Sky Network published its October 2026 Night Sky Notes, "Spooky Stargazing": Algol, the Demon Star in Perseus that dims about every three days,...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 29, 2026 6 min read
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NOAA Issues G1 Geomagnetic Storm Watch for October 2: Auroras Possible Across the Northern U.S.

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm watch for October 2, 2026, after a filament erupted from the sun on September 28 and launched...

Selene Marlow · Astrology September 29, 2026 6 min read
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Folklore & Origins

Ears Burning Meaning: Left Ear, Right Ear, Superstition

What a burning right or left ear means in folk belief, where the saying comes from, why ears really get hot, and when hot ears belong with a...

Liv Amara Sonnborn · Tarot & Oracle September 29, 2026 12 min read
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1441 Angel Number Meaning: 14:41, Love & Twin Flame

What 1441 and the reversed mirror hour 14:41 mean in love, twin flame and work readings, why the Temperance card fits, and why you keep seeing it.

Cassian Roth · Numerology September 29, 2026 15 min read
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Online Spell Casters: What Etsy, Fiverr and Instagram Allow, and How to Vet One

Online spell casters work on Etsy, Fiverr, Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp, and each venue has its own rules and its own trap. Here is what each platform allows,...

Leif Daniel Schmidt · Shadow Work & Consciousness September 29, 2026 17 min read
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Astrology & Zodiac

Jupiter Retrograde 2026 and 2027: Dates, Degrees and the Shadow Period

Jupiter turns retrograde on December 12, 2026 and goes direct on April 12, 2027 — four months of the sky's largest planet appearing to walk backwards through Leo....

Temple of Desire September 29, 2026 18 min read

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