Sympathetic Magic
The very best kind of magic is sympathetic magic. It harnesses the power of one of our world's most significant forces, that of resonance. A recognition of its counterpoint in another. It is the basis of love and so many other feelings and the reason when you pluck a string on one guitar, the same string on another in proximity vibrates with knowing. Simpatico sorcery, as I like to call it.
The Virgo full moon is the canny lunar mistress at the end of the zodiac.She knows that to approach what comes next, you need to know what it is time to turn away from. Discernment is key. Be gone any crappy compromises you have been gagging on or lies you can no longer choke down. Banished be anything that stifles your freedom, quashes your sense of adventure, stymies your growth, halts your quest. It is all a parasite on your untrammelled evolution and a blight on your authenticity.
Years ago a keeper of goats told me that parasites are creatures of the moon. Every 28 days when the night sky lights up the land, they must let go of their temporary home by moonlight and then re-attach to their cloven host. And on that same night pumpkin seeds are added to the goats feed, halting the parasites from reattachment and passing them out of the system. Natural magic, with which we can sympathise.
Tonight under the full moon take three pumpkin seeds. Into each, one at a time, whisper a tale of a parasite in your life. An unwelcome cling-on that is hamstringing your progress and weighing you down. It may be a behaviour that is not working. A scene that drains you. A relationship that has turned rancid. As you tell each tale, scan your body for where this parasite feeds on you. Note sagely where and how it sucks the life out of you.
Hold the seed on your tongue as you picture the parasite. Through force of will and knowing point it in the right direction and then swallow it.
Repeat the process for all three seeds with the same intention + focus.
So may it be, as if by magic.
As my favourite herbalism teacher from Saturn's last dance in Pisces taught all us wide eyed baby witches, you are what you don't shit out.
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Words c. Kerrie Basha 2023