This was going to be a piece for a LGAL project, but I misread the instructions and ended up making a different piece for the project that was a better fit. But here is the first one I did (which will not be part of the project). 🙂
Sunset view from today. Last summer was hot but seems weather is still warmer than usual. A few years back I was already ice skating on the frozen lake at this time of the year, but yesterday I was diving! I wonder what kind of winter is coming.
I went out to Rabbit Island sound exactly a week before Halloween. The weather was so calm that I used the torqeedo motor in and out. It was cold but the sunset/ moon rising/ setting and sunrise the next day made it worth it! Definitely sights and sounds that you don’t get during the summer season. That is it now for the year, for the Ilur anyway!
I’ve been thinking a lot about the prompt from this morning’s Weather, The Devil. The question, taken from the guide to the NØMAD Tarot, was “How might I stay focused on my own liberation?”
Upon reflection, I think one of my biggest lessons this year has been that I can find a lot of peace, focus, and sometimes even forgiveness in tending to my own garden. Maybe this isn’t the way for everyone, but I’ve found wounds start to close when I level up in some way, gain a skill, take on a responsibility, cross something big off my personal to-do list. Hitting that target, perfecting that move, being in my own zone all help me take my focus off the external things I perceive to be holding me back. It’s focused reclaimed, and as it turns out, there’s a lot to get done in my own lane.
So, how do we stay focused on our own liberation? Maybe just asking the question is a good start. Coming back to it again and again. Is this in service of my freedom, my expansiveness, my liberation and the liberation of those around me? It’s a tarot journaling prompt, but it could be a useful guiding star, too. And what better question to howl at the impending Scorpio new moon!
What do you think? In the face of all sorts of shady, shadowy shit, is this a helpful question to ask? How do YOU, my little devils, stay focused on your own liberation? https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp1hjrlHCJ4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fyvfsmxuw0qb
Allt Easdal, on the southern slopes of Bentangaval, Eilean Bharraigh (Isle of Barra), Western Isles, Scotland.
People have lived in this now deserted valley for about 5.600 years. The excavation showed evidence of human occupation in Neolithic, Iron Age and 18th/19th century AD. It’s still possible to see the remains of a neolithic work platform (4000 BC) made by forming a retaining wall and then levelling a space with lots of small rocks. About 80 metres from the platform, but high above it, there are two circular stone structures. In the larger structure an almost complete pottery beaker dating the occupation to around 2500 BC. Less than 100 metres from these structures lie the remains of an Iron Age wheelhouse built around the first century BC or AD. Close to the neolithic platform there are the remains of a late eighteenth century blackhouse built on the platform with a byre and a drying house beside it.
Okay, so I realized something today. I always see posts detailing the various correspondences of different types of water. Moon water, sun water, eclipse water, rain water, storm water, snow water, even *dew* water. Water from a lake, a river, an ocean, a stream, a brook. Even water collected from mist.
But y’all know what I haven’t seen?
Rainbow water.
So hold on to your seats yall because I’m about to take ya on a ride.
Rainbow water is something I use quite often in my craft. Why? Because it’s got so many uses! I use it for:
LBGTQ+ spells
Spells for positivity
Spells for luck
Spells for change
Spells for perserverance
Spells for hope
Spells for connection (I call them “bridge spells”)
Spells for happiness
Spells for creativity/imagination
Honestly, I have no idea why I haven’t seen rainbow water being mentioned before. It can’t be because it’s too difficult to collect because, y’all,
You can make your own rainbows. You don’t have to wait for one to show up in the sky.
Observe:
That right there is a bona fide rainbow that i created with nothing but a hose on the mist option and natural sunlight. Get yourself a pretty (or ugly) bottle with a wide mouth and you can very easily make your own rainbow water!
“But wait, Eiolrin, what if I don’t have a hose?”
Nothing to fear. I’ve got your back. You can also collect rainbow water by:
Shine a light through a prismatic crystal, then placing a bottle of regular water in the rainbow that’s created. Just like making sun/moon water! You don’t need to put it in the rainbow for more than maybe 1-5 minutes.
Get a plastic spray bottle that mists and spray the mist into natural sunlight until you find a rainbow. Hold bottle against the rainbow and *keep misting*.
Hell, you know what? Who needs an *actual* rainbow?
Draw a rainbow. Print out a picture of a picture of a rainbow. This rainbow is in my grimoire in the form of a magic circle (enchantment circle) and i’ve imbued it with the energy of a rainbow. I use this to make rainbow water sometimes.
So go forth and conquer, my lovelies! Be the witch/mage/occultist that uses rainbow water! Spread this around and make sure this is something that becomes a thing because in my opinion, rainbow water is just too useful to be ignored as a valid component in spells and other things.
As a bonus, here’s my rainbow water!
Perfect for iris devotees!! And sun/rainbow witches!!
Spitfire Alice A Gra 
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