u/juunnneeeee

firstly, please be patient and kind. i am not trying to diss astrology, I wanna know more.

so i did a researched online on days of the week and their planetary correspondences. what i discovered was how ancient understanding of space was very deficient (like calling sun moon planets along with real planets), arbitrary associations (the Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon sequence based on perceived speeds) and no real influence of associated planets on those specific days. as far as I understand, if the same thing had to be made today, it would look wildly different. also retrograde being nothing more than a misunderstanding too.

correct me if im wrong but how do people actually believe in this to learn and explore and entire system based on such misinformation? more importantly, why not rework it to make it make sense? like a weekly calendar with the real list of planets?

genuinely interested in learning!

firstly, please be patient and kind. i am not trying to diss astrology, I wanna know more.

so i did a deep dive on days of the week and their planetary correspondences. what i discovered was how ancient understanding of space was very deficient (like calling sun moon planets along with real planets), arbitrary associations (the Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon sequence based on perceived speeds) and no real influence of associated planets on those specific days. as far as I understand, if the same thing had to be made today, it would look wildly different. also retrograde being nothing more than misinformation too.

correct me if im wrong but how do people actually believe in this to learn and explore and entire system based on such misinformation? more importantly, why not rework it to make it make sense? like a weekly calendar with the real list of planets?

genuinely interested in learning!

literally the title. was reading about wiccan basics and noticed this information across multiple blogs. I'm just not used to the idea of this so it's a little surprising, do share more information or background on how this came to be to help me wrap my head around the concept please?

thank you and blessed be ⛤

such flat conversations, the girls sat down and rated ex presidents based on looks and carrie narrates "just 4 girls talking about politics" like that's how women voters see these things. like even if that's how they see it, the generalization made it worse.

carrie sleeping with the politician without looking into his party, political positioning etc says a lot about her. she wasn't even registered to vote btw as charlotte mentioned. she goes around campaigning with him and asking people to vote for him simply because she was sleeping with him, he wasn't even her bf.

stanford jokes about representing the queer vote and says "got my vote" to the politician guy after checking out his ass. this was in the year 2000 when queer people didn't even have the right to marry in the US.

samantha saying he doesn't believe in democratic or republican party, just parties like it's a fabulous thing to say and not embarrassing to be that politically illiterate in a political party is pure apolitical propaganda.

i know this has been discussed before but i just had to rant. in a country where the feminist movement started with the demand for the right to vote, this ep could've at least tried to cleverly include witty conversations about politics. instead it became an anti-feminist agenda imo. god knows what they were thinking.

So I was going through this sub's FAQ and found this:

Do not set a price on magical work. If you need money before you will consider doing a spell, then you are not prepared to accept the consequences of doing it.

so the witches who offer to do spell work are not wiccans or are wiccans doing it "unethically"? also what is the reasoning behind this rule? would love to know more from practicing wiccans!

coconut oil is very easily found in my area but i haven't seen too many discussions around it. what are its properties and what can it be used best for? i know its a carrier oil but is it neutral or should it be used for only specific spells? tell me everything please!

and some of them have charred. like slightly overpressed iykwim. my question is, can i use those for spell work or should those be removed. its for an abundance spell... so i want to be careful.

(this is my first time with leaves so bear with me😭)

I'm doing a money spell for my gf and i wanted to dress my candle. which oil should i use? need to know urgently, any advice appreciated! (please don't say olive oil, this is urgent and i have so many oils but that one)

I'm doing a money spell for my gf and i wanted to dress my candle. which oil should i use? need to know urgently, any advice appreciated!

so i did a glamour spell yesterday. there's superstitions around hair cutting after asking for something bcoz idk ig it's effect goes away if i cut my hair close to the spell work. i hope im making sense... so my question is can i cut the hair or will it somehow effect the glamour spell because i had the hair when i did the spell but then i cut it off later?

forgive me if this has been asked before but i recently realised i do have easy access to kitchen oils like coconut, sesame, mustard, olive oils etc. I've seen lots of essential oils being used in magic but those are expensive and not easily accessible for me. so if anyone uses regular oils for magick, please guide me. also I'm mostly a beginner witch.

Day 1, Ind W v Eng W, right before Mady Villiers stumped Harman out, a male commentator was imo being extremely rude and unprofessional talking about Harman. She had paused the game and asked for aid for the second time during her innings and I agree she did delay the game but the commentator ran his mouth saying a lot of unacceptable stuff, talking about how one can't pause the game for mere cramps (not quoting him but he kept insinuating harman was overreacting), he even said something about men's matches and how this happens and isn't a big deal with them and a lot more. There was no female commentator who i heard so I'm guessing it was him and maybe another man but I was really pissed at his tone and words and he ruined my mood for a while there. i didn't see anyone say anything about this so I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding or something but I found it offensive. If someone can find a clip and also tell me the man's name, it'll be great help!

Also lmk your thoughts on this. I'm not objecting to him sharing his opinions, it was the way he presented them that was disgusting.

(I'm an ex-hindu, for context) like hindus justify inequalities via karma, aka if you're suffering in this life, it is due to the bad karma of your previous births. or even bad karma in this birth leads to bad things for you.

so what's the wiccan pov?