Author: A Solitary Pagan
Himalayan salt
Himalayan salt, often referred to as a “crystal,” is gaining popularity not only as a culinary ingredient but also for its potential health benefits. Salt is essential for human health. It helps regulate hormones, maintain fluid balance, and support nutrient absorption. Since the human body cannot produce salt, it is important to choose a pure source. Table salt is highly processed and may not pro...
Pink Witches Salt
Pink Witches Salt, also called Himalayan Crystal Mineral Salt or Pink Halite, is a natural mineral salt. It has been valued for centuries for its use in both cooking and spiritual practices. This salt forms over millions of years from ancient sea beds, mainly in the Himalayan foothills. Its pink color comes from trace minerals like iron, magnesium, and potassium. In witchcraft, Pink Witches Salt i...
Far Eastern Bat Symbolic Meanings
In the Far East, particularly China, the Bat represents good fortune and longevity. The number of Bats seen also has meaning. Two Bats are greater luck, and five represents the five blessings of long life, wealth, honor, health and a natural death. Feng Shui experts use bat symbols for attracting happiness and satisfying dreams. Bats with gold coins in their mouth are often placed in the West or N...
Black Bat Dreams
Black Bat Dreams speak of forthcoming personal disasters so be diligent in discerning if it is time to conduct a spiritual cleanup of your self and surroundings. Conversely, seeing a Bat in your dreams could be symbols of individuals in your sphere who are ‘energy vampires’. These people will suck you dry of any resource (financial, emotional and mental) you have. Blind as a Bat Dreams – This...
Bat Dreams
Note: Not all dreams about Bats are morbid. Depending on other factors of the dream, your subconscious or higher-self could be sending a gentle and humorous message to let you know that you or someone close to you is acting a little “batty”. When Bat wings its way into your dream time it represents potential that hasn’t been tapped yet. Whatever you were doing in the past is NOT who you are t...
Bat as a Celtic Animal Symbol
Celtic symbolism associates Bats with the underworld as well as with being a “spiritual navigator”. Because the Bat hangs upside down Celts gave this night creature the symbolic value of transposition – akin to being reborn.
Carnation Oil
Carnation Oil. Carnation Oil has long held a place of honor in witchcraft and folk magic, valued for its associations with strength, healing, and protection.Historically, practitioners would use carnation oil to anoint themselves before rituals, believing it would bolster physical vitality and ward off illness. To prepare carnation oil, infuse fresh or dried carnation petals in a carrier oil such ...
Achall
Achall, daughter of Cairbre Nia Fer, king of Tara, and his wife Fedelm Noíchrothach, is a minor character from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. After her brother Erc was killed by Conall Cernach, she died of grief on a hill near Tara, which was named Achall after her.[1] The legendary High King of Ireland Túathal Techtmar is said to have taken power after defeating the previous High King, Elim...
Baldur
Baldur (pronounced “BALD-er;” Old Norse Baldr, Old English and Old High German Balder) is one of the Aesir gods. He’s the son of Odin and Frigg, the husband of the obscure goddess Nanna, and the father of the god Forseti. He’s loved by all the gods, goddesses, and beings of a more physical nature. So handsome, gracious, and cheerful is he that he actually gives off light.[1] The meaning and e...
Bacchus
Who Is Bacchus? Bacchus was essentially a copy of the Greek god Dionysus. He was the god of agriculture and wine and the son of Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology). He wandered the earth, showing people how to grow vines and process the grapes for wine. Origins Bacchus is often confused with Dionysus. They represent the same symbology and myths, as Bacchus is the Roman version of the Greek god. Lege...
Aurora
Aurora is the Roman name for the Goddess of the Dawn. Her mythology and attributes are the same as the Greek Eos, and She does not seem to have any specifically Roman mythology. Her name simply means “the dawn, daybreak, or sunrise”, and in time the word came to signify the East as well as the peoples from the Eastern lands. Her name may be related to Latin aurum, meaning “gold&#...
Apollo
Young and lusty, the patron of doctors and occasionally the bringer of pestilential death, enlightened Apollo inspired prophecy, music, poetry, and the civilized arts, and was the ultimate embodiment of Greek self idealization. The Apollo Belvedere, depicting the Greek god moments after loosing an arrow from his bow and slaying the python (or, alternatively, giant Tityos). The Apollo Belvedere, de...