Poison Ivy- Source unknown
Awesome!
via Shorpy
Edwardian-Bohemian New York circa 1909. “Bacchus Dance — Miss Grace Walters, Mrs. A.S. Burden, Miss M.R. White, Alfred Hester, Mrs. James B. Eustis, Miss Martha White.” 8x10 glass negative, Bain News Service.
DEVILS SHOESTRING: For protection, gambling luck, employment luck, power and banishing evil. Devils Shoestring is rare, powerful and quite expensive, which is why this particular set might be a bit on the higher end in terms of pricing. But well worth it if the Devils Shoestrings powers are needed.
LAVENDER FLOWERS: For love, attaction, protection, longevity, purification, happiness, peace, sleep and chastity. Lavender has a wide array of magickal uses other than what I’ve listed here.
MUGWORT: For strength, psychic powers and vision, protection, dreaming, astral projection, healing.
PATCHOULI: For money drawing, lust, love, attraction, power, fertility and so many other uses.
PINK ROSE BUDS: For love, psychic power and vision, healing, divination, luck and protection.
SAGE: For wisdon, protecion, wishes, immortality, longevity, healing, clearing and banishing.
SANDALWOOD: For love, attraction, sacred power, invoking, clearing and banishing.
STAR ANISE: For psychic powers and vision, luck, prosperity, romance, and love.
YARROW: For courage, love, psychic power, psychic vision, exorcism, banishing, and clearing.
The Woman Who Knew All, by Ilene Satala (via Etsy)
Mary Magdalene is a powerful figure in the Bible and a mysterious one. I had a dream of Mary Magdalene and in the dream she asked me to paint her as the true women she really was. This led me to do extensive research about her. I learned that she never was a prostitute but instead a wise and learned women. There is strong evidence to believe that she was a student of Jesus.
In 1896 a manuscript was found in Cairo, Egypt. It was called the Teachings of Mary Magdalene. It was eventually translated by scholar Jean-Yves Leloup. This scholar carefully and lovingly worked with every single word of the manuscript to bring us an amazing glimpse into Mary Magdalene’s life. Showing us she was a scholar and a very spiritual women and a teacher of principles of wisdom. In this document she was called the “Woman Who Knew All”.
I painted her in bright red, as it is a color associated with vibrancy and vitality. Her head is decorated with a golden veil as a symbol of precious knowledge. She holds a chalice in her hands with a Tree of Life on it to show her knowledge of wisdom. I paid close attention to depicting her face with grace and compassion, attributes she is said to have display often in her life’s journey.
Beautiful!
