What is Carnation?

Scientific and medicinal info
Carnation flowers are as popular as roses in cut bouquets, but they can last for weeks once cut. Carnations grow in low shrubs, and are native to the Mediterranean area. These plants are quite hardy and have a clove-like aroma when fresh and growing. Colours range from white to many shades of pink, red and yellow.
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Dragon Colours

Green Dragons – Green Dragons are the smallest so many people think that makes them the weakest. While they are not physically powerful, they are the dragons of the earth element and are in a way very material beings. Green is the colour of life, and these small but important dragons are full of it.

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Adventurine: Colours

Adventurine: (Natural Black)- Control, power, grounding, Magickal invisibility, protection. Silver specks enhance the powers of the stone.

Adventurine (Natural Blue): – Reduces negative emotions, purification, peace, when held- reduces pain. Silver specks enhance the powers of the stone.

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Synaesthesia: The Crossing of the Senses by Cheryl Lynne Bradley

“We interpret one sense by another.”
William Hazlitt

 
“Although medicine has known about synaesthesia for three centuries, it keeps forgetting that it knows. Richard Cytowic, in “Synaesthesia: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology
a Review of Current Knowledge” Could you imagine going through life every day seeing sound, hearing colour, tasting shapes, hearing smells or tasting colours. These are some of the ways a synesthete experiences the world. One synesthete describes the experience of listening to a saxaphone as a writhing mass of neon-purple snakes hovering in the air another describes a mint as a cool, smooth glass tube.

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Candle Magick: A Basic Guide to the Art

by Ostara Nitewillow

 
Research your spell– colours, herbs, gems, moon and astrological phases. Create a visualisation for your intent, a symbol, maybe a rune? Light incense and cast your sacred circle. Invoke the deities needed for your work. Relax, ground and centre. Now you need to purify the candle. Pick it up and anoint with blessed olive oil or rub with salt and say:

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