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February Magic Correspondences
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February is a month of love, abundance and purification. As winter gradually gives way to the first hints of spring, it's the perfect moment to cleanse the past and open the heart to new possibilities. This month is deeply connected to Februus, the Roman god of purification, who help us to release what no longer serves us. His influence encourages rituals and practices that help clear away negativity and create space for fresh intentions. This month brings an energetic focus on passion, fertility, and harmony. It’s a time to honor the primal forces of love and joy, whether in romantic relationships or in the bonds we share with ourselves and others. February also honors Juno Februa, goddess of love and sacred unions, and Faunus, god of fertility and nature. In this month of both purification and passion, it’s an ideal time to work with love spells, self-care rituals, and practices that help purify your mind and spirit.
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Celebrations:
Imbolc / Candlemas (February 1-2)
Lupercalia (February 13-15)
Parentalia (February 13-21)
Juno Februa (February 14)
Valisblot (February 14)
Valentine's Day (February 14)
Planets:
Venus, Moon, Mars
Flowers:
Snowdrops, Crocus, Violet, Carnation, Primrose
Herbs/Plants:
Rosemary, Myrrh, Nutmeg, Pine, Sage, Hyssop
Tarot Cards:
The Lovers, Two of Cups, Four of Wands
Fruits:
Banana, Grapefruit, Kiwi, Pomegranate, Strawberry, Blood Orange, Blackberry
Vegetables:
Cabbage, Leeks, Carrots, Potato, Cauliflower
Deities:
Februus, Faunus, Juno, Venus, Cupid, Pan, Aphrodite, Ares, Eros, Dionysus, Persephone, Brigid, Áine, Yue Lao, Lada, Bastet, Oshun, Sjöfn, Aradia
Colors:
Purple, Pink, White, Blue, Yellow, Silver
Runes:
Wunjo, Gebo, Ehwaz
Crystals:
Amethyst, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Garnet, Moonstone, Aquamarine, Pink Agate
Animals:
Otter, Sheep, Dove, Lamb, Wolf, Dog, Deer, Goat
Trees:
Rowan, Cedar, Myrtle, Laurel
Symbols:
Hearts, The Phallus, Brigid’s Cross, Snowdrops, Candles
Magical Powers:
Love, Fertility, Purification, Sex Magick, Healing, Abundance, Faerie Magick
ACTIVITIES TO DO
💌 Celebrate the season’s festivities.
💌 Clean your garden.
💌 Cleanse your home .
💌 Do love or fertility spells.
💌 Practice self-love and kindness to yourself.
💌 Work with deities connected to this month.
💌 Enjoy dairy products like milk or cheese.
💌 Light candles around your home.
💌 Connect with the fire element.
💌 Read about faerie folk.
💌 Connect with deities associated with love.
💌 Meditate in nature and leave seeds for birds.
💌 Cook and share meals with loved ones.
💌 Show love to your body.
💌 Donate to Animal shelters.
💌 Try new recipes with blackberries.
💌 Write gratitude letters to the Universe or your deities.
💌 Buy yourself something special, you deserve it♡
💌 Eat comforting foods like chocolate or pancakes (make a wish when flipping pancakes!).
💌 Try new ways of divination.
💌 Do kitchen magick and cook recipes with intentions.
💌 This month is all about purification so get rid of all toxic people that hurt you.
💌 Pick snowdrops, dry them, and use them for future spells.
💌 Read about Godess Brigid.
💌 Take care of you both mentally and physically.
💌 Start a journal.
💌 Wear rose quartz and pink agate in your pockets to attract positive love and harmony.
💌 Donate things you don’t need anymore.
Some little observations:
I swear there has to be a thing with Tauruses and food my mom said I ate more than an average new born she had to put cereal in my bottle and I even out are that
Me and my sister both have gemini moon and my mom would talk to me and my sister all the time (probably while in the womb too) she would also read us books
My mom has Saturn in her 5th house and had problems getting pregnant/was infertile until she start taking some kind of medicine
I have capricorn in the 3rd house and my sister has Sagittarius in the 3rd house, she's older but people always think I'm the older one and it's almost like we're both the big sister. I've taught her how to do things and kinda act like the big sister at times but she also has more common sense and maturity than me at times.
Eros in the 6th house have nice bodies maybe Mercury too
I have a friend who has Neptune opposing her asc and a Scorpio moon and her eyes are big and so pretty she also has dark eyes/eyebags
Ngl as a Scorpio rising/dominant I hold grudges, be mean to me once and don't even dare try talking to me bc I'll hold it against you
I think me and my sister are so much alike because we have Gemini moons. People used to say we looked alike when we we're younger and we're very close. Talking is also a huge part of our relationship and it's like we're on the same level intellectually. We always have good conversations about pop culture, our opinions, politics, etc.
Sorry about not posting often I'm trying 😭
Hi lovely! I loved your most recent post and I found it really cool about how you used I think your Virgo placements and Pisces Venus to figure out your style (maybe Lilith and Aphrodite placements too if I read correctly). I really want to figure this out myself and I think it be cool if you were to make a post about it? Like fashion/style that looks good for each of the signs if that’s okay.
Thank you a thousand if you choose to reply! Have a wonderful day/night. 💗💗💗
Aw thank you!!! I love that idea I'll see if I can make that happen it might take awhile/be a bit hard to accomplish but I'll try, maybe I'll even use different asteroids like Aura, Eros, Lilith, and Aphrodite
There's a sketch o Eros and Psique i hope to finnish one day
I redrew this Hades game, Eros fan design, that I originally drew roughly 2 years ago!
I'm super happy with how it turned out!!!
(top image is the new one 2022, bottom image is the old one 2020)
Dayum, just look at them eyes🔥
THE SEVEN TYPES OF LOVE
The human existence is vast and rich. Feelings, in particular, seem endless and varied. How can one define all that encompass what humans mean when they say love?
Philosophers in ancient Greece decided we could not. Which is why they decided to specify the type of love they referred to when they said love by categorizing them into seven major types.
Eros – Passionate, Romantic Love
Philia –Friendly, Affectionate Love
Storge –Familial, Unconditional Love
Agape – Selfless, Universal Love
Ludus – Playful, Flirtatious Love
Pragma – Dutiful, Committed Love
Philautia – Love of Self
1. Eros – Passionate Love
Eros is passionate love, and everything we think of when we think of the Hollywood version of love. To the ancient Greeks, this physical, desirous love could be dangerous. Powerful and possessive, it is easy to lose control of. Relationships built solely on eros tend to be short-lived, as passion is transient by nature.
It represents the love found in sexual intimacy and romance.
2. Philia –Friendly Love
Philia is a friendly love. It is shared goodwill. A friendship that is not only associated with mutual benefit but also with companionship, dependability, and trust.
Real friends seek together to live truer, fuller lives by relating to each other authentically and learning each other’s limitations. They help each other become their best selves.
Essentially, you can think of Philia as the type of love where you simply want the best for another person. The ancient Greeks thought it was even more precious than Eros, the foundation of the best kind of friendship.
3. Storge – Familial Love
Storge is the unconditional love between kin, in particular the love parents have for their children. More broadly, storge is the fondness born out of familiarity or dependency.
It is defined by unconditional acceptance and sacrifice. Compared to eros and philia, it is much less contingent on our personal qualities.
People in the early stages of a romantic relationship often expect unconditional storge, but find only the need and dependency of eros. If they are lucky, given enough time and care, eros can mutate into storge or philia.
4. Agape – Selfless Love
Agape is compassionate love. It is an empathetic, selfless love for others that includes a love for other humans, for nature, or for a higher power.
It doesn’t depend on familiarity. Instead, it is the love for the stranger or the unknowable. Agape has links to altruism, which is understood as an unselfish, genuine concern for the welfare of others. It is a love that expects absolutely nothing in return, and in turn, just makes you feel good.
A lot of people consider agape to be a spiritual love, expressed through meditation, nature, intuition, and spirituality.
5. Ludus – Playful Love
Ludus is playful love. Flirtatious, seductive and non-committal—Ludus is all about having fun. The point of this love is the experience itself rather than the feelings.
Ludus is evident at the beginning of a relationship, when we feel full of play, teasing, and excitement.
Dancing, seducing, will-he-won't-he and all that jazz, it can lead to a one-night stand, a no-strings-attached fling, or a long and casual relationship. As long as there is a sense of play and levity from both parties, it is ludus, an uncomplicated sort of love.
6. Pragma – Dutiful Love
Pragma is a practical love founded on reason, duty and the couple’s long-term interests. Sexual attraction takes a back seat in favor of shared goals, compatibility, and "making it work." The higher common purpose is served, rather than the individual's desires.
In the simplest of terms, it is long-term and works thanks to constant nurturing. It is seen in long-term marriages and friendships. Respect is fundamental, as is serving the purpose of the union. Its qualities are commitment, endurance, companionship, and sharing similar hopes for the future.
This type of love is an accepting love that matures as the couple spends year after year together. It can be associated with storge or philia. A healthy pragma is sincere, patient, mature, and in all honesty, quite rare (and therefore special).
7. Philautia – Self Love
Finally, philautia is self-love. It is based on a sense of self-worth. It can be healthy or unhealthy.
Unhealthy self-love is akin to hubris. In Ancient Greece, people could be accused of hubris if they placed themselves above the gods, or, like certain modern politicians, above the greater good. Philosophers believed that hubris was the enemy and led to destruction.
Healthy self-love, on the other hand, is akin to self-esteem, which is our cognitive and also emotional appraisal of our own worth. More than that, it is the matrix through which we think, feel, act, and reflect on the way we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world.
In everyday language, "self-esteem" and "self-confidence" tend to be used interchangeably. However, self-esteem and self-confidence do not always go hand in hand. In particular, it is possible to be highly self-confident and yet to have profoundly low self-esteem, as is the case, for example, with many performers and celebrities.
Of all of the different kinds of love, this one is often the most challenging for people. However, it is foundational to the other types of love. Ancient Greeks saw philautia as the necessary love that made it possible to give and receive love from other people. We cannot give what we don’t have. And so, we cannot love others if we don’t love ourselves first.
Philautia, therefore, is something like self-compassion. Much like we show affection and love to other people, it is important to show that affection to ourselves, to be compassionate to one’s self and able to forgive.
Greek philosophers believed that true happiness could only be achieved when one had unconditional love for themselves, which makes it possible to love others truly in turn.
The Seven Loves
In closing, there is, of course, a kind of porosity between the seven types of love, which seep and pass into one another. Some philosophers believed love aimed at beautiful and good things, because the possession of beautiful and good things is happiness, and happiness is good and beautiful in itself.
Of all good and beautiful things, the best, most beautiful, and most dependable is truth or wisdom. It teaches us about ourselves, about others, and about life, which help us make better choices through this greater understanding and therefore live better lives.
We tend to agree.
Love, in all its forms, is one of the most powerful emotions in the world.
Note:
Our sources are below in order of credibility, but this exploration of the different types of love is in our own words and based on both our reading and our own understanding of the concepts.
Early Greek philosophy
Platonic Love
Love like a Greek: the 7 loves according to Ancient Greek philosophy
These Are the 7 Types of Love
7 Types Of Love (from Greek)
What Are the 7 Types of Love?
some kind of… drawing for commissions
what do you say this? fixed frame cmsn?
Nicholas: ‘Eros, please, hold on!’ Eros: ‘No, you hold on.’
I can't believe I made his last words a corny joke.
for any ocs who have died, whether permanantly or otherwise - what were their last words?
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YES YES YES!!!! THIS!!!
banish the idea that platonic love is a lesser form of love
if you go through life not investing in your friendships the same way you invest in romantic relationships, you will always be looking for love, feeling lonely, completely blind to the love all around you
friendship is not a lower level relationship. it is not a lesser form of love.
Hey!
is eros square lilith in synastry bad?
i don't think there are bad aspects in astrology, but square is definitely hard to deal with if one of them or both are immature or unevolved. if you overcome the differences, eros square lilith creates a great sexual compatibility and attraction that teaches each other a lot in this field and also discovering each other's dark side in a dynamic way. if you can't handle the differences there will be a lot of friction and fights because of this.
Mano Benedicente
Penna su carta 2022
Eros Manfredi Borselli
Art by: Eros Manfredi Borselli
Assassino (ink on paper 2020)
postnuclear antihero
Art by : Eros Manfredi Borselli Rucher (A.k.a. Soranus)
Ink on blue paper
Art by: Eros Manfredi Borselli
Ink on paper
Untitled I (detail) & Untitled II 2019
Art by: E. Manfredi Borselli Rucher
2018 “Il Boia”
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Photo by Milvia
Art by: E. Manfredi Borselli Rucher
2019 Untitled
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Photo by Milvia