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OCTOBER ISSUE
Ciao all,
Welcome back to XXIV VII. OCTOBER ISSUE. It’s spooky season and not just on Halloween through to The Day of the Dead. It’s all month.
I started off this month in Italy with our black cat Cleo (sister of deceased brother Nerone in May) waking me up one morning. She climbed through the window and jumped on my bed, meowing, being sweet and asking for food. So I got up!
There’s some big exciting news coming about Italy soon so watch this space.
We get up, no matter how much we wish to lay in bed.
We get up and keep moving forward no matter how much life gets hard.
We get up no matter how much we wish to hibernate.
We get up, embrace others and socialise, no matter how much we wish to be alone and hibernate.
We get up, we rise up. This is October.
We rise up as the dead rise up again,
To greet us, to embrace us, to call on us, to be sweet with us. As the falling leaves remind us of what is being shed and what will inevitably transform, we honour those who have past, those who are passing and those who hold on.
This month I have experienced two deaths. It would not be Scorpio season without a passing, without an ending, without its dark and scary plutonic energy lorded over by Hades himself.
As his counterpart Persephone beckons the Spring. She is now with Hades in his lair becoming Death herself. Many mystics feel a resonance with her. We become alive when the flowers bloom but our healing powers come first from the facing of the dark, the facing of the shadow, the facing of our fear, the facing of death so that we, ourselves may transmute these pains, become death, to descend into the underworld, to become alive, to bring life for ourselves and for others once more.
This is a healer. To understand her is to KNOW her.
In this newsletter I share art, books, films and more.
All related to October.
God, goddess bless you all in your personal transitions.
Love,
Cristallina xx
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BOOKS
October books:
Aphorisms on Love and Hate. Friedrich Nietzche. Need I say more.
The Whitsun Weddings. Philip Larkin. For those who love poetry.
Dracula. Bram Stoker. For those who love a classic horror/thriller…. I also observed while reading that there was an interesting take on the ‘outsider’, the fear of the unknown, new developments into psychology, hypnotherapy, the blending of religious and spiritual practices and the direct connection of Whitby and Queen Victoria’s mourning dress. Reading this in my Victorian home in England in October made the story (and its historical context) even more palpable.
QUOTE
“ slept without dreaming. Despair is its own calms.”
Dracula, Bram Stoker
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FILM/TV
Miss Peregrines’s Home for Peculiar Children. Tim Burton
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
Addams Family Values
Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Series
Slow Horses
THE WEIRD
OCTOBER PREDICTIONS- Make sure to re-watch this. Take notes. Which pile resonated for you? Let me know in the comments and make sure to SUBSCRIBE to the Youtube channel.
TONES OF THE MONTH:
October: We had the 10 of cups. We have just left Virgo season and into Scorpio Season, snake head facing forward. Interesting we have the New Moon in Virgo showing up for October ushering a new phase, a grounding phase, a healing (Virgo deals with medicine) phase. What has been medicinal to you, what hasn't? I just recovered from Covid after just 3 days which seems on point regarding Virgo, medicine, potions, healing, recovery and ascension. I always see having Covid or any illness as an opportunity to receive a spiritual upgrade. Of course, makes sure to reinforce your immune system. This is the season of ground vegetables, stews, soups, curries and grounding your connection with the earth. Go deeper, go underground, begin hibernation mode. Virgo ushers this in. She is the healer.
November: Waxing Crescent Moon. That tranformational butterfly showing us not to give up, have hope in your dreams. This is not the time to give up. Rise up, even in your darkness and limited sunlight. You are the light so show yourself and others how you are that torch. In order to change we must bravely go where others do not. You will understand the metaphor in action come end of November.
We have a new moon in Scorpio on 1st November. That’s a 1/11 portal and in Scorpio no less! Those for whom have a scorpio signature (like I do ) or those for whom have prominent Scorpio placements in your natal chart (I can read this for you with a booking just contact for enquiries) will feel it the most. Moon phases speak about an alchemical transformation. What are you crucifying over 3 days, what is being increased? The Prima Materia is in us.
We transform each season and in each moon phase. I would hate to know what those who practice dark magic during this specific time are doing with THAT energy. If you know, you understand. The only way out is through the heart. This is the gnostic teaching and the teaching of The Christ, who is you. Become crucified, transform, increase in your personal nature. Be of service.
ART
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