Myths & mysteries
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Myths & mysteries
Waiting lists for readings are years long
Trying to book a simple thirty-minute video call with a highly popular internet practitioner is harder than getting exclusive concert tickets. The most famous…
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Silver cords connect physical and astral forms
When leaving your body behind for a cosmic joyride, a shiny tether supposedly keeps you from getting lost. This metaphysical bungie cord guarantees your…
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Wednesday is specifically reserved for Mercury gossip
Secrets are impossible to keep on a Wednesday. Governed by Mercury, this day guarantees that rumors will spread faster than wildfire and everyone will…
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Floor of the Federal Reserve bank in New York is secretly decorated with a massive wrought iron zodiac wheel
You would think the serious institution controlling the US economy relies entirely on complex mathematical algorithms, but apparently, they like to keep their…
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Levitating while cooking hot meals causes extreme burns
Floating is cool until you are holding a pot of boiling stew. Famous ecstatic figures would spontaneously launch into the air mid-chore, frequently splashing…
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Mark Twain predicted his own death by tying his entire astrological existence to the return of Halley's comet
Mark Twain was born in 1835, exactly when Halley’s Comet was visible. As a master of narrative drama, he proclaimed in 1909 that the Almighty had tied his…
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Uranus totally controls electricity and lightning
Massive lightning bolts and random power outages are perfectly controlled by this sideways-spinning weirdo. It loves to short-circuit the grid just to remind…
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Gordian knots represent conceptually unsolvable problems
Serving as the ultimate symbol for a completely entangled, hopeless mess, this concept represents an issue so wildly convoluted that unpicking it is…
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Capturing phantoms on double exposed film
Early spiritualists claimed they could capture invisible entities on camera. Strangely, these profound spectral beings always looked exactly like terrible…
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Zhaozhou placed a sandal on his head during a debate
When asked how he would have solved a complex spiritual argument involving a highly controversial dispute over a pet, he simply took off his shoe, put it on…
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Found absolute truth while downhill snow skiing
Bernadette Roberts famously claimed that her most profound breakthroughs didn't happen in a quiet, isolated room, but rather while she was aggressively…
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Sophia represents divine wisdom separated from pure grace
In obscure cosmological frameworks, this figure embodies supreme wisdom that accidentally shattered the cosmic order. By attempting to understand the…
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Martin Buber wrote a philosophical masterpiece about a tree
Most people just look at a tree and walk away, but Buber stared at one until it changed completely how we view human interaction. In his famous book 'I and…
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Nocturnal profiles thrive in the shadows
Born in the dark, processing in the dark. When the primary luminary is below the horizon, the entire profile flips inward. These individuals are deeply…
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Haumea strictly governs wild fertility and creation
It rapidly spawns new creations whether you are actually ready for them or not. This strangely shaped rock throws abundance at you until you are completely…
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Neti neti is the ancient art of extreme negation
It is like swiping left on the entire fabric of reality. Translating roughly to 'not this, not this', it is an analytical meditation technique used to…
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Smudging your rented apartment ignores the lease
Burning sage absolutely does not fix a terrible credit score. Smudging your rented apartment might clear the bad vibes, but it mainly just greatly annoys your…
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Ophiuchus is completely ignored by mainstream stargazers
Despite sitting massively in the sky, stargazers completely pretend this huge group of stars does not even exist. It is the ultimate celestial outcast,…
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Daylight saving ruins astrological math
Nothing screams mystical ancient wisdom quite like a bureaucratic timezone shift from the twentieth century ruining your entire chart. A one-hour clock change…
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Heckled into leaving home by his critical wife
Tulsidas was so intensely obsessed with his new wife that he abandoned his duties and followed her to her father's house. Extremely annoyed by his clinginess,…
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Dualist mystics split reality into totally separate halves
Instead of unity, strict dualists slice the entire cosmos into an entirely permanent war between absolute light and absolute darkness. It provides a wildly…
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Nineteenth-century sci-fi writers about magical subterranean energy accidentally inspired a real German mystical society
Imagine if fans of 'Dune' decided the spice was real and formed a political party. In 1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote a novel about an advanced underground…
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Examining soot left by a dying winter fireplace
Cleaning the chimney doubled as a convenient way to predict tomorrow. Mystics would sift through the ashes to find specific shapes and symbols left by the…
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Sagittarius is the sponsor of toxic positivity
When everything is literally burning around them, they will insist it is just a wonderful opportunity for a fresh start. Their relentless optimism ignores all…
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