lunaesteria:

• on some kind of medication, including but not limited to hormonal birth control, heart medication, and anti-depressants? you better double check with your doctor before you drink that new tea you just bought.
  
• always, always, always tell your doctor before trying any kind of herbal supplement, whether it’s something you made yourself or something you bought at the store.
• have sensitive skin? dilute your essential oils before putting them anywhere near your skin or in your bathtub.
  
• have a diagnosed medical condition? talk. to. your. doctor. before ingesting anything or putting anything on your body that you aren’t familiar with.
  
• don’t. drink. essential. oils. essential oils are not consumable!!!!!
• don’t put citrus oil on your skin and then go out into the sun unless you want a badass chemical burn.
• don’t put any kind of damn essential oil on your skin without diluting it with a carrier oil. almond oil? olive oil? coconut oil? i don’t care. dilute your essential oils. 
• don’t put essential oils on your animals, diluted or not, point blank. 
• oh, and don’t put fucking crystals in their water bowls to “cleanse their chakras” or whatever the fuck. 
• speaking? of crystals? don’t put crystals in your bodily orifices. don’t put crystals in your own damn water. just don’t. 
• thinking about burning some kind of random herb in your house? you better make sure it’s not gonna release noxious fumes and murder your family. 
• speaking of random herbs - got the urge to forage for some herbs out in the wild? wear. fucking. gloves.
• don’t burn incense or herbs around your pets. they have tiny, fragile respiratory systems and are super sensitive to that kinda shit. 
• gotta burn a candle down completely for a spell? you better not leave that shit unattended unless you want a house fire. 
• always. practice. fire. safety. that means, don’t go burning shit outside during a burn ban. 
• gods help me - if you wanna harvest your own blood via finger stick, stay away from dirty safety pins and needles and invest in some lancets. 
• drinking dirty water from outside can literally give you worms. boil your damn water. 
• oh yeah. moon water. everyone loves to make moon water. you know what happens when you leave a jar of water at room temperature? it grows bacteria. refrigerate that shit. 
• fresh herbs or other things of that nature left at room temperature can also grow super harmful bacteria, for example, raw garlic at room temperature is a breeding ground for botulism and mold. 

coloricioso:

revolutionaryshoe:

zooophagous:

coloricioso:

shadows-takes-all:

I have read (and see) something about Hades and Persephone having chickens in the underworld, but this is really a fact or is something invent?

Chickens were indeed sacred to Hades and Persephone and an example of this are the  terracotta votive tablets from Locri -the ones of the pictures-. There are some books about this subject like Iconography of Religions by Bianchi or Locrian Maidens by Redfield.

The cock/chicken “became the chthonic bird, and was used on tombs, as emblematic of the hope of a reawakening to life”. (Peters) and it is also refered as “an infernal animal of passage” by Bernabe in his book Instructions for the Netherworld: the orphic gold tablets.He also says: ”Cocks allude to the world of the afterlife: as intermediaries between the soul and the Beyond, they intercede between the world of the dead and that of the living”.

Remember Persephone was the goddess of renewal, so at least in Locri, the cock was an usual attribute of her. And in other cultures cocks-chickens were seen as animals related to renewal and life (eggs have that symbolism tooo).

:D so. chickens for Hades and Persephone all the way.

(sources 1 - 2 - 3)

I KNEW chickens were sacred, I just didn’t know to whom

“Why did the chicken cross the road?”

“To intercede between the world of the living and that of the dead, as intermediaries between the soul and Beyond.”

“You mean…to get to the Other Side?”

“….yes.”

XD oh my

(Source: potnia-ctonica)