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FESTER

[verb]

1. to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.

2. to cause ulceration, as a foreign body in the flesh.

3. to putrefy or rot.

4. to rankle, as a feeling of resentment.

5. to cause to rankle

[noun]

6. an ulcer; a rankling sore.

7. a small, purulent, superficial sore.

Etymology: Middle English festir, festre < Anglo-French, Old French festre < Latin fistula – fistula, Middle English festryn, derivative of the noun or < Old French festrir.

[Kelly McKernan]

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John F. Carlson, Brooding Silence, 1st half of the 20th...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:26:02 -0400

John F. Carlson, Brooding Silence, 1st half of the 20th century (source).

maintain-balance: Angelica (Angelica archangelica) aka...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:43:42 -0400

maintain-balance:

Angelica (Angelica archangelica) aka archangel, masterwort

Caution: Avoid during pregnancy. Large doses may affect the blood pressure {raising it}, heart action, and respiration. Some people may experience skin irritation and photosensitivity. Positive identification is essential, as it resembles poisonous herbs of the hemlock family.)

Gender: Masculine

Planet: Sun

Element: Fire

Deities: Venus, Archangel Michael

Properties: Angelica is a member of the carrot family. The thirty or so varieties of angelica may be biennial or perennial and prefer moist areas and riverbanks. It grows readily from seed, and the parent plant may be perpetuated for years if the stalk is cut before it can go to seed.

Though Angelica Archangelica may be found in Scotland, it is much more likely to be found farther north growing wild in Iceland or Lapland. It is the variety used most in medicinal applications. Archangelica has a round stem, grooved, hollow, and branched near the top with a blue tinge. It may grow from three to seven feet in height. The root is long and thick, spindle-shaped, and brown-red with a spicy, agreeable odor, and sharp, sweet but bitter taste. It has many smaller rootlets descending from it. Some specimens have been weighed at three pounds. The leaves emerge from dilated sheaths surrounding the stem. The lower ones are large and bi- or tri-pinnate, while the upper ones are smaller and pinnate. Greenish white flowers grow in large terminal, compound umbels with a honey-like odor from June to August. Each produces two yellow winged seeds, which are oblong and elliptic. The seeds are also sweetly scented.

Angelica sylvestris resembles European Water Hemlock so caution should be taken when attempting proper identification. The stem is purplish but gray with hairs, and the leaves are more sharply toothed than other angelicas. The flowers are pure white or purple tinged and smaller.

Angelica atropupurea, or Purple Angelica, grows in Canada and NE and N central US. It prefers rich, moist soil and partial shade. Purple Angelica can most often be found in wet bottom lands and swamps. It is a perennial with a thick, hollow dark purple stem smooth from four to nine feet high. The leaves grow from swollen basal sheaths. They are ternately compound with further divisions of 3-5 among the upper leaves. This angelica has large clusters of many white to greenish-white flowers on purplish stems from May to October.

Parts Used: root, leaves and stems, seed

Magical Properties: Exorcism, Protection, Healing, Visions. Use in all protection and exorcism incenses. Angelica protects in two ways: it creates a barrier against negative energy and fills you with good, radiant energy. Removes curses, hexes, or spells that have been cast against you. Enhances the aura. Gives a joyful outlook on life.

Grown, angelica protects the home from evil spells. It may be sprinkled at the four corners of a house or the perimeter of a home to ward off evil and harmful spells, and it may be scattered outside the home to keep evil spirits out. Carried it wards off infection, pestilence, venomous poison, and mad dogs. According to some Native American traditions, it may also be carried in the pocket for luck in gambling.

Angelica root (other parts have a less enduring scent) maybe used as incense for protection, exorcisms, healings, and visions. Add it to healing mixes, especially for the nerves. Angelica enhances the aura, maintains a joyful outlook on life, and can be used in self-blessings and purifications. Chew it to prolong your life and keep evil spells and spirits away. If you wish a loved one to return to you, burn the whole plant and toss to the ashes to the four winds while chanting:

North wind, please to obey,

West wind, show him/her the way,

South wind, and skies above,

East wind, bring my love

To turn a spell back on its caster, rise on a Saturday before dawn and take some angelica root in each hand. Hold this tightly in your fist and say:

(Deity of choice), punish him/her who has done this evil and take him from us by the great justice, that the sorcerer/sorceress may be anathema and we may be safe.

Throw the root outside your door in the direction of your enemy or South if you do not know who it is. It may also be included in your bath to remove curses and hexes.

It has been a year since I began blogging upon the tumblrs. On the 27th I will celebrate the one...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:09 -0400

It has been a year since I began blogging upon the tumblrs. On the 27th I will celebrate the one year anniversary for leaving my session. I suppose I ought to have some sort of drawn out post prepared; something sentimental concerning my time here. The friends lost and gained, the myriad of trials and tribulations I have endured.

Instead I will say I am glad to have found this platform and I am happy with how far I have come in so little as a year. I express my most profound and sincere gratitude to those who have remained with me throughout, who have become vital support and dear friends.

Now I am going to get thoroughly drunk to celebrate. I wish you all a good evening.

I’m not feelin’ so hot so Ima lay down a bit. Bookmarked the posts I owe replies to!

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:54:28 -0400

I’m not feelin’ so hot so Ima lay down a bit. Bookmarked the posts I owe replies to!

"Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not,..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:41:52 -0400

“Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.”

- Protagoras (via quotablebookquotes)

meddlingfashionista: Perhaps You May Wish To Recalibrate The Instrument So It Would Utilize A More...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:39:14 -0400

meddlingfashionista:

Perhaps You May Wish To Recalibrate The Instrument So It Would Utilize A More Peaceful Method Of Alerting You To These Disturbances

If That Is Even Remotely Possible

I Know Woefully Little About Such Supernatural Matters

Despite Myself Being Somewhat Supernatural In Nature Now

And Yes Drones Can Be Surprisingly Helpful When You Reprogram Them To Not Be Devices Of Intimidation Slash Killing Machines

It was a matter of adjusting the force of the signal. I wished it to reach me regardless of where I was in the house and so overestimated the intensity required. Essentially rather than producing a wave of energy so adjusted to only be received by the thalamus. It was meant to be a subtle sensation. But again, I over tuned it.

It instead had a shatter effect. Close to it as I was I was also gifted with an unmerciful headache. But I’ve managed to adjusted it properly now.

Mine are specifically for construction and they are wonderfully efficient. Though I confess them to be of intimidating design.

mayorofawesometown: by Matteo Spirito

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:11 -0400

mayorofawesometown:

by Matteo Spirito

voodooleviathan: Well I only came online for lack of things to do, so...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:12:00 -0400

voodooleviathan:

Well I only came online for lack of things to do, so reading/painting/what-have-you already came and went.

I’m still wary but yeah.

I’ll see if it is possible to construct perhaps some eyewear to at least test that aspect of it. Of course that particular part of the project is out of my hands.

I’ll discuss it with Dirk when he again becomes cognizant of the world beyond his workspace.

meddlingfashionista: What Sort Of Project Was It ? Did It Involve Magic I’ve several in...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:10:02 -0400

meddlingfashionista:

What Sort Of Project Was It ?

Did It Involve

Magic

I’ve several in progress at the moment, actually. And yes most of them are etheric in nature. Generally when I broach the subject people believe me to be hunched over a cauldron tossing eye of newt into a bubbling brew. Really it’s more a largely unexplored discipline of physics. It is an understanding of particular forces and energies which is then applied to their manipulation.

Frankly my “spells” resemble mathematical theorems utilizing characters not commonly known in most timelines. Runes, sigils, glyphs.

One of my projects is an instrument to detect disturbances in these fields and energies- while it works it does not quite alert me as I desire. Namely, the device explodes.

This is my most frequent unintentional effect.

I’ve made very good use of the drones Equius helped in supplying me.

voodooleviathan: I don’t want to be online. Then I suggest you log off and perhaps paint. I was...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:04:31 -0400

voodooleviathan:

I don’t want to be online.

Then I suggest you log off and perhaps paint. I was going to suggest you read a book and then I recalled you’re still blind.

Are you interested in ocular replacements? I’ve still what work I’d done towards them saved.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:51 -0400

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meddlingfashionista: Things Have Been A Bit All Over The Place That Is As Best As I Can Describe It...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:57:52 -0400

meddlingfashionista:

Things Have Been A Bit All Over The Place

That Is As Best As I Can Describe It Without Subjecting You To A Lengthy Novella Of My Recent Escapades And Trials

And How Have You Been

I would not mind the novella, but you might not wish to launch into the tale presently so I will pry no further.

I’ve been very well, save for suffering the occasional ill effect from one of my projects. But that sort of thing is expected so I am not overly perturbed.

gnostalgi: oh i like your greeting better so im just going to respond to it and hope you dont...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:53:10 -0400

gnostalgi:

oh i like your greeting better so im just going to respond to it and hope you dont respond to mine first

well play greeting tag

you lost me with timeline but yes i know of him and it translated just fine! you dont have to do that though i have the translator bookmarked at this point

hopefully its not butchering YOUR language because sometimes i cant even get posts to translate into nordic

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Once I saw we had both offered greeting I simply waited for you to respond to mine- largely because I was interested in seeing how well the translator fared.

It hadn’t occurred to me you may be using it yourself, however, which would have served as a fine enough test. It is doing well indeed. There seem to be no errors beyond grammatical. By which I mean the omission of punctuation. The sentence structure itself is accurate.

Then that is quite possibly how you type.

Out of curiosity would you happen to be fair haired with eyes of uncommon hue? To be more specific, pink?

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