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Astro-Housewitchery: Nux Vomica

July 2, 2009 in Good Housewitchery by Mystic Medusa | 8 comments

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The fabulously named Nux Vomica is the homeopathic hangover remedy. It is actually (heavily diluted)  strychnine which sounds slightly bats unless you grok homeopathy. I mean my constitutional remedy is diluted snake venom; Lachesis. Which always perks me up real fast.

Okay, I am NOT a homeopath & only use the Nux for really grotty morning-afters but the Nux Vomica personality type – as you will see from the links -  is a shocker. Still, short of never doing anything over-indulgent again, Nux Vom is an essential bathroom cupboard standby. A classically trained English homeopath once told me it was stockpiled by the Royal Family.

There is a v.easy to peruse article on it here.  The above link is way more thorough & scary to read, as the full-on homeopathic materia medicias tend to be. Also, I don’t know how exactly it does it but it seems to alleviate the psych0-mental symptoms of a hangover as well.

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Astro-Beauty: Do U Give A Shit Re Shoes & Y?

May 19, 2009 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 88 comments

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Shoe love & the foot fetish thing is so often ascribed to Pisces – but I have loads of stuff in Pisces and I am SO immune to shoe-fetish or even the usual tastes of wimmyn. Seriously, my fashionista friends FREAK at me – the thing is that MY beauty dollar goes to skincare & scent – whereas theirs is sent toward shoes and handbags. They have stuff on them that will send peeps shrieking across a room to gush – I don’t even dare delineate the fash-details here as my fashionista friends ARE Virgo or they have STRONG Virgo and they’d go me for not getting a fashion detail right.

Anyway, i have sports sneakers, birkies, fit-flops and some beautiful Max Mara espradrilles. That’s IT. And i don’t care. I know i need to get boots & that Uggs are non-Vegan + unable to be worn to theatre nights so there is a vague Winter dilemma there BUT, I live in Sydney and a LOT of peeps here feel claustro in closed-toe shoes. It’s not so much about the reality of having one’s toes shut-in for a season when it is never even that cold -it’s the idea that one should not be cramped.

I also – and i think this is v.Aquarian + being raised on homeopathy etc and maybe being part-German but i think that the idea of being aligned or exercised whilst you walk is so fab. And I walk a LOT being also eco and not into driving. The shoe i madly want but keep putting off is the Masai Barefoot Thingie…my other shoe goal is to have some crazy pair of bedroom-only stilettoes, for fun.

Thoughts? And how can i have all this stuff in Pisces yet be the least shoe-heavy lady i KNOW?  And do you give a shit re shoes? I am SO objective re this…my female friends are divided into the shoe fanatic fashionistas and the ones who just so do-not-care…I am thinking that it’s VIRGO and CANCER + CAPRICORN & TAURUS – ie; all the Earths + Cancer who do it the most hardcoare.   THOUGHTS – Please…