(Trigger warning ⚠️ This may be a little heavy)
You want power? Reclaim your own power first, start there.
Let's be real. Celebrities. A good amount of them dibble AND they dabble in magic. They hire their own personal astrologers. And they hire other spiritual practitioners to do their work for them. Politicians too (but I consider them one in the same with celebrities) which is why no one could really find out through tarot about the outcome and aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. And some of you wonder why you haven't reached their level yet? Do not feel bad about it and be thankful for where you are because these people are not truly happy behind closed doors. Many of these people have 12H placements for a reason, not because of whatever form of spirituality that they practice, it's important be versatile when it comes to interpreting what planets mean in a person's chart because it will never actually be the same for everyone. The 12th house rules over not just spirituality and secrets but illusions (substance abuse), past life karma, and debt. Most of these people are old souls that are tired of reincarnating and quite frankly, being on Earth. Some of them are younger souls and are already digging themselves into the same fate as the older ones. Regardless of the age, they share something in common.
Reaching stardom was never actually about talent or having connections. It was always about seeking power and how much they were willing to lose in order to get it. They lose their right to privacy, they lose their right to present themselves and their craft the way that they want, they lose the right to their own opinions, they lose their morals, and they lose themselves. They present this illusion to impressionable millions in exchange for what they thought was luxury. Don't get me wrong, luxury is what you say it is, but isn't the purpose of luxury is to find comfort in it? The contentment might last for some weeks, months, maybe even years but that satisfaction is never really filled which is why they seek out more. It's ideal to seek out more for yourself but indulging in the wrong things is just an excessive desperation for trying to fill a void.
"You want power? Reclaim your own power first, start there."
A part of the appeal that works on the impressionable, is the image projected by the celebrity which is to be relatable in some way. In most perspectives, it's to inspire the person to be someone that they're not. In other perspectives, it's to be a mogul for others that have experienced the same struggles as the celebrity. They're basically comfort characters. Some of the most precious art in the world is derived from the artist's pain, it's a superpower that some of the idealized have, and to hand it over for the sake of attaining something that the idealized have idealized, sadly makes them a victim to puppetry, that others might say is "selling your soul".
I'm not afraid to say that magic is real because often, the people in disbelief overthink what it really is by clinging on what they were taught. No, you won't see pixie dust floating around you but "spells" arw very much something that is all around us, even within us, and is present in every single culture. I've said this for years and I'll say it again but slavery was definitely a ritual because of the way my people are still to this day facing what's left over from it. Colorism, violence, no unity, inherited mental illnesses, generational curses, dysfunction, mass incarceration, racial profiling, the list unfortunately goes on.
What makes a person is their mind, body, and soul. To heal a person is to work on making sure all three are in alignment, to break a person is to...well, damage all three.
You capture millions of people and ship them off to another continent. You begin the process of enslaving them by first instilling that they are objects that will be auctioned off. You separate their families and with the families that you do decide to keep together, you rape the fathers in front of their wives and children and call it "buck-breaking", emasculating the black man and warning the black woman and her black children that there is no protector for their household and that there is no provider, only a master. You beat them, threaten to kill them, or even kill them if they don't obey your commands or if they don't even look at you with fear. You make it a daily goal to affirm that the color of your skin is superior and that the color of their skin is inferior, that they're not capable of being intelligent or meant for anything else in life other than being a slave. Is that not the mind?
You mutilate and intrude their bodies. You steal their babies. You even use their babies as alligator bait. You put them in zoos. You use them as lab rats for you medical studies and justify it all with your religion and sciences that they are able to handle these monstrosities because "they're biologically not human" with convenient strength to do the labor that you can't. You hypersexualize the women and perverse their bodies and even keep their genitals in jars for show. You make a minstrel show out of these people's features and make them caricatures for your own entertainment. You toss your empathy down in hell to value their lives as no more than four figures and say it's beneficial for the economy, is that not the body?
You take away their culture, shun their native practices and call it witchcraft yet capture a prominent leader of one of the biggest slave rebellions, carved him up, and turned his bones into soup for you to consume, but of course you don't liken that behavior to Witchery. You white-wash away their gods and goddesses to replace them with a bible and force them to worship both a slave master and a god that supposedly allowed all of this to happen because they need to repent for none other than being born black. Is that not the soul?
Despite the chaos that happened for centuries, my people still rose above it and throughout it all, they turned their woes into creating their own religions by the help of their own spirits and what they remembered from their roots (voodoo, hoodoo, obeah, etc), into songs, dances, slang, literature, art, food. They created something new and made it their own that's still prevalent today and is the basis of pop culture. That alone is phenomenal and they didn't need to steal another person or group's power to embody their own.
