#Cinnabar & #celestite are lucky #crystals for tonight's serendipitous #Gemini #ThirdQuarter Moon (called the "Consolation Moon" in Antinous #MoonMagic), according to #Antinous priest and certified crystals advisor #MartinCampbell: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/08/its-cinnabar-for-consolation-moon-by.html
The cinnabar catapillars have annihilated all the ragwort in my garden now. I panicked and collected most of them into jars and transplanted them onto fresh plants in the park. I hope I did the right thing.
#wildlife #caterpillars #cinnabar #ragwort #bugs #bugstodon
I have #Cinnabar moth caterpillars in my garden! Yay! 
They love #ragwort. In fact it’s all they eat, so if there were no ragwort we’d have no Cinnabar moths.
#LoveWeeds #MothsMatter #WeNeedPollinators
Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-iberians-ingested-red-dust-loaded-with-mind-altering-mercury-180983889/ #archaeology #spain #CopperAge #Valencina #mercury #hallucinogen #cinnabar
#Cinnabar & #celestite are lucky #crystals for tonight's serendipitous #Gemini #ThirdQuarter Moon (the "Consolation Moon" in Antinous #MoonMagic, says #Antinous priest and certified crystals therapist #MartinCampbell: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/09/its-cinnabar-for-consolation-moon-by.html
#quartz is nice and I'm glad for crystal derived time, but I voted #cinnabar. Quartz is omnipresent, but the trip with single digit aged me and my dad and the guide to Obermoschel was unique. I'm working with quartz for clock signals, have some nice oscillators (Rb Controlled, heated) but my picture shows an old russian low frequency quartz bar I'm didn't come around to use yet. #mincup23 #teamquartz
Here's a quick fact sheet for match 2 in #MinCup23:
#Cinnabar
HgS
Name: traceable to the Persian zinjifrah likely meaning dragon's blood
Occurrence: low-temperature hydrothermal veins
Neat fact: mined in Neolithic times and used as pigment and to extract mercury
#Quartz
SiO2
Name: possibly of Slavic or German origin (Querklufterz - aren't you glad it got abbreviated)
Occurrence: hydrothermal, igneous and metamorphic rocks, sandstone
Neat fact: piezoelectric
Cinnabar in Chinese folklore was associated with the Vermilion Bird of the South, and one of the main ingredients of immortality pills in Chinese alchemy (ironically, since it's toxic, and if you eat it you'll get the opposite of immortal...)
There is an Oroqen folktale about a hero named Silteken, who goes out to avenge his father's death on a 100-eyed monster. He loses the first fight and dies.
However, his clever horse goes on a quest to kidnap a (willing) princess from her wedding along with her dowry of cinnabar, which can be used to bring the dead back to life.
Revived with cinnabar by his beloved, Silteken defeats the monster.
There is a Japanese folktale about two brothers who go out to gather cinnabar every day from a pond.
The cruel younger brother decides he wants to keep all the valuable cinnabar to himself. He constructs a fake dragon from lacquered bowls to scare his elder brother away from the pond.
However, one day as he goes to collect cinnabar again, the dragon comes to life and swallows him.
Kaolinite moves on to round 2, and #MinCup23 advances to the 1st round matchup of #Cinnabar versus #Quartz. Campaign for your favorite and VOTE!
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
Results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-2
#Cinnabar #moth #caterpillars on #ragwort here this week.
First noticed a small number here about three years ago.
This year they are everywhere.
Ragwort - a much maligned #wildflower - is the larval food plant of this magnificent moth.
Delighted to see them thrive here.
Anoxinon e.V. 
