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This is great! Also there actually is some edible glitter out there (I bought some at Joann fabric+craft a little while ago) so if you use that you could make drinkable star water too!

Star Water

The idea for this comes from this post! 

For me, stars represent power, protection, purity, illumination, enlightenment, guidance, and hope. With that being said, Star Water can be used for a variety of things. 

Ingredients:

Distilled water

A pinch of glitter (whatever color you like)

A sealable container

Add a pinch of glitter to your container of distilled water - this represents the stars 

Program your water to absorb energy from starlight

Set outside or in a windowsill to charge overnight 

Suggested uses: to anoint items, to cleanse or enchant items, to add to the bath, in spell jars and sachets, to simply represent the stars

warning: do not consume - glitter is not edible

I've been thinking... Maybe dark magic stems straight from star magic?

For a second there I even thought the "big reveal" would be that dark magic might just be star magic pure and simple, but that doesn't click.

Then season five came and I've got a little theory: dark magic is corrupted star magic, it's star magic backwards. This could make sense because while dark magic drains power from life, by way of killing/exploiting body parts from animals and magic creatures, I propose star magic creates life. Case in point: Sir Sparklepuff, aka viraavos' baby.

What Viren did there with Aaravos' help was using his own blood (therefore his own power/life force) and some incantation to bring life into the world. If that was indeed star magic (I'm inclined to think so) then star magic created a magical creature with its own unique existence.

What do y'all think?

I don't know what that would mean for the story but... the wheels are turning in my head.

I've been thinking a similar line of thought, actually.

The lore we have says something something divination and seeing beyond, but they also focus on how little is truly known about Star Magic. So maybe that is somewhat off? I've speculated Star Magic might be connected with creating life (which is very god-like or deity-like, really).

In season five we learn that startouch elves are known as 'first elves' and that got me thinking about how we are all ultimately made of stardust? Like literally, from what I gather about our current knowledge regarding the origins of the universe, stars are nuclear reactors from which all matter comes from. It was in their nucleuses that atoms first formed and fused and became what eventually would be everything else. It's inside stars that Hydrogen becomes Helium and successively heavier mass is possible... Every atom in every molecule in each cell of our bodies was once part of a star.

And when some stars become bigger and heavier and older they become... black holes, right? And they swallow everything around them, warping even light, space and time itself.

So yeah a Star Magic -> Dark Magic pathway seems likely. And that would so reinforce the creating life -> destroying life motif.

This is more of a showerthought (that may become a longer meta later), but there does appear to be some sort of relationship between Dark Magic and Star Magic.

Callum mentions there is a Star spell that lets one recreate bodies for captured spirits. Which is interesting because that doesn’t seem to have much to do with divination or destiny (what Stars are mostly associated with), but sounds instead like a Dark Magic spell.

But then on the other hand, it does make a lot of sense when you think about what the Stars represent. In Callum’s Spellbook, Callum does point out that “Star magic” is really more like “cosmic magic.” It’s not just the stars themselves, but the cosmos as a whole that represents this primal source. Well, what does the cosmos mostly consist of.

That’s right, darkness. The haunting emptiness from which light consist of only a small minority of space.

So maybe it’s possible that Dark Magic is a “seventh source” in the sense that it is an offshoot of Star magic, but without the guiding light of the stars, it simply leads to rampant corruption and decay.