Janus New Year ritual

The following is an adapted and simplified version of that owr very own magicked up pegan woowoo person, Mr. Farrell's Janus rite for the purpose of shedding past nastiness and invoking a bright future (although you can be specific on what you want in regards to the future you invoke). You'll need a black candle and a white one, a glass of wine, some bread, holy water and incense (the script calls for bay laurel).

One of the reason I've watered it down is the script calls for two participants. Another reason is it involves some specific Golden Dawn temple stuff. Anyway, here we go.

JANUS RITE

Put the black candle in the West. Then put the altar more towards the East, instead of right in the center of the circle, with the statue (or picture) of Janus with the offerings, incense, holy water and the white candle.

Perform your usual ritual opening.

Take the candles and write your name and the name Janus on both. 

Project all the thoughts and incidents you want left in the past into the black candle. You can do this by holding it and saying:

Christmas time

Christmas is near and I'm looking forward to celebrating it in as much peace as possible. Therefore, I'll probably answer any questions that may arise much later and will post the next article even later still.

Merry Christmas!

Moon election

With a few planets retro and a couple others irritated, I thought working with the Moon would be a good idea. For that reason I selected the following election that would allow people to make potent lunar talismans. Or you can just call on lunar entities and ask them for whatever (falls in their sphere of influence).

I could've made the Moon even stronger by having it in its decan as well, but my geographical location won't allow it. I could've waited for Saturday for that although I chose not to due to the enmity between Saturn and the Moon's energies.

We see the waxing Moon exalted, in its triplicity and on the MC (and also in sect). It is separating from a conjunction with a retro Jupiter it easily overpowers, rendering this aspect a minor inconvenience at worse.

"Winter is coming"

Wiinter has come in my neck of the woods. There hasn't been much snow so far, mostly wetness and cold, but that's besides the point.

With the arrival of winter I remembered what man who spent some 10 years in Russia told me more than once. Then I remembered even seeing at least a couple of TV documentaries addressing that topic although in little detail. But the important thing for me was them mentioning it.

I'm referring to magical workings performed by certain people in Russia during time of need in order to defeat invading enemies. The man I mentioned travel all across Russia, from Murmansk to the Caucasus and from Moscow to Vladivostok. He met various folk, some of them telling him about such magical workings.

Spirit Pentagrams

In light of Mr. Farrell's recent article on Pentagrams a thought occurred to me. What if I employ the Spirit Pentagrams in my procedure of charging magical products?

What I mean is it occurred to me I could trace the Active Spirit Pentagram over the talisman or elixir during the process. I still consider whether it'd be better to trace it prior to or just after conjuring the spirit(s). This Pentagram would add a layer of raw spiritual force to the working.

Case study: lunar nodes

Recently I've talked with a lady who studies Vedic astrology. She told me in regards to the lunar nodes "with Rahu and Ketu you can define a whole man". I went on to tell her that imo Rahu and Ketu, the North and South Node, define the person and the rest of the chart represents strengths and weaknesses when it comes to them dealing with their nodes' influences. She agreed.

We've discussed the lunar nodes in Asteria and I've written a special article on them in regards to magical operations in Asteria 2. We've also discussed the nodes from the perspective of eclipses in this free article.

What follows is a few examples of people I came to meet over the past year who stood out to me as manifesting their natal nodes' influences in certain houses. In some cases I'm not aware of their birth data and even in many of those cases I don't know their birth times. But despite their charts showing certain placements and aspects, what they've told me of their lives so far made me identify certain patterns that probably represent their nodes' influences.

More on the twelfth house

I talked about the twelfth house in detail in the specific article from Asteria 2. Now I want to offer a complex example of twelfth house themes, especially self sabotage and curses. As you will find out if you explore my example in depth via the sources I offer, these themes converge into sorrow, despair and anguish for those who are subjected to them.

The example I want to offer consists in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin, a lengthy tale of the First Age, thousands of years before the Fellowship of the Ring began its journey towards Mount Doom. The tale itself has its own chapter in The Silmarillion although it's but a shorter version of the one found in the book bearing its name.

Before you read the book I want to draw your attention to this channel that does a great job at explaining Tolkien's universe in detail. The onwer just posted the next to last hour long of the thirteen videos in which he retells and explains in detail this particular story. His previous videos cover stories that happened previously in the timeline so you'd know how it all came to be at the beginning of this one.

Conjuration

Early on my magical path I was told by Scott a spirit's sigil is like its personal phone number. Just like a human can have more than one phone number, each spirit can have more than a single sigil, whether they're found in old grimoires or they're generated from a kamea, etc.

But then why wouldn't a spirit be conjured using more than one conjuration formula? I mean there isn't a single, unique recitation of words that would have the spirit show up. There can be more than one verbal construction, some longer and other shorter that can be used for this purpose.

Naturally, such constructions need to contain specific words and phrasing as to have a greater impact on the spiritual world and determine the spirits to show up. If a spirit's sigil is akin to ita phone number, then the conjuration formula would be like diling that number although this is not a good comparison.

Lilith book review

"The Astrology of the Black Moon: A Guide to Healing the Shadow Side" by Laura Walker is a very good source for those willing to understand this mysterious force in greater detail. Even though the book is less than a hundred pages, the author has done an outstanding job at describing Black Moon's nature and influences. While I would've loved for this force to be dealt with in regards to relationships as well within the book, the description of its influences in a natal chart are extremely valuable.

I like this book so much I even used it as source material for Asteria and it also became source material for Asteria 2.

Venus election next month

As I stated in a previous article, Venus will be in Libra soon. As such, I've chosen the following election for the although I'm not saying it's the best one. I'm sure others will find better ones if they looked harder, but in my case in more than good enough.

At the selected time we see Venus in domicile, on the Ascendant, in sect, free from hard aspects. The waxing Moon in Aquarius, although in a loose separating square with Jupiter, is applying to a very tight trine with Venus. The trine aspect is partile and close to being exact.

I too am ignorant at times

Earlier this year I made this review of The Sun of Knowledge. I expressed my disappointment in it, partly out of frustration it wasn't what I expected, partly out of frustration I don't speak Arabic and partly out of sheer ignorance. You see, while having criticized many of being ignorant along the way, I am my own worst critic and I always admit I'm wrong, dumb or whatever whenever the situation arises.

Last night I spoke at length about this book and its contents with an Egyptian Muslim. I must state upfront the man is not involved in the occult and so he couldn't enlighten me in regards to the nuances and subtleties within the book, especially since he hadn't read it. But what he did tell me was some accounts of people who had, one of the accounts being of a guy he knows very well, a guy who also used the book (although he couldn't tell me how).

Decans pathworking

This hit me a few days ago while I was under the influence of a certain mystical experience inducing herb and mind you I've only done it outside ritual space so far. By that I mean I hadn't tuned the space to the appropriate force, meaning the information I received was likely to be more diluted and mixed with interference from other forces. But so far I fancy the idea and I think I'll do it as often as possible.

Some years ago Scott presented a simple pathworking ritual, something I've been using to work my way up the Tree of Life. Right now I have only the paths of Venus, Moon, Mercury and Air left, but each new pathworking seems to take longer than the previous for the energies to settle down inside my sphere and for me to physically manifest and act according to what I've been taught during the actual pathworking.

Flower!

The rose plant has one flower blossoming and it's October! It's not much because the flower itself is small and it's just one, but it's a considerable success given the plant was close to dying earlier this summer.

I've got another garden magix project in work and I will be posting about it in due time.

Caution

Mars is currently in exile in Libra and thus it's very weak, but it's getting closer to becoming super strong in Scorpio. The downside is that it'll be combust for much of the time it'll spend in Scorpio. Therefore, despite the fact it'll greatly overpower the Sun, it's combustion will make its energies erratic. Just wanted to remind people of this in case anyone's thinking of contacting their personal pentacle maker (who in many cases has no clue of astrology) and asking for a Martian pentacle.

The good thing is Mars will be cazimi towards the end of Scorpio, which is a very good thing. One should take advantage of this (if their geographical location allows for Mars cazimi to be rising or culminating at the time).

Venus, however will be very strong in Libra at the time, this year unimpeded by combustion.

Egyptian magix

No, I'm not going to discuss the PGM or various other ancient Egyptian magical sources. I'm sure there are self proclaimed experts in that field as well, but who cares about them?

I just so happened to come across this video by chance, which depicts part of an audiobook focused on Egyptian magix. In it you'll find a more detailed account of the story of Isis and Ra I briefly exemplified in Words. Additionally, I'm sure that whenever you get to that part, which follows shortly after the aforementioned story, you'll understand why some medieval grimoires employ quite a few names of God in their orations, conjurations, etc.

Who are you?

As of a few months ago someone from Singapore has been visiting my blog. Not only have they looked through the articles, but they've made more views than anyone else combined.

I know Dr. Stephen Skinner lives in Singapore although I doubt he'd be wasting his time reading my blog. Otherwise, I know no one else there. 

Therefore, who are you? Post a quick comment so I'd know you're a real person and not some bot. If you don't mind, that is.

Question on Cielos

One of my readers recently asked me why I haven't included the planetary pentacles (scroll down) from the KoS in Cielos. While it would've been a good means to make the book thicker, information over them is readily available such as in the link I already tagged. Additionally, it should be easy to comprehend by a non-English speaker using free online translation.

What I have done in Cielos was to include a distinct section on talismans. It can be found in section 5.1 on page 131, chapter 5 (Trabajo complementario). The section itself is a little over thee pages long and offers quite a few important details on the subject, besides underlying the importance of making use of proper astro times when making them and giving them life. If one wants them to work to their benefit, that is. The book also provides astro details that are the minimum requirement in terms of elections, but not everyone uses them (especially those who solely seek to earn a quick buck).

Street magix

Over time I've come across accounts of people who've done successful magical stuff while outside the comfort of their usual ritual space. More exactly, they've successfully undertaken magical operations while being fully immersed in the mundane environment. I don't doubt that and here's my account.

The following experiment has been successfully reproduced more than once so far. Truth be told, the success took longer to manifest in some cases, but no more than an hour. My goal was to banish certain people who were disturbing the peace from a certain area for good. In most cases it was a public park and the people in question were often drunked youths who were drawing attention to that area, a place where some of us older folks were busy enjoying ourselves... differently.

Garden magix update

A short while ago I posted this article about my magical endeavors in regards to gardening. I think I was uninspired at the time to take the picture of the plant in question at night, even though using camera flash, but I guess it's revealing enough even so.

Today I went out to wanter the plant yet again and saw its leafs we're not only a bit more developed, but their number increased as well. Given it's been almost ten days since I took the previous photo, I find this very encouraging.

I also consider making some talismans that are good for growing crops (and/or removing pests) and burying them at the root of the rose plant to see how that will work over time. Unfortunately, I have not the time to do any serious planning on that, but will likely post about it in the eventuality I'll go ahead with this idea at some point. Will probably zap some tap water with certain juju and water the plant with it before making any talismans so any effects from that should be interesting.

Will keep posting on this topic depending on future developments.

Road opening talisman

A couple of months ago I was gifted the silver bracelet depicted in the above photo. I'm not a jewelry person and I don't like having loose things on me so I was rather reluctant to wear it. But then it came to me I can use it to my advantage regardless.

Since I had nothing special planned around that time so I decided to do a Hecate road opening ritual on it. Given it's metal, it was a no brainer, otherwise I was thinking of calling on the lunar hierarchy over it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find at least a decent lunar election at the time.

Garden magix

While I'm not versed in magical operations focused on agricultural endeavors, as is The Cunning Farmer, about two months ago I did two rituals in that direction. More specifically, they were aimed at the rose plant in the picture above.

The plant should've been much larger now, had it not been attacked by bugs or larvae or whatever. You can still see some damaged older leafs and perhaps even certain stems. Thing is it only blossomed a single flower and that too was destroyed, along with the rest of the buds.

That got me super pissed and I started spraying it with something I got hold of from an acquaintance, but that didn't seem to solve the problem. It got me pissed even further, to the point I resulted to doing the two rituals without much preparation in terms of elections or even the forces involved.

On transits

Magick Pills for Hard Transits is aimed directly at helping people in regards to whatever difficulties they may encounter when experiencing difficult planetary transits over their natal chart. We've also talked about transits in both Asteria and Asteria 2.

But how do transits affect us? 

Firstly we need to understand that the celestial energies at the moment of our birth become internalized. That is to say, the macrocosm becomes a microcosm. Thus, each of us has a particular set of celestial energies embedded into our personal sphere of consciousness. Those energies are highly complex by themselves, not to mention their interactions.

BML to laypeople's minds

We've discussed Black Moon Lilith in detail in both Asteria and Asteria 2. There is much more to say about this subject, naturally, but its complexity renders any attempt to exemplify it in detail useless.

In this article I want to present how someone uninvolved in the occult perceives this energy. Well, they're somewhat involved in the occult, but solely through divination. I must add they interpret any messages they receive through a dogmatic religious mindset. 

Someone I know has sought the help of a local divination person. The person in question is quite good at what they're doing, actually seeing things about the client they couldn't have possibly known. I mean they pinpointed certain things with great precision, not spewing out generalities like many who seek to earn a quick penny do.

Multilevel houses

For a few years now I've been contemplating the astrological houses every chance I got. I wasn't able to address everything I came up with surrounding them in the articles I've tagged because I wasn't able to put all my thoughts into words at the time, let alone explain each concept I wanted to present further but left out in a way that'd make it easily understandable. That's why I'm well aware those articles are lacking, but they will have to do for now.

There's a couple of other things I wanted to discuss surrounding the houses and now is a good a time as any to address one of them. They say the houses are areas of life, but one should not imagine each of them as being a pen stuffed with certain areas. Instead, it would be more logical to think of them as a whole as one big library, each of the houses representing one large row of book cases. Each case would contain a certain area corresponding to its appropriate house. Each case in turn would have shelves that represent different levels of possibilities in regards to said area. The books on the shelves, the pages within those books and each individual word would represent more and more particular minute details.

On Venus retro

We are currently experiencing Venus retrograde. We've discussed retrogrades in detail in Asteria, including Venus. But that information is aimed more at allowing people to understand the phenomenon in relation to their magical work.

Here I want to speak more about mundane things, while reminding people retrograde planets are considered debilitated. That is to say, they manifest their inharmonious sides and thus it's best to abstain from magical works with the intent of using their beneficial nature.

"Stay away" update

Last month I posted this article on how something that can be considered a curse can have good repercussions for the target as well. But that's not all! Earlier this week I was told his family forced him to move in with them in the countryside for a while.

That while may very well turn out to be a couple of years or more. The guy seemed so sad he had to go and said he'd keep in touch, but who cares... The good thing for me is that the whole thing turned out in my favor after all, irrespective of his feelings and whatnot.

The Force is with me >:D

Anuncio en linea

The guys over at Boticario Magico have produced an ad containing Asteria, Cielos, Chiron, Señor Shaman's book, their translation of Aradia into Español, along with their own zodiacal calendar.

Since I suck at html and the page coloring and formatting gets fucked up whenever I want to switch to adding html codes, I cannot actually put the video in this article. But you can watch it here.

Zodiacal calendar

The guys over at Boticario Magico have released a zodiacal calendar for 2023 (and will obviously release one for each year to come).

The calendar contains several important pieces of information, including lunar phases and Mercury retro periods. Moreover, it contains the sigils of the twelve zodiacal angels. Note the angel names are taken from the Magical Calendar, a renaissance source, as well as good ol' Cornelius Agrippa.

Tricky trickster

I've spoken multiple times about how I find Mercury the most difficult planet to work with in regards to elections. Here is one such example.

Mercury is close to entering Virgo, a sign of its domicile and exaltation. Naturally, Mercury is super powerful in this sign. However, if we are to consider lunar phases as well, we see that the only election that takes into account both the Moon's phase and sign would be on August 1. The following chart shows Mercury on the MC and the Moon a little past the Full Moon degree, but also consider Mercury on the ASC, something that would have the Moon placed just prior to that degree.

Getting down and dirty

The title of this article is the first half of the article titled "Getting down and dirty: Astrology and love spells" from Asteria 2. The article is found on page 135 and it presents two complex charts, one of which is depicted above. The goal of this article is to help practicing occultists achieve better success with love spells by making use of astrological knowledge. 

The astrological details mentioned in the article fall into modern astrological teachings, but so far I found such teachings extremely helpful in decripting the highly complex energetic patterns between people. When applying magical means on already existing patters, magicians have a bigger chance of shifting things the way they desire. Alternatively, they can come across patterns that will hinder their love spells. The Magick of Astrorelationships can be of great help in the latter case.

Debt gone

I know a man who used to own someone around $15,000. He was going to pay the person back, but he had to wait for longer to get hold of that amount and the other person needed it back badly. He told me his problem and I performed a couple of rituals on him, working with the Sun and Jupiter. 

The end result was not that the man himself came into possession of the money, although he'd end up receiving a certain amount himself, but something very interesting considering how spells materialize based on the intent. I talk about intent in Words and why it's very important in practical occult, something completely opposite to what many self-righteous assholes out there preach. But what do I know?!

Curse, with a twist

Do you know the kind of spells to make someone stay away from you? They're usually considered curses because the target needs to be blocked from approaching you, which often implies they would suffer to some extent for that to occur. They may get sick, suffer an accident, have their schedule messes up, or simply get into all sorts of trouble, experiences that would keep them busy and prevent them from getting near you.

But that's not always the case. I found that every so often such spells to have a blessing-in- disguise effect on the target. This may not happen constantly and the target can experience situations alternating from horrible to pretty cool. Naturally, this depends on a myriad of circumstances and if you've been involved into practical occult for some time I imagine you wouldn't need me to go into it more.

Charging magical products

I've only been able to post new articles with certain difficulty due to my chaotic schedule over the past several months. So far I cannot help myself because, although things seem to be running smoothly for me, I keep experiencing certain things that stretch my schedule even more. I'm well aware of that and I commit myself to posting new things whenever I get the chance. Problem is, I keep having all these ideas to discuss, but the chaotic schedule messes with my train of thoughts and I'm having difficulty arranging my thoughts into concrete articles based on specific topics.

Anyway, this article is about how I make elixirs and talismans, since I kept posting about these topics more than a few times. It matters not whether the talisman itself is found in an old grimoire or my very own design. In the case of elixirs, I dare to say I've gone further into this field than most, aside of course than those people who are actually involved in Alchemy. If I ever get a chance to take on actual Alchemy, I'm sure I'd be handling each resulting concoction in similar magical ways once the actual alchemical process is complete.

So far I've posted about my ritual template and how I adjust it depending on needs. When it comes to talismans and elixirs, my method remains the same (except for certain times I simply pass the talisman through incense smoke after commanding the spirit to change it, because reasons). All in all, it involves conjuring the specific spirits and commanding them to charge the specific talisman or elixir for a specific goal.

Overcast

A couple of days after my first weather magix this year.

Another "check on Earth"

In this article I discussed a "check on Earth" event I observed after a Venus ritual. Last week I performed a similar ritual, this time in my neck of the woods. I took advantage of Venus transiting its terms in Leo. Basically, I called on the aforementioned forces to blast a 1km radius from my place with their best juju.

Today I came home to find my first floor junkie neighbor waving at me and inviting me in. He immediately rolled one and invited me to join him. 

I thank thee, Milady!