Begone ye profane ones

A brief reminder to the dumbasses who said they don't believe the energies of the heavens affect life on Earth, of how obtuse and ignorant they are, despite posing as scholars and erudites. On top of that, these people also brag about working with spirits, something which in time ought to broaden their perspectives and grant them a more complex view of the world, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case. 

It goes to prove that lighting candles and praying to spirits while preaching it to be some ancient tradition makes you as fake news as some wannabe voodoo group full of sad pathetic fucktards with no childhood friends from northern Italy, who have become the laughingstock of genuine ATR practitioners.

In discussing the image of the Mithras cult (tagged video), Rudolf Steiner tells of how the soul passes through the planetary spheres on its journey into incarnation. These spheres bestow upon it certain qualities required to experience existence in the flesh. It is thus self-evident that earthly man has a direct connection to the heavens and, by extension, any changes occurring in the heavens reverberate into man's earthly existence in some form or another.

This is yet another reason people ought to test their occultist before paying them to perform whatever services.

Planetary cycles

In Asteria 1 we addressed planetary cycles even briefly, as well as presented a table for it. These cycles reflectas transits over someones natal chart, thus influencing people's lives to greater or lesser degree. We also mentioned in the book slower planets usually have a greater and lengthier impact on people than faster transiting ones. Let us consider two such examples, Jupiter and Saturn, the slowest of the seven classical planets.

Jupiter takes about twelve years to return to its position in someone's chart. That usually marks the beginning of puberty, a period of sudden grown and development. I'm referring to how things used to be, for in the past several decades things like gmo have made their impact on the human body. Nowadays it's not unusual for me to come across teens who are above my height, often far beyond my volume. I'm just over 6'1" and almost 155 pounds.

At any rate, Jupiter, the planet of growth and expansion, is the catalyst for this sudden growth of the body. Not only that, but it also causes changes in the mind, for children usually start pondering philosophical and religious concepts at around that age, even in a shallow manner.

Spirits don't give a damn about your earthly achievements

Some dumbass used to teach that spiritual authority is gained by enumerating your earthly achievements to spirits when conjuring them. More exactly, one ought to list such achievements in the occult field.

This, of course, is utter bs! Telling the spirits you authored such and such books and seemingly scholastic papers, working such and such system for whatever amount of time, even bragging you're in the R.R. et A.C. don't amount to crap from the spirits' perspective. At best you'd bore them with your long grocery list. It is the initiation one undergoes for entering the Inner Order that will allow them to increase their spiritual authority. That is why Golden Dawners are introduced to working with spirits at Adeptus Minor and not prior (unless it's some fake order run by some Impotentor).

Tarot much?

Last month I got myself a Rider-Waite deck. It's my first tarot deck ever and I bought it while I'm halfway through my eleventh year of practice. I chose it because I'm most familiar with its cards and symbolism, having made use of them more than once in my work.

Some fanatics demand people get a tarot deck as soon as they begin their magical practice, making it seem indispensable to the work. It's not. It won't help you LBRP-ing yourself into exhaustion or in maintaining a constant regular practice. Quite the opposite, it can become addictive and distract you from magical work. So if you want to really practice the occult it's best to do the actual thing instead of wasting time playing with cards for trivialities.

It will help you in contemplating the symbolism behind the cards in order to better understand each of the forces they represent to a greater degree. It will help if using the cards as gateways to astral realms. Naturally, it will help if you want to learn, or become better at tarot divination.