Kicking a dead up the stairs

Now that we're nearing Halloween I think it's time I share my only major magical working involving a dead person. By major I mean a direct ritual instead of basic offerings of candles, flowers, liquid and/or solid libations, etc. By working I mean I've done a ritual on behalf of a dead person involving another force, instead of calling on the spirit of the dead itself and asking it to do something. I have to mention this because what I've done is different to what's presented in the necromancy class.

I know a man who has more than average psychic powers we were able to test to a degree. He is not involved in the occult, is not religious although he believes in divinity in his own way. He prefers to see to his own mundane living instead of taking on magical practice. He hasn't trained his powers and doesn't feel like it. He cannot use them at will, at any moment or on any person.

Void of Course article

Mr Farrell recently started a magical training blog to offer people practical information regarding Golden Dawn and Greco-Egyptian systems, as well as other important occult related topics. One of these topics is astrology, something he and una ragazza molto speciale have covered in this article.

I was asked to contribute with an article of my own, covering Void of Course. I've done so and it got published last week. It was beautifully edited by una ragazza molto speciale who deserves my full gratitude, and then some, for having allowed my trademark writing style to shine. It covers what the event is, its duration and implications in magical work, with added examples from horary astrology showing how it affects developments. The explanations contain certain details I've yet to discuss on the subject, either in my books, on blog posts or elsewhere. I think that by reading them one may consider the notion of broken dreams more in depth, especially since the Moon covers daydreaming as much as it covers nightly dreams.

All in all, it should be an insightful reading for beginners and more experienced alike, especially since I could come up with at least one example of a knowledgeable person selling astrological talismans made during VoC.

Complexity does not guarantee success

I've heard of people doing hour-long rituals full of all sorts of complicated stuff like Opening by Watchtower, multiple lengthy invocations, using a substantial arsenal of paraphernalia in dramatic fashion, even running around the altar like a madman screaming gibberish. While I have nothing against that if these things make sense in the working itself and are used properly, that doesn't guarantee such a ritual will have the desired effect. By desired effect I mean the forces set into motion manifesting the magician's intent to its fullest, whether for practical or mystical purposes.

I recently received a short and simple ritual from una ragazza molto speciale, specifically crafted by her for working towards what in Jungian terms are referred to as the Anima and Animus. The operant is to encounter an avatar of their Anima/Animus and ask for whatever it has to offer them, ending by recognizing him or herself as being one with their Anima/Animus.

Horary reading

This is going to be a lengthy article and I hate writing them as much as I hate reading them, especially now that I have to deal with a lot in my personal life, but I consider it necessary.

Some time ago someone asked me why I don't do horary as a service if I do elections. I told the person I've not the experience to interpret a horary chart since I'm unfamiliar with all its many quirks and how they worth together. Truth be told I haven't found it necessary to go into it. But things may change at some point with recent events and a backstory is needed. 

A little over a month ago a man contacted me asking me to expose his ex wife's secrets to him, mostly those regarding their marital relationship. He and the woman divorced earlier this year and he had most of his reasons straightened, but his gut feeling told him there may be more to it than the accusations he held against her.

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).