2021 retrogrades

Courtesy of the bored genius, Andres.

Use them wisely.

Hate on, dum-dums!

The Great Gazoo

Abducted by TikTok

 

Yours truly made it to TikTok. Here's the promo to the article on eclipses we wrote. Well, Andres and Mario did most of the work, so I'm kinda embarrassed to take any credit for it. Nevertheless, I hope Spanish speaking people everywhere will enjoy it. By the way, the level of enthusiasm and professionalism these guys are showing is far beyond my bull-in-a-china-shop way of doing things.

Thank you, Andres! Thank you, Mario!

Hate on, dum-dums!

The Great Gazoo

Article on eclipses

I've recently been invited by Andres (see the links to his fb page and blog de la magia to the right of the page) to co-author an article that covers the topic of eclipses. It does so from a mythological and magical, but also from an astrological and astronomical perspective.  

The article is written en Español and you can access it *here*. You can also access it to the left of the page, in the section covering my online articles. Talk about horizontal transfer of knowledge ;)

Enjoy!

Thank you, Andres! Thank you, Mario!

Hate on, dum-dums!

The Great Gazoo

Spirits of the fixed stars

Ever since I became aware of the fixed stars and their magical uses I searched for their spirits, not knowing at that time there are no spirits attributed to them in old sources. They're not in any new source, for that matter. I soon learned that, when working with the fixed stars, the operant simply invokes the star of choice and asks for its energies to consecrate a talisman for purposes covered by the power of said star. The invocation can be something as simple as the Orphic hymn to the stars, yet it has to be performed at specific auspicious times for the effects of the operation to be successful - i.e. for the talisman to produce the desired effects.

But what about the spirits? From a Qabalistic perspective, the fixed stars are attributed to Chockmah. This sephira is ruled by archangel Raziel and people usually know that the zodiac is attributed to it. The sings of the zodiac all have spirit attributions, as per old sources. The Golden Dawn have compiled these attributions along with others relating to the signs, yet people nowadays can come across them easier thanks to Uncle Al who published them in Liber 777, most likely having received them from Mathers. Even so, no mention of spirits of fixed stars. I mean, there have to be spirits who govern the consciousness of each of individual star, right? Otherwise, the poor Auphanim would mostly do nothing... I imagine they'd be so bored...

The fixed stars can be either part of the zodiac signs, yet most of them are extra-zodiacal. Probably the best known fixed stars are the 15 Behenian Stars the ancients considered as being special for some reason (I'm not an erudite, so don't ask me why because idk!). But these stars do not have spirit attributions either! This kinda pisses me off because I'm used to working with spirits one-on-one and commanding them, not just to "praying for a miracle". The idea of getting in touch with actual spirits of these stars stuck to me, but unfortunately I had little time to do anything about it, being super busy... "facilitating people's access to God". 

Mars growing stronger

 

Mars is in direct motion right now and in domicile, so it is strong. Yet it is moving slower than its usual transit speed, so it is not as strong as usual when transiting its domicile. Mars will continue to move slower than usual up until it exists Aries, reaching normal speed with only a few minutes of arc remaining before it slips into Taurus where it is weak. 

However, Mars' current condition is about to improve even more, since in a few days it will enter its terms in Aries, starting at 20*00'00'' Aries. Between then and when it reaches 25*59'59'' Aries it will be very strong! Not super strong, but strong nonetheless. So look up the chart and see the exact dates and times Mars will happen to be in those degrees, based on your location. 

Thoughts on lottery magick

 

I came across a comment in Scott's blog a few days ago, someone asking him about spells for winning the lottery: here. I thought of throwing my two cents in, since it's something I've experimented with, yet in a more passive way, as I will detail further on. The querent asked Scott what is the best magical power from those listed in Liber 777 for winning the lottery. Scott provided the following answer, which I took as my cue to step in :P

"Experimentally I found that Jupiter seemed to work the best for me compared to Sun and also Mercury. Another magician online posted about the same thing and he claimed to have better luck with Mercury. Here's the rationale for each of those planets.

Sun: Power of Acquiring Wealth. Lottery winnings are wealth.
Jupiter: Political and Other Ascendancy. In our modern society, "ascendancy" is strongly tied to wealth. Rich people have the highest status, and lottery winnings make you rich.
Mercury: Less obvious from the 777 powers, but traditionally Mercury rules games of chance. The lottery is a game of chance.

The differences in my results and the other magician's results might have something to do with our respective astrological charts, but it's not obvious what the difference would be. I have Mercury in rulership and Jupiter in detriment in mine, so if the relationship was straightforward planetary dignity I would expect Mercury to work better for me. But that isn't how my results turned out."

Yours truly: brief description

"The Third decan is ruled by the Daemon SIKET and is depicted as a woman with a drum on her head and a sceptre in her right hand, with a flask in her left. She is covered in wrappings down to her ankles. She rules over the ear, uvula, and teeth. The tarot card is the Four of Wands. It is the Lord of Perfected Work and insensitivity. Its stone is a bostrychite and its plant is plantain. SIKET makes Aries more (MUCH MORE) childlike and fun-loving. It makes them a bit (A LOT) self-centred. They (REALLY) hate vagueness and prefer people to be direct and blunt with them. They crave novelty and thrive on competition. In relationships they (DON'T CARE) need to take the lead, but also crave dynamism in a partner."

This (the words in bold letters) is what I've turned myself into using the methods I present in my book, The Magic of Astrorelationships. The aforementioned quote is from Nick Farrell's Helios Unbound. (Needless to say - Nick!) The psychological data surrounding the decans that Nick presents in his book has helped me a great deal.

 

Hate on, dum-dums!

 

The Great Gazoo

 

PS: this is not a brown-nosing post. God knows, I had to sacrifice many neurons before I got my hands on that data (because Nick is a meanie!). The point is, Nick's book is spot on if you want to work on yourself from that perspective and then some.