Talisman - fifth lunar mansion

The fifth lunar mansion is Almizen and spans between 21*26' Taurus and 4*17' Gemini. Talismans made with its powers are good for "receiving good from kings and high officials", as the Picatrix instructs. Generally, this is a good talisman for dealing with authorities, possibly for smashing through annoying bureaucratic issues.

The image of the talisman is "the head of a man without a body" and you needn't go artistic on it as in the above image. The name of the mansion spirit is to be inscribed above the image, said name being Cabil. You can also inscribe the name of the mansion below if you want, or a waxing crescent, or both.

The date I've selected for the election is 2 Jan 2023 and keep in mind the following chart is for NYC time. You will have to adjust the chart to your location and have the Moon rising.

Book review: Enochian series

I wanted to get my hands on Scott's Enochian books (this, this and this) for a long time, but unfortunately I couldn't afford them at first since shipping across the pond costs an arm and a leg compared to the actual price you pay for the books themselves. Later on I was able to afford them, only to have to wait for the third and final book of the series to be published. That kept dragging on and so I had no choice but to archive the thought of buying all three of them at once. 

But my folks got their US visas renewed this past summer and they planned a vacation across the pond in the fall. I immediately told them I need them to buy those damn books as soon as they get there, especially since Scott announced the third volume will published around that time. They've done just that and I came into their possession the day my folks touched home soil again.

Now, I've been working with the Heptarchy ever since I came across Scott's splendid article on the topic and was fortunate to receive detailed help and guidance from him. So far I've had more than a fair share of success. I also read his article on the Great Table and found it way more complicated, but you'd have to consider the fact I'm dumb so you may very well find it simple. I had also read his Aires article and wanted to give that a try as well, but my magical path took me on different routes. Maybe at some point in the near future I will manage to take it for a spin since I've got some wicked plans for it >:D

Get your energy therapy

A person whom I've fallen in love with more than once over the past few years for more than a few reasons is heavy into energy therapy. This is a broad field that covers more than a few systems and makes use of techniques from more than a few cultures. Nowadays people are mostly aware of light and fluffy New Agey crap that "borrowed" some of these practices and applied them in a shallow, retarded way. 

Unlike them silly crystal sucking dimwits, the person I'm referring to performs this kind of therapy using traditional methods. This includes Reiki and crystal work, probably two of the most bastardized energy work practices over the last few decades. I mean, both of them have become a major trend, either together or independently, attracting all sorts of TikTok and Instagram weirdos who find it cool to post pix and vids of themselves undergoing such sessions. But having someone tickling your sides or rubbing crystals on your Mons Venus for immediate fun is a far cry from actual therapeutic sessions with beneficial lasting effects.

Stealing without air quotes

"Steal from the best" is one of Scott's sayings. It refers to borrowing techniques and tricks of the trade from experienced occultists to see whether they improve personal work and to keep using them if they do. It doesn't refer to taking other people's material and making it your own, especially in official ways!

It has come to my attention the head of some wack ass GD wannabe order has stolen material originally published by one Samuel Scarborough. People who read my books might be familiar with this name since I've quoted his work more than once and at least two or three of my books have his work mentioned in the bibliography. The last book I've mentioned his work in was Cielos, where I also talk about the likes of the aforementioned scum characters who appropriate others' material and stamp their name on it. In that book I warn people to stay clear of such characters while providing more than enough clues to recognize them.

Medicinal woowoo

Some five years ago I began making all sorts of magical elixirs, most of them for the purpose of dealing with various health issues. I've also talked about this tangentially in my Chiron book although those workings were slightly different.

One of the purposes for those elixirs was to get rid of nasal polyps that had been bugging me for as long as I could remember. It turns out the elixirs I've made for that purpose worked and I'm free of such issues. I used a variation of one of the operations found in my fitness magick stuff and the doctors said I've got enlarged nasal turbinates now. I must've had them for a long time since although I could breathe easier after making and consuming the elixirs that targeted the polyps, I still couldn't breathe normally.

Importance of daily practice

I addressed the importance of daily practice in Words. In that book I've covered the vertical component in regards to its implication in detail and now I will address its horizontal one more. To save people time and effort, I will do so briefly and to the point.

Daily practice allows you to learn your ritual templates backwards. Constant repetition trains both your mind and your body to go through the motions involved in specific rituals. Daily practice does not involve working with spiritual entities and so the practitioner won't perform more advanced techniques during such sessions, but it can consist of preliminary ones such as casting the circle and addressing the divine. These two components are important regardless whether you're into lodge or grimoire stuff and repeating them over and over again will practically nail those procedures deep into your brain.

Other things such as lighting candles and incense for meditative purposes are also part of rituals. Therefore, establishing the right times to do them during practice sessions will prevent you from fumbling during actual rituals focused on contacting otherworldly stuff. Meditation too serves its role during rituals in which the operant wants to communicate with the entities he or she has called upon and so training the mind to slip into a meditative state smoother will allow one easier contact with those entities (although it depends how much time will pass before one's psychic senses develop to a degree to allow them to see and/or hear and/or sense spirits).

Hail Hecate!

About five weeks ago (5 x 7 days) I was contacted by a man who desperately needed to go abroad to start a new job. The problem was he didn't have the money for that endeavor, nor could he come up with it in such a short time. He was barely able to pay me for my ritual service.

Besides the plane ticket, he also had to undergo certain medical exams that would determine he's fit for work. He then had to appeal to a professional legal translator to translate that paperwork, after which he had to legalize that paperwork for it to be accepted by his soon to be employer.