{"id":1305,"date":"2014-04-17T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2014-04-17T09:11:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:11:06","slug":"further-experiments-with-the-stele-of-jeu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/17\/further-experiments-with-the-stele-of-jeu\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Experiments With The Stele of Jeu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Third night of the full moon, 15 Apr 2014. Neither my most nor least successful attempt to photograph the moon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Excepting the Valentines’ Day Full Moon, when I was laid low with the literal flu and a fever of 104, I have performed the Stele of Jeu the Heiroglyphist (or one of my experimental variants) at least twice at every Full and Dark Moon Esbat this semester.\u00a0 It has, to my own surprise, become the centerpiece of my magical practice over the last few years.\u00a0 The results of the ritual, however, have been in no way consistent.<\/p>\n

I have written about the ritual before<\/a>–perhaps more than anyone on the internet except Mr. Jack Faust<\/a>, who introduced me to the ritual–and I don’t want to re-tread too much ground, but there have been some interesting changes, particularly lately.\u00a0 In my two years of research, now, I have found about a double handful of people who mention or advocate the ritual.\u00a0 Only two have talked about the effects of the rite, or their personal experiences with it, and they have spoken to me mostly in private.\u00a0 I don’t know if this in any way resembles the experiences that others have had with the ritual.<\/p>\n

When I first began performing the ritual, I could feel it sending shockwaves throughout my world.\u00a0 My web of power trembled.\u00a0 Cracks emerged in the foundations of my reality.\u00a0 I got so high on power that sometimes I could barely walk to bed at the end of the ritual.<\/p>\n

As I became fore familiar with the ritual, the effects seemed to diminish.\u00a0 The earthquakes were fewer, further between, and came mostly when I was either performing the ritual at a place of power or making the most radical changes to the structure and performance.\u00a0 It became a sort of touchstone, a powerup, and I had to push the power out into my web.\u00a0 I began to use the power to help the people in my web transform their lives.\u00a0 Then I hit a breaking point.<\/p>\n

In the last months, I’ve been keeping the power of the ritual to myself again.\u00a0 And, rather than being disruptive–rather than earthquakes and cracks–the power of the Headless One has been regenerative.\u00a0 The cracks in me, the cracks in my life, have been filling with that golden-white power, and they’ve been starting to close.<\/p>\n

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Excepting the Valentines’ Day Full Moon, when I was laid low with the literal flu and a fever of 104, I have performed the Stele of Jeu the Heiroglyphist (or one of my experimental variants) at least twice at every Full and Dark Moon Esbat this semester.\u00a0 It has, to my own surprise, become the … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[75,87,134,256],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-esbat","tag-full-moon","tag-keeping-score","tag-stele-of-jeu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-l3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}