Last night, during the Hour of the Moon, I performed my first spirit evocation using something like the Triangle of the Art.\u00a0 I have made contact with spirits before, of course, using shamanic techniques and Wiccan invocations and even a bit of mask-work.\u00a0 But if my experience as a jeweler has taught me nothing else, it is that studying someone else\u2019s techniques is an excellent way to refine your own.\u00a0 Thus, the Triangle of the Art.<\/p>\n
I have by now studied a half-dozen forms of evocation: the Goetia, Donald Michael Kraig, Trimethius, the Stele of Jeu, and others whose names I either don\u2019t know or can\u2019t remember off the top of my head.\u00a0 Combining techniques developed by various modern magicians and shared at the Queen of Pentacles<\/a> with my own artistic talents and gnosis, I produced my Triangle.<\/p>\n For my first such evocation, I chose to contact my Natal Genius as described by Agrippa\u2014or, more accurately, as described by Rufus Opus and Frater Acher, augmented by my thus-far-infantile examination of Agrippa and Frater Acher\u2019s generously free-for-download spreadsheet calculator.\u00a0 It seemed like both a natural starting point for experiments in Triangle evocation\u2014a spirit not just friendly to me, but actively interested in my advancement, and likely to be particularly amiable to such contact\u2014and a natural outgrowth of my work with the Stele of Jeu.\u00a0 As to the timing, I chose to operate on the Night and Hour of the Moon because I am a witch at heart.\u00a0 And, as a witch, my first allegiance will always be to the Moon.<\/p>\n I sketched out my Triangle of Art last Thursday evening, when I was struck by sudden inspiration.\u00a0 I re-calculated the name of my natal genius (I had forgotten to round up the degrees), and developed a seal and a preliminary pronunciation.\u00a0 Following the lead of my Muse, I elaborated on the utilitarian format of the Triangle until I had something that looked more like a grimoire-based design: my genius\u2019 name written in Hebrew inside the Triangle, my statement of intent spiraling clockwise around it in English, and the names DIONISUS, RHEA, and AGATHOS DAIMON written in Greek along the inner edge of an outer circle.\u00a0 (I\u2019ll post pictures once I have the chance to scan it and edit out the most intimate details.)<\/p>\n I did some preliminary divination, sought the approval and aid of my patrons and guides, bribed the one who thought it might not be a good idea (the consensus was overwhelming … I\u2019m not sure why my Kouros disapproved), and cast my circle.\u00a0 Taking up my pens and pencils, I inked and colored the Triangle I had constructed in advance, and finally placed my obsidian sphere within the Triangle as a focus.\u00a0 I chanted the name of my Natal Genius 76 times using the counting beads I strung at the beginning of spring break.\u00a0 When I was done, I poured a libation of mead and sat back and waited with my sketchbook in my lap.<\/p>\n There had been a build up of power as I chanted, but at first nothing happened.\u00a0 After a while I took a hit of absinthe to facilitate the visionary process, and when that didn\u2019t work I started to get worried.\u00a0 After a while, though, impressions started coming to me: I started by drawing the seal of my Natal Genius on the page, and a rough skeleton of a humanoid figure.\u00a0 The impressions I got became more and more clear as I worked and started adding copies of the seal around the page.\u00a0 Soon, the spirit was able to correct me on the pronunciation of its name, and the image grew even more clear.\u00a0 Finally, it was able to instruct me in the proper construction of its seal, and the image came together along with a list of associations.<\/p>\n The figure that appeared to me was a little on the feminine side of androgyny, with six eyes in an otherwise featureless face, arms that doubled at the elbow, ephemeral wings, and a serpent for a tail.\u00a0 It told me it\u2019s nature was of the sign of Scorpio, of the planet Saturn, of elemental Earth, and of the number XVII.<\/p>\n Then the Hour of the Moon\u2014the time frame I had built into the statement of intent\u2014was over, and the spirit was gone.<\/p>\n I was too exhausted to perform the Lunar journey I had also intended for the evening.\u00a0 I was also too wired to get to sleep for several hours afterward.<\/p>\n Despite this success, I think that I need to curtail some of the experiments I had planned for the near future.\u00a0 I\u2019ve made so many Otherworld contacts in the last six months that I think the best thing to do is to focus on developing those relationships.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to loose the momentum I\u2019ve got going, but I also don\u2019t want to miss opportunities for learning and spirit-relationships because I\u2019m moving too quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, during the Hour of the Moon, I performed my first spirit evocation using something like the Triangle of the Art.\u00a0 I have made contact with spirits before, of course, using shamanic techniques and Wiccan invocations and even a bit of mask-work.\u00a0 But if my experience as a jeweler has taught me nothing else, … Read 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