{"id":611,"date":"2012-05-17T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T18:01:09","slug":"continuing-experiments-sigils-talismans-and-the-stele-of-jeu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/17\/continuing-experiments-sigils-talismans-and-the-stele-of-jeu\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing Experiments: Sigils, Talismans, and the Stele of Jeu"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I haven\u2019t had much time to write clever blog posts since finals week started gearing up (then ended, with all the unanticipated post-semester and graduation-related madness), I have managed to make time to actually do<\/em> the magic.\u00a0 I have performed the Stele of Jeu twice, fired off a shoal of sexy sigils, and made two new talismans based on what I learned of talisman-making from the Jupiter Election.<\/p>\n

the Stele of Jeu<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Stele of Jeu the Hieroglyphist\u00a0 is becoming an increasingly integral part of my practice.\u00a0 Interestingly, though, the more often I perform it the more subtle the effects seem to be.\u00a0 I performed the rite at the last Dark Moon, on the Day and Hour of the Sun, and as a part of my Beltane celebrations in the woods behind my school.<\/p>\n

In the first case\u2014as seems to often happen\u2014I was struck by the sense that something was watching me as I performed my rite.\u00a0 That sensation faded, though, as I performed the ritual.\u00a0 By half way through, actually, it had faded to the point where I decided to try out something I\u2019d read somewhere and repeated the central portion of the ritual until I got the feeling of rising power:<\/p>\n

Holy Headless One, deliver him, NN, from the daimon which restrains him, \/ \u1fe5\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03b2\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1\u03c9 \u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03b9 \u1f60\u03b4\u03b1\u03bc \u03b2\u03b1\u03b1\u03b2\u03bd\u03b1\u03b2\u03b1\u03c9\u03b8 \u03b1\u03c3\u03c2 \u1f00\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u1f00\u03c6\u03bd\u03b9\u03b1\u03c9 \u1f30\u03b8\u03c9\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8 \u1f00\u03b2\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b1\u03be \u1f00\u03b7\u03c9\u03c9\u03c5 \/ mighty Headless One, deliver him, NN, from the daimon which restrains him. \/ \u03bc\u03b1\u03b2\u03b1\u03c1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9\u03c9 \u1f30\u03bf\u03b7\u03bb \u03ba\u03bf\u03b8\u03b1 \u1f00\u03b8\u03bf\u03c1\u03b7\u03b2\u03b1\u03bb\u03c9 \u1f00\u03b2\u03c1\u03b1\u03c9\u03b8 \/ deliver him, NN <\/strong>\u1f00\u03c9\u03b8 \u1f00\u03b2\u03c1\u03b1\u03c9\u03b8 \u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03c5\u03bc \u1f30\u03c3\u03b1\u03ba \u03c3\u03b1\u03b2\u03b1\u03c9\u03b8 \u03b9\u03b1\u03c9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That definitely had an effect, though I would be hard pressed to actually describe what it was.\u00a0 I sat in the salt circle and meditated for a while, basking in the magical afterglow.<\/p>\n

I performed the ritual again at Beltane, under the nearly-full moon.\u00a0 My outdoor festivities with Sannafrid were actually a couple days late, on account of the rain on the 1st and 2nd.\u00a0 Being in the woods, I skipped the salt circle\u2014salting the earth is not my idea of a good time.\u00a0 On the one hand, the effects were much less profound than I had hoped\/feared\/anticipated; on the other hand, they were very interesting.\u00a0 The woods suddenly felt more alive.\u00a0 Sannafrid and I could sense spirits everywhere\u2014not like I had conjured them, but more as if I had suddenly tuned in to the layer of reality where they already lived.<\/p>\n

I think they were just the spirits of the wood, and while they may or may not have been aware of our presence, I honestly don\u2019t think they could have cared less.\u00a0 It was a very powerful experience, if just a little surreal.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s an important lesson for all magicians, but for witches and nature-worshipers in particular: to keep in mind that most of the spirit world, like most of the natural world, doesn\u2019t care one way or the other about humans.\u00a0 We\u2019re doing our thing; they\u2019re doing theirs.<\/p>\n

a Sigil Shoal for More and Better Sex<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The way I count the Moons, the third day of the Dark Moon is also the first day of the waxing phase.\u00a0 After performing the stele of Jeu, once the hour had passed from Sun to Venus, I fired off a shoal of sigils for more and better sex.\u00a0 The effects of this shoal were even more awesome\u2014and, importantly, longer lasting\u2014than the first one<\/a>.\u00a0 The shoal included five sigils (the specific phrasing of which is apparently in the stack of notes that didn\u2019t make it back to Kansas City with me), all aimed at improving my sex life.\u00a0 The majority of the sigils were aimed helping my body keep up with my libido\u2014and, more importantly, with Sannafrid\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The results were fucking spectacular.\u00a0 (Yeah, I went there.\u00a0 How could I resist?)\u00a0 At risk of crossing into the realm of Way Too Much Information: not only was I able to manage 2-3 times in a day (a little difficult at 31 on a mediocre diet), I was able to keep that up almost every day for a ten day stretch of the two-and-a-half weeks between when I fired the sigils and when they faded about a week ago.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 waxing Moon, day of the Sun, hour of Venus is damn good astrological timing for sex magic.\u00a0 I would have thought the Full Moon, day and hour of Venus would have been as good \u2026 but it was also the 3rd day of the Full, so technically a waning Moon, which may have had an impact.\u00a0 Further confounding factors here include the sigils themselves, the way they were phrased, single versus shoal, and the fact that I was still tingling from the Stele of Jeu.<\/p>\n

a Talisman of Venus<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Anticipating Venus\u2019 recent retrograde<\/a> movement, I made a talisman of Venus based on the Jupiter Talisman<\/a> I made at the recent election.\u00a0 I used Christopher Warnock\u2019s Venus image<\/a> on one side (I really need to buy his Picatrix translation and star producing my own images based on the descriptions); the Agrippan characters of Venus<\/a>, my Glyph of the Moon<\/a>, and a pair of sigils (empowering myself with the Favor of Kings<\/a>) on the other.\u00a0 I performed the rite at the Day and Hour of Venus, using a slightly altered version of the Orphic Hymn to Venus<\/a>\u2014I added a line at the end asking to be endowed with the Favor of Kings\u2014burning incense of my own making, and anointing the talisman with Abramelin oil\u2014and using the various Venusian symbols I keep on my altar rather than a formal Triangle of Art.\u00a0 For a more general Venusian boost, I also took a bit of my Venusian incense and started an infusion like I do for my essential oil production.\u00a0 I left both projects on my altar to marinade essentially until I packed everything up for the trip.<\/p>\n

My understanding is that, so close to the retrograde, even the otherwise auspicious arrangement of planetary forces on that Day and Hour of Venus with a waxing Moon was less than ideal.\u00a0 Still, I felt that it would be a good idea to shore up Venusian in my sphere given the complexity of my love life at the moment (that\u2019s a post in and of itself, and one which is particularly delicate since all parties involved read the blog.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad that I did: the talisman and the infusion-in-the-making are both radiating good, clean, Venusian power.<\/p>\n

Safe-Travel Talismans<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

My final magical project in the Sunrise Temple, before leaving for the summer, was to produce safe-travel talismans for Sannafrid and myself.\u00a0 She is spending the month in China as part of an ethnography program through our school\u2014a sort of \u201cvictory lap\u201d, as they call it here.\u00a0 I was going to be making a drive across three states with a number of the things most dear to me in my back seat.<\/p>\n

Using essentially the same methodology as I did for my Jupiter and Venus talismans, I made a pair of Mercury talismans for Sannafrid and myself.\u00a0 The most interesting differences between the rites was that these were made at the day and hour of Mercury, outside in the woods during our Beltane celebrations, and that I used a lock of her hair mixed in with the Mercury blend between the two sheets of cardstock and had her write her own Names to create the link to her, where I used my Glyph of the Moon for my own talisman.<\/p>\n

The results were again spectacular.\u00a0 If I do say so, myself, I\u2019m getting pretty good at making paper talismans.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to teaching myself some metal-etching skills so that I can use similar techniques in more permanent mediums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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