I began my second night of full-moon rites with an earth-to-sky variant of Q-Cross.\u00a0 I performed an \u201cLBRP\u201d using a burning sage wand instead of the knife, banishing pentagrams of spirit instead of earth, and invoking Iris, Hephaistos, Rhea, and Dionysos instead of the archangels.\u00a0 I completed the rite with by invoking Gaea, Ouranos, Hephaistos, and Dionysos in the second Q-Cross.\u00a0 Let me just say: holy shit that was awesome.\u00a0 I cast my elemental circle, lit the candles on my Malkuth altar, and invoked Earth manifesting as Malkhuth.<\/p>\n
I drank my absinthe-and-dream-herb flying potion, donned my mask, and descended to elemental realm of earth by sinking into the center of the stone circle in my Inner Temple (why can’t I ever go the same way twice?).\u00a0 I met the guide I call Troll Lady, who was amused when I greeted and addressed her formally.\u00a0 I asked her to take me to the Lords and Rulers of the Elemental realm to confirm the receipt of my Stone of Sovereignty (in retrospect I probably should have asked for something more open-ended).<\/p>\n
She led me down and down and down to a vast dark cavern, along the outside of a bronze gate and wall and into a cavern where I met with shadowy figures who refused to confirm my stone and told me that the sphere was something else entirely.<\/p>\n
When they were done with me, I asked Troll Lady to take me to where I should have asked to go in the first place; she told me it was too late for that.\u00a0 I asked her to take me to where I needed to go now, and she took me to the Garden, from where she led me back to the Inner Temple via a mountaintop which deposited me on the plains facing the gate to my Inner Temple.<\/p>\n
I returned to my body, did my monthly Tarot reading, thanked all spirits and powers who have helped me, and closed the circle.<\/p>\n
With that journey, my month of Malkuth was complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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