{"id":799,"date":"2012-08-09T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-08-09T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:01:06","slug":"my-year-of-ceremonial-study-the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/09\/my-year-of-ceremonial-study-the-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"My Year of Ceremonial Study: The Home Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"

In retrospect, I wish that I had set more concrete goals<\/a> for my year of studying ceremonial magic.\u00a0 I started with a particular programme, but I abandoned it about half way through as inadequate to the task it proposed<\/a>.\u00a0 I did refine my goals<\/a> a little short of half way through, but even those were not particularly specific: to begin the pursuit of a supernatural assistant, to form connections with the Planetary and Elemental Powers, to begin producing a grimoire for people of a more polytheist bent, unable to swallow the top-down, antropocentric cosmology of Ptolemy.\u00a0 Realizing even then that my original time frame of a year could well prove inadequate, I mused about pushing it out to eighteen months or more.\u00a0 As you, my clever readers, have already inferred<\/a>, I have decided against extending my study for now:\u00a0 I am content with the Work I have accomplished in the last year.<\/p>\n

There are quite a few projects that I haven\u2019t found the time or clarity to write about yet, but only two goal experiments remain before I am ready to begin my year with Chaos magick.\u00a0 Through the Spiritus Mundi group, I have learned of a Solar Election this weekend, which will allow me to create the one talisman I had wanted to but not yet had the chance.\u00a0 Using that election, I will create a talisman for the Favor of Kings\u2014like those I have created for Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury\u2014and a Solar ring of power.\u00a0 And when the Dark Moon comes, I will use my shiny new Circle of the Art to conjure Baphomet and empower my Chaosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In retrospect, I wish that I had set more concrete goals for my year of studying ceremonial magic.\u00a0 I started with a particular programme, but I abandoned it about half way through as inadequate to the task it proposed.\u00a0 I did refine my goals a little short of half way through, but even those were … 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":[43,45,134],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-ceremonial-magic","tag-chaos-magic","tag-keeping-score"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-cT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}