{"id":802,"date":"2012-08-13T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:40:21","slug":"talisman-for-the-solar-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/13\/talisman-for-the-solar-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Talisman for the Solar Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sun Pillar (Photo credit: tomhe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dawn yesterday was officially at 6:12am.\u00a0 I was (am) staying at a friend\u2019s house in St.Louis, spending my last weekend with Aradia partying in the city we both loved (but not at the same time) with old friends before I make the second half of the trek from KC to back the Sunrise Temple for the semester.<\/p>\n

My alarm was set for 5:50.\u00a0 I woke at 5:25.\u00a0 I tried to go back to sleep, but all I could think about was the Solar election and the morning\u2019s coming ritual.\u00a0 I did it over and over again in my head.\u00a0 I had forgotten to prep my sigils, but the glyph I\u2019ve used for the Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus talismans rose from the depths of my brain as I lay there, waiting for the alarm: \u201cMine is the Favor of Kings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, the alarm went off.\u00a0 I woke Aradia and gathered everything I would need, laying things out in Aurora\u2019s altar room.\u00a0 We cast our circle a few minutes before the Hour of the Sun began officially.\u00a0 I ground my frankincense and myrrh; we scribed our names inside the paper talismans that I had printed during the Hour of the Sun on Friday night, knowing I wouldn\u2019t have access to a printer on the road, and assembled the component parts.\u00a0 The front is an image provided by Christopher Warnock to the Spiritus Mundi group; the back bears my Glyph of the Moon and the Agrippan Characters of the Sun; sealed in between is the blend of frankincense and myrrh.\u00a0 All three talismans assembled (one each for myself, Aurora, and Aradia), and each associated with a piece of amber jewelry, I placed them in the middle of my Triangle of Art with a candle lit over the glyph of the Sun.<\/p>\n

I incanted the Picatrix Invocation of the Sun, and Aradia and I drew the power of the sun into the Circle and poured it into the Triangle and the talismans.\u00a0 I incanted the Invocation again as Aradia continued to direct the power.<\/p>\n

The talismans completed, we promptly went back to sleep.<\/p>\n

The ring I empowered is on my hand even now.\u00a0 It almost burns with power, and it\u2019s going to take a while for me to get used to wearing that kind of spellcraft on my person.<\/p>\n

The paper talismans rest on Aurora\u2019s altar, gathering power while we linger in St. Louis.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to see how these bad boys change our lives.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s going to be epic.<\/p>\n

I had been hoping there would be a Solar election soon, so that I could add that power to my collection.\u00a0 I am grateful that it came exactly when it did.\u00a0 I need this now as I transition from one life to the next, and as I shift gears magically.<\/p>\n

Only one last conjuration remains before I begin what Aradia and I have been calling Project Null: the conjuration of Baphomet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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