{"id":863,"date":"2012-09-08T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2012-09-08T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T16:10:28","slug":"paper-talismans-satyr-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/08\/paper-talismans-satyr-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Talismans, Satyr-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may note by looking to the right, I am a member of Christopher Warnock\u2019s Spiritus Mundi mailing list.\u00a0 I\u2019m not very active\u2014I don\u2019t know enough about traditional astrology to participate(1)\u2014but I do like to take advantage of the elections he and his students are kind enough to share.\u00a0 Many of the folks on the Spiritus Mundi group, like myself, are too poor to create talismans of precious metals.\u00a0 So there\u2019s a lot of talk about paper talismans.\u00a0 So much so, in fact, that Mr. Warnock has recently posted a page on the history and construction of paper talismans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The prevailing wisdom on the mailing list is that paper talismans are good for 90 days.\u00a0 My own experience has been radically different: although my Jupiter talisman, made back in April<\/a>, did require a bit of a boost<\/a> over the summer, it is still going strong.<\/p>\n

So as I gear up for Monday morning\u2019s Mercury election (the last Hour of Night, just before dawn), I thought I would share the process that is working so well for me.<\/p>\n

I start with two unlined notecards.\u00a0 I mark one as the front and one as the back:\u00a0 if I\u2019m going to print them off (which I have done in the past) I\u2019ll prepare everything the day before in an openoffice document(2); this weekend, as I\u2019m out of printer ink and money, I\u2019ll be hand-drawing them in pencil to be inked and colored at the electional moment.\u00a0 If I don\u2019t already have an appropriate planetary incense on hand, I\u2019ll gather the herbs and resins for that, as well, also to be mixed at the time of the election.\u00a0 Finally you need glue; I prefer rubber cement.<\/p>\n

With your cards and images prepped, either digitally or by hand, you wait until the appropriate hour as taught in electional astrology, then print or ink the images.\u00a0 Write your legal and magical names on the backs of the cards\u2014that is, what will be the \u201cinside\u201d.\u00a0 Blend or grab your incense that you will use to suffumigate the talisman.\u00a0 Trace the edge of one of the cards with your glue and sprinkle the incense blend inside it.\u00a0 Place the other card on top, make sure it seals all the way around.\u00a0 Suffumigate and incant as the ritual calls for.\u00a0 I also tend to finalize the concecration with a drop of Abramelin oil.<\/p>\n

This is how I produce paper talismans that are still effective almost six months out.\u00a0 Checking and recharging these talismans is becoming a part of my Full Moon rites, along with my active sigils.<\/p>\n

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1 \u2013 I am, in fact, the exact kind of learn-at-my-own-pace system-hacker he despises.\u00a0 My saving grace is probably that I keep my damn mouth shut instead of demanding that he pontificate at my convenience.<\/p>\n

2 – I\u2019ll assume you know how to format the pages and everything yourselves to make that work.\u00a0 If not, there are message boards for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may note by looking to the right, I am a member of Christopher Warnock\u2019s Spiritus Mundi mailing list.\u00a0 I\u2019m not very active\u2014I don\u2019t know enough about traditional astrology to participate(1)\u2014but I do like to take advantage of the elections he and his students are kind enough to share.\u00a0 Many of the folks on … 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":[21,203,263],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-art-of-magic","tag-planetary-magic","tag-talismans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-dV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}