I\u2019ve mentioned before, both pointedly and in passing, that the Judeo-Christian frame of much ceremonial magic does not work well for me.\u00a0 My attempts to reframe Golden Dawn and ceremonial rituals into my own neo-Pagan cosmology have been guided more by instinct and intuition than by research, and they have met with mixed results.\u00a0 My Pentagram Rite, for example, works better for me than the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram ever did, and without the unfortunate side effects.\u00a0 The Titan\u2019s Cross, however, while more aesthetically pleasing than the traditional Qabalistic Cross, never really had the same \u201cumph\u201d.<\/p>\n
Last week, however, I had a sort of break through.\u00a0 Sitting out on the campus lawn, doing my Liber MMM meditation(1) under the sun, the name Abraxas came to me<\/a>from nowhere(2).\u00a0 The creative juices started flowing, the synchretism got hot and heavy, and the following ritual is the result.<\/p>\n The Titan\u2019s Cross: Satyr Magos\u2019 Morning Invocation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I begin by forming a banishing pentagram and stepping into it to flush my aura.<\/p>\n I reach into the sky and intone(3) the name PHANES as the winged figure of Eros Protogonos descends into you from above.<\/p>\n Drawing my hand down my body, I reach toward the earth and intone the name GE, as the body of the earth opens and engulfs me.<\/p>\n Reaching out my left hand(4), I intone the name HELIOS as a sphere of solar light ignites there and envelops me.<\/p>\n Reaching out my right hand(5), I intone the name SELENE as a sphere of lunar light waxes into being and envelops me.<\/p>\n Brining my palms together I take a deep breath of that cumulative power and intone ABRASAX(6)<\/p>\n Finally, within another full breath, I intone IAO.<\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Five minutes a day of motionless breathing concentration.<\/p>\n 2 \u2013 Well, not quite out of nowhere.\u00a0 Rufus Opus had just mentioned him<\/a> a few days before.<\/p>\n 3 \u2013 Or \u201cvibrate\u201d, as it\u2019s called in many circles.\u00a0 For some reason that word makes my skin itch.\u00a0 Probably because a lot of twits use the word too much.<\/p>\n 4 \u2013 Because I have a solar tattoo on my left shoulder, and wear my Solar Talisman on my left hand.<\/p>\n 5 \u2013 Because I have a lunar tattoo on my right shoulder.\u00a0 Yes, this is a deliberate inversion that throws of a hillarious and disturbing number of people.<\/p>\n 6 \u2013 Why Abrasax not Abraxas?\u00a0 Because that\u2019s what came to me.\u00a0 Gotta roll with the UPG when it comes to you, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve mentioned before, both pointedly and in passing, that the Judeo-Christian frame of much ceremonial magic does not work well for me.\u00a0 My attempts to reframe Golden Dawn and ceremonial rituals into my own neo-Pagan cosmology have been guided more by instinct and intuition than by research, and they have met with mixed results.\u00a0 My … 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":[221],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-ritual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-e5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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