Don't you just hate it when you go to a lot of time and effort trying to set up a ritual, and then it turns out to be sort of ... lame? You've lit the incense, you've made the seals, you've drawn out the Circles with care, and you even said all the barbarous names using perfect Hellenic Greek inflections, and the spirits still don't show up and your results just plain suck.
I personally never ever ever have this happen. (Ok, maybe once or twice.) But why does this happen?
I think the only reason people's magic fails to provide the desired results is ignorance. The biggest source of ignorance is Astrological timing, because let's face it, it's really hard to learn everything you need to know about astrology in order to do the rituals the right way. It takes less than a day to be able to conjure an Angel of Venus, but it can take YEARS to find out how to chart the best time to do so.
And Astrology affects all your magic, in spite of what you might think. I know folks who claim that they don't believe in Astrological limitations to their magical effects, and they can claim up and down that their magic isn't affected by astrological malefic (or beneficial) influences. They're simply wrong. Every magician I know who went back and checked the astrological interpretations of their failed rituals (keeping a journal helps) has found something in the stars that explains their fucked up results. The real reason people claim immunity from Astrological influences is because Astrology is just really hard to learn.
Recently, Chris Warnock expanded and upgraded his already excellent Astrological Magic Course. Part of the upgrade included the release of the Planetary Magic Program, a really convenient program designed to find good astrological times to make planetary talismans.
Now, long-time readers of my blog know I'm really into Planetary Magic. When you get into the Hermetic foundational philosophy, when you dig into the historic roots of all that we practice today as MAGIC, you will find that to get the real power, the full impact of actual Magic, you have to incorporate the powers of the planetary spheres. The richest realm of imagery, talismans, and raw power of manifestation is found in Planetary Magic.
And it's a lot easier than people suspect. Our days of the week are still planetarily based, and today we have computers to do the astrological computations that unlock the best times to contact the spirits, intelligences, and angels of the planets. Demons too, if you're into that.
The Planetary Magic Program makes it even easier to perform the kinds of magic that I've been doing for the last couple of years. I've been waiting and hoping for something like this to hit the market. I mean, there's SolarFire out there if you A) have $350, B) have a computer science degree, and C) understand Astrology well enough to trudge your way through all the options and settings. SolarFire's an awesome program for the professional Astrologer, but not all magicians are interested in becoming full-time astrologers who can generate charts and talismans to sell to their clients to pay for the initial investment of $350.
So for the rest of us, the Planetary Magic Program provides a convenient, simple, and cost-effective tool for finding astrological elections. Its interface is easy to use and understand, it lets you write to a text file or print your list of elections, and you can narrow or expand your results by clicking on or off options. Chris recommends double-checking your results using some form of professional software, like www.astro.com, which I think runs on SolarFire software anyway. For creating talismans, he has a point, but for the kind of use we spirit conjurors will put it to, I don't think it's entirely necessary. Chris has given us the most useful program for finding good times to plan initiations, schedule conjurations, and of course to create talismans.
Chris is offering the program as a stand alone purchase for only $39.95, or you can get it for free as part of his course in Astrological Magic. I wish so much that I had this program a couple of years ago. If you remember, I used to recommend Timaeus, and then SolarFire, but I used them primarily to find out when a good time to conjure spirits might be. This program provides all the functionality I need to do the computations. It's definitely worth the price, and then some. The first Solar ritual you do with the Moon unafflicted on the right day and hour will result in making at least what you paid for it back, after all.
Now remember, this is an electional tool. It spits out dates and times for your location. You have to know two very important things to get the most out of this program. You have to now where you live. That's important. I think you've got that covered. If not, maybe magic isn't really what you should be focusing on at the moment. Second, you have to know what planet your magic is related to. Armed with these two pieces of arcane lore, you're ready to use the program.
Simply put in your location (it has a really cool little piece that lets you set that up quick and easy), click the radial button that says "When is the next time to make a talisman" and select the planet from the drop-down list that pops up. Click "compute" and in no time the program tells you all the best times for each planet. In the Advanced Options, you can change the degree of orbs, change the time frame searched (from 1 year up to 20), and a couple of other things.
Its main purpose is to get you in the right zone for getting in touch with the planetary powers. Chris intended it to be used in talisman making, but I intend to use it extensively in performing spirit conjurations. It's adept at finding good times to conjure spirits that I would have missed.
Here's the thing about conjuring during the right astrological time: it totally amplifies your results. People who have had lame experiences with spirits from the grimoires can attest that sometimes your magical results are just sort of flaccid. You don't feel a change in the room, feel the spirit's presence, or get any clear communications.
With this handy program, you're increasing your chances of getting things just right, when the stars are aligned, and getting through to the spirit you're looking for with a quickness. I personally believe you can conjure any spirit any time, but the planetary position relative to your position on the earth are good gauges as to how well you will experience the spirit's presence and how well the communication of your intent will go. When the planets are aligned right, the spiritual atmosphere is conducive to clear communications, and this program is fabulous at finding good elections fast.
Whenever I get around to finishing up my online courses, I'm either going to require this program be purchased, or at the very least strongly urge my students to purchase this program when they get to the planetary spheres and begin receiving their initiations. I highly recommend this valuable tool to all my friends, students, and clients.
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You know, even with meta-analysis which parapsychologists and psychic researches have been using to show results, astrology doesnt work. Its about the only psychic art that doesnt.
ReplyDeleteWhen you get down to the real base of why things mean what they mean, its pretty friggin arbitrary.
You can argue against hundreds of years of documented experiences if you really want to. I don't see any value in it. However, I have found a great deal of value in pursuing the things the magicians of old believed as if they were right. Especially in regard to the planetary realms and their influences.
ReplyDeleteSuccess is my proof. I conjure the spirits at the appropriate times, I get better results. Your mileage may vary. But I'm still totally right.
Something you can try, which I've been toiling with for the last few months is going to the top of the heirarchy of a group and treating the evocation like it's coming from the grand grimoire style. Tell said spirit to get the butt of any and all spirits that are capable of doing what you want, starting now. That way, you can use even the present astrological conditions for a larger effect. And, with all of them working on it, it saves on the number of rituals you do and your own expenses. But, I still call on individual spirits, too. I haven't used it for every pantheon/heirarchy out there, but there's no reason it wouldn't work. It hasn't let me down yet.
ReplyDeleteIt works for the enochians, the shem angels, the names of allah, the lemegetons, etc. Letting them use all the astrological currents and with a larger sample of offices at any one time has made the effects more pronounced and quicker. Also, I expanded within the last couple of weeks to include how the different parts of my spirit relate to each of the astrological currents. Somehow, I'm interacting with them and in some way, those spiritual parts of me can efficiently use the astrological currents in a nonritual setting.
My suggestion skills are real better. It isn't at the point of hypno-chip/robot mind control, but it's getting there. It takes between less than a day to within a minute for most specific suggestions to appear in some form at material density when it comes to people's personalities, especially those that I pick up thoughts from that are either racial, sexist or some other form of condescention towards me. Currently, I'm trying to work on breaking down both the conscious and subconscious barriers to create the actions in others that would be rated as almost hypno-chip/robot mind control. But, at this point, it's basically just upping the base level strength of my capacity for it. And while I'm trying this avenue myself, I've also called up different groups at different levels of reality to help keep things more focused, starting with the causal sphere and working m way down, but returning to the causal sphere with each group added. However, they've decided to have varying levels of interaction with each other, which is to be expected, without undermining any of my goals. With different goals, different groups are taking the lead and some have a less of a role. For the hypno-chip/robot mind control, the shem angels and the lemegetons have taken a majority of the duties with the others having a lesser role.
I've also found astrological studies to be a good suppliment/subgroup study of sphere magick.
But, I do think it's important to keep in mind the distinction between 1) absolutely necessary, 2) adds more punch and 3) not always necessary when it comes to astrological currents. The bitch is always in the details.
ReplyDeleteRufus, this is awesome. His Geomantic software looks promising as well-I've had a few geomantic divinations go seemingly sour on me...and then found that I screwed up when pulling the figures out of the 4 Mothers. All that fussing about with paper (drawing the shield, plotting the points) is a bit tedious, anyway.
ReplyDeleteI'm not comfortable using the program to draw the Four Mothers at this point, and am sticking with the dice for that...but for the rest of it , this is a great resource.
Thanks again!
AIT