Crystal Skull Dreams

Well, so far, so good. I've got a Legionairre from one of Bune's hordes embedded in the matrix of the crystal now. In addition, there's the physical link to Tezcatlipoca through the skull's mask. As a result Ive been having interesting dreams, and I've visited the realms of the Aztec Underworld.

Shockingly, as you may imagine, the dreams have been about... death. Not mine, but Death his own self, ye Grim Reaper has been wandering the dream realms with me. I haven't done anything particularly lucid or purposed in the dreams yet, but I'm happy with the results so far.

The end goal here is to have a talisman so potent from its associated entities that anyone who touches it, regardless of their training, has an immediate ability to communicate with the dead. I don't know how this will manifest with any individuals, since everyone seems to have a unique way of working with things like this, but I imagine tarot, iching, divinations, crystal scryers, and clairvoyants would all have their abilities heightened. I haven't done anything with it to contact a specific dead person yet, but it's on my list of things to do.

For now, I'm still performing conjurations, empowerments, and spending time each day tuning the crystal to the appropriate harmonies of the underworld.

New blog to add to my list of faves

Jason Miller, author of Protection and Reversal Magick, has a new blog that specifically deals with magic and the practice thereof. Titled "Strategic Sorcery," this promises to be one of the kinds of blogs that I love.

Jason has spent time in Nepal training in Tantric Magic. He's also a rootworker from Cat Yronwoode's tradition, and a traditional ceremonial magician who works magic from the pages of Agrippa, Trithemius, and several popular grimoires I'm sure. The dude is pretty awesome.

He's one of those online treasures that get really emotionally and spiritually appreciated by millions of people who never think to thank him by giving him a couple bucks each.

I believe he's also teaching a series of workshops on Strategic Sorcery as well. I don't have all the details, but I'm sure he'd be willing to pass them on to you at his earliest convenience, if you're near enough to benefit.

Tezcatlipoca and Dee's Aztec Mirror

Mr. Doctor Professor Patrick (OMG, total Spongebob moment... hang on... whew, ok...) Brought up a question on the previous blog that ought to be further expounded upon.

Dee's Aztec Obsidian Mirror came to Europe between 1527 and 1530, according to the British Museum's notes on his magic mirror.

I don't know if he ever used it in scrying the Enochian stuff, but he did use it for scrying some things.

So, Tezcatlipoca...

He's been popping up across my searches, weaving his smoke and mirrored way into my reality. I just sort of felt lead to put the mask on the skull, and it looks nice.

Tezcatlipoca, among other things, is the God of the night. He appeared in the form of a jaguar in many tales (get it, jaguar tales... tails...), and did other cool stuff that I can't remember. It's a cop out, I know, but Wikipedia's got a big article on him here, and I'm exhausted from putting together my garage today. Pulled all the accumulated crap out, and then neatly put it back in after sweeping. It doesn't SOUND like an 8-hour job, but it was.

The Garage, with all its cool space and alchemistical stuff is now officially "The Lab." I may be running local workshops on making talismans out of copper and tin. Eventually.

Anyway, I'm tarred (that's "tired" for the yankees). So no more typey.

Crystal Skull 1 - Roughly Finished

Behold the BLURRY CRYSTAL SKULL OF DOOOOOOOM!!!

The best camera in the house is my daughter's cell phone camera at 2.0 megapix. And she's twelve. But hey, I gots pictures! I ain't complaining!

For size comparison, that is a twelve-year-old girl's hand holding the crystal above a hardwood floor. The wood planks are about two inches wide, if that helps. It's rather ... smallish.

My spouse said it was "cute."

Nevertheless!!! It's awesome. I had worked after conjuring my Agatha Daimon and the Goetic spirit Bune. I was tingling from the whole experience, physically, and spiritually.

Quartz has some pretty cool occult properties on its own. Carving quartz is delicate work, it cracks and shatters. That's partially why it turned out so small. It's my first effort, and I learned a lot.

The heat from grinding it down was all focused at the tip of the crystal point, while it had one. I also dowsed it using a pendulum before carving it, and I'll be dowsing it when it's all the way finished too. It still needs more polishing, and the "mask" needs more work.

The mask, by the way, is a reference to the Aztec God of Sorcerors, Tezcatlipoca. I remember it by repeating Tez-Cat-Lip-Polka. His name translates as "Smoking Mirror," and he was the god they would work with to perform scrying acts in their obsidian mirrors. The god was often depicted either wearing the mirror, or having it for a foot. He had lost the foot luring the crocodile from the waters that he and Qetzelcoatl made the land out of in some of the Aztec creation myths.

The mirror used by John Dee was one of these Aztec Mirrors made out of Obsidian and brought from the New World. Chances are pretty good that it was at one time used by someone of high importance under the auspices of Tezcatlipoca.

So, we've got a nod to the god of scrying from the Aztec cosmology. Why? Because. The Google expedition on crystal skulls in general lead me to very specific skulls that were masks of Tezcatlipoca. I also got engrossed in Aztec creation myths, and I read most of the Popul Vu codex. Comparative theology never ceases to entertain me.

Since beginning to carve the skull, it has appeared unasked for in a visit to my astral temple, sort of like Bune was just there one day after I put my spirit pot together for him. I'm not surprised, as Bune has worked on this skull with me, laying down a communications network for the spirits of the dead. My Agatha Daimon was also on hand to imbue it with pure Divine Light, so it's more likely to draw whomever uses it towards God rather than away.

I'm going to keep this for a while and play with it, see what comes out of my Work with it. I performed some basic psychometry on the crystals before choosing them, and found the ones that would be the best candidates based on their "vibe." I'll be testing them again, and maybe even writing up some of the Great Work lessons I learned from grinding the skull itself. Shaping a brittle crystalline matrix using a rotary tool and diamond bits requires a finesse and a strength combined that is hard to explain off the top of my head.

Sorry if I'm all over the map on this post, I'm kind of excited.

Cool Stuff

Someone on the lists is selling off a bunch of stuff to fund a move. It's neat. Check here:

http://search.ebay.com/W0QQsassZheatherc717

One of the really cool items is this Phoenix Scepter:

As you may know, I've got kids. That means an ever-handy excuse to watch Cartoons. One of our family favorites is Tutenstein. It's from the Discovery Channel and integrates real archaeology with a fun supernatural plot line. Spoiled teenage brat zombie megalomaniacs. How can you go wrong?

One of the things the boy-king has because he's the Pharaoh is the "Scepter of Was." I couldn't help but notice the similarities. Heather, the person selling the Ceremonial Magic stuff, is a really detailed artistic person with a former passionate history for the whole Egyptian Thing. I'd be willing to bet there's a real scepter of Was that she based her image on. If the Phoenix Wand could do half the things Tutenstein's Scepter does, I say God Damn! Buy that bitch!