A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.
Known since antiquity as the Poet’s Stone, sodalite is an immensely valuable tool for writers and other creatives. Related to lapis lazuli, not only does this cloudy blue stone stimulate your artistic side, but it also helps to absorb and suppress electromagnetic energy from devices!
Encouraging inspiration and creativity while also providing the creative receptacle psychic shielding protection from others whom may be intent on stealing those ideas and inspirations, sodalite is invaluable to any artist of any kind. It soothes the mind and body as well, washing away stress with its Receptive energy and Water element. Associated with the planet Jupiter and with Ardhanarishvara (the combined form of the god Shiva and goddess Parvati), sodalite lends itself well to dreamwork and combating insomnia.
Sodalite is also phenomenal for psychic development! While some meditation aids simply wrench the door to your true higher self open, sodalite gently eases the key to that door into your hand and helps you to access higher planes of knowledge at your own pace.
When used on a regular basis Sodalite should be discharged under warm running water on a weekly basis, or if it becomes cloudy or changes color in any way. Then, you should charge it back up in a vessel of water together with crystal quartz!
The spiritual meanings of fragrances and magickal properties of incense will help focus your mind on achieving specific goals. Burning incense has a symbolic meaning that helps pagans and witches focus their attention on the purpose of a ritual or magickal working.
ACACIA:
Burned with sandalwood to stimulate the psychic powers.
AFRICAN VIOLET:
Burned for protection and to promote spirituality within the home.
ALLSPICE:
Burned to attract both good luck and money.
ALOES:
Burned to attract good fortune, love, spiritual vibrations, and strength.
ALTHEA:
Burned for protection and to stimulate the psychic powers.
AMBER:
Burned for love, comfort, happiness and healing
AMBERGRIS:
Burn for dreams and aphrodisiac
ANGELICA:
Burn for protection, harmony, integration, insight and understanding, stability and meditation
ANISE SEEDS:
Burned as a meditation and emotional balance incense.
BASIL:
Burned to exorcise and protect against evil entities such as demons and unfriendly ghosts, and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, and wealth. This is also an excellent incense to use when performing love divinations. Also burn for concentration, assertiveness, decisiveness, trust, integrity, enthusiasm, mental clarity, cheerfulness, confidence and courage
BAY:
Burned to facilitate the psychic powers, and to induce prophectic dream-visions.
BAYBERRY:
Burned mainly to attract money and also burned for protection, happiness and control
BENZOIN:
Burned for purification, astral projection, clears negative energy, emotional balance, eases sadness, depression, weariness, grief, anger, anxiety and to attract prosperity.
BERGAMONT:
Burn for money, prosperity, uplifting of spirits, joy, protection, concentration, alertness, confidence, balance, strength, courage, motivation and assertiveness
BISTORT:
Burned often with frankincense as a powerful incense to aid divination.
BRACKEN:
Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain.
CARDAMOM:
Burn for mental clarity, concentration, confidence, courage, enthusiasm and motivation
CARNATION:
Burn for protection, strength, healing, love and lust
CEDAR:
Burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract love, prevent nightmares, and heal various ailments, including head colds.
CEDARWOOD:
Burn for healing, purification, protection, money, balance, grounding, clarity, insight and wisdom
CHAMOMILE:
Burn for harmony, peace, calm, spiritual and inner peace
CINNAMON:
Burned for protection and to attract money, wealth, prosperity, business success, stimulate or strengthen the psychic
powers, and aid in healing. Also burned for stimulation, strength and lust
CITRON:
Burned in rituals to aid healing and also to strengthen the psychic powers.
CITRONELLA:
Burn for cleansing, warding off, healing and exorcism
CLOVE:
Burned to dispel negativity, purify sacred and magickal spaces, attract money, and stop or prevent the spread of gossip. Also burn for pain relief, intellectual stimulation, business success, wealth, prosperity, divination, exorcism, protection, eases fears, improves memory and focus
COCONUT:
Burned for protection.
COPAL:
Burned for purification, uplifting spirits, protection, exorcism, spirituality and to attract love.
CYPRESS:
Burn for strength, comfort, healing, eases anxiety, stress, self-assurance, confidence, physical vitality, willpower and concentration
DAMIANA:
Burned to facilitate psychic visions.
DITTANY OF CRETE:
Burned to conjure spirits and to aid in divination, astral projection, especially when mixed with equal parts of benzoin, sandalwood, and vanilla.
DRAGONS BLOOD:
Burned to dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural entities, courage, purification, attract love, and restore male potency. Many Witches also burn dragon’s blood for protection when spell casting and invoking. When added to other incenses, dragon’s blood makes their magickal powers all the stronger.
ELECAMPANE:
Burned to strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying abilities-divination by gazing.
EUCALYPTUS:
Burn for healing, purification and protection
FERN:
Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. Also used to exorcise evil supernatural entities.
FRANKINCENSE:
Burned to dispel negativity, spirituality, purify magickal spaces, consecration, protect against evil, exorcism, aid meditation, astral strength, induce psychic visions, courage, protection, attract good luck, and honor Pagan deities.
FUMITORY:
Burned to exorcise demons, poltergeists, and evil supernatural entities.
GALANGAL:
Burned to break the curses cast by sorcerers.
GARDENIA:
Burn for peace, love and healing
GINGER:
Burn for wealth, lust, love and magical power
GINSENG ROOT:
Burned to keep wicked spirits at bay, and for protection against all forms of evil.
GOTU KOLA:
Burned to aid meditation.
HEATHER:
Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, and to magickally produce rain.
HIBISCUS FLOWERS:
Burned to attract love, lust and also for divination.
HONEYSUCKLE:
Burn to attract money, happiness, friendship and healing
HOREHOUND:
Burned as an offertory incense to the ancient Egyptian god Horus.
HYACINTH:
Burn for happiness and protection
JASMINE:
Burned to attract love and money, and also to induce dreams of a prophectic nature, purification, wisdom and astral projection
JUNIPER:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and also to break curses, exorcism and hexes cast by evil sorcerers. It is also burned for calming, protection and healing.
LAVENDER:
Burned to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love-especially of a man. Also burned for cleansing, healing, happiness and relaxation
LEMON:
Burn for healing, love and purification
LEMONGRASS:
Burn for mental clarity
LILAC:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract harmony into ones life.
LOTUS:
Burn to elevate mood, protection, spirituality, healing and meditation
MACE:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers.
MASTIC:
Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and intensify sexual desires. The magickal powers of other incenses are greatly increased when a bit of mastic is added.
MESQUITE:
The magickal powers of all healing incenses are greatly increased when mesquite is added.
MINT:
Burned to increase sexual desire, exorcise evil supernatural entities, conjure beneficial spirits, and attract money. Mint incense also possesses strong healing vibrations and protective powers.
MUSK:
Burn for aphrodisiac, prosperity, courage
MYRRH:
Burned (often with frankincense) for purification, consecration, healing, exorcism, and banishing evil. Myrrh is also aids meditation rituals, and was commonly burned on alters in ancient Egypt as an offering to deities Isis and Ra.
NUTMEG:
Burned to aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract prosperity.
OAKMOSS:
Burned for money and attraction
ORANGE:
Burned for divination, love, luck and money
PATCHOULI:
Burned to attract money, love, growth, mastery, sensuality and also to promote fertility.
PEPPERMINT:
Burned for energy, mental stimulant, exorcism and healing
PINE:
Burned for purification, and to banish negative energies, exorcise evil supernatural entities, and attract money, as well as to break hexes and return them to their senders. Also burned for grounding, strength, cleansing and healing
POPPY SEEDS:
Burned to promote female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money.
ROSE:
Burned to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, house blessing, fertility, healing and attract love. Rose incense is used in all forms of love enchantment and possesses the strongest love vibration of any magickal incense.
ROSE GERANIUM:
Burned for courage and protection
ROSEMARY:
Burned to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness, dispel depression, attract fairy folk, and promote restful sleep and pleasant dreams.
RUE:
Burned to help restore health.
SAGE:
Burned for protection against all forms of evil. It is also burned to purify sacred spaces and ritual tools. Plus it is great for promoting wisdom, clarity, attract money, and aid in the healing the body, mind, and soul.
SAGEBRUSH:
Burned to aid healing, and to banish negative energies and evil supernatural entities.
SANDALWOOD:
Burned to exorcise demons and evil ghosts, conjure beneficial spirits, and promote spiritual awareness. Sandalwood incense is also used by many Witches for protection, astral projection, healing rituals and in wish-magick.
SOLOMONS SEAL:
Burned mainly as an offertory incense to ancient Pagan deities.
STAR ANISE SEEDS:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers.
STRAWBERRY:
Burned to attract love and for luck.
SWEETGRASS:
Burned to conjure beneficial spirits prior to spell casting.
SWEET PEA:
Burned for friendship, love and courage
THYME:
Burned for the purification of magickal spaces prior to rituals, to aid in healing, and to attract good health.
VANILLA:
Burned to attract love, increase sexual desire, and improve the powers of the mind.
VERVAIN:
Burned to exorcise evil supernatural entities.
VETIVERT:
Burned to break curses, exorcism, for protection against black magick and thieves, money, peace and love.
VIOLET:
Burn for wisdom, luck, love, protection and healing
WILLOW:
Burned to avert evil, attract love, and promote healing. It is also used by many Witches as an offertory incense for Pagan lunar deities.
WISTERIA:
Burned for protection against all forms of evil.
WORMWOOD:
Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. When mixed with sandalwood and burned at night in a cemetery, wormwood is said to be able to conjure spirits from their graves.
YARROW:
Burned to arrow courage, exorcism
YLANG-YLANG:
Burned for love, harmony and euphoria
The direct pentagram invoking and banishing patterns come are understood from its emergence from of the five elements from the four through the descent of fire discussed previously.
The Air/Water path stands in its original relationship as a pair of opposites, movement from air to water invokes water and movement from water to air invokes air. The Movement along the fire and earth paths follows this same pattern, but the displacement of fire leaves spirit acting as the opposite source of both.
When invoking the path should be drawn with a total of six strokes. Begin as indicated below, moving along the path toward the element, tracing out the pentagram and ending by repeating the first path to end on element invoked. In banishing we use five strokes, we reverse the initial direction and stop upon returning to the element, returning it to its proper place.
The averse pentagram Is the next step beyond the direct. Through the movement of spirit into incarnation the pentagram appears as from behind and below. The emergence of these paths is discussed further here: https://covn.tumblr.com/post/160141036627/emergent-qabalah
In the averse configuration the paths of elemental invoking and banishing no longer stand in pairs of opposites. The process of invoking with six strokes and ending on the element after the sixth and banishing with five in reverse remains the same. The bottom point is elation of spirit bound in manifestation.
The averse configuration is best for working towards manifestation while the direct pentagram is best working in a more detached, “spiritual”, spirit oriented manner.
A suggestion ov the placement and significance of energy centers in the body corresponding to 12 spheres ov the tree.
1. Chaos – Just above the head, but really nowhere at all and everywhere at once, but just above the head for convenience. It is the fact of being asserting itself in the world and what fundamentally makes the moment you find yourself in
2. Process – The “third eye”, the sense of the senses. The brain and the eyes, and ears. With each sensation is a sense of completeness with incompleteness that moves through the rolling of time
3. Pattern – The mouth, tongue, teeth, and voice box. The production of speech and the gateway to consumption
4. Intent – The non-dominant side of the body, the unity of the world
5. Will – The dominant side of the body, that which leads action forward
6. Self/Agent – The heart, the unity of the body through the flow of blood
7. Sense – The solar plexus, the feeling of the body and body state
8. Thought/Memory – The viscera, organs of digestion. Also the symbol of the labyrinth of thought reflected in the winding of the small intestine
9. Desire – The sexual organs. The foundation of physical manifestation
10. The World – Just below the anus, but also everywhere external, the manifest world around yous
11. Manifest Self – The unity of self as made possible by the reflection of world, the body as a whole
12. Beyond self and other… beyond all definition. A directionless pointing outward from all things that returns to Chaos
“To be initiated, in the magical sense of the word is to recognize that you are moving through a threshold of change – that you are in a period of transition. The key to understanding initiation is recognizing consciously what is happening, rather than simply wondering what the hell’s going on. For many magicians and pagans, the recognition of moving into a period of initiation is marked by a ritual or magical retirement. Thus in this context, an Initiate is someone who is intensely aware of his or her condition, and is surfing the crest of the wave, rather than struggling to hold it back. Initiation is a time of letting go. It is a time of ‘loosening up’ – when habits, beliefs, attitudes and self-identifications suddenly (or gradually) seem to be less concrete than they were previously. One’s grip on ‘normality’ may be temporarily lost, only to be eventually (one hopes) regained, but not quite the same as it what before. Dealing with this loss of certainty, and the necessary confrontation with self, can be difficult at times. Some never manage to go the distance, and instead opt for fantasies wherein they are mighty adepts rather than simply accepting their own humanity, which necessitates a degree of humility, to say the least.”
— Prime Chaos: Adventures in Chaos Magic, Phil Hine
I often get asked about Magick, and Chaos Magick in particualr, so I’ve decided to put together a list of what I personally consider the best places to start learning about these things.
Books:
Liber Null & PsychonautThis is the classic text on Chaos Magick. It’s more or less where it all started, and the ideas and techniques presented here is what most other authors steal from. It tries to be a bit spooky and might be a little hard to follow in places if you’re a complete beginner, but stick with it. And you can skip the Psychonaut section altogether and jump right on to;
Condensed ChaosThis is the book that did it for me. It’s both fun and easy to read, but it contains really good information and acts as a great companion to Liber Null.
Practical Sigil MagickThere’s a lot of posts and articles on sigils online, but a lot of them don’t teach you how to properly do them. Although I strongly urge people to experiment and modify their sigil practice, make sure you truly understand how they work, and that you do them correctly before you go about deconstructing and personalising.
The Psychonaut Field ManualAn extremely useful illustrated guide to modern Chaos Magick. This really is one of the best things out there. Might get a little advanced for the beginner at the end there, but I still think newcomers will gain a better understanding of how to approach these kinds of things with the right tools and technology.
For extra credit you might want to check out some of the talks onRuneSoup.
Comic books:
Promethea. This is definitely one of the best introductions to Magick out there. It covers everything from Magick, Tarot, Sex Magick, Kabbalah, demons and more. This is a must have! Get it now! It’s unbelievably good.
The Invisbles. A classic which covers some Chaos Magick and HyperSigils. A great supplement to have.
If you’re really serious about becoming a practitioner then nothing beats this 5 hourIntroduction to Chaos Magickcourse. Worth saving up for.
Now, please don’t forget to actually go outside of your comfort zone and try some of this stuff out. Don’t just sit there. Go outside. Go wild. Go crazy. Just go! Go, go, go! Hit the books. Hit the play button. Take notes. Take care. Be safe.
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