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With how much I’m stressed about money I really need to find some🙏🏾

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Little Everyday Witchy Things

💖Say a prayer while your still in bed, before you get up in the morning it counts as a simple offering.

💖Make some tea and add cinnamon to your tea to increase luck and energy.

💖Put thyme in your tea for good luck.

💖The type of tea you make should depend on your mood.

💖If you want alertness, energy, and to dispel negative premonitions of the day make black tea, chai tea, or oolong tea.

💖If you want to detoxify your energy and clear your conscious mind make green tea, jasmine tea, sencha tea, or matcha tea.

💖If you want help with clarity, serenity, and wisdom make white tea or an herbal tea.

💖For an easy boost place a crystal next to your tea cup to charge your tea.

💖If you want to boost clarity use a clear quartz crystal.

💖If you want to increase your chance of love and beauty use a rose quartz crystal.

💖If you want to stabilize and ground yourself use an obsidian, bloodstone, or onyx crystal.

💖If you want to intensify your awareness and spiritual powers use an opal or lapis crystal.

💖If you want to increase courage use a tigers eye crystal.

💖While your tea is charging do some yoga, exercise, or meditate. You only have to do this for as long as your tea is charging. So like literally five minutes, trust me it makes a difference.

💖If you make breakfast give a piece of your breakfast as an offering. If you don’t make breakfast give some of your tea you made as an offering.

💖While you get dressed and do your makeup light a candle. This way you start your day off with a little light, light acts as a positive omen, and wakes you up more.

💖If you want purity and beginnings light a white candle.

💖If you want courage and strength light a red candle.

💖If you want healing, luck, and prosperity light a green candle.

💖If you want calming and spiritual awareness light a blue candle.

💖If you want psychic powers and control light a purple candle.

💖If you want positivity and beauty light a yellow candle.

💖If you want beauty, serenity, and positivity light a pink candle.

💖If you want stimulation and energy light a orange candle.

💖While doing your makeup place a rose quartz crystal next to your makeup supplies. It’s a simple tactic that really ups your look for the day.

💖If you shower in the morning turn it into a cleansing ritual.

💖Color coordinate your outfit for your days intent.

💖Carry an appropriate crystal in your purse to help calm, stabilize, or motivate yourself.

💖Carry a rose quartz crystal in your makeup bag to increase your beauty for the day.

💖Carry a spell bottle you made for keeping calm in stressful situations in your purse.

💖Carry a spell bottle you made for good luck to come your way in your purse.

💖Carry a basil in your wallet to attract money.

💖Carry rose petals in your purse to help bring all kinds of love throughout your day.

💖Wear thyme in your bra to make yourself more alluring.

💖If you curl your hair enchant your curling iron.

💖For simple divination open a book to a random page and read it.

💖Enchant and wear a crystal necklace.

💖Everynight before you go to bed charge your crystal necklace under the moonlight.

💖Stir your tea clockwise to conjure up happiness and health.

💖Stir your tea counterclockwise to banish negativity.

💖Stir your tea for your days intent, while doing this you can chant a few words making a new little spell each day.

💖For your morning tea use sun water.

💖For your bedtime tea use moon water.

💖Try to always have an incense lit in your room for aromatherapy, positive energy, general witchiness, and reducing anxiety.

💖Use essential oil as a perfume.

💖Go for a walk to connect with nature.

💖Read your daily horoscope.

💖Write sigils in your planner.

💖Chew gum, use flavor associations.

💖Text yourself emoji spells when you need a quick boost.

💖Enchant your pen, marker, pencil, etc. Enchant the words you write.

💖Brush your teeth counterclockwise to banish negativity from your day.

💖Whisper a silent greeting to the sun.

💖Play some of your favorite music to invoke spiritual energy.

💖Whisper a “goodnight” to the moon before going to sleep.

💖Energy work, if you have the extra concentration to spare. This can go very quickly and is so versatile.

💖For protection carry a salt packet in your purse.

💖Carry a sugar packet in your purse to sweeten up your day.

💖Try weaving glamours into your foundation, clarity and true-seeing in your mascara, and authority in your lipstick. Red lends power to your words. Pink offers charm.

💖Put an appropriate tarot card in your purse or planner to give you a burst of energy.

💖Keep a Grimoire/BOS on your phone.

💖Wear a crystal to boost your energy while working out at the gym.

💖If you need to take a nap place your crystals under your pillow to charge with you. You need a break to recharge just like your crystals do.

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I think it's because foxes are smart and cunning. And asosiated with tricksters.

What’s with all the foxes, Lokeans?

Is it just because the fire haired?? I’m just bit weirded out as I don’t remember reading anything about foxes concerning him??

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With Arms Wide Open: Prayer Beads for Sigyn.

Sigyn is the Norse Goddess of Fidelity.

Sigyn is Wife to Loki, The Trickster God. Not much is mentioned of Her in the Eddas. The most famous mention of Her is during Loki’s punishment. He is bound and chained deep in a cave and a snake has been fashioned over His head to drip venom on his face. To ease Her husbands suffering, Sigyn holds a bowl over Loki’s head to catch the venom. Every so often, She has to leave to empty the bowl. When She does, the venom that hits Loki’s face causes Him great agony. She continues holding the bowl over His head until He eventually breaks from His bounds at Ragnarok.

Sigyn is know as a devoted Wife and Mother. This set is crafted with that in mind. Made with soft pink Kunzite and Rose Quartz, as well as Rose Gold Hematite. Two silver cupped hands represent Her holding the bowl that shields Her husbands head.

Will come beautifully packaged in a black jewelry box with wax seal.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/566026175/with-arms-wide-open-prayer-beads-for?ref=shop_home_active_1

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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but i am very new to this, so please forgive me. I tried searching for heathen holydays, but all the results I found were either a mix of heathen and non-heathen holydays or confusing to me. Could you please give me the list of the main heathen holydays please? (Smaller festivals/holidays/celebrations are apreciated if you have the time and patience) Thanks in advance!!

Unfortunately, the neat and tidy list you’re wanting isn’t really possible. This is because the holidays historical heathens celebrated varied between regions and over time.

It’s basically the equivalent of trying to make a list of American, Canadian, and British holidays over the past 300 years. Nominally, like the Norse, they all fall under the same cultural umbrella, right? But as you’re probably aware, they don’t celebrate all of the same holidays at the same time. There’s stuff like Boxing Day that isn’t celebrated everywhere. There’s stuff like Thanksgiving where different countries celebrate in entirely different months. And there are changes over time. American Independence Day wasn’t a thing back in 1700, for instance, and All Hallow’s Eve would have had a very different meaning for the average person.

This is compounded by the fact that modern Heathenry is reconstructed, and not part of the dominant culture. There are a lot of modern Heathens that celebrate the ahistorical neopagan Wheel of the Year because it’s more common in general pagan spaces. Then you get other stuff like Walpurgisnacht that’s probably Christian in origin but is still celebrated by a lot of pagans due to the cultural significance developed over the centuries. Arguably, that makes those celebrations “Heathen holidays” too, even if they wouldn’t have been celebrated in pre-Christian times.

This post lists historical holidays by month and region. Due to all of the factors listed above, it’s about as straightforward as you’re going to get. The rebranded names for the modern Wheel of the Year are listed here. I link to Wikipedia and not an actual AFA-affiliated site because the AFA is a folkish organization–that is, they support excluding people from the religion based on race.

Fortunately, just in case it wasn’t clear, you don’t have to celebrate all of these, or any of them! Even the strictest reconstructionists pick one region and stick with that. And basically no one does something for every holiday. Many people just stick with the main holidays wherever they live, because that’s when they get time off of work. If you live outside of Northern Europe, your local holidays are also more likely to match up with your climate and agricultural calendar than ones meant for Scandinavia. Celebrating seasonal changes taking place thousands of miles away is kinda awkward.

So yeah. Try not to stress too much over it too much. Learning about old traditions is great, but do what works for you in the present.

- Mod E

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About Loka Táttur

I'm just going back to my practice and study after a loong time of all the depression and none of the magic/religion.

I read about Looks Táttur and what Loki did there, it warms my heart reading something good about him. And also I'm glad Loki is related to fish.

I have a rescued Betta fish and depression is making it difficult to give him the best (he has his big square filtered , heated tank with good quality food, and API test kit, but I want to give him the best)

I do a nice tank cleaning and love even more and care even more for him offering the time, effort and everything to Loki.

I wonder if he will like it.

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Please reblog if you post anything about:

⚫ Norse Traditions ⚫ Ocean/Sea/Lake Witchcraft ⚫ Witchcraft ⚫ Norse Gods ⚫ LGBT+ Paganism ⚫ LGBT+ esp in Norse Paganism ⚫ Heathenry ⚫ The norse gods (Njordr, Loki, Freyja, Idunn and Odin specifically) ⚫ Mermaids ⚫ Seidr ⚫ Astral projection ⚫ Nordic History ⚫ Nonbinary witchcraft/ paganism ⚫ Modern Norse paganism ⚫ You work with any of these gods: Njordr, Loki, Freyja, Idunn or Odin

DO NOT REBLOG IF UR GROSS: ⚪ You’re a Nazi/ sympathize with Nazis ⚪ You’re transphobic. (ex: TERFs) ⚪ You’re homophobic ⚪ You’re racist (and yes this includes you thinking the gods may only appear as white people) ⚪ You shame people for using curses/hexing

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I've noticed that you mentioned Wiccans a lot. My MC is a witch, and I wasn't really aware of other kinds of witches, even though I did thorough research. What other kinds of witches are there? Just fyi, she is a mostly-closet witch, and uses stones as connections to places. She mostly uses runecasting and entomomancy (especially beetles and spiders). What might she choose to align with, if anything?

There are, honestly, so many more choices than just Wicca. I’ll try to list several, but do not take this as an exhaustive list. I have added resources where I could, and please forgive the length…

Asatru

An Asatru witch follows a specific branch of Heathenry that worships the major Nordic pantheon.

http://www.ravenkindred.com/index.html

Athiest/Laveyan Satanic (Secular Satanic)

This witch feels more that Satan is a concept or idea, not an actual entity.

http://www.churchofsatan.com/

Celtic

This witch uses the Celtic culture, including its’ mythology, deities, old ways, and language / symbols as a means of learning, internalizing, and performing magic.

http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/celtictraditions.html

Christian

A witch that honors and worships the Christian God through the practice of magic, usually alongside more traditional Christian worship.

http://arganteswell.tripod.com/id1.html

Death/Necromancy

This witch utilizes magic through the bodies and spirits of the dead. This can include bones, blood, skin, and other pieces of the corporeal form left when the spirit leaves, as well as contact with the spirit that has left its physical form behind.

http://sarahannelawless.com/2011/11/13/lets-talk-about-necromancy/

Druidism

Is a very old, and very complex set of religious and nature beliefs changing from region to region, and time to time.

http://www.druidry.org/druid-way/druid-beliefs

Eclectic

A witch who respectfully uses parts of multiple practices, traditions, and paths.

http://www.witchpathforward.com/eclectic-witchcraft.html

Gaulish

This witch pays homage to the Gaulish Gods through the study, reconstruction, and practice of Gaulish tradition.

http://www.deomercurio.be/en/index.html

Heathenry

A witch who follows the ways of, works with, and/or worships the Norse deities.

http://www.heathengods.com/faq/index.htm

Hellenic

A path by which the witch follows Greek traditions and honors the Greek pantheon.

http://www.witchpathforward.com/hellenism.html

Hereditary

This witch was born into a family of witches and so is likely to have practices, traditions, and/or paths that are not usually shared outside of their family practice.

Hoodoo

A complex interweaving of Western African traditions as well as a long history of utilizing Christianity. This is a fairly regional practice of the Southern United States, but can be found elsewhere.

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/black-magic-talking-with-hoodoo-witches

Kemetic

This type of witch works with the Egyptian deities.

http://www.witchpathforward.com/kemetism.html

Lokean

A witch who works with and worships Loki and/or any of his relations (Hel, Jormugandr, Sigyn, Angrboda, etc). This witch may pay homage to other Nordic deities as well.

http://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-culture-blogs/lokean-swamp-witch.html

Odinism

A witch who works majorily, or exclusively, with Odin, Thor, Freyjr, Freyja, Frigga, and Heimdall.

http://www.odinistfellowship.co.uk/

Pop Culture

A pop culture witch uses lyrics or movie lines in spells, worships and/or honors pop culture icons and/or idols. Likely to utilize fandom in some way, it is a very new and wide practice. They could draw inspiration from Harry Potter, Vampire Diaries, Practical Magic, The Craft, Supernatural, or other, similar shows.

http://thepaganstudygrouppage.tumblr.com/post/77850531804/brief-intro-to-pop-culture-magic

Regla de Ocha

A religion that was synthesized by West Africans who were taken and enslaved by the Spanish Empire who were then sent to work on the Caribbean Islands. It mixes West African tradition with worship of saints.

http://www.aboutsanteria.com/what-is-santeria.html

Science

This kind of witch synthesizes their craft from a mixture of empirical evidence/data and metaphysical leanings. It is highly individualized.

http://www.wsusignpost.com/2013/10/26/modern-witchcraft-entails-science/

Secular

This type of witch doesn’t connect with any religious practices, traditions, or paths.

https://thewitchcraftjournal.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/witchcraft-as-a-secular-practice/

Solitary

A witch who practices alone, but follows a particular practice, tradition, path.

(Theistic) Satanic

A witch whose practice revolves around worshiping, honoring, or otherwise appealing to Satan.

http://theisticsatanism.com/varieties/FAQ-TS.html

Traditional

A witch who hunts for the “traditional” ways of magic. Likely to be found scouring through histories and stories looking for references to spellcraft, rituals, and traditions that have since been lost to time.

http://sarahannelawless.com/2015/03/17/introduction-to-traditional-witchcraft/

Voudon

An Afro-Caribbean form of worship that focuses on the loa, and spirits.

http://www.livescience.com/40803-voodoo-facts.html

I hope this put some things in perspective as to just how large witchcraft is, and why I seem to harp about being frustrated that the majority of what I see is Wicca. It is prevalent and popular, not the only way to be a witch, and definitely not the only tradition.

To answer your question about your character, Some of these paths lend themselves more towards nature than others, but I’d suggest rather looking into a tradition/path, look at types of witchcraft instead. Your character most sounds like a variety of Green Witch, and/or Animal Witch.

-Bruxa Guerreira

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Ways to Get Intimate with the Gods

For those special gods in your life. 

Leave space for them on your bed when you sleep

Dedicate a piece of jewelry to them and wear it all the time

When you’re emotional, write a letter to them until your hands start to hurt

Make them a cup of tea and sit down across from it and just talk

Make some time to sit in ritual in silence and just feel them

Wear their colors for them and let them know you did it for them

Orgasms are great offerings

Take care of yourself physically and pamper yourself while you talk to them and visualize them helping you (example: washing your hair, doing your nails)

Magic is made from passion, so when you need an extra kick in the spell, visualize them touching you and whispering in your ear all the passion that you need 

Eat dinner with them

Create a place where you meet in meditation 

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Stop shaming people for not completing a game/show/book they like. Stop shaming people for taking ages completing them.

Like, I feel so exhausted all the time even effortless things like watching series or playing games are so difficult.

I spend weeks just doing things I absolutely have to do like chores, and staying on bed not being able to do anything even if I have "free time", I . Just. Can't . Move .

I need the "free time" to rest, I just don't have energy not even for things I like.

Also when depression strikes worse, I lose interest in everything, I don't even want to eat, let alone play games or watch shows. I DONT WANT TO EAT, I literally just want to sleep forever and never ever wake up again. I don't even consider doing things I usually like, I don't even enjoy them.

And I don't want y'all to come tell me "you don't even like it" or "you don't spend to much time doing it, you are just a poser".

It's so hard to remind myself there are things I CAN ENJOY, and that I have to get better to do them again. I don't need y'all invalidating these few good memories and these few things in my "when I get better, I will be able to do this again " list.

So, what if you let people do things their own way and at their own pace and stop being such a stupid asshole. This also applies for those of you who mock casual players, some people can only play on easy mode, and some people prefer it that way and it’s valid. 

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“It Will Be Okay” Spell

A spell to help ease anxiety.

You Will Need:

💛 Chamomile Tea 💛 Sugar or honey 💛 Cut up cherry

Steps:

💛 While your tea steeps carefully cut and de-pit a cherry or two

💛 In your hot tea stir in your sugar or honey clockwise. 

💛 “Things seem hard, things are stressful, but I know deep down, things will be okay.” repeat this as you desire

💛 Add in your cherries and continue stirring repeating “Things will be okay”

💛 Find a calm quiet place you enjoy being and drink you tea. 

💛 Afterwards do something you enjoy that is also calming. Take a bath, watch a movie, read a book, watch the rain, listen to music, write in a journal; whatever makes you smile.

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Hello! Well as I was looking for new blogs to follow I came across your blog and I got just really interested in Sigils and their power, but I still have some doubts about how to make them work or activate them, and where should I place them for it to work properly. I must say I'm someone who has never ever practiced any kind of magic, spiritualism, witchcraft, or esoteric stuff. P.S After reading your blog I'm eager to learn more about it. XO

It’s wonderful to hear that you’re interested in learning my friend. I hope that you continue to facilitate your wanting to learn, and that you do so with an open mind. Sigil magick is a very interesting paradigm, and I believe it is a very useful, and good skill to learn especially as a beginner.

In order to make the sigils work you need to take the representation in charge and activate it. Charging can be done through any act in which you send spiritual energy, or a mental focus on the sigil in order to fill it with spiritual energy, and into implanted into your subconscious. Activation can be done through the act of destroying, or sending out the energy from the sigil, or you can also allow the representation of the sigil to do it over time by allowing it to continue existing. If you are going to activate through the act of allowing it to continue existing placement would be different depending on what you want to achieve through the sigil. it usually is going to be close to what you are trying to affect.

I would love to answer any questions that you have my friend, and I will also link my sigil posts in the order that I believe that you should check them out in order to learn more about sigilcraft:

How to make Sigils.

How I Make My Sigils

How to use sigils

Ways to charge a sigil.

Ways to charge a sigil 2

Active, And Passive Sigil Activation

Ways to activate a sigil

Sigil Triggers

How exactly do you use a sigil?

Tracing sigils into the air.

Sigil surroundings

Sigil Placement

5 Types Of Sigils

Name Sigils

Linking sigils

Mixed Sigils

Tribal sigils

Body Sigils

Acoustic sigils

Hand Tapping Sigils

Alphabet of Desire

Alphabet Of Binding

Hypersigils 

Sigil Altars

Sigil Matrix 

Sigil Matrices

7 Random things about sigils

Top 10 of my best sigils:

Thank you for the question, I appreciate it.

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Magical circles and protection

The tradition that perhaps codified the image of the magical circle in the Western magical stratum is the Solomonic tradition, and in its context the more obvious use for it is protection. The theology the tradition emerges from dictates a need for insulating ourselves from the evoked in the same stroke that it sets the terms for the adversarial format of the operations. While recent developments should by now have enriched our world view sufficiently to dispel the belief that this is strictly necessary, there are, as usual, valuable insights to be garnered in the study of traditional ritual mechanics.

From what the texts say regarding outcomes, we can extrapolate a proposition that spirit manifestations are consciously visible to the naked eye, and that they present a real and immediate danger to the operator. That peril can be reasonably attributed to various specific aspects of any given system, less often recognised among those is the case of early formulae whose goal was obtaining a number of unknown spirits to manifest, all of which with unpredictable agendas. Or quite simply that in compelling a certain class of hostile spirits to appear, care will indeed be required.

This element of compelling is commonly done away with in modern systems, and the consequently subtler outcomes led its proponents to put in ink a conclusion that the sole purpose of the circle is to situate the magician at the centre of the magical universe. While that’s most definitely not the whole truth if taking into account recognitions aplenty of it acting as a protective device, there’s corroboration of its making entailing elaborate considerations such as the names of lower hierarchy, correct timing and more, and therefore it playing a more than passive role in ritual.

Andrew D. Chumbley in his Opuscula Magica Vol. I excellently ascertains the origins of names given to sorcerers translating to “the encircling ones”, alluding to the binding nature of the practice, and in subsequent paragraphs cites the observance of the cycles of the Moon and seasons providing the motif for the recognition of the geometrical symbol as meaning universe. Although he speaks primarily from the point of view of a distinct tradition, this is worth considering seeing as we can find the symbolism taken to length in the influential Peter de Abano’s Heptameron as well as the table of practice in Francis Barrett’s The Art of Drawing Spirits Into Crystals.

Circles in Solomonic systems

The essentials of the designs seen in various Key of Solomon manuscripts and its predecessors remain more or less the same, with variations mainly around the magical names used on the boundaries. A distinct detail of these is that unlike late Latin formulae, they frequently feature an entryway into the circle that is to be sealed off once all participants step in.

Their exact diameter is the topic of heated forum debates, likely because most expect to be able to conduct the ritual at home and laying a nine foot circle indoors can be difficult for urban dwellers. Heeding the wording in early instructions, they almost never fail to account for the presence of other participants needing to fit in the space, which is certainly a factor of that suggestion. Though rather than looking at the measure as having a numeric significance paramount for the success of the operation, considering it has been more often not specified, I submit that the more interesting factor is the metaphysical implications behind these operations being experienced in groups apparently as a matter of course. I would also caution against assuming them needing to be conducted indoors, as several of the instructions we will see further ahead plainly advise otherwise.

Designs found in three of the manuscripts of the Hygromanteia feature a double circle with magical names written inset. The previously mentioned entrance is laid southside and shows the black handled knife pointing outwards, indicating it’s to be used for closing it. The use of the black handled knife is of summary importance. The blade is consecrated to Mars and it’s by its virtues that spirits are kept at bay. This knowledge is missing from ignorant analysis deriding the idea as if what it proposes is that a mere figure on the ground should be capable of so.

The circle for one of the evocation approaches in MS Atheniensis 12651:

The following, from a French Key of Solomon manuscript, MS Wellcome 46702:

Instructions in Harleianus 5596, another manuscript of the Hygromanteia, direct the magician to first burn incense and only then trace the circle, showing the process to be a form of ritual in itself.

In Atheniensis 1265 we find the following directions for procuring a location of the ritual3:

Go find a proper place to trace a circle. Let the place be at the peak of a mountain, in the woods, on a plain, in a cave, near the sea, in a garden, at a place where somebody was killed in old times and where neither the crow, nor a rooster, nor the voices of men can be heard, at a pure and trackless place, near a river, or near a meeting of three roads. It has to be far from people, where nobody can hear or see, and where the human voice cannot be heard, in order not to be obstructed by anybody.

The text emphasised above, conspicuously omitted from the same sentence in the later Atheniensis 115, carries huge practical implications best addressed in detail on a separate occasion, so I will only briefly note here that I believe these necromantic overtones are no accident, and in this communion lies a key to the practice of ceremonial magic. The dead will witness the ritual and their help is a possibility if honours and relief are offered.

In the later Key of Solomon, the instructions principally emphasise the need for isolation4:

The places best fitted for exercising and accomplishing magical arts and operations are those which are concealed, removed, and separated from the habitations of men. Wherefore desolate and uninhabited regions are most appropriate, such as the borders of lakes, forests, dark and obscure places, old and deserted houses, whither rarely and scarce ever men do come, mountains, caves, caverns, grottos, gardens, orchards; but best of all are cross-roads, and where four roads meet, during the depth and silence of night

Though in the subsequent paragraph offers recognition of the previous point5:

These arts or operations should he carried out at the prescribed time, but if there be no time specially appointed it will be always better to perform them at night, which is the most fit and proper time for the operations of necromancy

As stated earlier, at times we see the use of names or sigils of spirits found in the lower hierarchy in a bid for representing their authority, for in turn compelling the evoked to manifest, but on the circle itself. In a manuscript omitted in Mathers’ version of the Key of Solomon, MS Aubrey 24, the names of four demon kings are seen written around the circle at their respective cardinal directions. This exact same idea is seen in late Latin manuscript of remark, MS Wellcome 2000. It shows on its frontispiece an ourobouros circle with sigils of its four cardinal kings displayed on the outside6:

Peter de Abano’s Heptameron offers extremely elaborate instructions for tracing the circle. I will quote it in full for an accurate impression7:

The form of Circles is not alwaies one and the same; but useth to be changed, according to the order of the Spirits that are to be called, their places, times, daies and hours. For in making a Circle, it ought to be considered in what time of the year, what day, and what hour, that you make the Circle; what Spirits you would call, to what Star and Region they do belong, and what functions they have. Therefore let there be made three Circles of the latitude of nine foot, and let them be distant one from another a hands breadth

1) and in the middle [i.e. inner] Circle, first, write the name of the hour wherein you do the work. 2) In the second place, Write the name of the Angel of the hour. 3) In the third place, The Sigil of the Angel of the hour. 4) Fourthly, The name of the Angel that ruleth that day wherein you do the work, and the names of his ministers. 5) In the fifth place, The name of the present time [i.e. season such as Spring]. 6) Sixthly, The name of the Spirits ruling in that part of time, and their Presidents. 7) Seventhly, The name of the head of the Signe ruling in that part of time [season] wherein you work. 8) Eighthly, The name of the earth, according to that part of time [season] wherein you work. 9) Ninthly, and for the compleating of the middle Circle, Write the name of the Sun and of the Moon, according to the said rule of time [season]; for as the time is changed, so the names are to be altered.

And in the outermost Circle, let there be drawn in the four Angles, the names of the presidential Angels of the Air, that day wherein you would do this work; to wit, the name of the King and his three Ministers

(cont.)

Notable among these cares is the laying of names and sigils of horary angels, an appeal to horary hierarchy imprinted in the circle itself. The Heptameron circle is likely the better example of a talismanic representation of the universe being fundamental for getting the attention of the evoked.

The following is Heptameron circle for the first hour of Sunday in the Spring8:

Similar instances of the observance of timing (and its conjoined hierarchy) can be found in the Sworn Book of Honorius, where the circles vary extensively with the class of spirit being evoked9:

Another application of this concept is found in The Art of Drawing Spirits Into Crystals, albeit much more simplified, where the pedestal holding the scrying lapidary stands on a circle, around which the names of the planets, their ruling angels, and the names of four cardinal kings are depicted. In addition, the formula features a second protective circle design for the magician to stand on with usual names of God written on10:

A rather simple operation from Bononiensis 3632 (Hygromanteia) also makes use of a table of evocation. Interestingly, the protective circle is traced on the table itself and the spirit bound with a thrust of the knife at the centre of it. It’s unclear, however, where exactly the manifestation is to take place. It goes as follows11:

Lay a new tablecloth on a new table, and place an empty bowl upon it, together with two lit candles on candlesticks, one at each side. At the other sides of the table place another earthen bowl, a censer with lit charcoals and incense, and various peeled fruits. Then, take a knife with a black handle with your right hand, trace the circle three times around the table, and each time recite the following conjuration.

“I conjure you, Mortze, or human ghost, or haunting of this place, come to me now that I invoked you at this table that I prepared for you. Eat and drink from the food I prepared for you”

And when you see that he ate, conjure him this way:

“I conjure you, Mortze, do not defecate, do not urinate, until you tell me the whole truth in whatever I will ask you.”

Do this three times with the knife, around the table. And when you finish the three circles, thrust the knife into the table and recite the following: I nail you here, Mortze, or haunting of this place.

Though this is phrased as if the binding is based on keeping the spirit constrained in bowel discomfort, the element of feeding spirits is common enough both in the genre to warrant suggesting there’s likely a system of evocation in this formula. An illustration of the table described above12:

In my own approach I utilise a design quite similar to the one in MS Wellcome 2000. The sigils of the four cardinal kings are traced and honoured with incense along with a conjuration recited, so to interest them in facilitating access to their deputies. Rituals take place at an isolated grove at night. A replica of it is kept in my home temple for the occasional rite undertaken indoors. The complete formula may be published sometime in the near future:

Alternative means of protection

In traditions in and out of the Western current, examples can be found of protection provided via implements such as lamens worn by the operator or allegiances formed with superior or intermediary spirits. While this is assessed by some as a head-on approach, technically, protection is not being foregone altogether, but simply obtained through a different avenue.

In one of the more complete evocation systems found in the Greek Magical Papyri, PGM IV 154-285, the operator is directed to wear a philactery inscribed with various magical names during the course of contacting the gods the operation aims to put the magician in contact with. This formula interestingly begins with an initiation ritual for obtaining an alliance with Helios (Sun), it then providing the power for conducting the ritual13:

In Quimbanda14, the role of the Exú rei (king Exú) is to both protect the Quimbandeiro and mediate contact with “hotter” types of Exús. Through his agency the Quimbandeiro is equipped to act without the need for protective regalia when working directly with these spirits. Tempting as it is to draw a line between it and Scirlin from the Grimorium Verum, note that the Verum nevertheless advises the use of a circle and does not forego with the usual precautions. There seems to be less distance between it and the Paredros from the Greek Magical Papyri, or the spirit animal in some forms of shamanism, when looking strictly at roles fulfilled.

In certain lineages of European witchcraft, it’s the alliance obtained during initiation, or the “taking” of the witch by a spirit that provides both the power and safety for working other spirits reliably. This in turn can be understood as something similar to what is seen in Palo Mayombe, where the pact with the nganga is what ensures that the palero remains protected in the course of the work15. My personal approach relies on devotional work conducted with a charged statue of Lucifer, who commands the pantheon and is considered a gatekeeper to the mysteries kept by it. From this work an artefact is confectioned which carries his authority and imparts protection.

In conclusion, how necessary a circle is varies with relationships, alternative methods of protection, or the depth to which the procedure takes the matter of spirit manifestation to. It’s a lot less problematic not using it once certain pacts are in place, at which point it has presumably been employed a few times.

Credits

With gratitude to Tomas Beaujean for reviews and various helpful pointers.

Ioannis Marathakis. The Magical Treatise of Solomon, or Hygromanteia. (Golden Hoard, 2012). p. 278. ↩

Stephen Skinner. Techniques of Solomonic Magic. (Golden Hoard, 2015). p. 161. ↩

Ioannis Marathakis. The Magical Treatise of Solomon, or Hygromanteia. (Golden Hoard, 2012). p. 277. ↩

S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers. The Key of Solomon. (http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/ksol2.htm) ↩

Ibid. ↩

Stephen Skinner. Techniques of Solomonic Magic. (Golden Hoard, 2015). p. 153. ↩

Peter de Abano. Heptameron, or Magical Elements. (http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/heptamer.htm#part1). ↩

Stephen Skinner. Techniques of Solomonic Magic. (Golden Hoard, 2015). p. xxx. ↩

Joseph Peterson. The Sworn Book of Honorius. (Ibis Press, 2016). ↩

Outstanding craftwork by Ruth Hutchinson. ↩

Ioannis Marathakis. The Magical Treatise of Solomon, or Hygromanteia. (Golden Hoard, 2012). p. 119. ↩

Ibid. p. 277. ↩

Leonardo Drakon. PGV IV 154-265: Phylactery of 100 Letters. (http://voces-magicae.com/2015/01/27/pgm-iv-154-285-phylactery-of-100-letters/). The gorgeous philactery is his own artwork. ↩

Personal correspondence with Jesse Hathaway Diaz, from Wolf & Goat. ↩

Personal correspondence with Christopher Bradford. ↩

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