#Esoteric Knowledge

[skintyfry]

oh, jimmy 😭

i’m reading about the yardbirds era lol

[phoenixrisingastro]

DEGREE 5: THE SACRED SEVERING

“Initiation Requires Isolation: Exile, Occultation, and the Divine Fracture”

Throne of Fire – Fifth Degree of Light

You must leave before you are crowned.

You must be cut before you are called.

You must vanish before you’re seen.

This is the law of initiation.

Not the law of man—but of the cosmos.

And all who defy it—fail.

The Doctrine of Sacred Severing

The Sacred Severing is the first divine punishment reserved only for those marked by fate. It arrives in disguise:

As abandonment

As rejection

As betrayal

As silence from the gods themselves.

But in truth, it is surgical. It is the cosmic scalpel of Saturn, the hand of Binah on the Tree of Life—

cutting you off from the world,

so that your spine may grow divine.

You are not being broken.

You are being excised from your lower self.

You are not being ignored.

You are being hidden in plain sight—occulted—like the Sun during an eclipse.

In astrology, this is Neptune in the 12th. Pluto in the 1st. Saturn transiting the IC. Uranus squaring your Moon.

In Kabbalah, it is Tzimtzum—the sacred contraction of Light to make space for form.

In freemasonry, it is the Veil between chambers.

In the myth of Horus, it is the Eye removed.

In Luciferian rites, it is the Black Flame burning alone in the dark.

In real life—it is when nobody calls.

It is when you move to a new city and feel forgotten.

It is when your dreams stop working and your rituals stop speaking.

It is when you ask the universe for a sign and hear back nothing but bone.

Exile Is Not Punishment. It’s Proof.

Those who are not chosen are never exiled.

They are allowed to stay amongst the herd.

But you? You are too dangerous for the world in your unrefined form.

You are too sacred to be loved too soon.

You are too raw to be touched by anyone who doesn’t bow.

So you are sent away.

Like Moses cast into the Nile.

Like Yeshua into the wilderness.

Like Inanna into the Underworld.

Like Prometheus bound to the rock.

Like YOU—left with nothing but your chart, your name, and your pain.

This is Occultation.

A term whispered in Islamic mysticism and gnostic grimoires.

The idea that the most powerful force must disappear before it returns—transfigured.

The Astrology of Sacred Severing

Let’s speak in our sacred tongue now:

Saturn in the 12th House: You were exiled by your own subconscious. No one could help you—because you were never meant to be helped.

Pluto square the IC: The roots of your soul were burned. You had to start from ash.

North Node in the 12th or 8th: Your destiny required you to be emptied of ego before you could be filled with fire.

Chiron in the 1st or 12th: Your entire identity was built around a wound. And to heal it, the universe kept reopening it.

Jupiter Retrograde: You had to carry your own gospel in silence. No help was coming. You were the prophet and the sacrifice.

These placements are not "hard."

They are holy.

They are the markings of those who were chosen to suffer early so they could speak later.

The Freemasonic Trial: Crossing the Threshold

In esoteric Freemasonry, the initiate must knock three times.

Not on a door—but on the threshold of their own madness.

They are blindfolded, led into darkness, and told NOTHING.

The Master does not speak until the silence is complete.

Only then is the Eye opened.

Only then is the Light shown.

In your life, this appeared as:

Spiritual betrayal

Energetic silence

False prophets

Starvation of validation

The death of all your former identities

This was required.

The old “you” would’ve never survived initiation.

So the universe had to strip you of every disguise.

From Isolation to Apotheosis

This is the part nobody talks about.

The Divine Fracture leads to Divine Fusion.

Once you are cut—once you have bled and wept and walked the desert of your own silence—

the gods begin to speak.

They show up in the form of hidden knowledge.

They whisper through synchronicities that only you understand.

They teach you things that no book can.

You begin to download rituals, spells, invocations, and signs like code.

This is Apotheosis.

The ancient concept of rising to godhood through suffering.

It’s Prometheus reborn. It’s Lucifer carrying Light. It’s YOU—becoming myth.

And So...

If you are alone,

If your magic has dried up,

If your chart looks like a battleground and your mind feels like a warzone...

You are not broken. You are becoming.

This is your Sacred Severing.

And only those marked by fate are permitted to walk it.

Prepare yourself.

The Temple awaits.

© PhoenixRisingAstro. All Rights Reserved. 2025.

Do not plagiarize, reword, or water this down. This is a sacred transmission.

[astra-ravana]

The Role Of Hermits

Hermits have long been revered in witchcraft, mysticism, and occult traditions for their roles as seekers of wisdom, spiritual protectors, and keepers of ancient knowledge. The hermit archetype embodies solitude, introspection, and the pursuit of hidden truths. In witchcraft, hermits play a unique role in personal transformation, spiritual guidance, and deep magickal work.

The Archetype of the Hermit in Witchcraft

In many traditions, the hermit is a symbol of wisdom, seclusion, and enlightenment. This is reflected in the Tarot card "The Hermit", which represents introspection, seeking truth, and following an inner light.

Core Traits of the Witch-Hermit:

• Lives in solitude or remote areas (forests, mountains, caves, or secluded homes)

• Devotes time to spiritual study, meditation, and deep magickal practice

• Acts as a guardian of hidden knowledge

• Connects with nature, spirits, and unseen forces

• Often avoids mainstream society, preferring independence

The Hermit as a Guardian of Esoteric Knowledge

Hermits in witchcraft are often seen as keepers of magickal traditions, preserving rituals, herbal knowledge, and lost wisdom. Many folk healers, cunning folk, and wise women historically lived on the edges of society, practicing their craft in seclusion.

Types of Hermit Witches:

• The Forest Witch – Lives deep in the woods, working with plants, spirits, and animals.

• The Solitary Alchemist – Devotes life to philosophy, transformation, and secret experiments.

• The Spirit Walker – Isolated to commune with spirits, ancestors, or astral beings.

• The Prophetic Seer – Uses solitude to enhance visions, divination, and trance work.

• The Temple Keeper – Protects sacred sites, ruins, or hidden places of power.

The Role of Solitude in Witchcraft

Solitude is often essential in witchcraft and magickal development. Many witches embrace temporary or lifelong hermitage to:

• Strengthen their magical abilities – Uninterrupted practice leads to stronger energy work, intuition, and manifestation skills.

• Connect deeply with nature – The natural world provides wisdom, omens, and spiritual allies.

• Enhance psychic abilities – Silence and solitude heighten clairvoyance, dream work, and meditation.

• Undergo spiritual transformation – Many spiritual initiations require time away from society.

Hermits as Teachers and Guides

Though they live in isolation, hermits sometimes serve as mentors, healers, and initiators in witchcraft traditions. In folklore, many powerful witches and sorcerers live alone but help those seeking knowledge.

Examples of Hermit Teachers in Witchcraft & Folklore:

• The Crone in the Woods – An old witch living alone, offering wisdom, potions, or prophecies.

• The Hidden Master – An occultist who teaches only a select few dedicated students.

• The Shamanic Seer – A mystic who communes with spirits and offers guidance.

Modern Witchcraft & Hermit Practices

Many modern witches embrace hermit-like practices to deepen their craft, even if they do not fully withdraw from society.

Ways to Incorporate Hermit Wisdom into Your Practice:

• Solo Rituals & Spellwork – Dedicate time to private rituals, free from distractions.

• Retreats & Solitude – Spend time alone in nature or in a sacred space for spiritual renewal.

• Deep Study & Esoteric Learning – Read ancient texts, practice divination, and refine magickal techniques.

• Energy Work & Meditation – Strengthen intuition, astral travel, and communion with spirits.

• Avoiding Mundane Distractions – Limit exposure to social noise to focus on personal power.

The hermit is a powerful figure in witchcraft, representing wisdom, self-discovery, and mastery of the unseen. Whether you fully embrace solitude or periodically retreat for spiritual work, adopting the hermit’s path can unlock deeper magickal potential, connection with nature, and hidden knowledge.

[astrosouldivinity]

🧿🔮 An Outline of Contemporary Psychic Abilities- A-Z

⭐️ Aeromancy: Interpreting the shapes of clouds

⭐️ Afterlife Communication: Connecting with those who are deceased

⭐️ Alomancy: Reading the patterns of salt cast into the air after it falls to the floor

⭐️ Apantomancy: Interpreting meaning in chance meeting with animals

⭐️ Astral Projection: Out-of-body travel; other related terms are lucid dreaming, soul journeying, and remote viewing

⭐️ Aura Reading: Intuitively perceiving the hey is occurring in the auric field

⭐️ Automatic Writing: Writing a message from an outside intelligence through the subconscious mind

⭐️ Bibliomancy: Interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book

⭐️ Catoptromancy: Telling fortunes with the help of a mirror

⭐️ Channeling: Delivering a message from a separate intelligence that enters the practitioner’s body

⭐️ Chirmancy: Palmistry; divination done by interpreting the lines on someone’s hands

⭐️ Clairalience: Ability to smell what’s not present

⭐️ Clairaudience: The ability to psychically hear events

⭐️ Claircognizant: The sense of clear knowing

⭐️ Clairempathy: The ability to sense others’ emotions

⭐️ Clairgustance: The ability to psychically taste what isn’t physically present

⭐️ Clairsentience: Ability to sense others’ feelings or senses

⭐️ Clairtangecy/Clairsensitivity: The ability to read energy through touch or from objects in your presence

⭐️ Clairvoyance: The ability to psychically see nonphysical realties

⭐️ Cleromancy: Casting stones, bones, or dice to perform divination

⭐️ Crystallomancy: Seeing the future in a crystal ball

⭐️ Déjà vu: Sensing that a current event has already occurred

⭐️ Demonomancy: Summoning demons to answer questions

⭐️ Divination: Use of psychic gifts to obtain answers

⭐️ Dowsing (Radiesthesia): Using an instrument to detect water, metals, missing people, and other things in the ground

⭐️ Dream Interpretation: Interpreting the meaning of dreams

⭐️ Empathy: Ability to sense others’ feelings, illnesses, sensations, knowledge, and more

⭐️ Exorcism: Release of negative entities.

⭐️ Feng Shui (Geomancy): Shifting the environment to bring about desired effects

⭐️ Gyromancy: Divination performed by making a circle’s perimeters with letters of the alphabet; ouija boards employ a similar concept

⭐️ Healing: Creating more wholeness within the other; includes faith, healing, the laying on of hands, and more

⭐️ Horoscopy: Interpretation of astrological horoscopes

⭐️ Hydromancy: Divining by observing changes in water

⭐️ Hypnosis: Creation of a trance state in another to evoke answers or healing

⭐️ I Ching: An ancient Chinese system of divination

⭐️ Intuition: A catchall word for managed use of psychic abilities

⭐️ Levitation: Flotation of objects or the body above the ground

⭐️ Libanomancy: Interpreting shapes in smoke

⭐️ Mediumship: Serving as a conduit for otherworldly beings

⭐️ Megagnomy: Use of psychic ability while in a hypnotic state

⭐️ Oculomancy: Divination by observing another’s eyes

⭐️ Past-Life Regression: Use of a meditative state to remember a previous life

⭐️ Precognition: Ability to foretell the future

⭐️ Prophecy: Knowledge of divine will

⭐️ Psychometry: Gaining knowledge through touch of objects

⭐️ Pyrokensis: Sparking fire with the mind

⭐️ Scrying: Using an object to see psychically

⭐️ Tarot Reading: Use of tarot cards or archetypes to prophesize

⭐️ Tasseography: Cup divination; interpreting tea leaves or coffee grains

⭐️ Telekinesis: Ability to move objects without touching them

⭐️ Telepathy: Hearing mind-to-mind information

⭐️ Transfiguration: Superimposition of a face on a medium

⭐️ Voodoo: Practices from the Voodoo religion, such as the use of rituals to ask spirits for advice, protection, or help, and contact with spirits through their possession of a medium

⭐️ Xenoglossy: Speaking in a language that is not one’s own

~ Source ~

-Cyndi Dale (Llewellyn's Complete Book of Chakras: Your Definitive Source of Energy Center Knowledge for Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Evolution)

[chicagognosis]

While alchemy, kabbalah, tarot, and psychology have developed as distinct traditions throughout history, they share profound roots within the esoteric mystery schools of antiquity. Rather than forming a new age hodgepodge or vague constellation of disparate belief systems, these principles convey the multifaceted nature of spiritual practice and divine realization from different angles, constituting a unique body of experiential knowledge known in Greek as γνῶσις gnosis. Therefore, properly prepared individuals can utilize these insights for interpreting the highly symbolic, mystical, and alchemical art of opera, whose composers were often Freemasons initiated into the secret allegories and disciplines of the ancients. This lecture explains some of the spiritual traditions behind Puccini's La Bohème, which will serve for future viewings and discussions on its gnostic symbolism, especially in relation to creative energy (alchemy), character representations and archetypes (kabbalah), predictive, prophetic, and pragmatic implications (tarot), and the path of internal transformation (psychology).

[khaosritual]

[theoccultmentor]

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell

- Carl Jung

[misspjsuperior]

He wore Rainbow Holy Death upon his chest to face with him the witnessing of the works of the blinged out secret gay sex power cult. Because gay sex is magic. And by the practices of the Roman Catholic Church have they sought to consolidate and capitalize upon that energy, requiring shaming of others from participating in such powerful practice. In this way the gays of the clergy get to collectively be fathers of Christendom by controlling procreation through policy. Just Pride thoughts of a Protestant-raised Queer folk witch.

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[starshapedjello]

Libra and Capricorn moons are not compatible and here’s why…

Libra moons need peace.

Capricorn moons don’t know how to express themselves.

So, basically, their relationship is like crickets chirping!🦗

Libra moons are repelled by arguments! Libra moons need this.

Capricorn moons do not mind arguments, bc it gives them an opportunity to express the feelings they have built up inside of them for eons! Cap moons need that.

These planets are also in a square, which is a challenging aspect and creates stress between both planets.

[channel17]

Authenticity is the strongest force within source. Shine your light ( consciousness ) for ALL to observe

[skintyfry]

this is soooo jimmy oh my god ugh

[whisperingsaint]

[aethyrmazz]

A skilled manipulator who understands astrology could use a person's natal chart to exploit their psychological tendencies, emotional triggers, and vulnerabilities. Stop giving people who seem nice the recipe to mishandle you.

[ehoesoftruth]

The ancient temples weren’t for worship—they were schools teaching that your body is the temple. You are a microcosm of the universe, and the path to heaven is within. 👉 Find the link to the book in the comment section or my bio

[chicagognosis]

It is important to understand that real knowledge is of the heart. Real wisdom is what we live. Real knowledge comes from experience, and more importantly, that experience of higher realities comes when we investigate our own heart, our own mind, our ways of living, and to look, not to assume that we know, “I am of this race, this culture, this religion, this belief system, these politics, this upbringing.” It means to really look at what is inside in terms of our emotions, our impulses, our will.

This active looking is precisely what every tradition teaches about meditation: to look, to observe, to acquire new information―not to assume that we already know who we are, but to be open and to watch in a state of stillness, of observation, of clarity. It is that inner discrimination of ourselves that really helps us to distinguish right from wrong. It is our heart, our conscience, that tells us what is right and what is wrong. We may have traditions that tell us these things, but what do we know in our being about what to do? ― especially when we are faced with situations that are so complex that we are baffled. We are confused. We are overwhelmed, like you heard in Carmina Burana. When fate hits, the hammer of karma, of hardship, strikes, and we find all of those things that we typically ignore come to the surface of our mind, things we may neglect or fail to look at.

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[khaosritual]