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  • Kings and Kingdoms

    Ok, so we went through the Gate of Jupiter, and what did we get? We got Anointed, anointed as Kings of our world. We receive, as part of the Jupiter blessings, the divine right and authority to Rule our kingdoms. We get inspired, we get resources, we get health, we get all kinds of good stuff. Beneficient stuff. It comes down on us in a cloud of empowerment that is beautiful to behold and to experience.

    But that’s not enough. If we don’t take the next steps to channel and direct those blessings, they will simply hover around us and create good times sporadically at best, or simply dissipate at worst.

    Once you’ve received your anointing, you’re fit to rule your kingdom. Kings rule primarily through “rules.” Shocking, I know.

    Rulership. Law. That’s why Mars is the progression of Jupiter. Grace and empowerment becomes Rules. But pure Mars can make us into tyrannical rulers, dictators, tyrants, or even worse, lawyers.* Healthy Mars will be a manifestation of Jupiter’s Grace. The rules are set up to guide, not to command. They mark the boundaries, and serve as warnings. They aren’t to be feared or resented, they are to be respected and used as the advice we use to get ahead and reap the rewards of the Jupiter blessing.

    Rules are like guard rails on the side of the mountain highways, they don’t really protect you from death if you hit them straight on, but they do wake you up if you’re falling asleep. And they provide a good reference for your boundaries.

    To figure out what kind of rules you need to make, you need to spend some time gathering information. You’ve been made King, so the first thing to do is get to know your kingdom. Who are your people, who do you impact with your decisions? How’s their health and well being? What are your resources and your requirements? Is one greater than the other? How are your defenses? How is your offense? Could you go campaigning for Spring with your army in its current shape, or are you in need of more drilling and training, and can only hope that no one tries to pillage your kingdom because your defenses are crumbling? What do your people require? Have they got enough food, spiritual, intellectual and physical to grow and to thrive? What’s your kingdom’s economy look like?

    Take stock and see what shape you’re in. Next identify where you want to be. Set goals. Remember Jason’s excellent observation on goal-setting, but it is a necessary first step. Prioirtize the list, and you’ve got a step-by-step plan all laid out. Then comes the establishment of “rules.”

    Analyze your goals, and figure out what you’ll need to do to accomplish them. Specifically, check out the standards you’ll have to live by, the routines you’ll have to follow, the behaviors you’ll have to be… having… uhm, how you’ll have to act consistently. These are your rules. They are the guidelines for improving and maximizing your kingdom’s potential.

    I am by nature a scoff law. I have spent literally thousands of dollars in my life paying for all the times I haven’t followed the rules. Simply following the rules will not only save you money, it will make you money. Sticking to the rules is a good thing, and it provides a strong framework for the blessings of Jupiter to manifest around. It takes discipline, strength, will power.

    And at the same time, you have to watch for the pitfalls of Legalism. You don’t get the benefits BECAUSE you follow the Law, the Law has no power to grant or deny benefits. The Law is not the source of your success, it is a means. The Law is simply a reminder, a warning. Putting the Law on a pedestal and saying, I will accomplish my goals by following the Law is idolatry. Your success, the benefits you seek come from Jupiter, not from Mars. Mars protects the benefits.

    Rules and Law are the expression of the Rulership granted by the anointing of Jupiter, standards to keep, guidelines to stay within to accomplish the goals of the kingdom.They are not the kingdom.

    So, next step is the Gate of Mars. I had planned on having something in place by Tuesday, but I had forgotten all about Easter. Heh. Woopsie! Hopefully something will be up in time for one of the Martial Hours by tomorrow, but no promises. If I don’t get anything up, remember, Kamael is the Archangel of Mars, his seal can be found at this link in the Table of Angels, and he is conjured in the name of Elohim Gibor. Don’t go through the Gate of Mars without having done some analysis of the needs of your Kingdom.

    * Just kidding Mr. Warnock!

  • Updated my Site, and a Blessing

    Ok, my eBooks page is now updated with the Gate of Jupiter and Talisman Maintenance and Operations Manual.

    And I’ve gotten a nudge to take the next steps in manifesting the success and blessings received from Jupiter in the last couple of weeks. So much to do, but the rewards are huge. 
    The first step is to pass on the Graces of Jupiter I’ve received to you. 
    (Stop reading now if you do not want to receive whatever blessing I can pass on to you through blog conjure magic. Divination indicated this is a good thing to do for my readers, and that it would help in my personal accomplishment of the Great Work. However, I want you to at least have the option of not having magic used to manipulate your sphere, no matter how good for you I think it might be. Scroll down if you’re interested, cause what I bless on Earth will be blessed in the Heavens. I’ve got it on Good Authority.)

    I call on Tzadqiel, Iophial, and Hismael to bear witness; by your names and your seals I call you, by the Grace of El I conjure you to empower this blessing:

    May you who read this be blessed and benefit greatly from that which I have received. May it bring you the financial and spiritual blessings it’s brought me. May the anointing of Jupiter flow to you as you read these words, may the Greater Benefic benefit you, bless your works, bring inspiration and joy, bring robust health and necessary wealth. May you see a Vision of your Kingdom Prospering, may the steps to get there be made clear, and may you be empowered to accomplish the goals you receive.

  • If the Seven Heavens were a Corporation

    One of the things I teach my students in the Red Work series of courses is that the spheres all work together to manifest existence. There’s a chain of manifestation from the Mind of God to the Material realm that has links in each Sphere. Everything we experience here Below has passed through and picked up some aspect of each of the spheres above.

    I’m always looking for different ways to express the meanings of the Spheres. The greater our understanding, the better we can work with them. Earlier this week, I was kicking around the idea of the Spheres as the different departments within a corporation, and this is what I’ve come up with so far:

    • Saturn – Represents your market share and the demographic that will purchase your product. There’s only so many people interested in the things you produce. I think it’s a percentage of the population that fluctuates as different forces mingle in our shared sphere of experience. Some decades will see a large percentage of the population interested in occult writings, for example, while other decades won’t provide the pressures that lead people to seek answers in occult sciences.
    • Jupiter – Represents your growth and opportunity for expansion. A company is always looking for new markets to tap, new audiences to reach, new sales to make. They do this through different ways, developing new product lines, or putting more marketing out to different demographics, but the core of the opportunity for growth comes from Jupiter.
    • Mars – Represents your ability to compete with other companies. This includes protecting the value of your share price, defending from corporate takeover, and also all the little aspects of corporate security, like IT and Facilities security. It also represents your Legal department in a major way. Jupiter would represent the judge and his decision if you’re in a court, but Mars represents the lawyers.
    • The Sun – Represents your Management. The management in a company is divided into different levels, executives who make major decisions, and middle managers who make sure the executives know what they need to know to make major decisions, and to make sure the decisions made by the executives are taken care of by your employees. I put them in the Sun because the Sphere of the Sun is where Ideas from above take on an active force, and it’s also the place from below where you attain K&CHGA. You hit the Sun on the way up, and your options and authority are increased by a whole lot.
    • Venus – Represents two different aspects of business, new product development and your production line. Venus is the sphere of procreation, where the creative forces are expressed into the world. Prototypes of new products are very Venus, and can be very sexy when you think about it. It’s also the production line where your standard products get put together from all the different parts. It’s totally manufacturing too.
    • Mercury – Represents quite a lot of a corporation, naturally. First, there’s Research. Mercury isintellectual, studies hard, and is super intelligent. It paves the way for the Development team in Venus to put together prototypes. Mercury’s also a fast talker, and represents Sales, the actual convincing of your demographic to buy your product. It also represents all your corporate documentation, and the carefully developed processes and quality management plans that are put in place to create a logically infallible system of operations that seems to always elude full manifestation the way liquid mercury eludes being picked up, no matter how big your pliers.
    • The Moon – The Moon rules the final outward form and shape of things, and in a corporation would represent your brand or logo, and your marketing approach. It would also be the packaging department in the production line that puts the finished product in the final form the customer will see when it arrives in their home. It is also the sphere of Quality Assurance, where the products are put through different use case scenarios to see what it takes to break them.

    We need to be initiated into all the spheres of the planets to be able to function as a cohesive whole unit. Each aspect rules specific influences and changes everything else. Being heavy in Jupiter can lead to unsustainable growth if the sales and marketing teams aren’t being properly funded. Putting all your effort into developing a production line without having a working management structure to give clear direction is useless. Having an elite management structure won’t make your production team function more efficiently if all they can talk about is management techniques. No increase in sales or marketing or market share will be sustained if your final product goes out looking like shit.

    My focus on the different spheres shifts in response to the things going on in my life, just like a company will focus its attention on its weakest points when they have a chance to strengthen those points (or they have to because the weakest points broke and nothing else can happen til it’s fixed), or on its strongest points when action is required.

    The best way I’ve found to know what I need to focus on is divination, regular practice and proactive communications with the Intelligences of the spheres to get an idea of what I need to be Working on right now for a better tomorrow.

    The second best way I’ve found is to just wait for shit to break down and then rush around like a mad man trying to fix the broken shit quick!

    In practice, it seems like I do a lot of both, at the same time.

  • Jovial Blessings on You and Yours

    I suspect this post by the Scribbler is going to be a good snapshot of a lot of people’s lives in the coming days.

  • The Gate of Jupiter

    Ok, I’ve finished The gate of Jupiter, a complete Jupiter ritual to harmonize your sphere with His, and to call down the forces of Jupiter’s growth and expansion into your sphere. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.

    It includes some insights I’ve had, the conjuration ceremony, and the instructions for making a Jupiter Talisman.

    I’m all tired now. Takes much longer to do shit than it seems, sometimes. Feels like I just sat down, but that was 7 hours ago. Damn.

    Just for that, the book will cost a bajillion dollars!!!

    Ok, maybe not.

    [Edit: No longer available, Imma gonna publish it in a book.]









  • When Life Imitates Art

    When Life imitates Art, it can be beautiful, quirky, or surreal.

    At other times, it can just be stupid.

    Thanks Scott!

  • Coming down from a Jupiter High

    Whoa, man, last Thursday’s Jupiter rite released a lot of stuff into my sphere, and I’m just coming down from the high. And I was high, honestly. I saw things, potentials and opportunities that left my head spinning. And my heart soaring. It was a beautiful thing. I cannot recommend enough that you regularly participate in Jupiter rites. They don’t call him the Greater Benefic for nothin’.

    I feel like I’ve gotten more done in the last few days than I have in the last few months, thanks to this influx of beneficial powers. I needed a boost up and out of my rut to see what opportunities lie ahead for me throughout the next few months and years. These are exciting times to be living in, my friends. Really good times for magicians.

    The next thing you’ll be seeing here should be another eBook, this one focusing on what exactly I did in my Jupiter rite, and instructions on making the Juptier Talisman I offered last weekend. Everyone can’t afford the talismans, and honestly, I couldn’t make one for all the people that show up here. Well. I could. Over time. If you’re interested.

    I’m also going to try to write up some of the more mystical things I’ve seen pouring out of the sphere of Jove since doing the rite, and offer some RO advice on the integration and application of the forces of Jupiter into your life. Take that with a grain of salt.

  • Talisman Maintenance and Operations Manual

    In recent months, clients have been asking for methods of maintaining and strengthening their talismans. I put together a “Maintenance and Operations Manual” for talismans as a result. It will be delivered free with all talismans, but it’s generic enough to be a useful guide on its own.

    It’s short, I think 8 pages including the cover. If you’re looking for a user’s manual that provides general best practice instructions for keeping your talisman fed and growing its power and efficacy, this will cover it. There’s also info on decommissioning talismans once they’ve served their purpose. 
    Some people may also have made a talisman with an idea of how it would manifest, but then after they made the talisman it turned out that, while technically it met the statement of intent’s criteria, and it might have been a sound freakin’ theory, it generally turned out to be a bad idea in practice. Decommissioning is useful then. For those people.
    I strongly advise, however, if you’ve got a good talisman all set up, you stick with the info in the “Putting Talismans on Vacation” section if it’s something you may want to use again in the future. No point in ending a relationship that has been beneficial.
    It’s $4.95(USD) and available on my eBooks page. Under the Modern Angelic Grimoire.
    Or you could buy it here if the button code works on Blogger for once (Paypal or Google Checkout, whichever you prefer, but not both.):



  • Greek Magic Papyri in Practice

    Michael Cecchetelli, author of Scarlet Imprint’s Crossed Keys, wrote a blog piece on adapting a Greek Magic Papyri rite to modern usage today that I thought was flippin’ sweet. It’s exactly the kind of thing I try to do with magic, find something that does what I want in the older traditional stuff, and then figure out what it does, how it does it, and do it now for me.

    The Greek Magical Papyri are such a rich resource for awesome material that fits right into Hermetic practice. Betz’s book is great reading material when you’re feeling lost about what you should be doing magically. Seeing what the Hermeticists of their time were up to can inspire and direct us in our own practice. And we get to say fun Barbarous Words.
    Michael has a way with making something ancient applicable in modern times. Good stuff, definitely worth checking out:
    I’m going to be watching this blog with interest.

  • Getting crowded in here…

    I stay up too late, and so I’m tired at work a lot. And sometimes, when I’m working on really boring projects, I fall asleep a ltitle bit in my chair in my cube, and drift into the dream.

    And sometimes I see spirits there.

    And today, it happened that way, and I saw an old man come into my cube, trying to get past me to get to a printer so he could do his work. On coming to, I realized there is no printer in my cube, and the old man was probably Jupiter, or one of his spirits, and the printer was the manifestation of things of Jupiter in my life, and me being in his way is … me being in his way.

    At least in the dream, he just sort of sighed and pushed me out of his way in my chair. Hope that’s all that has to happen in real life too. Hate to be standing in the way of my own blessings. Will do some divination work on that later.