The Hermetic Harmonization Cycle

August 22, 2026

Nicole and I are running the Hermetic Harmonization again, and this round it’s a pair instead of a one-off — two workings, two weeks apart, both in the hour of the Moon, the first one clearing the ground so the second one has somewhere to put things.

You can do either by itself. They work better as a set, and I’ve priced them so that’s the obvious call.

What you’re actually buying

Every one of these workings has the same bones, and it’s worth saying out loud, because the bones are the product.

You go up, and you come back down with something.

That’s the Great Work in miniature. You climb the chain — from the elemental world you’re standing in, up through the celestial where the planets do their governing, toward the intellectual where the pattern gets set — and then you come back down carrying whatever you went up after. The climb by itself doesn’t do anything. I’ve watched people have beautiful experiences on the way up and change exactly nothing in their lives, because they came back empty-handed.

The coming-back-down is the part that lands in the world. It’s also the part everybody wants to skip.

So both workings are built as a rise and a return. What changes between them is what you’re carrying each way.

August 29 — the Full Moon Release

The moon’s a day and a half past full and well into the wane. Tide’s going out.

Going up, you carry the thing that’s standing between you and what you want. Not the want — the thing in the way. The habit you can’t set down. The grudge you’re still feeding. The fear that’s been quietly making your decisions for so long you stopped noticing it was fear. The deal you cut with yourself at nineteen and never went back and renegotiated.

You take it up to where you can finally see it for what it is, which is almost always smaller and dumber than it looks from underneath.

Coming down, you leave it up there, and that’s the whole working — the powers get pointed at cutting loose instead of taking on, and the waning moon hauls off whatever you turned over.

It’s uncomfortable, and it’s supposed to be. Some of this stuff you’ve hauled around long enough that it’s gone load-bearing, and walking lighter takes a minute to get used to.

September 12 — the New Moon Materialization

The moon’s barely a day old. Nothing’s showing above ground yet, which is exactly why this is the hour to plant.

Going up, you carry a want — a specific one, named out loud, not some fog about wishing things were better. You take it up through the spheres and set it where it can be seen and governed. This is where the thing quits being a feeling you carry around and starts being an actual object in the cosmos, with a spot in the order of things.

Coming down, you bring it back and give it a body. You run it down through the celestial into the elemental — the world where things get argued about, paid for, and shipped. A want that never makes that trip down stays a mood. One that does starts bending circumstances around itself.

Two weeks earlier you cleared the ground, and this is what goes into it.

When and where

Both start at 1:11 PM Pacific — the top of the Moon’s hour on the 29th, and inside it on the 12th. Both run about an hour, live on Zoom.

Can’t make it live?

Come live if you can. But the two things that actually matter here are the phase and the hour — not which particular Saturday you happen to be sitting in. So everybody who books gets the recording, and you can run the working yourself in any Moon hour while the moon’s still in the right phase.

The Release rides the moon down from full to new; the Materialization rides it back up from new to full. Run it outside its window and you’re rowing against the tide instead of with it.

Planetary hours run twelve to the day and twelve to the night, unequal, stretching and shrinking with the season — so the Moon’s hour comes round three or four times in a day-and-night depending on the weekday, and where it lands on the clock depends on where you are. Grab a planetary hours calculator, set it to your own location, and go from there. Light a candle, put the headphones on, run it at that hour. The rite was done in a Moon hour; you’re just joining it in one.

About the sound

This is the part I want you to understand before you show up.

Nicole plays the music of the Spheres off Dr. Fludd’s Divine Monochord, on crystal bowls, while I conjure the planetary Gods, the Archangels, and the spirits of the Key of Solomon pentacles — Orphic Hymns and an Orph-ish read on the Trithemian DSIC.

Neither of us wrote the composition. That’s Agrippa’s, worked out in Book Two of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy — the book on Celestial Magic, where he lays out the harmonic proportions of the spheres — and a century later Robert Fludd notated it as the Divine Monochord, that engraving from Utriusque Cosmi Historia where a single string runs from the earth straight up through the planetary spheres to the empyrean, tuned by a hand reaching out of the clouds, the intervals marked on it like frets.

What Nicole does is play it. And a sphere isn’t one note — it’s a fistful of notes and tones sounded together, and what they do in combination is more than any one of them does alone. That’s the working part. She brings each bowl up and holds it there, deepening it, so the tones don’t get struck and die — they sustain and stack on top of each other, and in that sustain the combination starts doing several things at once.

So what you’re getting is a performance of a sixteenth-century composition, on instruments Agrippa never laid eyes on, by somebody who’s spent years learning what those combinations actually do to a room full of people. I’ve been under Nicole’s bowls myself, and it’s not nothing.

The tones are doing the same job the Orphic hymn and the pentacle are doing, which is naming the sphere in the language that sphere answers to, and that’s why I keep calling this a working and not a sound bath.

We upgraded the studio audio rig for these, so the bowls and the monochord come through at about as good as Zoom will carry. Use headphones, or decent speakers. It matters more than you’d think.

Book it

• Full Moon Release — $45
• New Moon Materialization — $45
• Both — $75 for the pair

Zoom links go out by email before each one.

You stay awake and comfortable the whole time, guided down into a receptive state where the harmonization can do its work. Nobody’s teaching anything and there’s nothing to take notes on, we’re just going to do the work and you’ll be in the room while it happens.