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I cannot get a hand on this ingredients I’m looking for other ingredients that corresponds with every single planet Thanks in advance
I made a post a couple days before the eclipse asking if it's safe to drink and or use for a child.
It's safe to drink. Has some effects similar to caffeine. Great use for potions of just about anything. Very responsive to intent.
My wife and I decided not to use it for our son. Just in case. We don't know enough to trust it like that.
She drank some with me though after I charged some with the intention of strength, financial security, wisdom, positive growth, etc. She took a little sip and I chugged the rest because I'm just... like that, I guess. Lmao.
It was in a small bottle I got from a takeout Cracker Barrel order. You know, the little glass bottles they put their syrup in. I saved it months ago thinking I'd need it at some point. Anyways, I drank like 7/8 of it and I was up til like 2am that night even though I drank it around 2pm. Wild stuff.
The potion is working too. I'm growing as a person and becoming a bit more wise because I'm learning from the mistakes I've made over the years. I'm becoming emotionally stronger and I'm better able to handle things I just couldn't before. Our financial issues haven't disappeared but they're a lot easier to manage now.
Fun stuff. I also made some box macaroni and cheese and used the eclipse water to boil the noodles. The house reeked of eclipse energy for a few days lmao. I think it had something to do with the water vapor. In case you are wondering, the Mac n cheese was great. The energy was strong already so I put in some spices and made the flavor as strong as the energy. Very spicy. I needed a glass of milk afterwards.
If you're one of those people who thinks eclipse water is bad juju, just remember that it's all up to your interpretation of things. My life hasn't gotten any worse. No bad juju. Things have started improving for me after using it. New doors have opened. New opportunities. New friends. Good things are coming to me now.
Let me know what yall think. :)
I’ve never had an alter before but I understand the basics of it kinda. I’m looking to set up one but I just don’t understand how you could make them not clutter due to offerings. If I have an alter and I have it for the rest of my life isn’t it going to get full? Like full to the point where it’s just clutter. I want to make an alter but I don’t have the space for it to take up my whole room. Also what about food you obviously can’t keep it there forever. Any advice, explanations, or help would be fabulous!!!!! :)
Recently I did an interview with Lindsey Wise, also known as Shamama Wise.
She talks about several near-death experiences that she had and how she was touched by the beyond during the experiences, which has deeply influenced her healing work.
She caps off the interview by doing a sound healing right on the episode, combining drums, singing bowls, and channeling with her voice.
You can listen via apple | spotify.
Cheers.
Does anyone have any techniques for strengthening your internal energies? It would also be nice if you had any techniques on storing and absorbing energies.
I'm interested more in right hand path than left hand , but there's only an illustration presenting them not explaining them , and the right hand path sounded better for me but i want to know about the two .
Thanks infinitely .
I would gladly hear your story and maybe some tips?
Hi, I'm new (completely new) in all the esoteric/occult stuff. I knew some ppl who initiate me, but as I have lost common contact with these people and I have no way of contacting them by telephone or otherwise, I have no one to ask questions on these subjects, to learn more about that. I remember that several people received a message in a dream about the possible attacks on the Paris Olympic Games this summer (before it was on the news), so I wanted to know if anyone else had this kind of message, and if anyone has heard of it or not ? Thanks you for your answer (you can just answer that you know what messages I am talk about, it's just to know if I am in the right reddit sub). Thank you
Hey all,
I want to dive into demonology and I have a lot of recommended reading material that I want to start working through, but would love some help figuring out a good order in which to read through it. Additionally, if you feel any of these titles aren't worth the time or effort, please let me know.
The goal here is just familiarizing myself with the history.
I believe most people when they preform the LBRP start at the bottom left point and move to the top point, moving earth into spirit. Does anyone know a reason you would start and move to any other points?
I feel like this is something that keeps popping up and I just don’t fully know the answer to it yet. I know I want to be a better stronger person, I want a lot of things from Magick, at the end of the day though Im just a guy who happened upon midnight gospel, and heard about Magick for the first time in the middle of the night while on Ketamine and really felt called to it(this was about a year ago, ive only done Ketamine twice)
So basically somebody put on curse on me that results in fatigue, pain, and a burning of the soul sensation and my hands forming various mudras on their own and my tounge sticking out like a snake's...
The people who put the curse on me are pretty serious and I suspect they offer some serious sacrifices to their gods, if you catch my drift.
This has been going on for awhile now and I am getting tired of it.
Anybody know how to deal with powerful curses?
EDIT: to people saying that this is all in my mind, it's not - I have been experiencing this for a while now and I didn't know what it was and it was revealed to me that later on that it was a curse/demonic attack.. before that I didn't even believe in such things.
Hi there,
I am totally new to magic (have been active in the realm of metaphysics for the last few years more generally). It seems to me that the LBRP has a mixed rep: I read that some people love it; others say it caused financial loss etc. Is there some theoretical truth to that? Would love to know more before I start practicing it (or indeed if I should!)
Thanks!
Zine Seeks Writers
Im starting a pdf zine about the Occult, Art, and Weirdness. Im currently seeking 2000 or under articles [please include sources ], stories, and poetry about things that involve one or all of those subjects. Currently can’t pay, but I'll put your contact info below what you write.
If interested contact me at - thanielionlee[at]gmail.com
I was in the middle of a gallery wealth magick ritual and was disturbed in the middle of it. I still resumed it in my room.
I am curious if anyone has any experiences or perspectives to offer in regards to working with Rabbit Spirit.
Are there tables of associations or qualities that are ascribed to Rabbit?
I would expect Swiftness, Alertness, etc?
What are some myths, stories and legends that relate to Rabbit?
I have been told so far that Rabbit is good luck. Others have said Rabbit is a trickster. I was advised against working with "Prey animals" by another.
Given their natural proclivities, I would assume Rabbit would be a fertility symbol of sorts as well.
What can y'all teach me about working with this energy?
TLDR: what do the geometric shapes in the solomonic seals and pentacles mean?
Obviously this subreddit will cause biased results, Its just something I go back and forth with in my mind. How do you rationalize this?
Background: an acquaintance has a *very* odd set of tattoos, including one on his arm I swear I've seen before. I dimly recall it in relation to Satanism or some other pretty dark thing.
Searching online has been really disappointing. I get lots of upside down pentagrams, Lucifer's seal, the hermetic icons, Lilith, etc
The tattoo is a little hard to describe but resembles a line art/stick figure person holding a spear of sorts, pointing down and to the right. It's driving me crazy not being able to figure out what I am looking at. Also trying to gauge how far away to stay from this person. TIA.
There's one thing about the left hand path that I can't get my head around. And it's that a lot believe that we are gods. (I'm not lhp just being curious)
I don't really get this because we are humans. And can't compare ourselves to these ancient forces.
I own a snake (anery corn if thats relevant) and i've got 2 sheds, both in good condition. I'm curious what they could be used for!
First of all English is not my native tongue so I'm sorry if I say anything wrong or incorrect. I will try to explain myself as much as I can.
My friend and I are spiritual people, but what I mean in that is we have been doing researchs and works in occult topics. I personally am deeply interested and active in Hermeticism, Kundalini, Esoterism and other dimensions by any means. So is she, alongside satanism, occultism and magick. We are experienced in astral dimensions and have tried various works. 'Dimensions' is a very complex title but briefly what we try to see and idk understand;
She has an issue within works in dimensions and I will explain from her saying.
''I am a person who has difficulties even when meditating. I can't carry on long chakra meditations or anything.''
''Around 2021 'shifting reality' was viral on tiktok and I wanted to try and see what the hype was about. All the way until 2023 I kept on trying but I never succeed. One night I wanted to try again so I laid on my bed listening to frequency audios needed. After a while I transited between dreams, in one of them I was in a bus with my friend. I arrived home but it was my brothers. I went to my room in his house and slept on my bed and got in my second dream. In the second dream I was in a forest. Before sleeping I watched 'Twilight (thats where I wanted to shift) and in the forest I saw Edward. He approched my hand but I fell on my back. At that moment I heard a frequency loudly in my head, almost like a ringing in my brain. I was falling into an emptiness that was pitch black. Then I saw a blue/indigo sort of cloud in front of me. The ringing increased to an unbearable point and I woke up in pain. It was like I had a stroke, I couldn't open my eyes and my heart was racing. When I opened my eyes I realized my headphones fell from my ears and I couldnt hear the sound from them. I tried to adapt to darkness and when I was able to slowly see around my room, I saw a little boy in my left. I couldnt see his face but I could see his body. I thought maybe it was an optical illusion but I was so panicked and my heart was racing so fast, I ran from my bed and opened the light right away, very scared. I ran to the bathroom. I have only experienced something like this once and in that one I woke up the same way, ringing frequency in my brain, racing heart and woke up in panic and in pain. Both times my headphones fell far away. The ringing frequency wasn't the one I initially opened.''
''At first I figured I can't do dimension works and didnt really look into it. I knew it wasnt Lucid, cause I have tried lucid several times too and never succeed. Also what happened was out of my control.''
What we want to know is, does anybody have an idea that could light us into finding what happened or whats wrong? We never found anything that could give us an answer or even lead us to one. Did anybody experienced something like this?
I’ve been using the hymns from the book Practical Planetary Magick from David Rankine as devotional hymns paired with a candle of their color. I do it every day for each planet.
Where can I find more hymns for the 7 classical planetary deities?
In addition to a candle, what else can I offer or place on the altar for each planet?
What else can I do other than light the candle and recite the hymn?
Thanks!
Hi everyone! I just got this version of the Keys of Solomon. BUT the figures are EXTREMELY SMALL. Some I can’t even read the alphabet, numbers, etc… does anyone have a list with printable size of all figures? Or at least something I can zoom in to see better? I mean, they printed these figures SO small!! Almost feel like returning the book and buying a version where I can actually read the images. The text is great, but then it says (figure 92) for example, and I have to look over to find and almost burry my face in the book to try to read.
Every so often I become interested in angels such as Eladiah. I have found some reading about them on astrology websites. Does anyone have a book recommendation or tips for working with these angels?
are they truly considered angels?
thanks and have a wonderful day!
Hi some time ago I have been tested LIRP as servitor charging, he did his Job right after one week, unexpectedly I can't find any information about somebody charging by LIRP everybody is using MiddlePillar or some other chaos magic techniques
Does anybody have any experience with charging Serwitors with LIRP Or some different methods?
Hello all first time poster here! I hope this post gets the proper attention needed, because I am pretty curious on where to find the resources for the occurrence that happens to me while I sleep. Dreaming has always been a special thing for me since childhood. I would go years apart having Alice in Wonderland repetitive dreams that would get further and further into detail every time they happened, I used to be able to lucid dream with ease, and probably even some other things I just can’t remember. Now as a 25y/o adult practicing her craft I have begun dreaming in similar fashions again. I feel like this is a very big factor to my practice that I have no experience with controlling or even labeling. There are now somewhere around 5-6 different categories of dreams I have and for the sake of your curiosities I will list as many as I can remember while making this post. Ultimately, I’m just reaching out to see if there is a like minded community out there with experiences like mine, and also see if anyone can recommend any books or practices I can utilize to improve my skills with dreamwork. Category 1: Repetitive dreams, dreams that are identical in every aspect of detail, the “Alice in Wonderland” dreams I described earlier. Category 2: “Next Episode” dreams where I’ve woken up, and I gone back to sleep immediately picking up my last dream where I left off. Category 3: False awakenings, dreams where I have a dream and wake up inside yet another dream. Category 4: Symbolic dreams, a lot of random information packed into this dream where symbology is used and is later open to my own interpretation. Category 5: Lucid dreams, self-explanatory I become aware of my dream state and and take control of what happens in the dream. Category 6: “Spirited Away” dreams where things that happen affect me in my conscious state. (ex: had a dream I got stabbed somewhere and woke up with pins and needles in that exact spot, another dream I was slammed into a wall and I woke up seizing for at least 5 seconds) Category 7: Out of body dreams, where I wake up in an unconscious state in the same location I went to sleep.
TLDR; All kinds of dreams happening to me, need some books or info on how to get in check so I can dream safely!