Fails from yesterday

1) Don't send your apprentice to do the shopping for you, you won't end up with what you wanted

2) Make sure before you start with magnetising process that your subject doesn't, in fact, has a rubber shoes that isolates energy, not grounded subject in somnambulic phase will have similar qualities as grounded one but after adding energy a numbness in limbs and muscles similar to apoplexy will manifest.

In such case don't panic and ground the subject, then wake it up.

Necromancy

Today I wanted to cheer up my gf so I promised her that I will summon a ghost of her dad that died a tragic death few years ago.

We got to the point of his face appearing in the glass, but I couldn't proceed anymore.

I am not entirely sure if problem was in using glass instead of crystal glass, the fact that I felt very tired before the conjuration or the storm that is currently approaching, speaking of that this might not be the best time for such operation...

Well, there is a lot of things to improve on this one, first of all I have to buy crystal glass, somewhere :-/.

I should improve my magnetic abilities, as well, from now on I will practice telepathy every day.

Design change

Sorry for the change guys, if you don't like it, post it in comments' section and I will change it again :).

Out of mana

Last few days I feel really tired, it might be caused by the shield I am casting around my bedroom before sleep or the fact that I work with magnetic fluids much more frequently.

On the side note: My animal magnetism became stronger and thanks to that putting people into lethargy is easier now.

Magician as a psychopomp?

From definition, psychopomp is a guide of souls.

Recently I was introduced to another person in very unpleasant way, my friend that introduced us revealed that I am a Magician. This is not very nice introduction when you consider that it's more or less a private thing.

Well, so I slowly got out of that label of weirdo and we started talking a bit more specifically about occult. It turned out that this guy had a lot of experience with Aura seeing, energy manipulation and had quite interesting philosophy.

I have noticed that when people find out about my hobby they slowly starts remembering their past experiences with paranormal phenomena which they forgot due to dogma of modern society.

Maybe one of Magician's task is to lead these people through dogma and help them recall and understand mysteries they witnessed?

My current apprentice was an open minded skeptic, during our talks he has recalled many events from childhood he couldn't understand and in the end he experienced a very strong event during our sessions that made him to be a 100% believer and although his Ego was still trying to cover the fact and conceive him that there still was a logical explanation, it ran out of arguments.

Recent updates

Telepathy experiments:

• During weekend:
• Girlfriend suggested to make a coffee
• Apprentice forced 3 times to select a specific card from a spread while having closed eyes

• During Monday:
• One person suggested to turn around and one to get out of my way.

Success: 100%

Recent theological discussion at: http://forums.vsociety.net/index.php/topic,20438.0.html

Telepathy Monday

Data from yesterday:

• 3 people forced to turn back, accuracy: 100%
• Group of people forced to get out of my way before they could notice me, accuracy 100%
• 1 person forced to slip over, this test failed, accuracy: 0%. I guess there were no good conditions for slipping, anyway.

Wandering spirit

Reason for this post
I have found out that one of the search keywords to find this blog was "a wandering spirit" so I thought I could make a small explanation about this topic

What is a wandering spirit
I have already stated that when spirit inhabits the body a soul is created as a connection link between body and spirit.

When body dies, spirit separates to reincarnate again and soul remains on this world till it gets dissolved back into Akasha.

Duration of the soul without spirit depends a lot on its links. Souls linked to certain buildings or people will remain a lot longer than souls without bonds.

Sometimes this soul becomes a wandering spirit. This usually happens when the death was tragic and plan for the current life wasn't finished. Soul subconsciously seeks a source of food to prolong its existence and finish its plan.

Spiritual vampirism
Soul needs a spiritual energy if it wants to prolong its existence. This spiritual energy can be obtained from vitality of living beings. Such wandering soul attaches to such living being and starts draining its own vital energy. Wandering spirit transforms into spiritual vampire and here we talk about the most common form of possession.

Basics of exorcism
Most simple way of exorcism is to pierce a demonic entity with exorcistic dagger.
Exorcistic dagger has two main aspects:

1. steel blade
2. handle made from isolated material (eg wood) 

Problem with wandering spirits is they are not outside a possessed body. They are good in hiding so they might seem to appear and leave, but in fact they are with the body the whole time so harming this entity would mean harming its physical vessel, too.

For that reason the wandering spirit has to either be forced out of the body, first. Or a scrying stone will be used to astrally connect directly to this spirit and attack is then unleashed directly on this projection. This usually results in cracks on the scrying stone.

Key aspects of the possessing spirit

First of all, possessed person will show a significant change in its behavior and this change will seem to be persistent. Possessed person can also show a natural offensive behavior against the exorcist even when this person doesn't know about exorcist's true nature.

Possessing spirit itself is usually perceived by clairvoyant eyes as a black smoke (or a plastic shadow). If you manage to see its eyes, eyes will usually have a color of corresponding element. So a possessing spirit feeding on anger and causing anger to manifest in possessed person will have red eyes according to the fire element. Greedy spirit's eyes will be green as earth, emotional or depressive spirit will have blue eyes, plain thinking and careless spirits will have eye of the Air element's color, which is yellow.

This depends a lot on the individual perception of the exorcist. If exorcist managed to add elementalism into his works then these colors will be as depicted in the above example.

How to get the wandering spirit out of possessed body

For this purpose we will need a direct contact with possessed individual. He will have to be with us in our Magick circle. This also means that when wandering spirit separates from the victim, it will try to attach to another source of food, which is the exorcist, keep that in mind.

Exorcistic procedure:

1. Exorcist starts with prayer and banishing
2. Circle is cast around exorcist and exorcised person to set a protection from external influence and also as a bound of a wandering spirit
3. God names are invoked to attain spiritual authority
4. Exorcist burns an incense and places its right hand on possessed person's forehead and starts with litanies and psalms to get the spirit out
5. Spiritual vampire will be either thrown to the circle out of the possessed body or to the certain item prepared in advance. This item should be made of steel preferably as a box or chest and placed on evocation triangle to force the spirit to enter this box.
6. Vampire is harmed with dagger and banished
7. Body of possessed victim is locked with another litanies so no other wandering spirit can enter this body.
8. Final banishing and opening of the circle
9. Final prayer for purifying body of exorcist.

Planetary Correspondences

In Astro Magick we use days and hours associated with certain planets. Planetary influences are these:

• Sun - Logical reasoning, willpower, stamina
• Moon - Intuition, dreams, divinations, maternity
• Mars - War, protection
• Mercury - Communication, travelling
• Jupiter - Knowledge, learning, studies, intellectual properties
• Venus - Love, romance, relationships
• Saturn - Age, elders, judgement, justice, experience, discipline

Modern Magicians usually work with correspondence tables showing exactly which day and which hour is associated with certain planet and without such table they are pretty much screwed.

I will show you how to create such table on your own.

Remember planets and their days

First of all we have to associate days with planets.

• Sunday - Sun
• Monday - Moon
• Tuesday - Mars
• Wednesday - Mercury
• Thursday - Jupiter
• Friday - Venus
• Saturday - Saturn

This listing can look harsh, but in fact we already know four of these:

• Sunday and Sun, sure thing.
• Monday (Moonday), Moon :)
• Friday - do you know better day for going out to have fun?
• Saturday - Saturnday, Saturn.

Four days learned, three days missing. Wednesday is in the middle of the week and Mercury is also “in the middle”, in correspondences Mercury is taken as of “neutral gender”. Just two planets missing :).

About planets and hours

So, planets have their strongest influences on days associated with them and on their hours. First hour of the day is the planet of the day. So if we have Monday, its associated planet is Moon and Moon is also the first hour of the day.

And the next hour? Next will be Saturn.

Hard to guess? Not a chance :)

Here we have a heptagram, 7-pointed star with planetary symbols associated with points of the star. We can see that we have started with Sun (Sunday), next in week’s sequence is Moon (Moonday), we can see that Moon is not near Sun, but it is connected with Sun through line. Same applies to other planets, too. After Moon there is Mars, but Mars is not near Moon on the heptagram, but once again, connected with line.

Now, if we go clockwise around the star, we will see that after Moon there is Saturn, which is second hour on the day of Moon.

With this knowledge we can derive the full table:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

These are hours for the day. For hours for the night you simply continue in the circle so when Sun is the last hour for Monday’s day, first hour of Monday’s night will be Venus, second Mercury, etc.

What are these hours

Last thing you have to know before you start working with planetary correspondences. Day hours are counted from the sunrise till the dawn. So when Sun rises at 6AM and dawn is at 8PM, there are 14 hours that has to be distributed into 12 hours.

Meaning:

• 14 hours = 840 minutes.
• 840 divided by 12 = 70.
• So, every planetary hour will have 70 minutes in such case.

Night hours are counted from the dawn till the sunrise, so when day hour is 70 minutes, night hour will be 50.

Just remember that the strongest hour is always the first one of any particular day. So the best for working with Moon aspects/intelligences is on Monday in the first hour (during the sunrise).