Shadow evocation

What is a shadow evocation
During evocations we need some vessel for the spirit through which the spirit will manifest. It can be a smoke, black mirror, fog, water, or light. During shadow evocations you use your own shadow as the vessel for the entity to appear through.

Setup
To set up the operation you need a very dark room. Sit on the floor and put a big candle with strong flame behind your back, far enough so you won't burn yourself, it is actually not a good idea to have the candle too close, because you need to have a good sharp shadow projected on the wall in the front of you. Oh, yes, you should be facing a wall if you didn't figure this out already.
The candle should be the only lightsource in the room so there is only one sharp shadow without any disturbances.

The operation
The format of the ritual is as always, just for the incantation you are sitting on the floor and you passively observe your shadow on the wall, repeat the incantation a couple of times and then you can also sit a couple of minutes in silence before repeating again.

During the operation the shadow should start forming its own shape and "thickness", it should become plastic and start moving on its own as the spirit enters it as its vessel for manifestation.

Continue with the ritual as you are used to.

Getting lazy

Recently I became horribly lazy in using pen and paper so I am currently doing Sigils on the phone again. Let's hope it won't have so devastating effect on the phone as it had few years back.

Magickal chain

What is a Magickal chain
Magickal chain is a protection ritual. Papus called it the absolute defense. The practice itself is split into two categories: the ritual and the use of the chain.

Point of the ritual is the creation or re-assurance of the chain, usage involves calling the master of the chain to activate it.

How to create the chain
First of all you should already have some experience with the Magickal prayer, these two are closely related. Secondly you should choose a master of the chain. This can be any long diseased occult master that somehow influenced your art (e.g. Crowley, Bardon, Papus, Spare, Paracelsus, Pythagoras...)

During the ritual you call and pray to the master of the chain. Then you call for guardians of cardinal directions, elementals, spirits, demons, angels... in other words you start at the bottom of whatever hierarchy and you work your way up till you reach whatever force you are used to pray to in Magickal prayer. Entities in the chain can be called specifically or generally, for example you can call specific entities you have already worked with or just elementals generally.

After all required entities are called you then request them to become your chain and appear to protect you any time the master of the chain calls them, you then ask the master to come at your call to activate the chain.

Then you can end the ritual as usually.

Using the chain
So, the chain is already created and you get into a really bad situation and you need to activate the chain. To do so you don't need to call all the entities again, just call the master of the chain with the request to activate it and that's it.

Time by time the chain should be re-assured, for that use the same ritual you used for the creation of the ritual, it's actually a good idea to keep the ritual description and used incantations in your journal.

Rune circle

Portable rune circle.