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My work with Planetary Pentacles

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I recently acquired two planetary pentacles, The Second Pentacle of Jupiter and The Second Pentacle of Mercury from Alison Chicosky, of Practical Occult. I acquired them because I was curious about how I could apply them to my own ongoing work with planetary magic, as well as for other purposes and so far I’ve been very pleased with the pentacles. I want to share here how I’ve applied them to my magical work, but I also recommend and vouch for Alison’s work.

When I first got these pentacles, I spent a few days just working with them. I kept them on my person during the day and put them under my pillow at night. I had vivid dreams the first couple nights, where the spirits of the pentacles came and instructed me in the basics of how to activate and work with them. During the day I’d touch them and soak in the experience, not just of the metal, but also of the planetary powers the pentacles represent.

The Second Pentacle of Mercury connects you with the planetary spirits of Mercury. It has a feeling of quickness to it, and a quirky eccentric appeal that provides odd insights and unusual perspectives, perfect for someone like me, but it also helps with communication and information gathering.

The Second Pentacle of Jupiter connects you with the planetary spirits of Jupiter. It has a feeling of expansion to it, a sense of opportunity and potential that can be explored and uncovered, if you’re willing to do the work. It’s helped me with some wealth workings and other related matters.

So how have I applied these pentacles to my own workings?

Frequency Manipulation

I’ve treated each of these pendants as dials, that I can use to either increase or decrease the amount of planetary essence being applied to a situation. The dial function also serves as a modifier, in the sense that it applies the planetary power in a way that modifies the situation through the particular lens that the pentacle channels.

Example: I’ve used the pentacle of Mercury to dial down the hostility of customers at my work, coming in hot because of the problem they’re dealing with. In this situation, Mercury has served to cushion and gentle the customer, making them cool down quick so we can focus on solving the problem. Mercury, in this context, has also helped stimulate unconventional perspectives for finding solutions to the problems being dealt with.

Example: I’ve used the pentacle of Jupiter to dial up interest in the ads I’m running on Amazon, basically acting as attractor to those ads. Since applying the pentacle for that purpose, I’ve noticed more impressions and clicks, which is useful for increasing sales. I’ve also used Jupiter to enhance an existing wealth magic working I’m using to get more leads at work.

When I use the pentacles as dials, I treat the holes as the dial indicator (see picture) below. Left is used to lower the frequency, while right is used to raise the frequency. I must add that sometimes lower frequencies are better than higher ones, so if you take my approach you’ll have to pay close attention to your desired result and think of the frequency manipulation in terms of that result. For instance, I might lower the Jupiter frequency if I’m doing a working where I don’t want expansion. By lowering the frequency I can actually mitigate or even negate a planetary influence I don’t want at the time. You can apply this approach to any magical working you’re doing where you want to either modify the planetary influences you’re working OR use them to modify a magical working you’re already doing.

Left is less, while right is more

Left is less, while right is more

Answer Generators

I’ve also used each of these pentacles as divinatory tools, around their specific realm of influence. For instance, I posed a question to the Mercury pentacle and then slept with it under my head. That night I had a vivid dream where I got the answer I needed, which allowed me to make a crucial decision around some internal work I’m currently doing. That direction was very helpful and I imagine I could do something similar with the Jupiter pentacle.

The Pentacles and the Sphere of Art

I’ve also applied these two pentacles to the planetary influences I’m workings with in the Sphere of Art, using them to further enhance and refine the alchemical essences that are part of the working. I place the pentacle beneath the respective alchemical essence it represents and what happens is that both the alchemical essence and the pentacle charge and enhance and refine each other further. It’s basically a symbiotic exchange I’ve created and I can then apply to any working I’m doing in the Sphere, but also outside of it. I plan to get other pentacles and do the same thing with them as well, but that’s down the line.

Conclusion

For the moment what I’ve shared above is what I’ve done with the pentacles. but I know I’ll continue experimenting with them, both in conjunction with other work I’m doing and in working with them as singular entities in their own right. They’ve become an invaluable part of my work. If you want more information about these pentacles or others that Alison creates please visit practical occult.

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How to design your own daily workings

One of the challenges that I notice some magicians have is committing to daily spiritual work. I get it, especially if that daily work doesn’t really do anything for you and isn’t spiritually fulfilling. I think if we do daily spiritual work and it doesn’t fulfill us in some essential way, then its worth revisiting why we’re even doing that spiritual work…and whether we should do something differently. And if you come to answer that you need to do something differently, there is no shame in coming to that answer. If anything, you are to be congratulated for being wise enough to realize that something isn’t working for you.

I think one solution to a situation where you aren’t feeling engaged with your spiritual work can be found in the choice to design your own daily work. The choice to design your own daily work allows you to take the helm and create something that has meaning to you. It may be highly personalized and it may draw on elements of previous daily practices that you’ve done, but it may also speak to you in a way that nothing else does.

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Statements and questions as magical tools

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I was watching a video recently where the person being interviewed made a rather interesting statement. He claimed that statements limit and/or close off probabilities, while questions expand probabilities. I thought about it and found myself agreeing that if you look at how language is used from a probability angle, then yes language can be used to either limit or expand probabilities. Let’s consider that angle in further detail.

A statement is typically used to declare an opinion or a fact. From a probability perspective, a statement would seem to typically limit the probabilities available because a statement is describing and defining what is being stated. What we need to understand about statements is that in doing all of that, what’s really happening is a defining on the basis of the agenda of the person making the statement. A statement is really an attempt to describe what something ought to be. And that is pretty accurate in terms of limiting the probabilities through language, because if we’re describing and defining what something ought to be, we’re also trying to rule out what it shouldn’t be.

Re-creating the world through magical workings

I’m re-reading Music Power Harmony by R.J. Stewart and one of the points he makes in the book is that a magical working is essentially about re-creating the world. It’s a profound observation, because what it recognizes is that a magical working is designed to take us out of the everyday world and then provide us a way to re-create that world with the desired result we want to manifest.

Of course there’s more to it than just that…

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A pop culture magic pathworking with stranger things

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In this video I'm doing a pop culture pathworking with stranger things. I'll share how I've set up the pathworking and then we'll actually do it. Feel free to join along

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The power of the imagination in magic

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I’m currently re-reading The Way We Think, which explores conceptual blending and how we are able visualize and do other amazing things with our mind that are much harder to replicate with computers. The reason is that a while a computer can do rational analysis, what it can’t easily do is imagine. The power of the imagination allows us to experience the world from a multitude of perspectives and find novel solutions to problems that fall outside of rational analysis.

I’ve always treated imagination as a sacred aspect of myself. While there’s a tendency in Western culture to treat imagination as something restricted to children or being childlike, I think we lose out when we don’t use our imagination. The imagination is the gateway to the possible of the universe, the means by which we can entertain what might be instead of just sticking with what is.

In my work with space/time magic, I’ve utilized imagination as a tool for the forecasting of timeline possibilities, wherein you essentially access a possible future and live it through your meditation. It’s a useful way of getting a sense of probable outcomes without committing to that future and it’s enabled me to also project potential consequences for achieving the result of realizing that future.

Another way I’ve used imagination with space/time magic is to create a mansion of identity/memory, where I’ve created multiple versions of myself, each version focused on a specific topic of interest I want to learn about. I can interact with each version and get information from them on a subject, but they are also actively acquiring additional experiences and information and then processing it so that I can draw upon what’s been learned quickly and efficiently. Imagination allows them to model what they learn and work with it to come up with solutions to problems I’m trying to solve. By applying my imagination to the problem and allowing the appropriate versions of myself to have at the problem (whatever it is) I can come up with a solution that resolves the problem.

Imagination has played a role in every magical technique I’ve developed, because I ask myself what if, and then use my imagination to help me map out the reality of that what if wonderment and turn it into something that can be applied practically to the world. You can do the same thing: Take an existing problem and ask yourself what if…what if I could solve this with whatever I wanted to solve it with. Then let your imagination entertain that possibility and chart a path forward for you to discover the answer.

We use imagination to meditate, to do pathworkings, to connect with the sacred and merge it with the profane. Every act of magic is an act of imagination that allows us to turn the possible into reality. When you recognize what a role imagination can play in your magical workings, it helps you see how it opens us to the hidden world. It’s imagination that allows us to connect with the spirit world and the spirits, because imagination is a state of being that touches the essence of all beings that can imagine and wonder. We channel that imagination, through stories, but we can also channel it through our capacity to imagine possibilities and turn them into reality.

I’d invite you to consider imagination as another part of your magical tool set. What can a sense of wonder and imagination teach you about magic, life, and whatever else you apply it to? You may be pleasantly surprised by what you discover.

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How to take apart wards and protective magic

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The other day someone asked a question about how to take down wards and protective magic, especially in a situation where you aren’t physically at the location where said wards and protective magic are applied to. It’s an interesting question that got me recalling my early days in practicing magic, because one of the first things I started experimenting with was protective magic and how to take it apart and also how to improve it, so I thought I’d write this post from the dual perspective of how take apart protective magic, but also how to improve your wards and protective magic.

The first thing to note is that any protective working or ward will likely have a weakness. You just have to be very patient and find where that weakness is and what it is. Once you find that you can unravel it quickly. Likewise if you create a working, you should test it thoroughly and try to figure out what the weakness might be and make adjustments accordingly.

Whether you’re creating a ward or protective magic work or taking it down it’s useful to consider the following factors:

Is there a physical embodiment of the working?

Is the working once and then done or is it done everyday?

Is it a singular working or are there multiple protective workings?

Is the protective working setup with countermeasures in case someone is trying to mess with them?

Are there any other vectors or means of getting past the protective working?

Each of the questions are worth exploring because of how they can shape your approach to either creating better protective measures or breaking through said barriers, so let’s consider each of them in depth.

Is there a physical embodiment of the protection/ward? If there is, this can be a weakness that can be exploited, provided you can find it. Breaking the physical embodiment serves to either weaken the working or destroying it altogether depending on how the working has been setup.

On the other hand if you’re using a physical embodiment, I recommend making multiple copies and putting them into places that aren’t easy to reach. You might even put specific protections and counter measures around them, as a way of deterring people messing with them.

Is the working once and then done or is it done everyday? A working that’s done once is something which can easily be undone, because it isn’t being reinforced. A protective working or ward that’s set up each day, on the other hand is constantly being reinforced and the person doing the work will be sensitive to any variances they detect. Plus if you’re trying to undo something, they’ll catch onto it when they redo the working and may even sense it as you’re doing it because of the fact that they devote a significant amount of time to redoing the workings.

Is it a singular working or are there multiple protective workings? If there’s one protective working setup, its much easier to get through, because you just have the one and once you can find its weakness, you can take it apart. But if there are multiple workings, it can take longer and if they’re layered just right the weakness of one will be covered by the strengths of the other protection magic, making it hard to break any one of them.

Is the protective working setup with countermeasures in case someone is trying to mess with them? If the protective workings are set up with counter measures, those counter measure will be deployed when you try to take the protective workings apart. Counter measures are developed when a person has thoroughly tested out their own defenses and knows where the weaknesses or simply wants to have counter measures on hand, just in case. Usually counter measures are offensive, but set up as a tit for tat kind of mechanism. You break a ward or protection and this happens in response. In such a case you’ll want to take a measured and cautious approach.

Are there any other vectors or means of getting past the protective working? Sometimes the limitations of a working can best be discovered by what the working won’t protect against. If you can find a way to bypass the protection by using its limits against it, then that can be a way to get around the protection. For example, instead of attacking a protection working head on, why not find a way to implant your attack from within the protection. I once had someone try that very tactic with me by sending me a “gift.” It initially worked, but I became suspicious and realized that the gift was anything but. I purified it and then got rid of it and learned my lesson: look for the indirect attack as well as the direct attack.

I haven’t written this post to encourage you to go around messing with other people’s protection workings, but rather to get you to think about your own protective magic workings and also to recognize the thought process that can go into breaking into a protective magic working. Understanding that thought process can help you get creative with your own protective magics, and on occasion can also help you deal with situations where you need to take action.

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An example of a long running magical working and how its shaping my life

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I wanted to share an example of a long running magical working I’m doing and how its shaping my life. I think its a good example that illustrates the value of long term workings and shows how they can proactively enhance and improve your life.

The working is the Sphere of Art, which I first learned about a few years ago, from R. J. Stewart. I began working with the Sphere actively when I started memorizing the chants in the fall of 2017. I chose to memorize the chants because I felt it would help me integrate the sphere into my memory, and consequently embody it. This is also the practice recommended by R.J. Memorizing the chants also served to introduce me to the archangels associated with each chant. This allowed me to get to know them further and paved the way for the actual work of the sphere. When you memorize the chants you condition your mind, body, and spirit to become open to the sphere and how it will interact with you.