This post was originally published a year ago, but as a secret post for a small group of people doing a private ritual. I was thinking recently about how our society lacks cultural spaces and traditions for descending into the primeival, and how disconnected with nature we all have become. So I’m re-posting and deleting all the private information in order to put another crack in the wall of Civilization. If someone actually does a ritual in the woods based on this post, then I did something right. This an orgiastic Night of Pan ritual, with dancing to rattles and
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A Samhain Sabbat
A Basic Framework for a Samhain Sabbat The purpose of this post is to provide a basic framework for someone to be able to do a Samhain rite. Since this is providing guidelines, you will have to fill in a few blanks and incorporate whatever learning you’ve accrued over the years. The post ends with a few authors to check out. Technically Samhain is November 1st. You could also perform a Samhain rite on the astrological Samhain, when the sun reaches 15 degrees Scorpio (this is November 6th for 2015). Prepare an altar with your magical tools and fetishes
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The Supreme Arcanum
In preparation for Okult Sunday, which is a Seattle club night for Resurrection Sundays at the Baltic Room, there is a semi-private ritual performed before the night. For the theme of tarot and the October 5th night called The Supreme Arcanum, I decided to do a ritual that I use prior to “significant readings” wherein I invoke Thoth, construct a tarot mandala per Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Way of Tarot, and then do the reading from the center of this mandala. I recorded it on video for documentary purposes and also for self-promotion (one of my vocations is tarot reader, –
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