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Planetary Magic of Jupiter

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For gaining visions for wisdom and good fortune through Jupiter

5th Pentacle of Jupiter for gaining Visions
A blue candle
Star anise, whole and ground.
A small bowl.
Jupiter incense
Psychic Vision Incense
Aunt Sally’s Lucky Dream Incense

Jupiter oil
Psychic Vision oil
Aunt Sally’s Lucky Dream oil

Jupiter bath crystals
Psychic Vision bath crystals
Aunt Sally’s Lucky Dream bath crystals.

Mix together all the oils, incense and bath crystals to make one mixture of each.

During the Hour of Jupiter, on any day, draw a bath, add the bath crystals mixture and enter into the bath. As you bathe, pray Psalm 139.

Psalm 139
1O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts afar off.
3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Get out of the bath, and you can let the water drain away.
Put on clean, fresh clothes, and I recommend using white, or light blue clothing.

Take the blue candle, and anoint it with the mixture of oils, and set it into a candle holder.
Light a charcoal, and put some of the incense and a pinch of the ground star anise on the charcoal.
Take the 5th pentacle of Jupiter, and smoke it in the incense smoke. As you let the smoke rise up around the pentacle, say
“Jupiter, blessed lord, bring me wisdom and guidance through visions and dreams. Exalt my mind, as yours is exalted, and fill me with your noble and wise nature.”

Then take the pentacle, and set it under the candle holder. Light the candle and then say the following:

“Jupiter, Blessed Lord, Wise, Noble, Equitable in your works, Affable, beautiful, truthful. Exalted of mind, and you delight in good works and good deeds. By your noble and precious spirit, and the power and good you possess bring to me visions and dreams that guide me to goodness, prosperity, joy, health, happiness, peace, wisdom, purification, and illumination. By your names Mishtari, Zeus, Hormuz, DevGuru Brihaspati. As this light shines, so let your light shine and illuminate my mind and soul to receive visions of dreams to guide me to all good things. “

Let the candle burn. Have the whole star anise in a small bowl, and bring that up to your nose to smell the fragrance of the star anise to aid in inspiring fortunate visions and dreams.

If you do this ritual at night, you can snuff the candle, and take the bowl of star anise, and have it by your bed. Smell the star anise before closing your eyes to sleep.

Optional: making a tea with the star anise. Drink the tea before or after the ritual.

If you are doing this during the day you can sit and meditate and open your mind to visions and intuitive flashes that will direct you on how to bring more good into your life.

At night, you can smell the star anise or drink the tea, and then go to bed, and let dreams inspire and guide you, to bring all these good virtues into your life.

Weal and Woe

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A while ago I picked a book about Afro-cuban divination, a system called the diloggun. A neighbor of mine is a practitioner of Santeria and after having witnessed him conduct a reading, and spending time with him I became curious about the whole process and methods. It is a wonderfully simple and yet complex system. Simple because the actual physical process is not that complicated, complex because of the depth with which the diloggun can read, Unlike the average tarot card reading and methods that seem to be based upon that, where the card and the layout is the beginning and the end, the diloggun start with determining a number, and then a number that follows that, and then determining whether that number comes with ire (blessings) or osogbo (misfortune). Following that determination is then where the blessings or misfortune comes from, and how it can be further strengthened (ire) or how it can be lessened or avoided (osogbo). It was the concepts of ire and osogbo that appealed to me strongly, as something that seems to be missing or forgotten in most contemporary divination. Even a lot of contemporary books on modern divination usually tend to put a helpful or positive spin on things that are unpleasant, undesirable or just plain bad or harmful. This seems like a grave disservice to me, but it often seems hard to determine whether the reading being given is really coming with good or with evil. Often times it seems like the default way of doing this with Tarot and systems like it is to interpret all reversed cards as being in some way negative. I have found through personal experience, that this is not the case in the majority of situations..

In working with the runes, I began to ask if the reading or individual runes within the reading are coming with weal (blessings, fortune, benevolence) or woe ( hexes, misfortune, malevolence). The basic method I use for this is to pull another rune and see if that come out upright or reversed, without considering the meaning of the rune itself, at least in most cases. This was fairly accurate, giving an indication of when the action of influence of a rune or reading. The only difficult part was in dealing with runes which do not reverse. There are 13 runes in the Anglo-Saxon/Northumbrian Futhorc that appear the same when you turn them 180 degrees. I found the answer in understanding the nature of these runes, their essence is one that is fixed. Some of these runes will always indicate weal, others will always indicate woe, and a few are also variable, requiring further opening up, but indicating the workings of fate are sealing this and that it may not necessarily be easily changed or come about in a familiar way.

One of things that I have come to understand better from using this process is that just because a rune is reversed, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is a bad or unfortunate thing. While often in books on runes the reversed form is called the myrkstave, and giving indications of negative or unwanted influences. I don’t necessarily agree with that any more. A reversed rune in a reading with weal is that influence is more in their absence. In a reading with woe, the things indicated may not come (if they are desired) or is better avoided. Tiewaz reversed with woe gives a good indication of avoiding any kind of legal problems, government or law enforcement, so buckle your seat belt, don’t forget any documents you might need and don’t sass the bureaucrat behind the desk. Feoh reversed with weal often seems to be an indication when other people are spending their wealth on you, without you spending any money, and just enjoying the pleasure of their company. The normal upright meanings become better applied through this process as well. Thurisaz with weal might be an indicator that some direct and unpleasant action is called for fortune to smile upon. Berkana with woe is an indicator that you should not expect any healing or nurturing during that time period, and possibly to be suspicious of people who do seem over eager to be that way. You might also want to be careful in all dealings with women, and possibly avoid their company as well. The interplay of weal and woe within the meanings offered by the runes opens up greatly and can help the reading deliver it’s message more certainty.

It seems appropriate in using the runes to see how the changes of weal and woe, the fluctuations of luck, a concept that was important to the Northern European cosmology and it’s interaction with fated occurrence, but the fortune or misfortune that may occur inbetween. It seems to be a concept that carries to this day, in showing how an unfortune situation can be the journey to great fortune, while seeming fortune can bring only loss and bad luck in the end.