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Planetary Magic of Saturn

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To drive a target mad so they self destruct.

For this you will need

The 6th Pentacle of Saturn – To be obsessed by demons x2

Saturn, Devil and Domination oil
Saturn, Devil, and Domination Incense
Saturn, Devil and Domination bath crystals
Saturn, Devil and Domination powders

Black Devil candle
A picture of the target and any other personal magical links you can acquire.
A black pen
A length of black string
A length of brass chain
A small sturdy padlock
Knotweed herb
Chicory root
Vandal root
A flat topped black box or small black coffin shaped box
A small metal dish

Mix together the oils, incense, crystals, and powders.
On the day and hour of Saturn at night, Take your black box and anoint the inside with the oil, and then add a pinch of the powder mixture inside and a pinch of knotweed, chicory root, and valerian root.. Place one of your 6th Pentacles inside the box.

Take the picture of the target, write their name 9 times on the back of the picture. Turn it and write over it “Set thou a wicked one to be ruler over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand” Repeat this until the names are covered. Take any other personal magical links, and add a small pinch of the powder blend, and a small pinch of knotweed, chicory and vandal root. Fold it up, and then tie it with the black string. Wrap the string 9 times around it one way, then 9 times around it in the opposite direction, making a cross shape. Then wrap it in the brass chain securely. Wrap the chain so you can make the end pieces meet and padlock them together. As you tying and chaining the packet say and repeat often:
“Saturn, Exalted lord, Bind (their name) to their evil ways, until they destroy themselves.

Light the incense and smoke the packet in the incense mixture. As you smoke the packet say:
“Saturn, Exalted Lord, Miserable and tormented is the person who is made unfortunate by you.Dominate the mind of (name) that they can only see and seek out misery, suffering and torment.”

Set the packet into the black box. Close the box. I recommend gluing it shut either with gorilla glue or crazy glue, or nailing the box shut with nine nails.

Put the 2nd 6th pentacle on top of the box. Place the metal dish on top of the 6th pentacle.

Take the Black Devil candle, and anoint it with the oil mixture. Set that securely on to the metal dish. Light the candle and say “Set a wicked one to rule over (NAME) and let Satan stand at (Name)’s right hand. 

Let the candle burn down until it goes out.

While the candle is burning, mix the bath crystals in some water, and put that into a bottle and set it aside.

You can choose to do this final part on another Saturday, but you should be able to finish it and have it be the final hour of Saturn on a Saturday, which happens around 3 am. Take the box and the bottle of prepared waters and go to an abandoned place, empty wilderness, an abandoned house, a lonely crossroads on a dirt road, or a graveyard or cemetery. In that place find or dig a hole to place the box and hide it in the ground. After you have placed it, sprinkle the waters on the place and around it until all the water is used up, and as you do so, say:
“Let them be confounded that persecute me, let them be dismayed,  bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction, (Jeremiah 17:18) Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.” (Psalm 55:15)

Leave the place and don’t look back. 

Black Salt

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Black salt is a mixed preparation of salt and a few choice items that turn that salt from its usual white color to a black color. You can Google recipes for it, and there are also people who manufacture it, usually by somehow adding a pigment to the salt that turns it black. Some other names for Black salt is also Sal Negro (Spanish for Black salt) and Witches’ Salt. In this case the witches being referred to are not the contemporary followers of a neopagan religion, but rather the historical and folkloric “witch” a figure, sometimes supernatural in nature, who use supernatural powers to do harm to people and places in various ways.

As the names suggest, the primary use and purpose of black salt is to curse or perform harmful magic. A common secondary purpose is used to drive away people from your home. This is also a form of a curse, although a curse done to protect oneself and property from the person who is already causing harm. It is similar to hot foot powder in that sense, as hot footing someone is also a type of curse meant to drive someone away, whether that person is vexing neighbor, a bothersome coworker, or a conniving love rival. Ultimately both are curses, are not in anyway beneficial, benevolent, or really kind acts to be engaging in, however necessary they may be for one’s personal health, wealth and well being. Remember that the color most often used for cursing is Black. And the historical and folkloric image of witch (whose salt this is) is a supernatural agent of harm and evil. Black salt is used to curse, and sometimes that curse is used to drive away other evil beings, but the essence behind it is cursing and doing harm.

There seems to be a new fad of promoting black salt as something not as bad. I have read online various indications of use black salt for protection, by laying a circle of black salt around your home. This is a technique one might do with regular salt, as salt is protective, and purifying. Black salt, however, is the opposite of that. Laying a circle of black salt around your home would probably only curse you and start ruining any peace or prosperity in your home, instead of protecting you from harm.

Elsewhere I have read suggestions to use black salt with the dead and with ancestors. That concept is also ignorant usage of black salt. For one, a great number of methods and styles of venerating ones ancestors and conjuring up the dead indicate not to use salt. This applies to any kind of salt, not just regular salt. While the various metaphysical explanations behind this are multitude, it still comes down to one thing. Don’t do it. The ancestors and the dead don’t like salt. For the few methods that do use salt, one should keep in mind that it is unique to that culture and tradition, and the salt they use is going to be regular salt, not black salt.

I have also read suggestions of using black salt with gods, usually gods of war, death, the underworld. Again, I find this to be incorrect, although there could be an exception. The exception would be calling upon that specific god to bless the black salt, before you go out and use it to drive away evil or to curse. That is not the same as using blacks salt in devotion and veneration of the god or gods in mind

It is possible that in your personal work, you might find a spirit that wants to have black salt in it’s presence. If that is the case, then do so, but remember that it is unique to you, and unique to your practice, and in no way reflects traditional uses and folklore behind black salt and if you do write about it, you should make that clear to your readers.

I have even read people suggesting to bathe in black salt, although I suspect this might be a recommendation for a special kind of salt that is mined from the ground, which has a dark gray to black color to it. That would function as normal salt, not as the special mixture known as “black salt” which is salt mixed with things

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.