#angelolator

רְפָאֵל Rəfāʾēl

Name Meaning: "God Heals" or "Healer of God."

Domains: Travelers; lovers; the youth; finding one's spouse; marriage; mental health; healing; guardian angels; shepherds; pharmacists; nurses; physicians; illness; eye afflictions; the sick; the blind; against nightmares; banishing; exorcisms

Direction: East

Element: Air

Color: Often Yellow or Emerald Green.

Planet: Mercury

Season: Spring

O Raphael, lead us towards those we are waiting for, those who are waiting for us! Raphael, Angel of Happy Meetings, lead us by the hand towards those we are looking for! May all our movements, all their movements, be guided by your Light and transfigured by your Joy. "

© ᴀᴇᴛʜᴇʀ-ɴᴇʀᴇɨɖɛ. ᴀʟʟ ʀɪɢʜᴛֆ ʀᴇֆᴇʀᴠᴇᴅ.

Welcome to the first of (hopefully many to come) my series which I’ve dubbed: Just my perspective! Jmp for short! I hope for this to be a compilation of just some thoughts I have as a growing occultist/demonolator. These are simply my perspectives on some things I see within the occult community, and are totally up for discussion if you’d like! My perspective should never be taken as an absolute truth, and whether you agree and disagree, please continue to keep an open mind as you read on! Thanks! 

I like to keep myself active on a number of sites related to demonolatry, especially sites where other practitioners can leave their input. I’ll be honest, next to witchtok being perhaps the most toxic platform in regards to learning witchcraft, the social media app: Amino, might as well be a close second. However, I am not here to critique the platform as a whole, but rather my experiences with other ‘demonolator’s’ there. As it is a platform for chatting, you’re bound to talk to a number of rotten apples and practitioner’s who genuinely make me question if they have taken the time to properly understand Demonolatry and Demonology before delving straight into the practice. I think one of the reason’s I despise a lot of the demonolator’s on there is the lack of seriousness and genuine priority they have for their craft. A majority of them are quick to anger, and are all for this concept of embracing the darkness, so far as to reject anything that is remotely considered as ‘light’. In my personal opinion, you cannot hurt without learning to heal, the saying also applies to you cannot understand darkness without understanding light. Switch it to positive and negative energy if that helps you understand it better. 

A number of ‘demonolator’s’, which I will choose to bracket simply because it would feel wrong to group these people (who are clearly under-researched and immature) to the legitimate demonolator’s out there who devote a lot of time into understanding demonolatry. The term legitimate is also hypocritical on my end, everyone’s paths are different, and I understand that. However even other demonolator’s on paths very different than mine devote so much time into their practice and have such a genuine pure love towards what they do. 

Getting to the point itself, I work with Archangels, and have had a number of experiences with a few of them. Perhaps in the beginning there was some fear, but as time continued, I have learned to respect and to love them the same way I adore the demonic. I will not be critiquing any hate towards all of the angels in general, as I have no experience with any of them but the archangels. I would notice oftentimes whenever I would bring it up in this chatroom of ‘demonolator’s’, this herd of users would suddenly uproar as if I had personally discriminated against them or something of the like. They would yell blasphemous things about how they didn’t like any angels, how they would never work with one, how they essentially denied the angelic existence and adored the demonic. Don’t get me wrong, I also love the demonic, but I don’t see working with the archangels as a betrayal of my path unless I were to do a 180 and become an Enochian witch full time. These ‘demonolator’s’ acted so disgusted by my mentioning of the archangels. A definite reason for this could be just religious trauma, after all, if we were to bring up our workings with a conservative Christian, or even some toxic new aged spiritualists, we might be met with a similar response. But I don’t think that’s an excuse to treat another person’s craft like that. I get it if you don’t like them that much, but it isn’t that nice to completely degrade them without acknowledging that a fair amount of demonolator’s eventually work with the angelic. For what reason? Balance. I think me being able to learn beside the archangels has helped me develop even further as a practitioner because it gave me the experience to understand them and how working with them can also be a very powerful and liberating experience. But that may be also for the fact that I know I don’t work with their Christian/Abrahamic perspective. I work happily with the masks of them that are far from an Abrahamic faith. 

I think in a way, this hatred towards the angels also comes from this inability to deal with anything Abrahamic. On those social media platforms, it seems that every time someone makes an educative post on the demonic from an Abrahamic perspective (which actually reading that post, didn’t really say anything to offend demonolators), this herd of ‘demonolator’s’, and it’s always the same people, go to attack and ostracize the post. This makes me a bit upset, because I understand being mean to Christian’s who have initiated that hatred against us, but for Christian practitioners genuinely trying to understand our perspective and sharing theirs, we shouldn’t instantly think to attack them. Rather, we should try to understand them rather than recklessly yelling insults at them. I always like to say this, but to understand demonology, understanding abrahamic faiths is also a requirement. You cannot attempt to learn demonolatry whilst ignoring its abrahamic roots. People who are still in the phase of being unaccepting of Abrahamic faiths, Angelolators, and Enochian Witches clearly have just as much growth to accomplish as those that would torment our practices. And, like I said, it’s very likely a lot of this stems from unresolved religious trauma. But seriously, I do wish more ‘demonolator’s’ would think through their words before pasting them. I love the Archangels I work with perhaps just as much as the Demons I work with, and I hold absolutely no shame in that. And I don’t think I or anyone else who works with Archangels deserves to be shamed for that. 

אוּרִיאֵל Ūrīʾēl

Meaning: “God is my light” or “Light/Fire of God”

Domains: Wisdom; Knowledge; Prophecy; Discernment; Fire; Action; Earthly; Environmental Healing

Color: Ruby red, burnished gold, olive green

Season: Autumn

Element: Earth

Planet: Uranus (modern) or Mercury (classical)

Direction: North (primary) East (secondary)

O Uriel, By your fire of wisdom, illuminate my mind and dissolve all confusion. By your gift of prophecy, show me the truth behind this situation and grant me clear discernment. Spark my creative fire so I may find practical solutions and manifest them in the world. Ground all insight I receive into steady, actionable steps.

© ᴀᴇᴛʜᴇʀ-ɴᴇʀᴇɨɖɛ. ᴀʟʟ ʀɪɢʜᴛֆ ʀᴇֆᴇʀᴠᴇᴅ.

My name is Chani ⛥ 21 ᐞ 🜬 ⛥ patrons are Ἶσις καί Διόνυσος. Devotee of Archangel Uriel & Raphael. Greco-Kemetic 🧿

List of spirits I have made posts for:

Isis (Auset), Uriel, Hera (Juno), Raphael, Freya & Frigg , Hermes (Mercury), Dionysus p.1 , Dionysus p.2, Dionysus p.3 , St. Cyprian , Vesta (Hestia) p.1 , Vesta (Hestia) p.2, Apollo, Persephone (Proserpina), (St.) Brigid, Hekate (Hecate), Athena & Artemis, Paimon

other posts:

Olympic spirit(s), Orphic Hymns (Planets), Planets 101, The Navagrahas

𝑇𝑎𝑔𝑠:

𖤝 - info on magick

✶ - Dionysus

𓋾 - aa raphael/uriel

✯- Isis

𖦹 - abrahamic

𖤓 - original posts

𖤐 - other tumblr posts

☥ - history; sciences

𖤍 - art; aesthetics

𖥸 - misc experiences (upg/spg)

𝐷𝑁𝐼: 𝑇𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑠, 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑠, 𝑅𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠, 𝐴𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠, 𝐵𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒.

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© ᴀᴇᴛʜᴇʀ-ɴᴇʀᴇɨɖɛ. ᴀʟʟ ʀɪɢʜᴛֆ ʀᴇֆᴇʀᴠᴇᴅ.

Beginning of this month, I was at my all-time low religiously. I get about 3 messages a day by those who are disgusted by my Wiccan faith, or are finding it to be their duty to police my beliefs of angelolatry. I never respond to these posts and they are deleted, but I still read them. Finally March 2nd I took down my altars and shrines, and wrote two posts on my crisis. One is still up, but the other has since been taken down.

On March 5th, I sat down with my Revelations deck when my dad wasn't home, and I pleaded for answers. I was scared that those people were correct, that my beliefs were wrong, ignorant and 'damaging'. I was anxious that the path I was following was a false one, that my interpretation of the angels was wrong (and thus my experiences with them were false/hallucinations/interpreted wrong). I was having a mental breakdown. I use the term 'smudging', and a lot of other Native American practices. Why? I am Native American. I am as white as snow, but I have native american blood. My mom and her father's side are all native american, and every year we (used) to go up to their festivals in the Summer. (Until I was about 10. We stopped doing it because my mom's step father attempted to sexually assault me). Now that I am eighteen, I could apply to have a native american status as Metis, but I've been holding back.

The answers couldn't have come clearer for me. The cards showed their images, and voices and sounds rushed through my mind. The first card I chose was for the question, 'Dionysus, I don't know what I am doing. I don't know how you are a good fit for me. Everything you are for, I am either indifferent to, not a part of, or against. I want to see alcohol criminalized. I hate drugs and smoking (I see the benefits of marijuana, but it's stupid to smoke it because you will risk developing cancers due to the smoke. Take it dry/orally please.... Also it's just not a pleasant smoke smell). I am a sex-repulsed asexual, so I am not too fond of the stories about your sexual adventures. Can you tell me why I feel called to you, despite all of this?"

And the card I got, depicted the figure pouring wine out of a cup and onto the ground, his face turned towards the light coming from the corner of the card. Dionysus filled me, and I could sense every word. I remember it vividly.

"Sex and drugs are not the sole of my domain. I am the craziness of life, the uncontrolled chaos of dance and singing and unmatchable creativity and expression. You have much to learn from me. You are correct in your thinking that sex is not the fund of the world, but you must take into consideration the creative potential it carries. You do not have to partake in my festival of the body, but you must become aware of its purpose, of why people are so excited to buy their tickets.

You still have a lot of acceptance to learn, just as every other person on the planet. Not just acceptance for others, but for yourself as well."

I pulled my second card. This one was to Persephone, so that she could explain why I felt drawn to her, and what she had to teach me.

The card depicts a figure with light filling their chest, hands held out and balanced.

"You have so much spiritual potential inside of you, child. You are new to this fold, to this Universe of Life and everything held within it. You are scared, I am well aware... This is natural. Every new spirit has felt the way you have, and it comes to pass, I guarantee you. I am with you to guide your heart and spirit on an emotional journey. You will learn the language of the spirits and all of energies, and you will come to quell the anxiety that blooms within."

I pulled a final card for the Archangels then. I didn't care who spoke to me then. It could be Uriel, it could be Raphael, or Cassiel... I just wanted a clear sign that they existed, and what I was doing wasn't wrong.

And I get the card that has the most beautiful angelic figure. Wings sprout from their back, and a swirl of color takes of everything.

They all talked at once. They all spoke within me so much, I was overwhelmed with this affirmation. "You are not quite there, but you are close." was one phrase I heard. "There is more, so much more." "We are here." "(My Name)," And it just repeated.

Yeah, I cried. I cried deeply. My altars and shrines were put back up the next day, and I splurged on offerings to all of them, as an apology for not believing.