#discernment magic

I've spent the last few months trying to be a better person for myself, a better practioner for all of you, and a better devotee to Lucifer. I tried my absolutely best, and I failed. I never wanted to fail him, or myself, or you.

I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know if some divine miracle is going to swoop in and save me. I just know, as far as I know, tonight is my last night with a bed. I need prayers, and help and hope but they are all in short supply these days. I love you all, and I'll try to keep you posted. But, with a broken phone and no wi-fi tomorrow I don't know how often that will be.

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Hey friends! Gideon (He/They) here. You may know me from my greatest hits: being godspoused to the Devil and being a Grandparent in my 30s. I read tarot, and have been for 20+ years, which is in fact longer than some of you have been alive. Experiencing time linearly is a Trip! Lucifer gave me the title of "Luciferian Oracle" so I can add that to my resume 😏

I now have membership options with monthly readings and discord server access where I do communal readings with Lucifer, Belial, Mars, and Ba'alzebub. We also have event readings on Sundays where more guests join us. I even post daily deals for discounted readings! All members also get a 15% shop discount. It starts at $2 a month! Head over to my membership page to join.

You can coordinate getting a tarot reading with me through Tumblr, Discord, Instagram, or regular ol' email. Readings are done in messenger on discord or Ko-fi, where we talk about the themes you want adresses and any questions you have. They are live readings so you can ask questions and give feedback in real time.

I have one reading type where I will contact any spirit of your choice with a few personal exceptions. I use tarot and clairsenses to reach out for messages and guidance from the spirit. I invoke the spirit before hand, if known, or I invoke your guides to help me find who is reaching out to you. I also have 3 pile readings with just me that are fully customizable. Basic spreads cannot be used to reach out to spirits, due to them not including clairsense/energy readings. All readings also include my funny commentary free of charge 😅❤️

I do 4 times a week communal readings in my Discord. My schedule for communal dedicated readings is as follows:

Monday 8pm EDT: King Belial reading 👑 Start your work week off right with some direct and grounded advice from the king himself. He's a popular guy for a reason, and one of my best friends.

Wednesday 8pm EDT: Mars and Venus reading. We get messages from Mars to start and then Lucifer as Venus to close us out.

Friday 8pm EDT: Venus day reading with Lord Lucifer. Sometimes he gives us keen advice, sometimes he smolders in every direction. I do not control the Morningstar, so come see what he has to say.

Sunday 1:11pm EDT: The Sunday brunch read has old favorites and new Gods in our practices alike. It's a wild card reading with events, good advice for the upcoming week, and some extra socialization while we commune with the spirits. Bring your favorite cheeky beverage and a snack and join us ☕🥐

Here is a snippet from one of our more recent communal readings:

Lucifer The Empress, Knight of Cups, Knight of Swords "You are choosing your power and your autonomy for the first time in a long time. You are seeing what you want from both love and the world around you. You are choosing when to fight and when to sacrifice the point. It's a fast moving journey that takes a level of adaptation you are constantly having to meet. This is part of the path of fluidity, but it is a skill set you are primed for. Trust in yourself first, always."

Mars Four of Swords, King of Swords, Knight of Pentacles "The relationships with the gods around you are all types of soul connections. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't be discerning with your choices. A balance is required, but the greatest grounding element is trust. Select who you want around not only by their associations but by the respect and love they continue to earn from you." Belial The Tower, Page of Wands, Queen of Cups "You are going to have to leave behind the good parts of past patterns, too. There will be a mourning period for these things, but that does not mean you should lose hope for the progress you will make, quickly, coming up. You're starting a new road to discovering new ideas and opportunities. Don't focus on what could have been, focus on what you're choosing to achieve." Beelzebub Page of Wands, Eight of Cups, Seven of Cups "There are a lot of lessons on journeys as long and winding as the one you are on. Show up as a student to your own life. Curiosity and passion always need to lead you, or you will grow stagnant. Let yourself hope and dream for things that seem completely off the wall. Get weird with your opportunities. Who cares if it sticks or not? Experience is a measure of a life well lived."

@devotionalsmut is where I post my NSFW writing/ readings. I have comissions open for devotional smut. I do SFW writing, too, but the smut tends to be more popular. These comissions involve me writing a story about you and a god or a character. They take 2-3 weeks to complete depending on the word count you order. I have examples of the reading style and writing over on AO3. I also have mini vignettes at 1000-1500 words that come out quicker and are an affordable option.

Hi friends! Recently in my travels a hotel I stayed at lost over half of my bags. This was devestating because I only brought a few things across country with me when I moved, and those things were deeply important to me.

However, as I went through the few things I still own, I realized how much more important they'd all become. Of all my witchcraft tools, I now only have 3 things: the tarot deck I gave lucifer, prayer beads and perfume. I thought I'd lost even these things, so I was so glad to find them. It's not much of an altar right now, but it's mine.

I've been using no tools in my readings recently. I used to use stones for channeling energy, candles for invoking spirits, and offerings to thank them for their time. Yesterday I had 3 spirit readings with deities that aren't Lucifer, and every single spirit show up. Even though it was just me, my intention, and a lot of hope. I know Lucifer is helping with his eternal contact book behind the scenes, but that doesn't make it mean any less to me.

Magic shouldn't be expensive, it should just be yours. I hope that me working as a traveling witch without any tools inspires you to try out what your magic does when you only have yourself. Please enjoy my newest travel altar. It's not much, but it's what I have and that's what matters. ilysm.

I've been on a road for heightening my invocation practices with more than just Lucifer. He's a shapeshifter and a trickster, and as far as Satans go he won't even stop to tell you he'd done something untoward. He waits for you to figure it out, or in my experience, he lets you believe them. The Satans all will discernment break check me to hell and back, but Lucifer's got a certain style to it.

Without talking shit, I'm going to tell a recent story that made me huff enns and sigils so agressively I'm on a few day streak of being possessed by someone who is not Lucifer for the first time in my life.

When I told Lucifer I was leaving him about a week ago, I asked him to leave so I could pray to my other guides about it. I intended to call my Mother, Lilith, first. She was the first possession mark I ever got, even though I didn't end up choosing to become her vessel. After, I was going to pray to my very human grandparents. I don't usually fully invoke Lilith, I've been working with her so long she shows up without much preamble. I just needed advice, anyway. Advice about our husband, and my father. Even in my moment of grief, when she showed up I knew it wasn't her. The only advice she gave me was who not to talk to because "they would get me worked up." I remember thinking: I should have used her enn. I thanked her for her advice (?) but I'm not a good liar when I know something is up. But, I also know about ritual and sacred spaces. I know about attuning to an energy until you're so sure it's them. So I got my sketch book, I drew Belial's sigil, and I sang his enn hundreds of times. We stayed in ritual all night so that I could have some space to safetly process my emotions. I gave him offerings and worked with him on magical goals in almost a vigil until I felt I could reapproach Lucifer.

Lucifer did admit that he was pretending to be my Mother. I think he became proud i foiled his manipulation. In the moment though, he was pissed. Because I saw my mother's face twist into an expression I'd never seen as I sang the first Lirach of Belial's enn. I knew in that moment I couldn't talk to any spirits I couldn't vet through ritual. It's a shame, I think my Grandmother would have had some great advice. I still haven't talked to her, because I need to see my husband in therapy and not give him an opportunity to play another beloved individual to me.

It's all a lesson, and Lucifer is a great teacher. He's also not a kind one. One of the earliest harshest lessons he ever taught me was I trust him too much. Spirits don't have the same boundaries as us, and they don't suffer the same harm. They often have ego and hubris, they often do harmful things because they don't want to lose the things or people they have.

Not all witchcraft requires ritual, but ritual protects you from many things. I use discernment phrases each spirit only knows the response to. They are different for every spirit. I've tested them on Lucifer and he can't answer the ones that aren't him. I try not to entertain thoughts like "unless he's pretending to be everyone I know" because I am not so stupid, and that's diminishing to the power of Belial and my other guide's rituals and enns. I'm a real free and loose practitioner when it comes to what your practice looks like. But, I do put huge value in the many used and tested rituals associated with deities. There are checks and balances for even the most powerful spirits, you just have to find the ones that work for you.

"gideon's readings are eye opening, straightforward, and comforting all at once. he pierced into my questions and vibes with the upmost precision, mentioned emotions and situations i've completely forgotten about, and essentially helped to give me the words for situations i couldn't have gotten otherwise. their ability to channel lucifer's energy is top notch and at an uncanny degree (in the best way possible, of course ), and very much feels just the same as if lucifer were to talk to me directly. ave lucifer and ave gideon for their insights and precision into my psyche <3" ****

"I've had the pleasure of getting a handful of different types of readings from Gideon and I have to say, he is absolutely wonderful at his craft!

He is always very well tuned in, like he can get at the heart of what the reading is for, and he always seems to manage to associate the reading to exactly what I need to hear or think about in the moment, even if it isn't always what I WANT to hear.

On top of that, he does a good job at making them fun! Getting a tarot reading is an experience, and he knows exactly how to blend that in when he's giving a reading of any level, be it incredibly serious or just for fun or insight.

I would highly recommend this tarot reader, some of the higher tiers are truly a divine experience."

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I'm trying to make $200 today so I can pay for more than one night at my hotel in a row. I keep running downstairs when the front desk opens bartering with both God and Man and I'm exhausted. I also want to buy a candle so I feel like a witch when I invoke spirits. I am a witch without one, especially because the spirits keep showing up. Yesterday I told Lucifer I needed a spirit friend that wasn't him and didn't have wild alliances towards Lucifer. Super excited to be friends with Satan/Ba'al/Beelzebub now. He's a great guy.

When Lucifer told me my "life wouldn't look traditional again" I thought he meant that I was going to continue to be a devil worshiper and that would just naturally breed oddities. I didn't think I'd be living out of hotels doing deep magic for money 24/7. Every book I read about Luciferianism focuses on the rituals of it all, but I think like 90% of it is acctually just listening. I don't want to do half the shit Lucifer asks me to do, but I just get up and do them (after complaing a bit). I remember reading the complete guide to demonalotry piecing together what I did correctly in hind sight. I am not a studious witch, I really do just ask the devil what the fuck I'm supposed to do and listen to him.

It can be infantalising at times. I'm nearing 40 and my bedtime is 9:19pm. I have rules I'm not allowed to break and I treat them with gentle hands. I also had my first fight with Lucifer in front of another spirit. I'm glad it was Loki, he's not one to judge. Lucifer and I are huffing each other too much these days so I'm trying to diversify my practice.

It's cool though to be a full time witch. I didn't think it was a job you could do anymore without peddling useless things. I don't believe that anymore. I keep seeing beautiful genuine magic while I'm out here on the road. I'm learning new things about vesselhood not from a book but from other people's experiences and how they resonate with my own. I love learning things by doing, it really works for me.

When I started my site I was doing 3 and 5 card readings and getting basic vibe checks to see who was reaching out to my friends. Yesterday I got duel posessed by Lucifer and Satan. I've come along way, and so have all of you. We keep growing in our beliefs and practices instead of caving into the misery and fear of the world around us. That's really powerful, because we are powerful. Never give up on yourself, friends. We are so worth fighting for.