commonplace book

Greco-Roman and Egyptian Culture BLENDED 

Hermes Trismegistus

7 principles

August. A waxing crescent. Thunderstorm storms. Strange clouds.

Canal people.

Green is everywhere. Green. Green. Green.

Been really busy with my new job the past two weeks.

FERN  powerful protection plant

grow around house for protection from negativity/evil

gather at Midsummer gather for invisibility

beginnings of my rock/shade garden 

COLUMBINE

seeing these wildflowers everywhere right now

associated with faeries 

Properties:       

Ruling planet – Venus

Element – Water, Air

Gender – Feminie

Carry to bring you courage.  Put flowers or seeds into bathtub to gain clarity in mental processes/situations. 

Became more aware of Energies/vibes in my environment. Energies I’m receiving from the world. And the energies I’m giving out.

“Ritual Magic is merely the taking of energy from another plane of existence and weaving that energy, by specific thoughts, words, and practices, into a desired physical form or result in this plane of existence.  The whole idea of magic is to contact various energy pools that exist in a dimension other than our own.  Magicians do this deliberately because these energies add a vast amount of power to the energy for manifestation that we hold within ourselves.  The prime purpose of ritual is to creature a change, and we cannot do that without the combination of these energies.  We need the assistance of those energy pools, which can be called gods, deities, and elements.”

-D.J. Conway in Celtic Magic 

DIFFERENT ENERGY POOLS:

Four powers of the magus

To Go, To dare, To be silent, To know, To Will

1. noscere  AIR / EAST  to know.  seeing, planning, knowledge, ideas, awareness, yellow sunlight with blue skies

2. audere  WATER / WEST  to dare.  emotion, empathy, passion, flow

can speed up spells/manifestation 

3. velle  FIRE / SOUTH  to will.  personal power, creativity, taking action

bring your creation into being 

4. tacere  EARTH / NORTH  to silence, foundation, confidence, stability

final part of manifestation process 

====  ====  together they become voces mysticae     ====   ====

quintessence - the power of the spirit 

waxing gibbous

type of spell: for rapid growth/quick manifestation.             

VISUALIZATIONS: the moon is growing fuller and brighter as you are growing inside and will become full too.

We both forgot where your car was parked.

Let's just take the train.

I'll meet up with the band in the morning

Bad actors, with bad habits...

Some sad singers, they just play tragic.

And the phone is ringing,

And the van is leaving

Let's just keep touching,

Let's just keep... keep singing

I want a lover I don't have to love,

I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk.

Where's the kid with the chemicals?

I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full.

I need some meaning I can memorize.

The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

But you, but you...

You write such pretty words,

But life's no storybook.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

And to hurt.

Do you like to hurt?

I do, I do.

Then hurt me,

Then hurt me,

He radiates springtime, unbounded splendor.

Nostalgic smells hugging me copying vines intertwining.