Category: Ritual Practice
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Epithets and Aspects of the Moon for Enhancing Your Lunar Devotional Practice
Below we have collected a wide range of epithets, titles, and monikers of the Moon (Luna, Mene, Selene) that you can consider using—whether for your petitions, or simply for contemplating and feeling into the different dimensions of this deep and powerful being. In our list, we have filtered out the hyper-local titles that refer to…
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Epithets and Aspects of Mercury for Enhancing Your Mercurial Devotional Practice
Below we have collected a wide range of epithets, titles, and monikers of Mercury (Hermes) that you can consider using—whether for your petitions, or simply for contemplating and feeling into the different dimensions of this deep and powerful being. In our list, we have filtered out the hyper-local titles that refer to specific geographic cults,…
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Epithets and Aspects of the Sun for Enhancing Your Solar Devotional Practice
Below we have collected a wide range of epithets, titles, and monikers of the Sun (Sol, Helios) that you can consider using—whether for your petitions, or simply for contemplating and feeling into the different dimensions of this deep and powerful being. In our list, we have filtered out the hyper-local titles that refer to specific…
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Epithets and Aspects of Jupiter for Enhancing Your Jupiter Devotional Practice
Below we have collected a wide range of epithets, titles, and monikers of Jupiter that you can consider using—whether for your petitions, or simply for contemplating and feeling into the different dimensions of this deep and powerful being. In our list, we have filtered out the hyper-local titles that refer to specific geographic cults, focusing…
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Epithets and Aspects of Venus for Enhancing Your Venus Devotional Practice
Below we have collected a wide range of epithets, titles, and monikers of Venus that you can consider using—whether for your petitions, or simply for contemplating and feeling into the different dimensions of this deep and powerful being. In our list, we have filtered out the hyper-local titles that refer to specific geographic cults, focusing…
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Enhancing Your Prayers and Petitions With Precision Epithets
In our view, devotion and theurgy (god-work) play an intrinsic part of astrological magic. Simply put, we think one’s relationship to the spheres matters—both in general (spheres plural) and in particular (that is, specific spheres, e.g., the Moon, Venus, Saturn). In this post, we explore some general top-down ways to think about this as a…
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Attuning to Astrological Talismans Part II – Rationale & Suggested Practices
After the launch of Idola Stellarum’s first collection of astromagical talismanic jewelry, Sanctuary, we fielded a number of questions about how to attune to astrological talismans. “Attunement” refers to the ritual process of connecting or introducing oneself to an astrological talisman for the first time. In Part I of this post series, we took a…
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Attuning to Astrological Talismans Part I – Historical Perspective
After the launch of Idola Stellarum’s first collection of astromagical talismanic jewelry, Sanctuary, we fielded a number of questions about how to attune to astrological talismans. “Attuning” or “attunement” refers to the process of connecting to a talisman for the first time. Often, attunement involves some degree of ceremony or ritual. There is no standard…
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Are Astrological Talismans Safe? Part II: Safety & Quality Control
In the first post of our series on safety in astrological talismans, we explored the question whether astrological talismans are safe from a technical astrological perspective and a relational perspective. We established that real and consequential magic is alive and astrological talismans are sentient beings, and therefore, astrological talismans are always to some extent unpredictable…
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Are Astrological Talismans Safe? Part I: Technique & Sturdy Relationships
Fear of magic reverberates down through history in the so-called West. From early on, ‘magic’ connoted perceptions of the sinister practices of mysterious foreigners, witch trials and the Inquisition loom large in the cultural imagination, and shows and movies reliably paint magic as chaotic, volatile, and often mixed up in tragedies involving greed and the…