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Orphic Hymn to the Sun: Empower Your Solar Prayers & Magic
Renaissance magicians focused a great deal on the Sun, the bringer of light and warmth, through whose power all life on earth exists. For most people, especially those born during daylight hours, Solar devotion would be a great place to start building relationships with planetary spirits. In fact, the Renaissance magician-physician Marsilio Ficino advised as…
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Orphic Hymn to the Moon: Empower Your Lunar Prayers & Magic
The Moon is arguably the most important of the seven traditional planets from the perspective of astrological magic. Virtually every magical election must attend to the location and condition of the Moon. As written in the Picatrix: “You should pay attention to the Moon in all workings, as the foremost of the planets, because she…
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Astrological Talismans: Living Stones, Living Traditions, Living Relationships
What is an astrological talisman? Sometimes the questions we ask point us in wayward directions. By framing it this way we are already in a worldview that by default objectifies the non-human. The “what” in “what is an astrological talisman” subtly urges us to treat astrological talismans as things among things—to see them as just…
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Orphic Hymn to Saturn: Empower Your Saturnine Prayers & Magic
Although Saturn may have a fearsome reputation, building a relationship with Saturn can be approached the same way one would build a relationship with any spirit. Invocations, prayers, and offerings to a planetary spirit can help you attune to and come into rhythm with that planet. There are many ways to pray to or invoke…
