#practice notes

[solariaradianta]

I've beeeeen saying I'm gonna get back to angelic invocations, but I'm thinking I must just let it go once nje because andibuyi mos 🥹

Perhaps I'll return to it because it was a fantastic time, shame. Maybe I'll start off with my favoured angels and work my way back to the rest of the coterie

But for now we're taking a smol break

[solariaradianta]

On God, Devotee, and Power & Autonomy

This is a (rambling) collection of thoughts from my personal praxis and practice; by no means is it a prescriptive rule book for anyone else's practice.

READ THE ABOVE AGAIN.

A thing that's been a common point of internal and external contention amongst witches/magical practitioners who ascribe belief to a higher power that has much higher authority than them (like a god/dess, etc) is the 'conflict' between them having power and authority, but also the higher power having ultimate power and authority

The conflict inevitably arises when it's time for the practitioner to grasp their own power to bring things to pass: "how can I wrench power to make things happen, when my God is above me and ultimately has the final say? Should I not entreaty Them instead?"

Which in turn brings about the notion that "in actuality I can't do magical things myself, because there's the possibility of it being vetoed by ny higher power, so I should just go to them instead". Unintentionally, setting the practitioner up to not rely on their own (ironically) god given power and authority, and at times abdicate it completely.

Super pertinent when you're trying to speak things into being via your own power, but ending up sounding like you're just begging the God of Your Understanding to make it happen

I suppose it's a hold over from religious conditioning; in most religious faiths the idea is that you cannot rely on your own 'human' wisdom because God's is much greater is drilled into adherents. And the consequences for not sticking to this idea are said to be severe: your whole life goes to shit in a myriad ways

But my rebuttal was "well if we weren't supposed to rely on our own wisdom, why GIVE it to us? Telling us God gives us the power through Jesus Christ/prayer/meditation of texts/pranayama etc and then in the same breath telling us nope you can't use that according to your own insight, you always have to follow what Head Office says"

Which, I get it. Ultimately, all of Creation is the Creator and Creator is Creation, so the diva IS inescapable, but that's on the super-macro level. Right down here in the micro, it feels like there's a definite difference between "This is what I want, by my god given right of power" vs "Thy will be done" (even if striiiictly speaking, it's the same thing, via the earlier point)

How I personally navigate this precarious terrain is by acknowledging both:

The Creator is ultimately the ultimate power, higher than all; all power and authority is held by and flows from Them, as the Progenitor of All.

AND! I am His/Her/Their Creation, endowed with His/Her/Their power brought to scale within Creation. Meaning whatever They can do I can do also, just on a smaller scale within the scope of Creation.

And because Creator and Creation are One, I don't need to necessarily do what would be understood as "asking for permission".

In practice, this looks like acknowledging the power and ultimate authority that the Creator has, acknowledging our Oneness, acknowledging my own power and authority, then getting to whatever working I need to do

[solariaradianta]

On Ritual Implements - Fans

Plenty of mundane objects around the house or easily and inexpensively purchased can be consecrated for use within one's spiritual practice. In my instance, I've bought 2 inexpensive hand fans (1 single sided, 1 double sided) for this such use, with each fan to be consecrated for a specific function within my practice. I am VERY excited for this

These are my ladies (Look at my fans in awe and wonderment!)

Fan 1 - Single Sided

Look at this gorgeous gorgeous gworl!

When I picked this beautiful darling up and opened her I knew she'd be absolutely perfect for involvement in Venusian workings and engagements

I plan to consecrate it to Venus and the spirits of Venus, both as a "look what I got for you all/in your name, isn't it sooo pretty!" and as a tool to use whenever benefic Venusian energy is being evoked/invoked

I must confess, I do have faves: I typically work almost exclusively with Solar, Jupiterian and Mercurial emanations. But nevertheless I am excited to invoke Venus and her coterie more often, especially since I already do regular Venusian/Friday baths; it'll be adding an additional layer to my practice that's in appreciation of the Great Beauty ✨

Did a cheap folding hand fan inspire me to engage the Venusian emanations more? Yes, yes of course. It's... beautiful, look at it?? I don't need a litany of reasons to begin engaging with particular emanations, I like to enjoy myself

Fan 2 - Double Sided

Now THIS diva! Isn't she gorgeous??

When I first picked her up and opened her, I only saw the silver side. I said "oh that's pretty", and then noticed I was looking at the underside of the fan. Thinking I was gonna see more silver I turned it over to the front, only to see, BOOM! Shiny GOLD!

I said "OH! This is EXQUISITE!", not only because your girl LOVES GOLD, but also because in my hand, I held what would become a Solar-Lunar fan

Truth be told I was FAR more excited about the gold side of the fan (did I mention Solar energy and emanations are one of my faves?) but the silver side presented a nifty opportunity

The plan for this fan, therefore, is to use the fan silver side up for any type of smoke cleansings I need to do, and gold side up whenever I do workings for and with Solar energy and emanations

Oho, what now?

Next is consecration!

I'm going wait until we're back in the waxing moon phase, and see what the transits are looking like, but hell yeah I'm looking forward to using these gawwwjus gyals ✨

[solariaradianta]

Kyphi blogging! ✨

Well it's been drying for 3 days and are dry on the OUTSIDE, but I know the ways of drying: it's probably still just a bit moist inside!

The plan was always to leave the kyphi balls to dry for a least a week, up to 2 weeks, before storing them so we're still on track anyway

By scent? Now I don't have charcoal so I can't do a test burn yet, but they do smell preeeetty damn good unburnt 🥹 this gives me hope divas!

I'm going to consecrate it on Friday during solar hour (it just feels right to consecrate an incense on Friday; all things beautiful, sweet and enjoyable are under Venus' domain anyway, it just tracks for me), and then again on Sunday since it'll be a solar incense

[lutzloopcombo]

kao jumps better behave tonight

[lutzloopcombo]

i fear adam is committed to his ugly costume including the sprayed on abs

[solariaradianta]

Hheyi, kyphi blogging ✨

I actually made the balls of kyphi today! I had to add a generous amount of honey AND a bit of cornstarch (!) to make it tacky enough to roll into balls

The orange scent is definitely coming through VERY strong, my diyeh; you could smell it from FAR 🥹

Here's to hoping the resins actually make something of an appearance in the scent profile; I know I didn't add a lot of them to the batch, but I thought a little would go a long way!

I also got a lot out of the batch I made! The balls are about pinky tip sized; I didn't want them to be too big because I was concerned about how long they'd take to dry if they were too big. The last thing I want is MOULD!

Now to allow them to dry, which apparently should take several weeks. What I'm tempted to do is sun dry them, though I don't know if that'll just dry the outside and leave the inside moist, leading to mould? Not sure actually

[lutzloopcombo]

i have to admit when ilias vpice over program started i had to laugh a bit