#weaving fate

[wellconstructedsentences]

Magic is an art of changing trajectories, of weaving fate into a form that works for us—a form that works with us.

Weaving Fate by Aidan Wachter

[onawinternight]

by Aidan Wachter, Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies

[astranemus]

For those of us who work in any serious way with the ancestors, be that close-in or deep-line, death is an ally.

Death has led to us; we are flowers that rise up from it. We feed on the dead, be they plant or animal, and it is the dead that create the fertility of the soil that feeds us all. The dead have pushed us up out of the ground, and the soil we sprout from is graveyard dirt.

Aidan Wachter, Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past & Telling True Lies

[ivy-kissobryos]

Crossroader Invocation

As magic-workers, it can be good to do some work on occasion to specifically reinforce the consciousness of our liminality. This is true even (and perhaps especially) if we work with the Gods or spirits of the Crossroads regularly. This reinforcement helps us to remember that we are ourselves beings of great power. It is easy to lose sight of this truth, and so walk into traps that we need not fall into.

The procedure is simple. Go to a place of your choosing with simple offerings, and if possible, draw a line or cross in the earth, perhaps with cornmeal (thus combining the drawing with an offering), or lay something like a stick or cord on the ground. Stand so one foot is on either side of the line or cross. I like to find natural thresholds for this one, whenever possible. The invocation is simple and can be spoken as many times as you see fit.

Powers of the Threshold Spirits of Doors, Gates, and Crossroads I am of your kind. I am rooted in the Present With my left hand I touch the Past With my right hand I touch the Future. I stand at the Crossroads and I am That. I am the Shape-shifter I am the Change-maker I am the Still-point. I am That Which Walks Between the Worlds The Shuttle of the Loom of Fate. I stand at the Crossroads and I am That. I see beyond the veils My vision is unclouded Clear-eyed witness. I am the End of Delusion I walk through its ruins I gaze upon beauty. I stand at the Crossroads and I am That.

- Excerpt from Weaving Fate by Aidan Wachter

[ivy-kissobryos]

Ancestral Fever Stone

Once a day, slowly pour the salted water over the stone while you rub the stone as if washing it, and speak out loud:

Fever Stone Ailment of my ancestors I wash you clean That you afflict no more Any of my line. Your time is done You no longer cause harm. By water and sun I wash you clean. May all my lines be blessed Blood and Spirit The wounds of the past Washed clean by the Sea.

– Weaving Fate by Aidan Wachter

[theredbeggar]

I’m still cheating on Jung by the way, this time it’s Aidan Wachter’s Weaving Fate. I haven’t had the chance to read his first book just yet, though it doesn’t seem like his latest is missing TOO much material. However, he makes it a point to say that it would be useful to have the knowledge from his first book to elaborate more on the themes of Weaving Fate so I guess I’m going to add it to my reading list too ahaa....

[ivy-kissobryos]

A sort of review of Weaving Fate.

As excited as I was to work with hypersigils and all that, in the end, it really wasn’t for me. Hypersigils require a constant process of writing into your Black Book about your goals and your ideal future. It requires you to envision that future, clear as day, and to be put in the mindset that whatever goal you want to accomplish is being accomplished.

It reminds me of that quote on enchantment: magic requires you to be enchanted, lost in the story that you are weaving. And oh boy am I good at getting lost in dreams.

As someone who can be a bit obsessive about my desires, having my visions come true can be just as damaging to me as having it not come true. When a wish does come true, my ambition wants me to aim for even more, pushing the goalpost even further. And when something doesn’t happen as quickly as I’d like, I get frustrated and angry and it becomes more evident how my real life differs from the ideal life I envisioned.

Dionysus had allowed me to embrace in indulgence, but now it seems the lesson I must learn is moderation.

So, in my view, the tech of using hypersigils itself isn’t bad per say but it does take a mental toll on you.

[ivy-kissobryos]

‘Regular’ sigil magic most commonly refers to the practice of turning single desires or statements of intent into glyphs and then working with the resulting glyph to manifest our desires or needs. This is the type of sigil derived from the work of artist and sorcerer Austin Osman Spare. A hypersigil instead seeks to produce an overwhelming body of evidence to the senses (waking, dreaming, liminal, and unconscious) that things are or can be very, very different from what the mind tells us they are or should be. In time, as we build the hypersigil, we tend to see reflections of our written narrative manifest in our life.

– Weaving Fate by Aidan Wachter