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One thing that so many magickal practitioners forget when working with deity is that the source texts are a veritable treasure trove of information. Now this isn’t to say that deities are static creatures far from it, they have most certainly grown and developed, but the source texts do give the practitioner a bloody good place to start; just remember though that exclusive and slavish devotion to using the source texts leads to Dogma, which is the failing of every religious practise.

That not with standing, I have need to work with a particular Deity, I need to ask for thier help, I have only had contact with this Deity once, and that was in a group ritual, that I didn’t do the research  or the actual evokation for. Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t go un-prepared anywhere near a Deity that I didn’t have some form of established pre-existing relationship with or hadn’t researched extensively. But needs much when the devil drives, so there I was frantically scrabbling for info, when I came across this beauty.

Orphic Hymn 77 to Mnemosyne (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.)

“To Mnemosyne (Memory), Fumigation from Frankincense. The consort I invoke of Zeus divine; source of the holy, sweetly speaking Mousai nine; free from the oblivion of the fallen mind, by whom the soul with intellect is joined. Reason’s increase and thought to thee belong, all-powerful, pleasant, vigilant, and strong. ‘Tis thine to waken from lethargic rest all thoughts deposited within the breast; and nought neglecting, vigorous to excite the mental eye from dark oblivion’s night. Come, blessed power, thy mystics’ memory wake to holy rites, and Lethe’s (Forgetfulness) fetters break.”

It appears that even though I have had a resonable leave of abscence from this blog, there is still traffic trickling through; okay the figures aren’t very significant, but then neither am I, so it surprised me when I logged on today and saw the stats. Most likely they are random curious surfers and something I posted matched thier keywords, and the precee they saw on google or other search engine piqued an interest. But it got me thinking, perhaps I should post a bit more, perhaps there is a small percentage of the internet population that might find my posts interesting. So whilst this place will always remain my quiet haven just for me, perhaps I should endevour to post a little more regularly for those whose voyeristic tendancies may be satisfied by my meandering, so with further ado, I shall progress onto the main focus of this post.

Astrology

I don’t do Astrology, or perhaps I should say I didn’t do astrology, of all the occult sciences it is the one that has never resonated with me, perhaps it is memories of being a teen and pouring over very badly written horoscopes in Just 17 magazine, that could be interpretted just about anyway the reader wanted, the whole thing just left me cold.

Yet looking at it objectively, it is the one that is actually the most logical, the most scientific, you can actually place the movements of the planets for any specific moment in time according to your specific longditude and latitude, you can then record and observe events, study the empirical evidence looking for pattern, themes and correlations, now of course the results are still subjective but they are theoretically more precise than other more popular form of divination. This is an area that should be right up my street, that is how I operate both magickally and mundanely, in the known, the observable, the recordable.

Anyway until the last couple of days the why’s and wherefore’s of my lack of knowledge and lack of desire to remedy my ignorance has been something that has never even crossed my mind. So when I recieved a phone call from an elder telling me to hang fire on some work I am doing because to use thier words “there is some wierd shit astrology going on” and they were worried for my outcome, I just shrugged, that was thier bag! But they were so insistant, that I agreed to do some conventional divination just before the alloted planetary hour, ask the powers if I should motor on forward or desist for the short term until things were more favourable.

Who’d have thunk it eh! 3 out of 3 techniques came out with the same result, hang fire, so, I think perhaps it is time for me to do some good ol book learnin’ and start actually working out this stuff.

Perhaps I might use this blog to document my trials and tribulations of learning a topic that I had always written off as a bit fluffy and how I incorporate it into my daily dealings.