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There is an old medieval manual called the Picatrix, and Lyam Christopher opens with it because the book shows how long people have believed the stars can be drawn down and woven into talismans and daily life. The Golden Dawn, he says, carries that same current: its symbols are the language of the zodiac, the seven planets, and the four elements. But this is not the astrology of the fortune teller, and that difference is where the real relief begins.
The moving part is that you do not need to be an adept to start. Even in the outer order grades, he says, you can work quick fixes on your own birth chart using just the sign and house of each planet, then craft small incantations that help those forces move more harmoniously. The planets are pictured as living tensions rather than dead blueprints: Mars arrives with urgency and war, Venus with love and luxury and jealousy, each one a karmic force trying to work something out. Getting to know them, he says, is how suffering loosens almost immediately.
Underneath it all is the cleanest definition in Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation, the art of transformation: altering consciousness and then witnessing how life changes as a result. Real magic is not aimed at the outer circumstances first; it is aimed at the psyche, the soul, and the imagination that keeps shaping what we see. Tweak that inner process, relax, and watch. The stars become not a sentence but a conversation, and the work becomes gentle enough to begin right now.
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For those of you who know something about old grimoires there’s an old magical book called the
Picatrix from the middle ages and it basically is a manual of magic that much of the magical
traditions following it are based upon and basically it’s a book of magic that
that instructs you in how to bring down the energy of the stars and then bring that energy to bear
upon various talismans or just basically into your life to transform your life. And so the magic of
the golden dawn is essentially that kind of magic, the kind of magic that is primarily
astrological in nature. And for any of you who have been studying golden dawn magic,
you’ll notice that a lot of the symbolism is intimately tied to the language of astrology,
the language of the zodiac, the seven planets, or even more than that, and of course the four
elements. So what I’d like to give you guys today is a system of magic that you can use even if you
are in the outer order grades, like if you are doing the Kabbalah magic curriculum and you’re
in the outer order grades, there are quick fixes that you can apply to your astrological birth
chart. As you probably know by now that in the outer order grades, you are supposed to learn
astrology. And the kind of astrology that you learn in the golden dawn is not the astrology
of the fortune teller. It’s a much different way of approaching astrology. So you use pretty much
all the same symbols that you would find in astrology. For instance, you can see here in
the upper left, the sign of Taurus. The upper right, you can see the sign of Leo. In the lower
right, you can see Sagittarius, etc., etc. These are well-known symbols. Now, when Aleister Crowley
was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, he kind of joked that he was sworn
to secrecy with terrible oaths, only to be handed the Hebrew alphabet and a bunch of symbols of
astrology, which he already knew. These are symbols that were already known, that were
commonly known, that were not very secret. And then one is left wondering, well, what’s so secret
then about this magical system of the golden dawn the secret is mainly in regard to how astrology
and other symbols are used not as a means of fortune telling but as a means of so let’s say
let’s look at it this way the fortune teller wants to predict the future and the magician uses
astrology to create the future okay another way of saying it is that um astrology or astrologers
when they try to distance themselves from the practice of magic because magic is in disrepute
basically they will say well our art is merely interpretive we’re simply interpreting what’s
going on and we are saying what might come into existence in the future based on your birth chart
Whereas the magician makes no apologies. The magician uses astrology to manifest a future that he or she wants.
okay we’re going to have to go into that though because there’s a big blind there that we need
to address okay and there’s there’s a mistake that many of you guys are making with magic
that you guys are you guys are making this mistake over and over and over again and it’s the
difference between exoteric magic and esoteric magic there’s a there are vulgar forms of magic
and then there are like sacred forms of magic okay and so we’re going to look at what’s the
difference here. First of all, let’s look at what is a magical sigil, okay? So, when you work with
these astrological symbols, you think, well, these are just symbols of the planets, right?
Now, these symbols represent cosmic forces that are in the process of working out their karma,
just the same way you are. You are in this world working out some kind of karmic process, right?
and that’s why we usually tend to suffer until we learn to let go of suffering and
so the one way of looking at this is that the entire universe the entire universe consists of
various forces that are in the process of working themselves out okay they go through chemical
reactions they basically react with each other they become various other substances and they
keep transforming and transforming and transforming and becoming other things and it just kind of
keeps going on and life in the world is pretty much a an adventure of constant change as these
various forces work themselves out and the primary task of the magician is to ride out this process
in the most pleasurable way possible it’s not all going to be pretty because there’s lots of
things to work out karmically that do involve, apparently involve suffering, at least at first,
until we learn to free ourselves from suffering. What I’m getting at here is that there are
different kinds of forces that work themselves out in particular patterns, okay? And the science
of astrology, at least the way it was practiced in the time of the Picatrix, people were zooming in
on these various forces as they were working themselves out and assigning sigils to them.
So if you were to encounter something in your own life that needs to work itself out, some kind of
trauma that needs to be addressed, that needs to be confronted and addressed, and you need to make
meaning out of it, you’re going to write in the pages of your journal trying to understand what’s
happening to you, something bad happened in your past or something bad happened in your
evolutionary past and it’s surfacing, very often it’s going to manifest in a particular form
as a spirit that won’t leave you alone because trauma comes to us in the form of like a spirit
that kind of haunts you. If you want to consider that maybe somebody who has trauma from war in
the past, there’s the sensation that they’re being haunted by the event that happened to them,
let’s say, and that event keeps materializing in a form of hallucination because it keeps saying,
you need to make sense out of this. What’s happening here? What is this? And you haven’t
really confronted this yet, so I’m going to keep coming after you until you try to make some kind
meaning out of me and what do many vets do they they tend to drink lots of alcohol and try to
avoid confronting this scenario or this image that keeps popping up okay now these kinds of
scenarios um haunt all of us not just those who are traumatized by war or by rape or by incest or
whatever else traumas that people have um most of the trauma that we have embedded in our cell
memory comes from our evolutionary past for instance if i have a fear of heights that’s
going to be based on witnessing lots of people falling to their deaths in for countless millennia
and it’s all kind of embedded in cell memory there’s no other explanation as to why i would
be afraid of falling over the edge of a precipice or something like that, right? That fear has been
conditioned into me. I can confront that fear and make peace with it, okay? There are many such
traumas going on, and they pretty much are what we have to blame for the suffering
that we experience. Something triggers you, you react to it unconsciously,
create more suffering for yourself through your unconscious reactions simply because you don’t
recognize what’s happening to you something is cropping up in your experience and it’s begging
for you to make meaning out of it to confront it to make friends with it it’s trying to get you to
react in a particular way but then you can say well let’s refine this reaction okay if you really
want to work with these spirits consciously as they as they come up you would have a means of
interacting with them okay so first of all they’re going to crop up as scenarios for instance if i
have a fear of public speaking the scenario that crops up is probably going to be you know a mob
of people doing something to me banishing me like pointing saying get out and pointing it pointing
out in the wilderness and now I need to go out there and I’m going to die alone in the wilderness
because they’ve all rejected me. And that’s usually what the fear of public speaking is.
It could also be a fear of being ridiculed or even executed by a mob or something like that.
These are also the kinds of traumas that we might have in regard to public speaking.
whatever the the scenario is in order to confront it and then harness it and really make sure that
becomes something more of an ally than an enemy we need we need to have a way of conjuring it up
so usually what i would do if i have a fear of public speaking i would conjure up
an image of the audience in front of me and they’re all reacting to me maybe they’re throwing
rotten tomatoes at me or something like that right and that’s a complicated image to work with
eventually I can distill that image down to a sigil of some kind, like one of these sigils.
And the scenario that keeps coming after me, haunting me, will eventually show me some kind
of symbol that I could use to conjure up that feeling without having to go through the whole
scenario of the audience and me trying to talk to them and then the audience throwing things at me,
you know things like that so um what i’m saying is that these these kinds of trauma that we have
embedded in our cell memory there are um they can be categorized under seven seven different
categories or seven seven different entities that are processing traumas in particular ways
okay for instance the sun symbol is going to be any kind of issues that i need to work out
in regards to leadership or being on display or being a public figure i think something like that
right um anything in regards to the moon is going to be in a trauma that i have that’s in regard to
family or home life or fertility things like that um like saturn is going to be a primary
symbol governing the kinds of trauma that i have in regards to mortality or limitation or
or imprisonment okay and so what you’ll notice is that um there are master symbols that govern
all types of evolutionary trauma. And supposedly the seven symbols of the planets can do that.
Okay. Now, if you were, if you become a magician who is an adept, you will be interacting with
these difficult karmic forces from the past and making meaning from them. And who knows what
sigils you’ll come up with okay but as you do that um they will be probably each one of these
scenarios or whatever it is will be governed by probably one of these planets okay not only
planets but also astrological signs okay so all these sigils uh are are conditioned into us um
for example many of them are agricultural in nature okay maybe we can talk about that
in regards to the signs of the zodiac. For instance, the signs of the zodiac primarily
are conditioned into us based on the kind of work we had to do in regards to agriculture.
So the whole year starts out with the springtime, let’s say, with Aries, the ram’s horns. And I
don’t know if we can find that here. Let’s see. The symbol of Aries there is on the bottom right
up one row, and that can represent the charging ahead into the new year, let’s say. A really good
example would be in the upper left, which is a sign of Taurus, and right around that time of year,
which is late April, early May, that is usually the time when we would be working really hard
and steadily to basically plow the fields and to plant the next crop. A lot of steady work
required there, a lot of routine work required there. And so the whole that time of year is
governed by any kind of conditioning we have in regards to heavy work. And right after that
comes gemini which is in late may early june by then the plant that the the crops have already
been sown and we’re kind of standing around talking to each other and so you have the symbol
of gemini which is like two guys standing next to each other just kind of chatting with each other
and of course gemini’s tend to be somewhat chatty and communicative and they also spend time learning
things and they’re information-based they’re gossipy you know that kind of stuff uh so you
can see that these uh astrological um for the for the signs of the zodiac those represent certain
times of the year when certain archetypes were dominating our behaviors and so if you have
things to work out in in regards to those times of the year then you would be using you could use
these astrological signs of the zodiac to tune into those things okay so i’m just pointing out
to you guys that these magical sigils are a means of conjuring up karmic forces that are trying to
work themselves out and some of these symbols are going to be more important to you than others
because you have different karma to work out than i do okay and so whatever is important to you
and a lot of this can be determined can be determined apparently through your birth chart
through your astrological birth chart. All right, so these are the, what is the magical sigil?
That’s what magical sigils are. They basically are a means of conjuring up some kind of spirit
that represents a karmic force that is working itself out. That’s kind of what any spirit
actually is, okay? That’s kind of what you and I are. We are simply karmic forces that are trying
to work themselves out. And somewhere in the midst of all that is pure awareness, which is
experiencing the whole thing, okay? And each one of us, you and me, each one of us is a combination
of these various entities. The seven planets are participating in us as more than one entity.
There’s more to you than just your ego or your sense of I. There is the
automatic reactions that get triggered when certain scenarios arise okay so if you are
concerned about uh good fortune and wealth then jupiter would be dominant if you are concerned
about your love life or luxury then venus would be dominant at that time at that time okay and
any spirits you’re working with in regards to luxury or your love life could easily be fall
under the domination of the symbol of venus and of course you could create other sigils based on
whatever spirits you have in regard to your your love life or luxury or love relationships things
like that right relationships of affection of affection which would be dominated by venus
venus is not all roses necessarily um she’s also a goddess of jealousy so they’re all these planets
have negative and positive aspects to them. So let’s go, primarily what I want to talk about is
a means of using astrology, like right now, even if you’re not an adept, if you haven’t gone through
the outer order process and really achieve some kind of glimpse of enlightenment, there are things
you can do anyway to immediately alleviate suffering, okay? And I find it interesting too
because I presented this idea in an article in the Forbidden Realms on Patreon, and I’m not sure
people really want to do this. It seems to be people would rather change the outer circumstances
of their lives rather than go right after the very thing that’s going to make them feel better,
if that makes any sense. Rather than alleviate suffering, most of us would rather get lots of
money or get a new car or, you know, find a new place to live. And I find that really interesting
because right underneath the surface of our life, the primary issue that we have is that we suffer
from moment to moment when something bothers us. And I think the knee-jerk reaction among most of
us is that we would rather try to change the outward circumstances of our life so we’re no
longer triggered anymore. And that’s not magic. Magic is really the art of going straight into
the psyche and dealing with the suffering directly, not changing the outer circumstances
that trigger the suffering. Okay, so this is why I want to point out that the definition of magic
that is put forth by alistair crowley is really a vulgar definition of magic it is a debased
definition of magic and he was probably aware of this too and he of course he delighted in
misleading his audience you know so the definition of magic that alistair crowley put for put forth
is um that magic is the science and art of causing change in conformity with will and that makes it
seem as though you simply impose your will upon the outer world and change the outer world and
when the outer world does change everything’s better now you feel better everything’s good now
right this is the primary issue this is the primary problem of human suffering so real magic
does not do that okay if you try to change your outer circumstances so to make yourself feel
better. You are simply doing the same thing that everybody else has been doing for countless eons
and nothing ever changes. Magic is the art of transformation. It is the art of making change,
the art of alleviating suffering directly. Okay, so we can dispense with this first definition of
magic, which Crowley himself on some level knew was not correct. So we come to the second definition
of magic here, and that is the one put forth by Dion Fortune. This is closer to the mark. She says
it’s the art of causing changes in consciousness in accordance with the will. Changes in consciousness,
okay? But that makes it seem as though that’s all. In other words, I’m going to use my will to change
something that’s going on in my consciousness, and then now I’m all better, right? Fine. That’s much
closer to the definition of magic because if you look closely at the golden dawn
techniques of magic they’re primarily applying adjustments to the psyche not to the world out
there you’re not tweaking your wardrobe you’re not tweaking your home life your situations
you’re not tweaking the stars of the zodiac so that they’re going to rain down wealth upon you
no you’re tweaking your psyche or the psyche of the universe you’re going into the mind and you’re
going straight after the the suffering itself and alleviating it okay and so the third definition
of magic here comes from the kabbalah magic book the art of transformation of altering consciousness
and experiencing the life changes that result so instead of changing your outer circumstances with
magic you’re going into the psyche making a tweak to the psyche and that’s where it ends and then
pretty much you then you sit back and enjoy whatever results might come out of that simply
making an adjustment to the psyche i’m not going to say your psyche there’s no such thing as your
psyche necessarily there’s the just the soul of the world you’re going into the soul of the world
as it manifests around you fine whatever um and making some adjustments there and then you’re
going to let it go and then see what kind of results come out of that. And primarily what
I’m getting at here is something that you guys can start doing almost immediately. Whenever you
find yourself suffering, you can go straight after the suffering and alleviate it immediately,
right now, without having to change your wardrobe, without having to change your home situation,
without having to change your stars or your wealth situation you go straight after this the feeling
of unease that you have and you tweak it right here right now and you feel better right now what
could be better than that all right and this is something that you don’t necessarily have to be
an adept to do so um let me just reiterate that the error that almost all occultists make is that
they try to apply magic to change the outer circumstances of their life okay that’s wrong
the real magic is to apply the magic towards the psyche towards the soul towards the imagination
towards the way that the imagination functions and then you’re going to make a tweak to that
process the way the imagination is functioning habitually right and then you’re going to relax
at that point and lie back and notice the changes that result in your life because of that
adjustment. It’s kind of like doing psychic surgery and that’s all you need to worry about. You go
straight after the bad habits, the bad mental habits, the bad cognitive habits, the bad emotional
habits, the bad imagination habits. You make a tweak to them and then see what results from that
change. Quite simple actually, isn’t it? And then you don’t have to worry about making changes to
the wardrobe or to the home situation or to your wealth situation those will kind of come about
naturally because once the mind is changed once the psyche is changed the outer circumstances
naturally follow we don’t know exactly what that change is going to be like but we have faith that
it’s going to work out hopefully of course there are tweaks you can make that can make things worse
and of course you have to develop some skill at working with the psyche. And so what we’re going
to talk about here is a way that you can go in and make really quick adjustments to the psyche
so that suffering is immediately alleviated. And then of course the physical situations,
the life situation will gradually also change as you continue to make these little adjustments.
so if you want to do this we’re basically going to use astrology as magic right to change the psyche
so that the psyche then will manifest your life situation differently eventually okay but the
main thing we’re talking about here is that anything anytime you have any kind of unease
or dissatisfaction going on such as jealousy or greed or embarrassment shame that that’s a that’s
a good one. You can actually tweak these things so that they go away. Okay, well, go away is not
quite the right word for it, but that’s so the disharmony within the psyche is now being properly
addressed. In order to do this, there are three main things you need to learn. Many of you already
know some of these things, sort of. You need to know the character of each planet. Now, all you
need to know are the seven planets, for starters, and that is these are the planets that pretty
much apply to the individual psyche and that is the sun the moon mercury venus mars jupiter saturn
the outer planets we don’t need to worry about so much but of course you can you can
learn the character of those as well if you like and you need to learn the style of each zodiac
sign okay and that is um many of you know that you what your sun sign is for instance
I was born June 8th so supposedly I am a Gemini but that’s misleading it simply means that my
sun sign is Gemini and that means that on the outward projection of the self let’s say or the
persona I manifest in in the style of Gemini but there are many other things going on in my birth
chart that um that uh are into my mind more interesting than gemini actually um uh of course
gemini can be very interesting but it’s also a very superficial sign so anyway so um you need
to learn the character of each planet because each planet is like an entity that acts in a
particular way it’s like a character you’re like seven characters in a drama right and that each
characters has a particular outlook or perspective on life, a particular motivation. And then of
course there are 12 signs of the zodiac and those are basically 12 styles through which each planet
can manifest, can behave. And then of course there are the behavioral territory of each house. So
there are also 12 astrological houses. This is really actually, this is not really that complicated
because you have seven planets which are like the characters in a drama and these characters
in the drama each of them um behaves according to a particular style okay so in other words if i have
um for instance in my astrological chart supposedly venus um was is in the sign of
gemini as well as um and uh so venus is is going to be her usual self and be all lovey-dovey and
affectionate and sexual and luxurious but she’s going to do it in the style of gemini which is
going to be very information-based very novelty-based very gossipy okay and so that would
make for a very bitchy venus actually if you think about it um and so uh and that would that
makes venus somewhat interesting and maybe even a little difficult to deal with because of the um
she’s manifesting in the style of gemini which is gossipy and um chit chatty okay um another example
don’t need to bring up any other examples so um so each of the planets manifests in your life
in a particular style and primarily they manifest in that way in one of 12 areas behavioral
territories in your life okay so for example if venus manifests uh through in the style of
Gemini. So Venus is in Gemini, let’s say. And she’s also in the eighth house. That’s going to
be in your love life. So she’s going to be gossipy and chit-chatty in your love life,
which could be lots of trouble, actually. Very bitchy, right? And that’s something that you
would have to then deal with because she’s primarily going to manifest in her sort of
gossipy, chit-chatty style in your love life. Uh-oh. And that lets you know that when it comes
to your love life, that’s when you need to watch out for her in that style. She’s going to be
manifesting in that particular way. And in other areas of her life, she was not going to be as big
a deal. Okay. So once you do that, so you have basically, there’s three things to learn. You
need to learn the character of each planet, the style of each zodiac sign, and the behavioral
territory of each house in other words what part of your life does that planet manifest in in that
way okay and of course there are only seven of those planets that you really need to know and
of course you’re going to learn each planet manifests in a particular style you’re going to
look be looking at what that particular planet is going to how it’s going to be behaving right
and then of course you’re going to be looking at the area of your life where the planet’s going to
be turning up the most okay now there are some when when planets are in particular signs some
planets do not handle some signs very well and this is what they mean by there’s a bad placement
in your chart in other words if you have planets that are are uncomfortable in certain signs and
that those were the ones that were in a particular sign when you were born that’s the imprint now you
have. And then of course, that’s going to cause trouble in your life. Okay, we’re going to get to
that. The reason that’s important is because then you can see, oh, right. So whatever placements I
have in my birth chart, I can see which planets are going to cause me the most trouble. And these
are the ones that I can then talk to, or I can basically speak as, and I can help them manifest
in more cooperative, harmonious ways. And if I am aware of this, if I know how each of them
functions, I can do that immediately and feel better immediately. This is not about changing
the outer circumstances of your life. It’s about feeling better now, okay? And then the circumstances
of your life will probably improve as you continuously go after and create a more harmonious
inner life of the soul. You don’t need to worry about your outer circumstances then because they
will naturally just repair and get more harmonious as well. There’s no need to try to apply magic to
fix your outer life. That’s vulgar, stupid magic. All you need to do is apply it to the inner life
to create the harmony, and the harmony will manifest on its own, more or less, okay?
All right, the procedure. In order to make this work, in other words, if you’re going to apply
these quick fixes to your astrological birth chart, you need to know some things, and there’s
not a lot you’d really need to know. You need to know where you were born, what city, you need to
know the day of your birth, your birthday, and you need to know the minute and hour of your birth,
uh-oh that’s the hard part okay so um you’re going to have to get that birth information
and in order to get the minute and hour of your birth you need to get your birth certificate
you could try asking your mother when you were born but very very often your mother’s memory is
wrong uh-oh right and um you can try to trust her anyway but uh probably there’s going to be
some inaccuracy there so i do recommend contacting the the government to get your the long form of
your birth certificate not the short form but the long form that has the minute and hour of your
birth all right uh because the minute and hour is important because um that that’ll determine
as the day as each day progresses the houses are going to change so you’re not going to know which
house each planet was necessarily um or which which uh you’re not going to know which sign
was um on the horizon pretty much um at the time of your birth so the the hour and minute of the
birth is important too once you have those three things you need the the day of your birth the
location of your birth and the minute and hour of your birth you plug you go to um astro.com let’s
or one of these really good high quality birth chart generators online. Astro.com is a really
good one. You plug those three bits of information in. It will create your birth chart. It’ll draw
up your natal chart and you can look at it. And then once you see the chart, you can see where
each planet is. So for each of the planets, you need to determine what sign it’s in. And you also
need to determine which house it is in. Okay, and now the latest article, well, there’s an article
in Forbidden Realms called Astrological Incantations. I pretty much give you the information
of how to do that there, but many of you already know how to do that. Once you have the planet,
you look at each planet. Once you have the sign and the house of each planet, then you can determine
which planets are comfortable and which which planets are uncomfortable okay and of course
the thing that we want to do if we’re going to be alleviating suffering is we’re going to look at
the planets that are uncomfortable so you’re going to determine which houses are in their
detriments or falls okay both of those are kind of unpleasant um for instance in my astrological
birth chart i don’t have any planets in their detriments but i do have two planets in their
falls. And a planet in its fall is a planet that is weak in that particular sign. For example,
I have the moon in Scorpio. And the moon in Scorpio kind of struggles. It is weakened by
the sign of Scorpio. And the moon governs emotions, supposedly, and also feelings of
domesticity family life household chores things like that and uh very much is in charge of
emotions and so if you have the moon in scorpio that means your emotions are going to be very
intense and very deep and very secretive and you’re going to have trouble expressing those
emotions okay that doesn’t cause much trouble in my life because i have other placements that make
it easier okay i also have um a planet in its fall um saturn in my chart is in aries and that’s
supposedly also a bad placement that causes suffering and that does indeed cause problems
in my life apparently um uh if you can imagine saturn is a sign of restriction discipline
containment mortality okay uh and so it’s a sign of limitation that keeps you trapped right
and it’s going to impose restrictions upon you and wherever saturn sits in your chart it’s going
to be that’s the places where you’re going to be challenged to uh to be disciplined and you’re
going to be you’re going to be struggling that’s where your biggest challenges tend to be
um this can be a good thing saturn’s not necessarily evil but it can certainly feel
that way and saturn and aries doesn’t do very well because saturn doesn’t know what to do with aries
saturn trying to express itself in the style of aries has trouble doing so okay it tends to have
trouble doing so okay aries is very um aggressive uh it charges into battle without thinking um
it’s prone to anger very fast you know that that it’s it’s a sign of initiative and saturn is a
slow planet and it’s it’s it’s methodical it is distant it is disciplined this is not it does not
do supposedly does not do well in the sign of aries okay um at least on the surface okay but
what that indicates to me is that um i need to develop uh when if i’m going to start something
new i have to do so in a very disciplined way if i’m going to do something uh start a new project
or things like that okay uh anyway um usually the way that that manifests in somebody’s life
if they have saturn in aries is that whenever they’re trying to do something and there’s an
interruption it can be infuriating okay because um aries wants to go go go and saturn’s like no no no
and uh and so uh and this manifests in my chart in a particular house um i forget which house
it’s in it’s um it manifests in a house where it only tends to happen when i’m alone okay and so
um it happens when i’m at home alone working by myself and it also happens when i’m in the car
driving by myself if i’m driving with somebody it doesn’t tend not to happen okay so if i’m
driving somewhere by myself and there’s a lot of red lights it’s very frustrating or it can be
because saturn doesn’t know what to do with that okay um or and aries gets frustrated with that
so saturn and aries is a so what i need to do is figure out how aries how saturn can
work more harmoniously with the style of aries and you might begin to notice that whenever i
feel that frustration i can find a way to make these two forces work together these two karmic
forces i can get them to work together harmoniously on the spot if i have some insight into how each
one of them works okay now number five here notice when and where suffering tends to happen and that’s
the house they happen in okay so um for me saturn in aries happens in a house that pretty much
dominates activities that I do by myself at home alone or in the car alone. So what that means is
whenever I’m trying to do something alone, I need to be on the lookout for frustration
of a Saturn that can’t seem to function properly. And when that frustration comes up,
then I can apply my quick fix. What does that quick fix consist of? It consists of an incantation.
Okay, so I am aware that Saturn in Aries is manifesting in a particular house that dominates situations where I’m working alone.
Okay, and so that means if I’m at home alone trying to get something done, I need to be on the lookout for the type of frustration that involves a clash between Aries and Saturn.
Or when I’m driving alone in traffic, I can watch out for that type of frustration again.
And then that’s where I can apply my astrological incantation.
So naturally, I’m going to say something out loud that might get Saturn to work better in the style of Aries than it habitually does.
right and so the example of that um for me uh if i’m in traffic and there’s a delay i can get very
frustrated uh because aries wants to go go go and saturn’s like no no no no right um and so what
the the impression i get is that the fire is being put out that the fire is being snuffed out and
this can be bad for your health too because if saturn’s sitting on top of aries it’s almost like
it’s snuffing out your life force, the power of your initiative, the power of springtime, right?
That this gushing forth of life, that’s not necessarily what’s happening. So Saturn is more
of a containment force. It’s not a snuffing out force. And so if I’m aware of that, I can say,
oh, the frustration begins to rise. I can say, I can speak in the voice of Saturn and I can say,
i hold the fire steady okay if i don’t apply this incantation uh then um it’s going to feel like
saturn is putting out the fire of aries which can be unhealthy for me actually not only stressful
but sort of like i don’t know stifling to my life force right and so uh when the frustration begins
to arise i i can basically say no the fire is still lit it’s being held steady right now it’s
ready to go they’re ready to spring ready to go forward right and it’s just being held steady
right now and this is these kinds of delays are part of the process of moving forward there are
other incantations i can come up with as well like um um this curve keeps me moving in other words
um that’s another incantation i can use in other words if i feel like i’m being stopped it doesn’t
have to feel like um an abrupt stop in traffic it’s more like now i’m just in a holding pattern
so this curve keeps me moving i’m still moving and then once once the light turns green i can
we go forward again we’ve been moving all this time there’s nothing’s been stifled everything’s
still in motion okay so we’re just applying these incantations um so that the planet and the sign
can work together more harmoniously okay it’s kind of like saying um saturn hasn’t put out the
fire of aries saturn is simply um containing the fire of aries and getting ready for the next
launch forward again okay it’s a great way of looking at it and and you’ll notice that when
you apply these astrological incantations there’s imagery involved rather than feeling like the
forward momentum is being cut off now it’s more like no no it’s just being contained and then
eventually it’s going to go forward again right so um and you’d be amazed these little fixes do
wonders and you’ll notice that the imagery involved is also elemental in nature aries is a fire sign
so naturally you have to get to you have to learn how all of these planets and signs work in terms
of the four elements as well so it requires a little bit of knowledge of astrology you have
to learn the 12 signs the seven planets and the 12 houses that’s about it though that’s not a lot
it’s not that’s not a lot to learn actually and eventually that knowledge is required if you’re
doing the curriculum in the Kabbalah magic book okay and you’ll notice that this is the way
already that magicians of the golden dawn would function and you can imagine that just having
this knowledge of astrological forces not to mention the forces of the seeroth and the thing
the tree of life and things like that you can you’re you’re already applying quick fixes to
the psyche without having to do any overt magic you don’t have to do incantations you’re simply
aware of these forces in their in their elemental forms and in their personified forms and you can
have relationships with these forces with these entities with these elemental powers
so that you can make very quick fixes everywhere you go okay so this is these astrological
incantations are just a single example of the kinds of tweaks that you can make to the psyche
to alleviate suffering immediately this is the way real magic works okay and of course if you are if
you establish a good habit habit of alleviating suffering immediately continuously and you begin
to live a suffering free life the outward circumstances of your life will eventually
come to reflect that and that’s the that’s the real magic so the mistake that many magicians
make is they try to fix their outer circumstances with magic that’s that’s stupid okay you you need
to apply the fixes to the realm of the psyche and the psyche will then basically from that level
manifest an outer life that may or may not represent what’s going on in the inside and
that’s why people say you want to change your life change what’s going on on the inside and
then naturally the outward circumstances will follow suit okay how they follow suit it’s kind
of oh it’s almost none of our business they’re going to correspond but the way that they do that
we don’t really know what the form is going to be so you can’t really have magic exactly the way you
want it okay unless you start practicing it correctly to begin with instead of trying to
fix your outward circumstances with magic you tweak the inner circumstances and then you just
you just have faith that the outward circumstances will harmoniously follow suit and manifest in a
way that corresponds to the inner world, okay? I’ve unpacked a lot there, but the principle is
very simple. Change what’s going on in the inside of the soul, let’s say, and then the outward
changes that result are really like none of your business. Just let them go. Let the universe
handle the details okay and you’ll notice that making these tweaks to the inner world you can
go directly after the suffering it’s really much easier to go directly after the suffering to make
little tweaks so that these various entities within you are working more harmoniously together
that’s it and of course you get better and better at doing this as time goes on okay and then of
course, which you’ll notice is that these incantations, when you do the incantations,
when I say, I hold the fire steady, I’m speaking in the voice of Saturn. That’s actually an
invocation right there, because I’m saying, I am Saturn in this particular moment, and this is how
I function. This is very important too, because people would say, you know, invocation is calling
in the powers. It’s like, well, no, invocation is much simpler than that. You just simply speak
as those powers as though you are them and they automatically come through you okay so if you
speak in the voice of saturn then um then you’re immediately addressing the way saturn is
constellating in your psyche and addressing whatever uh disharmonies or harmonies are
already being have been set up pretty much at the time of your birth okay these are things that you
can try. I guess the primary message here is, though, you tweak the inside and then just leave
the outside manifestations. Let the universe handle those details, okay? You don’t need to
use magic to fix the outward circumstances of your life. All you need to do is go after those
inner scenarios and to alleviate the suffering. And what you’ll notice is that when you go after
the suffering, you’re not getting rid of it. You’re simply looking at the forces that are
butting heads or not getting along and teaching them how to better get along. There’s no need to
get rid of Saturn. Do not try to get rid of Saturn. Do not try to get rid of an astrological force.
Okay, that’s not what banishment is anyway, if you’re going to be banishing things. So if you
try to get Venus out of your life, you will suffer as you cannot possibly imagine. The gods do not
like being repressed the only way to if you have trouble with your love life let’s say you should
not banish venus because then she’s going to get really pissed off at you and you’re then you’re
going to suffer terribly the best way is to try to get her functioning harmoniously with the other
forces in your chart she’s looking for a way to function in a comfortable manner okay not to be
repressed or or destroyed or gotten rid of if you if you go against these forces you will be
destroyed. Okay. And that’s why the Greeks would say that the ultimate sin of the magician was
hubris, acting beyond your station. There’s nothing you can do to resist the gods. They
will have their say. Okay. Anyway, I think that’s it pretty much. As you can tell, being able to do
this does require skill. But as you can also tell that it’s not that difficult. Once you learn the
seven planets the 12 astrological signs and the 12 houses then you can figure out how your chart
worked and you you can begin to establish a more harmonious inner cast of characters okay you can
begin to try to do that and as you can tell the ability to do this requires some literary skill
so all the stuff that they would teach in literature classes let’s say personification
anthropomorphism symbolism what you’ll notice is that these are not devices necessarily that
writers use these are psychic abilities okay so if you look at the universe as a as various
personifications of deep forces this is the way the psyche works okay and you yourself are a
personification of cosmic forces okay and so and of course these various forces might come forth
in particular images in your mind as a gorgeous naked woman for venus let’s say or an old man
with us with a sickle or a scythe right um for for saturn okay um and these are powerful um symbols
from countless eons past, right, that will manifest in the psyche. So in order to master
this skill, you do need to have some literary skill as far as what personification and symbolism
is. It helps to study literature and to be able to spot personifications as they happen in various
stories or in mythology let’s say and also symbolism and um and of course what we do in
the outer order of the golden dawn is we invoke every single day they um in the elemental grades
we invoke the the element each day and we will invoke a couple of different planets during the
week just to gradually get to know what these forces are like very gently that these are very
real forces and they will even step forth into our imagination, possibly in symbolic or in
personified forms or as difficult scenarios that unpack themselves in the imagination.
And it’s important to get to know these things and the way that the psyche works in terms of
imagery and symbolism. And of course, the study of mythology helps it naturally because
the seven planets are also gods helios is the titan or the god of the sun let’s say right
and of course jupiter is obviously the roman god of wealth and abundance and rulership okay
venus is goddess of love not not not only the goddess of love but also the goddess of luxury
and jealousy and all kinds of things, right? And Mars being the god of aggression and war.
Anyway, these are all things that you need to get to know. Not in terms of Mars is the god of war.
You need to get to know Mars. What is he like? How does he behave? What does he want? He’s a
karmic force. He’s trying to work something out. He’s not entirely conscious. He’s got this urgency
to him right all these all these planets have these various urgencies to them and they’re not
necessarily pleasant you need to get to know them because they butt heads with each other and they
don’t get along with each other necessarily all the time and it’s your responsibility to get them
to work together in a more harmonious way that is if you want to alleviate suffering in your life
and you can alleviate suffering very quickly almost instantaneously if you know how these
forces work together. All right, so I hope that’s clear. Until next time.
Source: Lyam Christopher