Sengdroma wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 1:00 am
Honestly when I'm at the coven meetings (well pre lockdown), when we have to call in the quarters and banish them, I suddenly cannot remember how to draw a pentagram.
I think the elements must look at me and laugh / shake their heads with despair - I end up doing a random squiggle in the air. How I have never took someone's eye out with an athame is a miracle.
I just end up muttering in my head "well you know what I mean".
At home I end up doing a standard sort of pentagram and say out loud after each quarter banishment "ok you know what I'm like, you are free to stay or go, you know I never command, bind or banish"
So my quarter calls are basically a posh ritual of welcome and please protect this space and a strange squiggle. And the reverse for the banishment - thanks for being here, I appreciate it, you can stay or go and a strange squiggle.
Yea! I know what an athame is, I have one dedicated to Marquess Marchosias. Another to Lord Satan, although it does not have a black grip. In my long ago studies, when I decided to become a Solitary, I read "The Spiral Dance" as a starting point for, basically, All Things LHP. Which eventually lead me here but has not changed my focus on the Great Goddess and this planets dire need for Her re-emergence.
Or my desire to connect (re-connect?) with the Celtic deities of my ancestors. But witchcraft is not my Path. Actually, don't press me too hard on what, exactly, my Path is. Working with demons is integral, my vision of the Black Sun is integral, although I don't fully, or even partly, understand that yet.
But I can light candles and incense!

And I know that humble sincerity and an open heart are received with the spirit in which they are offered.

Unless they aren't and DL's love to inflict suffering on people who don't remember the right words and burn the wrong kind of incense.
That would explain why there are so many different kinds of incense and candles of so many different colours! Although this does not explain why one needs so many different electrical adapters when traveling over-seas. If an electrical plug is good enough for Oak Park, Illinois, it aught to be good enough for London, England!
And all those other places where people allegedly live and have jobs and lives and stuff. Families and kids and what-not. Or so I have heard. They should be thankful that America has offered them real electrical thingiemabobs instead that cheap junk from China.
And don't even get me started on the people hoarding "bathroom Tissue" over here! The virus is going to suddenly make them take seven shits a day? Eight? They have to carry three rolls with them at all times because, Hey! You can never tell when you might have to shit in a supermarket parking lot!
Medical Pot. It's a godsend, and a curse. Mix it with beer, and....at least I can get to sleep at night.
And the devil take the hindmost!
