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quarta-feira, 14 de junho de 2023

Axiomas mágicos que devemos ter em conta sempre

Ritual Circle 

Artista: Skulking_astronomer

Axiomas são os princípios universalmente válidos. 

Assim, o aprendizado e prática da magia tem aspectos que são perenes e válidos para todas áreas. 

Assim, alguns axiomas que devemos ter em conta sempre, e citados pelo Mestre Vovin da StudioArcanis e que tem a ver com sua possibilidade de aprendizado e assim ter resultados em magia:


1. Invoque frequentemente.

2. Banir frequentemente.

3. Faça com estilo.

4. Mantenha um senso de perspectiva.

5. Quando pego de surpresa - Improvise!


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Consultas e atividades com Gilberto Strapazon

 Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia - Portuguese text


 Readings and Magic Works - English text


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domingo, 8 de maio de 2022

Não ofereço cursos, não aceito alunos, aprendizes, etc. e nem faço mentoria

The Tree of Books

Artista: Vlad Gerasimov - Russia 

Nota inicial: 
Não me enviem mensagens pedindo "dicas" e muito menos "receitas" de feitiços ou rituais. 
Rapidamente as pessoas descobrem que não é tão fácil assim. E alguns até mesmo nos cobram pelos seus resultados (ou falta desses) o que é bem frustrante para nós. 

Com frequência as pessoas me solicitam quanto a disponibilidade de cursos ou mentoria comigo. 

Lamento, mas não ofereço cursos, não aceito alunos, aprendizes, etc. e nem faço mentoria.

Não insista por favor. 

Eventualmente faço aulas individuais privadas mas é para quem já tenha razoável experiência prática de alguns anos e é Consulta Formal em video neste caso e exclusivamente para isso, portanto outros assuntos serão recusados. 

Magia é um aprendizado gradual de muito anos e não se aprende com dicas fáceis. 

Assim solicito que quaisquer assuntos gerais sejam postados nos grupos e participo como possível. 

E para ser sincero, eu realmente tenho vários alunos desde os anos 90s em muitos países. 
Mas sempre serão escolhidos por mim. Não adianta pedir. 
Todos foram primeiro meus clientes ou até colegas avançados em grupos de magia e com o tempo fui ensinando de maneira discreta sem nem perceberem que se tornaram meus alunos. 
Sou eu quem escolho quando vejo que estão prontos para isso. 


Já disponibilizo muito material para estudo em artigos, livros, vídeos e participação em grupos na internet. 

Se deseja começar seus estudos bons livros são obrigatórios. 

Veja no link abaixo o texto "Lista de Sugestões de Leitura" que traz muito material e orientações iniciais necessárias ao estudo. Ali também tem materiais de magia angélica, etc. 

Não me peça para sugerir qual livro seria melhor para você pois neste caso requer tempo e torna-se consulta formal para avaliar seus conhecimentos e o que busca. Muito menos vou responder a pedidos de PDFs que você mesmo deve procurar no Google. 

Para materiais que já disponibilizo clique nos links abaixo: 

Esses poderão ajudar no seu aprendizado e tantas necessidades pessoais.


Casos de dificuldade real

Para situações de dificuldade. Se você realmente não pode pagar, ofereço o material abaixo com orientações para você mesmo fazer, mesmo para quem não tenha experiência em magia e é o que posso oferecer. 

Ajuda espiritual gratuita - Materiais disponíveis e orientações


Sobre pedidos de "dicas" ou "apenas uma perguntinha"

Nunca é só uma perguntinha e vou responder apenas informando o link para consultas formais

Conversar comigo sobre magia, ocultismo, suas situações particulares trata-se de consulta formal, este é meu trabalho e não estou disponível para bate-papo. 

Precisamos solicitar aos nossos leitores que não me enviem mensagens pedindo "dicas" e muito menos "receitas" de feitiços ou rituais. 

E alguns até mesmo nos cobram pelos seus resultados (ou falta desses) o que é bem frustrante para nós. 

Questões pessoais são consideradas de cunho particular e, portanto, trabalho profissional

Caso você queira consultas para orientação ou até esteja interessado que eu faça rituais de magia para você visite a minha página de Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia

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terça-feira, 11 de janeiro de 2022

Serviços em magia. Quem você procura ajuda ou quer lhe destruir?



Um alerta sempre para quem procura serviços em magia, consultas, etc. quanto a tantas postagens nas redes sociais onde as pessoas se promovem tantas vezes com situações demonstrando um grande poder de destruição, dizem que ninguém pode com o seu imenso poder e por aí afora. 

Assim, quando você tem uma necessidade para sua vida, seja de saúde, financeira, equilíbrio pessoal e emocional, quem é que aparece? 

Entendam que é muito feio pessoas que não tem um mínimo de equilíbrio emocional ficarem postando material onde se promovem como sendo grande coisa na magia, que seus espíritos são X-Y ou Z, se acham os grandes fodões, que é propaganda de seus "enormes" poderes falarem que destroem todo mundo que discordarem deles numa prova de que não tem humildade nem compaixão nenhuma? 

Fazem postagens criticando quem não concorda com eles de maneira rude, sem apresentar um ensinamento, apenas grosserias típicas de valentões. 

Se a pessoa já critica quem discordar deles mostra não ter humildade e muito menos conhecimento, é apenas um fanfarrão se exibindo e jamais vão ajudar realmente pois tudo ali é pura vaidade. 

E para esses, os teus problemas não representam nada. Esqueça se esperar uma ajuda profissional sincera. 

Se tiver um amigo na polícia peça para olhar a ficha corrida desses e é sugestão séria. 

Veja, certamente precisamos ter compaixão pelas pessoas, e certamente não vamos aceitar tudo, as vezes precisamos ser claros e procurar a ajudar a colocar a pessoa no chão. Nem tudo que se pede na magia tem um motivo justo ou sincero, alguns são realmente fúteis. Porém tantos outros, são certamente pedidos honestos de ajuda e precisamos trabalhar nisso. 

Por acaso tantos desses que se promovem de maneira ameaçadora quando raramente mostram uma foto externa de suas casas percebemos que são locais onde se percebe que toda vizinhança está mal também! Mostram uma sala luxuosa do lado de dentro, porém do lado de fora sequer tem reboco nas paredes. Uma maloca! Sua rua toda e o bairro é um lixo! Nem um jardim, ninguém com vida melhor. Então como estão os vizinhos dessas pessoas? Geralmente pior ainda. 

Pessoalmente algo que repito sempre, quem faz magia, sugiro que peça sempre também pelo melhor dos seus vizinhos, seja quem, for! Só ajuda a melhorar seu bairro e sua energia pessoal! 

Proém, preciso comentar que tantos fazem magias pedindo para piorar a vida dos vizinhos. Sei as brigas sérias que já tive por causa de pessoas jogando feitiço pelo bairro inteiro de propósito para causar problemas e assim terem clientes. E tantos BOs. Acontece também infelizmente. 

Então pensem bem, você contrataria alguém assim para lhe ajudar num caso de dificuldade? Nenhum vizinho está bem na área da pessoa? 

Você como tantos passa por dificuldades vai procurar alguém que só fala de destruição e maldade até se divertindo com isso e tantos fazem isso mostrando terem prazer em fazer o mal? 

Justamente alguém que só posta ameaças e ofensas para se promover como um fanfarrão? 

E alguns trouxas acham que isso é ser sincero? É apenas prova de que a pessoa só faz maldade e não respeita ninguém! Inclusive para você!

Será que alguém assim vai ajudar você num caso de dificuldade na sua vida, até saúde de um familiar ou crianças, ou vai novamente agir dessa maneira arrogante com você até lhe humilhando quando mais precisar de ajuda?

Pesquise, se informe melhor. 

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11/01/2022

sábado, 20 de novembro de 2021

A Lenda da Armadilha de Sonhos


 

A armadilha de sonhos é um dos símbolos mais facilmente reconhecíveis da tradição nativa norte-americana. 

Basicamente a armadilha ou filtro de sonhos é um amuleto da cultura indígena norte-americana para se proteger de sonhos maus e até evitar ataques de espíritos negativos durante o sonho e poderia ajudar a purificar energias do ambiente. 

O povo Cree do Canadá relata a sua origem.

Uma aranha estava silenciosa fazendo sua teia, ao lado do lugar de dormir de Vovó Nokomis.

Cada dia, Vovó Nokomis olhava a aranha trabalhando, tecendo em silencio.

Um dia, enquanto ela contemplava a aranha, seu neto chegou.

-"Nokomis-iya!" exclamou mirando a aranha e avançou sobre ela com o sapato na mão.

-"No-keegwa, sussurrou a velha senhora, "não a mate".

-"Nokomis, por que você protege a aranha?" perguntou o pequeno menino.

A velha senhora sorriu, mas não respondeu. Quando o menino saiu, a aranha veio junto à velha senhora e agradeceu por ter salvo sua vida.

Disse: "Por muitos dias você tem me olhado tecendo minha teia. Você tem admirado meu trabalho. Como recompensa por salvar minha vida, eu lhe darei um presente."

Ela sorriu seu sorriso especial de aranha e moveu-se de volta, tecendo por onde veio.

Logo, a lua brilhou sobre uma mágica teia prateada, movendo-se gentilmente na janela.

-"Vê como fio?" disse a aranha . "Veja e aprenda, para que cada teia apanhe maus sonhos. Apenas bons sonhos passarão pelo pequeno buraco. Este é meu presente para você. Use-a assim apenas os bons sonhos serão lembrados. Os maus sonhos serão irremediavelmente aprisionados na teia."

Lenda do povo nativo Cree do Canadá.

(Fonte: internet)

 

Publicado originalmente no meu Buddha-Zine nro 8, Dezembro de 1999


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quinta-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2021

Depressão, tristeza, transtornos, pensamento suicidas. Uma pequena tentativa de ajuda.

Snowflakes
Autor: Pete Revonkorpi - Finland


Este artigo é resultado de comentários que tenho recebido de tantas pessoas, que tem trabalhado com os livros que tenho disponibilizado para que vocês mesmos possam aprender e se ajudar, e assim, relatos relatando a ajuda e melhorias que obtiveram por si mesmas através do poder da oração com os Anjos que nos trazem a benção de Deus em suas vidas. 
Os livros principalmente, dos Arcanjos Raphael e Michael, falam dos aspectos de saúde, em todas suas formas. E certamente, não foi minha intenção sugerir limites, áreas, doenças pois buscamos a bençãos maiores de Deus e os Anjos são seus emissários então é pela Graça Divina que receberemos resultados. 
Inclusive admito que eu sequer havia considerado algo importante e tão comum em nossos dias como a depressão, ansiedade, crises de pânico, e até transtornos mais graves que podem realmente levar a pessoa a situações de sério risco pessoal. 
Por isso são relatos pessoais importantes, e que me inspiram, pois cada pessoa pensou por si mesma e decidiu usar essas orações para suas necessidades e tem nos enviado mensagens falando do que tem observado de mudanças e melhorias nas suas vidas. 
Assim, mais uma vez agradecendo os testemunhos, apresento algumas sugestões para ter a ajuda dos grandes Anjos, que são os emissários de Deus pois é D'Ele que provém toda a força. 


Depressão. 

A depressão foi considerada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde como o "mal do século XXI". 
Primeiro de tudo, confie nos médicos, é uma área que requer também um atendimento clínico profissional. O que vamos comentar aqui será apenas uma busca para auxiliar nesses casos. 
Depressão. Lidar com isso não é milagre. 
É desejo de viver mesmo quando quando nem isso a pessoa encontra em si. 
Por isso a imagem do artigo citado, desejar aquecer em si o desejo da vida, apreciar um calor pessoal quando mesmo o mundo todo parece estar contra. 
É uma pequena sugestão de alguém que também passou por isso, tive tantos casos pessoalmente acompanhando muito de perto,  e conseguir ajuda para conseguir levantar da cama a cada manhã, enfrentar situações de família tóxicas muito difíceis, as dificuldades espirituais e sociais afetando nossa vida.
Enfim, eu também passei por isso e acompanhei tantas situações e tive muitas respostas positivas de pessoas que também estão usando essas orações na suas vidas. 
Repito, não é milagre, é uso prático da magia angélica, são rituais formais que qualquer pessoa pode fazer e com o grande poder dos anjos em seu favor. 
Espero que ajude a quem precisar. 


Atenção: Quaisquer sugestões devem ser utilizados observando o contexto do histórico médico e a orientação relevante da medicina.  

 

As paredes da moradia lhe oprimindo, móveis de que não gosta, comida que parece estar sempre ruim, pessoas na rua que parecem que vão lhe atacar, situações de vida que são apenas de tristeza e não se tem motivo para levantar da cama que também se torna um local ruim e nada traz alguma paz para a pessoa. Daí a idéia da busca da morte pelo suicídio como libertação, mas que certamente não será, pois vai se tornar uma alma penada na minha opinião, vagando na mais fria das trevas e como médium posso comentar que não é nada agradável o que já vi. 

Eu mesmo no passado fui suicida, cito nos meus artigos, livros e vídeos. Tive meus problemas imensos e dificuldades mas estou aqui. 

Certamente outros aspectos como ansiedade pode ser bastante comuns, mas repito, primeiro consulte o médico. 

Precisei da busca pessoal, ajuda de muitos bons colegas e tive minha própria solução que foi muito pessoal, mas faz parte do meu aprendizado e por isso estou aqui vivo e feliz falando para as pessoas. 

Tenho procurado entender melhor como na Goetia e tantas outras áreas da magia poderíamos ajudar em tais casos, tem situações interessantes mas vou demorar ainda para apresentar algo em livro pois precisa de um trabalho maior e bem específico. 

Mas quero apresentar uma sugestão pois tantos tem comentado usar isso em suas vidas nas mais diversas áreas com bons resultados, então pode ser que também lhe ajude. 

E fico feliz ter recebido tantos relatos que incluem essa área que é difícil para quem sofre de depressão e estarem tendo também mais uma ajuda para si e encontrarem uma força que lhes está ajudando a fazer uma nova caminhada mais luminosa em suas vidas. 

Não é cura, não é milagre. Cada dia de nossas vidas teremos nossos passos por fazer, eu mesmo passei por isso então afirmo que podemos sim mudar nossas vidas para melhor se é o que desejamos. 

Eu gosto demais da área angélica, assim temos o Arcanjo Raphael que é o grande anjo da cura, mas também do conhecimento, proteção de caminhos e só por isso vale incluir numa oração feita para que ele "guie com alegria por caminhos de luz, sabedoria, prósperos e seguros". 

Outro é o Arcanjo Michael que ajuda a afastar energias negativas que sempre se aproximam de quem está em dificuldades assim, ilumina sua vida, ajuda contra ataques de magia,, pode mostrar com sua luz novos horizontes, afastar as sombras, abrir caminhos em negócios e, assim ajudar para que junto com Raphael, que os caminhos da pessoa sejam luminosos e felizes. 

No link abaixo tem dois livros meus a respeito, são orações baseadas nos antigos grimórios medievais e que tenho recebido comentários muito interessantes quanto ao seu uso, inclusive no caso citado da necessária cura da mente, ter a paz de espírito, enfrentar e até vencer a depressão. 

São orações simples, mas feitas para buscar o máximo das energias do poder dos nomes de Deus e seus grande Anjos preparadas para serem feitas por qualquer pessoa sem nenhuma dificuldade. 

Tenho recebido de tantas partes comentário positivos quanto ao seu uso, inclusive para ajudar na depressão e outros aspectos da vida pessoal. 

Não se trata de milagre, mas usar aquele desejo que está em você de voltar a ter uma vida luminosa e cada pequeno passo que conseguir, vai valer muito. 

Você não está sózinho, acredite nisso. As maiores forças do universo desejam seu sucesso, que tenha sua saúde e sua paz espiritual. 

Acesse os livros sugeridos no link abaixo: 

https://www.gilbertostrapazon.com.br/livros


São coisas simples mas poderão ajudar. E é este o propósito deste trabalho, ter a ajuda Divina. 

Mas sempre, repito, confie na medicina. Procure seu médico, psicólogo ou até um psiquiatra para lhe ajudar.  

 

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terça-feira, 1 de agosto de 2017

Os Doze Ciclos da Verdade para que a Paz se Manifeste.


Buscar a verdade sempre.
Arte: Sayoko - Thailand

Os Doze Ciclos da Verdade para que a Paz se Manifeste

Faz tempo que penso em escrever sobre um aspecto citado no livro da Jamie Sams, chamado "As Cartas do Caminho Sagrado" (Ed. Rocco) que além de oráculo considero muito interessante para auto-conhecimento e aprendizado.
Basicamente o livro e suas cartas abordam os ensinamentos de vários povos nativos norte-americanos.
O aspecto que quero citar é da carta "Roda do Arco-Íris", que fala da Unidade e Consciência da Totalidade.




Enquanto eu preparava este material, Brother Moloch publicou um excelente artigo, Lying About the Truth (Mentindo sobre a verdade) onde comenta sobre as mentiras do mundo e como acabam fazendo parte de nossas vidas e a maneira com que lidamos com ela.

Aqui eu quero comentar sobre a busca da verdade como parte de um caminho pessoal.


Os Doze Ciclos da Verdade para que a Paz se manifeste.

A tradução da edição brasileira por uma falha menor de edição infelizmente omite uma destas (realmente está faltando) e por isso cito aqui a versão integral do mesmo, mas extraído de uma entrevista com uma famosa anciã do povo Seneca,  a Vovó Twylah Hurd Nitsch.
"Meu avô me ensinou a seguir os Doze ciclos da verdade e os caminhos da paz para preservar minha totalidade e me ajudar a caminhar em equilíbrio e cumprir a missão da minha vida. Eles são:
1-aprender a Verdade,
2-honrar a Verdade,
3-conhecer a Verdade,
4-ver a Verdade,
5-ouvir a Verdade,
6-falar a Verdade,
7-amar a Verdade,
8-servir a Verdade,
9-viver a Verdade,
10-trabalhar a Verdade,
11-compartilhar a Verdade
12-ser grato pela verdade. O Caminho da Paz está vivendo em harmonia com esta filosofia antiga.

Eu conheci este livro nos anos 90, e como não tinha acesso a edição original, sempre senti falta de mais um aspecto, assim acabei por meditar procurando qual seria a parte faltante e concluí que seria "ser verdadeiro". Veja, isso foi muito antes da Internet e certamente na época eu não iria importar o livro original para conferir isso.
Mas foi um exercício pessoal muito interessante.
E para mim "ser verdadeiro" sempre fez parte da minha índole pessoal. E entendo como isso está contido nos 12 aspectos.

Mas a a parte que faltava, só muito depois descobri ser "ouvir a verdade".
E uma amiga íntima muito querida também observou isso. Pessoa a quem sempre agradeço muito.

Ser verdadeiro é apenas um resultado da aplicação em nossa vida destes aspectos.
Seria como o 13º aspecto que assim como para os cristãos seria lembrar que eram 12 apóstolos e mais o 13º, a fonte a ser ouvida.
Seguir os 12 ciclos e ser verdadeiro.


Então, percebi que o aspecto faltante na lista seria "Ouvir a verdade".

Leia os itens acima novamente. Pode parecer um pequeno detalhe mas isto fez muita diferença para mim.

E por que? Será apenas um único aspecto?
Bem, 1995-96 foi um período de contatos extremos com as forças espirituais, eu dentro disso fiz um ritual formal e com um juramento iniciático pessoal sobre os dozes ciclos, me comprometendo a seguí-los. Um simples motivo pelo qual não posso mentir. Posso estar errado nalgum posicionamento, mas eu vou dizer o que sinto e entendo.
Porém se estiver errado, estou aberto para reconhecer o erro e aprender. Faz parte.

E é a partir daqui que continuo este texto.



Muitas pessoas associam o ocultismo com espiritualismo ou que sejam parte de alguma religião.
Mas não é bem assim.
O ocultismo basicamente é uma linha de estudo e práticas a respeito do paranormal, etc. e que não necessariamente faz parte das tradicionais linhas científicas e até mesmo é proibido em certas religiões.
É o estudo do oculto, aquilo que não é revelado de forma mundana. Sugiro que você se divirta procurando primeiro de tudo, os significados mais básicos nos dicionários formais de seu idioma. Só depois olhe e compare as muitas definições que vai encontrar nos muitos livros dessa área.

Muitas áreas do ocultismo são também parte das linhas espiritualistas e tantas religiões.
Daí ser normal uma certa confusão em relação ao significado e aplicação destas palavras.

Para praticar magia não precisa ser espiritualista ou meditar. Daí termos a Teurgia e a Taumaturgia.
Da mesma forma, uma pessoa espiritualista pode não aceitar a magia.
E uma pessoa religiosa pode considerar a magia algo normal. Vide as religiões africanas, Taoistas ou simplesmente o uso dos Salmos nas tradições de origem cristãs.
E ao mesmo tempo, mesmo pessoas destas religiões não aceitam a magia por algum motivo.

Assim temos a magia baseada em espíritos, anjos, divindandes, etc. tanto quanto existe uma linha chamada de "modelo psicológico" da magia, em que seus praticantes não acreditam na existência de espíritos e acham que tudo está dentro da mente das pessoas.
Pessoalmente eu discordo do modelo psicológico por experiência pessoal. Citando um comentário de Rufus Opus, seria preciso ser muito narcisista para pensar que todo Universos já está dentro da mente da própria pessoa.

A maneira como percebemos as coisas tem a ver com o nosso próprio desenvolvimento nas diversas áreas da vida.
Assim, mesmo que não seja espiritualista, de alguma maneira os ocultistas também vão ter um desenvolvimento nessa área mesmo que não sigam certas práticas ou busquem por isso. Apenas vai ser algo que vai acontecer com o tempo a medida que aprendem mais, estudam e passam a observar tantas coisas relativas ao mundo e suas energias que assim acabam por ter também um desenvolvimento nestes aspectos.


E assim falamos de desenvolvimento pessoal.
Eu tenho uma linha espiritual que começou primeiro pelos aspectos mentalistas, cartesianos. Livros, estudos, práticas que podem ser feitas até de forma mecânica se houver todo o necessário esforço e aprendizado para isso.
Mas ao mesmo tempo, fui percebendo que isso estava relacionado a energias do mundo e apesar de ter dificuldades em fazer uma conexão entre resultados e as coisas que observava, já percebia que havia algo mais, as forças espirituais. Apenas não sabia como lidar com elas e continuei por muito tempo usando a minha mente, como principal canal de manifestação, mesmo que já tivesse uma percepção quanto a outras forças atuantes no universo.
Certamente minha vida era bem mundana e com tanta informação certamente era estranho lidar com as pessoas nessa vida e ao mesmo tempo em busca de outros horizontes.
Então descobri a meditação e meu Mestre e fiz uma guinada drástica na minha vida da noite para o dia. Uma experiência que já relatei nos foruns de magia.

O principal foi perceber que o único que poderia mudar era a mim mesmo. E começou a grande caminhada descobrindo a cada dia outros aspectos e pontos de vista a serem estudados e conhecidos.
Aprendi a meditar, observar o mundo, a quebrar dogmas e paradigmas que eu carregava comigo tanto pela formação social e familiar, quanto pelos meus próprios estudos que até então apenas tinham sido informação que eu não sabia realmente como usar.
Meditação tornou-se parte da minha vida assim como estar aberto a experiência, não aquela das crenças, mas minhas próprias experiências. Descobrir o novo, questionar, aprender, observar e experimentar. É por isso que digo que falo a partir de minhas próprias vivências. Eu gosto de estudar, sempre tive paixão pelos livros, por estudar outras vidas e como as pessoas conseguiram seus resultados. Mas isso é informação que pode ser útil certamente, mas quando você mesmo faz suas experiências arrisca-se a descobrir outros aspectos e novos horizontes.

E perceber o quanto a magia está relacionada a isso nos seus múltiplos aspectos.
Ver, ouvir, respeitar, ser grato, etc.

Como citei ao início, a magia para mim também é parte da busca espiritual, de uma maneira de viver e sentir a vida. Um ponto de vista pessoal certamente, pois continuo sendo um buscador do eterno, de perceber a vida em todos seus aspectos e a magia é para mim uma maneira de nos ligarmos ao todo, em suas múltiplas manifestações.



Novamente vemos como certas denominações tem mais de um sentido, como por exemplo a Alquimia, que tanto é uma área da magia quanto também se refere a alquimia interior, a transformação espiritual.


Assim nos tornamos ativos em relação a existência e não apenas mero espectadores.

Depois de muitas vivências nestas décadas, percebi que algo estava faltando quando busquei os doze ciclos da verdade como algo a trabalhar em mim mesmo.
E foi justamente o citado ao início: "ouvir a verdade". Eu percebia as coisas, procurava observar os aspectos. Mas de uma certa forma não estava realmente ouvindo. E por causa disso, tantas vezes eu pensei ter sido vítima de minha própria compaixão ao permitir que tantas coisas acontecessem ou fossem feitas em relação a mim, até mesmo me prejudicando.
Mas na verdade, eu estava recebendo a informação, mas não estava "ouvindo".
Portanto, não foi apenas compaixão. Foi não dar a necessária atenção ao que me era apresentado.
E certamente fiz muitas escolhas e tomei decisões erradas e que afetaram primeiro a mim e noutras vezes as pessoas que eu amava.
Ouvimos as coisas e ainda assim, optamos por diversas razões, a seguir outras opções. Chame isso de compaixão, paciência ou escolhas pessoais. Mas seguir o caminho do "bem" as vezes também significa ter que agir contra aqueles que buscam nosso mal.

O importante é manter a busca para realizar em nossa própria vida estes doze ciclos da verdade.

Um único aspecto pode fazer muita diferença em tudo o que vamos descobrir e aprender. São as bases para que tenhamos raízes sólidas naquilo que fazemos.

Isso tem muito a ver com a própria Roda da Vida do Tarot quando nos apresenta seus aspectos evolutivos e involutivos e faz parte do processo de cura de nossos aspectos pessoais para uma vida harmoniosa.

Quando deixamos de perceber algum aspecto, ou fazemos escolhas, isso pode até nos desviar de nosso caminho e teremos outras experiências que por um lado vão adicionar mais informações sobre o que podemos entender como certo ou errado, ou como adequadas ou não aos objetivos maiores que tenhamos em vida.

Mas o principal é nunca desistir de buscar a verdade. E ser grato por ela.


P+
04/08/2017


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Leia também: 
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Consultas e atividades com Gilberto Strapazon

Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia - Portuguese text


Readings and Magic Works - English text


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quinta-feira, 24 de novembro de 2016

Using Each of The Four Elements for Oracle Reading. Uso dos Quatro Elementos em Oráculos

Lakeside camp. A nice place with the four elements around. 
by SnowSara


Using Each of The Four Elements for Oracle Reading. 
Uso dos Quatro Elementos na Leitura Oracular


Texto em português disponível para download. Clique aqui: "Uso dos Quatro Elementos na Leitura Oracular"


Here I will talk some about working with the power of the four elements.

To the ancient Greek and most western traditions, there are four elements and they are the prime force in the nature.
They are Fire, Air, Earth and Water.

I used the word “oracle” instead of “divination” to suggest the idea about an oracle to be the active part and do the work while the reader get the results from it. Here, the reader is an observer and able to interact and get the information the oracle present.
For sure reading capabilities and previous oracle works are very desired, like developing your 3rd eye and intuition. Advanced oracle skills are highly desired like other previous training, like meditation and some knowledge of the nature in a shamanic view.
Also, I will use the words “elements” and “elementals” for the same purpose. For example, the salamanders or just “fire”.

I won’t enter at the aspects of working with the elemental’s Kings level nor at other higher spirits who are related to the elements too. Such practices are most related with the practices to work with spirits, their correspondences and areas of acting.
For sure it’s great to use the elemental oracles together with the spirits working. They add a powerful tool and different ways to develop your perception.

So, to the extents I choose for now, I will cite spirits as a part of the work if you choose to add it. But the focus is going for a direct elementals work.
If you choose to call first spirits to rule the operation, that is interesting too.


To add some study suggestions, in the Tarot, the Ace cards means the pure aspects of each elemental energy. Something interesting to study and their following manifestations among the cards. The lower arcana cards (1 to 10) are just the manifesting power of the elements, but accordingly with their numerological aspects too.
So, this is something more for your study about Numerology and also for Qabalah (Gematry). That is very related to the elementals in the ways they manifest their power in the world.
Agrippa is always a good resource for study too.

But while theory is very good to add information and knowledge, this is not an armchair work to be done at your library room.
Using the elements as oracle is a nature work. Remember this. Even at your temple room, you must be able to connect with nature forces.
If you have not some forests to go, even so you may have some park around, gardens, etc. When you open your eyes, you will discover every tree at the street is looking for you and wishing to be seen. The moment you discover this, you never will be alone again. Nature is all around us.

As nature forces, the Elements are the main part of life and have their own spirits too.
At the elemental levels, we found many living beings, the popular names are gnomes, fairies, undines, sylphs, etc. Each country have traditional names for them.
This work is about them. Yes, the fairies, sylphs, gnomes, undines, salamanders. They are the ones working to show you what they have to say.
There are also what is named Genius Loci, the spirits of each place. Frater Rufus Opus wrote some very good material about working with them at the Ritual Offerings book.
See, each place have its own spirits. See the eastern traditions about the Devas, or discovering a mountain or a river are also living beings.

In the book “Toilers of the Sea” from Victor Hugo, at the beginning, Gilliatt the main character, who was someone strange to the village people, comments some like “if the air and water are transparent, why not to be such transparent living ones there?” With time science have discovered many of them too.  A bit of fantasy plus a lot of reality to discover. Glad too often science have just confirmed what occultists know for ages.

The basic idea for Element’s Oracles is first observe they are “life too”, so it is just something like a talk with them.
In other words, it is part of a relationship with the elements you are working with.

This is the best suggestion I can present you about working with an oracle: talk with it, create a respectful relationship with it. With time, this become mutual and you will discover another level of communication with them.

And think what you do for a relationship or to have a date. Uhm? Something so. Prepare and be respectful.
One first practice is to observe how they are beautiful and powerful. 
The moment you opens up for the beauty in the nature, nature himself will opens up for you.

It’s a shamanic idea, one of the oldest source of all magic in the world. An interesting work about the shamanic sources of grimoires magick is presented by Aaron Leitch at “Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires”.

Many native traditional cultures name the elementals as relatives. Mother earth, brother wind, sister water, etc.
This is to recognize they are part of the wide nature as all of us are part of that.
One more reason to repeat: be respectful. This is a main rule we have learned in traditional magic, sorcery, whatever area. Be angels, daemons, nature spirits, whatever.
They share the same living planet and astral dimensions all of us are living.
And many of them are ready to be your friends someway too.
Got this?
A respectful approach and the true desire to learn and to be opened to receive their energies will do wonders.
This is also related to opening your spiritual eye, the 3rd eye vision. There are many ways for that for sure. This is just one more. To be receptive.
And remember this: To say sincere “thanks” it’s a master key too.


General warnings about working with elementals
 
As cited before, people too often think fairies and others are nice, sweet, anything so fluffy to deal with. Just because fantasy tales.
And what happens?
They put many gnomes and fairies’s images at home, burn incense and invite them as guests. Like a party.
And their houses appears like a mystic store at first days. But wait.
Elementals spirits are bi-dimensional beings. There are just so closer of our tri-dimensional world.
And they are like children without rules too.
Such people invite them at home and forget about. Soon things are broken or disappears.
And most people does not realize what is the real source of the troubles! Elementals playing at their houses.
Just children foolish. Think about as many children running at your house like crazy doing all foolish things without any care.
As any other spirit, elementals may be called for work and then dismissed.
Yes, be explicit to tell them to let the place and go back to their own area.
Even if you are doing this with that nice fairies dolls you found at some mystic store. 

This is one more reason we talk to never let an unattended candle.
Get this? The elementals like to walk around. Remember this.
Safety procedures are always needed. Be careful.
Think about this: even if you someday become a master, your workers and disciples still won’t be at same level and you must have an eye on them.

So, if you already learned to invoke the Angels, Kings or any Daemons related to that elemental areas, you always can invoke them to be over and command the operation you are doing and to watch over the elementals beings you are calling to work with.
As told above just for cite, this is possible too and very interesting. 

The idea of calling the pure elementals is also because you will be calling forces who are like children to work. But as any children, they have a long tongue when doing oracles. LOL…


Warning about photos


Photo by objektiiv.ee
In modern times, we have seen many images or such works. I do it sometimes too and some are vey nice.
The most easy to get are photos of fire.
But this is ruled under the same as for any magic working: you must ask permission to register what you are doing.

This is very important to remember. Be respectful!

Never, but never try to register images of any ritual or an elements oracle working without asking explicit permission. So you must be very alert to what kind of reply, some signal about the permission for doing that.
You are working with elementals and spirits, so be sure you will not be hidden trying to do such register. Ok?
Without an explicit permission, be with the traditional film cameras or a digital camera the results may vary just from registering nothing or just confuse images, going to a broken equipment and at some worst cases, you may receive a direct punch from the spirits who may got furious due the lack of discretion.
And a direct punch from such spirits can be anything, like some bad times doing cleanings and banishments going to even something simple, like a small stone jumping against your car’s front glass in the middle of the way. I saw even that. So do not mess with them.


Simple but effective 

To be short, such elementals oracles are simple but need practice while you develop your skills.
As cited before, an elemental oracle is something just like talking with it and to observe to the replies.
But as any spirits working, just to repeat, you must be respectful.
So prepare your oracle with the needed care, do the best you can for each case.
Do the best you can each time.
Temporary needs happens to anyone for sure, just be clear to say and explain this when you open the oracle and show you have a serious compromise to do better as you can.
To be sincere with them will help to make a solid relationship.
And again, a true relationship is what you need to work with the elements oracles.


The Oracles

Repeating once more. You will talk with the elementals and this is working as you open your spiritual vision.
I will comment some about each one, adding more at some due personal preferences.
But we have the same basic working ideas for each element for sure.

And very important: each oracle will present the information a very different point of view.

So think on this: each element have a different time and way in time. The visions you will get are related to that point of view.


A Cauldron Ritual of Fire of mine.


The Fire Oracle

Probably the most popular.
The fire is beautiful and anyone have seen images of witches dancing nude around a fire. A bit of fantasy people have for sure.

The most popular fire oracle I have seen is just to lit a candle and gaze at it.
And too often, I see a lot of newage style comments about guided visualizations and comments about how the flame may move this or that way. The problem is in practice, you won’t be reading many pages of a guided instructions for something that may be simple. No way! In my opinion many of such “instructions” are something near a fantasy mystic delusional delirium.
At maximum, my suggestion is to read that to get some idea, sometime one or other useful phrase may be found as many of such texts are just based or a copy from some source. With some luck, you will find something new to use. 

About using candles for a fire oracle, uhm, Ok, that will work.
May the flame dance or not, do some movements to get your attention.
We have many signals during rituals just coming from the candles. For sure they have a proper use.

But to be sincere, I’m not in love about to use a candle as a fire oracle. It’s so shy… 

See, fire is a strong example of free power. Fire need space to manifest.
Just release the fire and you will see the destruction it may does.
Fire is action.
Do not mess with the fire.

However, for a good fire oracle in my personal opinion is needed a decent size fire.
Please, do not put fire at the entire area.
Just have a decent size fire to last for some 30 minutes or more so the elementals can enjoy the place and do their work.
You may do a bonfire at your backyard or in a safe place in the woods or use a cauldron for it with a cup of alcohol at the cauldron.
If you do not have a witch's iron cauldron, you can use even a cuisine pot, but remember this is just something temporary only.
Be respectful in preparing your work materials, so a cuisine pot can only be used for the time it takes until you to get a better tool, a real iron cauldron or a yard to make a decent campfire.
Remember, use what you can, the best of it. But if you expect for real development you must work to have a proper tool.

Well, that is about having a decent size fire.
Yes, if you want to do a call for the fire elementals, the first is to do a decent size fire.
For sure, does not burn a forest nor your house. Does not be fanatic.
Be sure a very big fire, like a forest or a building burning does not will be good to try to use as an oracle. That is a time when fire get out of control, so do not mess with it!

As a personal choice, I love to do a bonfire at backyard or at some place in nature.
Just think about that as the same you would do while in a camp.
Campfires are great places where friends meet, even got drunk and talk a lot of bullshit.
If you read again the previous phrase, you get one aspect of the fire elementals working: passion. Make people be hot and friendly with others. Campfires are great times for people meeting. Companies would do a lot more if they turn their office meetings into doing campfires with their executives. Not just a barbeque. I say a decent size fire to people be around. But that works also often expose secrets because the fire light and sometimes a lot of alcohol drinking. LOL…
What ancient warriors did while planning or preparing for a fight next day? A campfire. Uhm?

Just to cite a scene at movies, just see Kirk, McCoy and my beloved uncle Spock at the movie “Star Trek V The Final Frontier”. They traveled everywhere into the Galaxy in a starship. But just a campfire did wonders. How far does you have gone when something so near can do wonders?
I add that part just to note they are in a campfire.


That are epic scenes anyways if you like Sci-Fi.  But if you don't like Star Trek, sorry.

So what the idea with the oracle of fire?

Action.
Fire is flow.
Fire is passion.
Fire burn something to turn it into something else (air). Better to remember, smoke is related to the air. And the final result is the earth (ashes).
The fire will show aspects under the vision of “action”, movement. Events happening related to something.
Consecrate your fireplace as you choose and greeting the energies and spirits you may be or not asked to be present too.
A fire oracle is like a happy hour with friends sometimes.
During a bonfire or at the cauldron, I will be drinking a good wine and sharing with the evoked energies.
Let’s the fire become present and flow as it become hotter and moving. Take your time.
If you want, you can invite the fire elementals to present themselves if they want. See this, invite but allow them to choose if they want to be present.
Sometimes the salamanders will appears dancing in the fire and they are very nice flashing there.
It’s interesting to observe as sometimes they will be really present and dance in the flames.
All that is moving. And that is a party.

As you get the fire to be really live, look to the fire and ask it to open for you the oracle of the flames.
Be explicit. Something like:
“I invoke the oracle of flames. May this flames open the gates so I can see all occult things and understand what I want about N.”
Where “N” is the area, person or topic you want to know.
Then just observe the fire and let your mind to be opened to any ideas you got. Sometimes the flames may do some move that catch your attention. Other times, that will flash like images into your head as you develop your intuition and 3rd eye vision.
Watch and allow that to flow.
And keep relaxed. This is not like scrying with fixed eyes, but more like just to pay attention to any scenes the fire will present you and the related ideas you got in your mind.
As I told, you may be even drinking in a feast with the fire.
The oracle images will flash when present something, with time you will learn to pay attention to some specific scene or idea and get the messages you want.
As the images flash, you will remember the fire is action and passion moving, so the replies are in the point of view of fast business, fast action. Too often very direct.

At the end, give thanks for their presence and dismiss them.


Childlike Happiness
Photo: Mark Hobson


The Water Oracle

Another popular oracle as water can be used in many ways.
You may observe the water in a big bowl, a small calm part of a river or lake or a water spring in the middle of some land area. A timid waterfall in a stream can be fantastic if you found a place in nature where the elementals spirits live.
Small areas are better and the water must be calm, except in the case of the example of a very small and calm waterfall. I say, that really small ones, just few foot height and very calm places.
As the fire, water can also become out of control.
A flood for sure is not good to try an oracle reading. Same for the places where the rivers are breaking the earth fast.
And no, is not a good idea to try this practice while you are doing a rafting in the Colorado River.
To be clear, as I did rafting before, is possible to talk with the river and receive some replies during the action, but it’s not the same as an oracle. The river will be talking while a challenge for your senses, it is more a warrior practice to learn to use.
Water is beautiful, fluid.
Water is a direct connection with your emotions.
The water oracle will show you how things appears under the emotional aspects.
The images you will get are very emotional most of times.
While fire is related with action, passion, water is related with feelings.
The fire show just action. Water will show some ideas of the “why” and “for what” just because that is related with how you feel about.

Choose the place, seat to observe.
When you ask to open the oracle of the water, you are also inviting your own emotional areas to be receptive.
How a stream flow? The water flow to reach again a calm state. This is what of to expect of the oracle. A seeking calm point of view. Even more meditative.
When a river run fast or jump in a big fall, that are done to reach a calm point again. And someday, find the sea. So the replies have a different point of view, just from someone who is watching at some distance and present a wide scenario.
Think about this: you feel your head and your foot at same time Ok? The same way, a river at source also is connected with the point where he meet the sea. Uhm? It’s a wide sense.
So between the “why” and the “for what” points, remember the river may have calms and some fast places, waterfalls, etc. happening.
Think as the water from the ocean may take some few days and weeks from the sea to the clouds and rain again into earth. That will start the cycle again to run into the sea. A giant river like the Amazon means just many weeks from the highest mountain until reach the sea again.

And here is interesting to observe and remember. There are the fast times in the life cycle of the water. From the ocean to clouds and back to the earth again in the top of the mountains.
There are rapids, falls and even some swamps where the water get trapped.
This is very related to emotions as cited before.
So the “calm” replies may also add this aspect.
Emotions can vary from happiness, to calm flow, stagnation areas and even to fear.
So even fear is a “calm” aspect of feelings. The most fear, the most vulnerable.
Fear can make someone become rigid.
How is the water in the poles or in the most high mountains? It got frozen. Ice. But even that ice someday will become fluid again. That water just choose to stay for a while, or better, a long time at such places and receive more of the energy such places have. Just think why so many people fall in love to climb and stay there, the high mountains, or at the poles. Emotions got so calm and can be observed at same time others aspects can be worked. Like observe large horizons.
To learn what fear is can make a warrior to become a hero. To go over the fear and act.
But also, fear help to the warrior does not act like a stupid suicidal.
Such images can be very deep at your most ancient memories and show things in a way you will fear or even fall in love with.

At the end, give thanks for their presence and dismiss them.
The water you used you can just throw it at the earth, like a garden to release the energy.


Wind
Photo: BenKrohn - Finland

The Air Oracle

This as the earth, can be a very rare oracle to work.
The Air will work at first on your mind. The ideas level.
What your mind is doing just now?
Stop for a moment and observe what’s really happening inside your head now.
How many different thoughts you can observe at once?
The mind area too often is very busy with a lot of events and ideas and remembering all that is happening at once.
At same time you are doing something, remembering others, plus a lot of images from current and even past events.
Just now your mind is working with this text, but also everything related with the room you are, feelings, body sensations, any sounds sources AND due this, presenting information from your memory related to all that.
Add to this, all subconscious level workings.
Your mind is like a crazy machine doing thousands of works at same time.
Every image, sound, body sensation is being compared to everything your memory have registered searching for some pattern or related topic.
You just look to something before and that brings into your current thoughts an older event?
But that also happens to something you saw times ago. Your mind took that and keep comparing, searching it at the memory files.
Is very common someone to “remember” an event due something that happened times before. In practice, your mind had been working all this time trying to do a match.
Have you think why that happened? Simple, just because the most simple thing you see, listen or think, even a smell, is compared to everything in you memory. That means, millions of events happening and you was not aware. And that can take a long time.
Got worried because all that? No worries, its just what a brain do. And this is a reason we suggest to learn some practice like meditation. To improve your brain and also your soul.

So how to get some oracle in the air?
The air is invisible!
Well, meditation practices works first to make you became just an observer. It’s not just to calm your mind, but to keep aware of that and let your soul fly free. Just to say so.
The replies the air oracle present can appears to be disconnected of other aspects, just appears something blowing in the wind.
The air elements at first are invisible. Or not. Just remember the sky appear to be blue because the sun light. 
You can feel the air due the light or because the wind.
So as the other elements, strong air movements are not safe for trying a reading. Like a hurricane.
But the wind is fresh. Like a calm river or lake.

But when there’s no wind, how to get it?

The oracle of the air is something to be worked usually at open areas.
And better near the nature.
So if you are among oppressive buildings in the city, or a closed room there are few opportunity to the elemental forces be acting without restriction.
They will be there anyway, but that also means you must be really able to get that.
So open areas, even a calm street in town area will be better.
This oracle is a bit different to open.
You may be seat in a nice place in the woods, meditating, or in the beach, or seated in you house’s garden.
This is a best condition. A calm mind and a receptive state.
But due the initiations I had, I observed it will work also anywhere, I say even walking in the street and on need of some information. But see, this is due practical training and even so, not all times a so good work condition and hard to get what is just your mind or a proper reply from the air.

As any oracle, the best is to take a time to do the reading you need.
Have a proper place and time.
As before, use your voice and command to the oracle of the air be opened for you.
The images you will get are direct into your mind level. Like ideas coming from somewhere.
Remember as commented, our brain can even be a crazy machine. You need to learn to calm your mind and be able to separate what is coming outside from your own work.
But as the fire and the water have different ways to present to you, as light or the wet emotional images, the same way the air have some aspects to observe.
The first, is moving. The wind.
A good idea is to have near something to observe, like trees, plants or even the smoke from a source. Their movements may have a meaning during the oracle of the air.
Here you will not be talking with the trees not the fire. Just using part of that to observe what the air is doing.
And for sure, the best of all, is feeling the wind around you.
When you have the pleasure of the wind, you will note how the wind is touching you, gentle or not, trying to move your head to look to some point and get an image from that place.
When you have wind, this happens, he can be like a lover hand touching you and suggesting ideas and some will again, just be flashing into your head.
Sometimes you may even note the wind touching you, but everything around is quiet. No one leaf in the trees are moving. This happened using smoke in a bonfire. I was very closer feeling the wind, but the smoke was straight as if nothing was happening.
Another was a personal reading during a Sabbath, using the wind for this, the person just in front of me had her hair and clothes moving but I felt nothing touching me. The wind was showing what was behind her thoughts and she was forced to confirm everything I told.
Yes, the elements oracles can be used for live readings when you get it.
There are more working with the air oracles.
There are the wind. But if not, you may feel changes in temperature, heat or cold that do not match the place in anyway.
Sometimes on sunny days the hot air moving up makes visible shadows on the ground, like cement, rock or sand, as if they were waves. Note this, too.
Also may happens oppressive conditions, like to be hard to breath.
I cited to dislike using candles for oracles, but once I asked the air oracle and a candle suddenly seemed to have been crushed, the flame almost erased as I asked for confirmation of the mental image I had, then suddenly the candle shone with the air as a confirm. This was a try working with this oracle inside my temple room. Another reason I talk about drastic changes in temperature. But such things happens at open places. Another was in a mountain, a very cold place and the air became hot in a way I had related messages. .
Such changes are physical to show the air is there, but such have to be related to some images or intuition you have at same time.
To say soo, such changes are just like air elementals spirits foolish. They are invisible, but they like to say they are near too.

Be sure to give thanks to the air elements. They are listening everywhere.
At the end, give thanks for their presence and dismiss them. 


Big Rock
Photo: Ruben - Vlc, Catalonia - Spain


The Earth Oracle

The earth is the most brute and the most unknown oracle.
It's the oracle of the big rocks. 
It will put you on the ground. How things in the planet was created and where they go?
This oracle often works on large period’s points of view. Not just immediate needs, but the teachings about your path in life, getting wisdom, understand how things work in a wide time lapse.
While the other elements can have short life cycles, the earth may often means hundred thousand years or even millions of years for just something happens.
This is the oracle of the big rocks.
But few times to be practiced with the small ones.
For sure crystals, or just some mirrors done with a piece of stone are great. But that are used most as divination tool.
With a great luck, one may find a not so big one, uhm, 2-3 foot size to become an oracle. But such one are rare and must be very special, taken direct from the ground and be untouched before. Still, will be like a baby rock. 
For a real oracle purpose, the best are the big ones at distant nature places and as possible, untouched or with rare contact with people so they keep their pure aspects.
Rocks need a long rest time when are disturbed. The good sculptors know they should let the stone rest in nature for a long time when they are moved or worked.
Do not mess with the old ones.
To find the ancient nobles, one must go into the mountains, deserts, cliffs or rocky coastlines.
Such ones are often the working place for initiation rites on ancient paths.
There are places with some sacred rocks who receive offerings due their power. People does not go there to do an offering for a spirit, but for the rock, or even a mountain.
As any other living being, some rocks have more power than others do.
Some ancient traditional groups had some simple practices, like to be closer a specific big rock for a long time. Like for mystic warrior challenges, standing under the sun, without water as long as possible. Or just to be under that big rock without any protection for rain, wind or cold. They are there to listen the rock and receive their ancient wisdom.
The rock is part of that and the seeker is going to get connected with its energy.
To be so closer such big elements is to face the planet most oldest beings.

Sometimes we have some big problem in life like bad memories and regrets. The type we talk about with other people sometimes. A hurt or sadness that needs to be forgotten and this can be very difficult.
If one goes to talk about that at the hair stylist, that's just gossip and receive more gossip in return. Not so much different with most people. They will reply just telling you about their problems and nothing got solved, but just the opposite, that feed the problem with more bad energy.
However, to talk to one of that older big ones rocks, for a last time is a final cut. They will hear what you have to say but contrary to people, they will return only the pure energy of nature, of growth. This same practice also work with big older trees. They are elder ones.
Telling your sorrows to these great natural beings is a way to end a cycle and leave behind something that bothers you greatly.
This is an aspect of the earth oracle. They listen too.
Get this? Any oracle in practice is a two way communication. They listen and reply.
The earth oracle is most suitable for a spiritual seeker. A warrior.
As the other oracles, it may be approached with great respect.
The rock may dislike you and fall over your head. Or make you have a bad step following, and you will jump in a cliff.
To found one, you need to walk in the woods, a coastline, a riverside or at the desert, wherever until meet a proper place. As told before, at distant places.
The work you have to be there is part of your prepare to ask for the oracle.
Seat or stand in front of the rock and stay quiet all the needed time to observe until the rock pay attention to you.
Remember, they have a long life, far away from your common idea about life, before any known modern civilization. Yes, there was many others before. So they don’t pay too much attention to fast events. That can need a long time until you have a message, a vision on the rock surface or even feeling to be moved to see another reality level.
May be you have the opportunity to found a smaller one, as cited before, 2-3 foot size, or even bigger, to adopt and let it rest undisturbed at your backyard for months and years so the stone relax and become an antenna for the inner planet energy.  That’s will be priceless.

When you finish, thanks for their presence and dismiss them.

Cooling off at Lynn Headwaters in North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Photo: Ann Badjura

Some final notes

If you have the opportunity of proper nature places for such workings, sometimes you will observe more than one element to be very near.
For example, you may find a big rock just closer a river. This way, you can invoke the energy of the water to expand your inner vision, and then ask the rock to open the oracle for you. This way you may flow better into the visions of the rock.
Doing the opposite, first asking to the rock to support you and then invoking the oracle of the water will help you to have a ground and not be caught into some emotional aspects that sometimes happens.
Same when you have a place to work with a bonfire, be near the water of the rocks.
Or just the wind you will find moving more near big rock areas or near a river.

Always at finish give thanks and dismiss the energies you invoked.

Always remember for physical safety.
If you are aside a cliff, you may be sure you are grounded before working with the wind.
If you choose the water, also be sure you are fixed at place as even some strange or even stupid accidents may happens if you enter at the water. For example, is not good idea to enter in a lake during the oracle even if the elementals invite you.
Never let an unattended candle. If you finish the work, most of times is Ok to finish the fire.
In the case of a bonfire, you must be sure it is finished and is safe to leave the area. Be careful! Do not start a forest fire!

Do not let any human garbage at the place. That will be very disrespectful to the spirits you called before.

To improve your skills, walk at the nature always as you can.
You will discover nature grow anywhere even in a city.
Learn to be quiet and just observe this way learning about the energy at each place.
With time, you will expand your senses.

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domingo, 10 de abril de 2016

Ok, So You Think That Magick is So Simple?

You won't buy ready magick knowledge at store. Well, may be you was lucky that time when I was with friends blessing the doll to share love blessings.
(the perfume store's owner didn't know it). 



Ok, So You Think That Magick is So Simple? 


One and other time people really work hard to drive me nuts.
Compassion is not infinite, so one and other time is needed to be very clear and direct.


Most of people come to us due some personal reference, articles, foruns posts, etc.

I know there are many who will just use something like Google and try at blind and forget to look for references. Yes, they forget to use the same Google to search info about who is who. Ok.

So most often, they have some idea who I am and who others are.

Then people come to me asking for help or guidance, because some problem, pay for a reading and what happens?
Here the funny start. Well, some are not funny.


There are a lot of people who receive the needed information and we have a decent talk.
One or other time some additional magick work is done, here I'm including some hard cases, but if I accepted to do it, let's work.
Some like to come each year for a personal update for a new year or because new events in their lifes. They get what is needed, learn and follow on.

But sometimes.... people expect fantasies or are too deep on some pre-made ideas, like the ones they got at some cheap magazine. 

So, I got the inspiration to write about some sugestions I do, as some of that can appear simple.
Such solutions can have two different reasons:
1) I won't use an atomic bomb because a bug.
2) Need learning to know when to do it.

So be be sure I won't use a truck when a bike is the suffice or I can just walk.

So, in a reading I most often write a long text based on what I can talk in a one hour tarot (or any other oracle) reading (and I talk fast). Add many hours editing, adding comments, examples, etc.
That is sent to the client and... 

Well, remember, I'm commenting about the sttuborn, fantasy based ones,

Then I have some typical replies:

1) Oh no, my problem is not that! I'm sure I'm being attacked by the biggest dark forces!
Reply - Too often they are just under some kind of bug size problem, being anxious or fear and only need a herbs bath or stop with some bad habit.

2) Oh no, your proposal is too simple! I won't do that because my problem is too big and nobody knows what to do!
Reply - First they ignore a specific direct reply about what the problem is. Most of times they do nothing because they want something related with the size of their stupidy. They have not done the bigger options too and won't even try the simple direct solution I pointed.

3) Oh no, I didn't read your reply because I disagree it, but may be you can try this, that or whatever else?
Reply - A serious work can't be done by chance. There are two possible approachs: 1) The problem is something knew. 2) The problem have something that need to be explored, but again, knowing how to go after it.

When I point something, is my point of view and experience. For sure I don't know all, but I have some decades on many areas to recognize my limits when needed. 
So, if there are something to explore, I will point it by myself and explain what are the next steps to explore.
But a lot of times, most of all, I'm pointing some specific reason, what to do, why and how.

And some of that appears to be simple.


What is simple on magick?
It's something specific and clearly related with the results needed.

But in no way this is the same as a easy solution nor something cheap.

And see, simple is not the same as "basic".
For example, a basic candle magick is light a candle and do a prayer.
By other side, a simple candle magick is light a proper color candle, use a specific psalm at same hour for some days.


Most great inventions of mankind, including the art world, are simple.
Remember the Archimedean lever?
He risked his life for suggesting something so simple to his King.

And what is that? A rod and a point of support. That is simple.
And today we all know that the lever is a key part in all modern technology.

But finding a simple solution is not always easy.



To find a solution you first need to evaluate it.

And how you evaluate human life, social groups, companies and why and when magick is more or less related with the life needs?

This comes with learning and practice.


Information is useless without practice.
Practice without learning become only mechanic and lack the "art" to act in better ways.
Remember, good magick is not brute force.

To get magick power you must study, practice, review results, observe and learn from others works. And practice a lot for a long time.

So, many of that popular texts, including newage, witchcraft, mysticism, etc., are just a copy and paste, without the needed reasoning. You will find lots of examples, really generic on popular spells and ways to do this or that.
But where is the knowledge to say what you really needed?
It's like self-medication. It can be a big risk. The doctor is the one to tell you what is really needed. And some of them may goes wrong or need to work more on the case. 

Magick is not something you start today and tomorrow you are the Ooobaa-boobaaa Grand Magister. This is children fantasy tales. Or just charlatan easy talk (and I knew a lot).


One of the most important aspects of practice on magick is creating relationship with the spirits you work with.
Such relationship is not result of worship, or just repeating something like a parrot.
This comes from being respectfull with the spirits and receiving the same from them.
This is the first.
In no ways this means becoming slave of some spirit.
A spirit must respect you as friend or equals.
You never, but never are a pet for such forces.

Have you gone to some place where they does not respect the spirits or try to force you to be submissive? Some use sweety words, or even become your fake friends. Run from that like hell!

This is simple? Yes. But sometimes your life can become a hell despite you be sure to being respectfull at all areas and doing all the right things. Yes, spirits and people can be very persuasive.

Well, shit happens. I'm a kind of expert because I have been cheated a lot too. Hard times, learning under suffering. But I survived.


Many of the material I wrote about troubles and the risks when mixing magick practices at the "Ritual Offerings" book came as the result of learning under the worst conditions.
I had the most absurd strange events, learnings because under bloody and extreme suffering, being cheated, personal life destroyed, friends going crazy and companies going on severe trouble events, all due something used by fake priests and corrupted spirits trying to steal what we was doing.
And, this happened even with some decades of experience. Compassion can't be infinite. I was cheated and saw closer friends being harmed to learn that. And be sure that was not something simple to see what was happening and being unable to do more to avoid that.

Be sure, the nice moment photo at start does not show what was against us. We was on good times, near something better a lot. But things was going rotten under our feet and I had three years more living on hell to discover why things stopped working and why my friends got crazy too and we was even unable to talk. That was a severe storm that costed really a lot, a real fuck. And after that years, it still needed many years more after the hidden forces being revealed just to start a move to get rid of it. To be clear, more than a decade fighting against that. All because corrupted spirits and fake priests I trusted as friends and since the begining thinking I was learning something.

Note: I allow anyone who is a good decent person, a real priest/magician to do a reading about me to see if this is true. Be warned about that spirits will try to attack you trying to get a "feed" source.


Well, I really learned a lot of simple things that can prevent or even remove some really bad conditions. And 99,99% of that are not at any books nor most priests will talk to you.

Yes, I can talk because while I was being cheated, they forgot to take from me a previous secrecy compromise. So I can talk.
For sure, in respect with the good ones, there are things I won't comment and that are not related to this article nor the material for the book I posted.
The magickal world is really wide and have lots of nice and wonderfull things.

So, I'm today more aware about how things can turn to dark times but also, how many suffering can be avoid.
The most the troubles was worse, I learned after years that many of that have simple ways to solve using magick ways.
But until that, terrible times, doing all I was able to do, I had gone many times to hospitals at extreme sufferings with doctors going crazy because they had no idea what to do, absurds happening at all areas.
And this happened even with more than two decades of previous learnings at other areas before.


Because this too, I learned a lot of simple solutions. And that was paid with blood and suffering from many people I loved. It is simple?

Yes. That are simple when related to the specific point. Just use well the resources when needed.



At previous comment at item (3), I repeat a solution is not something to try by chance. Sometimes the events need to be explored.
Get this? In no ways "try to see what happens" is a good solution. It's like Russian roulette.


How much deeper I had explored? For sure not all, but I've gone in life where really few in the world have gone. I say the good and bad sides.  I knew wonders but also, many levels at the hell.
Be sure I know some who have gone further too and they deserve my full respect.


Even with all previous experiences, one or other time we can see something is really wrong, but the sources are hidden.
There are many ways to spirits and magick works got hidden. And what people do too. Just repeating, charlatans and scammers can do a real mess using manipulation. Some are real psychopats.

Some spirits are very good to show hidden things. But some things only will be seen if you have been at that area or know some of that area spirits. Who do you know at some of the Asian sorcery traditons? This have nothing with the nice meditation schools, most are far away from western practices.
As I cited spirits, this means some troubles need a formal ritual on magic to evoke spirits to help to find what's happening and this means a lot of resources and time to explore that. This example is not a case for a normal Tarot reading but one and other time, someone will really need this. And be sure it's not cheap as demand a lot of work. 

Back to the most "near" hidden sources that are not so difficult to find, we see that really many people can be cursed an entire life and not being aware of that. Some think they are unlucky, others have already a craz life and found to have a lot of troubles to be "normal".

A simple brush is the tool to created a work of art.
Photo by Lauren RW - USA
So the first level is what the client can see.

But the next level is what I can see.

People come after me because I see something they can't, using my inner vision, oracles like the Tarot plus decades of personal experience under extreme rosly trainings at few known paths.
And most of times I've replied to people just based on what I see. I explain that like a kind of psychometry, but related to any source of information.

The magicians vision (including intuition) is something each one develop in many different ways. This vary according with their expertize level, but even some magicians with strong powers may have not developed the same as others.
Reading oracles is not just learning symbols and repeating that like parrots. Each oracle is a door to the spiritual realm and is needed personal development for the capability to enter at that levels. The symbols meanings, are part of the knowledge to be explored in practice.


So, it's Ok. Lets follow.
One and other time the problem needs to be explored just because something is really hidden or the magician may have not knowledge about that area or the source used something trying to be hidden. Well, some are ridiculous while others can be, say, creative.
Yes, I say each area have proper symbols, meanings and at the spiritual planes, that can be really different. 
For example, at a reading some symbols of the oracle maybe unseen or not part of the magician training. As an example, a flying bird say nothing to a Wall Street executive but can means a lot for a shaman or a sorcerer.
And even with all information I get, sometimes there are some hidden things to be revealed during a ritual. This means I have to deal with that and this can cost me a lot. But this is part of the task with one and other exception when I will need to negotiate with the client. 

Get this? I will do the best I can, but not commit a personal suicide because the client.
I can warn about the danger, but I will not jump together in the abyss if the person insists on moving on.


For sure I don't know everything, but I have worked very deep in many areas to be confident on what I can do. If not, I'm the first to say I may need to explore it more or even, suggest someone else I know who will work better at that area.


Because all this I need to know what, for what, when and how things work.

What today is simple to many people have not been for centuries.

And the simple methods, are not  always related to complexity, difficult degrees.They are related with developing wisdom, good sense and the right time to use.



To finish: here another aspect a magician need to develop: to be simple.

And you, wanna reach that highs?


At the most higher levels, we discover the power of simple solutions.
Photo by Bernhard Siegl - Austria

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Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia - Portuguese text


Readings and Magic Works - English text


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