Archive for January, 2008

Tools and Books

The Power of Crystal Grids

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Crystal grids are a very powerful tool when it comes to black magick. As we know crystlas are stones that have been charged with different energies.  Each individual crystal has it’s own unique property.  Individually, crystals are very powerful.  When you pair then with other crystals you combine their properties and make the energies stronger.

 A crystal grid on the other hand is a series of specifically selected crystals that are aligned in a way to amplify the energy of an area and have a powerful effect. 

I mostly use crystals grids for energy healing as it is a great tool for channeling a mass amount of energy into one speicific area.   Using a Crystal grid, one can channel healing energies into the body of a person or animal, and enhance their healing experience.   In some healing practises the crystals can be placed directly on the body of the person recieving the energy treatment.  I have done this before is my healing practise and have gotten some pretty amazing results.  People have told me that they could actually feel the energy flowing through the crystal into their body and it made then feel peacful, and took away any pain that they had. 

There are two ways to make your own crystal grid.  If you have a sense of energies and can see how it moves then follow your intuition and create your own.  If however you are still in the beginning stages of learning to see energies then you can create a crystal grid using crystal grids that other people have made.  The most common crystal grid with energy healing is the quartz circle.  For this grid you get 8 large pieces of quartz and select one to go in the centre.  Then you take six of them and place then in a circle around the centre crystal.  All point facing towards the crystal.  The eighths crystal is then places on the outside of the grid and can be used to channel the energy of the grid by running the crystal over the patient. 

 A crystal grid can be used for more thing than just healing.  For instance, say you want to amplify a money spell.  Take a bunch of green crystals and place then in a circle around a money sigil.  Then meditate on it or cast a money spell using it.  This will increase the effects of your spell.  Even when casting a money spell if you surround yourself with green crystals then the energies of the spell will amplify. 

 Crystal grids can be set up for curses, love spell, any spell that you can dream up, you can create a crystal grid for.  They are meant as an amplifier to channel and enhance the energies.  Quartz are very good for crystal gride becasue they are so diverse in their colourc.  Rose quatz is good for amplifing love spells and smokey quartz is good for amplifiing curses. 

It is good to get a book on crystals and learn their properties so that you can select the crystals that are appripiate for you and your spell.

 Happy casting

Priestess Akelta.

Black Magick

Taking time for the self

For the last week I have taken time for myself.  On Monday of last week I became quite sick and was well unable to do much of anything.  So I caved, my body was telling me to relax and heal and that is what I did.  For the first few days it was rough I could not meditate or do anything I normally do. It is almost impossible to meditate when one feels ill.

I figured I would take the first few days and just relax not doing anything (something I have not done in a while).  I watched TV (all my paranormal shows like Supernatural, Paranormal State, and A Haunting), played some video games and made sure I drank lots of fluids.   I also made sure to live fully in each moment and experience all the pleasure that each moment brought.  This  allowed me to feel great! even when I was feeling rough.

Focusing is something that I enjoy so I always am focused in the moments of life. It was just the harder exercises like the dot and the chalkboard that I was unable to do.

After a few days I felt a little better and was able to focus again.   I summoned an entity (Marbas) to help me along the healing process.  It was the hardest summoning I have ever done because I was still a little groggy and was having trouble focusing. I think that my connection with this particular entity is the reason he came to me.  This is why I encourage forming strong connections with the entities you summon as it is very helpful.  Anyway once the entity arrived I asked him to heal me and he said it would be done. The next day my stuffy nose was gone.  It was great! I could sleep properly.

After I was feeling better, I decided I was going to take more time off to reconnect with myself and give myself a change to heal fully.

It caught me off guard when I got sick because I usually never get ill.  I eat the very best I can, exercise and stay away from harmful substances.  So it was a huge shock to me when I woke up one morning ill.  Well truth be told I have been working myself very hard, a little to hard, and it finally caught up with me.  I can use meditation to recharge my energy, so I kept going and pushed myself harder and harder and missed the fact that my physical body was getting run down.  It is good for a little while, but every now and then we all need to reground and take time for ourselves.

As Black Magicians we develop some amazing abilities and when we begin to develop them we all go through energy shift. There can be trying and we have to accept that there will be times when our body just needs to relax and adjust to the new energies that are flowing through it. These shifts can be hard at times as they can stir emotions inside of you and test your limits. When this happens you just need to relax and do what your body needs you to do.

Taking time for the self is important in all levels of magick and black magick.  This is surprisingly a very hard task for some people as so many people are use to the crazy hustle and bussell of everyday life that they have a hard time just letting it all go and taking time to relax and fully live in each moment enjoying it. To many people live in the past and the future, and very few actually live in the present.

When I say relax I mean RELAX,  some people when they try to relax they end up thinking about everything they have to do, or they feel guilty that they are relaxing when there is so much to do. Don’t feel this way, you deserve to treat yourself in the best way possible.

In Black Magic one needs to live in each moment be present.  They also cannot feel guilty when they take time to just relax.  Our crede teaches us that we are gods and we deserve to treat ourselves in the best possible way. It will help us become stronger and tune our powers  improving our abilities.

There is no right way to relax, it is just doing whatever makes you feel peaceful and allows you to let go of everything that causes you stress.  To often stress controls us and that is a bad thing.  In black magic we are the masters of our world and we let nothing control us.  So it is important to take the time and make sure that the stress is merely a force that tells you when something should be done.  It cannot control you,  that is when it becomes a harmful destructive force, instead of a motivational tool.  This is the difference between good stress and bad stress.

In some cases when learning an advanced black magick skill you will sleep twice as long as you normally do, because your body is  going trough such a change.  When learning these skills you will already have to have learned how to let go of the tensions of life and relax. It is a skill to give time to yourself, we are taught in society that this is being bad or selfish.  To this I say, yourself comes first, you cannot take care of anything or be at your best if you do not take care of yourself first!

Happy Relaxations!

Priestess Akelta

Black Magick, Tools and Books

Sigils in everyday life

One of the Greatest and most powerful skills in Black Magic is that of Sigil Magick.  Sigil magick is where you make a desire reality by creating sigils of these desires and focusing energy into it. The sigil then acts as a magical beacon that manifests the desire into your reality. 

 What is a sigil? It is basically a sign, word or image that is considered magickal in some way or another.  It is any image or design that has been charged with energy that is meant to fulfil a purpose.  Some sigils are personal and are charged with personal energy and meant to fulfill ones personal desires.   These sigils are usually always created by the magician and are specifically designed to fulfill it’s purpose and manifest the desires of the magician. 

 

Some sigils are charged with the energy of entities and used to call on entity to aid you in some endeavour.  In evocation. we use sigils to call forth an entity that we wish to communicate with.  A good example of this  are the 72 Goetic spirits that are described in the Goetia (a book that I suggest you get if you are serious about magick) .  These entities each have their own sigil and when a proper ritual is preformed they will appear before the magician and assist them.  

The type of sigils I am going to teach you about today are the sigils that you create yourself to manifest your desires. Sigil magick is very powerful black magic and yet it is so simple to use most are blown away.   

Just a quick note; You would be surprised to know that most people who are successful in their life use sigil magick in one form or another.  Some people do not even know they are using sigil magick when they do it. And most people who are effected by it do not even know they are being influenced by magick. A lot of the logos for the brand names for popular companies are sigils.  Some sigils I’ll bet you did not know were sigils. Believe it or not MacDonald’s logo and the Coca Cola logo are both sigils.  Look at how well they do, These sigils were designed to help the buisness grow, and look at how well they do. This art is not just reserved for giant coorporations, you can do it as well! 

To preform sigil magick, the first thing you have to do it pick a desire that you want granted and then write it down.  Once it is written down meditate on it and have a clear image of what you want in your mind. Once you have a clear image of the desire take some time to focus on it and see it manifesting itself into your reality.

The next step is to create a sigil.  The easiest way to do that is to take a word that represents what you want.  Lets say you want more Money.  So write out the word money of a piece of paper . Take out the vowels, and you will them be left with the letters M and N.  Now this is the fun part, play around with the letters until you get a really neat looking image that resonates with you.  This whole creation process of the sigil helps to make it stronger because it is your sigil and you are pouring your energies into it.  Once you have moulded the letters into an image that is right for you focus on it again and think about what it is that you have created the sigil for.  Be passionate about it.  The more passionateyou are, the more energy you’ll direct into it, and the faster it will manifest.  After, put the sigil in a place that feels right for you. You can keep the sigil on you, make it into a necklace, put it in a safe place, whatever you want. 

Make sure that you take action towards making that desire happen. If you create a sigil to win a house draw you cannot hope to win unless you actually buy a ticket.

Sigil magick is one of the greatest forms of magick.  The only limit to sigil magick is ones imagination.  Seriously! The imagination is all that limits it.  That is why some people say Art is the greatest form of magick! Some people paint images of what they want. Then surround themselves with these images and have all their desires granted.  Even paintings can be a form of sigil magick as long as their are symbols in the painting that resonate with the magician. Anything that you put energy in that resonates with what you want will help bring it into your life. Surround yourself with energies that you want!  You can manifest anything you desire just remember, like all things magickal,  be specific and make sure you have a clear image of what you want.   

This form of magick has generated some fabulous results.  Try it for yourself!

Happy Casting

Priestess Akelta.

P.S.

If are serious about magick, eventually you will need a Goetia.  There are a few different types of them out there. Here is a list for you which might help you find the one that is right for you.  

The Goetia, the Lesser Key of Solomon the King

Illustrated Goetia

Luciferian Goetia

Hardcover Goetia

Black Magick

The Spiritual Name Journey

Everyone is born and given a name from their parents. It becomes your identity and a part of who you are. When one starts on the path of any magick or sorcery. In most shamanistic societies the rite of passage to becoming a shaman involves receiving your spiritual name from the world of spirit. In essence receiving your spiritual name is like a rite of passage into the spiritual world.  

 Now weather you wish to walk the path of a Shaman, a white magician or a Black Magician you will at some point wish to uncover your spiritual name.  

 Uncovering one’s spiritual name is a very interesting experience. Depending on the type of person you are will determine what you go through in order to receive your name. With some people the name will some to them in a dream or be given to them by their ancestors. This process happens relatively fast, you will be sleeping or meditating or even just sitting still and suddenly a name will pop into your head and hit you with such force that you know it is your spiritual name.

Some people choose to make their spiritual name based on their interests and beliefs. They will start my making a list of things that they like or are drawn to and then based on that will pick words that describe them. An example of this is, lets say you like the colour blue, you like tiger and you like the moon. You feel that these words represent you, So you put them together and you get BlueMoon Tiger, or whatever order you wish to place the word in.

  

The way that I received my spiritual name was on a journey on conversation with my higher self. I was meditating and focussing on exploring my self and my being as a whole. When you explore your entire being during meditation it is a process that can take years as you work at uncovering your un conscious, sub conscious and well as understanding your own spiritual nature. Learning about yourself never really ends as there are always new dimensions to explore and areas to uncover. Anyway, I was working at establishing a dialogue with my higher self in order to have my spiritual name revealed to me. It was a very interesting journey as I walked through my higher world I was faced with obstacles in which I needed to over come. Most of them where my own mental blocks and barriers. Limitations I had placed on myself.

When I finally reached my higher self the name Akelta was given to me and since that day I have used knowing full heartedly that this was my spiritual name.There are lots of ways of finding one’s spiritual name and truth be told NONE of them are wrong. This is your magickal journey and you are meant to discover the ways and paths that are right for you. Some people will journey to the spiritual world and battle an entity for their name. Some people will go through the spiritual death and rebirth in order to be reborn with their name. Others will fat for days and have their name brought to them by one of their guides. There is no wrong way to find your spiritual name. Just make sure that it is a name that feel 100% right for you.One more thing. You are under no obligation to tell anyone your spiritual name. If you want to, great! if you want to keep it a secret that is fine as well. Black magic is about following your own soul, thinking for yourself and doing what is right for you.Good luck on finding your own spiritual names.Priestess Akelta

Magick Spells

Spell Planning

There are lots of people in the world that feel that black magick is an easy art.  And that all that is involved in it is on the spur of the moment setting up a few candles and chanting some phrases and then magically having everything appear to them…………….

 Ok that would be called a three minute spell and they seldom work.  Anyone that claims to be able to do spell on the spur of the moment without any  planning will have poor results with their spells.  Trust me, you will get better results when you take the time to plan out your Black magic spells and understand the complete process involved in casting them. 

 

There may come a point in the future where you own will power will be enough to create things that you desire, but as far as spells and rituals go (especially ones that involve summoning or evocation)  you need to make sure that you have a strong understanding of the spell you are going to cast. 

 When I start my planning I start by selecting the spell or ritual that I wish to cast.  If I am creating it myself then I will meditate on the concept for a few days planning out every detail and making sure that I understand every element involved in the spell I am making.  If I am using a spell or ritual from a book I will read the ritual over a good many times in order to completely understand what it is that I am doing.  After I have read it over I will commit the entire spell to memory, even the words that I do not have to say just so I am well prepared. 

I will them take time to make sure that I have all the necessary materials for the spell.  If I do not already have what I need I will go out and buy it.  Anytime I start  a new spell doesn’t matter if I already own the items of if I buy them I will always cleanse them in a salt water bath to make sure the energy are clean.  The last thing you want is to have energies from other spells mixing and causing strange results. 

 So far I have memorized the spell and I have my materials.   I am still not ready to cast the spell as I need to have a complete image of what I want the result of the spell to be.  Lets say I am casting a love spell and I desire a specific man.  I will write out a description of this man and all the qualities I want and then hold an image of this guy in my mind.  Remember the actually result might be close but not exact, so if you image a guy with blond hair and you get one with brown hair who is basically perfect do not be mad, be grateful,  Where he is lacking in some areas he may make up for in others. 

After I have the image of my desired results I will meditate on that desire making sure that I feel the energy and that during the spell I can bring out my strong passionate energies towards my desire.  During the spell there will be no confusion of what you want as you will clearly have the image in your mind and your connection with that image will be strong.  This will make the spell VERYpowerful. 

(This Tarot Card is from the Quest Tarot deck) 

There is one thing I always do before casting the spell that is super important.  Before casting the spell I will sit in silence with myself and see if I have any limiting beliefs towards the spell.  A limiting belief is basically a thought in your mind that say “you can’t do this” or “This is impossible” ect.    These are thoughts that will cause a spell to fail.  Confidence and belief in ones abilities is essential for success in spell casting. If I find any of these limiting beliefs I will change them or eliminate them so that they do not interfere with my magick.  I am a black magician and that mean I need to have a complete understanding of what is going on inside of me.   The greatest challenges in black magic are not what is on the outside, but what is on the inside. 

Once I feel prepared I will then choose a date, pick a location and prepare the altar to cast the spell.  Preparation also gives one a feeling of ease as they know inside that they are prepared and can successfully cast the spell without any stumbles or falters.  This allows the whole process to go smoothly with the magician displaying high levels of confidence and focus,   guaranteeing success of the spell.

Happy Casting.

Priestess Akelta

Black Magick

Black Magic Goals

Well I decided to take a little break for the New Year and go away for a week, just to relax and re-evaluate my goals and what I want to do this year.

When doing Black Magic it is important to to set goals for your self and have an understanding of where you wish to take your craft. Sure it can be fun blindly waking around just doing whatever you feel like, but in the end you need to focus your efforts if you want to master any black magic skill.

This is why, at the start of the New Year, I will cast a cleansing spell.  After cleansing myself I will take time for me (another important thing to do in black magic).  Touch base with myself, and figure out what I desire in the coming year.

There are many roads in life, and in Black magic we believe that we can take any road we want.  The choice is ours where we we wish to go.

When I was younger I use to go hiking in the mountains ( I still do but not as much). On some of those trips I would just blindly walk around and play in the forest.  It was those times where I usually never made it past the base of the mountain. When I walked in with a goal to get to the top of the mountain, I would usually end my journey on top looking down on the city ( a beautiful site to behold).

 

 Anyway my point is that no path is wrong.  When I stayed at the bottom and ran around at the base, I had fun, but never accomplished getting to the top.  When I set the goal of getting to the top I achieved what I wanted.   Depending on what you want your outcome to be, your journey will be different.

With magickal abilities it is the same thing.  If you want to excel in black magic, then you need to practice and be committed to learning your skills.  Setting goals can help you stay on track and focused on your goals so that you get there faster.

When I set my goals I will alway start by taking time for me and just relaxing.  I find that the business of life can sometimes overpower the internal voice so every now and then you need to silence all noise and listen to what your true self is telling you.  I use Meditation for this.   Meditation is a very very important thing in Black Magic as it helps you to get in touch with yourself and understand what your needs and wants are.  Basically meditation provides you with a door to seek out your inner self and find out what you want.

After I have meditated and found out what I want I will them make a list of things that I want to have, or wish to do in the coming year.   The important thing with making the list is to not let the “I can’t do that attitude get in the way.”   When you write something down and you feel like you cannot do that, that is your mind putting a limitation on you.  In Black Magic we must work to remove these limitations and believe in our own power.

Believe me these limitations can take time to break down.  Some of them take years  depending on what the limitation is.   Just make the list and do not worry about anything.

When it comes to magic goals, after I have made the list of things I would enjoy learning about I will then read as much as I can on those topic, as well as meditate on the concept seeing what information I can derive from the spirit world.  Which is usually a lot.

One last important piece on information.  Only do things if you enjoy it.  Do not do anything you hate just to impress other people.  Do things for you!  In Black Magic the outcome or attaining the goal is not the most important part.

Getting to the goal is not the most important part.  The journey,  hiking up the mountain and taking in all that is around me, is.  Sure acheiving goals is great, but the jouney is where the lessons are learned and where the growth happens.  It is also where all your exerpiences and memories take place.  Do not stress yourself out about making mastering your goals.  Enjoy the Journey and learn all you can from the experience.

 

If you cannot have fun and enjoy the journey, then you will never be truely happen IF you ever reach your goal.   Your magick will be stronger if you learn with enthusiasm and passion.

Happy Goal Setting,

Priestess Akelta