Note: After much deliberating, I have decided to cancel my newsletter. It was a good learning experience for me but I didn’t feel it contributed to my business because readership was really low. If you loved the newsletter and you hate to see it go, drop me a line and tell me why you think I should bring it back. I want to hear from you!
Mantra: It’s time to mend your broken heart.

It’s the 39th  week of the year and the card of the week is the Three of Swords.  The 3 of Swords can be a card of painful loss but broken hearts can be mended. In the magickal world, we usually during Full Moon we focus on what has transpired over the past month and use the Moonlight to give us a boost so that we can give power to our wishes. However, this luna month…

By Frater S.C.F.V.

This Novena has been without a doubt the single-most magically intense series of operations I’ve ever attempted… To invoke 8 Archangels in eight days, perform the most intense Stele of Jeu of my life, and officiate the G.D. Equinox Ceremony, with all the other prayers, consecrations, exorcisms, fasting, community service, charity work, scrying, Church services, preparation of Cyprianic oil, and so on… have all left me grateful and inspired, but also utterly drained and with so much to process. Thankfully, however, tonight completes the Invocations. Tomorrow is a fairly relaxed Novena day and the day after, I celebrate Cyprian’s Feast Day and formally adopt him as my Patron. Then it’s time for a break from magic for a while to integrate all of the intense results of these tremendously charged 10 days…

On this Eighth Day of my 2018 Novena to Saint Cyprian of Antioch, September 23, 2018…

By Frater S.C.F.V.

On this Sixth Day of my 2018 Novena to Saint Cyprian of Antioch, September 23, 2018, I arose and performed a ritual bath and worship. I listened to a sermon and attended Church, where I encountered an amusing synchronicity — the same passage from Micah that I had prayed the night before turned up in the morning’s sermon! I was even more amused when a passage cited immediately after that then turned up in the Daily Orison work in Dr. Mal Strangefellow’s Cyprian Orisons for the day!

My stomach aching with fasting, I went on with the day’s activities. As the Hour of the Sun on the Day of the Sun ruled by Michael approached, I took another ritual bath and fixed the offering candles for the ritual to come. For Cyprian, I fixed a candle with San Cipriano Oil, cinnamon, and all-spice:

For Michael, the candle…

By Frater S.C.F.V.

Introduction – Apotheosis, Identification and Graeco-Egyptian Magic

After a powerful Invocation of Cassiel, Archangel of Saturn and Angel of Saturday from the Heptameron on the Day and Hour of Saturn during Day 6 of my Novena to Saint Cyprian of Antioch, I felt moved to perform a powerful and ancient Rite.

The Stele of Jeu or Rite of the Headless One occurs in the Greek Magical Papyri or Papyri Graecae Magicae V. 96-172. As Dee Rapposelli (2016) points out,

The Greek Magical Papyri are a compilation of highly syncretic texts that date from the 2 century BCE to 5 century CE of Hellenistic Egypt. They are Graeco-Egyptian magical spells and are loaded with Egyptian, Greek, Gnostic, Orphic, and Hebrew [Divine Names]—sometimes all in the same [papyrus.]

The rite has classically been understood as a powerful ritual of exorcism, for it contains repeated references to subjugating all daimons…

By Frater S.C.F.V.

On this Sixth Day of my 2018 Novena to Saint Cyprian of Antioch, September 22, 2018, I arose and performed a ritual bath and ecstatic worship. I went to the store to purchase wine and spring water to serve as Offerings to Saint Cyprian. My stomach ached slightly from my fast for all of the day until the Ritual, which was interrupted only by the drinking of water and the eating of a single apple.

In the Day and Hour of Saturn, after a ritual bath and worship, I entered the Temple. I took up my Solomonic bell, sounded it three times before entering the Circle as per the Hygromanteia and then again thrice to each of the Quarters, greeting the Spirits of the East, South, West, and North with great love, respect, and  blessings of Adonai. I proceeded to give Offerings to God and to Saint Cyprian…

By Frater S.C.F.V.

On Thursday, September 20, 2018,  I began Day 4 of my Novena to Saint Cyprian of Antioch by waking up early to ritually bathe and worship with a full and open heart. I then traveled into the city to visit older adults in the company of a physiotherapist and social worker to serve these elderly individuals with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, injuries from falls resulting in a broken hip, and hearing impairments. The home visits all went beautifully well.

Throughout the day, I felt repeatedly blessed by the kindness of those who interacted me. In something of a miracle, a woman with advanced dementia remembered my face and even my role and her face lit up when I came back to see her. The social worker I was with was amazed by this. I thanked God for this great and special gift.

As the day unfolded, the kindness and…

By Frater S.C.F.V.

On Tuesday, September 18, 2018,  I began Day 2 of my intensive Novena to Saint Cyprian of Antioch with ritual bathing and worship, then dedicated my day to community service to serve older adults in the Montreal community. I also continued prayers throughout the day, and listened to two Church services to immerse myself in an attitude of devotion.

At night, I returned to the Temple, where the Novena candle continued to burn on the Altar. Once there, I sounded my Solomonic Bell of Art three times before entering the Circle, as per the Hygromanteia, then 9 times to each cardinal direction as a modified form of the “sounding of the Quarters” based on Leviticus that we find used with the Bell/Trumpet in the Key of Solomon.

Thereafter, I performed prayers, Holy Water blessings, incense suffumigations, Offerings to Cyprian and the Divine, readings of several…

By Frater S.C.F.V.

On Wednesday, September 19, 2018,  I began Day 3 of my Novena to Saint Cyprian of Antioch with ritual bathing and worship. I then went to my social work classes, completed some clinical work, and updated my ritual plans for the coming few days of the Novena.

By the time I finally got home, it was 11 o’clock p.m. I made my lunch for the next day and proceeded to perform ritual bathing and open the Temple. I felt utterly exhausted and had caught a cold from the shockingly cold temperatures today, as a result of which I had a runny nose, sore throat, and cough. Nonetheless, I was determined to continue on with the Novena and prayed for help to complete it.

First, I lit a candle as an offering to the Most High. Then, I picked up my Solomonic Bell of Art, sounded it thrice before…

Note: After much deliberating, I have decided to cancel my newsletter. It was a good learning experience for me but I didn’t feel it contributed to my business because readership was really low. If you loved the newsletter and you hate to see it go, drop me a line and tell me why you think I should bring it back. I want to hear from you!

It’s the 37th week of the year and the card of the week is the Wheel of Fortune. Both the Sun and Mercury move into the fair and balanced sign of Libra so your actions will determine if fortune spins you up or down. Everything that happens now regarding luck is meant to bring you back into balance when the wheel stops spinning. The number of the week is 1(0), the same as the number of the Wheel of Fortune. As the tide turns…

By Frater S.C.F.V.

Tosay, I performed my weekly Offerings to Cyprian: a glass of water, some Church wafers, and incense. I prayed Our Fathers before his Altar on a rosary, which I exorcised and blessed with Holy Water. I asked him to charge the rosary and wrapped it around his statue.

I asked Cyprian to exorcise any evil Spirits who might be influencing me. I then performed the Sign of the Cross with his Golden Crook and to my surprise, immediately felt my whole body shaking. I was amazed to hear what sounded like growling and roaring coming out of my house. I performed the Sign of the Cross again through clenched teeth, continuing to shake, and suddenly it felt like a weight had lifted off of me. I praised God and thanked Cyprian for this then performed ritual bathing to purify myself. I prayed and worshipped God and after…

To receive the forecast in your inbox, along with other goodies, in your inbox every week, join my mailing list here!

It’s the  36th week of the year and the card of the week is the Hanged Man. If you feel life just keeps you hanging on, the number of the week is 9, a number of near completion. Things are wrapping up and the end of the year is drawing near. There is a feeling that things it’s getting late and that darkness is drawing near. It’s a good time to put things to snuggle up and let things rest.  The days are getting shorter in the Western Hemisphere and the shadows are getting longer. It’s time to reflect what the light has shown us as dusk draws near. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are all in retrograde, bringing under worldly waves crashing to the shore.
Mantra: I pause…