Tarot Magic
I recently read Portable Magic by Donald Tyson. His Golden Dawn based system of Tarot magic is really quite interesting and I intend to try using it as a base for performing circles. I'm still uncertain what elements need to change inorder to adapt this to Wiccan ritual though. The use of a symbolic triangle worries me a little bit.
What are the implications of using an external Triangle when calling down the moon. I expect that purists will say that this would a grave inslut to the goddess. To which I'd be inclined to answer that it would only be an insult if I belived that it was, and hence by performing the ritual that way intended to insult the goddess. At the moment I don't know Which Way I will fall on this idea. Perhaps the solution will be to put the Triangle inside the circle, so that the goddess is invited within, rather then without.
In any case I have a while to go before I get to practice here. Having read Tysons work I decided that I should really look at the source so I am now reading "The Golden Dawn" nominally by Israel Regardie. However I gather that much of the material is from older manuscripts. Sitting at over eight hundred pages in a rather small typeface, and language that is best described as Dickensian, this is no light read.
Still Golden Dawn is a very important chapter in Western Occultism. It is the vehicle through which much of modern magical practice came to us. I do have to wonder how much was their original invention as well.
All in all I expect to expand my knowledge considerably.
What are the implications of using an external Triangle when calling down the moon. I expect that purists will say that this would a grave inslut to the goddess. To which I'd be inclined to answer that it would only be an insult if I belived that it was, and hence by performing the ritual that way intended to insult the goddess. At the moment I don't know Which Way I will fall on this idea. Perhaps the solution will be to put the Triangle inside the circle, so that the goddess is invited within, rather then without.
In any case I have a while to go before I get to practice here. Having read Tysons work I decided that I should really look at the source so I am now reading "The Golden Dawn" nominally by Israel Regardie. However I gather that much of the material is from older manuscripts. Sitting at over eight hundred pages in a rather small typeface, and language that is best described as Dickensian, this is no light read.
Still Golden Dawn is a very important chapter in Western Occultism. It is the vehicle through which much of modern magical practice came to us. I do have to wonder how much was their original invention as well.
All in all I expect to expand my knowledge considerably.
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Comment by Arie Willow on November 10, 2009 at 5:16pm -
From what I have read so far. The triangle is used as a power focus which is placed outside the circle. This way the performer of the ritual is protected from its effects. Power can move through the triangle either from the apex to the base (this is done in evocation rituals) or from the base to the apex (this is done in banishing rituals). Traditionally the apex points outwards away from the circle.
In Wiccan practices such as "Calling down the Moon" the goddess is invited inside the circle, so should she grow angry for some reason thous who called will not have any metaphysical protection.
In Golden Dawn practices however the called spirit appears in the triangle outside the circle. So that if the spirit becomes Angry the summoner is still protected by the circle.
On the one hand you could view this as not trusting the summoned spirit. On the other you could see it as simple commonsense caution. Saying I'm dealing with cosmic entities that I don't quite understand, and there is always a chance that I'll catch them in a bad mood.
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Comment by Isabel on November 9, 2009 at 11:59pm - This sounds very interesting. I also get very curious; what is this symbolic triangle, or external triangle? It sounds new to me so I had to ask! :)
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