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[thetarotman]

The Siren's Song Overview (Video 1)

[prince-of-rot]

Yeah I agree this raises more questions than it answers. That said I used my ex-librarian powers and I think the book was published here: RedWheelWeiser.

The physical book has only had one ISBN and that traces to here. Do folks know much about this publisher?

so quick question. i started reading A Book of Pagan Prayer by Ceisiwr Serith, and seeing this is extremely offputting. does anyone know if he is actually a nazi, or was this just a really bad fuck up?

i havent been able to find anything but considering he says in this copy he had been writing this book, and in the pagan community, since the '80s, im very hesitant to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't know what this symbol was.

[indigomermaidllc]

Ok so today I started out with great intentions on making things but need to get a crock pot to melt my beeswax and stuff in so I can my my ribs and I thought hey I will check out Savers... soooooo THIS is what I found! I have to cleanses them but dang! I found some little jewels. I picked up on and I heard hey there are more of us! 😂😂 I was alrighty then let’s do this! The oldest one is 1954 #usedbooks #booklover #booklovers #magick #magicallibrary #occultbooks #bookcollector #redwheelweiser #witchbooks #yogabooks #crystalbooks #crystals #indigomermaidllc #plantmedicine #magic #alchemist #esotericknowledge #runes #powerspells #healing #awakening (at Las Cruces, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_4i06hZkB/?igshid=5m2g6rojr1fy

[jamiesonwolf]

Received my copy of Taort No Questions Asked: Mastering the Art of Intuitive Reading by Theresa Reed. I love her books! Just like her readings, her words are a no nonsense deep dive into the world of Tarot. I can't wait to get reading! #theresareed #tarotnoquestionsasked #redwheelweiser https://www.instagram.com/p/CFUzxhhHvoy/?igshid=o5g7v6r60332

[elhoimleafar]

Today in @Catlandbooks #Brooklyn I am attending this magickal workshop with the amazing authors Lon Milo DuQuette and Jim Wasserman for an afternoon of exploration 'Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth' and the Thoth Tarot. . . . . . #LonMiloDuQuette #JamesWasserman #AleisterCrowley #Catland #Thoth #bookofThoth #Thothtarot #thebookofThoth #tarot #tarotreader #tarotcards #tarotreading #magick #esoteric #occult #kabbalah #thelema #Oracles #Spirituality #OrdoTempliOrientis #gnosticism #weiserbooks #rwwbooks #redwheelweiser #witch #wicca #witchesofinstagram #witches #bookstagram (en Catland)

[maddiviner]

Hello everyone. I’m up late tonight, drinking coffee and writing. I hope you’re all having an excellent day, and that it gets even better. Today, I’ll be talking about color magick theory, and also providing some helpful techniques for incorporating it into your practices.

What is color magick?

I’ve written profusely in the past about the relationship between symbols, magick, and reality. I strive to emphasize that I believe witchcraft (and all magick) to operate via building connections between the individual (microcosm) and greater realities (the macrocosm). The use of symbols allows us to develop more intense connections of this sort. In a way, when we speak of magick, anything and everything can be seen as a symbol for even greater things.

Naturally, to facilitate this process, symbols must resonate, ideally both with the individual and with the whole of reality. Without a doubt, symbols need to evoke strong emotions and sentiments to be used for maximum efficaciousness. Colors, of course, are symbols, but I think we all knew that. Color, though, is more than just a simple symbol-set like many others. 

Color is primordial - prior to writing, the invention of fire and civilization, even prior to the inception of language, there was color in the world, and humans experienced its richness. 

Our shared experiences of life on this planet have led to a highly universal conception of color, as I’ll discuss in a moment. The omnipresence of color in our daily experiences make shades and hues extremely accessible symbols for many of us, and this is quite easy to use in witchcraft.

Naturally, we all have internal symbol-sets. I’ve written about exercises a witch can do to learn their personal correspondences for various things, and these work for color, as well. In addition to our personal associations for colors, though, there exist many codified systems of color correspondences, originating both from the occult world and from the rich traditions of art. 

If you study these systems, you’ll find that they all vary, but there is a great degree of overlap, both between systems and between personal correspondences and cultural ones.

Relevant Historical Context

Associations for something as visceral and primal as color tend to develop organically. Early humans painted images of the animals they hunted in red ochre (one of the earliest paints). This is likely because they already associated red with the color of blood, and therefore with violence, the hunt, and bringing down the animal. 

Similarly, humans have observed the continual growth and renewal plant life that exists alongside us for millennia, and many cultures and people inherently come to associate the green color of chlorophyll-rich plants with growth and development. 

Probably associations like this have existed since before the invention of languages to talk about them. Later peoples assigned special value to colors that were rare in nature, such as the brilliant blue of the uncommon lapis lazuli gemstones. There are some popular authors who argue that humans only recently developed the ability to perceive these rare colors (like bright blue), but there’s little evidence to prove or disprove this theory. 

Regardless, humans have always had various associations for color, and these correspondences naturally flowed through human culture, spreading into more and more minds. 

While you of course can’t truly declare anything universal, you’ll find in studying color systems of various cultures that there is, in fact, a great degree of overlap, owing to our shared experiences as human beings. Traditions of color magick and fortunate colors have always existed, but alongside and overlapping them we also see the multifaceted world of artistic symbolism that has developed over the aeons.

The particular system of color theory I’d like to discuss today arises from what’s commonly called the Western Magical (or Mystery) Tradition, also known as the WMT. I am referring to the magical and mystical traditions that appeared over the centuries in the Western world, which were ultimately subject to a great degree of codification post-Enlightenment Era.

You may find separate, quite different systems of color symbolism in other magical and mystical traditions, and I do encourage you to investigate what your own path in particular says about color. Today, though, I’ll be focusing on a particular system of color magick associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

In case you’ve not heard of them, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a quasi-Masonic secret society that operated in Victorian London. Though of spurious origins, the texts associated with the Order were incredibly influential in the magical revival of the early 20th century. Though it’s difficult to trace the origins of many of the Order’s teachings, some of them have clear precedent in prior Hermetic philosophy, and, in particular, Hermetic Qabalah.

The color magick theory taught by the Golden Dawn was quite a vast and complex system. It was believed to have been developed from earlier approaches by Moina and S. L. Macgregor Mathers. No doubt some amount of unverifiable personal gnosis or inspiration played a part in setting up the color system, but that hardly invalidates it. It has endured in various forms as a central fixture of Western magical thought for over a hundred years, and I suspect will continue to be useful for centuries to come. 

While the Mathers couple probably developed the system, it was popularized by the infamous Aleister Crowley, who incorporated it into his new system of Thelema and Thelemic Qabalah. This is most visible in his seminal work, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings, where he lays out the color correspondences in a series of arcane tables. Crowley was known to describe this system and related concepts as a sort of metaphysical filing cabinet, allowing him to connect separate concepts for use in magick.

The tables in 777, visible here, associate a series of colors (as well as many other concepts) with the Hermetic Qabalistic system of the Tree of Life, but also with the astrological concepts that most of us are familiar with, such as the seven classical planets and twelve signs of the zodiac. More than that, though, Crowley lists (drawing from Golden Dawn material) four separate colors associated with each concept, arranged into schemas he calls “scales.” 

In the symbolic rendering of the Ten Holy Sephiroth in the Four Worlds there is another important set of factors to be considered, and these are the four colour scales classified by Crowley as the King scale, assigned to the Atziluthic World; the Queen scale, assigned to the Briatic World; the Emperor scale, assigned to the Yetziratic World; and the Empress scale, assigned to the Assiatic World.

Fortune, Dion. Mystical Qabalah (p. 40). RedWheelWeiser - A. Kindle Edition.

These scales are each associated with one of the four Qabalistic worlds, which in turn correspond to the four elements most of us are familiar with. It would be fair to say that, for any astrological and/or Qabalistic concept, Crowley provides four separate, distinct colors, each with a different elemental association. Naturally, the symbolism goes quite a bit deeper than that, but for the sake of brevity, we’ll be focusing on just those concepts.

The Scales Themselves

Kabalistically, there are four sets of colors (one for each of the four Kabalistic Worlds) that are related to the Sephiroht. They are named after the court cards of the Minor Arcana of the Tarot. In the Golden Dawn, initiates were expected to know all of the color scales. However, for our purposes, the most important version of the colors for the ten Sephiroht is called the Queen Scale (hence the “Q.S.”), which are the colors given here. The Queen Scale colors are associated with the world known as B’ri-yah. Traditionally it is believed that it is more important to become familiar with the Queen Scale sephirotic colors than with the other scales of color.

Kraig, Donald Michael. Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts (Kindle Locations 2774-2779). Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.. Kindle Edition.

The four scales called the King Scale, the Queen Scale, the Prince Scale, and the Princess scale, an obvious reference to the Tarot court cards, which in turn correspond to the four elements and many other concepts. The King Scale corresponds to Fire, the Queen Scale to Water, the Prince Scale to Air, and finally, the Princess Scale is associated with Earth. It really goes much deeper than this, but I suggest reading more about it on your own, as I can’t really explain the entire system of it here.

The King Scale, being associated with Fire, provides the essential color of the concept (such as a planet or sign). These are often described quite fancifully and are difficult to picture. That is by design - the idea is that the pure essence of a concept, such as Venus or Virgo, lies just beyond our grasp. Thus, these essences are associated with colors that often escape our eyesight.

The Queen Scale, though, is quite different. The colors listed for it tend to be easily visualized and conceptualized by us humans. It’s associated with the element of water, and the implication is that this element exists at a level easily grasped and understood. The Queen Scale represents concepts as they exist very close to our everyday reality. 

For this reason, it is by far the most popular set of color correspondences used by witches, magicians, and pagans today. Even the silliest witchy book that derides Crowley as “evil” will probably list the Queen Scale correspondences culled from his book, 777. It’s truly ubiquitous in the magical world these days, which is fitting given its place within the system.

The Prince Scale is made of colors that merge those of the King and Queen, which makes a great degree of sense, and, as noted, it corresponds to the element of Air. For more information about the other scales, I recommend perusing 777 itself, but for now, I would recommend focusing on, an choosing colors from, the Queen Scale for most applications. 

The Queen Scale is most strongly associated with the manifest universe, after all, and it makes sense to delve into it when trying to exercise your will in manifesting change in reality. You can, of course, combine the colors from the scales, or choose a particular scale based upon its associations (with, for example, an element), but the Queen Scale is usually the first scale you would learn or work with, either way.

When flipping through 777 or related sites, you’ve probably noticed, too, that they don’t resemble the “color magick” sections of modern witchcraft and occult books by any stretch of the imagination. Certainly the tables and scales have nothing in common with the long lists of purposes and associated colors found in many New Age books. Rather than sorting colors by magical intent, Crowley and his forebears assigned them to, as mentioned earlier, existing concepts in the Western Magical Tradition, such as the features of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. 

These, in turn, are associated with other concepts such as astrological entities (Mars, Mercury, Virgo, etc.) and even more concrete symbols like Tarot cards. This complex interweaving of symbols and color creates, in my opinion, a much richer and more fascinating approach to magick than merely choosing a color from a list of intentions. Oddly enough, though, the books that do have long lists of intentions and colors paired with them usually draw heavily from 777 and the Queen Scale in particular. 

For example, they will list “Green” for “Love Magick,”  an obvious reference to earlier traditions of associating the color emerald with Venus and the sphere of Netzach, both associated with love.

I’m going to be brutally honest and say that it’s very difficult (borderline impossible) to fully use the Queen Scale without at least a basic or cursory understanding of at least some of the systems surrounding it. This means that, to get the most out of this particular color theory system, you should be somewhat familiar with Hermetic Qabalah and/or astrology. 

Though I, personally, have studied Hermetic Qabalah a fair bit, prefer to look to the astrological associations of the colors when choosing to use them in ritual or spellcraft. This is probably because I’ve a bit of an obsession with the seven classical planets and celestial witchery in general. 

Using the Queen Scale

So, how do you use the Queen Scale? Well, let’s suppose you want to do a ritual or spell to get better grades in school and learn more quickly. If you’re familiar with astrology, you know that the intellect, and in particular academics, tend to be governed by Mercury. You might also know that the sign of Virgo is associated with a highly-disciplined, fastidious nature, and is ruled by Mercury.

You might decide to incorporate the powers of both Mercury and Virgo into the spell or ritual. Turning to the Queen scale, you would see that Mercury is associated with the color orange, and Virgo is associated with slate gray. Thus, you would decide to somehow use those colors in your spell to earn better grades. There are many different ways of incorporating colors into spellcraft. I’ll discuss them in detail in the second article in this series, which will focus exclusively on practical techniques.

Now, I’ve said over and over that if a symbol (of any sort) doesn’t resonate with you, choose another one. This is true even if books like 777 are telling you the symbol (in this case, a color) has a certain association. If the association isn’t present and strong in your mind, your magick will be somewhat weakened.

 The connection between the symbol and what it represents will be weak. Thus, it’s perfectly, 100% acceptable and definitely awesome if you just want to ignore things like the Queen Scale and create your own personalized scale of color, as many witches do. I’ve written up an exercise for finding your own symbolic correspondences, and it can easily work with a color as the given symbol. 

Another option, though, is to build an association in your mind where previously there was none. I personally refer to this process as charging a symbol (in this case, a color). In the above example, perhaps you don’t associate orange, personally, with the intellect, but would like to build that correspondence for practical purposes. In that case, you might begin by researching the history of orange as a color and it’s associations with the intellect, seeking to find a reason for the association. This will help you to solidify the connection between the two in your mind.

You might also engage in creative visualization or other techniques to associate the color with the concept. I’ve personally found that just immersing myself in the literature of the Western Magical Tradition has helped me to familiarize myself with the traditional associations and build strong mental connections with them. Nowadays, I use them regularly.

I hope you found this introduction to color magick theory interesting and informative. I’ll soon be posting the second half of this series, which focuses solely on practical spellcraft techniques and using color to get the most out of magick. You’ll find that, and any other related color magick tidbits, in my #color+magick tag shortly. 

I want to emphasize before ending this article, though, that just because the Queen Scale and related systems are old and very complex doesn’t make them an objective standard, and there’s much to be said for innovation. You might find traditional color correspondences useful, or you might want to create your own! Either way is fine, and I hope you enjoy exploring the colorful world of magick!

[indigomermaidllc]

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[indigomermaidllc]

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[elhoimleafar]

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[elhoimleafar]

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[elhoimleafar]

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[elhoimleafar]

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[elhoimleafar]

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