#astrolatry

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

“In the dark times, will there also be singing?”: An Introduction to the Twin Stars of Castor and Pollux – Upon the Altar

A Rite of Seating Starlight: on Fixed Star Castor and Linseed – Upon the Altar

Hope Within A Shell-Heart: The Creation of a Castor-Inspired Hope-Charm – Upon the Altar

These where wonderful reads, I love the way she writes and explains the stars using both myth/lore and pop culture. Highly recommend her blog. She has some very interesting publications too.

[caput-larvae]

Idea for an Orphic-lite astrolatrical ritual outline

To be performed at night, facing the direction of the fixed star;

Ideally the Moon should be conjunct the star, but being placed in the respective Mansion might be sufficient;

Experiment with sidereal x tropical;

Mostly taken from Digital Ambler’s PGM-Style Framing Rite;

I also feel one should be veiled while performing this.

I speak only to those who lawfully may hear: Depart all ye profane, and close the doors.

Light candle

I conjure you, Fire, o daimon of holy Love, the invisible and manifold, the one and everywhere, to remain in this light at this time, shining and not dying out, by the command of Aiōn! Be great, o light!  Come forth, o light!  Rise up, o light!  Be high, o light! Come forth, o light of God! O bright angel of Selēnē, [SPIRIT OF THE HOUR], servant of God, you whose hand is this moment, who belongs to this Xth hour of the night, bring your light to me!

I conjure you, holy Light, breadth, depth, length, height, brightness, by ΙΑΩ ΣΑΒΑΩΘ ΑΡΒΑΘΙΑΩ ΣΕΣΕΓΓΕΝΒΑΡΦΑΡΑΓΓΗΣ ΑΒΛΑΝΑΘΑΝΑΛΒΑ ΑΚΡΑΜΜΑΧΑΜΑΡΕΙ ΑΙ ΑΙ ΙΑΩ ΑΞ ΑΞ ΙΝΑΞ (IAŌ SABAŌTH ARBATHIAŌ SESENGENBARPHARANGĒS ABLANATHANALBA AKRAMMAKHAMAREI AI AI IAŌ AKS AKS INAKS) remain by me in the present hour, until I have accomplished all I have set out to do! Now, now, immediately, immediately, quickly, quickly!

ΙΩ ΕΡΒΗΘ (IŌ ERBĒTH), take thy place in the East! ΙΩ ΛΕΡΘΕΞΑΝΑΞ (IŌ LERTHEKSANAKS), take thy place in the South! ΙΩ ΑΒΛΑΝΑΘΑΝΑΛΒΑ (IŌ ABLANATHANALBA), take thy place in the West! ΙΩ ΣΕΣΕΓΓΕΝΒΑΡΦΑΡΑΓΓΗΣ (IŌ SESENGENBARPHARANGĒS),take thy place in the North! ΙΩ ΑΚΡΑΜΜΑΧΑΜΑΡΕΙ (IŌ AKRAMMAKHAMAREI), take thy place in the Heights! ΙΩ ΔΑΜΝΑΜΕΝΕΥΣ (IŌ DAMNAMENEUS), take thy place in the Depths! For I am ΜΑΛΠΑΡΤΑΛΧΩ (MALPARTALKHŌ) standing in the midst of the All!

In the name of the Nous, this circle is consecrated for our defense. By the power of the Logos, this circle is defended for our perfection. For the sake of the Sophia, this circle is perfected for our work. Through the might of the Aiōn, may all that is baneful be cast out, that only Good may here remain.

Light incense

Orphic hymn to the Night

Orphic hymn to the Stars

Orphic hymn to the Moon

Hymn to the Star x10 [find or create]

Blessed be your brightness, O [STAR] x100

Prostrations x10

Petition

Communion/meditation/visualization

I have been attached to your holy form; I have been given power by your holy name; I have been blessed with your holy emanation of the Good; Be gracious unto me, Lord, god of gods, master, daimōn, primal, elder-born one! I give thanks to you, o great gods, elder-born, mighty powers! Depart, lords, depart into your heavens, into your places, into your courses. I adjure by the fire which first shone in the void, I adjure by the power which is greatest over all, I adjure by him who destroys even in Hadēs That all now depart from this place, returning to your abodes, And harm me not, but be forever kind. Keep me healthy, unharmed, untroubled by ghosts, free from calamity, and without terror. Hear me for all the days of my life! Thus have I spoken; thus are the words! ΙΑΩ ΣΑΒΑΩΘ (IAŌ SABAŌTH)

Nous, Logos, Sophia, Aiōn, Night, Stars, Moon, [STAR]. Thank you very much for everything. I have no complaints whatsoever.

ΧΩΩ ΧΩΩ ΩΧΩΩΧ (KHŌŌ KHŌŌ ŌKHŌŌKH), holy brightness! Depart, holy brightness! Depart, beautiful and holy light of the highest God Aiōn! Hear, o Fire, o work of the works of God, o glory of the Sun! Be quenched, become cold, and let your flame be scattered that it may touch no one and nothing!

Extinguish candle.

PS: I like the idea of the Moon acting as a necessary key to the power of the fixed stars, so that being acquainted with the lunar sphere generally might make one more apt for working with them.

[stars-n-rosaries]

O Shining Moon, Lady of Tides, as your figure becomes full, I would like to offer you my praise. Silvered Huntress, Queen of Beasts and Friend of Women, your watchful eye brings me peace and safety. Under your shining light, I feel blessed and loved. Wolf Moon, I ask you to continue to watch over me and guide me in my path. I will follow your light. I praise you, O Brilliant Moon.

[barncultus]

Hey mutuals,

I have a fixed star experiment planned for an upcoming election 🐻☄️the result will be a very limited collection of talismans, which I plan to send to friends and family with the hopes of receiving feedback. If you're interested, please reach out with any questions and tell me where to send it!

[songsofbloodandwater]

"The earliest known depiction of the constellation Orion, according to Rappenglueck, was carved on a piece of mammoth tusk. This 32,000 year old artifact of the Aurignacian people of the Upper Paleolithic represents a male figure with arms and legs outstretched in the same pose as the constellation. The tablet also has 86 markings on its sides and back. Rappenglueck notes these are the number of days which when subtracted from a year equal the average number of days of human gestation. That number also matches the days that one of Orion’s brightest stars –Betelgeuse– is visible yearly, suggesting early skywatchers may have connected women’s pregnancy with the cycles of the celestial gods." Sources: text, article.

[carpesanguinem]

[ivy-kissobryos]

22/6/2023

“Capra, Capella, Hircine Queen: you are She whose cloven feet are the drums conjuring forth flame and torrent, whose horns graze the sky and draw down the swift howls of the storm. I ask not for mercy— only deliverance from fear, that I may stand tall amid the downpour, unflinching as the whip-crack of thunder crashes through dark clouds.Just because there are storms on the horizon does not mean one should cease sailing. I know this— for I have passed through the storm and lived. O Castor and Pollux: you lanterns in the dark, the First Fire and promises of blue skies! This catamaran is made to endure, and I have faith in St Elmo’s fire to guide me through the terror and the tempest.”

[mage1101]

Managed to actually see a true solar eclipse. It didn't feel real but I'm glad it was and that I managed to snag a video and some pics

[corvianbard]

#6544

Dearest is the sunflower In its astrolatry. Yet, lovesick or not, Accept even a storm's fury.

[nicdevera]

gastrolatry

Astronomy > Astrology

Gastronomy > Gastrology

[hinotorihime]

actually i'm gonna also say something kinda controversial—

astrology, as a system, does not make sense unless you accept on at least some level the concept of Immutable Fate. and i think there are a lot of people out there trying to do astrology who aren't actually comfortable with that!

like, yeah yeah astra inclinant sed non obligant* and all that but fundamentally the underlying worldview of traditional astrology is not actually fully compatible with the kind of highly individualistic post-enlightenment view of what "free will" means that our culture claims to overtly epouse. and i think that a lot of modern approaches to astrology** are genuinely incoherent because they are not actually willing to properly grapple with that tension.

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS NEW BOOKS BOOKS NEW BOOKS

[caput-larvae]

(x)

Title: Heliacal risings and settings of stars Authors: Maunder, E. W. Journal: The Observatory, Vol. 29, p. 364-365 (1906) Bibliographic Code: 1906Obs....29..364M

[stars-n-rosaries]

Some updates to my altar for the moon 🌙

[literaryvein-reblogs]

a list of "beautiful" words from A to Z

to try to include in your next poem/story

Astrolatry - worship of the heavenly bodies

Bloodwite - a penalty for murder; a broil or riot in which blood is spilled

Corrigendum - an error in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with its correction on a separate sheet

Diamondiferous - containing diamonds

Epizoic - living upon the body of an animal

Funebrial - funereal

Gracile - slender, slight; graceful

Heartsome - giving spirit or vigor; animating, enlivening

Intimity - intimate privacy

Jocose - given to joking; merry

Klendusity - disease-escaping ability

Lilaceous - of or resembling the color lilac

Mebos - a confection of salted and sugared dried apricots

Notaeum - the upper surface of a bird's body

Ownhood - the condition in which one holds oneself or one's own in isolation; egoism, selfhood

Perioeci - those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other

Quasar - a region at the center of a galaxy that produces an extremely large amount of radiation

Rhipidate - fan-shaped

Scrapiana - miscellaneous literary scraps

Telergy - a hypothetical action of one person's thought and desire upon the brain of another person by the transmission of some unknown form of energy

Uraeus - a representation of the sacred asp (Naja haje) appearing in ancient Egyptian art and especially on the headdress of rulers and serving as a symbol of sovereignty

Virose - having or suggestive of a poisonous quality

Wandflower - a plant or flower of the genus Sparaxis; especially: a showy often cultivated plant (S. tricolor) with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers

Xystus - a long and open portico used especially by ancient Greeks or Romans for athletic exercises in wintry or stormy weather; a walk lined with trees

Yosenabe - a soup consisting especially of seafood and vegetables cooked in a broth

Zeppole - a doughnut made from cream puff dough

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

More: Lists of Beautiful Words ⚜ Word Lists ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[songsofbloodandwater]

Constellations of Orion, Taurus and Pleiades juxtaposed on paleolithic paintings on the back wall of the Hall of Bulls in Lascaux, from approximately 17,000 years ago. (Sources: Paleo-Astronomy, this article)