#hail kraig

[brothersnackariahsbitch]

Kieran in SOBH is so fucking funny. Signing off his letters with things like “Hail Kraig”, and dropping lines like this:

“Let us remind our Court that we are the Moon, as the Seelie Court is the Sun; rather than that they are Beauty, and we Tackiness.”

[lilychxn]

FIVE THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS for every TSC book signed by CC is actually so silly

[rinadragomir]

Breaking news! Cassie's releasing Kickstarter✨🫶"Seasons of Shadowhunters"

I'm choking crying sobbing throwing up and everything🥹😩🤧🥺

She will ship four books in four shipments throughout 2024 and early 2025 - one for each season.

What will it include?!

1 - SECRETS OF BLACKTHORN HALL MY BELOVED with a fancy stamped hardcover and Cassandra Jean’s art in full color, including the Polaroids from Kraig’s Retirement Party. All hail Kraig.

2 - "Collection of four novella length stories, at least one of which is set in the Shadowhunter universe and focuses on a character whose future many have been interested in!"

3 - NOTABLE SHADOWHUNTERS:

This new edition will feature old faves as well as the grown up versions of folks like Kit, Ty, and Dru, and some new characters who we have all grown to know and love, like our beloved Oscar.

4 - BETTER IN BLACK SHORT STORIES:

Ten brand new short stories from the Shadowhunter universe! These are all new stories, never before seen anywhere else and currently exclusive to this campaign. Each one focuses on a beloved couple (or thruple) from the Shadowhunters series.

5 - JOURNAL!

This one has a compass rose cover just like Thomas Lightwood’s, and is separated into sections with brand new art from Charlie Bowater!

[aroace-cat-lady]

Hail Kraig, bitches

[gladstones-corner]

Ritual Variants - Liber Resh vel Helios

Originally, this was a post on studying ritual variations to understand why adaptations are made and take your own adaptation to the next level.

Unfortunately I chose Liber Resh vel Helios as the example, and the post quickly became an investigation of this ritual's particular variants.

I've decided to keep the original analysis below as a step-by-step example of how studying and adapting can work, akin to my series on the LRP and SOP.

So let's dive in.

If you're not familiar with Liber Resh, it's a set of four solar adorations performed at the four stations of the sun: dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight.

Aside from some pronunciation differences, the verbal components don't vary. The material components also don't vary, as the ritual is designed to be done bare-handed. That leaves us with the somatic components, which can tremendously differ.

Crowley's original version states that magicians are to perform their adoration while "giving the sign of [their] grade". This assumes that the magician is a member of the A.'.A.'. and is given such signs.

What if you aren't a member of the A.'.A.'.? According to this Thelemapedia page, Crowley gives the following signs:

Dawn (East): The four L.V.X. Signs

Noon (South): The Fire Sign of Thoum-Aesh-Neith

Dusk (West): The Air Sign of Shu

Midnight (North): The Water Sign of Auramoth

These signs are reinforced by practicing occultist, magician, and fellow (read: better) blogger Maevius Lynn in her video on Liber Resh. The main difference is that she uses the Sign of Osiris Slain at dawn instead of the L.V.X. Signs.

Why are they done in this order? This is because the adorations align the magician with the stations of the sun:

Dawn (East): the L.V.X. signs for the rebirth of the Sun

Noon (South): the Fire sign for the zenith of the Sun's power

Dusk (West): the Air sign for the dispersing of the Sun's power

Midnight (North): the Water sign for the hidden aspect of the Sun

However, Donald Kraig significantly diverges from this pattern in Modern Magick:

Dawn (East): The Air Sign of Shu

Noon (South): The Fire Sign of Thoum-Aesh-Neith

Dusk (West): The Water Sign of Auramoth

Midnight (North): A Hailing Sign (right arm out sideways, elbow up at a 90-degree angle, palm flat and facing forward)

Why the difference? Kraig doesn't say for sure in Modern Magick, so I'm going to give an educated guess.

Note that (with the exception of the Hailing Sign), all the Signs match the elemental and directional correspondences given in the LRP. However, Kraig's Hailing Sign is not given in any of Crowley's ritual signs. Instead, there is the Earth Sign of Set.

So where does it come from? In Modern Magick, Kraig states that this Sign is an adaptation of an even older Sign given in some Golden Dawn documents. In my opinion, we can reasonably infer that this "older Sign" is similar to Crowley's Earth Sign of Set, which may now be considered an offensive gesture to make. A reasonable adaptation.

But why change the order of the Signs? I believe it's to reinforce the correspondences to the LRP that magicians following his course will learn before anything else. Again, a reasonable adaptation. After all, if you're working closely with those correspondences, it'll be easier to assimilate something new if it matches up closely.

But what if you aren't working with those correspondences? What if you're working with, say, astrological correspondences on a regular basis and want to align with those?

Take a look at the Lesser Rituals of the Hexagram as given in Crowley's Liber O. These rituals align the magician to the Fixed signs of the zodiac: Leo, Taurus, Aquarius, and Scorpio (but that's another post). Using this set of correspondences will net you the following:

Dawn (East): The Fire Sign of Thoum-Aesh-Neith

Noon (South): The Earth Sign of Set

Dusk (West): The Air Sign of Shu

Midnight (North): The Water Sign of Auramoth

And the changes are limitless. The point of the matter isn't to get it 100% right, 100% of the time, with no adulterations. Remember that magic is a living tradition. To understand where magicians of the past came from is critical, but to form your own tradition is just as important.

If you made it this far, thank you for bearing with me. Have a wonderful day/night, and until we meet again, blessed be~

[pansexual-lilychen]

KRAIGS RETIREMENT PARTY POLAROIDS!!!

ALL HAIL KRAIGGG!!!

[thephonyqueenofengland]

So Emma and Julian might be going to faerie? Certainly never expected that from SoBH. Wonder if we will see Ash again if they do?

[bookishnonesense]

best part of today’s sobh is Julian acknowledging the worship of Kraig

GLORY TO KRAIG

[queenofmorningstar]

OK, fIRST OF ALL KIERAN CALLED JULIAN HIS BROTHER IS SKSJSSKJSS. i’m going to frame this, Cassie.

Also, the house is HAUNTED??!! so we have an ENCHANTED DIARY AND A CURSED HOUSE?? Like, please, Titania, give your ancestors some break. Jemma deserve to be happy

Kierarktina supremacy>>>>>>>>>

ROUND TOM TEACH ME YOUR WAYS

HAIL KRAIG

[allthefandomsbetween]

“Kraigs retirement party was nice”

Shadowhunters 🤝 Kraigs retirement party

[lilychxn]

crazy how cassandra clare can make sobh completely free on tumblr and yet i am considering spending money on this cover (i see blackstairs and that's all i need)

[elizarikaallen]

Just found out there's a tag hail kraig.

Why am I not surprised?

[james-cordelia]

“Nice?” Julian looked outraged. “Puppies are nice. Fuzzy pajamas are nice. Kraig’s retirement party was nice. That was . . .”

Hail Kraig!

[cortanas-wielder]

Hail Kraig.

[artsychauna]

The unseelie king is in my bed

@cassandraclare

[valkyrievalen]

As he should tbh