Congratulations OTC members and non-members who successfully performed the Ghost Flower ritual during the past moon cycle!!!
I'm thrilled by your success and glad to tell that your next step is to bond magically with the flower spirit you made contact with during the Ghost Flower ritual. It's an easy process. But before you do it, you should be aware that your life is going to really change, your flower spirit will want to work quickly, and may want you to break bad habits. Follow your fascination. Follow your joy. All you need to invoke your flower spirit is its name. The sigil can help. The bonding ritual is just for you. In reality, you're already bound to the flower spirit. But you still need to do a bonding ceremony! Whatever you choose to do, make it special like preparing for a wedding, but one with just two participants, who leave the wedding as one. If you want to discuss these matters in further detail, learn more about Eudaemonia, or get some advice about how to do the bonding ceremony consider joining the OTC.
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Over the next couple of months, the Order of the Crow is going to expand in some interesting ways. Here's what's planned: 1) The Order will be open to anyone who wants to study magick regardless of their current level of knowledge. This means that the Order will no longer be solely focused on teaching the Ghost Flower ritual. Instead, the Order will welcome those who are just beginning a study of magick and who may or may not be focused on performing the Ghost Flower Ritual. 2) Starting in August, the "pass through" option for the Ghost Flower ritual will no longer be available to non-members. Only OTC members will retain access to the online ritual guide. 3) Starting in July, I'll begin teaching the Ladder of Love manifesting ritual to any OTC members who are interested in learning it. Members will receive a free pdf copy of the ritual and my active guidance (if needed) in learning this fascinating and powerful tool for manifestation. 4) Starting in August I'll be asking those who've attained the rank of Magus in the OTC to begin teaching the Ghost Flower ritual to others. This will leave me more time for teaching other things. At some point, the OTC will have a member chat, page, and etc... So watch for quickly moving events and ... further acts of magick! My hearty congratulations to everyone who succeeded in performing the ritual over the past few months!!! For those who "failed" in completing the ritual or for whom the ritual was a dud, remember I failed on my first try. And Yeats supposedly never made it work. There are good reasons the ritual is still left for you to do. Trust your magick. Categories All There's pleasure in smelling a flower. There's pleasure in touching a flower. There's pleasure in saying a flower's name. Some may even feel pleasure in eating a flower, or ripping it off the stem and shredding it to pieces.
Maybe you'd rather pluck a flower and toss it in a stream. Or press it between pages of a book. Or put it in your hair. Or maybe you don't like flowers at all. They make you sneeze. You hate nature because it's full of bugs and dirt and who cares about worthless things that grow out of the ground anyway? Or maybe you think flowers are for funerals. Or only for old ladies. Or maybe you think flowers are just products of chemistry, biology, and natural evolution and only seem pretty or interesting to us chimp-descended primates because we're hard-wired to cultivate things from the earth because we need to do so to survive. Whatever you think and feel about flowers, whether you like them hate them, sell them, smell them, draw them, sing about them, write poems about them, or use them to do magic, your life is intricately bound to them. Don't believe me? Imagine the world with no flowers. Nothing made from them. Nothing inspired by them. No. Flowers. At. All. Not even plastic ones. For those of you who need a scorecard, this also takes away virtually all of your drugs, much of your alcohol, and a good chunk of what you like to eat, or at least of what you eat likes to eat. The good news is, you'll still have guns and money and flags and stuff -- as long as the gun model, currency, or flag isn't based somehow on something about flowers. So for those of you with Hobbesian or nihilistic views of the world, the loss of flowers might not mean much so long as there's still a scrum left for your ego and pain. But what you won't realize is: it's missing the joy of touching, smelling, and being among flowers (ie -- blooming with life) that you're crying and killing about. For those of you who are still blooming -- it's a simple thing: the joy of flowers and growth and nature is the joy of being. When a man or woman gives you a flower or you discover a wild rose you feel joy. The joy of pure being. You'll have to come up with a reason to spit on the flower and cry. For a split-second you'll submit to pure joy, pure being. If you contemplate the Amaranth, or magick, or the starry sky, flowers of joy bloom inside of you. You can't stop them. Because that feeling, that spirit, is the source of All Flowers. And also the source of you. |
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