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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The new moon in Cancer is an excellent time to begin the Ghost Flower ritual. This is particularly true if you're an artist or creative person. If you've been considering performing the ritual, now's a good time to dive in. Keep in mind that the pass-through option for the ritual will only be available for this final moon cycle, after which the ritual will be published in book form. So now's the time to grab all the info free of charge. I've had a few questions about the ritual, and I'll answer them now. Roughly in order of popularity. 1) What does the ritual do? The ritual puts you in touch with a nature spirit that has healing, teaching, and manifesting powers. This nature spirit is uniquely tied to you and is a "lower" emanation of your Holy Guardian Angel. You can use contact with your flower spirit as a basis for making full contact with your Holy Guardian Angel, or you can dialogue with your flower spirit to receive many magickal blessings such as knowledge, healing, and manifesting your desires. 2) Do I need to have a bell jar? No. You can use a glass jar or lid of any kind, so long as it big enough to cover your flower and transparent enough for moonlight to penetrate. 3) Will this work if I don't believe in magick? Yes. 4) Can I just pick a flower, dry it out, and burn it whenever I want? Why follow a moon cycle? Yes, you can do that. The reason to follow the moon cycle, or any other principle of magick is the same as following any other instruction, even a recipe. If you stray from the recipe, you'll still get something. But you might not like the taste! 5) Can I make a donation to the OTC? Yep. You can send a donation directly by sending an email to the OTC through the link below. You'll receive a lightning quick reply. You can also use the second button below to help out in a unique way. Thanks so much for your support!!! 6) If I'm a magus in the OTC can I teach the Ghost Flower ritual now? Yes. But I ask that you give your students the option of joining the Order. So far, these are the only real questions I've had that aren't too technical in nature. If you want to know more or just talk to me more about magick, consider joining the Order of the Crow. We like new members and treat them like royalty!!! Categories All 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. This post is intended for those of you who've completed the Ghost Flower Ritual, made contact with your flower spirit, and perhaps have even performed a bonding ceremony.
If you've made it that far on your own, you have probably learned a lot about magick and the nature of the will and how to direct your intent. You've probably also experienced a lot of things that have your imagination soaring, if not rocketing. That's the whole idea, after-all, or part of it anyway. It's possible that your experience of levity and Angelic power will make it a bit tougher to walk on pavement for a while. So I want to give you a couple of tips on how to handle the pure joy of being that your spirit will want to give to you. 1) Your flower spirit isn't an Angel. It's a daemon. As such, until you've performed the bonding ceremony, it's probably a good idea to use a license to depart when interacting with your flower spirit. This means that after you perform any kind of summoning, invocation, or evocation with your flower-spirit, you should banish your temple or work area and include a specific, spoken command to your flower spirit to depart so that you may continue your earthly pursuits. It's enough to say: "Spirit (name) depart now." But you decide what works best. Once you've bonded with your flower, you won't need to do this. Instead, if you start feeling overwhelmed or overly inspired, just provide a material basis for the spirit to tell you what it wants you to know. 2) Ego inflation is a serious risk of doing magick. All I can tell you is: it happens to everyone and it's a spell killer. If you start thinking you're important or special or powerful in any way, get ready for trouble because the objective reality of the universe is: we're all equal in the eyes of the Lord. So don't step on any rakes. But you will. I do it all the time. The best remedy for ego inflation is laughter. Joyful laughter. Magick's part of nature; it's natural to manifest your desires and for your neighbor to do so too. And lastly, the flower spirit is an almost-earthly emanation of your Holy Guardian Angel. So it has a lot to give you immediately. It's "low hanging fruit" so to speak, or rather, you are! So get picked by a spirit and feel good about it, but remember, there's lots of other fruit on the tree. There's a "suck it and see" aspect to magick that's very important. If you self-initiate as I did, "suck it and see" will be the primary focus of your early magickal experiences and experiments.
Even if you have a mentor or a teacher, you should revel in the discoveries of magick and the self-reliance of magick. But be warned, the purely solitary path is a much slower and more difficult path, and you should expect some setbacks, and delays. So, if you're currently using the pass-thru option to perform the Ghost Flower ritual, you're willfully walking into mysteries for which you'll likely find no immediate answer or resolution. You're brushing up against mountains that are brushing back, and it can be daunting at times. Your most formidable hurdle is boredom. You may think of so many reasons to not complete the ritual. Your second most formidable hurdle is fear because you must experience an ego-death to fully go through the ritual, just as anyone who uses psychedelics or goes through a period of intense growth and self-actualization. Also, you may not know or trust it when you've hit a mystery or its answer. Particularly if this is your first foray into magick. We're socially wired the other way from magic. But nature wired us to be magicians. This can get confusing out there on your own. Are there other dangers to "suck it and see?" About the same as if you decide you pick up a trumpet and teach yourself to play. You'll make some weird noises and bug your neighbors, while opening up your ears and heart to music. If you know a little about music and you dedicate yourself to what you're doing, you might get a three-note melody going in an hour. Maybe it takes a week. The most likely scenario is, you get bored with it and throw the trumpet in the corner. If you want to "master" the trumpet it's going to take a long time. You may or may not need a teacher. You may or may not need several teachers. You might want to learn to read music; you might not want to learn to read music. Magick's no different. Including sudden "leaps" in ability. If you keep practicing your trumpet, someday you'll make a sound on it that surprises you and that might lead you to your unique voice. Magick's the same. The Ghost Flower ritual is intended to link you to your magickal voice. So it's cool that you picked up the trumpet, but you should, at the very least, consider the traditional ways of holding it and blowing into it. For this particular ritual (now dropping the trumpet analogy) this means: 1) Make solid contact with Jophiel. 2) Make solid contact with the Four Archangels. 3) Be fearless. If you've made solid contact with Jophiel and the Archangels you can now "suck and see" with impunity. Up to a point. You'll know that point. So, what's solid contact? It's a matter of gnosis. It's liable to be expressed in the material world through shadows, moods, scents, musical sounds, feelings. If you light a candle and incense, you provide a material basis for an angelic response. But angels can use anything as a material basis. Again, you'll know. But it's no good to know and forget. That's why you should learn and perform the LBRP, or a banishing ritual of your own devising, as often as you can. I hope you all found (or were found by) incredible flowers this new moon. Now put your flower in a dark place. Cleanse and purify your ritual tools and yourself. Read up on whatever areas of magick are calling you. Wait to see the flower's shadow and receive its name. Don't write the name down. Hold it in your heart. Watch for signs. Prepare for the Burning on the full moon. Go without fear. There's a lot of pain, confusion, and fear in the world today. I see a lot of broken people around me. I truly believe that if you open yourself up to the possibilities of this ritual, you'll touch a joy and power of healing that's more than enough to overcome the darkness of this world and any other. Even if you don't believe in magick, the Ghost Flower Ritual can really help you. As human beings we're designed by nature to connect with nature in ways that even the greatest intellectuals and most potent scientific tools and theories have yet to fully comprehend. Take a look around at the natural world: at flowers, the clouds, the sea, the grass. The stars. Remember how it felt when you were a kid and you ran on the sand, or chewed on a blade of grass. The reason these are joyous memories and joyful scenes is because we're meant to be joyful in nature. There are many complicated magickal, psychological, and, yes, physical reasons why the Ghost Flower Ritual is a powerful tool for healing and inspiration, but you don't need to know about them to get the effects. All you need is some alone time, a candle, a few implements and an open mind. The power's there if you want it, and it belongs to you, but you'll have to use your will to initiate the magick. The first step is to just click one of the buttons below. 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