What to do when you've got ONE Friday the 13th with a Full Harvest Moon on it?
Make magick like a maniac, of course!
A night like tonight was a perfect excuse to fire up (literally) my new little cast iron cauldron from Portugal, which got initiated at We'Moon Lammas, but which I hadn't brewed in since. But I did have enough ingredients for a vision brew, simmered for nearly an hour over triple candle-power.
The actual Full moon peak came at 9:33 p.m. our time. As far as I was concerned, there was nothing more important than sending healing energy to the Earth, specifically the Amazon and all other burning and hurting places, and even more specifically to a large group (570!) of women, mainly indigenous grandmothers, who even at that moment were praying en masse for the Earth and Her healing. I didn't yet light these three candles, but I did prepare them; I sent energy using my green arrowhead object link instead, and my Earth deva altar candles lit. I figured this spell can continue on awhile, or resume during the upcoming Climate Strike:
I concluded the Earth working when Mom and the kids came home, plus I wanted to check my potion. And how about this "new" double boiler I got today at thrift for only $4! I've wanted a cheap gimme version for ages, since the glass one my buddy gave me is both pricey and packed away.
What else could I do on Friday the 13th? I started my banishing oil! All I'm missing is the Galangal, I can add that in later. I powdered the sulfur, opoponax, asafoetida and other ingredients, plus a couple new ones, including voodoo lilies and mistletoe. Finally I added essential oils.
The last ingredient on the list took a little divining. Pendulum, in this case. I still have yet to explore the full magickal properties and strengths of each of the different crude oils now in my keeping, but I reasoned one among them would be the best for a "cleansing fire" or Pyrochthonia oil. Would it be the one highest in sulfur? No, turned out it was the one originally used to make light. . . .
Something does remain to be mentioned. It's the second time it's happened, and at first I thought it was merely a fluke, or a bad candle; now I'm not so sure. During my Earth prayer session, Naphtha's candle went out. It was getting low, but the first time it happened weeks ago, it had a good two inches left on it, and in neither case was it low wax that put the candle out. No, the wick was simply . . . vaporized. Gone, left only as a fine web of useless fibers. Like a spirit had emptied it from the inside out, or burned through it with a rabid and mysterious power.
Odd thing is, Her first candle didn't do this, and Gaia's has never done this. So, the question remains: Bad candle? The presence of crudes and their subtle vapors, which is a new phenomenon on my home altar these past few months? Or is it the work of these potent spirits during a particular type of Earth healing magick, doing work that must be done to address the balance, to subdue and re-sequester Aliria-Naphtha's power away from greedy men, and the candle is merely a sign of the spell at work?
This time, I was actually able to get a photo of the "empty wick" phenomenon through my Geology hand lens. Try I might, too, to light the remaining stub of solid wick, it failed and went out instantly. Something is definitely up!
As a scientist, I feel I can't make any solid conclusions until this happens a few more times (even tellingly with a taller candle, or when the crude oils and their vapors are not nearby). Until then, I can only surmise, and kind of hope with a nervous thrill, that it is indeed a sign from the spirits!
I drank some of my vision brew tonight, and had odd dreams. Bad dreams about having to move are nothing new, or of my mom acting jealous and questionable, but a dream about both the Egyptian goddesses Isis and Nepthys? That's interesting. . . .
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