picture of IASO (from Wikipedia)
3 weeks ago I got sick with a fever and although I broke that fever, shortly after I came down with a cold. I normally recover from sickness fast, because I have a specific regime of activities I do which include Dragon and Tiger Medical Qi Gong, as well as Reiki, and mundane resources such as medicine, and expelling everything that needs to get out. But this time around, perhaps because I’m in peak season at work, nothing was really working, or rather it was mitigating the symptoms, but not resolving the illness. On Wednesday night of last week I decided it was time to draw upon some additional help.
I first started by invoking the Daemons Verrier and Verrine. I first learned about these spirits from S. Connolly’s The complete book of demonolatry (affiliate link), and I’ve worked with them a few times, for health magic, both in regards to myself and other people. I asked them if they could help me get to the source of the illness and heal and expunge it from my body and they agreed. Shortly after I started coughing a lot more, but this was good because it allowed me to clear out the infectious mucus that had been stuck in my respiratory system.
However, I didn’t stop there. I’m currently taking a class where one of the meditations involves working with Asclepius and one of his daughters. I did the meditation and the daughter who presented herself is IASO, the goddess of recuperation from illness. Over the next couple nights, while I slept I had dreams of her visiting me and laying hands on me, helping me to recover from the sickness. She ensured that I got extra sleep and that the cold didn’t keep me up. She also worked with the two daemons. The three of them coordinated their efforts as well as my own efforts to heal, both mundanely and magically.
I don’t get sick often and normally I can throw it off in a day or so, but in this case I had back to back sickness and I realized my usual efforts weren’t going to cut it. Having such a realization helped me turn to the spirits and get some extra help and now I’m feeling better than I have in the last three weeks. I didn’t turn to the spirits lightly, but I’m also a believer in using all the resources you have available to you and in this case, working with the spirits was the turning point in this particular bout of illness.
I chose to work with Verrier and Verine because they are good at finding the cause of the illness and uprooting it. IASO was admittedly more of a circumstantial situation, but given that the meditation was to gods of healing, I really wasn’t surprised when one offered her services. In both cases, what I offered in return was to share this experience and praise the spirits for their help, which they found agreeable.
If you’re sick and the sickness just isn’t letting up, it can be a good idea to work with a spirit, and what I’ve found is that when you’re sick it’s actually easier to call on health spirits, because your health or lack thereof is something which calls to them anyway. When I called on each of the spirits, I used the feeling of sickness to help invoke them and show them why I needed their aid. They’ll see that and they’ll be willing to do the heavy lifting magically to heal you, though of course you do need to do your part as well. In my case that was getting plenty of rest, drinking tea and taking medicine, while also drawing on Reiki to help with the process. It also involved getting the stuff out of my body that was causing me to stay ill, so I did some purging.
It feels good to feel healthy again. I praise Verrier, Verine and IASO for their work on me, and their help in bringing me back to health.
