spirits, Magic
Taylor Ellwood
The relationship between sacred kingship and ...

One of the books I’m reading lately is King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore and Doug Gillette. It’s a fascinating book that explores the archetypes of the mature and sacred masculine. This is currently part of the spiritual work that I’m engaged in as I explore my own relationship with masculinity and heal the ancestoral and contemporary wounds that I’m becoming aware of as it relates to how masculinity is treated and perceived in modern times.

One of the aspects I’m exploring in particular is related to sacred kingship and the land. I am in the process of exploring the new city and surrounding areas that I live in. While I’ve lived here for a year, I didn’t have much opportunity until recently to really begin exploring the area and developing a relationship with the land. I find it fitting and useful that part of the process has also involved cultivating a relationship with the land, particularly on the basis of the relationship has with their home and how that relationship plays out in sacromagical work one does in connecting with the land.

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Why I don't close my rituals anymore

The other day in the Magical Experiments Facebook group I was asked if I had a process for closing out of a ritual that I had shared in a book. I explained that I didn’t actually have a process for closing out of a ritual and that I don’t do closes with my rituals anymore. In fact, I haven’t closed out of a magical working for a long time now. I thought I would share why here.

Conventional wisdom in the occult would argue that it is essential to close out of a magical ritual so that you can banish any left over/unwanted influences from the working and so that you release the magical working to do its thing, while you go on with your life. Its argued that if you don’t do a close out of the ritual, you could be endangering yourself with the spirits you worth with or that the magical working won’t actually be executed. These are the reasons I’ve seen shared for why you want to close a ritual.