Exploring Solomonic Magic
Jan. 19th, 2025 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haloquinThe past 6 months I've been adding Solomonic magic into my witchy studies. (Never ending studies, just the way I like them.)
I say "Solomonic", knowing that's a potentially nebulous category, but, following Sara Mastros (whose book I had to get after a lucky invitation to Italy led to me sitting her class on one of the Key of Solomon pentacles...) Let's say it's magic involving or crediting Solomon the Magician King. Like the pentacles in the Key of Solomon.
For a long time I have focused on more intuitive methods of magic... But as I child I longed to discover the "magic words".
Can't quite believe it's taken 28 years for me to make a serious study of these magic-word based pentacles.
Though admittedly my sources as an 11 year old in the mid 90s were somewhat more limited than my resources now, and the skills and learning I have now are proving useful. So that's good right? Better late than never?
One thing that put me off the effort of understanding and using things like the pentacles is that most of the material I could find encouraged creatively writing your own magic words, and it worked! And then realising that there was no consensus on what was the "correct" language/correspondences/interpretation/etc just meant I decided that there were no definitive magic words, so better to put my energy into skills rather than extra academic, conceptual study. However, now I've finished my philosophy PhD it turns out I really miss this side of things and I was feeding my Talking Self with my uni studies, but it still needs feeding after the silly black hats have been thrown and the certificate is on the wall.
So here I go!
And thinking about that time frame... can anyone say "Saturn Return" for my witchy self?
~~~
Foolish Fish Review of "Sorcery of Solomon by Sara L. Mastros: https://youtu.be/3xBYeR6zbNk?si=pxDVkk3r-f8Ucwtd
Luckily for me I've managed to wrangle a spot on Sara's course so that should keep me on track! https://mastroszealot.com/lessons
I say "Solomonic", knowing that's a potentially nebulous category, but, following Sara Mastros (whose book I had to get after a lucky invitation to Italy led to me sitting her class on one of the Key of Solomon pentacles...) Let's say it's magic involving or crediting Solomon the Magician King. Like the pentacles in the Key of Solomon.
For a long time I have focused on more intuitive methods of magic... But as I child I longed to discover the "magic words".
Can't quite believe it's taken 28 years for me to make a serious study of these magic-word based pentacles.
Though admittedly my sources as an 11 year old in the mid 90s were somewhat more limited than my resources now, and the skills and learning I have now are proving useful. So that's good right? Better late than never?
One thing that put me off the effort of understanding and using things like the pentacles is that most of the material I could find encouraged creatively writing your own magic words, and it worked! And then realising that there was no consensus on what was the "correct" language/correspondences/interpretation/etc just meant I decided that there were no definitive magic words, so better to put my energy into skills rather than extra academic, conceptual study. However, now I've finished my philosophy PhD it turns out I really miss this side of things and I was feeding my Talking Self with my uni studies, but it still needs feeding after the silly black hats have been thrown and the certificate is on the wall.
So here I go!
And thinking about that time frame... can anyone say "Saturn Return" for my witchy self?
~~~
Foolish Fish Review of "Sorcery of Solomon by Sara L. Mastros: https://youtu.be/3xBYeR6zbNk?si=pxDVkk3r-f8Ucwtd
Luckily for me I've managed to wrangle a spot on Sara's course so that should keep me on track! https://mastroszealot.com/lessons
