This Q&A was the most difficult. I had a difficult time establishing a connection to the spirit, and even when I did manage to, it was quite tenuous.
Q&A #4: OCH, Olympic Spirit of the Sun
I set up my chair and table facing South, in the centre of my UC. I began my initial meditations a half an hour before the Hour of the Sun so I would be ready to call the spirit at his appointed Time.
This was the first time I attempted a ritual in the middle of the afternoon. Usually, I prefer the hours of Darkness.
Once the cloud exercise and countdown were completed, I lit the candles on the table. I used the same light blue candles that I used in the Paralda ritual as I didn’t have any other. I didn’t think it mattered as they were only for illumination.
I vibrated the mantra, “Om Ma,” that Raven posted on the forum, to try to deepen my trance. After a few repetitions, I switched to vibrating the Seed Sound of the Sun, “EE.” This I vibrated for 5 minutes, though I lost track of time so I’m not sure how long it was exactly. Doing so caused me to become dizzy, and start to sway.
I gazed into OCH’s sigil. “I call thee, OCH, Spirit of the Sun, to appear before me, in beholdable form, and to speak in a clear voice I can understand.”
I should note that I pronounced the name with a hard “CH,” like in “school.”
The symbol started to flash, the lines becoming three dimensional, and blinking in and out.
I moved my gaze to my scrying bowl and began calling, “OCH, come.” I chanted the name over and over again, as I scried into the bowl.
I couldn’t feel anything, though I got a sense of something just out of my perception. I continued to chant, but still couldn’t grasp the elusive thing.
I moved my vision back to the sigil, to reestablish the connection. Once the flashing started again, I moved back to the bowl. I stopped chanting, and just rocked back and forth, as I gazed.
Suddenly, I got a sense of movement in the water, like a shadow glimpsed in my peripheral vision.
I called out.“OCH, are you present?”
I felt a subtle whisper which seemed to confirm the presence of the spirit.
I greeted OCH and welcomed him to my Temple.
DK: I have some questions for you.
O: (silence)
DK: What is your nature?
O: I am Fire. Expansion. Growth. I am the force behind everything. I am Light. I am…
Here I lost the connection. After gazing once more at the sigil, I went back to scrying.
DK: I’m sorry, OCH. I lost the connection.
O:…I am Creation…Destruction…
DK: Thank you. OCH, I have read that you have a secret name. What is this name and what is its purpose?
O:…It is not for you. You are not ready to know.
DK: Not ready? What do you mean?
O:…much to learn…more to become… (I only caught pieces of words here)
I was startled by the phone ringing. I struggled to reconnect to the sigil afterwards.
DK: How can you aid me in my Ascension?
O:…Growth. Expansion. The Divine spark that becomes the raging Inferno…
DK: I don’t understand.
O: (No response)
DK: What aspects of human endeavor do you govern?
Here I experienced a sharp pain in my Ze’Al chakra and my Ajna, so I decide to close out the ritual.
I gave the license to depart and extinguished the candles, bringing myself out of trance. Had a glass of ice tea to ground.
As I stated, I had great difficulty with this Q&A. I don’t know if it was the time of day, the rain outside, or what, but I just could not connect with OCH. I may try again with this spirit at another time.
Tonight, for the final Q&A, I have chosen Mephistopheles.