I messed up - I was supposed to be fasting. Azazel was three-days worth of invoked, with the idea that every day I fasted would keep the energies super clear to continue and deepen that. I’d made a nice steak for my kid for lunch, and clearing the plate away, there was bloody gravy left, and I was gross and sipped it up, (I know, I have no class 
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With that, he roared at me “Did that cow sacrifice itself for YOU!?” and left.
Lessons learned:
- There’s a lot of energy in blood that strongly affects your system in blood.
- Spiritual fasting isn’t about calories, it’s about controlling your energy.
- The sacrifice must be voluntary and specific to the entities involved, including the human, or the energy doesn’t work and instead is disruptive.
So my feeling is, based on this and how using my own blood feels, is Garrett doesn’t understand what a sacrifice actually is at it’s heart. So he is using two things: the energy of the fear/pain/drama and his emotions, and the energy of the blood itself, and has figured out how to harness that chaotic wave and ride it.
He’s not getting a voluntary sacrifice from the animal and thus, it’s not a blood “sacrifice” at all, the way I understand what a sacrifice is, and how entity sovereignty works. Even if you see animals as mere property, resources to be used, as all good psychopaths do, then he is making a blood offering plus sacrificing his property, It is missing the major point of what sacrifice is about, which is that the spirit sacrificed believes in the work, enough to give it’s life, and co-creates the manifestation with you.
You can sacrifice of someone else, if you get then to offer themselves, but how many humans know how to even talk to animals let alone get that gift from them today? - that leaves only the practitioner and his possessions as a viable sacrifice.
I could find a local butcher and ask for a fresh killed chicken, with its blood in a separate bag.
So this is fine, since you’re not likely to get a voluntary gift from the animal anyway, the only thing you lose out on here (or gain, depending on your point of view) is the energy of the animal’s pain and fear from it dying in your temple, and the energy of your feelings about that.
I don’t know. EA likes him and that’s the only reason I haven’t dismissed him out of hand yet. But as a qigong practitioner, I know several other sources to get better and more energy from, I think using fear and pain is cheap and lazy at best, and limiting at worst - draw energy from the cosmos as you can pull as much as your system can handle, and doing it builds you to handle more… how many chickens can you realistically torture to death in one ritual? It’s like the difference between living as a bandit and learning to hunt and harvest for yourself - you’d better hope the supply of victims never runs out. It’s just fucking dumb.
I still cannot do the circle his way (burning wood in the triangle and so on) for living in an apartment. I could try to get a wicca pot for the fire, and try to call him on my balcony
You can just use a candle or few. Or try a BBQ as your fire vessel on the balcony, with mesquite wood chips and all and you’ll fly under the radar. Do the motions in your head and you’ll just look like you’re tending the BBQ.
The other thing you can do, is perform all this in the astral - sit in your circle indoors with some mood music, incense, candles, then journey in your head and create for yourself a temple in the astral and visualise yourself performing it there.