Love & Marriage or How Sophia got her groove back

I should give a bit of background. I was just minding my own business in some realm talking to Belial and I hear a loud shuffling sound. Suddenly a figure in head to toe white robes looking like an Arabian knight on a decaying zombified looking horse just snatched me up like I weighed nothing. The strength was there but I felt a great deal of control. The figure held me like delicate princess and declared: “you’ve put your nonsense in her head long enough. So stop hogging her.” Belial shrugged indifferently and the man placed me on the horse in front of him. The horse smelled terrible but I got used to it. As we rode he periodically would take the reign with one hand and point out and explain important landmarks and geological features.

Eventually we came to a campsite where a group of demons chatted excitedly drinking wine and eating some unidentified part of an animal. The blistering sun was rising and they seemed to be preparing for something. He picked me up again like before and I didn’t argue not wanting to offend this gentlemanly fellow. He pushed me toward some women who were alarmed by my state of undress. They sat me down on a floor rug inside of a hut that was beautifully decorated with elaborate tapestries, there were books and scrolls neatly piled on the floors and tables. I could smell frankincense, cake and coffee. The gave me white undergarments and a beautiful silk gown with a gold embroidered veil. They ushered me outside and handed me a bouquet of unearthly colored lilies. The man came and took my hand in his gently and After a lot of words were spoken that I did not understand I was encouraged to throw the bouquet.

A flurry of instruments were produced and the partying went on long into the night. He picked me up again and carried me back to the hut.

I turned to see the man starting to remove his clothing.I reared back, my experiences in the astral realm making me wonder what horror might be under the hood. To my surprise it was the face of a middle aged man with fiery red hair and a slight beard. I stared at his face in shocked silence and he stared back after having stripped shirtless down to a pair of brown leather pants and black boots.

He felt his face and looked surprised. “Oh, I seem older. I am told that I typically look younger. “He stood up straight and stretched placing his hand to his chin thoughtfully. “Maybe this is just the form of love” he said with a strange twinkle in his eyes. “Huh?” I said still staring stunned like a deer in headlights. “ You don’t have a thought right now in your head do you?” I shook my head back and forth.

He huffed and sat cross legged on a pillow. “ If you were to find a beautiful flower that was being trampled, abused and stepped on and you straightened it back up and gave it water and walked away would that be love?”

“Or what if you unearthed the withered flower, replanted it and took it home and sat it in your window where it would always have light, water and could hear a gentle voice everyday and gazes of admiration would that be love? If the only reasonable option you could think of to stop the flower from suffering was to take it under your protection is that selfishness? Or is it love?”

(I’m still staring at him like an idiot)

“ One day that flower pointed up at me and told me that in her cosmos I was her sun and she wished that I could shine down on her forever. What would you call that? to me that is a proposal. A proposal of love”

I started hyperventilating and freaking out and crab walked backwards across the floor saying “No no no no no no this isn’t happening”

“it most definitely is and you started it.”

“No no no no I summoned you. I imagined your sigil in the sun. The ritual didn’t mention anything about getting married”

“YOU create your own reality and what did YOU say?

“What light through yonder window breaks, it is the east and Paimon is the sun” I buried my face in my hands with embarrassment.

“AND-?”

“The sun looked so beautiful I said I wish the light would shine down on me forever.” I kneeled back down and put my hands over my head.

“And that was marriage proposal #1”

Me: “THATS NOT WHAT IT WAS!”

“You did the ritual to summon me. Oh, you summoned me alright but my little monster you did more than that. Lucifer told you to choose your own cosmology. That means the directions and the elements and your gatekeeper. Why would Lucifer be so specific with his instructions?”

“ No he wasn’t specific just said for the spirits that wanted to work with me he would give me the authority to choose their seats.”

“That is a specific difference. The authority to rewrite the natural order. To make an air king the king of fire. That’s chaos. Is that what you are?”

“I don’t know who I am anymore and that’s the problem. And how would you know how I feel? You’re not human you don’t understand human feelings”

And as soon as I said that I instantly regretted it. And by the look on his face I had chosen death.

(I will continue this in a few hours but let me know when you knew exactly who he was before I did :rofl:)

Wow, very intense.

Did you lived it face to face or in a distant dream?

Did it felt like real life?

There is a very clear difference for me between dreaming, lucid dreaming and astral travel. Regular dreaming is usually mundane things that are just my subconscious working things out. I have no control over my lucid dreaming as much as I’ve tried the writing down your dreams trick or other things. Typically they are messages sent to me in an extremely deep sleep. They happen very rarely. Usually from a spirit, ancestor, higher self etc but it’s confusing because I don’t have access to all of my senses.

Astral travel I have been doing since childhood when I had a death experience. I have been told I have one foot in and one foot out between worlds so it’s easy to step out of my body. I lay down and think of where I want to go so typically it is to someone I know or where I have been. And I will my consciousness there. I don’t feel myself traveling. Feels like teleportation and this felt real. I am conscious of myself and the reactions of my body. My body started crying at the end when I said that to him. It came out wrong.

Before I continue this song has the Same Energy. But yes he was so angry it was like a psychic pressure that started weighing down on me. My ears started ringing followed by a terrible headache and I started crying uncontrollably.

“Crying is a natural reaction to fear.” He said coldly his fists balled.

“No. I’m crying cause I feel like shit. I guess I wasn’t wrong after all. After the wedding you took off your robes and I got the impression you were a war god, the bones of your enemies hanging from your hip like trophies…”

He swiftly grabbed me by the hood at the back of my neck and started dragging me outside. “You are entirely too perceptive” he threw me into a white house dug out of earth and clay. “You are a mess. You need to connect with your dark feminine. Take the time that you need.” And he shut the door.

I was still having the headaches and I began to stomp and punch the ground angrily until I felt my aura slightly expand. I put my hands to my belly and dug my toes into the earth. I could feel a surge of energy like electricity surge outward. I began to push outward until my aura had expanded to fill the whole inside of the clay house. I could feel a storm gathering above in the sky. Streaks of lightning hitting the hut. I began to scream and yell out all of the anger and frustration I had been holding in.my head pulled back and I felt fangs and claws growing and receding as if unsure what form my body wished to take.

Outside I heard rain, lightning and thunder. I pushed the palms of my hands downward and released the energy into the ground. The walls began to shift and become straight losing their curve. The roof angled upward and I felt grounded yet invigorated. The noise outside settled and the door swung open

Paimon appeared in the doorway. “Okay, are you ready to take this from the top now that you’ve pulled yourself together?”

I made eye contact and nodded silently and followed him back into the hut. I returned to the floor pillow and he placed the flap over the door. “I’ve decided that we have misunderstood each other.” He said. He calm, friendly demeanor seemed to have returned. “Why don’t we give each other 3 questions and 3 wishes. The other can consent not to answer of course.”

“Okay. First question. Who or what is my godform.”

“Nice try but you know the contract with Lucifer. I can’t answer that. i’ll save you a question for later though”

“Okay. Why do you like me so much?”

“I like sweet things. Next question”

I blushed and racked my brain for another question but his frankness flustered me.

“Then I’ll ask a question.” Paimon’s face looked more serious but slowing turned to an impish grin. “Why have you been married to a man for 10 years that you don’t love?”

I lied. “ I don’t know”

“I think you do. Cheated on you three times. The third time while you had a child STILL SUCKING AT YOUR BREAST!” Second question. “Has anyone really ever wanted you?”

“That’s cruel”

Paimon lowered his head and put up an open hand. “Listen to the question. Known the real you and wanted you. Without an idealized version, without the person they wanted you or expected you to be?”

“My parents didn’t want me but there were people that I wanted to be with.”

“There were people you took pity on and wanted to fix because that’s what kind goddesses do. But smart goddesses know their worth.” He uncrossed his legs and came down from the table edge he was sitting on.

“Final question. Are you worthy of love? Because you see this is where we missed each other by a mile. I thought you were being ungrateful but you really don’t think you can do better. Here I am ready to burn the world down and remake it in whatever image you would like…and this is where the blockage lies”

He stood up with his finger pointed at me as if he was issuing a challenge. “A woman who pushed out a 10lb baby without an epidural bleeding out on the table? Your arms too weak to hold him but you fought back sleep by sheer force of will. Does she deserve love and admiration?”

“Yes” I said staring at the ground and avoiding eye contact

“I want you to say it to me like you mean it or not at all!!!”

Suddenly in a flash of light he was gone and a miniature sun was hovering over my head. It dropped out of the air and I caught it over my head with my bare hands. When they started to burn I chucked it forward onto the ground. When it landed the fire immediately disappeared leaving a sphere that split open and Paimon gracefully tumbled out of it. “Okay round two then.”

He lunged forward becoming an immense golden scorpion. He tried to pin me down with his legs but I rolled and dodged this way and that. “You can’t avoid the topic forever. Neither can you evade ME!” The space shifted and I slid down a sand dune the fine particles turning into a spider’s web. A great golden spider reared back on the web and pressed forward causing the web to shake and I cling to the web until I found both arms and legs stuck.

I remembered the hut and I pushed my aura outward and sent an electrical pulse through the webbing. He shrunk himself down and leaned through a gap in the webbing before the shockwave could reach him. The webbing desolved solved and I found myself back again on the floor pillow.

“Well my little monster. If you didn’t have MY love and admiration you have it now.” He said pushing back his hair and dusting off his clothes. “Is that enough or are you a greedy goddess that needs more” He said in a tone that I couldn’t distinguish was sarcasm or something darker.

“I’m satisfied. Spiritual warfare is one thing I’m good at”

“Yes. I’ve heard all about your natural born witchyness. But that’s the danger in being gifted you have to work backwards and reverse engineer everything”

“What do you mean?”

“Could you explain to me how you did what you just did?”

“No. I guess not”

“Then that’s exactly what I mean

How can you think strategically when you only know what you are capable of in the moment?”

“I don’t know. I’m tired. There’s a bed over there. I’m going to lay down”

“I don’t think you know what you are doing”

“I think I like it here” and I crawled into a soft bed and fell asleep to the smell of overly sweetened coffee and frankincense.

I awoke and rolled over and found Paimon laying on top of the blanket beside me.

“AH!” I flipped over in surprise and tumbled out of the bed.

“I told you you didn’t know what you were doing. This is my bed. Marriage proposal #…ah, I’m not even counting anymore.” He looked down at me on the floor. “You are hopeless. I guess it can’t be helped.” He started to undress further until he was naked.

I crawled away from the bed quickly on all fours. “No no no no wait hold on :folded_hands:”

“Oh stop scuttling around like you’re a virgin”

Okay I’m going to edit this part here because Paimon is the kind of spirit that likes privacy in some areas and I want to respect that. I will simply say I was suffering from chronic back pain and his best solution was realigning my chakras through teaching me tantric sex. And the best was to do that was for us to actually do it. Needless to say no more back pain. I actually thought I would need a walker or a Wheelchair one day

I did want to continue and King Paimon or “King” as I have simply taken to calling him and he likes. He had gotten me a wonderful job as a contractor. High pay and a Starbucks and a cafeteria inside. We were told we could very easily be hired on as employees. Well it was the week before the last week the contract end date was and we heard no word of being hired on.

So I did a ritual and raised energy and offered it to him and asked King to use his influence to get me hired on or find me a better position and a coworker messaged that our current position had a job posting. I looked at it but I realized I didn’t really like that position but I had been cross trained for another position and lo and behold I saw another posting for that one. It was then I heard his voice:

“I had them open up another position that is better aligned with your skills. I hope that is sufficient.”

“Always going above and beyond for me. Thank you King. Is there anything I can do for you?”

“That large slice of cake in the bakery shop window you promised me three days ago…”

“I’m sorry. I haven’t forgotten.”

So here it is Thursday the day before the contract ends and I get a call from the recruiter saying they are sorry about the contract ending but they have a remote job that suddenly came into their email that is remote and pays $1.86 more per hour than what I am earning now. And none of my temp coworkers got offered this job. They are all going on interviews and scrambling to find new work.

And I’ve got a new assignment in 10 days.

Oh and my monitor has been broken for 2 weeks and it was a pain to get it fixed so I left it. Handsome young IT guy comes by with this tattoo on his arm says he would come in early and fix it for me. I told him he didn’t have to. I came in the text day it was fixed and my desk was wiped down clean I saw him today and thanked him. He said it was his pleasure. He would like me to be more comfortable. Reminds me of the Starbucks worker that says “Good morning beautiful queen what would like?'“ and then looks weird like what did I say.

I am very good at job interviews so I was surprised when I felt depressed as I got ready for one. The feeling bothered me and I had to sit with that feeling for a while. I think that now I am comfortable with myself and more integrated with my god/form higher self I was worried about being a cog in the machine. Not being able to be my true self.

“You are misunderstanding the situation.” Paimon said interrupting my thoughts. “If you have to be their sheep then by all means be it. Say yes sir. no sir. But you are playing a role. Take off that role and there is a wolf underneath.”

“Oh!” I said feeling enlightened like I suddenly was a cave woman discovering fire. “That changes things” I thought of that dark flame I can constantly feel within my heart and the dark predatory nature that lurks in my spirit as well.

“Remember what I said. Don’t compromise your principles. If they corner you. If their principles start to bleed into and compromise your own then that is a sign to leave.”

“For visualization purposes I don’t think a Wolf works for me. Do you have a suggestion of a nother animal that might fit me?” Then I had a mental image (I know what the office looks like) of me ripping out of the sheep skin and being a monstrous black ram with red eyes, and with hands and feet dominating all of the sheep.

Paimon laughs. “Well I think you found your answer”