This is my first post. I’m a longtime lurker of the website and forum. I study goetic demons, thelema, hermetic qabalah, paganism, chaos magick, etc.
I’ve been performing a ritual with the demon Forcalor/Focalor to… remove a very dangerous and abusive person from my life and the lives of my family. This is the first time that I have been truly invested in the outcome of a ritual.
I just recently got into tarot. Since I began performing the Bornless ritual prior to evoking Focalor, these two cards always end up right beside each other in my daily divinations. I shuffle. I manually place them apart, shuffle again, and yet every time they find a place next to each other in my hand.
What is your interpretation as to why this is occurring? I know that Crowley placed the Unicersal Hexagram in the deck, and it supposedly has no meaning akin to a joker card… but I left it in my deck because I’m convinced it does have meaning. I’m just not sure what that meaning is.
Hey there! Do these cards co-incide with readings you’re doing about the spell? Or do they just keep popping up regardless of topic?
The hexagram is a joker card because its ‘empty’, AKA it gets meaning from the other cards in the reading. So if you keep thinking about a spell or looking for its products, this might be Focalor telling you to stop with the shenanigans.
Haha, that’s one way to put it. The trick for when you’re trying to let a spell resolve is to put your focus into ‘candidates’, things in your life (or someone else’s, no judgement here!) that could use a good tweaking for whatever reason.
A fair warning is that this sometimes backfires and you can’t stop thinking about the one spell. Gordon White has a good solve for that, using a network of sigils, something he refers to as “shoaling”.