Copper Seal, Duke Gusion- According to The Lesser Key of Solomon: The Eleventh Spirit in order is a great and strong Duke, called Gusion. He appeareth like a Xenopilus. He telleth all things, Past, Present, and to Come, and showeth the meaning and resolution of all questions thou mayest ask. He conciliateth and reconcileth friendships, and giveth Honour and Dignityunto any. He ruleth over 40 Legions of Spirits.His Seal is this, the which wear thou as aforesaid.
Gusion is said to be a blunt and honest speaker and would be a master of public relations.
Ancient texts describe his appearence as a baboon, but modern day people who have summoned Gusion describe him as a blue-ish, bright creature with narrow eyes and mouth. In ancient texts some of this description comes up- being called “Xenophilus”- Xeno a root word for ‘alien’.
As a Duke, he is said to be bound from Sunrise till Noonday in Clear Weather.
The seal of Barbatos as depicted in The Lesser Key of Solomon
This is one of my favorite times of year. Watercolor leaves crunch under my feet and somehow the air SMELLS cold. Food tastes warmer. The world around me is infused with energy like the Death card, a shedding of old to a barren winter to soon be reborn again. And these cycles we live through each year happen in our own lives too, but the winters can feel long. The dead things that we wish would leave us alone feel like they cling onto us sometimes, leeching off of our life force. And so this is a prayer for anyone who is going through a winter alongside me. If you are shedding something that just won’t let you go, if you are trying to bury a heart in the earth and it keeps showing up again on your bedside table, if the plants in your bedroom are all wilting in spite of your care for them because you yourself are depleted, this prayer is for you and me.
Mother of earth and father of sea
The spirits of all the things in between
Spirit of heart and spirit of soul
The ones in our doorways
The ones in our folds
I ask you to be here inside of my room
Gather together, there’s plenty of room
The fire of heat and the air of etheric
Water of love and earth, home of our weaving
Water flow through me and clean out the gunk
Rush through the blocks and the broke-in-two junk
Rush through my body and push it all out
Down in the earth, spit from my mouth
Air please come in, please pass by my tongue
Through every valley and mountain inbound
The wind with it’s playful chimes and it’s muse
That dances and rhymes, sing out my wounds
Fire unbind me and enter my chest
My lonely, my unloved, forgotten heart-vest
Fill up my cracks with light and inspire me
I trust my stomping feet to lead where I’m meant to be.
Earth rise up through the soles of my feet,
May a vine crawl up my limbs and make me a beast,
I become big and green as a giant
Strong in my footing, I let out a shout of sighing
HAAAA I push out the troubles that bind me
HOOOOO I release the ties that confine me
HEEEEE I claim my life as my own canvas to draw on
I decided to copy over some of the basics I put in my grimoire so I can access them even when I don’t have the physical book with me :)
Directions:
East: Associated with Air, the color yellow,
South: Associated with Fire, red,
West: Water, Blue
North: Earth, Green.
Elements:
Air:
Direction: East. Colors: Yellow, Light Blue, White, Silver. Zodiac: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Tarot: Swords/Spades. Magical tools: Incense, feathers. Air is the element of flexibility, instability, intellect, and detachment. It moves quickly, is good for workings involving change, movement, and speed. Air energy is also good for communication and contact with spiritual beings, and is linked to communication, mental activity, ideas, and social interactions.
Earth:
Direction: North. Colors: Brown, Green, Gray. Zodiac: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. Tarot: Pentacles/Diamonds. Magickal tools: The pentagram, salt, and stones. Earth is the element of stability. It is solid, and has a very slow and steady energy. Good for spells involving slow change, patience, or gradual developments. Associated with permanence, grounding, security, and endurance.
Fire:
Direction: South. Colors: Red and Orange. Zodiac: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Tarot: Wands/Clubs. Magickal Tools: Candles, Wand. Fire is the element of clarity, passion, kinship, transformation, and inspiration. It is associated with vitality, creativity, action, daring, and enthusiasm. It moves fast, and is volatile and unpredictable. Fire energy is best for workings you want to kick up the power off, or that you want to see rapid change from. It is also good for spells involving transformation. It can also be used in banishing, divination, and purification.
Water:
Direction: West. Colors: Aqua, Blue, Indigo, Purple. Zodiac: Scorpio, Cancer, Pisces. Tarot: Cups/Hearts. Magickal tools: Chalice, Cauldron. Water is the element of movement, cleansing, and healing. It is associated with nourishing, cleansing and clearing, purification, intuition and emotion, creativity, lunar energy, growth, and abundance. Water energy is changable and unpredictable, but slightly less volatile than fire. Water energy is good to call on for change or to stimulate movement, or for cleansing, healing, and purification magic.
Spirit/Ether:
Isn’t technically an element, but is often treated as one. Is represented on the uppermost point of a pentagram. Spirit links the 4 elements, is associated with the divine.
Moon Phases:
New Moon: New beginning, refreshment, restarts, planning, ideas, a time to start new projects:
Waxing Crescent: Setting intentions, growth.
First Quarter: Decision making, action, reflection on decisions, change.
To use a pentagram for summoning/invoking, draw the pentagram so that the first line goes towards the point of the element being invoked, or the element what you are invoking is associated with. To banish, the first line is drawn from that point away.
Uses of a Pentagram:
Creating a comfortable place for a visiting spirit, opening a window to the energy of a certain element or the being/thing invoked.
Days of The Week:
Sunday: Governed by the Sun. Solar energy, for advancement, ambition, confidence, creativity, dominance, egotism, expression, fame, fatherhood, friendship, greed, growth, happiness, healing, health, illumination, individuality, joy, leadership, life, manifestation, masculinity, motivation, personality, personal power, power, pride, prosperity, renown, self esteem, sense of self, strength, vitality, and wealth.
Monday: Governed by the Moon. Lunar energy, for psychic ability, magicakal prowess, emotion, instinct, illusion, astral work, birth, compassion, divination, dreams, empathy, femininity, glamour, gratitude, family, home, imagination, decreasing and increasing, intuition, motherhood, patience, spirituality, subtlety, and transformation.
Tuesday: Governed by Mars. Force, energy, physical strength, stamina, battles, confrontation, military, fighting, defense, sex, breaking down and through things, aggression, anger, boundaries, conflict, courage, lust, motivation, passion, protection, escaping bondage, vengeance, vitality, vigor, and war.
