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Invocation of Venus

Ave,

Performed the Invocation of Venus, and had a couple of significant things occur. After lighting my sweet-smelling incense, and giving myself a good purification and consecration I stood before my altar and said a short prayer. The richly green candles on the altar gave of just enough light. The temple felt comfortable and warm, like a hug. There was a frission, within the room;  it felt like the moment immediately before you're about to kiss a new potential love for the first time...a kind of sultry intensity. I worked through the battery of rituals, and came to the point where one invokes the Goddess Hathor. This was very interesting. I sang a short song in her honor, and felt great energetic rushes into my heart center from below. I created the astral form, and then went to step within it. My eyes were closed, and within my inner eye a blossoming of the form occurred. What was at first a 2-dimensional Egyptian style image of the Goddess became 3-D and lifelike. Her head was not a drawing anymore, it was like a full on Cow's head, I could see the individual hairs, the soft eye's. Her hands were graceful and adorned with bangles and bracelets, and  She felt instantly warm and welcoming. I don't know that I've ever gotten such a warm greeting from an Egyptian God. Perhaps it was the joyful singing in her honor that did. I'll have to try the same with other Gods in the future.

The invocation itself set my light-bodies on fire. It was very intense.

In LVX,

AIT

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