As you know, these Magical Battle for America workings have been loosely patterned on Ms. Fortune’s book, The Magical Battle of Britain.
At Gods & Radicals, Sable Aradia wrote:
Dion Fortune’s magickal act worked on several sound magickal theories:
- She believed that trained ritualists could combine their efforts to influence the collective Will of the British people, not any one individual.
- She utilized easily-recognizable culturally-based spirits and egregors whose meaning would be intuitively understood by thousands of people.
- She drew upon spirits and egregors already associated with the purpose for which they’d been called.
- She created simple acts of magick that could be easily imitated, and contributed to, by a wide range of individuals in disparate geographical locations.
- She was doing a Working in a cause that thousands of people were passionate about.
Sable Aradia also noted that:
Dion Fortune believed that there were “dark forces” allied in opposition to Britain. There were persistent rumours of links between the Nazis and the occult even in the midst of the Second World War, and, according to Fortune’s book, one of the reasons why there were so many links between occultists and British Intelligence is so that misinformation about astrological prophecies predicting doom for the Third Reich could be intelligently distributed to Hitler’s own occultists. There’s been much speculation; but again, little proof. What’s clear is that Fortune and her compatriots felt that there were sorcerers Working against them, which was one of the reasons they invoked angelic presences.
Even if you don’t believe in supernatural forces, it’s clear that Fortune’s project was faced with the formidable opposition of the Nazi propaganda machine. And it’s clear that this machine, at least in Britain, was defeated.
Today, even some Pagans and ritualists give you funny looks if you say that there’s something more at work in the Trump Interregnum that “mere” human evil, ignorance, folly. But I believe that there is. I believe that an old and malignant force is at work and that it has, in fact, even “possessed,” or “seized,” a number of the more important members of Trump’s loose organization. Think Bannon, Putin, and Gorka. They may have been willing vessels, but there’s now something working through them.
Today’s working will be an attempt to use the principles that Ms. Fortune adopted to protect America against, and to cleanse America of, that force. But you don’t have to agree with my theory in order to do the work. You can also do it to protect and cleanse America even if all that you believe is at work is basic human hatred, ignorance, fear, and greed. However you choose to do the working, thank you. And, as always, I’d love to read how this worked for you, what you saw or experienced, any reactions that you have.
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Now’s probably a good time to remind everyone to check/refresh the wards on your home or wherever you do this work. Be sure that you’re rested, grounded, and in a comfortable position. Maybe wrap up in a blanket or cloak or grasp a stone or talisman that matters to you. Grow your roots, send them deep into the soil, let them intertwine and grow small hairs to attach to the mycelia in your own landbase.
Breathe.
Anchor yourself firmly to your landbase. Notice a small detail that will call you back when this working is finished.
Ground and center. Cast a circle.
Breathe.
As you move to our American plain on the astral plane, you can see again the safe hillock where you do your work. You can see the five giant banners, shining in the sky: Walden Pond, the Underground Railroad, the Cowboy, the Salmon, and Lady Liberty. Do they seem more defined since we began our work? Do they have anything special to tell you this week?
For a few moments, just sit on your hillock and allow yourself to become comfortable. This place should be feeling very real to you by now; we’ve been working together to create it for months and months. As you rest in your power, you see the Lady Liberty banner growing larger and larger in the sky. She stands out, almost in 3-D, and you can see every detail, from the broken chains at her feet, to the tablet she holds imprinted with the date of America’s independence from Britain, to shining torch she holds over the harbor. She’s beautiful, silent, strong.
Lady Liberty stands near the spot where the Hudson River enters the Atlantic Ocean. As the map above shows, America’s rivers form an interconnected set of “blood vessels” that cover almost the entire American landbase. As you watch Lady Liberty, she bends to place her torch in the Hudson River. The fire from her torch doesn’t go out. Instead, it spreads a purifying light up the Hudson River, into its tributaries, and into their tributaries and, from there, into every river, stream, creek, and rill in America.
As you sit on your hillock, feel the cleansing energy running all through America, carried by its waterways. You may want to stand on your hillock, light your own torch, and place its energy in the waterway nearest your physical home. See the power of your cleansing energy working with the energy of Lady Liberty and your fellow magic workers to rid America of the forces that are polluting our nation, threatening to destroy us, longing to flood our world with evil. Watch the light become stronger and stronger as each river and stream gets closer to the sea. Will the cleansing power to grow stronger each time America’s rivers go over a waterfall. See the forces of racism, misogyny, and fascism flushed out into the open, pushed out of our country, drowned in pure, clean water. See the water rushing and pooling wherever the evil is most pronounced, leaving the people and the landbase purified, clean, healthy.
Take a minute to catch your breath. As you sit and rest, know that you are not working alone. The Resistance — both magical and in all of its mundane (phone banking, check writing, representative calling, letter writing, canvassing, voting, volunteering, tutoring, restoring wetlands, growing plants for bees) manifestations — is huge. Know that you are a powerful worker of magic, rooted in your very own landbase, working with the strong archetypes of this land, assisted by countless unseen others who labor in league with you. You are brave and growing braver. Your magic and your practical workings can make the difference.
Breathe.
Return to your own body, your own landbase. Open your eyes. Rub your face, move your arms and legs. Notice the detail you selected to call you back from the astral. Open your circle. Drink something, maybe a cup of clean, pure, American water. Do you know from which river your water comes? If not, you might like to find out and, each time that you drink some water, you can visualize your river cleaning out racism, fascism, sexism. If you like, have something to eat, maybe a crisp Autumn apple or a late Summer tomato.
During the course of this week, you may want to visit the bannered prairie several times in order to strengthen its presence on the astral. You may want to repeat this working. You may want to place something on your altar to help you remember America’s rivers and/or your own closest river. You may want to journal about it. Are you inspired to make any art? Can you sit beside a warm fire, or light incense, or stare into a candle? What actions are you inspired to take for the Resistance? If you’re willing, please share in comments what happened and how this working went.
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