Digitalis - Planetary spells & rituals: practicing dark & light magick aligned with the cosmic bodies

Raven Digitalis (Missoula, MT) is the author of Shadow Magick Compendium and Goth Craft. He is a Neopagan Priest and cofounder of the disciplined eclectic shadow magick tradition and training coven Opus Aima Obscur, and is a radio and club DJ of Gothic and industrial music. Also trained in Georgian Witchcraft and Buddhist philosophy, Raven has been a Witch since 1999 and a Priest since 2003, and has been an Empath all of his life. Raven holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Montana and is also an animal rights activist, black-and-white photographic artist, Tarot reader, and co-owner of Twigs & Brews Herbs, specializing in bath salts, herbal blends, essential oils, and incenses. He has appeared on the cover of newWitch and Spellcraft magazines, is a regular contributor to The Ninth Gate magazine, and has been featured on MTV News and the X Zone Radio show.

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Appendix 1: Further Reading & Bibliography

Appendix 2: Astrological & Zodiacal Correspondences

Index

Thank you, Estha McNevin, for insisting that I continue to deepen my knowledge of astrology and utilize its magick to transform even the darkest times. The annual tide through the planetary spheres summarizes reality; its cyclical nature seeks perfection. Astrology has, over the years, served to make the world become so much more alive for me, and to make its lessons and intricacies better perceived. Thanks for guiding my path, Estha, and for being the supreme spiritual being that you are!

Huge thanks and cosmic hugs to my spiritual sister MoonCat, whose astrological services and brilliant Astro Missive e-newsletters have long served to make me more aware of the planets and stars. Long live Cat Over the Moon Astrology!

Love and blessings to Lisa (Calantirniel), whose astrological insight has helped make the workings of reality clearer more times than I can count. Thanks for the continued advice and limitless friendship. Special thanks to Cathy Crane, Lucy-Myrtle, and Suzanne DeMarinis for giving me that life in death, death in life aspect. Blessed be.

Eternal blessings to my Coven, my family (both spiritual and biological), my friends, fans, and comrades. Im blessed to know every single one of you!

Witchcraft is a living, vibrant spiritual path that filters into our every experience, interaction, emotion, and perception. There is nothing in reality that is not spiritual. Even though many non-Pagans like to believe that Witchcraft is all about spells, this is far from true. Though Ive compiled this book of spells and rituals for a number of reasons (the first being that many readers of my previous books Goth Craft and Shadow Magick Compendium requested more practical magick!), I must first emphasize that magickal and esoteric rituals such as these are only extensions of ones ever-present spirituality.

Spells are only a small aspect of Witchcraft as an art and spiritual path. I personally feel that spells are frequently overemphasized in the Craft, and people can easily come to the conclusion that magickal spirituality = spellcraft. Magick is not about doing , but about being . Spells are not the cornerstone of the Craft; instead, they are but an aspect of expressing the Mysteries of the land and the self. Simply put, spells are ceremonies designed to project a persons intention into reality.