Printing and Preparing
Getting ready for tomorrow’s Reiki Retreat in Makanda. I will be reading tarot there along with another Stellaloon to raise money for our upcoming retreat. I am also bringing pamphlets with me to hand out for both the retreat and for our group in general. I think that there are still a lot of people who don’t know us very well and would really enjoy being a part of the group, whether as an official member or as an outer court member.
Printing off the pamphlets hasn’t been an easy task. My printer has been temperamental, I’ve used up all of the ink cartridges I had, and finally went to a copy place. For $7 I found out that not only do they NOT have colored paper, but apparently they cannot print in color either. Those copies look like crap. Actually it is worse, they look like BORING crap. So, I printed some copies off on the home printer, finishing up my printer cartridges and only managed to get a measly 30 pamphlets. Before I go tot he movies tonight, I think I am going to go by and see if Mail Boxes, Etc. can make some color copies on a bright yellow or pink paper.
The retreat pamphlets are going to be on white paper, but that is mainly because they wouldn’t look very good on colored paper. We have a beautiful Mother Earth picture there that really needed to be in color. Here is a picture and I think it really captures the heart of what the retreat is aiming to achieve.
I think tomorrow is going to be a lot of fun and I really hope that we garner some interest from people for the retreat. The retreats are always so much fun and I really think that people would love attending them. I think that having the retreat at Green Retreat where people can sleep in beds instead of camping and where locals can come and go freely will help make this year a greater success than previous years.
Stellaluna’s Goddess Process
As a women’s spirituality group, Stellaluna works with Goddess in all her many glorious facets. As our patron, all of us feel a deep connection with Hecate, a goddess who has many layers. Hecate is maiden, mother, and crone, but she is also a guide and guardian, not to mention Queen of the Witches and magic. However, we all have Goddesses that speak to us, but the only way to discover those Goddesses is through working with different ones.
Once a month, we have a full moon ritual with a Goddess we choose, sometimes as a group, or sometimes the woman running the ritual picks out the Goddess. We have worked with Hecate, Bast, Isis, Arianrhod, Pele, Sekhmet, Kali, Blodewuedd, Quan Yin, Athena, Innana, Shapash, Cerridwen, and many, many more. Of course, since I am the one writing this missive, the Goddesses that I like or that stick out in my memory are the ones I listed. I imagine the other women would have different Goddesses that spring to mind.
Sometimes, one of our members has something going on in their life that we decide to focus on for a ritual – oftentimes, our lives overlap and multiple people experience the same kind of thing. There was one month where a couple of us felt that everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. It wasn’t anything more than just a run of bad luck, so we designated Fortuna as our goddess of the month to turn our luck around. Other times, we see something in nature that draws our attention, such as seeing the same type of animal over and over and over again. I had a two month period where I saw bats everywhere. In those cases, we try to find a goddess who corresponds with the animal in question.
One of the things I like about Stellaluna’s rituals is much of the ritual is about connecting with the goddess we have chosen. Often there are meditations where we meet and greet the goddess. Connecting with the goddess in this manner provides quite a bit of information, as we then share the experiences of our meditation with each other. When first working with a goddess, the interaction in mediation is pretty fun as many of us have similar interactions – such as Blodeweudd being very brusque and to the point, what I call a Stop Wasting My Time With Bullshit and Pleasantries Goddess – and these interactions help us get a clearer picture of who she is, what her energies are like and how to deal with her in the future.
Other times there are stories or myths told about the goddess. Deconstructing myths is an important part of any form of ritual or worship, as there are lessons to be learned from the stories of the goddesses. Stellaluna’s lack of dogma (we have a witch, a Wiccan, and a Hoodoo practitioner among our ranks) helps us to keep an open mind when talking about the myths of various goddesses.
As for choosing goddesses, there are a lot of good resources out there. I usually prefer books to the internet for much of my religious study, but there are definite sites out there that can help pick a goddess to work with. However, I use 365 Goddesses by Patricia Telesco as a starting point. She has a goddess listed for every single date in the calendar, and a little bit about them and how to celebrate them. This is a good place to look for a goddess that you are not familiar with, as many learning experiences come from the unfamiliar. I recently purchased another book that is a tremendous and wonderful resource called Goddess Guide. This book has correspondences, for example, if you want to work on dreams in the next ritual, you can look up “dreams” and find a listing of goddesses.
Again, like with the Telesco book, this is a jumping off point, not the beginning and the end. In order to effectively work with any goddess, you should spend time researching her. After all, you are going to be calling this goddess to circle so you should know who you are calling, and how to do it, not to mention you need to know what type of system you should use to honor the goddess. Is cakes and ale enough of an offering or should you find something specific? Should you leave an offering in your backyard or at a crossroads? Does this goddess complement the work you are doing or is she antithetical to the work you wish to accomplish? Etc., etc. Point being, picking a goddess from a book with a blurb is great as long as you perform additional research.
I know that one book I am not terribly impressed with is The Witches Goddess. When I was but a newb, this book was a great way to introduce goddesses and archetypes. However, their descriptions of goddesses are facile and topical at best, and can be inaccurate at worst. For example, they describe Bast as being “an orgiastic goddess” of pleasure. If you were to call on Bast with only this description, you would be unpleasantly surprised as she is also a fierce guardian and can be very demanding, albeit in a good way. This book does talk of archetypes and other things, but the information in the goddess index really shouldn’t be trusted – however, any book that gives you two sentences on any goddess cannot be the only source you check prior to ritual as massive amounts of information will be missing.
For example, we once worked with Oya during a ritual where we visited a cemetery to collect some graveyard dirt and honor the dead. Not having a hoodoo practitioner with us at the time, we researched the best way to connect with Oya. With Oya, you ask permission to enter the graveyard and it is preferable to have red wine and 9 copper pennies (and copper pennies are not the new pennies they make now, for copper you have to have pennies from 1982 or earlier, otherwise you are dealing with zinc pennies with a copper coating – not a good offering) with you as an offering. You then wait for a sign to enter the graveyard. When taking the graveyard dirt, you leave nine silver dimes as not only a thanks to the honored dead, but also to sever any connection. You also thank Oya profusely after leaving the graveyard.
Working with goddesses is rewarding, fun, and educational – the should be a School House Rock devoted to it. I think that if you work with the goddesses from a certain point of view, you can actually learn quite a lot about yourself and the goddess and even human experience. Being open to study and new names that you are unfamiliar with is a bonus. The very first goddess we worked with in Stellaluna was Istustaya – a goddess none of us had ever heard of before. It was a phenomenal experience.
UNDERSTANDING KALI MAA: WHO IS KALI? WHAT DOES SHE STAND FOR?… – Maman Brighid’s MySpace Blog | My Blog of Shadows
UNDERSTANDING KALI MAA: WHO IS KALI? WHAT DOES SHE STAND FOR?…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnDB31O7-fg
Jai Kali Maa
Kali, The Dangerous Mother – Maman Brighid’s MySpace Blog | My Blog of Shadows
Kali, The Dangerous Mother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztUIo3andAk
For this new moon, I finished my master attunement to a form of Seichim that utilizes the energy of Kali Ma. My relationship to Kali Ma has become very strong and in I have decided to post several lovely videos that honor Her. Honor the Dark Mother this New Moon!
via Kali, The Dangerous Mother – Maman Brighid’s MySpace Blog | My Blog of Shadows .
Defense and Protection Spells That I have Used and Loved: Part One
Defense and Protection Spell
© 2005 All Rights Reserved, Dr. Christos Kioni – DrKioni.com
Items Required: (Can be obtained at http://luckymojo.com)
4 or more rail road spikes
Half yard of red cloth
4 or more containers of Red Devil Lye
1 large bottle of Whiskey or Rum
Tobacco
Fiery Wall of Protection Incense
4 or more Sixth Pentacles of Mars from the Key of Solomon or you may choose to use a different protection talisman.
Glue
John the Conqueror Root Chips
Devil’s Dung
Red Pepper
This defense and protection ritual will be deployed at the four corners of your house. A person living in an apartment or condo can improvise by setting potted plants in the four perimeter corners of their dwelling. Perform during the hours of Mars if possible.
Soak the rail road spikes overnight in whiskey or rum; this will clean and feed the iron. Take spikes from rum and allow to air dry.
Cut the red cloth into 6 inch strips about one inch wide. If you only have four spikes, you will only need four strips of cloth. Set the strips aside.
Print out the talismans using the appropriate color ink. For the Sixth Pentacle of Mars, red is the appropriate color. Glue one talisman to each railroad spike – see my photo for an example. As you prepare your spikes, pray your prayer of protection such as the 27th Psalms or a protection mantra/chant associated with the Deity or Loa you work with.
Next tie a strip of red cloth around each railroad spike directly under the head of the spike. Now you will smoke the spikes in the Fiery Wall of Protection incense. Add some tobacco to heighten the effect. As you wave each spike through the smoke of the incense, continue repeating your prayers and incantations. See the energy of your enemies repelled by a giant invisible force field surrounding your residence. Visualize your spiritual helpers forming an impenetrable perimeter of protection. You may wish to add red pepper or High John the Conqueror Root Chips to the Fiery Wall of Protection. You can also substitute Devils Dung for the High John or use the Devil’s Dung alone as incense. All are effective alone or combined for protection work. The next step is optional but effective. Prick your finger to draw blood and place a drop of your blood on each spike. You may be led to place the blood on the talisman too. If pricking your finger is out of the question, dress the spikes with a little of your urine.
Now it is time to put your protection in place. Dig a hole at the four corners of your house and place a container of Red Devil Lye with the Devil facing outward in the hole. Cover the hole and drive the railroad spike into the ground next to the hole. The head of the spikes should be flush with the ground and hopefully you will be able to locate it each month to feed the spike a shot glass of rum or whiskey mixed with some of your urine. After you drive the railroad spike into the ground, pour a shot glass of whiskey on it and whisper your prayer, Psalm, incantation or invocation. Once a month during the Full Moon or New Moon feed the spikes in this manner or as frequently as you are led.
As you can see, this protection spell incorporates multiple traditions such as Solomonic magick, Hoodoo, Vodoun, Palo, Santeria and astrological magick. Spiritual/magical traditions can be used effectively by observing the simple rule of the Doctrine of Signatures and the Law of Correspondence. In this defense and protection spell each component complements the other and combines to strengthen the results of the spell. One word of caution: when working with spirit entities of different traditions make sure they will get along or the spell may back fire or not work at all.
(c) All Rights Reserved Worldwide, Dr. Christos Kioni. Ph.D., F.R.C.
Permission is granted to copy and share this ritual as long as header information containing copyright and trademark is included and the contents of this ritual are not altered.
Disclaimer: Results vary according to individuals.
Protective Work Using Graveyard Dirt
Protective Work Using Graveyard Dirt:
The most effective spells that I have used that contain graveyard dirt consist of older spells that were collected by amateur folklorist Harry M. Hyatt between 1936 and 1940 and self-published in his 5 volume book (each volume is frigging massive too!) “Hoodoo–Conjuration–Witchcraft–Rootwork.” Hyatt presented the spells verbatim, exactly as spoken by his informants. These volumes are hard to come by and you can usually find them at university libraries. I have been lucky enough to read three of them. To learn more about these works and the work of Harry M. Hyatt click here: Harry M. Hyatt
How to Collect Dirt to Do Good:
You collect graveyard dirt in the manner of what you want to use it for. If you want to do good (protective, healing, some forms of love spells,) you collect the dirt from someone who died good (if you collect it from the grave of someone who loved you, it is even better.) Go to their grave at midnight, say a prayer and talk to them, saying, “I’m taking this dirt from your grave so you’ll take care of me. When you were living, you always believed in thing that were right. Things are going wrong with me now and I want you to drive away all spirits and guide me, and lead me. I’ll take this dirt from your grave to protect me from now on, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” This dirt can be used for protection of the self and home if you hide it. Good spirits will drive evil spirits away.
This is from informant #1206, Brunswick, GA., March 14, 1939
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I personally don’t have a problem using Christian/Spiritualist terminology and summoning. However, if you have a problem with Jesus, you’ll probably want to skip hoodoo.
Trickin’ your shoes:
Alright, I will admit that I hoodoo my shoes. I generally wear sneakers because I am usually on my feet for most of the day and I can “dress” them appropriately for protection. In hoodoo, there is a very rich tradition of African (Congo) foot-traffic magic. This means that tricks (mostly of the unhelpful and malevolent nature) can be laid down for the victim to walk over and be poisoned through the feet. Also, when I do energy work on people, I have noticed the a lot of the negative, harmful and unhealthy energy that they carry comes up from feet. This energy proceeds to wreak havoc through the person’s energy system causing crossed conditions in their health and personal life. Also, it helps give a person a very sound foundation in which to deal with the general public and the negative energy that people tend to put out. To negate this (in addition to spiritual baths, teas and reiki,) I dress my shoes out for protection. To do this, I take out the insoles of the shoes. I take some graveyard dirt (dirt that you have gathered specifically for protection,) mix it with sugar and dry it on the stove without burning it. Then add Cayenne Pepper Powder, Salt and Black Pepper to it. Sprinkle some of this in your shoes. You can use the rest of the mixture to lay across your doorway as well. I use this mixture in addition to a dressed petition paper that I place in my right shoe (my dominant side.) Place the insoles back in. Now you are good to go. I advise that you dress all shoes with insoles that you use frequently at one time. Then, you can be covered all over the place. **To do your petition paper, you need to get a brown grocery bag. Tear you a square (do not cut) and get you a pen. Write your full name in the center of it and draw three circles around it. Then write around the circle (do not lift your pen from the paper, you can dot and cross your “i”’s and “t”’s when you are finished) “fiery wall of protection.” Dress the name paper with a dot of fiery wall of protection oil in each corner and a dot in the center over your name. Place a hair from your head on the petition paper (to totally personalize it) and fold the paper towards you until it will fit comfortably in your shoe. Place it in your shoe with the mixture and place the insoles back in. You are now cleared for take off.**
Using Graveyard Dirt and Railroad Spikes to Protect the Home:
In the four corners of your home, place a railroad spike that has been dressed in Fiery Wall of Protection and/or Peaceful Home Oil and prayed over (from Psalms 1,) a dime (preferably a Mercury Dime((this is an older dime that is much higher in silver content)) and pinch of Graveyard Dirt that has been taken from the grave of a strong ancestor. This will keep you rooted in where you are and protected. If you are in danger of being evicted by rather hard hearted people, you will need to read from Psalms 18 as well.
These are just some of the many ways that you can use Graveyard Dirt for Protective Purposes.
Graveyard Work: Part Two
I use graveyard dirt for a plethora of things. I keep jars and vials of graveyard dirt on my ancestor altar in order to keep an important link to ancestor spirits that can help guide and protect me in both my daily dealings and my magical work. I keep the graveyard dirt on my corresponding animal ancestor altar that gives me links to animals that I loved and cherished throughout their lives and now they can be employed to help me understand various karmic lessons and assist in magical works. I use various other types of graveyard dirt from graves that I have been spirit-led to in order to do a particular spell and/or job. Graveyard dirt in hoodoo (and in my practice) is used in three types of work: protection work, enemy work and love spell work. I do a great deal of protection work for people and myself, sometimes I do enemy work (for situations that are cleared for it,) and occasionally I do love work for people using graveyard dirt. Keep in mind that hoodoo is not Wicca. The rules of engagement are totally different. For example, when I do enemy work, I do a thorough divination and reflection session. If I get an all-clear, I begin my work with a parameter of degrees of smack down.
Methods by which one pays for graveyard dirt vary from worker to worker, but the principle is always the same. You have to get in touch with the ancestral spirit and make a respectful application and payment. Beyond that there are numerous details — whose grave, the kind of death they died, where the grave is located with respect to the cemetery gates, whether you dig from the head, the heart, or the feet, whether you leave dimes or pennies or whiskey or a combination, and how you place them with respect to the grave.–catherine yronwode from her “Hoodoo in Theory and Practice” website.
Maman Brighid
Graveyard Work: Part One
Well, October is finally here! This month marks one of my favorite and busiest times of the year. With the veils between the worlds being paper thin, I do some heavy duty spiritual, divination and hoodoo work with spirits. Recently, I had recieved several emails wondering what I did and how I go about things. The way I go about things concerning spirits is based primarily in the hoodoo (with a pinch of voodoo and palo.) I find this approach to be the most fruitful, respectful and sound. Graveyard and spirit work is not for everyone and is not for dabblers and thrill seekers. However, serious workers will find that working with spirits is a very rewarding and powerful practice. This is part one of a series of blogs that I will post over the next week. I will continue throughout the month of October to post interesting information and practical tips for spiritwork, hoodoo and other witchy activities and practices.
Why I do graveyard work
In my magical practice, I work primarily in the hoodoo tradition because of several reasons. One is my rather diverse family background of French, Scot-Irish, African-American, German, Cherokee, and Choctaw. Many of the folk practices and spiritualist experiences that I grew up with are found here and I find it as familiar as a hug from my mom. Second, it gets results. Damn good results. Most of the work that I do in hoodoo for love, protection and healing (among many other things) uses graveyard dirt and the assistance of spirits. Also, I do graveyard work because I am called to it or “gifted in the work”.
To learn more about the hoodoo tradition click the following link:http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html
I want to point out a very important thing here. Graveyard dirt is graveyard dirt. Period. It is not mullein or a code word for anything else. It is the dirt from a particular grave or the dirt from the graveyard itself. No ifs, ans, or buts about it. Anyone who tries to tell you that it is some sort of herbal mix or other such nonsense is either ill-informed or a total bullshitter with hangups about graveyard work that usually stem from cultural taboos and misunderstanding all around.
To learn more about graveyard dirt click the following link: http://www.luckymojo.com/graveyarddirt.html
Graveyard Etiquette
Note** Most of the negative experiences that have been reported from graveyard work stem primarily from the attitude and actions of the people involved. A disrespectful attitude and a sloppy planning will usually cause a session in a graveyard to end with either weak or no results (if you are lucky) or a full blown bitch-slap from the other side.**
Tips to Remember:
*Do your research! Keep a log of the cemeteries that you work in. Know the pertinent information of the cemeteries that you frequent. Know the founding, population, the layout, etc. The research is usually fun and surprising. The payoff is finding the most appropriate places to do spiritual work and getting to know your area’s history.
*Always come prepared! I have a traveling case that I take with me when I am doing a job. It contains candles, salt, offerings for the spirits (whiskey, coins, candy, tobacco,) my notebook, materials for grave stone rubbings, kananga water, a bottle of spring water, divination tools, a variety of oils (spirit guide, protection, etc.,)incense, Ziploc baggies, sharpie markers, a spoon or small trowel for digging, herbs and my mojo bags that I carry for protection, psychic and spirit work.
* Always announce your presence and intentions at the gate or entrance to the actual gravesite. You can do this either out loud or silently. Ground and center and wait for a sign. Usually, you will know by the feelings in your gut (ye olde intuition) if you have received the all clear.
*Always thank the spirits as you leave a cemetery. Its just good manners.
*Remember that all work that you do in a cemetery is contractual. This means you and the spirit set the terms and you pay the spirit. Payment will include offerings and a nice touch would be to donate to the upkeep of the cemetery or cemeteries that you frequent. DO NOT FORGET OR OVERLOOK THE IMPORTANCE OF PAYING THE SPIRITS! Take what you need and only what you need.
**more to come!**
Maman Brighid
Hecate
We work with Hecate frequently as a coven, and at our last full moon, we called upon Hecate as our goddess of the month.
The last time we worked with Hecate was during the retreat in May. We had a very elaborate ritual planned that went along with our theme: Carpe Noctem – Seize the Night. As many people have some fear of the dark, the ritual was made to confront that fear and take the night back as a place of wonder and mystery, as opposed to someplace threatening and dark.
To that end, the ritual was a hero’s journey, where individuals walked through the night, and encountered the different faces of the goddess along their way. The first goddess encountered was Hecate in her guise as the maiden. The maiden gives the individual what they need on their journey as they are just embarking into the night. Our maiden did a great job in this role, and gave each individual a wonderful piece of advice to take along with them.
The next face of Hecate was the mother. The mother helped the hero along the way in the ritual, giving the individual a glimpse into the sweetness of life. The final Hecate was the crone, and the woman who was Hecate the crone chose one of the darkest places to stand. A horrible storm had come through the day before, laying waste to many of the trees and causing massive damage in the area. She stood directly in front a massive downed tree that looked like it was cave of dirt and roots and limbs. To make it even more intense, the moon was out as you made your way through most of the journey, but approaching the crone, the trees eclipsed the moon, the way was much darker than any of the other paths, and the effect was powerful and dramatic.
At this point, you give something up that causes you to still fear. We had made spells earlier in the day of things that we feared, during a great workshop. We took these spells with us, added to them during our time with the crone, and then we made our way back to the hearth fire. Once there, we deposited our spells into the fire, where they burst into multi-colored flame. The workshop where we built the spell talked about the different colors that the spell might take, as we used special pinecones that were treated to change into vibrant hues of green, blue, or purple when they went into the flame.
This ritual was probably one of the most powerful I have ever been involved in. Due to the storm, many people who had planned on attending the women’s retreat were unable to do so, but those that were there got quite a bit out of the ritual. My hope is that we can perform this ritual again in the future, maybe during one of our open events. Personally, I would love to do this ritual again during Yule, as it is the longest night of the year and therefore it seems a fitting time to deal with the dark and with fears, but few people seem to want to be out in the cold like I do. I love the cold, but realize that I am in the minority.
Hecate is a great goddess to work with. As the Queen of the Witches, I really think that all witches should at call on her once in their practice, but I realize that not every practitioner feels the need to work with multiple deities.
At our latest full moon, we did a simple ritual of divination and communion with each other. As the retrograde is hitting us today, it seemed a good idea to get a feel for what the retrograde was bringing to us, so our divination focused on the upcoming month. After the last retrograde, where the giant storm hit, destroying property, disrupting power and communication, and even causing one member to have to relocate due to storm damage, we are all more than a little bit leery of this retrograde phase, so the divination ritual seemed a good way to approach things.
Hecate’s presence was felt very keenly during the ritual, and I look forward to working with her again in my private work, as well as again during the fall, as we call on her in October and November for special occasions such as Samhain.
When calling Hecate during your own work, be sure to remember that she should only be called on during the nighttime hours. Hecate is not a goddess that enjoys the daylight, and will not appreciate being called upon during the day.
Sekhmet: The Lady of the Flame
This invocation to Sekhmet is from Robert Master’s wonderful site about her. His work on Sekhmet has produced several of my favorite books and he will surely be missed!
INVOCATION OF SEKHMET
by Jezibell
O Thou Lion-Headed Lady of Flame,
Horizon of Heaven, Eternal of Name,
Present, potent and perfect one,
Bursting through the force of the Sun,
Mighty of Magic, Daughter of Ra,
Solar Protector, Consort of Ptah,
Illuminator of the Land,
Prowler across the desert sand,
Honored in Mennefer’s temples of stone,
Honored in hearts Thou callest Thine own,
Guardian of the Pharaoh’s reign,
Patron of the surgeon’s domain
Thou who art the Great Devourer
Thou who wields the Scepter of Power,
With the Ankh and the Sa come forth in this hour.
Traversing the Boat of Millions of Years,
Destroyer of those whom Thy Father fears,
Goddess of Pestilence, Scorcher of Earth,
Heralding the water’s rebirth,
Carnage of Cities, Eater of Blood,
With bitter plague and swirling flood,
Wildest in battle, Goddess of War,
Shaking the heavens with Thy mighty roar,
Ferocious avenger, celestial eye,
Searing the cerulean sky,
Lady of Slaughter, show Thy splendor
For us Thou art the Firm Defender
Thou who makes every eye to see
Thou who causes the foe to flee
Enter into the heart of me!
My body invokes Thee, Lady of Flame,
By the secrets of Thy Name,
Sekhem, Sekhem, in flesh and bone
Sekhem, Sekhem, it shall be known,
I invoke Thee by Thy word -
Sekhem, Sekhem, let it be heard,
Sekhem, Sekhem, the magic speech,
Through all the realms this sound shall reach.
My body invokes Thee, Lady of Might,
Let my eyes blaze with mystic sight
Mine is the head of the Lioness-Queen,
All my senses honed and keen,
Leaping swiftly upon my paws,
Striking with my sharpened claws,
Seizing my prey in my savage jaws
I am Sekhmet, Mistress of Dread,
My weapon the arrow, my color is red
I am Sekhmet, Queen of Strife,
And I come forth with the Ankh of life
I am my Father’s most fierce projection,
And I bear the sign of divine protection.
For those who dare to call on me,
I bring the strength to fight, not flee.
Propitiation must be made,
For mine is the healing of the blade,
To sever the useless and the outworn,
To gather the fragments and mend what is torn.
For I am the Great Devourer
And I wield the scepter of power,
Manifesting in this hour.
