(or kabbalistic cross if anyone searches for that)
Obviously QC is absolute beginner rite, so this won't be any use to most people on WF, but if you're newer or you've just never totally clicked with the QC, this might help?
(If you're new and don't know what the QC is, I've put an explanation at end of post.)
This isn't a change to the ritual itself, but just how you conceptualise it as you're doing it.
I know there are other variants (eg touching your chest or junk when you say Malkuth). I'm not writing out every possible option for each step, so don't well-actually me. Use whatever version you like. I speak in Greek but I'm giving the most common version, the standard Hebrew.
The helpful part begins here
First, take a moment to really try and feel that the light above your head is divinity itself. Try to feel in awe of it, maybe even a little afraid of it, like you're approaching the thrones of the gods but you can't get that close because you're dazzled by the light. Then touch it and draw it down to your forehead.
(I don't do the "grow real big" visualisation FYI, just personal preference)
Vibrate ATEH
Draw the light down your midline and into the earth, pointing in between your feet and visualise the sphere of Malkuth. Vibrate MALKUTH. Feel the ground beneath your feet supporting you, almost lifting you.
This vertical axis is a divine channel of power, from the highest down into the earth's core (and/or the underworld if that's in your cosmology)
Touch your right shoulder and vibrate VE GEBURAH while visualising the red ball of light that is the sephirah of Geburah. This is your personal power to destroy, to restrict, to limit. Feel the sense of your capacity for that kind of power.
Draw a line of light to your left shoulder and touch it, say VE GEDULAH and visualise the blue ball of light that is Chesed. Think about how this is your personal power to give, to bestow, to create, to pour forth your energy into the world.
The horizontal axis of light is your personal power - your left hand and right hand, your power to act and restrict, create and destroy. You're a magician, so you must use this power you have with wisdom. Think how you might feel if someone entrusted you with an enormous but cool responsibility - it's a lot of power, but you'd feel almost humbled by it, by the responsibility that naturally comes with power, by the fact that there's so much you can do with your left hand and your right hand. (Note that the point of generating that sense of "great responsibility" is not to actually to make you be more responsible. It's a way of feeling power when you don't have the temperament for just going "RARGH I'M A POWERFUL WIZARD")
Press your hands into your chest (one hand in a fist, the other clasped over it, or however you like). Press hard enough to feel the pressure on your breastbone. You are pressing the two axes of light into each other so they join - the divine channel and your personal power and ability to act. (Vibrate LE OLAM).
They become one flowing intersection of power - your personal channel now mingles with the divine channel, that power flows through you, and your chesed and your geburah, your personal capacity to act in this world, now has access to this source. Feel (or imagine you feel) what that influx of power into your personal sphere is like.
Then AMEN - I raise my arms into a T and imagine myself as a rose cross, thinking of the rose blooming at that intersection of divine power and my own power. (This is all very wordy by the way, but each 'idea' is just an emotion or conceptualisation that you can feel in the space of a second; it's not meant to be all narrated like a guided meditation)
Newbies: The QC or KC is a very short ritual - 30 seconds - that usually goes at the beginning and end of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram (LRP or LRBP if it's the Banishing type) but can be used on its own as punctuation or to quickly recharge during the day. Occultists typically recommend new people practice the LRP or LBRP every day. Instructions here:
Obviously QC is absolute beginner rite, so this won't be any use to most people on WF, but if you're newer or you've just never totally clicked with the QC, this might help?
(If you're new and don't know what the QC is, I've put an explanation at end of post.)
This isn't a change to the ritual itself, but just how you conceptualise it as you're doing it.
I know there are other variants (eg touching your chest or junk when you say Malkuth). I'm not writing out every possible option for each step, so don't well-actually me. Use whatever version you like. I speak in Greek but I'm giving the most common version, the standard Hebrew.
The helpful part begins here
First, take a moment to really try and feel that the light above your head is divinity itself. Try to feel in awe of it, maybe even a little afraid of it, like you're approaching the thrones of the gods but you can't get that close because you're dazzled by the light. Then touch it and draw it down to your forehead.
(I don't do the "grow real big" visualisation FYI, just personal preference)
Vibrate ATEH
Draw the light down your midline and into the earth, pointing in between your feet and visualise the sphere of Malkuth. Vibrate MALKUTH. Feel the ground beneath your feet supporting you, almost lifting you.
This vertical axis is a divine channel of power, from the highest down into the earth's core (and/or the underworld if that's in your cosmology)
Touch your right shoulder and vibrate VE GEBURAH while visualising the red ball of light that is the sephirah of Geburah. This is your personal power to destroy, to restrict, to limit. Feel the sense of your capacity for that kind of power.
Draw a line of light to your left shoulder and touch it, say VE GEDULAH and visualise the blue ball of light that is Chesed. Think about how this is your personal power to give, to bestow, to create, to pour forth your energy into the world.
The horizontal axis of light is your personal power - your left hand and right hand, your power to act and restrict, create and destroy. You're a magician, so you must use this power you have with wisdom. Think how you might feel if someone entrusted you with an enormous but cool responsibility - it's a lot of power, but you'd feel almost humbled by it, by the responsibility that naturally comes with power, by the fact that there's so much you can do with your left hand and your right hand. (Note that the point of generating that sense of "great responsibility" is not to actually to make you be more responsible. It's a way of feeling power when you don't have the temperament for just going "RARGH I'M A POWERFUL WIZARD")
Press your hands into your chest (one hand in a fist, the other clasped over it, or however you like). Press hard enough to feel the pressure on your breastbone. You are pressing the two axes of light into each other so they join - the divine channel and your personal power and ability to act. (Vibrate LE OLAM).
They become one flowing intersection of power - your personal channel now mingles with the divine channel, that power flows through you, and your chesed and your geburah, your personal capacity to act in this world, now has access to this source. Feel (or imagine you feel) what that influx of power into your personal sphere is like.
Then AMEN - I raise my arms into a T and imagine myself as a rose cross, thinking of the rose blooming at that intersection of divine power and my own power. (This is all very wordy by the way, but each 'idea' is just an emotion or conceptualisation that you can feel in the space of a second; it's not meant to be all narrated like a guided meditation)
Newbies: The QC or KC is a very short ritual - 30 seconds - that usually goes at the beginning and end of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram (LRP or LRBP if it's the Banishing type) but can be used on its own as punctuation or to quickly recharge during the day. Occultists typically recommend new people practice the LRP or LBRP every day. Instructions here:
