Book Report Stellar Magic by Payam Nabarz (short review)

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Payam Nabarz - Stellar Magic: A Practical Guide to the Rites of the Moon, Planets, Stars and Constellations​

This is worth your time imo if you're celestially inclined

Although a beginner could use it, it's not another book covering the basics. It's something actually new to work with.. (They're devotional, but you could easily work it into a thaumaturgic rites)

Firstly, it has rites to constellations that tend not get as much focus as the planets.

I really appreciate that it has constellations that are prominent in the Australian sky (for eg the Rite of Orion).

Although the rites have solo options, they do seem to primarily be intended for group workings. They all involve reading from a lot of myth, so there is a lot that a solo practitioner could borrow and work with, or just read with interest (Egyptian, Greek and Persian/Zoroastrian mythology mainly)


The excerpts from myth and hymn are a good place to steal sentences from (ceremonial magic often reads out relevant Psalms - as someone without an upbringing in Christianity, these don't really speak to me, so I'm slowly accruing a collection of relevant devotional etc. phrases I can use at the appropriate moments)

The moon rite for eg includes the Orphic hymn unsurprisingly, but also a reading from Homer on Selene, and the Zoroastrian Moon Liturgy and Hymn to the Moon.

Other sections have excerpts from Crowley, Milton, various Romantic poets etc

I'm actually not sure I would do any of these rites myself, but that doesn't detract from the quality, and it's really nice to see work that offers something new to intermediate practitioners

Book – PDF - Payam Nabarz - Stellar Magic: A Practical Guide to the Rites of the Moon, Planets, Stars and Constellations

The practical rites and ceremonies in this Liber Astrum are created using a myriad of hymns and tales, drawing inspiration and material from many ancient, classical and medieval sources including: the Hymns of Orpheus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Plato's Timaeus, the Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the...

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