Day 2 - Complete Your First Ritual

Greetings, seeker of astral lore!

So we don’t lose the thread and keep our eye on the prize, let’s go back over the goals for this challenge:

  1. To awaken to your innate spiritual gifts.

  2. To know exactly how to apply your gifts to bless and support others AND become abundant and successful as you help them.

  3. To create more opportunities and pathways for you to apply your gifts and be compensated in turn. More clients banging down your door. More opportunities to excel and shine at your career. More teaching gigs, speaking gigs. Whatever you do, you can do more of it.

This is the day where we reach out to the power of Jupiter and begin bringing this celestial, empowering force into our lives and begin receiving the a current of energy from Jupiter to begin creating these transformations in our lives.

And remember: Jupiter wants to help you. He is the force of pure giving and helping. You just have to open the door – he can’t do it without you.

Now that your altar is set up (to whatever extent you have been able), the time has come to complete your Jupiter ritual.

You will want to do the ritual today during one of the Jupiter hours. Each of the planets in astrology has specific times assigned to them every day. These times are your windows for contacting the planetary power.

You can find the Jupiter hours on this site. Just plug in your location and the date, and it will show you the windows you have for engaging in the ritual. There are multiple windows every day.

Then, when your Jupiter hour arrives, your first step will be to carve the glyph of Jupiter into your candle, and then light it. An older, stylized version of Jupiter’s glyph is pictured below.

 
 

After that, light your incense, and smudge the room or space that you are working in. Traditionally, you would hold the incense up to each of the four cardinal directions – east, south, west, and north. This purifies your space and begins to align your entire location with the energy of the planet you are calling in. When you are done, place the incense on the altar.

Then, sit or stand before the altar in silence for a few minutes. Quiet your mind and heart, and settle into a meditative mindset. Set the problems and issues of the day aside, and bring all of yourself to this moment.

Spending some time in quietude like this will help you to connect with the energy of the planet, and at higher levels will help you to see energies and even the actual deity that comes and answers your call. This is easier if you have past experience with meditation, trancework, or journey-work, but we all have to start somewhere!

Now, with the candle lit, the incense burning, and the mind quieted, place your hands together in prayer, recite the following incantation four times:

IO ZEUS IO ARISTOS IO MEGISTOS

Watch the video above for pronounciation. We’ll cover the meaning of this more in a later part of the challenge, but essentially it means Zeus, Best, Greatest.

After you have repeated this formula, first state a greeting, and introduce yourself by name.

After you introduce yourself, make a request to reveal your spiritual gifts and talents, and the opportunity to use them and be of service to others. This is the most important part - we open ourselves to revelation and for our life to begin to shift.

Framing this in terms of service and helping others is extremely crucial.This is the key part of Jupiter’s energy that so many people miss. You’re not asking for abundance just to be selfish. You are asking for opportunities to show up, use your gifts, and help other people. Abundance happens as a byproduct of you profoundly helping other people in unique ways that only you can accomplish.

Then, you can ask Jupiter to create more opportunities and open more doorways for you to use your gifts and be of service. Finally, say a final expression of gratitude. (if you have past experience with Jupiter magic and he has helped you in the past, you can call back to that here.)

For instance, if I were performing this ritual, I would say something like: “Hail Zeus, it’s me again, Matthew Merlin. I am coming to you asking for you to reveal my gifts and my talents to me. What am I best at? How can I help people? How can I be of service? How can I transform other peoples lives with my gifts and talents, bringing more flourishing and healing to all involved?

Guide me on how I can best do this, Jupiter. And please, open doors and opportunities that I may be of service and help others. Bring people to me that I can help, and show me how I can best promote myself so I find the right people. Thank you for hearing this request, and for all the other doorways you have opened for me in the past.”

Then, sit for a moment again, and feel whatever energetic shifts come about in your space or within you. If you have a lot of past experience with this, you may receive messages or even begin communing deeply with Jupiter.

You can close out the ritual just by saying thank you and bowing your head. Nothing fancy is required. You can leave the candle and incense burning, or put them out if you prefer.

This is the basic, essential form of the ritual. It will help you to start connecting with the energy of the planet and begin forming a relationship with this deity.

Here a summary of the ritual steps:

  • light the candle and incense.

  • Sit quietude to steady your heart and mind.

  • Recite the magical formula IO ZEUS IO ARISTOS IO MEGISTOS four times

  • Speak to Jupiter with a greeting, then introducing yourself.

  • Then asking how you can be of of service and help others and for opportunities to help others to open for you, then express gratitude.

  • Sit in meditation; feel for any energetic shifts and listen for messages that may come through.

  • Close out.

It may feel complicated now, but just do this once and you’ll see that it’s actually fairly straightforward. Including the meditation, this can be as short as 15 minutes.

As this seven-day journey progresses, I will add more layers onto this ritual to make it more potent. But it will be more effective for you to take things one step at a time so that the practice sinks in more deeply, and so you receive a deeper understanding of the mechanics of the magic.

Plus, if you keep the thread going by engaging in the ritual multiple days in a row, the portal you open to Jupiter’s realm will become much more stable and powerful.

Tomorrow, I’ll add the next layer to the practice. Make sure to perform this ritual today once, with whatever level of preparation you have achieved, and start welcoming this benefic force into your life now.

Merlin