This particular experiment took a few years to prepare for. The date of the operation took place on 12/12/13. Gathering the ritual tools and fashioning others. Learning the prayers and practicing the simple banishings. Creating the lamens/pentacles and waiting for the appointed astrological times to cast them. Obviously for the parts in the text where they ask for a “virgin to do X or Y ” we substituted as best we could but keeping true to the grimoires. Hell! At one point we painted henna on our skin, feet or used fabric markers on our white clothes. So we didn’t allow things to hinder us the slightest. We used canvas linen and black acrylic paint to create our rug/circle of protection.

These particular pentacles needed to be created during Jupiter’s exaltation in Cancer. If you are wondering how we did the consecration or creation of the pentacles, check out this video here.

I wanted to do it right and not attract any astral garbage for anyone involved. The pages you see are notes taken before the operation. I’ll have them scattered for your viewing pleasure. I won’t go into the “how-to’s” since there’s so much literature on the subject of summoning and such already.

The people involved for this particular operation were myself, my mother, and two other female adepts. I was summoner; mother was on incense, candles, etc. watch; Bee was our scribe and Kay was our scryer. I was curious to see this kind of operation with an all female cast; if being a woman or menstrual cycles effected this type of magick in anyway. I’m glad to report that it does not in the slightest (although it should be noted majority of us were on the finishing end of our cycles and following the Solomonic prescription for cleanliness).

We discovered from the angels that the only thing they found taboo with us was having the tops of our heads exposed. They refused to proceed with the ritual unless our heads were covered. Adhering to purity rites and cleanliness though is another matter I learned. Being “clean” meant not just physically but mentally and emotionally. That you’re aligning with their vibration. They can come down but only a certain point because our world is “gross” (I don’t think they meant disgusting but the archaic meaning for the material world and “base”). So these levels of preparation in conjunction with meditation/prayer were crucial to getting into the headset or right frame of mind.

After doing the usual banishing and setting up the circle with prayers, I started drawing over the sigils with the sword on the floor. Incense was lit up, as was candles on four corners and for the scryer’s crystal ball. Once preliminaries were dealt with, I then proceeded with the “calls” or conjurations. I think it took two full calls in order to get things rolling. Everyone up to this point had noticed a difference in atmospheric change including myself. Air got heavy, everything was dark and quiet (we live in NYC so that is an accomplishment in my eyes). Definitely a sense of floating on space and the rest of the mundane world falling away. Everyone was feeling this and on the same page.

Now from this point on I can only speculate. Everyone in the group except for myself experienced some sort of phenomenon. I assumed because I was designated summoner, that the role requires the person be cool-headed, together and be able without hesitation to shut the operation in proper fashion without being spooked. I maybe wrong. It could be because I’m the only married woman in the circle, although I don’t think is the case because surely married men, such as Edward Kelly, never had a problem.

Or like John Dee, I was analyzing everything that was happening and not in the moment.