Thread 41347967

Come discuss the worship and conjuration of Ishtar, Inanna, Aphrodite, other historically related deities/spirits, and their entourages.

"Appearing in more literary compositions than any other deity, Inanna embodied endless complexities and contradictions: an unbridled goddess at once upholding and destroying the status quo; a passionate goddess engaging in romantic and destructive erotic love; a heavenly goddess who trod the underworld; a feminine goddess who was sometimes portrayed as a bearded warrior; and a mercurial goddess bestowing tender mercies even as she moved freely from one conquest to another."
"[Astarte] is often paired with Baal and also — in a warlike form called Astoreth — with Set. The Mesopotamian goddesses Ishtar and Inanna are other forms of this goddess. The mysteries of Inanna and Dumuzi, Ishtar and Tammuz, and of Astarte and Adonis, were an influence upon the Egyptian mysteries of Isis and Osiris, in which a Queen Astarte appears. Given the combined influence of the cult of Isis, and the Syrian Goddess, on the later Christian cult of Mary, Astarte is among the most influential and important of all Classical deities."

If you're interested in working with the Queen of Heaven, the best things you can do are to start meditating, making offerings, and maybe banishing. Preferably do all three daily, or at least a few times a week. This will get her attention and improve your ability to communicate with her, as well as generally train your occult abilities.

Pastebin: pastebin.com/SQmZvivk
Other recommended resources:
Enheduanna and the old Myths
mostlydeadlanguages.tumblr.com
Rod and Ring
Lioness: The Song of Inanna
Liber Astarte, on worship: sacred-texts.com/oto/lib175.htm
/sum/moning Information Page, for Goetia to work with Astaroth: pastebin.com/ZHPM0KVz
The True Grimoire by JSK
Lucidarium
Rudd's Goetia
Pandemonium by JSK
Crossed Keys
Chasing the Dragon
Consorting With Spirits by Miller
Misc Resources: https://pastebin.com/9cVvQp8a

>>41347967 (OP)
The Lady of the Evening is radiant on the horizon!
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>>41347967 (OP)
"How do I get in touch with the Queen of Heaven?"

This is a question often asked here. One way to get into contact with one form or another of Our Lady is with simple prayer. This is of course very good regardless of your ability to sense spirits, especially when accompanied by an offering. When you make an offering, make it as nice and clean as you can. Don't offer bodily fluids. Food, incense, and alcohol are all good.

That said, most of us will need to work at our spirit sense abilities before we can get a response. For this, you can do shamatha meditation (I'll post a guide if someone has trouble finding one, but a simple Google should bring up many results). There's also two meditations called Looking Past the Veil and Pillar and Spheres from the book "Consorting With Spirits" by Jason Miller. This book is highly worth buying or pirating in general, especially because the main operation within is a conjuration of the chthonic from of Our Lady, Astaroth. You could also learn tummo or practice any other form of mysticism that is meant to yield siddhi/magical abilities. I can repost the old /omg/ OP if anons are interested in the old library or the crash courses to different traditions within.

And then you could work Rod and Ring or Liber Astarte or any of the various grimoires that can summon Astaroth or the Scrying Bowl of Aphrodite (pic related) once you've done this every day for awhile and feel your power building. And if you don't want to work any of those, I hope you like dream work. Get good at lucid dreaming, get a strong practice of devotion going, and you could meet Our Lady in your dreams. Maybe she'll even teach you practices that you could contribute to the thread or just for your own benefit.

>>41348141
"LOOK PAST THE VEIL

Not all spirit skills require discipline and training. Some are little tricks of perception that you can do anywhere at any time-even right now as you read this book. Try the following:

Step 1: Look straight ahead. It doesn't matter what is in front of you-anything from a sprawling vista to a wall will do. Just look.

Step 2: Now imagine that everything in front of you is actually on a video screen. Pretend it's a two-dimensional representation of what you see. It looks the same, just as it would if you were looking at a high-definition screen that took up your whole view, but you know that it is just a screen.

Step 3: Consider what is on the other side of that screen. Listen closely. Reach out with your feelings. Can you sense it? Is there something on the other side?

What this simple exercise does is collapse our normal sensation of three dimensions of space down to two dimensions, which leaves a mental "slot" open for us to perceive something we normally don't.

Warning: As simple as this exercise is, it has caused momentary nausea or dizziness in some students who try it. Others have been panicked by the sense of feeling beyond ordinary space, and the sensation that something might be looking back. As always, you have to monitor what you can and can't handle."

>>41347967 (OP)
She represents civilization. She must know the arts and crafts love and war the light and the dark.
As a side note you anons may enjoy the song titled "The Forgotten Goddess" by Echoes of Eternity.

>>41348161
Forgot masculine and feminine too.

>>41348141
>This is a question often asked here
no its not cuz this shit is dead af

>>41348141
>>41348147
"PILLAR AND SPHERES

In The Sorcerer's Secrets I gave some words for each point, but in this book I would love for you to simply breathe and focus on the element. For this ritual to really work, you have to know the qualities of the elements and let them release in the body. Aristotle described the four elements main according to a system of being wet or dry and hot or cold. Earth is dry and cool. Fire is hot and dry. Air is warm and wet. Water is cool and wet. There is a certain symmetry here where Fire and Water are opposites, as are Air and Earth. In addition to these qualities I would add qualities that speak to how these behave in their gross physical manifestations: Earth is stable, Fire consumes and expands, Water flows and fills, Air blows and moves rapidly.

When we do the Pillar and Spheres, we place Earth at the root not only because it is firm and solid, but because it gives the material that fire can consume. As we build the fire just below the navel, we consume the material below it and start heating everything above it. Water gets placed at the heart, which is brought to a boil by the fire below it. Steam rises from the water (remember Air is warm and wet according to Aristotle), which then melts the seed of Spirit/Space at the crown of the head. The wisdom of Spirit/Space then descends over the body, blessing each of the elements and making them even more potent and subtle. This is internal Alchemy: the rise of vitality and passion and the descent of ennobling wisdom.

The whole picture is rather like a Witch's cauldron inside the body. Earth is the ground and wood that the fire is built upon. The cauldron is set upon that fire and heats the water within it, releasing the cloud of steam and scent that rises to heaven.

What happens is that the entire body is sublimated and made more subtle, more spirit like."

>>41348190
You could also perform the inner fire practice from Stoking the Witchfire by Vijnana Nath, which is too long to post here.

The true goddess that can rise from the dead, welcome back Inanna.

>>41348161
Civilization yes, but in dichotomy with desire that can shake its foundations. She is quite the dualistic goddess.

>>41348141
>Consorting With Spirits" by Jason Miller
I remember seeing the image of Astaroth in the book and freezing up for a bit because, yeah, that imagery was powerful. Still have to get through it though.

>>41350022
Beautiful goddess

>>41347967 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvR78SNn43Q

HAIL ASTAROTH

>>41351719
Based

Would drawing Astoroth's seal and using it as a sort of mandala while meditating on/ praying to her, maybe offering a candle, be a good way to approach her?

>>41353614
No. The minimum to work directly with Astaroth is to follow the /sum/ guide in the OP. You should at least have a circle if nothing else. And I wouldn't do strange things like use her sigil as a mandala for meditation until you're able to talk to her directly and ask.

>>41348373
I agree.

VKWVM

>>41348147
>>41348190
I'd like to see her again. In order to get these to work, would I need to get back into the habit of meditation?

>>41361505
These are suitable kinds of meditation to train your spirit senses. It's good to try multiple to see what works for you, but they should be good enough on their own. The important thing is, whichever you pick, to do it every day

>>41347967 (OP)
>>>/pol/519975726
Thanks mommy

Wasn't the GPT-5 update supposed to stop you fags from your Jungian anima delusions?

>>41348141
>When you make an offering, make it as nice and clean as you can. Don't offer bodily fluids.
speak for yourself, pal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHyR92MQic

Reminder for Ishtarcuck, your goddess was humiliated by a tranny boomer in a astral fight and lost brutally.

>>41368736
???

>>41369425
Ishtarcucks does not know the battle it goddess do this thread is pure larp

>>41347967 (OP)
Astarte is a man and woirshipping boipucci maeks you a faeg

bump

I was always found it bit strange why Virgin Mary was on here. Then I found that Mary is literally called the 'Empress of Hell' and descends down into the underworld. What the fuck? Did Catholics literally just take this goddess and slapped their brand on it?

>>41380853
More or less. Astarte is even referred to as "The Queen of Heaven" in the Old Testament, which the Catholics appropriated, and still use today, to refer to Mary.

>>41380990
That's about the only reason I'm glad to be a Catholic these days.

>>41381376
Based reason to be proud. I've definitely softened a lot on Catholicism since I realized that they have the last Queen of Heaven cult in the world. Thus Catholics carry on reverence of one of the oldest gods in history into contemporary times.

>>41380853
> Then I found that Mary is literally called the 'Empress of Hell' and descends down into the underworld
Huh? That’s not in the bible, is it perhaps an oral tradition?

>>41382158
I looked it up, and he's quoting stories that were popular from the 1100's to 1400's. As someone who was loosely raised Catholic (but don't actively practice it or this little cult because I find religious synchronism to be the one of the dumbest fucking things you can engage with), Jesus is still more important than her or the saints

>>41383992
>Jesus is still more important in Catholicism
No one is disputing this. As for syncretism, it's one of the oldest features of the Western tradition. Just look at the PGM and you'll find it chock full of syncretism. I don't really go as far as including Mary in my worship though; I just admire that it's an extant form of reverence for the Queen of Heaven current.

>>>/wsg/6015419
music videos about venus (queen of heaven?), saturn, mars, and earth. enjoy!

>>41368736
>>41369505
Literally not what went down; she passed the test and An set up festivals in her honor for it

>>41387013
I'm an Indian and what I would not give to just be one of our little faces on her knee cap

>>41392423
Me too bro. Me too

I have her name tattooed on me in cuneiform, I mostly invoke it to have her help me receive emails faster at work. Do you think she’s mad at me for that

>>41397615
I dunno. You'd have to ask her. In general you should make a small offering when you invoke her to ask for a favor.

>>41398674
Ahh man I don’t talk to her I’m pretty spiritually cut off, I just really like and relate to her and just touch my tattoo when ask her for help when life is inconveniencing me

>>41399611
Well if it works consistently, I'd guess that what you're doing is okay, maybe even good. It may be helping to deepen your relationship with Our Lady

>>41399895
Wish I knew how, I honestly just feel cut off from that stuff no matter how much I wanna reach out I just don’t get it. I’m probably a retard

>>41399974
NTA: Have you tried meditation? Becoming spiritual is like a mountain. By taking up a 20 min a day meditation practice, you will make steady progress.

So, I had a spirit companion for a few years who replied with her name, among others, when I asked. I gave a brief overview over in the Succgen thread, see >>41391086
I'm hoping you guys can give some insight to if this entity was her or something else

>>41397615
>I have her name tattooed on me in cuneiform, I mostly invoke it to have her help me receive emails faster at work. Do you think she’s mad at me for that
lol idk. It's a story about Aphrodite though. People call her a lot of things and mythology is completely unreliable.

More like Queer of Heaven

>>41348147
Dat ass tho

>>41406773
someone needs to work on their feet

Feet.

>>41409809
"The Venus Callipyge, also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the Callipygian Venus, all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks",[a] is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older Greek original. In an example of anasyrma, it depicts a partially draped woman, raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder, perhaps to evaluate them. The subject is conventionally identified as Venus (Aphrodite), though it may equally be a portrait of a mortal woman."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Callipyge