Stellar Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Rites of the Moon, Planets, Stars and Constellations

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Stellar Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Rites of the Moon, Planets, Stars and Constellations
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Aster
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Just arrived!
I ordered this book on Thursday and my copy arrived with me on Saturday. Great service as always from Avalonia.

The book is really well written and I have read through the whole book already, non-stop since yesterday. I found it really practical and everything is very clearly described, I love the photographs of the altars and other sacred sites in particular as it gives it a personal touch. This book was obviously a labour of love and I will be trying some of the workings in it very soon! - Aster , posted 07/05/09
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Stellar Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Rites of the Moon, Planets, Stars and Constellations
Hello,

This is a press release regarding the forth coming title:
‘Stellar Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Rites of the Moon, Planets, Stars and Constellations’ by Payam Nabarz.

Please pass this on to other interested parties. If you are interested in this work and would like to reserve a copy and/or would like to be kept informed about its publication date, please send an email to:nabarz@hotmail.com (nabarz AT hotmail.com)

Please state in the subject line: 'reserve book' or 'add to book mailing list'.

Book Review:
“In Stellar Magic Dr Nabarz provides both the reader and the practitioner with an invaluable book filled with the rich lore of stars and a series of stunning and powerful rituals to enable a deeper awareness of the effect these have on our daily lives. Drawing on rare and out of the way materials Dr Nabarz has assembled a veritable treasure house of wisdom and lore. This is an absolute must for anyone even remotely interested in Star Lore and for any practicing magician or seeker after truth.” – Review by John Matthews (Author of Walkers Between Worlds, The Grail Tarot, The Arthurian Tarot, The Celtic Shaman, Taliesin, and many more).


Synopsis:
The practical rites and ceremonies here are created using a myriad of hymns and tales, drawing inspiration and material from many ancient, classical and medieval sources including: Hymns of Orpheus, Ovid’s Metamorphoses , Plato’s Timaeus, the Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius, the Greek Magical Papyri, the Chaldean Oracles, the Persian Shah Nameh ‘Epic of Kings’ by Ferdowsi, Scipio's Dream by Cicero, the Persian Pahlavi Texts, book of Enoch, Bible Ezekiel chapter, Egyptian temples and texts, The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius, the Zoroastrian Yasht hymns, Sufi works of Ibn Arabi and Rumi, the Kabalistic Sefer Yetzirah, the Mithras Liturgy, Persian Burj Nameh, Hesiod Works and Days, Homer’s The Odyssey, and Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs.

In bringing these ancient rites into modern times, stellar related materials or ideals by modern poets such as W B Yeats, Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, and esoteric writers such as John Dee, Elias Ashmole, Francis Barrett, Rudolf Steiner, Aleister Crowley, and Gerald Gardner have also been included, giving a Bardic blend of the ancient and the modern. The rites here ‘set the scene’, and after all the poems and invocations are uttered, the point is reached in the rite where the magus has to make his/her direct connection, and to draw inspiration from the stellar well directly. The rites here are the beginning steps on your stellar journey, it is recommended that you write your own poems and invocations to the constellations and make your Path to the stars.

This is a highly accessible and practical book on this complex subject. It can be used as a manual and workbook for practicing stellar magic or simply read for gaining insight into star lore.

You can also subscribe to the book discussion groups on:
Yahoo: groups.yahoo.com/group/StellarMagic/

or Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/edit.php

or Myspace: groups.myspace.com/index.cfm

or Tribe: tribes.tribe.net/stellarmagic


Stellar Magic: a beginner’s guide to rites of the moon, planets, stars and constellations.

Table of content:

Introduction
Instructions how to use this manual.
The opening and closing of rites.
The Constellation Orion - Horus rite.
Star Sirius: Sothis & Tishtrya (Tir) rite.
Constellations Perseus and Andromeda Rite.
The Moon rite.
The Seven planets rite.
The Cygnus Swan (Northern Cross) rite.
The Pleiades – Seven Sisters rite.
The Great Bear & Little Bear rite.
The Draco rite.
The Twelve signs of the Zodiac rite.
The Aurora rite.
Bibliography and Further reading.
Useful resources:

Magi Nabarz’s writings have appeared in numerous esoteric magazines including Touchstone (the Journal of Order of Bards, Ovates, Druids), Pagan Dawn (the Journal of the Pagan Federation), Stone Circle, the Little Red Book, Pentacle, White Dragon, Silver Star, the Cauldron, and the Sufi.

He is author of ‘The Mysteries of Mithras: The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World’ (Inner Traditions, 2005), and ‘The Persian Mar Nameh:
The Zoroastrian Book of the Snake Omens & Calendar’ (Twin Serpents, 2006) and ‘Divine Comedy of Neophyte Corax and Goddess Morrigan’ (Web of Wyrd Press,
2008). He is the editor of the ‘Mithras Reader: an academic and religious journal of Greek, Roman and Persian Studies’ (Twin Serpents).

For further information: www.myspace.com/nabarz

WITH holy voice I call the stars on high,
Pure sacred lights and genii of the sky.
Celestial stars, the progeny of Night,
In whirling circles beaming far your light,
Refulgent rays around the heav'ns ye throw,
Eternal fires, the source of all below.
With flames significant of Fate ye shine,
And aptly rule for men a path divine.
In seven bright zones ye run with wand'ring flames,
And heaven and earth compose your lucid frames:
With course unwearied, pure and fiery bright
Forever shining thro' the veil of Night.
Hail twinkling, joyful, ever wakeful fires!
Propitious shine on all my just desires;
These sacred rites regard with conscious rays,
And end our works devoted to your praise. - Hymns of Orpheus

Press release for info only and subject to change. - Nabarz , posted 07/31/08

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